I can tell you're full of shit 'cause if you had been playing San Andreas you'd be addressing everyone as 'nigga'.:)
Well, in intellectual company, one does have to maintain a certain level of fucking decorum.;-)
A certain je ne sais cocksucker.
Actually, I'm picking the game up after work today, along with Katamari Damarcy. How's that for a double feature. I may start trying to jack cars and roll them all up into a giant ball.
I'm too busy jacking fucking cars and picking up crack hos with my fucking homeboys in GTA:SA. Gimme a fucking machine gun over a pansy-ass, phallic symbol light saber.
I wouldn't find popping a fucking cap in the ass of some cocksucking dancing wookie, though. Or maybe I can pimp that bitch out to some fucking Star Wars fanboy. You know they'd fucking pay for that shit.
Man I love being a fucking adult. These vulgar games have no gadamnned effect on me whatsofuckingever.
What did the soldiers killed execution style in Iraq last weekend solve? Did anything change? Was there a huge outcry? Will it change the political situation of this country?
Wow! You might just be completely and perfectly stupid!:-)
Anyone who thinks the U.S. is a democracy is fooling themselves.
Well, it's a republic, but I rarely indulge in that nitpick.;-)
It *is* a democratic system, but if I had to point to one problem that rises above all the others, it's gerrymandering. Here in California, we have state legislatures who are low grade morons (and I'm talking Alabama, eye in the middle of the forehead inbred mutant level of intellect) but thay cannot be voted out because they have carved out districts locked and loaded with like minded low grade morons. Frankly, I'm astonished that we don't have more assassinations in this country. I know I feel about that level of frustration.
The underlying problem is the voters. Period. Gerrymandering would not work if the voters had functioning brain cells.
Oh well, at least John Kerry's site still works for us outlanders.
Boy, I'm sure glad of that! My nipples were all soft at the thought of losing that glorious access.
SQUICK!
Oops. Sprained my sarcasm gland.
Outlander? Where are you? Barter Town? Did you guys get the pig shit generator running again?
Anyway, friends, geek, countrymen, it's a choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum yet again. Just accept it and stop pretending the election matters. It's depressing enough without otherwise smart people gobbling up the manure and pinning their hopes and dreams on ideologues in expensive suits surrounded by teams of droids. It's all just money, be it Halliburton or George Soros. None of these people give a hanging chad about any of you. Most of them pine for the days when it was acceptable to spit on us, run us down with their horse drawn carriages or hunt us down for sport.
That's why I'm voting Kerry. I have a job/career that's Administration proof, and I will enjoy the whining and excuses when, under Kerry, things are precisely as fucked up as they are now, if not more so. And it is time for a change, and if an orange version of Herman Munster in the White House isn't change, well, then I don't know what is.
Although a Bush win would be fun because it would send a huge number of self-righteous, egotistical ideo-whores into apoplectic fits. I'm hoping strokes will permanently debilitate the less healthy ones. From bloviating autoimportant politicosluts to glassy eyed droolers who require regular diaper changes. Now that's some mighty hubris! Chris Reeve's horse was a divine warrior guided by the smiting hand of Baby Jesus sent to punish him for Superman IV! Yee-haw!
And a Bush win might spark riots. Cool! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
[bunch of tired old stale strawman arguments snipped]
It's such a short leap to other illegitimate uses for RFID's that I can't believe you are so blind as to not see them.
OK, dumbass from the fifth level of Hell, let's get this straight. I said I didn't think street criminal would BOTHER with this stuff. That was my whole point: they CAN, but WILL they?
And your examples prove my point. They don't need an RFID reader to tell if I have a $3000 laptop, $600 Rolex or $1000 shoes. They can use that old school, old tech appraoch of using their friggin' eyes! Street hoods are not dscriminating "shoppers" looking to optimize their "purchases".
Think about it, and do some more reading.
No, tiny brained loser with a very small penis, actually, I think it's you who needs to read more, if only to brush up on your comprehension. Of course that would require you to peel the tinfoil back from your eyes.
OK, I done with you. You may go back to cowering in your lead lined basement listening to your shortwave radio for signs of the End Times.
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Don't think commies...
I wasn't. That was a joke. I thought "Chairman Meow" sort of tagged it as such. That was the name of a cat P. J. O'Rourke once owned, BTW.
10 feet is plenty of space on most streets, restaraunts or bars to find out if someone is worth mugging.
I just don't think anyone is going to bother. Common criminals have lots to go high tech with now, and the most sophisticated thing they tend to use is a cell phone. Lead pipes and boomsticks are still the tools of choice. There are plenty of tried and true ways to evaluate a target.
Purse snatchers roaming the streets with high tech scanner bling just sounds like so much cyberpunk feverdreaming. The bright but misguided street punk only exists in moovies and William Gibson novels. I used to do some work in college that brought me into contact with lots of these people. They are not the hacking type, unless you mean the hacking coughs from years of biochemical self abuse.
The truly sophisticated criminals have bigger fish to fry than what they can get from a mugging or from seeing if I'm wearing fancy, high-end BVDs.
The idea that someone not only knows the manufacturer and model of my shirt, but whether or not I'm wearing boxers or briefs gives me the ebee-jeebies.
See I just don't get that. Who cares? I think it's bizarrely egotistical that you expect someone to care.
Unless you are wearing undies not intended for your gender?
Oh, my, I think we have struck upon the problem.;-)
In the OP's defense, he did say he was intrigued to find out HOW they absorbed the energy, not that they did.
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Great linked article. Full of FUD and paranoia. Very entertaining.
Ooo! A store can track my purchases up to 10 feet beyond their door! Wow! I better call Secret Squirrel for some countermeasure tips!
And of course it had the old idea of an ubergovernment plan of having sensors in every toilet seat and lamp post so that they can track how often I change my underwear.
Honestly, people... The X-Files is over, and our government can't keep Chechnyan rebels from crossing in from Mexico. They can't even prevent the vast waste and fraud perpetrated by the uneducated masses against the various money giveaway programs.
So they're suddenly get their act together and implement a shiny, sparkly supersensor array in order to track which communist manifesto you bought this week down at the Chairman Meow Bookshop/Animal Companion Emporium?
Regardless of how much a retailer's internal facility might disrupt their ability to monitor me, I still plan on getting one of RSA's RFID jammers when they're out.
Huh. Interesting. Do any descendants of P. T. Barnum work at RSA? I think you'd be better served by an orgone energy accumulator.
There will always be a home for American programmers in the, shall we say, black projects realm, or even in the more open areas of the aerospace industry. I have two co-workers who can't get the clearance needed simply because they were born overseas, and despite the fact they have been US citizens for a long time.
Some of the IT VPs where I work are not even happy that some of the Windows codebase is written overseas. Any computer I need to take out to a classified site has to be scanned and checked, and any non-standard software has to be investigated for overseas code. Yes, they have called companies and talked to the project managers there about the where all their source code came from.
They should look at the new version of THX-1138. If there ever was an argument FOR making updates to older films, that one is it. Very nice "upgrades" in that one. Just enough to give a better sense of scale in a few scenes.
If journalists and reporters actually sought facts and investigated public figures fairly and accurately regardless of figure's Party affiliation, well, just about every politician in office would be wiped out, and...
Not the award going to Lucas, but the ignorant asshole brigade here who seem to think the beginning and end of Lucas' contribution to the film industry is Star Wars.You might want to venture out of the house today and purchase a sack of clues somewhere.
And enough about the special edition whining. Yes, he altered your ppreeeeciousssssss, and this somehow ruined your childhood. If your childhood memories were that fragile and inordinately foccused on a fluffy sci-fi flick, well, maybe they deserved a solid kick in the balls.
I dont really understand the moral crusade, conceptually. Why do other people care, as long as its not hurting them?
It's a control issue.
It's also why people run for office. There's personality types out there that just love to fuck with the lives of other people and, sadly, our legal system often allows it.
There are modern and efficient designs on the table for nuke plants. Some of them consume nearly all of the fuel put into them and generate very little waste.
That's how we solve our energy problems. Period.
The whiney, ideo-illogical fuckheads out there who get their knowledge of nuclear power from The Simpsons and Superman IV are just going to have to sit down, shut up, and let the men and women who have functioning brains get the job done.
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Well, in intellectual company, one does have to maintain a certain level of fucking decorum. ;-)
A certain je ne sais cocksucker.
Actually, I'm picking the game up after work today, along with Katamari Damarcy. How's that for a double feature. I may start trying to jack cars and roll them all up into a giant ball.
So they were pets, huh?
I wouldn't find popping a fucking cap in the ass of some cocksucking dancing wookie, though. Or maybe I can pimp that bitch out to some fucking Star Wars fanboy. You know they'd fucking pay for that shit.
Man I love being a fucking adult. These vulgar games have no gadamnned effect on me whatsofuckingever.
I'm going to pick up a couple of those signs, and when the economy is in the dumper next year, I'll put them out on my lawn.
Wow! Another complete dumbass! They are legion on /. these days. It's a dumbass marathon! Wheeee!
Have a sense of humor surgically installed, lackwit, if they can fit one inside your junk cluttered brain.
And smile. :-) A smile makes a cloudy day go- no, wait... a smile only takes... a smile is better than a... um... ah fuck it.
And for the record, I'm voting Kerry. I like the idea of an orange Frankenstein's monster in da House.
Wow! You might just be completely and perfectly stupid! :-)
A few spammers in an open field killed execution style will rein in this stuff faster than any legislation.
There. Problem solved. You'd be suprised just how many problems violence CAN solve.
Thanks. Maybe you'll get modded down, too.
Anyone who thinks the U.S. is a democracy is fooling themselves.
Well, it's a republic, but I rarely indulge in that nitpick. ;-)
It *is* a democratic system, but if I had to point to one problem that rises above all the others, it's gerrymandering. Here in California, we have state legislatures who are low grade morons (and I'm talking Alabama, eye in the middle of the forehead inbred mutant level of intellect) but thay cannot be voted out because they have carved out districts locked and loaded with like minded low grade morons. Frankly, I'm astonished that we don't have more assassinations in this country. I know I feel about that level of frustration.
The underlying problem is the voters. Period. Gerrymandering would not work if the voters had functioning brain cells.
Now, run off and finish your altars to BushKerryKrishna, and stop pretending you believe in diversity and free speech.
Boy, I'm sure glad of that! My nipples were all soft at the thought of losing that glorious access.
SQUICK!
Oops. Sprained my sarcasm gland.
Outlander? Where are you? Barter Town? Did you guys get the pig shit generator running again?
Anyway, friends, geek, countrymen, it's a choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum yet again. Just accept it and stop pretending the election matters. It's depressing enough without otherwise smart people gobbling up the manure and pinning their hopes and dreams on ideologues in expensive suits surrounded by teams of droids. It's all just money, be it Halliburton or George Soros. None of these people give a hanging chad about any of you. Most of them pine for the days when it was acceptable to spit on us, run us down with their horse drawn carriages or hunt us down for sport.
That's why I'm voting Kerry. I have a job/career that's Administration proof, and I will enjoy the whining and excuses when, under Kerry, things are precisely as fucked up as they are now, if not more so. And it is time for a change, and if an orange version of Herman Munster in the White House isn't change, well, then I don't know what is.
Although a Bush win would be fun because it would send a huge number of self-righteous, egotistical ideo-whores into apoplectic fits. I'm hoping strokes will permanently debilitate the less healthy ones. From bloviating autoimportant politicosluts to glassy eyed droolers who require regular diaper changes. Now that's some mighty hubris! Chris Reeve's horse was a divine warrior guided by the smiting hand of Baby Jesus sent to punish him for Superman IV! Yee-haw!
And a Bush win might spark riots. Cool! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
See? Fun times ahead regardless of the result! :-)
[bunch of tired old stale strawman arguments snipped]
It's such a short leap to other illegitimate uses for RFID's that I can't believe you are so blind as to not see them.
OK, dumbass from the fifth level of Hell, let's get this straight. I said I didn't think street criminal would BOTHER with this stuff. That was my whole point: they CAN, but WILL they?
And your examples prove my point. They don't need an RFID reader to tell if I have a $3000 laptop, $600 Rolex or $1000 shoes. They can use that old school, old tech appraoch of using their friggin' eyes! Street hoods are not dscriminating "shoppers" looking to optimize their "purchases".
Think about it, and do some more reading.
No, tiny brained loser with a very small penis, actually, I think it's you who needs to read more, if only to brush up on your comprehension. Of course that would require you to peel the tinfoil back from your eyes.
OK, I done with you. You may go back to cowering in your lead lined basement listening to your shortwave radio for signs of the End Times.
I wasn't. That was a joke. I thought "Chairman Meow" sort of tagged it as such. That was the name of a cat P. J. O'Rourke once owned, BTW.
10 feet is plenty of space on most streets, restaraunts or bars to find out if someone is worth mugging.
I just don't think anyone is going to bother. Common criminals have lots to go high tech with now, and the most sophisticated thing they tend to use is a cell phone. Lead pipes and boomsticks are still the tools of choice. There are plenty of tried and true ways to evaluate a target.
Purse snatchers roaming the streets with high tech scanner bling just sounds like so much cyberpunk feverdreaming. The bright but misguided street punk only exists in moovies and William Gibson novels. I used to do some work in college that brought me into contact with lots of these people. They are not the hacking type, unless you mean the hacking coughs from years of biochemical self abuse.
The truly sophisticated criminals have bigger fish to fry than what they can get from a mugging or from seeing if I'm wearing fancy, high-end BVDs.
The idea that someone not only knows the manufacturer and model of my shirt, but whether or not I'm wearing boxers or briefs gives me the ebee-jeebies.
See I just don't get that. Who cares? I think it's bizarrely egotistical that you expect someone to care.
Unless you are wearing undies not intended for your gender?
Oh, my, I think we have struck upon the problem. ;-)
Don't rail at the paranoids. Profit from them!
In the OP's defense, he did say he was intrigued to find out HOW they absorbed the energy, not that they did.
Ooo! A store can track my purchases up to 10 feet beyond their door! Wow! I better call Secret Squirrel for some countermeasure tips!
And of course it had the old idea of an ubergovernment plan of having sensors in every toilet seat and lamp post so that they can track how often I change my underwear.
Honestly, people... The X-Files is over, and our government can't keep Chechnyan rebels from crossing in from Mexico. They can't even prevent the vast waste and fraud perpetrated by the uneducated masses against the various money giveaway programs.
So they're suddenly get their act together and implement a shiny, sparkly supersensor array in order to track which communist manifesto you bought this week down at the Chairman Meow Bookshop/Animal Companion Emporium?
Regardless of how much a retailer's internal facility might disrupt their ability to monitor me, I still plan on getting one of RSA's RFID jammers when they're out.
Huh. Interesting. Do any descendants of P. T. Barnum work at RSA? I think you'd be better served by an orgone energy accumulator.
A: The unfoldable portable-shaped box on a stalk? It is a practical and space-saving design. But the interface needs fixing.
Well, it's been 23 years since you left Apple, Jeff. Where's *your* fix?
One only cares about getting something done.
And a simple to use, no muss, no fuss, all in one computer fails on that front... how, exactly?
Apple has forgotten this key concept. The beautiful packaging is ho-hum and insignificant in the long run.
Insignificant to Jeff Raskin, that is.
You know, there's a reason people hide their gray boxen PCs under their desks, and a reason there exists an aftermarket case mod industry.
Yeah, I know what you mean, dude!
It's so friggin' difficult to move my eyeballs and look at the name of the topmost application in the menu bar.
I break into a sweat every time!
So much worse than the Windows taskbar where the visibly depressed button is not necessarily the currently selected window.
Oh to wish for the good ol' days of one-app-at-a-time Single Finder.... ;)
Don't make me come over there!
Some of the IT VPs where I work are not even happy that some of the Windows codebase is written overseas. Any computer I need to take out to a classified site has to be scanned and checked, and any non-standard software has to be investigated for overseas code. Yes, they have called companies and talked to the project managers there about the where all their source code came from.
They should look at the new version of THX-1138. If there ever was an argument FOR making updates to older films, that one is it. Very nice "upgrades" in that one. Just enough to give a better sense of scale in a few scenes.
If journalists and reporters actually sought facts and investigated public figures fairly and accurately regardless of figure's Party affiliation, well, just about every politician in office would be wiped out, and...
Huh...
Wait a minute... why is that a problem again?
I delivered a much justified smackdown. Blow my thick, hard chubby before going back to masturbating over your fanboy altars.
And enough about the special edition whining. Yes, he altered your ppreeeeciousssssss, and this somehow ruined your childhood. If your childhood memories were that fragile and inordinately foccused on a fluffy sci-fi flick, well, maybe they deserved a solid kick in the balls.
It's a control issue.
It's also why people run for office. There's personality types out there that just love to fuck with the lives of other people and, sadly, our legal system often allows it.
I thought "HD equipped" meant High Definition. :-(
That's how we solve our energy problems. Period.
The whiney, ideo-illogical fuckheads out there who get their knowledge of nuclear power from The Simpsons and Superman IV are just going to have to sit down, shut up, and let the men and women who have functioning brains get the job done.