Looks like Larry Ellison and Bill Gates are going to duke it out to be known as the Antichrist, or at least the facilitator of the Antichrist...not that I read the Bible or anything.
Others have probably already responded this way, but I've been saying for years that it would make things easier all around if there was a.xxx domain or something similar that would encompass ALL porno sites, requiring them to use that TLD on pain of fine or other legal penalty. Imagine how simple it would be for companies to provide URL filters that would absolutely stop kids from seeing those sites. Imagine how easy it would be for libraries to filter porno this way. This isn't a free speech issue at all...it's just an organizational determination. I hope that one passes.
You know, that's exactly how people who fix computers get away with charging $50 to install a memory chip. That's just the ignorance tax at work...you know how to do it, they don't, so you tax them for it. If working on computers was easy, no one could make a living at it.
Whoa, good rebuttal. I love people who actually make an effort to dig up citations for their arguments. Makes lazy people like me have to be more vigilant and less flippant. Congratulations for inspiring me to greater effort.
Eh, if you have the ability, fire his ass. Long-term demonstrated incompetence is as good a criteria as any. You and I both know there are plenty better where he came from.
I am truly astonished that the concept of selling mod points so people can promote their personal agendas hasn't occurred to the proprietors of this site. Now that you suggested it, it's all over....
I can't believe no one mentioned Automan!I mean, here was a guy who had a cool glowing suit, and a sidekick called Cursor! Rates at least a 9 on a 1 to 10 geeky scale.
Take B-complex vitamins on those occasions when you want your pee to be a vibrant yellow, such as when you have overhydrated yourself for days to get the 'controlled substances' out of your system before a piss test, and you can't pee a clear stream and still pass. I think the specific vitamin is B-12, but I'm not 100% on that. Any B-complex will do it. Not that I'd know anything about that.
Excellent concept. I've said myself that if I set up an ISP, I'd put the setup software at the end of a series of questions. Nothing difficult, but something like this:
1.) Your email address is your real name (T)(F)
2.) Right-click means clicking with the correct button (T)(F)
3.) An email program is what you check your email with (T)(F)
4.) My version of Windows is Office97 or Netscape (T)(F)
I currently do tech support as part of my job, and I'd say the vast majority of the people I have to talk to on a regular basis would fail that test.
Libertarians have been trying to sell their ideas since before Ayn Rand, but few are buying
I know you weren't specifically knocking Ayn Rand, but I'll put on my flame suit anyway and ask "What exactly is supposed to be so wrong with Ayn Rand's philosophy? I know that at the core she was just railing for something that was the anti-Communism, but Objectivism as it is stated seems to make a lot of sense to me. I mean, when people characterize it as simply a way to justify being selfish (in the bad sense of the term), then I can see the problem. However, that isn't what Objectivism is about. Read a few books on the subject and you'll know what I mean.
I think the ads like you are referring to are simply an obvious manifestation of the 'ignorance tax'. That's the same thing that allows a computer repair shop to charge $50 to install a $10 memory chip, $95 to install an operating system, or $100+ to remove a virus with Norton. If someone isn't going to inform themselves about their purchases, then someone else is entitled to tax them for it. You and I know those are $5 machines, but the average person doesn't, and they're going to get taken. Too bad.
Come on! You could actually see Gwyneth Paltrow's and Cameron Diaz's nipples! In fact, you could see Gwyneth Paltrow's entire breasts, not that there's much to look at. Halle looked elegant and sexy.
Probably referring to this. Specifically (ripped from site):
In 1971, as a freshman at Harvard University, Stallman became a hacker at the MIT AI Laboratory. In the 1980s, the hacker culture which was Stallman's life began to dissolve under the pressure of the commercialization of the software industry. In particular, other AI Lab hackers founded the company Symbolics, which actively attempted to replace the free software in the Lab with its own proprietary software. For two years, from 1983 to 1985, Stallman single-handedly duplicated the efforts of the Symbolics programmers to prevent them from gaining a monopoly on the Lab's computers.(Emphasis mine)
I could have sworn that was from a Bloom County comic strip, where Oliver Wendell Jones' father tells him that after the young boy invents a superconductor, antigravity device, or perpetual motion machine (I forget which).
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Looks like Larry Ellison and Bill Gates are going to duke it out to be known as the Antichrist, or at least the facilitator of the Antichrist...not that I read the Bible or anything.
That's freaking hilarious...er, you are joking, right?
Others have probably already responded this way, but I've been saying for years that it would make things easier all around if there was a .xxx domain or something similar that would encompass ALL porno sites, requiring them to use that TLD on pain of fine or other legal penalty. Imagine how simple it would be for companies to provide URL filters that would absolutely stop kids from seeing those sites. Imagine how easy it would be for libraries to filter porno this way. This isn't a free speech issue at all...it's just an organizational determination. I hope that one passes.
You know, that's exactly how people who fix computers get away with charging $50 to install a memory chip. That's just the ignorance tax at work...you know how to do it, they don't, so you tax them for it. If working on computers was easy, no one could make a living at it.
No, no! They need to hire that annoying guy from the phone commercial!
"You have to think OUT-SIDE the box! Change the paradiggum!"
I guess he was listening to Destiny's Child when he wrote that.
Whoa, good rebuttal. I love people who actually make an effort to dig up citations for their arguments. Makes lazy people like me have to be more vigilant and less flippant. Congratulations for inspiring me to greater effort.
Eh, if you have the ability, fire his ass. Long-term demonstrated incompetence is as good a criteria as any. You and I both know there are plenty better where he came from.
I am truly astonished that the concept of selling mod points so people can promote their personal agendas hasn't occurred to the proprietors of this site. Now that you suggested it, it's all over....
I can't believe no one mentioned Automan!I mean, here was a guy who had a cool glowing suit, and a sidekick called Cursor! Rates at least a 9 on a 1 to 10 geeky scale.
"...but my girlfriend lately IS my computer. her name is Penty"
Penty? I bet she's yummy. Get it? Penty-yummy? I'm here all week.
One word...razor. Er..actually, I just thought about that more...nevermind.
One word...tweezers. Eek. That's worse
Two words...bikini wax. Well, at least it would be over with quickly. Whew.
Take B-complex vitamins on those occasions when you want your pee to be a vibrant yellow, such as when you have overhydrated yourself for days to get the 'controlled substances' out of your system before a piss test, and you can't pee a clear stream and still pass. I think the specific vitamin is B-12, but I'm not 100% on that. Any B-complex will do it. Not that I'd know anything about that.
Excellent concept. I've said myself that if I set up an ISP, I'd put the setup software at the end of a series of questions. Nothing difficult, but something like this:
1.) Your email address is your real name (T)(F)
2.) Right-click means clicking with the correct button (T)(F)
3.) An email program is what you check your email with (T)(F)
4.) My version of Windows is Office97 or Netscape (T)(F)
I currently do tech support as part of my job, and I'd say the vast majority of the people I have to talk to on a regular basis would fail that test.
That must really come in handy when you are trying to rob a bank or infiltrate the girl's dorm shower, eh?
Maybe here?:
Europa Orbiter
Libertarians have been trying to sell their ideas since before Ayn Rand, but few are buying
I know you weren't specifically knocking Ayn Rand, but I'll put on my flame suit anyway and ask "What exactly is supposed to be so wrong with Ayn Rand's philosophy? I know that at the core she was just railing for something that was the anti-Communism, but Objectivism as it is stated seems to make a lot of sense to me. I mean, when people characterize it as simply a way to justify being selfish (in the bad sense of the term), then I can see the problem. However, that isn't what Objectivism is about. Read a few books on the subject and you'll know what I mean.
...a variable ballet ensues so full of form and color!
I think you are looking for veritable, not variable
I gather there will be a 'web ring' dedicated to it?
I think the ads like you are referring to are simply an obvious manifestation of the 'ignorance tax'. That's the same thing that allows a computer repair shop to charge $50 to install a $10 memory chip, $95 to install an operating system, or $100+ to remove a virus with Norton. If someone isn't going to inform themselves about their purchases, then someone else is entitled to tax them for it. You and I know those are $5 machines, but the average person doesn't, and they're going to get taken. Too bad.
Come on! You could actually see Gwyneth Paltrow's and Cameron Diaz's nipples! In fact, you could see Gwyneth Paltrow's entire breasts, not that there's much to look at. Halle looked elegant and sexy.
Dunno, but I read a story once about a single fish and a loaf of bread expanding to feed a whole community...wait, that was the Bible.
Probably referring to this. Specifically (ripped from site):
In 1971, as a freshman at Harvard University, Stallman became a hacker at the MIT AI Laboratory. In the 1980s, the hacker culture which was Stallman's life began to dissolve under the pressure of the commercialization of the software industry. In particular, other AI Lab hackers founded the company Symbolics, which actively attempted to replace the free software in the Lab with its own proprietary software. For two years, from 1983 to 1985, Stallman single-handedly duplicated the efforts of the Symbolics programmers to prevent them from gaining a monopoly on the Lab's computers.(Emphasis mine)
I stand corrected. A little research answered my own inquiry.
I could have sworn that was from a Bloom County comic strip, where Oliver Wendell Jones' father tells him that after the young boy invents a superconductor, antigravity device, or perpetual motion machine (I forget which).