have you come across any employees who like to be hired on the predication that they give up their facebook privacy? where were you going with that argument? if everyone tells these kind of employers to fuck off, they won't have anyone to hire. the key is to nip this in the bud.
the only thing counter-productive to my well being is to believe you were just trying to be informative. most condescending types are just trying to be "informative." the truth is, you're just condescending. i don't care how you feel about that, or how you try to rationalize that you're not.
you assumed i read your statement one way, and i assumed you meant it another way - one that is obvious and which i deemed necessary to put in check. true to condescending form, you failed to accept that you had offended someone, even if unintentionally, and attempted to shift responsibility for the offense on to me (probably because i reflected your rudeness back to you). so you offend me and now it's my fault because you (say you) didn't mean it?
had i been working to increase Positive karma in the slashdot game, my response to you might have gone like this:
"hey are you assuming i don't know how to form my own questions? i don't appreciate that. i may not know much about biology but i don't deserve to be made to look stupid for it." at which point a normal person would backpedal and ask to be excused. it fascinates me that when you're made to feel insulted somehow there's no way in your mind that you could have been insulting to begin with. because i confront and affront you, you absolve yourself of any wrongdoing, and attempt to transfer that responsibility away from yourself. if you can't tell, i'm not really concerned with whether it's right or wrong or how you feel about it. it's just fascinating.
no matter how you meant to be read, no matter whether i responded to you with respect or with more of your own disrespect, you were fucking condescending and your apparent inability to grasp that compounds the frustration only slightly more than telling someone you've offended to chill out. it's really, really hard to believe that isn't obvious to you, which makes it all the easier to shovel your own shit back at you. it's like you're giving the thumbs up in iran, wondering why they want to hang you by your intestines.
since you've seen my comment history you might be puzzled about the number of my comments modded funny, insightful, or informative balancing out the trollish ones. i'd be happy to explain why experimenting with the karma system is fun, but not in public. if i compared slashdot users to mice in a maze, you might start to understand why i'm vitriolic in one comment and helpful or humorous in another. but then again you're good at making bad assumptions.
i also find it really hard to believe these replies haven't been modded down yet. what gives?
LOL wow what a trolly bitch. To answer the question you were probably actually having: putting condescending cunts like you in their place is actually quite relaxing. Whatever is going on over your head, it can't be good for your ignorance. Stop telling other people what they think. Stop telling people how they should feel about being condescended to by you. That's all. Just stop. Can you do that, bitch? Can you?
oh so this is something you do a lot then. telling other people what they mean. just because i'm comfortable being an asshole to people who are complete shitheads doesn't mean you don't bother people a lot when you do that. you may want to think about that. maybe take a survey of the people you know who you do this to. they probably tell you it doesn't bother them so much so they won't have to hear from you how they should feel about it.
don't assume you know better than me what i'm thinking. then getting your ignorance picked apart and your ass handed to you wouldn't be a mystery to you either.
right, sorry. you hit on my real point, that it's still trackable despite being ultimately paid for in cash. of course those gift cards probably come with some type of id number that identifies what region it was sold to and purchased from, making at least some aspects of your purchase transparent. and something can be inferred too, if you use a gift card purchased in the southwest united states, but entered from a computer with an IP from argentina. it's a good thing i'm behind 7 proxies =P
in response to you, and parens below, san diego also has a light rail system. a bus was the most convenient for my particular situation, but when i lived in south county, i took a combination of buses and trolleys to get to my job at the beach - 2 hours each way total. i have lived in many different cities, and have taken public transportation in more cities than i've lived. if you think public transpo is bad in kansas city, try santa fe, new mexico. in another response in this thread i freely admitted i understand why people can't live without a car. i own a car today. i didn't forget you, kansas city. i was just being very specific about my experience in a specific city, san diego. and i would love to spend a couple years in boston, maybe i'll get around to it someday.
you can all blame the ring leader of the Weather Underground, Punxsutawney Phil, for spreading propaganda that would deceive you into thinking winter was staying another 6 weeks. it's eco-psycho-terrorism! in our soil!
yes, i'm aware this article is talking about leukemia. i'm also aware that they used a "modified, harmless version of HIV" so it's no big mental leap to realize something like this can be done for other cancers. there was nothing in that article to indicate the HIV treatment was exclusively beneficial to leukemia patients, and throughout the article the term cancer is used generically. in fact, i'll quote from that article, so you can see where the implication lies:
In the Penn experiment, the researchers removed certain types of white blood cells that the body uses to fight disease from the patients. Using a modified, harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, they inserted a series of genes into the white blood cells. These were designed to make to cells target and kill the cancer cells. After growing a large batch of the genetically engineered white blood cells, the doctors injected them back into the patients.
In similar past experimental treatments for several types of cancer the re-injected white cells killed a few cancer cells and then died out. But the Penn researchers inserted a gene that made the white blood cells multiply by a thousand fold inside the body. The result, as researcher June put it, is that the white blood cells became “serial killers” relentlessly tracking down and killing the cancer cells in the blood, bone marrow and lymph tissue.
and no thanks for the condescension. i know exactly what fucking question i was asking, prick. the topic is "Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses" and we already covered that. so yes, the obvious interpretation of the question, "isn't this old news?" is "i've already heard of this, so what's so different? why phrase your headline that way?" bravo for being the fucking genius that you are, you saw right through my obvious question. instead of "Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses" something more informative and relevant would be something like "Different Viruses More Applicable to Different Cancers." that would actually build upon the knowledge i've already been given. but that wasn't the headline, and it wasn't the focus of the topic. if only it was, because then we could move on from there. simply stating "different viruses are more applicable to different cancers" doesn't explain why HIV didn't prove to be the cancer cure-all. in fact, it almost seems to assume i've never heard of the HIV treatment for cancer.
this is already a story: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/03/20/1542229/sweden-moving-towards-cashless-economy?sdsrc=rel. you just added another link to a different article about the same story. your whole summary is nothing more than a rant response that's more appropriate (if you can call it that at all) as a comment on the existing story. do you think phrasing speculation in the form of provocative, leading questions qualifies this as remotely informative? simply because cnn and fox news do it?
FTA:
When was the last time you used an ATM, anyway?
yesterday. i had to stand in line to use it too. bullshit fucking provocative speculation go fuck yourself til you die. let's pick apart another fallacy in TFA:
...this means that every move you make will be recorded in a huge database. Your bank will know where you get coffee in the morning, the route you take to work, and if there’s a vending machine at your office it might even know where you work. Likewise, your bank will know that you like to buy things on Amazon while you’re at work, that you enjoy watching X-rated movies when you’re on the road, and that you always leave it until the last moment to buy your wife a birthday present........ Well, get this, every credit card company, bank, and sizable corporation already tracks your transactions.
unless you pay with cash, then they don't. they even point this out right after telling you that all your usual cash transactions are somehow being tracked. fucking retards. die in a fire. "your bank will know that you like to buy things on Amazon.." -- they already do!! HOW THE FUCK DO YOU BUY ANYTHING ON AMAZON WITH CASH??? i wish i could choke this writer out and kick his astonished dog.
i also take offense to TFA's writer who puts out this little reality distortion field:
At this point it’s commonplace for self-respecting libertarians to leap up and decry the awful, privacy annihilation that I’ve just described. How could you live in a world where the Rockefellers can track your every move?! they cry.
the joke here is that libertarian = crazy, get-off-my-lawn tinfoil hat wearing cranks. a little straw man goes a long way. the writer wants you to feel like you're a crank if you believe your privacy is being threatened further than it already is, and he wants you to feel that it's ok simply because it already is being violated. what an asshole. fuck anyone who perpetuates this bullshit. by that logic it's ok to put arsenic in the drinking water, we already put fluoride in it! fuck you!
except that i can watch tv without xbox or a web cam, and i can play video games without a kinect. if i have a kinect, i can unplug just it from the xbox and still use the xbox to watch tv. xbox is also more forthcoming about how kinect data is used.
got ahead of myself a bit... meant to mention Andre's other achievements and skipped ahead to his ironman performance. doesn't change anything, though.
first of all, you couldn't get silver in a para-triathlon if they let you compete. just admit that to yourself. i'm in pretty good shape and i know i couldn't. second, this isn't a separate race. this is the ironman triathlon, and those in the para- category are expected to finish in the same cutoff times as able bodied competitors. that means this guy who got silver in the para- category beat the times of several able bodied competitors who didn't even rank high enough to mention. that would probably include both of us.
"...so if your message ain't shit, fuck the records you sold / cuz if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck / it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck..." -- Industrial Revolution, Immortal Technique
you completed the mission, that's all that counts. but it means nothing if you can't get back home to the save spot, tho. you'll just have to do it again.
(same way that 9-year-olds are buying games rated M for Mature right now)
FTFY
heads up, these are the same kids that go see R rated movies by themselves, which explains why no one is around to shut them up when they giggle over sex scenes. they are easy to spot, they are the ones with the highest kill/death ratio in any fps game. just listen for a couple minutes, they will tell you.
Slashdot Mirror
i propose we use Edisons as units of patents trolled
have you come across any employees who like to be hired on the predication that they give up their facebook privacy? where were you going with that argument? if everyone tells these kind of employers to fuck off, they won't have anyone to hire. the key is to nip this in the bud.
muscles have nothing to do with it. all wings considered equal, the only thing stopping them from helping us fly is our lack of hollow bones.
yes, some people do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory
the only thing counter-productive to my well being is to believe you were just trying to be informative. most condescending types are just trying to be "informative." the truth is, you're just condescending. i don't care how you feel about that, or how you try to rationalize that you're not.
you assumed i read your statement one way, and i assumed you meant it another way - one that is obvious and which i deemed necessary to put in check. true to condescending form, you failed to accept that you had offended someone, even if unintentionally, and attempted to shift responsibility for the offense on to me (probably because i reflected your rudeness back to you). so you offend me and now it's my fault because you (say you) didn't mean it?
had i been working to increase Positive karma in the slashdot game, my response to you might have gone like this:
"hey are you assuming i don't know how to form my own questions? i don't appreciate that. i may not know much about biology but i don't deserve to be made to look stupid for it."
at which point a normal person would backpedal and ask to be excused. it fascinates me that when you're made to feel insulted somehow there's no way in your mind that you could have been insulting to begin with. because i confront and affront you, you absolve yourself of any wrongdoing, and attempt to transfer that responsibility away from yourself. if you can't tell, i'm not really concerned with whether it's right or wrong or how you feel about it. it's just fascinating.
no matter how you meant to be read, no matter whether i responded to you with respect or with more of your own disrespect, you were fucking condescending and your apparent inability to grasp that compounds the frustration only slightly more than telling someone you've offended to chill out. it's really, really hard to believe that isn't obvious to you, which makes it all the easier to shovel your own shit back at you. it's like you're giving the thumbs up in iran, wondering why they want to hang you by your intestines.
since you've seen my comment history you might be puzzled about the number of my comments modded funny, insightful, or informative balancing out the trollish ones. i'd be happy to explain why experimenting with the karma system is fun, but not in public. if i compared slashdot users to mice in a maze, you might start to understand why i'm vitriolic in one comment and helpful or humorous in another. but then again you're good at making bad assumptions.
i also find it really hard to believe these replies haven't been modded down yet. what gives?
LOL wow what a trolly bitch. To answer the question you were probably actually having: putting condescending cunts like you in their place is actually quite relaxing. Whatever is going on over your head, it can't be good for your ignorance. Stop telling other people what they think. Stop telling people how they should feel about being condescended to by you. That's all. Just stop. Can you do that, bitch? Can you?
that felt good, thanks. you can fuck off now.
oh so this is something you do a lot then. telling other people what they mean. just because i'm comfortable being an asshole to people who are complete shitheads doesn't mean you don't bother people a lot when you do that. you may want to think about that. maybe take a survey of the people you know who you do this to. they probably tell you it doesn't bother them so much so they won't have to hear from you how they should feel about it.
don't assume you know better than me what i'm thinking. then getting your ignorance picked apart and your ass handed to you wouldn't be a mystery to you either.
right, sorry. you hit on my real point, that it's still trackable despite being ultimately paid for in cash. of course those gift cards probably come with some type of id number that identifies what region it was sold to and purchased from, making at least some aspects of your purchase transparent. and something can be inferred too, if you use a gift card purchased in the southwest united states, but entered from a computer with an IP from argentina. it's a good thing i'm behind 7 proxies =P
in response to you, and parens below, san diego also has a light rail system. a bus was the most convenient for my particular situation, but when i lived in south county, i took a combination of buses and trolleys to get to my job at the beach - 2 hours each way total. i have lived in many different cities, and have taken public transportation in more cities than i've lived. if you think public transpo is bad in kansas city, try santa fe, new mexico. in another response in this thread i freely admitted i understand why people can't live without a car. i own a car today. i didn't forget you, kansas city. i was just being very specific about my experience in a specific city, san diego. and i would love to spend a couple years in boston, maybe i'll get around to it someday.
you can all blame the ring leader of the Weather Underground, Punxsutawney Phil, for spreading propaganda that would deceive you into thinking winter was staying another 6 weeks. it's eco-psycho-terrorism! in our soil!
yes, i'm aware this article is talking about leukemia. i'm also aware that they used a "modified, harmless version of HIV" so it's no big mental leap to realize something like this can be done for other cancers. there was nothing in that article to indicate the HIV treatment was exclusively beneficial to leukemia patients, and throughout the article the term cancer is used generically. in fact, i'll quote from that article, so you can see where the implication lies:
In the Penn experiment, the researchers removed certain types of white blood cells that the body uses to fight disease from the patients. Using a modified, harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, they inserted a series of genes into the white blood cells. These were designed to make to cells target and kill the cancer cells. After growing a large batch of the genetically engineered white blood cells, the doctors injected them back into the patients.
In similar past experimental treatments for several types of cancer the re-injected white cells killed a few cancer cells and then died out. But the Penn researchers inserted a gene that made the white blood cells multiply by a thousand fold inside the body. The result, as researcher June put it, is that the white blood cells became “serial killers” relentlessly tracking down and killing the cancer cells in the blood, bone marrow and lymph tissue.
and no thanks for the condescension. i know exactly what fucking question i was asking, prick. the topic is "Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses" and we already covered that. so yes, the obvious interpretation of the question, "isn't this old news?" is "i've already heard of this, so what's so different? why phrase your headline that way?" bravo for being the fucking genius that you are, you saw right through my obvious question. instead of "Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses" something more informative and relevant would be something like "Different Viruses More Applicable to Different Cancers." that would actually build upon the knowledge i've already been given. but that wasn't the headline, and it wasn't the focus of the topic. if only it was, because then we could move on from there. simply stating "different viruses are more applicable to different cancers" doesn't explain why HIV didn't prove to be the cancer cure-all. in fact, it almost seems to assume i've never heard of the HIV treatment for cancer.
FTA:
When was the last time you used an ATM, anyway?
yesterday. i had to stand in line to use it too. bullshit fucking provocative speculation go fuck yourself til you die. let's pick apart another fallacy in TFA:
...this means that every move you make will be recorded in a huge database. Your bank will know where you get coffee in the morning, the route you take to work, and if there’s a vending machine at your office it might even know where you work. Likewise, your bank will know that you like to buy things on Amazon while you’re at work, that you enjoy watching X-rated movies when you’re on the road, and that you always leave it until the last moment to buy your wife a birthday present.... .... Well, get this, every credit card company, bank, and sizable corporation already tracks your transactions.
unless you pay with cash, then they don't. they even point this out right after telling you that all your usual cash transactions are somehow being tracked. fucking retards. die in a fire. "your bank will know that you like to buy things on Amazon.." -- they already do!! HOW THE FUCK DO YOU BUY ANYTHING ON AMAZON WITH CASH??? i wish i could choke this writer out and kick his astonished dog.
i also take offense to TFA's writer who puts out this little reality distortion field:
At this point it’s commonplace for self-respecting libertarians to leap up and decry the awful, privacy annihilation that I’ve just described. How could you live in a world where the Rockefellers can track your every move?! they cry.
the joke here is that libertarian = crazy, get-off-my-lawn tinfoil hat wearing cranks. a little straw man goes a long way. the writer wants you to feel like you're a crank if you believe your privacy is being threatened further than it already is, and he wants you to feel that it's ok simply because it already is being violated. what an asshole. fuck anyone who perpetuates this bullshit. by that logic it's ok to put arsenic in the drinking water, we already put fluoride in it! fuck you!
except that i can watch tv without xbox or a web cam, and i can play video games without a kinect. if i have a kinect, i can unplug just it from the xbox and still use the xbox to watch tv. xbox is also more forthcoming about how kinect data is used.
http://www.triathlon.org/paratriathlon/
Triathlon is a rare sport in which able-bodied athletes compete, side-by-side, with disabled athletes at both the national and international levels.
first of all, you couldn't get silver in a para-triathlon if they let you compete. just admit that to yourself. i'm in pretty good shape and i know i couldn't. second, this isn't a separate race. this is the ironman triathlon, and those in the para- category are expected to finish in the same cutoff times as able bodied competitors. that means this guy who got silver in the para- category beat the times of several able bodied competitors who didn't even rank high enough to mention. that would probably include both of us.
this other guy became a professional skateboarder despite having dwarfism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Acu%C3%B1a
this high school student born without arms was a formidable wrestling opponent: http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/12/22/article/photo_gallery_high_school_wrestler_with_no_arms_the_one_to_beat
these amputee archers are competing with non-amputees: http://blog.amsvans.com/53432-archers-with-disabilities-compete-against-able-bodied-athletes/
this other amputee (all limbs) wrestler fought for his right to compete in MMA against able bodied competitors: http://fatshapetofitshape.blogspot.com/2009/04/congenital-amputee-kyle-maynards-long.html
and this person fought for his right to compete in the Olympics (not Special Olympics or Paralympics) with prosthetic legs: http://thinklink.in/blade-runner-sprinter-with-no-legs-wins-right-to-compete-in-olympics/
fuck your genetics, and your excuses.
your assumptions aren't helping you much either: the winner of the 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest was Spud Webb, 5'7" tall. http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-shortest-nba-players.php
lawyered
"...so if your message ain't shit, fuck the records you sold / cuz if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck / it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck..." -- Industrial Revolution, Immortal Technique
i'm sorry? what?
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/28/9070661-double-amputee-battles-triathlon-and-wins-silver
i thought HIV was the cure for cancer.
no, but we are the kind of computers that are capable of changing our own hardware. if you want to be an athlete do something about it.
you must be from provincetown, ct
If I were a publisher I wouldn't bother with someone who can't even properly write.
FTFY
heh, i'll drink to that.
you completed the mission, that's all that counts. but it means nothing if you can't get back home to the save spot, tho. you'll just have to do it again.
(same way that 9-year-olds are buying games rated M for Mature right now)
FTFY
heads up, these are the same kids that go see R rated movies by themselves, which explains why no one is around to shut them up when they giggle over sex scenes. they are easy to spot, they are the ones with the highest kill/death ratio in any fps game. just listen for a couple minutes, they will tell you.