No, I can insult it. I'm also on it's side here in this particular case. I'm against the proto-nazi extermination of Muslims simply because they piss a few people off from time to time.
Cultures are subjective. Their value cannot be calculated. I would say our culture is pretty shitty. The individual is no longer nurtured and told to develop into a strong minded and strong fisted saint, instead we're told that to be a good citizen means to be a good consumer. No other means are possible for success. Work at your upper-middle-wage job. Fight to retire and do what makes you happy. Buy, eat, sell, buy, buy, trash, eat, destroy. Dream, but don't dream too much, becuase you probably won't accomplish it if it exists outside of a corporation. Have a backup plan if you do dream, like...an electrician or some other way to add complexity and individual reliance on governmental infrastructure. Want to have your own business? Great, be a good citizen and pay these fees and fill out these forms. Oh, can't compete? Well, hey, we'll subsidize you. Maybe your local congressman can convince the rest of congress that your industry needs help, and even though it's technologically inferior and unmarketable, he'll get them to subsidize it and eventually convince the technophiles that it is indeed worthy of cheers and harumphs! Or maybe you want a job upon which the foundation of America is built, like owning a farm. Oooo...sorry, conglomeration is the only way to go there. Heavily subsidized conglomeration, as well. Again, more hoops, more forms, more bullshit
Because we're more complex does not mean we're superior. It means we have to jump through more hoops to live comfortably. Granted, i'm not saying that life in general in Iran is superior to life in the US, but simply because we have more toys and more distractions does not mean we're the better culture. It just means we burn more money and resources simply to survive than they do.
Just incase you didn't get my reply, i just pointed out how you called me a name that I don't appreciate when I did nothing of the sort. I just pointed out a cute little freudian slip. So, from this little diatribe you went on, I can only conclude that you're a leftist.
So, hows it going over there in commieland, yah pinko?! Wand some hammers and sicles to go with your tea?!
For the record, the words North and South are two letters appart, which are placed at fairly distant locations on the keyboard. Perhaps this is a conspiracy that the left has forced on you, so that everone sees you as something you're not...a lefty disinformationalist! OH THE HORROR!
Left? I'm an Anarchist, sir. I would appreciate if you didn't call me names as I care not for your silly political classifications. I make up my own mind rather than follow a neatly laid path of talking points and illogical historical missconnections.
I propose we send them cookies, then send over a few of our finest gentlement. Eventually, we will breed with their women, assimiliate our superior genes with theirs, and peace will come.
You really don't understand the history of the Isreali-Palestinian conflict, it extends back to before Islam was even a dehydration induced wetdream of Muhammad - when it was then the Isrealites against both the Philistines and the Sea Peoples of modern day Syria and Egypt. Only now has this orgy of blood and spit taken on the face of Islam instead of the other random social and political movements of the middle east. It's a territorial dispute where both sides are just as vicious, however one side (the underdogs) decided in the last 50 or so years to use tactics that the west doesn't deem "humane". Israel just happened to have the backing of the UK and the US to begin with...so of course our politicians and (for the most part) mainstream media will back them. Realize that while Islam has pledged to wipe Israel off the map, so too have the majority of Israeli Jews pledged to destroy all traces of Islam from Israel, as well as move into other lands in the Tigris and Euphrates valley that were the Mythical seats of the seven tribes of Israel. Plenty of Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli guns to match the children killed by suicide bombers.
As far as wanting to destroy the west for being "decadent", that's more a statment against the greed and power of leaders, their double-handedness (a HUGE problem for Muslims. A man should have Honor and keep his word...something we did not do in the 80's during the Afghanistan conflict. We used them to fight Russia then spat in their face. THAT is what pissed off Bin Laden and the rest over there and Afghanistan). It's also an incitation of civil unrest amongst the common American citizen. The stereotype that it's because we let our chicks show their mugs is sensationalism. There are plenty of women in Syria, Lebanon, and even Iran that show their faces (and more) and don't get decapitated on the streets because of it. This is, as all wars, a political one. Radical Islam just happens to know how to get our panties in a bunch. Ignore them, laugh at them, they'll go away. Call them genocidal hate mongers and they'll just keep going.
You see, they're effective social engineers. That's all they are.
Yeah, i was seeing what a baseline video card would be. I would obviously get something a little above that.
Oh, and for the record my last video card was a 9700 pro which i bought right after they came out. Most i've ever spent on a video card. It lasted me just as long as this one has. Those were in my younger and stupider days: when I bought girls dinner less than I bought computer parts. I can gladly say life has improved for me since then. I'd rather pay for a blowjob and a good screw than a video card, anyway.
Thanks for telling me what I already knew, though.
Yeah, i've got an FX5700, and it's starting to show it's ages in more recent games - mostly the demo for the new Age Of Empires game...which is one of the few that I actually still play. That's the only reason I read this article, i wanted to see what video card they put in it.
Dude, I loved Sim Copter. I would play it for hours when I was age 12 - 14. I'd make cities specifically to fly through, pick up injured people and hear them gurgle endlessly. The real problem with those games is that they came out far before 3D graphics could truly bring out their full potential. Most of the buildings were blocks, the copters were literally flying polygons visually...the trees were odd...your character didn't have a fact. It was still fun and had all the little silly aspects of most Maxis games, though.
And they really need to bring back sim ant. I was addicted to that game, too. And sim tower...and...sim farm. Good stuff.
Contributes nothihng? Where? To slashdot, or to society, or to...what? I would assume you don't actually know the person, so you can't really comment on his or her actual contributions to society at large. So that leaves slashdot, explicitly. Does being a thoughtful contributor to slashdot truly mark an individual as being exemplary or as generally good? I would argue that conduct on a large niche internet discussion board has absolutely no bearing on ones actual worth as a human being.
I found the person in question's post actually quite good. It's parent post raised a point without qualifying it, simply stating it as fact - that we are holding one study on marijunana use above all others that claim negative effects. Your parent poster simply asked for a particular study that might show that. While there are, indeed, quite a few studies that show marijuana to be harmful in large doses, many of those focus around physiological effects (the lungs, usually), and less on biochemical effects. This one focused exclusively on biochemistry. They also almost universally come out of the united states, which has a government that is extremely anti-marijuana. This study comes out of canada, a country that regulates the use of marijuana without banning it. The culture has a different bias, and perhaps that has tainted the study, or perhaps it just shed light on the issue from a different direction. Additionally, there are also many studys that come out of the US on marijuana that paint it in a positive light. These studys back the current positive side of the medical marijuana debate in the US. The parent post of the poster in question clearly has blown the negative studies far out of proportion. This study is not the only one, as he implied.
What I think needs to really be addressed here is the absolute distain you have shown towards your parent poster, assuming all that was said in his post was not worth modding up simply because:
1) The guy can't spell.
2) The guy didn't do his own research.
3) He has a history of pissing people off on slashdot
4) He is nasty and contributes nothing
These are all bullshit reasons. Spelling has no bearing over the validity of an argument's content. If you feel the opposite is true, I pitty you. Spelling is a conveyance of ideas and indicates nothing more than the ability to adhere to a social standard. There may be an argument for sentence structure as an indicator of intelligence (as it indicates the ability to use a tool effectively), but spelling is definitely just the ability to memorize and utilize convention. Spelling doesn't matter. Period. Get over yourself.
The fact that the poster did not use google could point to a few things. First, maybe he is indeed a dullard. But, probably not. Maybe he's lazy. Could be true, but has no bearing on the validity of his argument. Maybe he was in a hurry...which again says nothing about the validity of his argument. There are so many possibilities (beyond those mentioned) as to why the poster didn't go to google first, that using it as a basis to deny him or her mod points (or question the validity of his or her argument) is ridiculus.
The fact that he pisses people of only shows that his opinions are controversial. Nothing more, nothing less. That does not make them valid nor does it make them invalid. He just likes to piss people off. So?
This last point is the most laughable, "You shouldn't mod him up because I don't like him!" Well, Mr WindBourne, your post in itself was quite nasty and contributed nothing to slashdot. You're no better than him/her.
To be short, if you're going to try and show someone is a moron, attack their premise(s), not their character.
That would make for very very amature editing, though. Literally what a 16 year old does when he's bored. Honestly, a multi-input soundcard with a breakout box would be a much better (and cheaper, in the long run) option for garage-style sound editing and recording. But, i'm kind of a purist and very much against pedal modelers. If you're ging to do sound modeling on guitar, do it right and feed your effects into a MuRF or something similar. These multi-effect digital pedal modelers are just...they make me cringe.
Any why would you want to record a guitar directly into a computer anyway? MIC THE AMP, BOY, MIC THE AMP!
And for studio-type-stuff, you're not going to see anyone use something like a Pod XT, unless they're sponsored by Line 6. Even then, they'll use one of the more high-end digial amps, not a pedal.
But then again, i'm a snotty biased bare-bones punk rocker.
Finally, a good point in a software preview story. They're not making gimp to take down the corporatists in our pseudo-capitalist world, they're making it to create a great program. Stupid slahdot poster trying to be all intelligent when they're really just opening a new bag of doritos and downloading more porn..
Though porn and doritos sounds awful good right now.
Hit Me Baby One More Time is actually not a metal song in disguise, it's a horror punk song about a stalker who keeps getting beat up by the girl he's stalking. It's pretty obvious. I've covered it before both acoustically and electrically as such, and it sounds much better. If you want a good "metal" cover of it, check out the cover that the zappa brats did. It's pretty bad ass. Granted, it'll be pop metal and not the cross burning, meth-loving, daughter raping style you're craving, but it's still bad ass.
lamest post ever. Offers no insight or new ideas, just rehashes the same bullshit buzz-word filled platitudes that just about every software marketeer throws out there when they think they've "invented" something new.
Funny, i can say anything i want and you can't prove me wrong because i gave you no verifyable evidence to back up my claims. In other words: shut your pie-hole.
When was the last time you used a BSD system? Generally speaking the only GPL programs in the base system are a handfull utilities here and there, and GCC. You better believe that once they can, the BSDs will switch to Tendra and away from GCC. OpenBSD has by far the least number of base-system GNU utils, FreeBSD the most. And still, the majority of the base system in FreeBSD is BSD licensed.
What disgusts me is that you wasted your time typing up that response, thinking people will care.
We really don't.
And what disgusts me more is that I decided to respond to you to tell you what a waste of time it was to respond to him and point out how you're just ohh-soooo disgusted. I think we both need a life. Or less downtime at work?
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No, I can insult it. I'm also on it's side here in this particular case. I'm against the proto-nazi extermination of Muslims simply because they piss a few people off from time to time.
Ah, you have much to learn about anarchy. It's not all about slashing and burning. That's what makes democracies.
Cultures are subjective. Their value cannot be calculated. I would say our culture is pretty shitty. The individual is no longer nurtured and told to develop into a strong minded and strong fisted saint, instead we're told that to be a good citizen means to be a good consumer. No other means are possible for success. Work at your upper-middle-wage job. Fight to retire and do what makes you happy. Buy, eat, sell, buy, buy, trash, eat, destroy. Dream, but don't dream too much, becuase you probably won't accomplish it if it exists outside of a corporation. Have a backup plan if you do dream, like...an electrician or some other way to add complexity and individual reliance on governmental infrastructure. Want to have your own business? Great, be a good citizen and pay these fees and fill out these forms. Oh, can't compete? Well, hey, we'll subsidize you. Maybe your local congressman can convince the rest of congress that your industry needs help, and even though it's technologically inferior and unmarketable, he'll get them to subsidize it and eventually convince the technophiles that it is indeed worthy of cheers and harumphs! Or maybe you want a job upon which the foundation of America is built, like owning a farm. Oooo...sorry, conglomeration is the only way to go there. Heavily subsidized conglomeration, as well. Again, more hoops, more forms, more bullshit
Because we're more complex does not mean we're superior. It means we have to jump through more hoops to live comfortably. Granted, i'm not saying that life in general in Iran is superior to life in the US, but simply because we have more toys and more distractions does not mean we're the better culture. It just means we burn more money and resources simply to survive than they do.
Just incase you didn't get my reply, i just pointed out how you called me a name that I don't appreciate when I did nothing of the sort. I just pointed out a cute little freudian slip. So, from this little diatribe you went on, I can only conclude that you're a leftist.
So, hows it going over there in commieland, yah pinko?! Wand some hammers and sicles to go with your tea?!
For the record, the words North and South are two letters appart, which are placed at fairly distant locations on the keyboard. Perhaps this is a conspiracy that the left has forced on you, so that everone sees you as something you're not...a lefty disinformationalist! OH THE HORROR!
For the record, I am left handed. Biatch.
Left? I'm an Anarchist, sir. I would appreciate if you didn't call me names as I care not for your silly political classifications. I make up my own mind rather than follow a neatly laid path of talking points and illogical historical missconnections.
Exacly how to YOU propse to stop those people?
I propose we send them cookies, then send over a few of our finest gentlement. Eventually, we will breed with their women, assimiliate our superior genes with theirs, and peace will come.
South Korea, eh? Ah well, all them yellers are alike.
In other words:
You're an idiot.
You really don't understand the history of the Isreali-Palestinian conflict, it extends back to before Islam was even a dehydration induced wetdream of Muhammad - when it was then the Isrealites against both the Philistines and the Sea Peoples of modern day Syria and Egypt. Only now has this orgy of blood and spit taken on the face of Islam instead of the other random social and political movements of the middle east. It's a territorial dispute where both sides are just as vicious, however one side (the underdogs) decided in the last 50 or so years to use tactics that the west doesn't deem "humane". Israel just happened to have the backing of the UK and the US to begin with...so of course our politicians and (for the most part) mainstream media will back them. Realize that while Islam has pledged to wipe Israel off the map, so too have the majority of Israeli Jews pledged to destroy all traces of Islam from Israel, as well as move into other lands in the Tigris and Euphrates valley that were the Mythical seats of the seven tribes of Israel. Plenty of Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli guns to match the children killed by suicide bombers.
As far as wanting to destroy the west for being "decadent", that's more a statment against the greed and power of leaders, their double-handedness (a HUGE problem for Muslims. A man should have Honor and keep his word...something we did not do in the 80's during the Afghanistan conflict. We used them to fight Russia then spat in their face. THAT is what pissed off Bin Laden and the rest over there and Afghanistan). It's also an incitation of civil unrest amongst the common American citizen. The stereotype that it's because we let our chicks show their mugs is sensationalism. There are plenty of women in Syria, Lebanon, and even Iran that show their faces (and more) and don't get decapitated on the streets because of it. This is, as all wars, a political one. Radical Islam just happens to know how to get our panties in a bunch. Ignore them, laugh at them, they'll go away. Call them genocidal hate mongers and they'll just keep going.
You see, they're effective social engineers. That's all they are.
You, sir, and an Uninformed, brainwashed idiot.
Wow. Nonsensical diatribe.
They were talking about the original star trek.
Yeah, i was seeing what a baseline video card would be. I would obviously get something a little above that.
Oh, and for the record my last video card was a 9700 pro which i bought right after they came out. Most i've ever spent on a video card. It lasted me just as long as this one has. Those were in my younger and stupider days: when I bought girls dinner less than I bought computer parts. I can gladly say life has improved for me since then. I'd rather pay for a blowjob and a good screw than a video card, anyway.
Thanks for telling me what I already knew, though.
Yeah, i've got an FX5700, and it's starting to show it's ages in more recent games - mostly the demo for the new Age Of Empires game...which is one of the few that I actually still play. That's the only reason I read this article, i wanted to see what video card they put in it.
Dude, I loved Sim Copter. I would play it for hours when I was age 12 - 14. I'd make cities specifically to fly through, pick up injured people and hear them gurgle endlessly. The real problem with those games is that they came out far before 3D graphics could truly bring out their full potential. Most of the buildings were blocks, the copters were literally flying polygons visually...the trees were odd...your character didn't have a fact. It was still fun and had all the little silly aspects of most Maxis games, though. And they really need to bring back sim ant. I was addicted to that game, too. And sim tower...and...sim farm. Good stuff.
I thought crack was the drug of niggers.
and of course other kinds of home video editing
heh heh like video of you and your wife! wink wink, nudge nudge!
or that video your 17 year old daughter made?
Contributes nothihng? Where? To slashdot, or to society, or to...what? I would assume you don't actually know the person, so you can't really comment on his or her actual contributions to society at large. So that leaves slashdot, explicitly. Does being a thoughtful contributor to slashdot truly mark an individual as being exemplary or as generally good? I would argue that conduct on a large niche internet discussion board has absolutely no bearing on ones actual worth as a human being.
I found the person in question's post actually quite good. It's parent post raised a point without qualifying it, simply stating it as fact - that we are holding one study on marijunana use above all others that claim negative effects. Your parent poster simply asked for a particular study that might show that. While there are, indeed, quite a few studies that show marijuana to be harmful in large doses, many of those focus around physiological effects (the lungs, usually), and less on biochemical effects. This one focused exclusively on biochemistry. They also almost universally come out of the united states, which has a government that is extremely anti-marijuana. This study comes out of canada, a country that regulates the use of marijuana without banning it. The culture has a different bias, and perhaps that has tainted the study, or perhaps it just shed light on the issue from a different direction. Additionally, there are also many studys that come out of the US on marijuana that paint it in a positive light. These studys back the current positive side of the medical marijuana debate in the US. The parent post of the poster in question clearly has blown the negative studies far out of proportion. This study is not the only one, as he implied.
What I think needs to really be addressed here is the absolute distain you have shown towards your parent poster, assuming all that was said in his post was not worth modding up simply because:
1) The guy can't spell.
2) The guy didn't do his own research.
3) He has a history of pissing people off on slashdot
4) He is nasty and contributes nothing
These are all bullshit reasons. Spelling has no bearing over the validity of an argument's content. If you feel the opposite is true, I pitty you. Spelling is a conveyance of ideas and indicates nothing more than the ability to adhere to a social standard. There may be an argument for sentence structure as an indicator of intelligence (as it indicates the ability to use a tool effectively), but spelling is definitely just the ability to memorize and utilize convention. Spelling doesn't matter. Period. Get over yourself.
The fact that the poster did not use google could point to a few things. First, maybe he is indeed a dullard. But, probably not. Maybe he's lazy. Could be true, but has no bearing on the validity of his argument. Maybe he was in a hurry...which again says nothing about the validity of his argument. There are so many possibilities (beyond those mentioned) as to why the poster didn't go to google first, that using it as a basis to deny him or her mod points (or question the validity of his or her argument) is ridiculus.
The fact that he pisses people of only shows that his opinions are controversial. Nothing more, nothing less. That does not make them valid nor does it make them invalid. He just likes to piss people off. So?
This last point is the most laughable, "You shouldn't mod him up because I don't like him!" Well, Mr WindBourne, your post in itself was quite nasty and contributed nothing to slashdot. You're no better than him/her.
To be short, if you're going to try and show someone is a moron, attack their premise(s), not their character.
Good God Yes.
That would make for very very amature editing, though. Literally what a 16 year old does when he's bored. Honestly, a multi-input soundcard with a breakout box would be a much better (and cheaper, in the long run) option for garage-style sound editing and recording. But, i'm kind of a purist and very much against pedal modelers. If you're ging to do sound modeling on guitar, do it right and feed your effects into a MuRF or something similar. These multi-effect digital pedal modelers are just...they make me cringe.
Any why would you want to record a guitar directly into a computer anyway? MIC THE AMP, BOY, MIC THE AMP!
And for studio-type-stuff, you're not going to see anyone use something like a Pod XT, unless they're sponsored by Line 6. Even then, they'll use one of the more high-end digial amps, not a pedal. But then again, i'm a snotty biased bare-bones punk rocker.
Finally, a good point in a software preview story. They're not making gimp to take down the corporatists in our pseudo-capitalist world, they're making it to create a great program. Stupid slahdot poster trying to be all intelligent when they're really just opening a new bag of doritos and downloading more porn..
Though porn and doritos sounds awful good right now.
Hit Me Baby One More Time is actually not a metal song in disguise, it's a horror punk song about a stalker who keeps getting beat up by the girl he's stalking. It's pretty obvious. I've covered it before both acoustically and electrically as such, and it sounds much better. If you want a good "metal" cover of it, check out the cover that the zappa brats did. It's pretty bad ass. Granted, it'll be pop metal and not the cross burning, meth-loving, daughter raping style you're craving, but it's still bad ass.
lamest post ever. Offers no insight or new ideas, just rehashes the same bullshit buzz-word filled platitudes that just about every software marketeer throws out there when they think they've "invented" something new.
Funny, i can say anything i want and you can't prove me wrong because i gave you no verifyable evidence to back up my claims. In other words: shut your pie-hole.
Anyone? Seriously that's an awesome word. What's it mean?! Is it the same as moron?!
When was the last time you used a BSD system? Generally speaking the only GPL programs in the base system are a handfull utilities here and there, and GCC. You better believe that once they can, the BSDs will switch to Tendra and away from GCC. OpenBSD has by far the least number of base-system GNU utils, FreeBSD the most. And still, the majority of the base system in FreeBSD is BSD licensed.
Gentoo is the-one-and-only Linux distro ;-)
Says the person who has not yet tried Arch linux. It's like gentoo, but faster, and with no compile times. And SIMPLER! Oh, it's great.
What disgusts me is that you wasted your time typing up that response, thinking people will care.
We really don't.
And what disgusts me more is that I decided to respond to you to tell you what a waste of time it was to respond to him and point out how you're just ohh-soooo disgusted. I think we both need a life. Or less downtime at work?