If this isn't the pot calling the kettle black. Verisign does it for money. ICANN just does it for the sheer pleasure of wielding power and being assholes.
I knew Jeremy Porter when he was on ICANN, and that man is a total prick.
These things all start with the same 3 groups. These 3 groups have fewer rights than everyone else in society, and hence always get hit with freedom-reducing technologies first.
The military. These people have voluntarily given up some rights in order to safeguard the freedom of everyone else.
Convicts. These people violated our rules, and thus have some rights taken away.
Children. They aren't considered to be full humans, until on their 18th birthday they make an overnight magical transformation into a full adult. Prisoners have more rights than them.
Are these the same editors that show 9 minutes of LA Lakers highlights, and 1 minute of Detroit Pistons highlights, despite the fact that the Lakers got their asses handed to them on a platter?
Media people have personal biases, which they let show through in their work. It's a fact. An automated system would curtail this.
I saw this in Front Page Sports Football '95. The game would pick out 5 plays from each game and save them as highlights. This even worked for the games you simulated between computer-controlled teams. It was pretty predictable stuff, long passes and 1-yard runs for TDs. The computer had a real predilection for fumbles, though, which irked me. Once in a while you'd get an actual interesting one, like a trick play that worked, or career-ending injury. Heh. Career-ending injuries. Too bad that franchise went downhill fast after '95...a few years later they were refunding people's money because the company publically admitted they'd shipped a crappy product.
Get over yourself. The only reason that you're "donating" your junk PC is for the tax deduction, along with not having to pay the toxic waste disposal fee at the dump. If the PC is no good for you, what makes anyone think that Africans would find it useful? Of course, "those people" over there should be thankful to get PCs from white people. After all, obsolete toxic waste is better than no PC at all, eh?
It's a damn sight better than Americans trying to export their toxic waste (old useless PCs) to Africa. If it's useless to you, it's useless to Africans as well. They're full humans just like everyone else.
Hey, if I'm selling a spacecraft, all that matters is the client's opinion. The poor pilot who gets to fly the thing has no say in the issue, eh? "I'm an artist, I'll design it how I want"
What, and work on boring old slashdot? You gotta be kidding...slashdot is crummy and old, and cmdrtaco likes it that way. Remember the attitude, this is his site, and if you don't like it start your own.
The point of web design is not to make a clean, usable interface. The point is to exercise the web designer's skills, and incorporate all the latest technologies. Otherwise, how will the web designer feel? Designing clean, readable pages is hugely boring and totally unchallenging for an artist. Artists need to be on the cutting edge. HTML is such a limited medium...it's just not enough to allow the expression of the creativity that most web designers feel inside.
You take a bus to Airport Boulevard in Austin, and you'll be smack dab in the middle of the worst part of town.
If you had done even the smallest research, you would have found that the Number 11 bus connects to Orlando Int'l Airport. This took me all of 90 seconds to find. But, it's the free market's fault, right? Rah socialism.
Shouldn't you be using "square kilometeres"? I find that putting the extra "e" on the end of "meter" gives it that elitist Eurosnob touch that you were aiming for.
Building a continent-wide rail network in the USA would require massive property confiscation for track right-of-way. Environmentalists would block construction at every turn. Property owners would be outraged at a train running next to their property. Politicians would use the project for corruption and the costs would spiral up and up.
Texas tried to build a bullet train network in the 90s, and these exact issues surfaced. Also, what would you do once you got to Houston...walk? Take a $35 taxi ride, in a smelly taxi, assuming you can find another taxi once you arrive at your destination?
A heavily urbanized, dense urban area will always benefit. New York City is very unlike most of America, but I don't expect New Yorkers to believe that. Here in "flyover territory", as you call it, things are different. Who the heck takes taxis, anyway? The cities I've lived in, you can stand on the street for an hour and not see a single taxi.
You guys sure are badass, at Mount Berry Square Theaters. Your assistant manager Chad Moore would approve. Rome, Georgia, suburban bedroom community, home of total badasses and regulators. I'll watch my step if I ever come there, and stay far away from the mall and Mount Berry Square Theaters, in order to avoid a certain ass-whooping at the hands of ushers with girls' names.
It's worth it, if only to keep a crappy copy of a movie out of circulation, complete with coughing, laughing, and a fratboy constantly getting into frame as he gets up to piss every 30 minutes from the beer he smuggled in to the theater.
Trip 1: Get in car, leave, arrive at destination, 10 minutes.
Trip 2: Walk to the train station, 10 minutes. Get a ticket, 2 minutes. Walk the (many) stairs up to the platform, 3 minutes. Wait for the train, 0-8 minutes. Take the train, 8 minutes. Get off the train, walk down the stairs, walk for a while, walk up the stairs to your transfer train, 5-10 minutes (some of the stations are HUGE). Wait for the train, 0-8 minutes. Ride the train, 5-10 minutes. Get off the train, climb stairs again, 3 minutes. Exit the station past the bums asking for money and crowds of people trying to sell you something and walk to your destination, 5-10 minutes.
Best-case scenario, everything goes right, 41 minutes. Worst-case scenario of 72 minutes never happens, nobody's luck is that bad. More like about an hour. I did this every freaking day for months, all over town, and it irked me to no end. I started timing every segment of the trip to see what was taking so freaking long.
Oh, and when it rains, you have to remember to carry an umbrella, and your shoes and lower pants get wet from walking everywhere. Cars, you just stash your umbrella in the car and drive drily to your destination.
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I knew Jeremy Porter when he was on ICANN, and that man is a total prick.
It's a good thing that it was replaced by the "all of Japan is like the children's cartoon shows we watch" stereotype that's so prevalent today.
Who was the idiot in this exchange again?
Media people have personal biases, which they let show through in their work. It's a fact. An automated system would curtail this.
P.S. that chick is a fucking dog. Woof woof.
I don't know about you, but I trust a hypothetical automated system far more than I trust the CNNs and Jayson Blairs of the world.
I saw this in Front Page Sports Football '95. The game would pick out 5 plays from each game and save them as highlights. This even worked for the games you simulated between computer-controlled teams. It was pretty predictable stuff, long passes and 1-yard runs for TDs. The computer had a real predilection for fumbles, though, which irked me. Once in a while you'd get an actual interesting one, like a trick play that worked, or career-ending injury. Heh. Career-ending injuries. Too bad that franchise went downhill fast after '95...a few years later they were refunding people's money because the company publically admitted they'd shipped a crappy product.
news.google.com has a bad habit of spotlighting articles from al-Jazeera and other sources whose objectivity is highly questionable.
You do know that "Google Groups" is actually just a front end for USENET, and that USENET predates Google.com by about 15 years?
Get over yourself. The only reason that you're "donating" your junk PC is for the tax deduction, along with not having to pay the toxic waste disposal fee at the dump. If the PC is no good for you, what makes anyone think that Africans would find it useful? Of course, "those people" over there should be thankful to get PCs from white people. After all, obsolete toxic waste is better than no PC at all, eh?
It's a damn sight better than Americans trying to export their toxic waste (old useless PCs) to Africa. If it's useless to you, it's useless to Africans as well. They're full humans just like everyone else.
Hey, if I'm selling a spacecraft, all that matters is the client's opinion. The poor pilot who gets to fly the thing has no say in the issue, eh? "I'm an artist, I'll design it how I want"
What, and work on boring old slashdot? You gotta be kidding...slashdot is crummy and old, and cmdrtaco likes it that way. Remember the attitude, this is his site, and if you don't like it start your own.
The point of web design is not to make a clean, usable interface. The point is to exercise the web designer's skills, and incorporate all the latest technologies. Otherwise, how will the web designer feel? Designing clean, readable pages is hugely boring and totally unchallenging for an artist. Artists need to be on the cutting edge. HTML is such a limited medium...it's just not enough to allow the expression of the creativity that most web designers feel inside.
For that matter, just tell people to click "yes" to accept your uncertified cert...they'll do that too.
We all saw Pulp Fiction.
It's an accepted spelling, see this site for one example of thousands of references I could give.
Yeah, if you work downtown, which you obviously do.
If you had done even the smallest research, you would have found that the Number 11 bus connects to Orlando Int'l Airport. This took me all of 90 seconds to find. But, it's the free market's fault, right? Rah socialism.
Building a continent-wide rail network in the USA would require massive property confiscation for track right-of-way. Environmentalists would block construction at every turn. Property owners would be outraged at a train running next to their property. Politicians would use the project for corruption and the costs would spiral up and up.
Texas tried to build a bullet train network in the 90s, and these exact issues surfaced. Also, what would you do once you got to Houston...walk? Take a $35 taxi ride, in a smelly taxi, assuming you can find another taxi once you arrive at your destination?
A heavily urbanized, dense urban area will always benefit. New York City is very unlike most of America, but I don't expect New Yorkers to believe that. Here in "flyover territory", as you call it, things are different. Who the heck takes taxis, anyway? The cities I've lived in, you can stand on the street for an hour and not see a single taxi.
You guys sure are badass, at Mount Berry Square Theaters. Your assistant manager Chad Moore would approve. Rome, Georgia, suburban bedroom community, home of total badasses and regulators. I'll watch my step if I ever come there, and stay far away from the mall and Mount Berry Square Theaters, in order to avoid a certain ass-whooping at the hands of ushers with girls' names.
It's worth it, if only to keep a crappy copy of a movie out of circulation, complete with coughing, laughing, and a fratboy constantly getting into frame as he gets up to piss every 30 minutes from the beer he smuggled in to the theater.
Trip 2: Walk to the train station, 10 minutes. Get a ticket, 2 minutes. Walk the (many) stairs up to the platform, 3 minutes. Wait for the train, 0-8 minutes. Take the train, 8 minutes. Get off the train, walk down the stairs, walk for a while, walk up the stairs to your transfer train, 5-10 minutes (some of the stations are HUGE). Wait for the train, 0-8 minutes. Ride the train, 5-10 minutes. Get off the train, climb stairs again, 3 minutes. Exit the station past the bums asking for money and crowds of people trying to sell you something and walk to your destination, 5-10 minutes.
Best-case scenario, everything goes right, 41 minutes. Worst-case scenario of 72 minutes never happens, nobody's luck is that bad. More like about an hour. I did this every freaking day for months, all over town, and it irked me to no end. I started timing every segment of the trip to see what was taking so freaking long.
Oh, and when it rains, you have to remember to carry an umbrella, and your shoes and lower pants get wet from walking everywhere. Cars, you just stash your umbrella in the car and drive drily to your destination.