1. A fast computer with a soundcard. (Note that professional studio setups only have large mixing desks with lots of wires FOR SHOW. None of them work, but it makes artists think they're getting value for money.)
2. Oodles of pirated software.
The second thing shouldn't be a problem if you're used to the Slashdot Way of doing things.
With XP, this model is trying to be changed, so not only do you have to keep paying to use XP, but you can think of it as an additional cost to playing your games.
Seems that for once, Microsoft is wanting to copy The Linux Way of doing business.
What's this? A beloved 'free' Linux company charging monthly fees for updates? All for the benefit of playing a handful of Windows games.
Microsoft have more than one person working for them, don't they??? Or are you so biased by Linux propaganda you honestly perceive Microsoft to be some kind of faceless gibbering demonic entity that squirts software out into the universe from a series of anus-like sphincters located at regular intervals along it's tentactles?
Even if you're browsing at -1, a -1 ranked post by a Foe will STILL be visible.
Otherwise it would be too easy to switch off the regular page-fuckers.
Personally, I love them, as IE doesn't have any problems with the extra space in documents. I imagine lesser browsers like Mozilla and Lynx (both with equal functionality from a practical perspective) choking on them though.
These murderers, although clearly deserved of the Death Penalty, may not have necessarily performed the murders under the auspice of racism.
9/11 was CLEARLY a racist attack, proving without shadow of a doubt that Islam is the most racist of all religions.
Nice quote at the bottom of the page:
" Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain "
Or are Linux 'man' pages poorly written and filled with expletives?
MSDN is a fine resource for people who want to earn silly money whilst simultaneously posting racist and Linux-baiting propaganda onto Slashdot. 90% of the tasks you could get asked to do in a high-flying VB assignment are easily cut and paste-able from the Code Corner.
Which leaves plenty of time for achieving multiple first posts and finding more and more creative ways to get past the lameness filter.
You'll thank me for it when you're earning a fortune!
Sangatte has hit the headlines as Europe's most controversial refugee camp. But that's only half the story. BBC News Online's chief feature writer Jonathan Duffy finds out how local residents are coping with the French town's newfound notoriety.
Even on a cloudy day, the White Cliffs of Dover are clearly visible from the beach at Sangatte.
Were it not for the waters of the English Channel, one could walk the distance in a few hours.
But the sea has always made Britain a tough nut to crack, as many of Sangatte's temporary residents will testify.
By night, hundreds of asylum seekers based in the small town's refugee centre try their luck at crossing the Channel, somehow.
The vast majority fail and are returned to the camp, where they are free to have a go again the following night.
Meanwhile, the natives of Sangatte are adapting to life with their uninvited and increasingly unwelcome guests.
Sangatte grew up as a smart little resort town for the well-heeled folk of Pas de Calais. But most of the people pacing its main streets today seem at odds with the surroundings.
Standing out
The men are invariably young and of central Asian or Middle Eastern appearance - dark skins, black hair and moustaches.
Huddles of them crowd round a few public phone booths in the town. Some traipse to the general store and return with plastic bags full of bread rolls. Others just loiter.
We've taken to locking our doors and windows
Sangatte resident Marie-Catherine Toroval
For the moment at least, they are residents of the Sangatte shelter, which is run by the Red Cross - and currently the subject of some forthright politicking between the British and French governments.
The building started life as a warehouse during the building of the Channel Tunnel. Two years ago it was commandeered by the French authorities to house the growing number of Kosovan refugees arriving in Calais.
The town's people took well to their new neighbours who had been forced into exile by the ethnic strife in Serbia, said Marie-Catherine Toroval.
Welcome wanes
But the Kosovans left some time ago and in their place have come asylum seekers from elsewhere. In Sangatte, the tide of sympathy has turned.
"[The refugees] are quite detached from what is going on in the town. They are not aggressive, but we are on our guard," said Madame Toroval, who has formed a residents group that wants the shelter closed.
"We've taken to locking our doors and windows and we don't let our children out as much as we used to."
There are stories of trouble between refugees and locals, and some more harmless tales, like when one resident returned home to find a group of asylum seekers relaxing on his sofa.
Other incidents have involved the refugees fighting among themselves. Each evening, dozens gather to catch a bus to Calais (which is often a starting point to get to Britain) but scuffles have broken out as they clamber for the limited seats on board.
The current influx of refugees has more than doubled the size of Sangatte, which has a stable population of about 1,000. The shelter alone currently houses 1,600 people.
Losing business
The recent blaze of publicity is not good for business it seems. Trade is down about 10% at the Capotel hotel, says owner Renaud Vieillard.
"It could be much worse but word is getting round. I had one woman on the phone to make a booking - when she realised we were in Sangatte she just hung up."
At the town's grocery store, owner Monsieur Debever has seen his old customers lose out to the new arrivals.
"People used to come to the shop to buy good bread, but we have lost their custom. We do not have room in our shop [because] it is always full of refugees."
He now does a roaring trade in selling loo rolls and phone cards to the migrants, and he even acts as a bureau de change.
The people of Sangatte are finding it hard to come to terms with their new neighbours, but do they have any sympathy for the plight of these migrants?
Monsieur Vieillard gives an emphatic "Non" to the question, but Madame Torovel says as a parent it's impossible not to feel sorry for the families who have struggled this far.
But Sangatte, she says, is definitely the wrong choice for a refugee camp.
"There is a contradiction in the fact that every night the police return them here, to somewhere that is so close to Britain you can see it across the water".
Thanks for that insight. All too often, it's easy to believe that every citizen of a country is fully behind whatever atrocities are performed in their name.
That said, your opinion would hold a lot more weight if you had a foreskin.
Linux is now written and maintained entirely by the "next generation" of programmers. Pudgy, acne-faced virgins living in their mothers basements.
POSIX arose from the need in the late 1970's, when Unix was under the edict of "Big Business", to have compatible standards.
Ask ANY teenager, not just a Linux Jockey, to listen to something a suit-wearing grown-up has said, and he'll laugh in your face.
So, like Windows, Linux is now doomed to repeat the same mistakes that were made by programmers 20+ years ago.
This is why there are many different desktops available for Linux. Each is more or less the same in functionality, but incompatibilities between the environments have been deliberately coded in. A teenager's ego is pathetic in this regard.
And if you think I'm trolling, remember how Linux started. Torvalds stuck his fingers up at the developers of Minix and decided to go his own way. This self-deterministic ego-centric behaviour is what is tearing Linux apart as you read this.
Too many children coding the same things, (such as, yes, Clock Applets) without any overall plan.
Therefore, ipso facto, racism must not really exist and is purely the construct of guilt-ridden white middle classes who feel bad that they're more successful in their society (due to having a different genetic mix which permits success in their society) than blacks.
White society has been constructed by whites, to reward what whites do best. Face facts. It's true. "Equal opportunities" discrimination eradicates the foundation of this society.
Likewise, a society forged by blacks would equally be eroded by "Equal opportunities" legislation.
Everyone has their own abilities, and different genetic mix. You wouldn't want to employ someone with perpetual jitters to work as a brain surgeon, so why are people whose abilities are suboptimal forced into jobs that they are not qualified for, based on the colour of their skin or their gender?
I have been judged in accordance with my "appearance", (a goatse.cx link in my signature, NOT part of the main article), which in itself is a form of racism.
Has an Outlook based virus killed anyone? No. Then why trivialise the deaths of the thousands who were claimed in the name of 'allah' that fateful Tuesday?
You are no better than the gibbering lunatics that claim a huge Zionist conspiracy snuck past WTC security the night before and planted several tons of explosives into the buildings.
"They didn't fall down. They crumbled like powder. Blame the Jews."
Slashdot Mirror
What's it like being a eunuch?
There's two things you need.
1. A fast computer with a soundcard. (Note that professional studio setups only have large mixing desks with lots of wires FOR SHOW. None of them work, but it makes artists think they're getting value for money.)
2. Oodles of pirated software.
The second thing shouldn't be a problem if you're used to the Slashdot Way of doing things.
With XP, this model is trying to be changed, so not only do you have to keep paying to use XP, but you can think of it as an additional cost to playing your games.
Seems that for once, Microsoft is wanting to copy The Linux Way of doing business.
What's this? A beloved 'free' Linux company charging monthly fees for updates? All for the benefit of playing a handful of Windows games.
Now THAT'S progress...
It's because they're all slitty eyed gooks that think nothing of destroying American business, hence this new level of theft.
Remember Korea.
Well, I didn't know that you're supposed to wrap them in Duck tape BEFORE you cram them up there...
Yeah, like inventing slavery for starters. But of course, whenever slavery is mentioned, it's ALWAYS the "evil white man"'s fault, isn't it?
Not as bad as the Greeks though, they invented sodomy and pedophilia.
Microsoft have more than one person working for them, don't they??? Or are you so biased by Linux propaganda you honestly perceive Microsoft to be some kind of faceless gibbering demonic entity that squirts software out into the universe from a series of anus-like sphincters located at regular intervals along it's tentactles?
To be accurate, it's not in my words, it's paraphrasing them.
Glad to help stimulate the fear and loathing though!
Even if you're browsing at -1, a -1 ranked post by a Foe will STILL be visible.
Otherwise it would be too easy to switch off the regular page-fuckers.
Personally, I love them, as IE doesn't have any problems with the extra space in documents. I imagine lesser browsers like Mozilla and Lynx (both with equal functionality from a practical perspective) choking on them though.
I'm a big girlie poofter!
Congrats!
These murderers, although clearly deserved of the Death Penalty, may not have necessarily performed the murders under the auspice of racism.
9/11 was CLEARLY a racist attack, proving without shadow of a doubt that Islam is the most racist of all religions.
Nice quote at the bottom of the page:
" Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain "
Of that there is NO doubt!
Or are Linux 'man' pages poorly written and filled with expletives?
MSDN is a fine resource for people who want to earn silly money whilst simultaneously posting racist and Linux-baiting propaganda onto Slashdot. 90% of the tasks you could get asked to do in a high-flying VB assignment are easily cut and paste-able from the Code Corner.
Which leaves plenty of time for achieving multiple first posts and finding more and more creative ways to get past the lameness filter.
You'll thank me for it when you're earning a fortune!
... that gives me the Hat Trick for today.
Again.
I'm SO getting fired one of these days.
Sangatte has hit the headlines as Europe's most controversial refugee camp. But that's only half the story. BBC News Online's chief feature writer Jonathan Duffy finds out how local residents are coping with the French town's newfound notoriety.
Even on a cloudy day, the White Cliffs of Dover are clearly visible from the beach at Sangatte.
Were it not for the waters of the English Channel, one could walk the distance in a few hours.
But the sea has always made Britain a tough nut to crack, as many of Sangatte's temporary residents will testify.
By night, hundreds of asylum seekers based in the small town's refugee centre try their luck at crossing the Channel, somehow.
The vast majority fail and are returned to the camp, where they are free to have a go again the following night.
Meanwhile, the natives of Sangatte are adapting to life with their uninvited and increasingly unwelcome guests.
Sangatte grew up as a smart little resort town for the well-heeled folk of Pas de Calais. But most of the people pacing its main streets today seem at odds with the surroundings.
Standing out
The men are invariably young and of central Asian or Middle Eastern appearance - dark skins, black hair and moustaches.
Huddles of them crowd round a few public phone booths in the town. Some traipse to the general store and return with plastic bags full of bread rolls. Others just loiter.
We've taken to locking our doors and windows
Sangatte resident Marie-Catherine Toroval
For the moment at least, they are residents of the Sangatte shelter, which is run by the Red Cross - and currently the subject of some forthright politicking between the British and French governments.
The building started life as a warehouse during the building of the Channel Tunnel. Two years ago it was commandeered by the French authorities to house the growing number of Kosovan refugees arriving in Calais.
The town's people took well to their new neighbours who had been forced into exile by the ethnic strife in Serbia, said Marie-Catherine Toroval.
Welcome wanes
But the Kosovans left some time ago and in their place have come asylum seekers from elsewhere. In Sangatte, the tide of sympathy has turned.
"[The refugees] are quite detached from what is going on in the town. They are not aggressive, but we are on our guard," said Madame Toroval, who has formed a residents group that wants the shelter closed.
"We've taken to locking our doors and windows and we don't let our children out as much as we used to."
There are stories of trouble between refugees and locals, and some more harmless tales, like when one resident returned home to find a group of asylum seekers relaxing on his sofa.
Other incidents have involved the refugees fighting among themselves. Each evening, dozens gather to catch a bus to Calais (which is often a starting point to get to Britain) but scuffles have broken out as they clamber for the limited seats on board.
The current influx of refugees has more than doubled the size of Sangatte, which has a stable population of about 1,000. The shelter alone currently houses 1,600 people.
Losing business
The recent blaze of publicity is not good for business it seems. Trade is down about 10% at the Capotel hotel, says owner Renaud Vieillard.
"It could be much worse but word is getting round. I had one woman on the phone to make a booking - when she realised we were in Sangatte she just hung up."
At the town's grocery store, owner Monsieur Debever has seen his old customers lose out to the new arrivals.
"People used to come to the shop to buy good bread, but we have lost their custom. We do not have room in our shop [because] it is always full of refugees."
He now does a roaring trade in selling loo rolls and phone cards to the migrants, and he even acts as a bureau de change.
The people of Sangatte are finding it hard to come to terms with their new neighbours, but do they have any sympathy for the plight of these migrants?
Monsieur Vieillard gives an emphatic "Non" to the question, but Madame Torovel says as a parent it's impossible not to feel sorry for the families who have struggled this far.
But Sangatte, she says, is definitely the wrong choice for a refugee camp.
"There is a contradiction in the fact that every night the police return them here, to somewhere that is so close to Britain you can see it across the water".
Thanks for that insight. All too often, it's easy to believe that every citizen of a country is fully behind whatever atrocities are performed in their name.
That said, your opinion would hold a lot more weight if you had a foreskin.
Blacks DON'T have the same opportunities as whites under the laws of "positive discrimination"
They are given an easy ride, which makes them disrespectful of the centuries of culture which has forged the society in which they thrive.
Linux is now written and maintained entirely by the "next generation" of programmers. Pudgy, acne-faced virgins living in their mothers basements.
POSIX arose from the need in the late 1970's, when Unix was under the edict of "Big Business", to have compatible standards.
Ask ANY teenager, not just a Linux Jockey, to listen to something a suit-wearing grown-up has said, and he'll laugh in your face.
So, like Windows, Linux is now doomed to repeat the same mistakes that were made by programmers 20+ years ago.
This is why there are many different desktops available for Linux. Each is more or less the same in functionality, but incompatibilities between the environments have been deliberately coded in. A teenager's ego is pathetic in this regard.
And if you think I'm trolling, remember how Linux started. Torvalds stuck his fingers up at the developers of Minix and decided to go his own way. This self-deterministic ego-centric behaviour is what is tearing Linux apart as you read this.
Too many children coding the same things, (such as, yes, Clock Applets) without any overall plan.
Therefore, ipso facto, racism must not really exist and is purely the construct of guilt-ridden white middle classes who feel bad that they're more successful in their society (due to having a different genetic mix which permits success in their society) than blacks.
White society has been constructed by whites, to reward what whites do best. Face facts. It's true. "Equal opportunities" discrimination eradicates the foundation of this society.
Likewise, a society forged by blacks would equally be eroded by "Equal opportunities" legislation.
Everyone has their own abilities, and different genetic mix. You wouldn't want to employ someone with perpetual jitters to work as a brain surgeon, so why are people whose abilities are suboptimal forced into jobs that they are not qualified for, based on the colour of their skin or their gender?
I hang my ring in shame. Where once the master of the first, I now languish in the ignomity of second.
Give us a cuddle.
Hat-trick! w00t!
And Linux is gay.
I have been judged in accordance with my "appearance", (a goatse.cx link in my signature, NOT part of the main article), which in itself is a form of racism.
Imagine how different things would have been if Rodney King had a white girl tied up in his boot which he was going to rape and murder.
Eternal Vigilence is the Price of Freedom.
Has an Outlook based virus killed anyone? No. Then why trivialise the deaths of the thousands who were claimed in the name of 'allah' that fateful Tuesday?
You are no better than the gibbering lunatics that claim a huge Zionist conspiracy snuck past WTC security the night before and planted several tons of explosives into the buildings.
"They didn't fall down. They crumbled like powder. Blame the Jews."
Disgusting.
It is only fair that individuals should relinquish their right to anonymity in times of national crisis.
q. Why are Anonymous Cowards like Muslims?
a. They all look the same, they stink, and all they can talk about is hatred.