2. You'd be shocked at how shallow a lot of car buyers are. They go onto the lot not knowing what they want other than "a new car". You and me, well we'd do some research beforehand, but not everyone. The wealthier the buyer, the less they research. I can well understand getting a car with an iPod dock being the deciding factor - when you can have any car, the most important thing is to be trendy. And hell, you'll just get another new car next year, or the year after at most. It's one of the many destructive characteristics of inherited wealth (we used to call these folks aristocrats, but now they're called trust fundies or whatever), not caring what you spend because you didn't earn any of it anyway. I mean, can you imagine an aristocrat crowing about how much money she saved on a reliable vehicle that got 5 stars in Consumer Reports? Hell no! Now imagine the same person taking her friend for a ride and exultantly saying, "Check this out - a slot for my iPod! And they had just the color that I wanted!"
Working class people shop for cars by what they can afford per month, the unfortunate saps.
Remember back in the 90s when everyone was jizzing in their pants about Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson's writing, dreaming of actually implementing the ideas therein? Data havens, crypto-anarchism, impregnable anonymity, hackers making a decent living by a life of crime, and so forth?
Well, now the future is here. Kind of sucks, doesn't it? Careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Yeah, those are called "tourists". What would you say about a Catholic monastery that trained anyone off the street, as long as they paid cash up front?
Satire of a political figure that we don't like is legitimate use of a domain.
What would happen if the domain in question was called "Obama: Fascist President" or some such? I mean, disregarding the obvious racism aspect for a moment.
At one time, crotchety old men could be grumps and misanthropes without being slapped with a label, assumed to be suffering from some syndrome that could be treated if only the appropriate amount of money is paid to Pfizer.
And what makes you believe that a bunch of Buddhists would even accept an outsider like this? Do monasteries exist just so worldly people can go in retreat for a few years?
You do know that the "high power" mind of Sir Conan Doyle believed wholeheartedly in fairies? "History concurs", my ass!
The international radiation trefoil exists for one reason: to warn people of real danger. Abusing the symbol to make a lame pun (Ha ha ha "radio" active, get it? hee hee hee oh wait it's not funny) is a sure sign of a double-digit IQ.
Seriously, how does this kind of redneck garbage get into slashdot? Some buffoon got hisself a 1985 Dodge Colt (trailer trash car if I've ever seen one) and proceeds to put a shit-ton of radios in it. Big deal! There's no technology or inventiveness here, it's the same as some ignoramus who built a vehicle out of his La-Z-Boy. Let's get a closer look - license plates trimmed with neon (barf); misuse of the "radiation" symbol (car is not radioactive); Florida plates (redneck central); a laser light drawing spirograph designs on the rear window (what is this, a nightclub circa 1992?); ground-effect lighting (waaaaay overdone); a scrolling LED sign, and much more totally stupid crap. Most of the gear is just ordinary handheld radios. I mean, come on, a "Sear's Platinum" battery powers the whole thing? What kind of self-respecting geek shops at "Sear's" (sic)? And a "Hydrallic" system? *cough* redneck *cough*
I'm all for rewarding creative use of technology, but this isn't creative, it's merely excessive. Not news for nerds, stuff that doesn't matter.
All copies of the software were deactivated remotely
The whole thing was a hoax
The hoax was to raise awareness
The author used the publicity to advocate a cause that he personally considers important
Which of these are bad? And why? I've often heard that getting a personal message out via publicity stunts is a good thing (The Yes Men) and now all the sudden it's bad, and we should pay no attention to these reprehensible people whose only method is deceit?
OK I'm really confused now. We were talking about (1) Unilateralism being bad - in other words, a country acting selfishly in its own national interest, refusing the opinions of outsiders and (2) Europe telling Canada what to do. So, we get a post flaming the USA for reasons totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. If the EU doesn't have its "shit together" then I would question which nations in the world would fit this incredibly narrow criterion.
Which is it, countries acting in their own interest: good, or bad? I've been informed that it is bad many, many times. Now, it's suddenly good? I'm confused as to the rationale and asking for an insightful, reasoned response. Instead I get some sort of psychological projection response involving homosexuals? WTF? Who brought that up?
You miss the point, sir. The point was, unilateralism is bad, mmmkay? I have heard this point thousands of times. Either unilateralism is bad, or it's not. What I'm hearing is when they do it, it's bad, but when we do it, it's good. If that ain't hypocrisy then I don't know what is.
You know, if that comment had been made by an American, it would have attracted at least three angry comments before it was modded down to -1. Instead it's +3 and rising. What happened to unilateralism being bad? The idea that a nation should act selfishly in its own national interest, with no thought as to how its actions will be perceived internationally? Parent is an outright rejection, complete with profanity! I'm really puzzled...honest question, not a flame.
It didn't matter what Kennedy said in his campaign - the fix was in in Texas and Illinois. It was a rigged election. Nixon knew perfectly well what had happened but didn't make a stink as he didn't want to destroy the system.
if you emit junk, your reputation will be junk.Yeah, well how do you tell what is junk? I operate a 100% legitimate email list. ALL THE TIME, I get people who click "this is spam" in gmail or hotmail or yahoo. At least 2-5 every email list run. Why? My list isn't spam. It's just that people get tired of the emails, and they would rather not click on "unsubscribe" and instead click on "spam". They volunteered for the emails! And meanwhile yahoo/gmail/hotmail take this as a vote that my email list is spam, and it ends up in new subscribers' spam folder. Yippee.
Legal government? What legal government? Political power is derived from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical Communist ceremony. How is it that Castro's brother is now leader...what is Cuba, a hereditary monarchy?
PS, Iranians do actually fund organizations in America that promote the Persian way. These are (usually) 100% legal and there is nothing the US government can do other than spy on them.
Good ol' fair compensation for labor. Here's a bitter joke workers made when an entire huge nation actually lived under such circumstances: "So long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work."
And for good measure, here are a few more illustrating how life really is under a system like this. Keep in mind, these were not created in America, but rather by real workers who were aspiring to true socialism.
"Lenin died, but his cause lives on!" (an actual slogan)
The workers attitude: "We would prefer it the other way around."
How do you deal with mice infesting the government buildings?
Put up a sign saying "real socialist farm". Then half the mice will starve and the others will run away.
A man walks into a shop and says, "I see you don't have any fish", and the shop assistant replies, "You got it wrong - this is a butcher: we don't have any meat. They don't have any fish in the fish shop that is across the road!"
Until about ten years ago, this was the default. People would automatically respect the wishes of others, even at the cost of inconvenience. Fast forward to today, and here is a Slashdot poster asking why on Earth anyone would ever do that - I am the most important being in the world. Narcissism.
When one usually states "I could care less", they usually mean "I could not care less". [e.g. "I could care less about linguistics."]
In order for one to "care less" about a subject, they must first care about it somewhat. Saying "I could care less about... " does indeed imply, nay dictate, that there is some degree of care. Here is a handy chart to help visualize.
At one time, people would respect others and not annoy the crap out of them. It was simply understood that you weren't to bother others. Nowadays, you're expected to eat it and buy noise canceling headphones that rest on my ears all day long. Wonderful!
I could have had a very low account number indeed, but at that time I was all about anonymity and I thought it was stupid to register for an account at ANY website. If I had to put a name, I'd just choose a random name or look around the room for objects. I posted anonymous for a long time on Slashdot until it got abused excessively and default score threshold went up to 1. Ah, when goatsex was a new and funny joke. Why do you think everyone knows what it is? Then, after it became increasingly obvious that nobody read score: 0 comments, including the moderators, I finally registered for an account, choosing the name from a book that happened to be on my shelf at the time. Remember when Slashdot karma was a numeric value and people were putting the score on their resumes?
I like working in a nice quiet office where I don't have to listen to the noise leak out of someone else's tinny speakers. It is especially irritating when the person in question has a questionable taste in music. Makes me put on my own headphones, and those give me an earache after a couple of hours. Plus, I run out of music to listen to. I just plain don't like listening to music while working, and I don't like listening to your music, either. I suppose this makes me a obviously wrong and evil person.
Yeah, sure your headphones don't leak, but other people's do. And I'm not running around buying headphones for everyone. Why should I change, they're the ones who suck!
Most "space images" are very heavily processed. If they took a normal picture it wouldn't look nearly as good. NASA learned a long time ago that its only reason for getting funded (besides being a jobs program) was making pretty pictures.
Eric Arthur Blair was a nutbag wingnut who wrote his book as a screed against leftism. Big Brother is modeled after the Soviet Union, and is a receptacle for all of Blair's negative experiences with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly annoying?
1. Agreeing with yourself? Nice.
2. You'd be shocked at how shallow a lot of car buyers are. They go onto the lot not knowing what they want other than "a new car". You and me, well we'd do some research beforehand, but not everyone. The wealthier the buyer, the less they research. I can well understand getting a car with an iPod dock being the deciding factor - when you can have any car, the most important thing is to be trendy. And hell, you'll just get another new car next year, or the year after at most. It's one of the many destructive characteristics of inherited wealth (we used to call these folks aristocrats, but now they're called trust fundies or whatever), not caring what you spend because you didn't earn any of it anyway. I mean, can you imagine an aristocrat crowing about how much money she saved on a reliable vehicle that got 5 stars in Consumer Reports? Hell no! Now imagine the same person taking her friend for a ride and exultantly saying, "Check this out - a slot for my iPod! And they had just the color that I wanted!"
Working class people shop for cars by what they can afford per month, the unfortunate saps.
Remember back in the 90s when everyone was jizzing in their pants about Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson's writing, dreaming of actually implementing the ideas therein? Data havens, crypto-anarchism, impregnable anonymity, hackers making a decent living by a life of crime, and so forth?
Well, now the future is here. Kind of sucks, doesn't it? Careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Yeah, those are called "tourists". What would you say about a Catholic monastery that trained anyone off the street, as long as they paid cash up front?
Let me fix that for you:
Satire of a political figure that we don't like is legitimate use of a domain.
What would happen if the domain in question was called "Obama: Fascist President" or some such? I mean, disregarding the obvious racism aspect for a moment.
At one time, crotchety old men could be grumps and misanthropes without being slapped with a label, assumed to be suffering from some syndrome that could be treated if only the appropriate amount of money is paid to Pfizer.
And what makes you believe that a bunch of Buddhists would even accept an outsider like this? Do monasteries exist just so worldly people can go in retreat for a few years?
You do know that the "high power" mind of Sir Conan Doyle believed wholeheartedly in fairies? "History concurs", my ass!
The international radiation trefoil exists for one reason: to warn people of real danger. Abusing the symbol to make a lame pun (Ha ha ha "radio" active, get it? hee hee hee oh wait it's not funny) is a sure sign of a double-digit IQ.
Seriously, how does this kind of redneck garbage get into slashdot? Some buffoon got hisself a 1985 Dodge Colt (trailer trash car if I've ever seen one) and proceeds to put a shit-ton of radios in it. Big deal! There's no technology or inventiveness here, it's the same as some ignoramus who built a vehicle out of his La-Z-Boy. Let's get a closer look - license plates trimmed with neon (barf); misuse of the "radiation" symbol (car is not radioactive); Florida plates (redneck central); a laser light drawing spirograph designs on the rear window (what is this, a nightclub circa 1992?); ground-effect lighting (waaaaay overdone); a scrolling LED sign, and much more totally stupid crap. Most of the gear is just ordinary handheld radios. I mean, come on, a "Sear's Platinum" battery powers the whole thing? What kind of self-respecting geek shops at "Sear's" (sic)? And a "Hydrallic" system? *cough* redneck *cough*
I'm all for rewarding creative use of technology, but this isn't creative, it's merely excessive. Not news for nerds, stuff that doesn't matter.
Which of these are bad? And why? I've often heard that getting a personal message out via publicity stunts is a good thing (The Yes Men) and now all the sudden it's bad, and we should pay no attention to these reprehensible people whose only method is deceit?
OK I'm really confused now. We were talking about (1) Unilateralism being bad - in other words, a country acting selfishly in its own national interest, refusing the opinions of outsiders and (2) Europe telling Canada what to do. So, we get a post flaming the USA for reasons totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. If the EU doesn't have its "shit together" then I would question which nations in the world would fit this incredibly narrow criterion.
Which is it, countries acting in their own interest: good, or bad? I've been informed that it is bad many, many times. Now, it's suddenly good? I'm confused as to the rationale and asking for an insightful, reasoned response. Instead I get some sort of psychological projection response involving homosexuals? WTF? Who brought that up?
So, it IS hypocrisy then. Well, that's settled. I suspected as much. Hurrah for Canada! Let's all toast the Queen!
You miss the point, sir. The point was, unilateralism is bad, mmmkay? I have heard this point thousands of times. Either unilateralism is bad, or it's not. What I'm hearing is when they do it, it's bad, but when we do it, it's good. If that ain't hypocrisy then I don't know what is.
You know, if that comment had been made by an American, it would have attracted at least three angry comments before it was modded down to -1. Instead it's +3 and rising. What happened to unilateralism being bad? The idea that a nation should act selfishly in its own national interest, with no thought as to how its actions will be perceived internationally? Parent is an outright rejection, complete with profanity! I'm really puzzled...honest question, not a flame.
It didn't matter what Kennedy said in his campaign - the fix was in in Texas and Illinois. It was a rigged election. Nixon knew perfectly well what had happened but didn't make a stink as he didn't want to destroy the system.
if you emit junk, your reputation will be junk.Yeah, well how do you tell what is junk? I operate a 100% legitimate email list. ALL THE TIME, I get people who click "this is spam" in gmail or hotmail or yahoo. At least 2-5 every email list run. Why? My list isn't spam. It's just that people get tired of the emails, and they would rather not click on "unsubscribe" and instead click on "spam". They volunteered for the emails! And meanwhile yahoo/gmail/hotmail take this as a vote that my email list is spam, and it ends up in new subscribers' spam folder. Yippee.
Question: how many million people died due to Enron? Decimal answers are acceptable.
Legal government? What legal government? Political power is derived from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical Communist ceremony. How is it that Castro's brother is now leader...what is Cuba, a hereditary monarchy?
PS, Iranians do actually fund organizations in America that promote the Persian way. These are (usually) 100% legal and there is nothing the US government can do other than spy on them.
Good ol' fair compensation for labor. Here's a bitter joke workers made when an entire huge nation actually lived under such circumstances:
"So long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work."
And for good measure, here are a few more illustrating how life really is under a system like this. Keep in mind, these were not created in America, but rather by real workers who were aspiring to true socialism.
"Lenin died, but his cause lives on!" (an actual slogan)
The workers attitude: "We would prefer it the other way around."
How do you deal with mice infesting the government buildings?
Put up a sign saying "real socialist farm". Then half the mice will starve and the others will run away.
A man walks into a shop and says, "I see you don't have any fish", and the shop assistant replies, "You got it wrong - this is a butcher: we don't have any meat. They don't have any fish in the fish shop that is across the road!"
Until about ten years ago, this was the default. People would automatically respect the wishes of others, even at the cost of inconvenience. Fast forward to today, and here is a Slashdot poster asking why on Earth anyone would ever do that - I am the most important being in the world. Narcissism.
He could really care less about that.
When one usually states "I could care less", they usually mean "I could not care less". [e.g. "I could care less about linguistics."] ... " does indeed imply, nay dictate, that there is some degree of care.
In order for one to "care less" about a subject, they must first care about it somewhat. Saying "I could care less about
Here is a handy chart to help visualize.
At one time, people would respect others and not annoy the crap out of them. It was simply understood that you weren't to bother others. Nowadays, you're expected to eat it and buy noise canceling headphones that rest on my ears all day long. Wonderful!
I could have had a very low account number indeed, but at that time I was all about anonymity and I thought it was stupid to register for an account at ANY website. If I had to put a name, I'd just choose a random name or look around the room for objects. I posted anonymous for a long time on Slashdot until it got abused excessively and default score threshold went up to 1. Ah, when goatsex was a new and funny joke. Why do you think everyone knows what it is? Then, after it became increasingly obvious that nobody read score: 0 comments, including the moderators, I finally registered for an account, choosing the name from a book that happened to be on my shelf at the time. Remember when Slashdot karma was a numeric value and people were putting the score on their resumes?
Yeah, sure your headphones don't leak, but other people's do. And I'm not running around buying headphones for everyone. Why should I change, they're the ones who suck!
Most "space images" are very heavily processed. If they took a normal picture it wouldn't look nearly as good. NASA learned a long time ago that its only reason for getting funded (besides being a jobs program) was making pretty pictures.
Eric Arthur Blair was a nutbag wingnut who wrote his book as a screed against leftism. Big Brother is modeled after the Soviet Union, and is a receptacle for all of Blair's negative experiences with it.