That is going to suck, the closed female will be planets away, it is going to take forever to go on any dates.
Which means for geeks that they will now have a justifiable reason for not dating?
Note: In the past year I had a woman brave the trenches to beat me over the head with a club and drag me kicking and screaming out of my computer room and into the light of day. It really isn't that bad once you get over the light-blindness.;-).
I own all of the Star Wars movies and actually watched all four of them again just a couple of weeks ago. Sure, Ep. I wasn't all dark and mysterious, but I sure as hell didn't get insulted by it. In fact, I thought it was pretty good.
I think you have to go out of your way to be cranky to really think that a movie is an actively insulting device. Don't fucking watch it if it pains you that much. Good god, people really like to bitch.
CHandler on Friends said: ' I don't care about all that. The bottom line is SMOKING IS COOL AND YOU KNOW IT!'
Having said that, I don't smoke because:
1. I didn't ever have the time or the money to pour into developing such a habit.
2. I literally puff up like some kind of pufferfish if I'm around smoke very much at all. I asked a doctor about it once and he said it's probably an allergy to something in tobacco since it doesn't happen if I'm sitting next to a campfire.
But, as I always say, to each his own. Just as long as nobody is smoking in my house, I don't really care.
We had some silage/haylage bags on a hill that sloped down towards the 'dry-lot' (where dairy cows that weren't lactating were kept). When we finished with each bag, we would seal them up and they would bloat as the silage/haylage fermented. Of course, eventually there would be some leakage as the excess liquid pressed out of the bags. The run-off would leak down the hill and into the dry-lot.
Can't tell you how many times we saw cattle drinking the liquid that came out of those bags, and then watched them swerve their way out to the pasture. Eventually we built a little barricade at the bottom of the hill as we started to worry that it might effect the calves (non-lactating cows are usually in the later terms of pregnancy). But it was kind of funny to watch a drunk cow trying to walk.
Our conclusion: even with four legs you can still lose your balance if you get drunk enough.;-)
You have just explained the management meetings at the last three companies I worked for. Seriously, I was actually 'invited' (told to be there or else) to a couple of these meetings, and I'm not kidding that this is almost exactly the way they went. And those companies wondered why they couldn't make any money.
You do realize that the original films pandered to 10 year-old children as well don't you?
Or have you somehow convinced yourself in the 25 years since then that you parents went to the originals for themselves and just took you along as an afterthought?
Or maybe he's afraid the pre-hype will create a huge black hole to suck down any possible goodness the movie had.
It happened last time. EP I was a decent movie if it hadn't been hyped up so completely by the time it was released. If they would have just released it with very little fanfare it would have still drawn crowds. And then there wouldn't be all these people saying, "I don't like $newcharacter because he acts stupid. Why didn't $storyline_device do $chosen_plot instead...?"
I can understand Lucas not wanting the hype to get out of control this time. People got so damn riled up over the last movie because it 'didn't live up to the hype'. No movie could. Maybe he's not going to let the hype exist this time.
I honestly do not see how DC can even imagine staying in business if they are paying lawyers to cook up this kind of garbage. Of course, it works for other companies, so who knows. We don't need a good idea, we need more lawyers!
How about a way to launch the pole on their chair straight up their ass and then shoot electricity into them from there?
Sorry, too many horror movies combined with poor moderation have made me bitter, angry, and ready for revenge.
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Your comment has much in common with the Rock. In fact, change 'wrap them up with...' to turn that sum'bitch sideways and change sophomoric to candy and you would be exactly the same.
Wow, now I know what the Rock does during his free time.
Hehe, did you just say you come here for facts and opinions? You may get a lot of opinions, but god, if you are reading a Katz article and expecting to see facts....
I'm sorry, I just realized anything I add to that would be construed as flamebait or trollish behaviour. Not that the moderators won't moderate me down anyway, but.
How about a way to shock all idiotic moderators that moderate down a valid post because they don't agree with it? I think that would be even better than the stupid first posters being shocked.
Oh, I'm sorry moderators. I didn't realize that it wasn't fashionable today to bad mouth Katz.
Marking my previous post as a troll isn't really appropriate. A troll would post a positive "Katz is a god and you all suck" sort of post. Whereas I posted what I think is probably the way most people see Katz.
Anyways, Slashdot is no longer fun or interesting. The bullshit articles and the shittier than fuck moderation is just too asinine to believe. I wouldn't mind the bad articles, but let us discuss them if we have a valid opinion. But noooooo! If someone disagrees with the moderators, it's crucifiction time.
Pardon the rant, no on second thought don't. I'm tired of being polite. Fucking attitude of the moderators has got to change. I'm sure I won't change it, but it's frustrating as hell.
Down with moderation! I've had it with the stupidity that is introduced when every idiot and their dog can moderate. Hand all moderation over to some idiot like Katz, that ought to solve the problem.
Don't tell me, let me guess. You're from Hollywood aren't you? Either that or D.C., but I've found most in D.C. want their whore to be 'ever ready' for them, so wouldn't ask them to leave. They'd just ask them to hide in the closet while they got rid of their wives.
I'm sorry, this one was just begging for a response. And I hate to see anyone begging.
The nice thing would be that with fire and blankets most of the people stupid enough to go for first post would probably burn themselves to death in the attempt.
Now, to figure out a way to make stupid posting as painful a death as that? Electroshock therapy to all idiotic posts (every time you are modded down you get another blast of electricity).
Some of those people should try their hand at writing really really crappy sci-fi screenplays. At least then they could make a little money, and who knows? People might actually be willing to listen/watch stupid crappy sci-fi on TV. But reading it in a technical mag (or what is supposed to be) is rather depressing.
I don't mind the occassional vision of the future, but start ripping off Clarke, or Simmons, or Asimov and trying to pass it off as your original take on the 'evils of technology' just pisses me off.
Never trust anyone that says something new is either
a) the greatest thing on earth, or conversely
b) the greatest blight on the earth
It usually means they're either very, very naive or they're selling something.
Or it means they are Jon Katz, which would in fact mean they are both very very naive and they're selling something (in Katz's case, they are selling their naivety, how the hell do I get that job?).
I whipped out my Katzspeak to English dictionary and here's what this translates to in English:
a long winded rant taking on ideas from some people I don't like from someplace called Edge. This guy Lanier believes that the people I don't like are not only using really big words, but they actually have ideas about those big words.
I just didn't realize that there were other people that used Katzspeak other than Jon Katz himself.
Has anyone else noticed that Slashdot really seems boring this week? It's like the slowest week in tech news ever, but that's not stopping slashdot from posting drivel to fill up the pages.
Moderators, please moderate down appropriately. If you moderate me up, it will only make me feel appreciated.
I actually hope some RIAA official comes rip roaring into my house to confiscate my pirated music (with or without the cops in tow). When they get all ballsy about it and tear the shit out of the house I can then countersue because EVERY SINGLE MP3 I HAVE IS FROM A CD I OWN.
Let those paranoid psychotics come for me. Forget the fact that they are shooting themselves in the foot already. Forget the fact that CD sales are still going up. And forget the fact that MP3s are actually the best promotional tool to come along since radio. Let them come at a few people like me and it will be all over for them.
Unless of course personal rights really are a thing of the past. It could be that they will somehow manage to convince the government that the MP3 format should just be illegal on principle. If that happens, I would be in serious trouble.
8 GB of MP3s ripped from my own CDs and counting. Would each GB be worth ten years in prison?
I think I might be willing to pay for that if they actually picked the good trolls and off-topic posters. I kind of miss some of the good story tellers. They seem to disappear this time of year. I suppose it has something to do with all of the truly imaginative trolls having to go back to school.;-)
Of course, everyone thinks the trolls are a terribly disgusting lot. We wouldn't want to feed those fragile egos now would we? (This is not my perspective, but it appears to be the majority. I've heard a lot of 'ignore the trolls or you'll be giving them what they want' type of statements and that seems silly. After all, the good trolls deserve a response for putting all that effort into their work. I just wish there were more 'good' trolls.)
Now, this one should get moderated into oblivion. Bye, bye karma
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Thank god, I'd like to have one browswer that gets it right (although Konqueror appears to do pretty good).
You will be suprised to find that women actually are 3D objects, just like those videos depict them!
I know it shocked the hell out of me.
Which means for geeks that they will now have a justifiable reason for not dating?
Note: In the past year I had a woman brave the trenches to beat me over the head with a club and drag me kicking and screaming out of my computer room and into the light of day. It really isn't that bad once you get over the light-blindness.
If you say so chizput.
I own all of the Star Wars movies and actually watched all four of them again just a couple of weeks ago. Sure, Ep. I wasn't all dark and mysterious, but I sure as hell didn't get insulted by it. In fact, I thought it was pretty good.
I think you have to go out of your way to be cranky to really think that a movie is an actively insulting device. Don't fucking watch it if it pains you that much. Good god, people really like to bitch.
CHandler on Friends said: ' I don't care about all that. The bottom line is SMOKING IS COOL AND YOU KNOW IT!'
Having said that, I don't smoke because:
1. I didn't ever have the time or the money to pour into developing such a habit.
2. I literally puff up like some kind of pufferfish if I'm around smoke very much at all. I asked a doctor about it once and he said it's probably an allergy to something in tobacco since it doesn't happen if I'm sitting next to a campfire.
But, as I always say, to each his own. Just as long as nobody is smoking in my house, I don't really care.
I'll give you one for other animals:
;-)
We had some silage/haylage bags on a hill that sloped down towards the 'dry-lot' (where dairy cows that weren't lactating were kept). When we finished with each bag, we would seal them up and they would bloat as the silage/haylage fermented. Of course, eventually there would be some leakage as the excess liquid pressed out of the bags. The run-off would leak down the hill and into the dry-lot.
Can't tell you how many times we saw cattle drinking the liquid that came out of those bags, and then watched them swerve their way out to the pasture. Eventually we built a little barricade at the bottom of the hill as we started to worry that it might effect the calves (non-lactating cows are usually in the later terms of pregnancy). But it was kind of funny to watch a drunk cow trying to walk.
Our conclusion: even with four legs you can still lose your balance if you get drunk enough.
You have just explained the management meetings at the last three companies I worked for. Seriously, I was actually 'invited' (told to be there or else) to a couple of these meetings, and I'm not kidding that this is almost exactly the way they went. And those companies wondered why they couldn't make any money.
You do realize that the original films pandered to 10 year-old children as well don't you?
Or have you somehow convinced yourself in the 25 years since then that you parents went to the originals for themselves and just took you along as an afterthought?
Or maybe he's afraid the pre-hype will create a huge black hole to suck down any possible goodness the movie had.
It happened last time. EP I was a decent movie if it hadn't been hyped up so completely by the time it was released. If they would have just released it with very little fanfare it would have still drawn crowds. And then there wouldn't be all these people saying, "I don't like $newcharacter because he acts stupid. Why didn't $storyline_device do $chosen_plot instead...?"
I can understand Lucas not wanting the hype to get out of control this time. People got so damn riled up over the last movie because it 'didn't live up to the hype'. No movie could. Maybe he's not going to let the hype exist this time.
My god, you made me hate you and love you at the same time. In fact, the reference to the Dudleys almost made up for your link.
If you would have said, "Waaaasssuuuuuuuuuuuuup!" I probably would have felt indebted to you.
I honestly do not see how DC can even imagine staying in business if they are paying lawyers to cook up this kind of garbage. Of course, it works for other companies, so who knows. We don't need a good idea, we need more lawyers!
How about a way to launch the pole on their chair straight up their ass and then shoot electricity into them from there?
Sorry, too many horror movies combined with poor moderation have made me bitter, angry, and ready for revenge.
Your comment has much in common with the Rock. In fact, change 'wrap them up with...' to turn that sum'bitch sideways and change sophomoric to candy and you would be exactly the same.
Wow, now I know what the Rock does during his free time.
Hahahaha, OH MY GOD!
....
Hehe, did you just say you come here for facts and opinions? You may get a lot of opinions, but god, if you are reading a Katz article and expecting to see facts
I'm sorry, I just realized anything I add to that would be construed as flamebait or trollish behaviour. Not that the moderators won't moderate me down anyway, but.
How about a way to shock all idiotic moderators that moderate down a valid post because they don't agree with it? I think that would be even better than the stupid first posters being shocked.
Oh, I'm sorry moderators. I didn't realize that it wasn't fashionable today to bad mouth Katz.
Marking my previous post as a troll isn't really appropriate. A troll would post a positive "Katz is a god and you all suck" sort of post. Whereas I posted what I think is probably the way most people see Katz.
Anyways, Slashdot is no longer fun or interesting. The bullshit articles and the shittier than fuck moderation is just too asinine to believe. I wouldn't mind the bad articles, but let us discuss them if we have a valid opinion. But noooooo! If someone disagrees with the moderators, it's crucifiction time.
Pardon the rant, no on second thought don't. I'm tired of being polite. Fucking attitude of the moderators has got to change. I'm sure I won't change it, but it's frustrating as hell.
Down with moderation! I've had it with the stupidity that is introduced when every idiot and their dog can moderate. Hand all moderation over to some idiot like Katz, that ought to solve the problem.
Mumble, grumble....
Don't tell me, let me guess. You're from Hollywood aren't you? Either that or D.C., but I've found most in D.C. want their whore to be 'ever ready' for them, so wouldn't ask them to leave. They'd just ask them to hide in the closet while they got rid of their wives.
I'm sorry, this one was just begging for a response. And I hate to see anyone begging.
The nice thing would be that with fire and blankets most of the people stupid enough to go for first post would probably burn themselves to death in the attempt.
Now, to figure out a way to make stupid posting as painful a death as that? Electroshock therapy to all idiotic posts (every time you are modded down you get another blast of electricity).
Some of those people should try their hand at writing really really crappy sci-fi screenplays. At least then they could make a little money, and who knows? People might actually be willing to listen/watch stupid crappy sci-fi on TV. But reading it in a technical mag (or what is supposed to be) is rather depressing.
I don't mind the occassional vision of the future, but start ripping off Clarke, or Simmons, or Asimov and trying to pass it off as your original take on the 'evils of technology' just pisses me off.
Or it means they are Jon Katz, which would in fact mean they are both very very naive and they're selling something (in Katz's case, they are selling their naivety, how the hell do I get that job?).
I whipped out my Katzspeak to English dictionary and here's what this translates to in English:
a long winded rant taking on ideas from some people I don't like from someplace called Edge. This guy Lanier believes that the people I don't like are not only using really big words, but they actually have ideas about those big words.
I just didn't realize that there were other people that used Katzspeak other than Jon Katz himself.
Has anyone else noticed that Slashdot really seems boring this week? It's like the slowest week in tech news ever, but that's not stopping slashdot from posting drivel to fill up the pages.
Moderators, please moderate down appropriately. If you moderate me up, it will only make me feel appreciated.
God, I love that scene.
Scotty picks up the mouse and speaks into it, "Computer?"
LOL!
I actually hope some RIAA official comes rip roaring into my house to confiscate my pirated music (with or without the cops in tow). When they get all ballsy about it and tear the shit out of the house I can then countersue because EVERY SINGLE MP3 I HAVE IS FROM A CD I OWN.
Let those paranoid psychotics come for me. Forget the fact that they are shooting themselves in the foot already. Forget the fact that CD sales are still going up. And forget the fact that MP3s are actually the best promotional tool to come along since radio. Let them come at a few people like me and it will be all over for them.
Unless of course personal rights really are a thing of the past. It could be that they will somehow manage to convince the government that the MP3 format should just be illegal on principle. If that happens, I would be in serious trouble.
8 GB of MP3s ripped from my own CDs and counting. Would each GB be worth ten years in prison?
I think I might be willing to pay for that if they actually picked the good trolls and off-topic posters. I kind of miss some of the good story tellers. They seem to disappear this time of year. I suppose it has something to do with all of the truly imaginative trolls having to go back to school. ;-)
Of course, everyone thinks the trolls are a terribly disgusting lot. We wouldn't want to feed those fragile egos now would we? (This is not my perspective, but it appears to be the majority. I've heard a lot of 'ignore the trolls or you'll be giving them what they want' type of statements and that seems silly. After all, the good trolls deserve a response for putting all that effort into their work. I just wish there were more 'good' trolls.)
Now, this one should get moderated into oblivion. Bye, bye karma