I'm sorry but cell phones are overrated. I've always felt that way. Before I got one from my employer, I always felt that the idiots yammering their useless talk on their cell phones while driving, while shopping or even while sitting at a restaurant having dinner with their spouse fall into that group of people known as "completely useless turds". Now that I have one, I make it a habit to only use it when absolutely neccessary. That would be, on my walk from work to the garage to let my wife know I'm coming home a little late. Or... at home while working with my boss on a server issue at night. That's it. Period. It's never on in the car. I don't carry it into stores with me. And if I was caught with one in a restaurant or movie theater, you'd probably be able to look up and see piggies getting into formation for an air raid on the corrupt Whitehouse. In short, I think cell phones are a tool and nothing more. They're not toys unless you pair them with needless "features' like mp3 players, gaming and cameras. And if you add those features, it's likely that you've reduced its value as a... ummm.. gee... phone!
Now, with all that out of the way, I have to add that the idea of phones that are $20 is more of a problem than a benefit. This is because the current cell phones are so valueless that people seem to lose them, drop them and break them or just trade up to some cool new phone every few months. Because of all the monstrously "cheap" cell phone plans, these users haven't a clue just how much money if being thrown away. The phones they currently have are "free" or "$.01". So do you honestly think that $20 pricepoints are going to matter? It will just make them even more valueless than they are now which means people will see them as even more disposable. Speaking of which... how is this "better" than the morons who came up with the idea of a cell phone that could be printed on paper so as to be disposable? Whatever happened to the days when you would buy something and expect to keep it for a few decades with no loss in features or quality. (think the old dial phones of yore. My in-laws still have the dial phone in their kitchen and use pulse dialing in the rest of the house because it's too much of a waste to get DTMF for $2.00 a month)
God I hate what the United States and this world is becoming. Just a cesspool of self-serving, bastard ingrates who don't give a shit about anyone except themselves. Every one of them deserves a brick in the face.
I rarely bother to read the front page except to spread occasional comic relief to a group of people who take themselves WAYYYY too seriously. As far as I'm concerned, about 90% of the front page at any given time is negative information. If you want real useful info, join a group of friends and read JEs. There's much higher quality in there if you choose the right people.
...big aerospace industrial corporations are makeing big $$$$? I mean, by the time any real damage starts showing up, the board or directors and CEOs of those companies will be long dead and their grandkids will have to deal with it. So fucking what? (Yes, this is a troll. But it's also meant to call out the way that most corporations operate these days. Moderate as you must, but anyone with mod points who is not a neocon (ie. you are a sane person), please consider modding this post as insightful. That is all.);P
...is to just rename the planet. If we start calling Earth by a new name, say "Hoth" for example, the Earth will become an ice planet. Just get a significant number of the inhabitants of the planet to believe anything and it will come to pass. The boiling point of water for instance could easily be lowered or raised if we all, as a collective, just believed it to be possible for water to boil at, say... 90 degrees F. It's simple really. Just basic quantum fizziks with a little new ageyness thrown in for good measure. We now return you to your regularly scheduled propaganda.
While Dr. Smith admits the image is about two years out of date, he also says he doesn't 'want to provide any easy assistance to anyone who wants to interfere with the site.'
Should be: He also says, "Of course you bubble headed booby!! I don't want to provide any easy assistance to anyone who wants to interfere with the site"! Anyone born before 1975 should get the reference. Anyone born after 1975 who gets the reference, yer way cool.;P
Like any Unix evangelist your knowledge is old, and your arguement is driven by ego.
Hehehehe. You sure assume a lot from one post. I am likely more well versed in Windows all the way up to the current versions that you are. Whenever there are any Windows issues at work that the Windows folks can't solve, they come to me. And... I solve them.
As far as admins are concerned, ease of use is a matter of familiarity. As far as I know it takes a lot less time to become a good windows admin than a good unix one.
It may take less time to become a "good" Windows admin, but if someone becomes a good Unix admin, being a good Windows admin is built it. It's all the same, except that Unix got it right the first time.
You're missing a point: Microsoft doesn't buy up technologies, they buy companies. You make them sound like pirates. Having your company bought by Microsoft is like getting your big break; everyone ends up happy.
And this is good how? When a really great band that is on a minor label gets a "big break" and signs with a major label, that's usually the sign that the quality of their music is going to plummet. Look at U2. They were much better before they hit the big time. Now they're just lame. The same can be said of any company and it's technology that is absorbed by Microsoft.
You may occasionally see better technology come from smaller companies, but it's just a matter of time before they are bought up if their technology is solid (IE: Adobe buying Macromedia).
Interestingly enough, I'm seeing a lot of great things coming out of Redhat's Fedora project. However, it's pretty unlikely that any large company will buy them since they aren't really that profitable yet. This is a good thing because it means the focus is where it should be: getting the code and functionality right for educated (ie. not your average mouth breather) users.
The users get only what they need. Allowing them to do stupid things like install PDA sync software that is not supported by us is only asking for trouble. Standards and guidelines must be drawn up and imposed otherwise you'll have a wreckless LAN/WAN that strongly resembles something that most libertarians would probably consider "heaven". I'm not a NAZI admin. Maybe a more apt description is a draconian admin.
So... how long have you been working with computers? Web services are not new. They are just the rebranding and combination of technologies that have already been around and been used for at least a decade in the (*nix world).
IN reference to most users not being admins... umm... who exactly maintains and runs the business desktops where you work? The users, or the admins? If it's the users, may god have mercy on your souls.
Wow. Talk about your flamebait. Posting a pro-MS story on/. is just asking for trouble. But posting it in apple.slashdot.org is really over the top.
Now... addressing the , "is it OK to love Microsoft" question. It all depends on who you are and what your point of view of technology is. Let me explain:
1. There are people who love certain company/technology just because they are told the technology is good. Non-technical Sun Microsystems fans tend to be an example of this. They are told that Sun Microsystems is a good company to buy stock in, so they assume that the products Sun produces are good. But this is not the case. Trust me, I've worked with a few really bad Sun products for the past five years and I welcomed HP-UX with open arms where support and reliability are concerned.
2. There are people who love a technology because of it's status symbol ranking. Notable in this arena is Apple. Apple produces decent products, to be sure. But they are extremely expensive for what they are. They've been making a break with this as of late, so this isn't the ideal example, but there are plenty of products out there that fall into this realm. Think Adobe Photoshop vs. everyone else. Depending on your needs, Adobe Photoshop might be financial overkill. In many cases Paint Shop Pro or even GIMP might be enough. Especially where you don't need professional print features. But there are people out there who won't touch anything but Adobe Photoshop even to the extent of pirating it.
3. There are the people who actually know technology well. They might be programmers or engineers. To them, there are two possible divisions. The first one are the people who came up with the technology first. I know quite a few people who worship the DEC Alpha. Even to the extent of passing around unsubstantiated rumours that Itanium 2 is really a DEC Alpha in disguise. They hate everything else that has come along since the Alpha because their battle cry is that they had 64-bit RISC processing back in 1992.
4. The second group are those who know even more about technology than the people in example 3 above. These people usually have a really good clue about what constitutes good technology. They've usually been around a long time and have seen fads come, go and return as "new" again. They usually quitely shake their heads and take the more pragmatic view of choosing the most well designed technology. (They tend to be OpenVMS and Unix users)
5. Then there are the retarded suits who base what makes a technology company good on their stock portfolio. This group is the least well informed and are the most likely candidates to love Microsoft. When they get mailings from various tech companies, they'll ditch anything from smaller companies (even if the technology is superior to larger companies) and only go with big name brands. Dell, HP, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, IBM, etc... To them, these are the only options. They even tend to eschew companies like Epson, Gateway, Corel, Redhat even though there might be some very good technology coming out of these companies.
So, the question, "is it OK to love Microsoft" is really a non-starter. Security and reliability issues aside, Microsoft has done very little in the way of creating new and useful technologies. They just buy up technologies rather then developing them from the ground up. The company is not run by engineers, it's run by businessmen. The approach is to do just enough to make their technology usable, but not to make it superior. Where they want real performance is in their profits. And that is completely counter to excellent software engineering. For someone like me, I can't love a company that doesn't engineer things properly. Of all the companies I've had to deal with, DEC was probably THE best technology company out there with a real eye on great engineering. When they got taken over by Compaq, a good deal of that got shitcanned. When HP took over Compaq even more got given away, sold off and
Sorry, but I'm perfectly fine, it's the rest of the world that sucks. I guess I could be considered a misanthrope by most Americans, but I beg to differ. Check out my latest journal on one of the many reasons I love my wife and maybe you'll get an understanding of the fact that sarcasm figures pretty big into my personality. Americans suck at it with the small exception of that potential 2%. Outgoing Americans tend to be horrible when it comes to sarcasm. Hence, most of my friends tend to be foreign (usually from Europe or the UK).
Profit motive is a huge problem where coding is concerned. If you have suits driving the coders so that they can keep profits up, the quality is going to suck ass. If you have engineers driving the coding because they want perfection, the quality is going to shine. I don't know about you, but I'll take good code over money any day. I could give a rat's ass about profit.
Based on the experiences I've had with totally shitty programming from various vendors the past few years, I think the problem is that the wrong people are coding. This is the result of various efforts to make programming "easy". By simplifying the process of coding, they've removed the dilligence of code inspection. In essence coders have been gelded (yes, had their balls removed) by these "easy to code" languages and IDEs. Show me a coder who can whip up C code in vi or with cat, and I'll show you a coder who is likely to have a handle on what their code is really doing. All this drag-and-drop shit is only doing one thing: it's dragging and dropping the quality of software into the latrine. People who "code" in Flash drive me up the wall. Flash sucks. VB sucks. Give me good old fashioned C or hell, even assembler. I don't buy into the notion that coding should be easy. It is a process of utilizing logic to get things done. That is never easy. Hide all of the logic behind cutesy GUI based IDEs and all we'll continue to get is shit code.
There are lots of people who are suitable friends out there
You are wrong. Most people are unsuitable as friends or anything else. The fact that I don't drink and hate sports and I'm not religious really cuts down on my option there doesn't it? I tend to think most people at computer user's groups are pompous asses, so there's no outlet there. Bars and clubs suck since I don't drink and people look at you funny when you don't drink. Online friendships are kind of interesting, but usually don't amount to much. About the only interesting people are 2% of your co-workers. Especially if you are also an introvert like me. I hate loud people who like to have a good time. I like quiet people who like to interact one on one, watch a movie, read a book and despise groups. That would mean, I'm an introvert and I dislike extroverts. Sounds to me like you're an extrovert since you honestly seem to believe that there are lots os suitable friends out there.
Ahhh... that explains it. Florida may as well be another country considering how stupid most of the people there are. After all, they let their governor get away with stealing the 2000 election.
If you are happy letting your employer control what you do outside of work, I suggest you get some therapy real fast. Personally, I think that what I do outside of work is none of my employer's business. If I want to moonlight for the competition, I should be allowed to.
Considering that I've had sex with some of my co-workers in the past and (gasp!) even married one, I think the idea of my employer telling me that I can't form relationships with coworkers outside of the workplace is total and utter crap. My life is just that, MY life. As I stated in another post, I'd rather get less pay and prestige at a job that respects my personal space than make lots of money at a company that thinks they own me.
Your job should not have any impact on your private life. That's complete bullshit. If more people just told their employers to stay out of their fucking business and moved on to greener pastures, this shit would dry up over night. Personally, I'd rather work for less pay and prestige than have my boss controlling what I do when I'm off the clock. If this shit keeps up, I think we're going to have to make a much more intense statement... heads are gonna roll.
Bwah haw haw!!!! That's like saying that Windows NT4 was secure as long as you pulled out the floppy drive, disconnected from the network and turned off the machine. Well played sir!!!;P
A good text editor: Emacs A good OS: BSD Something Else: playboy.com
To others: A good text editor: vi A good OS: Linux Something else: "the sound of one hand fapping"
Everyone Else: A good text editor: "What's a text editor? I like Word" A good OS: "Whaddaya mean you don't run Windows? How does your computer work?! Everyone runs Windows!" Something else: Manga + Realdoll = PARTY!!!!
I can't believe that people are still denying the truth. Just yesterday, there was a SECOND article about the discover of Planet X. Planet X is returning on it's 4000 year orbit, which means that the race that enslaved us nearly 4000 years ago, the Niburu are coming back. It's not a surprise that we haven't had a successful manned space mission in the last few years. The Bush administration, NASA, the U.S. military and some of the most powerful corporations on the planet are covering this up. Why, you may ask? Because, they have a deal with the Niburu to spare their families from the enslavement when they arrive in a few years time. It is as it was written by the Sumerians and as Zecharaiah Sitchin translated (he is the only man on Earth who can read ancient Sumerian properly).
One of the requirements that the Niburu required as part of the deal is that humans will not make any manned flights off of the planet anymore. This is why we haven't been able to get a shuttle off the ground for so long. NASA talks about the supposed failures of various systems, but it's just a cover-up. Just like the cover-up they pulled off when the manned space station jsut a couple years ago hear strange sounds coming from the outside. The sounds were the sounds of a Niburu operative crawling around on the outside of the station. NASA later claimed it was just a bit of casing that had been damaged and needed to be fixed. What really happened? The anstronauts were reprogrammed to become Niburu operatives and came back to Earth to infiltrate NASA.
What about the dead astronaut found in the Arabian dessert? What? You didn't hear about that? Maybe it's because the Niburu controlled media don't want you to hear about it. They've been stirring things up on the global front to get the commoners at each other's throats so that we are in disarray when they arrive to enslave us. The real story is that a dead astronaut was found in the Arabian dessert after he had unwittingly announced the discovery of Planet X back in the 90s when that comet was going to slam into Jupiter. Why didn't Jupiter ignite into a big sun when that happened? Because the Niburu prevented the ignition with their awesome mind control. But they didn't do it to protect us out of goodness. They did it to protect us as property. So, this dead astronaut was found in the Arabian dessert. And that's why.
Don't fall for the cover-ups. Read the teachings of Zecharaiah Sitchin. And prepare for the intergalactic battle with the Niburu. Our politicians, military and business men have sold us out, so it's up to us to get armed to the teeth and fight when the invasion force comes. One of the most imporatant weapons you can get right now is a telescope and some astrophotography gear. Print out the photos of the impending approach of Planet X and post them everywhere online and in real life. Make sure that everyone knows about the conspiracy. This ain't no time to go wastin' away in Margaritaville.
The Niburu of Planet X are coming back to enslave us all! This explains the dead NASA astronaut found in the desert. It was a cover-up all along. Be prepared for the return of the Niburu. Every man-woman and child will have to unite to fight against the mighty power of the Niburu!
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I'm sorry but cell phones are overrated. I've always felt that way. Before I got one from my employer, I always felt that the idiots yammering their useless talk on their cell phones while driving, while shopping or even while sitting at a restaurant having dinner with their spouse fall into that group of people known as "completely useless turds". Now that I have one, I make it a habit to only use it when absolutely neccessary. That would be, on my walk from work to the garage to let my wife know I'm coming home a little late. Or... at home while working with my boss on a server issue at night. That's it. Period. It's never on in the car. I don't carry it into stores with me. And if I was caught with one in a restaurant or movie theater, you'd probably be able to look up and see piggies getting into formation for an air raid on the corrupt Whitehouse. In short, I think cell phones are a tool and nothing more. They're not toys unless you pair them with needless "features' like mp3 players, gaming and cameras. And if you add those features, it's likely that you've reduced its value as a... ummm.. gee... phone!
Now, with all that out of the way, I have to add that the idea of phones that are $20 is more of a problem than a benefit. This is because the current cell phones are so valueless that people seem to lose them, drop them and break them or just trade up to some cool new phone every few months. Because of all the monstrously "cheap" cell phone plans, these users haven't a clue just how much money if being thrown away. The phones they currently have are "free" or "$.01". So do you honestly think that $20 pricepoints are going to matter? It will just make them even more valueless than they are now which means people will see them as even more disposable. Speaking of which... how is this "better" than the morons who came up with the idea of a cell phone that could be printed on paper so as to be disposable? Whatever happened to the days when you would buy something and expect to keep it for a few decades with no loss in features or quality. (think the old dial phones of yore. My in-laws still have the dial phone in their kitchen and use pulse dialing in the rest of the house because it's too much of a waste to get DTMF for $2.00 a month)
God I hate what the United States and this world is becoming. Just a cesspool of self-serving, bastard ingrates who don't give a shit about anyone except themselves. Every one of them deserves a brick in the face.
I rarely bother to read the front page except to spread occasional comic relief to a group of people who take themselves WAYYYY too seriously. As far as I'm concerned, about 90% of the front page at any given time is negative information. If you want real useful info, join a group of friends and read JEs. There's much higher quality in there if you choose the right people.
...big aerospace industrial corporations are makeing big $$$$? I mean, by the time any real damage starts showing up, the board or directors and CEOs of those companies will be long dead and their grandkids will have to deal with it. So fucking what? (Yes, this is a troll. But it's also meant to call out the way that most corporations operate these days. Moderate as you must, but anyone with mod points who is not a neocon (ie. you are a sane person), please consider modding this post as insightful. That is all.) ;P
...did anyone else misread that the way I did:
;P
"Epilcream uses Vague Patents to Sue Web Sites"
???
I guess my mind must be stuck on depilatories too much lately.
...is to just rename the planet. If we start calling Earth by a new name, say "Hoth" for example, the Earth will become an ice planet. Just get a significant number of the inhabitants of the planet to believe anything and it will come to pass. The boiling point of water for instance could easily be lowered or raised if we all, as a collective, just believed it to be possible for water to boil at, say... 90 degrees F. It's simple really. Just basic quantum fizziks with a little new ageyness thrown in for good measure. We now return you to your regularly scheduled propaganda.
Should be: He also says, "Of course you bubble headed booby!! I don't want to provide any easy assistance to anyone who wants to interfere with the site"! Anyone born before 1975 should get the reference. Anyone born after 1975 who gets the reference, yer way cool.
Hehehehe. You sure assume a lot from one post. I am likely more well versed in Windows all the way up to the current versions that you are. Whenever there are any Windows issues at work that the Windows folks can't solve, they come to me. And... I solve them.
As far as admins are concerned, ease of use is a matter of familiarity. As far as I know it takes a lot less time to become a good windows admin than a good unix one.
It may take less time to become a "good" Windows admin, but if someone becomes a good Unix admin, being a good Windows admin is built it. It's all the same, except that Unix got it right the first time.
You're missing a point: Microsoft doesn't buy up technologies, they buy companies. You make them sound like pirates. Having your company bought by Microsoft is like getting your big break; everyone ends up happy.
And this is good how? When a really great band that is on a minor label gets a "big break" and signs with a major label, that's usually the sign that the quality of their music is going to plummet. Look at U2. They were much better before they hit the big time. Now they're just lame. The same can be said of any company and it's technology that is absorbed by Microsoft.
You may occasionally see better technology come from smaller companies, but it's just a matter of time before they are bought up if their technology is solid (IE: Adobe buying Macromedia).
Interestingly enough, I'm seeing a lot of great things coming out of Redhat's Fedora project. However, it's pretty unlikely that any large company will buy them since they aren't really that profitable yet. This is a good thing because it means the focus is where it should be: getting the code and functionality right for educated (ie. not your average mouth breather) users.
The users get only what they need. Allowing them to do stupid things like install PDA sync software that is not supported by us is only asking for trouble. Standards and guidelines must be drawn up and imposed otherwise you'll have a wreckless LAN/WAN that strongly resembles something that most libertarians would probably consider "heaven". I'm not a NAZI admin. Maybe a more apt description is a draconian admin.
It's FLAIMBATE just like this is a POAST. And yes, that was all intentional spelling. I just like bate-ing the grammar Nazis. ;P
So... how long have you been working with computers? Web services are not new. They are just the rebranding and combination of technologies that have already been around and been used for at least a decade in the (*nix world).
IN reference to most users not being admins... umm... who exactly maintains and runs the business desktops where you work? The users, or the admins? If it's the users, may god have mercy on your souls.
Wow. Talk about your flamebait. Posting a pro-MS story on /. is just asking for trouble. But posting it in apple.slashdot.org is really over the top.
Now... addressing the , "is it OK to love Microsoft" question. It all depends on who you are and what your point of view of technology is. Let me explain:
1. There are people who love certain company/technology just because they are told the technology is good. Non-technical Sun Microsystems fans tend to be an example of this. They are told that Sun Microsystems is a good company to buy stock in, so they assume that the products Sun produces are good. But this is not the case. Trust me, I've worked with a few really bad Sun products for the past five years and I welcomed HP-UX with open arms where support and reliability are concerned.
2. There are people who love a technology because of it's status symbol ranking. Notable in this arena is Apple. Apple produces decent products, to be sure. But they are extremely expensive for what they are. They've been making a break with this as of late, so this isn't the ideal example, but there are plenty of products out there that fall into this realm. Think Adobe Photoshop vs. everyone else. Depending on your needs, Adobe Photoshop might be financial overkill. In many cases Paint Shop Pro or even GIMP might be enough. Especially where you don't need professional print features. But there are people out there who won't touch anything but Adobe Photoshop even to the extent of pirating it.
3. There are the people who actually know technology well. They might be programmers or engineers. To them, there are two possible divisions. The first one are the people who came up with the technology first. I know quite a few people who worship the DEC Alpha. Even to the extent of passing around unsubstantiated rumours that Itanium 2 is really a DEC Alpha in disguise. They hate everything else that has come along since the Alpha because their battle cry is that they had 64-bit RISC processing back in 1992.
4. The second group are those who know even more about technology than the people in example 3 above. These people usually have a really good clue about what constitutes good technology. They've usually been around a long time and have seen fads come, go and return as "new" again. They usually quitely shake their heads and take the more pragmatic view of choosing the most well designed technology. (They tend to be OpenVMS and Unix users)
5. Then there are the retarded suits who base what makes a technology company good on their stock portfolio. This group is the least well informed and are the most likely candidates to love Microsoft. When they get mailings from various tech companies, they'll ditch anything from smaller companies (even if the technology is superior to larger companies) and only go with big name brands. Dell, HP, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, IBM, etc... To them, these are the only options. They even tend to eschew companies like Epson, Gateway, Corel, Redhat even though there might be some very good technology coming out of these companies.
So, the question, "is it OK to love Microsoft" is really a non-starter. Security and reliability issues aside, Microsoft has done very little in the way of creating new and useful technologies. They just buy up technologies rather then developing them from the ground up. The company is not run by engineers, it's run by businessmen. The approach is to do just enough to make their technology usable, but not to make it superior. Where they want real performance is in their profits. And that is completely counter to excellent software engineering. For someone like me, I can't love a company that doesn't engineer things properly. Of all the companies I've had to deal with, DEC was probably THE best technology company out there with a real eye on great engineering. When they got taken over by Compaq, a good deal of that got shitcanned. When HP took over Compaq even more got given away, sold off and
At least I don't write like a drunk lawyer.
Sorry, but I'm perfectly fine, it's the rest of the world that sucks. I guess I could be considered a misanthrope by most Americans, but I beg to differ. Check out my latest journal on one of the many reasons I love my wife and maybe you'll get an understanding of the fact that sarcasm figures pretty big into my personality. Americans suck at it with the small exception of that potential 2%. Outgoing Americans tend to be horrible when it comes to sarcasm. Hence, most of my friends tend to be foreign (usually from Europe or the UK).
Profit motive is a huge problem where coding is concerned. If you have suits driving the coders so that they can keep profits up, the quality is going to suck ass. If you have engineers driving the coding because they want perfection, the quality is going to shine. I don't know about you, but I'll take good code over money any day. I could give a rat's ass about profit.
Based on the experiences I've had with totally shitty programming from various vendors the past few years, I think the problem is that the wrong people are coding. This is the result of various efforts to make programming "easy". By simplifying the process of coding, they've removed the dilligence of code inspection. In essence coders have been gelded (yes, had their balls removed) by these "easy to code" languages and IDEs. Show me a coder who can whip up C code in vi or with cat, and I'll show you a coder who is likely to have a handle on what their code is really doing. All this drag-and-drop shit is only doing one thing: it's dragging and dropping the quality of software into the latrine. People who "code" in Flash drive me up the wall. Flash sucks. VB sucks. Give me good old fashioned C or hell, even assembler. I don't buy into the notion that coding should be easy. It is a process of utilizing logic to get things done. That is never easy. Hide all of the logic behind cutesy GUI based IDEs and all we'll continue to get is shit code.
You are wrong. Most people are unsuitable as friends or anything else. The fact that I don't drink and hate sports and I'm not religious really cuts down on my option there doesn't it? I tend to think most people at computer user's groups are pompous asses, so there's no outlet there. Bars and clubs suck since I don't drink and people look at you funny when you don't drink. Online friendships are kind of interesting, but usually don't amount to much. About the only interesting people are 2% of your co-workers. Especially if you are also an introvert like me. I hate loud people who like to have a good time. I like quiet people who like to interact one on one, watch a movie, read a book and despise groups. That would mean, I'm an introvert and I dislike extroverts. Sounds to me like you're an extrovert since you honestly seem to believe that there are lots os suitable friends out there.
Ahhh... that explains it. Florida may as well be another country considering how stupid most of the people there are. After all, they let their governor get away with stealing the 2000 election.
If you are happy letting your employer control what you do outside of work, I suggest you get some therapy real fast. Personally, I think that what I do outside of work is none of my employer's business. If I want to moonlight for the competition, I should be allowed to.
Considering that I've had sex with some of my co-workers in the past and (gasp!) even married one, I think the idea of my employer telling me that I can't form relationships with coworkers outside of the workplace is total and utter crap. My life is just that, MY life. As I stated in another post, I'd rather get less pay and prestige at a job that respects my personal space than make lots of money at a company that thinks they own me.
Your job should not have any impact on your private life. That's complete bullshit. If more people just told their employers to stay out of their fucking business and moved on to greener pastures, this shit would dry up over night. Personally, I'd rather work for less pay and prestige than have my boss controlling what I do when I'm off the clock. If this shit keeps up, I think we're going to have to make a much more intense statement... heads are gonna roll.
Nice, young padwan. The clock is ticking... and soon you will be the master (and over 30). ;P
Bwah haw haw!!!! That's like saying that Windows NT4 was secure as long as you pulled out the floppy drive, disconnected from the network and turned off the machine. Well played sir!!! ;P
To some:
A good text editor: Emacs
A good OS: BSD
Something Else: playboy.com
To others:
A good text editor: vi
A good OS: Linux
Something else: "the sound of one hand fapping"
Everyone Else:
A good text editor: "What's a text editor? I like Word"
A good OS: "Whaddaya mean you don't run Windows? How does your computer work?! Everyone runs Windows!"
Something else: Manga + Realdoll = PARTY!!!!
So... you learned how to code using LOGO back in the 80s? ;P
I can't believe that people are still denying the truth. Just yesterday, there was a SECOND article about the discover of Planet X. Planet X is returning on it's 4000 year orbit, which means that the race that enslaved us nearly 4000 years ago, the Niburu are coming back. It's not a surprise that we haven't had a successful manned space mission in the last few years. The Bush administration, NASA, the U.S. military and some of the most powerful corporations on the planet are covering this up. Why, you may ask? Because, they have a deal with the Niburu to spare their families from the enslavement when they arrive in a few years time. It is as it was written by the Sumerians and as Zecharaiah Sitchin translated (he is the only man on Earth who can read ancient Sumerian properly).
One of the requirements that the Niburu required as part of the deal is that humans will not make any manned flights off of the planet anymore. This is why we haven't been able to get a shuttle off the ground for so long. NASA talks about the supposed failures of various systems, but it's just a cover-up. Just like the cover-up they pulled off when the manned space station jsut a couple years ago hear strange sounds coming from the outside. The sounds were the sounds of a Niburu operative crawling around on the outside of the station. NASA later claimed it was just a bit of casing that had been damaged and needed to be fixed. What really happened? The anstronauts were reprogrammed to become Niburu operatives and came back to Earth to infiltrate NASA.
What about the dead astronaut found in the Arabian dessert? What? You didn't hear about that? Maybe it's because the Niburu controlled media don't want you to hear about it. They've been stirring things up on the global front to get the commoners at each other's throats so that we are in disarray when they arrive to enslave us. The real story is that a dead astronaut was found in the Arabian dessert after he had unwittingly announced the discovery of Planet X back in the 90s when that comet was going to slam into Jupiter. Why didn't Jupiter ignite into a big sun when that happened? Because the Niburu prevented the ignition with their awesome mind control. But they didn't do it to protect us out of goodness. They did it to protect us as property. So, this dead astronaut was found in the Arabian dessert. And that's why.
Don't fall for the cover-ups. Read the teachings of Zecharaiah Sitchin. And prepare for the intergalactic battle with the Niburu. Our politicians, military and business men have sold us out, so it's up to us to get armed to the teeth and fight when the invasion force comes. One of the most imporatant weapons you can get right now is a telescope and some astrophotography gear. Print out the photos of the impending approach of Planet X and post them everywhere online and in real life. Make sure that everyone knows about the conspiracy. This ain't no time to go wastin' away in Margaritaville.
Hehehe... simple. I hate capitalism. But I'm not a commie neither! Now pull that stick out of your ass and join the real world. Cheers. ;P
The Niburu of Planet X are coming back to enslave us all! This explains the dead NASA astronaut found in the desert. It was a cover-up all along. Be prepared for the return of the Niburu. Every man-woman and child will have to unite to fight against the mighty power of the Niburu!
Woke up on the wrong side of the planet again did we? ;P