. . . yet every few months she seems to upgrade to the latest PDA cell phone and buys elaborate outfits for those rennaissance festivals. And this person has kids. Lack of priorities?
You bet there's a lack of priorities. I mean, ren fairs? Talk about a freak;)
Abstaining is not some mystical process. It's simply not fucking. If you can't not fuck, then I would imagine there being something wrong with you. You lack self control . . .
Wow, all this time I haven't been fucking, and I just thought I was a loser. Now, I see the light: I just have incredible amounts of self-control:)
... except if you bothered to check, Denmark's entire school-system hasn't. It's simply been offered Star Office cheap from Sun.
There's not a single mention in the actual article about Linux.
Somebody mod up the AC. There were numerous Danes who, after actually reading the article, posted up pretty much what the AC said. Now I can't read Danish, either, but I'd trust the Danish/.ers over the editors;)
Or are the rantings against these songs a little much? So you didn't think they were funny: fine. When you consider what gets up to +5, Funny sometimes you'd think there'd be some pretty low standards regarding humor around here;)
but a grown man (if the poster really is one) is gonna have a hard time meeting a woman who's ok with someone who plays nothing but Mario games and watches kid's movies
Look, if all he did all day was watch 'Alladin' and play SMB, you might've had a point. However, nowhere did he imply that's all he does all day. There is nothing wrong with watching the occasional kids movie and playing video games. Do you think that "to be a man" the only movies you're allowed to watch have to be loaded with sex/violence and the only games you're allowed to play have to involve sports?
Look, I've read your previous posts on/. and you seem like a fairly intelligent individual, why so closeminded about this?
I don't know about you, but I've sometimes wondered if this isn't the way to go. You just meet so many people whose mothers were psychologically damaged 16 year olds when they gave birth. Or whose fathers (if they're even around--an increasing rarity these days) were abusive. I'm not saying you need to be Einstein to be allowed to procreate, but it's the children of ill parents who suffer most. With the cards stacked against them so, it's only the most exceptional of these children who grow up to be successful adults.
Then again, it could be that such a system is simply unenforcable. The idea of forced abortions for violations is too hideous to even think about. Maybe a future technology could allow birth control to exist in our everday environment and a certain drug would be needed to counteract it? You've given me much to mull over. Thanks.
Re:I wonder how much of this is quality . . .
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Your review was a good read. The biggest problem I had with the movie you brought up--Picard not realizing where Shinzon would attack. That seemed pretty weak to me.
I was ambivalent about B-4. On the one hand, he kind of reminded me of how Data used to act (I loved the chase scene where B-4 keeps asking, "why?") but on the other hand I felt like the character was stuck there to serve as a convenient plot device for the writer and little more. Somehow B-4 would've made much more sense to me if he'd been Data's "child" (like the female android he created in one particularly intriguing ep of Next Gen) instead of his "brother".
I guess in the end, though, I'm just too sentimental about Star Trek. Like you, I'll probably see it once more. Just makes me sad that they'd close it out with this: a rather mediocre installment.
"The most important thing is for games to be fun," [Miyamoto] says. "I cannot tell you exactly what that means. It is something you feel, I think."
Ya know, that should be so intuitively obvious, but you look at so many games these days and it seems like this fundamental rule is not followed nearly as often as it should be.
Ya know, I want to be a Libertarian, I really do. But I'm reminded of what Berke Breathed said: "And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners."
Yes, in theory, Libertarians want govt to stay out of our lives and uphold this principle equally with regards to all the ways govt is intrusive. In reality, almost every Libertarian I've ever met is a greedy ahole who doesn't want to pay any taxes but expects all the roads to get paved anyway. If the party tried to focus more on "hey, we're the party for freedom" instead of "hey, vote for us and no income tax" then I think they might get more of a following.
Nice try, but our CEO has drawn ZERO salary for the past 18 months, and will continue to draw ZERO salary until our company is back in profitability again.
That's called an exception to the rule. You haven't refuted anything the parent said.
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That's what I love about slashdot. Make one mistake and hear about it three times. It's like Office Space, that way;)
Thanks for the reply--I'm more educated for it. Hope for both our sakes (I'm seeing it tonight, too) that Nemesis is good. If you're game, I wouldn't mind hearing what you thought of the flick in this space.
Either that or teach you left hand to keep up with your right hand.
So from now on when he's "looking" at pr0n he'll have to switchoff every now and again?
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Liked your reply. Agree with you on almost everything, but I have a question about learning Middle English. It's easy to find texts devoted to modern Japanese (to cite your example) and other languages, but I've never run across a text on Middle English. Is that you how you studied it? I've only read, oh, four or five of Shakespeare's plays, and only got by with the help of heavily annotated versions. Is there a way to get a better understanding of Middle English as a whole instead of doing it piecemeal?
Labor is a market just like any other. How would a corporation benefit by paying more for a service than they have to? If I have two people of equal qualification, and one is willing to do the work for a lower wage, which should I hire? That's the reality.
It's not a simple matter of paying the same wage as they would to American workers--that's unreasonable. However, the wage should be enough to provide for shelter and food in the country in question. No, it's not wages, my main beef is the working conditions. Long hours (they aren't called "sweatshops" because there's a sauna in the employee break room) that push people to the limits of their endurance. Many workers are also forced to REALLY work all those hours, to the point where they are sometimes limited to perhaps one (timed) bathroom break a shift. Have to go again? That's too bad: wet your pants and get back to work!
This is not just some liberal BS I'm spouting here, it's called having some humanity.
You prefer that the people in Malaysia would rather not have jobs, period? Better to starve in dignity than eat in peace?
Thanks for demonstrating the either or fallacy so precisely. The only alternatives we have are to exploit native peoples with inhumane working conditions or withold investment entirely?
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. . . yet every few months she seems to upgrade to the latest PDA cell phone and buys elaborate outfits for those rennaissance festivals. And this person has kids. Lack of priorities?
;)
You bet there's a lack of priorities. I mean, ren fairs? Talk about a freak
To an economist, auto mechanic, physician, civil lawyer or Hindi, I come off as a pretty big dolt.
Strictly FYI, that's "Hindu". A Hindu is someone who believes in Hinduism--Hindi, OTOH, is the predominant native language of India.
Of course, with "u" and "i" being where they are on the keyboard, there's a good chance you just mistyped.
Abstaining is not some mystical process. It's simply not fucking. If you can't not fuck, then I would imagine there being something wrong with you. You lack self control . . .
:)
Wow, all this time I haven't been fucking, and I just thought I was a loser. Now, I see the light: I just have incredible amounts of self-control
The AC said:
... except if you bothered to check, Denmark's entire school-system hasn't. It's simply been offered Star Office cheap from Sun.
There's not a single mention in the actual article about Linux.
/.ers over the editors ;)
Somebody mod up the AC. There were numerous Danes who, after actually reading the article, posted up pretty much what the AC said. Now I can't read Danish, either, but I'd trust the Danish
Microsoft Works is not an abortion, it's an oxymoron
Are you saying MS Works doesn't stop a beating heart?
Or are the rantings against these songs a little much? So you didn't think they were funny: fine. When you consider what gets up to +5, Funny sometimes you'd think there'd be some pretty low standards regarding humor around here ;)
but a grown man (if the poster really is one) is gonna have a hard time meeting a woman who's ok with someone who plays nothing but Mario games and watches kid's movies
/. and you seem like a fairly intelligent individual, why so closeminded about this?
Look, if all he did all day was watch 'Alladin' and play SMB, you might've had a point. However, nowhere did he imply that's all he does all day. There is nothing wrong with watching the occasional kids movie and playing video games. Do you think that "to be a man" the only movies you're allowed to watch have to be loaded with sex/violence and the only games you're allowed to play have to involve sports?
Look, I've read your previous posts on
Would you care to EARN the right to reproduce?
I don't know about you, but I've sometimes wondered if this isn't the way to go. You just meet so many people whose mothers were psychologically damaged 16 year olds when they gave birth. Or whose fathers (if they're even around--an increasing rarity these days) were abusive. I'm not saying you need to be Einstein to be allowed to procreate, but it's the children of ill parents who suffer most. With the cards stacked against them so, it's only the most exceptional of these children who grow up to be successful adults.
Then again, it could be that such a system is simply unenforcable. The idea of forced abortions for violations is too hideous to even think about. Maybe a future technology could allow birth control to exist in our everday environment and a certain drug would be needed to counteract it? You've given me much to mull over. Thanks.
Your review was a good read. The biggest problem I had with the movie you brought up--Picard not realizing where Shinzon would attack. That seemed pretty weak to me.
I was ambivalent about B-4. On the one hand, he kind of reminded me of how Data used to act (I loved the chase scene where B-4 keeps asking, "why?") but on the other hand I felt like the character was stuck there to serve as a convenient plot device for the writer and little more. Somehow B-4 would've made much more sense to me if he'd been Data's "child" (like the female android he created in one particularly intriguing ep of Next Gen) instead of his "brother".
I guess in the end, though, I'm just too sentimental about Star Trek. Like you, I'll probably see it once more. Just makes me sad that they'd close it out with this: a rather mediocre installment.
Oh, dude . . . Zelda, shallow? You should've ended your post by quoting the inimitable Johnny Storm: "flame on!" ;)
"The most important thing is for games to be fun," [Miyamoto] says. "I cannot tell you exactly what that means. It is something you feel, I think."
Ya know, that should be so intuitively obvious, but you look at so many games these days and it seems like this fundamental rule is not followed nearly as often as it should be.
Say what now? I've never heard about this, but I'd love to learn more. You have anymore background info (names, etc) so I'd have something to google?
Ya know, I want to be a Libertarian, I really do. But I'm reminded of what Berke Breathed said: "And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners."
Yes, in theory, Libertarians want govt to stay out of our lives and uphold this principle equally with regards to all the ways govt is intrusive. In reality, almost every Libertarian I've ever met is a greedy ahole who doesn't want to pay any taxes but expects all the roads to get paved anyway. If the party tried to focus more on "hey, we're the party for freedom" instead of "hey, vote for us and no income tax" then I think they might get more of a following.
. . . the moderation system that keeps the moronic posters down . . .
;)
Are we going to the same site, you and I?
Nice try, but our CEO has drawn ZERO salary for the past 18 months, and will continue to draw ZERO salary until our company is back in profitability again.
That's called an exception to the rule. You haven't refuted anything the parent said.
That's what I love about slashdot. Make one mistake and hear about it three times. It's like Office Space, that way ;)
Thanks for the reply--I'm more educated for it. Hope for both our sakes (I'm seeing it tonight, too) that Nemesis is good. If you're game, I wouldn't mind hearing what you thought of the flick in this space.
Either that or teach you left hand to keep up with your right hand.
So from now on when he's "looking" at pr0n he'll have to switchoff every now and again?
Liked your reply. Agree with you on almost everything, but I have a question about learning Middle English. It's easy to find texts devoted to modern Japanese (to cite your example) and other languages, but I've never run across a text on Middle English. Is that you how you studied it? I've only read, oh, four or five of Shakespeare's plays, and only got by with the help of heavily annotated versions. Is there a way to get a better understanding of Middle English as a whole instead of doing it piecemeal?
. . . too fucking busy trying to put some hot, sweaty, vulcan-human shower room scenes on the screen . . .
Wow, you've managed to pin down the exact moment when I gave up on that show.
[T]hey will be churning out another 4 hour Jane Autin novel . . .
Poor Jane, she never did recover from moving to Texas . . .
Where exactly is it written that Final Frontier never happened?
Here's a link from an old /. story about Belluzo's decision to move to NT. Here's the /. discussion on his resignation from SGI shortly thereafter.
That's Neo to you, pal ;)
Labor is a market just like any other. How would a corporation benefit by paying more for a service than they have to? If I have two people of equal qualification, and one is willing to do the work for a lower wage, which should I hire? That's the reality.
It's not a simple matter of paying the same wage as they would to American workers--that's unreasonable. However, the wage should be enough to provide for shelter and food in the country in question. No, it's not wages, my main beef is the working conditions. Long hours (they aren't called "sweatshops" because there's a sauna in the employee break room) that push people to the limits of their endurance. Many workers are also forced to REALLY work all those hours, to the point where they are sometimes limited to perhaps one (timed) bathroom break a shift. Have to go again? That's too bad: wet your pants and get back to work!
This is not just some liberal BS I'm spouting here, it's called having some humanity.
You prefer that the people in Malaysia would rather not have jobs, period? Better to starve in dignity than eat in peace?
Thanks for demonstrating the either or fallacy so precisely. The only alternatives we have are to exploit native peoples with inhumane working conditions or withold investment entirely?