Which sounds really interesting and plausible until you admit in another post that you work for Red Hat and are a big SystemD/Potterling supporter. So what you're really saying is that it's only OK when it's Red Hat leading the Linux community around by the nose. It's Linux: "Be reasonable, do it my way" is a way of life.
I'm reminded of the Mitt Romney picture "I can lie faster than you can fact check" meme from the last election cycle. This "One Trillion Dollars"/Dr. Evil> lie is gonna be with us for a LONG time.
He is remembered for a famous exchange with a Ford executive when Ford was automating its production lines. Leading Reuther into a great hall filled with machines, with just one or two human workers programming them, an executive joked, "How do you plan to get these boys to pay your union dues, Walter?" Reuther looked around, shook his head, and said, "How do you plan to get them to buy your cars?"
I went to a (programming) job interview many years ago, and did really well at it. Afterwards, the interviewer wanted me to go to lunch with the rest of the gang, to see "how well you'd fit in with the group". OK, fine, whatever. So on the way to lunch with half a dozen guys in an SUV, they're talking about softball leagues and whatnot, and I've got nothing to say. I don't even remember what cued me, but I go: "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" - and NOT A SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF THEM (and they were all age-appropriate) knew what I was talking about, they thought I had Tourette's or something - that's when I knew it wasn't going to be a "good fit".
"Evidence of radiation still exists"... "while orange and red signal a higher radiation dose"
Heh. We can't even be sure he moved through the pictures at a uniform rate.
I'd like to see a similar photo essay of a trip to the local supermarket:
... and here's the cooler with pork... OMGOMG!! ... and here's the canned vegetable aisle... OMGOMGOMG!!! ... and here's the fresh banana bin... OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!! <clutches pearls, swoons, lies down on fainting couch>
Debuting Monday, it's a system designed to make government surveillance of transferring and receiving money as easy as government surveillance of exchanging e-mail or text messages.
You have successfully changed your radio station.
You must restart your car for the new changes to take effect.
Would you like to restart your car now?
I wish I had the mod points or the time to write an epistle about how right this is. Since the 90's the telecom industry as a whole has received approximately 42 trazillion dollars in tax breaks and outright gubment kickbacks to "improve infrastructure", which, of course, they scrupulously (as a consortium) haven't done. Instead, they've used that money to buy each other, and more lobbyists to collect yet more "incentives". Meanwhile, customers are saddled with more fees, bandwidth caps and piss-poor service in general.
My ${DEITY}, Mexico (FUCKING MEXICO (not being racist or anything, just sayin')) has better phone service than we do.
You want me to let a Microsoft browser send my "fingerprint scanners, facial recognition and even iris scanner" credentials across the open Internet as a whizzo convenience feature? (Checks calendar, nope it's only March 31)... Sure! Why not? What could possibly go wrong?
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That's because he's openly racist, misogynistic and authoritarian.
It's only treason if you lose. If you win, it's revolution.
It's worse than that. The government put chips in your head while you were sleeping.
It's unpossible for Adam Smith to be wrong. Or so says the cowardly cunt who downmodded OP with "overrated".
I say we dust off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
As the old saying goes, "it's not how big it is, it's how you use it".
I've been saying for years that I'm not sure I'd take the dot zero version of Eternal Life.
Which sounds really interesting and plausible until you admit in another post that you work for Red Hat and are a big SystemD/Potterling supporter. So what you're really saying is that it's only OK when it's Red Hat leading the Linux community around by the nose. It's Linux: "Be reasonable, do it my way" is a way of life.
Also, in space, you can't hear the "whoosh"-ing sound.
I'm reminded of the Mitt Romney picture "I can lie faster than you can fact check" meme from the last election cycle. This "One Trillion Dollars" /Dr. Evil> lie is gonna be with us for a LONG time.
Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workersby Steven Hill (via Google Books) relates the same (doesn't allow copypasta, or I would have) story, so 30 seconds of Googling proves it almost certainly did happen.
I went to a (programming) job interview many years ago, and did really well at it. Afterwards, the interviewer wanted me to go to lunch with the rest of the gang, to see "how well you'd fit in with the group". OK, fine, whatever. So on the way to lunch with half a dozen guys in an SUV, they're talking about softball leagues and whatnot, and I've got nothing to say. I don't even remember what cued me, but I go: "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" - and NOT A SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF THEM (and they were all age-appropriate) knew what I was talking about, they thought I had Tourette's or something - that's when I knew it wasn't going to be a "good fit".
Anybody else getting a Les Nessman "WKRP is not on the air" vibe from Slashdot posting a link to a site that's no longer there?
Hi. Welcome to "capitalism".
As they [Lurch] said in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: "RULES???!!!??? In a knife fight???"
"Evidence of radiation still exists" ... "while orange and red signal a higher radiation dose"
... and here's the cooler with pork ... OMGOMG!!
... and here's the canned vegetable aisle ... OMGOMGOMG!!!
... and here's the fresh banana bin ... OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!! <clutches pearls, swoons, lies down on fainting couch>
Heh. We can't even be sure he moved through the pictures at a uniform rate.
I'd like to see a similar photo essay of a trip to the local supermarket:
Much as I hate the "THIS! A thousand times THIS!" posts, I think it's very appropriate here.
Every bit as useful as a "There was an error, OK?" dialog box with a single "Whatever" button.
FTFY
I was thinking more old school:
You have successfully changed your radio station.
You must restart your car for the new changes to take effect.
Would you like to restart your car now?
I wish I had the mod points or the time to write an epistle about how right this is. Since the 90's the telecom industry as a whole has received approximately 42 trazillion dollars in tax breaks and outright gubment kickbacks to "improve infrastructure", which, of course, they scrupulously (as a consortium) haven't done. Instead, they've used that money to buy each other, and more lobbyists to collect yet more "incentives". Meanwhile, customers are saddled with more fees, bandwidth caps and piss-poor service in general.
My ${DEITY}, Mexico (FUCKING MEXICO (not being racist or anything, just sayin')) has better phone service than we do.
YAY! systemd for EVERYBODY!!! For FREE!!!!!
..... wait .....
errrrrrr
You want me to let a Microsoft browser send my "fingerprint scanners, facial recognition and even iris scanner" credentials across the open Internet as a whizzo convenience feature? (Checks calendar, nope it's only March 31)... Sure! Why not? What could possibly go wrong?
Heh. You're "Insightful" and "Funny", but I'm (just above you) a "Troll".
Microsoft has had the world's best "bot framework" for DECADES - it's called "Windows".
Now that I'll totally agree with.
Thanks. I was waiting for someone to blame it all on gubment.