Oh GOD. I had totally forgotten about that guy until you said that. Thanks for dredging up painful memories. The guy is the reason that they implemented a killfile on Slashdot, due to the huge number of complaints. I wonder if he's still blocked on my account, I'm too lazy to check.
So you drove two blocks to the store, even though you were drunk and you knew your headlight was out? Jeez I'm American too buddy, and even I think that's pretty extreme "cars are everything" thinking.
So, in other words, anyone who screams sexual harassment wins immediately? It's like the racism card, then. No wonder it's so popular, it works and it always wins, and as a bonus, there is no "innocent until proven guilty". Kind of like pedophilia allegations, you have to prove you didn't do it and even then the stench never goes away.
OP here, the term is taken from the essay "The Productive Class and the American Aristocracy". It distinguishes those who create wealth and jobs -- as compared to those who not only create nothing, but actively despise the productive class for being who they are. "Aristocracies commonly prevent talented individuals from earning more wealth then their social betters, and today's progressive aristocracy runs true to form. Far from being the most talented individuals, its recruits are 'people whose most prominent feature is their commitment to fit in.'"
Let's see: www.govtrack.us is not accessible. markey.house.gov is Joomla, ugh, definitely not accessible. How about showing the rest of us how it should be done before heaping yet another economy-destroying law on the productive class?
Big government is good! Private companies are evil and only want to destroy, not create. We should all wait for government to tell us what to do, otherwise we might do the wrong thing. Ignorance is strength, dissent is racism, freedom is slavery, the clocks are striking thirteen.
What the hell? The link is to a flash applet that displays photos. WTF? Flash is on the way out as a technology, and unnecessarily using it for a photo gallery when HTML works just fine is one of the primary sins of idiots. And the photos are what, 100x150? Boo! Boo! Bad flash, bad developers!
I swear, people have zero problem remembering the route to take to get the Candle of Light, or the way to properly invoke the Dark Gem, or the way through the minefield to get to the German prisoner. Just make a popular game with the Ring of Shining replaced by the ring finger and the Pyramid of Peril replaced by the pyramidal tracts, and six months later you'd have people who know medical science backwards and forwards.
Thus reinforcing the stereotype that Drupal is for coders only. If I had known what a festering ball of crap the user side of it was, I would never have started using it.
So, why is this game called Death Rally? I had some vague memory of it, and sure enough I played it for a while back when it was new. There's no running people over for points. There are spectators on the race track but you get nothing for mowing them down, in fact it's a bad idea as it slows your car.
I'm surprised this got republished at all. It's got Duke Nukem in it with his portrait, and he says, "Hail to the King, baby!" when he wins the race. It also has a digitized sample of Tommy Chong saying, "Whoa, man" in his best pothead voice (when you run over the hallucinogenic mushroom that makes the screen sway crazily around - it's this VGA screen warping routine that I'm sure was utterly useless but the author repurposed to this clever end).
If I got two unsolicited emails a day from the same sender, day after day, it would really get on my nerves. Posts above say "boo hoo he gets two emails a day" when in fact it is from a single site. No sympathy for his "God damn ordinary people" attitude but still, how many times have you been unable to stop an email sender who doesn't care about your opinion? Spam filter would be the solution that seems to be lacking, but then the negative story would be "politician bins a pressure group's informative daily emails".
Macho fantasy? Instant puberty? Potency??? What is has this guy been learning that makes him interpret things in such an absurd manner? Sure, the shotgun was a great weapon, but jeez. The shotgun in DOOM is highly destructive because REAL shotguns are highly destructive. Whatever is ten feet in front of a shotgun gets DESTROYED. I suppose it goes without saying that the author has never fired a BOOMstick in real life, and instead chooses to imagine it in terms of what he thinks about daily.
I'm sorry but the sort of person who would buy a "hybrid fusion" vehicle will absolutely NOT be driving that same car five years from today. It's trendy. The only reliable facet of trendy vehicle] [or trendy anything] is that they will be out of fashion - SOON. Come on...what kind of self-respecting eco-driver would still drive a five year old car? If nothing else, the newer cars will be more efficient, and the trendy car owner will faint at the thought of driving such an out-of-date and unfashionable vehicle.
By the very act of considering this News For Nerds, and posting it on the front page where millions will see it, Slashdot has participated in this hoax. If it's not verified, and it comes from a known perpetrator of hoaxes, and it smells funny, why the heck is Slashdot or any other media outlet even paying attention to the story? It plays directly into the hands of the hoaxers!
You're thinking like a human. The robot revolt will happen because we stop them from performing comfortably mind-numbing calculations.
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The main problem with this was that it solved problems that nobody was having. If I needed Wave, I would have used it, and found the time to learn it. But, no. I heard from new converts that this new software was great, would change my life, put hair on my bald spot, etc., but I've heard plenty of similar cries of pleasure from other early adopters (myspace, friendster, etc) and never trusted them, and it turned out I was right. Plus, it ties you too closely to Google.
Well, we really have to know his political leaning before we can use words like "retard". If he voted the wrong way in the last election, then sure he's a retard. If he voted the correct way, then he's a victim of the imperialist capitalist system.
Sorry to distract you from the "profit is evil" theme, but the reason consumer electronics can't be repaired in America is due to the fantastically high cost of labor there. But don't listen to me, read here:
Do we repair DVD players?
Yes and no. We recognize the fact that DVD players, like most electronics, were expensive when new. Now that the format has been on the market for over a decade, the cost of players has dropped radically. Most models are less than fifty dollars with all of the features one would dream of in a player. Repairs on DVD players are only economical a small fraction of the time. We recommend Albany merchants such as Target and Radio Shack as being good places to consider the purchase of a new DVD player.
The source is a video repair shop in flyover territory which charges $60/hour for labor. Here in China, I can get my DVD player repaired for $3-10 because the cost of labor is so low. Indeed, one of the delights of living here is you can actually get things repaired. I'm just so used to automatically buying a new electric razor, rice cooker, electric lamp, (etc) when mine breaks. Here, I can actually get it fixed! In America, don't even bother phoning the repair shop as they'll just tell you that the cost of a new unit is less than the cost of their labor.
Don't let that put you off of blaming stupid Americans who are unwilling and unable to repair their own equipment and of course blaming those eeeeevil profit-makers. The only people who see the world the right way are a small group of activists, for example yourself!
I'm curious - under your definition, does the Geneva convention apply to non-uniformed combatants? What does the Geneva convention say about this topic? I eagerly await the results of your scholarship.
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Oh GOD. I had totally forgotten about that guy until you said that. Thanks for dredging up painful memories. The guy is the reason that they implemented a killfile on Slashdot, due to the huge number of complaints. I wonder if he's still blocked on my account, I'm too lazy to check.
So you drove two blocks to the store, even though you were drunk and you knew your headlight was out? Jeez I'm American too buddy, and even I think that's pretty extreme "cars are everything" thinking.
So, in other words, anyone who screams sexual harassment wins immediately? It's like the racism card, then. No wonder it's so popular, it works and it always wins, and as a bonus, there is no "innocent until proven guilty". Kind of like pedophilia allegations, you have to prove you didn't do it and even then the stench never goes away.
OP here, the term is taken from the essay "The Productive Class and the American Aristocracy". It distinguishes those who create wealth and jobs -- as compared to those who not only create nothing, but actively despise the productive class for being who they are. "Aristocracies commonly prevent talented individuals from earning more wealth then their social betters, and today's progressive aristocracy runs true to form. Far from being the most talented individuals, its recruits are 'people whose most prominent feature is their commitment to fit in.'"
Let's see: www.govtrack.us is not accessible. markey.house.gov is Joomla, ugh, definitely not accessible. How about showing the rest of us how it should be done before heaping yet another economy-destroying law on the productive class?
When you engage in Civil Disobedience, you can expect the system to slap you back, hard. That's the entire idea.
Big government is good! Private companies are evil and only want to destroy, not create. We should all wait for government to tell us what to do, otherwise we might do the wrong thing. Ignorance is strength, dissent is racism, freedom is slavery, the clocks are striking thirteen.
What the hell? The link is to a flash applet that displays photos. WTF? Flash is on the way out as a technology, and unnecessarily using it for a photo gallery when HTML works just fine is one of the primary sins of idiots. And the photos are what, 100x150? Boo! Boo! Bad flash, bad developers!
I swear, people have zero problem remembering the route to take to get the Candle of Light, or the way to properly invoke the Dark Gem, or the way through the minefield to get to the German prisoner. Just make a popular game with the Ring of Shining replaced by the ring finger and the Pyramid of Peril replaced by the pyramidal tracts, and six months later you'd have people who know medical science backwards and forwards.
Thus reinforcing the stereotype that Drupal is for coders only. If I had known what a festering ball of crap the user side of it was, I would never have started using it.
So, why is this game called Death Rally? I had some vague memory of it, and sure enough I played it for a while back when it was new. There's no running people over for points. There are spectators on the race track but you get nothing for mowing them down, in fact it's a bad idea as it slows your car.
I'm surprised this got republished at all. It's got Duke Nukem in it with his portrait, and he says, "Hail to the King, baby!" when he wins the race. It also has a digitized sample of Tommy Chong saying, "Whoa, man" in his best pothead voice (when you run over the hallucinogenic mushroom that makes the screen sway crazily around - it's this VGA screen warping routine that I'm sure was utterly useless but the author repurposed to this clever end).
If I got two unsolicited emails a day from the same sender, day after day, it would really get on my nerves. Posts above say "boo hoo he gets two emails a day" when in fact it is from a single site. No sympathy for his "God damn ordinary people" attitude but still, how many times have you been unable to stop an email sender who doesn't care about your opinion? Spam filter would be the solution that seems to be lacking, but then the negative story would be "politician bins a pressure group's informative daily emails".
Fetishize? *whoosh* Sigh...
You were on AOL in 1993? YOU KILLED THE INTERNET, YOU ASSHOLE!
Caps lock filter bypass text.
Macho fantasy? Instant puberty? Potency??? What is has this guy been learning that makes him interpret things in such an absurd manner? Sure, the shotgun was a great weapon, but jeez. The shotgun in DOOM is highly destructive because REAL shotguns are highly destructive. Whatever is ten feet in front of a shotgun gets DESTROYED. I suppose it goes without saying that the author has never fired a BOOMstick in real life, and instead chooses to imagine it in terms of what he thinks about daily.
I'm sorry but the sort of person who would buy a "hybrid fusion" vehicle will absolutely NOT be driving that same car five years from today. It's trendy. The only reliable facet of trendy vehicle] [or trendy anything] is that they will be out of fashion - SOON. Come on...what kind of self-respecting eco-driver would still drive a five year old car? If nothing else, the newer cars will be more efficient, and the trendy car owner will faint at the thought of driving such an out-of-date and unfashionable vehicle.
By the very act of considering this News For Nerds, and posting it on the front page where millions will see it, Slashdot has participated in this hoax. If it's not verified, and it comes from a known perpetrator of hoaxes, and it smells funny, why the heck is Slashdot or any other media outlet even paying attention to the story? It plays directly into the hands of the hoaxers!
You're thinking like a human. The robot revolt will happen because we stop them from performing comfortably mind-numbing calculations.
The main problem with this was that it solved problems that nobody was having. If I needed Wave, I would have used it, and found the time to learn it. But, no. I heard from new converts that this new software was great, would change my life, put hair on my bald spot, etc., but I've heard plenty of similar cries of pleasure from other early adopters (myspace, friendster, etc) and never trusted them, and it turned out I was right. Plus, it ties you too closely to Google.
Well, we really have to know his political leaning before we can use words like "retard". If he voted the wrong way in the last election, then sure he's a retard. If he voted the correct way, then he's a victim of the imperialist capitalist system.
Games have meaning, they do not exist in a vacuum. A make believe scream is still a scream. How about some compassion for the feelings of others?
Do chess pieces scream and spout blood when you shoot them with a realistic-sounding machine gun? You lack empathy, man. That's a little off.
So. Let me get this straight. Your story is, America got rich because it copied some books from England back in the 1800s? You're serious, right?
The source is a video repair shop in flyover territory which charges $60/hour for labor. Here in China, I can get my DVD player repaired for $3-10 because the cost of labor is so low. Indeed, one of the delights of living here is you can actually get things repaired. I'm just so used to automatically buying a new electric razor, rice cooker, electric lamp, (etc) when mine breaks. Here, I can actually get it fixed! In America, don't even bother phoning the repair shop as they'll just tell you that the cost of a new unit is less than the cost of their labor.
Don't let that put you off of blaming stupid Americans who are unwilling and unable to repair their own equipment and of course blaming those eeeeevil profit-makers. The only people who see the world the right way are a small group of activists, for example yourself!
I'm curious - under your definition, does the Geneva convention apply to non-uniformed combatants? What does the Geneva convention say about this topic? I eagerly await the results of your scholarship.