How peculiar. I form opinions based on the available facts, and then reform those opinions as my knowledge changes. You have clearly pre-judged her to be innocent, and are sticking resolutely to that opinion despite the available facts. Say - are you an economist by any chance?
Despite the massive advertising campaign, I'd never heard of this game, and even if I had, I've have no idea where to go to find the massive number of reviews, pastiches and commentaries that have been readily available just about everywhere in the intartubes since last week.
Slashdot: warming up yesterdays stale news, tomorrow.
An OSS developer is no more a saint than people who put their own apple-pie recipes online.
And no less. Are you really so bitter, twisted and small that you can't appreciate that charity embiggens the spirit of both the donator and the recipient? A hug freely given makes us both feel better. Come on, don't be shy. Give your Uncle Rogerborg a hug. I promise, no Bad Touch.
News is never impartial, and anyone who tells you that it is is trying to sell you their take on it. But even partial news can still be factual. Are you arguing with the facts? On what basis?
What makes this spookily accurate is the focus on global "intellectual property" enforcement regimes, so that "we can protect our interests abroad". Raw nationalist piracy on a scale that makes pillaging the Plate Fleet look like a 10 cent raid on a Take A Penny, Leave a Penny box.
Good gravy, and wait until the Chinese get in on the act. Instead of ignoring "IP" rights and actually making things - hah, naive fools - imagine a billion Chinese patent trolls filing three patents a day each and getting rich from the sweat of your brow.
When you start a shooting match, you'd best be sure that you're bringing the biggest guns.
Look, if you don't want your job, just quit and go do something you like. Don't troll your employer into firing you, then drag lawyers into it. The only winners there are the lawyers, and that makes Baby Jesus strangle a kitten.
Ooh, good idea. By the way, I've been thinking of making an alarm clock that electrocutes your testicles if you hit the snooze button - can I sign you up for the beta?
I heard, this one time, a developer pulled a 40 hour shift and the image of Joel appeared in their coffee and wrote their code for them. Just accept Joel as your personal guru and saviour and you too will ship!
Yes, they do. Because the alternative is wallowing around in paddy field for more hours making less money. What, you think Chinese people are fucking retarded? This is the best work going.
Oh, bingo. Like the furore over how the headline suicide rate in the US military is like OMFG twice the national average and more than the KIA rate!!!!11!
Then it turns out that the military is composed almost entirely of young men, and most suicides are... wait for it... young men. And when you crunch the figures, holy crap, it turns out that if you're a young man, then the safest place for you to be is in the US military.
Funny how you never see the final analysis in any headlines. I'm sure DailyKos will be all over it any day now.
could someone maybe explain the point of this article to me?
The point of this article is to get us to read it, thereby serving more adverts and keeping taco, kdawson and the rest of the editards well supplied with money for booze, hookers and blackjack. It seems to be working out pretty well for them.
The Editard's Editard. At this point I really think we can class him as either an honest-to-God moron, or a really clever troll. I mean, we bite every time.
This is just like all those anti-gun politicians who won't go anywhere without their armed bodyguards. Hey, they don't believe in carrying guns personally, but you know, there are bad people out there...
My goodness, a Toyota joke? Are people still making those? Well, since you forgot to bring the funny, here's an actually amusing commentary to make up for it.
I'm pretty sure that the environmental impact of the current generation of electric cars is actually more than petroleum ones, just much better hidden. The electricity that's used to make and power them today is coming mostly from burning fossil fuels in 30 year old power plants. That might change in 10 years time, but it's not 10 years time, it's now.
Oooh, ooh, you also forgot "green cars". Attention, ecomentals: what do you think is generating the electricity to power the (energy intensive) construction and use of your "green" car? Fairy farts?
Electric cars will drive demand for electricity that may (and should, but who knows?) be generated from renewables or even (hold your nose) "clean" coal, but right now? You're just moving the emissions from your exhaust to the dirty old coal plant up the road, plus the even worse one in China where they dug up the Unobtanium to make your car.
Please note: anyone who seeks and obtains the power to tell others what to do is axiomatically not a liberal. While Clegg was off waffling about Freedom Acts and devolving power, Cameron was actually busy eviscerating the 1922 committee and centralising power to his cabal. Stalin in a cycle helmet.
So while Clegg blubbers FREEEEEDOM for the 6 months their coallition will hang together, Cameron will get on with the real business of Government: manoeuvring Old Boys into long term positions of power.
He also promised to get rid of Bendy Buses, improve rail and cycle services at no cost to the taxpayer (lolwut?) and (most likely) something about a badger in every pot.
I think we all know that he's an entertainer, not an executive, and was voted for on that basis.
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Man, you must be a riot at parties.
How peculiar. I form opinions based on the available facts, and then reform those opinions as my knowledge changes. You have clearly pre-judged her to be innocent, and are sticking resolutely to that opinion despite the available facts. Say - are you an economist by any chance?
Despite the massive advertising campaign, I'd never heard of this game, and even if I had, I've have no idea where to go to find the massive number of reviews, pastiches and commentaries that have been readily available just about everywhere in the intartubes since last week.
Slashdot: warming up yesterdays stale news, tomorrow.
And no less. Are you really so bitter, twisted and small that you can't appreciate that charity embiggens the spirit of both the donator and the recipient? A hug freely given makes us both feel better. Come on, don't be shy. Give your Uncle Rogerborg a hug. I promise, no Bad Touch.
News is never impartial, and anyone who tells you that it is is trying to sell you their take on it. But even partial news can still be factual. Are you arguing with the facts? On what basis?
I will trade my lunch for mod points.
What makes this spookily accurate is the focus on global "intellectual property" enforcement regimes, so that "we can protect our interests abroad". Raw nationalist piracy on a scale that makes pillaging the Plate Fleet look like a 10 cent raid on a Take A Penny, Leave a Penny box.
Good gravy, and wait until the Chinese get in on the act. Instead of ignoring "IP" rights and actually making things - hah, naive fools - imagine a billion Chinese patent trolls filing three patents a day each and getting rich from the sweat of your brow.
When you start a shooting match, you'd best be sure that you're bringing the biggest guns.
Actually, bacteria can exchange genetic material. While it's not sexual reproduction, it's still pretty damn hot if you watch it under a microscope.
Who donate their time for no other reason than that they wan to enrich everyone.
And over there are Abode, who bill their time for no other reason than that they want to enrich themselves.
How dare they compare themselves with FOSS developers? How dare they?
Look, if you don't want your job, just quit and go do something you like. Don't troll your employer into firing you, then drag lawyers into it. The only winners there are the lawyers, and that makes Baby Jesus strangle a kitten.
Ooh, good idea. By the way, I've been thinking of making an alarm clock that electrocutes your testicles if you hit the snooze button - can I sign you up for the beta?
This is satire, right? Please, please tell me that it is.
I heard, this one time, a developer pulled a 40 hour shift and the image of Joel appeared in their coffee and wrote their code for them. Just accept Joel as your personal guru and saviour and you too will ship!
Yes, they do. Because the alternative is wallowing around in paddy field for more hours making less money. What, you think Chinese people are fucking retarded? This is the best work going.
Then it turns out that the military is composed almost entirely of young men, and most suicides are... wait for it... young men. And when you crunch the figures, holy crap, it turns out that if you're a young man, then the safest place for you to be is in the US military.
Funny how you never see the final analysis in any headlines. I'm sure DailyKos will be all over it any day now.
Or whatever the most recent version of the most popular OS is.
Now stop wasting our time with your stupid questions and go take a shower, you filthy hippy.
I dun saw it in a dream I done have after I wuz probed!
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The point of this article is to get us to read it, thereby serving more adverts and keeping taco, kdawson and the rest of the editards well supplied with money for booze, hookers and blackjack. It seems to be working out pretty well for them.
The Editard's Editard. At this point I really think we can class him as either an honest-to-God moron, or a really clever troll. I mean, we bite every time.
This is just like all those anti-gun politicians who won't go anywhere without their armed bodyguards. Hey, they don't believe in carrying guns personally, but you know, there are bad people out there...
Although I did (finally) laugh when I read their cited patent.
My goodness, a Toyota joke? Are people still making those? Well, since you forgot to bring the funny, here's an actually amusing commentary to make up for it.
I'm pretty sure that the environmental impact of the current generation of electric cars is actually more than petroleum ones, just much better hidden. The electricity that's used to make and power them today is coming mostly from burning fossil fuels in 30 year old power plants. That might change in 10 years time, but it's not 10 years time, it's now.
Oooh, ooh, you also forgot "green cars". Attention, ecomentals: what do you think is generating the electricity to power the (energy intensive) construction and use of your "green" car? Fairy farts?
Electric cars will drive demand for electricity that may (and should, but who knows?) be generated from renewables or even (hold your nose) "clean" coal, but right now? You're just moving the emissions from your exhaust to the dirty old coal plant up the road, plus the even worse one in China where they dug up the Unobtanium to make your car.
Please note: anyone who seeks and obtains the power to tell others what to do is axiomatically not a liberal. While Clegg was off waffling about Freedom Acts and devolving power, Cameron was actually busy eviscerating the 1922 committee and centralising power to his cabal. Stalin in a cycle helmet.
Remember also that the real power in the land always was, and always will be, Sir Humphrey Appleby, GCB, KBE, MVO, MA (Oxon).
So while Clegg blubbers FREEEEEDOM for the 6 months their coallition will hang together, Cameron will get on with the real business of Government: manoeuvring Old Boys into long term positions of power.
Doesn't seem likely.
He also promised to get rid of Bendy Buses, improve rail and cycle services at no cost to the taxpayer (lolwut?) and (most likely) something about a badger in every pot.
I think we all know that he's an entertainer, not an executive, and was voted for on that basis.