And what is so bad about reality television? Take Survivor for example, it's a fake situation but real people who exhibit a broad range of emotions and interpersonal relationship skills (and when we are lucky, no skills at all).
These shows aren't about drama, although they use that to get you hooked, they are always about human behavior and interaction. If you looked at it that way it would be a lot more interesting.
Then again, I'm talking to fellow slashdotters who don't know the first thing about "interpersonal relationships".
I had a nice Anti-semitic friend who said he tried to order "je.ws" but it was "taken"...
this was his slick way of reminding me I was jewish, which only bothered him and not me. I knew he was lying because I already tried to register a **.ws domain and I was told it was too short.
If the point of.xxx is to force adult web sites into using it, how long until adult sites are sued into the ground for using other tlds? What if I'm running a french or italian language site with occasional boobies on it on a.com tld, would some tool force me onto a.xxx? Or even a.uk site?
Maybe the first step is to just create the xxx domain.
What I'd do (if I was ICANN or whomever):
* Create the xxx tld and then take a select bunch of dictionary words and sell them to pr0n friendly bandwidth/hosting providers. * Make them the official registratrs for "free.xxx", "anal.xxx" or whatever. * This creates more imaginative and available pr0n namespace (pr0n is always going to be number one) * Allow ISP's or OS vendors to block xxx domain * Stop accepting pr0n sites for.com,.net,.org, (and.edu and.mil) ** Don't get into censorship, unspoken agreement. * Allow pr0n marketing on other tld's... ** Direct community of pr0n content producers to use the xxx tld when the content is obscene ** Example: playboy.tv is a site about the channel, but it doesn't have nude content. When you want nude you click into xxx tld, unless your parents blocked it. ** Example (2): Playboy.com is a portal to all xxx tlds but contains magazine content; all images are hosted on a xxx tld. * Only send form letters to.com owners when enough people vote for it or something...
I think we can solve the "censorship" problem a lot easier that way. Make it transparent to content producers who want to go wild and they will adopt it fast, and that is all it takes. Build the porn, they will come (no pun intended).
Some say this approach will cause it to become USENET 2010, but I say that depends on content producers. If they want to create pointy.boobies.bobs.image.xxx let them - but they will learn right away that won't work.
I only wish it was an mp3 or even mp4 so I can watch it everytime I get high and so I can send it to my friends. If it wasn't flash I'd bet it would get passed around a lot faster. Hitachi has scored big time with the "groovy" factor, and if you've seen this you know how important groovy is.
Very well done. I would actually have that play when I woke up daily. It's sound and content brings my two favorite pastimes together.
If you inspect new vending machines and bill changers made today you see a shift in making the dollar coin more popular. At the last school I attended there were a few brand new fancy coke machines with convery belts (bonus to anyone who finds the hack for free cokes) and they had those dollar coin stickers all over them.
I assume though that the "hopper" (if that is even in a coke machine) or other pieces are interchangeable so that a company can use the same piece in every machine they are servicing. Makes it a lot easier and makes another product for the vending machine manufacturer to sell.
What connection do local call centres have with a banks customers that people who live further don't?...
it's cheaper than giving it to a `fellow American`. I should have thought that were obvious.
A Ha, and you've discovered my complaint. We get paid a lot more, we have less motivation to steal. We depend on that job, we have built a life around it. The paychecks are okay, so the risk to benefit ratio tells me not to steal from customers. On top of that, they are fellow countrymen.
However, in India it is a different story (don't flame, just an example).
The Indian worker is getting paid a fraction of what you've just spent. I sure hope there was no contempt in your voice - contempt breeds contempt. The tech looks at his check and sees a nice amount of money but he sees another option. Really, if he loses this job there will be another American company who will come around (best part is, they don't talk to each other). We've created the economic situation where it makes sense to work for a few weeks and rip a few hundred people off. An organized effort could be dangerous.
No matter... bring the work home and solve the whole problem that way.
Really I didn't say "Indian" (you did) because it's not the problem. I don't have a problem with _any_ group. For god sakes, I'm a liberal, why would _I_ play the terrorism trump card?
Really my beef is this: I don't trust foreign workers at American companies overseas. I'd trust an Indian computer company with my credit card before I'd trust a support tech from the UK who works for HP (hypothetical).
Just because they are foreign, it doesn't automatically make them a potential terrorist for christs sake.
No, but you've got to admit it would be easier for Osama to walk into an Indian call center and get a job than a "western" one.
i've worked with a number of consultants from India on coding projects here in the UK and have found them to be nothing but exceptionally dedicated, meticulous and hard working.
So I can use that to make a projection about any other Indian I come across? Isn't that prejudice...? It's hard to fixate on one stereotype because do I believe yours or someone else's?
Anyways I should have said *all* not *any*... and be suspect of *all* if *any*...?
I just have to say that this is a bigger problem than a simple "I told you so".
When you outsource certain operations you are giving people who have no connection with your customers their private information. Banking account numbers? Some people still don't use online banking because it scares them and we don't see this as a huge liability?
Really, what if a few thousand credit card and bank account numbers got into the hands of suspected terrorists? If they made a one time shot at getting items to fence or cash withdraws (wire transfers) and split, they suddenly have resources that was taken right from the American people.
I'm by no means saying that you should be suspect of *any* foreign person or enterprise. I'm thinking of the type of people who *might* get their hands on my/our information. What good is it to give to the people like EPIC when we give our information to people we can't necessarily track down? Can anyone guarantee that we will be able to bring someone to justice, under our laws (and equally for their benefit the Constitution)? I've worked on the phone making sales, and the problem we had was we were banned from taking credit cards because a few people screwed it up for everyone.
Of course, if someone wants the information they can get it. It just makes me wonder why we give our sensitive information to a foreigner when we need parts for our Dell (and by extension everyone else I don't care to list).
I suggest that the teacher doesn't use it as an end all solution.
Just read the ones it spits out. You know those writers are really going to be the best anyways. Anyone who follows writing conventions isn't a writer.
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And what is so bad about reality television? Take Survivor for example, it's a fake situation but real people who exhibit a broad range of emotions and interpersonal relationship skills (and when we are lucky, no skills at all).
These shows aren't about drama, although they use that to get you hooked, they are always about human behavior and interaction. If you looked at it that way it would be a lot more interesting.
Then again, I'm talking to fellow slashdotters who don't know the first thing about "interpersonal relationships".
I need a midwife... QUICK!!!
What good are electrodes when you can't vibrate your vocal cords?
Hazleton, Pennsylvania??
Aren't one of these houses protected? And didn't F.L.Wright design one of these homes?
I swear I saw this whole thing on tv before.
Can we ask where that is?
I've seen stories on these steel houses but can't find out where they were!
Whatever happened to the Sherman anti-trust act?
It was bought by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to become Media0wns1
well there are two letter top level domains (a9.com), but I assume they were registered in a time lost long ago...
I had a nice Anti-semitic friend who said he tried to order "je.ws" but it was "taken"...
this was his slick way of reminding me I was jewish, which only bothered him and not me. I knew he was lying because I already tried to register a **.ws domain and I was told it was too short.
If the point of .xxx is to force adult web sites into using it, how long until adult sites are sued into the ground for using other tlds? What if I'm running a french or italian language site with occasional boobies on it on a .com tld, would some tool force me onto a .xxx? Or even a .uk site?
.com, .net, .org, (and .edu and .mil) .com owners when enough people vote for it or something...
Maybe the first step is to just create the xxx domain.
What I'd do (if I was ICANN or whomever):
* Create the xxx tld and then take a select bunch of dictionary words and sell them to pr0n friendly bandwidth/hosting providers.
* Make them the official registratrs for "free.xxx", "anal.xxx" or whatever.
* This creates more imaginative and available pr0n namespace (pr0n is always going to be number one)
* Allow ISP's or OS vendors to block xxx domain
* Stop accepting pr0n sites for
** Don't get into censorship, unspoken agreement.
* Allow pr0n marketing on other tld's...
** Direct community of pr0n content producers to use the xxx tld when the content is obscene
** Example: playboy.tv is a site about the channel, but it doesn't have nude content. When you want nude you click into xxx tld, unless your parents blocked it.
** Example (2): Playboy.com is a portal to all xxx tlds but contains magazine content; all images are hosted on a xxx tld.
* Only send form letters to
I think we can solve the "censorship" problem a lot easier that way. Make it transparent to content producers who want to go wild and they will adopt it fast, and that is all it takes. Build the porn, they will come (no pun intended).
Some say this approach will cause it to become USENET 2010, but I say that depends on content producers. If they want to create pointy.boobies.bobs.image.xxx let them - but they will learn right away that won't work.
blow.jobs
hand.jobs
head.jobs
Wait, let me get my credit card number.
You bet they are evil when they cut everyone's salary to $1!!!
Maybe it's just the way I read it?
It's true, being high does make this video so much better. I disagree that it's goatse for your ears.
I only wish it was an mp3 or even mp4 so I can watch it everytime I get high and so I can send it to my friends. If it wasn't flash I'd bet it would get passed around a lot faster. Hitachi has scored big time with the "groovy" factor, and if you've seen this you know how important groovy is.
Very well done. I would actually have that play when I woke up daily. It's sound and content brings my two favorite pastimes together.
omg... quit bitching!
Let's see the movie first.
Of course, I predict the next Slashdot meme to be "WTFM".
That is why in another post I said that the ones the computer spits out would be the best ones to read.
same school?
where I went the roto-vomit (food machine) said "NO CHARGE" for a day and we ate everything it had.
In Soviet Russia Government Patents You!!!
If you inspect new vending machines and bill changers made today you see a shift in making the dollar coin more popular. At the last school I attended there were a few brand new fancy coke machines with convery belts (bonus to anyone who finds the hack for free cokes) and they had those dollar coin stickers all over them.
I assume though that the "hopper" (if that is even in a coke machine) or other pieces are interchangeable so that a company can use the same piece in every machine they are servicing. Makes it a lot easier and makes another product for the vending machine manufacturer to sell.
Feel free to try and fool people with this URL. I'll try submitting the link to slashdot in a few days for shits and giggles.
Yeah! Meanwhile a million people try the form with their real usernames and passwords and you make a fortune.
I'd be very careful.
What connection do local call centres have with a banks customers that people who live further don't? ...
it's cheaper than giving it to a `fellow American`. I should have thought that were obvious.
A Ha, and you've discovered my complaint. We get paid a lot more, we have less motivation to steal. We depend on that job, we have built a life around it. The paychecks are okay, so the risk to benefit ratio tells me not to steal from customers. On top of that, they are fellow countrymen.
However, in India it is a different story (don't flame, just an example).
The Indian worker is getting paid a fraction of what you've just spent. I sure hope there was no contempt in your voice - contempt breeds contempt. The tech looks at his check and sees a nice amount of money but he sees another option. Really, if he loses this job there will be another American company who will come around (best part is, they don't talk to each other). We've created the economic situation where it makes sense to work for a few weeks and rip a few hundred people off. An organized effort could be dangerous.
No matter... bring the work home and solve the whole problem that way.
Really I didn't say "Indian" (you did) because it's not the problem. I don't have a problem with _any_ group. For god sakes, I'm a liberal, why would _I_ play the terrorism trump card?
Really my beef is this: I don't trust foreign workers at American companies overseas. I'd trust an Indian computer company with my credit card before I'd trust a support tech from the UK who works for HP (hypothetical).
Just because they are foreign, it doesn't automatically make them a potential terrorist for christs sake.
No, but you've got to admit it would be easier for Osama to walk into an Indian call center and get a job than a "western" one.
i've worked with a number of consultants from India on coding projects here in the UK and have found them to be nothing but exceptionally dedicated, meticulous and hard working.
So I can use that to make a projection about any other Indian I come across? Isn't that prejudice...? It's hard to fixate on one stereotype because do I believe yours or someone else's?
Anyways I should have said *all* not *any*... and be suspect of *all* if *any*...?
I just have to say that this is a bigger problem than a simple "I told you so".
When you outsource certain operations you are giving people who have no connection with your customers their private information. Banking account numbers? Some people still don't use online banking because it scares them and we don't see this as a huge liability?
Really, what if a few thousand credit card and bank account numbers got into the hands of suspected terrorists? If they made a one time shot at getting items to fence or cash withdraws (wire transfers) and split, they suddenly have resources that was taken right from the American people.
I'm by no means saying that you should be suspect of *any* foreign person or enterprise. I'm thinking of the type of people who *might* get their hands on my/our information. What good is it to give to the people like EPIC when we give our information to people we can't necessarily track down? Can anyone guarantee that we will be able to bring someone to justice, under our laws (and equally for their benefit the Constitution)? I've worked on the phone making sales, and the problem we had was we were banned from taking credit cards because a few people screwed it up for everyone.
Of course, if someone wants the information they can get it. It just makes me wonder why we give our sensitive information to a foreigner when we need parts for our Dell (and by extension everyone else I don't care to list).
In Soviet Russia Clichés Cluster You!!!
(I love any attempt at a Soviet Russia meme based joke... I just picture the smiling face of Yakov in my head.)
I actually got rated a troll for the best off the top of my head SNL joke (today)
I suggest that the teacher doesn't use it as an end all solution.
Just read the ones it spits out. You know those writers are really going to be the best anyways. Anyone who follows writing conventions isn't a writer.
Now, analyze this post for errors slashbots!