I try to listen to the radio, I really do, but I cannot for more than, maybe, an hour.
We're fortunate in Silicon Valley to have two good nonprofit broadcast FM stations: KZSU (Stanford University) and KCEA (Menlo-Atherton High School. Menlo-Atherton High School, for somewhat strange reasons, plays big-band music from the 1930s and 1940s.
The local broadcast stations are the usual crap, except that about half of them are the usual crap in Spanish.
Heh, I was rather flabbergasted myself to discover KCEA. Pleasantly flabbergasted, mind you. It's a nice change of pace whenever KFOG/KFOX are trapped in a "Classic Rock" stupor and the "Alternative" stations are looping the latest hits. Poor Mumford and Sons have been trapped on the air playing the same song for nearly three months it seems!
Pray for them?
So your solution to a bunch of sky wizard fanatics is to implore their own sky wizard to get them to stop?
Why not ask the easter bunny for peace in the middle east?
That would seem to imply that they worship the easter bunny in the middle east. This seriously challenges my preconceived notions of the region. That's what I get for sleeping through those Social Studies classes, I guess.
Hits on 3 flamebaiting topics: Facebook, women, and the Middle East. The title could be "Saudi Women's Knitting-Circle on Facebook Elect New Leader" and it would still get promoted to front page.
Problem is, with a headline like that, it's hard to convince management that we're making the best possible use of our SEO budget.
From what I can tell, convincing the BBC to renegotiate its North American licensing and distribution arrangements is your best bet. I too find it a bit aggravating.
I've never understood why people who care about proper use of language are regarded at pedants. Obviously, this AC could be dismissed as Troll/Flamebait/etc, but I'd rather rant a bit. Why do 'nerds', for example, care about the language they program in, and then mock anyone who gives a shit about the proper use of the languages we use to communicate with other types of processors (so to speak)? When did semantics become a dirty word, and clarity in thought (and its expression) become a fool's game?
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Argument against a photo lab in Los Angeles?
Have you ever tried to argue with a photo lab clerk?
Yeah, but I'd have to subscribe to actually see the results.
What's openSUSE's future look like? Since Novell is slowly dying, are we going to see openSUSE fade from being the #2 / #3 distro?
What's Linux's future look like?
Well, I've heard that the Year of the Linux Desktop if right around the corner.
You're a Ho?
I prefer Card-Carrying Veteran of the World's Oldest Profession.
Which is right up there with I M HO.
More like a collective with monarchy. But the queen wastes a lot of time trying to seduce androids and the like.
Well, so much for using <em> tags properly.
So many ratings so few points, you sir are:
-1 Troll -1 Flamebait +1 Funny +1 Insightful +1 Informative
Would that come out to +1 Not All Bad?
Ya well, it comes with a rainbow and happy ending. What else did you want from me?
The problem being, there's a set of the consumer public that suspicious of rainbows.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Slashdot
Linking to ED, I'd imagine it's more of a meme-o.
Atomic smoke! Don't breathe that!
I believe it was Douglas Adams who explained how careless talk costs lives.
I am a stupid git, you insensitive clod!
> rules lawyering is not socially acceptable
You must be new here.
I'm not sure I'd say that slashdot squabble conventions are terribly representative of what's 'socially acceptable'.
Do you routinely crap on your hands? If not, then why assume everyone else does? If so, perhaps you need re-training in the restroom.
Unfortunately, the budget for re-training is usually used for more important things.
Looks to me more like monkeys in flying chairs.
with fava beans. and a fine chanti.
like revenge.
Kahn would have done it properly, but the larder on the Reliant was terribly understocked.
I try to listen to the radio, I really do, but I cannot for more than, maybe, an hour.
We're fortunate in Silicon Valley to have two good nonprofit broadcast FM stations: KZSU (Stanford University) and KCEA (Menlo-Atherton High School. Menlo-Atherton High School, for somewhat strange reasons, plays big-band music from the 1930s and 1940s.
The local broadcast stations are the usual crap, except that about half of them are the usual crap in Spanish.
Heh, I was rather flabbergasted myself to discover KCEA. Pleasantly flabbergasted, mind you. It's a nice change of pace whenever KFOG/KFOX are trapped in a "Classic Rock" stupor and the "Alternative" stations are looping the latest hits. Poor Mumford and Sons have been trapped on the air playing the same song for nearly three months it seems!
Pray for them? So your solution to a bunch of sky wizard fanatics is to implore their own sky wizard to get them to stop?
Why not ask the easter bunny for peace in the middle east?
That would seem to imply that they worship the easter bunny in the middle east. This seriously challenges my preconceived notions of the region. That's what I get for sleeping through those Social Studies classes, I guess.
Return to Sender?
I don't always get subjugated by a malevolent cyber-overlord, but when I do, I prefer Skynet.
Stay Vanquished My Friends.
Hits on 3 flamebaiting topics: Facebook, women, and the Middle East. The title could be "Saudi Women's Knitting-Circle on Facebook Elect New Leader" and it would still get promoted to front page.
Problem is, with a headline like that, it's hard to convince management that we're making the best possible use of our SEO budget.
From what I can tell, convincing the BBC to renegotiate its North American licensing and distribution arrangements is your best bet. I too find it a bit aggravating.
I've never understood why people who care about proper use of language are regarded at pedants. Obviously, this AC could be dismissed as Troll/Flamebait/etc, but I'd rather rant a bit. Why do 'nerds', for example, care about the language they program in, and then mock anyone who gives a shit about the proper use of the languages we use to communicate with other types of processors (so to speak)? When did semantics become a dirty word, and clarity in thought (and its expression) become a fool's game?
That would be very hard to change, as so many applications would need to be altered.
And backwards compatibility/legacy support for third party software is certainly not always a given (speaking as a generally satisfied MS customer).