and can be counter-productive for the community too - especially if it's introduces lots of buggy or bad code.
There are all kinds of ways one can contribute to free software. Can you draw? Can you write? Can you report a bug or request a feature in a coherent fashion? Can you give support?
If you truly believe in open source, you should let anyone to decide what they do with the code. Some will contribute back, and those will be good contributions. Then some won't, nothing is lost. The same is why I think BSD license is much better GPL - if you truly believe in freedom, you let everyone to decide themselves.
Yeah. The idea that if you wanted to change the way the workspace appeared and behaved, you'd look in "Workspace Appearance and Behavior" is just so...
That's disgusting. I suggest carrying your U-lock with you and bashing out their spokes. If I ever saw a biker push a pedestrian out of the way, I'd fucking run them down in the street.
Man up and ride. I ride all year. It's how I go to work, get groceries, get drunk, you name it, I do it, and I do it every single goddamn day. There are few more satisfying feelings than hauling ass through a snowstorm. My commute's the best part of my day.
Not really. In my area, the bicyclists who deliberately ignore the expensively made cycle lanes, and then ride at half the speed limit, three across, in the main lanes
As the law allows. Bicycles allowed full fucking lane at their goddamn discretion. And I will use my discretion, I will not do so needlessly or in situations where doing so would likely be dangerous to me or those around me, but if I feel the need to get right, I will get the fuck right, just like you. I'm going to work too, you know.
The ones that shove pedestrians out of the way
Seriously? I have never seen this in my life. That guy should be dragged from his bicycle and beaten in the street.
cause cars with the right of way to have to slam on brakes as they pedel across red lights
This is a problem. In all honesty, I will run red lights, and I will run them on the regular. I do, however, treat them as yield signs. Burning through a busy intersection on a red light's a fantastic way to get turned into paste.
the ones that have to go at road-racing paces on bike lanes used by mere mortals, or mountain bikers who think they're not leveraging their $5k ride enough if they're not hopping curbs directly across your path) have now made it too dangerous, and are total jackasses. And because they are, in such great numbers
Where in the hell do you live? Here in Minneapolis, those people definitely exist, but they are a vanishingly small minority and treated by other riders with the scorn and derision that such shitbags deserve. I am truly sorry if you have a different experience.
How many jaywalkers are there compared to "jayriders" (for lack of a better term)? Dumb bitches make me want to carry a basket of goddamn rocks on my front rack.
Here in Madison, WI, where there are a fair number of cyclists, there are still those people that go out of their way to prevent them from riding.
Such douchebags exist in Minneapolis as well. I see it as my civic duty to make their commute as painful as humanly possible. Bicycles allowed full lane, motherfucker. And I've got all fucking day to get home.
in the Netherlands, they're used only for sport cycling -- nobody uses them for simple commuting -- and head injuries among cyclists are basically nonexistent.
It is nothing like that in the states. I live in Minneapolis, which is the most bike-friendly city I've seen, and we wear helmets. Head injuries and fatalities related to them happen on a regular basis. We lose an average of 10 riders a year; non-fatal accidents are obviously orders of magnitude more common.
I very nearly lost a friend last year when she went over a car. Her helmet undoubtedly saved her life. Helmets are great. They keep the brains in.
Discounting the entire idea of human presence in space, a space elevator would still hold tremendous value in making satellite launches orders of magnitude cheaper. Big chemical rockets are obviously a shitty, grossly wasteful answer to that problem.
I'd argue against that. By not spending money on software (which in my opinion is a cash sink; you may as well try to stimulate the economy by going to McDonald's), people have money to spend on, say, a new computer (or whatever), which is an actual tangible asset.
I am not an economist, and I welcome any rebuttals to this half-assed 7:00 AM idea.
"My type," huh? That's cute. So is trying to lump me in with the birthers. In five posts, you have yet to provide any sort of rational basis for your own belief, or any rebuttal of my own (name calling doesn't count, and hasn't since junior high school).
I did, and I don't disagree. I was simply positing that there can be other factors in deciding whether or not to assist law enforcement. Simply because I choose not to help police does not mean I did something wrong. It may also be that I believe that they are doing something wrong.
Well, you were lied to, and you should damn well have known better. Homeownership is not typically an "investment," at least not in the sense of turning a profit. If you're lucky, when you sell it you break even (when you consider all the non-mortgage money you put into your house, like mortgage insurance et cetera). Homeownership is, and has always been, a hedge against inflation, which is not remotely the same thing. If you own your home, you (should) have reasonable certainty in your housing costs for the forseeable future, regardless of inflation or changing market conditions. Which is a good thing, but no, not a money maker.
Not just bad. Unprecidentedly, epically, historically bad. Flying in the face of history, economic theory, and basic math kind of bad. Think hard about that.
What's the alternative, anyway? Do you believe that all of these people are idiots? I don't find that likely.
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Contributing back takes money
Eh?
and can be counter-productive for the community too - especially if it's introduces lots of buggy or bad code.
There are all kinds of ways one can contribute to free software. Can you draw? Can you write? Can you report a bug or request a feature in a coherent fashion? Can you give support?
If you truly believe in open source, you should let anyone to decide what they do with the code. Some will contribute back, and those will be good contributions. Then some won't, nothing is lost. The same is why I think BSD license is much better GPL - if you truly believe in freedom, you let everyone to decide themselves.
Aw shit. I got BSD-trolled! Forget it.
Yeah. The idea that if you wanted to change the way the workspace appeared and behaved, you'd look in "Workspace Appearance and Behavior" is just so...
Oh wait, no. It's bloody obvious.
When it bites you.
the era of the PC is ending
I assure you it is not.
That's a pretty safe assumption.
That's disgusting. I suggest carrying your U-lock with you and bashing out their spokes. If I ever saw a biker push a pedestrian out of the way, I'd fucking run them down in the street.
Also accident rates are spectacularly higher for bikes
Don't lie.
Man up and ride. I ride all year. It's how I go to work, get groceries, get drunk, you name it, I do it, and I do it every single goddamn day. There are few more satisfying feelings than hauling ass through a snowstorm. My commute's the best part of my day.
That's the case here in Minneapolis as well. I really wish it was enforced more often. I ride in the street because I'm not fucking stupid.
Not really. In my area, the bicyclists who deliberately ignore the expensively made cycle lanes, and then ride at half the speed limit, three across, in the main lanes
As the law allows. Bicycles allowed full fucking lane at their goddamn discretion. And I will use my discretion, I will not do so needlessly or in situations where doing so would likely be dangerous to me or those around me, but if I feel the need to get right, I will get the fuck right, just like you. I'm going to work too, you know.
The ones that shove pedestrians out of the way
Seriously? I have never seen this in my life. That guy should be dragged from his bicycle and beaten in the street.
cause cars with the right of way to have to slam on brakes as they pedel across red lights
This is a problem. In all honesty, I will run red lights, and I will run them on the regular. I do, however, treat them as yield signs. Burning through a busy intersection on a red light's a fantastic way to get turned into paste.
the ones that have to go at road-racing paces on bike lanes used by mere mortals, or mountain bikers who think they're not leveraging their $5k ride enough if they're not hopping curbs directly across your path) have now made it too dangerous, and are total jackasses. And because they are, in such great numbers
Where in the hell do you live? Here in Minneapolis, those people definitely exist, but they are a vanishingly small minority and treated by other riders with the scorn and derision that such shitbags deserve. I am truly sorry if you have a different experience.
How many jaywalkers are there compared to "jayriders" (for lack of a better term)? Dumb bitches make me want to carry a basket of goddamn rocks on my front rack.
Here in Madison, WI, where there are a fair number of cyclists, there are still those people that go out of their way to prevent them from riding.
Such douchebags exist in Minneapolis as well. I see it as my civic duty to make their commute as painful as humanly possible. Bicycles allowed full lane, motherfucker. And I've got all fucking day to get home.
in the Netherlands, they're used only for sport cycling -- nobody uses them for simple commuting -- and head injuries among cyclists are basically nonexistent.
It is nothing like that in the states. I live in Minneapolis, which is the most bike-friendly city I've seen, and we wear helmets. Head injuries and fatalities related to them happen on a regular basis. We lose an average of 10 riders a year; non-fatal accidents are obviously orders of magnitude more common.
I very nearly lost a friend last year when she went over a car. Her helmet undoubtedly saved her life. Helmets are great. They keep the brains in.
So you're saying we have too many cars? I agree.
PROTIP: The shift key makes capital letters.
Discounting the entire idea of human presence in space, a space elevator would still hold tremendous value in making satellite launches orders of magnitude cheaper. Big chemical rockets are obviously a shitty, grossly wasteful answer to that problem.
I'd argue against that. By not spending money on software (which in my opinion is a cash sink; you may as well try to stimulate the economy by going to McDonald's), people have money to spend on, say, a new computer (or whatever), which is an actual tangible asset.
I am not an economist, and I welcome any rebuttals to this half-assed 7:00 AM idea.
Yes it is. Procurement is not a victimless crime.
You're a right cunt.
He means Arch.
"My type," huh? That's cute. So is trying to lump me in with the birthers. In five posts, you have yet to provide any sort of rational basis for your own belief, or any rebuttal of my own (name calling doesn't count, and hasn't since junior high school).
Put up or shut up.
I did, and I don't disagree. I was simply positing that there can be other factors in deciding whether or not to assist law enforcement. Simply because I choose not to help police does not mean I did something wrong. It may also be that I believe that they are doing something wrong.
Well, you were lied to, and you should damn well have known better. Homeownership is not typically an "investment," at least not in the sense of turning a profit. If you're lucky, when you sell it you break even (when you consider all the non-mortgage money you put into your house, like mortgage insurance et cetera). Homeownership is, and has always been, a hedge against inflation, which is not remotely the same thing. If you own your home, you (should) have reasonable certainty in your housing costs for the forseeable future, regardless of inflation or changing market conditions. Which is a good thing, but no, not a money maker.
Not just bad. Unprecidentedly, epically, historically bad. Flying in the face of history, economic theory, and basic math kind of bad. Think hard about that.
What's the alternative, anyway? Do you believe that all of these people are idiots? I don't find that likely.
If you can rebut my reasoning, please proceed. PROTIP: "Conspiracy theory!" is not a rebuttal.