The airports don't get to choose shit. Most are government owned. You're thinking of the airlines and they don't necessarily get a say in airport security. So what you end up with is exactly what you have now with cable, ISP's, and cell phone companies. If they decide they want something to happen, they either get the gov to grant a local monopoly or they band together into a cartel and agree that they will all screw everyone over. So even though free market enthusiasts and experts will all say that things are all awesome now the government is NOT involved, the fact is the government is still right there standing behind them but now the corps are their masters. It shifts the balance of power from the consumer to the corporation. They get to LEGALLY force you to buy their stuff or just outright take your money (see phone "access" taxes). To believe that they will all become some kind of saints once they get free will is just not supported by historical evidence.
I would blame it on an inept congress and a broken economy but if you want to blame it on the robots, I won't argue that. But I am curious why the poster still hasn't come up off that company name. Either he doesn't constantly check his posts like a good slashdotter should (probably has a "real life") or his post was completly anecdotal and he's talking out his ass. I am an industrial automation technician and while there are a few jobs out there, in this crappy economy companies just don't want to spend the money on the bots. They'd rather outsouce. I've been outsourced too in the past. So, to stay relevent to the subject, I think every person with a job should worry about getting outsourced a thousand times before they worry about the robots taking over. The technology just isn't there yet and won't be by 2014, 15, or even 2030. A Rooba still can't vacuum the living room in any effective manner without getting stuck today and you want me to believe cars will be completly driverless in just 4 or 5 years? PREPOSTEROUS!
Life is what you make it. If myself, my wife, and both my kids play 24/7, which they all do, then how can you say I don't have a good family life. My kids are teens. They have great school grades, they aren't slingin dope on the corner, they haven't been to jail, and they aren't knocked up. They are respectful of others, they don't throw temper tantrums when they don't get their way and when they are told to do something they do it. My wife and I rarely ever fight, we look forward to seeing each other daily, and love each other unconditionally. I don't know what else I can ask for in this family relationship. This is a WoW family and we all play 24/7. It's contrary to all the media hype you see about WoW destroying families but as a fellow slashdotter I would think you of all people know how the media works to blow things out of proportion and push an agenda. There's a whole lot more about my life that is unconventional, which I won't go into detail about here, and many people have tried to emulate it to no avail. Life is what you make it and our family has centered our existence on WoW.
I have been reading these comments and this subject hits home to me. I am actually mad and for once want to say my 2 cents. Because of this I felt logging in AC wasn't appropriate and I'll admit it I am karma whoring a bit but for a good reason as I'll explain below. Also because I have a vulgar mouth IRL this post will also contain ample cursing. Children or people sensitive to such things should stop reading now.
I am tired of the WoW hate. You NERDS of all people are actually sitting here on a high horse blasting your OWN people for what we do with our time. For what we find enjoyment in life from. Fuck you and your righteous indignation. You will honestly post on this site what a waste of money or a waste of life playing an MMO is. Have you looked in the damned mirror? I am one of the hardcore players you hate so much. If I am not sleeping or at work I am am logged on to WoW. I play 10 hours a day easily and 18+ hours on the weekends. I eat, sleep, and shit WoW. Is that a problem? What harm am I causing you? Seeing as how this is/. myself and my fellow players may actually be keeping your ass employed (Blizzard geeks lurk here I am sure). Can you honestly sit there and blast us when you may be one of the types who goes home and plops down in front of the boobtube and watch 6 straight hours of Dancing with the Stars? Or maybe you leave work and head straight to the bar and piss away money on liquor. I know the last time I went to the club (earlier this year) it was $100 at minimum for all the drinks we drank. You wanna bitch about $15 a month? Hell I can't even get out of WalMart for less than $60. Going to the movie theater, going bowling, seeing a ball game, or pretty much anything involving leaving the house is automatically a hundred bucks. I am SAVING money playing WoW.
Let's look at how else WoW saves me cash. IIRC, the biggest selling game out right now is Call of Duty. I have console playing friends who do the same shit I do on WoW but instead they are constantly running the same 10 maps in COD. All day. All night. You wanna call WoW repeatative. Oh and that $15 dollars a month you're bitching about? AFAIK, Xbox Live & PSN all have a subscription fee for anything but the most basic account. So you'll gladly go drop $60 for every version of COD that comes out plus your network subscription but when I do it, I'm a loser fucking nerd jackin off to hentai in my mom's basement. Again- FUCK YOU. Speaking of that, COD has at least 8 expansions out. They all start at $60 and if you wait long enough it might drop to $40. In the entirety of WoW's existence we have 4 games to buy. And they were all $40. Today you get the first 2 for $30, the 3rd for $30, & $40 for the latest. Tell me again that's a rip off. On top of just software savings, I have no cable bill. I play WoW 24/7. I don't need nor want TV. That's $80-100 saved right there. Plus my brain is not constantly innundated with the mind control BS we know as commercials. Thank whatever diety that I don't have to listen to Billy Fucking Mays scream at me any more. Or those talking heads on Fox News blather on about the commies/terrorists/pirates/hackers/gays trying to take over our country. So WoW is good for my wallet and good for my brain.
Now to address the common fallacy that we are a waste of oxygen, contribute nothing to society, losers, and the one I hate the most, have no life. I am 35, married, with 2 kids and a 8-12 hour a day job. What kind of fucking life were you expecting me to have? I don't need a woman so why the hell would I need to go to a bar? I have an awesome entertainment setup so why would I need to go to the theater? Seriously, is the definition of "having a life" mean wasting all my money on consumer shit as long as I am not at the house doing it? So you think I contribute nothing to society? In my opinion there are only 2 things you owe society: Pay your fucking taxes & if you have them, raise your damned kids. I do both of those quite
You neglect the social aspect of this. Public shaming, no matter how repulsive or cruel you may think it is, is a POWERFUL motivator because of the social pack-like structure of humankind. Nobody wants to be the center of negative attention so they will often go to drastic measures to avoid it. Look at all the sex scandals and crimes that people cover up just so they stay out of the spotlight. This makes them a nice target for the public to take out their aggression on. Also looking at the high profile targets and amount of corresponding severity of punishment if caught, they don't get many chances at making their point. If I am hunting my perceived enemy but only have one bullet, I am taking the headshot every time. Now Lulz is verging on the edge of certain doom though because they also do not consider the social aspects. As they shame more people (powerful people in these cases with lots of resources), they begin to make a new "pack" as the outcasts will bind together for their own survival so to speak. That shame always breeds anger and this new pack will retaliate against Lulz and will ultimately defeat them thus restoring their previous role as Alpha. In the end though, I agree with what a poster said a few lines up: Whether it is a pack of teenagers or a false flag op, We The People, are about to take it up our collective A-Holes.
The second nutty version is the correct interpretation he was going for though. The government doesn't have to feed itself or pay it's rent or any other thing a real being would have to do. As he said it only exists, in theory, to serve us. The government has no power to do anything if we don't allow it (again in theory cause we know who has the guns and tanks). When we get tired of it, we throw it out and get a new one. I suppose this is why the new presidents always say something along the lines of "the people have spoken" or "a mandate by the people." With the way they act though, I am surprised they can even say that without choking on their own words.
That article had spectacular volcano photo's no doubt but did anyone notice the article at the bottom of the page about the hole in the universe? I found that way more interesting. Evidently no one thought it noteworthy to speak about it. We know tons of info about volcanoes since we can watch them here on Earth but I think the big "blank spot" in space should be looked at more closely especially since as the photo caption remarks the thing is measured at 500 light years yet no stars are between it and us even though in the rest of the pic you can see stars that do appear closer. Now that is weird.
The GPs specification was a perfectly valid specification. If, for instance, you've bought a bunch of lab equipment such a spectrometers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc, and the only software that runs them is made for Windows then guess what? The specification is must run Windows software. And as a side req, I'd say it must run it AS GOOD OR BETTER than the factory just in case someone comes up with the idea of virtualizing it with Wine or one of the Mac variants. My software and myself isn't ready for any kind of Linux, we can't stand Macs, and don't even want Vista. That's a struggle I'm trying to work around now. My gov contractor is being forced by the military to upgrade the entire lab with Vista. I hate it. I run a little side business fixing PCs and if the customer has Vista I won't even touch it. I've given it a whirl on several occasions and it's just crap. And what do you mean writing with protocols? What protocol evens covers the general operating systems of a computer? The requests are task driven entities. You provide a list of tasks and/or requirements and engineering finds something that fits them all. Specifying a brand of product that fits those needs is no more idiotic than asking for a car that runs gas instead of diesel when, by your view, the req should have said "gets me from point A to point B" (had to throw an obligatory auto analogy in there, sorry). If I need to get to point A and B and you give me a bike when I wanted an auto then I'm gonna be pissed just as bad as if you gave me Calc when I wanted Excel.
The reason is simple. Let ME decide what to do with all the RAM I have. Let ME add the progs that will bring my system to its knees. There are so many useless things running on Windows now that make a super efficient machine run like the "mid priced system" of yester-year instead of the truly awesome desktop super computer it could be. And besides I would imagine that whole geek RAM fascination is M$'s fault as well. Perhaps you never used DOS. Perhaps you don't remember trying multiple boot batch files or boot floppies in order to get that one extra K of system RAM needed to get Doom running. Ever heard of Himem.sys or EMM386? That shit was crazy complicated and it was all Bill's fault with his whole 640k should be enough for anybody mantra. We are a product of our upbringing and so M$ taught us back then to conserve your RAM or you weren't gonna get to play your games. Now that we are grown up we demand more because we know how things were. When you grow up you'll want systems that at least run as good as todays. Now take yer damned hula hoop AND GET OFF MY LAWN!
You're too cheap to buy at least Office 2003 but you'll pirate Stargate?? Have you thought about maybe...I dunno...PIRATING OFFICE TOO? You, sir, have a strangely wired brain!
That link you posted has really opened up my eyes. I never knew the extent of the evil that pervades our intertubes on sites like Youporn.com, Pornotube.com, or Porn 2.0. These terr'rists MUST be put down! Have you seen the Naked Gymnast? She HAS to be stopped! Getting this type of information out to the people is EXACTLY what the internet was made for. Thank you from the bottom of my, er, heart. You, sir, are a true American Patriot. I SALUTE YOU!
Most of the ultraportables that have been out in the past 2 years or so use the teeny tiny 1.5" HDDs like the iPods use. This includes the Fujitsu Lifebooks, Samsung Q1's, and the Asus Eee's. The smaller ones like the Nokia N810's use flash rom just like a thumb drive or an iPod Nano would have...not technically an SSD. Using the 1.5" drives makes for a nice small PC- again see the iPod videos. Tiny hard drives in this case are no concern about size, use a small amount of power, and so should ease your concerns in that arena. They're also still a helluva lot cheaper than an SSD.
Hey I too want to convert a Corolla I have but am having difficulty finding things like good powerful motors. There are plenty of wimpy 40hp forklift motors but that won't cut it for me. Would you be so kind as to provide me a list of part names or websites where I can find some good parts for my conversion. Thanks.
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The airports don't get to choose shit. Most are government owned. You're thinking of the airlines and they don't necessarily get a say in airport security. So what you end up with is exactly what you have now with cable, ISP's, and cell phone companies. If they decide they want something to happen, they either get the gov to grant a local monopoly or they band together into a cartel and agree that they will all screw everyone over. So even though free market enthusiasts and experts will all say that things are all awesome now the government is NOT involved, the fact is the government is still right there standing behind them but now the corps are their masters. It shifts the balance of power from the consumer to the corporation. They get to LEGALLY force you to buy their stuff or just outright take your money (see phone "access" taxes). To believe that they will all become some kind of saints once they get free will is just not supported by historical evidence.
I would blame it on an inept congress and a broken economy but if you want to blame it on the robots, I won't argue that. But I am curious why the poster still hasn't come up off that company name. Either he doesn't constantly check his posts like a good slashdotter should (probably has a "real life") or his post was completly anecdotal and he's talking out his ass. I am an industrial automation technician and while there are a few jobs out there, in this crappy economy companies just don't want to spend the money on the bots. They'd rather outsouce. I've been outsourced too in the past. So, to stay relevent to the subject, I think every person with a job should worry about getting outsourced a thousand times before they worry about the robots taking over. The technology just isn't there yet and won't be by 2014, 15, or even 2030. A Rooba still can't vacuum the living room in any effective manner without getting stuck today and you want me to believe cars will be completly driverless in just 4 or 5 years? PREPOSTEROUS!
Would you be so kind as to mention the name of this company cause I quite literally got laid off 20 minutes ago.
He likes rape. He probably also doesn't need no stinking badges.
Could you provide a link to that because I find it hard to believe the TSA would openly print a tip off to a suspect that he will be searched.
Life is what you make it. If myself, my wife, and both my kids play 24/7, which they all do, then how can you say I don't have a good family life. My kids are teens. They have great school grades, they aren't slingin dope on the corner, they haven't been to jail, and they aren't knocked up. They are respectful of others, they don't throw temper tantrums when they don't get their way and when they are told to do something they do it. My wife and I rarely ever fight, we look forward to seeing each other daily, and love each other unconditionally. I don't know what else I can ask for in this family relationship. This is a WoW family and we all play 24/7. It's contrary to all the media hype you see about WoW destroying families but as a fellow slashdotter I would think you of all people know how the media works to blow things out of proportion and push an agenda. There's a whole lot more about my life that is unconventional, which I won't go into detail about here, and many people have tried to emulate it to no avail. Life is what you make it and our family has centered our existence on WoW.
I have been reading these comments and this subject hits home to me. I am actually mad and for once want to say my 2 cents. Because of this I felt logging in AC wasn't appropriate and I'll admit it I am karma whoring a bit but for a good reason as I'll explain below. Also because I have a vulgar mouth IRL this post will also contain ample cursing. Children or people sensitive to such things should stop reading now.
/. myself and my fellow players may actually be keeping your ass employed (Blizzard geeks lurk here I am sure). Can you honestly sit there and blast us when you may be one of the types who goes home and plops down in front of the boobtube and watch 6 straight hours of Dancing with the Stars? Or maybe you leave work and head straight to the bar and piss away money on liquor. I know the last time I went to the club (earlier this year) it was $100 at minimum for all the drinks we drank. You wanna bitch about $15 a month? Hell I can't even get out of WalMart for less than $60. Going to the movie theater, going bowling, seeing a ball game, or pretty much anything involving leaving the house is automatically a hundred bucks. I am SAVING money playing WoW.
I am tired of the WoW hate. You NERDS of all people are actually sitting here on a high horse blasting your OWN people for what we do with our time. For what we find enjoyment in life from. Fuck you and your righteous indignation. You will honestly post on this site what a waste of money or a waste of life playing an MMO is. Have you looked in the damned mirror? I am one of the hardcore players you hate so much. If I am not sleeping or at work I am am logged on to WoW. I play 10 hours a day easily and 18+ hours on the weekends. I eat, sleep, and shit WoW. Is that a problem? What harm am I causing you? Seeing as how this is
Let's look at how else WoW saves me cash. IIRC, the biggest selling game out right now is Call of Duty. I have console playing friends who do the same shit I do on WoW but instead they are constantly running the same 10 maps in COD. All day. All night. You wanna call WoW repeatative. Oh and that $15 dollars a month you're bitching about? AFAIK, Xbox Live & PSN all have a subscription fee for anything but the most basic account. So you'll gladly go drop $60 for every version of COD that comes out plus your network subscription but when I do it, I'm a loser fucking nerd jackin off to hentai in my mom's basement. Again- FUCK YOU. Speaking of that, COD has at least 8 expansions out. They all start at $60 and if you wait long enough it might drop to $40. In the entirety of WoW's existence we have 4 games to buy. And they were all $40. Today you get the first 2 for $30, the 3rd for $30, & $40 for the latest. Tell me again that's a rip off. On top of just software savings, I have no cable bill. I play WoW 24/7. I don't need nor want TV. That's $80-100 saved right there. Plus my brain is not constantly innundated with the mind control BS we know as commercials. Thank whatever diety that I don't have to listen to Billy Fucking Mays scream at me any more. Or those talking heads on Fox News blather on about the commies/terrorists/pirates/hackers/gays trying to take over our country. So WoW is good for my wallet and good for my brain.
Now to address the common fallacy that we are a waste of oxygen, contribute nothing to society, losers, and the one I hate the most, have no life. I am 35, married, with 2 kids and a 8-12 hour a day job. What kind of fucking life were you expecting me to have? I don't need a woman so why the hell would I need to go to a bar? I have an awesome entertainment setup so why would I need to go to the theater? Seriously, is the definition of "having a life" mean wasting all my money on consumer shit as long as I am not at the house doing it? So you think I contribute nothing to society? In my opinion there are only 2 things you owe society: Pay your fucking taxes & if you have them, raise your damned kids. I do both of those quite
You neglect the social aspect of this. Public shaming, no matter how repulsive or cruel you may think it is, is a POWERFUL motivator because of the social pack-like structure of humankind. Nobody wants to be the center of negative attention so they will often go to drastic measures to avoid it. Look at all the sex scandals and crimes that people cover up just so they stay out of the spotlight. This makes them a nice target for the public to take out their aggression on. Also looking at the high profile targets and amount of corresponding severity of punishment if caught, they don't get many chances at making their point. If I am hunting my perceived enemy but only have one bullet, I am taking the headshot every time. Now Lulz is verging on the edge of certain doom though because they also do not consider the social aspects. As they shame more people (powerful people in these cases with lots of resources), they begin to make a new "pack" as the outcasts will bind together for their own survival so to speak. That shame always breeds anger and this new pack will retaliate against Lulz and will ultimately defeat them thus restoring their previous role as Alpha. In the end though, I agree with what a poster said a few lines up: Whether it is a pack of teenagers or a false flag op, We The People, are about to take it up our collective A-Holes.
The second nutty version is the correct interpretation he was going for though. The government doesn't have to feed itself or pay it's rent or any other thing a real being would have to do. As he said it only exists, in theory, to serve us. The government has no power to do anything if we don't allow it (again in theory cause we know who has the guns and tanks). When we get tired of it, we throw it out and get a new one. I suppose this is why the new presidents always say something along the lines of "the people have spoken" or "a mandate by the people." With the way they act though, I am surprised they can even say that without choking on their own words.
That has to be one of THE most useful sites on the web I've seen in a while. BOOKMARKED! Someone mod this guy up please!
That article had spectacular volcano photo's no doubt but did anyone notice the article at the bottom of the page about the hole in the universe? I found that way more interesting. Evidently no one thought it noteworthy to speak about it. We know tons of info about volcanoes since we can watch them here on Earth but I think the big "blank spot" in space should be looked at more closely especially since as the photo caption remarks the thing is measured at 500 light years yet no stars are between it and us even though in the rest of the pic you can see stars that do appear closer. Now that is weird.
The GPs specification was a perfectly valid specification. If, for instance, you've bought a bunch of lab equipment such a spectrometers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc, and the only software that runs them is made for Windows then guess what? The specification is must run Windows software. And as a side req, I'd say it must run it AS GOOD OR BETTER than the factory just in case someone comes up with the idea of virtualizing it with Wine or one of the Mac variants. My software and myself isn't ready for any kind of Linux, we can't stand Macs, and don't even want Vista. That's a struggle I'm trying to work around now. My gov contractor is being forced by the military to upgrade the entire lab with Vista. I hate it. I run a little side business fixing PCs and if the customer has Vista I won't even touch it. I've given it a whirl on several occasions and it's just crap. And what do you mean writing with protocols? What protocol evens covers the general operating systems of a computer? The requests are task driven entities. You provide a list of tasks and/or requirements and engineering finds something that fits them all. Specifying a brand of product that fits those needs is no more idiotic than asking for a car that runs gas instead of diesel when, by your view, the req should have said "gets me from point A to point B" (had to throw an obligatory auto analogy in there, sorry). If I need to get to point A and B and you give me a bike when I wanted an auto then I'm gonna be pissed just as bad as if you gave me Calc when I wanted Excel.
Why do you hate your users so much?
I like it. It's got a riiiing to it!
A truck has been made that runs completely on wood gas: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Transportation/1981-05-01/Woodburning-Truck.aspx
The reason is simple. Let ME decide what to do with all the RAM I have. Let ME add the progs that will bring my system to its knees. There are so many useless things running on Windows now that make a super efficient machine run like the "mid priced system" of yester-year instead of the truly awesome desktop super computer it could be. And besides I would imagine that whole geek RAM fascination is M$'s fault as well. Perhaps you never used DOS. Perhaps you don't remember trying multiple boot batch files or boot floppies in order to get that one extra K of system RAM needed to get Doom running. Ever heard of Himem.sys or EMM386? That shit was crazy complicated and it was all Bill's fault with his whole 640k should be enough for anybody mantra. We are a product of our upbringing and so M$ taught us back then to conserve your RAM or you weren't gonna get to play your games. Now that we are grown up we demand more because we know how things were. When you grow up you'll want systems that at least run as good as todays. Now take yer damned hula hoop AND GET OFF MY LAWN!
You're too cheap to buy at least Office 2003 but you'll pirate Stargate?? Have you thought about maybe...I dunno...PIRATING OFFICE TOO? You, sir, have a strangely wired brain!
A Møøse once bit my sister ...
That link you posted has really opened up my eyes. I never knew the extent of the evil that pervades our intertubes on sites like Youporn.com, Pornotube.com, or Porn 2.0. These terr'rists MUST be put down! Have you seen the Naked Gymnast? She HAS to be stopped! Getting this type of information out to the people is EXACTLY what the internet was made for. Thank you from the bottom of my, er, heart. You, sir, are a true American Patriot. I SALUTE YOU!
Most of the ultraportables that have been out in the past 2 years or so use the teeny tiny 1.5" HDDs like the iPods use. This includes the Fujitsu Lifebooks, Samsung Q1's, and the Asus Eee's. The smaller ones like the Nokia N810's use flash rom just like a thumb drive or an iPod Nano would have...not technically an SSD. Using the 1.5" drives makes for a nice small PC- again see the iPod videos. Tiny hard drives in this case are no concern about size, use a small amount of power, and so should ease your concerns in that arena. They're also still a helluva lot cheaper than an SSD.
Exactly that or off a small catapult which they still consider "hand launched"
Dude! Speaking of that, Limozeen, would be the PERFECT band for the Launch Party!!!! ...AND THE TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIIIIIGHT!
Porno movies, ENGAGE!
I for one welcome our alien overlords!
What's even scarier and definitely proves your ubergeekiness is the fact that you actually archived a K5 post from TWO YEARS ago! I, sir, salute you!
Hey I too want to convert a Corolla I have but am having difficulty finding things like good powerful motors. There are plenty of wimpy 40hp forklift motors but that won't cut it for me. Would you be so kind as to provide me a list of part names or websites where I can find some good parts for my conversion. Thanks.