I don't mean to post a "yeah, what he said" post, but since I don't have mod points, I have to.
Freedom applied selectively isn't freedom. Nobody in their right mind supports NAMBLA, or the KKK or any of those freak organizations, but that doesn't mean we have the right to silence them.
I take it you've never given to the Red Cross. They've been hounding me since last september.
I know it's a bitch to be hassled, but you've got to remember that they really don't have a choice. They need money badly, and people won't get off their asses and write a check unless they're constantly pestered. If you want to bemoan something, it should be the reluctance of your average joe to support charities.
I don't even know where to begin. You're deeply saddened? Are you serious, man? Yeah, it sure is a bitch that LWN is closing, but don't you think you're being a bit melodramatic?
Jesus christ. You need to get out more often if a website shutting down is a life-shattering event.
I drive a late 60's karmann ghia. No computers, no power anything, and you know what? The fucker runs. It gets me from point a to point b and sometimes point c on the weekends. Geek that I am, I just love how low tech that ride is.
That's the most goddamned insightful thing I've read all day. The more exposure something gets, the more people will use it! You've just revolutionized the way people will do business with that one elegant statement!
Go ahead and mod me down for not wanting to read this mindless drivel.
Yeah, but there's no way I can see to disable font smoothing. I understand that most people thing font smoothing is the best thing since gravy fries, but I can't stand it in a browser.
Good point, he doesn't call himself a food scientist. I meant it in a "guy who deals in the science of food" kind of way, not a "guy who has a doctorate in food science" kind of way.
"If it were against my wishes, and my family did it anyway, I'd be mad at them instead of being mad at the company that wanted that spot."
No, you'd be dead. Unless you came back from the dead to avenge the defacement of your tombstone, that is.
The way I see it, nobody's wrong. Since when is it wrong to do distasteful things for money? Isn't that what a very large sector of our economy is based on?
My time is certainly not worthless. In fact, I get paid a considerable amount of money to do unix (FreeBSD) administration. I'm a reasonably good BOFH, so I don't catch hassles from anyone.
On the other hand, the average MCSE can expect a career in middle management, getting crapped on by everyone in their organization. Their skills will go largely unutilized, as they will spend the majority of their day fighting viruses, random windows crappiness, and idiotic users who really should be programs. After you do this for 50 years, you can look forward to a crappy retirement in the hell you've built for yourself.
" Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are."
So that means that today I am a veggie burger, some now and laters, a small jalapeno and pineapple pizza, garlic bread, salad, 2 red bulls, and ten or so cokes.
Cool.
Oh, and a peanut butter twix bar. Damn those things are good.
About your post: there are three states : 0, 1 and undefined.
I once saw a mustard bottle that was shaped like a ketchup bottle.
No, really!
I'm burning karma pointlessly, and no one will read this anyway.
I didn't mind having respectable karma when it was just a number (hell, I whored my little ass off to get there), but I refuse to be associated with the word "Good". I think it would feel much better to be "Bad".
So, this is me, falling slowly (or not so slowly) back into the comfortable 0-5 karma range. I'll probably dip down into -1 for a while just for the hell of it. Back in the day, I was a pretty good troll.
Oh, and by the way, fuck all this troll grouping shite. I'm sure it's nice to have something to mindlessly blather on about and poison your.sigs with, but it's getting stupid.
Whatever happened to the art of trolling? The whole idea is to prove that your takers are fools, not to annoy them. Crapflooding, PWP, and all that were sometimes funny, oftentimes creative, but now it's all old hat, isn't it? Nobody even tries for a bite anymore.
Trolling was once a noble, intellectual game. Now it's just a bunch of fuckwits copying and pasting.
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I don't mean to post a "yeah, what he said" post, but since I don't have mod points, I have to.
Freedom applied selectively isn't freedom. Nobody in their right mind supports NAMBLA, or the KKK or any of those freak organizations, but that doesn't mean we have the right to silence them.
So, yeah, what he said.
I take it you've never given to the Red Cross. They've been hounding me since last september.
I know it's a bitch to be hassled, but you've got to remember that they really don't have a choice. They need money badly, and people won't get off their asses and write a check unless they're constantly pestered. If you want to bemoan something, it should be the reluctance of your average joe to support charities.
Looks like they've found a way to block that thing.
I just created an account with the username slashd0rk / password cheese
feel free to use it
I am deeply saddened by this loss.
I don't even know where to begin. You're deeply saddened? Are you serious, man? Yeah, it sure is a bitch that LWN is closing, but don't you think you're being a bit melodramatic?
Jesus christ. You need to get out more often if a website shutting down is a life-shattering event.
Well, he doesn't have an account here, and is therefore an Anonymous Coward as far as slashdot is concerned.
All the cool kids have slashdot accounts, you know.
Viva lo tech!
I drive a late 60's karmann ghia. No computers, no power anything, and you know what? The fucker runs. It gets me from point a to point b and sometimes point c on the weekends. Geek that I am, I just love how low tech that ride is.
Gee, ya think so?
That's the most goddamned insightful thing I've read all day. The more exposure something gets, the more people will use it! You've just revolutionized the way people will do business with that one elegant statement!
Go ahead and mod me down for not wanting to read this mindless drivel.
Actually, Real caused a little stir in the OS X world when they released their player recently. It turns out that people missed it pretty bad.
I don't think anyone actually enjoys using real player, but it's pretty firmly entrenched for now.
"No thanks for all the technology which was devleloped by scientists and engineers to provide sys-admins jobs? ;)"
You guys get to unleash problems on the world, sysadmins are the ones that have to deal with them.
Oh, and I appreciate our janitors every day.
Lots of individual os x apps let the user control font smoothing. Internet Explorer and Office v.X are two prominent examples of this.
I like that debian waits until they know something is stable before they release it.
Cutting edge is loads of fun, too, but sometimes I just need to get my work done.
More frequent releases != better software. I'll be sticking with my older, stable releases for now.
No, you're not missing anything. I prefer my fonts big, clunky, and hard to read. I know, it's kooky. I just wish it was a user preference.
Damned whippersnappers and their smooth fonts...
Yeah, but there's no way I can see to disable font smoothing. I understand that most people thing font smoothing is the best thing since gravy fries, but I can't stand it in a browser.
Oh, well, back to 1.0.
Yes, I am too stupid to fill out a bug report.
Human: I am sick
SlashWallace: Have you tried medical marijuana?
yes. yes I have.
comp.lang.php is a good resource for php info. It's fairly new so you might have to harass your isp's nntp admin to get it.
I don't read it, but you might try alt.php as well.
Good point, he doesn't call himself a food scientist. I meant it in a "guy who deals in the science of food" kind of way, not a "guy who has a doctorate in food science" kind of way.
And he's a hottie.
Because Alton Brown is a food scientist.
He's also amazingly hot. I don't think that has anything to do with science, but damn.
damn
I figure they'd sue your estate for retribution. Since my estate is probably going to people who don't deserve it, I wouln't mind that at all.
Russian spacecraft run linux on easy bake ovens.
Ok, I made that up.
"If it were against my wishes, and my family did it anyway, I'd be mad at them instead of being mad at the company that wanted that spot."
No, you'd be dead. Unless you came back from the dead to avenge the defacement of your tombstone, that is.
The way I see it, nobody's wrong. Since when is it wrong to do distasteful things for money? Isn't that what a very large sector of our economy is based on?
My time is certainly not worthless. In fact, I get paid a considerable amount of money to do unix (FreeBSD) administration. I'm a reasonably good BOFH, so I don't catch hassles from anyone.
On the other hand, the average MCSE can expect a career in middle management, getting crapped on by everyone in their organization. Their skills will go largely unutilized, as they will spend the majority of their day fighting viruses, random windows crappiness, and idiotic users who really should be programs. After you do this for 50 years, you can look forward to a crappy retirement in the hell you've built for yourself.
I'm not being overly subjective, am I?
Really? Microsoft noticed linux? I can't believe it!
" Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are."
So that means that today I am a veggie burger, some now and laters, a small jalapeno and pineapple pizza, garlic bread, salad, 2 red bulls, and ten or so cokes.
Cool.
Oh, and a peanut butter twix bar. Damn those things are good.
About your post: there are three states : 0, 1 and undefined.
I believe what you're looking for is called gentoo.
I once saw a mustard bottle that was shaped like a ketchup bottle.
No, really!
I'm burning karma pointlessly, and no one will read this anyway.
I didn't mind having respectable karma when it was just a number (hell, I whored my little ass off to get there), but I refuse to be associated with the word "Good". I think it would feel much better to be "Bad".
So, this is me, falling slowly (or not so slowly) back into the comfortable 0-5 karma range. I'll probably dip down into -1 for a while just for the hell of it. Back in the day, I was a pretty good troll.
Oh, and by the way, fuck all this troll grouping shite. I'm sure it's nice to have something to mindlessly blather on about and poison your .sigs with, but it's getting stupid.
Whatever happened to the art of trolling? The whole idea is to prove that your takers are fools, not to annoy them. Crapflooding, PWP, and all that were sometimes funny, oftentimes creative, but now it's all old hat, isn't it? Nobody even tries for a bite anymore.
Trolling was once a noble, intellectual game. Now it's just a bunch of fuckwits copying and pasting.
Lame.