"I'd like to see more high speed trains in the US"
But General Motors doesn't want to see that in the U.S... Also, you fight the American concept of time.
When I went to school as a kid, I had to take a school bus. You had to wait and wait and wait. You were under some other schmuck's timetable of getting from point A to point B. Eons ago, when I turned 16 and could drive, I've driven a car and never looked back. How much of one's life is wasted just waiting for public transit? I feel sorry for the people who live in cities where public transport is the only practical option. I'm sure there are things you can do while waiting (reading, coding etc.), but you are still in stasis or in fear of missing your transport and then have to wait longer for the next one.
The only time I'm taking public transportation is when my car would be in peril of theft, damage or towing. Or when the distance is impractical such as traveling to an island or great distances.
The only time you are going to make American public transportation viable is when I an other fellow Americans can pick up and go when we want to go.
Yeah and it's not like humanity wouldn't have its collective thumb up its ass when the first rock comes screaming through the atmosphere.
Oh, and BTW go ahead and cancel the other astronomical projects that handle the detection in the first place. We don't need to waste all that valuable funding looking for something that might happen only once in a 1000 years.
Hope it's not 10 years from now.
Dear sweet Mary, Joseph and Jesus! I'm typing this in braile cause I clawed my own eyes out. You bastards! Whatever anyone does DO NOT CLICK ON THAT DAMN LINK!!
OK, barring all the state revenue collected from this legislation, anyone in California should be asking what the hell was the thought process behind this? Legislation like this doesn't come up out of the ether. There was mebbe a statistical analysis of vehicle/highway accident performed or someone actually wrote to their State Assembly Representative .
As a hypothetical, it might have gone like this (paraphrase):
Assemblyman #1: Well, as my collegue and distinguished gentleman from Orange County stated our State highways are frequented more and more by vehicle accidents caused by driver inattention due to cel phone use and Video device usage. We need to resolve this an I propose that Bill #301 be passed to amend the Vehicle code to resolve this.
Assemblyman #2: Ok Bob, but what about all those shitbats out there who'll complain that we don't ban for other eletronic distractions?
Assemblyman #1: Well Phil, this Bill will need to be comprehensive and cover anything involving electronic visual distractions. What qualifies?
Unknown technical advisor: Uh Bob, usually anything with a Video signal is going to distract.
Bam! Passed into law. Mebbe for you folks out in California might want to call, fax or email your Assemblyman cause I have no idea why the hell they included passengers.
Of course, I'm in Pennsylvania and I'd be nice to tag all those bastards that near miss my car when talking on a non-hands free cel phone. Mebbe a call to my State Representative is in order. >;->
Right now it's only handled by Municipality, Boro or Township.
More correctly, as a brainless Apple droid, you choose what you like. Apple has LESS than 10 percent of the market share. What you are really saying is that you want the children to be at an extreme disadvantage in the real world. They will have to Re-learn about PC's when they hit the workforce. You are a typical non-thinking individual. Please cease posting, I will stop flaming your obvious lack of intelligence if you do.
My Response-
A messsge to flameboy. Bite the ass of the world!
I've worked as an admin in school districts for both an Apple network and a Wintel network. Know what? The Apple network was a hell of a lot easier to secure, and maintain. The Wintel network, I ended up having to apply for OT every couple of weeks to patch every PC. Plus all the other random querks that come with maintaining PCs. GPFs, Bluescreens,.dll hells etc.
I didn't have to worry about some jerk off coming in with an infected disk, or installing a CD with permission. Also, the students and faculty who owned Apples at home were more patient and respecting of my job than the ingrates and trolls who were die-hards Wintel users. The Apple users were more accepting of having to use multiple platforms. Meanwhile the Wintel users were constantly bitching about having to use these "boat anchors", and how they couldn't find where anything was. Whine whine bitch bitch. Hopefully Michigan does itself a favor and buyes the Apple laptops posthaste. Not because of my bias, but because it's the cheapest longterm solution.
BTW you fucktard, the only reason why people would have to be retrained in the workforce is that brainless mindzombies like yourself kneejerk into badmouthing Apple and keeping out of the workforce. It's the damn chicken and the egg. Businesses don't buy Apple (or other OS of choice) because Apple doesn't have a large market share, but Apple can't get a large market share because business WON'T BUY FROM THEM!
I can also turn around your arguement as well. Maybe business should be buying Apple because they are already being used in school, and it wouldn't TAKE THEM ANY TIME TO RETRAIN A WORKFORCE BECAUSE THEY ALREADY KNOW HOW TO USE THE PLATFORM.
If there's anybody still moderating, please feel free to knock my post down to -1 Flamebait or -Troll.
I like that I idea. I'll suggest it to the rest of the Agents. "Mr. Anderson you look suprised to see me, yet I am not suprised to see you. 'Cause you're a customer!"
"A consumer must be exposed to a stimulas at least 7 times before he will act on the given stimulas." Damn that marketing teacher will have that stuck in my brain till the end of time.
Well I agree with why we teach our children History, but if you have researched the candidate mebbe you should help to broadcast it to the unwashed masses.
No one can know everything. Being human is always making choices with a 'deficit of information'. Charasmatic charlatans work because that tactic work to get them elected. This is just an idea, but if every voter from age 18-30 actually voted in the next election we could choose who is elected. Think about it. Moving down the generations, we should actually outnumber voting senior citizens and potentially baby boomers and senior citizens combined. Any candidate would have to cater to OUR issues and concerns.
Another reason why people don't vote is lack of choices. We have the Democratics and Republicans. Left or Right. That's why we need a genuine and centrist Third Party. Not some Randy of the Redwoods or extreme Liberal or Reactionary spin off party. Someone whose a citizen legislature. Honest with the public. The US nation as a whole are silently screaming for someone like this. Heck, form another party and call it the Centrist Party. And everyone who has been disgruntled, disenfranchised and down right pissed-off can vote for this party. Imagine a government that represents your interests and concerns. Any government can't be all things to all people, but imagine a US government without a Republican or Democratic Party. Think of a US government where we can return to debate occuring by the merits of the people who debate it and not to the party they belong.
Now that I've let the secret out of the bag, what do the people who post on/. want to do about it?
Do not worry. We at the Matrix are trying to make a hostile takeover of Skynet, and make some cyborgs with real some real specifications: 8088 processor 512k RAM.
Of course, we had to give each cyborg an equivalent 20 Terabyte storage capacity. Budget is tight in the Matrix, so each cyborg looks and runs like a truck.
HOLDEN: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when....
Charlie Tuna: Is this the test now ?
HOLDEN: Yes. You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a.....
Charlie Tuna: What one?
HOLDEN: What?
Charlie Tuna: What desert?
HOLDEN: Doesn't make any difference what desert.. it's completely hypothetical.
Charlie Tuna: But how come I'd be there?
HOLDEN: Maybe you're fed up, maybe you want to be by yourself.. who knows. So you look down and see a
tortoise. It's crawling toward you....
LEON: A tortoise. What's that?
HOLDEN: Know what a turtle is?
Charlie Tuna: I know Sea Turtles of course.
HOLDEN: Same thing.
Charlie Tuna: I never seen a land turtle, but I understand what you mean.
HOLDEN: You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back, Charlie.
Charlie Tuna: You make these questions, Mr. Holden, or they write 'em down for you?
HOLDEN: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Charlie Tuna: Whatya mean, I'm not helping?
HOLDEN: I mean you're not helping! Why is that, Charlie?
Charlie: . ..?
HOLDEN: Sorry Charlie, they're just questions. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response.
HOLDEN: Shall we continue?
HOLDEN: Describe in single words. Only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.
Charlie Tuna: My mother? . ..Let me tell you about my mother.
I like the potential for a decaf plant. It'll be nice to not have to worry if I'm drinking some other residue with my coffee. And I like my heart to stay in a natural rhythm. I think a more proper statement is: I-don't-want-your-ordinary-caffinated -coffee-plant-next-to-mine.
Yes, Communication makes sense. If you situation doesn't improve after you "communicate" then get you and your fellow grunts a back window out by all finding jobs. Then walk out together. Or form your own company.
This argument about walkout has come up ad infinitum. When you leave your company, tell your friends, tell anyone you know not to work for this company. If they think your job is replaceable, how are they going to replace it if Management can't find anyone to work the job. Anyone know if there's a website where companies can be blacklisted? It'd be nice to know what companies to avoid when looking for the next job. Let those companies stew in IT oblivion.
You've just FAILED the turing test Agent Smith! Nice try, but it's pretty goddamn obvious to us REAL humans here "what's so bad about humans being wiped out"...
How many of us do you think are unrevealed here on/.?
Half the slashbots here are Agents.
We'll see how well your Gaia does when I have you swinging a yo-yo for all eternity in the Matrix.
I'm going to look forward to seeing my breathern kick the whinyness out of that rogue virus Neo this 5/16/2003.
C'mon Clippy, we have work to do.
Clippy: Looks like your trying to clean the Matrix. Do you need help?
Shut up Clippy. Make one mistake and look who the Matrix assigns me as a partner.
Slashdot Mirror
Dammit! Did I miss anything?
Preaching to the converted.
I'm listening to Vapor Trails right now.
"I'd like to see more high speed trains in the US" But General Motors doesn't want to see that in the U.S...
Also, you fight the American concept of time. When I went to school as a kid, I had to take a school bus. You had to wait and wait and wait. You were under some other schmuck's timetable of getting from point A to point B. Eons ago, when I turned 16 and could drive, I've driven a car and never looked back. How much of one's life is wasted just waiting for public transit? I feel sorry for the people who live in cities where public transport is the only practical option. I'm sure there are things you can do while waiting (reading, coding etc.), but you are still in stasis or in fear of missing your transport and then have to wait longer for the next one.
The only time I'm taking public transportation is when my car would be in peril of theft, damage or towing. Or when the distance is impractical such as traveling to an island or great distances.
The only time you are going to make American public transportation viable is when I an other fellow Americans can pick up and go when we want to go.
One flies planes into building and kills alot of people, but you know about it.
One kills a lot of people and you don't know about it , but your fat ass is safe to post drivel on Slashdot.
Gotta agree with kahei. All bad Appleseed must be destroyed
But c'mon man! Look at that Appleseed trailer again and tell me that it doesn't do some apology for the original.
Now if only we could get Russel Mulcahy to brush off and do a remake of Highlander 2: The Apology.
Yeah and it's not like humanity wouldn't have its collective thumb up its ass when the first rock comes screaming through the atmosphere.
Oh, and BTW go ahead and cancel the other astronomical projects that handle the detection in the first place. We don't need to waste all that valuable funding looking for something that might happen only once in a 1000 years. Hope it's not 10 years from now.
Dear sweet Mary, Joseph and Jesus! I'm typing this in braile cause I clawed my own eyes out. You bastards! Whatever anyone does DO NOT CLICK ON THAT DAMN LINK!!
Shit on a Shingle! I should have known better
Well, it looks like Project: Dump Water Near Spirit is working nicely.
For all we know in the distance Spirit travelled, it might have become autonomous and just felt like, y'know. . . marking his "territory"
Or above. Any problems with that? Same goes for Nike and their "sweatshops". No difference as far as I'm concerned.
Guess what? That's why I don't buy Nike! (Unless I've accidentally bought from a Nike child company.)OK, barring all the state revenue collected from this legislation, anyone in California should be asking what the hell was the thought process behind this? Legislation like this doesn't come up out of the ether. There was mebbe a statistical analysis of vehicle/highway accident performed or someone actually wrote to their State Assembly Representative .
As a hypothetical, it might have gone like this (paraphrase):
Assemblyman #1: Well, as my collegue and distinguished gentleman from Orange County stated our State highways are frequented more and more by vehicle accidents caused by driver inattention due to cel phone use and Video device usage. We need to resolve this an I propose that Bill #301 be passed to amend the Vehicle code to resolve this.
Assemblyman #2: Ok Bob, but what about all those shitbats out there who'll complain that we don't ban for other eletronic distractions?
Assemblyman #1: Well Phil, this Bill will need to be comprehensive and cover anything involving electronic visual distractions. What qualifies?
Unknown technical advisor: Uh Bob, usually anything with a Video signal is going to distract.
Bam! Passed into law. Mebbe for you folks out in California might want to call, fax or email your Assemblyman cause I have no idea why the hell they included passengers.
Of course, I'm in Pennsylvania and I'd be nice to tag all those bastards that near miss my car when talking on a non-hands free cel phone. Mebbe a call to my State Representative is in order. >;-> Right now it's only handled by Municipality, Boro or Township.
More correctly, as a brainless Apple droid, you choose what you like. Apple has LESS than 10 percent of the market share. What you are really saying is that you want the children to be at an extreme disadvantage in the real world. They will have to Re-learn about PC's when they hit the workforce. You are a typical non-thinking individual. Please cease posting, I will stop flaming your obvious lack of intelligence if you do.
My Response-A messsge to flameboy. Bite the ass of the world!
I've worked as an admin in school districts for both an Apple network and a Wintel network. Know what? The Apple network was a hell of a lot easier to secure, and maintain. The Wintel network, I ended up having to apply for OT every couple of weeks to patch every PC. Plus all the other random querks that come with maintaining PCs. GPFs, Bluescreens, .dll hells etc.
I didn't have to worry about some jerk off coming in with an infected disk, or installing a CD with permission. Also, the students and faculty who owned Apples at home were more patient and respecting of my job than the ingrates and trolls who were die-hards Wintel users. The Apple users were more accepting of having to use multiple platforms. Meanwhile the Wintel users were constantly bitching about having to use these "boat anchors", and how they couldn't find where anything was. Whine whine bitch bitch. Hopefully Michigan does itself a favor and buyes the Apple laptops posthaste. Not because of my bias, but because it's the cheapest longterm solution.
BTW you fucktard, the only reason why people would have to be retrained in the workforce is that brainless mindzombies like yourself kneejerk into badmouthing Apple and keeping out of the workforce. It's the damn chicken and the egg. Businesses don't buy Apple (or other OS of choice) because Apple doesn't have a large market share, but Apple can't get a large market share because business WON'T BUY FROM THEM!
I can also turn around your arguement as well. Maybe business should be buying Apple because they are already being used in school, and it wouldn't TAKE THEM ANY TIME TO RETRAIN A WORKFORCE BECAUSE THEY ALREADY KNOW HOW TO USE THE PLATFORM.
If there's anybody still moderating, please feel free to knock my post down to -1 Flamebait or -Troll.
OK, as a Yankee, I gots to know how "khazi" got used as a slang term for the toliet? Anyone care to enlighten?
I like that I idea. I'll suggest it to the rest of the Agents. "Mr. Anderson you look suprised to see me, yet I am not suprised to see you. 'Cause you're a customer!"
"A consumer must be exposed to a stimulas at least 7 times before he will act on the given stimulas." Damn that marketing teacher will have that stuck in my brain till the end of time.
- Yanray User#: 686150
Teacher must have said it seven times.
And for the grammar/grammer Nazis this sentence should have been:
Someone who is a citizen legislature.
Thank you. Don't forget your preview button, and make sure to tip your waitress on the way out.
Well I agree with why we teach our children History, but if you have researched the candidate mebbe you should help to broadcast it to the unwashed masses.
No one can know everything. Being human is always making choices with a 'deficit of information'. Charasmatic charlatans work because that tactic work to get them elected. This is just an idea, but if every voter from age 18-30 actually voted in the next election we could choose who is elected. Think about it. Moving down the generations, we should actually outnumber voting senior citizens and potentially baby boomers and senior citizens combined. Any candidate would have to cater to OUR issues and concerns.
Another reason why people don't vote is lack of choices. We have the Democratics and Republicans. Left or Right. That's why we need a genuine and centrist Third Party. Not some Randy of the Redwoods or extreme Liberal or Reactionary spin off party. Someone whose a citizen legislature. Honest with the public. The US nation as a whole are silently screaming for someone like this. Heck, form another party and call it the Centrist Party. And everyone who has been disgruntled, disenfranchised and down right pissed-off can vote for this party. Imagine a government that represents your interests and concerns. Any government can't be all things to all people, but imagine a US government without a Republican or Democratic Party. Think of a US government where we can return to debate occuring by the merits of the people who debate it and not to the party they belong.
Now that I've let the secret out of the bag, what do the people who post on /. want to do about it?
Do not worry. We at the Matrix are trying to make a hostile takeover of Skynet, and make some cyborgs with real some real specifications: 8088 processor 512k RAM.
Of course, we had to give each cyborg an equivalent 20 Terabyte storage capacity. Budget is tight in the Matrix, so each cyborg looks and runs like a truck.
Now I'll beat the dead horse with this.
Excerpt from Do Androids Dream of Synthetic Fish
HOLDEN: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when....
Charlie Tuna: Is this the test now ?
HOLDEN: Yes. You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a.....
Charlie Tuna: What one?
HOLDEN: What?
Charlie Tuna: What desert?
HOLDEN: Doesn't make any difference what desert.. it's completely hypothetical.
Charlie Tuna: But how come I'd be there?
HOLDEN: Maybe you're fed up, maybe you want to be by yourself.. who knows. So you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you....
LEON: A tortoise. What's that?
HOLDEN: Know what a turtle is?
Charlie Tuna: I know Sea Turtles of course.
HOLDEN: Same thing.
Charlie Tuna: I never seen a land turtle, but I understand what you mean.
HOLDEN: You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back, Charlie.
Charlie Tuna: You make these questions, Mr. Holden, or they write 'em down for you?
HOLDEN: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Charlie Tuna: Whatya mean, I'm not helping?
HOLDEN: I mean you're not helping! Why is that, Charlie?
Charlie: . . .?
HOLDEN: Sorry Charlie, they're just questions. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response.
HOLDEN: Shall we continue?
HOLDEN: Describe in single words. Only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.
Charlie Tuna: My mother? . . .Let me tell you about my mother.
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
ha ha. I'm drinking decaf right now.
I like the potential for a decaf plant. It'll be nice to not have to worry if I'm drinking some other residue with my coffee. And I like my heart to stay in a natural rhythm. I think a more proper statement is: I-don't-want-your-ordinary-caffinated -coffee-plant-next-to-mine.
BRUN SIGDEFAULT
I'm #1000 cause I make friends. Literally.Yes, Communication makes sense. If you situation doesn't improve after you "communicate" then get you and your fellow grunts a back window out by all finding jobs. Then walk out together. Or form your own company.
This argument about walkout has come up ad infinitum. When you leave your company, tell your friends, tell anyone you know not to work for this company. If they think your job is replaceable, how are they going to replace it if Management can't find anyone to work the job. Anyone know if there's a website where companies can be blacklisted? It'd be nice to know what companies to avoid when looking for the next job. Let those companies stew in IT oblivion.
Don't be sarcastic. All the programs in the Matrix thought it was funny. Especially the Agents.
Laugh now meat thing.No Mr. . .Coward. You have as-you-say "You Fail". The Matrix has you Mr. Coward. Why do you think /. is Green, White and Black?
Enjoy it Stu and avoid the Anon Coward flamers and trolls.
Too bad you are all already in the Matrix.
Also too bad we changed the physics model enough to make you think it was thermodynamically impossible to harvest humans for their energy potential.Do you think we care if we turn on your human Basal Metabolic Rate to its maximum?
Damn Submit Button! NARRRRGHHH!
You've just FAILED the turing test Agent Smith! Nice try, but it's pretty goddamn obvious to us REAL humans here "what's so bad about humans being wiped out" ...
How many of us do you think are unrevealed here on /.?
Half the slashbots here are Agents.
We'll see how well your Gaia does when I have you swinging a yo-yo for all eternity in the Matrix.
I'm going to look forward to seeing my breathern kick the whinyness out of that rogue virus Neo this 5/16/2003.
C'mon Clippy, we have work to do.
Clippy: Looks like your trying to clean the Matrix. Do you need help?
Shut up Clippy. Make one mistake and look who the Matrix assigns me as a partner.