I thought some guy named Baran was commissioned to figure out how to build a network to survive a nuclear attack in 1962. Eventually those ideas were used to develop (through ARPA, DARPA) something resembling what we have now.
You should be happy at these scandals, because that's the proof that the system works. When you should sorry is when things have the appearance of being perfect and unchanging.
I'm only quoting to give a point of reference. I have to agree with everything above this. I'm glad that the crap is coming out. I'm glad that bad management, misuse of public trust, and shirking responsibility sometimes lead to people having to come to terms.
And, most importantly, I have to agree with you that these things will always correct themselves. I just think that I have a longer term picture than you might think I or you do.
What you really need to understand is that Microsoft is just not that big a deal, and Microsoft has done FAR more good than harm to the industry. Have they done harm? No doubt about it. But you also have to look at the good.
How about I look at it this way... I'm a person that can stand to gain from charity. I live in another country. I don't need immunization, I need an education (or something other than what Bill's charity is providing). Like a tree falling in the forest Microsoft fucks a bunch of people over in some place I really don't know much about. Specifically because of this I don't receive the charity that I might have received if others had been better off and feeling more generous.
Doesn't make sense? How about if you're someone working in a competitive company? What if you're here in the marketplace busting your ass and you get screwed by a company that's not playing fair. Then, on top of all that, the head honcho gives a paltry bit of the proceeds away to people you've never heard of and could care less about and walks away like Robin Hood. Do you think that person is going to go and spend time building homes in Mexico? Maybe he or his children might have if things would have worked out differently.
My whole point is that this is a closed system here. Economically the amount of damage that Microsoft has done far outweighs the tenpence that Bill is giving to needy kids out of guilt.
Look at what Microsoft could have done.
See, this is evidence to me that we are talking, in some respects, about different things. I could care less if someone COULD have run over five people if he only ran over three. It makes no difference to the FIRST three. And giving money to OTHER people besides the survivors of the first three, or three-thousand, victims is comparable to a little bit more than a wave and a goodbye.
Everyone around here (USA) is so caught up in goddamn charities and penance and shit it's disgusting. It's like all you need to do to become a "good person" again is help someone with their hand out.
The thing about it is, if Microsoft didn't exist, we would have someone else acting the role of Microsoft.
This is unnecessarily pessimistic. I was accused of being cynical, but I would never say something like this. Would you argue that the Dark Ages would have existed even if the Church hadn't have been in charge? Do you think chinese labor would have been exploited by someone else had it not been for the people who had done it? Of course, everything that has happened in history has happened from someone and it's ridiculous to say it wouldn't have happened if that person/country wasn't there. But it is equally ridiculous to reprieve someone of the blame because of ANOTHER hypothetical bad guy who would have done it, too.
Anyway, my bottom line point is that very few people have been "fucked up the ass" as you put it.
My point is that if there was ONE person who was deliberately screwed over by Microsoft, then before any trucks of hypodermics are shipped off to some needy country, that person should be compensated.
Helping others does not fix the problem. People need to be held responsible. If Bill Gates is so damn smart, and especially innovative, I have no doubts he can come up with something a little more creative, and topical, than starting a charity.
And again, the question of what software runs on PCs is just not that huge an issue in the scheme of things. The latter is the perspective that I think would do you a lot of good.
WTF are you talking about?
Perhaps it would help if I put things in this manner:
Suppose I rob a bank and steal a dollar out of every one of the customers' money. I put it into little stock baggies and stash it in my hideyhole. After counting it I realize I have a veritable shitload. My wife and I wonder what to do with all this. Let's help poor kids! That's always a good thing to do. Ah, I'm glad I figured out that problem.
Am I now a person worthy of praise for helping poor kids?
When you get older and more mature, I think you'll get a little better perspective on these issues. Right now, I don't think you have enough experience to understand what we're talking about.
I cannot but hope that you are incredibly wrong about this. I cannot feel more certain about many things other than the claim that, "If Bill Gates really wanted to help people he could do a fuckload more than just giving chump change to some charity."
Maybe in my thirties I'll realize the virtue of hiding behind "the public good". In the meantime I'll just watch all of the mature people wallow around in excess, occasionally fling bits at the poor, poor needy folks, congratulate themselves about how good they are, and then stick their heads in the sand with respect to any questions about the morality of their corporate activities.
Perhaps I'm misled by the latest catastrophes in accounting by our business leaders. They were really for all of the employee's good. I guess I'll just have to live on the planet a bit longer before I "really" understand why fucking people up the ass is ok as long as you give a tenth of the proceeds away to starving kids in a different country.
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I'm no expert, but now that you mention it I do remember the scene, in some sense.
I would have just commented on the oranges/knife/bathtub before white rabbit... but I guess that's the circles I run in.
When the guy above said "white rabbit" I thought he was referring to some scene wherein they chased a goddamn rabbit around and whatnot. Another popular movie in "some" circles is Alice in Wonderland and I thought that someone might have been mixing them up.
Thanks.
BTW... was it reel-to-reel?... I thought it was just a regular ol' radio... *sigh*
> Count all of the children of employees in firms that were negatively influenced by Microsoft's practices: and only those who Bill Gates would have to agree "were hurt and for no real reason other than to help us".
You know what, I have to respond to this stupidity, too.
Are you just writing to be read or would you like someone to actually think about what you're saying?
If the latter, you might want to think about how you start your flames.
First of all, employees of companies that Microsoft "squashed" simply found other jobs. It's absurd to argue that children are dying because Microsoft put a company out of business.
That's a good point. Did you also know that gravity is a theory that describes why masses "fall" towards each other? Oh, also, grass is usually green, although sometimes brown, people in France still speak French most of the time, and Japanese people speak, [drumroll] JAPANESE!!!
We're so smart.
Second of all, with very few exceptions, most companies that Microsoft has "stomped" deserved to die.
What is your point? Is it that Bill Gates giving ASSloads of money to needy kids in the ghetto of my hometown pays back for all of the companies that didn't deserve to be stomped because they were playing by the rules while his didn't?
I'm sorry for being so FUCKING dense, but you're a little unclear.
Let's take Netscape, who put out one of the worse pieces of crap ever made. Or how about WordPerfect? Ditto.
So, you refute my arguments about Bill Gates having been able to better spend his time helping the world than sending money to another organization with remarks about pieces of software that should have died. Your argument is nontopical and it makes little sense in the long run.
There are many, many people who would have benefited from BETTER fucking software than Microsoft provided a long time ago. Because of the weasely position[s] they have taken and the monopolistic "screw you" attitude they've adopted, millions upon millions, billions even, it might be, have been lost due to people with good faith getting hammered by Microsoft's inadequacies.
Do you think that Bill Gates' flinging a few hundred million off to some charity pays everyone back?
And the whole FUCKING point is WHO you are screwing over. The people that are getting reamed up the ass are the goddamn CONSUMERS. The people on the recipient end of charity are getting money/drugs/attention for absolutely no reason other than they happen to exist on this planet.
You have a highly inflated opinion of Microsoft's importance in the world. Here's a hint: They're importance is almost nil.
You're right. I guess I shouldn't even care. I'm surprised that someone even responded to me since: Microsoft's importance... is almost nil.
Exactly what makes you think they're just "handing out capital"?
I have to assume that they are distributing something since they are a charity after all. If it's not exactly capital then what the fuck is it that this charity has achieved such that they can create something to be distributed that is NOT equitable with capital?
And by the way, cynicism is inversely proportional to wisdom, and is not a substitute for intelligence despite what people like you seem to think.
Is this just a piece of wisdom that you involuntarily spewed through your hands onto the keyboard? I'm just asking because it does not appear to be relevant. If you were referring to me then you're mistaking my attitude for cynicism. It's not. It's something else entirely.
Gates is not some comic book villain, despite what you want to believe.
I have to think that you mean Buck2 specifically when you say this, although it's questionable since the last sentence was so general. In any case, "Yeah, fucking duh!" I don't actually have this picture of Bill Gates flying around on a sled shooting people and cackling. I _do_ think of him who started a snowball with a bad course, though. And I feel that if he wanted to take a bit more responsibility about it then he could so. He could, for example, denounce some of the Microsoft practices publically.
Did it ever occur to you that he picked this cause because he thought it was a good one, and not just for the PR aspect? Maybe you might want to do some reading on exactly how he came to pick this cause (which is not his only one, by the way).
Fuck you. I HAVE read about it. For a while there I thought the same as a lot people when they hear about someone giving money away to the little brown people in need, ie "What a great person."
Have YOU read about how much money he's really giving away? Have you looked into how much he is REALLY involved in this?
It doesn't have to be PR (talk about cynical), it's just that giving money to, or starting, charities is the EASY way to look good. Regardless of your intent.
I'm not convinced that Bill Gates, or his wife, thought about what he was doing even three times as much as the thought that you gave about your last post.
I mean, it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that Microsoft being mean to their competitors or not having an "approved" license is infinitely more important than children dying by the millions from preventable diseases.
If it was obvious I would leave it for someone else to point out.
The idea is not that helping children is bad, it's that the money/rank/influence could be spent for alternate, and more justifiable, causes. The "helping children" part is a plea to the masses along the lines of, "I'm cool. Really. I LIKE kids even though I don't have any."
Who the FUCK is going to say something bad about that, ASSHOLE?
The less of "them", the better. After all, they're just gonna keep breeding, and we don't need that, do we?
I'm talking probabilistically here, man. As a simple probe:
Count all of the children that receive benefits from Bill Gates' charity.
Count all of the children of employees in firms that were negatively influenced by Microsoft's practices:
and only those who Bill Gates would have to agree "were hurt and for no real reason other than to help us".
Just for THE FUCK OF IT multiply the expected probable "dollars_earned_for_CHARITY/child" times each.
I guarantee you that the number will be higher in the second category.
Think about the real fucking world. We're all in it. Some of us just want things to be better. Handing out capital to people who don't know what to do with it doesn't work.
Philly has tried this, the Church in all of its institutions has tried this. It doesn't work.
Bill Gates and his wife are seizing on the public soft spot for charity to assuage their guilt for the fucking house they own. GAFC!
They're not the only ones. They're just a popular target here.
I was just wondering if you can "become" dyslexic.
I always thought people either were or were not diabetic, but, apparently excessive weight/poor diet/lack of exercise can lead to the body regulating itself in a diabetic way.
That was a shock to me.
I'm fully prepared to learn that someone can read numbers in order until they become 30 at which point numbers flip-flop on them. But, once again, that does not appear to be the case.
Thanks for responding. I'll stick with what I think I know for now.
How about Bill Gates keeping every dollar spent on charity and then pulling rank on MS to make the goliath a better behaved machine?
This would directly impact many more people who are capable of in turn generating more good for humanity than a bunch of children who cannot, due to their social status, receive the treatments that they "need".
I mean, charities are goddamn shortsighted. Say you immunize a pile of kids, then what? Typically these children have families with little to no income in the standard sense. Now they die of a different cause. Whoopteedoo.
There are an infinite number of more inventive things Bill Gates could do with the massive amount of capital and rank he controls in Microsoft, and spending a token amount on a charity is a copout.
I mean c'mon, everyone knows that the born rich guy who buys the big ol' rock for the girl is no cooler than the blue collar who has to scrimp, scrape, and bloody his knuckles to put together a car for her. Mr. Moneybags can mailorder (internet clicky click) the jewel, whereas there's only one way to build the car, IYKWIM, AITYD.
The point is that I feel that Bill Gates should set his standards higher before he gets props for starting a charity.
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You conjured up an image of MS and CodeWeavers being stuck on the prototypical desert island with a single palm tree. That wouldn't be nerf rockets, it'd be cannabalism.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but can someone "become" dyslexic? I always, perhaps incorrectly, thought this was something someone just always has problems with which may not be diagnosed for a while (usually after schooling issues and whatnot).
It would be pretty sucky to not have issues with dyslexia and then develop them in adulthood or somesuch. Probably suckier than just being dyslexic your whole life.
Fish will slow down and "rest". Think of it like the birds that fly for years on end over sea without ever touching ground. Zone out and recharge.
They do float while they're resting. They won't be mistaken for dead because they are still somewhat alert. And who cares if they are mistaken for dead, anyway? A dead animal is usually less of a target than a live one. In any case, they usually they hang out by some rocks or plants and just chill for a while.
Besides it's not critical whether fish actually sleep in order to "sleep with the fishes", yo. All that needs to happen is that YOU are "asleep" and the fishes are there with you.
Hello? NES wasn't any more stable than the 2600... stability wasn't a problem.
And, obviously it couldn't have been long lived as it rose out of the ashes (well, I guess it could, but it just wasn't, it was new, built in the ashes).
[begin pulling things out of my ass] So, anyway, the NES kicked ass because it was a generation ahead of the other crap and they packaged SMB with it... which immediately addicted everyone who looks twice at those things. [end]
VCD's are ~512 megs, dude... I'm talking about "the masses" here. Not someone into dl'ing DVD comparable flicks.
If you wanna throw that out as a data point then you're only reinforcing what I was saying, anyways... which is that people who dl movies are more apt to buy hard drives.
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I thought some guy named Baran was commissioned to figure out how to build a network to survive a nuclear attack in 1962. Eventually those ideas were used to develop (through ARPA, DARPA) something resembling what we have now.
You should be happy at these scandals, because that's the proof that the system works. When you should sorry is when things have the appearance of being perfect and unchanging.
... I'm a person that can stand to gain from charity. I live in another country. I don't need immunization, I need an education (or something other than what Bill's charity is providing). Like a tree falling in the forest Microsoft fucks a bunch of people over in some place I really don't know much about. Specifically because of this I don't receive the charity that I might have received if others had been better off and feeling more generous.
I'm only quoting to give a point of reference. I have to agree with everything above this. I'm glad that the crap is coming out. I'm glad that bad management, misuse of public trust, and shirking responsibility sometimes lead to people having to come to terms.
And, most importantly, I have to agree with you that these things will always correct themselves. I just think that I have a longer term picture than you might think I or you do.
What you really need to understand is that Microsoft is just not that big a deal, and Microsoft has done FAR more good than harm to the industry. Have they done harm? No doubt about it. But you also have to look at the good.
How about I look at it this way
Doesn't make sense? How about if you're someone working in a competitive company? What if you're here in the marketplace busting your ass and you get screwed by a company that's not playing fair. Then, on top of all that, the head honcho gives a paltry bit of the proceeds away to people you've never heard of and could care less about and walks away like Robin Hood. Do you think that person is going to go and spend time building homes in Mexico? Maybe he or his children might have if things would have worked out differently.
My whole point is that this is a closed system here. Economically the amount of damage that Microsoft has done far outweighs the tenpence that Bill is giving to needy kids out of guilt.
Look at what Microsoft could have done.
See, this is evidence to me that we are talking, in some respects, about different things. I could care less if someone COULD have run over five people if he only ran over three. It makes no difference to the FIRST three. And giving money to OTHER people besides the survivors of the first three, or three-thousand, victims is comparable to a little bit more than a wave and a goodbye.
Everyone around here (USA) is so caught up in goddamn charities and penance and shit it's disgusting. It's like all you need to do to become a "good person" again is help someone with their hand out.
The thing about it is, if Microsoft didn't exist, we would have someone else acting the role of Microsoft.
This is unnecessarily pessimistic. I was accused of being cynical, but I would never say something like this. Would you argue that the Dark Ages would have existed even if the Church hadn't have been in charge? Do you think chinese labor would have been exploited by someone else had it not been for the people who had done it? Of course, everything that has happened in history has happened from someone and it's ridiculous to say it wouldn't have happened if that person/country wasn't there. But it is equally ridiculous to reprieve someone of the blame because of ANOTHER hypothetical bad guy who would have done it, too.
Anyway, my bottom line point is that very few people have been "fucked up the ass" as you put it.
My point is that if there was ONE person who was deliberately screwed over by Microsoft, then before any trucks of hypodermics are shipped off to some needy country, that person should be compensated.
Helping others does not fix the problem. People need to be held responsible. If Bill Gates is so damn smart, and especially innovative, I have no doubts he can come up with something a little more creative, and topical, than starting a charity.
And again, the question of what software runs on PCs is just not that huge an issue in the scheme of things. The latter is the perspective that I think would do you a lot of good.
WTF are you talking about?
Perhaps it would help if I put things in this manner:
Suppose I rob a bank and steal a dollar out of every one of the customers' money. I put it into little stock baggies and stash it in my hideyhole. After counting it I realize I have a veritable shitload. My wife and I wonder what to do with all this. Let's help poor kids! That's always a good thing to do. Ah, I'm glad I figured out that problem.
Am I now a person worthy of praise for helping poor kids?
Thanks for responding.
I have a feeling you're pretty young.
It's all relative. I'm 26.
When you get older and more mature, I think you'll get a little better perspective on these issues. Right now, I don't think you have enough experience to understand what we're talking about.
I cannot but hope that you are incredibly wrong about this. I cannot feel more certain about many things other than the claim that, "If Bill Gates really wanted to help people he could do a fuckload more than just giving chump change to some charity."
Maybe in my thirties I'll realize the virtue of hiding behind "the public good". In the meantime I'll just watch all of the mature people wallow around in excess, occasionally fling bits at the poor, poor needy folks, congratulate themselves about how good they are, and then stick their heads in the sand with respect to any questions about the morality of their corporate activities.
Perhaps I'm misled by the latest catastrophes in accounting by our business leaders. They were really for all of the employee's good. I guess I'll just have to live on the planet a bit longer before I "really" understand why fucking people up the ass is ok as long as you give a tenth of the proceeds away to starving kids in a different country.
I'll be sure to give it a few more years.
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Fuckers. It always brings me down. How can I imagine myself fucking that ASIAN hottie with a little pixelated dick like that!? And I KNOW that even withOUT the pixels I'm bigger than that chump.
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I'm no expert, but now that you mention it I do remember the scene, in some sense.
... but I guess that's the circles I run in.
... was it reel-to-reel? ... I thought it was just a regular ol' radio ... *sigh*
I would have just commented on the oranges/knife/bathtub before white rabbit
When the guy above said "white rabbit" I thought he was referring to some scene wherein they chased a goddamn rabbit around and whatnot. Another popular movie in "some" circles is Alice in Wonderland and I thought that someone might have been mixing them up.
Thanks.
BTW
> Count all of the children of employees in firms that were negatively influenced by Microsoft's practices: and only those who Bill Gates would have to agree "were hurt and for no real reason other than to help us".
... is almost nil.
You know what, I have to respond to this stupidity, too.
Are you just writing to be read or would you like someone to actually think about what you're saying?
If the latter, you might want to think about how you start your flames.
First of all, employees of companies that Microsoft "squashed" simply found other jobs. It's absurd to argue that children are dying because Microsoft put a company out of business.
That's a good point. Did you also know that gravity is a theory that describes why masses "fall" towards each other? Oh, also, grass is usually green, although sometimes brown, people in France still speak French most of the time, and Japanese people speak, [drumroll] JAPANESE!!!
We're so smart.
Second of all, with very few exceptions, most companies that Microsoft has "stomped" deserved to die.
What is your point? Is it that Bill Gates giving ASSloads of money to needy kids in the ghetto of my hometown pays back for all of the companies that didn't deserve to be stomped because they were playing by the rules while his didn't?
I'm sorry for being so FUCKING dense, but you're a little unclear.
Let's take Netscape, who put out one of the worse pieces of crap ever made. Or how about WordPerfect? Ditto.
So, you refute my arguments about Bill Gates having been able to better spend his time helping the world than sending money to another organization with remarks about pieces of software that should have died. Your argument is nontopical and it makes little sense in the long run.
There are many, many people who would have benefited from BETTER fucking software than Microsoft provided a long time ago. Because of the weasely position[s] they have taken and the monopolistic "screw you" attitude they've adopted, millions upon millions, billions even, it might be, have been lost due to people with good faith getting hammered by Microsoft's inadequacies.
Do you think that Bill Gates' flinging a few hundred million off to some charity pays everyone back?
And the whole FUCKING point is WHO you are screwing over. The people that are getting reamed up the ass are the goddamn CONSUMERS. The people on the recipient end of charity are getting money/drugs/attention for absolutely no reason other than they happen to exist on this planet.
You have a highly inflated opinion of Microsoft's importance in the world. Here's a hint: They're importance is almost nil.
You're right. I guess I shouldn't even care. I'm surprised that someone even responded to me since: Microsoft's importance
Exactly what makes you think they're just "handing out capital"?
I have to assume that they are distributing something since they are a charity after all. If it's not exactly capital then what the fuck is it that this charity has achieved such that they can create something to be distributed that is NOT equitable with capital?
And by the way, cynicism is inversely proportional to wisdom, and is not a substitute for intelligence despite what people like you seem to think.
Is this just a piece of wisdom that you involuntarily spewed through your hands onto the keyboard? I'm just asking because it does not appear to be relevant. If you were referring to me then you're mistaking my attitude for cynicism. It's not. It's something else entirely.
Gates is not some comic book villain, despite what you want to believe.
I have to think that you mean Buck2 specifically when you say this, although it's questionable since the last sentence was so general. In any case, "Yeah, fucking duh!" I don't actually have this picture of Bill Gates flying around on a sled shooting people and cackling. I _do_ think of him who started a snowball with a bad course, though. And I feel that if he wanted to take a bit more responsibility about it then he could so. He could, for example, denounce some of the Microsoft practices publically.
Did it ever occur to you that he picked this cause because he thought it was a good one, and not just for the PR aspect? Maybe you might want to do some reading on exactly how he came to pick this cause (which is not his only one, by the way).
Fuck you. I HAVE read about it. For a while there I thought the same as a lot people when they hear about someone giving money away to the little brown people in need, ie "What a great person."
Have YOU read about how much money he's really giving away? Have you looked into how much he is REALLY involved in this?
It doesn't have to be PR (talk about cynical), it's just that giving money to, or starting, charities is the EASY way to look good. Regardless of your intent.
I'm not convinced that Bill Gates, or his wife, thought about what he was doing even three times as much as the thought that you gave about your last post.
Why is that obvious?
... Johnny Depp and that other guy? The one in Traffic?
... perhaps let me say that I haven't noticed that it's that "cool" to talk about "munchies" anymore. :)
Because your crack about "the munchies" was trite, predictable, and appeared so contrived that it looked like you were asking for points.
This usually only happens from people who don't happen to be stoned or know that they can get there in short order.
Must have missed that part. All I remember from that movie was the whole white rabbit thing.
I don't remember anything about a white rabbit. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
No white rabbit.
Havn't you ever noticed that half my posts are for the legalization of drugs and an end to this stupid drug war?
Sorry, I don't track your posts. Although if this is true I back you 110% just to make my old gym instructor happy.
I don't smoke anymore, havn't for a while now
Ah, well, then
That's the whole nut in a scrot, really.
I mean, it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that Microsoft being mean to their competitors or not having an "approved" license is infinitely more important than children dying by the millions from preventable diseases.
If it was obvious I would leave it for someone else to point out.
The idea is not that helping children is bad, it's that the money/rank/influence could be spent for alternate, and more justifiable, causes. The "helping children" part is a plea to the masses along the lines of, "I'm cool. Really. I LIKE kids even though I don't have any."
Who the FUCK is going to say something bad about that, ASSHOLE?
The less of "them", the better. After all, they're just gonna keep breeding, and we don't need that, do we?
I'm talking probabilistically here, man. As a simple probe:
Count all of the children that receive benefits from Bill Gates' charity.
Count all of the children of employees in firms that were negatively influenced by Microsoft's practices:
and only those who Bill Gates would have to agree "were hurt and for no real reason other than to help us".
Just for THE FUCK OF IT multiply the expected probable "dollars_earned_for_CHARITY/child" times each.
I guarantee you that the number will be higher in the second category.
Think about the real fucking world. We're all in it. Some of us just want things to be better. Handing out capital to people who don't know what to do with it doesn't work.
Philly has tried this, the Church in all of its institutions has tried this. It doesn't work.
Bill Gates and his wife are seizing on the public soft spot for charity to assuage their guilt for the fucking house they own. GAFC!
They're not the only ones. They're just a popular target here.
Ha ha.
Obviously you've never smoked before.
You remind me of the scene in Fear and Loathing where the Cop Conventioneers are learning why users call a roach a "roach".
(Oh, and if you really are stoned right now, you're a dork for posting such lameness to a fucking website)
you LOSE. Smoke a bowl. It'll help you in life. I'm FUCKING serious!
Like post. Newsletter?
I was just wondering if you can "become" dyslexic.
I always thought people either were or were not diabetic, but, apparently excessive weight/poor diet/lack of exercise can lead to the body regulating itself in a diabetic way.
That was a shock to me.
I'm fully prepared to learn that someone can read numbers in order until they become 30 at which point numbers flip-flop on them. But, once again, that does not appear to be the case.
Thanks for responding. I'll stick with what I think I know for now.
Troy McClure as in "appearing in such films as ..."
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How about Bill Gates keeping every dollar spent on charity and then pulling rank on MS to make the goliath a better behaved machine?
This would directly impact many more people who are capable of in turn generating more good for humanity than a bunch of children who cannot, due to their social status, receive the treatments that they "need".
I mean, charities are goddamn shortsighted. Say you immunize a pile of kids, then what? Typically these children have families with little to no income in the standard sense. Now they die of a different cause. Whoopteedoo.
There are an infinite number of more inventive things Bill Gates could do with the massive amount of capital and rank he controls in Microsoft, and spending a token amount on a charity is a copout.
I mean c'mon, everyone knows that the born rich guy who buys the big ol' rock for the girl is no cooler than the blue collar who has to scrimp, scrape, and bloody his knuckles to put together a car for her. Mr. Moneybags can mailorder (internet clicky click) the jewel, whereas there's only one way to build the car, IYKWIM, AITYD.
The point is that I feel that Bill Gates should set his standards higher before he gets props for starting a charity.
Wow! How do you possibly know this detail about a circus?
isle: a small island
aisle: a passageway for inside traffic, as in a department store, warehouse, or supermarket.
You conjured up an image of MS and CodeWeavers being stuck on the prototypical desert island with a single palm tree. That wouldn't be nerf rockets, it'd be cannabalism.
Behold the DANGER of the MISTYPED WORD!
Wow, you're dense.
Fucking brown dwarf if you ASK ME!
I don't mean to be pedantic, but can someone "become" dyslexic? I always, perhaps incorrectly, thought this was something someone just always has problems with which may not be diagnosed for a while (usually after schooling issues and whatnot).
It would be pretty sucky to not have issues with dyslexia and then develop them in adulthood or somesuch. Probably suckier than just being dyslexic your whole life.
Fish will slow down and "rest". Think of it like the birds that fly for years on end over sea without ever touching ground. Zone out and recharge.
They do float while they're resting. They won't be mistaken for dead because they are still somewhat alert. And who cares if they are mistaken for dead, anyway? A dead animal is usually less of a target than a live one. In any case, they usually they hang out by some rocks or plants and just chill for a while.
Besides it's not critical whether fish actually sleep in order to "sleep with the fishes", yo. All that needs to happen is that YOU are "asleep" and the fishes are there with you.
Daddy, why do people get angry?
Because.
Daddy, why did that guy do that?
Because.
Daddy, why do you always say, "The system sucks"?
Because.
Daddy, why do you work so hard?
Because.
Daddy, can something be funny even if you don't laugh?
Yes.
Daddy, how come some people think something's funny and then other people don't?
Because.
Why is this a troll?
I think this is going to be a new signature.
Yeah, Sue! That beeyatch!
Hello? NES wasn't any more stable than the 2600 ... stability wasn't a problem.
... which immediately addicted everyone who looks twice at those things.
And, obviously it couldn't have been long lived as it rose out of the ashes (well, I guess it could, but it just wasn't, it was new, built in the ashes).
[begin pulling things out of my ass]
So, anyway, the NES kicked ass because it was a generation ahead of the other crap and they packaged SMB with it
[end]
Somebody mess with your anti-paranoid shot?
VCD's are ~512 megs, dude ... I'm talking about "the masses" here. Not someone into dl'ing DVD comparable flicks.
... which is that people who dl movies are more apt to buy hard drives.
If you wanna throw that out as a data point then you're only reinforcing what I was saying, anyways
I don't know what eDonkey is. I guess I'll go hunt it's ass down. NYUK NYUK