What nugget of brilliance from a marketing department is is this? What the fuck does this give you that a web site with a handful of links (1 per stamp) would not? What is the point of downloading an image recognition app and going to the trouble of photographing a stamp when clicking on a link would do just as well?
When was the last time you could turn 'color' off in a game? God, this makes me feel old but have you ever actually played/owned an atari 2600? That console actually had a switch to turn off the color in the game. Now get the hell off my lawn before I turn your ass black and white.
Now if you were REALLY old it'd be black and green, or even black and orange. Black and WHITE??? LUXURY!!!!
On the one hand why is the senator infringing copyright? On the other hand why is anyone allowed to buy a copyright then sue without giving the infringer an opportunity to simply take down the infringing work?
Two wrongs make a right, dumb and dumber, disappearing up one's own back passage. Take your pick.
You do seem extremely paranoid, and also overly confident in your abilities to cover your tracks online.
I'll bet you're the kind of guy that has an unlisted phone number and refuses to give it out unless absolutely necessary. The sort of person that would worry about paying by credit card even at a reputable store because it might be copied.
But I bet you follow a regular enough routine that anyone that actually wanted to stalk you would be able to drive by your house a few times and get a very good feel for when you are and aren't home. Heck you probably don't even need to do that: If you work a regular job you're probably not around between 9 and 5. I guess all insurers should refuse to pay if you hold a regular job and are robbed between 9 and 5?
Since you're paranoid, I'd also bet you don't have a social life worth spitting on. Do you really think you're smarter than all those people you're calling idiots for just having a friend list that includes people they don't know terribly well???
If you're on social networking sites every moment that you're home so that people can tell whenever y ou're online or if you post sensitive information to people you do know on a social networking site, you're not secure and you have bigger issues than who's going to rob you. Get a dog, get an alarm, and go live a little.
There are a lot of people that will let anyone be their online friend. After all you don't have to be around them physically, and as long as you're reasonably careful with details like your real address there tend to be few consequence for letting someone unsavoury onto a list of friends. What's more you can usually remove them again any time you like. Yes you can end up doing illegal things with company you meet online but in most cases you'd need to actively pursue it. That's nothing like the real world. In the real world you can get beaten up, robbed or killed just by socialising with the wrong people. You can be forced to commit crimes through threats and blackmail.
If the morons in a HR or marketing department don't understand that they need to have their pay reduced by a factor of 10. This stupidity has to stop somewhere. Social networking analysis may yield some useful data in terms of tracking people with common interests, but beyond that it's just a silly game of 6 degrees of separation minus Kevin Bacon.
I like James T. Kirk the character. I may even like some of his other performances. But the blowhard actor that plays Kirk can go fuck himself. Sorry but I like to separate my fiction from reality.
It's nice that they're paying but if that's $4337/14 = roughly $310 per bug you'll just have to forgive me if I don't quit my day job to focus on debugging Chrome.
That has got to be the most IDIOTIC and WEAK argument I have _EVER_ seen here. Do you realise the magnitude of that insult?
Explain....
Thought not. You're FOS, I'll explain
Do you often talk to yourself? Often answer on behalf of your opponent when debating a topic. It's called having an irrational and weak mind. There's your explanation for you.
The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service does an important job at keeping out foreign pests and diseases.
My sex life is neither a foreign pest nor a disease.
Australia has a problem with several introduced animals such as rabbits, foxes (introduced to get rid of the rabbits) Camels and numerous insects and weeds that have upset the Australian ecosystem.
My sex life or photos or video thereof is not a rabbit, fox, nor camel. So why even bring it up?
AQIS's primary job is to keep these out, after that we have dangerous and controlled items like explosives, firearms, controlled drugs, illegal narcotics which can be quite dangerous if they get into the wrong hands.
My sex life or photos or video thereof is not a dangerous and controlled items like explosives, firearms, controlled drugs, illegal narcotics. So why even bring it up?
Unlike the US customs service, AQIS will be looking for plant and animal material first and foremost, I've received more questions about my guitar (because made out of wood) then any DVD I've bought into this country. BTW I do this about once every six months.
You are only required to declare things that would endanger this country.
You still haven't explained how an initimate video a couple makes for their own private use is a danger to this or any other country.
Actually, you are required to declare anything that's on AQIS's list.
In other words, it has nothing to do with whether the item is dangerous and adding ridiculous things that are not dangerous to that list based on politician's moral or religious agenda is simply an errosion of freedom.
If you dont like it, dont come to Australia.
Being an Australian citizen and born here, that's another unreasonable and irrational thing you've said. I didn't have a choice in the matter. Nor should the choice be necessary, because freedoms should not be erodded this way. You're just pandering to the ridiculous.
I've already decided not to visit the United States due to the trouble I'd get at the border (NOTE: Nothing against Americans, when I meet you abroad you are great people and I dont blame individual Americans for your bad laws, but I still have to deal with them).
Your assumption that I'm an American is amusing - it shows that you have an irrational mind and are prone to jumping to conclusions.
So your post is devoid of content and ignorant of the law (and common sense). My assessment of you is correct, you are retarded.
Do you realise that even a monkey is capable of mimickery?
You haven't made one logical argument. You've stated lots of irrelevant drive that have nothing to do with the point at hand while pontificating about the role of AQIS (and seem to be confused about the difference between AQIS and Australian Customs - hint: DVDs don't require quarantine), demonstrated you are quite willing to jump to conclusions, and that you consider sarcastic mimickery to be the height of wit. You're pitiful.
It is the governments business what you bring into and out of this nation. It's their business because it's my business. There are a whole host of things (pests, diseases, dangerous items) I dont want you bringing in here. If you dont want the government to watch you and Mrs simian going at it then dont bring it, simple.
That has got to be the most IDIOTIC and WEAK argument I have _EVER_ seen here. Do you realise the magnitude of that insult?
To attempt to somehow explain that pictures of my sex life are the governments business are some kind of threat or any of the government's business (just because I cross a border) at all is just laughable. Your stupidity is worthy of no more of my time because in trying to defend this you have proven that you're beyond any kind of rational discussion.
But it also gives me an obligation to declare anything I bring in.
No, you twit. You are only required to declare things that would endanger this country. Whether my wife and I were to tape ourselves having sex here or overseas (and then bring it in), it's not a threat to anyone.
So I hate to interrupt you knee jerk "buh-buh-buh-mah-freedoms" reaction but I still have a lot more freedom getting into and out of this country then I do in the United states, didn't they suspend your entire constitution in customs zones.
So it is okay to erode our freedoms just so long as they are eroded less than the freedoms of the citizens of some other country? Do you even have any kind of a grasp on the concept of freedom?
My orginal assessment was correct. You are obtuse.
It's not a matter of "trust," it's a matter of respect. Maybe someone who just lost a friend to the Taliban might not really be in the mood for seeing a game where they can re-enact killing their friend.
Well then maybe they shouldn't buy the game. Meanwhile others should be allowed to do so. Just what freedoms did his hypothetical friend die for? There's a huge difference between not advertising it out of respect and BANNING it.
Also, customs are only searching for illegal porn (so that video of you and your monkey wife doing is legal, tasteless but legal) you just have to declare that you've got it, the same as prescription medication. After all, it's not like customs will hand back you porn if you so much as threaten to sue them, no wait... they did.
Are you trying to be obtuse here? I don't think it's the government's business what my wife and I do in our bedroom even if we photograph or video tape it. Having to tell some stranger about your sex life is an invasive loss of freedom. The only alternative is what my wife and I do and that is not to make porn in the first place. We're not into that so it's no imposition but it sure is another freedom gone.
2 million hits/month isn't much for "the 'accepted authority on the meaning and history of words.'". Considering we're approaching 7 billion people (granted not all English speakers) that means a tiny proportion of that population touch it even once a month.
Still a $1000+ 65kg dictionary is ridiculous so online might be the way to go.
Granted in my mid-30s I'm not greybeard but I can tell you that you don't earn less as your experience increases. If you do, you're not doing very well with the job hunt. Poeple pay you more for your ability to get things done despite difficulties that will stump an inexperienced coder.
This article is pure drivel. It's advice made to con old experienced programmers to undervalue themselves, put up with shitty conditions and leave the game. It's the kind of advice a used car salesman gives you as he's trying to sell you an old bomb with the engine about to fall out. This guy's either a coder who wants less competition or he's a manager looking to hire cheap.
Oh and one more thing: If you can't out-code quite naturally a college grad after 20 years in the game, you're in the wrong game, or in the wrong job all along. By naturally I mean without spending a lot of your own time learning.
The kind of blade that goes through steel and concrete like a hot knife through butter? Not likely at all. It's a fantasy. Can't we just leave it at that and move on?
These guys are buying industrial equipment to mill a replica. Does that not answer your question for you?
Is the NIH the sort of institution you want playing fast and loose with any law or court ruling that isn't blatantly, obviously unconstitutional or an instantaneous danger to human lives?...because stem cells will save lives in the long run)
So let me get this straight: You recognise that stem cell research saves lives but because the effect isn't "instantaneous" enough for you, you're cool with this??? That has got to be the biggest bunch of balls I ever heard! Would you be okay with the FDA allowing trace quantities of poison on the food, because the deaths wouldn't be instantaneous?
No it doesn't. He started giving money away because his dad yelled at him about not giving anything back.
No he didn't! No one does anything because their dad "yelled" at them. He did it because Melinda yelled at him. She controls the supply of sex;-) Well I don't believe that's entirely the reason either but it's a lot more plausible than your theory.
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What nugget of brilliance from a marketing department is is this? What the fuck does this give you that a web site with a handful of links (1 per stamp) would not? What is the point of downloading an image recognition app and going to the trouble of photographing a stamp when clicking on a link would do just as well?
When was the last time you could turn 'color' off in a game?
God, this makes me feel old but have you ever actually played/owned an atari 2600? That console actually had a switch to turn off the color in the game. Now get the hell off my lawn before I turn your ass black and white.
Now if you were REALLY old it'd be black and green, or even black and orange. Black and WHITE??? LUXURY!!!!
On the one hand why is the senator infringing copyright?
On the other hand why is anyone allowed to buy a copyright then sue without giving the infringer an opportunity to simply take down the infringing work?
Two wrongs make a right, dumb and dumber, disappearing up one's own back passage. Take your pick.
Copyright law is irreparably broken.
You do seem extremely paranoid, and also overly confident in your abilities to cover your tracks online.
I'll bet you're the kind of guy that has an unlisted phone number and refuses to give it out unless absolutely necessary. The sort of person that would worry about paying by credit card even at a reputable store because it might be copied.
But I bet you follow a regular enough routine that anyone that actually wanted to stalk you would be able to drive by your house a few times and get a very good feel for when you are and aren't home. Heck you probably don't even need to do that: If you work a regular job you're probably not around between 9 and 5. I guess all insurers should refuse to pay if you hold a regular job and are robbed between 9 and 5?
Since you're paranoid, I'd also bet you don't have a social life worth spitting on. Do you really think you're smarter than all those people you're calling idiots for just having a friend list that includes people they don't know terribly well???
If you're on social networking sites every moment that you're home so that people can tell whenever y ou're online or if you post sensitive information to people you do know on a social networking site, you're not secure and you have bigger issues than who's going to rob you. Get a dog, get an alarm, and go live a little.
Many (perhaps most) simply don't care about the sorts of attacks you are talking about.
There are a lot of people that will let anyone be their online friend. After all you don't have to be around them physically, and as long as you're reasonably careful with details like your real address there tend to be few consequence for letting someone unsavoury onto a list of friends. What's more you can usually remove them again any time you like. Yes you can end up doing illegal things with company you meet online but in most cases you'd need to actively pursue it. That's nothing like the real world. In the real world you can get beaten up, robbed or killed just by socialising with the wrong people. You can be forced to commit crimes through threats and blackmail.
If the morons in a HR or marketing department don't understand that they need to have their pay reduced by a factor of 10. This stupidity has to stop somewhere. Social networking analysis may yield some useful data in terms of tracking people with common interests, but beyond that it's just a silly game of 6 degrees of separation minus Kevin Bacon.
I like Shatner
I like James T. Kirk the character. I may even like some of his other performances. But the blowhard actor that plays Kirk can go fuck himself. Sorry but I like to separate my fiction from reality.
Tom Cruise can't really be a total c**t. Can he?
You lost me at "can't"
>If you complain at string theory, then PLEASE state what you are proposing.
Turtles all the way down! Everybody knows that!
That's a good news for Dr. Leonard Leakey Hofstadter...
But Penny will forever be a bitch and a traitor for letting Will Wheaton spook her into dumping him!
It's nice that they're paying but if that's $4337/14 = roughly $310 per bug you'll just have to forgive me if I don't quit my day job to focus on debugging Chrome.
Explain....
Thought not. You're FOS, I'll explain
Do you often talk to yourself? Often answer on behalf of your opponent when debating a topic. It's called having an irrational and weak mind. There's your explanation for you.
The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service does an important job at keeping out foreign pests and diseases.
My sex life is neither a foreign pest nor a disease.
Australia has a problem with several introduced animals such as rabbits, foxes (introduced to get rid of the rabbits) Camels and numerous insects and weeds that have upset the Australian ecosystem.
My sex life or photos or video thereof is not a rabbit, fox, nor camel. So why even bring it up?
AQIS's primary job is to keep these out, after that we have dangerous and controlled items like explosives, firearms, controlled drugs, illegal narcotics which can be quite dangerous if they get into the wrong hands.
My sex life or photos or video thereof is not a dangerous and controlled items like explosives, firearms, controlled drugs, illegal narcotics. So why even bring it up?
Unlike the US customs service, AQIS will be looking for plant and animal material first and foremost, I've received more questions about my guitar (because made out of wood) then any DVD I've bought into this country. BTW I do this about once every six months.
You still haven't explained how an initimate video a couple makes for their own private use is a danger to this or any other country.
Actually, you are required to declare anything that's on AQIS's list.
In other words, it has nothing to do with whether the item is dangerous and adding ridiculous things that are not dangerous to that list based on politician's moral or religious agenda is simply an errosion of freedom.
If you dont like it, dont come to Australia.
Being an Australian citizen and born here, that's another unreasonable and irrational thing you've said. I didn't have a choice in the matter. Nor should the choice be necessary, because freedoms should not be erodded this way. You're just pandering to the ridiculous.
I've already decided not to visit the United States due to the trouble I'd get at the border (NOTE: Nothing against Americans, when I meet you abroad you are great people and I dont blame individual Americans for your bad laws, but I still have to deal with them).
Your assumption that I'm an American is amusing - it shows that you have an irrational mind and are prone to jumping to conclusions.
So your post is devoid of content and ignorant of the law (and common sense). My assessment of you is correct, you are retarded.
Do you realise that even a monkey is capable of mimickery?
You haven't made one logical argument. You've stated lots of irrelevant drive that have nothing to do with the point at hand while pontificating about the role of AQIS (and seem to be confused about the difference between AQIS and Australian Customs - hint: DVDs don't require quarantine), demonstrated you are quite willing to jump to conclusions, and that you consider sarcastic mimickery to be the height of wit. You're pitiful.
It is the governments business what you bring into and out of this nation. It's their business because it's my business. There are a whole host of things (pests, diseases, dangerous items) I dont want you bringing in here. If you dont want the government to watch you and Mrs simian going at it then dont bring it, simple.
That has got to be the most IDIOTIC and WEAK argument I have _EVER_ seen here. Do you realise the magnitude of that insult?
To attempt to somehow explain that pictures of my sex life are the governments business are some kind of threat or any of the government's business (just because I cross a border) at all is just laughable. Your stupidity is worthy of no more of my time because in trying to defend this you have proven that you're beyond any kind of rational discussion.
But it also gives me an obligation to declare anything I bring in.
No, you twit. You are only required to declare things that would endanger this country. Whether my wife and I were to tape ourselves having sex here or overseas (and then bring it in), it's not a threat to anyone.
So I hate to interrupt you knee jerk "buh-buh-buh-mah-freedoms" reaction but I still have a lot more freedom getting into and out of this country then I do in the United states, didn't they suspend your entire constitution in customs zones.
So it is okay to erode our freedoms just so long as they are eroded less than the freedoms of the citizens of some other country? Do you even have any kind of a grasp on the concept of freedom?
My orginal assessment was correct. You are obtuse.
It's not a matter of "trust," it's a matter of respect. Maybe someone who just lost a friend to the Taliban might not really be in the mood for seeing a game where they can re-enact killing their friend.
Well then maybe they shouldn't buy the game. Meanwhile others should be allowed to do so. Just what freedoms did his hypothetical friend die for? There's a huge difference between not advertising it out of respect and BANNING it.
The beauty of a PC is that it's no big deal if a new codec comes around, and if you don't like the interface you have others to choose from.
Appliances have limitations, may not allow new codecs to be installed etc.
Find a quiet PC
Also, customs are only searching for illegal porn (so that video of you and your monkey wife doing is legal, tasteless but legal) you just have to declare that you've got it, the same as prescription medication. After all, it's not like customs will hand back you porn if you so much as threaten to sue them, no wait... they did.
Are you trying to be obtuse here? I don't think it's the government's business what my wife and I do in our bedroom even if we photograph or video tape it. Having to tell some stranger about your sex life is an invasive loss of freedom. The only alternative is what my wife and I do and that is not to make porn in the first place. We're not into that so it's no imposition but it sure is another freedom gone.
(Patent) war! What is it good for!? Absolutely nothing.
H.264. What is it good for!? Absolutely nothing.
Sing it with me everybody!
2 million hits/month isn't much for "the 'accepted authority on the meaning and history of words.'". Considering we're approaching 7 billion people (granted not all English speakers) that means a tiny proportion of that population touch it even once a month.
Still a $1000+ 65kg dictionary is ridiculous so online might be the way to go.
Granted in my mid-30s I'm not greybeard but I can tell you that you don't earn less as your experience increases. If you do, you're not doing very well with the job hunt. Poeple pay you more for your ability to get things done despite difficulties that will stump an inexperienced coder.
This article is pure drivel. It's advice made to con old experienced programmers to undervalue themselves, put up with shitty conditions and leave the game. It's the kind of advice a used car salesman gives you as he's trying to sell you an old bomb with the engine about to fall out. This guy's either a coder who wants less competition or he's a manager looking to hire cheap.
Oh and one more thing: If you can't out-code quite naturally a college grad after 20 years in the game, you're in the wrong game, or in the wrong job all along. By naturally I mean without spending a lot of your own time learning.
The kind of blade that goes through steel and concrete like a hot knife through butter? Not likely at all. It's a fantasy. Can't we just leave it at that and move on?
These guys are buying industrial equipment to mill a replica. Does that not answer your question for you?
How did you manage to fit so much stupid into such a short post?
The farce is strong with this one
Is the NIH the sort of institution you want playing fast and loose with any law or court ruling that isn't blatantly, obviously unconstitutional or an instantaneous danger to human lives? ...because stem cells will save lives in the long run)
So let me get this straight: You recognise that stem cell research saves lives but because the effect isn't "instantaneous" enough for you, you're cool with this??? That has got to be the biggest bunch of balls I ever heard! Would you be okay with the FDA allowing trace quantities of poison on the food, because the deaths wouldn't be instantaneous?
No it doesn't. He started giving money away because his dad yelled at him about not giving anything back.
No he didn't! No one does anything because their dad "yelled" at them. He did it because Melinda yelled at him. She controls the supply of sex ;-) Well I don't believe that's entirely the reason either but it's a lot more plausible than your theory.
Estoppel can be a little more complicated than that.
I knew he was Charlie Sheen's brother and Martin Sheen's son, but I never realised just how powerful and well connected Mr Estoppel is.
....make the software explode.