I say, as someone who didn't grow up masturbating to Uhura or that green alien chick in my formative years that if we somehow ever came up with 1 trillion dollars to do anything in this country that didn't involve bankrolling financial meltdowns or bailing out some industry, we throw half of it at NASA (which is nearly more than they got in the entirety of the program) and give them a goal of getting astronauts on Mars in 10 years, with the promise of the other half once the astronauts return safely.
Then they can start building whatever pie in the sky BS this guy cooked up. Or hopefully come up with something more realistic and less based on watching too many episodes of some 40 year old sci-fi show.
Seeing as how none of this is going to happen, and the above also seems much more realistic to me, this article and idea just seems like mental masturbation.
Crap, I probably should have read the topic here. To clarify, American Beauty isn't really 'underappreciated', unless Best Picture is suddenly a sign of underappreciation; but it still had a huge effect on my life. The other ones I chose fit the topic better, I believe.
Just to add one more, now that I know the topic, Dark City is another wonderful and relatively unheard of/underappreciated movie.
Hey dude, it's just plain 'Heathers', not The Heathers.;)
But seriously, if I were to add to this little list, most of which I agree with (never saw the original gory Lord of the Rings, sooo..), I'd have to throw in Tron, which is the movie that actually introduced me to the idea of video games when I was about 7.
Although it's a more recent movie, American Beauty has had a profound effect on my life and my appreciation of life and seizing the moment.
Finally, as cheesy as it was, Dead Poets Society never ceases to disappoint. It was the movie that, in part, inspired me to start writing seriously.
Actually, I use alot of these conventions myself. Of course, I would not use them in a school essay , but that's another matter altogether.
For online use, it's often a matter of brevity. Rather then typing for 5 seconds (or.5 depending on typing speed) 'rolling on the floor laughing my ass off' it's much faster and easier to type 'roflmao'. Also, it's much easier to type this on cell phone text messaging. I even find myself using u (you), b (be), tho (though), etc. while on my cell phone.
I do like to think I'm more intelligent then the average bear, but I do find alot of this 'leetspeak', although not 'proper English', very useful at times.
I was reading this article's comments with just cursory interest until I came across this post. I headed to your website and read the whole exchange.
Frankly, I think you are totally in the right here. The IRC exchange was typical, from what I've seen, for IRC. You even provided help to other customers of the company. I was absolutely astounded to read the reply(ies) you received to the email you sent the 'president' of this company. I cannot believe that anyone in charge of a company (or any company public or private) providing a product could be so daft. After reading through the other comments, I can also see this is not an isolated incident.
Well, one thing is for sure: this could be the most secure firewall ever, but after reading this and other exchanges with the people who make it, I'm not even going to bother trying it.
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I say, as someone who didn't grow up masturbating to Uhura or that green alien chick in my formative years that if we somehow ever came up with 1 trillion dollars to do anything in this country that didn't involve bankrolling financial meltdowns or bailing out some industry, we throw half of it at NASA (which is nearly more than they got in the entirety of the program) and give them a goal of getting astronauts on Mars in 10 years, with the promise of the other half once the astronauts return safely.
Then they can start building whatever pie in the sky BS this guy cooked up. Or hopefully come up with something more realistic and less based on watching too many episodes of some 40 year old sci-fi show.
Seeing as how none of this is going to happen, and the above also seems much more realistic to me, this article and idea just seems like mental masturbation.
Yeah, I didn't say it. George Carlin did. It's meant to be funny, not scientifically accurate.
...who would be stupid enough to fall for something like this, just remember the famous words of George Carlin:
"Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that."
Crap, I probably should have read the topic here. To clarify, American Beauty isn't really 'underappreciated', unless Best Picture is suddenly a sign of underappreciation; but it still had a huge effect on my life. The other ones I chose fit the topic better, I believe.
Just to add one more, now that I know the topic, Dark City is another wonderful and relatively unheard of/underappreciated movie.
Hey dude, it's just plain 'Heathers', not The Heathers. ;)
But seriously, if I were to add to this little list, most of which I agree with (never saw the original gory Lord of the Rings, sooo..), I'd have to throw in Tron, which is the movie that actually introduced me to the idea of video games when I was about 7.
Although it's a more recent movie, American Beauty has had a profound effect on my life and my appreciation of life and seizing the moment.
Finally, as cheesy as it was, Dead Poets Society never ceases to disappoint. It was the movie that, in part, inspired me to start writing seriously.
Talk hard. heh
Actually, I use alot of these conventions myself. Of course, I would not use them in a school essay , but that's another matter altogether.
.5 depending on typing speed) 'rolling on the floor laughing my ass off' it's much faster and easier to type 'roflmao'. Also, it's much easier to type this on cell phone text messaging. I even find myself using u (you), b (be), tho (though), etc. while on my cell phone.
For online use, it's often a matter of brevity. Rather then typing for 5 seconds (or
I do like to think I'm more intelligent then the average bear, but I do find alot of this 'leetspeak', although not 'proper English', very useful at times.
I was reading this article's comments with just cursory interest until I came across this post. I headed to your website and read the whole exchange.
Frankly, I think you are totally in the right here. The IRC exchange was typical, from what I've seen, for IRC. You even provided help to other customers of the company. I was absolutely astounded to read the reply(ies) you received to the email you sent the 'president' of this company. I cannot believe that anyone in charge of a company (or any company public or private) providing a product could be so daft. After reading through the other comments, I can also see this is not an isolated incident.
Well, one thing is for sure: this could be the most secure firewall ever , but after reading this and other exchanges with the people who make it, I'm not even going to bother trying it.