I'm not going to waste time responding to each and every comment. But - before the diagnosis of "sociopathy" was dissolved into "psychosis" and "antisocial disorder" - I read the entire DSM-IV (a psych handbook for diagnosing "disorders" aka "keeping useless fucks employed") front-to-back. Might as well, I'd been diagnosed with at least 20 different "disorders" at one time or another.
Sociopathy basically means a lack of empathy towards fellow human beings. I definitely have that, since most people are cattle. If I had my way, 99% of the world population would be dead, and at least 30% of my fellow/.er's. The fact that I recognize it and control it isn't something that any shrink would want to admit. Oh, and all of them would be dead except 2.
Speaking as a sociopath (which I am - I can cut off anything even vaguely resembling emotion at will), I don't have any deep issues to deal with (unless you count the current state of the economy). I don't consider my "condition" as a liability. I am capable of love, dedication, grief (someone very close to me died, and I only found out about it early this morning, and I'm pissed-off and "upset" about the it, even though I realize the world ain't fair and no one ever told me it would be), happiness, anger, the full spectrum of human emotion. I can also quite calmly bleed you, leave your body lying behind a dumpster, and walk off - given a good reason, of course.
Logically speaking, that kind of capability is evidence of a higher level of being (I'm speaking in terms of both cognitive ability and emotional stability) than all the silly hand-wringing and "I'm like this because my parents were alcoholics/abused me/I wasn't popular/I hate to watch bad people doing bad things on a screening service/whatever" bullshit that keeps head-shrinkers in business and your mental halters firmly in place.
If you're in favor of having fewer enemies, then kill them (historically, that has worked quite well). Don't put technology in the hands of closet fascists who get their kicks out of finding new ways to imprison their own citizens.
Seriously - if someone had nuked Afghanistan when Al Qaeda first attacked that Marine barracks back during Clinton's term, then Bush would never have fucked-up the ground war in Afghanistan after allowing 9/11 to happen, nor had the excuse and mindless he needed to embroil us in this bullshit war in Iraq.
And now we wouldn't be in a massive economic reason, have an inexperienced, incompetent, neo-fascist government ruining our country even worse than Bush did, or any of the other problems that have come about. Think about the chain of events that have led us to where we are today, America. Wake the fuck up and smell the coffee (while you can still afford it and aren't eating cat food). Sure, we'd still have sociopolitical problems of one stripe or another, but nothing like the national debacle currently ongoing.
I live in Texas. Right outside of Houston, to be specific.
Credentials established, let me state this for the record : Mesquite is one of those towns you go "I fucking slowed down for this?" while passing through.
One clue came out of the interviews Fryer's team conducted with students in New York City... "No one said they were going to stay after class and talk to the teacher," Fryer says. "Not one."
Everyone's talking about the students and not the teachers. I'd like to see a study where they get competent, well-paid teachers and administrators.
The exceptional people will succeed with or without good teachers. A smart man can pick up a book and learn. An average person can't do it as well. Plain and simple.
But look at it this way - someone needs to pick up the garbage and mop the floors. It doesn't matter how educated everyone is, everyone still has to work with some kind of tool (except politicians...we - no, you - are their tools). I don't think I'd get much done at my office if I had to clean it every day, now would I? Just don't touch my whiteboard or my laptop and we're cool, alright?
As off-topic as the OP was, he's right and everyone doesn't want to admit it. Black people are more racist than Whites, plain and simple. In my 30+ years of life, I have only seen 1 White group of people attack a Black guy (and this guy had the nerve to blatantly, sexually harass the daughter of the local KKK leader, while living in the same trailer park - I call that "death by sheer stupidity", as he was found hanging from a tree at the front of the park, and all of a sudden there were a bunch of people that developed mass amnesia about where they were that night and "must have stayed home with the family, right honey?"). I've seen the reverse multiple times (and actually been the target once - some dumb bitch on an interstate bus who had been openly bragging about running phone sex lines with her mom accused me of not being Christian because of my tattoos...like "What the fuck do my tattoos have to do with religion, bitch?"; harsh words were said at a rest stop, I sent my now ex-fiancee inside, and duked it out with the half-dozen or so "brothas" "defending" a "sista's" honor (I believe that was the gist of their beef, it's hard to translate Ebonics while fighting for your life), ended up stabbing a couple of them before it was over). So "don't call me whiteboy, nigger" (famous Ice T & Perry Farrell song if you don't catch the reference.). Hate breeds hate, plain and simple.
And if you think Chris Rock is anything other than a loud-mouth toad with an inferiority complex (and probably a crack habit, the way he runs off at the mouth), you need your head examined. And if you believe that as well as his assertion that Obama is qualified (especially when measured against John McCain), we can skip the examination and just move you somewhere where you can chew on the crayons during Art Therapy.
You'll probably eat all the brown ones is my guess.
As repulsive as this guy looks (I damn sure wouldn't leave him around a child for 2 seconds - he definitely looks like the child-interested potential paedophile he is), and as much as he deserved his first conviction for possession of actual child pornography (I don't even download pornography for many reasons, of which this is one - I've actually had torrents that said "Goth Chick Likes Cock" or whatever turn out to be "Goth Chick "Of Very Questionable Appearance In Regards To Her Age" Sucks A Cock" and so I ran the "shred" utility about 5 billion times over that section of disk and pretended that I really didn't see that - I might or might not have downloaded something illegal, but I did not keep it in my possession once I realized what it was, not just because it was potentially illegal but because, of age or not, what it purports to depict is close enough to the real thing that it turns my stomach and makes me want to kill someone that is actually doing the illegal stuff, especially when I think about the number of children that just "disappear" every year in the oh-so-civilized U.S.A. and that it could happen to my friends' children, or my own child one day when I have children), which is almost as repulsive an act as distributing it, which in turn in almost as repulsive as producing it (which is a truly heinous act - the only thing worse than rape is the rape or exploitation of children, both of which I consider to be hanging offences).
But one the other side of this very slippery slope is the fact that despite the fact that this guy is undoubtedly one sick fuck, he hasn't molested any children that anyone knows of (I'd be the first to be baying for his blood if he did) and this is a fucking cartoon. Oh, I can guess very readily at his intent (and, unfortunately what his corpulent corpus was doing while watching it - there is such a thing as having too much imagination, folks...I've just discovered that and am looking around the house for sedatives as I write this) while possessing and viewing it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a cartoon, any more than the current drug laws allow people to be arrested for possession or distribution of drugs even if they sell someone a bag of oregano or flour knowing that it's oregano or flour - both types of laws are both silly and a distraction from the real problem (the finding and execution of paedophiles, or instituting a drug policy that works, like decriminalization or legalization and regulation). There are (as anyone who has browsed Internet porn or went to a "24-hour bookstore" can tell you) entire websites and sections of most adult bookstores that cater to selling video that depict young women as being much younger than they are. Turns my stomach, but it's legal (and the consequences of making it illegal are not going to change anything that really matters, like getting the people that are making or doing the real thing, not just some play-acting by some fat guy who should have been shot when he was found in possession of actual child pornography).
And if you go after people that aren't actually breaking any realistic laws (or teenagers that post pictures of themselves having sex on camera - something that I and millions of people my age or older did as a teenagers with age-appropriate partners and just didn't have an all-consuming, hungry Internet to post it on or else I probably would have as would have many of my friends, male and female alike - give a teenager a camera, some vaseline, and a hole drilled in a tree stump and there's going to be something sexual getting filmed, that's the nature of puberty) or are spending your time creating or upholding such silly laws, I have to ask : what are you doing about the actual, verifiable crimes that have been committed..what are you doing about those kids that used to be on the side of milk cartons until there were too many of them for any amount of milk cartons to cover? Why does the U.S. alone have something like almost 100K children a year disappear and n
Maybe I'm living in a social cave or something similar, but is this Soviet Russia where laser-mounted sharks are hot mod points again?
I don't know. My friends and I either talk about things that happen in the real world (divorces, kids, accidents, drugs, stupid things people do) or things we do while playing (building networks, datacenters, et al - it's nice to get paid for just fucking around!).
Hmph. I don't know if I should be more concerned about the mental health of my fellow/.er's or whether Kodak is going to come after me for my high-resolution 3-D preview system of a 2-D image (pressing old negatives up to my eyes and going "shit, I was really drunk...maybe I should burn these negatives!").
Sarcasm requires an identifying bit to it that enables one to recognize it as such. Your comment did not. Plain and simple.
The next time you level up, spend a few points on Bluff or Diplomacy, it would enable you to make comments that can be recognized as sarcasm or jokes, instead of appearing as outright belligerent stupidity.
But I retract my walking in traffic statement, in deference to your original intent. The rest stands - it was a stupid comment that was not identifiably sarcastic.
I don't think you really read what I posted. Firstly, I think Native Americans got screwed and deserve a chance to better their selves. Which they often do. Though I'm a bit dubious about the casinos, since they benefit much fewer people than scholarships and the like. But what the hell - it's their community. And remember - I'm only part Cherokee, predominantly German-Irish. So I see both sides of the historical and modern-day issues.
Secondly, Blacks got screwed by both their own people (who sold them to European slavers) and have been given reparations (and still are) - which mostly get spent on Air Jordans and the like - and opportunities (which I have yet to see anyone but one of my Black friends/acquaintances actually use to better himself and his family). I don't see any White people that were forcefully transported to this land and made to work as indentured servants (often in hazardous jobs such as mining, which killed them before their contracts/sentences were up) behaving this way. So Blacks sold Blacks to slavers, and Whites were sold to transporters (sometimes to pay for their travel, other times as criminal punishment for things that would now get you no more than 6 months in jail). It's estimated by historians that approximately 80% of the European population that came to America prior to the Revolutionary War were transported. And transportation meant that they suffered the same sorts of travel conditions as slaves, just that their contracts were only binding for a fixed term (and not a measly 6 months or what-have-you, but anywhere from 3 years to decades, though the harsher sentences were for people who criminals), and if they had children then those children were free citizens even if their parents could still be bought and sold. So they had it a little better than slaves, but not much. Oh, and children were often transportees as well (or redemptioners, another common term).
Thirdly, I'm firmly against exporting jobs over to Mexico, India, or wherever so that the management team can get healthy bonuses while turning out an inferior and/or cheaper product. Or companies (with the collaboration of such wonderful agencies as the CIA) that rape and pillage another country's resources. That doesn't mean that they have a single goddamn claim on citizenship in this country. It means that the exploitation should stop (and reparations be made, if you can get at the CIA and a bunch of wealthy, influential individuals...good luck; of course, you might have to do something about the citizens of that country that participated in the process...and that would be racist, right?), not that I and my fellow citizens should suffer economically and socially for things that we didn't do. You don't have a clue about what justice really is, do you?
Fourthly, there is a difference between the pre-Revolutionary War colonies and the United States. Just as there is a difference in the US now and then, except the War made a lot bigger difference.
And, last but not least (except when compared against the macro-scale problems we're discussing), I'm not racist. I'm racialist, as well as a realist. I don't believe everything I'm told - I actually check the facts and then base my conclusions on them. And being pro-White doesn't mean that I'm anti-anybody until they give me a reason. Actually, you'd be surprised if we could sit down and drink a few beers, talk things over.
That is, if you'd open your eyes and your mind as much as I have. And you could keep from being offensive long enough for us to establish a dialogue, instead of immediately launching into a misguided and uninformed attack that would end with you taking a trip to the hospital.
I was speaking about people that come here illegally. But I'm glad to hear that someone is actually enforcing part of the US law that's worth enforcing. Thanks for the info.
Well, the local bar's dead tonight, so I'm back here dealing with an asshole like you.
Neither of us know each other. But at least I have the balls to say what I think and feel with some degree of openness. You, on the other hand, are trying to psychoanalyse someone online. You presume that I'm playing myself up as a maverick. Please. You don't know what I think about myself. You can read my history of comments and note that I have a tendency to make comments on social and political issues that don't jive with what most people think. That does not necessarily imply that I think I'm a maverick.
I don't even bother to give such things any thought. You do. I don't know you, so I don't know what drives you to think that I'm rattled by your sniping or that you're qualified to form any kind of opinion of who I am or what I think (beyond what I say). I'm not rattled, slick. I'm pleasantly buzzed, smoking a cigarette, having a few more drinks, and reading a book.
You, on the other hand, are a genuine asshole who either (a) doesn't have an account or (b) doesn't have the guts to use it when attacking people online. Online. So it's not like I could beat the shit out of you on here, or do anything to you beyond call you out.
Which implies that you're the one who's worried about losing face. Not I.
Well, since I fit in both categories and given that I'm armed to the teeth and horny, it would probably be a good idea on your part to leave me alone. I think I'll go drink, smoke, and try to find a female. See ya,/.!
Judging from every single fucking thing you just said (not to mention grammar - "we are be upset"? WTF? - and spelling), your children will grow up retarded even if every smoker on the planet quit today.
Seriously. Not everyone is genetically prone to even moderate damage from smoking (and if you are bothered by "foul" air, move out of big cities - I developed sinus problems for a while, tried cutting back on the smokes, adding more cardio to my exercise routine, etc. - didn't change anything, moved out of the city and the problem cleared up...what a surprise!). Not a single person in my family (both sides, at least 3 generations back, all of them smokers) has died from lung cancer or heart disease. Two from alcohol-related deaths, one suicide. A couple in various wars (I'm first-generation German-American or whatever you want to call it on one side and Irish been-here-for-generations on the other, so about every male member of my family has fought on various sides of every war in the past hundred years). Everyone else died at past 80 (or is still alive).
High intelligence, physical strength, mild insanity, insomnia, and alcoholism run in my family (both sides). I think there's a slight tendency towards homosexuality on my mother's side (but who cares about that? Your bedroom, your business). Nothing else. I can count the number of heart attacks amongst those 3 generations back on one hand. Nervous system damage from second-hand smoke? Show me something credible to support that and I'll buy you a beer.
I think Anonymous Coward is the worst fucking idea that/. has. If you can't own up to your statements (and I've made a few dumb ones myself, I'll admit it), then just shut up and read.
I'd say that everyone has mentioned that big picture points already, except for one : what kind of users?
150 file clerks or accountants and you'll spend more time worrying about the printer that the CIO's secretary just had to have which conveniently doesn't have reliable drivers or documentation, even if it had what neat feature that she wanted and now can't use.
150 programmers can put a mild to heavy load on your infrastructure, depending on what kind of software they're developing and testing (more a function of what kind of environment are they coding for and how much gear they need to test it).
150 programmers and processors of data (financial, medical, geophysical, whatever) can put an extreme load on your infrastructure. Like to the point where it's easier to ship tape media internationally than fuck around with a stable interoffice file transfer solution (I've seen it as a common practice - "hey, you're going to the XYZ office, we're sending a crate of tapes along with you so you can load it onto their fileservers").
Define your environment, then you know your requirements, find the solutions that meet those requirements, then try to get a PO for it. Have fun.
AC, to be factual - most murderers are not insane. There's a reason why people like Ted Bundy and the like receive so much attention. Because they are an extreme minority of the murderers in this country. And they're generally smart enough to get away with it...for a while.
Most violent crime is committed for money (or drugs, but that relates back to money - compare Prohibition-era crime with War On Drugs crime and you'll see very similar situations, which is why I am all for decriminalization or legalization of drugs) or out of irrational hatred. And, for the record, most crime is either Black-on-Black or Black-on-White. Despite what the media circus likes to play up. Look up the national statistics if you don't believe me. They're easily accessed (I believe the FBI website has them, can't remember off the top of my head) and completely contradict how mainstream news sources spin things.
And, yes, two-party systems are bullshit. Maybe 8 years of Bush (aka Chimp Jr.) and (hopefully only) 4 years of Obama (aka Chimp PC) will start people thinking. Then again, American Idol is on...
Point taken. But I like to shoot down the PC crowd before they get one in.
And, yes, by law I meet the standards and I can claim the reparations/benefits by virtue of being part Cherokee. I meet the qualifications more than a lot of people who claim to be so. That I choose not to do so is a personal decision. I'm predominantly White, my mother is a German citizen, and I feel that it would be hypocritical of me to do so.
Why? Because we have enough parasites in this country, playing up on events that happened a century or more ago. Or who aren't even citizens, yet feel they deserve the rights of citizens simply because they fucked up their own country or community.
Why would I participate in that sort of behavior if I find it reprehensible in others? I don't need anything the government has to offer. Not that they give White people anything anyways - the one time I claimed unemployment, I received 300 USD twice a month (despite having a previous salary much higher than the average citizen - this amount was not even the maximum allotment) and it was terminated after 6 months (despite full compliance with job search regulations). This wasn't even enough to pay my house note, and I lived in a working class neighborhood. They wouldn't even give me food stamps. The only way my ex-wife and I made it through that period was by taking under-the-table work and some illegal activities on my part. Meanwhile, I could look right next door at the black "family" (almost all females) with about twenty kids, who were all unemployed, yet were wearing expensive clothing and driving vehicles that cost at least as much as my own truck. And they weren't having to sell dope or risk their lives by collecting debts for loan sharks whose clientele were mostly armed and paranoid. Makes one a bit bitter.
Full-blooded Native Americans, I can understand. They're by-and-large dirt poor, got royally screwed through no fault of their own (it was their land and they fought to defend it, or were decimated by plagues, so I have sympathy there), and deserve a chance to go to college and better their selves. Descendants of Black slaves (there were plenty of White slaves in America as well...they just called them "indentured servants" who had been "transported")? Sorry, but you were sold by your own people when slavery was acceptable (read the history of slavery in Africa). You've had many opportunities and grants to fix your problems, but you'd rather sell crack and shoot each other (or prey on White civilians). Mestizos? You fought wars and lost, you still have your countries - fix them.
And just because you're born somewhere does not make you a citizen. Ever heard the term "anchor babies"? I find it ridiculous that a Mestizo woman can give birth to a child in this country and it's a citizen. I'm a citizen because my father is an American citizen who married a German woman he met while stationed in Europe (if they divorced, she would not be a citizen). If my mother had somehow illegally entered, say, Australia and given birth, I would not be an Australian citizen. I would be deported along with her.
So you might be right about one thing (the actuality of citizenship of American citizens), but you're completely full of shit about Native American laws and being born somewhere making you a de facto citizen.
Whenever someone brought up "think of the children" to me, I always asked them "What, are you a pedophile?".
Has resulted in the occasional fist-fight and me having to bail before the cops arrived, but I think it's worth it just for laughs (and knocking some sense into an idiot - you can't teach a moron, but repeated beatings at least discourage them). If you need proof, look at the protesters at Marilyn Manson concerts. When they started out, there were hundreds of fundamentalists. The last time I saw him play, it was one teenage girl who looked so pathetic and discouraged that I offered to buy her a ticket.
Now if that guy who writes all those fundamentalist pamphlets suggesting that rock'n'roll or whatever leads to demonic possession or what-have-you dies, and the MPAA/RIAA goes away, they legalize drugs, and the government gets to deport illegal immigrants (like it was for a while and should be - I never minded waiting the extra 8 hours or so when getting released from jail while ICE came in and hauled off every one of those fucks away, before the PC crowd managed to tamp that down as "civil rights violations"; this is one of the few times I've seen a government agency actually doing it's job effectively and properly) my native country will be a better place (and before you start in with bits about American Indians, I'm part Cherokee as well as a White, so shut it).
Apologies for the late reply, had a lot going on. Okay, I get your point. I was just seeing things from a radically different angle. You see, I don't watch television. Never really have. Yes, I watch movies for entertainment, but any serious information I want, I go find the appropriate book, make a pot of espresso, sit down, and start reading.
So to me, Youtube is not a big deal. I'd rather read an article on hpcwire.org, clustermonkey.org, or on/. (to give you examples) than watch Youtube. It reminds me too much of TV, minus the commercials. And it seems they never have the exact information I want. Whereas if I hop in my truck and head over to a bookstore, near instant access and better accuracy (as well as other information therein that I might need or want later). Or just get on Amazon and order it, but there's a bit of a lag there.
I'm just more oriented towards the printed word (preferably right in my hand) than I am towards videos. And I've found it's much easier to zero in on the exact data you need in a book than in a video. Really the only time I watch video on one of my systems is if I'm watching a movie or porn (and porn it really doesn't matter if you skip ahead and miss five seconds of Ms. Cum-Slurper getting a rod in her mouth, as you derive no real-world knowledge from it...I can call on imagination and experience for that). Movies I treat like my DVD player...I sit my ass down, get drunk, and chain-smoke through the whole movie.
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I'm not going to waste time responding to each and every comment. But - before the diagnosis of "sociopathy" was dissolved into "psychosis" and "antisocial disorder" - I read the entire DSM-IV (a psych handbook for diagnosing "disorders" aka "keeping useless fucks employed") front-to-back. Might as well, I'd been diagnosed with at least 20 different "disorders" at one time or another.
Sociopathy basically means a lack of empathy towards fellow human beings. I definitely have that, since most people are cattle. If I had my way, 99% of the world population would be dead, and at least 30% of my fellow /.er's. The fact that I recognize it and control it isn't something that any shrink would want to admit. Oh, and all of them would be dead except 2.
Speaking as a sociopath (which I am - I can cut off anything even vaguely resembling emotion at will), I don't have any deep issues to deal with (unless you count the current state of the economy). I don't consider my "condition" as a liability. I am capable of love, dedication, grief (someone very close to me died, and I only found out about it early this morning, and I'm pissed-off and "upset" about the it, even though I realize the world ain't fair and no one ever told me it would be), happiness, anger, the full spectrum of human emotion. I can also quite calmly bleed you, leave your body lying behind a dumpster, and walk off - given a good reason, of course.
Logically speaking, that kind of capability is evidence of a higher level of being (I'm speaking in terms of both cognitive ability and emotional stability) than all the silly hand-wringing and "I'm like this because my parents were alcoholics/abused me/I wasn't popular/I hate to watch bad people doing bad things on a screening service/whatever" bullshit that keeps head-shrinkers in business and your mental halters firmly in place.
If you're in favor of having fewer enemies, then kill them (historically, that has worked quite well). Don't put technology in the hands of closet fascists who get their kicks out of finding new ways to imprison their own citizens.
Seriously - if someone had nuked Afghanistan when Al Qaeda first attacked that Marine barracks back during Clinton's term, then Bush would never have fucked-up the ground war in Afghanistan after allowing 9/11 to happen, nor had the excuse and mindless he needed to embroil us in this bullshit war in Iraq.
And now we wouldn't be in a massive economic reason, have an inexperienced, incompetent, neo-fascist government ruining our country even worse than Bush did, or any of the other problems that have come about. Think about the chain of events that have led us to where we are today, America. Wake the fuck up and smell the coffee (while you can still afford it and aren't eating cat food). Sure, we'd still have sociopolitical problems of one stripe or another, but nothing like the national debacle currently ongoing.
I live in Texas. Right outside of Houston, to be specific.
Credentials established, let me state this for the record : Mesquite is one of those towns you go "I fucking slowed down for this?" while passing through.
The pieces now fall into place.
Big point missed by everyone :
One clue came out of the interviews Fryer's team conducted with students in New York City... "No one said they were going to stay after class and talk to the teacher," Fryer says. "Not one."
Everyone's talking about the students and not the teachers. I'd like to see a study where they get competent, well-paid teachers and administrators.
The exceptional people will succeed with or without good teachers. A smart man can pick up a book and learn. An average person can't do it as well. Plain and simple.
But look at it this way - someone needs to pick up the garbage and mop the floors. It doesn't matter how educated everyone is, everyone still has to work with some kind of tool (except politicians...we - no, you - are their tools). I don't think I'd get much done at my office if I had to clean it every day, now would I? Just don't touch my whiteboard or my laptop and we're cool, alright?
As off-topic as the OP was, he's right and everyone doesn't want to admit it. Black people are more racist than Whites, plain and simple. In my 30+ years of life, I have only seen 1 White group of people attack a Black guy (and this guy had the nerve to blatantly, sexually harass the daughter of the local KKK leader, while living in the same trailer park - I call that "death by sheer stupidity", as he was found hanging from a tree at the front of the park, and all of a sudden there were a bunch of people that developed mass amnesia about where they were that night and "must have stayed home with the family, right honey?"). I've seen the reverse multiple times (and actually been the target once - some dumb bitch on an interstate bus who had been openly bragging about running phone sex lines with her mom accused me of not being Christian because of my tattoos...like "What the fuck do my tattoos have to do with religion, bitch?"; harsh words were said at a rest stop, I sent my now ex-fiancee inside, and duked it out with the half-dozen or so "brothas" "defending" a "sista's" honor (I believe that was the gist of their beef, it's hard to translate Ebonics while fighting for your life), ended up stabbing a couple of them before it was over). So "don't call me whiteboy, nigger" (famous Ice T & Perry Farrell song if you don't catch the reference.). Hate breeds hate, plain and simple.
And if you think Chris Rock is anything other than a loud-mouth toad with an inferiority complex (and probably a crack habit, the way he runs off at the mouth), you need your head examined. And if you believe that as well as his assertion that Obama is qualified (especially when measured against John McCain), we can skip the examination and just move you somewhere where you can chew on the crayons during Art Therapy.
You'll probably eat all the brown ones is my guess.
As repulsive as this guy looks (I damn sure wouldn't leave him around a child for 2 seconds - he definitely looks like the child-interested potential paedophile he is), and as much as he deserved his first conviction for possession of actual child pornography (I don't even download pornography for many reasons, of which this is one - I've actually had torrents that said "Goth Chick Likes Cock" or whatever turn out to be "Goth Chick "Of Very Questionable Appearance In Regards To Her Age" Sucks A Cock" and so I ran the "shred" utility about 5 billion times over that section of disk and pretended that I really didn't see that - I might or might not have downloaded something illegal, but I did not keep it in my possession once I realized what it was, not just because it was potentially illegal but because, of age or not, what it purports to depict is close enough to the real thing that it turns my stomach and makes me want to kill someone that is actually doing the illegal stuff, especially when I think about the number of children that just "disappear" every year in the oh-so-civilized U.S.A. and that it could happen to my friends' children, or my own child one day when I have children), which is almost as repulsive an act as distributing it, which in turn in almost as repulsive as producing it (which is a truly heinous act - the only thing worse than rape is the rape or exploitation of children, both of which I consider to be hanging offences).
But one the other side of this very slippery slope is the fact that despite the fact that this guy is undoubtedly one sick fuck, he hasn't molested any children that anyone knows of (I'd be the first to be baying for his blood if he did) and this is a fucking cartoon. Oh, I can guess very readily at his intent (and, unfortunately what his corpulent corpus was doing while watching it - there is such a thing as having too much imagination, folks...I've just discovered that and am looking around the house for sedatives as I write this) while possessing and viewing it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a cartoon, any more than the current drug laws allow people to be arrested for possession or distribution of drugs even if they sell someone a bag of oregano or flour knowing that it's oregano or flour - both types of laws are both silly and a distraction from the real problem (the finding and execution of paedophiles, or instituting a drug policy that works, like decriminalization or legalization and regulation). There are (as anyone who has browsed Internet porn or went to a "24-hour bookstore" can tell you) entire websites and sections of most adult bookstores that cater to selling video that depict young women as being much younger than they are. Turns my stomach, but it's legal (and the consequences of making it illegal are not going to change anything that really matters, like getting the people that are making or doing the real thing, not just some play-acting by some fat guy who should have been shot when he was found in possession of actual child pornography).
And if you go after people that aren't actually breaking any realistic laws (or teenagers that post pictures of themselves having sex on camera - something that I and millions of people my age or older did as a teenagers with age-appropriate partners and just didn't have an all-consuming, hungry Internet to post it on or else I probably would have as would have many of my friends, male and female alike - give a teenager a camera, some vaseline, and a hole drilled in a tree stump and there's going to be something sexual getting filmed, that's the nature of puberty) or are spending your time creating or upholding such silly laws, I have to ask : what are you doing about the actual, verifiable crimes that have been committed..what are you doing about those kids that used to be on the side of milk cartons until there were too many of them for any amount of milk cartons to cover? Why does the U.S. alone have something like almost 100K children a year disappear and n
Maybe I'm living in a social cave or something similar, but is this Soviet Russia where laser-mounted sharks are hot mod points again?
I don't know. My friends and I either talk about things that happen in the real world (divorces, kids, accidents, drugs, stupid things people do) or things we do while playing (building networks, datacenters, et al - it's nice to get paid for just fucking around!).
Hmph. I don't know if I should be more concerned about the mental health of my fellow /.er's or whether Kodak is going to come after me for my high-resolution 3-D preview system of a 2-D image (pressing old negatives up to my eyes and going "shit, I was really drunk...maybe I should burn these negatives!").
Sarcasm requires an identifying bit to it that enables one to recognize it as such. Your comment did not. Plain and simple.
The next time you level up, spend a few points on Bluff or Diplomacy, it would enable you to make comments that can be recognized as sarcasm or jokes, instead of appearing as outright belligerent stupidity.
But I retract my walking in traffic statement, in deference to your original intent. The rest stands - it was a stupid comment that was not identifiably sarcastic.
Better luck in the future.
I don't think you really read what I posted. Firstly, I think Native Americans got screwed and deserve a chance to better their selves. Which they often do. Though I'm a bit dubious about the casinos, since they benefit much fewer people than scholarships and the like. But what the hell - it's their community. And remember - I'm only part Cherokee, predominantly German-Irish. So I see both sides of the historical and modern-day issues.
Secondly, Blacks got screwed by both their own people (who sold them to European slavers) and have been given reparations (and still are) - which mostly get spent on Air Jordans and the like - and opportunities (which I have yet to see anyone but one of my Black friends/acquaintances actually use to better himself and his family). I don't see any White people that were forcefully transported to this land and made to work as indentured servants (often in hazardous jobs such as mining, which killed them before their contracts/sentences were up) behaving this way. So Blacks sold Blacks to slavers, and Whites were sold to transporters (sometimes to pay for their travel, other times as criminal punishment for things that would now get you no more than 6 months in jail). It's estimated by historians that approximately 80% of the European population that came to America prior to the Revolutionary War were transported. And transportation meant that they suffered the same sorts of travel conditions as slaves, just that their contracts were only binding for a fixed term (and not a measly 6 months or what-have-you, but anywhere from 3 years to decades, though the harsher sentences were for people who criminals), and if they had children then those children were free citizens even if their parents could still be bought and sold. So they had it a little better than slaves, but not much. Oh, and children were often transportees as well (or redemptioners, another common term).
Thirdly, I'm firmly against exporting jobs over to Mexico, India, or wherever so that the management team can get healthy bonuses while turning out an inferior and/or cheaper product. Or companies (with the collaboration of such wonderful agencies as the CIA) that rape and pillage another country's resources. That doesn't mean that they have a single goddamn claim on citizenship in this country. It means that the exploitation should stop (and reparations be made, if you can get at the CIA and a bunch of wealthy, influential individuals...good luck; of course, you might have to do something about the citizens of that country that participated in the process...and that would be racist, right?), not that I and my fellow citizens should suffer economically and socially for things that we didn't do. You don't have a clue about what justice really is, do you?
Fourthly, there is a difference between the pre-Revolutionary War colonies and the United States. Just as there is a difference in the US now and then, except the War made a lot bigger difference.
And, last but not least (except when compared against the macro-scale problems we're discussing), I'm not racist. I'm racialist, as well as a realist. I don't believe everything I'm told - I actually check the facts and then base my conclusions on them. And being pro-White doesn't mean that I'm anti-anybody until they give me a reason. Actually, you'd be surprised if we could sit down and drink a few beers, talk things over.
That is, if you'd open your eyes and your mind as much as I have. And you could keep from being offensive long enough for us to establish a dialogue, instead of immediately launching into a misguided and uninformed attack that would end with you taking a trip to the hospital.
Yes, these gatherings are called concerts.
Get out more.
If you're stupid enough to say this, then you're not going to get any explanation that I put forth. Do us all a favor and walk into traffic.
Yeah, done this too. Was referring to a few years back...like when 18GB SCSI drives were 600 USD each.
I was speaking about people that come here illegally. But I'm glad to hear that someone is actually enforcing part of the US law that's worth enforcing. Thanks for the info.
Well, the local bar's dead tonight, so I'm back here dealing with an asshole like you.
Neither of us know each other. But at least I have the balls to say what I think and feel with some degree of openness. You, on the other hand, are trying to psychoanalyse someone online. You presume that I'm playing myself up as a maverick. Please. You don't know what I think about myself. You can read my history of comments and note that I have a tendency to make comments on social and political issues that don't jive with what most people think. That does not necessarily imply that I think I'm a maverick.
I don't even bother to give such things any thought. You do. I don't know you, so I don't know what drives you to think that I'm rattled by your sniping or that you're qualified to form any kind of opinion of who I am or what I think (beyond what I say). I'm not rattled, slick. I'm pleasantly buzzed, smoking a cigarette, having a few more drinks, and reading a book.
You, on the other hand, are a genuine asshole who either (a) doesn't have an account or (b) doesn't have the guts to use it when attacking people online. Online. So it's not like I could beat the shit out of you on here, or do anything to you beyond call you out.
Which implies that you're the one who's worried about losing face. Not I.
So just give it a rest already, huh?
Well, since I fit in both categories and given that I'm armed to the teeth and horny, it would probably be a good idea on your part to leave me alone. I think I'll go drink, smoke, and try to find a female. See ya, /.!
Judging from every single fucking thing you just said (not to mention grammar - "we are be upset"? WTF? - and spelling), your children will grow up retarded even if every smoker on the planet quit today.
Seriously. Not everyone is genetically prone to even moderate damage from smoking (and if you are bothered by "foul" air, move out of big cities - I developed sinus problems for a while, tried cutting back on the smokes, adding more cardio to my exercise routine, etc. - didn't change anything, moved out of the city and the problem cleared up...what a surprise!). Not a single person in my family (both sides, at least 3 generations back, all of them smokers) has died from lung cancer or heart disease. Two from alcohol-related deaths, one suicide. A couple in various wars (I'm first-generation German-American or whatever you want to call it on one side and Irish been-here-for-generations on the other, so about every male member of my family has fought on various sides of every war in the past hundred years). Everyone else died at past 80 (or is still alive).
High intelligence, physical strength, mild insanity, insomnia, and alcoholism run in my family (both sides). I think there's a slight tendency towards homosexuality on my mother's side (but who cares about that? Your bedroom, your business). Nothing else. I can count the number of heart attacks amongst those 3 generations back on one hand. Nervous system damage from second-hand smoke? Show me something credible to support that and I'll buy you a beer.
I think Anonymous Coward is the worst fucking idea that /. has. If you can't own up to your statements (and I've made a few dumb ones myself, I'll admit it), then just shut up and read.
I'd say that everyone has mentioned that big picture points already, except for one : what kind of users?
150 file clerks or accountants and you'll spend more time worrying about the printer that the CIO's secretary just had to have which conveniently doesn't have reliable drivers or documentation, even if it had what neat feature that she wanted and now can't use.
150 programmers can put a mild to heavy load on your infrastructure, depending on what kind of software they're developing and testing (more a function of what kind of environment are they coding for and how much gear they need to test it).
150 programmers and processors of data (financial, medical, geophysical, whatever) can put an extreme load on your infrastructure. Like to the point where it's easier to ship tape media internationally than fuck around with a stable interoffice file transfer solution (I've seen it as a common practice - "hey, you're going to the XYZ office, we're sending a crate of tapes along with you so you can load it onto their fileservers").
Define your environment, then you know your requirements, find the solutions that meet those requirements, then try to get a PO for it. Have fun.
Then why are you posting as an Anonymous Coward?
Christ, and to think I got on here today to read up on anything to do with the Supercomputing Conference.
I am way too easily distracted.
AC, to be factual - most murderers are not insane. There's a reason why people like Ted Bundy and the like receive so much attention. Because they are an extreme minority of the murderers in this country. And they're generally smart enough to get away with it...for a while.
Most violent crime is committed for money (or drugs, but that relates back to money - compare Prohibition-era crime with War On Drugs crime and you'll see very similar situations, which is why I am all for decriminalization or legalization of drugs) or out of irrational hatred. And, for the record, most crime is either Black-on-Black or Black-on-White. Despite what the media circus likes to play up. Look up the national statistics if you don't believe me. They're easily accessed (I believe the FBI website has them, can't remember off the top of my head) and completely contradict how mainstream news sources spin things.
And, yes, two-party systems are bullshit. Maybe 8 years of Bush (aka Chimp Jr.) and (hopefully only) 4 years of Obama (aka Chimp PC) will start people thinking. Then again, American Idol is on...
Point taken. But I like to shoot down the PC crowd before they get one in.
And, yes, by law I meet the standards and I can claim the reparations/benefits by virtue of being part Cherokee. I meet the qualifications more than a lot of people who claim to be so. That I choose not to do so is a personal decision. I'm predominantly White, my mother is a German citizen, and I feel that it would be hypocritical of me to do so.
Why? Because we have enough parasites in this country, playing up on events that happened a century or more ago. Or who aren't even citizens, yet feel they deserve the rights of citizens simply because they fucked up their own country or community.
Why would I participate in that sort of behavior if I find it reprehensible in others? I don't need anything the government has to offer. Not that they give White people anything anyways - the one time I claimed unemployment, I received 300 USD twice a month (despite having a previous salary much higher than the average citizen - this amount was not even the maximum allotment) and it was terminated after 6 months (despite full compliance with job search regulations). This wasn't even enough to pay my house note, and I lived in a working class neighborhood. They wouldn't even give me food stamps. The only way my ex-wife and I made it through that period was by taking under-the-table work and some illegal activities on my part. Meanwhile, I could look right next door at the black "family" (almost all females) with about twenty kids, who were all unemployed, yet were wearing expensive clothing and driving vehicles that cost at least as much as my own truck. And they weren't having to sell dope or risk their lives by collecting debts for loan sharks whose clientele were mostly armed and paranoid. Makes one a bit bitter.
Full-blooded Native Americans, I can understand. They're by-and-large dirt poor, got royally screwed through no fault of their own (it was their land and they fought to defend it, or were decimated by plagues, so I have sympathy there), and deserve a chance to go to college and better their selves. Descendants of Black slaves (there were plenty of White slaves in America as well...they just called them "indentured servants" who had been "transported")? Sorry, but you were sold by your own people when slavery was acceptable (read the history of slavery in Africa). You've had many opportunities and grants to fix your problems, but you'd rather sell crack and shoot each other (or prey on White civilians). Mestizos? You fought wars and lost, you still have your countries - fix them.
And just because you're born somewhere does not make you a citizen. Ever heard the term "anchor babies"? I find it ridiculous that a Mestizo woman can give birth to a child in this country and it's a citizen. I'm a citizen because my father is an American citizen who married a German woman he met while stationed in Europe (if they divorced, she would not be a citizen). If my mother had somehow illegally entered, say, Australia and given birth, I would not be an Australian citizen. I would be deported along with her.
So you might be right about one thing (the actuality of citizenship of American citizens), but you're completely full of shit about Native American laws and being born somewhere making you a de facto citizen.
Whenever someone brought up "think of the children" to me, I always asked them "What, are you a pedophile?".
Has resulted in the occasional fist-fight and me having to bail before the cops arrived, but I think it's worth it just for laughs (and knocking some sense into an idiot - you can't teach a moron, but repeated beatings at least discourage them). If you need proof, look at the protesters at Marilyn Manson concerts. When they started out, there were hundreds of fundamentalists. The last time I saw him play, it was one teenage girl who looked so pathetic and discouraged that I offered to buy her a ticket.
Now if that guy who writes all those fundamentalist pamphlets suggesting that rock'n'roll or whatever leads to demonic possession or what-have-you dies, and the MPAA/RIAA goes away, they legalize drugs, and the government gets to deport illegal immigrants (like it was for a while and should be - I never minded waiting the extra 8 hours or so when getting released from jail while ICE came in and hauled off every one of those fucks away, before the PC crowd managed to tamp that down as "civil rights violations"; this is one of the few times I've seen a government agency actually doing it's job effectively and properly) my native country will be a better place (and before you start in with bits about American Indians, I'm part Cherokee as well as a White, so shut it).
Ah, if wishes were fishes...
Well, I'm hetero but I'd be lying if I said I hadn't that I shared a chick or multiple chicks with a friend or three.
Ever heard that joke about "flip you for head or tail?"
Apologies for the late reply, had a lot going on. Okay, I get your point. I was just seeing things from a radically different angle. You see, I don't watch television. Never really have. Yes, I watch movies for entertainment, but any serious information I want, I go find the appropriate book, make a pot of espresso, sit down, and start reading.
So to me, Youtube is not a big deal. I'd rather read an article on hpcwire.org, clustermonkey.org, or on /. (to give you examples) than watch Youtube. It reminds me too much of TV, minus the commercials. And it seems they never have the exact information I want. Whereas if I hop in my truck and head over to a bookstore, near instant access and better accuracy (as well as other information therein that I might need or want later). Or just get on Amazon and order it, but there's a bit of a lag there.
I'm just more oriented towards the printed word (preferably right in my hand) than I am towards videos. And I've found it's much easier to zero in on the exact data you need in a book than in a video. Really the only time I watch video on one of my systems is if I'm watching a movie or porn (and porn it really doesn't matter if you skip ahead and miss five seconds of Ms. Cum-Slurper getting a rod in her mouth, as you derive no real-world knowledge from it...I can call on imagination and experience for that). Movies I treat like my DVD player...I sit my ass down, get drunk, and chain-smoke through the whole movie.
How about you get everyone in the shower? That's presuming that you have female friends as well.