I don't know which is worse, the fact that you felt the need to debunk my (attempted humor) theory so intently, or the fact that your sense of humor is slightly above that of a frozen horse turd.
Apparently all mechanics that work on cars are named Joe.
In a controversial move today, Slashdot.org opened a new can of worms with their posting of open source the error codes message. Joe's everywhere are in shock at finding out that they indeed missed their calling.
From Joe C in Paduka, Ky.: "When I found out I was supposed to be working in automotive repairs, I completely was flabergasted. I have always felt like I was missing something in my life, this can explain why. Thanks/.!"
From Joe E. Muntzenburger in Lake Okeechobee, FL.: "Man, when they told me I was supposed to be "Big Joe" down at my local auto-shop, I was stunned. I mean, being CEO of a large paper mill is great, but it can't compare to sweating underneath the hood of a car I don't understand!"
Mods: If you don't get it, then you haven't been reading the comments.
"Carabella is a modern girl. She's hip. She's wired."...and she's got huge jugs, so the/. crew should love it! wohoo! Bring on the large pixelated breasts!
I just got an image of a robot snuggled up against a crappy rusted car with a huge jar of K-Y.
Thanks for the mental anguish, a note from my lawyer* will be arriving soon;-)
* I have no lawyer. If I did, I sure as hell wouldn't use him/her on something like this. If you were wondering about this, do the following:
1) Bending slightly at the knees, bend your waist until you can easily rest one hand on the floor.
2) With your other hand, gently reach into your butt.
3) Using a slightly firm grip, remove your head from your ass. It may be possible that you will be unable to remove head from butt. If this occurs, don't panic. Simply continue on as you have before.
From the article: "I don't always cheat. I'm pretty good playing straight," he insists. "Cheating makes me a god."
Ok, if you are "pretty good" playing straight, why cheat? Seriously. It's a game. People cheat all the time, but I for the life of me don't understand the need to have an edge like this.
IMO, part of the fun is seeing how you truly match up against people and watching yourself progressively get better. This I feel like God crap is worthless. Besides, doesn't he get tired of it?
I know there will be plenty of people saying it's just human nature to do this, but really, is it? The vast vast majority of people are not like this, so what causes people (in Counter Strike and other online games I mean) to do this. Notoriety? Fame? (It's a fucking game!) Fortune? I don't think so.
I guess my final take on this is yes, he may indeed think he is a God, but all he is doing is cheapening himself in the eyes of people like me. And I believe there are a lot of us out there. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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Dude, I agree with your sentiments whole-heartedly, however, as snopes2 can tell you, that page is rather a hoax. Some of the founding fathers did make extreme sacrifices, but not as bad as you think.
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/declare.htm
However, I whole-heartedly agree with your basic premise, in that this is distasteful of them, and Atlas Shrugged is a good read. Not likely to happen, ever, but an interesting perspective.
$100,000.. cold hard US greenbacks for the winner. One time "consulting" fee. Of course, if you are good enough, I am sure you could parlay this into the Book, Movie, and merchandise.
The article was about a US citizen overseas. Has absolutely nothing do do with anyone else other than that US citizen. So, in your need to bash me, you forgot what the article was essentially about. Which is ok, happens all the time here on/.
And, as someone who has been all over the world, yes, I do realize there are a lot of people out there that aren't as blessed (yes, I said blessed) to be American. We have our issues, sure, but so does every other country.
I feel for you. And, please stop with the TV comments, I have some idea of what I speak:) Anyhow, you kinda missed my point. Dude only made *ONE* call to the FBI. Personally, my angle would be:
I was scammed overseas, I tried to correct it, and no one would help. I bugged the FBI day in a day out for X-amount of weeks, etc., and no one helped me, why is this?
why he didn't go for this angle, I can only guess. Probably because terrorism is "in" right now, and it was the vogue thing to do. Anyway, that's what I think. You?
From above: "hahahahahaa the FBI will never call you back."
then, as an investigative reporter (which is what he is in this case) he should have went to them and found out why they weren't helping him. One phone call and that's it? It's a wonder this dude ever got his cable service hooked up. Serious lack of effort on his part, story sounds like a woe-is-me, feel-sorry-for-me sob story.
All I am saying, he made 1 frigging phone call and then has the cajones to bitch about it? Gotta love democracy in action, eh?
UHm, I did read the article. yes, it does suck very much that this (might have) happened. I am extremely skeptical of this, however. Here's the deal: No call from the FBI in 6 months? Did he even try calling back? Why wasn't his card cancelled immediately once he realized this was occuring? To see how far it would go? Something just isn't sitting right with me on this, I don't know why, but I smell a rat.
Dude was in a foreign country. In Amman, Jordan to be exact. This is a sensationalist version of basically what amounts to standard fraud, except dude was in a middle-eastern country where a lot of people aren't friendly to the US and West in general. Granted, sucks that this occured, but is it news?
Synopsis: Journalist travels to Middle Eastern country. While there, orders stuff on his Amex. Amex receipt (I assume? Article not too clear on this) was used to purchase military equipment. Sucks, but such is life. This doesn't have anything to do with Privacy in the US, as far as I can see.
As a side note, when I was in the Middle East, (USMC--Oohrah!) we were instructed to make purchases only in their currency, so scams (which is all it really is) wouldn't happen.
Lastly, why the hell wasn't his card cancelled? Is he that stupid?
I seriously doubt this story is real at all, come to think of it.
As someone who has (believe it or not) played sports his whole life (baseball, basketball, football, basically any sport except soccer cause eye foot coordination ain't my bag) I don't think this will work. Sports are just too damned random. Even as the example in the article showed, ole Renando or what ever the hell his name is, blew out his knee on the treadmill. So, what happens when you get 9 fielders and a runner or two on the field and the guy running to first tries to avoid the tag and rolls his ankle severely, or hits a foul ball off his leg, lands on another players foot going for a rebound, gets blind-sided by a 300+lb lineman, etc? This may work in the example listed about treadmills, but will not work in the actual field of play. So, the only real tie-in to sports here is that this soccer (ok, ok, futbol) team has a multi-million dollar investment that was hurt in a mundane activity (treadmill running) and wanted to make sure it didn't happen again. Until it can predict when a player will be hurt before he is in the field of play, come talk to me.
Semi-OT now:
What's up with the silly little cards used in soccer? (futbol) It's rather silly. How did it develop? DO people really care? Oh no, I got a piece of plastic pulled out on me, I'm so scared. Yes, I know that it is serious when someone gets red-carded, but the actual act of being penalized is lame as hell. Thoughts? What would be a better system? Everytime a foul is committed the opposing player who was injured gets to power-slam the offender? Sounds good to me. Would make soccer more fun to watch;-) (tongue in cheek, mods, so pull that ruffle back out of your panties:)
Right about the time companies realized gamers would buy new hardware to play a game. Sounds retarded, and yet it's true...
what's it take to get a decent name?
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uhm, yeah...dude takes a frigging mixing board, jacks it back into itself and calls it music? Sure. plenty of silence in between beats. Guess I am just not artistic, but if this qualifies as art, then me drinking a bottle of water is worth millions. Ok troll time over, but this is a little silly. If this is designed to keep people calm and on focus (coding, problem solving, what-have-you) then I personally feel they are barking up the wrong tree...ok, well, not barking, but whispering. As anyone who has listened to Pink Floyd albums can tell you, if you listen hard enough, you can hear some crazy sounds in the background. Which is all this music would do, force me to listen intently for that back ground noise.
I considered briefly buying my own cable modem, but for the monthly cost of leasing, it was cheaper in the short term. (I live in an apartment, don't want to buy a cable modem in case I move to an area that doesn't supply that type of service)
That being said, I rather expected this move. In case you haven't noticed, telcos are struggling right now, and any move that can keep them afloat (ok fine, keep the share holders happy) they are going to do. Rather nifty of them to tell anyone, as I am a subscriber, and I didn't receive any information on this. Yeah, of course the rights and all that are subject to change, but enough of running rough-shod over your customers. We are people too, and don't always have the convienence of having a ton of loot sitting around, or customers we can up prices on without telling.
In a similar rant, a lot of these companies do these things without even pausing to consider what the risks are, simply because there (for the most part) ARE NONE. Customers will bitch, a few will change providers (those lucky few that can) and other than that, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. YOU might care enough to drop service, but most people are so apathetic about stuff like this, it's comical. Bitch, moan, give em the money. Hell, it makes business sense to do this. Too bad the customer gets it in the end eh?
I find this very amusing that the parent post is modded redundant.
Like anyone ever clicks through to the actual articles and reads them. I salute you, Great American Hero---->Pasting-the-General-Idea-of-the-Story- Man! If it wasn't for you, 75% of/. would be posting uninsiteful drivel....oh wait. But I digress.
Actually, I think the redundant mod should be shot, same as over-rated. We need new mods:Duh, No shit, and Silly Flamer. Those could work just as well as under/over-rated.
"The ENIAC was a 4-bit computer that ran at a now-paltry 20,000 cycles per second--about the computing power found in an electronic greeting card that plays a silly song when opened."
Man, how far have we progressed? How far do we have to go? This is some cool stuff, wonder how long before I'll be able to walk down the street and tap the street sign to get directions, locate restaurants, etc.....hmmm...come to think of it....
I am applying for a patent on this new found technology. I'll call it National Universities Technology Streetside Assistance Center, or NUTSAC for short.
Yes, soon I will take over the world, one stretch of dirty litter-ridden pavement at a time!!!! MUWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
heh. I get up, load up the old standby/. and what happens, I begin to get pissed off. Great way to start my day..thanks slashdot!!!
From "The Bitch";
"As you know, RIAA members own the copyrights in over ninety percent of the legitimate sound recordings produced in the United States, and..."
..and what? you are hungry for every frigging penny we can give you? You woke up in a bad mood one day and said to hell with it? Someone find this woman a man quick! It is MS. Rosen afterall......ok, that's it, which of you (non) self-respecting geeks gonna jump on the grenade for the rest of us? You get a place in geekdom history on the wall next to the Smelly guy and Linus. Oh, and those old dudes with the slide-rules...you can play in their sandbox if you want. Someone get this woman out of commission for a while...I'll start by donating my trusty ear-plugs to the first geek that steps up....
Regardless of what you believe in as far as abortion goes, what possible other explanation could an anti-abortion site have for listing Doctors that peform the abortions addresses,etc. other than for harrasment/possible violence?
This should stand imo, and if it doesn't, then are system is more broken than I thought. On a side note, why does everyone feel the need to bring religion into this? So you either believe in God or you don't. (And, either you believe in abortion or you don't) Personally, I don't care what you believe, just try to play nicely and not bash each other....
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For Mark, he has other issues:
9:14 am: Instant messaging
Mark IMs his girlfriend: "Don't worry about last night. I'll get tested. Love you."
I'd say privacy should be the least of his concerns.
I don't know which is worse, the fact that you felt the need to debunk my (attempted humor) theory so intently, or the fact that your sense of humor is slightly above that of a frozen horse turd.
Jeeze man, let it go.
Apparently all mechanics that work on cars are named Joe.
/.!"
In a controversial move today, Slashdot.org opened a new can of worms with their posting of open source the error codes message. Joe's everywhere are in shock at finding out that they indeed missed their calling.
From Joe C in Paduka, Ky.: "When I found out I was supposed to be working in automotive repairs, I completely was flabergasted. I have always felt like I was missing something in my life, this can explain why. Thanks
From Joe E. Muntzenburger in Lake Okeechobee, FL.: "Man, when they told me I was supposed to be "Big Joe" down at my local auto-shop, I was stunned. I mean, being CEO of a large paper mill is great, but it can't compare to sweating underneath the hood of a car I don't understand!"
Mods: If you don't get it, then you haven't been reading the comments.
"Carabella is a modern girl. She's hip. She's wired."...and she's got huge jugs, so the /. crew should love it! wohoo! Bring on the large pixelated breasts!
Of course, sex sells, so go for it EFF!
If you like the game....donate.
thanks dude,
;-)
I just got an image of a robot snuggled up against a crappy rusted car with a huge jar of K-Y.
Thanks for the mental anguish, a note from my lawyer* will be arriving soon
* I have no lawyer. If I did, I sure as hell wouldn't use him/her on something like this. If you were wondering about this, do the following:
1) Bending slightly at the knees, bend your waist until you can easily rest one hand on the floor.
2) With your other hand, gently reach into your butt.
3) Using a slightly firm grip, remove your head from your ass. It may be possible that you will be unable to remove head from butt. If this occurs, don't panic. Simply continue on as you have before.
From the article:
"I don't always cheat. I'm pretty good playing straight," he insists. "Cheating makes me a god."
Ok, if you are "pretty good" playing straight, why cheat? Seriously. It's a game. People cheat all the time, but I for the life of me don't understand the need to have an edge like this.
IMO, part of the fun is seeing how you truly match up against people and watching yourself progressively get better. This I feel like God crap is worthless. Besides, doesn't he get tired of it?
I know there will be plenty of people saying it's just human nature to do this, but really, is it? The vast vast majority of people are not like this, so what causes people (in Counter Strike and other online games I mean) to do this. Notoriety? Fame? (It's a fucking game!) Fortune? I don't think so.
I guess my final take on this is yes, he may indeed think he is a God, but all he is doing is cheapening himself in the eyes of people like me. And I believe there are a lot of us out there. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Dude, I agree with your sentiments whole-heartedly, however, as snopes2 can tell you, that page is rather a hoax. Some of the founding fathers did make extreme sacrifices, but not as bad as you think.
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/declare.htm
However, I whole-heartedly agree with your basic premise, in that this is distasteful of them, and Atlas Shrugged is a good read. Not likely to happen, ever, but an interesting perspective.
my, my, my, aren't we realistic this morning. Shesh, let me take off my rose-colored glasses before you assault me with the truth huh?
Peace,
em Emalb
$100,000.. cold hard US greenbacks for the winner. One time "consulting" fee. Of course, if you are good enough, I am sure you could parlay this into the Book, Movie, and merchandise.
In the immortal words of Dude, Where's My Car":
SWEET!!!!
The article was about a US citizen overseas. Has absolutely nothing do do with anyone else other than that US citizen. So, in your need to bash me, you forgot what the article was essentially about. Which is ok, happens all the time here on /.
And, as someone who has been all over the world, yes, I do realize there are a lot of people out there that aren't as blessed (yes, I said blessed) to be American. We have our issues, sure, but so does every other country.
I feel for you. And, please stop with the TV comments, I have some idea of what I speak :) Anyhow, you kinda missed my point. Dude only made *ONE* call to the FBI. Personally, my angle would be:
I was scammed overseas, I tried to correct it, and no one would help. I bugged the FBI day in a day out for X-amount of weeks, etc., and no one helped me, why is this?
why he didn't go for this angle, I can only guess. Probably because terrorism is "in" right now, and it was the vogue thing to do. Anyway, that's what I think. You?
From above: "hahahahahaa the FBI will never call you back."
then, as an investigative reporter (which is what he is in this case) he should have went to them and found out why they weren't helping him. One phone call and that's it? It's a wonder this dude ever got his cable service hooked up. Serious lack of effort on his part, story sounds like a woe-is-me, feel-sorry-for-me sob story.
All I am saying, he made 1 frigging phone call and then has the cajones to bitch about it? Gotta love democracy in action, eh?
UHm, I did read the article. yes, it does suck very much that this (might have) happened. I am extremely skeptical of this, however. Here's the deal: No call from the FBI in 6 months? Did he even try calling back? Why wasn't his card cancelled immediately once he realized this was occuring? To see how far it would go? Something just isn't sitting right with me on this, I don't know why, but I smell a rat.
Dude was in a foreign country. In Amman, Jordan to be exact. This is a sensationalist version of basically what amounts to standard fraud, except dude was in a middle-eastern country where a lot of people aren't friendly to the US and West in general. Granted, sucks that this occured, but is it news?
Synopsis: Journalist travels to Middle Eastern country. While there, orders stuff on his Amex. Amex receipt (I assume? Article not too clear on this) was used to purchase military equipment. Sucks, but such is life. This doesn't have anything to do with Privacy in the US, as far as I can see.
As a side note, when I was in the Middle East, (USMC--Oohrah!) we were instructed to make purchases only in their currency, so scams (which is all it really is) wouldn't happen.
Lastly, why the hell wasn't his card cancelled? Is he that stupid?
I seriously doubt this story is real at all, come to think of it.
As someone who has (believe it or not) played sports his whole life (baseball, basketball, football, basically any sport except soccer cause eye foot coordination ain't my bag) I don't think this will work. Sports are just too damned random. Even as the example in the article showed, ole Renando or what ever the hell his name is, blew out his knee on the treadmill. So, what happens when you get 9 fielders and a runner or two on the field and the guy running to first tries to avoid the tag and rolls his ankle severely, or hits a foul ball off his leg, lands on another players foot going for a rebound, gets blind-sided by a 300+lb lineman, etc? This may work in the example listed about treadmills, but will not work in the actual field of play. So, the only real tie-in to sports here is that this soccer (ok, ok, futbol) team has a multi-million dollar investment that was hurt in a mundane activity (treadmill running) and wanted to make sure it didn't happen again. Until it can predict when a player will be hurt before he is in the field of play, come talk to me.
;-) (tongue in cheek, mods, so pull that ruffle back out of your panties :)
Semi-OT now:
What's up with the silly little cards used in soccer? (futbol) It's rather silly. How did it develop? DO people really care? Oh no, I got a piece of plastic pulled out on me, I'm so scared. Yes, I know that it is serious when someone gets red-carded, but the actual act of being penalized is lame as hell. Thoughts? What would be a better system? Everytime a foul is committed the opposing player who was injured gets to power-slam the offender? Sounds good to me. Would make soccer more fun to watch
Right about the time companies realized gamers would buy new hardware to play a game. Sounds retarded, and yet it's true...
uhm, yeah...dude takes a frigging mixing board, jacks it back into itself and calls it music? Sure. plenty of silence in between beats. Guess I am just not artistic, but if this qualifies as art, then me drinking a bottle of water is worth millions. Ok troll time over, but this is a little silly. If this is designed to keep people calm and on focus (coding, problem solving, what-have-you) then I personally feel they are barking up the wrong tree...ok, well, not barking, but whispering. As anyone who has listened to Pink Floyd albums can tell you, if you listen hard enough, you can hear some crazy sounds in the background. Which is all this music would do, force me to listen intently for that back ground noise.
;)
Kids these days
I considered briefly buying my own cable modem, but for the monthly cost of leasing, it was cheaper in the short term. (I live in an apartment, don't want to buy a cable modem in case I move to an area that doesn't supply that type of service)
That being said, I rather expected this move. In case you haven't noticed, telcos are struggling right now, and any move that can keep them afloat (ok fine, keep the share holders happy) they are going to do. Rather nifty of them to tell anyone, as I am a subscriber, and I didn't receive any information on this. Yeah, of course the rights and all that are subject to change, but enough of running rough-shod over your customers. We are people too, and don't always have the convienence of having a ton of loot sitting around, or customers we can up prices on without telling.
In a similar rant, a lot of these companies do these things without even pausing to consider what the risks are, simply because there (for the most part) ARE NONE. Customers will bitch, a few will change providers (those lucky few that can) and other than that, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. YOU might care enough to drop service, but most people are so apathetic about stuff like this, it's comical. Bitch, moan, give em the money. Hell, it makes business sense to do this. Too bad the customer gets it in the end eh?
I find this very amusing that the parent post is modded redundant.
/. would be posting uninsiteful drivel....oh wait. But I digress.
Like anyone ever clicks through to the actual articles and reads them. I salute you, Great American Hero---->Pasting-the-General-Idea-of-the-Story- Man! If it wasn't for you, 75% of
Actually, I think the redundant mod should be shot, same as over-rated. We need new mods:Duh, No shit, and Silly Flamer. Those could work just as well as under/over-rated.
"Kazaa said it has sold the network to another firm that the music and film industry has not sued yet."
:P
Just give them time, just give them a little time and they will have sued every one in the entire world
"The ENIAC was a 4-bit computer that ran at a now-paltry 20,000 cycles per second--about the computing power found in an electronic greeting card that plays a silly song when opened."
Man, how far have we progressed? How far do we have to go? This is some cool stuff, wonder how long before I'll be able to walk down the street and tap the street sign to get directions, locate restaurants, etc.....hmmm...come to think of it....
I am applying for a patent on this new found technology. I'll call it National Universities Technology Streetside Assistance Center, or NUTSAC for short.
Yes, soon I will take over the world, one stretch of dirty litter-ridden pavement at a time!!!! MUWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
"This isn't the story you wanted to read."
"Hey, what's this crap, I didn't wanna read this!"
"Move along."
"I'm gonna reload so I can get first post on the next story!"
heh. I get up, load up the old standby /. and what happens, I begin to get pissed off. Great way to start my day..thanks slashdot!!!
From "The Bitch";
"As you know, RIAA members own the copyrights in over ninety percent of the legitimate sound recordings produced in the United States, and..."
..and what? you are hungry for every frigging penny we can give you?
You woke up in a bad mood one day and said to hell with it? Someone find this woman a man quick! It is MS. Rosen afterall......ok, that's it, which of you (non) self-respecting geeks gonna jump on the grenade for the rest of us? You get a place in geekdom history on the wall next to the Smelly guy and Linus. Oh, and those old dudes with the slide-rules...you can play in their sandbox if you want. Someone get this woman out of commission for a while...I'll start by donating my trusty ear-plugs to the first geek that steps up....
HA, that'll happen.
Regardless of what you believe in as far as abortion goes, what possible other explanation could an anti-abortion site have for listing Doctors that peform the abortions addresses,etc. other than for harrasment/possible violence?
This should stand imo, and if it doesn't, then are system is more broken than I thought. On a side note, why does everyone feel the need to bring religion into this? So you either believe in God or you don't. (And, either you believe in abortion or you don't) Personally, I don't care what you believe, just try to play nicely and not bash each other....
No, Mr. Compassion, this is news *HAPPENING* to nerds, stuff that matters to a whole lot of techies living in that area.
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