I sincerely hope this is a clever troll. We do still live in a society with what could be called a relatively free market, and the notion that the government holds some obligation to protect businesses from themselves when it can not protect itself from itself, or its citizens from it, well, just what business does the government have regulating businesses in such draconian fashion?
If an employer wants to shoot itself in the foot and discriminate on whatever arbitrary factors it chooses, there exists no real morally sound argument that says it shouldn't be able to.
You're reading too far into things. I was merely pointing out an amusing similarity.
I can't have opponents if I don't actually care about debating the issue itself, but that doesn't preclude me from commenting on the behavior of participants.
But there's an amusing link between global warming (other such climate disaster) panic artists and hardcore Christians: If anything they want to happen happens, it's due to human activity, or God helping them out respectively.
However, should someone lose their football game, or should a forthcoming climactic disaster suddenly dissipate (even if just a little bit), well, you know, shit happens.
Talk about an overreaction. For many people, humor is a coping mechanism. To get offended at a joke (especially one not directed at you) speaks volumes about your humorless nature.
Lighten up. Even if you don't necessarily laugh at Alzheimer's jokes, realize that other people are going to make them and don't shit a brick every time you hear one.
At this point, does anyone doubt that dolphins are the world's true leaders, biding their time until our large network of water bridges and tubes combined with rising ocean levels due to global warming allows them to take back what was once theirs?
It's become a struggle for control. The Republicans are the dolphin elite, cleverly disguised. Take George W.: Jovial, friendly on the outside, but turn your back or threaten him and you're getting a mouthful of tiny little teeth IN YOUR NECK. Meanwhile, Hillary, leader of the lizard people and true bloodline-confirmed heiress to the Reptilian crown attempts to prevent the dolphin's plans from reaching fruition and claiming the planet as her own.
Would you point out where he said he hates France? It's un-fucking-believable that you got moderated insightful for applying a stereotype to all of America.
If you have no intention of leaving your job, or even putting any effort into seeing what else is out there, it has the effect of making your complaints seem quite hollow.
According to Berners-Lee, a culture exists where women can be put off a career in technology both by "stupid" behaviour by some male "geeks", and by the reactions of other women.
This is news? A fairly closed off and socially inept social subgroup can turn off normal people from wanting to be a part of it?
Where are the tears for average guys looking to educate themselves receiving derision from holier-than-thou geeks? This isn't so much a gender issue as it is a problem endemic to geek culture: Perceived superiority due to an established knowledge base. You see the same behavior from informed body-builders, laughing at skinny people who express an interest in exercise but don't know where to start.
Given the sheer amount of petty editing wars and defacing that constantly plague Wikipedia, you would likely be better off just reading an Encyclopedia when you want some knowledge and an internet connection isn't available.
Seriously, I know wikipedia is the darling of open source, but the more I learn about it, the more I realize it's pure garbage.
And there's more, but you get the idea. Collusion to ruin people's lives when they run afoul of admins, corrupt editors doing and getting favors from the head honcho himself, pet pages that end up with incorrect information, speculation, or specious reasoning, and a general air of arrogance and groupthink reinforcing an internal idea that they can do no wrong.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: SCO is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeSCO is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeSCO developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeSCO is dying. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenSCO leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenSCO. How many users of NetSCO are there? Let's see. The number of OpenSCO versus NetSCO posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetSCO users. SCO/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetSCO posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO/OS. A recent article put FreeSCO at about 80 percent of the SCO market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)4 = 36400 FreeSCO users. This is consistent with the number of FreeSCO Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeSCO went out of business and was taken over by SCOI who sell another troubled OS. Now SCOI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save SCO from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
And in keeping with cultural automotive tradition, the European computer will be faster, more expensive, sexier, and give you blowjobs when it's not too busy crashing, while the Japanese model will be reliable, affordable, efficient, and do little beyond transmogrifying your loan into tentacles and then proceeding to rape you with them.
Damn, I was about to reply to his post with a comment stating something to the effect of, "In before an AC makes the generic defensive idiot nerd comeback of telling you your joke wasn't funny." It seems to be an all too common example of geeky sour grapes that if one didn't get the joke, it's not his fault because it wasn't funny.
I'd just like to point out that this is totally fallacious, as being able to get a joke has absolutely nothing to do with its inherent humor content.
So, a message to those humorless readers whose closest experience to making a joke involves removing their pants: Just take your licks. You only embarrass yourself further when you walk away in a huff mumbling "wasn't funny anyway" like a pissy little kid.
Ahahaha. I continue to laugh at your total lack of grasp of humor.
I'm assuming you're one of the many self-described Asperger's sufferers that seems to so frequently "grace" slashdot. Again I reiterate: His comment was funny. Yours was pathetic. Your argument ad populum as to the rating of it speaks more to the idiocy of the typical slashdot moderator than anything involved in the real world.
The ultimate victory? Knowing you continue to spew your bile in person as many others look on in wonder and disgust at your oblivious and sad attempts at humor.
You responded to a tongue in cheek comment with sarcasm, implicitly indicating taking it as a literal indication of the OP's desire to own a blender that turns everything into dust. The mods being idiots shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
It's always amusing to see people wiggle around and try to excuse their own gaffes, but when it comes down to it, his comment is funny, and yours is not.
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Idle speculation gets modded insightful now? For shame.
Logical fallacies and other such non-arguments contain no insight by their very nature.
It was always so hard for me to click on someone's screen name in their profile to open up an AIM window to use them.
Popular instant messaging systems be damned, we need another way to send our friends links to shock sites that doesn't work with any others!
I sincerely hope this is a clever troll. We do still live in a society with what could be called a relatively free market, and the notion that the government holds some obligation to protect businesses from themselves when it can not protect itself from itself, or its citizens from it, well, just what business does the government have regulating businesses in such draconian fashion?
If an employer wants to shoot itself in the foot and discriminate on whatever arbitrary factors it chooses, there exists no real morally sound argument that says it shouldn't be able to.
You're reading too far into things. I was merely pointing out an amusing similarity.
I can't have opponents if I don't actually care about debating the issue itself, but that doesn't preclude me from commenting on the behavior of participants.
Two downmods nearly instantly, rather than so much as a single comment on the blatant hypocrisy inherent to their belief systems.
Hide behind your mod points. Everyone knows you're idiots anyway.
But there's an amusing link between global warming (other such climate disaster) panic artists and hardcore Christians: If anything they want to happen happens, it's due to human activity, or God helping them out respectively.
However, should someone lose their football game, or should a forthcoming climactic disaster suddenly dissipate (even if just a little bit), well, you know, shit happens.
Faith is a beautiful thing, eh?
Talk about an overreaction. For many people, humor is a coping mechanism. To get offended at a joke (especially one not directed at you) speaks volumes about your humorless nature.
Lighten up. Even if you don't necessarily laugh at Alzheimer's jokes, realize that other people are going to make them and don't shit a brick every time you hear one.
At this point, does anyone doubt that dolphins are the world's true leaders, biding their time until our large network of water bridges and tubes combined with rising ocean levels due to global warming allows them to take back what was once theirs?
It's become a struggle for control. The Republicans are the dolphin elite, cleverly disguised. Take George W.: Jovial, friendly on the outside, but turn your back or threaten him and you're getting a mouthful of tiny little teeth IN YOUR NECK. Meanwhile, Hillary, leader of the lizard people and true bloodline-confirmed heiress to the Reptilian crown attempts to prevent the dolphin's plans from reaching fruition and claiming the planet as her own.
Would you point out where he said he hates France? It's un-fucking-believable that you got moderated insightful for applying a stereotype to all of America.
Holy fucking straw man argument. Are you sure you're not my sock puppet?
Nowhere in my post nor the original's was there an endorsement of any patriarchal society, merely commentary on the current state of affairs.
Just like installing a datacenter is plugging the cords into the holes they fit in, right bro?
If you have no intention of leaving your job, or even putting any effort into seeing what else is out there, it has the effect of making your complaints seem quite hollow.
I think his entire point is that geek culture is far from having a monopoly on stupid sexist ideas of gender roles.
This is news? A fairly closed off and socially inept social subgroup can turn off normal people from wanting to be a part of it?
Where are the tears for average guys looking to educate themselves receiving derision from holier-than-thou geeks? This isn't so much a gender issue as it is a problem endemic to geek culture: Perceived superiority due to an established knowledge base. You see the same behavior from informed body-builders, laughing at skinny people who express an interest in exercise but don't know where to start.
What are your estimates of this case's success?
I'd rather hear it from the expert than Slashdot's myriad self-described ones.
Given the sheer amount of petty editing wars and defacing that constantly plague Wikipedia, you would likely be better off just reading an Encyclopedia when you want some knowledge and an internet connection isn't available.
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Seriously, I know wikipedia is the darling of open source, but the more I learn about it, the more I realize it's pure garbage.
Why? Educate yourself.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/oct/24/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/24/wikipedia
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/blo
http://www.kapitalism.net/thoughts/wikipedia.htm
And there's more, but you get the idea. Collusion to ruin people's lives when they run afoul of admins, corrupt editors doing and getting favors from the head honcho himself, pet pages that end up with incorrect information, speculation, or specious reasoning, and a general air of arrogance and groupthink reinforcing an internal idea that they can do no wrong.
Why bother, seriously?
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: SCO is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO community when IDC confirmed that SCO market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SCO is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SCO's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SCO faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SCO because SCO is dying. Things are looking very bad for SCO. As many of us are already aware, SCO continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeSCO is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeSCO developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeSCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenSCO leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenSCO. How many users of NetSCO are there? Let's see. The number of OpenSCO versus NetSCO posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetSCO users. SCO/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetSCO posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SCO/OS. A recent article put FreeSCO at about 80 percent of the SCO market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)4 = 36400 FreeSCO users. This is consistent with the number of FreeSCO Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeSCO went out of business and was taken over by SCOI who sell another troubled OS. Now SCOI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. SCO is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SCO is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. SCO continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save SCO from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
For the former president of a company to be so prescient so as to recognize ChaCha's innate superiority to the number one worldwide search engine.
I honestly didn't know anyone used ChaCha for anything besides screwing with the people. There have been epic forum threads based on ChaCha.
Hence the phrase "all too replaceable."
But if he pulls it off, maybe it will open the doors to suing printer companies for shitty cartridges that are too replaceable.
And in keeping with cultural automotive tradition, the European computer will be faster, more expensive, sexier, and give you blowjobs when it's not too busy crashing, while the Japanese model will be reliable, affordable, efficient, and do little beyond transmogrifying your loan into tentacles and then proceeding to rape you with them.
Damn, I was about to reply to his post with a comment stating something to the effect of, "In before an AC makes the generic defensive idiot nerd comeback of telling you your joke wasn't funny." It seems to be an all too common example of geeky sour grapes that if one didn't get the joke, it's not his fault because it wasn't funny.
I'd just like to point out that this is totally fallacious, as being able to get a joke has absolutely nothing to do with its inherent humor content.
So, a message to those humorless readers whose closest experience to making a joke involves removing their pants: Just take your licks. You only embarrass yourself further when you walk away in a huff mumbling "wasn't funny anyway" like a pissy little kid.
Ahahaha. I continue to laugh at your total lack of grasp of humor.
I'm assuming you're one of the many self-described Asperger's sufferers that seems to so frequently "grace" slashdot. Again I reiterate: His comment was funny. Yours was pathetic. Your argument ad populum as to the rating of it speaks more to the idiocy of the typical slashdot moderator than anything involved in the real world.
The ultimate victory? Knowing you continue to spew your bile in person as many others look on in wonder and disgust at your oblivious and sad attempts at humor.
Enjoy your stay on earth.
You responded to a tongue in cheek comment with sarcasm, implicitly indicating taking it as a literal indication of the OP's desire to own a blender that turns everything into dust. The mods being idiots shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
It's always amusing to see people wiggle around and try to excuse their own gaffes, but when it comes down to it, his comment is funny, and yours is not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_in_cheek