You obviously have not been exposed to PETAs work. Check out one of those DVD's they hand out at concerts and other events, then try to tell me they don't use fear and lies, i.e., terrorism, to push their agenda.
Yes, I use the dictionary definition of 'terrorist.' Not a popular definition, but the only correct one.
How many "non-tech people" do you know who actually installed Windows from disk? Something tells me that if you were to ask most of these folks when they installed their OS, the response would be akin to "Uh, it was on there when I bought it."
I doubt most people don't even know what a OS is.
Double negatives, they burnzes us!!! hissssssss!!!!
We recently received a memo that griddles are no longer allowed during food days, because someone complained about the smell of bacon cooking, so... yea. Suxxors.
Working here reminds me of all the times I was told as a youth that when I became an adult, I would get to make my own decisions...
The bankster's game has nothing to do with HFT. Regardless, you aren't going to beat HFTs with software, you also need physical proximity to the exchange's gateways. And that isn't cheap.
Well, if that's the case then I agree with OP's assessment that the process should be criminalized.
Having read TFA, I believe the premise is while scientific literacy in US adults is a rather low percentage, we're still miles ahead of the rest of the world.
I, for one, would like to know what metric they use to determine a person's level of "scientific literacy."
This is not good news; it promotes a trend in a technological approach to making money in the stock market that should be flat out illegal.
I always thought that if those losers in Anonymous (or anyone else sick of Wall St. and their economic stranglehold) wanted to actually do something meaningful, they would create and release an open source HFT program anyone can use, and help the populace beat the banksters at their own game...
From a "non-tech user" perspective, Linux is actually easier to maintain than Windows, since there's a centralized updata service for basically all the software on the system.
Indeed, and so long as they don't go mucking about in the terminal (which isn't a worry, since most of the non-technical people I know are too scared of the command prompt to even open it, let alone mess around with commands they don't understand), it's damn hard* to accidentally bring down a modern distro to the point it has to be reinstalled.
* There is the occasional hardware issue, like the problem I'm having on my Dell lappy with Mint suddenly forgetting how to connect to a wifi network (I blame Broadcom), but that stuff happens with Windows, too.
Bullshit, my pets enjoy more freedom than you or I ever will, especially the cats. Contrary to the PETA terrorists propaganda, being considered property in a legal sense does not equate to slavery; in fact, in this case it's an advantage - a pet is property, and thus is protected under the various property laws. Ferals do not enjoy such legal protection, and in fact are rounded up and destroyed regularly.
we talk a good talk about freedom and how important it is, and how we fight for freedom, blah, blah, but ultimately there is a double-standard there between the animals kingdom and humans.
Yea, no shit there's a double standard. Pretty obvious reason why, too.
Tell you what - the day my cats get jobs and start contributing to the household income, we can have a frank discussion about their "freedom." Until that day, I guess they'll be forced to suffer under my tyrannical rule of always-full food dishes, all the kitty-centric entertainment they could ever possibly desire, and total freedom to traverse the neighborhood as they see fit. Those poor, poor, tortured beasts...
Get back to me when non-tech people replace Windows with Linux, without the urging, or help, of tech people.
How many "non-tech people" do you know who actually installed Windows from disk? Something tells me that if you were to ask most of these folks when they installed their OS, the response would be akin to "Uh, it was on there when I bought it."
No, according to PETA you must not eat the animals, or use their fur, or skin, only kill them and trash the bodies making sure it is a complete waste of an animal's life and corpse.
PETA is the same group that tries to make it seem like my well-fed, mostly-indoor, spoiled-to-hell pets are enslaved. Obviously whoever came up with that concept has never belonged to a cat.
Every time I come across that particular group of terrorists (yes, they are terrorists), I make it a point to outline my wife's plan to turn our 2 cats into a pair of mittens and socks, respectively, once they pass away.
Seriously, I do that. Fuckers hate me, and the feeling is mutual.
Yep. Because using a real corpse is disrespectful of it's former occupant (or at least the memory of it, if you don't believe there was an occupant)
So, what would the respectful thing to do with the run-over cat be? Throw it in a shoebox and bury it in the garden (until the dog digs it up, anyway)?
Maybe I'm just odd, but I personally don't think of corpses as memories of the consciousnesses that once inhabited them, especially corpses of animals. It would be awfully damn hard to enjoy a really good cut of meat if I obsessed over how the bovine cadaver was chopped into tiny bits in a rather gruesome, blood drenched process in order to become steak.
FWIW, I grew up on a farm, where death is a daily fact of life, so that probably influences my indifference on the topic to some degree.
Indifference to the suffering of others indicates psychopathy, narcissism, or sadism.
What't that got to do with repurposing roadkill?
You can't honestly believe that a dead thing is capable of suffering, so I'm guessing this is nothing but an emotional screed derived from a lifetime of superstition.
Respect is subjective, I would totally dig the idea of being turned into a helicopter after I die.
I second that, especially if my estate uses my cadaver-copter to harass those I disliked in life... maybe not even the whole body, just a few choice sections...
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Oh, shit, it's a flying asshole! And it's COMING RIGHT FOR US!!!
And since when has humanity possessed any respect for life?
In any case, I think there is a line that divides using a corpse to serve the living, and using a corpse to create whimsicality. If one cannot give a corpse a higher purpose, then it's best to leave it alone.
Given the limited number of Japanese psychics in the world war II era, I think you would find a limited number of Japanese citizens who were thankful to the US for their magnanimosity.
Would you rather be vaporized instantly and feel nothing, or die a slow painful death of radiation poisoning?
I think this is one arena of thought in which it's OK to make an assumption. No clairvoyance necessary.
This idea is great, he should make an entire series of dead animal RC vehicles... then have some kind of epic death match crashing them into each other.
Not sure the term 'deathmatch' would apply... then again, that may be the most appropriate usage of the term ever.
Big. Fat. Pussy. That's what you Americans are. No better then the Natsi scum that broke into homes and shot kids "for sport".
Americans are the new Holocaust.
How do you know "smooth wombat" is American? I though wombats were exclusive to the Australian continent? Anyway,
I both agree with the commentary regarding drone attacks, as well as the humor of flying roadkill, and I am an American. So... you know...
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You obviously have not been exposed to PETAs work. Check out one of those DVD's they hand out at concerts and other events, then try to tell me they don't use fear and lies, i.e., terrorism, to push their agenda.
Yes, I use the dictionary definition of 'terrorist.' Not a popular definition, but the only correct one.
How many "non-tech people" do you know who actually installed Windows from disk? Something tells me that if you were to ask most of these folks when they installed their OS, the response would be akin to "Uh, it was on there when I bought it."
I doubt most people don't even know what a OS is.
Double negatives, they burnzes us!!! hissssssss!!!!
We recently received a memo that griddles are no longer allowed during food days, because someone complained about the smell of bacon cooking, so... yea. Suxxors.
Working here reminds me of all the times I was told as a youth that when I became an adult, I would get to make my own decisions...
The bankster's game has nothing to do with HFT. Regardless, you aren't going to beat HFTs with software, you also need physical proximity to the exchange's gateways. And that isn't cheap.
Well, if that's the case then I agree with OP's assessment that the process should be criminalized.
Having read TFA, I believe the premise is while scientific literacy in US adults is a rather low percentage, we're still miles ahead of the rest of the world.
I, for one, would like to know what metric they use to determine a person's level of "scientific literacy."
I've heard a number of folks tout the wonders of replacing your standard office chair with a big-ass inflatable ball.
Wouldn't know myself, the cube farm I currently occupy has a standing ban on anything that might be construed as personality.
This is not good news; it promotes a trend in a technological approach to making money in the stock market that should be flat out illegal.
I always thought that if those losers in Anonymous (or anyone else sick of Wall St. and their economic stranglehold) wanted to actually do something meaningful, they would create and release an open source HFT program anyone can use, and help the populace beat the banksters at their own game...
nudge nudge...
Now they can suck our economy dry with even more speed and efficiency!
I'm sure they'll have some nice propaganda to tell us all about how this benefits the common man.
They already do; it's called the 2012 Presidential Election.
Donations to Barack Obama in 2008 - $1,013,091
2012 (reported thus far) - $80,224
Donations to Mitt Romney (2012, reported thus far) - $528,180
I believe this is what they in the finance 'industry' refer to as "hedging."
From a "non-tech user" perspective, Linux is actually easier to maintain than Windows, since there's a centralized updata service for basically all the software on the system.
Indeed, and so long as they don't go mucking about in the terminal (which isn't a worry, since most of the non-technical people I know are too scared of the command prompt to even open it, let alone mess around with commands they don't understand), it's damn hard* to accidentally bring down a modern distro to the point it has to be reinstalled.
* There is the occasional hardware issue, like the problem I'm having on my Dell lappy with Mint suddenly forgetting how to connect to a wifi network (I blame Broadcom), but that stuff happens with Windows, too.
Well, we call a flock of crows a murder.
I think a flock of flying penises should be called a rape.
Damn but I hope someone with mod points sees this post... hilarious!
Now they can suck our economy dry with even more speed and efficiency!
...pets are not "free" entities.
Bullshit, my pets enjoy more freedom than you or I ever will, especially the cats. Contrary to the PETA terrorists propaganda, being considered property in a legal sense does not equate to slavery; in fact, in this case it's an advantage - a pet is property, and thus is protected under the various property laws. Ferals do not enjoy such legal protection, and in fact are rounded up and destroyed regularly.
we talk a good talk about freedom and how important it is, and how we fight for freedom, blah, blah, but ultimately there is a double-standard there between the animals kingdom and humans.
Yea, no shit there's a double standard. Pretty obvious reason why, too.
Tell you what - the day my cats get jobs and start contributing to the household income, we can have a frank discussion about their "freedom." Until that day, I guess they'll be forced to suffer under my tyrannical rule of always-full food dishes, all the kitty-centric entertainment they could ever possibly desire, and total freedom to traverse the neighborhood as they see fit. Those poor, poor, tortured beasts...
Thought of that - too obvious. Besides, a flying penis isn't all that terrifying.
A whole flock of them, however...
Which brings the question, what do you call a large group of flying penises?
Get back to me when non-tech people replace Windows with Linux, without the urging, or help, of tech people.
How many "non-tech people" do you know who actually installed Windows from disk? Something tells me that if you were to ask most of these folks when they installed their OS, the response would be akin to "Uh, it was on there when I bought it."
No, according to PETA you must not eat the animals, or use their fur, or skin, only kill them and trash the bodies making sure it is a complete waste of an animal's life and corpse.
PETA is the same group that tries to make it seem like my well-fed, mostly-indoor, spoiled-to-hell pets are enslaved. Obviously whoever came up with that concept has never belonged to a cat.
Every time I come across that particular group of terrorists (yes, they are terrorists), I make it a point to outline my wife's plan to turn our 2 cats into a pair of mittens and socks, respectively, once they pass away.
Seriously, I do that. Fuckers hate me, and the feeling is mutual.
Yep. Because using a real corpse is disrespectful of it's former occupant (or at least the memory of it, if you don't believe there was an occupant)
So, what would the respectful thing to do with the run-over cat be? Throw it in a shoebox and bury it in the garden (until the dog digs it up, anyway)?
Maybe I'm just odd, but I personally don't think of corpses as memories of the consciousnesses that once inhabited them, especially corpses of animals. It would be awfully damn hard to enjoy a really good cut of meat if I obsessed over how the bovine cadaver was chopped into tiny bits in a rather gruesome, blood drenched process in order to become steak.
FWIW, I grew up on a farm, where death is a daily fact of life, so that probably influences my indifference on the topic to some degree.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Burton's ever used real corpses.
I see, so if this artist had used a fake cat that looks exactly like a real one, there would be no issue? Somehow I doubt it...
I always said cats were evil, and now they've got themselves an air force!
'Bout time, those goddamn squirrels have controlled the skies for far too long!
Indifference to the suffering of others indicates psychopathy, narcissism, or sadism.
What't that got to do with repurposing roadkill?
You can't honestly believe that a dead thing is capable of suffering, so I'm guessing this is nothing but an emotional screed derived from a lifetime of superstition.
Respect is subjective, I would totally dig the idea of being turned into a helicopter after I die.
I second that, especially if my estate uses my cadaver-copter to harass those I disliked in life... maybe not even the whole body, just a few choice sections...
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's... Oh, shit, it's a flying asshole! And it's COMING RIGHT FOR US!!!
And since when has humanity possessed any respect for life?
In any case, I think there is a line that divides using a corpse to serve the living, and using a corpse to create whimsicality. If one cannot give a corpse a higher purpose, then it's best to leave it alone.
So... not a Tim Burton fan, I take it?
Given the limited number of Japanese psychics in the world war II era, I think you would find a limited number of Japanese citizens who were thankful to the US for their magnanimosity.
Would you rather be vaporized instantly and feel nothing, or die a slow painful death of radiation poisoning?
I think this is one arena of thought in which it's OK to make an assumption. No clairvoyance necessary.
This idea is great, he should make an entire series of dead animal RC vehicles... then have some kind of epic death match crashing them into each other.
Not sure the term 'deathmatch' would apply... then again, that may be the most appropriate usage of the term ever.
Of all time.
Big. Fat. Pussy. That's what you Americans are. No better then the Natsi scum that broke into homes and shot kids "for sport". Americans are the new Holocaust.
How do you know "smooth wombat" is American? I though wombats were exclusive to the Australian continent? Anyway, I both agree with the commentary regarding drone attacks, as well as the humor of flying roadkill, and I am an American. So... you know...
"Most generalizations are false, including this one." -- Samuel Clemens
A flying zombie kitty? Does it spew guns from it's mouth while giving out helpful life advice?
No, but it does have a rainbow streamer and a really, really annoying theme song.