I tried to stop and ask an officer for directions, while driving. I ended up with a gun pointed at my head for 43,000 eternities. Here I was, my first day to work, a white guy in khakis. All hail america, land of the free. Except that we have the highest prison population both per capita and in absolute numbers... in the whole world.
Anyone know a good country in South America to emigrate to?
Unless archive.org has a facebook account that friended me, there is no way for it to get info of mine that was never exposed. Same with google cache. Most of the internet is still unindexed, contrary to popular belief. Anything behind a login is generally not indexed by bots.
Nothing like documenting every command-line option but giving NO EXAMPLES. So then I'm left having to read what -a, -b, -c, -d, -e,..., -z do, and having to check EVERY letter to make sure I'm not missing something. 2 or 3 examples added to every man page would have saved me 20 hours out of my life. Consequently, I rarely use man pages anymore. But hey, I'm just a windows user who runs cygwin and uses unix command-line utilities to make life easier. If I had to run my entire operating system with man page documentation, I'd give up. (Because I have. Really. I have better things to do than spend time dealing with makefiles and compiling, when I can just download a pre-compiled binary under windows.)
Exactly. And my dad wont even loan me his fucking jigsaw. I'm supposed to spend $40 on one so I can cut one piece of fucking wood? Because he's going to use a jigsaw 40 times between Thanksgiving & Christmas?
Right -- because no teachers ever take breaks and do personal web-surfing on their time. I wonder if you call your wife on your office phone, and if you should be fired if you talk about sex with her?
Everything I read is either in my 4NT command-line [which has different sized fonts to choose from], my text editor [which lets you choose how many pts to use for a font], or my web-browser.
The web-browser solution? A little plugin called NoSquint. It remembers your customized zoom-level per domain, and lets you zoom text *and* images at *separate* percentages. Like I read slashdot and facebook at 170% text/normal images, but gmail at 160%, and IMDB at 100% text/180% images [due to their tiny images]. It's nice to have it remember, and not have to spend a lifetime zooming back and forth.
My display? A sharp aquos 52-inch HDTV @ 1920x1080. I've been doing TV-out since 1995, and this is by far the best set-up.
At least, that was the excuse given when they put Jose Padilla, an American citizen on American soil, in jail without allowing him a lawyer or a fair hearing. Your rights are already gone due to the "war" on "terror" we are engaged in. So don't be so naive. The fact that we are "at war" has already been used to take away our rights, therefore the Geneva Convention does indeed apply.
When my wife got an Android phone, do you know how she put people's phone numbers into it? By editing their phone number in her gmail contacts. I'd say that's pretty damn synced. She never entered a single number into her phone, and me, never having used it, and not having a cell phone myself [and thus not savvy with them], could still figure out how to call someone in about 3 seconds.
It's like you have settings that can be adjusted, but never adjust them to see what they do. What a waste of consciousness, if you don't occasionally hack it.
Except that's not what the terms of services say. They don't just say "we do what they want". They state certain policies. None of which say "derivative works can be removed if we don't like them".
Honestly, Iâ(TM)ve finally gotten to a point where Iâ(TM)m tired of the âoefreedom of speech doesnâ(TM)t mean you can run into a crowded theatre and yell fireâ. I actually think that should be protected speech. This is extreme, yes.
If the idiots in the theatre trample each other in a mad rush from a fire that doesnâ(TM)t even exist, it was their own stupidity and lack of clearheadedness that killed them, not the person shouting fire. If your reaction to the mere threat of danger is to hurt others, you are the culprit.
For example, think of George Costanza in the episode of Seinfeld where he throws the old ladies in their rockers to the ground in order to rush to the door. Are you going to tell me it was the messengerâ(TM)s fault? NO. His behaviour was deplorable and his panic was his own fault for being a non-clear-headed individual willing to hurt others just to preserve himself.
If someone tells me there is a fire, I am going to at least look for smoke so I can figure out what direction to flee. And I am not going to trample people unless I actually see a real fire about to burn me up and itâ(TM)s me or them. But trampling people just to get out when thereâ(TM)s no actual fire? Simply because of a panic? I think thatâ(TM)s far worse than yelling âfireâ(TM).
I know I am unique in my extreme opinion.
I think painting speech as potentially physically harmful has a chilling effect: Just look at the whole Cartoon Mohammad thing for an example of that.
âoeWords can hurt, so you canâ(TM)t say words [or draw cartoons] that hurt.â
The censoring of Mohammad in this weekâ(TM)s South Park was a perfect example.
Anyway: Words donâ(TM)t hurt people. People hurt people.
Learn to think for yourself, and mere words will never be able to physically hurt you.
The idea that everyone must mindlessly follow whatever words they hear, in and of itself is a dangerous idea. Should we panic just because someone told us to? No. Should we panic if the loudspeaker tells us to? Maybe. Should we panic if Fox News tells us to? Quite likely. But before you go tramping people to death (and thus tramping our free speech rights by being too much of a moron to think for yourself), consider whether you are actually on fire. Dumbass.
Edit, 9/12/2007, comment from below incorporated into this post:
Fyngyrs (http://slashdot.org/~fyngyrz) says:
âoeThere is no harm in yelling fire. There is no harm in filing out of a building that isnâ(TM)t burning, There is no harm in filing back in. These are the acts of reasonable people. In fact, the practice would do people some good. We used to do it all the time in school. The fire alarm would go off, and out weâ(TM)d go, not knowing if there was a fire, or not. No one ever got trampled. The theatre owner has, as an owner of a private business, the option to no longer serve that customer. Of course, should one patron fail to file out reasonably, and in the process trample another, then a crime has been committed, that of assault by that patron upon another. The idea that it is acceptable for people to trample one another â" or that it somehow âoeisnâ(TM)t their faultâ â" is just one of the things that is wrong with the cliche, aside from the initial, completely incorrect, idea that one could not yell fire â" or anything else â" in a crowded theater. Itâ(TM)s socially retarded, and if it were *my* theatre, itâ(TM)d be the last time you ever got in the door, but other than that, there you go. Free speech trumps all. Every time. Thatâ(TM)s the basis of liberty.â
Get a tape recorder. Count down, "3-2-1", then start racing. don't look at the screen. Have everyone tell you which way to steer. When done, set up instant replay and rewind the tape. As the tape says 3-2-1, start the instant replay. Now you get to see how you drove while hearing everyone tell you what to do.
I imagine this works for non-driving games too. Possibly even better.
Slashdot Mirror
The patriot act is an american law.
Anyone know a good country in South America to emigrate to?
Unless archive.org has a facebook account that friended me, there is no way for it to get info of mine that was never exposed. Same with google cache. Most of the internet is still unindexed, contrary to popular belief. Anything behind a login is generally not indexed by bots.
Nothing like documenting every command-line option but giving NO EXAMPLES. So then I'm left having to read what -a, -b, -c, -d, -e, ..., -z do, and having to check EVERY letter to make sure I'm not missing something. 2 or 3 examples added to every man page would have saved me 20 hours out of my life. Consequently, I rarely use man pages anymore. But hey, I'm just a windows user who runs cygwin and uses unix command-line utilities to make life easier. If I had to run my entire operating system with man page documentation, I'd give up. (Because I have. Really. I have better things to do than spend time dealing with makefiles and compiling, when I can just download a pre-compiled binary under windows.)
So they can say "no black customers", right? (No.)
Exactly. And my dad wont even loan me his fucking jigsaw. I'm supposed to spend $40 on one so I can cut one piece of fucking wood? Because he's going to use a jigsaw 40 times between Thanksgiving & Christmas?
Yes. Mod parent up.
Right -- because no teachers ever take breaks and do personal web-surfing on their time. I wonder if you call your wife on your office phone, and if you should be fired if you talk about sex with her?
The web-browser solution? A little plugin called NoSquint. It remembers your customized zoom-level per domain, and lets you zoom text *and* images at *separate* percentages. Like I read slashdot and facebook at 170% text/normal images, but gmail at 160%, and IMDB at 100% text/180% images [due to their tiny images]. It's nice to have it remember, and not have to spend a lifetime zooming back and forth.
My display? A sharp aquos 52-inch HDTV @ 1920x1080. I've been doing TV-out since 1995, and this is by far the best set-up.
"I bet if Gregorian Monks had audio recording technology, it would be called Stone Temple Cassettes".
At least, that was the excuse given when they put Jose Padilla, an American citizen on American soil, in jail without allowing him a lawyer or a fair hearing. Your rights are already gone due to the "war" on "terror" we are engaged in. So don't be so naive. The fact that we are "at war" has already been used to take away our rights, therefore the Geneva Convention does indeed apply.
If I had the power to, I'd love to end your water supply from the city and see if you feel punished.
When my wife got an Android phone, do you know how she put people's phone numbers into it? By editing their phone number in her gmail contacts. I'd say that's pretty damn synced. She never entered a single number into her phone, and me, never having used it, and not having a cell phone myself [and thus not savvy with them], could still figure out how to call someone in about 3 seconds.
But leaving a parenthesis open like that is offensive. )))))
And she was still indicted. By the democrats, even.
It's like you have settings that can be adjusted, but never adjust them to see what they do. What a waste of consciousness, if you don't occasionally hack it.
Except that's not what the terms of services say. They don't just say "we do what they want". They state certain policies. None of which say "derivative works can be removed if we don't like them".
Feel free to email me and let me know. I'm fucking bored.
http://delicious.com/clintjcl/JoeArpaio
Hopefully they're not dead. Stories that paint police in a bad light tend to disappear after a few months.
Because freedom of speech only applies to people I agree with!
The *article* even says these addresses are public record. Dumbfuck.
i pasted it from here, where it's properly formatted: http://clintjcl.wordpress.com/2006/04/14/294/
If the idiots in the theatre trample each other in a mad rush from a fire that doesnâ(TM)t even exist, it was their own stupidity and lack of clearheadedness that killed them, not the person shouting fire. If your reaction to the mere threat of danger is to hurt others, you are the culprit.
For example, think of George Costanza in the episode of Seinfeld where he throws the old ladies in their rockers to the ground in order to rush to the door. Are you going to tell me it was the messengerâ(TM)s fault? NO. His behaviour was deplorable and his panic was his own fault for being a non-clear-headed individual willing to hurt others just to preserve himself.
If someone tells me there is a fire, I am going to at least look for smoke so I can figure out what direction to flee. And I am not going to trample people unless I actually see a real fire about to burn me up and itâ(TM)s me or them. But trampling people just to get out when thereâ(TM)s no actual fire? Simply because of a panic? I think thatâ(TM)s far worse than yelling âfireâ(TM).
I know I am unique in my extreme opinion.
I think painting speech as potentially physically harmful has a chilling effect: Just look at the whole Cartoon Mohammad thing for an example of that.
âoeWords can hurt, so you canâ(TM)t say words [or draw cartoons] that hurt.â
The censoring of Mohammad in this weekâ(TM)s South Park was a perfect example.
Anyway: Words donâ(TM)t hurt people. People hurt people.
Learn to think for yourself, and mere words will never be able to physically hurt you.
The idea that everyone must mindlessly follow whatever words they hear, in and of itself is a dangerous idea. Should we panic just because someone told us to? No. Should we panic if the loudspeaker tells us to? Maybe. Should we panic if Fox News tells us to? Quite likely. But before you go tramping people to death (and thus tramping our free speech rights by being too much of a moron to think for yourself), consider whether you are actually on fire. Dumbass.
Edit, 9/12/2007, comment from below incorporated into this post:
Fyngyrs (http://slashdot.org/~fyngyrz) says:
âoeThere is no harm in yelling fire. There is no harm in filing out of a building that isnâ(TM)t burning, There is no harm in filing back in. These are the acts of reasonable people. In fact, the practice would do people some good. We used to do it all the time in school. The fire alarm would go off, and out weâ(TM)d go, not knowing if there was a fire, or not. No one ever got trampled. The theatre owner has, as an owner of a private business, the option to no longer serve that customer. Of course, should one patron fail to file out reasonably, and in the process trample another, then a crime has been committed, that of assault by that patron upon another. The idea that it is acceptable for people to trample one another â" or that it somehow âoeisnâ(TM)t their faultâ â" is just one of the things that is wrong with the cliche, aside from the initial, completely incorrect, idea that one could not yell fire â" or anything else â" in a crowded theater. Itâ(TM)s socially retarded, and if it were *my* theatre, itâ(TM)d be the last time you ever got in the door, but other than that, there you go. Free speech trumps all. Every time. Thatâ(TM)s the basis of liberty.â
I imagine this works for non-driving games too. Possibly even better.
Because they have small fingers/claws....