Look, little fella, I know you have something to prove and all, but really hope you didn't buy into your father's bullshit. Believe it or not the U.S. has absolutely no interest in restarting the Korean War. Frankly, we're kind of warred out right now. So please stick to playing basketball with Dennis Rodman and leave us out of your grandstanding and dick waving. We've already got enough of that at home.
We'll be happy to keep sending you D-list celebrities if you'll just STFU.
Yours truly, The American People
P.S. I would point out the obvious fact that the U.S. will bomb your country back to the stone age if you try to attack anyone with nukes. But, looking at a satellite photo of the Korean peninsula at night, I'm not sure that would amount to much of a threat.
This is what is most disappointing. It's hard to take people seriously when they're pulling childish pranks like this. And there are a lot of issues regarding copyright and piracy that we *should* be taking seriously and debating. Stunts like this are annoying distractions, and only strengthen the RIAA/MPAA and its ilk.
Neither does MS. There has never been one time in the history of Windows where there weren't at least two or three other perfectly viable OS alternatives. I've used MAC OS's, OS Warp, various flavors of Linux, etc. over the years and have never once felt that Windows was my only option. The only thing you REALLY need Windows for is gaming. And even that is changing.
If not at the institutional level, then at least at the individual level, SOMEONE who is given unfettered access to a database on everyone will use it to check up on their old girlfriend, look up celebrities, dig up dirt on their neighbors, etc. The FBI is made up of human beings just like any other institution.
My father, who was the most straight-laced, church-going guy you would ever meet, once told me that if I ever got into trouble and got arrested that the one and *only* thing I was to say to police was "I won't speak to you without my lawyer present." It was pretty shocking to me that my Ned Flanders-esque dad would give me that kind of advice. But the older and more experienced I get, the more I realize that this is exactly the same advice I'm going to give to my son (after telling him to try to avoid getting into trouble to begin with, of course).
It would probably help if more companies paid for the technical writers to do it themselves. Unfortunately, if they're anything like the last shop I worked at, the documentation was one of the first things that got shortchanged when times were tight.
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Dear Glorious Whatever,
Look, little fella, I know you have something to prove and all, but really hope you didn't buy into your father's bullshit. Believe it or not the U.S. has absolutely no interest in restarting the Korean War. Frankly, we're kind of warred out right now. So please stick to playing basketball with Dennis Rodman and leave us out of your grandstanding and dick waving. We've already got enough of that at home.
We'll be happy to keep sending you D-list celebrities if you'll just STFU.
Yours truly,
The American People
P.S. I would point out the obvious fact that the U.S. will bomb your country back to the stone age if you try to attack anyone with nukes. But, looking at a satellite photo of the Korean peninsula at night, I'm not sure that would amount to much of a threat.
That iodine has done a LOT of good for public health.
Could be worse. I could have used terms like "butthurt" in my response.
Ah, Clippy--the Jar Jar Binks of software.
Now you've used up your post license for this thread. To post again, you will have to buy another.
This is what is most disappointing. It's hard to take people seriously when they're pulling childish pranks like this. And there are a lot of issues regarding copyright and piracy that we *should* be taking seriously and debating. Stunts like this are annoying distractions, and only strengthen the RIAA/MPAA and its ilk.
Neither does MS. There has never been one time in the history of Windows where there weren't at least two or three other perfectly viable OS alternatives. I've used MAC OS's, OS Warp, various flavors of Linux, etc. over the years and have never once felt that Windows was my only option. The only thing you REALLY need Windows for is gaming. And even that is changing.
If not at the institutional level, then at least at the individual level, SOMEONE who is given unfettered access to a database on everyone will use it to check up on their old girlfriend, look up celebrities, dig up dirt on their neighbors, etc. The FBI is made up of human beings just like any other institution.
My father, who was the most straight-laced, church-going guy you would ever meet, once told me that if I ever got into trouble and got arrested that the one and *only* thing I was to say to police was "I won't speak to you without my lawyer present." It was pretty shocking to me that my Ned Flanders-esque dad would give me that kind of advice. But the older and more experienced I get, the more I realize that this is exactly the same advice I'm going to give to my son (after telling him to try to avoid getting into trouble to begin with, of course).
It would probably help if more companies paid for the technical writers to do it themselves. Unfortunately, if they're anything like the last shop I worked at, the documentation was one of the first things that got shortchanged when times were tight.
Speak for yourself. I, for one, would like to know how my car will perform in an amphibious landing before I buy.
I think I'm going to go over to my asshole next door neighbor's house and dump a bunch of crap on his lawn. It's my free speech right!
They build synergy by leveraging ecosystems and shifting paradigms, or some shit like that.