Maybe if the industry you were in wasn't on the brink of an economic disaster for the past 7 years an old story being dug up by Google News wouldn't have had such a drastic impact.
you're assuming I'm talking about Redneck Dick Waving. I'm not. I'm not saying "we can do this better than you" or "we're ready for anything, so bring it"
I'm saying: "OK, you've made a claim. Now, do it."
Essentially, I'm so fucking tired of the political class blabbing their worthless surgically altered lips. Fucking do something or just shut up. I've got too much shit to take care of.
You're forgetting the fundamental rule of poker: you've got to lose some hands in order to figure out your opponents moves.
Oh, and the beautiful thing about getting burned on a bluff? You can better defend yourself the second time.
Personally I've lived in NYC most of my life. Let Iran or Russia or China nuke it off the map. It's full of some of the biggest fucking pricks in the world. I wouldn't mind seeing some of these jackasses burned by radioactivity.
Why, so you can glance up and down constantly to see what you're doing, and then curse occasionally as you press the wrong spot on the trackpad and open several programs at once?
Have you ever been in the "farm system" (as you so daintily put it)? Let me tell you what life is like behind the bars at the "farm system":
Dorm living with fully grown men. These "dorms" are sometimes the size of a gymnasium. A gymnasium full of grown men. Fully grown, under enormous stress, living in close quarters. Honestly, you'd have much less stress living in a car.
2 minute showers, enforced.
Scheduled bathroom times. Gotta shit? Hold it until shit time, which is usually at the start of the day and the end.
Forced labor. They don't even bother matching you up with work from your skillset. Too fat? Go work in the yard. Too stupid to know how to kill someone with a knife? Kitchen work.
This "farm system" isn't about rehabilitation, it's about "serving your time" and getting the fuck out.
That's not rehabilitation, it's life structure enforcement. Rehab means breaking a person down into their individual pieces, examining all of those pieces, finding out what's wrong, and then learning to live life with the knowledge that you have a problem.
Fuck his family, he was a fucking criminal and his family leeched off of those ill gotten gains. Quite frankly, that 1 year old should be dead too, just to get the rest of those waste of genes out of the human pool.
And fuck you for taking my quote out of context, you simple minded pile of horse shit.
Attorney Troy Eid said "What a nightmare, and such a coward" implying he was a coward for killing himself and not serving his time - that is the fundamental flaw in our imprisonment system. It's a system of punishment that people are afraid of, and are sent to out of a misguided sense of social vengeance rather than social rehabilitation.
The "special interest" groups - like the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA - have far too much money, and in a capitalist society that leads to far too much power. We, the minority voice, cannot match the buying power these groups have, nor do we have enough political power to sway votes.
And believe me, no matter what your little nerdgasm makes you believe, we are a minority voice. We're such a small voice that my senator actually laughed at me when I called him up to complain about his support of FISA, as he assured me that the majority demanded this legislation be passed.
Quite frankly, there's nothing left for geeks to do but wait and watch as all of our freedoms are stripped away to protect the special interests.
Oh sure, some geeks will post bullshit about having their own revolution, but they're too close-minded to own a gun, and too lazy and distracted to actually get anything done.
Oh wait, those geeks are talking about a peaceful revolution, the kind we have every 4 years. The same "revolution" that is carefully controlled and manipulated by two (illegal) political parties. Yeah, great idea there. Or you could vote for the miraculous third party candidate who - thanks to his radically different views from the two parties in control of the house and sentate - will basically cause government to come to a standstill and get nothing done, assuring that another 200 years will pass before a third party candidate is ever elected again.
Quite frankly, I'm just damn tired of these stories and of the comments. "Write your senator" doesn't work. "Call your congressman" doesn't work. We're tried to get organized and fight these abominations of our rights as human beings, and we continue to fail. In fact, we've yet to even eat away at aging laws like the DMCA and Patriot act, yet we yammer on and on about how we can stop laws like ACTA.
Face it, fellow geeks, we have no chance. so, I beg you, slashdot, stop posting these stories, because they mean almost nothing now. Unless someone comes up with a way to organize a para-military force through an anonymous service to physically stop these kinds of atrocities, I see no point in discussing this stuff.
Buy something via PayPal, anything. Wait for the product to arrive. Complain to PayPal that the product was never received.
Instant refund, and the seller has to go through fucking hell to prove to PayPal that the item was sent. 99% of the time PayPal just ends up ignoring the case. After enough complaints, the sellers account is frozen, and all assets (read: your money) is lost in PayPal limbo.
In fact, PayPal will often withdraw money from your linked bank account while the PayPal account is frozen - to, as I was told, reacquire lost assets.
I should know - I used to go through fucking hell on a nearly daily basis before I closed my online shop. Now I just use it to receive my TLA publisher payments and that is fucking it.
Because they've settled out of court for large sums of cash before things ever went to trial.
eBay has done its homework on PayPal and knows it cannot turn nearly as huge of a profit as it does if PayPal has to comply with all of the banking regulations.
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Story's boring. Post moar tits.
The best part about quoting Bill Hicks is that you have a 50/50 shot of being modded either Funny or Insightful.
Hicks truly was a karma whore.
Will you just stop posting this shit already? It's not funny. It never has been funny. It never will be funny.
Slashdot is run by super-geeks: YOU HAVE NO APPRECIABLE SENSE OF HUMOR. You can't do "funny" because YOU'RE NOT GODDAMN FUNNY.
And for fucks sake, get a new goddamn theme on Idle. It's ugly and hard to read.
Maybe if the industry you were in wasn't on the brink of an economic disaster for the past 7 years an old story being dug up by Google News wouldn't have had such a drastic impact.
Get a new Idle Theme!
Blu-Ray to be superseded in five year; Samsung is backing OLED!
I fucking dare you to make those two thoughts form a coherent sentence.
Yeah, because American intelligence agencies have morals!
you're assuming I'm talking about Redneck Dick Waving. I'm not. I'm not saying "we can do this better than you" or "we're ready for anything, so bring it"
I'm saying: "OK, you've made a claim. Now, do it."
Essentially, I'm so fucking tired of the political class blabbing their worthless surgically altered lips. Fucking do something or just shut up. I've got too much shit to take care of.
You're forgetting the fundamental rule of poker: you've got to lose some hands in order to figure out your opponents moves.
Oh, and the beautiful thing about getting burned on a bluff? You can better defend yourself the second time.
Personally I've lived in NYC most of my life. Let Iran or Russia or China nuke it off the map. It's full of some of the biggest fucking pricks in the world. I wouldn't mind seeing some of these jackasses burned by radioactivity.
The easiest way to counter propaganda - from any nation, not just Iran - is to take this attitude:
"k, now do it."
Folder or scruncher?
Because 90% of the products on the market fucking suck.
I'd rather spend the money big macs, hookers, and blow.
I'll be dead in a week, but it'll be the best week of my life.
Why, so you can glance up and down constantly to see what you're doing, and then curse occasionally as you press the wrong spot on the trackpad and open several programs at once?
No it's not karma whoring. Read the rest of my posts.
I'm trolling you :D
Have you ever been in the "farm system" (as you so daintily put it)? Let me tell you what life is like behind the bars at the "farm system":
Dorm living with fully grown men. These "dorms" are sometimes the size of a gymnasium. A gymnasium full of grown men. Fully grown, under enormous stress, living in close quarters. Honestly, you'd have much less stress living in a car.
2 minute showers, enforced.
Scheduled bathroom times. Gotta shit? Hold it until shit time, which is usually at the start of the day and the end.
Forced labor. They don't even bother matching you up with work from your skillset. Too fat? Go work in the yard. Too stupid to know how to kill someone with a knife? Kitchen work.
This "farm system" isn't about rehabilitation, it's about "serving your time" and getting the fuck out.
That's not rehabilitation, it's life structure enforcement. Rehab means breaking a person down into their individual pieces, examining all of those pieces, finding out what's wrong, and then learning to live life with the knowledge that you have a problem.
Fuck his family, he was a fucking criminal and his family leeched off of those ill gotten gains. Quite frankly, that 1 year old should be dead too, just to get the rest of those waste of genes out of the human pool.
And fuck you for taking my quote out of context, you simple minded pile of horse shit.
Attorney Troy Eid said "What a nightmare, and such a coward" implying he was a coward for killing himself and not serving his time - that is the fundamental flaw in our imprisonment system. It's a system of punishment that people are afraid of, and are sent to out of a misguided sense of social vengeance rather than social rehabilitation.
It's the fundamental problem with being institutionalized in America: it's all about vengeance, not social rehabilitation.
The "special interest" groups - like the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA - have far too much money, and in a capitalist society that leads to far too much power. We, the minority voice, cannot match the buying power these groups have, nor do we have enough political power to sway votes.
And believe me, no matter what your little nerdgasm makes you believe, we are a minority voice. We're such a small voice that my senator actually laughed at me when I called him up to complain about his support of FISA, as he assured me that the majority demanded this legislation be passed.
Quite frankly, there's nothing left for geeks to do but wait and watch as all of our freedoms are stripped away to protect the special interests.
Oh sure, some geeks will post bullshit about having their own revolution, but they're too close-minded to own a gun, and too lazy and distracted to actually get anything done.
Oh wait, those geeks are talking about a peaceful revolution, the kind we have every 4 years. The same "revolution" that is carefully controlled and manipulated by two (illegal) political parties. Yeah, great idea there. Or you could vote for the miraculous third party candidate who - thanks to his radically different views from the two parties in control of the house and sentate - will basically cause government to come to a standstill and get nothing done, assuring that another 200 years will pass before a third party candidate is ever elected again.
Quite frankly, I'm just damn tired of these stories and of the comments. "Write your senator" doesn't work. "Call your congressman" doesn't work. We're tried to get organized and fight these abominations of our rights as human beings, and we continue to fail. In fact, we've yet to even eat away at aging laws like the DMCA and Patriot act, yet we yammer on and on about how we can stop laws like ACTA.
Face it, fellow geeks, we have no chance. so, I beg you, slashdot, stop posting these stories, because they mean almost nothing now. Unless someone comes up with a way to organize a para-military force through an anonymous service to physically stop these kinds of atrocities, I see no point in discussing this stuff.
9.6mb/s would be awesome.
Nope!
Read the insurance fine print!
PayPal can cherry pick which transactions it will insure.
When you use PayPal YOU ARE FUCKED.
Experiment for yourself!
Buy something via PayPal, anything. Wait for the product to arrive. Complain to PayPal that the product was never received.
Instant refund, and the seller has to go through fucking hell to prove to PayPal that the item was sent. 99% of the time PayPal just ends up ignoring the case. After enough complaints, the sellers account is frozen, and all assets (read: your money) is lost in PayPal limbo.
In fact, PayPal will often withdraw money from your linked bank account while the PayPal account is frozen - to, as I was told, reacquire lost assets.
I should know - I used to go through fucking hell on a nearly daily basis before I closed my online shop. Now I just use it to receive my TLA publisher payments and that is fucking it.
Russia's huge!
What fucking world do you live in that you don't have an alternative?
Because they've settled out of court for large sums of cash before things ever went to trial.
eBay has done its homework on PayPal and knows it cannot turn nearly as huge of a profit as it does if PayPal has to comply with all of the banking regulations.