Man I agree with you too! The glass is half empty. Sure, there are a whole bunch of people out there telling me that I should see that it is half full... But then, a half-full glass is not completely full either...
It seems to me that people who think that the glass is half-full are living in denial of the fact that whoever is pouring their drinks is a cheap bastard.
Really, only Katz thinks that 15-year-olds are the leaders of the Net. I think that everyone is working against me.:P While I was a bit arrogant at 15, I certainly didn't filter out anybody I didn't like.
See, what Katz doesn't realise is that they only filter him out...
When I was 15, I hung around adults absorbed all the information I could, argued them point and counter point, began to understand what the world was before most people at the age of 25 do.
I did the same thing... But I would have rather have been wasting time with friends... The reality was, I spoke to adults because I didn't have any friends.
To say that at 15 you had a 25 year-old's view of the world is bullshit. Sorry, that's not the most subtle statement in the world, but it's true. I think that a 25 year-old's view of the world would be drawn from factors that YOU couldn't even imagine at 15.
While the majority of 15 yr olds are cocky SoB's, some are not. Some of us were overly intelligent and prefered to do something other then waste our time. Just remeber, at 15 but I could do things you couldn't even imagine.
So, I take it that you were one of the cocky SoB's... Who did you know with an IQ of 185?
Look man, I think your attitude is fucked. Maybe you should go an commit some crimes... then you would loosen up a little bit.
While the majority of 15 yr olds are cocky SoB's, some are not. Some of us were overly intelligent and prefered to do something other then waste our time. Just remeber, at 15 but I could do things you couldn't even imagine.
Sounds like you were a cocky 15 year-old SoB than one of those "Time wasters".
I mean, who do you think you are? Being 15 is not a waste of time, and if you chose to do something "productive" than that's how you chose to spend your time...
But if I could have spent more of my teenage years goofing off as opposed to being productive, I would have... Because I will never have that much fun in my life ever again. I will never be so free to do whatever I want.
You will never ever have as much fun as I have had, and you will never know what it means to band together with the boys, and truly belong... regardless of how high your IQ is, I think you are a fool.
While you may be so smart, there is no need to patronise the people who are not as "gifted" as you.
See, this is the difference between geeks and other people... We're smart enough to know that there is better things to do with your spare time than packet sniffing (please, how lame is that???).
Seriously, if I was a script kiddy, I would gain more satisfaction from taking out one of my enemy-friend's computers.(you know the guys at school that you didn't like, but your mum knew his mum, so you had to talk)Or botching up your school's network, so you can tell your teacher that you can't give her your assignment, because you can't print it.
Look, I think you need to realise something. Just because a 15 year-old can kill you and your entire clan in 30 seconds, it does not mean they are all hackers.
And can I just say... Who is sick of those little cereal box kids that play Quake really really well. I used to think they were cheating, using mods or something... But my friends got a Cereal Box Brother, and I watched him... The secret ingredient is sugar.
See, I think that back 15 years ago, you had to be smart to use a computer. You had to read through books and manuals thicker and heavier than your computer before you could even figure out how to start it.
I don't think that the kiddies are getting smarter... If anything, I think they are getting dumber (I don't mean stupid). Kids now live in a world where anything they want to know is at their fingertips. This all started with the Sesame Street attention span.
These kids may be called smart. But they couldn't tell you what they learned in school today. It's not that they don't know, but they can't remember. The "Script" Kiddies may be taking down corporate web servers, but they don't know how they're doing it, they don't understand what they are doing.
To them, Code is taken to be just that, a series of commands put together to form a code to take down www.bigbucks.com or whatever. They don't see it as self expression, nor do they understand what it means. They just know that if they hit the carriage return, the server will go down.
Look, the fact of the matter is that when I was 15 (only five years ago), I hung out with my friends around the city. Wandering the streets causing whatever trouble we could find. It wasn't that I was a bad kid. It's just that, someone tells you not to smash a window, and it makes you all the more curious.
I remember my first window, the sound was beautiful. All that glass splintering and falling to the concrete... it was very satisfying, mainly because I knew that I would get in the shite if I was caught.
I haven't heard anyone tell the kids not to break windows anymore, and I am not seeing too many broken windows. I do see people telling kids not to trade or pirate software, music, videos, and just about anything else that 15 year-old boys trade, and I see that the kids now have a burnt copy of Eminem, have the Matrix on VCD, and just about every software application and exploit ever uploaded... But I don't think this makes them smart....
No, the internet kiddies are hoarders, and they're doing it, because people are trying to tell them that they can't.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed over the last few months, the ads that have been popping up on CNet. They're these annoying flash boxes that take up 3 quarters of the page width, that have been slapped into the middle of an article. I actually got asked to do a survey on them, and they actually asked me if I liked the ads. I did notice that whenever they asked me what I thought about the ad, they didn't provide room for a text answer, which I thought was kind of lame...
To the point, I thought it was quite funny, that these "exciting" new ads that CNet has been showing to me on all of their pages recently was missing from the one article talking about advertising...
I mean hell even Jar Jar aint so bad when you figure the Ewoks paved the way for him.
Now now, the Ewoks weren't that bad.
They spoke in a language that sounded nothing like English... Actually, when they talked... they just made those little clicking noises. See, Jar Jar should have spoken like the Ewoks, then people wouldn't have been so pissed off by him.
My favorite rumor about RotJ was that it was supposed to involve the Wookies: set on Kasshykk
Yeah! That's true. Lucas mentions it in those interviews at the start of the special editions... But then again, if the rebels had of had a legion of Wookies on their side, they would have kicked ass long ago.
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Man I agree with you too! The glass is half empty. Sure, there are a whole bunch of people out there telling me that I should see that it is half full... But then, a half-full glass is not completely full either...
It seems to me that people who think that the glass is half-full are living in denial of the fact that whoever is pouring their drinks is a cheap bastard.
See, what Katz doesn't realise is that they only filter him out...
I did the same thing... But I would have rather have been wasting time with friends... The reality was, I spoke to adults because I didn't have any friends.
To say that at 15 you had a 25 year-old's view of the world is bullshit. Sorry, that's not the most subtle statement in the world, but it's true. I think that a 25 year-old's view of the world would be drawn from factors that YOU couldn't even imagine at 15.
While the majority of 15 yr olds are cocky SoB's, some are not. Some of us were overly intelligent and prefered to do something other then waste our time. Just remeber, at 15 but I could do things you couldn't even imagine.
So, I take it that you were one of the cocky SoB's... Who did you know with an IQ of 185?
Look man, I think your attitude is fucked. Maybe you should go an commit some crimes... then you would loosen up a little bit.
While the majority of 15 yr olds are cocky SoB's, some are not. Some of us were overly intelligent and prefered to do something other then waste our time. Just remeber, at 15 but I could do things you couldn't even imagine.
Sounds like you were a cocky 15 year-old SoB than one of those "Time wasters".
I mean, who do you think you are? Being 15 is not a waste of time, and if you chose to do something "productive" than that's how you chose to spend your time...
But if I could have spent more of my teenage years goofing off as opposed to being productive, I would have... Because I will never have that much fun in my life ever again. I will never be so free to do whatever I want.
You will never ever have as much fun as I have had, and you will never know what it means to band together with the boys, and truly belong... regardless of how high your IQ is, I think you are a fool.
While you may be so smart, there is no need to patronise the people who are not as "gifted" as you.
See, this is the difference between geeks and other people... We're smart enough to know that there is better things to do with your spare time than packet sniffing (please, how lame is that???).
Seriously, if I was a script kiddy, I would gain more satisfaction from taking out one of my enemy-friend's computers.(you know the guys at school that you didn't like, but your mum knew his mum, so you had to talk)Or botching up your school's network, so you can tell your teacher that you can't give her your assignment, because you can't print it.
Look, I think you need to realise something. Just because a 15 year-old can kill you and your entire clan in 30 seconds, it does not mean they are all hackers.
And can I just say... Who is sick of those little cereal box kids that play Quake really really well. I used to think they were cheating, using mods or something... But my friends got a Cereal Box Brother, and I watched him... The secret ingredient is sugar.
See, I think that back 15 years ago, you had to be smart to use a computer. You had to read through books and manuals thicker and heavier than your computer before you could even figure out how to start it.
I don't think that the kiddies are getting smarter... If anything, I think they are getting dumber (I don't mean stupid). Kids now live in a world where anything they want to know is at their fingertips. This all started with the Sesame Street attention span.
These kids may be called smart. But they couldn't tell you what they learned in school today. It's not that they don't know, but they can't remember. The "Script" Kiddies may be taking down corporate web servers, but they don't know how they're doing it, they don't understand what they are doing.
To them, Code is taken to be just that, a series of commands put together to form a code to take down www.bigbucks.com or whatever. They don't see it as self expression, nor do they understand what it means. They just know that if they hit the carriage return, the server will go down.
Look, the fact of the matter is that when I was 15 (only five years ago), I hung out with my friends around the city. Wandering the streets causing whatever trouble we could find. It wasn't that I was a bad kid. It's just that, someone tells you not to smash a window, and it makes you all the more curious.
I remember my first window, the sound was beautiful. All that glass splintering and falling to the concrete... it was very satisfying, mainly because I knew that I would get in the shite if I was caught.
I haven't heard anyone tell the kids not to break windows anymore, and I am not seeing too many broken windows. I do see people telling kids not to trade or pirate software, music, videos, and just about anything else that 15 year-old boys trade, and I see that the kids now have a burnt copy of Eminem, have the Matrix on VCD, and just about every software application and exploit ever uploaded... But I don't think this makes them smart....
No, the internet kiddies are hoarders, and they're doing it, because people are trying to tell them that they can't.
Keeping many of us employed :)
I don't know if anyone else has noticed over the last few months, the ads that have been popping up on CNet. They're these annoying flash boxes that take up 3 quarters of the page width, that have been slapped into the middle of an article. I actually got asked to do a survey on them, and they actually asked me if I liked the ads. I did notice that whenever they asked me what I thought about the ad, they didn't provide room for a text answer, which I thought was kind of lame...
To the point, I thought it was quite funny, that these "exciting" new ads that CNet has been showing to me on all of their pages recently was missing from the one article talking about advertising...
Don't like it when your friend dis your daddy? :)
Now now, the Ewoks weren't that bad.
They spoke in a language that sounded nothing like English... Actually, when they talked... they just made those little clicking noises. See, Jar Jar should have spoken like the Ewoks, then people wouldn't have been so pissed off by him.
Don't mess with the Ewoks!
HEY! Pokemon rocks man... Gotta catch 'em all man...
Nah... he probably meant Keeler blue Heeler... We Australians like rhyming about there bitches too! :)
Yeah! That's true. Lucas mentions it in those interviews at the start of the special editions... But then again, if the rebels had of had a legion of Wookies on their side, they would have kicked ass long ago.
Hey I thought attack of the killer tomatoes was a very cool film... I wouldn't mess with those fruits :)