You know, most of the responses to this post remind me of the old days of Linux "RFTM" Usenet shit. Teach rather than flame, eh, people? I thought we'd got past that....
Oh, we've progressed so far.....
Visaris: One piece of advice: Don't use MS products to run a server. You will end up bald with a trashbasket full of hair. It's not worth it.
It's not the TV I don't trust, it's the *content* on it.
I know I can always smash the TV with my handy wood chopper...which still doesn't stop me from shouting at it when politicians are speaking on the thing.
"Everyone will scream and cry, but they'll still watch, and they'll still buy the cartoon DVDs, and the Special Edition cartoon DVDs with extra footage, and cartoon DVDs with the bonus episdoe bundled with the movies."
For some reason (possibly the bheer) I read that as "and they'll still bury the cartoon DVDs, etc" and I thought "Yeah. Bury them in the backyard, after a proper blowtorching and symbolic gestures for the death of Star Wars."
I'd agree about AOTC, but New Hope had the greatest one-liners of any SF movie to date. (Of course there's some better ones now, but probably not as many / movie).
It was also refreshingly magical compared to most lame SF movies out there at the time. Empire was even pretty good; good story, not so many one-liners, but still, a good story. ROTJ - hmph. Bleh.
As to AOTC....bleh. The CG was great - and I may go see EPIII just for the CG - but the stories/scripts since Empire are.....well....bleh. Double, triple bleh.
Lucas can't write a story to save his arse. There are much better ones on fanfix, fer chrissakes.
So what should a bartender get, then? Not that I don't agree with you to some extent, but alcohol is one of the biggest problems in this country, and do you remember what happened the last time we tried to outlaw it?
Or how about cigarettes? Or a lot of the legal pharmaceuticals that drug companies distribute when there are known problems with them; then get a slap on the wrist when the FDA pulls them? I'm getting sick of seeing TV ads and magazine ads where the list of "side effects" is longer then the rest of the ad.
In treating drug problems as criminal problems rather than medical ones, we've created the biggest black market this world has ever seen. Meanwhile there are corporations who get away with murder.
Someone once said "I'd rather step over a giggling hippie then confront a drunk with a knife in his hand."
There are also many, many cases where vindictive people have accused others of drug use/possession, with no evidence, and the accused have had their property forfeited whilst never even being *indicted*, and never gotten it back or had to spend many thousands of dollars in court trying.
Do some studying. You have no friccin' idea how these laws are being abused.
*MY* take is that TV has caused more problems among kids than a lot of others. I saw a recent study where kids who were surveyed couldn't name 5% of their local bird species, but could name 90% of the "Pokemon" characters.
Where are you going to draw the line, man? How bad does the police state need to get?
This from someone with the nick "siliconjunkie". Give me a break.
"Three: A DA prosecuting a kid for this? I would think the DA had bigger cases out there to work on. Bad Judgement"
EXTRAORDINARILY bad judgement. She should be fired. IMNSHO. She's obviously not competent to make rational decisions concerning her job, and certainly not when she announces them in public. Foolish woman.
As the one sided conversation, yeah. My old man would have whupped me in a really serious manner. Fortunately I'm too smart to ever have to have cheated on grades;-) (ok, not modest...but)
But then there was the incident with the model rocket and firecrackers and the neighbors brand new car...oops. I couldn't sit down for weeks.
You know what really sticks in my craw? Lay's wife complaining in a press article - I think it was on Yahoo - some time later, about how they were going to lose their "summer home" while many of their employees were wondering how the hell they were going to pay their food bills, and WTF now they were going to do about retirement...
Poor baby. Someone needs to hit her with a cluexfour.
"But that doesn't mean that a government that puts drug offenders and prank-hackers in jail for twice what the average rate for murderers is corrupt. Extreme, maybe, but not corrupt."
I wonder sometimes. Mostly, though, it's stupidity - politicians thinking they have to *appear* to be doing something about the problem, no matter how irrational the solution is.
See my post just below this one (you posted while I was writing;-) - there are judges who have spoken up against mandatory mins, and testified before congress (no link handy, but google for federal judges mandatory drug minimums, oughta find something)
Definitely gotta agree with you. I know a woman who got 12 years for possession with intent to distribute (pot); while her ex-husband, who she'd divorced several years before, got 7 years for 1st degree murder.
Fucked. Up.
I do think there are a few penalties that aren't harsh enough, tho. (and I'm not talking about Enron, either). A friend of mine who owned a duplex rented the other side to a 52 year old woman; she was cooking meth and burned the place to the ground, killing his pets and destroying everything he owned.
She got 2 FUCKING YEARS due to her age. Where's the justice? I think they should have drawn and quartered the bitch....sorry, but if it had been a half hour later, his kids would have been home...and the house was engulfed in less than 15 minutes.
What mandatory minimums have done, is remove the ability for the judge to make a decision based on circumstances, rather than blind obedience. I believe that many Federal Judges have spoken up against mandatory mins.
While this is somewhat OT, what makes hacking charges so different? Witness Kevin Mitnick...
Dude, I had two computers on my desk in '80 (well, somewhere on the desk buried amidst all the other electronics junk) when I was twelve. No, I wasn't rich, either - 3 paper routes, mowed lawns and farm work.
Boo hoo; so go cry your eyes out./me Nerd points (1980) +20
"I don't know, maybe my experience was odd. When I was in High School, the nerds stayed as far away from the types who might pick on them as possible, but were accosted anyway.
What I seem to recall is that those who inflicted violence on nerds were also those who told sexist jokes, treated women as objects and had the least tolerance for the mentally handicapped. How's that for a generalization? I think it's an honest portrayal, though."
We must have went to similar high schools.:) Public ones, maybe?
I was a little 4'11" shrimp in my freshman HS year. I got picked on a lot, mostly because I usually had the answers in class, when often the bullies didn't.
Several things changed over the next few years:
1) Gained foot in height 2) Got fed up, paid for private lessons in TKD 3) Got fed up, changed my attitude.
The real benefits of those changes are still making themselves known whilst I approach 40:)
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You know, most of the responses to this post remind me of the old days of Linux "RFTM" Usenet shit. Teach rather than flame, eh, people? I thought we'd got past that....
Oh, we've progressed so far.....
Visaris: One piece of advice: Don't use MS products to run a server. You will end up bald with a trashbasket full of hair. It's not worth it.
SB
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Cats produce labor? ;-) Anyway, you don't herd cats, they're always running in front of you ;-) herding *you*.
In Soviet Russia, *You* own *Cats*!
Lame, I know. But I have too many cats to herd (Herd of 4 and growing)
Great post, KFG.
SB
"I contradict myself? Ok, I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes."
Oh...wait, I thought we were talking about Ballmer.
SB
Mod parent up! Great old carpenter joke....
SB (yes, I am a wood hacker
"MS seems to be throwing hundreds of small .exe's into their system"
and Bog help you if you get hit with the Magister virus. I've seen systems with literally thousands of infected exe files *shudders*
format, reload....sigh
SB
It's not the TV I don't trust, it's the *content* on it.
I know I can always smash the TV with my handy wood chopper...which
still doesn't stop me from shouting at it when politicians are speaking on the thing.
Poor TV must be bloody terrified of me by now.
SB
Mod parent up. That's a pretty good synopsis, as I see it.
BTW: "nhavar"? LadyHawke reference? Damn, I loved that movie.
SB
"Everyone will scream and cry, but they'll still watch, and they'll still buy the cartoon DVDs, and the Special Edition cartoon DVDs with extra footage, and cartoon DVDs with the bonus episdoe bundled with the movies."
;-)
For some reason (possibly the bheer) I read that as "and they'll still bury the cartoon DVDs, etc" and I thought "Yeah. Bury them in the backyard, after a proper blowtorching and symbolic gestures for the death of Star Wars."
Isa haveta laysa off the bheersa, meesa thinks
Sorry, I just had to do it
SB
Cartoon Network executives:
Exec #1: *He* is here.
Exec #2: What makes you think so?
Exec #1: A tremor in my balance sheets. The last time I felt this, it was in the presence of Disney...
SB
I'd agree about AOTC, but New Hope had the greatest one-liners of any SF movie to date. (Of course there's some better ones now, but probably not as many / movie).
It was also refreshingly magical compared to most lame SF movies out there at the time. Empire was even pretty good; good story, not so many one-liners, but still, a good story. ROTJ - hmph. Bleh.
As to AOTC....bleh. The CG was great - and I may go see EPIII just for the CG - but the stories/scripts since Empire are.....well....bleh. Double, triple bleh.
Lucas can't write a story to save his arse. There are much better ones on fanfix, fer chrissakes.
Sb
So what should a bartender get, then? Not that I don't agree with you to some extent, but alcohol is one of the biggest problems in this country, and do you remember what happened the last time we tried to outlaw it?
Or how about cigarettes? Or a lot of the legal pharmaceuticals that drug companies distribute when there are known problems with them; then get a slap on the wrist when the FDA pulls them? I'm getting sick of seeing TV ads and magazine ads where the list of "side effects" is longer then the rest of the ad.
In treating drug problems as criminal problems rather than medical ones, we've created the biggest black market this world has ever seen. Meanwhile there are corporations who get away with murder.
Someone once said "I'd rather step over a giggling hippie then confront a drunk with a knife in his hand."
There are also many, many cases where vindictive people have accused others of drug use/possession, with no evidence, and the accused have had their property forfeited whilst never even being *indicted*, and never gotten it back or had to spend many thousands of dollars in court trying.
Do some studying. You have no friccin' idea how these laws are being
abused.
*MY* take is that TV has caused more problems among kids than a lot of others. I saw a recent study where kids who were surveyed couldn't name 5% of their local bird species, but could name 90% of the "Pokemon" characters.
Where are you going to draw the line, man? How bad does the police state need to get?
This from someone with the nick "siliconjunkie". Give me a break.
SB
+5 Informative ! ?
*After* the fact?
Ok, who has the time machine?!?!
SB
and the 80s S&L Scandal has what to do with this?
SB
"Three: A DA prosecuting a kid for this? I would think the DA had bigger cases out there to work on. Bad Judgement"
;-) (ok, not modest...but)
EXTRAORDINARILY bad judgement. She should be fired. IMNSHO. She's obviously not competent to make rational decisions concerning her job, and certainly not when she announces them in public. Foolish woman.
As the one sided conversation, yeah. My old man would have whupped me in a really serious manner. Fortunately I'm too smart to ever have to have cheated on grades
But then there was the incident with the model rocket and firecrackers and the neighbors brand new car...oops. I couldn't sit down for weeks.
SB
You know what really sticks in my craw? Lay's wife complaining in a press article - I think it was on Yahoo - some time later, about how they were going to lose their "summer home" while many of their employees were wondering how the hell they were going to pay their food bills, and WTF now they were going to do about retirement...
Poor baby. Someone needs to hit her with a cluexfour.
SB
"But that doesn't mean that a government that puts drug offenders and prank-hackers in jail for twice what the average rate for murderers is corrupt. Extreme, maybe, but not corrupt."
;-) - there are judges who have spoken up against mandatory mins, and testified before congress (no link handy, but google for federal judges mandatory drug minimums, oughta find something)
I wonder sometimes. Mostly, though, it's stupidity - politicians thinking they have to *appear* to be doing something about the problem, no matter how irrational the solution is.
See my post just below this one (you posted while I was writing
SB
Definitely gotta agree with you. I know a woman who got 12 years for possession with intent to distribute (pot); while her ex-husband, who she'd divorced several years before, got 7 years for 1st degree murder.
Fucked. Up.
I do think there are a few penalties that aren't harsh enough, tho.
(and I'm not talking about Enron, either). A friend of mine who owned a duplex rented the other side to a 52 year old woman; she was cooking meth and burned the place to the ground, killing his pets and destroying everything he owned.
She got 2 FUCKING YEARS due to her age. Where's the justice? I think they should have drawn and quartered the bitch....sorry, but if it had been a half hour later, his kids would have been home...and the house was engulfed in less than 15 minutes.
What mandatory minimums have done, is remove the ability for the judge to make a decision based on circumstances, rather than blind obedience. I believe that many Federal Judges have spoken up against mandatory mins.
While this is somewhat OT, what makes hacking charges so different? Witness Kevin Mitnick...
SB
Just stay away from the S&Ls.....
SB
Dude, I had two computers on my desk in '80 (well, somewhere on the desk buried amidst all the other electronics junk) when I was twelve. No, I wasn't rich, either - 3 paper routes, mowed lawns and farm work.
Boo hoo; so go cry your eyes out.
Nah na na na na na
SB
"...maybe something else sucks around here....like...the public..."
-- George Carlin
SB
"to generate amazingly insightful comments and unlimited nasal chuckles from the peanut gallery. "
:-)
That'd be the *Penguin Gallery* - thank you very much. Get it right!
SB
Not to mention destroying the 10th amendment....but that was long ago.
SB
"I don't know, maybe my experience was odd. When I was in High School, the nerds stayed as far away from the types who might pick on them as possible, but were accosted anyway.
:) Public ones, maybe?
What I seem to recall is that those who inflicted violence on nerds were also those who told sexist jokes, treated women as objects and had the least tolerance for the mentally handicapped. How's that for a generalization? I think it's an honest portrayal, though."
We must have went to similar high schools.
SB
I was a little 4'11" shrimp in my freshman HS year. I got picked on a lot, mostly because I usually had the answers in class, when often the bullies didn't.
Several things changed over the next few years:
1) Gained foot in height
2) Got fed up, paid for private lessons in TKD
3) Got fed up, changed my attitude.
The real benefits of those changes are still making themselves known
whilst I approach 40
SB