Umm... Luddites fear technology (and new shit)... This is the fear of the effect something very, very old.
I dig up a bronze sword in Norway, preserved almost perfectly since the bronze age. I continue to dig, and find hundreds of them. I sell the to people. Somebody is afraid that people will get killed by these swords. Are they a luddite?
Unfortunately, some websites are actively depriving programmers and companies of revenue by emulating more contemporary systems, such as the Playstation or Nintendo 64.
This isn't depriving any programmers... this is providing market competition for Sony and Nintendo... Piracy of games is completely separate from emulation of systems, and I wish the media would get that through their thick skulls...
Would these be australian W2 forms? Hell, if he wanted to pay no taxes, use perl could take the donations, put them into an account, and give him a credit card that he could use on whatever he wanted, which would be paid monthy from that account. He'd have no income... Be just like having a sugar-daddy with $55k. look rather suspicious, but hey, who minds being audited by the government under suspicion for money laundring every year when all you have to do is hack perl (your #1 hobby anyway) and get paid for it...
"We just have to establish a culture that registers an idea with people that wearing a device is a cool thing."
Not likely, since the only people that would be willing to walk around with their fingers in their ears just to get the bleeding edge of tech are geeks...
No, it wouldn't be an invasion of my privacy if you knocked on my door. That'd just be annoying
My sex life is my personal business, and if you compiled a database of my condom-buying habits, that would be an invasion of my privacy, and I'd be pissed, especially if you came knocking on my door saying "Hello, I see that in the past, you have bought Trojan Cherry-flavored ribbed glow-in-the-dark condoms, and BOY do I have a deal for you! I'd like to start by asking you, have you ever tried Strawberry? That's my personal favorite...", and I would be inclined to slam the door in your face. I wouldn't say anything, I wouldn't yell, or cuss at you, I'd just slam the door, like I hang up on telemarketers once I figure out they're telemarketers.
Actually, I just moved to Salt Lake City, heart of Mormon country, so I'm very cautious as to who I'll open my door for. There are 3 people on that list. My S.O. (who has a key anyway), my S.O.'s mother, and postal delivery-people. Well, apartment management/repairpeople, etc., too, if they ask nice. Anyone else, and I'm not home, because they're probably missionaries.
I know that companies do this, and take down your name and address at any chance that they can, which is why when I went to get my CueCat, I made up an address that has parts of my old high school, old house, and old office addresses with a made-up name... If you want that, here 'tis...
Pat McGregor
400 36th Ave
Bellevue, WA 98005
The moral: Never give your real information to anybody you don't absolutely know you can trust. Even your name. I've got a credit card in another name so I can avoid my name/address being spread around like a religious pamphlet...
Oh, I haven't inherited it yet, and I'm doing my best NOT to... If he dies with that debt hanging over his head, it'll be split between my brother and I. Then I'll have my brother (older) to take care of, the aspiring "starving musician".
I pretty much have to take care of it now because his entire family, my mother, and most of her family are breathing down my neck because I'm the smart one that "got lucky" and got a good job, so I should take care of him. True, he did raise me, and provided what he could, but I shouldn't have to support him like this, but if I didn't, I'd have this plus the accrued interest once he died.
They're not invading your privacy. Invading your privacy would be tapping your phone, breaking into your house and checking shit out, monitoring your internet activity, etc.
Calling somebody on the phone is not an invasion of privacy.
Everyone has a choice of what kind of job they want to have.
Oh? Really? So everybody has infinite skills in infinite fields, and can get whatever job they want at any time? I wasn't aware of that... Guess now that I know that, I'm gonna go out and be a nuclear physicist... You've obviously never had to worry about how your're going to pay your next month's rent, had to take a third (or fourth) job, or stepped out of your 6-figure average posh motherfucking neightborhood, have you?
It's people like you that keep minimum wage down, social security low, and the unemployment rate high! If you idiots would pull your heads out of your fucking gilt assholes, and actually vote for some of these affirmitive action/social security/minimum wage increase bills, you wouldn't have to pay so many fucking taxes, because the lower class would be able to support themselves, and not have to take shitty jobs as telemarketers!
When people have to fight for their next meal, they do not have morals. They don't give a shit about you, or your fucking dinnertime, because they don't GET a dinnertime. They get to drive through mcdonalds on their way to their third shift job, if they even have a car. Chances are, they ride the bus, and might be lucky to have an extra 3 minutes that they can run in and pick up a burger between busses.
Some of us don't get SHIT from our parents. Some of us get DEBT from our parents. That's what I got. I'm paying off my father's fucking debts because he couldn't get a job because he didn't have millionair parents to pay his fucking way through princeton, and because he didn't graduate high school because he had to get 2 jobs to try and support his family during his sophomore year.
Telemarketing jobs pay pretty damn well, up to $15 an hour, so when people get to choose between making $5.20 at jack in the box, coming home smelling like grease every night, and making $15 at a telemarketing firm, what the fuck do you think they're going to do? Say "oh, no, I'd have to interrupt people's dinner; I can't do that..."? If you think that, then get your head out of your ass, because people do NOT think that way.
No, they're not refering to female dogs exclusively. They're not referring to women, either. When a man calls a woman a bitch, I personally hate it. But, believe it or not, women say "Work's a bitch!" too...
Profanity, no matter what the word originally meant, is just that. If you take offense at all profanity, that's your perogative.
But, if you think that when I say "Shit, it's hot as hell in here!", that I actually mean that I just dropped a load in my pants (or skirt, whichever I may be wearing), and I have been to hell, know how hot it is there, and think that the temperature of my current location is comparable, you, m'dear, are an idiot.
It is undeniable that "sucks" refers to fellatio
nonononoNO! It's NOT undeniable! I just denied it in my last post! Are you illiterate, or did you just forget?
the only question is whether it is F-M fellatio or male homosexual fellatio. Either way, it's misogynistic, since it's the fear of men becoming like women that fuels homophobia.
Um... WTF? Where did that come from? So are you saying that when a man (because, like you said, you speak for all women, so no woman would ever say this) says "slashdot sucks", he is actually saying that he is afraid of being viewed as homosexual, but still wants a blow job?
Go back to your box, put your blinders back on and enjoy your reality, but stay out of mine.
No, you can't speak for all women, because you are only one woman. You are also only one human being. Right-minded? That's debatable.
If he said "Bitch, suck me now", I would agree with you wholehartedly. He did not say that. He said that slashdot sucks. Most men consider receiving fellatio a very good thing. So when they say something sucks, is it a reference to oral sex? I hardly think so.
Vaccuums also suck (well, the higher-pressure air outside of a vaccuum blows, but that's not the point). So do black holes. So does a chest wound that has punctured your lung (when you take a breath, air enters the lungs through wound as well as the nose/mouth, making a sucking sound, hence the name "sucking chest wound"). Receiving a sucking chest wound would very much, in every sense of the word, suck. It was the opinion of the author of that comment that slashdot, like a sucking chest wound, sucks.
One thing geeks like to get. Non-geek stuff. Unless it's given by a fellow geek. Here's the problem:
geek's mother: "Now, *geek's name*, i know you'll REALLY love this, the guy at the computer store said you would."
geek: thinking, "oh boy..." opens package *sounds of tearing* Pulls out a 20MB (says type 2 on the drive) IDE hard drive, mutters "Hmmm, must've been his last day"
geek's mother (a little hard of hearing *thank god*): "What was that?"
geek: "I said that I love it, mom, It'll go good next to my AOL CD collection!"
geek's mother: smiles
geek: wanted diablo II
Generic things to get a geek that they may need:
Clothes. Buy them stuff that they already wear. They don't want to dress like you want to dress, they like to dress how they dress.
Widgets. Really cool mechanical widgets, like mag-lev spacemen, and whatnot. Really interesting clocks are also cool.
Gift certificates. To bookstores (not Amazon or unless you want a nice holiday argument), software stores (not m$), etc.
Books. Look through their bookcase. You will see at least ONE book that isn't a programming book. Get new, popular books of that genre. It might take them a few years to get to reading it, but when they do, they will enjoy it
But, the #1 way to figure out what to get your geek:
Ask, and listen for hints!
There is a darker side of this device. I could personally fabricate a gun with this. When I was 12, I had designed a machine gun, and had full plans for it layed out in my head, and if I had access to such a thing, I would have made it at the bat of an eye. Not to shoot anybody, just to make it, and be proud that I had designed something that worked. Just like kids writing virii, I designed weapons. And I wrote a trojan horse.
Unlike me, some people like to USE these weapons on people, and some kid will eventually make a gun, or worse, and use it on somebody. Then the printers will be recalled, and will have government-written proprietary drivers that will scan for possible gun pieces, bomb pieces, etc. Using your own drivers will be illegal. Worse, the printer might send everything you print to the government... say goodbye to printing your 3d kiddie porn... (mmm... ceramic and steel 8 yr. old...)
Will be nice, though, to be able to fabricate stuff easily when I'm designing something... Translucent plastics will be fun... *rolls eyes*
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Umm... Luddites fear technology (and new shit)... This is the fear of the effect something very, very old.
I dig up a bronze sword in Norway, preserved almost perfectly since the bronze age. I continue to dig, and find hundreds of them. I sell the to people. Somebody is afraid that people will get killed by these swords. Are they a luddite?
Unfortunately, some websites are actively depriving programmers and companies of revenue by emulating more contemporary systems, such as the Playstation or Nintendo 64.
This isn't depriving any programmers... this is providing market competition for Sony and Nintendo... Piracy of games is completely separate from emulation of systems, and I wish the media would get that through their thick skulls...
Would these be australian W2 forms? Hell, if he wanted to pay no taxes, use perl could take the donations, put them into an account, and give him a credit card that he could use on whatever he wanted, which would be paid monthy from that account. He'd have no income... Be just like having a sugar-daddy with $55k. look rather suspicious, but hey, who minds being audited by the government under suspicion for money laundring every year when all you have to do is hack perl (your #1 hobby anyway) and get paid for it...
"We just have to establish a culture that registers an idea with people that wearing a device is a cool thing."
Not likely, since the only people that would be willing to walk around with their fingers in their ears just to get the bleeding edge of tech are geeks...
No, it wouldn't be an invasion of my privacy if you knocked on my door. That'd just be annoying
My sex life is my personal business, and if you compiled a database of my condom-buying habits, that would be an invasion of my privacy, and I'd be pissed, especially if you came knocking on my door saying "Hello, I see that in the past, you have bought Trojan Cherry-flavored ribbed glow-in-the-dark condoms, and BOY do I have a deal for you! I'd like to start by asking you, have you ever tried Strawberry? That's my personal favorite...", and I would be inclined to slam the door in your face. I wouldn't say anything, I wouldn't yell, or cuss at you, I'd just slam the door, like I hang up on telemarketers once I figure out they're telemarketers.
Actually, I just moved to Salt Lake City, heart of Mormon country, so I'm very cautious as to who I'll open my door for. There are 3 people on that list. My S.O. (who has a key anyway), my S.O.'s mother, and postal delivery-people. Well, apartment management/repairpeople, etc., too, if they ask nice. Anyone else, and I'm not home, because they're probably missionaries.
I know that companies do this, and take down your name and address at any chance that they can, which is why when I went to get my CueCat, I made up an address that has parts of my old high school, old house, and old office addresses with a made-up name... If you want that, here 'tis...
Pat McGregor
400 36th Ave
Bellevue, WA 98005
The moral: Never give your real information to anybody you don't absolutely know you can trust. Even your name. I've got a credit card in another name so I can avoid my name/address being spread around like a religious pamphlet...
Oh, I haven't inherited it yet, and I'm doing my best NOT to... If he dies with that debt hanging over his head, it'll be split between my brother and I. Then I'll have my brother (older) to take care of, the aspiring "starving musician".
I pretty much have to take care of it now because his entire family, my mother, and most of her family are breathing down my neck because I'm the smart one that "got lucky" and got a good job, so I should take care of him. True, he did raise me, and provided what he could, but I shouldn't have to support him like this, but if I didn't, I'd have this plus the accrued interest once he died.
Calling somebody on the phone is not an invasion of privacy.
Everyone has a choice of what kind of job they want to have.
Oh? Really? So everybody has infinite skills in infinite fields, and can get whatever job they want at any time? I wasn't aware of that... Guess now that I know that, I'm gonna go out and be a nuclear physicist... You've obviously never had to worry about how your're going to pay your next month's rent, had to take a third (or fourth) job, or stepped out of your 6-figure average posh motherfucking neightborhood, have you?It's people like you that keep minimum wage down, social security low, and the unemployment rate high! If you idiots would pull your heads out of your fucking gilt assholes, and actually vote for some of these affirmitive action/social security/minimum wage increase bills, you wouldn't have to pay so many fucking taxes, because the lower class would be able to support themselves, and not have to take shitty jobs as telemarketers!
When people have to fight for their next meal, they do not have morals. They don't give a shit about you, or your fucking dinnertime, because they don't GET a dinnertime. They get to drive through mcdonalds on their way to their third shift job, if they even have a car. Chances are, they ride the bus, and might be lucky to have an extra 3 minutes that they can run in and pick up a burger between busses.
Some of us don't get SHIT from our parents. Some of us get DEBT from our parents. That's what I got. I'm paying off my father's fucking debts because he couldn't get a job because he didn't have millionair parents to pay his fucking way through princeton, and because he didn't graduate high school because he had to get 2 jobs to try and support his family during his sophomore year.
Telemarketing jobs pay pretty damn well, up to $15 an hour, so when people get to choose between making $5.20 at jack in the box, coming home smelling like grease every night, and making $15 at a telemarketing firm, what the fuck do you think they're going to do? Say "oh, no, I'd have to interrupt people's dinner; I can't do that..."? If you think that, then get your head out of your ass, because people do NOT think that way.
Umm... I wrote a pong game for my C class that had a 4 line AI that was completely unbeatable. Learning? Impressive. Beating? Not.
Profanity, no matter what the word originally meant, is just that. If you take offense at all profanity, that's your perogative.
But, if you think that when I say "Shit, it's hot as hell in here!", that I actually mean that I just dropped a load in my pants (or skirt, whichever I may be wearing), and I have been to hell, know how hot it is there, and think that the temperature of my current location is comparable, you, m'dear, are an idiot.
It is undeniable that "sucks" refers to fellatio
nonononoNO! It's NOT undeniable! I just denied it in my last post! Are you illiterate, or did you just forget?the only question is whether it is F-M fellatio or male homosexual fellatio. Either way, it's misogynistic, since it's the fear of men becoming like women that fuels homophobia.
Um... WTF? Where did that come from? So are you saying that when a man (because, like you said, you speak for all women, so no woman would ever say this) says "slashdot sucks", he is actually saying that he is afraid of being viewed as homosexual, but still wants a blow job?Go back to your box, put your blinders back on and enjoy your reality, but stay out of mine.
No, you can't speak for all women, because you are only one woman. You are also only one human being. Right-minded? That's debatable.
If he said "Bitch, suck me now", I would agree with you wholehartedly. He did not say that. He said that slashdot sucks. Most men consider receiving fellatio a very good thing. So when they say something sucks, is it a reference to oral sex? I hardly think so.
Vaccuums also suck (well, the higher-pressure air outside of a vaccuum blows, but that's not the point). So do black holes. So does a chest wound that has punctured your lung (when you take a breath, air enters the lungs through wound as well as the nose/mouth, making a sucking sound, hence the name "sucking chest wound"). Receiving a sucking chest wound would very much, in every sense of the word, suck. It was the opinion of the author of that comment that slashdot, like a sucking chest wound, sucks.
One thing geeks like to get. Non-geek stuff. Unless it's given by a fellow geek. Here's the problem:
geek's mother: "Now, *geek's name*, i know you'll REALLY love this, the guy at the computer store said you would."
geek: thinking, "oh boy..." opens package *sounds of tearing* Pulls out a 20MB (says type 2 on the drive) IDE hard drive, mutters "Hmmm, must've been his last day"
geek's mother (a little hard of hearing *thank god*): "What was that?"
geek: "I said that I love it, mom, It'll go good next to my AOL CD collection!"
geek's mother: smiles
geek: wanted diablo II
Generic things to get a geek that they may need:
Clothes. Buy them stuff that they already wear. They don't want to dress like you want to dress, they like to dress how they dress.
Widgets. Really cool mechanical widgets, like mag-lev spacemen, and whatnot. Really interesting clocks are also cool.
Gift certificates. To bookstores (not Amazon or unless you want a nice holiday argument), software stores (not m$), etc.
Books. Look through their bookcase. You will see at least ONE book that isn't a programming book. Get new, popular books of that genre. It might take them a few years to get to reading it, but when they do, they will enjoy it
But, the #1 way to figure out what to get your geek:
Ask, and listen for hints!
There is a darker side of this device. I could personally fabricate a gun with this. When I was 12, I had designed a machine gun, and had full plans for it layed out in my head, and if I had access to such a thing, I would have made it at the bat of an eye. Not to shoot anybody, just to make it, and be proud that I had designed something that worked. Just like kids writing virii, I designed weapons. And I wrote a trojan horse.
Unlike me, some people like to USE these weapons on people, and some kid will eventually make a gun, or worse, and use it on somebody. Then the printers will be recalled, and will have government-written proprietary drivers that will scan for possible gun pieces, bomb pieces, etc. Using your own drivers will be illegal. Worse, the printer might send everything you print to the government... say goodbye to printing your 3d kiddie porn... (mmm... ceramic and steel 8 yr. old...)
Will be nice, though, to be able to fabricate stuff easily when I'm designing something... Translucent plastics will be fun... *rolls eyes*