So it rings, I run up the garden to answer it, and it's no one I want to talk to. My watch could have told me and saved me the hassle.
The more I hear about how you people use your "smart" phones, the more I think you don't know how to use a phone. It logs incoming calls, yes? My "dumb" phone even pops up a list of missed calls as the first thing it does after I unlock it. Arrow down to the one you want to call back, hit "Talk", or message,... Running to answer your phone?!? Are you nuts?!?
I was astonished a few years ago when I noticed people were using their phones to tell the time. Pocket watches are back, only twenty times the size and weight and hundreds of dollars more in price, and it doesn't even come with a chain!
As for geek fashion value, to this geek nothing is more fashionable than it works and does what it was supposed to do, whatever it looks like. I couldn't care less about rust spots on my car. I care that it functions robustly whether braking or accelerating, avoiding stuff falling off the vehicle in front of me, getting the !@#$ out of Dodge when some nut points a gun at me,...
There is *nothing* geeky about fashion. Face painting went out with the Cro Magnons (with the possible exception of warpaint; that had function). What a massive waste of money that industry is. If you need fashion to attract SOs, you're after the wrong ones.
If I was twelve, I'd be saying you people are all fags, but that just shows my age so I'll shut up.
Timex Ironman. Two time zones, three alarms (adjustable), timer, hourly chime, key beep, chronograph, day/date/mo./time all on initial screen, 24 hr. display, less than 5 sec./mo. drift; ca. $50.00. Mine's about 10 yr old, on its second battery.
The Internet was designed to be a network where it can grow and *shrink* as needed. If they want to "control" the Internet, let them be like Iran or China and control their own little sandbox. If people want to "join" them, let it be a opt-in decision.
Yup. Too bad for the Indian IT industry when no-one on the rest of the net can connect to India's (or Iran's or China's) net. Go ahead and take your ball and go home. Enjoy the peace and quiet.
I urge everyone to try out OpenNic. I just did and couldn't believe it was that easy and just works. Go ahead and diddle with DNS, ICANN. I'm not listening to you anymore.
Do you really want an app that can wipe your phone? I'd hate to be a beta-tester.
Aptitude has this neat feature, "-s" (simulate), where it goes through the motions of what it's going to do, reporting them all but not actually doing anything. Not that difficult.
I'm talking about verification.
Explain? If after running the app your data's not there,...
Still, it might be a lot simpler to just image your phone when you first get it, then panic mode slaps that image over the current image and reboots. You're now back to a vanilla, never used, phone with no "incriminating" data. May be better to add a few innocuous entries before taking the image to make it look less like it was just re-imaged.
Do you really want an app that can wipe your phone? I'd hate to be a beta-tester.
Aptitude has this neat feature, "-s" (simulate), where it goes through the motions of what it's going to do, reporting them all but not actually doing anything. Not that difficult.
So how much influence did the USA have in this whole farce?
I suspect not very much. He insulted the police ("Bacon on wheels", for bicycle cops), belittled their efforts in security ("security theatre"), and tweeted about how a security fence could be climbed. Apparently, he also taunted a starving unchained dog, the unfeeling bastard! I'm still trying to read about that last one.
Obviously, he's a dangerous malcontented civil libertarian who refuses to follow orders of the authorities, and he knows stuff they never will understand. I'm surprised they couldn't hang him up on IP theft too. "He's got a DVD burner in his computer!"
I doubt the USA could have added anything more substantial that could possibly make this clusterfuck worse.
He doesn't want discussion. He's not open to it. He puts up a flat wall of rhetoric that offers no opening.
I want to imagine that's vision. I also suspect he's already heard every argument you could put to him. He knows/thinks he knows what you need/want, and knows that's what's gone on so far isn't working, so he wants to try it his way. What've you got to lose? What you're doing now isn't working.
Now that's a beautiful post. I'm honoured. I'm also mostly a fan of National League baseball and World Series baseball and Italian Serie A football fan.
I don't know if your wife left you for a football player...
fsck, that was funny.:-)
No, really, I know North American football, watched NFL on TV every Sunday afternoon and Monday night and went to CFL games in town. I didn't intend to insult any players with what I wrote prior to this. I was talking about fans. I've a lot of respect for the players. They're no dummies.
However, "perhaps it is that it is too complicated for you to understand?" You insult me, sir.
And, "additionally, lots of people (a greater percentage than any other branch if I recall correctly) are unable to complete basic training and earn the right to call themselves marines." Including me! I tried to get into the US Air Force and go to Viet Nam, and I was too dumb to figure out the logistics of all that back then. Sad.
And, "I am not a fan of any sports..." Now that is just sick! Female beach volleyball?!?
Thank you. That's nicely done (the site). I'm going to enjoy seeing what I can find there.
I was there. Back then, I split $people up into, "Hippies", "Freaks" (or "phreaques" -), and anyone over twenty. The Hippies went to Goa (or grew up and went back to school), the phreaques built the modern world (or washed out and went into selling it; hi guys; no offence intended:-), and everyone else was either a boss or a cow-orker [sic], or a customer, or one of numerous versions of busy-bodies ranging from that old bat or fart living next door to "The Authorities" (cops, gov't, licencing bureaus, lawyers, bouncers, teachers, mall cops, (you get the idea) et al (in decending order of respect from me)).
The funny thing for me is I've always been a Randroid, since long before I even heard of her or saw any of the movies. I'd really like to know where that in me came from (and it certainly wasn't handed down by my parents or family).
It's an interesting phenomenon. It's even more interesting that I was a lot more Hippie back then than phreaque. I wouldn't expect those to fit well together; sixties Woodstock, The Doors, Jimi Hendricks, Concert For Bangladesh... and all this Rand/Libertarian/philosophy/Rothbard...) stuff, all in one room?
But reality never much seemed to bother Ron or his followers.
There's that BS statement again. Is that the new party line that your handlers have told you to use while astroturfing?
Reality: which one of any of the others isn't lieing through his teeth, flip-flopping dependant upon the audience he's speaking to, and isn't just an easily controlled pretty face that someone pushed to the front of the crowd?
BTW, I'm not just talking about the GOP here either.
Because all of our problems are caused by the fed and none of those racist newsletters with his name on it are his.
So, who do you think caused the problems? Oh, and sound-bite rhetoric's not advancing anything. Did you hear Romney makes his dog ride on the roof of his car, Hillary Clinton's against net censorship despite what her boss wants, and the DHS is building internment camps for all of you?
Seriously. We're in serious trouble. We need serious people. We need serious economists and policy wonks. Tearing it all down because of ideological purity isn't serious.
Ideological purity? How's about we all just open our eyes and recognize the thing's broke and it's never going to do what you "Twinkle, twinkle" [bats eyes] are hoping it to do until someone bites the bullet and fixes the thing. Wishing ain't gonna make it so.
Let go of your sound bites, your prejudices, and your pre-conceived notions and honestly ask yourself what's it going to take to fix it. Violent revolution? The heads of the 1%ers rolling in the streets? No-one's going to enjoy that, trust me.
He should have made a better point.:-) I love to think back to that grizzled old baseball coach storming out onto the diamond to scream at his pitcher, "Throw strikes, damn it!" Stop pussyfooting around, ffs.
But it's hard to tell for sure because he then goes on about how supporting Paul is logically untenable without self-deception.
Yeah, like Mitt Romney tells it like it is, and Obama's never gone back on his word or flip-flopped, and Ms. Clinton's State Dept. is perfectly aligned with White House policy, and we'd all love to have Sarah Palin handed the nuclear football, and thank gawd for the MafiAA's defence of imaginary property.
I don't much care what people think of me or my views or beliefs, but if they'd just try to learn something if there's anything in what I write that they might find worth learning, that'd be enough. Trite "gotcha" comebacks don't get anyone anywhere. If I had my choice of laws to pass, it would be you have to read through things three times, then wait two minutes thinking about it before replying. Then proofread it.:-)
What do you have against an American Football defense strategy?
I heard they did (?) the Superbowl halftime show (with Madonna?!?), but since I didn't watch it, I don't know what you're saying. Now, bringing all that back into mind makes me want to go wash out my mouth with soap, or my keyboard. Were there any wardrobe malfunctions to speak of this year, and have the Xtians recovered from that traumatic event yet?
You know, about the worst things that happen in baseball these days is Rosanne Barr butchering the national anthem for !@#$s and giggles. NFL just makes me think of wanna be marines hangers-on who managed to wash out of military basic training.
Ooooohh look! The cheerleaders have new, skimpier uniforms, and pink sequinned cowboy hats! Gasp and drool.
I love it when you guys invent cute little epithets like that. I also wonder if you even remember what word that tard bit comes from. Was it bastard, or retard? I don't think anyone's ever told me.
I know because I am a recovering randroid.
Nobody's perfect. I'll blame your teachers. I had some fairly mediocre ones too, but better ones (Rothbard, Hayek, von Mises, Bastiat) wrote books that I could study on my own. Greenspan got pretty much all of it wrong too, so you've got company. I never understood what anyone saw in that boring old spouter of platitudes. You're going to make him the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, then wonder why the economy's in the toilet?!?
Oh well. It's all just philosophy and politics, and those don't do miracles.
But I gave Jeng's comment exactly the response it deserved.
You spat out a sweeping generalization based on your personal prejudice. Have you actually ever met any "Randians" or Libertarians, or does all you know of them come from/. forum discussions? Assume I'm one of them. We've never met, yet you presume you can read my mind? That's chutzpah. You know a lot less than you think you know.
Are you aware that Ron Paul once (?) ran as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate? Are you aware that Rand disagreed vicerally with many Libertarian points of view?
Yeah, you gave it exactly the response it deserved, eh?
One of these does not really belong. For one thing, out of all of those you listed, the Secret Service is not an intelligence/national security apparatus.
Isn't Imports & Customs Enforcement (ICE) part of the SS? Aren't they stealing net domains (with sealed indictments), charging foreigners with conspiracies, impounding privately held assets, etc., etc?
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So it rings, I run up the garden to answer it, and it's no one I want to talk to. My watch could have told me and saved me the hassle.
The more I hear about how you people use your "smart" phones, the more I think you don't know how to use a phone. It logs incoming calls, yes? My "dumb" phone even pops up a list of missed calls as the first thing it does after I unlock it. Arrow down to the one you want to call back, hit "Talk", or message, ... Running to answer your phone?!? Are you nuts?!?
I was astonished a few years ago when I noticed people were using their phones to tell the time. Pocket watches are back, only twenty times the size and weight and hundreds of dollars more in price, and it doesn't even come with a chain!
As for geek fashion value, to this geek nothing is more fashionable than it works and does what it was supposed to do, whatever it looks like. I couldn't care less about rust spots on my car. I care that it functions robustly whether braking or accelerating, avoiding stuff falling off the vehicle in front of me, getting the !@#$ out of Dodge when some nut points a gun at me, ...
There is *nothing* geeky about fashion. Face painting went out with the Cro Magnons (with the possible exception of warpaint; that had function). What a massive waste of money that industry is. If you need fashion to attract SOs, you're after the wrong ones.
If I was twelve, I'd be saying you people are all fags, but that just shows my age so I'll shut up.
Timex Ironman. Two time zones, three alarms (adjustable), timer, hourly chime, key beep, chronograph, day/date/mo./time all on initial screen, 24 hr. display, less than 5 sec./mo. drift; ca. $50.00. Mine's about 10 yr old, on its second battery.
The Internet was designed to be a network where it can grow and *shrink* as needed. If they want to "control" the Internet, let them be like Iran or China and control their own little sandbox. If people want to "join" them, let it be a opt-in decision.
Yup. Too bad for the Indian IT industry when no-one on the rest of the net can connect to India's (or Iran's or China's) net. Go ahead and take your ball and go home. Enjoy the peace and quiet.
I urge everyone to try out OpenNic. I just did and couldn't believe it was that easy and just works. Go ahead and diddle with DNS, ICANN. I'm not listening to you anymore.
Do you really want an app that can wipe your phone? I'd hate to be a beta-tester.
Aptitude has this neat feature, "-s" (simulate), where it goes through the motions of what it's going to do, reporting them all but not actually doing anything. Not that difficult.
I'm talking about verification.
Explain? If after running the app your data's not there, ...
Still, it might be a lot simpler to just image your phone when you first get it, then panic mode slaps that image over the current image and reboots. You're now back to a vanilla, never used, phone with no "incriminating" data. May be better to add a few innocuous entries before taking the image to make it look less like it was just re-imaged.
Do you really want an app that can wipe your phone? I'd hate to be a beta-tester.
Aptitude has this neat feature, "-s" (simulate), where it goes through the motions of what it's going to do, reporting them all but not actually doing anything. Not that difficult.
Many people refer to their cars as 'she' as well. They also give them names.
Well, okay, yeah that's dumb too.
That being said, do you have an actual response to what I said?
Sure. I've never seen Siri, don't own any iBaubles, and don't even own a smart phone.
As for web search engines, I use Ixquick. Okay?
Siri seems to do a good job of it. The article isn't about someone asking her ...
WTF is with you people all anthromorphizing a web search engine?!? Are you hoping to ask it out for a date someday?
Holy drank the koolaid, Batman!
It's "For all intensive purposes" ffs.
Try "For all intents and purposes."
Try "I need to work harder to identify humour before I post."
Try being funny next time. Ya can't find what's not there.
It's "For all intensive purposes" ffs.
Try "For all intents and purposes."
So how much influence did the USA have in this whole farce?
I suspect not very much. He insulted the police ("Bacon on wheels", for bicycle cops), belittled their efforts in security ("security theatre"), and tweeted about how a security fence could be climbed. Apparently, he also taunted a starving unchained dog, the unfeeling bastard! I'm still trying to read about that last one.
Obviously, he's a dangerous malcontented civil libertarian who refuses to follow orders of the authorities, and he knows stuff they never will understand. I'm surprised they couldn't hang him up on IP theft too. "He's got a DVD burner in his computer!"
I doubt the USA could have added anything more substantial that could possibly make this clusterfuck worse.
He doesn't want discussion. He's not open to it. He puts up a flat wall of rhetoric that offers no opening.
I want to imagine that's vision. I also suspect he's already heard every argument you could put to him. He knows/thinks he knows what you need/want, and knows that's what's gone on so far isn't working, so he wants to try it his way. What've you got to lose? What you're doing now isn't working.
Now that's a beautiful post. I'm honoured. I'm also mostly a fan of National League baseball and World Series baseball and Italian Serie A football fan.
I don't know if your wife left you for a football player ...
fsck, that was funny. :-)
No, really, I know North American football, watched NFL on TV every Sunday afternoon and Monday night and went to CFL games in town. I didn't intend to insult any players with what I wrote prior to this. I was talking about fans. I've a lot of respect for the players. They're no dummies.
However, "perhaps it is that it is too complicated for you to understand?" You insult me, sir.
And, "additionally, lots of people (a greater percentage than any other branch if I recall correctly) are unable to complete basic training and earn the right to call themselves marines." Including me! I tried to get into the US Air Force and go to Viet Nam, and I was too dumb to figure out the logistics of all that back then. Sad.
And, "I am not a fan of any sports ..." Now that is just sick! Female beach volleyball?!?
For tweeting about security fences and being into model rocketry.
He did do a year in lockup waiting for his case to get to court, last I read. Thanks for the link. "Welcome to Canada, kid. Bend over."
For those too lazy to look it up: Rand on ... pretty much everyone ack then.
Thank you. That's nicely done (the site). I'm going to enjoy seeing what I can find there.
I was there. Back then, I split $people up into, "Hippies", "Freaks" (or "phreaques" -), and anyone over twenty. The Hippies went to Goa (or grew up and went back to school), the phreaques built the modern world (or washed out and went into selling it; hi guys; no offence intended :-), and everyone else was either a boss or a cow-orker [sic], or a customer, or one of numerous versions of busy-bodies ranging from that old bat or fart living next door to "The Authorities" (cops, gov't, licencing bureaus, lawyers, bouncers, teachers, mall cops, (you get the idea) et al (in decending order of respect from me)).
The funny thing for me is I've always been a Randroid, since long before I even heard of her or saw any of the movies. I'd really like to know where that in me came from (and it certainly wasn't handed down by my parents or family).
It's an interesting phenomenon. It's even more interesting that I was a lot more Hippie back then than phreaque. I wouldn't expect those to fit well together; sixties Woodstock, The Doors, Jimi Hendricks, Concert For Bangladesh ... and all this Rand/Libertarian/philosophy/Rothbard ...) stuff, all in one room?
Tooduls. [sic]
He who spends the most money wins. It's an unofficial, yet accurate statement.
Review the California Governership race.
... the only people with less knowledge than Ron Paul of the concept of reality ...
There's that BS statement again. People, you're being astroturfed.
It would be hilarious to see the public reaction when Ron Paul tries to circumvent public opinion of who should head the Republican party.
The presidential candidate does not head the party and most often, far from it.
But reality never much seemed to bother Ron or his followers.
There's that BS statement again. Is that the new party line that your handlers have told you to use while astroturfing?
Reality: which one of any of the others isn't lieing through his teeth, flip-flopping dependant upon the audience he's speaking to, and isn't just an easily controlled pretty face that someone pushed to the front of the crowd?
BTW, I'm not just talking about the GOP here either.
Because all of our problems are caused by the fed and none of those racist newsletters with his name on it are his.
So, who do you think caused the problems? Oh, and sound-bite rhetoric's not advancing anything. Did you hear Romney makes his dog ride on the roof of his car, Hillary Clinton's against net censorship despite what her boss wants, and the DHS is building internment camps for all of you?
Seriously. We're in serious trouble. We need serious people. We need serious economists and policy wonks. Tearing it all down because of ideological purity isn't serious.
Ideological purity? How's about we all just open our eyes and recognize the thing's broke and it's never going to do what you "Twinkle, twinkle" [bats eyes] are hoping it to do until someone bites the bullet and fixes the thing. Wishing ain't gonna make it so.
Let go of your sound bites, your prejudices, and your pre-conceived notions and honestly ask yourself what's it going to take to fix it. Violent revolution? The heads of the 1%ers rolling in the streets? No-one's going to enjoy that, trust me.
I think you may have missed his point ...
He should have made a better point. :-) I love to think back to that grizzled old baseball coach storming out onto the diamond to scream at his pitcher, "Throw strikes, damn it!" Stop pussyfooting around, ffs.
But it's hard to tell for sure because he then goes on about how supporting Paul is logically untenable without self-deception.
Yeah, like Mitt Romney tells it like it is, and Obama's never gone back on his word or flip-flopped, and Ms. Clinton's State Dept. is perfectly aligned with White House policy, and we'd all love to have Sarah Palin handed the nuclear football, and thank gawd for the MafiAA's defence of imaginary property.
I don't much care what people think of me or my views or beliefs, but if they'd just try to learn something if there's anything in what I write that they might find worth learning, that'd be enough. Trite "gotcha" comebacks don't get anyone anywhere. If I had my choice of laws to pass, it would be you have to read through things three times, then wait two minutes thinking about it before replying. Then proofread it. :-)
Bon chance, and TANSTAAFL.
What do you have against an American Football defense strategy?
I heard they did (?) the Superbowl halftime show (with Madonna?!?), but since I didn't watch it, I don't know what you're saying. Now, bringing all that back into mind makes me want to go wash out my mouth with soap, or my keyboard. Were there any wardrobe malfunctions to speak of this year, and have the Xtians recovered from that traumatic event yet?
You know, about the worst things that happen in baseball these days is Rosanne Barr butchering the national anthem for !@#$s and giggles. NFL just makes me think of wanna be marines hangers-on who managed to wash out of military basic training.
Ooooohh look! The cheerleaders have new, skimpier uniforms, and pink sequinned cowboy hats! Gasp and drool.
Libertardianism ...
I love it when you guys invent cute little epithets like that. I also wonder if you even remember what word that tard bit comes from. Was it bastard, or retard? I don't think anyone's ever told me.
I know because I am a recovering randroid.
Nobody's perfect. I'll blame your teachers. I had some fairly mediocre ones too, but better ones (Rothbard, Hayek, von Mises, Bastiat) wrote books that I could study on my own. Greenspan got pretty much all of it wrong too, so you've got company. I never understood what anyone saw in that boring old spouter of platitudes. You're going to make him the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, then wonder why the economy's in the toilet?!?
Oh well. It's all just philosophy and politics, and those don't do miracles.
But I gave Jeng's comment exactly the response it deserved.
You spat out a sweeping generalization based on your personal prejudice. Have you actually ever met any "Randians" or Libertarians, or does all you know of them come from /. forum discussions? Assume I'm one of them. We've never met, yet you presume you can read my mind? That's chutzpah. You know a lot less than you think you know.
Are you aware that Ron Paul once (?) ran as the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate? Are you aware that Rand disagreed vicerally with many Libertarian points of view?
Yeah, you gave it exactly the response it deserved, eh?
Yep, you couldn't have Nickelback without nickel, and that's all the proof I need.
I consider it a good day when I get to the end of it without hearing anything by or about Nickelback. So much for today.
Is it me, or are there others that see the irony in calling Anonymous "douchebag vandals" but only posting as ACs?
You're not alone.
It's almost as funny as watching an AC complain about the moderation.
Think FSB, Mossad, the US secret service, or MI5
One of these does not really belong. For one thing, out of all of those you listed, the Secret Service is not an intelligence/national security apparatus.
Isn't Imports & Customs Enforcement (ICE) part of the SS? Aren't they stealing net domains (with sealed indictments), charging foreigners with conspiracies, impounding privately held assets, etc., etc?