Props to shady, he admits that his continued popularity is the direct result of the trainwreck that is his stardom. I am appalled, yet I cannot look away. Shameless trolls may be cocky, but at least they come across as more or less honest.
The second most successful troll, Marilyn Manson, serves it up to the disenchanted white teens of America as "art", so the result is a bunch of whiny goths with a false sense of entitlement and no clue that they've just been trolled. *sigh*
But I thought it was only about 200 deg. faren. to kill most all pathogens, this stuff melts at 750. Rust is indeed another factor though... I wonder what this material's oxidation properties are.
It may be stong, and it seems to be able to be tooled razor thin straight from the mold, but how practical is it to work with? You don't see many scalpels or tools being made from titanium currently, or even cell phone cases for that matter. The costs seems to be the prohibiting factor, but is that really it? I mean, if you could make the same strength/quality object for 1/10 the material, then you can have up to 10x the materials cost and still be doing well.
Why do you have this burning need to feel validated? In general, third world countries have less economic and political influence. They have less bathrooms and telephones per capita. Whatever. Sure, you may have one telephone in whatever backwater asspimple country you're in, but a defining factor of the 3rd world is having less... they are developing, not developed. Nobody's saying third world countries don't have televisions, they just don't have one in every hut.
The chip on your shoulder is some sort of need to prove that third world as just as important as the first world... and your blindness to seeing past that "point". Its a ludicrous position, probably based on personal feelings of inadequacy, but it doesn't matter. You can change this. Political and economic influence moves primarily based on how nations act. What truly matters is what you do with what you have.
What you're doing right now, on the international stage of Slashdot, is showing all of us just how smart South Africans are. I may be showing everyone how pompous Americans are, but they already knew that.:)
At first I was not going to dignify this with a response, but every once in a while I feel a need to get my agressions out, and you happened to be the passer-by in this case. Moderators, fire at will, I am deserving of your wrath.
If the entire post was sarcasm, then my intent was humor, not disproving or proving your point. Your opinion was incosequential, I was just trying to make a funny. Ha ha.
Humor, as some of us in non-spearchucking countries know, does not have to be based on fact. I was attempting to make a humorous contrast using first world artifacts (and all of those things I quoted will arguably be more associated with 1st worldisms than 3rd worldisms). Ha ha. Funny.
But then you reply to me with a huge chip on your shoulder, as if I was seriously trying to poke holes in your argument, when the entire thing was quite possibly the most sarcastic thing I've ever written.
Your lack of clue astounded me, and I could not resist replying.
To my utter lack of surprise, you're still not getting it. I don't care. I was making a joke. The only thing that even remotely interested me about your opinion was as a set up to a joke, that has now become a terribly, terribly beaten dead horse.
Your flawless deductive reasoning has seen right through my evil plot to deceive you! The whole post was sarcasm, champ. You thirdworlders have a hard time picking up on things sometimes, dontcha?
2000 machines of the same configuration is easier to requisition that a dozen machines with differing needs. Especially if that one configration is the same as a previously-used, previously-ordered, known-good setup which I'm sure is common at Google. All you have to do is run the RFQ to your favroite vendors.:) But I would call the 2000 number suspect at least... seeing as that would be a 20% increase in their server farm in one shot.
Perhaps not... you are arguing on the basis that persecution of minorities is based on the happiness of those in power. But persecution is an expression of insecurity, and any pleasure drawn from it is likely to be a cover for dealing with darker emotions. I say that net happiness is not higher under mob rule, and cannot be morally justifiable under the "greater good" definition.
I struggle to find the link, I think it was at http://www.infidels.org, but Atheists are significantly under-represented in prisons as compared to their ratio to the general population. This would seem to indicate that, at least by legal definitions of right and wrong, atheists are more moral than theists. Disclaimer: I do not think the law accurately represents all definitions of what is moral, my own included.
It was all just a set-up for one of my usual petty attempts at ironic humor, but I'll take your bait anyway. Firstly, religion is the natural result of not having a good process for understanding the material world. Without the scientific method, you are left with no clear framework for disproving supernatural claims. Humans, left to their own devices, will make up stories vice leave something unexplained... story telling is in our basic nature.
Regardless, the origins of religion are not principal to my point: my assertion is that atheism does not preclude morality. I am moral simply because I think I can live a fuller life in the here and now, not because I'm having my eternal afterlife dangled before me as a prize or punishment.
Human society is based on the premise that we can all have more fulfilling lives if, in general, we follow the "Golden Rule"... that there are rewards for treating one another as we would like to be treated. The desire to help your fellow man does not require supernatural beliefs, and I stick by my assertion that his argument is fallacious.
Just because one is atheistic, doesn't mean one's sense of kinship and compassion for his fellow man goes away. Atheism is not a lack of feeling, it is the belief that divinity is incredulous. Your argument is fallacious, and you should be killed like the dog you are.
File sharing makes it impossible to use sales as a metric of music quality, but file sharing isn't going to go away, so P2P networks are a practical reality that musicians intent on making money will have to deal with. Sales matters (whether it be albums, tickets or swag), because it determines the resources available to the people making the music happen. But sales is inconsequential to the P2P debate, file sharing is something that exists in the here and now, and if you're going to treat your art as a business, you need to do the free market thing and go where the money is. When life hands you a lemon, go make lemonade, 'cause bitching about how sour it is doesn't sell very many shiny plastic dics. If he's a victim of a practical reality of modern culture, or specifically the practical reality of selling to a specific subculture, I suggest he change his target audience. If he cannot change because of the artist in him... well, art is the pursuit of self-expression, and it is its own reward. Business is making money. If he can't make his music in such a way that he can profit in the current climate, he's failed at being a salesman of his art. Blaming culture for not wanting to pay you for your art seems backwards.
Yes, P2P probably effects his sales, and it may be in a good or bad way, but he provides us with no way to make an informed decision. This is a hallmark of FUD. His suppositions as to the cause of his lost record sales are not backed up by any numbers. I wonder how many ticket sales and swag sales he's lost too? If it is proportional to the lost sales of he album, I would consider it hard to pin his record's failure on file sharing.
Oh yes, I am a musician too. Shameless plug... if you can't do it shamelessly, then why do it at all?
Uh, did you happen to notice that it what his entire point by using the word "speculating", and that perhaps his issue wasn't *what* he was guessing so much as that he *was* guessing, in a fairly reactionary manner? A guess presented without any evidence for the supposition, which made it all the more pointless.
Your disgust is warranted. False entitlement reveals ignorance, conceit, greed and sloth all in a single fell swoop. How someone could've regarded the post as insightful is beyond me... When should a business go open source? When it makes business sense. It now makes sense for Macromedia, and we're getting sour grapes served up as insight. Is it any that wonder open source enthusiasts are stereotyped as self-righteous zealots?
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Eminem is the most successful troll ever.
Props to shady, he admits that his continued popularity is the direct result of the trainwreck that is his stardom. I am appalled, yet I cannot look away. Shameless trolls may be cocky, but at least they come across as more or less honest.
The second most successful troll, Marilyn Manson, serves it up to the disenchanted white teens of America as "art", so the result is a bunch of whiny goths with a false sense of entitlement and no clue that they've just been trolled. *sigh*Bah, no worries, we were equally incorrect... you get the score for actually looking it up. :)
Could it be that your browser is refusing to load them on principle?
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'Nuff said. I claim no affiliation with this site.
But I thought it was only about 200 deg. faren. to kill most all pathogens, this stuff melts at 750. Rust is indeed another factor though... I wonder what this material's oxidation properties are.
Will you marry me? Oh wait, I'm aready married and you're probably a guy. To hell with it, will you marry me?
It may be stong, and it seems to be able to be tooled razor thin straight from the mold, but how practical is it to work with? You don't see many scalpels or tools being made from titanium currently, or even cell phone cases for that matter. The costs seems to be the prohibiting factor, but is that really it? I mean, if you could make the same strength/quality object for 1/10 the material, then you can have up to 10x the materials cost and still be doing well.
I had the same idea for a perl-optimized keyboard layout. But I don't know if having the home keys as punctuation would be well-received.
Why do you have this burning need to feel validated? In general, third world countries have less economic and political influence. They have less bathrooms and telephones per capita. Whatever. Sure, you may have one telephone in whatever backwater asspimple country you're in, but a defining factor of the 3rd world is having less... they are developing, not developed. Nobody's saying third world countries don't have televisions, they just don't have one in every hut.
The chip on your shoulder is some sort of need to prove that third world as just as important as the first world... and your blindness to seeing past that "point". Its a ludicrous position, probably based on personal feelings of inadequacy, but it doesn't matter. You can change this. Political and economic influence moves primarily based on how nations act. What truly matters is what you do with what you have.
What you're doing right now, on the international stage of Slashdot, is showing all of us just how smart South Africans are. I may be showing everyone how pompous Americans are, but they already knew that. :)
At first I was not going to dignify this with a response, but every once in a while I feel a need to get my agressions out, and you happened to be the passer-by in this case. Moderators, fire at will, I am deserving of your wrath.
If the entire post was sarcasm, then my intent was humor, not disproving or proving your point. Your opinion was incosequential, I was just trying to make a funny. Ha ha.
Humor, as some of us in non-spearchucking countries know, does not have to be based on fact. I was attempting to make a humorous contrast using first world artifacts (and all of those things I quoted will arguably be more associated with 1st worldisms than 3rd worldisms). Ha ha. Funny.
But then you reply to me with a huge chip on your shoulder, as if I was seriously trying to poke holes in your argument, when the entire thing was quite possibly the most sarcastic thing I've ever written.
Your lack of clue astounded me, and I could not resist replying.
To my utter lack of surprise, you're still not getting it. I don't care. I was making a joke. The only thing that even remotely interested me about your opinion was as a set up to a joke, that has now become a terribly, terribly beaten dead horse.
You have won! You have seen though my evil plot.
Your flawless deductive reasoning has seen right through my evil plot to deceive you! The whole post was sarcasm, champ. You thirdworlders have a hard time picking up on things sometimes, dontcha?
Michael Jackson. Nukes. Microsoft. The ability to explot the third world in order to have cheaper Nikes. God bless America.
Oh, I was just talking the practicality of composing the request and having it filled. The political layer is a whole 'nuther story.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that visualization.
Waaaaahahahah.
2000 machines of the same configuration is easier to requisition that a dozen machines with differing needs. Especially if that one configration is the same as a previously-used, previously-ordered, known-good setup which I'm sure is common at Google. All you have to do is run the RFQ to your favroite vendors. :) But I would call the 2000 number suspect at least... seeing as that would be a 20% increase in their server farm in one shot.
Oh crap, I recall now, they were from Voyager. No wonder I couldn't remember, my mind must have blocked it out as a defense mechanism.
Weren't they the ones with the bumpy foreheads on Star Trek? Or were they the wrinkly noses?
Perhaps not... you are arguing on the basis that persecution of minorities is based on the happiness of those in power. But persecution is an expression of insecurity, and any pleasure drawn from it is likely to be a cover for dealing with darker emotions. I say that net happiness is not higher under mob rule, and cannot be morally justifiable under the "greater good" definition.
I struggle to find the link, I think it was at http://www.infidels.org, but Atheists are significantly under-represented in prisons as compared to their ratio to the general population. This would seem to indicate that, at least by legal definitions of right and wrong, atheists are more moral than theists. Disclaimer: I do not think the law accurately represents all definitions of what is moral, my own included.
It was all just a set-up for one of my usual petty attempts at ironic humor, but I'll take your bait anyway. Firstly, religion is the natural result of not having a good process for understanding the material world. Without the scientific method, you are left with no clear framework for disproving supernatural claims. Humans, left to their own devices, will make up stories vice leave something unexplained... story telling is in our basic nature.
Regardless, the origins of religion are not principal to my point: my assertion is that atheism does not preclude morality. I am moral simply because I think I can live a fuller life in the here and now, not because I'm having my eternal afterlife dangled before me as a prize or punishment.
Human society is based on the premise that we can all have more fulfilling lives if, in general, we follow the "Golden Rule"... that there are rewards for treating one another as we would like to be treated. The desire to help your fellow man does not require supernatural beliefs, and I stick by my assertion that his argument is fallacious.
Just because one is atheistic, doesn't mean one's sense of kinship and compassion for his fellow man goes away. Atheism is not a lack of feeling, it is the belief that divinity is incredulous. Your argument is fallacious, and you should be killed like the dog you are.
File sharing makes it impossible to use sales as a metric of music quality, but file sharing isn't going to go away, so P2P networks are a practical reality that musicians intent on making money will have to deal with. Sales matters (whether it be albums, tickets or swag), because it determines the resources available to the people making the music happen. But sales is inconsequential to the P2P debate, file sharing is something that exists in the here and now, and if you're going to treat your art as a business, you need to do the free market thing and go where the money is. When life hands you a lemon, go make lemonade, 'cause bitching about how sour it is doesn't sell very many shiny plastic dics. If he's a victim of a practical reality of modern culture, or specifically the practical reality of selling to a specific subculture, I suggest he change his target audience. If he cannot change because of the artist in him... well, art is the pursuit of self-expression, and it is its own reward. Business is making money. If he can't make his music in such a way that he can profit in the current climate, he's failed at being a salesman of his art. Blaming culture for not wanting to pay you for your art seems backwards.
Yes, P2P probably effects his sales, and it may be in a good or bad way, but he provides us with no way to make an informed decision. This is a hallmark of FUD. His suppositions as to the cause of his lost record sales are not backed up by any numbers. I wonder how many ticket sales and swag sales he's lost too? If it is proportional to the lost sales of he album, I would consider it hard to pin his record's failure on file sharing.
Oh yes, I am a musician too. Shameless plug... if you can't do it shamelessly, then why do it at all?
s/it what his/it was his/;
Uh, did you happen to notice that it what his entire point by using the word "speculating", and that perhaps his issue wasn't *what* he was guessing so much as that he *was* guessing, in a fairly reactionary manner? A guess presented without any evidence for the supposition, which made it all the more pointless.
Your disgust is warranted. False entitlement reveals ignorance, conceit, greed and sloth all in a single fell swoop. How someone could've regarded the post as insightful is beyond me... When should a business go open source? When it makes business sense. It now makes sense for Macromedia, and we're getting sour grapes served up as insight. Is it any that wonder open source enthusiasts are stereotyped as self-righteous zealots?