Oh, I get it. Now you're covering up so hordes of slashdotters (angry) don't get pissed. There can't be sloth if they're drawn out of their house (twice).
"Dear Heavenly Images,
Thank you so much for the joy that my grandmom got when she got the photo of my dad (her son). She cried (happy tears). The photo seemed to have brought her out of her shell. She was so withdrawn, but since receiving her photo of my dad & Jesus she has come out of the house twice...I give all praises to God."
That sites made me laugh all morning long. I'm going to hell, aren't I?
"The security issues are a problem" is minor for you because no one's swiped your identity. I heard there's a hurricane in Florida. Oh well, that's 3,000 miles away. Not my problem.
They won't release the names of the major sites that have been hacked so when you visit them with IE, you're screwed. Man, that's annoying. Just how they won't tell you who is selling contaminated beef when Mad Cow was found. If there's a problem, out with the info.
Most slashdotters are anti-M$ as long as M$ are being jerks. IE, and most of M$, is an easy target, but how many people here have an Xbox? MS$ is a double-edged sword. Run with the sword idea.
But do they market them internationally? And how often are they responding to email requests in English?
Will I ever try this? Probably not. But it has occured to me. I'd think moving to a country that doesn't care would work as long as you speak fluent English. I used to buy cheap DVDs and CDRs from HK Flix. Never had a problem with them.
Whilst you're talking about WWII you might also want to thank the Russians for their part in the victory, they not only broke the back of the German army but did it on their own soil and still managed to emerge as a super power without having to terrorize any civilian populations by dropping nuclear bombs on them...
I don't think 90% of people in the USA know about that. We were fighting with USSR so that was swept under the table.
If anyone is curious, please read about the Battle of Kursk. It's just a short article on Wikipedia. Take the time to give it a look-see. In short, Russia tore the Germans a new one and basically killed off their own soldiers to destroy the German army.
Off-topic part: What's a decent way of saying you're from the USA? American isn't it. That covers North, Central and South America. And North American includes Canada. USA-nian sounds dumb -- well actually I don't know how to pronounce that one. I'm sticking with "I'm from California" on my trip.
I answer those questions with Bush. Personally, I don't like his decisions, but I like how polarizing he is. I think the USA deserves 4 more years of him, plus the added horrors of getting Jeb Bush into office. It's my "shit or get off the pot" view. If he can't draw the public into doing anything for themselves, then we really do deserve our elected officials.
I enjoyed your Rusty story, by the way. Do google ads pay? Are they worth having your personal site look like it's hosted by geocities?
Is there a difference between "market research" and "polling"? The main outfit that I've answered questions for the last 10 years is "market research".
On the phone, they only ask a few questions, but there's typically a way they WANT you to answer them. New Coke, Clear Pepsi and caffeinated water are probably the result of "market research" groups in the 20-40 age range picking random answers that are acceptable. "They screw us, we screw them", is hopefully how that works.
I've taken part in plenty of consumer surveys. It's a quick way to earn some cash. If I answer truthfully I'm usually not chosen. I think lying goes into both sides. You say Gallup weeds out questions to make them unbiased, and the 20+ surveys I've taken work that way, but the people taking the surveys are chosen according to sponsors.
One examples: "We'll offer you $60 to show up and take the 45 minute survey. What radion stations do you listen to?" If I answer KDVS, the local college station they say, "Sorry, that doesn't qualify. Do you ever listen to one of the "major" area stations?" and they tell you an acceptable answer. That one gets the money, and people learn to answer questions in a way that gets you money.
You don't drink Pabst, you drink Budweiser. You don't ride a 1968 Monkey Wards (Benelli) motorcycle, you drive a 1998 Honda Accord. You don't subscribe to Giant Robot, it's Sports Illustrated. I know lots of people that answer these surveys the same way.
Thanks, by the way. This is one of the neat things about reading/. It's pretty unlikely that I would've thought, "hmmmm... debugging problem perl scripts or look up Romanian proverbs". Although it is possible.
I'm sure I'll get fair use of "In America the dogs walk around with pretzels on their tails". And now I'm off to find others.
The guy in Alaska who killed the couple while watching a DVD wasn't found guilty of manslaughter. I don't know what the final prosecution was for him, but having that hanging over your head has got to suck. And the victims in that case were killed. So no amount of money to their relatives if paid, wouldn't help them at all.
That'd be nice because people would want cars with good gas mileage. My motorcycle gets around 60mpg, so that's nice and cheap. My broke friend with his 1970s Suburban gets 6mpg. He can't come up with the cash to buy a better car, but at least he can help pay my insurance that way.
Also, driving drunk, talking on your cell phone, watching dvds/playing ps2 while hitting and killing an innocent couple, and smashing into brand new Ferraris with your Yugo for the fun of it would be no problem because you're insured.
Give me a beer and sign me up!
I'm not picking on you personally. Just that idea.
I tested my personal site on dial-ups and the wait while loading pictures kills me. So, I keep it simple and for every 10 "this page looks like it was made in 1996", I get one "wow, I like that it loads quickly".
I reckon I should "upgrade" it by making it slow loading -- I actually make "real" sites at work. Nice long, bloated with javascript & graphics sites. I've had clients that want text added to go along with rotating stars and the other 7th grade girl lay-out (I apologize to any 7th grade girls reading this -- I'll try not to outsource your work anymore).
I guess it's my fault from sticking with lynx for long. I'm ingrained to make pages fast loading and I like crappy looking sites that load fast.
I think this article is just bait for the daily MS bashing on/.
Exactly. It's great that someone trolled an entire article, but oddly enough, it didn't work.
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For christ's sake, I do not understand why this isn't rated +5 funny.
If, and I do mean if, I had beer in my mouth, it would've shot out of my nose. Not the generic, "it came out of my nose" bit, I mean real life. I have a beer sitting right here, damn it.
Eric Rudolph & John Salvi, the right to life wack jobs, actually made a difference.
I don't agree with them -- hell, I used to do clinic defense at the local Planned Parenthood -- but by shooting doctors, they made a large difference in how many doctors are willing to give abortions. That number has been going down. People follow doctors & other employees when they leave and post their home address on web sites. Who wants to live with that over your head?
The SKS was declared legal and the California Department of Justice sent out letters saying it was fine. Later they changed their mind and arrested & charged people with felonies for having one. How did they know who had them? A registration list.
Even people who turned over the gun where threatened with a felony charge. Sure, you have a letter from DoJ saying it's legal, but ooops, it's now a felony.
I think it's not mentioned on his site because it's unethical.
He needs a liver but they put him down on the list below people who need it more. But his ad campaign gets a liver donated specifically to him, possibly ending someone else's life.
It's a life or death matter, and when it's your life, I can see wanting to be bumped up on the list. I'd hope that I'd be able to say, "No, give it to someone higher up who needs it more" but I'm not in that position to test my ethics. Hopefully never will be.
I'm an organ donor though. I hope it does someone some good if I get croaked.
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You're forgetting Tron. Great special effects.
Off topic part: Pair.com is really pissing me off.
Blade Runner is why I love walking the streets when it's got that misty light rain.
And to be off-topic, pair.com is pissing me off.
That's because the server is IIS. Someone glanced sideways at it and down it went.
In normal society, yes, you'd be the only one. But this is slashdot.
Oh, I get it. Now you're covering up so hordes of slashdotters (angry) don't get pissed. There can't be sloth if they're drawn out of their house (twice).
"Dear Heavenly Images,
Thank you so much for the joy that my grandmom got when she got the photo of my dad (her son). She cried (happy tears). The photo seemed to have brought her out of her shell. She was so withdrawn, but since receiving her photo of my dad & Jesus she has come out of the house twice...I give all praises to God."
That sites made me laugh all morning long. I'm going to hell, aren't I?
So you're advertising your site, eh? Dang average slashdotters getting to meet Jesus.
Twins...One is with Jesus now.
I wish I had mod points right now.
"The security issues are a problem" is minor for you because no one's swiped your identity. I heard there's a hurricane in Florida. Oh well, that's 3,000 miles away. Not my problem.
They won't release the names of the major sites that have been hacked so when you visit them with IE, you're screwed. Man, that's annoying. Just how they won't tell you who is selling contaminated beef when Mad Cow was found. If there's a problem, out with the info.
Most slashdotters are anti-M$ as long as M$ are being jerks. IE, and most of M$, is an easy target, but how many people here have an Xbox? MS$ is a double-edged sword. Run with the sword idea.
Shipping from Hong Kong isn't much, so I doubt it's bad in Brazil. And there's ways of selling current movies on eBay without getting shut down.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&c
But do they market them internationally? And how often are they responding to email requests in English?
Will I ever try this? Probably not. But it has occured to me. I'd think moving to a country that doesn't care would work as long as you speak fluent English. I used to buy cheap DVDs and CDRs from HK Flix. Never had a problem with them.
I've thought about moving to Brazil and making dvd copies of current movies to sell on sites like eBay. Brazil said screw the DMCA.
It's not like I'd move there for life, but selling bootleg DVDs would pay my living expenses.
Whilst you're talking about WWII you might also want to thank the Russians for their part in the victory, they not only broke the back of the German army but did it on their own soil and still managed to emerge as a super power without having to terrorize any civilian populations by dropping nuclear bombs on them...
I don't think 90% of people in the USA know about that. We were fighting with USSR so that was swept under the table.
If anyone is curious, please read about the Battle of Kursk. It's just a short article on Wikipedia. Take the time to give it a look-see. In short, Russia tore the Germans a new one and basically killed off their own soldiers to destroy the German army.
Off-topic part: What's a decent way of saying you're from the USA? American isn't it. That covers North, Central and South America. And North American includes Canada. USA-nian sounds dumb -- well actually I don't know how to pronounce that one. I'm sticking with "I'm from California" on my trip.
I answer those questions with Bush. Personally, I don't like his decisions, but I like how polarizing he is. I think the USA deserves 4 more years of him, plus the added horrors of getting Jeb Bush into office. It's my "shit or get off the pot" view. If he can't draw the public into doing anything for themselves, then we really do deserve our elected officials.
I enjoyed your Rusty story, by the way. Do google ads pay? Are they worth having your personal site look like it's hosted by geocities?
Is there a difference between "market research" and "polling"? The main outfit that I've answered questions for the last 10 years is "market research".
On the phone, they only ask a few questions, but there's typically a way they WANT you to answer them. New Coke, Clear Pepsi and caffeinated water are probably the result of "market research" groups in the 20-40 age range picking random answers that are acceptable. "They screw us, we screw them", is hopefully how that works.
I've taken part in plenty of consumer surveys. It's a quick way to earn some cash. If I answer truthfully I'm usually not chosen. I think lying goes into both sides. You say Gallup weeds out questions to make them unbiased, and the 20+ surveys I've taken work that way, but the people taking the surveys are chosen according to sponsors.
One examples: "We'll offer you $60 to show up and take the 45 minute survey. What radion stations do you listen to?" If I answer KDVS, the local college station they say, "Sorry, that doesn't qualify. Do you ever listen to one of the "major" area stations?" and they tell you an acceptable answer. That one gets the money, and people learn to answer questions in a way that gets you money.
You don't drink Pabst, you drink Budweiser. You don't ride a 1968 Monkey Wards (Benelli) motorcycle, you drive a 1998 Honda Accord. You don't subscribe to Giant Robot, it's Sports Illustrated. I know lots of people that answer these surveys the same way.
Thanks, by the way. This is one of the neat things about reading /. It's pretty unlikely that I would've thought, "hmmmm... debugging problem perl scripts or look up Romanian proverbs". Although it is possible.
I'm sure I'll get fair use of "In America the dogs walk around with pretzels on their tails". And now I'm off to find others.
But soylent green is people.
Good point. I wonder how many people tell their insurance companies and the police that they were distracted while talking on their cell phone.
The guy in Alaska who killed the couple while watching a DVD wasn't found guilty of manslaughter. I don't know what the final prosecution was for him, but having that hanging over your head has got to suck. And the victims in that case were killed. So no amount of money to their relatives if paid, wouldn't help them at all.
That'd be nice because people would want cars with good gas mileage. My motorcycle gets around 60mpg, so that's nice and cheap. My broke friend with his 1970s Suburban gets 6mpg. He can't come up with the cash to buy a better car, but at least he can help pay my insurance that way.
Also, driving drunk, talking on your cell phone, watching dvds/playing ps2 while hitting and killing an innocent couple, and smashing into brand new Ferraris with your Yugo for the fun of it would be no problem because you're insured.
Give me a beer and sign me up!
I'm not picking on you personally. Just that idea.
I tested my personal site on dial-ups and the wait while loading pictures kills me. So, I keep it simple and for every 10 "this page looks like it was made in 1996", I get one "wow, I like that it loads quickly".
I reckon I should "upgrade" it by making it slow loading -- I actually make "real" sites at work. Nice long, bloated with javascript & graphics sites. I've had clients that want text added to go along with rotating stars and the other 7th grade girl lay-out (I apologize to any 7th grade girls reading this -- I'll try not to outsource your work anymore).
I guess it's my fault from sticking with lynx for long. I'm ingrained to make pages fast loading and I like crappy looking sites that load fast.
I think this article is just bait for the daily MS bashing on /.
Exactly. It's great that someone trolled an entire article, but oddly enough, it didn't work.
For christ's sake, I do not understand why this isn't rated +5 funny.
If, and I do mean if, I had beer in my mouth, it would've shot out of my nose. Not the generic, "it came out of my nose" bit, I mean real life. I have a beer sitting right here, damn it.
Eric Rudolph & John Salvi, the right to life wack jobs, actually made a difference.
I don't agree with them -- hell, I used to do clinic defense at the local Planned Parenthood -- but by shooting doctors, they made a large difference in how many doctors are willing to give abortions. That number has been going down. People follow doctors & other employees when they leave and post their home address on web sites. Who wants to live with that over your head?
For many doctors, it isn't worth the hassle.
You don't live in California then.
The SKS was declared legal and the California Department of Justice sent out letters saying it was fine. Later they changed their mind and arrested & charged people with felonies for having one. How did they know who had them? A registration list.
Even people who turned over the gun where threatened with a felony charge. Sure, you have a letter from DoJ saying it's legal, but ooops, it's now a felony.
I think it's not mentioned on his site because it's unethical.
He needs a liver but they put him down on the list below people who need it more. But his ad campaign gets a liver donated specifically to him, possibly ending someone else's life.
It's a life or death matter, and when it's your life, I can see wanting to be bumped up on the list. I'd hope that I'd be able to say, "No, give it to someone higher up who needs it more" but I'm not in that position to test my ethics. Hopefully never will be.
I'm an organ donor though. I hope it does someone some good if I get croaked.