"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
-- Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766
Yeah man - that sort of thing would do *wonders* for the human overpopulation problem.:) Now if we could just make one that targeted Christians then I'd be all over it.
Here we go again. The circle of "let's use something funny...ok it's funny to call someone that...it's not funny anymore, but still current...people at least understand it, but the funny is long gone...why the hell did we call it this in the first place" is now complete. The whole idea of the XXXX "czar" is supposed to mean, the czar of whatever is simply in charge. As opposed to a term like boss or director. When I went to college in 1988, there was a position in my co-op called "labor czar" which did the schedules. Everyone thought the name was a laugh riot, as well as descriptive. Now, we've got bozos like you who are evidently out of the loop, and you have no idea what's going on. It would be even more appropriate if you were European.
+5 insightful for this schmaltzy piece of crap? "beacon of purity" *gag* *puke*. Just goes to show you, it's OK to be profane and irreverent, but when Something Important comes along, all the sudden reverence is right back in fashion.
Yeah, I remember my old job...they hired Arthur Andersen to do some security testing...some guy in a nice suit arrived, ran Nessus against our network, PRINTED IT OUT, and gave it to the boss in a nice leather-bound book. And that was it.
Nessus circa 2001 was well-known for its many false positives and warnings, although there was useful information in there if you went through it.
Educational requirements for visas are just veiled racism. It's a way for the powerful and priviliged to maintain their standing: "Oh, we didn't reject him because he was Muslim, we rejected him because he didn't have an advanced degree" is exactly the kind of excuse that relieves everyone of responsibility, and yet does nothing to fix the problem.
Whatever happened to education being its own reward? Education for hedonism is called "community college cooking courses" and for profit is called "ITT institute of technology" - both are mere training, not education (unless you're some mouth-breathing resident of Bush country).
The main problem is, while you're young, you've only ever been a student. After you get out for a while, you get to see the real world. Going back to school, you see exactly how much BS you have to put up with, and how meaningless your studies are. On the other hand, academic life is indeed easy, heck I'd go back if I could.
In no event shall Microsoft be liable for any damages whatsoever, even in the event of fault (including negligence).
-- Windows XP Professional license agreement
Fact checking? No, there is no call to assume that a journalist's article has been fact-checked, or if the fact-checking done was adequate or negligent. It's best to assume unreliable until proven otherwise, especially at an openly partisan publication like the one you mention.
Ogg the carrier! Yeah man those were the days. I was chosen dead last out of everyone in the 1998 summer draft league, I'll take that to my grave as a personal honor.
Or just move to a reasonable distance from your workplace. Ah, written like the true single childless angry Seattleonian. One word, bucko: schools. Oh wait, I can hear the response already: "Duh, are you some kind of idiot who didn't pick out your kid's private school when you established his trust fund? I can't help if you people consistently make stupid lifestyle choices."
Get your government to fund and implement a reasonable, modern transit system Oh, sure! Bahaha, I'll get right on this one. What a useful freaking suggestion! While they're at it, why doesn't the government also stop speeding, stop bogarting in all its forms, and find me a pony.
Sorry man, you come across as a total modern douchebag, your experience is the only one that matters, everyone should be more like you...the typical stereotype of the dickhead liberal "I don't drive" kind of guy. And this is coming from someone whose drivers license expired in 2004 from disuse, I ride an electric moped for Christ's sake.
You know, it's funny you bring up Donkey Kong because that game actually had more story than 1000s of its contemporaries. An Italian plumber climbs a construction site to save his girlfriend who was kidnapped by a giant monkey? Much more than the "shoot the ships", "shoot the rocks", or "racecar" which made up most of the other games at the time. Japanese-made games always struck me as having overly complex and convoluted plots, even when they weren't necessary. Even generic, copycat 90s shoot-em-ups had these long stories of how the spaceship pilot got there. I mean, who cares? It's a shooting game, it's mental pachinko.
Brings up an interesting question: how, exactly, would you force a computer to actually self-destruct (i.e. become useless) instead of just requiring a restore from backup? Write the CMOS repeatedly til it coughs? Tell the CPU to cease cooling?
I've been inside Chinese hospitals. You know how when you go in a hospital, it has "that hospital smell"? That smell is disenfectant, they're always cleaning inside. Took me a while to realize what wasn't right, but Chinese hospitals don't have that smell. You know why? Because nobody cleans them, they're freaking filthy. Doctors don't even wash their hands between seeing patients. I live in fear that one day I'll have to use Chinese health care. The practice of physicians prescribing unnecessary or even counterfeit medication is a thousand times worse than the USA. Pro tip: next time you use Chinese health care, tell them you'll pay extra if they give you the real medicine. When they say, "are you sure? it's a lot more expensive" assure them that you do indeed want the geniune article and don't mind paying.
"It is a fundamental principle of journalism that we do not give people outside the newspaper the option of deciding whether or not we should publish a story, whether they be advertisers, politicians or just regular readers."
Read that again. It has nothing to do whatsoever with reporting, and everything to do with control. You see, editors control the news, by picking which stories get covered and how much. These editors allow their personal political feelings dictate this process, leading to a great betrayal of representative government. Consider the following chilling statements:
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." -- Richard Salant, former President of CBS News
"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants [the media] to be objective"
-- Peter Jennings, October 20, 2004
I mean, think about it: they had the wrong reaction in this story. The proper reaction would be a standard "here's another idiot idea from Marketing that didn't work". No, the reaction was, "you will pry control out of our cold dead fingers". They know perfectly well the unelected power they wield, and they like it just fine the way it is.
PS "Keep ideology at bay"? You do know that Woodward and Bernstein were played like a fiddle by one of Nixon's disgruntled men?
Actually, closer to the Mongols than the Soviets. One of the ideas floating around in sci-fi of the time was the "space barbarian" or "space mongol", an archetype who could operate space ships, but couldn't build new ones, had to rely on captured peoples, etc. The Klingons definitely look like a stereotype of Mongols, including the warrior culture.
You know why the Chinese are "ahead" in this field? It's because of the total lack of ethics. Nobody listened to me a few years ago when I was saying this, but that was before the intentional poisoning of babies became an international story. There are no scruples attached to morally shaky ground, and heck, outright evil is OK too.
(intellectual weakness: shouting "but the USA is worse" every time someone mentions any negative trait of any entity anywhere)
IE6 isn't going anywhere - here in China EVERYONE uses pirated Windows, so no update. There are tons of websites that simply assume IE6 and go from there. I've seen genuine astonishment on the face of a web dev I tracked down, when the idea came that someone might use a different browser. The only legit Windows is when someone buys a new, fancy laptop that comes with a license. Otherwise, much cheaper and better service to get a whitebox PC than something like a Dell.
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"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
-- Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766
So. What are all the ways you can die on the Space Shuttle?
Yeah man - that sort of thing would do *wonders* for the human overpopulation problem. :) Now if we could just make one that targeted Christians then I'd be all over it.
Here we go again. The circle of "let's use something funny...ok it's funny to call someone that...it's not funny anymore, but still current...people at least understand it, but the funny is long gone...why the hell did we call it this in the first place" is now complete. The whole idea of the XXXX "czar" is supposed to mean, the czar of whatever is simply in charge. As opposed to a term like boss or director. When I went to college in 1988, there was a position in my co-op called "labor czar" which did the schedules. Everyone thought the name was a laugh riot, as well as descriptive. Now, we've got bozos like you who are evidently out of the loop, and you have no idea what's going on. It would be even more appropriate if you were European.
+5 insightful for this schmaltzy piece of crap? "beacon of purity" *gag* *puke*. Just goes to show you, it's OK to be profane and irreverent, but when Something Important comes along, all the sudden reverence is right back in fashion.
OpenOffice is a replacement for MS-Word. No wonder it's a copycat.
Nessus circa 2001 was well-known for its many false positives and warnings, although there was useful information in there if you went through it.
Educational requirements for visas are just veiled racism. It's a way for the powerful and priviliged to maintain their standing: "Oh, we didn't reject him because he was Muslim, we rejected him because he didn't have an advanced degree" is exactly the kind of excuse that relieves everyone of responsibility, and yet does nothing to fix the problem.
Whatever happened to education being its own reward? Education for hedonism is called "community college cooking courses" and for profit is called "ITT institute of technology" - both are mere training, not education (unless you're some mouth-breathing resident of Bush country).
The main problem is, while you're young, you've only ever been a student. After you get out for a while, you get to see the real world. Going back to school, you see exactly how much BS you have to put up with, and how meaningless your studies are. On the other hand, academic life is indeed easy, heck I'd go back if I could.
So, hedonism is the only reason to get a higher education? Because it makes you feel good? There is something horribly wrong with that idea.
Gosh, it's like a list of words that a marketing company promises its client that it will use. God save me from 25-year-olds with marketing degrees.
There is a penalty if you lie and get caught. Sexually abusing interns is another issue entirely.
In no event shall Microsoft be liable for any damages whatsoever, even in the event of fault (including negligence).
-- Windows XP Professional license agreement
Fact checking? No, there is no call to assume that a journalist's article has been fact-checked, or if the fact-checking done was adequate or negligent. It's best to assume unreliable until proven otherwise, especially at an openly partisan publication like the one you mention.
Ogg the carrier! Yeah man those were the days. I was chosen dead last out of everyone in the 1998 summer draft league, I'll take that to my grave as a personal honor.
Ah, written like the true single childless angry Seattleonian. One word, bucko: schools. Oh wait, I can hear the response already: "Duh, are you some kind of idiot who didn't pick out your kid's private school when you established his trust fund? I can't help if you people consistently make stupid lifestyle choices."
Get your government to fund and implement a reasonable, modern transit system
Oh, sure! Bahaha, I'll get right on this one. What a useful freaking suggestion! While they're at it, why doesn't the government also stop speeding, stop bogarting in all its forms, and find me a pony.
Sorry man, you come across as a total modern douchebag, your experience is the only one that matters, everyone should be more like you...the typical stereotype of the dickhead liberal "I don't drive" kind of guy. And this is coming from someone whose drivers license expired in 2004 from disuse, I ride an electric moped for Christ's sake.
You know, it's funny you bring up Donkey Kong because that game actually had more story than 1000s of its contemporaries. An Italian plumber climbs a construction site to save his girlfriend who was kidnapped by a giant monkey? Much more than the "shoot the ships", "shoot the rocks", or "racecar" which made up most of the other games at the time. Japanese-made games always struck me as having overly complex and convoluted plots, even when they weren't necessary. Even generic, copycat 90s shoot-em-ups had these long stories of how the spaceship pilot got there. I mean, who cares? It's a shooting game, it's mental pachinko.
Brings up an interesting question: how, exactly, would you force a computer to actually self-destruct (i.e. become useless) instead of just requiring a restore from backup? Write the CMOS repeatedly til it coughs? Tell the CPU to cease cooling?
I've been inside Chinese hospitals. You know how when you go in a hospital, it has "that hospital smell"? That smell is disenfectant, they're always cleaning inside. Took me a while to realize what wasn't right, but Chinese hospitals don't have that smell. You know why? Because nobody cleans them, they're freaking filthy. Doctors don't even wash their hands between seeing patients. I live in fear that one day I'll have to use Chinese health care. The practice of physicians prescribing unnecessary or even counterfeit medication is a thousand times worse than the USA. Pro tip: next time you use Chinese health care, tell them you'll pay extra if they give you the real medicine. When they say, "are you sure? it's a lot more expensive" assure them that you do indeed want the geniune article and don't mind paying.
Read that again. It has nothing to do whatsoever with reporting, and everything to do with control. You see, editors control the news, by picking which stories get covered and how much. These editors allow their personal political feelings dictate this process, leading to a great betrayal of representative government. Consider the following chilling statements:
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salant, former President of CBS News
"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants [the media] to be objective"
-- Peter Jennings, October 20, 2004
I mean, think about it: they had the wrong reaction in this story. The proper reaction would be a standard "here's another idiot idea from Marketing that didn't work". No, the reaction was, "you will pry control out of our cold dead fingers". They know perfectly well the unelected power they wield, and they like it just fine the way it is.
PS "Keep ideology at bay"? You do know that Woodward and Bernstein were played like a fiddle by one of Nixon's disgruntled men?
Actually, closer to the Mongols than the Soviets. One of the ideas floating around in sci-fi of the time was the "space barbarian" or "space mongol", an archetype who could operate space ships, but couldn't build new ones, had to rely on captured peoples, etc. The Klingons definitely look like a stereotype of Mongols, including the warrior culture.
(intellectual weakness: shouting "but the USA is worse" every time someone mentions any negative trait of any entity anywhere)
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
-- Benjamin Franklin
IE6 isn't going anywhere - here in China EVERYONE uses pirated Windows, so no update. There are tons of websites that simply assume IE6 and go from there. I've seen genuine astonishment on the face of a web dev I tracked down, when the idea came that someone might use a different browser. The only legit Windows is when someone buys a new, fancy laptop that comes with a license. Otherwise, much cheaper and better service to get a whitebox PC than something like a Dell.