I agree with what you said, but I don't see why slashdot is
an appropriate place for that kind of article. If you want
to be well-informed, then you'd read CNN directly and not
need it to be linked to from slashdot.
P.S. I wish people would quit moderating my
legitimate questions as trolls. You mock American
bible-belt prudishness, but you don't have to look
further than yourselves for an example.
(n.b. I am American.)
Is Slashdot becoming the Wired magazine of the web
or has it already become it? By this, I mean mostly advertising with occasional interesting articles.
Or am I just in a bad mood today? I mean, who the hell
cares that somebody at "CNN Money" thinks there's going
to be a mini dot-com boom aside from investors trying
to drive prices up?
If you say that a movement is gaining momentum,
or that a lot of people are into it,
it will gain momentum even if it wasn't already.
There's an example, where a public service
ad campaign for preventing suicides pointed out the
large number of teenagers who were committing suicide.
Do you think this made suicide less frequent? Hell no,
if everyone else is doing, then...!
So, if you're an activist, then you always say that
your movement is very popular or gaining momentum.
I imagine the same people can't understand how so many Americans are religious. Yet the reaction of these Luddites
seems to me to be just as religious.
Re:Rails, great for those fed up with J2EE.
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Criticizing it for a lack of features it supports, though, is in poor taste.
In poor taste? It's not like he fancied a dirty sanchez
with your Alheimer's-afflicted grandmother or something.
I must say that there should be a clean, concise list of security flaws that should never appear within a web browser, and each browser should be forced to undergo testing against that list before being released.
To have such fundamental flaws appear, whether by accident or negligence, is unacceptable.
It's an open source project. Where are your patches?
I don't deny that ADHD exists. I object to it being a badge of honor in (so-called) geek cliques. Ditto Asperger's.
As you said, if someone really has it,
then it's a serious problem for them. Or being bipolar,
"Like, hey, I get in good and bad moods sometimes, so I'm
like a genius with manic-depression!"
In the past few decades we have suffered a large loss in the ability to think,
Since you feel you're in a position to judge this, show me
the proof. I've read the opposite, that over the past
several decades our intelligence has been steadily increasing. I think your example of using processors for
gaming is irrelevant and stupid.
If I'm on a Web site with content I like and I see a series of URLs named something1.htm, something2.htm, something4.htm, etc., you'd better believe I'm going to type something3.htm in and see what happens.
And then use a combination of bash/perl and `wget`
to download all the images. Or, I mean content.
Ok, you're right about the prime minister not being
the head of state of England. The rest of your post,
however, is looney ranting. Everyone in the world talks
about how self-centered Americans are, but at the same time
they get all righteous if something is different in
America, as if it's they who have the god-given right to
determine what is correct. Like that the word "premier"
might have different shades of meaning in the US than
elsewhere. Bugger means something cute in the US, too,
by the way. Maybe you should
look at yourself first when pointing at the supposedly
stupid Americans, who, however stupid, at the same time
somehow manage to strongly influence global economics, successfully launch space probes on Mars and beyond the
solar system, and produce films, TV shows, fast food,
and music that everyone claims to abhor and yet that are bought in mass quantities worldwide.
I think this is a conspiracy concocted by the liberal media. They filmed this probe supposedly billions of miles away in an underground lab in Area 51, where they have the advanced technology required to film tiny spots.
premier adj 1: first in rank or degree; "an architect of premier rank"; "the prime minister" [syn: {premier(a)}, {prime(a)}] 2: preceding all others in time; "the premiere showing" [syn: {premiere}] n 1: the person who holds the position of head of state in England [syn: {Prime Minister}, {PM}] 2: the person who is head of state (in several countries) [syn: {chancellor}, {prime minister}] v 1: be performed for the first time; "We premiered the opera of the young composer and it was a critical success" [syn: {premiere}] 2: perform a work for the first time [syn: {premiere}]
I don't think they have to be that "informative" to be be effective ads, but I also agree that only an 8 year old from like 50 years ago would find those funny. I thought they were annoying in an almost Jar Jar Binksian way, FWIW.
Ouch, thanks for being honest. My point in asking was to define the region in which this 100% literacy rate applied,
since I suspected it was an unfair comparison to the entire
USA. There are in any case obviously examples of countries with higher literacy rates that the USA, but I'm not sure
if a lower literacy rate necessarily follows from liking
sports a lot. I also was going to ask if you thought that your particular experience in the USA was applicable to
the entire country, and even if your experience in your
home country represented the entire country.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree with what you said, but I don't see why slashdot is an appropriate place for that kind of article. If you want to be well-informed, then you'd read CNN directly and not need it to be linked to from slashdot.
P.S. I wish people would quit moderating my legitimate questions as trolls. You mock American bible-belt prudishness, but you don't have to look further than yourselves for an example. (n.b. I am American.)
Is there a debian package I could try? Otherwise, it's probably not worth the time.
Is Slashdot becoming the Wired magazine of the web or has it already become it? By this, I mean mostly advertising with occasional interesting articles. Or am I just in a bad mood today? I mean, who the hell cares that somebody at "CNN Money" thinks there's going to be a mini dot-com boom aside from investors trying to drive prices up?
If you say that a movement is gaining momentum, or that a lot of people are into it, it will gain momentum even if it wasn't already. There's an example, where a public service ad campaign for preventing suicides pointed out the large number of teenagers who were committing suicide. Do you think this made suicide less frequent? Hell no, if everyone else is doing, then...! So, if you're an activist, then you always say that your movement is very popular or gaining momentum.
He "hearts" Alex Garland, says he has an "ability to type awesomeness"... ? Hrms, OMFG LMAO.
I imagine the same people can't understand how so many Americans are religious. Yet the reaction of these Luddites seems to me to be just as religious.
Nice sig, haha.
Uh, yes it is.
www.google.*
I don't deny that ADHD exists. I object to it being a badge of honor in (so-called) geek cliques. Ditto Asperger's. As you said, if someone really has it, then it's a serious problem for them. Or being bipolar, "Like, hey, I get in good and bad moods sometimes, so I'm like a genius with manic-depression!"
Since you feel you're in a position to judge this, show me the proof. I've read the opposite, that over the past several decades our intelligence has been steadily increasing. I think your example of using processors for gaming is irrelevant and stupid.
That's what I'm thinking. It's all the rage, like attention deficit syndrome.
If only I could move my desk into the server room. Cool air, whirring fans, no people. I don't need a window.
And then use a combination of bash/perl and `wget` to download all the images. Or, I mean content.
I haven't read any studies on whether the peoples in Europe, Canada, and Australia have feelings, so I'm not sure.
That article is blatantly a troll.
Ok, you're right about the prime minister not being the head of state of England. The rest of your post, however, is looney ranting. Everyone in the world talks about how self-centered Americans are, but at the same time they get all righteous if something is different in America, as if it's they who have the god-given right to determine what is correct. Like that the word "premier" might have different shades of meaning in the US than elsewhere. Bugger means something cute in the US, too, by the way. Maybe you should look at yourself first when pointing at the supposedly stupid Americans, who, however stupid, at the same time somehow manage to strongly influence global economics, successfully launch space probes on Mars and beyond the solar system, and produce films, TV shows, fast food, and music that everyone claims to abhor and yet that are bought in mass quantities worldwide.
I think this is a conspiracy concocted by the liberal media. They filmed this probe supposedly billions of miles away in an underground lab in Area 51, where they have the advanced technology required to film tiny spots.
Billy the Bunny
I don't think they have to be that "informative" to be be effective ads, but I also agree that only an 8 year old from like 50 years ago would find those funny. I thought they were annoying in an almost Jar Jar Binksian way, FWIW.
Ouch, thanks for being honest. My point in asking was to define the region in which this 100% literacy rate applied, since I suspected it was an unfair comparison to the entire USA. There are in any case obviously examples of countries with higher literacy rates that the USA, but I'm not sure if a lower literacy rate necessarily follows from liking sports a lot. I also was going to ask if you thought that your particular experience in the USA was applicable to the entire country, and even if your experience in your home country represented the entire country.