"Cowering from bullies is not the right thing to do."
It's not just a "bully" issue, it's a "bully" (toxic belief system) aided by cowering PC grovelling that teaches every culture other that those of the West is to be deferred to and may not be subject to criticism. Proof of their virtue is not required, because in a PC world cultural comparison is verboten.
"Oh, come on. You've read the Old Testament, right?"
Sure, but nowadays only a tiny few people actually consider that old superstitious nonsense much more than a hobby. Even the Christian fanatics in the US rarely go very far. Note that Christian superstition also has a New Testament...The Quran is still taken seriously, to which current events will attest.
Why should we who know better respect religion? Religion does not respect us.
"I see now how rage is just opposite side of the same fandom coin."
Fandom + vendor lock is asking for emotional punishment.
I'm sure some of that rage is at themselves for identifying with a company whose restriction of customer choice just caused them pain. I think that this is sort of like complaining about the view from the bottom of a queening stool, but YMMV.
"Oh dear god... can't we have *one* YRO online discussion without you guys steering the conversation towards a man getting anally raped by a horse?"
There was obviously NO "rape".
It was disgusting and hilarious, but obviously consensual. Had the horse taken exception to the situation, a swift iron-shod kick or a bite would have ended the session.
"but the side effect is that in a few years millions of Asians, who might otherwise have become normal, productive, law-abiding citizens of their respective countries, will instead have become deranged pedophiles."
"''Zoo'' obliquely recreates the events of the fateful night that caused a media frenzy in the Seattle area two summers ago. Shortly after being dropped off at an emergency room in Enumclaw, Wash., a 45-year-old Boeing engineer named Kenneth Pinyan -- known in the film only by his Internet handle, Mr. Hands -- died of internal injuries resulting from a perforated colon. The police investigation led to a farm and turned up videotapes and DVDs that showed several men engaging in sexual acts with the resident Arabian stallions. Bestiality was not illegal in Washington at the time, but in response to the Pinyan incident the State Senate voted last year to criminalize it."
As an aircraft mechanic, the idea of fly-by-wire controls doesn't bother me. Aircraft are IMO acceptably safe, although dramalicious and mediagenic when they do crash. Shit happens.
There are lots of stuffs to worry about (like my commute to work on a highway full of retards in a few minutes) but I sleep like a log when flying.
"Perhaps closed cases are overrated in terms of the amount of "actual" protection they provide."
IME with customer machines, closed cases protect many interesting "dust bunny and (usually) dead insect" ecosystems. As for "pets", I've seen some machines with enough hair/dust/primordial "stuff" to build a small dog.
"This is a big deal for those of us with old or unusual hardware that can't boot from a CD or memory stick or through netbios/PXE."
I'm all for old and unusual hardware, but what are the odds that anyone geeky enough to use Debian couldn't get around this problem in their sleep? If it is not acceptable to crack open the hardware to snatch the hard disk for OS installation in a modern computer, there are any number of ways to install anyway. (I'd just whip out the screwdrivers and slam the drive into another machine. Linux is tolerant of being installed on one machine then being transferred to another.)
Installing an older version of Debian via floppy and then upgrading comes instantly to mind, followed by using a Linux or DOS boot floppy to access an external CD drive/USB drive/etc. This stuff isn't old hat, it's "ancient hat". The computing.net forums have lots of info for people with ancient machines, BTW.
"With a bald pate, you'd have a better platform to mount a black silicon solar cap to power your wireless cranial Internet connection. C'mon, geeks, see the possibilites here! When life hands you shit, make shit sandwiches!"
Such a cap would be incompatible with my tinfoil hat.
As for the sandwich thing, it goes:
"Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have the less shit you gotta taste."
"That the 'before' picture is much more appealing. She has nice eyes and an interesting, engaging face. She looks like someone who would be worth talking to."
Yeah, I'd hit it too.
"The 'after' picture looks like a generic pretty-but-not-beautiful girl. She looks like she would be interested in shopping and hairstyles. The world would be very boring if everyone looked like that."
Too hawt, must therefore be superficial hence unlikely to throw sensitive me a shot of leg. Clearly her loss.
"No one is going to search your computer other than to make sure it is a computer and not a bomb."
Unless someone steals it.
Worrying about ZOG poking through your machine and actually caring about what's on there is fashionable, but it is at least equally reasonable to worry about someone bagging the computer itself. If they do that, you might feel less violated if they cannot get to your data.
"If Airbus is that susceptible to electronic interference, then I'd rather not fly in their planes."
No shit. I'd also rather the Air Force NOT buy their tanker. If wireless electronics can hork their flight controls, enemy attack radar/etc could get really interesting even if they pass the standard EMP test.
"The last thing I need is to plunge into the Atlantic because some disgruntled-fellow-gone-terrorist on the ground is jamming the flight controls with a generator and a pringles can."
"overhauling the WUC manual/system (which is another story altogether)."
THERE"S a heroic task. Good luck, and beware counterintuitive user interfaces. Maybe sneak in a favor to the crew chiefs and get CAMS, etc to accept "255". and "190" How Mal codes for everything.:)
"And, the anti-aircraft environment is too hazardous for a super tucano to survive very long, except in limited anti-insurgency operations."
Pretty much applies to anything in a large conventional war, since gunships are merely targets if the enemy still has an air force. Helos in a AAA environment (heck, "dense small arms" environment) are in for an equally rough ride. IMO someone, probably not the USAF, should prepare for long, long term limited anti-insurgency ops. The idea that only large conventional wars are worth preparing for and this other stuff will pass is why our opponents ensure it does not.
Leadership scrapped the versatile aircraft mix we had after Desert Storm and now the "party line" has produced aircraft that are too expensive to risk in combat. Expensive aircraft are "loss effects multipliers" because we have ended economies of scale.
The Army isn't terrified of using helos up close, but the USAF is down to the A-10, and the light F-35 isn't designed to take punishment and be repairable like the Warthog. I realize that the USAF mission has to be air dominance above all, and that the other stuff is peripheral, but the servicing of tactical targets by slow-movers is still required. If we can pull it off with UAVs then we can get the AF out of some of that business.
The Army is already buying UAVs, which have great potential since they don't infringe on the Key West agreement. If the Army can take over more of these missions, the Air Force won't even have to debate the issue and can pursue its own agenda focusing on major conventional wars.
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"Cowering from bullies is not the right thing to do."
It's not just a "bully" issue, it's a "bully" (toxic belief system) aided by cowering PC grovelling that teaches every culture other that those of the West is to be deferred to and may not be subject to criticism. Proof of their virtue is not required, because in a PC world cultural comparison is verboten.
"Oh, come on. You've read the Old Testament, right?"
Sure, but nowadays only a tiny few people actually consider that old superstitious nonsense much more than a hobby. Even the Christian fanatics in the US rarely go very far. Note that Christian superstition also has a New Testament...The Quran is still taken seriously, to which current events will attest.
Why should we who know better respect religion? Religion does not respect us.
"I see now how rage is just opposite side of the same fandom coin."
Fandom + vendor lock is asking for emotional punishment.
I'm sure some of that rage is at themselves for identifying with a company whose restriction of customer choice just caused them pain. I think that this is sort of like complaining about the view from the bottom of a queening stool, but YMMV.
"I guess the percentage of folks who went to driving school and got any handling training is very low."
BINGO! We have a winner! :)
They keep my buddies with rollbacks and wreckers in business.
"Oh dear god... can't we have *one* YRO online discussion without you guys steering the conversation towards a man getting anally raped by a horse?"
There was obviously NO "rape".
It was disgusting and hilarious, but obviously consensual. Had the horse taken exception to the situation, a swift iron-shod kick or a bite would have ended the session.
"but the side effect is that in a few years millions of Asians, who might otherwise have become normal, productive, law-abiding citizens of their respective countries, will instead have become deranged pedophiles."
Japan is proof the two aren't mutually exclusive.
"Goatse? That might as well be a default Windows wallpaper once you've seen Mr. Hands."
Turn up the audio too. Trust me.
The man (and horse) who made Enumclaw famous:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E2DD1330F932A35757C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
"''Zoo'' obliquely recreates the events of the fateful night that caused a media frenzy in the Seattle area two summers ago. Shortly after being dropped off at an emergency room in Enumclaw, Wash., a 45-year-old Boeing engineer named Kenneth Pinyan -- known in the film only by his Internet handle, Mr. Hands -- died of internal injuries resulting from a perforated colon. The police investigation led to a farm and turned up videotapes and DVDs that showed several men engaging in sexual acts with the resident Arabian stallions. Bestiality was not illegal in Washington at the time, but in response to the Pinyan incident the State Senate voted last year to criminalize it."
"Who's the grad student who had to break those monkeys spines?"
The subjects were actually grad students costumed as monkeys.
Lab monkeys are too valuable to use.
"You are bringing the practice of law making into disrepute and deserve to be punched in the cock."
I deserve to be punched in the cock, but am incensed that anyone might confuse me with a lawmaker.
Please find another punishment that will not bring my preferences into disrepute.
As an aircraft mechanic, the idea of fly-by-wire controls doesn't bother me. Aircraft are IMO acceptably safe, although dramalicious and mediagenic when they do crash. Shit happens.
There are lots of stuffs to worry about (like my commute to work on a highway full of retards in a few minutes) but I sleep like a log when flying.
"Why are you touching your screen if you don't have a touchscreen?"
I'm trying to wipe off the collateral damage from my...surfing habits.
"To bad they won't be able to surf websites such as Slashdot, Fark, or whatever else might be considered offensive to the government."
A fine incentive to learn about alternate boot media, QEMU, etc. Give a kid a computer and curiosity will do the rest.
"Perhaps closed cases are overrated in terms of the amount of "actual" protection they provide."
IME with customer machines, closed cases protect many interesting "dust bunny and (usually) dead insect" ecosystems. As for "pets", I've seen some machines with enough hair/dust/primordial "stuff" to build a small dog.
"This is a big deal for those of us with old or unusual hardware that can't boot from a CD or memory stick or through netbios/PXE."
I'm all for old and unusual hardware, but what are the odds that anyone geeky enough to use Debian couldn't get around this problem in their sleep? If it is not acceptable to crack open the hardware to snatch the hard disk for OS installation in a modern computer, there are any number of ways to install anyway. (I'd just whip out the screwdrivers and slam the drive into another machine. Linux is tolerant of being installed on one machine then being transferred to another.)
Installing an older version of Debian via floppy and then upgrading comes instantly to mind, followed by using a Linux or DOS boot floppy to access an external CD drive/USB drive/etc. This stuff isn't old hat, it's "ancient hat". The computing.net forums have lots of info for people with ancient machines, BTW.
"Let me see - you ask 40 Austrians whether they'd rather be seen in:
a) a Nazi Staff Car, or
b) Hirohito's rickshaw."
There will be one fewer vote for the "Staff Car" after the Jörg Haider crash. :)
His Phaeton was much nicer than an air-cooled Type 82E from the "old days", but it didn't save him.
"With a bald pate, you'd have a better platform to mount a black silicon solar cap to power your wireless cranial Internet connection. C'mon, geeks, see the possibilites here! When life hands you shit, make shit sandwiches!"
Such a cap would be incompatible with my tinfoil hat.
As for the sandwich thing, it goes:
"Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have the less shit you gotta taste."
"Agreed, not all of us want our women to look like bobbleheaded dolls."
Performance, OTOH...
"That the 'before' picture is much more appealing. She has nice eyes and an interesting, engaging face. She looks like someone who would be worth talking to."
Yeah, I'd hit it too.
"The 'after' picture looks like a generic pretty-but-not-beautiful girl. She looks like she would be interested in shopping and hairstyles. The world would be very boring if everyone looked like that."
Too hawt, must therefore be superficial hence unlikely to throw sensitive me a shot of leg. Clearly her loss.
"Beauty is the person shining from within."
That's why it wouldn't alter a Goatse receiver pic.
"No one is going to search your computer other than to make sure it is a computer and not a bomb."
Unless someone steals it.
Worrying about ZOG poking through your machine and actually caring about what's on there is fashionable, but it is at least equally reasonable to worry about someone bagging the computer itself.
If they do that, you might feel less violated if they cannot get to your data.
"If Airbus is that susceptible to electronic interference, then I'd rather not fly in their planes."
No shit. I'd also rather the Air Force NOT buy their tanker. If wireless electronics can hork their flight controls, enemy attack radar/etc could get really interesting even if they pass the standard EMP test.
"The last thing I need is to plunge into the Atlantic because some
disgruntled-fellow-gone-terrorist on the ground is jamming the flight controls with a generator and a pringles can."
Or an ILS tester with a phat amplifier...
"so basically you are saying that we are all a bunch of fat slobs eating cheatos all day in our parents basement. um I'll be quiet now."
(chomp, chomp, crunch)
That's not entirely fair. Some people's mothers live on slab homes.
(chomp, crunch)
"Have you ever been in a car with an Apple product user?"
Yes, and the way the backs of their heads hit the bottom of the steering wheel is quite distracting!
"overhauling the WUC manual/system (which is another story altogether)."
THERE"S a heroic task. Good luck, and beware counterintuitive user interfaces. :)
Maybe sneak in a favor to the crew chiefs and get CAMS, etc to accept "255". and "190" How Mal codes for everything.
"And, the anti-aircraft environment is too hazardous for a super tucano to survive very long, except in limited anti-insurgency operations."
Pretty much applies to anything in a large conventional war, since gunships are merely targets if the enemy still has an air force. Helos in a AAA environment (heck, "dense small arms" environment) are in for an equally rough ride. IMO someone, probably not the USAF, should prepare for long, long term limited anti-insurgency ops. The idea that only large conventional wars are worth preparing for and this other stuff will pass is why our opponents ensure it does not.
Leadership scrapped the versatile aircraft mix we had after Desert Storm and now the "party line" has produced aircraft that are too expensive to risk in combat. Expensive aircraft are "loss effects multipliers" because we have ended economies of scale.
The Army isn't terrified of using helos up close, but the USAF is down to the A-10, and the light F-35 isn't designed to take punishment and be repairable like the Warthog. I realize that the USAF mission has to be air dominance above all, and that the other stuff is peripheral, but the servicing of tactical targets by slow-movers is still required. If we can pull it off with UAVs then we can get the AF out of some of that business.
The Army is already buying UAVs, which have great potential since they don't infringe on the Key West agreement. If the Army can take over more of these missions, the Air Force won't even have to debate the issue and can pursue its own agenda focusing on major conventional wars.
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/04/airforce_shadow_uav_042408w/
"Sales of golf umbrellas and large-brimmed sombreros went through the roof."
Fight back, sunbathe naked.
The sight of thousands of Slashdotters au natural displayed in high resolution should drive off (most) of the human imagery interpreters.