The drunkards are horde. Twelve-year olds pretending to be 25 are alliance. Simple.
(It's a *little* more complicated than that. The still-in-the-closet 25ish crowd play night-elf hunters (pretending, of course, to be sixteen-year old girls) and the 43ish creepy pedo-wannabes are playing night-elf druids (hoping, of course, to meet a hunter) Shh. Don't tell them. It would spoil their fun. (Captain Crunch, of course, plays a night-elf druid, but he thinks the hunters are all sixteen-year old boys. Shh. Don't tell him. It would spoil his fun.)).
Or fourteen. To be completely in love with graphics to the point of making that your primary purchasing decision, you have to be fourteen or drunk/high.
You're close. The online chatters, voice or text, mainly fall into one of two categories:
1.) Drunk 2.) Fourteen
I can handle the drunkards, they can sometimes be funny. It's the fourteen-year olds that make me yearn for the "reach through your monitor and slap the person on the other side of the internet tube" technology to be invented. Don't even get me started on those who are fourteen trying really hard to pretend to be drunken and thirty.
Wait, why is this funny? If you left a job in Baaahstan, MA at $50K/year, and moved to, say, Huntsville, AL, you'd probably take a $5K hit on salary, *but* the cost of living is 35% lower, so that's like a $10K raise.
I gladly put up with the southern drawl in exchange for better weather, better pay, and better manners.
North Alabama. Huntsville. Unless you're an engineer or an expert at firing control systems, well, *I* haven't been able to find anything yet in the linux/unix sysadmin world. Any suggestions?
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I live in Alabama *and* in the county. There are definitely a different set of rules which apply to county life versus city life. I live in a dry county (a county where the sale of or open consumption of alchohol is illegal). Tonight I'm going up the road to a multi-kegger party. ~$1000 worth of fireworks. Some of the attendees are off-duty deputies.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
(and, since it rained from noon till five, *no* chance of errant firework causing fire)
The only *real* downside to living in Alabama is lack of good-paying IT jobs.
If you registered the product, you'll get a mailing notifying you of the lawsuit. If you read the fine print, you are allowed to opt-out of the class action lawsuit. If you opt-out, you can pursue the matter on your own.
I *still* haven't got my money from the CD settlement *or* the Microsoft settlement. I've kinda written thost off. Is it too late?
Yeah, after I posted it I thought "Oh, people will just automate the 'this is spam' report." So Bayesian is out.
But what about checking of spoofed/cloaked pages? Hitting 'this is spam' could fire off a re-index of the page using something other than GoogleBot as the useragent string. Something the SEOs can't key mod-rewrite off of.....
See, here's what gets my goat. Why doesn't Google include a "report this spammer scum" option? I thought that they at one time included a "these results are not what I expected" link, but I don't see it any more.
I'd love to be able to help Google get rid of SEO spammers. Bayesian filtering as applied to search results?
Tony Blair is the European equivalent of George Bush?
No, not at all. He just happens to be the only European leader I can name off of the top of my head.
I don't watch Fox, but I still really and truly believe that the owners of the United States won't allow themselves to be effected by European policies (unless it's an end-run around too-vocal civil libertarians in the US).
From/. 2001, my favorite post about O.S.Card: Hitler comment
I *still* haven't found a copy of the article online. Any help?
A funny thing happened between Speaker... (Score:5) by localroger (258128) on Monday January 15, @12:41PM (#506432) ( http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/index.html )...and Hegemon. As it happens I was there to see it, and it was illuminating.
A friend of mine hated Ender's game; she said it was the worst novel she'd ever read from its sappy tearjerking to its queasy morality to the blatant justification of genocide at the end. She refused to ever read another Card book. I didn't feel as strongly as she did, found the book readable, but I took her point.
At the time she was a SFWA member so she got a free copy of Speaker. Since she didn't want it, she gave it to me. When I read it I got back to her and said, "you're not going to believe this, he escapes to a planet copied from Brazil."
I gave her back the book, and next thing I know she is drawing up a tremendous list of coincidences, at least 75, between Ender's life and upbringing and that of one A. Hitler. This turned into a meticulously researched article -- I saw the doc package, which was an inch and a half thick -- which was published in the final issue of Science Fiction Review,. That article was titled Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman? by Elaine Radford.
SFR is no longer with us but the article and Card's rebuttal were republished by Literary Review, so it's probably there in your meatspace library if you're curious. I don't think the article is online anywhere.
While it was startling to see just how closely Ender parallels Hitler, even more startling was Card's reaction. He seemed to be completely unaware of many of the key passages in the book which Radford cited. This is clear from his rebuttal, which was amazingly lame and ignorant (several times stating bluntly that passages didn't exist which Radford had documented). It was obvious to me that he couldn't have written the book, at least not in anything finer than general outline.
At the time it was expected that Card would sweep the Hugos and Nebulas for a third time in a row with the sequel to Speaker. Instead it took him, what, four or five years to get around to writing it. I am convinced that Superman had a lot to do with it. He pulled a mammoth con job off on the SF community and almost got away with it. For the most part he still has, but he did blink.
I'll cite as many sources as you did. Non-native English speakers outnumber native English speakers. The US is considered a country of native English speakers. QED.
Say "Your President's an idiot" and then at least you'll have made a substantiated point.
Well, I thought the parent to your post was valid. Case in point: Everyone in Europe can name the US President; I can name Tony Blair as the equivalent. That's it. It's not that I'm stupid; just intentionally ignorant. I don't know because I don't need to--their policies don't effect me as an American; Europeans know because they need to; Bush's policies effect them as Europeans.
Customer: I have Y. But my company is so big, you are going to give it to me for Z (Z < Y).
Salesman: My company is big too, but OK.
[three months later]
Customer: We've implemented it, but feature FOO doesn't work the way that you said it did! The world will end if feature FOO doesn't work!
Salesman: Sorry, you must have misunderstood me. You can buy third-party app BAR to provide that functionality. And pay us money to integrate the products, adding up to just over Y.
Customer: But we agreed on Z!
Salesman: Ha ha! You are screwed! You have already done implementation! You can't go back to previous product! You are over the barrel! On second thought, you will pay us Y + F% (where F is the large percentage increase they feel like sticking it to you for because they can)
Bullshit. What is a journalist? ANYBODY can be journalist.
No. You, sir, are incorrect. In theory, for one to be a true journalist, one must do actual research. Fact checking. One must have some type of editorial review process.
thinksecret is better than Drudge (or/., for that matter), true, but is still a rumor mill, not a reputable source of news.
The prolbem is that mass media has become beholden to corporate Amerika and doesn't do things like extensive fact checking (paging Dan Rather) or exercise good editorial review (NYTimes scandal(s), anyone?). The skimp on these things because of economics--they *have* to get the "scoop" to get the ratings or they can't make their corporate masters look bad. Never mind the fact that such "scoops" are often just rehashes of baseless speculation posted by bloggers.
Dan Rather got the story right, his team even asked the White House for comment. What they failed to do was verify that the smoking gun was, in fact, a gun not the steaming pile it turned out to be.
If you follow the ANYONE can be a journalist, then should also follow the "ANYONE can be a...." where.... is any given profession (mechanic, web designer, traffic engineer). Slapping up a weblog does not, in fact, make one a journalist. (see Drudge)
so that pages can match even if none of the words in your query actually appear on the page
Look, I put the phrase in quotes because *that's the phrase I'm looking for*. Lately, I've been getting results (even the cached version!) from searches which don't have the quoted strings I'm looking for. Grr.
My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?
Yeah, Timothy. I was there with you when you bought your laptop. It was around the same time that I got my iPod. It was a first generation, so, yeah, your laptop is definitely a few years old.
Nice try, but there is no such thing as "copyrighted worldwide" and there's a very good reason --$$$s.
Ya see, many countries actually charge money in order to register a copyright. Yep, that's right --it's not automatic or free everywhere just because it is in the US. In fact, it wasn't alwasy the case in the US either.
That, Mr. President, turns out not to be the case. Iff by "many" you mean "the countries other than Elbonia not appearing on this list" http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf , then *maybe* you're right. No, not even then.
All signatories to the 1985 Berne Convention agree that copyrights are automatic. Any work authored in any of the signatory countries is *poof* copyrighted in *all* signatory countries.
Yes, even *CHINA* is on the list. Your argument doesn't fly.
Sure, but when there are only 2 political parties with any influence, and the one that's most anti-immigrant is also the most pro-business, good luck with that. We'd need at least an anti-immigrant, anti-business party or a pro-immigrant, pro-business party to really get anything done.
Well, see, the Republicans talk from both sides of their moths on this issue. Publically, to their constituents (remember, the plurality of America is rural; the majority of Repub voters are rural) they have to say "Death to illegals!", but privately, they *know* that a truly effective campaign against illegal immigration would be devastating to the American economy.
60-70% (okay, that number is from my butt, but I heard it on NPR, so it must be true, right?) of the food industry (growers, pickers, processors, etc) are illegals. The rural community I live in determined recently that ~15% of our local economy comes from "our Hispanic friends" (read: illegals).
Our policy on illegal immigration is much like our policy against illegal drugs: we talk the talk, but we're *definitely* not interested in *really* walking the walk. (unless, of course, it's advantageous in jack-booting least favored minority of the month)
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You have to be drunk or twelve to enjoy WoW.
The drunkards are horde.
Twelve-year olds pretending to be 25 are alliance.
Simple.
(It's a *little* more complicated than that. The still-in-the-closet 25ish crowd play night-elf hunters (pretending, of course, to be sixteen-year old girls) and the 43ish creepy pedo-wannabes are playing night-elf druids (hoping, of course, to meet a hunter) Shh. Don't tell them. It would spoil their fun. (Captain Crunch, of course, plays a night-elf druid, but he thinks the hunters are all sixteen-year old boys. Shh. Don't tell him. It would spoil his fun.)).
Right. There *is* a difference. The difference matters.
Cap'n Crunch is the creepy guy who likes to hang out with young children.
Captain Crunch is the creepy guy who likes to hang out with young boys.
Or fourteen. To be completely in love with graphics to the point of making that your primary purchasing decision, you have to be fourteen or drunk/high.
Or both.
You're close. The online chatters, voice or text, mainly fall into one of two categories:
1.) Drunk
2.) Fourteen
I can handle the drunkards, they can sometimes be funny. It's the fourteen-year olds that make me yearn for the "reach through your monitor and slap the person on the other side of the internet tube" technology to be invented. Don't even get me started on those who are fourteen trying really hard to pretend to be drunken and thirty.
If by "bad" you mean "blocked because it includes a link to gaygamer.net", then yes.
Wait, why is this funny? If you left a job in Baaahstan, MA at $50K/year, and moved to, say, Huntsville, AL, you'd probably take a $5K hit on salary, *but* the cost of living is 35% lower, so that's like a $10K raise.
I gladly put up with the southern drawl in exchange for better weather, better pay, and better manners.
North Alabama. Huntsville. Unless you're an engineer or an expert at firing control systems, well, *I* haven't been able to find anything yet in the linux/unix sysadmin world. Any suggestions?
I live in Alabama *and* in the county. There are definitely a different set of rules which apply to county life versus city life. I live in a dry county (a county where the sale of or open consumption of alchohol is illegal). Tonight I'm going up the road to a multi-kegger party. ~$1000 worth of fireworks. Some of the attendees are off-duty deputies.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
(and, since it rained from noon till five, *no* chance of errant firework causing fire)
The only *real* downside to living in Alabama is lack of good-paying IT jobs.
If you registered the product, you'll get a mailing notifying you of the lawsuit. If you read the fine print, you are allowed to opt-out of the class action lawsuit. If you opt-out, you can pursue the matter on your own.
I *still* haven't got my money from the CD settlement *or* the Microsoft settlement. I've kinda written thost off. Is it too late?
Yeah, after I posted it I thought "Oh, people will just automate the 'this is spam' report." So Bayesian is out.
But what about checking of spoofed/cloaked pages? Hitting 'this is spam' could fire off a re-index of the page using something other than GoogleBot as the useragent string. Something the SEOs can't key mod-rewrite off of.....
See, here's what gets my goat. Why doesn't Google include a "report this spammer scum" option? I thought that they at one time included a "these results are not what I expected" link, but I don't see it any more.
I'd love to be able to help Google get rid of SEO spammers. Bayesian filtering as applied to search results?
Even if I grant the $35b figure ... I still don't see how Ebbers and Lay came close to doing this much damage.
Two words: rolling blackouts.
Tony Blair is the European equivalent of George Bush?
No, not at all. He just happens to be the only European leader I can name off of the top of my head.
I don't watch Fox, but I still really and truly believe that the owners of the United States won't allow themselves to be effected by European policies (unless it's an end-run around too-vocal civil libertarians in the US).
in this thread:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/15 /1432236&mode=thread
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/. 2001, my favorite post about O.S.Card: Hitler comment
l ) ...and Hegemon. As it happens I was there to see it, and it was illuminating.
this comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9968&cid=5064
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I *still* haven't found a copy of the article online. Any help?
A funny thing happened between Speaker... (Score:5)
by localroger (258128) on Monday January 15, @12:41PM (#506432)
( http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/index.htm
A friend of mine hated Ender's game; she said it was the worst novel she'd ever read from its sappy tearjerking to its queasy morality to the blatant justification of genocide at the end. She refused to ever read another Card book. I didn't feel as strongly as she did, found the book readable, but I took her point.
At the time she was a SFWA member so she got a free copy of Speaker. Since she didn't want it, she gave it to me. When I read it I got back to her and said, "you're not going to believe this, he escapes to a planet copied from Brazil."
I gave her back the book, and next thing I know she is drawing up a tremendous list of coincidences, at least 75, between Ender's life and upbringing and that of one A. Hitler. This turned into a meticulously researched article -- I saw the doc package, which was an inch and a half thick -- which was published in the final issue of Science Fiction Review,. That article was titled Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman? by Elaine Radford.
SFR is no longer with us but the article and Card's rebuttal were republished by Literary Review, so it's probably there in your meatspace library if you're curious. I don't think the article is online anywhere.
While it was startling to see just how closely Ender parallels Hitler, even more startling was Card's reaction. He seemed to be completely unaware of many of the key passages in the book which Radford cited. This is clear from his rebuttal, which was amazingly lame and ignorant (several times stating bluntly that passages didn't exist which Radford had documented). It was obvious to me that he couldn't have written the book, at least not in anything finer than general outline.
At the time it was expected that Card would sweep the Hugos and Nebulas for a third time in a row with the sequel to Speaker. Instead it took him, what, four or five years to get around to writing it. I am convinced that Superman had a lot to do with it. He pulled a mammoth con job off on the SF community and almost got away with it. For the most part he still has, but he did blink.
Now, back to my copy of The Martians...
I'll cite as many sources as you did. Non-native English speakers outnumber native English speakers. The US is considered a country of native English speakers. QED.
Say "Your President's an idiot" and then at least you'll have made a substantiated point.
Well, I thought the parent to your post was valid. Case in point: Everyone in Europe can name the US President; I can name Tony Blair as the equivalent. That's it. It's not that I'm stupid; just intentionally ignorant. I don't know because I don't need to--their policies don't effect me as an American; Europeans know because they need to; Bush's policies effect them as Europeans.
The *real* conversation is:
Customer: How much does X cost?
Salesman: How much do you have?
Customer: I have Y. But my company is so big, you are going to give it to me for Z (Z < Y).
Salesman: My company is big too, but OK.
[three months later]
Customer: We've implemented it, but feature FOO doesn't work the way that you said it did! The world will end if feature FOO doesn't work!
Salesman: Sorry, you must have misunderstood me. You can buy third-party app BAR to provide that functionality. And pay us money to integrate the products, adding up to just over Y.
Customer: But we agreed on Z!
Salesman: Ha ha! You are screwed! You have already done implementation! You can't go back to previous product! You are over the barrel! On second thought, you will pay us Y + F% (where F is the large percentage increase they feel like sticking it to you for because they can)
Customer: (dropping pants) OK
It's "On the Internet, everyone is famous to 15 people."
Bullshit. What is a journalist? ANYBODY can be journalist.
/., for that matter), true, but is still a rumor mill, not a reputable source of news.
...." where .... is any given profession (mechanic, web designer, traffic engineer). Slapping up a weblog does not, in fact, make one a journalist. (see Drudge)
No. You, sir, are incorrect. In theory, for one to be a true journalist, one must do actual research. Fact checking. One must have some type of editorial review process.
thinksecret is better than Drudge (or
The prolbem is that mass media has become beholden to corporate Amerika and doesn't do things like extensive fact checking (paging Dan Rather) or exercise good editorial review (NYTimes scandal(s), anyone?). The skimp on these things because of economics--they *have* to get the "scoop" to get the ratings or they can't make their corporate masters look bad. Never mind the fact that such "scoops" are often just rehashes of baseless speculation posted by bloggers.
Dan Rather got the story right, his team even asked the White House for comment. What they failed to do was verify that the smoking gun was, in fact, a gun not the steaming pile it turned out to be.
If you follow the ANYONE can be a journalist, then should also follow the "ANYONE can be a
so that pages can match even if none of the words in your query actually appear on the page
Look, I put the phrase in quotes because *that's the phrase I'm looking for*. Lately, I've been getting results (even the cached version!) from searches which don't have the quoted strings I'm looking for. Grr.
m.c. chris, do you find it difficult to work with Democrats who have so obviously divorced themselves from reality?
My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?
Yeah, Timothy. I was there with you when you bought your laptop. It was around the same time that I got my iPod. It was a first generation, so, yeah, your laptop is definitely a few years old.
You're welcome. =)
Nice try, but there is no such thing as "copyrighted worldwide" and there's a very good reason --$$$s.
Ya see, many countries actually charge money in order to register a copyright. Yep, that's right --it's not automatic or free everywhere just because it is in the US. In fact, it wasn't alwasy the case in the US either.
That, Mr. President, turns out not to be the case. Iff by "many" you mean "the countries other than Elbonia not appearing on this list" http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf , then *maybe* you're right. No, not even then.
All signatories to the 1985 Berne Convention agree that copyrights are automatic. Any work authored in any of the signatory countries is *poof* copyrighted in *all* signatory countries.
Yes, even *CHINA* is on the list. Your argument doesn't fly.
Trolling AC.
Sure, but when there are only 2 political parties with any influence, and the one that's most anti-immigrant is also the most pro-business, good luck with that. We'd need at least an anti-immigrant, anti-business party or a pro-immigrant, pro-business party to really get anything done.
Well, see, the Republicans talk from both sides of their moths on this issue. Publically, to their constituents (remember, the plurality of America is rural; the majority of Repub voters are rural) they have to say "Death to illegals!", but privately, they *know* that a truly effective campaign against illegal immigration would be devastating to the American economy.
60-70% (okay, that number is from my butt, but I heard it on NPR, so it must be true, right?) of the food industry (growers, pickers, processors, etc) are illegals. The rural community I live in determined recently that ~15% of our local economy comes from "our Hispanic friends" (read: illegals).
Our policy on illegal immigration is much like our policy against illegal drugs: we talk the talk, but we're *definitely* not interested in *really* walking the walk. (unless, of course, it's advantageous in jack-booting least favored minority of the month)
That was very helpful. Thanks.