H: This is my Universal Translator. It could have been my greatest invention, but it translates everything into an incomprehensible dead language
C: Hello.
UT:: Bonjour!
H: See? Utter gibberish!
I do, if it means cheaper and more comprehensive health care.
Thank you for deciding for me how my money is best spent. It is such a drudgery all my life trying to make my own decisions about how to best allocate my resources for my own benefit - now that the lovely warm womb of government can make the oweee go away I have no need for any of my money. Indeed, I think it'd be easiest if I just quit receiving money for my effort - I will just get up at 5 every morning as I've done for so many years and go work as hard as possible for that 12 hour shift because I know that the government will make the very best decisions about how to allocate the value I create, and government will take the very best care of me and my family and everyone else too. Sure, some people in certain positions will get a little better than others, but it will be because they deserve it, being such great leaders and looking out for all of us - and only they should get the big cars and jets and stuff too - we can all take the bus to save money for the effort. It's silly thinking that if I save my earnings and take the time to carefully choose how I spend my blood, sweat and tears, that I am doing the best for myself and those that I care for - why, the loving government will efficiently decide and will always know the exact amount of effort and money to spend to care for me - why, they'll spend every cent in the treasury to keep me happy - because I'm so special - and when someone else needs all that effort, they'll get it too - because we all really know that money can simply be printed and spent as needed.
I read somewhere that when Dan Quayle was vice President, the Secret Service had standing orders that, if anything happened to the President, they were to shoot Quayle immediately.
Probably on slashdot, since it has such a large body of deeply insightful political analysts.
because they are conservative and because they are focused on economics and because they have a different conclusion than he wants in advance. Look at the complete instant dismissal of that unrecognized great under appreciated scientifically backed conclusion by Hemos in the summary... "the phrase "rife with claims and counter-claims" is making more of the counter-claims then they are"... does anyone think that any conclusion other than the popular one is going to be evaluated on its merits?
I used to set my family's computers homepage to yahoo. But they have since redone their TV listings so that they load like crap.
I had the same problem, especially with a recent Yahoo change that made it impossible to use the listings without registering for a FYA (Fine Yahoo Account), and so just a few days ago took the time to swith the fam(ily)net(work) to use this for tv listings now - still not great but better than the tv.yahoo.com, which no longer works anyway. The only thing I find myself using yahoo for now is to make fun of them on Slashdot.
I've used Thinkpads for a long time now. When they do break, it's usually about the time I'm itching for a "new" one. I usually have great luck buying something in the $500 range off ebay from a "reputable vendor" that still has a warranty. I got lucky with the A31P I bought - though out of warranty at my purchase it was described as booting only to a specific point - I recognized it from the description as a virus - got the system really cheap and had a fully operational debian runnning in about 20 minutes. Being able to but one-to-two yr-old thinkpad technology for a few hundred dollars has kept me from needing or wanting to repair anything myself for quite awhile.
Want to see something sad? Next time gas prices are near $3/gallon, go inside a convenience store. Don't pick a nice one.
When I visit just such a convenience store once a week to buy gas, and have to pay cash about every other time because the damn pump card reader is out-of-order, I see just such people walking in and cashing government checks - and then buying 2 cartons of cigarettes and $100 of lottery tickets. My sympathy meter is pretty much broken.
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This has to be the oldest story I've seen posted on Slashdot!
Just wait 1000 years and you'll see the dup!
It makes one wonder why the Linux mascot is a Penguin?
Indeed - it should have been this - it so appropos in so many ways.
Why not both?
H: This is my Universal Translator. It could have been my greatest invention, but it translates everything into an incomprehensible dead language
C: Hello.
UT:: Bonjour!
H: See? Utter gibberish!
MS is actually very easy for my small company to deal with
Faust? Is that you?
All politicians lie.
Only when their lips are moving.
Please perform a reddit and digg search before posting content
Who gives a shit what's on digg?
Do the advertisers all have optimised sites for mobile phones, or do they all continue to spit out 70+ kB of worthless data?
There's a difference?
I do, if it means cheaper and more comprehensive health care.
Thank you for deciding for me how my money is best spent. It is such a drudgery all my life trying to make my own decisions about how to best allocate my resources for my own benefit - now that the lovely warm womb of government can make the oweee go away I have no need for any of my money. Indeed, I think it'd be easiest if I just quit receiving money for my effort - I will just get up at 5 every morning as I've done for so many years and go work as hard as possible for that 12 hour shift because I know that the government will make the very best decisions about how to allocate the value I create, and government will take the very best care of me and my family and everyone else too. Sure, some people in certain positions will get a little better than others, but it will be because they deserve it, being such great leaders and looking out for all of us - and only they should get the big cars and jets and stuff too - we can all take the bus to save money for the effort. It's silly thinking that if I save my earnings and take the time to carefully choose how I spend my blood, sweat and tears, that I am doing the best for myself and those that I care for - why, the loving government will efficiently decide and will always know the exact amount of effort and money to spend to care for me - why, they'll spend every cent in the treasury to keep me happy - because I'm so special - and when someone else needs all that effort, they'll get it too - because we all really know that money can simply be printed and spent as needed.
Oh, and they'll give me a pony too.
Let me guess - you used to use a flame thrower to dry the cat.
... vacations are canceled until morale improves.
I read somewhere that when Dan Quayle was vice President, the Secret Service had standing orders that, if anything happened to the President, they were to shoot Quayle immediately.
Probably on slashdot, since it has such a large body of deeply insightful political analysts.
Oh wait.
... ask what cannot be done and then go do it.
With cheap power comes less incentive to design products efficiently
Life would meet minimum Vista requirements?
By the way, am I alone in thinking that it would be a good idea to have OpenOffice.org re-written in the Java language?
...
very alone
You don't think then that Google has an obligation to make their code work on an operating system?
But they do - their code runs under standards compliant javascript and html and css.
Good thing YOU aren't in control of anything important.
... if you only knew.
snicker
because they are conservative and because they are focused on economics and because they have a different conclusion than he wants in advance. Look at the complete instant dismissal of that unrecognized great under appreciated scientifically backed conclusion by Hemos in the summary ... "the phrase "rife with claims and counter-claims" is making more of the counter-claims then they are" ... does anyone think that any conclusion other than the popular one is going to be evaluated on its merits?
... respect.
I used to set my family's computers homepage to yahoo. But they have since redone their TV listings so that they load like crap.
I had the same problem, especially with a recent Yahoo change that made it impossible to use the listings without registering for a FYA (Fine Yahoo Account), and so just a few days ago took the time to swith the fam(ily)net(work) to use this for tv listings now - still not great but better than the tv.yahoo.com, which no longer works anyway. The only thing I find myself using yahoo for now is to make fun of them on Slashdot.
Wasn't that one of the pre-Google search engines?
But can it see through womens clothes? THAT is what I want to know!
Sure - but only the ones that look like this.
I've used Thinkpads for a long time now. When they do break, it's usually about the time I'm itching for a "new" one. I usually have great luck buying something in the $500 range off ebay from a "reputable vendor" that still has a warranty. I got lucky with the A31P I bought - though out of warranty at my purchase it was described as booting only to a specific point - I recognized it from the description as a virus - got the system really cheap and had a fully operational debian runnning in about 20 minutes. Being able to but one-to-two yr-old thinkpad technology for a few hundred dollars has kept me from needing or wanting to repair anything myself for quite awhile.
but what about the evidence we've found throughout the years about the workers in the area?
Someone had to drive the cement trucks!
Want to see something sad? Next time gas prices are near $3/gallon, go inside a convenience store. Don't pick a nice one.
When I visit just such a convenience store once a week to buy gas, and have to pay cash about every other time because the damn pump card reader is out-of-order, I see just such people walking in and cashing government checks - and then buying 2 cartons of cigarettes and $100 of lottery tickets. My sympathy meter is pretty much broken.