You're failing to note that the kneejerk reaction is actually more of a kneejerk tendency to be indifferent. It's more like this:
Scientist: Drinking Pepsi gives you cancer. Kneejerk: Mmm.. Pepsi.
I mean think about it.. the article is saying reading email makes you dumb. So, we're supposed to all quit reading email? I mean.. how stupidly ridiculous is that?
In reality, the article is kneejerk itself. And, the reaction you're calling 'kneejerk' is really just something any reasonable person would do.
My personal database says that I'm a pervert with a small penis who uses lots of prescription drugs financed by taking a 2nd mortgage and my relative in Nigeria.
Doesn't anyone else just think that email totally sucks? I can't remember the last time I checked my email other than to hit 'confirm' when I signed up for some stupid web service like nytimes.com.
Every time I try to save an email, it ends up getting deleted anyway when I'm throwing out the spam 100's of emails at a time. Email is useless as it is and nothing important should ever be done with an email.
As a 90% user of Windows (ya I hate it) and 10% user of Linux (I hate it too), I think the biggest problem with linux is its incessant forking. At least Windows develops some sort of standard and things look about the same on all computers. It's like Windows is monogomous.. It's boring, but reliable.
With linux, every distro breeds more distros.. every project breeds more projects.. They're forking like rabbits!
This diversity shit is off-topic and stupid anyway. Just because the show doesn't have one token dude from Lake Titticacca doesn't mean the show doesn't embrace diversity.
There weren't any big fat people in Enterprise and there's a hell of a lot of them. If they were truly embracing diversity, they should have a token fat person.
Don't forget a token mulato lesbian paraplegic, recovering from a crack addiction, who embraced the Church of Scientology. Seriously.. those people are always misrepresented.
You bastards that always count the number of tokens are the ones who are the least diverse... in your thinking.
But it IS Microsoft's fucking fault! Microsoft has ultimate control over almost every users' system... and almost ever users' system eventually gets compromised.
Microsoft's browser that gives developers every last inch of control over a user's PC is what inevitably led to developers just completely taking over users' PCs. Microsoft insists on certain features in Internet Explorer that make it a pain for even the smartest PC users to control what they see.
Here's some problems with IE: - no real ability to disable popups (Completely disallowing all forms of popups is more secure and convenient for the USER. Fuck developers.) - Install on demand (What a fucking trainwreck feature this is. Developer puts the 'yes' button behind the 'close' button nested 8 popups under the first one. User gets frustrated and clicks 7 close buttons and 1 button marked 'fuck me in the ass please') - Patch-and-fix attitude.. It's somehow not Microsoft's fault if they allow 'get into my PC free' for two months if they eventually release a patch for it?
Here's how you fix Internet Explorer:
- get rid of 'install on demand' (Make it so users have to actively download and install what they want installed. This whole 'make things easier for flash to install itself and bombard you with ads' is stupid. - SUE MICROSOFT. That's right. Consumer class-action large-scale - the type of lawsuit that puts them in the red for a quarter. How many billions has this cost Joe Consumer?
"Just remember that it is also the responsibility of the computer users to patch their systems in a timely manner as soon as they are available."
What if my computer is already fucked up, assface?
Ya, I'm pissed. I'm not an idiot computer user - I spend 8 hours a day on a computer. Yet, while typing this, I got a goddamn a.tribalfusion.bullshit popunder sitting there on my taskbar... and this is while I'm running a proxy filter, run Spybot, run Ad Aware.. And, if I'm having problems like this, Joe Consumer is getting raped.
Ya, you can call me stupid and say I browse the Internet wrong or whatever shit like that. But, this shit never happened back when Netscape was the dominant browser and it did not allow the developer to ad 'features' that work much like a virus.
These zombie PCs ARE by and large Microsoft's fault. Microsoft needs to implement features with the idea that developers will EXPLOIT at every turn possible for money and they need to focus on the consumer, for once. You can't tell me that Microsot doesn't know that Joe Consumer does not want 8 popups while browsing Slashdot.org.
BTW, if anyone has an easy, one-click fix for all the problems I have browsing (that is made by Microsoft, built-in to Internet Explorer), I will print out this post and EAT IT.
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I was having trouble logging into Steam like everyone else. So, I clicked 'Retrieve a Lost Account' and then 'I Know My Account Name' and finished the rest of the process.
I can log into Steam just fine now. Maybe that'll fix it for others - or maybe Steam's servers are back up and running now.
Since I can't play Counterstrike Source right now, I got to thinking..
Supposed I went out and downloaded a cracked copy of Counterstrike Source and played the hell out of it while the login servers for my legitimate version were still FUBAR.. and then I got caught by Valve and they sued me.
Who would win in court? I mean.. I did violate the User Agreement - but they also violated the terms of the contract in that they did not provide me with a working game. And, the UA is just another contract - NOT the word of the law.
At first, I really liked Steam because I wouln't have to worry about scratching the CD for the game or even grabbing the damn thing in the first place - but being told my username and password is wrong to play a game I bought really pisses me off.
It wasn't arrogant to open with a 'fuck off'. It would have been arrogant to acuse all you 'haters' of having the wrong opinions. Instead, I'm saying fuckoff to those who tell me I'm wrong for enjoying Enterprise - including the first three seasons.
"You could at least admit that Scientology is better than two thirds of the other new religions out there."
No, that's bullshit. That has nothing to do with anything we are talking about.
I am saying I am sick of being told by other sci-fi neonerds that my nerdy show is awful. It's not fucking awful if I enjoy it - so again, fuck off. Do you understand this time?
A better comparison would be me trying to enjoy my food while some other guy comes by and says, 'Eww.. that's gross.' Well, he's not eating it!
Even if you think Enterprise is bad, it certainly doesn't hurt you that it's on the air!
I would like to speak on behalf of the many Enterprise-loving trekkies out there and say sincerely, "Fuck off!"
Quit rooting for my show to die when it's still one of the last great accomplishments of a dying genre. Sci Fi nowadays has nowhere near the fanbase it once did - and because you snub your nose at Trek while touting the wonderful miracle that is Battlestar Galactica, you take a toll on the genre itself.
I, like many others, have been thrilled with Enterprise in its entirety. The Star Trek universe will never get old for us. And people like you, arrogant sci-fi tasters of the finest, could do the least bit to admit that Enterprise is better than 2/3 of the complete filth that is television today.
Two sci-fi shows is better than one.
I'm gonna start watching Battlestar Galactica now along with Star Trek... Give Enterprise another chance, please.
It seems the computer industry is prone to these accidental 'monopolies'. Sure, there are other instant messaging networks, but almost everyone uses AOL/AIM. Sure, there are other OS's, but almost everyone uses Windows.
Too bad there isn't a more decentralized open standard for instant messaging..
I've been wanting to get a PDA but I've been pretty dissappointed with the slow OS that ships with Windows-based PDAs.
And, Palm OS is a piece of crap. But, with Palm running on linux, I would be willing to bed that some unhappy nerd will fix it for the rest of us and give us something more than tolerable. So, I'm gonna be very optimistic about this.
I want to be able to play my GBA games on my new pda and watch lectures in high-quality - but the limitations of both of the current OS's seem to stifle that..
On some of the levels, I would go covert the whole way through. Then, I would replay as a Rambo badass.
A good level to be a Rambo badass on is the river level. Get a gunship and go as fast as possible. Switch the weapon to missles and fire off missles as you dodge a helicopter, another gunship, and various turrets and bad guys firing at you. If you drive the boat well, you can avoid most of the fire and blow up the helicopter on the way without losing speed.. It looks like a sweet R-rated action movie sequence.
I don't remember the names of the areas or anything, but it was a dock area where you had to blow your way under the dock by getting out of the boat and igniting barrels placed near a door in a cargo container that was lying in the water. Then, you gain speed under the dock, go up a ramp, and jump into a tunnel in the wall.
However, I just jumped over a pile of rubble in between the barriers under the dock and landed inside the 'ramp area'. Then, when I tried to jump the ramp, I went smack into nothingness instead of going in the tunnel.. I get frustrated by games that try to control me. I'd rather play the game than have games control me.
I am loving Half Life 2 and I think the game really rocks.. Though, I'm annoyed with two things..
You cannot skip a part of the game or 'take shortcuts' if you find a faster way to do something like in normal FPs's.. As an example, I used the airboat to jump through a dock area without blowing up some strategic exploding barrels to form an entry. But, when I tried to complete the next jump, I hit an invisible wall in midair... until I completed the first part and the 'wall' dissappeared. It's happened elsewhere in the game.
Also, the characters have no interaction. Freeman never talks and the other characters are invincible. So, I usually pelt them with barrels and other debris using the gravity gun while they're talking to me. It gets pretty funny sometimes when you smack a guy in the head with an exploding barrel from across the room and he just keeps talking..
Massive complete ignorance of current copyright laws and any future laws will gear the marketplace away from strict standards no matter what the law says. The law once said 'separate but equal' and the marketplace said fuck that.
Well, Internet users are saying fuck that to media corporations. TV-viewers with VCRs and Tivos (and MythTV, you arrogant linux jerks) are saying fuck that to the stupid-loud-ads-in-your face-business-model.
The more the DMCA is being used in its limitless obscurity, the more it is being struck the fuck down. The more software patents become reality, the more prior art can be claimed in open source.
The marketplace controls demand and demand always controls supply. Big bad Joe wouldn't be selling pot to 16yo kids if 16yo kids weren't buyin'.
So, basically, I'm saying to hell with these corporations trying to tell me what to do with something after I already bought it. If I wanna cut a tennis ball in half and use it as a neato door stop, fuck Wilson if they tell me that's unauthorized use. They can fuck off because I paid for the balls... actually, because I have the balls. I already have the mp3s of the songs I want (don't need any new crappy music in my collection) and they weren't available for purchase when I wanted them, and CDs don't always play right and get scratched easily, so why should I go buy the cds of said music now? Make new shit for me to buy... that is worth buying.
There's safety in numbers - especially in a Democracy that gets to vote for who's in power. Crappy laws can be removed. And guess what, media companies?! -- the majority, consequently your own customers, is already against you! So fuck off and go produce something that I will buy instead of treating me like I'm not buying enough.
If it were easier to buy a high-quality mp3 for a buck that came with a keychain or some neato bullshit like that, I wouldn't have pirated them.
So, media companies, here's how to un-piss us off:
- apologize for calling your customers criminals - make access to media easier rather than harder - go with the fucking marketplace flow like a good megaconglomerate - do some market research that doesn't involve what you think you're owed - act like the consumer has a say in what he or she buys - quit treating idiots in masses (ie. consumers) as idiots.. we tend to get smart in numbers - make better shit
And finally, all of you pirates that are too lazy to click twice at the EFF website, donate, or fire off a flaming letter filled with poo at your nearest corrupt government fuck, you're still doing your patriotic duty by pirating. I want to liken you to MLK's stand of civil disobedience - but that would be unfair since you're just downloading Britney Spears while the black dudes got their poor asses beat. So instead, I will just say hurrah for teen angst and continue your P2P deviations.. because you are saying a lot, no matter how ignorant the media companies want to be.
Ya.. I'm all for massive damage on both sides. Now, if we could somehow add Microsoft and Clear Channel to the mix, we could see consumers making progress in the marketplace.
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You're fat!!!
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You're failing to note that the kneejerk reaction is actually more of a kneejerk tendency to be indifferent. It's more like this:
Scientist: Drinking Pepsi gives you cancer.
Kneejerk: Mmm.. Pepsi.
I mean think about it.. the article is saying reading email makes you dumb. So, we're supposed to all quit reading email? I mean.. how stupidly ridiculous is that?
In reality, the article is kneejerk itself. And, the reaction you're calling 'kneejerk' is really just something any reasonable person would do.
I'm gonna figure out how to sue someone cause' my email made me fat.
My neighbor's email made him a pedophile.
And, my dog's email made him kill himself.
And a friend's email made him blame everything else in his life for being dumb.
My personal database says that I'm a pervert with a small penis who uses lots of prescription drugs financed by taking a 2nd mortgage and my relative in Nigeria.
Doesn't anyone else just think that email totally sucks? I can't remember the last time I checked my email other than to hit 'confirm' when I signed up for some stupid web service like nytimes.com.
Every time I try to save an email, it ends up getting deleted anyway when I'm throwing out the spam 100's of emails at a time. Email is useless as it is and nothing important should ever be done with an email.
As a 90% user of Windows (ya I hate it) and 10% user of Linux (I hate it too), I think the biggest problem with linux is its incessant forking. At least Windows develops some sort of standard and things look about the same on all computers. It's like Windows is monogomous.. It's boring, but reliable.
With linux, every distro breeds more distros.. every project breeds more projects.. They're forking like rabbits!
It wouldn't let me mod you to '6, Fucking Hilarious'
This diversity shit is off-topic and stupid anyway. Just because the show doesn't have one token dude from Lake Titticacca doesn't mean the show doesn't embrace diversity.
There weren't any big fat people in Enterprise and there's a hell of a lot of them. If they were truly embracing diversity, they should have a token fat person.
Don't forget a token mulato lesbian paraplegic, recovering from a crack addiction, who embraced the Church of Scientology. Seriously.. those people are always misrepresented.
You bastards that always count the number of tokens are the ones who are the least diverse... in your thinking.
I'm unhappy about the lack of penis jokes in response to this news..
You'd think April 1 people would be thinking about more penises.... cause' they're funny.. penises..
about as tasty as a mac..
But it IS Microsoft's fucking fault! Microsoft has ultimate control over almost every users' system... and almost ever users' system eventually gets compromised.
Microsoft's browser that gives developers every last inch of control over a user's PC is what inevitably led to developers just completely taking over users' PCs. Microsoft insists on certain features in Internet Explorer that make it a pain for even the smartest PC users to control what they see.
Here's some problems with IE:
- no real ability to disable popups (Completely disallowing all forms of popups is more secure and convenient for the USER. Fuck developers.)
- Install on demand (What a fucking trainwreck feature this is. Developer puts the 'yes' button behind the 'close' button nested 8 popups under the first one. User gets frustrated and clicks 7 close buttons and 1 button marked 'fuck me in the ass please')
- Patch-and-fix attitude.. It's somehow not Microsoft's fault if they allow 'get into my PC free' for two months if they eventually release a patch for it?
Here's how you fix Internet Explorer:
- get rid of 'install on demand' (Make it so users have to actively download and install what they want installed. This whole 'make things easier for flash to install itself and bombard you with ads' is stupid.
- SUE MICROSOFT. That's right. Consumer class-action large-scale - the type of lawsuit that puts them in the red for a quarter. How many billions has this cost Joe Consumer?
"Just remember that it is also the responsibility of the computer users to patch their systems in a timely manner as soon as they are available."
What if my computer is already fucked up, assface?
Ya, I'm pissed. I'm not an idiot computer user - I spend 8 hours a day on a computer. Yet, while typing this, I got a goddamn a.tribalfusion.bullshit popunder sitting there on my taskbar... and this is while I'm running a proxy filter, run Spybot, run Ad Aware.. And, if I'm having problems like this, Joe Consumer is getting raped.
Ya, you can call me stupid and say I browse the Internet wrong or whatever shit like that. But, this shit never happened back when Netscape was the dominant browser and it did not allow the developer to ad 'features' that work much like a virus.
These zombie PCs ARE by and large Microsoft's fault. Microsoft needs to implement features with the idea that developers will EXPLOIT at every turn possible for money and they need to focus on the consumer, for once. You can't tell me that Microsot doesn't know that Joe Consumer does not want 8 popups while browsing Slashdot.org.
BTW, if anyone has an easy, one-click fix for all the problems I have browsing (that is made by Microsoft, built-in to Internet Explorer), I will print out this post and EAT IT.
I was having trouble logging into Steam like everyone else. So, I clicked 'Retrieve a Lost Account' and then 'I Know My Account Name' and finished the rest of the process.
I can log into Steam just fine now. Maybe that'll fix it for others - or maybe Steam's servers are back up and running now.
Since I can't play Counterstrike Source right now, I got to thinking..
Supposed I went out and downloaded a cracked copy of Counterstrike Source and played the hell out of it while the login servers for my legitimate version were still FUBAR.. and then I got caught by Valve and they sued me.
Who would win in court? I mean.. I did violate the User Agreement - but they also violated the terms of the contract in that they did not provide me with a working game. And, the UA is just another contract - NOT the word of the law.
At first, I really liked Steam because I wouln't have to worry about scratching the CD for the game or even grabbing the damn thing in the first place - but being told my username and password is wrong to play a game I bought really pisses me off.
It wasn't arrogant to open with a 'fuck off'. It would have been arrogant to acuse all you 'haters' of having the wrong opinions. Instead, I'm saying fuckoff to those who tell me I'm wrong for enjoying Enterprise - including the first three seasons.
"You could at least admit that Scientology is better than two thirds of the other new religions out there."
No, that's bullshit. That has nothing to do with anything we are talking about.
I am saying I am sick of being told by other sci-fi neonerds that my nerdy show is awful. It's not fucking awful if I enjoy it - so again, fuck off. Do you understand this time?
A better comparison would be me trying to enjoy my food while some other guy comes by and says, 'Eww.. that's gross.' Well, he's not eating it!
Even if you think Enterprise is bad, it certainly doesn't hurt you that it's on the air!
I would like to speak on behalf of the many Enterprise-loving trekkies out there and say sincerely, "Fuck off!"
Quit rooting for my show to die when it's still one of the last great accomplishments of a dying genre. Sci Fi nowadays has nowhere near the fanbase it once did - and because you snub your nose at Trek while touting the wonderful miracle that is Battlestar Galactica, you take a toll on the genre itself.
I, like many others, have been thrilled with Enterprise in its entirety. The Star Trek universe will never get old for us. And people like you, arrogant sci-fi tasters of the finest, could do the least bit to admit that Enterprise is better than 2/3 of the complete filth that is television today.
Two sci-fi shows is better than one.
I'm gonna start watching Battlestar Galactica now along with Star Trek... Give Enterprise another chance, please.
It seems the computer industry is prone to these accidental 'monopolies'. Sure, there are other instant messaging networks, but almost everyone uses AOL/AIM. Sure, there are other OS's, but almost everyone uses Windows.
Too bad there isn't a more decentralized open standard for instant messaging..
I've been wanting to get a PDA but I've been pretty dissappointed with the slow OS that ships with Windows-based PDAs.
And, Palm OS is a piece of crap. But, with Palm running on linux, I would be willing to bed that some unhappy nerd will fix it for the rest of us and give us something more than tolerable. So, I'm gonna be very optimistic about this.
I want to be able to play my GBA games on my new pda and watch lectures in high-quality - but the limitations of both of the current OS's seem to stifle that..
So instead of suing you for $250,000 per mp3 at 1000 mp3s, they get to sue you for $250,000,000 per mp3 at 1000 mp3s.. Big deal.
They burn most of their calories with common lies like 'maybe', 'I've had 3 previous partners only', and my favorite 'I'm 18!'
You can tell an honest girl by how fat she is.
I think our generation is gonna be walking around the city with these things when we're old like the old people at beaches with metal detectors..
FarCry was awesome...
On some of the levels, I would go covert the whole way through. Then, I would replay as a Rambo badass.
A good level to be a Rambo badass on is the river level. Get a gunship and go as fast as possible. Switch the weapon to missles and fire off missles as you dodge a helicopter, another gunship, and various turrets and bad guys firing at you. If you drive the boat well, you can avoid most of the fire and blow up the helicopter on the way without losing speed.. It looks like a sweet R-rated action movie sequence.
I don't remember the names of the areas or anything, but it was a dock area where you had to blow your way under the dock by getting out of the boat and igniting barrels placed near a door in a cargo container that was lying in the water. Then, you gain speed under the dock, go up a ramp, and jump into a tunnel in the wall.
However, I just jumped over a pile of rubble in between the barriers under the dock and landed inside the 'ramp area'. Then, when I tried to jump the ramp, I went smack into nothingness instead of going in the tunnel.. I get frustrated by games that try to control me. I'd rather play the game than have games control me.
I am loving Half Life 2 and I think the game really rocks.. Though, I'm annoyed with two things..
You cannot skip a part of the game or 'take shortcuts' if you find a faster way to do something like in normal FPs's.. As an example, I used the airboat to jump through a dock area without blowing up some strategic exploding barrels to form an entry. But, when I tried to complete the next jump, I hit an invisible wall in midair... until I completed the first part and the 'wall' dissappeared. It's happened elsewhere in the game.
Also, the characters have no interaction. Freeman never talks and the other characters are invincible. So, I usually pelt them with barrels and other debris using the gravity gun while they're talking to me. It gets pretty funny sometimes when you smack a guy in the head with an exploding barrel from across the room and he just keeps talking..
Massive complete ignorance of current copyright laws and any future laws will gear the marketplace away from strict standards no matter what the law says. The law once said 'separate but equal' and the marketplace said fuck that.
Well, Internet users are saying fuck that to media corporations. TV-viewers with VCRs and Tivos (and MythTV, you arrogant linux jerks) are saying fuck that to the stupid-loud-ads-in-your face-business-model.
The more the DMCA is being used in its limitless obscurity, the more it is being struck the fuck down. The more software patents become reality, the more prior art can be claimed in open source.
The marketplace controls demand and demand always controls supply. Big bad Joe wouldn't be selling pot to 16yo kids if 16yo kids weren't buyin'.
So, basically, I'm saying to hell with these corporations trying to tell me what to do with something after I already bought it. If I wanna cut a tennis ball in half and use it as a neato door stop, fuck Wilson if they tell me that's unauthorized use. They can fuck off because I paid for the balls... actually, because I have the balls. I already have the mp3s of the songs I want (don't need any new crappy music in my collection) and they weren't available for purchase when I wanted them, and CDs don't always play right and get scratched easily, so why should I go buy the cds of said music now? Make new shit for me to buy... that is worth buying.
There's safety in numbers - especially in a Democracy that gets to vote for who's in power. Crappy laws can be removed. And guess what, media companies?! -- the majority, consequently your own customers, is already against you! So fuck off and go produce something that I will buy instead of treating me like I'm not buying enough.
If it were easier to buy a high-quality mp3 for a buck that came with a keychain or some neato bullshit like that, I wouldn't have pirated them.
So, media companies, here's how to un-piss us off:
- apologize for calling your customers criminals
- make access to media easier rather than harder
- go with the fucking marketplace flow like a good megaconglomerate
- do some market research that doesn't involve what you think you're owed
- act like the consumer has a say in what he or she buys
- quit treating idiots in masses (ie. consumers) as idiots.. we tend to get smart in numbers
- make better shit
And finally, all of you pirates that are too lazy to click twice at the EFF website, donate, or fire off a flaming letter filled with poo at your nearest corrupt government fuck, you're still doing your patriotic duty by pirating. I want to liken you to MLK's stand of civil disobedience - but that would be unfair since you're just downloading Britney Spears while the black dudes got their poor asses beat. So instead, I will just say hurrah for teen angst and continue your P2P deviations.. because you are saying a lot, no matter how ignorant the media companies want to be.
Sorry I said fuck a lot.
Ya.. I'm all for massive damage on both sides. Now, if we could somehow add Microsoft and Clear Channel to the mix, we could see consumers making progress in the marketplace.