OK, just to continue the rant: now I see gray bars (images), I think they link to this: http://c.fsdn.com/sd/cs_sic_controls_new.png but I'm not positive as I didn't get a "Properties" menu, just an AdBlock which is where I got that from (it might be the background).
So, yeah, like some other poster said, perhaps I should just suck it up and move to their newest coolest buggiest thing; or perhaps I'll just keep complaining, I know which is easier.
And, yes, I just previewed and then middle-clicked on the link that it made out of the PNG URL (didn't think it would make a link out of it, since I'm in "HTML Formatted" mode, but whatever), and if you click it and scroll to the bottom, you'll see the images I saw -- they look like two horizontal bars, and a short vertical bar.
Does anyone have a GreaseMonkey script to make Slashdot behave?
(And: whois FSDN.com? It's owned by SourceForge...)
They're thinking about paring down the population and setting the stage to make a lot of money. Who's "rebuilding" Iraq, again?
Apologies for reading this days later, but: I remember an episode of "Over There" (short-lived "docu-drama" on US soldiers in Iraq), in which the soldiers' mission was to break into some Iraqi's house. Turns out there was a lot of money hidden in a wall. They took it. The Iraqi came home, started shooting at the thieves, and was killed.
That episode (which was maybe... 4 years ago?) completely jaded my view of news stories from them on. If we blew up a "terrorist house" and "oops killed a few civilians as well", my new understanding is that we took out some political opposition, or someone with money who could have done something to fight the occupation and "51st state" mentality.
Although, I'm sure we'd never make it a state; I mean, look at Puerto Rico, Guam, etc... Taxation without representation is so much more profitable, if you're on the "taxing" side.
I've discovered a workaround: click the first post. Then click the story link on that post's page, and the header lines will be back. Seriously, I understand not "testing" the articles when posting, but not testing code changes to the site? I wish I could have a job where I could light up at work. Or simply be that incompetent, I guess the reason why doesn't really matter.
Fucking Slashdot, all the green-background headers are invisible, due to being white-background for all parts except the initial "curve at top left". Any orange (yro.slashdot.org) or purple (games.slashdot.org) pages show up just fine. This has been happening for over a week, now, on Firefox 3.0.10 on Windows XP. The "workaround" is to highlight the header, so I can see what the text says... Or, Ctrl+A to mark the whole page, and read in inverse. Yay!!!
Well, although I can completely understand what you're saying, I've learned that it's not healthy to think of relationships in absolute terms. Or, perhaps I do that now: it's either beneficial or detrimental, and of course some can be a combination of the two, so one prefers to maximize the former and minimize the latter; agreements that can be brought in front of a court of law to resolve disputes help such relationships. Both from becoming too damaging to one's self, and also to reduce the incentive for the other party to act detrimentally towards one.
Of course, I have stopped having relationships many years ago, so don't take your advice from me.:)
obEmoPhilips: "I used to think... I used to think that the brain was the most interesting organ in the body. Then I thought, look what's telling me that!"
I agree with your statement, but disagree that it matters; we can delude ourselves into believing anything, and frequently do in order to acquire resources.
Agree with the war on terror aspect. The cruiser's camera's ability to recall what it recorded is at the cop's (and department's) discretion. My attorney told me that. I'm talking about retribution for turning in a bad apple, since the whole bunch is rotten I'd be opening myself to a world of hurt, even if it did not result in my death.
Yeah, some hilarious moments in "A Scanner Darkly", like: they got a great deal on an 18-speed bicycle, which upon analysis only has 3 gears in the front and 6 in the back -- that only adds up to 9 gears, so they got ripped off!
That's what I use to justify people not liking 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Oh, well, I guess he's just too immature to get it. Maybe in a few years..." I'll never accept that someone can simply dislike the film, damnit.
Watch it a few times; it gets rather boring quickly.
Other movies that I recalled fondly, then resolved to never, ever re-watch again (i.e., after the second viewing), were Contact and Heat.
On the contrary, Pulp Fiction had a long walking scene where he's going to get his watch, but the music made up for it, in that case.
My point exactly. If you let people continue to get away with abusing others, where is their incentive to stop? If more people were prepared to - and did - stand up for themselves more often, especially in the face of such bullies and tyrants, perhaps there would be less people trying to step on others for their own benefit.
Spoken with eloquence. I applaud you, and salute your father.
My experience is less dramatic, but still traumatizing and ultimately encouraging. I was beat up a lot as a kid over physical differences. I knew they were stronger, so I never fought back.
One day, I had taken enough and started fighting back. Even though I lost every fight I participated in, once I started participating I was able to get some good punches and kicks in, and the bullies then moved on to another softer target.
This completely agrees with your statement: regardless of whether you win or lose, if you fight back, the bullies and tyrants will not only think twice about abusing you, they may think twice about abusing anyone.
Especially if you can manage to poke one of their eyes out.
I went through a 4 year divorce because my ex was told that it would cost me 100K (on top of the money that I had already given her on a 1 year marriage) and that I would settle rather than fight it. It cost 60K+ (less than the 100K), but still, this was caused because the other lawyer pushed this crap.
I hope for your sake that you use a contract for any future open-ended commitment.
Marriage is business. Never enter a business partnership without protecting yourself first.
Children are a different story; but they too can be used by the other party to apply leverage. A pre-nuptial agreement can actually even save a marriage (by removing the incentive to kill or divorce).
Stale data from 20 years ago is that 53% of all marriages end in divorce (it's likely higher than that, now). So regardless of your current financial situation, it makes sense to protect yourself; you may win the lottery (or work for a successful startup, with stock options), and potentially regret your decision to "play nice".
My first was contractless, but she was not savvy either -- she opted for the book "Divorce For Dummies" instead of hiring an attorney. I applaud her move.:)
We like car examples here, so: your mechanic keeps breaking a different part when you come in, so that you have to pay him to fix it a few weeks from now. You catch him at it, and he fixes that broken part for free, and your car never again has mysterious parts broken.
However, he continues this practice with all his other customers.
The class action suit is to get him to stop breaking anyone's cars, not just your own.
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OK, just to continue the rant: now I see gray bars (images), I think they link to this: http://c.fsdn.com/sd/cs_sic_controls_new.png but I'm not positive as I didn't get a "Properties" menu, just an AdBlock which is where I got that from (it might be the background).
So, yeah, like some other poster said, perhaps I should just suck it up and move to their newest coolest buggiest thing; or perhaps I'll just keep complaining, I know which is easier.
And, yes, I just previewed and then middle-clicked on the link that it made out of the PNG URL (didn't think it would make a link out of it, since I'm in "HTML Formatted" mode, but whatever), and if you click it and scroll to the bottom, you'll see the images I saw -- they look like two horizontal bars, and a short vertical bar.
Does anyone have a GreaseMonkey script to make Slashdot behave?
(And: whois FSDN.com? It's owned by SourceForge...)
Heh. I had this thought earlier today: "The first rule of Pot Club is, ... you do not remember the first rule." At least, I think that was me...
Apologies for reading this days later, but: I remember an episode of "Over There" (short-lived "docu-drama" on US soldiers in Iraq), in which the soldiers' mission was to break into some Iraqi's house. Turns out there was a lot of money hidden in a wall. They took it. The Iraqi came home, started shooting at the thieves, and was killed.
That episode (which was maybe ... 4 years ago?) completely jaded my view of news stories from them on. If we blew up a "terrorist house" and "oops killed a few civilians as well", my new understanding is that we took out some political opposition, or someone with money who could have done something to fight the occupation and "51st state" mentality.
Although, I'm sure we'd never make it a state; I mean, look at Puerto Rico, Guam, etc... Taxation without representation is so much more profitable, if you're on the "taxing" side.
I've discovered a workaround: click the first post. Then click the story link on that post's page, and the header lines will be back. Seriously, I understand not "testing" the articles when posting, but not testing code changes to the site? I wish I could have a job where I could light up at work. Or simply be that incompetent, I guess the reason why doesn't really matter.
Max Mad, huh? Mr. Spooner called, he wants his mistakes back.
I don't say a lot of things when I'm arrested... Both before and after consulting a lawyer...
Fucking Slashdot, all the green-background headers are invisible, due to being white-background for all parts except the initial "curve at top left". Any orange (yro.slashdot.org) or purple (games.slashdot.org) pages show up just fine. This has been happening for over a week, now, on Firefox 3.0.10 on Windows XP. The "workaround" is to highlight the header, so I can see what the text says... Or, Ctrl+A to mark the whole page, and read in inverse. Yay!!!
Fucking Slashdot, I can't see the header of any messages in this or several other threads. Some work. What the fuck????
One acronym: AI (or IA).
I want my computer to tell me what I'm about to think.
LOL, thanks. (And stay off!)
Uh, yeah, says the guy whose .sig says we're going to break anything we come into contact with...
Well, although I can completely understand what you're saying, I've learned that it's not healthy to think of relationships in absolute terms. Or, perhaps I do that now: it's either beneficial or detrimental, and of course some can be a combination of the two, so one prefers to maximize the former and minimize the latter; agreements that can be brought in front of a court of law to resolve disputes help such relationships. Both from becoming too damaging to one's self, and also to reduce the incentive for the other party to act detrimentally towards one.
Of course, I have stopped having relationships many years ago, so don't take your advice from me. :)
If asking her to sign a document means she'll stop having sex, you really didn't have a relationship.
obEmoPhilips: "I used to think ... I used to think that the brain was the most interesting organ in the body. Then I thought, look what's telling me that!"
Glad to hear. Hope you don't get too successful. :)
"Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment."
I agree with your statement, but disagree that it matters; we can delude ourselves into believing anything, and frequently do in order to acquire resources.
Agree with the war on terror aspect. The cruiser's camera's ability to recall what it recorded is at the cop's (and department's) discretion. My attorney told me that. I'm talking about retribution for turning in a bad apple, since the whole bunch is rotten I'd be opening myself to a world of hurt, even if it did not result in my death.
Yeah, some hilarious moments in "A Scanner Darkly", like: they got a great deal on an 18-speed bicycle, which upon analysis only has 3 gears in the front and 6 in the back -- that only adds up to 9 gears, so they got ripped off!
Watch it a few times; it gets rather boring quickly.
Other movies that I recalled fondly, then resolved to never, ever re-watch again (i.e., after the second viewing), were Contact and Heat.
On the contrary, Pulp Fiction had a long walking scene where he's going to get his watch, but the music made up for it, in that case.
Spoken with eloquence. I applaud you, and salute your father.
My experience is less dramatic, but still traumatizing and ultimately encouraging. I was beat up a lot as a kid over physical differences. I knew they were stronger, so I never fought back.
One day, I had taken enough and started fighting back. Even though I lost every fight I participated in, once I started participating I was able to get some good punches and kicks in, and the bullies then moved on to another softer target.
This completely agrees with your statement: regardless of whether you win or lose, if you fight back, the bullies and tyrants will not only think twice about abusing you, they may think twice about abusing anyone.
Especially if you can manage to poke one of their eyes out.
Just as bad: no wife, no horse, no mustache.
Mmmmm, fruit salad!
I hope for your sake that you use a contract for any future open-ended commitment.
Marriage is business. Never enter a business partnership without protecting yourself first.
Children are a different story; but they too can be used by the other party to apply leverage. A pre-nuptial agreement can actually even save a marriage (by removing the incentive to kill or divorce).
Stale data from 20 years ago is that 53% of all marriages end in divorce (it's likely higher than that, now). So regardless of your current financial situation, it makes sense to protect yourself; you may win the lottery (or work for a successful startup, with stock options), and potentially regret your decision to "play nice".
My first was contractless, but she was not savvy either -- she opted for the book "Divorce For Dummies" instead of hiring an attorney. I applaud her move. :)
Uh, the problem is systemic.
We like car examples here, so: your mechanic keeps breaking a different part when you come in, so that you have to pay him to fix it a few weeks from now. You catch him at it, and he fixes that broken part for free, and your car never again has mysterious parts broken.
However, he continues this practice with all his other customers.
The class action suit is to get him to stop breaking anyone's cars, not just your own.