When Comcast asks Gates to start waving money under their shareholders noses, Eisner will be out on his ass before you can say "Takeover".
Disney can do this the hard way or the easy way, but in the end, everyone has their price.
I hope Eisner developed some hobbies outside of Disney, cause the target on his back is a mile wide, and just a few bucks short.
If you read, (I doubt it) check the shelves at your local bookstore. Count the number of.NET books vs. Java books in the programming section. They aint there for show, stupid. They are there because people are buying them. The only way you make any sense, is if your own name is ".NET". Then, you would be right.
The F-22 was not the first, nor the only.
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The F-22 is NOT the first fighter to achieve super-cruise, it was the EFA, (Eurofighter) or "Typhoon" that first achieved this feat, which you correctly stated as BREAKING the sound barrier without Afterburner, not just sustaining it after getting there. Getting most fighters beyond the sound barrier uses up so much fuel, there is little left for the mission. The F-22 and Typhoon can set their throttles in Mil-power; 100% without Afterburner, and break the sound barrier without reducing their operational range.
They only give computers instructions. Our best fighter aircraft, the F-16 and F-22 could not fly at all under direct human control. The stick, rudder and throttle only give inputs to computers which do everything in a way that prevents the airplane from tumbling out of control. Without the computers, no human could make inputs fast enough to keep the airplanes from crashing. Fly-by-wire systems are also in place on the 747-400, 777 and some Airbus planes too.
Phasers and Photon torpedoes were used at Warp Speeds in "Best of Both Worlds", when the Enterprise was running from the Borg cube, right before they latched on with their tractor beam, knocked them out of warp, beamed over and stole Picard.
I dont know what to attribute it to, but at least in my field, interest has exploded just in the past 3 weeks. It is as if someone pulled a switch, and Silicon Valley was turned back on again. For the past 6 months, I was getting 2-3 inquiries a week, and since October its been 2-3 a day.
Last week, I turned down business for the first time this year for lack of available time. I dont think there is going to be a lot of hiring, but for Consultants like me, things seem to be getting good again really quickly.
If things continue like they have been, I may have to hire an extra couple of consultants myself.
Too bad your experience hasnt prevented you from being stupid. If it takes you an hour to recover from a registry corruption, then you are an idiot. Here is what you do, it takes 10 minutes unless your typing is as bad as your knowledge.
Boot to the Recovery Console.
At the Recovery Console command prompt, type the following lines, pressing ENTER after you type each line: md tmp copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak
Type exit to quit Recovery Console. Your computer will restart.
That's it, dufus.
Or, in all your years of experience, did you know there was a backup registry in the hidden repair folder?
Just tape off the floor around you.
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They will think you are so nuts that if you are any good, they will put you in an office to hide you from others. If not, they will can you, and you will be motivated to find someplace else to work.
He forgot the Super UltraDeluxe Body Odor Filters!
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Come on, now.
He is bound to end up with at least one of those no shoes, pizza-skittles burping, mosquito-attracting types, who's last shower was a hour before the interview.
You gotta have the honkin' air conditioning unit to tame that stench, the kind with the HEPA, charcoal and whatever else you can use to keep breathable air for the rest of the staff, right?
My very first Microsoft office was outside with a view. For a year, I had people telling me how "lucky" I was. I assumed I got it because I was/am good. I got a corner in 5 years. It was very sweet. I will not work for anyone who wants to put me in a cube, even to consult, as I think they are brain-killers. I'll insist on using my home office, because if I cant have a door, you cant have my work.
The Developers he wants wont even notice.
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Would a Carmack be wanting to hang at the Plasma screen? Is Joel planning a pool tournament during lunch times? What 99.9%th percentile programer takes lunch or watches TV much at all? I dont fault most of what Joel did; I remember taking less money at Microsoft because I was getting a real office with a REAL FUCKING DOOR, the single most valuable piece of office furniture ever.
The best programming environment is one where you can be left alone to do what you do without idiots bothering you. Interuptions take a long time to recover from, even those for good reasons.
The best programing environment is one where for whatever reason I can zone out and STAY zoned out until I have accomplished something that is ready to be tested.
When I can put up a sign outside my door that says "Stay the Fuck out, unless the world is coming to an end", I will find a way to work for them, and I'll take care of the inside furnishings myself.
When that workplace is established, I might work for almost nothing but Pizza money.
Unless Google starts pursuing OEM bundling deals for their Toolbar with PC manufacturers.
Its too late, dude. Google should have done this a year ago. The fact that they dont have everyone already locked up, is probably why Microsoft is entering the market in the first place. Now, FUD will rule, and Google will feel the pain, no matter how superior they are. We have all seen this movie before.
People are forgetting that for Microsoft to succeed, they dont have to beat Google, they dont even have to come close to Google. Someday, we geeks are going to have to come to terms with the fact that we are not the majority.
Unless someone downloads the Google Toolbar, the only search option in 80% of the browsers on the web will be Microsoft's. That is a marketing message for advertisers that Google cannot match. Most of Microsoft's business are only to provide value-add for Windows and Office. Profitability beyond that is only gravy. Now, you take a Microsoft search, link it with Office-specific tools that let people search for supporting footnotes or photos while drafting a document, or PowerPoint presentation, then you have some value there.
It doesnt matter at all whether Microsoft comes up with anything better than Google, what matters, is that they have the capacity to suck the oxygen from Google's revenue stream if they ever come remotely close, because of all the desktops under their control.
The future probably sees Google in court asking to be placed next to Microsoft's own search button in their browser or whatever is supposed to represent browsing in Longhorn or beyond. When that happens, you know that Google has lost the battle.
I agree with what you said, but I'll expand on it without being so politically correct.
There is no country on earth with as wide a gap in average intellect than the U.S. Vast counties of uncurious, unserious drones who care more about their next beer than the direction of their country. This is why there is no broadband market in the U.S., because there are not enough people able to notice the advantages. Sure, it's a values thing, but it makes me ill.
Just a drive from Stanford to East Palo Alto, and you can almost see IQ points drop by 50 crossing Hwy101. There is no broadband equal to spending 1000 dollars for rims on a 500 dollar car. No coolness factor for the terminally dense in having a fast connection.
I'm not trolling, but just telling you like it is. In Silicon Valley, you can drive 20 miles from a rich neighborhood to a ghetto. From a Fiber ring where you can get 100M, to phone lines so bad, 56K is a pipe dream at best. If people wanted broadband, they would have it. More americans would rather spend their dollars on either having fake tits or squeezing fake tits to change things in the USA.
Linux should be code phrased: "One step forward, two steps back".
If anyone thinks that articles like this are going to prompt enterprises to adopt Linux, I think they are sorely mistaken. If anything, they will cause corporations to fear heterogenius computing environments to the detriment of Linux.
When an article says without actually using the words that all those companies, and the people who maintain them are idiots, you dont win converts to your side of the fence. People are more likely to retrench in an effort to back up their previous decisions.
Look, as a former Career Microsoftie, I can verify that the MCSE community is about 50% losers who I would not trust to tie their own shoe, and about 50% who know what they are doing on SOME if not MOST computing environments. Those are the ones who DONT just do Windows, but are versed in UNIX, Mac and other systems, and are prepared to deal with differences. I would suggest that any company that hires an MCSE who knows no other platform, is a very dumb company.
The fact is that a great many companies are up and running sucessfully on Microsoft software both on the client and the server, and will be for years to come. Articles promoting Linux need to take that fact into account, and become a lot less arrogant and condesending, and more effective at extolling the platform's benefits.
Frankly, a lot of the Linux marketing seems to be much like the democratic presidential candidates. A lot of criticism of their opponent, but short on solutions of their own. That is not how you win. Linux needs to shed the image of zealotry and do more to make the platform attractive on it's own, and not just as an alternative to the current flavor of the month.
I know Linux growth has taken off, but so did a lot of great products that got caught up in rhetorical arguments, instead of improvements, and ended up on the scrap heap of former Microsoft competition.
The primary benefit of a shredder, is that the Crackhead is going to take my neighbors's trash instead of mine, and save himself the trouble of piecing my mail back together. Besides, the only shredder someone should buy is a CROSSCUT Shredder which will turn your papers into 1/4 inch chunks that no one could reconnect in a month.
It's same philosophy as Car alarms. They dont prevent theft, they just encourage you to take the other guy's car because it's less trouble.
I think you need to improve your reading, or better yet, go find the passage on your own, because I only included part of it. Some of you are so uninformed it is embarassing to witness.
the objects of the Constitution, as declared by its preamble,
is to 'provide for the common defence'. As a means to that end the Constitution
gives to Congress the power to 'provide for the common Defence', Art. I,
8, cl. 1; 'To raise and support Armies', 'To provide and maintain a Navy',
Art. I, 8, cls. 12, 13; and 'To make Rules for the Government and Regulation
of the land and naval Forces', Art. I, 8, cl. 14. Congress is given authority
'To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning
Captures on Land and Water', Art. I, 8, cl. 11; and 'To define and punish
Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against
the Law of Nations', Art. I, 8, cl. 10. And finally the Constitution authorizes
Congress 'To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this
Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department
or Officer thereof.' Art. I, 8, cl. 18.
The Constitution confers on the President the 'executive Power', Art
II, 1, cl. 1, and imposes on him the duty to 'take Care that the Laws be
faithfully executed'. Art. II, 3. It makes him the Commander in Chief of
the Army and Navy, Art. II, 2, cl. 1, and empowers him to appoint and commission
officers of the United States. Art. II, 3, cl. 1.
The Constitution thus invests the President as Commander in Chief with
the power to wage war which Congress has declared, and to carry into effect
all laws passed by Congress for the conduct of war and for the government
and regulation of the Armed Forces, and all laws defining and punishing
offences against the law of nations, including those which pertain to the
conduct of war.
By the Articles of War, Congress has provided rules for the government
of the Army. It has provided for the trial and punishment, by courts
martial, of violations of the Articles by members of the
armed forces and by specified classes of persons associated or serving
with the Army. But the Articles also recognize the 'military commission'
appointed by military command as an appropriate tribunal for the trial
and punishment of offenses against the law of war not ordinarily tried
by court martial. Articles 38 and 46 authorize the President, with
certain limitations, to prescribe the procedure for military commissions.
Articles 81 and 82 authorize trial, either by court martial or military
commission, of those charged with relieving, harboring or corresponding
with the enemy and those charged with spying. And Article 15 declares that
'the provisions of these articles conferring jurisdiction upon courts-martial
shall not be construed as depriving military commissions... or other military
tribunals of concurrent jurisdiction in respect of offenders or offenses
that by statute or by the law of war may be triable by such military commissions... or other military tribunals'. Article 2 includes among those persons
subject to military law the personnel of our own military establishment.
But this, as Article 12 provides, does not exclude from that class 'any
other person who by the law of war is subject to trial by military tribunals'
and who under Article 12 may be tried by court martial or under Article
15 by military commission....
From the very beginning of its history this Court has recognized and
applied the law of war as including that part of the law of nations which
prescribes, for the conduct
of
war, the status, rights and duties of enemy nations as well as of enemy
individuals. By the Articles of War, and especially
Article 15, Congress has explicitly provided, so far as it may constitutionally
do so, that military tribunals shall have jurisdiction to try offenders
or offenses against the law of war in appropriate cases. Congress, in addition
to making rules for the government of our Armed Forces, has thus exercised
its authority to define and punish offenses against the law of nations
by sanctioning, within constitutional limi
Right to a fair trial... Right to due process...
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Wrong, oh turnip breath.
The Constitution states that enemy combatants are not entitled to those rights, even as American Citizens. It also states that the Attorney General of the United States has the authority to designate enemy combatats for reasons of national security.
And guess what? Those rules were in place BEFORE John Ashcroft ever came to office.
Next?
P.S. Completely correct on the victims rights and women thing, though.
True, but I am sick of these bastards, who do no reading or thinking for themselves, and just repeat the same tired talking points without any true knowledge of what they are saying. Every now and then, it is a good idea to point out that the great majority of them have no idea what they are talking about, that they have no fucking facts to speak of, and repeat most of that tripe because they THINK it makes them appear informed and concerned.
Just a bunch of low self esteem wannabes looking to get laid by some chick with hairy armpits if you ask me. Most of them couldnt find their own ass if someone told them that John Ashcroft stole it from them.
Slashdotters dont need an hour if debate before detecting leftist bullshit. If I rubbed Cow Feces on your face, how long would you need to know that it is bullshit? Take a wif, stupid. Bullshit stinks from the moment you get near it.
Name a single right that you have lost since Bush took office, you lying asshole. NAME ONE!
I dont mean some assumed right that you THINK you should have, name a right that is actually in the Bill of Rights or Constitution that you have lost, asswipe. And dont spend an hour on Google trying to come up with one. Tick tock, you fag.
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Gates owns 7 percent of Comcast. They've got the money if they need it.
When Comcast asks Gates to start waving money under their shareholders noses, Eisner will be out on his ass before you can say "Takeover". Disney can do this the hard way or the easy way, but in the end, everyone has their price. I hope Eisner developed some hobbies outside of Disney, cause the target on his back is a mile wide, and just a few bucks short.
If you read, (I doubt it) check the shelves at your local bookstore. Count the number of .NET books vs. Java books in the programming section. They aint there for show, stupid. They are there because people are buying them. The only way you make any sense, is if your own name is ".NET". Then, you would be right.
The F-22 is NOT the first fighter to achieve super-cruise, it was the EFA, (Eurofighter) or "Typhoon" that first achieved this feat, which you correctly stated as BREAKING the sound barrier without Afterburner, not just sustaining it after getting there. Getting most fighters beyond the sound barrier uses up so much fuel, there is little left for the mission. The F-22 and Typhoon can set their throttles in Mil-power; 100% without Afterburner, and break the sound barrier without reducing their operational range.
They only give computers instructions. Our best fighter aircraft, the F-16 and F-22 could not fly at all under direct human control. The stick, rudder and throttle only give inputs to computers which do everything in a way that prevents the airplane from tumbling out of control. Without the computers, no human could make inputs fast enough to keep the airplanes from crashing. Fly-by-wire systems are also in place on the 747-400, 777 and some Airbus planes too.
Phasers and Photon torpedoes were used at Warp Speeds in "Best of Both Worlds", when the Enterprise was running from the Borg cube, right before they latched on with their tractor beam, knocked them out of warp, beamed over and stole Picard.
Last week, I turned down business for the first time this year for lack of available time. I dont think there is going to be a lot of hiring, but for Consultants like me, things seem to be getting good again really quickly.
If things continue like they have been, I may have to hire an extra couple of consultants myself.
Too bad your experience hasnt prevented you from being stupid. If it takes you an hour to recover from a registry corruption, then you are an idiot. Here is what you do, it takes 10 minutes unless your typing is as bad as your knowledge.
Boot to the Recovery Console.
At the Recovery Console command prompt, type the following lines, pressing ENTER after you type each line:
md tmp
copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak
delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default
copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default
Type exit to quit Recovery Console. Your computer will restart.
That's it, dufus.
Or, in all your years of experience, did you know there was a backup registry in the hidden repair folder?
They will think you are so nuts that if you are any good, they will put you in an office to hide you from others. If not, they will can you, and you will be motivated to find someplace else to work.
He is bound to end up with at least one of those no shoes, pizza-skittles burping, mosquito-attracting types, who's last shower was a hour before the interview.
You gotta have the honkin' air conditioning unit to tame that stench, the kind with the HEPA, charcoal and whatever else you can use to keep breathable air for the rest of the staff, right?
My very first Microsoft office was outside with a view. For a year, I had people telling me how "lucky" I was. I assumed I got it because I was/am good. I got a corner in 5 years. It was very sweet. I will not work for anyone who wants to put me in a cube, even to consult, as I think they are brain-killers. I'll insist on using my home office, because if I cant have a door, you cant have my work.
The best programming environment is one where you can be left alone to do what you do without idiots bothering you. Interuptions take a long time to recover from, even those for good reasons.
The best programing environment is one where for whatever reason I can zone out and STAY zoned out until I have accomplished something that is ready to be tested.
When I can put up a sign outside my door that says "Stay the Fuck out, unless the world is coming to an end", I will find a way to work for them, and I'll take care of the inside furnishings myself.
When that workplace is established, I might work for almost nothing but Pizza money.
Its too late, dude. Google should have done this a year ago. The fact that they dont have everyone already locked up, is probably why Microsoft is entering the market in the first place. Now, FUD will rule, and Google will feel the pain, no matter how superior they are. We have all seen this movie before.
Unless someone downloads the Google Toolbar, the only search option in 80% of the browsers on the web will be Microsoft's. That is a marketing message for advertisers that Google cannot match. Most of Microsoft's business are only to provide value-add for Windows and Office. Profitability beyond that is only gravy. Now, you take a Microsoft search, link it with Office-specific tools that let people search for supporting footnotes or photos while drafting a document, or PowerPoint presentation, then you have some value there.
It doesnt matter at all whether Microsoft comes up with anything better than Google, what matters, is that they have the capacity to suck the oxygen from Google's revenue stream if they ever come remotely close, because of all the desktops under their control.
The future probably sees Google in court asking to be placed next to Microsoft's own search button in their browser or whatever is supposed to represent browsing in Longhorn or beyond. When that happens, you know that Google has lost the battle.
There is no country on earth with as wide a gap in average intellect than the U.S. Vast counties of uncurious, unserious drones who care more about their next beer than the direction of their country. This is why there is no broadband market in the U.S., because there are not enough people able to notice the advantages. Sure, it's a values thing, but it makes me ill.
Just a drive from Stanford to East Palo Alto, and you can almost see IQ points drop by 50 crossing Hwy101. There is no broadband equal to spending 1000 dollars for rims on a 500 dollar car. No coolness factor for the terminally dense in having a fast connection.
I'm not trolling, but just telling you like it is. In Silicon Valley, you can drive 20 miles from a rich neighborhood to a ghetto. From a Fiber ring where you can get 100M, to phone lines so bad, 56K is a pipe dream at best. If people wanted broadband, they would have it. More americans would rather spend their dollars on either having fake tits or squeezing fake tits to change things in the USA.
If anyone thinks that articles like this are going to prompt enterprises to adopt Linux, I think they are sorely mistaken. If anything, they will cause corporations to fear heterogenius computing environments to the detriment of Linux.
When an article says without actually using the words that all those companies, and the people who maintain them are idiots, you dont win converts to your side of the fence. People are more likely to retrench in an effort to back up their previous decisions.
Look, as a former Career Microsoftie, I can verify that the MCSE community is about 50% losers who I would not trust to tie their own shoe, and about 50% who know what they are doing on SOME if not MOST computing environments. Those are the ones who DONT just do Windows, but are versed in UNIX, Mac and other systems, and are prepared to deal with differences. I would suggest that any company that hires an MCSE who knows no other platform, is a very dumb company.
The fact is that a great many companies are up and running sucessfully on Microsoft software both on the client and the server, and will be for years to come. Articles promoting Linux need to take that fact into account, and become a lot less arrogant and condesending, and more effective at extolling the platform's benefits.
Frankly, a lot of the Linux marketing seems to be much like the democratic presidential candidates. A lot of criticism of their opponent, but short on solutions of their own. That is not how you win. Linux needs to shed the image of zealotry and do more to make the platform attractive on it's own, and not just as an alternative to the current flavor of the month.
I know Linux growth has taken off, but so did a lot of great products that got caught up in rhetorical arguments, instead of improvements, and ended up on the scrap heap of former Microsoft competition.
More honey, less vinegar.
It's same philosophy as Car alarms. They dont prevent theft, they just encourage you to take the other guy's car because it's less trouble.
I think you need to improve your reading, or better yet, go find the passage on your own, because I only included part of it. Some of you are so uninformed it is embarassing to witness.
The Constitution confers on the President the 'executive Power', Art II, 1, cl. 1, and imposes on him the duty to 'take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed'. Art. II, 3. It makes him the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, Art. II, 2, cl. 1, and empowers him to appoint and commission officers of the United States. Art. II, 3, cl. 1.
The Constitution thus invests the President as Commander in Chief with the power to wage war which Congress has declared, and to carry into effect all laws passed by Congress for the conduct of war and for the government and regulation of the Armed Forces, and all laws defining and punishing offences against the law of nations, including those which pertain to the conduct of war.
By the Articles of War, Congress has provided rules for the government of the Army. It has provided for the trial and punishment, by courts martial, of violations of the Articles by members of the armed forces and by specified classes of persons associated or serving with the Army. But the Articles also recognize the 'military commission' appointed by military command as an appropriate tribunal for the trial and punishment of offenses against the law of war not ordinarily tried by court martial. Articles 38 and 46 authorize the President, with certain limitations, to prescribe the procedure for military commissions. Articles 81 and 82 authorize trial, either by court martial or military commission, of those charged with relieving, harboring or corresponding with the enemy and those charged with spying. And Article 15 declares that 'the provisions of these articles conferring jurisdiction upon courts-martial shall not be construed as depriving military commissions ... or other military
tribunals of concurrent jurisdiction in respect of offenders or offenses
that by statute or by the law of war may be triable by such military commissions ... or other military tribunals'. Article 2 includes among those persons
subject to military law the personnel of our own military establishment.
But this, as Article 12 provides, does not exclude from that class 'any
other person who by the law of war is subject to trial by military tribunals'
and who under Article 12 may be tried by court martial or under Article
15 by military commission....
From the very beginning of its history this Court has recognized and applied the law of war as including that part of the law of nations which prescribes, for the conduct of war, the status, rights and duties of enemy nations as well as of enemy individuals. By the Articles of War, and especially Article 15, Congress has explicitly provided, so far as it may constitutionally do so, that military tribunals shall have jurisdiction to try offenders or offenses against the law of war in appropriate cases. Congress, in addition to making rules for the government of our Armed Forces, has thus exercised its authority to define and punish offenses against the law of nations by sanctioning, within constitutional limi
I'm black, you stupid fuck. I just happen to be a black man who can think for himself. Kiss my ass, loser.
Wrong, oh turnip breath.
The Constitution states that enemy combatants are not entitled to those rights, even as American Citizens. It also states that the Attorney General of the United States has the authority to designate enemy combatats for reasons of national security.
And guess what? Those rules were in place BEFORE John Ashcroft ever came to office.
Next?
P.S. Completely correct on the victims rights and women thing, though.
Just a bunch of low self esteem wannabes looking to get laid by some chick with hairy armpits if you ask me. Most of them couldnt find their own ass if someone told them that John Ashcroft stole it from them.
Read the laws, not just those you agree with. Loser.
Slashdotters dont need an hour if debate before detecting leftist bullshit. If I rubbed Cow Feces on your face, how long would you need to know that it is bullshit? Take a wif, stupid. Bullshit stinks from the moment you get near it.
Name a single right that you have lost since Bush took office, you lying asshole. NAME ONE! I dont mean some assumed right that you THINK you should have, name a right that is actually in the Bill of Rights or Constitution that you have lost, asswipe. And dont spend an hour on Google trying to come up with one. Tick tock, you fag.