When am I going to be able to read Slashdot without feeling like I'm listening to a bunch of pre-teen 133t k1dd13z taking shots at The Man on #haX0rzC3ntRa1?
well, lets see... pigs have already flown... should be any minute now.
A lot of people I know (the ones who don't know computers anyway) don't even read the error messages that pop up.
most of them don't read, period. i tell them 'you are operating a piece of machinery, not being entertained by it. until you begin to read what appears on screen, you are going to feel like a computer dumbass for no reason.'
i have had highly paid, supposedly highly educated executives look at web pages and ask me 'what's all this?' while pointing at a block of text. i remotely host some simple database queries for a local government site. the query page is located on my server, and features several buttons, and one link. when it went online, they got several emails the first month complaining that there was no way to return to their main page, even though the link saying "Return To The City of Blahblah's Home Page" was prominently displayed. i changed the link to a button and they got emails thanking them for correcting the oversight. there is no hope.
people who repeatedly seek out my assistance very quickly learn 2 things: a computer is not a television, and they get nowhere with me until they can describe for me, in language that means something (not "the thingy, you know, din't work") exactly what happened. (i.e. "the buttons in the dialog box are greyed out") i am more than happy to provide the terminology, i then expect them to learn and use it.
well, i'm off. so many windmills, so little time to tilt against them...
amen bro, and it has 2 eLRons, making it twice as good as CoS. Ascended Master Diamond Platinum 'Downline' VanAndel & Grand Exhalted Dickhead DeVos, for whom almost everything in this town is named.
yes. inherently fucked up lunacy. CoS gospel is little more than the depraved rantings of a madman. CoS operations are little more than a con game on a massive scale. Travolta is a clueless untalented schmuck, Cruise is just a dumbshit. The "church" is loaded with sadistic control freaks and thier misbehavior is widely documented in vast detail. CoS sucks. Any doubt left as to what I'm saying, squirrel boy?
and decrease the value of the property of all the houses around you.
value is not a constant, it is based entirely on perception and comparison. with criminality removed from the equation the presence of pot smokers in the 'hood would have a positive impact on perceptions, and therefore value.
pot smokers are far more likely to be thoughtful and friendly neighbors and far less likely than drinkers to awaken you in the dead of night while screaming at thier spouses, mistake your porch for thier garage, or mistake your porch for thier toilet.
so you see, it's your hillbilly logic and head up the ass perceptions that are fucking up your property values, not his pot smoking.
DARE is bs because, as many other people have pointed out, it basically lies to kids, and when they realize they've been lied to about one thing...
...they write your lying ass off for a lifetime. the irony is that we expend effort to teach children that police officers are thier friends, then DARE sends police officers in to do the lying. kids don't forget.
The funniest part of slashdot is all the people who say that they are not sheep, but are really more of sheep then those they are accusing. Especially with all of the ralph nader stuff.
the funniest part of sheepdot is all the people who say that they are not slash, but are really more of slash than those they are accusing. especially with all of the axl rose stuff.
if someone partakes of weed in their homes, wherein lies the problem?
well you see, since it is an obnoxious airborne intoxicant, brave police officers breaking in the door could be exposed and suffer horrifying consequences.
slashdotting doesn't have much to do with a 403 forbidden error. someone deliberately locked down the directory. i've sent two emails over the last several hours, no response, no access.
Xerithane,
on your page you indicate that you have no public email address. if it would be any help at all, i will be glad to set you up an email account on my server with absolutely no strings attached. i can do this in five minutes, you can choose from several domains i control, and as far as i'm concerned you can have it for as long as you need it, no charge. drop me email if this will help.
...defaced seven sites i host a year ago in july. he got in through a poorly written PHP script which accepted user input but did not check it. a few hours later i was reading his hit2000 newsgroup posts (courtesy of a dutch-fluent friend) in which he bragged about it and mentioning some of the domains by name.
For years we used an integrated office suite called Enable where I work. I know for a fact that starting with version 3, circa 1989 or so, the complete documentation was shipped right in with the app, and it was all hypertext, sort of like hard coded web pages without images, and it worked exactly like the web except the documents were all on the local machine.
Touche! I cannot! Yet this serves even better to make my point - one cannot assume anything regarding competence based on position. Hell, you've heard of the Peter Principle?
I personally think that if you have made it to the position that Judge Rehnquist holds, you'd pretty much know what you are doing.
Read "The Brethren". If Nixon hadn't beleived that "Renchquist" (as he called him) would be his right-wing conservative yes-man on the court he would never have gotten anywhere near the court. His appointment was purely politically motivated, and if I recall, he was Nixons third choice or so, after Congress outright rejected several other Nixon cronies. Things are not always as they appear 30 years later...
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When am I going to be able to read Slashdot without feeling like I'm listening to a bunch of pre-teen 133t k1dd13z taking shots at The Man on #haX0rzC3ntRa1?
well, lets see... pigs have already flown... should be any minute now.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
I'll pop up a little warning of my own first: "WARNING: You are about to be warned by Microsoft."
hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
most of them don't read, period. i tell them 'you are operating a piece of machinery, not being entertained by it. until you begin to read what appears on screen, you are going to feel like a computer dumbass for no reason.'
i have had highly paid, supposedly highly educated executives look at web pages and ask me 'what's all this?' while pointing at a block of text. i remotely host some simple database queries for a local government site. the query page is located on my server, and features several buttons, and one link. when it went online, they got several emails the first month complaining that there was no way to return to their main page, even though the link saying "Return To The City of Blahblah's Home Page" was prominently displayed. i changed the link to a button and they got emails thanking them for correcting the oversight. there is no hope.
people who repeatedly seek out my assistance very quickly learn 2 things: a computer is not a television, and they get nowhere with me until they can describe for me, in language that means something (not "the thingy, you know, din't work") exactly what happened. (i.e. "the buttons in the dialog box are greyed out") i am more than happy to provide the terminology, i then expect them to learn and use it.
well, i'm off. so many windmills, so little time to tilt against them...
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
The world does not end there.
Not yet it hasn't, but we've been lucky...
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Amway is the biggist religous cult in the world.
amen bro, and it has 2 eLRons, making it twice as good as CoS. Ascended Master Diamond Platinum 'Downline' VanAndel & Grand Exhalted Dickhead DeVos, for whom almost everything in this town is named.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Scientology brainwashed my pet dog snowy. I miss snowy so much. Does anyone how I can rescue my snowy?
snowy is now living 10 million years in the past, lapping up the excrement of l. ron and his alien overlord hierarchy.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
So you are saying the CoS is inherently bad?
yes. inherently fucked up lunacy. CoS gospel is little more than the depraved rantings of a madman. CoS operations are little more than a con game on a massive scale. Travolta is a clueless untalented schmuck, Cruise is just a dumbshit. The "church" is loaded with sadistic control freaks and thier misbehavior is widely documented in vast detail. CoS sucks. Any doubt left as to what I'm saying, squirrel boy?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
It's like saying Islam is bad and no Muslim programmer can be trusted.
no, it's not like that at all. it's more like saying al capone was bad or timothy mcveigh cannot be trusted.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
It's this same kind of intolerance and paranoia by the dominating German political parties that led to the holocaust.
Bite my e-meter, squirrel boy.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
and decrease the value of the property of all the houses around you.
value is not a constant, it is based entirely on perception and comparison. with criminality removed from the equation the presence of pot smokers in the 'hood would have a positive impact on perceptions, and therefore value.
pot smokers are far more likely to be thoughtful and friendly neighbors and far less likely than drinkers to awaken you in the dead of night while screaming at thier spouses, mistake your porch for thier garage, or mistake your porch for thier toilet.
so you see, it's your hillbilly logic and head up the ass perceptions that are fucking up your property values, not his pot smoking.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
DARE is bs because, as many other people have pointed out, it basically lies to kids, and when they realize they've been lied to about one thing...
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
The funniest part of slashdot is all the people who say that they are not sheep, but are really more of sheep then those they are accusing. Especially with all of the ralph nader stuff.
the funniest part of sheepdot is all the people who say that they are not slash, but are really more of slash than those they are accusing. especially with all of the axl rose stuff.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
if someone partakes of weed in their homes, wherein lies the problem?
well you see, since it is an obnoxious airborne intoxicant, brave police officers breaking in the door could be exposed and suffer horrifying consequences.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
hook kids on heroin by age 10, and then use the royalties from drug sales to fund the govenment.
old hat. already, we hook kids on television, competition, and the desire to posess material goods by the age of 10, which funds the entire economy!
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Xerithane,
on your page you indicate that you have no public email address. if it would be any help at all, i will be glad to set you up an email account on my server with absolutely no strings attached. i can do this in five minutes, you can choose from several domains i control, and as far as i'm concerned you can have it for as long as you need it, no charge. drop me email if this will help.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
For years we used an integrated office suite called Enable where I work. I know for a fact that starting with version 3, circa 1989 or so, the complete documentation was shipped right in with the app, and it was all hypertext, sort of like hard coded web pages without images, and it worked exactly like the web except the documents were all on the local machine.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
I personally think that if you have made it to the position that Judge Rehnquist holds, you'd pretty much know what you are doing.
Read "The Brethren". If Nixon hadn't beleived that "Renchquist" (as he called him) would be his right-wing conservative yes-man on the court he would never have gotten anywhere near the court. His appointment was purely politically motivated, and if I recall, he was Nixons third choice or so, after Congress outright rejected several other Nixon cronies. Things are not always as they appear 30 years later...
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Ahhhh! Gnutella for Gnavigation!
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up