Here's what kills me about this whole.NET thingy. There are people that have litterally bought into it hook line and sinker. You can be talking about a project that you are currently working on and some 'IT Specialist' will walk up to you and ask why you aren't using the new and great.NET platform to develop it. What?!? Are they all really that fricken stupid?
Sorry to sound flamebaitish, but it is a sign to me that our industry has far too many wankers that don't have a damn clue what they are doing that things like this happen. MS has announced a vaporware platform and the IT industry starts proclaiming how great it's going to be and how wonderful it will be to finally have all of the world's problems solved. And people are buying it wholesale. I just can't understand it.
Don't people realize that you can't just stop everything you are doing today because MS might, maybe, at some arbitrary point in the future, release a new and improved something or other that may or may not make software development easier/better/cheaper/faster. There are people that seem to really believe that is what we should do. Never mind that I do all of my software development on Unix and Unix clones, I should just stop, right now, because I'm wasting effort unless I am using C# and.NET. Um, do they even realize that niether of these two things are 'real' yet? Not even hard-core, full-blown Microsoft lackeys can use these two things yet, why the hell should a Unix admin/developer start worrying about them?
I'm sorry, but until I see proof that C# and or.NET is actually up and running, AND someone shows me how superior it really is to everything that has ever been (and as MS has implied, is superior to everything that ever will be), then I might consider it. But I'm not putting my development on hold until I can purchase the development tools for something that may take up to five years to actually see the light of day. Sorry, life goes on. Things still need to be done today. I just don't have enough time to wait out the vaporware stage of these products. Especially considering that they won't probably work with my desired systems (let's be serious, MS making something cross-platform? Yeah, that'll happen).
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Musical subculture? OK, whatever that means. I pretty much fell out of any 'subculture' because I liked too many things to be defined.
Oh, and as to your 'marketing scheme' comment:
If you really believe that, that's cool. Maybe music doesn't matter to you. But to most people, they don't just all of a sudden say, "Hey, I've had enough of what I've continued to collect up to this point in my life. I'm almost thirty, time to stop and pretend I'm dead." And that's the area I was attempting to address in the previous poster's sentiments.
Music to me has never been about indentifying myself as part of some group. It has always been about so much more, it is a way to indentify myself, but not by 'marketing group' or 'subculture' or whatever you are trying to call it. It's about picking up an instrument, whatever I'm in the mood for, and playing my soul out. It's about playing what I feel, what I see inside myself, and what I believe. So music is a way to identify myself. But trying to say that means I'm pegging myself as a part of some marketing scheme is selling it so short it isn't even funny. I don't stick to one style of music. I can't be pegged as one 'market segment'. I'm me, and what I like, I listen to, or create if I can't find what I'm looking for at any particular moment.
The first poster in this sub-thread made it sound like he was pulling the old, "I'm thirty, time to give up on living" line, and that sort of attitude, especially when done willfully, is just sad beyond belief.
If all you got out of my post was that I was pegging myself into a musical genre, then I guess I really suck at getting a point across. The point was that you shouldn't ever stop collecting whatever it is you enjoy collecting. Whether it's music, books, computers, software, movies, or just general knowledge about the world around you. Just because you're "all grown up" doesn't mean it is time to stop learning and stop growing on the inside. Yeah, I know I sound like a philosophical idiot right now. But I hate it when people throw away the opportunity to keep growing just because they think they are old. 30 is no more the age limit of learning than 40 or 50 or any other arbitrary number. My great-grandma is 98 years old and she still reads new books all the time, and keeps trying to learn about things. The day she stops that is the day she truly becomes 'old' in my eyes. Until then, she's just that funny lady that hands me kool-aid floats when I go to visit her. We could all learn a lesson from her, if she was just willing to teach the world....
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I wonder why you got marked down as being off-topic when the parent poster didn't? You actually did answer the question and I concur that the Big Muddy is the Mississippi and it did earn that name from the mud and silt rolling along with it. Someone must not like you.;-)
Crackpipe moderation strikes again.
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Loreena McKennitt is one of my favorite artists (and this from a professed metal-head).
I heard a song of hers on the radio one morning on the way home from work (night job) and actually pulled over to listen to it I was so enthralled. I went to town that day and picked up the album (Book Of Secrets, great album). I have yet to hear anyone say anything bad about her music. I wish more people could hear her stuff, but I guess if it went to far she would start commercialising, and that would not be cool in the least.
Anyway, to go on-topic for a moment. I've never used Napster, and have no desire to use it. I have too many other ways to find out about new music, and I purchase CDs of anything I like (and then rip them to MP3 and store them on my little file-server, 7 GB and counting).
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Oh god dude, please, please, PLEASE, tell me you are shitting me!
I for one will never grow tired of good new music. I play guitar, piano, harmonica, violin, viola and a few other instruments, and I'm always looking for new musical styles and new music in general. Not everything is good, for sure, but there is always something new coming along that is worth a listen.
I'm nearing thirty myself (just turned 27), but I have no plans to slow down my musical interest at all. I find it sad when someone starts to take the view that you've proposed. I used to play in a few bands here and there. I still play the instruments I've always enjoyed, even though I don't have the time to dedicate to a band. And the reasons are simple.
There are always those people around you, especially men, that as they age they hold on to that one shining moment in their youth. Usually it is the high-school jock that never got over that one game where he scored five touchdowns (Al Bundy anyone?). That was the high point of his life. And that's all he talks about or thinks about. Then there are the people like some of the guys I played with in bands. Rather than moving forward with their lives, trying new things, finding mates or whatever, they are still practicing those same old songs the same old way. They are the musical equivalent of that guy that's always talking about his great high-school football game. They can't let it go, they can't move forward. They keep talking about that one night when the stage lighting was perfect, the girls were hot, and the crowd was wild. Sure it was awesome, and I still look back on it with fondness. But I've moved on.
I am a hard-core metal-head. But I always did like other genres as well. My bands were always hard, heavy, fast, and loud. But, since the demise of 'real' metal, I haven't sat around and pouted. I haven't whined about how there's nothing for me to do, nobody appreciates my music, blah, blah, blah. I moved on to the other things I always wanted to accomplish. I still collect music from that era, and many, many others (including classical (love Mozart!), American folk, and many others), and I still love to crank up the old guitar when I'm feeling a bit pissy (it's a great way to relieve stress), but I've moved forward.
Since that time, I've gotten married, I've studied my ass off and learned computers, become the head of IT for a mid-sized business, and started planning for a family. The life I wanted when I was sixteen? No, not really. But would I have been happier with that life than the one I am living? Probably not. I found that I've struck a nice balance between that 'rock-n-roll' life that I always wanted, playing the occassional concert and still working on my music, and the life that I always knew I 'needed' to live, having a wonderful understanding wife and planning a family and a future for myself and them.
Don't stop growing dude. I realize I started rambling here, but seriously, don't give up on there being something 'more' out there. Maybe the crap on the radio won't appeal to you (it never did appeal to me), but there is surely something out there that you would like. If nothing else, start looking backwards. You would be suprised at the similarities between some of the heavier/obscure rock styles and the really old classical styles of music. Anyway, just don't close up into a little shell of yourself. As one of my friends put it, if you start to do that, at some point you become a charicature of the person you wanted to be, and fail to be real. Be real, keep learning, keep seeking.
Of course, having said all of that, you probably just think I'm some raving lunatic. Fair enough, I probably am.
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OK Bob. Another pack of lies. You did in fact post yesterday that you had made your final post as Mr. Abooey. The fact that you can't remember you did it just re-confirms my theory of your multiple personality disorder (with weak memory protection between personalities, perhaps your brain needs an upgrade?).
Oh well, enjoy your meal troll.
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Bob, I don't normally do this, but in your case I'm willing to make an exception.
Why the hell don't you just do what you say you are going to do. First, I see you say that you are giving up trolling. Then you start trolling using some of the most blatantly false crap and garbage ever (claiming to program for IBM or claiming to run some company or another or whatever) and linking to your ego-page. Then, a couple of days ago I see a new guy come along that is emulating you so perfectly that it can only be you with a new user ID. Then, low and behold, yesterday you make the announcement that "This is Bob Abooey's last post ever."
Now, not to be an asshole, but how many goddamned personalities are you holding in that puny little brain of yours? It seems like you don't even know how to remember what you are saying. At first I thought I understood. You said you wanted to dive below -100 karma and then come back up to the +2 bonus level. That seemed stupid, but at least understandable. But everything you do is just utterly ridiculous. It seems that you are trying to karma whore, but you just aren't quite smart enough to know how to pull it off. And the fact that you can generate page hits from your pathetic slashdot posts actually depresses me more than the fact that moderation sucks and people as obviously stupid as you exist.
Are you a troll? Are you a really, really dumb karma whore? (We're talking the kind of whore that is so stupid she leaves money on the night stand for you in the morning, that seems about like you.) Or are you just some kind of psycho-freak with a mutliple-personality disorder that is weak enough to let each personality seep into eachother? My god, if you are going to do something, do it. Otherwise, methinks your time would be better spent surfing for porn and trying to molest yourself (if you can take your arms away from your keyboard long enough, it seems that is your current form of masturbation).
I realize I will kill some karma with this post, but your non-sense is just too goddamned much to take. At least the trolls and karma whores make sense. You don't seem to know what the fuck you are doing, or have any idea how to accomplish whatever it is you think your goal is. Jesus dude, get a grip, take a vacation, get some help, and then come back and apologize to all of us for forcing us to read your non-sense and drivel.
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At first I thought this was a fake, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes.
Taco probably does this all the time. That would explain why the intelligent posts get marked down so often and here lately the trolls and just plain idiotic morons get marked up. God, and we all wonder why the moderation system sucks donkey balls!
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That's like selling a railroad
car in a country with no railroad tracks.
Um, no, it's more like selling high-powered jets to natives and all they can do with it (since they don't have the training and can't afford the fuel) is push them at eachother as they 'charge' the field. But that would never happen now would it?
Woops, never mind.
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And the American public takes another giant leap into the shallow end of the gene pool.
I'm sorry, maybe you were trying to be funny (I hope), but there are too many people that actually feel that way. What about the joy that comes from doing something that requires a little work? What happened to that pride?
Personally, I've grown tired of having things force fed down my throat by TV and radio. Sure, I still catch a few things here and there, but mostly I read and write and do things with my time. In fact, I'm starting a new project soon. It's about that time of year when I start thinking about purchasing a new guitar. But this year, I'm purchasing parts and some books on being a luthier (instrument maker for the great unwashed). It will take me a lot of time, but I'm building my own. I've had enough of the assembly line crap. And that goes for TV and pop radio too.
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I think there is a valid point made in that industry all over is trying to hold the world at turn of last century technological advancement. (we're talking 18th to 19th century, or maybe, just maybe 19th to 20th century, but certainly not 20th to 21st century)
It always makes me think of the president of my company. He doesn't understand why email is important. But someone finally convinced him that we needed email access. So here's what we got: One dial-up account with a generic email address. People emailing employees here send it to that one generic address and put who it is supposed to go to in the first few lines of the email. Our receptionist then downloads and prints out the email each day, placing it in the appropriate mail slots for people. If you want to 'send' an email you write it up, print it out, and hand it to the receptionist with the correct adress and she will re-write it into the machine and send it.
Me, being the technical person for the company, I finally lost it and told the guy, "No matter what you try to do, you cannot turn the Internet and email into 18th century technology. At some point we are either going to have to catch up to the rest of the world, or we are going to get burried."
He laughed at me and told me that if the Internet mattered, it would have been around a long time ago. This is the same idiot that told me to "Print out the Internet" for him so that he could understand why we should have a web site. This is real forward thinking on his part. In every one of his interviews he tells people that we are a "leading edge company, that utilizes technology to it's fullest". What a damn joke! Now, if we were a small business I would probably just shrug it off. But we are talking about a company that has done three million dollars in sales in its first year of business. I'm sorry, but that deserves better than the additude he has about new technology. Of course, I'm just the company geek, so what the fuck do I know!
Back on-topic: If the president here is any indication, until people that grew up with the Internet are in charge, it will not be accepted as "common" or as a part of daily life/business. Sorry, move along....
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The moderators need to get a grip. This and the parent at least deserve a +1 interesting, and possibly even a +2 funny for the song. Come on, how many damn times have we seen taco say exactly that in almost exactly those words? Or is taco moderating at the moment?
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Vigilante justice ain't perfect, but I'm thinking it would at least put power back in the hands of the people again. Sure, a few unpopular people would get wrongfully accused, but that sort of shit happens every day anyway. Why not just make it a little more 'by the people'?
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This would never, NEVER work in todays fucked-up, PC(that's politically correct) world.
I used to work with a guy (during my farming days) that talked a lot about the "good ol' days" when people could get by with things like that. He told a story about how this guy kept beating his wife and kids. The nieghbors found out about it and the guy telling the story, along with four or five other neighbors, paid the wife-beating shit-head a little visit one evening. They basically left him close to death, and the hospital refused to see him (because they knew why he had had the shit knocked out of him). He eventually did recover, who knows how. But he never again laid a finger on his wife or kids.
I'm sorry if the above story offends you, but there are some people in this world that simply do not understand any language other than violence. And at some point we need to get over this "I feel your pain" bullshit approach and say, "Heh, you fuck with me and I'll take your goddamned head off." It isn't necissary in ever situation, and I'm not a real hard-ass about it. But for god's sake, let's be realistic. If someone doesn't understand repeated warnings, you don't need to go looking for all kinds of reasons that it's not his/her fault. I don't care if his parents abused him. I don't care if his god has forsaken him. I don't care if he lost his puppy at the wrong time in his childhood. If he is acting as an adult it doesn't matter what happened in his childhood. He should be fucking responsible for what he has done. Get over your childhood and move on.
Psychology is just as damaging to the human race as religion. And in the end, it will leave us all a bunch of homogenized, slobbering, drewling idiots. Equal but different isn't "fair". And some people just won't be happy until the world is completely "fair". So say goodbye to original thought. Original thought leads to conflict. And conflict is "unhealthy" (even if it is the way we progress). Bye, bye reality. Hello psycho-shit!
Sorry for the rant, but the above poster hit on one of my favorite bitches about the PC world of today. Kick some ass when it's necissary! And get over it if you think "it's not their fault". If you are the one doing it, it's your fault. Deal with it.
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People seem to carry their moderation points as if they were swords around here. It's really sad, but most would rather mod down as many posts as they can (whether they deserve it or not) than mod up even one insightful post. Just another reason the moderation system around here sucks. When you rely on the egotistical morons that go for as much karma as possible to moderate, there are bound to be problems.
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Um, try again dude. Within your first few words you have used more political sounding words than most of us use all day. Please, english or your native language (some of us can translate between languages). None of this mix-up stuff.
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Honestly, sometimes I wonder if every moderator on Slashdot has a stick shoved up their ass as part of the initiation. It seems not a one of them can handly even the most good-natured of posts if it doesn't bow down to the laws of slashdot. Bah, they should all be politicians.
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I've been thinking, as I hear about companies 'declining' to produce notebooks with Crusoe processors. Could it simply be that the numbers don't look good?
Companies go nuts trying to please consumers (or so the story goes). Surely they have pre-knowledge the the best seller is the processor with the biggest number on it. Mhz sell. And let's face it, Crusoe is not a big Mhz getter. And quite honestly I don't think any company wants to take a risk on something new if it isn't 'NEW AND IMPROVED'. In this case, that would mean something with far greated Mhz. It doesn't matter to comsumers that there is no way in hell your computer is using the Mhz that it already has. All that matters is that they get the biggest number possible. Could this be a valid theory?
Oh wait, never mind. Conspiracies are the only accepted valid theories nowadays. Right folks?
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Your karma should burn because T. Rex is not one of the 'long necked' type dinos. Geez, don't you research your jokes?;-) (and yes that's a winking smiley dammit!)
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Future scientists:
From the large amount of silicon in the chest area we can only assume that there had been some sort of computational enhancements added to people that could afford it, and the large amount of metal in their mouths were obviously used as radio wave transmitters and recievers. This technology was used to beowulf cluster the computers that the females carried around on their chests. It is the conclusion of this scientific body that these 'humans' (as they were known) were in fact trying to emulate what was then known as a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans, naked and petrified (although for the most part the naked part had to be practiced indoors).
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Here's what kills me about this whole .NET thingy. There are people that have litterally bought into it hook line and sinker. You can be talking about a project that you are currently working on and some 'IT Specialist' will walk up to you and ask why you aren't using the new and great .NET platform to develop it. What?!? Are they all really that fricken stupid?
.NET. Um, do they even realize that niether of these two things are 'real' yet? Not even hard-core, full-blown Microsoft lackeys can use these two things yet, why the hell should a Unix admin/developer start worrying about them?
.NET is actually up and running, AND someone shows me how superior it really is to everything that has ever been (and as MS has implied, is superior to everything that ever will be), then I might consider it. But I'm not putting my development on hold until I can purchase the development tools for something that may take up to five years to actually see the light of day. Sorry, life goes on. Things still need to be done today. I just don't have enough time to wait out the vaporware stage of these products. Especially considering that they won't probably work with my desired systems (let's be serious, MS making something cross-platform? Yeah, that'll happen).
Sorry to sound flamebaitish, but it is a sign to me that our industry has far too many wankers that don't have a damn clue what they are doing that things like this happen. MS has announced a vaporware platform and the IT industry starts proclaiming how great it's going to be and how wonderful it will be to finally have all of the world's problems solved. And people are buying it wholesale. I just can't understand it.
Don't people realize that you can't just stop everything you are doing today because MS might, maybe, at some arbitrary point in the future, release a new and improved something or other that may or may not make software development easier/better/cheaper/faster. There are people that seem to really believe that is what we should do. Never mind that I do all of my software development on Unix and Unix clones, I should just stop, right now, because I'm wasting effort unless I am using C# and
I'm sorry, but until I see proof that C# and or
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Musical subculture? OK, whatever that means. I pretty much fell out of any 'subculture' because I liked too many things to be defined.
Oh, and as to your 'marketing scheme' comment:
If you really believe that, that's cool. Maybe music doesn't matter to you. But to most people, they don't just all of a sudden say, "Hey, I've had enough of what I've continued to collect up to this point in my life. I'm almost thirty, time to stop and pretend I'm dead." And that's the area I was attempting to address in the previous poster's sentiments.
Music to me has never been about indentifying myself as part of some group. It has always been about so much more, it is a way to indentify myself, but not by 'marketing group' or 'subculture' or whatever you are trying to call it. It's about picking up an instrument, whatever I'm in the mood for, and playing my soul out. It's about playing what I feel, what I see inside myself, and what I believe. So music is a way to identify myself. But trying to say that means I'm pegging myself as a part of some marketing scheme is selling it so short it isn't even funny. I don't stick to one style of music. I can't be pegged as one 'market segment'. I'm me, and what I like, I listen to, or create if I can't find what I'm looking for at any particular moment.
The first poster in this sub-thread made it sound like he was pulling the old, "I'm thirty, time to give up on living" line, and that sort of attitude, especially when done willfully, is just sad beyond belief.
If all you got out of my post was that I was pegging myself into a musical genre, then I guess I really suck at getting a point across. The point was that you shouldn't ever stop collecting whatever it is you enjoy collecting. Whether it's music, books, computers, software, movies, or just general knowledge about the world around you. Just because you're "all grown up" doesn't mean it is time to stop learning and stop growing on the inside. Yeah, I know I sound like a philosophical idiot right now. But I hate it when people throw away the opportunity to keep growing just because they think they are old. 30 is no more the age limit of learning than 40 or 50 or any other arbitrary number. My great-grandma is 98 years old and she still reads new books all the time, and keeps trying to learn about things. The day she stops that is the day she truly becomes 'old' in my eyes. Until then, she's just that funny lady that hands me kool-aid floats when I go to visit her. We could all learn a lesson from her, if she was just willing to teach the world....
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I wonder why you got marked down as being off-topic when the parent poster didn't? You actually did answer the question and I concur that the Big Muddy is the Mississippi and it did earn that name from the mud and silt rolling along with it. Someone must not like you.;-)
Crackpipe moderation strikes again.
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Loreena McKennitt is one of my favorite artists (and this from a professed metal-head).
I heard a song of hers on the radio one morning on the way home from work (night job) and actually pulled over to listen to it I was so enthralled. I went to town that day and picked up the album (Book Of Secrets, great album). I have yet to hear anyone say anything bad about her music. I wish more people could hear her stuff, but I guess if it went to far she would start commercialising, and that would not be cool in the least.
Anyway, to go on-topic for a moment. I've never used Napster, and have no desire to use it. I have too many other ways to find out about new music, and I purchase CDs of anything I like (and then rip them to MP3 and store them on my little file-server, 7 GB and counting).
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Oh god dude, please, please, PLEASE, tell me you are shitting me!
I for one will never grow tired of good new music. I play guitar, piano, harmonica, violin, viola and a few other instruments, and I'm always looking for new musical styles and new music in general. Not everything is good, for sure, but there is always something new coming along that is worth a listen.
I'm nearing thirty myself (just turned 27), but I have no plans to slow down my musical interest at all. I find it sad when someone starts to take the view that you've proposed. I used to play in a few bands here and there. I still play the instruments I've always enjoyed, even though I don't have the time to dedicate to a band. And the reasons are simple.
There are always those people around you, especially men, that as they age they hold on to that one shining moment in their youth. Usually it is the high-school jock that never got over that one game where he scored five touchdowns (Al Bundy anyone?). That was the high point of his life. And that's all he talks about or thinks about. Then there are the people like some of the guys I played with in bands. Rather than moving forward with their lives, trying new things, finding mates or whatever, they are still practicing those same old songs the same old way. They are the musical equivalent of that guy that's always talking about his great high-school football game. They can't let it go, they can't move forward. They keep talking about that one night when the stage lighting was perfect, the girls were hot, and the crowd was wild. Sure it was awesome, and I still look back on it with fondness. But I've moved on.
I am a hard-core metal-head. But I always did like other genres as well. My bands were always hard, heavy, fast, and loud. But, since the demise of 'real' metal, I haven't sat around and pouted. I haven't whined about how there's nothing for me to do, nobody appreciates my music, blah, blah, blah. I moved on to the other things I always wanted to accomplish. I still collect music from that era, and many, many others (including classical (love Mozart!), American folk, and many others), and I still love to crank up the old guitar when I'm feeling a bit pissy (it's a great way to relieve stress), but I've moved forward.
Since that time, I've gotten married, I've studied my ass off and learned computers, become the head of IT for a mid-sized business, and started planning for a family. The life I wanted when I was sixteen? No, not really. But would I have been happier with that life than the one I am living? Probably not. I found that I've struck a nice balance between that 'rock-n-roll' life that I always wanted, playing the occassional concert and still working on my music, and the life that I always knew I 'needed' to live, having a wonderful understanding wife and planning a family and a future for myself and them.
Don't stop growing dude. I realize I started rambling here, but seriously, don't give up on there being something 'more' out there. Maybe the crap on the radio won't appeal to you (it never did appeal to me), but there is surely something out there that you would like. If nothing else, start looking backwards. You would be suprised at the similarities between some of the heavier/obscure rock styles and the really old classical styles of music. Anyway, just don't close up into a little shell of yourself. As one of my friends put it, if you start to do that, at some point you become a charicature of the person you wanted to be, and fail to be real. Be real, keep learning, keep seeking.
Of course, having said all of that, you probably just think I'm some raving lunatic. Fair enough, I probably am.
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Boy, took a long time for another or your idiotic relapses didn't it, Bob?
Goddamned you're a fucking idiot.
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OK Bob. Another pack of lies. You did in fact post yesterday that you had made your final post as Mr. Abooey. The fact that you can't remember you did it just re-confirms my theory of your multiple personality disorder (with weak memory protection between personalities, perhaps your brain needs an upgrade?).
Oh well, enjoy your meal troll.
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Bob, I don't normally do this, but in your case I'm willing to make an exception.
Why the hell don't you just do what you say you are going to do. First, I see you say that you are giving up trolling. Then you start trolling using some of the most blatantly false crap and garbage ever (claiming to program for IBM or claiming to run some company or another or whatever) and linking to your ego-page. Then, a couple of days ago I see a new guy come along that is emulating you so perfectly that it can only be you with a new user ID. Then, low and behold, yesterday you make the announcement that "This is Bob Abooey's last post ever."
Now, not to be an asshole, but how many goddamned personalities are you holding in that puny little brain of yours? It seems like you don't even know how to remember what you are saying. At first I thought I understood. You said you wanted to dive below -100 karma and then come back up to the +2 bonus level. That seemed stupid, but at least understandable. But everything you do is just utterly ridiculous. It seems that you are trying to karma whore, but you just aren't quite smart enough to know how to pull it off. And the fact that you can generate page hits from your pathetic slashdot posts actually depresses me more than the fact that moderation sucks and people as obviously stupid as you exist.
Are you a troll? Are you a really, really dumb karma whore? (We're talking the kind of whore that is so stupid she leaves money on the night stand for you in the morning, that seems about like you.) Or are you just some kind of psycho-freak with a mutliple-personality disorder that is weak enough to let each personality seep into eachother? My god, if you are going to do something, do it. Otherwise, methinks your time would be better spent surfing for porn and trying to molest yourself (if you can take your arms away from your keyboard long enough, it seems that is your current form of masturbation).
I realize I will kill some karma with this post, but your non-sense is just too goddamned much to take. At least the trolls and karma whores make sense. You don't seem to know what the fuck you are doing, or have any idea how to accomplish whatever it is you think your goal is. Jesus dude, get a grip, take a vacation, get some help, and then come back and apologize to all of us for forcing us to read your non-sense and drivel.
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At first I thought this was a fake, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes.
Taco probably does this all the time. That would explain why the intelligent posts get marked down so often and here lately the trolls and just plain idiotic morons get marked up. God, and we all wonder why the moderation system sucks donkey balls!
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Um, no, it's more like selling high-powered jets to natives and all they can do with it (since they don't have the training and can't afford the fuel) is push them at eachother as they 'charge' the field. But that would never happen now would it?
Woops, never mind.
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And the American public takes another giant leap into the shallow end of the gene pool.
I'm sorry, maybe you were trying to be funny (I hope), but there are too many people that actually feel that way. What about the joy that comes from doing something that requires a little work? What happened to that pride?
Personally, I've grown tired of having things force fed down my throat by TV and radio. Sure, I still catch a few things here and there, but mostly I read and write and do things with my time. In fact, I'm starting a new project soon. It's about that time of year when I start thinking about purchasing a new guitar. But this year, I'm purchasing parts and some books on being a luthier (instrument maker for the great unwashed). It will take me a lot of time, but I'm building my own. I've had enough of the assembly line crap. And that goes for TV and pop radio too.
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I think there is a valid point made in that industry all over is trying to hold the world at turn of last century technological advancement. (we're talking 18th to 19th century, or maybe, just maybe 19th to 20th century, but certainly not 20th to 21st century)
It always makes me think of the president of my company. He doesn't understand why email is important. But someone finally convinced him that we needed email access. So here's what we got: One dial-up account with a generic email address. People emailing employees here send it to that one generic address and put who it is supposed to go to in the first few lines of the email. Our receptionist then downloads and prints out the email each day, placing it in the appropriate mail slots for people. If you want to 'send' an email you write it up, print it out, and hand it to the receptionist with the correct adress and she will re-write it into the machine and send it.
Me, being the technical person for the company, I finally lost it and told the guy, "No matter what you try to do, you cannot turn the Internet and email into 18th century technology. At some point we are either going to have to catch up to the rest of the world, or we are going to get burried."
He laughed at me and told me that if the Internet mattered, it would have been around a long time ago. This is the same idiot that told me to "Print out the Internet" for him so that he could understand why we should have a web site. This is real forward thinking on his part. In every one of his interviews he tells people that we are a "leading edge company, that utilizes technology to it's fullest". What a damn joke! Now, if we were a small business I would probably just shrug it off. But we are talking about a company that has done three million dollars in sales in its first year of business. I'm sorry, but that deserves better than the additude he has about new technology. Of course, I'm just the company geek, so what the fuck do I know!
Back on-topic: If the president here is any indication, until people that grew up with the Internet are in charge, it will not be accepted as "common" or as a part of daily life/business. Sorry, move along....
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The moderators need to get a grip. This and the parent at least deserve a +1 interesting, and possibly even a +2 funny for the song. Come on, how many damn times have we seen taco say exactly that in almost exactly those words? Or is taco moderating at the moment?
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Vigilante justice ain't perfect, but I'm thinking it would at least put power back in the hands of the people again. Sure, a few unpopular people would get wrongfully accused, but that sort of shit happens every day anyway. Why not just make it a little more 'by the people'?
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I thought that Brontos were renamed to brachios?
At least, that's what I thought happened. Didn't brontos at least get renamed (maybe I got the name wrong).
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This would never, NEVER work in todays fucked-up, PC(that's politically correct) world.
I used to work with a guy (during my farming days) that talked a lot about the "good ol' days" when people could get by with things like that. He told a story about how this guy kept beating his wife and kids. The nieghbors found out about it and the guy telling the story, along with four or five other neighbors, paid the wife-beating shit-head a little visit one evening. They basically left him close to death, and the hospital refused to see him (because they knew why he had had the shit knocked out of him). He eventually did recover, who knows how. But he never again laid a finger on his wife or kids.
I'm sorry if the above story offends you, but there are some people in this world that simply do not understand any language other than violence. And at some point we need to get over this "I feel your pain" bullshit approach and say, "Heh, you fuck with me and I'll take your goddamned head off." It isn't necissary in ever situation, and I'm not a real hard-ass about it. But for god's sake, let's be realistic. If someone doesn't understand repeated warnings, you don't need to go looking for all kinds of reasons that it's not his/her fault. I don't care if his parents abused him. I don't care if his god has forsaken him. I don't care if he lost his puppy at the wrong time in his childhood. If he is acting as an adult it doesn't matter what happened in his childhood. He should be fucking responsible for what he has done. Get over your childhood and move on.
Psychology is just as damaging to the human race as religion. And in the end, it will leave us all a bunch of homogenized, slobbering, drewling idiots. Equal but different isn't "fair". And some people just won't be happy until the world is completely "fair". So say goodbye to original thought. Original thought leads to conflict. And conflict is "unhealthy" (even if it is the way we progress). Bye, bye reality. Hello psycho-shit!
Sorry for the rant, but the above poster hit on one of my favorite bitches about the PC world of today. Kick some ass when it's necissary! And get over it if you think "it's not their fault". If you are the one doing it, it's your fault. Deal with it.
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And what, exactly, do you have against fart jokes?
Sometimes jokes get funnier with repitition. If your mind can't handle it, then perhaps you need an infusion of squirel juice.;-)
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HEheheuhuh, ehehuhehehe, um, what?!? ;-)
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People seem to carry their moderation points as if they were swords around here. It's really sad, but most would rather mod down as many posts as they can (whether they deserve it or not) than mod up even one insightful post. Just another reason the moderation system around here sucks. When you rely on the egotistical morons that go for as much karma as possible to moderate, there are bound to be problems.
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JEEZUS!!!!
Um, try again dude. Within your first few words you have used more political sounding words than most of us use all day. Please, english or your native language (some of us can translate between languages). None of this mix-up stuff.
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Take a heart pill mods, he said 'name that song'.
Honestly, sometimes I wonder if every moderator on Slashdot has a stick shoved up their ass as part of the initiation. It seems not a one of them can handly even the most good-natured of posts if it doesn't bow down to the laws of slashdot. Bah, they should all be politicians.
Slow moving marsupials and the women that love them
Maybe that's why they changed the name to brachiosaurs, cause nobody could remember how to spell brontosaur (not even sure if I got it right).
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I've been thinking, as I hear about companies 'declining' to produce notebooks with Crusoe processors. Could it simply be that the numbers don't look good?
Companies go nuts trying to please consumers (or so the story goes). Surely they have pre-knowledge the the best seller is the processor with the biggest number on it. Mhz sell. And let's face it, Crusoe is not a big Mhz getter. And quite honestly I don't think any company wants to take a risk on something new if it isn't 'NEW AND IMPROVED'. In this case, that would mean something with far greated Mhz. It doesn't matter to comsumers that there is no way in hell your computer is using the Mhz that it already has. All that matters is that they get the biggest number possible. Could this be a valid theory?
Oh wait, never mind. Conspiracies are the only accepted valid theories nowadays. Right folks?
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Your karma should burn because T. Rex is not one of the 'long necked' type dinos. Geez, don't you research your jokes?;-) (and yes that's a winking smiley dammit!)
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Future scientists:
From the large amount of silicon in the chest area we can only assume that there had been some sort of computational enhancements added to people that could afford it, and the large amount of metal in their mouths were obviously used as radio wave transmitters and recievers. This technology was used to beowulf cluster the computers that the females carried around on their chests. It is the conclusion of this scientific body that these 'humans' (as they were known) were in fact trying to emulate what was then known as a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans, naked and petrified (although for the most part the naked part had to be practiced indoors).
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