But there is a distinction between drinking beer because beer is proof that god loves us, and drinking beer to get pissed. For the first cause I sit around drinking a decent IPA (usually Stone). For the second I quaff PBR by the bucket-full.
Bud is crap though. PBR is MUCH better, which still isn't saying much though. It just seems that PBR tastes like beer, and is cheaper (2 12s for $10), and some bars around here (Flagstaff) have 25c PBR night (anything up to 16oz 25c), and the rest are $1 pints. I can drink a 12 of Bud and not be even slightly impaired, while a 12 of PBR will at least get me a buzz. Perhaps it is just because they used to brew PBR in my home town (Milwakee). Another thing good about PBR is that they are a smaller company, and don't cough up millions of dollars saying that they will make the "bitches" like you, while allowing you to throw a 300yrd pass, all in your backyard with pretty people.
But most of the time I drink beer because it tastes good, and is a good way to wind down. For that there is Stone IPA (or Arrogant Bastard), Guinness, or Paulaner Heifeweissen.
Taste is by far more important than a good drunk. Besides if a 12 pack of Bud can get you drunk, a six pack of Stone IPA should really get you, for cheaper.
Er... ID is a development house, Nintendo is a full scale company that lets development houses make games for them. Nintendo themself have not invented single new genre
I think that that is part of the problem. Someone says (finds results) of something you don't agree with, and you bring out insulting loaded words.
Parent isn't saying that NO JEWS WERE KILLED, he is saying that they were (might have) been killed in different ways. For his first point.
For the second, I'm sure the current Isreali state doesn't want to be linked to the palestinians.
Both are cases of censorship. Just because you don't agree with something, or it disagrees with the modern liberal PC orthodoxy, doesn't mean it is wrong. Just because something can be harmful to the public order, doesn't mean it should be silenced.
I just wish they would plan on sync before 2.0, thats the only thing keeping me from using it, and keeping me chained to outlook.
All of my computer needs are pretty much open source now, except for the bloody calander, and now that there is a decent alternative, it doesn't do me much good.
Is there any other decent calander programs out there (pref. OSS) that can sync with a PocketPC/WinCE?
I actually spend most of my time sitting on the patio of a local bar, reading and doing work. It's a nice laid back bar frequented by college students. They have really good food too. I only get smashed their on weekends.
Nothing quite like sitting outside, reading good books, and drinking a pint of stout, munching on pizza chips.
At another local bar there is a philosophy circle, we meet every weekend, listen to the house jazz, and discuss things. Pretty good for a bunch of drunks.
For awhile I had the same outlook as you, if people couldn't talk about "deep" matters, well then, screw 'em. Then I realized that I was actually a snob.
Everyone has something in common, the only barriers are linguistic. If you don't talk to common man, you loose social skills, and become disconected from the reality that most of the world lives in. Plus, it is always good to get new views on things, even if you find them ignorant, or against your own.
Thats one thing I have against cell-phone culture, everyone is talking to someone they know, and thus never meet different people, with varying POVs. A democracy thrives on interaction.
There are some very interesting people out there, who don't know a lick about tech, but know a great deal about things you don't, like farming, waiting tables, living in a card board box.
Then there are the poor fools like me, who carry nothing around with them. Actually, I carry the standard pocket watch (winding, no extra features), but that is about it for gadgets invented in the last 200 years. I seem to get along in life just fine, perhaps its just the fact that I'm not a stimulous junky, I really don't need to be talking to people in my spare (transit, lunch, breaks) time, I have a good enough brain to keep myself amused without needing a videogame everywhere, a pocket watch is great for timing things roughly, I don't need a constant security blanket of noise to protect me from the real world, and humming seems to work just fine.
Perhaps if some genious invented the analog-watch/pocket knife/zippo device (with BLUETOOTH!), then my life would be much easier...
Yeah, I got a PDA sitting around somewhere, it is a decent address book, and nice for writing down ideas on, sometimes I even throw it in my backpack, and then realize its there 2 weeks later. Perhaps it wasn't a good replacement for the little notebook in my back pocket.
None of this crap is needed (unless your an oncall workslave), it is just more needless distractions. I might someday buy a cellphone (most of my calls are long distance), but I have the feeling it would either languish in my car, or just sit there on my coffee table. I have no one I have to talk to bad enough to risk my life driving, or distract myself from my usual spare time omphalical meditations.
There are many suns in the universe, but our Earth revolves around the Sun. Many planets have earth, but there is only one Earth.
Just because the United States' culture is becoming global, and supplanting all other cultures, it has become unnecessary to capitalise the united states. Even if the Internet is huge, does not grant it common noun status, being that there are still other internets out there (Internet2, MILnet, etc...)
Your "l33t" skills aren't as 1337 as you seem to think! Never use a character when a number would suffice. Unless of course you are going to use and exclamation point111
The Donald is crap, it is an invented trademart sort of phrase, not proper english. Great the guy can brand himself, woohoo! I am now The/. Posting Geek! Now all of you other geeks on/., give me royalties.
And, to be OT, there can be several internets (Internet 2, for instance), but only one Internet, which is the common public one, which would be a proper noun. I would also guess that the military internet wouldn't be capitalised.
I'm not saying "Let be a bunch of pansies", I'm saying perhaps we should evaluate WHY they are attacking us. Perhaps there are legitimate reasons, perhaps the US can really be the bad guys in some contexts.
Looking at this as objectively as possible (I'm neither liberal or conservative, nor the ever popular/. liberatarian), they hate many things about us. They hate (semi-legitimately, but not our fault) globalization, or as it is called by the liberals Americanization. There really is nothing we can do about this, even if it is kinda wrong.
They hate us imposing democratic values on them. this is justified, but bunk. Secular democracy is the best form of government to date, when done right it is completely human-rights friendly. Spreading this is good, albeit not forcefully. We (the US)should just be a good example.
They hate the fact that we put military bases in Saudi Arabia. This is a symptom of a larger problem, and should be ignored.
They hate the fact that we meddle in their buisness. This is a problem. We have no right to be meddling for no other reason than our economic interests. This we should stop. The first Iraq war falls in this catagory, and possibly the second.
They hate our support for Israel, and other illegitimate regimes... This is justified. By supporting genocide, we are guilty (by proxy) of genocide. We have no buisness there.
There are others, but it is late, and I'm tired.
There are certain things, though, that we should not stop doing, and there are things that we should. And for killing innocents they deserved to have Afghanistan bombed to shit and the Taliban disposed. But we should look at the causal relationships here, and notice that in some cases we are action like "the great satan".
How the hell did/. get so damned politicized? It's kind of obnoxious. Every post has a rampant neo-cap ranting about how the market is god, a ranting libertarian ranting about... whatever they rant about, and rampant liberals ranting about Bush (still!)... I know I was guilty of this... but still...
Actually, I have been running various windows incarnations for years, and would say I have never been hacked into BY A HUMAN. Sure, I hardly ever get spyware (intelligence), or email viruses/worms (intelligence and not useing MS products), never been zombied (see above)... This isn't so much due to intelligent choices and precaution, it is due to the fact that the average Joe isn't much of a target decent attacks that don't rely on human stupidity/ignorance.
After a bad reinstall scenario when I was hooked to a large (Uni) network, my computer was pwned, COMPLETELY, within a matter of minutes. Why? Because I suddenly became a target, and intelligence played a minimal role in preventing that. People also are not ALWAYS intelligent, while not as tech savy (read: in the biz) as most/.'rs, I'm infinatly more capable/knowlegable than the average luser, and I have had several moments of stupidity. Moments requiring HOURS of hard work to fix.
The moral: Never get cocky, you too can be a dumb-ass from time to time. And... If you decide to become a target, then no matter how much common sense you have, you can get screwed by someone with more.
Just out of curiousity, BTW, what sort of non-ms-specific precautions do you take? Firewall, mail, browser, viral protections? None of which (except the firewall) is supplied by MS, and security freindly.
Er... I can play UT2k4 with all the fx on, and it isn't a slide show (get around 25-30fps, perhaps a bit more on indoor maps). Sometimes on slow servers I'll cut things from UltraHigh to High, though. Sometimes I keep the card-based-driver options in the moderate range (4x, etc). Game are meant to be high-res, well except Doom3, which is meant to be... er... Low res until DNF comes out...
Er... I don't think the cult of Rand is a good recomendation. She was obviously EXTREMELY biased for the pure capitalist point of view, and all of her reasoning followed her (already) accepted conclusion.
Also, that does not back up your argument. I could tell you to go read Marx/Engles, and that proves nothing.
I hate democracy, go read Plato! I like democracy, go read Mill! I hate capitalism, go read Marx/Engles! I like capitalism, go read Ayn Rand! I hate life, read Camus!
When Billy throws a tantrum, thousands of people don't die. Also when Billy throws a tantrum its usually for some petty materialistic reason, not some genuine grievance. If Billy threw a tantrum because his next door neighbor was an asshole who's children beat people up (i.e. kill) in the neighborhood, and then decides that he can do whatever he wants to the rest of the block... Then yeah... The analogy works.
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But there is a distinction between drinking beer because beer is proof that god loves us, and drinking beer to get pissed. For the first cause I sit around drinking a decent IPA (usually Stone). For the second I quaff PBR by the bucket-full.
Bud is crap though. PBR is MUCH better, which still isn't saying much though. It just seems that PBR tastes like beer, and is cheaper (2 12s for $10), and some bars around here (Flagstaff) have 25c PBR night (anything up to 16oz 25c), and the rest are $1 pints. I can drink a 12 of Bud and not be even slightly impaired, while a 12 of PBR will at least get me a buzz. Perhaps it is just because they used to brew PBR in my home town (Milwakee). Another thing good about PBR is that they are a smaller company, and don't cough up millions of dollars saying that they will make the "bitches" like you, while allowing you to throw a 300yrd pass, all in your backyard with pretty people.
But most of the time I drink beer because it tastes good, and is a good way to wind down. For that there is Stone IPA (or Arrogant Bastard), Guinness, or Paulaner Heifeweissen.
Taste is by far more important than a good drunk. Besides if a 12 pack of Bud can get you drunk, a six pack of Stone IPA should really get you, for cheaper.
Wasn't Crash-Bandicoot a 3d platformer before the n64. We're forgetting about TONS of games that predate nintendo, like all the games on c64.
Er... ID is a development house, Nintendo is a full scale company that lets development houses make games for them. Nintendo themself have not invented single new genre
I think that that is part of the problem. Someone says (finds results) of something you don't agree with, and you bring out insulting loaded words.
Parent isn't saying that NO JEWS WERE KILLED, he is saying that they were (might have) been killed in different ways. For his first point.
For the second, I'm sure the current Isreali state doesn't want to be linked to the palestinians.
Both are cases of censorship. Just because you don't agree with something, or it disagrees with the modern liberal PC orthodoxy, doesn't mean it is wrong. Just because something can be harmful to the public order, doesn't mean it should be silenced.
Being a sim isn't fun...
Gotta go... must go to the bathroom, cook dinner, get the mail, use computer to find a job, watch TV then sleep now.
Every once in awhile I HAVE to use IE, just for /.
When I get sick of reloading over and over and over just to get a bloody story/comment to load.
As I've said before, its sad that a website that rabidly promotes oss, makes it nearly impossible to use it with an oss browser...
I just wish they would plan on sync before 2.0, thats the only thing keeping me from using it, and keeping me chained to outlook.
All of my computer needs are pretty much open source now, except for the bloody calander, and now that there is a decent alternative, it doesn't do me much good.
Is there any other decent calander programs out there (pref. OSS) that can sync with a PocketPC/WinCE?
I always thought that the Firefox icon looked like a weasel humping a blue marble. And people seem to be able to recognize it as such.
speechless...
perhaps enlightened...
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING MY ANONYMOUS FREIND!
Please...
I'm forming a cult now.
and now I just joined the beer-out-the-nose club!
I actually spend most of my time sitting on the patio of a local bar, reading and doing work. It's a nice laid back bar frequented by college students. They have really good food too. I only get smashed their on weekends.
Nothing quite like sitting outside, reading good books, and drinking a pint of stout, munching on pizza chips.
At another local bar there is a philosophy circle, we meet every weekend, listen to the house jazz, and discuss things. Pretty good for a bunch of drunks.
For awhile I had the same outlook as you, if people couldn't talk about "deep" matters, well then, screw 'em. Then I realized that I was actually a snob.
Everyone has something in common, the only barriers are linguistic. If you don't talk to common man, you loose social skills, and become disconected from the reality that most of the world lives in. Plus, it is always good to get new views on things, even if you find them ignorant, or against your own.
Thats one thing I have against cell-phone culture, everyone is talking to someone they know, and thus never meet different people, with varying POVs. A democracy thrives on interaction.
There are some very interesting people out there, who don't know a lick about tech, but know a great deal about things you don't, like farming, waiting tables, living in a card board box.
Sometimes it doesn't even load text...
The irony of REALLY wanting IE to load a predominantly OSS website... Why can't someone make a extention/fix for FF? Or is it an engine problem?
beats the cliche, ''bout the size of Rhode Island" one... But to run a quick conversion, there are 5 Boulders in a RH, and about 20 RIs in a Texas.
And to further convert this new metric, there is a cubic shitload of Texas' in an Earth.
Then there are the poor fools like me, who carry nothing around with them. Actually, I carry the standard pocket watch (winding, no extra features), but that is about it for gadgets invented in the last 200 years. I seem to get along in life just fine, perhaps its just the fact that I'm not a stimulous junky, I really don't need to be talking to people in my spare (transit, lunch, breaks) time, I have a good enough brain to keep myself amused without needing a videogame everywhere, a pocket watch is great for timing things roughly, I don't need a constant security blanket of noise to protect me from the real world, and humming seems to work just fine.
Perhaps if some genious invented the analog-watch/pocket knife/zippo device (with BLUETOOTH!), then my life would be much easier...
Yeah, I got a PDA sitting around somewhere, it is a decent address book, and nice for writing down ideas on, sometimes I even throw it in my backpack, and then realize its there 2 weeks later. Perhaps it wasn't a good replacement for the little notebook in my back pocket.
None of this crap is needed (unless your an oncall workslave), it is just more needless distractions. I might someday buy a cellphone (most of my calls are long distance), but I have the feeling it would either languish in my car, or just sit there on my coffee table. I have no one I have to talk to bad enough to risk my life driving, or distract myself from my usual spare time omphalical meditations.
There are many suns in the universe, but our Earth revolves around the Sun. Many planets have earth, but there is only one Earth.
Just because the United States' culture is becoming global, and supplanting all other cultures, it has become unnecessary to capitalise the united states. Even if the Internet is huge, does not grant it common noun status, being that there are still other internets out there (Internet2, MILnet, etc...)
Your "l33t" skills aren't as 1337 as you seem to think! Never use a character when a number would suffice. Unless of course you are going to use and exclamation point111
/. Posting Geek! Now all of you other geeks on /., give me royalties.
The Donald is crap, it is an invented trademart sort of phrase, not proper english. Great the guy can brand himself, woohoo! I am now The
And, to be OT, there can be several internets (Internet 2, for instance), but only one Internet, which is the common public one, which would be a proper noun. I would also guess that the military internet wouldn't be capitalised.
Er... Everytime the temprature breaks 90 in Chicago, they also drop like flies.
Actually, that sort of thing has been done before. Read Daniel Dennett's Where Am I?, it is a great and though provoking read.
Lord... I'm feeding a troll...
/. liberatarian), they hate many things about us. They hate (semi-legitimately, but not our fault) globalization, or as it is called by the liberals Americanization. There really is nothing we can do about this, even if it is kinda wrong.
/. get so damned politicized? It's kind of obnoxious. Every post has a rampant neo-cap ranting about how the market is god, a ranting libertarian ranting about... whatever they rant about, and rampant liberals ranting about Bush (still!)... I know I was guilty of this... but still...
I'm not saying "Let be a bunch of pansies", I'm saying perhaps we should evaluate WHY they are attacking us. Perhaps there are legitimate reasons, perhaps the US can really be the bad guys in some contexts.
Looking at this as objectively as possible (I'm neither liberal or conservative, nor the ever popular
They hate us imposing democratic values on them. this is justified, but bunk. Secular democracy is the best form of government to date, when done right it is completely human-rights friendly. Spreading this is good, albeit not forcefully. We (the US)should just be a good example.
They hate the fact that we put military bases in Saudi Arabia. This is a symptom of a larger problem, and should be ignored.
They hate the fact that we meddle in their buisness. This is a problem. We have no right to be meddling for no other reason than our economic interests. This we should stop. The first Iraq war falls in this catagory, and possibly the second.
They hate our support for Israel, and other illegitimate regimes... This is justified. By supporting genocide, we are guilty (by proxy) of genocide. We have no buisness there.
There are others, but it is late, and I'm tired.
There are certain things, though, that we should not stop doing, and there are things that we should. And for killing innocents they deserved to have Afghanistan bombed to shit and the Taliban disposed. But we should look at the causal relationships here, and notice that in some cases we are action like "the great satan".
How the hell did
and I'm guessing someone doesn't agree with your opinion on that either :)
Actually, I have been running various windows incarnations for years, and would say I have never been hacked into BY A HUMAN. Sure, I hardly ever get spyware (intelligence), or email viruses/worms (intelligence and not useing MS products), never been zombied (see above)... This isn't so much due to intelligent choices and precaution, it is due to the fact that the average Joe isn't much of a target decent attacks that don't rely on human stupidity/ignorance.
/.'rs, I'm infinatly more capable/knowlegable than the average luser, and I have had several moments of stupidity. Moments requiring HOURS of hard work to fix.
After a bad reinstall scenario when I was hooked to a large (Uni) network, my computer was pwned, COMPLETELY, within a matter of minutes. Why? Because I suddenly became a target, and intelligence played a minimal role in preventing that. People also are not ALWAYS intelligent, while not as tech savy (read: in the biz) as most
The moral: Never get cocky, you too can be a dumb-ass from time to time. And... If you decide to become a target, then no matter how much common sense you have, you can get screwed by someone with more.
Just out of curiousity, BTW, what sort of non-ms-specific precautions do you take? Firewall, mail, browser, viral protections? None of which (except the firewall) is supplied by MS, and security freindly.
Er... I can play UT2k4 with all the fx on, and it isn't a slide show (get around 25-30fps, perhaps a bit more on indoor maps). Sometimes on slow servers I'll cut things from UltraHigh to High, though. Sometimes I keep the card-based-driver options in the moderate range (4x, etc). Game are meant to be high-res, well except Doom3, which is meant to be... er... Low res until DNF comes out...
Er... I don't think the cult of Rand is a good recomendation. She was obviously EXTREMELY biased for the pure capitalist point of view, and all of her reasoning followed her (already) accepted conclusion.
Also, that does not back up your argument. I could tell you to go read Marx/Engles, and that proves nothing.
I hate democracy, go read Plato!
I like democracy, go read Mill!
I hate capitalism, go read Marx/Engles!
I like capitalism, go read Ayn Rand!
I hate life, read Camus!
When Billy throws a tantrum, thousands of people don't die. Also when Billy throws a tantrum its usually for some petty materialistic reason, not some genuine grievance. If Billy threw a tantrum because his next door neighbor was an asshole who's children beat people up (i.e. kill) in the neighborhood, and then decides that he can do whatever he wants to the rest of the block... Then yeah... The analogy works.