No, I don't watch commercials, I use TiVo. Before TiVo I still wouldn't watch commercials - I taped everything on VHS and fast-forwarded through them.
I would much rather pay for programming out of my own pocket than suffer through that idiotic shit from advertisers. Aside from the issue of wasted time, it really becomes a health issue at some point, because my hatred for them gets so intense when I'm assaulted by some fresh piece of shit that reaches new lows.
Some say that broadcasting could not stand on its own if it werent't for advertising. I think I'd be OK with that.
Ah yes, the ubiquitous (to say nothing of plagiarist) elitist atheist karma whore.
Ah yes, the smug, elitist theist. Perhaps the atheist is a little less than charitable when arguing the question because he is forced to live daily in the hallucinatory farce created by the religious majority?
I find the majority of people who don't believe in religion never got anything out of it asuming they even tried it. Usually if they got nothing out of it it was because they didn't put anything into it.
What a fucking retarded statement.
What does believing in the factual existence of anything have to do with "putting something into" anything? There is a difference between philosophy and religion. They are both sets of beliefs and (sometimes) guidelines for behavior. The difference is that the philosophical beliefs usually evolve over time with experience and reflection, while religious beliefs exist because some psychos a long time ago claimed that Ralph the Holy Head of Lettuce laid down the law thusly (or whatever your fantasy happens to be).
The teachings of religion [...] even separated from the supernatural aspect have the cause of making the world a better place.
Absolutely hilarious.
Catholicism teaches you to be happy in what you do and do what makes others happy.
Someone else wanna go ahead and knock that current-events setup out of the park for me?
Religion isn't meant to feed those of religious power.
...but it's routinely used throughout history and into the present as a means of controlling, intimidating, and distracting the rabble.
I think religion is probably just a perplexing psychological manifestation with roots in humans' primordial fear of the unknown and the unbearable knowledge of certain death. But it's better said here. Spend the $15, it's worth it.
I'll leave you with this thought: Consider the plight of the non-believer, surrounded 24/7 by people who actually believe this stuff; surrounded by a population of which 65% honestly believe there are angels flying around them throughout the day. It's literally like being trapped inside of a mad-house for your entire life.
he discovered was that the most avid users of the machine were ghetto kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of English. Yet within days, the kids had taught themselves to draw on the computer and to browse the Net.
Yet our organization still has full-grown, western-educated employees who hold the fucking mouse upside-down.
Open source isn't about defeating the evils in the world... If Microsoft decides to take the high-quality TCP/IP stack code written by FreeBSD and integrating it into Windows 2000, then let them.
I don't have cute buttons and whirly-gigs on my administration interface
That's because you're an "expensive expert", donchaknow.
Christ, let's just give them GUI tools for config files and be done with it. It would ease the transition for a lot of IIS "admins" who would like to take a step up in life but have an inertia/familiarity problem. Settings that have a list of valid options to select from, a "help" button next to each item to help them grok the stuff that IIS has been hidig from them...
Point being, don't let your superiority complex get in the way of an effective conversion effort.
You NEVER DID. Specially on some public commons.
Yes... You ARE being watched so don't be ashamed of anything you do and don't do anything you'd be ashamed of because you ARE being watched.
Oohhhh, I didn't know that. So that explains the looks I get when I wear my strap-ons to the supermarket.
This whole "freedom" concept was useful as long as we needed something to hold up to shame our communist enemies. Now that they are gone, this "freedom" pretense is expendable.
Line up for your tattoos, workers. Time to brand some cattle. Shut up and don't complain, or we'll ship your jobs to those former communist states where labor is real cheap.
Well, we're going to do that anyway, but no need to tell you now.
So you're roughly doubling the number of Netscape/Mozilla browsers out there to a huge 11%-13%
It's not quite so simple, Grasshoppah.
For starters, losing 11%-13% of the market off the bat to your competitor is completely suicidal in some lines of business. And remember, a lot of them are not *new* customers going to your competitor, but *your old customers* leaving you to go to your competitor, effectively doubling the impact.
Second, consider the composition of the new users - end-user consumer-types! These are the people who are susceptible to pop-up ads, who buy stupid shit with their cc's on-line, etc. If they go to some on-line product search site (like computershopper.com) and get list of vendors who carry the product they're after, and they click on a site that does not render properly in their AOL browser thingy, they are NOT going to raise a fist to the heavens and scream "CURSE THEE, MOZILLA.ORG!" They're going to close that tab (hehe) and move on until they find a vendor whose site works. Then they're going to add that vendor's site to their bookmarks.
I strongly suspect the majority of companies who do any substantial business on-line will be RUSHING toward cross-browser compatibility if AOL replaces IE with Mozilla. And since one of Mozilla's central goals is standards-compliance, by extension, the web site rewrites are more likely to be compliant.
Personally, I always check using the HTML validator
BRAVO! I wish all designers would do this!
Javascript is a whole other animal.
I can understand this, but what is frustrating is that it seems that the vast majority of sites out there would be just as useful - and probably easier to use - if they eliminated the JavaScript completely. That aside, some kind of W3C Java/ECMA/Whatevah-script standard would be great.
Even if AOL + Mozilla meant 35 million more Mozilla users and 35 million less IE users... It isn't that big a number when you look at the number of users using IE right now.
Are you kidding me?? 35 million credit-card-carrying, on-line shopping, consumer-type HOUSEHOLDS isn't "that big a number"?
You can bet that there will be a lot of web "masters" who will have their fucking dicks cut off by management if they lock out 35M AOL households. Guaranteed.
So either way, it comes up roses: a LOT web sites become more standards-compliant (or at least cross-browser compatible), or a bunch of unprincipled, MS-pushing wannabe's get their dicks cut off. If they even have them to begin with. <insert standard unix homynym joke here>
PBS is not state run. In fact, it doesn't even get very much of its money directly from the government. Rather, most of its money comes from local public TV stations (which generally are publically funded).
Yep, well Archer Daniels Midland has bought up just about ALL the "advertising" time on PBS's News Hour. I am so fucking sick of hearing that bullshit soft-pedal ad of theirs at the start of each news broadcast. TiVo's 30-second commercial skip to the rescue!
The very idea of commercial advertisements on public radio / tv makes me puke.
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I would much rather pay for programming out of my own pocket than suffer through that idiotic shit from advertisers. Aside from the issue of wasted time, it really becomes a health issue at some point, because my hatred for them gets so intense when I'm assaulted by some fresh piece of shit that reaches new lows.
Some say that broadcasting could not stand on its own if it werent't for advertising. I think I'd be OK with that.
Awwwww, yeah.....!
That episode and the "Lincoln. ... Continental." one are the only episodes I remember :-)
Ah yes, the smug, elitist theist. Perhaps the atheist is a little less than charitable when arguing the question because he is forced to live daily in the hallucinatory farce created by the religious majority?
What a fucking retarded statement.
What does believing in the factual existence of anything have to do with "putting something into" anything? There is a difference between philosophy and religion. They are both sets of beliefs and (sometimes) guidelines for behavior. The difference is that the philosophical beliefs usually evolve over time with experience and reflection, while religious beliefs exist because some psychos a long time ago claimed that Ralph the Holy Head of Lettuce laid down the law thusly (or whatever your fantasy happens to be).
The teachings of religion [...] even separated from the supernatural aspect have the cause of making the world a better place.
Absolutely hilarious.
Catholicism teaches you to be happy in what you do and do what makes others happy.
Someone else wanna go ahead and knock that current-events setup out of the park for me?
Religion isn't meant to feed those of religious power.
I think religion is probably just a perplexing psychological manifestation with roots in humans' primordial fear of the unknown and the unbearable knowledge of certain death. But it's better said here. Spend the $15, it's worth it.
I'll leave you with this thought: Consider the plight of the non-believer, surrounded 24/7 by people who actually believe this stuff; surrounded by a population of which 65% honestly believe there are angels flying around them throughout the day. It's literally like being trapped inside of a mad-house for your entire life.
AOL just didn't do enough advertising. Especially on its TW media outlets.
Hey, that's better than my situation. Everything I try to say something insightful, it gets modded "Funny." :-)
Just to top it off, they say "and you're going to LIKE it" in the EULA's.
Now shut up, get back in the fields, and till some earth. Or the King will have you drawn and quartered, and the Church will damn you to hell.
(ha ha haaa...!)
It took me three reads to get this; maybe I shouldn't be so critical of our users :-)
And therein lies the humor(?) :-)
Yet our organization still has full-grown, western-educated employees who hold the fucking mouse upside-down.
Methinks Larry wants a new goldfish pond.
You mean, before Microsoft ruled the universe with an iron fist? Where do I sign up?
Speak for yourself, asswipe.
Just give those people a ball of string to play with.
Absolutely no sense of history. Do you have any idea what it was like BEFORE they broke up AT&T?
That's because you're an "expensive expert", donchaknow.
Christ, let's just give them GUI tools for config files and be done with it. It would ease the transition for a lot of IIS "admins" who would like to take a step up in life but have an inertia/familiarity problem. Settings that have a list of valid options to select from, a "help" button next to each item to help them grok the stuff that IIS has been hidig from them...
Point being, don't let your superiority complex get in the way of an effective conversion effort.
The point being: the relative cost of oil and alternative fuels is not the issue - it's DEPENDENCE on oil-producing nations.
It's known as a "cartel", my friend. Not so beautiful.
You NEVER DID. Specially on some public commons. Yes... You ARE being watched so don't be ashamed of anything you do and don't do anything you'd be ashamed of because you ARE being watched.
Oohhhh, I didn't know that. So that explains the looks I get when I wear my strap-ons to the supermarket.
Line up for your tattoos, workers. Time to brand some cattle. Shut up and don't complain, or we'll ship your jobs to those former communist states where labor is real cheap.
Well, we're going to do that anyway, but no need to tell you now.
It's not quite so simple, Grasshoppah.
For starters, losing 11%-13% of the market off the bat to your competitor is completely suicidal in some lines of business. And remember, a lot of them are not *new* customers going to your competitor, but *your old customers* leaving you to go to your competitor, effectively doubling the impact.
Second, consider the composition of the new users - end-user consumer-types! These are the people who are susceptible to pop-up ads, who buy stupid shit with their cc's on-line, etc. If they go to some on-line product search site (like computershopper.com) and get list of vendors who carry the product they're after, and they click on a site that does not render properly in their AOL browser thingy, they are NOT going to raise a fist to the heavens and scream "CURSE THEE, MOZILLA.ORG!" They're going to close that tab (hehe) and move on until they find a vendor whose site works. Then they're going to add that vendor's site to their bookmarks.
I strongly suspect the majority of companies who do any substantial business on-line will be RUSHING toward cross-browser compatibility if AOL replaces IE with Mozilla. And since one of Mozilla's central goals is standards-compliance, by extension, the web site rewrites are more likely to be compliant.
BRAVO! I wish all designers would do this!
Javascript is a whole other animal.
I can understand this, but what is frustrating is that it seems that the vast majority of sites out there would be just as useful - and probably easier to use - if they eliminated the JavaScript completely. That aside, some kind of W3C Java/ECMA/Whatevah-script standard would be great.
Are you kidding me?? 35 million credit-card-carrying, on-line shopping, consumer-type HOUSEHOLDS isn't "that big a number"?
You can bet that there will be a lot of web "masters" who will have their fucking dicks cut off by management if they lock out 35M AOL households. Guaranteed.
So either way, it comes up roses: a LOT web sites become more standards-compliant (or at least cross-browser compatible), or a bunch of unprincipled, MS-pushing wannabe's get their dicks cut off. If they even have them to begin with. <insert standard unix homynym joke here>
Yep, well Archer Daniels Midland has bought up just about ALL the "advertising" time on PBS's News Hour. I am so fucking sick of hearing that bullshit soft-pedal ad of theirs at the start of each news broadcast. TiVo's 30-second commercial skip to the rescue!
The very idea of commercial advertisements on public radio / tv makes me puke.