Do you have links to your "actual knowledge" for verification? Note that GeoCities pages with animated spinning GIF skulls and flames are not considered reliable sources of information.
But all joking aside, not all information can be linked, buddy. Like, experiential stuff. I know this is not good for proving a scientific theory, but scientific theory is not the only thing in the world, and many many things can't be proved, or remain unproved, and we accept them as-is.
So. Modding someone troll because you disagree with them, and they don't provide you with a link makes you an asshole.
Like when Patrick Volkerwhatzit from Slackware was dying, and he asked for help, anybody who told him to do something other than consult with an AMA-approved medical practitioner got modded down. And that's what he was already trying. Thanks a lot guys. Really watching out for people, there.
I know enough people who have observed a direct correlation between their children being injected with mercury and an observable shift in behaviour to be concerned about injecting mercury into my children. I also know enough people who have observed a correlation between chelation and improvement in the child's intelligence, even in later years, to try chelation if I ever have an autistic child.
I know that some people, when they consume a high-protein diet, they feel sick. I feel weak and tired if I don't. I know people who are very sensitive to bleach. If I spend any time around paint fumes, I get very upset, light-headed, and sick, in contrast with everyone else I work with. A small percentage of people who do cocaine have an aneurysm in their nasal passage and they die. I'm sure you know people who've done cocaine. I do (know people).
So the point here, people, is that if you want to call bullshit on something because it doesn't happen that often, the WTC attacks never happened (only once in 16 billion years, or whatever). Condoms never break.
I know a child who was fine before the vaccines, and a retarded biter who cried all the time immediately after. Now, maybe he is not the norm. Maybe he's got a genetic mutation similar to sickle cell anemia (low benefit to most people, but prevails in some) that makes him very sensitive to mercury poisoning. And maybe, just maybe, he's not retarded, and he's living a very productive life just like the rest of us. But I wouldn't fucking count on it.
This is just what I need. People really don't already have enough visual cues that I'm a total fucking asshole. Please, let this hit local stores ASAP. Oakley Blades have become cliche and just aren't providing the oomph they used to.
I know it's sort of trollish, but this is actually a pretty damn funny post, and is actually sort of about trolls and not directly trolling. On that same note, while I missed the slashdot party (kicks self), I thought it would be pretty great to be a troll AT THE PARTY.
Host: Hey there! How are you doing? Me: FIRST NIGGER!!!! I LOVE FRIED CHIKKIN! Host: Erm... Me: Apple shit! FUCK slashdot. Host: Uh, sir, this is inappropriate... Me: Oh, I'm sorry. Sometimes I suffer from tourettes. \me bends over All: AAAAWWWWW!!!!
I'm not questioning that pot is safe. I'm just asking for references that indicate that cocaine would cause a public health crisis.
Honest education about their actual effects is the best defense against drug use. Drugs are not going away. Especially as long as we use them for so many beneficial things.
I don't want to be presumptuous and push a bunch of my opinions on you. Plus, I realize you seem to have it under control, so I'm several years too late, but oh well: [presumption] Have you tried running? It seems like something that conditions your body to oxygen uptake would have a beneficial effect on you. Or yoga. In my experience, yoga is one of those things that if you actually stick with it, and are consistent, it makes a real difference even in places you aren't looking for it.
after all, they make a good product for the market they intend to reach.
Windows 2000?
Because you're definitely not talking about Windows Me or Vista, or Works. Right? I think maybe "breaking" Microsoft may be a simplistic way of saying it, but please, yes, let's.
Well, luckily, I'm 24 and have no girlfriend and wear condoms when I do stick my junk in a lady. In fact, I have no evidence my stuff is even magical enough to make a baby.
What I'm saying though is that in lieu of putting my child in an intellectual jail, I would put them a little at risk. We have far too many fear-inspired intellectual jails for ourselves and our children in this culture. To be fair, I wasn't exposed to the Internet until I was 14, so I at least had the opportunity to be molested several times before I was exposed to anything that might damage me. And I was also on dial-up, which limited my access to video. So I only saw *pictures* of people cut in half, or tangled up in train undercarriages, or laying on a tarp cover in shit and vomiting. No video.
I suppose part of it is that I would be able to discreetly (and discretely) get a general idea of where my children were going because I'm a geek. I also don't give much more than a teeny tiny flying fuck about money, so I'd gear my life towards creating a home with a parent's presence in it, rather than a Playstation 12 and Nintendo YipiiBox. Though the Nintendo YipiiBox is very reasonably priced, I must admit. And Mario Jumpy Time Seventy Box Twelve is a fun game.
I suppose if a child is 4, a Disney Internet is OK. But I would be more interested in a child only having access to Wikipedia, slashdot, a visual thesaurus, and even youtube than a pandering bubblegum childhood hanna montana circle jerk.
And if the child showed up and said, "What is fuck? Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck." I'd do what most parents do when their child arrives from a game of 4-square with a new swear word: I would explain to the child that since I am the big monkey that has the obligation to take care of him and since he's tiny and has noooooooooooo freaking idea, that he should just not use the fuck word, because it's inappropriate. Yes, people use it, but it's inappropriate when they do.
They had to hire an MSCE to migrate the data from proprietary Windows Long-Term Archival Backup Media Video format (.wltabmv) to the new, safer (from pirates and such, arrr) long-term Windows Long-Term Protected Archival Backup System Against Pirates And Intellectual Property Theft Format Media Video (.wltpabsapaiptfmv)
And some, god help them, migrated to Apple's Almost Better Than The Competition So You Can Feel Better About Using A Proprietary Format For Only Three Dollars a Pop Codec (.aabttcsycfbauapffotdapc). Those Apple Engineers cost bocoup bucks.
Well considering that the main point of using his software is to be able to download torrents anonymously, it's rather self-defeating to say if you don't want the ads don't use the anonymizer. I don't begrudge the guy for wanting to make some money back on this, and obviously he's not twisting anyone's arm here, but come on.
Picture if you will a pasty-white geek who has written some software. "The service my software provides puts people who use it at risk," he muses, "How might I protect those who may not know how to protect themselves?" Suddenly, a light goes off. Or on. I think it goes on. Anyway, he thinks, "I could integrate a browser that accesses a limited number of related services in such a way as to provide a safety net for the non-nerds whom I appreciate so well!" Time passes. "Oh, fuck. This is going to cost me money," the nerd thinks, "How can I provide this service when it costs me money, and I need to buy Ramen?" Another lightbulb does its thing. "Advertisement!"
There you have it. If you don't like it, cut pasty-dude a check.
Well, I'm more opposed to Disney. I just mean that even a Fisher-Price Internet is a sad excuse for an open communication medium. There are plenty of games that use internet access on a closed network as a way to move the game forward. That would be an excellent way to introduce young children to the Internet. In fact, having a game from within which you could only access.kid domains would be pretty nifty.
My other problem with this as a "solution" is that parents are increasingly content to use electronics as babysitters. If something's completely safe (, vapid, and vacuous), then parents are more likely to assume it's a healthy alternative to human contact.
Toys are good for you, though. Fisher-Price is nice, in its place. Disney is nice, in its place. Hardcore pound-fucking... well, that's nice too. In its place.:-)
I guess the problem is the small number of highly publicized incidents (Hot Coffee, various games where the clothes and human body are seperate meshes and therefore you can "remove" the clothes and get a "naked body" and others) where the ESRB has been forced to change the rating given to a game.
Which brings me to my most obvious--and quite probably offensive to quite a lot of people--opinion that if a kid hacks a game to see all of 8 pixels representing nipple, then that kid should be commended for his perseverance and technical skill.
As it is, they take his porn and video games away, and 3 years later, send him to go kill brown people. For The Cause.
Have a.kid domain, have the kid oriented content publishers (ex. Disney, FisherPrice ) finance it, and let parents restrict the internet to that domain.
I would probably actually prefer my kids running rampant on an unprotected internet than living in Disney/Fisher-Price world. Kids are stupid enough as it is today. They need real experience, and while the Internet barely qualifies as "real," it's more real than a fake Disney Internet. As fucked up as I am from all the porn I've seen, I think I'm pretty OK. Especially when I compare myself to kids who grew up sheltered. And I'm probably more fucked up from all the things real live humans did to me. So let's just leave the Internet alone, no?
That being said, as long as filtering along a top-level domain were voluntary to the parents, then I'm fine with it.
OT: I finally watched Wizard People, Dear Readers, and it is the best thing in the world. If you die before you watch it, you lose.
My friend, who flies helicopters in the Coast Guard, was just telling me how freaking scary it is to be on a search and rescue mission at night when it's very dark, and you're tired and flying repetitive search patterns. He indicated that it's a common sentiment. So, sitting in a lawn chair on the ground pretending that you have any idea what the pilot is going through is bullshit.
I imagine if you have a pilot who is tired and/or doing something critical at the moment and he's blinded for a few seconds, several people might die, including people who never signed up to be at risk of chopper death.
There are obvious potential downsides, but to me that's what the project should be about.
Think of the worldwide catastrophe it would be for a shipment of these to fall into terrorist hands: a) connect to other terrorists worldwide, creating an easy-to-use terrorist network b) learn to hack by pressing "view source" button c) a nearly indestructible ad-hoc network that world governments would be unable to take down
Clearly, the OLPC is a threat to freedom and the American spirit everywhere.
Bull fights Lynchings Public Executions Soccer Riots Good Old Roughhousing War
I think overall, movies are just replacing other violent and dangerous activities. Are spaniards more violent than Americans? I noticed in Mexico that while you were a little more likely to get in a fight, you were far less likely to get shivved. Not that I've ever been shivved in the US, but just statistically.
The brain research here is assuming that we know exactly what occurs afterwards. Does the lower inhibitions while the video is running, and the brain readjusts? Did they test the people a week later along with a control group? Is this one of those videos from Youtube?
Slashdot Mirror
Here it is
But all joking aside, not all information can be linked, buddy. Like, experiential stuff. I know this is not good for proving a scientific theory, but scientific theory is not the only thing in the world, and many many things can't be proved, or remain unproved, and we accept them as-is.
So. Modding someone troll because you disagree with them, and they don't provide you with a link makes you an asshole.
Like when Patrick Volkerwhatzit from Slackware was dying, and he asked for help, anybody who told him to do something other than consult with an AMA-approved medical practitioner got modded down. And that's what he was already trying. Thanks a lot guys. Really watching out for people, there.
'no statistical correlation' != 'doesn't cause'
'statistical correlation' != 'causes'
I know enough people who have observed a direct correlation between their children being injected with mercury and an observable shift in behaviour to be concerned about injecting mercury into my children. I also know enough people who have observed a correlation between chelation and improvement in the child's intelligence, even in later years, to try chelation if I ever have an autistic child.
I know that some people, when they consume a high-protein diet, they feel sick. I feel weak and tired if I don't. I know people who are very sensitive to bleach. If I spend any time around paint fumes, I get very upset, light-headed, and sick, in contrast with everyone else I work with. A small percentage of people who do cocaine have an aneurysm in their nasal passage and they die. I'm sure you know people who've done cocaine. I do (know people).
So the point here, people, is that if you want to call bullshit on something because it doesn't happen that often, the WTC attacks never happened (only once in 16 billion years, or whatever). Condoms never break.
I know a child who was fine before the vaccines, and a retarded biter who cried all the time immediately after. Now, maybe he is not the norm. Maybe he's got a genetic mutation similar to sickle cell anemia (low benefit to most people, but prevails in some) that makes him very sensitive to mercury poisoning. And maybe, just maybe, he's not retarded, and he's living a very productive life just like the rest of us. But I wouldn't fucking count on it.
Lord Vader does not skip lunch, fool! ... ... ...
*CTHHHHK*
*KHHHHH*
*CTHHHHK*
*KHHHHH*
Now bring me my burrito!
This is just what I need. People really don't already have enough visual cues that I'm a total fucking asshole. Please, let this hit local stores ASAP. Oakley Blades have become cliche and just aren't providing the oomph they used to.
I know it's sort of trollish, but this is actually a pretty damn funny post, and is actually sort of about trolls and not directly trolling. On that same note, while I missed the slashdot party (kicks self), I thought it would be pretty great to be a troll AT THE PARTY.
Host: Hey there! How are you doing?
Me: FIRST NIGGER!!!! I LOVE FRIED CHIKKIN!
Host: Erm...
Me: Apple shit! FUCK slashdot.
Host: Uh, sir, this is inappropriate...
Me: Oh, I'm sorry. Sometimes I suffer from tourettes.
\me bends over
All: AAAAWWWWW!!!!
hmmmmm....
[edits]
Ahhhh... Much better! (in my best Duke Nukem voice, mind you)
Check again, I think you missed a shitty joke.
All of them. No wait, let me check...
Yep, all of them!
since when has clippy been this helpful? I mean, really...
I'm not questioning that pot is safe. I'm just asking for references that indicate that cocaine would cause a public health crisis.
Honest education about their actual effects is the best defense against drug use. Drugs are not going away. Especially as long as we use them for so many beneficial things.
Reference? I'm calling ur bullshit, kthx.
I don't want to be presumptuous and push a bunch of my opinions on you. Plus, I realize you seem to have it under control, so I'm several years too late, but oh well:
:-)
[presumption]
Have you tried running? It seems like something that conditions your body to oxygen uptake would have a beneficial effect on you. Or yoga. In my experience, yoga is one of those things that if you actually stick with it, and are consistent, it makes a real difference even in places you aren't looking for it.
If anybody's interested, check out the beginner's guide at:
http://holisticonline.com/Yoga/hol_yoga_home.htm
wicked. [/presumption] good luck in all your endeavors.
Windows 2000?
Because you're definitely not talking about Windows Me or Vista, or Works. Right? I think maybe "breaking" Microsoft may be a simplistic way of saying it, but please, yes, let's.
It's in hex, it goes to 0xFG
I didn't realize that when Edison said that invention is 99% perspiration, he was talking about the walk down to the patent office.
*ducks*
Well, luckily, I'm 24 and have no girlfriend and wear condoms when I do stick my junk in a lady. In fact, I have no evidence my stuff is even magical enough to make a baby.
What I'm saying though is that in lieu of putting my child in an intellectual jail, I would put them a little at risk. We have far too many fear-inspired intellectual jails for ourselves and our children in this culture. To be fair, I wasn't exposed to the Internet until I was 14, so I at least had the opportunity to be molested several times before I was exposed to anything that might damage me. And I was also on dial-up, which limited my access to video. So I only saw *pictures* of people cut in half, or tangled up in train undercarriages, or laying on a tarp cover in shit and vomiting. No video.
I suppose part of it is that I would be able to discreetly (and discretely) get a general idea of where my children were going because I'm a geek. I also don't give much more than a teeny tiny flying fuck about money, so I'd gear my life towards creating a home with a parent's presence in it, rather than a Playstation 12 and Nintendo YipiiBox. Though the Nintendo YipiiBox is very reasonably priced, I must admit. And Mario Jumpy Time Seventy Box Twelve is a fun game.
I suppose if a child is 4, a Disney Internet is OK. But I would be more interested in a child only having access to Wikipedia, slashdot, a visual thesaurus, and even youtube than a pandering bubblegum childhood hanna montana circle jerk.
And if the child showed up and said, "What is fuck? Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck." I'd do what most parents do when their child arrives from a game of 4-square with a new swear word: I would explain to the child that since I am the big monkey that has the obligation to take care of him and since he's tiny and has noooooooooooo freaking idea, that he should just not use the fuck word, because it's inappropriate. Yes, people use it, but it's inappropriate when they do.
They had to hire an MSCE to migrate the data from proprietary Windows Long-Term Archival Backup Media Video format (.wltabmv) to the new, safer (from pirates and such, arrr) long-term Windows Long-Term Protected Archival Backup System Against Pirates And Intellectual Property Theft Format Media Video (.wltpabsapaiptfmv)
And some, god help them, migrated to Apple's Almost Better Than The Competition So You Can Feel Better About Using A Proprietary Format For Only Three Dollars a Pop Codec (.aabttcsycfbauapffotdapc). Those Apple Engineers cost bocoup bucks.
Picture if you will a pasty-white geek who has written some software. "The service my software provides puts people who use it at risk," he muses, "How might I protect those who may not know how to protect themselves?"
Suddenly, a light goes off. Or on. I think it goes on. Anyway, he thinks, "I could integrate a browser that accesses a limited number of related services in such a way as to provide a safety net for the non-nerds whom I appreciate so well!"
Time passes. "Oh, fuck. This is going to cost me money," the nerd thinks, "How can I provide this service when it costs me money, and I need to buy Ramen?"
Another lightbulb does its thing. "Advertisement!"
There you have it. If you don't like it, cut pasty-dude a check.
Well, I'm more opposed to Disney. I just mean that even a Fisher-Price Internet is a sad excuse for an open communication medium. There are plenty of games that use internet access on a closed network as a way to move the game forward. That would be an excellent way to introduce young children to the Internet. In fact, having a game from within which you could only access .kid domains would be pretty nifty.
:-)
My other problem with this as a "solution" is that parents are increasingly content to use electronics as babysitters. If something's completely safe (, vapid, and vacuous), then parents are more likely to assume it's a healthy alternative to human contact.
Toys are good for you, though. Fisher-Price is nice, in its place. Disney is nice, in its place. Hardcore pound-fucking... well, that's nice too. In its place.
Which brings me to my most obvious--and quite probably offensive to quite a lot of people--opinion that if a kid hacks a game to see all of 8 pixels representing nipple, then that kid should be commended for his perseverance and technical skill.
As it is, they take his porn and video games away, and 3 years later, send him to go kill brown people. For The Cause.
I would probably actually prefer my kids running rampant on an unprotected internet than living in Disney/Fisher-Price world. Kids are stupid enough as it is today. They need real experience, and while the Internet barely qualifies as "real," it's more real than a fake Disney Internet. As fucked up as I am from all the porn I've seen, I think I'm pretty OK. Especially when I compare myself to kids who grew up sheltered. And I'm probably more fucked up from all the things real live humans did to me. So let's just leave the Internet alone, no?
That being said, as long as filtering along a top-level domain were voluntary to the parents, then I'm fine with it.
OT:
I finally watched Wizard People, Dear Readers, and it is the best thing in the world. If you die before you watch it, you lose.
My friend, who flies helicopters in the Coast Guard, was just telling me how freaking scary it is to be on a search and rescue mission at night when it's very dark, and you're tired and flying repetitive search patterns. He indicated that it's a common sentiment. So, sitting in a lawn chair on the ground pretending that you have any idea what the pilot is going through is bullshit.
I imagine if you have a pilot who is tired and/or doing something critical at the moment and he's blinded for a few seconds, several people might die, including people who never signed up to be at risk of chopper death.
that's just my 2 cents canadian.
I have two of them in my immediate family, fwiw. Glad I could help.
Cheers,
Nathan
Think of the worldwide catastrophe it would be for a shipment of these to fall into terrorist hands:
a) connect to other terrorists worldwide, creating an easy-to-use terrorist network
b) learn to hack by pressing "view source" button
c) a nearly indestructible ad-hoc network that world governments would be unable to take down
Clearly, the OLPC is a threat to freedom and the American spirit everywhere.
Yeah, my first thoughts were:
Bull fights
Lynchings
Public Executions
Soccer Riots
Good Old Roughhousing
War
I think overall, movies are just replacing other violent and dangerous activities. Are spaniards more violent than Americans? I noticed in Mexico that while you were a little more likely to get in a fight, you were far less likely to get shivved. Not that I've ever been shivved in the US, but just statistically.
The brain research here is assuming that we know exactly what occurs afterwards. Does the lower inhibitions while the video is running, and the brain readjusts? Did they test the people a week later along with a control group? Is this one of those videos from Youtube?