We know the communists have been working on the doomsday porno device for some time. Our informant, known only as "deep throat", has informed us that when completed, it will be capable of creating more porn than can actually exist, causing the world to be destroyed.
I just checked efnet. There are a couple questionable names, but the vast majority of users are in sites named things like "#nerding nerdfest X" and "#Halflife".
I never said I was against owning guns, I said I was against gunmetal justice.
Answer A fails on the first two counts. By the time the sub-standard beef is on the market, it's been eaten. People have already died and gotten sick. You don't even know what happened, because the IBP guys aren't who you see. You'll kill some innocent at McDonalds, apparantly for undercooking the beef. McDonalds bought the beef from IBP, who are really responsible. Good news! You're going to be killed by the family of the chef!
By the time the Ford Pinto is put into the situation where the doors lock and a family burns to death, the cars are already on the road. In fact, Ford would probably prolong the true discovery by covering up the defect and blaming the individuals who died for neglecting their vehicles if anyone asked. Besides, who do you shoot? The engineer who made the mistake? The board of directors who ok'd the design? the manager who ignored the warning? The salesman who sold the car to you?
If the true murderer of a person isn't known, police investigate the crime scene and try to determine who did. You know, just because cops are useless where you live doesn't mean they have no use.
If you shot out the tires of a drunk, and instead of making him stop, it caused his bronco to flip, would you be willing to be shot?
For more examples, what about underage drinking? Drug abuse? 409 scams? What about when a person needs to spend the night in a drunk tank? What happens when companies start demanding workers work in 36 hour stretches with only 12 hours pay? What about when companies start hiring children? What about when the companies or gangs establish a police state because it's profitable to do so?
The rest of the world doesn't go away just because the police do. If our guys don't have the guns, the other guys do.
If the police aren't doing anything, then why do you care that they exist?
Frankly, I've had the police come in handy on a number of occasions. Keep calling my homeland a fantasy land if you want to, though. It's a real ego-booster.
Don't kid yourself. Short of Microsoft, nobody would be willing to put the investment in to cover their asses. Your computer would become a LOT less useful, because commercial software development would not be the same as it is today.:)
Tell me, who protects workers from employers who would like to re-enact the industrial revolution? Who do you shoot when IBP releases a shipment of beef that is below standards for human consumption? Where will the mob travel to when Ford knowingly releases a vehicle with known design problems which cause people to be trapped in their cars and burned alive?
For that matter, who do you call when your neighbours are playing their stereos too loud? How about when someone drives dangerously?
What about in circumstances where the true murderer of a person isn't known? When your car is stolen in the city and you don't know the first thing about investigation so you don't have any chance of getting it back?
Who will protect the weak from the strong, or the strong from the weak? Will every redneck town with a few muslims turn into a war zone?
Really, you gunmetal justices haven't thought about why we have laws, nor people to enforce them.
Ironically, slashdot is composed primarily of industry insiders(read: managers and marketers) these days, so if he hadn't left that comment, nobody would have known.:P
No, you simply infer that they are really very immature. In reality, using swears is nothing more than a habit borne from a persons environment. You can be a wisened 90 year old man and swear like a sailor(possibly because you were a sailor at some point), or you can be an ignorant 12 year old who steadfastly refuses to swear. Frankly, using it as a measure is pure ignorance.
Compared to supported system software? I can tell you right now there's no way in fuck I'd put an unfirewalled 2k on my network, and it's been supported for years.
In fact, I'd put the 95/98 machine on there first. It's a more pitiful OS, but at least it's not automatically wormed.
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We know the communists have been working on the doomsday porno device for some time. Our informant, known only as "deep throat", has informed us that when completed, it will be capable of creating more porn than can actually exist, causing the world to be destroyed.
You have to admit, it's much nicer to be hit for pedantry for something obscure and archaic, isn't it? :)
Neither/nor! Neither/nor!
(If you're going to be a pedant, do it for something only a pedant would be pedantic for, right?)
To be fair, if you do enter, it's it just natural selection?
I mean, it's a room for creepy old men and the preteen children who would talk to them.
It's sort of like posting a sign "jumpin' cliff". Yeah, I suppose you could jump, but is it anyone's fault when you do?
I just checked efnet. There are a couple questionable names, but the vast majority of users are in sites named things like "#nerding nerdfest X" and "#Halflife".
This is the Internet -- the largest distribution of pornography in the free world.
I think it's a bit silly to believe that it's all one-handed surfing.
All your freebasic are belong to us?
At one point, a character named Bard (Who is a Bard)
You mean Edward right?
He might have been the most useless character in the history of video games, but he did have a name and a history.
I never said I was against owning guns, I said I was against gunmetal justice.
Answer A fails on the first two counts. By the time the sub-standard beef is on the market, it's been eaten. People have already died and gotten sick. You don't even know what happened, because the IBP guys aren't who you see. You'll kill some innocent at McDonalds, apparantly for undercooking the beef. McDonalds bought the beef from IBP, who are really responsible. Good news! You're going to be killed by the family of the chef!
By the time the Ford Pinto is put into the situation where the doors lock and a family burns to death, the cars are already on the road. In fact, Ford would probably prolong the true discovery by covering up the defect and blaming the individuals who died for neglecting their vehicles if anyone asked. Besides, who do you shoot? The engineer who made the mistake? The board of directors who ok'd the design? the manager who ignored the warning? The salesman who sold the car to you?
If the true murderer of a person isn't known, police investigate the crime scene and try to determine who did. You know, just because cops are useless where you live doesn't mean they have no use.
If you shot out the tires of a drunk, and instead of making him stop, it caused his bronco to flip, would you be willing to be shot?
For more examples, what about underage drinking? Drug abuse? 409 scams? What about when a person needs to spend the night in a drunk tank? What happens when companies start demanding workers work in 36 hour stretches with only 12 hours pay? What about when companies start hiring children? What about when the companies or gangs establish a police state because it's profitable to do so?
The rest of the world doesn't go away just because the police do. If our guys don't have the guns, the other guys do.
Things are rarely so clear-cut. If they were, we wouldn't need courts.
Besides, there are no police, so there are likely no courts. How could there be courts without police to enforce their decrees and bring in offenders?
If the police aren't doing anything, then why do you care that they exist?
Frankly, I've had the police come in handy on a number of occasions. Keep calling my homeland a fantasy land if you want to, though. It's a real ego-booster.
Isn't this thread about giving everyone the guns so we don't need police?
No, it seems YOU misunderstand. Humor.
It was humorous because the description of basic calculus co-incides humorously with the question "does it still suck?".
This is a fallacy pushed by people in love with government and growing government.
Governments aren't the only people who can subjugate you.
Don't kid yourself. Short of Microsoft, nobody would be willing to put the investment in to cover their asses. Your computer would become a LOT less useful, because commercial software development would not be the same as it is today. :)
I don't think you're thinking this through.
Tell me, who protects workers from employers who would like to re-enact the industrial revolution? Who do you shoot when IBP releases a shipment of beef that is below standards for human consumption? Where will the mob travel to when Ford knowingly releases a vehicle with known design problems which cause people to be trapped in their cars and burned alive?
For that matter, who do you call when your neighbours are playing their stereos too loud? How about when someone drives dangerously?
What about in circumstances where the true murderer of a person isn't known? When your car is stolen in the city and you don't know the first thing about investigation so you don't have any chance of getting it back?
Who will protect the weak from the strong, or the strong from the weak? Will every redneck town with a few muslims turn into a war zone?
Really, you gunmetal justices haven't thought about why we have laws, nor people to enforce them.
Damn straight. The .38 special is judge, jury, and executioner.
Technically, you are.
BUT, do you have a multi-million dollar forensics lab?
Maybe if it was 0xdead or &Hdead. :P
:P
If you don't define dead as hex, it's just a nonsensical sentence.
Ironically, slashdot is composed primarily of industry insiders(read: managers and marketers) these days, so if he hadn't left that comment, nobody would have known. :P
I mean, would you hire a carpenter who wrote "F*cking nailgun!" on every 2x4 that gave him a problem? That would be some house.
Actually, it wouldn't be writing, but that pretty much sounds like most of the tradespeople I know.
No, you simply infer that they are really very immature. In reality, using swears is nothing more than a habit borne from a persons environment. You can be a wisened 90 year old man and swear like a sailor(possibly because you were a sailor at some point), or you can be an ignorant 12 year old who steadfastly refuses to swear. Frankly, using it as a measure is pure ignorance.
Don't feed the trolls.
And OS2 sucks.
Compared to supported system software? I can tell you right now there's no way in fuck I'd put an unfirewalled 2k on my network, and it's been supported for years.
In fact, I'd put the 95/98 machine on there first. It's a more pitiful OS, but at least it's not automatically wormed.
Yep, and two wrongs don't make a right.
But then, as we all know, BeOS is dead, right?
What is smart about pushing your customers to anything?
An 11 Billion dollar advertising industry can't be wrong!