Re:South Park episode display classic irony
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I've met Matt and Trey [...] I have partied with them, and I know they are far from conservative from personal experience, so don't try me, AC.
Just 'cause someone drinks, smokes pot, takes acid, shrooms, or rolls X doesn't mean that they're not conservative, so don't try me, spun. Your low account number doesn't scare me!
I happen to know on good authority that they support President Bush for re-election. Somehow I doubt you agree with them on that.
Re:Oh knock it off will you!
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Back then, every culture always used every weapon at its disposal. Holding back from using certain types of weaponry is a 20th century innovation.
Native Americans most certainly would have used "germ warfare", as cultures did for hundreds of years. Ever hear of catapults being used to lob dead, diseased livestock over walls?
Lastly, you display an ignorance of the fact that the term European refers to dozens of different nationalities. And, if you want to talk about an invasion, Native Americans "invaded" North and South America by migrating over a now-nonexistent land connection between what is now Alaska and Russia.
I will refrain from the temptation to ironically use the name of brilliant thinkers to draw unfavorable comparisons between their intellect and yours.
Re:South Park episode display classic irony
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Is that clear enough for you, Einstein?
Hey, he's not actually Einstein, so I guess that's irony...
Re:South Park episode display classic irony
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Read the definition before you think you know what irony means. Specifically, 2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning, and b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony. In this episode, the words expressed the exact opposite of the literal truth: the Eurpoean conquerers gave disease infected blankets to Natives and stole their land, not the other way around.
But the opposite of "honkies giving diseased blankets to injuns" is "honkies NOT giving diseased blankets to injuns"...
The opposite is not "injuns giving diseased blankets to honkies"
Also, Native American culture didn't believe that land could be owned, therefore, if they didn't own it, it couldn't be "stolen" from them...
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Um, that white people gave disease infested blankets to Natives and stole their land?
Just because we're interested in technology doesn't mean we all gather with the AV alum dweebs for Saturday night screenings of crappy sci-fi flicks.
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What a cool idea! I hope you write-up your experiences once it's fully deployed...if the Slashdot editors are in a good mood, I'm sure they'll post it. I'd like to read it anyway...
Re:I don't mean to troll, but
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Yeah, that's right...nothing helps innovation like taxing the hell out of the private sector so that every fleabitten leftist special interest gets to suck at the government teat...
How many of those 100,000,000 hits/month require calls through the VB-programmed COM objects? Are *all* of your pages dynamic?
And how many web servers are you running?
I'm not trying to argue, as someone who isn't intimately familiar with the performance of MS-based web technologies, I'm seriously curious from an architecture standpoint.
Yeah, it's pretty sad when people can't extract sap from trees to make the plastic on the breadboard for the computer they're building.
It's pretty sad when people don't make their own solder.
Or when they just plug something into a wall to get electricity. They're just CONSUMING. blech
What a disgusting society we live in...
Well, the problem with the solution you propose is that it would require being in the proximity of actual French people, which has certain olfactory drawbacks.
A politically-motivated article in the Voice. Who woulda thunk?
I thought Bush was supposed to be in bed with the oil companies. That's what everyone kept crying about.
But now liberals are bitching about hydrogen.
You just can't win...
You're right, and the original poster forgets that it ISN'T too convenient to be dishonest with Internet music piracy these days...
Seems to me, Apple's solution is far more convenient than using P2P to find the song, wait in the connection queue, get a connection, download it, and then possibly repeat the whole process if you got a corrupted file, a bad encoding, a decoy file, etc.
Some people will never want to pay for anything, but if you try Apple's service, you'll find that it hits the mark in most cases.
I'm sure a couple of more minutes while browsing would have done provoked Longhorn to squeal.
But then you accuse him of being biased and unfair, claiming:
*Any* operating system can be broken through maliciously beating on it.
I don't know what planet you come from, but where I live, a few minutes using a web broser does not constitute "maliciously beating on" an operating system.
> Wait, it's thoughts that hurt people now? What I'm thinking can hurt people? As much as physical violence?
No, but what you think tends to manifest itself in what you do, even if it is as subtle as affecting your tone of voice when you're speaking to someone. Adolescents aren't always cognizant of the signals they send unwittingly, but they are often adept at picking up those same signals in others.
I'm not blaming a nerd for getting beat up...I was kind of nerdy in high school, and I remember the insecurity I felt caused me to sometimes put on a veneer of superiority--be it intellect, future earning potential, etc.--that, even though I rarely expressed verbally, might have seeped out in very subtle (but perceptible) ways...
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Just 'cause someone drinks, smokes pot, takes acid, shrooms, or rolls X doesn't mean that they're not conservative, so don't try me, spun. Your low account number doesn't scare me!
I happen to know on good authority that they support President Bush for re-election. Somehow I doubt you agree with them on that.
Native Americans most certainly would have used "germ warfare", as cultures did for hundreds of years. Ever hear of catapults being used to lob dead, diseased livestock over walls?
Lastly, you display an ignorance of the fact that the term European refers to dozens of different nationalities. And, if you want to talk about an invasion, Native Americans "invaded" North and South America by migrating over a now-nonexistent land connection between what is now Alaska and Russia.
I will refrain from the temptation to ironically use the name of brilliant thinkers to draw unfavorable comparisons between their intellect and yours.
Hey, he's not actually Einstein, so I guess that's irony...
But the opposite of "honkies giving diseased blankets to injuns" is "honkies NOT giving diseased blankets to injuns" ...
The opposite is not "injuns giving diseased blankets to honkies"
Also, Native American culture didn't believe that land could be owned, therefore, if they didn't own it, it couldn't be "stolen" from them...
Damn white people!
In the meantime, try Show Desktop. I've been using it for months in the menu bar. Just what the doctor ordered!
how do you know? they didn't leak the prices...
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but what is a "speccy"? Is it a type of machine?
Just because we're interested in technology doesn't mean we all gather with the AV alum dweebs for Saturday night screenings of crappy sci-fi flicks.
What a cool idea! I hope you write-up your experiences once it's fully deployed...if the Slashdot editors are in a good mood, I'm sure they'll post it. I'd like to read it anyway...
Yeah, that's right...nothing helps innovation like taxing the hell out of the private sector so that every fleabitten leftist special interest gets to suck at the government teat...
And how many web servers are you running?
I'm not trying to argue, as someone who isn't intimately familiar with the performance of MS-based web technologies, I'm seriously curious from an architecture standpoint.
Yeah, it's pretty sad when people can't extract sap from trees to make the plastic on the breadboard for the computer they're building. It's pretty sad when people don't make their own solder. Or when they just plug something into a wall to get electricity. They're just CONSUMING. blech What a disgusting society we live in...
Well, the problem with the solution you propose is that it would require being in the proximity of actual French people, which has certain olfactory drawbacks.
A politically-motivated article in the Voice. Who woulda thunk? I thought Bush was supposed to be in bed with the oil companies. That's what everyone kept crying about. But now liberals are bitching about hydrogen. You just can't win...
No, it's just redundant.
I expect that sort of thing from Microsoft, but not slashDot. Perhaps I should change my expectations...
If Linux ever wants to be a serious competitor to Windows, it needs to be Mac OS X.
What are you, McGuyver?
You're right, and the original poster forgets that it ISN'T too convenient to be dishonest with Internet music piracy these days...
Seems to me, Apple's solution is far more convenient than using P2P to find the song, wait in the connection queue, get a connection, download it, and then possibly repeat the whole process if you got a corrupted file, a bad encoding, a decoy file, etc.
Some people will never want to pay for anything, but if you try Apple's service, you'll find that it hits the mark in most cases.
I'm glad someone's finally done it!
"Instead, with progressive video, the hole picture is recorded every frame."
The hole picture? Great for porn, I guess...Huh???
I guess anything is "arguable" if you find at least one person willing to make the argument.
I have a hard time understanding how OS X is behind Linux on the desktop. Behind in terms of what?
I wonder how long it'll take Microsoft to issue their patch for sendmail...
The guy said:
But then you accuse him of being biased and unfair, claiming:
I don't know what planet you come from, but where I live, a few minutes using a web broser does not constitute "maliciously beating on" an operating system.
No, but what you think tends to manifest itself in what you do, even if it is as subtle as affecting your tone of voice when you're speaking to someone. Adolescents aren't always cognizant of the signals they send unwittingly, but they are often adept at picking up those same signals in others.
I'm not blaming a nerd for getting beat up...I was kind of nerdy in high school, and I remember the insecurity I felt caused me to sometimes put on a veneer of superiority--be it intellect, future earning potential, etc.--that, even though I rarely expressed verbally, might have seeped out in very subtle (but perceptible) ways...