We can all agree that polution sucks and we need to take steps to keep the Earth clean.
The problems begin when one group begins to point fingers at another group, while exempting some on the basis of economical excuse-making.
How many of these hippies screaming for the Kyoto treaty understand that it exempts China(THE WORLDS LARGEST POLLUTER) on the basis of China being a "Developing Nation"? In my mind, once you build an Aircraft Carrier and a few Submarines, you aint "developing" no mo'.
They exempted China a few other nations, because they know if they try to tax them for polution, they are likely to get their accustions shoved up their asses and twisted.
Only in America(land of the guilt-trip)can one be counted on to empty their wallet in if they choose to drive a vehicle that doesn't cave in if you lean on it.
The seas are rising? Woopy, the continents have been shifing for thousands of years. You dopes want to blame it on Cow flatulence.
Climates are changing? Holy shit, when did they STOP changing?
Liberals need an excuse to take more taxes from people to go towards their grand utopia? Yeah, that one, I buy completely. I cant join the Prius-Pussy party, sorry.
Really, where did we get it? Mars? With the exception of a few meteors and asteroids, the sum total of elements that make up this planet tends to stay pretty stable. Reconfigurations? Sure. However, the continents themselves are moving, changing, reconfiguring all the time, and I dont see anyone going ape-shit about that. Or, was it the abundance of Dinosaur shit that caused the oceans to rise up and separate the Americas from the African continent?
You will find articles dating back 20 years or more, with many articles devoted to the coming catastrophe of Global COOLING. They were all anticipating the new Ice Age.
It is the height of meglomania to suggest that human beings have a greater impact on the planet than that big-ass hot thing that comes over the horizon every morning.
Humans tend to think that the span of our lifetimes are significant, when in the scope of Universe, our lifespans, and indeed human life on this planet are nothing but a blip, a footnote, a grain of sand on the beach.
We humans cant fix TRAFFIC for fuck's sake! I tend to think the Earth can and will do what it will do without consulting us.
That's all well and good, except that almost everyone I know who uses these encryption schemes disable the password to bring their machine out of hybernation or standby modes. Something about having to always type in that complex password, or slide in that USB key.
There simply is no security scheme in all computing that has a chance against the stupid/lazy/uniformed end user.
According to Seagate, any US company that loses a laptop using the Seagate drive in conjunction with the launch security management system from Wave Systems, will not have to give public notification of the loss, even if the data is of a highly confidential nature. This alone guarantees that the technology will find a market given the increasingly costly and embarrassing repercussions of laptop thefts.
Who cares if this gets cracked by Tuesday, bitches?
The selling point is that the banks wont have to tell you when Bubba leaves his laptop on the CAL TRAIN with your credit card data in standby mode, cause its encrypted!
I can explain liberal vs conservatism very easily based on your post.
Regardless of whether or not you have no problem paying more taxes, or having less money in your pocket, Conservatism lets that decision be yours. You can choose to pay more than your assesed taxes under a Conservative philosophy without disrupting those who dont agree with your choice.
Liberalism simply removes that choice from you in favor of whatever THEIR notion is of the greater good, and if you disagree, well that is just too damn bad.
Conservatism would allow you to direct your tax money to be spent in whatever area you agree with, by providing you with the choice of avoiding giving the money to government, by recieving tax breaks that you can use to directly fund whatever you choose.
The point is CHOICE. Conservatism promotes it, Liberalism takes it away in favor of a utopian ideal.
Now, Conservatism is hypocritical when it comes to things like abortion, where they are NOT in favor of choice based on a religious edict. But overall, you have much more personal freedom in a Conservative society than in a Liberal one.
In America, if you dont suck, you can make money doing anything. ANYTHING. If you love it, even MORE money. So, you disagree. I get it. That doesnt change the fact that your cousin is a broke-ass shit-picker, by your own admission, does it?
Besides, I never wanted to be an astronaut. I dreamed of the day when I could employ enough people that I could sit back all day and be a Slashdot smartass.
Hey fuck-face, SOMEBODY is making money cleaning horse-shit. Loving something is not a guarantee that you will be good at it. You can also love something while being barely smart enough to breathe.
I didnt advise your cousin, so your comment is silly.
My advice to you, would be to click your heels 3 times and then recite into your hand mirror...."My cousin got a BS in Equestian Studies, and I was genious enough to share that information on the web, and now, I dont know whether I, or my cousin are the dumb one.
Equestrian effin' Studies?!?!?!?
Dude, I dont even know you, but I am STILL going to laugh at you every time I think of it.
.....fuck you, bitches. We've already spent your money, and you WILL give us more of it, or one day, when your GPOs start acting up, we will give you the phone number to Geico, and wish you luck....
I say this, because no matter how smart you are, kids who LOVE to code will end up coding circles around you, with the same training. This is simple fact. You will NEVER be the coder that you would be if you loved doing it. You would do it in your sleep, when you are driving your car, anytime you can spare a few brain cells.
You may not have contact with those kind of coders, lets face it, many of them are social misfits(say goodbye, Karma) with questionable hygiene. But when you read the code of an artist, it is truly inspirational.
I'm not saying you suck, but only that someone who loves it, is likely to suck a little less.
Bad developers dont know how bad they are. They just dont.
Unless you have ever tried to hire a senior developer, and have to wade through a hundred frogs before you find an 'almost' prince, you just dont know.
Disclamer: I worked for Microsoft.
The fact is, there are thousands of developers walking around, who think they are really, really good, and they have adopted an arrogance that keeps them from advancing their skills instead of playing it safe with one-two languages they are comfortable with. Every developer who has been in the game a long time, just assumes that they are a prodigy, which is why Microsoft and others prefer to hire kids just out of school who KNOW they dont really know anything, but are willing to learn.
The same is not true for H1s who get development jobs in America. First, they are usually quite good, if not great. They can be taught, because their ego's are not at risk.
There are people who apply for programing jobs at Microsoft, who have never coded outside of VB. And no, I didnt mean VB.NET, bitches.
A smart college kid would choose a career based on what they love to do, rather than on money, or they just are not a smart kid to begin with. It makes no sense to destroy your life doing something you dont want to do, because the odds are, you will suck at it and be a failure anyway.
Do what you love, or suck at anything else. You could end up being better than others, but never as good as you could be at the thing you love to do.
What is happening to this forum? Keywords = "ha ha"?
WTF?
Thousands of companies have banned upgrades when new products come out that might break internal apps or include the need (and expense) of training users.
Why is this news?
When I see the headline: "NSA embrases Active X as a security standard, THEN it might have some news value. All these Bash-Microsoft threads only serve to remove cred from this forum, unless they contain some REAL NEWS or INFORMATION.
Slashdot Mirror
The problems begin when one group begins to point fingers at another group, while exempting some on the basis of economical excuse-making.
How many of these hippies screaming for the Kyoto treaty understand that it exempts China(THE WORLDS LARGEST POLLUTER) on the basis of China being a "Developing Nation"? In my mind, once you build an Aircraft Carrier and a few Submarines, you aint "developing" no mo'.
They exempted China a few other nations, because they know if they try to tax them for polution, they are likely to get their accustions shoved up their asses and twisted.
Only in America(land of the guilt-trip)can one be counted on to empty their wallet in if they choose to drive a vehicle that doesn't cave in if you lean on it.
Fuck em'
The seas are rising? Woopy, the continents have been shifing for thousands of years. You dopes want to blame it on Cow flatulence.
Climates are changing? Holy shit, when did they STOP changing?
Liberals need an excuse to take more taxes from people to go towards their grand utopia? Yeah, that one, I buy completely. I cant join the Prius-Pussy party, sorry.
Really, where did we get it? Mars? With the exception of a few meteors and asteroids, the sum total of elements that make up this planet tends to stay pretty stable. Reconfigurations? Sure. However, the continents themselves are moving, changing, reconfiguring all the time, and I dont see anyone going ape-shit about that. Or, was it the abundance of Dinosaur shit that caused the oceans to rise up and separate the Americas from the African continent?
You will find articles dating back 20 years or more, with many articles devoted to the coming catastrophe of Global COOLING. They were all anticipating the new Ice Age.
It is the height of meglomania to suggest that human beings have a greater impact on the planet than that big-ass hot thing that comes over the horizon every morning.
Humans tend to think that the span of our lifetimes are significant, when in the scope of Universe, our lifespans, and indeed human life on this planet are nothing but a blip, a footnote, a grain of sand on the beach.
We humans cant fix TRAFFIC for fuck's sake! I tend to think the Earth can and will do what it will do without consulting us.
There simply is no security scheme in all computing that has a chance against the stupid/lazy/uniformed end user.
Who cares if this gets cracked by Tuesday, bitches?
The selling point is that the banks wont have to tell you when Bubba leaves his laptop on the CAL TRAIN with your credit card data in standby mode, cause its encrypted!
I feel so safe!
Regardless of whether or not you have no problem paying more taxes, or having less money in your pocket, Conservatism lets that decision be yours. You can choose to pay more than your assesed taxes under a Conservative philosophy without disrupting those who dont agree with your choice.
Liberalism simply removes that choice from you in favor of whatever THEIR notion is of the greater good, and if you disagree, well that is just too damn bad.
Conservatism would allow you to direct your tax money to be spent in whatever area you agree with, by providing you with the choice of avoiding giving the money to government, by recieving tax breaks that you can use to directly fund whatever you choose.
The point is CHOICE. Conservatism promotes it, Liberalism takes it away in favor of a utopian ideal.
Now, Conservatism is hypocritical when it comes to things like abortion, where they are NOT in favor of choice based on a religious edict. But overall, you have much more personal freedom in a Conservative society than in a Liberal one.
Wait a sec, I need popcorn!
Just more anger over the fact that your cousin sucks, and you were dumb enough to tell the whole Internet.
Someone actually got the fuckin joke!
I am almost willing to make a bet out of this...... I know people with horses.
Besides, I never wanted to be an astronaut. I dreamed of the day when I could employ enough people that I could sit back all day and be a Slashdot smartass.
SCORE!
Your cousin apparently sucks so badly that she cant overcome her suckage enough to make money doing what she loves, and I think it is funny.
Pithy enough?
I didnt advise your cousin, so your comment is silly.
My advice to you, would be to click your heels 3 times and then recite into your hand mirror...."My cousin got a BS in Equestian Studies, and I was genious enough to share that information on the web, and now, I dont know whether I, or my cousin are the dumb one.
Equestrian effin' Studies?!?!?!?
Dude, I dont even know you, but I am STILL going to laugh at you every time I think of it.
.....fuck you, bitches. We've already spent your money, and you WILL give us more of it, or one day, when your GPOs start acting up, we will give you the phone number to Geico, and wish you luck....
I say this, because no matter how smart you are, kids who LOVE to code will end up coding circles around you, with the same training. This is simple fact. You will NEVER be the coder that you would be if you loved doing it. You would do it in your sleep, when you are driving your car, anytime you can spare a few brain cells.
You may not have contact with those kind of coders, lets face it, many of them are social misfits(say goodbye, Karma) with questionable hygiene. But when you read the code of an artist, it is truly inspirational.
I'm not saying you suck, but only that someone who loves it, is likely to suck a little less.
OK, never mind.
Unless you have ever tried to hire a senior developer, and have to wade through a hundred frogs before you find an 'almost' prince, you just dont know.
Disclamer: I worked for Microsoft.
The fact is, there are thousands of developers walking around, who think they are really, really good, and they have adopted an arrogance that keeps them from advancing their skills instead of playing it safe with one-two languages they are comfortable with. Every developer who has been in the game a long time, just assumes that they are a prodigy, which is why Microsoft and others prefer to hire kids just out of school who KNOW they dont really know anything, but are willing to learn.
The same is not true for H1s who get development jobs in America. First, they are usually quite good, if not great. They can be taught, because their ego's are not at risk.
There are people who apply for programing jobs at Microsoft, who have never coded outside of VB. And no, I didnt mean VB.NET, bitches.
V fuckin' B! And they want to change the world.
Do what you love, or suck at anything else. You could end up being better than others, but never as good as you could be at the thing you love to do.
She had to go. Were it the NBA, they could have just fined her, or sent her to rehab, but.....
So........just what are you trying to say?
An Amiga 1000, Deluxe Paint, Flight Simulator, Amiga Basic and 2Meg of Ram = $3500.
Later got the Sidecar for DOS, and Earl Weaver Baseball. Ahhhhhhhh.
20 years later, and no hardware or software has given me such joy.
NVidia, Matrox, ATI, AMD, Intel, WTF?
The Amiga showed you how 20 years ago, and you are just now getting around to it?
Bring back multi-resolution windows, bitches!
Excellent point. Thank you.
WTF?
Thousands of companies have banned upgrades when new products come out that might break internal apps or include the need (and expense) of training users.
Why is this news?
When I see the headline: "NSA embrases Active X as a security standard, THEN it might have some news value. All these Bash-Microsoft threads only serve to remove cred from this forum, unless they contain some REAL NEWS or INFORMATION.
Bitches!
Listen carefully. Do I have your attention? Okay, here we go.....
Being stupid can hurt.
If you go to college, you can find out just how stupid you are, REALLY FAST.
Then you can quit, long before spending a lot of money, and get an MCSE and profit!
Now, was that so hard?