Well, I pulled up behind him as he was parked on the side of the road and got out of my car to ask him directions. Didn't realize that "To Protect And Serve" doesn't include being able to actually fucking approach them. Scrawny guy like me scared a cop enough to pull a gun on me. The ultimate pussy. I was about 25 headed to my first day on a new job and wasn't sure if I was going the right way on the beltway. What a fucking crime!
And it was quite awkward with him pointing the gun at me screaming orders, but being downwind I couldn't hear a FUCKING WORD HE SAID. So I put my hands up, figuring that was the smartest thing to do.
And I was THERE with the beating. Didn't see it directly, because I was hiding in the floor of a parked car, but I saw the damage afterwards and was part of the scene. (Seeing as I was WOKEN UP from being drunk and passed out by the cop's flashlight in my face, as he said "Put that fuckin fire out" to the crowd of highschoolers.) My friend was handcuffed. They told him to get in the car without actually opening the cruiser door, and pushed him repeatedly into the closed door until they finally opened it for him. Very funny. Visible bruise for a month. His mom wasn't happy with me. Thus ended one of my best friendships in high school.
My other friend, got his car confiscated for selling drugs. They lied and said he sold them. Really, he GAVE them away. The narcs managed to ask him to HOLD some money for them (which I personally would not have done). The cops then later testified that he actually took the money in exchange for the drugs, when in fact the money was laaned the following day, and the drugs (Xanax) were given. I realize that *giving* away drugs is still illegal, but that doesn't make purgery acceptible.
The practice is actually so widespread with police that they have their own word for it -- "testilying".
You are obviously a conservative who loves to lie to yourself in order to paint the world in a rosier color than it is. This isn't the fucking Matrix; wake up. Just becuase you don't see it firsthand doesn't mean it is happening. And 1000 good cops don't mean shit if there is just one bad cop. I don't want to deal with anyone in that type of position of power who has even a 0.1% chance of being crooked! Not to mention the corrupt cops stories I get emailed to me every week.
With a gun pointed at my head,
I realized... What I can get instead.
-Atari Teenage Riot, "Revolution Action"
P.S. I am typing this from a fedreal law enforcement agency headquarters.
I've had a cop pull a gun on me for asking for directions, I've had a 16yo friend brutalized by police (while drunk, noless), I've had another friend who was a minor had the cops lie against him in court so they could seize his red sports car.
Unfortunately, someone who sounds like a lunatic is far more grounded in reality than you are.
America has the highest incarceration rate of any country on the planet. And our cops ALWAYS get away with murder, when it is committed.
Why would I spoon feed this idiot his information, when he already told me I have zero credibility? He wont believe me, even though it's true. This has ZERO to do with how any professor teaches his course; that metaphor is laughable.
Why would I waste my time telling him something he doesn't believe when I already know it to be true? He's not worth it. I told him to verify the information independetly...... Using the most common tools to do so: Google, and Wikipedia. Somehow this is laudable and a subject of attack? On *slashdot*, I can be attacked for suggesting to use google to find something out?!? Did I wander into a parellel fucking universe? Should I be checking myself in the mirror for a goatee? What rod crawled up the ass of the rod in your ass?
Finally, you imply that anyone who doesn't love America should leave to go to Cuba. Total knee-jerk response there. So what, anyone who complains about America doesn't belong here? I guess, any voices of dissent should be quelled. There's a word for that: China. And another (well, 2 words actually): Saudi Arabia.
You, sir, belong in America less than I, becuase you do not even think people with different opinions should stay in the country. That sentiment is far more unamerican and dangerous to democracy than anything that *I* have said. So maybe YOU should move to somewhere where everyone is forced to love it or leave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, China. It's where your type belongs.
You're the comedy, fool. Look it up. It's a widely-accepted fact verifiable via ANY source. Russia may have peaked past us for a few years in the 1990s, but we've basically held onto that title for quite awhile.
Wake the fuck up you inexecusable piece of complacent shit. This is not the land of the free. If you're too blinded by your own stubbornness to learn it from me, then look it up on google or wikipedia yourself. Moron.
... Keeping a prison running smoothly is incredibly hard. Why, they can't even keep drugs out of prisons! The argument has been made in the past that prisoners should not get cable television as well.
Guess what folks? Entertained prisoners are less likely to riot and less likely to stick you with a shiv. Prisoners cost $30K a year for us to house, and that's not counting the medical costs when Joe gets shivved in the nutsuck by Malcolm.
It's simple cost-benefit analysis. If you want to spend more money, go ahead, but our prison system is already doomed for failure. At our current rate of increase of incarceration, 50% of americans will be in prison by the time we reach retirement. THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Something is going to break before then. (Hopefully the drug laws.)
But these people calling for mandatory 5 year sentences for any felony? Hate to break it to you, but if you've downloaded an mp3, you've committed a felony. Just about anything can be considered a felony. Steal a mailbox? Felony. Anyone saying someone deserves 5 yrs in prison for stealing a mailbox, at a cost to taxpayers of $150,000 (not counting court and legal costs), should be incarcerated themselves for being a fucking kneejerk dolt.
And america has the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the country. We are the LEAST FREE country on the planet. Prisons are not solving out problems, and turning them into gulags isn't going to help anything either. Grow the fuck up.
You, sir, are an affront to freedom and democracy. You belong sucking on Bin Laden's left nutsack. You are a bigger enemy to democracy than any insurgent in Iraq. I suggest going to www.famm.org.
I simply "manually" keep version control. Working on "script.pl"? I save as "script - 00 - description.pl", then later save as "script - 01 - changedesc.pl", etc, etc.
This lets me manage my own files myself without having to be tied to a specific computer/OS/software installation.
Also, using a CVS program adds another layer of complexity and another point of failure. I've heard horror stories about Microsoft Visual SourceSafe crashing (gee, no surprise there) very non-gracefully..... So I decided not to "participate".
Furthremore, in many situations there are non-developers dealing with things. If I let them use a system such as this, all of a sudden, *I* will have to do their checking in and chekcing out *FOR THEM*. Fuck that.
In short... I'd much rather rely on myself than some piece of software I have never used. I'm supposed to just take Software X's word that it will work as described, and never fail? And then drop my own responsibilities and HOPE the program will be responsible for my stuff for me? Bah. Self-reliance is better.
These are pages generated for me on my local machine. It's my preferred way of viewing images. I type a command "image-index " and an HTML file is generated and viewed (and deleted) automatically -- containing all images that match the regex. And an option to do them in chrono instead of alphabetic order, an option to recurse folders, and another option to actually save the HTML file (which uses filename-only, no path, and thus doesn't work well with the recursive option.)
So you see, I don't have the problem of a webpage that only I can see the images on. I do indeed laugh at those when I see them.:)
Furthermore I should add: I believe URI should also include any local filename using the file notation of the local machine automatically. In otherwords, A:\oh.jpg should be a valid URI on a machine running a filesystem where A:\oh.jpg is a valid way of expressing a file. But it should not be a valid URI for everyone. Since I'm using this locally, it shouldn't matter.
(Yes, I never really decided on a good image viewer.)
I figured someone would quote the RFC. The point is, DWIW (Do What I Want). Any smart person can figure out what C:\A.JPG means. Just because the RFC might not say that is valid is no excuse. It's that type of elitist culture with geeks that makes them geeks in the first place...
Last I checked, the SRC of an IMG tag was a file, not a protocol.
If it was a protocol, couldn't I say (img src="ftp://ftp.whatever.com/images/a.jpg") ????
Point being: It's very very very obvious what it means. Firefox turns up its snobby nose at this, but Microsoft does what the user wants. My script worked for 7 yrs until Firefox caused me to edit it (actually, I edited it to simply call IE in that situation--less work than fixing my script).
My wife and I purchased two $80 force-feedback steering wheels. (Logitech).
These 2 wheels allowed us to race against each other in Burnout 2, which is the ONLY thing we ever did.
In Burnout 3, these 2 wheels do NOT work. Only one works. I AM LIVID.
What the fuck is EA doing? Removing hardware support from previous versions? Trying to participate in a conspiracy to get us to spend another $150 on steering wheels?
If anyone has ANY information on how to get 2 wheels working, I'd love to hear it.
I am still laughing that Firefox can't correctly render:
<a href="c:\a.jpg">
Oh, you're gonna whine about a backslash? It's a valid file. IE renders it. Firefox shows a picture of the filename!
This breaks my imageindex script that I've used for 10 yrs (quick and dirty, makes an HTML file out of images in current dir).
also laughable is that Firefox counts the border WIDTH against total window size when doing CSS-P calculations -- so my thick 5px window borders (I don't like precise mouse grabs) actually offset the content of the windows by as much as 5px! Result: slashdot articles overlap with the grey sidebar at times.
Index of 4000+ local yahoo freecycle groups. All groups are ways of getting stuff for free, and getting rid of your own stuff easily. I got a 27" TV for my bedroom and a free router.
Full of shit. There are tons of pages detailing how to remove IE. For the most part, you just delete the binary while booted to a floppy (or knoppix) disc. There are pages for every version of windows since 95. It's harder for later versions, obviously. And you don't get rid of the libraries, but other programs use those too, and don't even get me started on linux libraries.
I'm 30. Computer Science Degree. Moved out of my parents house into my own at age 24. Currently building an addition.
I'd probably throw in the towel. I've been through the work-war thing before (I lost--BOFH) and it's just not worth it.
There are many ways to support yourself. You just have to have faith in yourself.
I'm on my 6th job (reasons: quit in disgust after earning money to buy home[1.5yrs], laid off[6mos], lost war[6mos], finished project[3mos], quit for 20% raise[11mos] and have been at my current place for 10ms). I'm sure one day I wont be hireable doing what I currently do, especially with my background.
Am I going to allow myself to be enslaved just by that fact? Nope. If I can't "hack" it (pun intended), I'll go do something else. Use my $50K line-of-credit on my house to get a degree in psych (you can't outsource insanity!). If I can't cut it in American society, I'll leave. Teach english in Japan, teach computers in Spain, program in India -- whatever. There are plenty of places to go and plenty of things to do.
In fact, I think the best thing that could happen to me would be for my wife and I to both get fired simultaneously. We have $100K or so in credit and another $100K or so in equity (not counting the addition construction which is eating into that, $75K). We have the means to emmigrate. It would be fun to be somewhere else, free of American stress, superficiality, bullshit politics, and religion. But currently, inertia governs us. We are at rest and tend to stay at rest. Slowly growing old surrounded by red fuckers in a red state.
This is not what I want. Why would I break my balls over it? I'm very happy and comfortable and have great fun every weekend, never work over 40 hrs, and do other things I can't mention here. Life is good. But work is not life. Don't take their bullshit. RESIST.
"People who talk about revolution and class struggle
without referring explicitly to everyday life,
without understanding what is subversive about love
and what is positive in the refusal of constraints,
such people have a corpse in their mouth."
-Raoul Vaneigem, "The Revolution Of Everyday Life"
I hope this post provides some insight into my mindset. For more info, my lame blog.
I should have been more specific. My "doing more" comment was about the total experience, not just the command-line.
However, for me personally, I can do much more in my own ENVIRONMENT than I can under a unix command-line, or even under "someone else's" 4NT command-line. I have a bat-file and util-exe folder that I've been adding stuff to since 1987, so my capabilities are always growing. Perhaps I am mis-attributing my endeavors to 4NT instead of to myself.
Slashdot Mirror
forgive my shitty spelling
And it was quite awkward with him pointing the gun at me screaming orders, but being downwind I couldn't hear a FUCKING WORD HE SAID. So I put my hands up, figuring that was the smartest thing to do.
And I was THERE with the beating. Didn't see it directly, because I was hiding in the floor of a parked car, but I saw the damage afterwards and was part of the scene. (Seeing as I was WOKEN UP from being drunk and passed out by the cop's flashlight in my face, as he said "Put that fuckin fire out" to the crowd of highschoolers.) My friend was handcuffed. They told him to get in the car without actually opening the cruiser door, and pushed him repeatedly into the closed door until they finally opened it for him. Very funny. Visible bruise for a month. His mom wasn't happy with me. Thus ended one of my best friendships in high school.
My other friend, got his car confiscated for selling drugs. They lied and said he sold them. Really, he GAVE them away. The narcs managed to ask him to HOLD some money for them (which I personally would not have done). The cops then later testified that he actually took the money in exchange for the drugs, when in fact the money was laaned the following day, and the drugs (Xanax) were given. I realize that *giving* away drugs is still illegal, but that doesn't make purgery acceptible.
The practice is actually so widespread with police that they have their own word for it -- "testilying".
You are obviously a conservative who loves to lie to yourself in order to paint the world in a rosier color than it is. This isn't the fucking Matrix; wake up. Just becuase you don't see it firsthand doesn't mean it is happening. And 1000 good cops don't mean shit if there is just one bad cop. I don't want to deal with anyone in that type of position of power who has even a 0.1% chance of being crooked! Not to mention the corrupt cops stories I get emailed to me every week.
P.S. I am typing this from a fedreal law enforcement agency headquarters.
Unfortunately, someone who sounds like a lunatic is far more grounded in reality than you are.
America has the highest incarceration rate of any country on the planet. And our cops ALWAYS get away with murder, when it is committed.
Thank you, O Sane One.
Why would I spoon feed this idiot his information, when he already told me I have zero credibility? He wont believe me, even though it's true. This has ZERO to do with how any professor teaches his course; that metaphor is laughable.
Why would I waste my time telling him something he doesn't believe when I already know it to be true? He's not worth it. I told him to verify the information independetly...... Using the most common tools to do so: Google, and Wikipedia. Somehow this is laudable and a subject of attack? On *slashdot*, I can be attacked for suggesting to use google to find something out?!? Did I wander into a parellel fucking universe? Should I be checking myself in the mirror for a goatee? What rod crawled up the ass of the rod in your ass?
Finally, you imply that anyone who doesn't love America should leave to go to Cuba. Total knee-jerk response there. So what, anyone who complains about America doesn't belong here? I guess, any voices of dissent should be quelled. There's a word for that: China. And another (well, 2 words actually): Saudi Arabia.
You, sir, belong in America less than I, becuase you do not even think people with different opinions should stay in the country. That sentiment is far more unamerican and dangerous to democracy than anything that *I* have said. So maybe YOU should move to somewhere where everyone is forced to love it or leave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, China. It's where your type belongs.
of any country in the planet. Think of the loss to our economy!
Wake the fuck up you inexecusable piece of complacent shit. This is not the land of the free. If you're too blinded by your own stubbornness to learn it from me, then look it up on google or wikipedia yourself. Moron.
Guess what folks? Entertained prisoners are less likely to riot and less likely to stick you with a shiv. Prisoners cost $30K a year for us to house, and that's not counting the medical costs when Joe gets shivved in the nutsuck by Malcolm.
It's simple cost-benefit analysis. If you want to spend more money, go ahead, but our prison system is already doomed for failure. At our current rate of increase of incarceration, 50% of americans will be in prison by the time we reach retirement. THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Something is going to break before then. (Hopefully the drug laws.)
But these people calling for mandatory 5 year sentences for any felony? Hate to break it to you, but if you've downloaded an mp3, you've committed a felony. Just about anything can be considered a felony. Steal a mailbox? Felony. Anyone saying someone deserves 5 yrs in prison for stealing a mailbox, at a cost to taxpayers of $150,000 (not counting court and legal costs), should be incarcerated themselves for being a fucking kneejerk dolt.
And america has the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the country. We are the LEAST FREE country on the planet. Prisons are not solving out problems, and turning them into gulags isn't going to help anything either. Grow the fuck up.
You, sir, are an affront to freedom and democracy. You belong sucking on Bin Laden's left nutsack. You are a bigger enemy to democracy than any insurgent in Iraq. I suggest going to www.famm.org.
This lets me manage my own files myself without having to be tied to a specific computer/OS/software installation.
Also, using a CVS program adds another layer of complexity and another point of failure. I've heard horror stories about Microsoft Visual SourceSafe crashing (gee, no surprise there) very non-gracefully..... So I decided not to "participate".
Furthremore, in many situations there are non-developers dealing with things. If I let them use a system such as this, all of a sudden, *I* will have to do their checking in and chekcing out *FOR THEM*. Fuck that.
In short... I'd much rather rely on myself than some piece of software I have never used. I'm supposed to just take Software X's word that it will work as described, and never fail? And then drop my own responsibilities and HOPE the program will be responsible for my stuff for me? Bah. Self-reliance is better.
So you see, I don't have the problem of a webpage that only I can see the images on. I do indeed laugh at those when I see them. :)
Furthermore I should add: I believe URI should also include any local filename using the file notation of the local machine automatically. In otherwords, A:\oh.jpg should be a valid URI on a machine running a filesystem where A:\oh.jpg is a valid way of expressing a file. But it should not be a valid URI for everyone. Since I'm using this locally, it shouldn't matter.
(Yes, I never really decided on a good image viewer.)
I figured someone would quote the RFC. The point is, DWIW (Do What I Want). Any smart person can figure out what C:\A.JPG means. Just because the RFC might not say that is valid is no excuse. It's that type of elitist culture with geeks that makes them geeks in the first place...
If it was a protocol, couldn't I say (img src="ftp://ftp.whatever.com/images/a.jpg") ????
Point being: It's very very very obvious what it means. Firefox turns up its snobby nose at this, but Microsoft does what the user wants. My script worked for 7 yrs until Firefox caused me to edit it (actually, I edited it to simply call IE in that situation--less work than fixing my script).
These 2 wheels allowed us to race against each other in Burnout 2, which is the ONLY thing we ever did.
In Burnout 3, these 2 wheels do NOT work. Only one works. I AM LIVID.
What the fuck is EA doing? Removing hardware support from previous versions? Trying to participate in a conspiracy to get us to spend another $150 on steering wheels?
If anyone has ANY information on how to get 2 wheels working, I'd love to hear it.
This breaks my imageindex script that I've used for 10 yrs (quick and dirty, makes an HTML file out of images in current dir).
also laughable is that Firefox counts the border WIDTH against total window size when doing CSS-P calculations -- so my thick 5px window borders (I don't like precise mouse grabs) actually offset the content of the windows by as much as 5px! Result: slashdot articles overlap with the grey sidebar at times.
I can tab-complete a filename faster than i can physically pick up my mouse.
And I'm sure unix has never had any vulnerable libraries, right?
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Index of 4000+ local yahoo freecycle groups. All groups are ways of getting stuff for free, and getting rid of your own stuff easily. I got a 27" TV for my bedroom and a free router.
Full of shit. There are tons of pages detailing how to remove IE. For the most part, you just delete the binary while booted to a floppy (or knoppix) disc. There are pages for every version of windows since 95. It's harder for later versions, obviously. And you don't get rid of the libraries, but other programs use those too, and don't even get me started on linux libraries.
"My god, he's full of shit!"
2) With autorun enabled you don't even need to locate the icon.
3) Quake3 doesn't support soundblaster pro for redhat 6.2, so I had to wipe it and play under windows. End of saga.
It depends on what you mean by "runs". Quake3 with a soundblaster pro under redhat 6.2? No. Win98? Yes. Just one of many, many examples.
I'd probably throw in the towel. I've been through the work-war thing before (I lost--BOFH) and it's just not worth it.
There are many ways to support yourself. You just have to have faith in yourself.
I'm on my 6th job (reasons: quit in disgust after earning money to buy home[1.5yrs], laid off[6mos], lost war[6mos], finished project[3mos], quit for 20% raise[11mos] and have been at my current place for 10ms). I'm sure one day I wont be hireable doing what I currently do, especially with my background.
Am I going to allow myself to be enslaved just by that fact? Nope. If I can't "hack" it (pun intended), I'll go do something else. Use my $50K line-of-credit on my house to get a degree in psych (you can't outsource insanity!). If I can't cut it in American society, I'll leave. Teach english in Japan, teach computers in Spain, program in India -- whatever. There are plenty of places to go and plenty of things to do.
In fact, I think the best thing that could happen to me would be for my wife and I to both get fired simultaneously. We have $100K or so in credit and another $100K or so in equity (not counting the addition construction which is eating into that, $75K). We have the means to emmigrate. It would be fun to be somewhere else, free of American stress, superficiality, bullshit politics, and religion. But currently, inertia governs us. We are at rest and tend to stay at rest. Slowly growing old surrounded by red fuckers in a red state.
This is not what I want. Why would I break my balls over it? I'm very happy and comfortable and have great fun every weekend, never work over 40 hrs, and do other things I can't mention here. Life is good. But work is not life. Don't take their bullshit. RESIST.
I hope this post provides some insight into my mindset. For more info, my lame blog.However, for me personally, I can do much more in my own ENVIRONMENT than I can under a unix command-line, or even under "someone else's" 4NT command-line. I have a bat-file and util-exe folder that I've been adding stuff to since 1987, so my capabilities are always growing. Perhaps I am mis-attributing my endeavors to 4NT instead of to myself.