Or during the middle of the work day when everyone is recharging for their return commute. Do you know what that would do, it would take a bad problem and make it even worse.
I work for the power company, you insensitive clod!
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen posted here on Slashdot, and that's saying a lot. If I could mod you -1 Clueless I would. Communism was as bad as National Socialism ever was. Nazis were just more open about their plans for genocide, but when you crunch the numbers, communism accomplished a lot more in the murder category. Commies (and yes, I use that term intentionally) were just less creative about how they committed mass murder... the skipped the whole elaborate Xyklon-off-the-trains scenario, and went straight to firing squads and starvation. Your thinking is a prime example of what we used to call "The Banality of Evil"... the ideal that evil is overblown and really, isn't that big a deal. In your case, the ghosts of 60+ million people would disagree.
Congratulations, you're officially brainwashed.
Communism is an ideology, or a theory, or whatever you want to call it. I'll happily say that I consider it to be very flawed, since it makes certain assumptions about human nature pretty much anyone over the age of 5 understands are wrong.
The way some countries chose to implement communism is different. There's a difference between thought and action. If you fail to see that difference, then that explains a lot about the state the US of A is in these days.
I want a FREE MARKET[*] that will make sure there's a hospital to fix your broken skull. And a FREE MARKET that will make sure there's affordable transportation and trained EMTs.
You know what would be funny? Giving all you liberalists a state of your own to put all that theory into practice and seeing where it would lead. Judging from the amount of comments on slashdot there's definitely a market for it. Your own sovereign state...wouldn't that be nice? Of course all the existing infrastructure would have to be stripped out first, since it was probably put there by some sort of government, but that would only create demand for new stuff, so that's all good.
Honestly, true liberalism/free market anarchism has about as much of a chance at success in the 21st century as pure communism did. At some point the sledge hammer of reality always crushes ideology.
That's fine. If you want to fill your house with rotting trash that's cool too...right up to the moment where the smell leaves your property and starts to bother other folks.
It means that if you use a browser other than IE to try to access this product, nothing works. Not even the navigation works. It's like buying Photoshop, touching up a.jpg file and then ONLY being able to open it again using Adobe Acrobat.
Actually, we use sharepoint at work and so far the only functionality I've found that requires IE is creating or modifying MS Office documents "directly" from Sharepoint instead of downloading, editing and then uploading again.
Networking is the deliberate act of socializing with a large number of people in the off chance that one day one of them will offer you a sweet deal/job just because you talked about sports with him at a bar one night.
God, no. Networking involves a huge spectrum of social contacts, both work-related and not. Knowing that that guy you once worked on a project with knows everything there is to know about subject X will allow you to place a quick call to get something sorted, instead of having to go through "official channels", making you look incredibly efficient(and getting credit for what's inside his head, even if you're completely honest about how and where you got the info). Sticking around for a 5 minute casual chat with some colleagues and saying hi in the hallways does wonders if you later have to work with them on something again. Remember what people tell you about their lives, and enquire at a later point in time how they're doing on whatever subject they happened to bring up.
That shit is important to a lot of people. Enquiring about things that people really care about makes them feel good about themselves. Nothing wrong with that. I don't give a hoot about my or anyone else's birthday either, but then my opinions aren't always the most important, and on some subjects you have to compromise.
Besides, it's a lot harder to really dislike people you regularly have face to face contact with, and that goes both ways. Much easier to blame department Y for all the wrongs in the world if you've never met Joe, Jack and Jane that works their asses off down there.
Oh, the free software+paid support model? Just how, pray tell, are you meant to charge for support on music and movies? Or even Games for that matter? No, the free model only works for products for which support requirements exist.
Have you played any PC games since the interwebs became available?;-)
I'm trying to think of a single pc game I've bought these past couple of years that played perfectly right after install...and I can come up with only one, Puzzle Quest. Practically every game has bugs, not just incompatibility problems with certain hardware or drivers, but plot- or otherwise storyline-related as well.
Hey, look! Looks like 3 1/2 months after I bought it I might finally get to play Fallout 3 properly! See ya'all in a week...
But really, that particular argument would carry more weight if there existed any MKV+h.264 files that weren't pirated. I can't recall ever seeing one.
Damn, I better inform all those EVE Online players who create hours worth of material and encode it to h.264 that they're pirates....oh, wait.
Both Mass Effect and Fallout 3 are slow, load all too frequently, and crash-prone to boot.
As much as I enjoy cursing Bioware/EA for not fixing the damn bugs in Mass Effect, I'd hardly call it slow. Initial load takes a few seconds(DRM doing its thing I suppose), but after that it's smooth sailing all the way for me.
I agree ME could have done with a better interface though:/
Most (well, okay, all) Europeans I know consider our government's attitude towards sex in general, and the human female in particular, to be provincial at best, uncivilized at worst. This is one case where I'm in complete agreement with them.
The funny thing is that the bible-thumpers who faint at the sight of a breast perhaps need to read that little story about a woman and a man happily prancing around naked...the way they were apparently created in the image of some supreme being. Right up to the point where some snake convinced the lady to have a bite of an apple anyway.
So chronologically speaking:
- man and woman are naked and innocent, and all is good. - man and woman are coerced by his Evilness to eat of an apple, lose their innocence, and start covering themselves. - man and woman are kicked out of Eden. - woman strives to regain innocence while using breasts for their intended purpose, being the feeding of babies. - biblethumpers everywhere get up in arms about breasts being visible, be it in public or on the webz...
Yup, closed questions are risky, especially if they make the customer feel stupid, they can be used but you need to be smart about it.
Hence you never ask if an object is inserted the right way, you ask if, for instance, the gold arrow is pointing towards or away from the slot and you give the wrong option first(customers who are too lazy to check will always pick option 1).
For repeated and multiple murder, for torture, both physical and psychological, for cannibalism and for a few other things that I'd have to consult my library for and reread some of his work.
How about...you know...depictions of underage group sex?
It was a nice book...and fortunately I was 14 when I read it.
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Or during the middle of the work day when everyone is recharging for their return commute. Do you know what that would do, it would take a bad problem and make it even worse.
I work for the power company, you insensitive clod!
(Blessed is the corporate tech support, for he/she can see both sides.)
And yet is listened to by neither ;-)
How would I feel about about being threatened? I would say, bring it on, bitch. I'll fucking kill you.
Good for you, Internet Tough Guy.
Now how would you feel if they were threatening your 6 year old instead?
How do you negligently explode a nuke?
By leaving the nuke locker open with a toddler around the house, how else?
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen posted here on Slashdot, and that's saying a lot. If I could mod you -1 Clueless I would. Communism was as bad as National Socialism ever was. Nazis were just more open about their plans for genocide, but when you crunch the numbers, communism accomplished a lot more in the murder category. Commies (and yes, I use that term intentionally) were just less creative about how they committed mass murder... the skipped the whole elaborate Xyklon-off-the-trains scenario, and went straight to firing squads and starvation. Your thinking is a prime example of what we used to call "The Banality of Evil"... the ideal that evil is overblown and really, isn't that big a deal. In your case, the ghosts of 60+ million people would disagree.
Congratulations, you're officially brainwashed.
Communism is an ideology, or a theory, or whatever you want to call it. I'll happily say that I consider it to be very flawed, since it makes certain assumptions about human nature pretty much anyone over the age of 5 understands are wrong.
The way some countries chose to implement communism is different. There's a difference between thought and action. If you fail to see that difference, then that explains a lot about the state the US of A is in these days.
I take it you also consider Islam to be evil?
Wasn't there a DS9 ep where they ended up with a bunch of original klingons?
One of the few episodes where they didn't take themselves so damn seriously all the time.
Mass Effect on pc....Mass Effect on the Xbox 360...
Yeah, quite a difficult choice to make indeed.
You know, I'd pay good money for footage of Stallman wandering the White House surrounded by Secret Service agents...
I want a FREE MARKET[*] that will make sure there's a hospital to fix your broken skull. And a FREE MARKET that will make sure there's affordable transportation and trained EMTs.
You know what would be funny? Giving all you liberalists a state of your own to put all that theory into practice and seeing where it would lead. Judging from the amount of comments on slashdot there's definitely a market for it. Your own sovereign state...wouldn't that be nice? Of course all the existing infrastructure would have to be stripped out first, since it was probably put there by some sort of government, but that would only create demand for new stuff, so that's all good.
Honestly, true liberalism/free market anarchism has about as much of a chance at success in the 21st century as pure communism did. At some point the sledge hammer of reality always crushes ideology.
That's fine. If you want to fill your house with rotting trash that's cool too...right up to the moment where the smell leaves your property and starts to bother other folks.
It means that if you use a browser other than IE to try to access this product, nothing works. Not even the navigation works. It's like buying Photoshop, touching up a .jpg file and then ONLY being able to open it again using Adobe Acrobat.
Actually, we use sharepoint at work and so far the only functionality I've found that requires IE is creating or modifying MS Office documents "directly" from Sharepoint instead of downloading, editing and then uploading again.
Networking is the deliberate act of socializing with a large number of people in the off chance that one day one of them will offer you a sweet deal/job just because you talked about sports with him at a bar one night.
God, no. Networking involves a huge spectrum of social contacts, both work-related and not. Knowing that that guy you once worked on a project with knows everything there is to know about subject X will allow you to place a quick call to get something sorted, instead of having to go through "official channels", making you look incredibly efficient(and getting credit for what's inside his head, even if you're completely honest about how and where you got the info). Sticking around for a 5 minute casual chat with some colleagues and saying hi in the hallways does wonders if you later have to work with them on something again. Remember what people tell you about their lives, and enquire at a later point in time how they're doing on whatever subject they happened to bring up.
That shit is important to a lot of people. Enquiring about things that people really care about makes them feel good about themselves. Nothing wrong with that. I don't give a hoot about my or anyone else's birthday either, but then my opinions aren't always the most important, and on some subjects you have to compromise.
Besides, it's a lot harder to really dislike people you regularly have face to face contact with, and that goes both ways. Much easier to blame department Y for all the wrongs in the world if you've never met Joe, Jack and Jane that works their asses off down there.
Oh, the free software+paid support model? Just how, pray tell, are you meant to charge for support on music and movies? Or even Games for that matter? No, the free model only works for products for which support requirements exist.
Have you played any PC games since the interwebs became available? ;-)
I'm trying to think of a single pc game I've bought these past couple of years that played perfectly right after install...and I can come up with only one, Puzzle Quest. Practically every game has bugs, not just incompatibility problems with certain hardware or drivers, but plot- or otherwise storyline-related as well.
Hey, look! Looks like 3 1/2 months after I bought it I might finally get to play Fallout 3 properly! See ya'all in a week...
Huge magnetic field...metal objects attached to the right parts of the body, you figure it out ;-)
Sure, technically it doesn't equal that.
But really, that particular argument would carry more weight if there existed any MKV+h.264 files that weren't pirated. I can't recall ever seeing one.
Damn, I better inform all those EVE Online players who create hours worth of material and encode it to h.264 that they're pirates....oh, wait.
Is that an offer to create a mod for Fallout 3? ;-)
Vexors at dawn, good sir!
Both Mass Effect and Fallout 3 are slow, load all too frequently, and crash-prone to boot.
As much as I enjoy cursing Bioware/EA for not fixing the damn bugs in Mass Effect, I'd hardly call it slow. Initial load takes a few seconds(DRM doing its thing I suppose), but after that it's smooth sailing all the way for me.
I agree ME could have done with a better interface though :/
Damn you young kids these days. /me cranks motorhead back up while yelling to "git off his lawn!"
Should go well with "The Ace of Spades", just the right number of syllables. Now just picture Lemmy singing it...
They are unequivocally and inarguably the absolute best one by leaps and bounds.
Some of us were allergic to breast milk you insensitive clod ;-)
Most (well, okay, all) Europeans I know consider our government's attitude towards sex in general, and the human female in particular, to be provincial at best, uncivilized at worst. This is one case where I'm in complete agreement with them.
The funny thing is that the bible-thumpers who faint at the sight of a breast perhaps need to read that little story about a woman and a man happily prancing around naked...the way they were apparently created in the image of some supreme being. Right up to the point where some snake convinced the lady to have a bite of an apple anyway.
So chronologically speaking:
- man and woman are naked and innocent, and all is good.
- man and woman are coerced by his Evilness to eat of an apple, lose their innocence, and start covering themselves.
- man and woman are kicked out of Eden.
- woman strives to regain innocence while using breasts for their intended purpose, being the feeding of babies.
- biblethumpers everywhere get up in arms about breasts being visible, be it in public or on the webz...
So whose work are the biblethumpers doing?
That's not true at all. We all recognize that breast-feeding is a private act that should not belong in public.
Ehmm, no, we don't. Unless I'm not allowed to be part of "we".
Yup, closed questions are risky, especially if they make the customer feel stupid, they can be used but you need to be smart about it.
Hence you never ask if an object is inserted the right way, you ask if, for instance, the gold arrow is pointing towards or away from the slot and you give the wrong option first(customers who are too lazy to check will always pick option 1).
On that note, Terry Pratchett recently released a new book which stands alone from all the others: Nation
One of his best books yet, as far as I'm concerned, and one I would heartily recommend to anyone between 10 and 110 years old.
For repeated and multiple murder, for torture, both physical and psychological, for cannibalism and for a few other things that I'd have to consult my library for and reread some of his work.
How about...you know...depictions of underage group sex?
It was a nice book...and fortunately I was 14 when I read it.