Whew. I see that now that I'm home. The Chair Force seems to think that was "possibly adult content"
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Yep! Everyone thinks they can just get rid of the Engineers. The PHBs, the bean counters, marketdroids and the like all think we are just sucking up company resources for no useful reason whatsoever. Never mind we're probably making the product you sell. Suddenly though we're the greatest thing EVAR when shit breaks. Funny how they forget that 20 minutes later when we ask for a new soldering iron or multimeter. We'll still bail your stupid asses out though because that's how we roll!
Goddammit! That was probably a fucking nipple. The work firewall just bitched at me! Great, now I have to go tell Sarge I was not surfing porn....again....
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tighten all the muscles in your face, chest, and abdomen without farting
ROFLMAO! The hazards a band geek has to watch out for! Just for future reference when you get to my age, NEVER TRUST A FART!
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Do you have some kind of app that appends all of your messages to the subject or do you painstakingly count exactly how many characters will fit in the subject line? Inquiring minds want to know!
Someone marked you troll most likely because they just hate you. What you said was not a troll at all. I fucking hate the fact I can't get a manual in whatever car I am considering buying at the trim level I specify. The autostick crap in the Mercedes SLK230 I borrowed last week is NOT a manual nor even a close substitute!
Technology of that caliber must be impressive when you're riding through the desert on a horse with no name.
Those radios are and were garbage. I throw every single one of them I can find in the scrap heap. Even ones from classic cars. I can get a replica that looks nostalgic but still has modern amenities like digital tuning, memory, etc. I also throw their piece of shit carburetors away too, just so you know.
I know, I know- I'd get off your lawn but you live in a desert, so I'll move off of your dirt patch!:D
I went and registered with the site. It's horrible. You need to replicate Slashdot functionality if you want to take the users away. The way it is now, there isn't really much of a feed and the site is like going to the Help Forum of a cheap ass tech website. I want the front page scrollable. I don't want stories boxed up into different forums. I thought slashcode was open source. Just get the code and reskin it so once Beta goes live we can just slide right over and not have to retrain anything. We are complaining because Beta is going to throw away what we already have. If you want readers, make the new site look like what we already have! I do wish you luck and I'm ready to jump ship when you've cleaned it up.
Also are you claiming that Dice is deleting your posts?
Well that's just the way things are then. My ilk are always gonna be here just like we have to deal with your ilk. That's society. People rarely agree.
This is true. Getting the easements in the first place is the hard part. If you go along existing routes to existing customers, sure you'd have no great struggle. Your argument seemed to revolve around the idea that you'll just run stuff wherever you feel like and we, society, would just have to deal with it. The go around the opposition suggestion you made only works on a small scale of like 1 or 2 people. Get a whole town, county, or state to tell you to screw off and you'll quickly overrun your costs by ever-further going around them. You'll have to play nice with those govs or they'll just send you on your way. You'd think wireless would be a solution for that, but the gov already fixed that problem with things like the FCC. You can't get away from government. You'll have to play within their rules.
I agree with your sentiment but nothing will change. Blizzard does some kind of anti-cheating bullshit with their Warden software. No one seems to have bothered to sue them and Blizz has actually used it to beat down MMOGlider bot software as mentioned in that link.
I also agree with you 100% but that doesn't mean it's ok. They could put in the ToS that you'll let them bang your mom but that doesn't mean it is right or lawful.
This isn't the government. It's a private service with terms that you must obey. If you don't like it don't use it.
There was a time here in the US when "those" people had to sit over there, and drink from that fountain while these "better" people got sit over here with a nicer chair and a cleaner fountain. Isn't it strange how these days that doesn't happen anymore? I guess enough of "those" people didn't like it so quit going to those establishments and they just withered away. Yay, capitalism! Oh wait, it didn't happen that way at all. The government had to make them stop being racist assholes. Just because some company says it has to be their way or the highway doesn't mean they are correct. They know this and that is why there still hasn't been a good definitive court case on the validity of ToS's. We all know they are one sided contracts and they don't want a precedent set.
If you want to be right, well, you'll need to keep trying. You can't be right. Your proposed solutions were tried all through the 1800s and they failed. What we are doing right now seems to be about as best as it'll get and that would be a decent amount of free market and regulation. Some things you can leave to the invisible hand, but some things have to be shepherded via regulation. We're just arguing about what industry needs shepherding right now.
I stopped at underpants monopoly. You're doing that same thing I originally pointed out 15 posts ago about shoes and cheese. Underpants are not a utility. They can be quickly produced, sold, or moved. You aren't gonna quickly produce a power grid, road, or fiber infrastructure and once you do, it isn't gonna get moved or changed in any sort of quick time.
My opinion is worth a whole damned lot to you evidently because you still just keep talking shit. You should ignore me but I know you can't. Like I told you, I have all day.
I guess I don't worry about those DRM schemes any more because I don't value movies, TV, or music like I once did. I guess it's a side effect of me aging and the MAFIAA constantly waging battle against us. Unlike their intended goal of forcing their BS down my throat they simply lost me as a customer. There is also the problem of everything is crap but that could be me aging again. I am pushing 40 after all.
You think I want your respect? I just wanted a debate. I get plenty of respect where I am thanks. Now I totally see what you want and I don't know if I am going to give that to you. That would be the last word. You seem to want it badly and now you're just getting pissed and calling me names. Talk about 6th grade bullshit. Dude I get paid by you and the rest of this site to sit on my ass 12hrs a day and argue with you cause I work for that government you hate so much. I got all the time in the world.
It has been shown time and time again that when you let people do what they want, it ends up the way it is. They at first compete, but someone has to lose and nobody wants to be the loser so they pitch a fit, use their political clout and money to buy off whoever is in charge. Then it's back to the monopoly that has to be regulated. I'm saying cut out the middle man and just regulate it now on our own terms. We've done it your way before. It failed.
I absolutely did not and do not advocate doing something the way we are because we always have. That is Luddite thinking and I'll be the first to call someone out on it.
Roads are where they are because there is other stuff in the way and people who don't want to move. Evicting someone via imminent domain is a pain in the ass, as it should be, and so we don't just go around making new roads all the time. That is why they are static. They are not immobile but to change them is on a scale that appears static. I can pick my shoe store up and move it in a week or 2 but major road projects take decades. The I-840 bypass around Nashville just got completed and they have been working on that thing since the 90s.
I am pretty sure that I, and the other 2000 responders to your posts have articulated things quite well. We have as much right to tell you no as you have to tell us yes. This argument has existed since the dawn of civilization.
I won't agree because I don't agree. You appear to have gotten tired of this debate and so you're just going to insult me instead. That's fine. We'll agree to disagree.
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Whew. I see that now that I'm home. The Chair Force seems to think that was "possibly adult content"
Yep! Everyone thinks they can just get rid of the Engineers. The PHBs, the bean counters, marketdroids and the like all think we are just sucking up company resources for no useful reason whatsoever. Never mind we're probably making the product you sell. Suddenly though we're the greatest thing EVAR when shit breaks. Funny how they forget that 20 minutes later when we ask for a new soldering iron or multimeter. We'll still bail your stupid asses out though because that's how we roll!
Goddammit! That was probably a fucking nipple. The work firewall just bitched at me! Great, now I have to go tell Sarge I was not surfing porn....again....
ROFLMAO! The hazards a band geek has to watch out for! Just for future reference when you get to my age, NEVER TRUST A FART!
Do you have some kind of app that appends all of your messages to the subject or do you painstakingly count exactly how many characters will fit in the subject line? Inquiring minds want to know!
What the hell else would you use that dash space for? Just the sheer clean blankness of it all?
As long as it has that long flippy spinner mirror thing that clacks when you smack it I'm there dude!
Someone marked you troll most likely because they just hate you. What you said was not a troll at all. I fucking hate the fact I can't get a manual in whatever car I am considering buying at the trim level I specify. The autostick crap in the Mercedes SLK230 I borrowed last week is NOT a manual nor even a close substitute!
You're joking but I subscribe to that newsletter thank you very much.
Technology of that caliber must be impressive when you're riding through the desert on a horse with no name.
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Those radios are and were garbage. I throw every single one of them I can find in the scrap heap. Even ones from classic cars. I can get a replica that looks nostalgic but still has modern amenities like digital tuning, memory, etc. I also throw their piece of shit carburetors away too, just so you know.
I know, I know- I'd get off your lawn but you live in a desert, so I'll move off of your dirt patch!
I went and registered with the site. It's horrible. You need to replicate Slashdot functionality if you want to take the users away. The way it is now, there isn't really much of a feed and the site is like going to the Help Forum of a cheap ass tech website. I want the front page scrollable. I don't want stories boxed up into different forums. I thought slashcode was open source. Just get the code and reskin it so once Beta goes live we can just slide right over and not have to retrain anything. We are complaining because Beta is going to throw away what we already have. If you want readers, make the new site look like what we already have! I do wish you luck and I'm ready to jump ship when you've cleaned it up.
Also are you claiming that Dice is deleting your posts?
Well that's just the way things are then. My ilk are always gonna be here just like we have to deal with your ilk. That's society. People rarely agree.
This is true. Getting the easements in the first place is the hard part. If you go along existing routes to existing customers, sure you'd have no great struggle. Your argument seemed to revolve around the idea that you'll just run stuff wherever you feel like and we, society, would just have to deal with it. The go around the opposition suggestion you made only works on a small scale of like 1 or 2 people. Get a whole town, county, or state to tell you to screw off and you'll quickly overrun your costs by ever-further going around them. You'll have to play nice with those govs or they'll just send you on your way. You'd think wireless would be a solution for that, but the gov already fixed that problem with things like the FCC. You can't get away from government. You'll have to play within their rules.
I agree with your sentiment but nothing will change. Blizzard does some kind of anti-cheating bullshit with their Warden software. No one seems to have bothered to sue them and Blizz has actually used it to beat down MMOGlider bot software as mentioned in that link.
I also agree with you 100% but that doesn't mean it's ok. They could put in the ToS that you'll let them bang your mom but that doesn't mean it is right or lawful.
There was a time here in the US when "those" people had to sit over there, and drink from that fountain while these "better" people got sit over here with a nicer chair and a cleaner fountain. Isn't it strange how these days that doesn't happen anymore? I guess enough of "those" people didn't like it so quit going to those establishments and they just withered away. Yay, capitalism! Oh wait, it didn't happen that way at all. The government had to make them stop being racist assholes. Just because some company says it has to be their way or the highway doesn't mean they are correct. They know this and that is why there still hasn't been a good definitive court case on the validity of ToS's. We all know they are one sided contracts and they don't want a precedent set.
If you want to be right, well, you'll need to keep trying. You can't be right. Your proposed solutions were tried all through the 1800s and they failed. What we are doing right now seems to be about as best as it'll get and that would be a decent amount of free market and regulation. Some things you can leave to the invisible hand, but some things have to be shepherded via regulation. We're just arguing about what industry needs shepherding right now.
I stopped at underpants monopoly. You're doing that same thing I originally pointed out 15 posts ago about shoes and cheese. Underpants are not a utility. They can be quickly produced, sold, or moved. You aren't gonna quickly produce a power grid, road, or fiber infrastructure and once you do, it isn't gonna get moved or changed in any sort of quick time.
My opinion is worth a whole damned lot to you evidently because you still just keep talking shit. You should ignore me but I know you can't. Like I told you, I have all day.
I guess I don't worry about those DRM schemes any more because I don't value movies, TV, or music like I once did. I guess it's a side effect of me aging and the MAFIAA constantly waging battle against us. Unlike their intended goal of forcing their BS down my throat they simply lost me as a customer. There is also the problem of everything is crap but that could be me aging again. I am pushing 40 after all.
Yeah, I had no idea what you said in the quoted part :)
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And the breaks! Egads the breaks! Our education system has failed us all!
Agreed. I was using "you" in the general sense, not you specifically. I wish we had a better term for that.
You think cold fjord is bad? Go argue with Karmashock for awhile!
I was harsh as well. I was already annoyed and worn out from having a big word battle with Karmashock. That dude is exasperating.
You think I want your respect? I just wanted a debate. I get plenty of respect where I am thanks. Now I totally see what you want and I don't know if I am going to give that to you. That would be the last word. You seem to want it badly and now you're just getting pissed and calling me names. Talk about 6th grade bullshit. Dude I get paid by you and the rest of this site to sit on my ass 12hrs a day and argue with you cause I work for that government you hate so much. I got all the time in the world.
It has been shown time and time again that when you let people do what they want, it ends up the way it is. They at first compete, but someone has to lose and nobody wants to be the loser so they pitch a fit, use their political clout and money to buy off whoever is in charge. Then it's back to the monopoly that has to be regulated. I'm saying cut out the middle man and just regulate it now on our own terms. We've done it your way before. It failed.
I absolutely did not and do not advocate doing something the way we are because we always have. That is Luddite thinking and I'll be the first to call someone out on it.
Roads are where they are because there is other stuff in the way and people who don't want to move. Evicting someone via imminent domain is a pain in the ass, as it should be, and so we don't just go around making new roads all the time. That is why they are static. They are not immobile but to change them is on a scale that appears static. I can pick my shoe store up and move it in a week or 2 but major road projects take decades. The I-840 bypass around Nashville just got completed and they have been working on that thing since the 90s.
I am pretty sure that I, and the other 2000 responders to your posts have articulated things quite well. We have as much right to tell you no as you have to tell us yes. This argument has existed since the dawn of civilization.
I won't agree because I don't agree. You appear to have gotten tired of this debate and so you're just going to insult me instead. That's fine. We'll agree to disagree.