Ageeed, sort of
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Cell-Phone Wars
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Agreed on the cell phones in movies and restaurants, but some of the anti-cell phone people get a little fanatical about it. They need to reign that in if they don't want all of us to be thought of a kooks. I've seen people get all huffy and upset when someone takes a cell phone call in the middle of a noisy Home Depot. I mean, who cares? They guy was checking with his wife on the color of some expensive blinds. That's just the sort of thing cell phones are good for.
Anyway, it's the covert camera phones that will usher in a whole new form of rudeness.:-( The tech industry seems singularly devoted these days to giving armaments to the assholes of the world.
invading the silence by utter (moo) rudeness.
*blink* I'm sorry, do you have mad cow disease?:-) What that a strange "udder" reference?
There's nothing stupid about it at all. It's called a covert operation. It was done during the Cold War all the time. Someone is seduced into giving away the crown jewels. Yes, people in real life have done that.
Well it's better than dropping it in carbon freeze, I guess. Oh, wait. Different thread.
What probably happened was that Mac users are probably moving to the free Apple stuff like iCal and iChat and iWhatsis instead of Palm Desktop, and then by extension they'd be required by the userbase demand to make the Palms sync with the iApps. So they said, "Feh... whateva..."
I would almost wager on Apple putting a Palm sync feature into the next releases of their iApps. At this rate Apple might wind up making all the hardware AND the software for Macs.
Not that I'd turn my nose up at iBryce. C'mon, Apple. Everyone's grandma wants to do 3D rendering with deep texture editing.
Error checking on/.? Wouldn't that be like mixing matter and antimatter. Or dark matter. Or green cheese. Or whatever curve the cosmologists have fit to the observations this week.
When you encounter a saleswoman, her handheld computer brings up your tastes, buying history, vital statistics and personalized suggestions from in-stock and coming inventory;
One hopes it would bring up the fact that I stuffed the last three "helpful" sales people into the nearest wastebin for bothering me. Hey, I'd pay a couple pennies extra for that.
the handhelds also place orders and book change rooms.
They book change rooms? What are people doing in there? Having high tea? Holding a seance? Reading SCO legal documants?
I'm guessing this isn't coming to Wal*Mart's changerooms when they implement RFID.
I thought WalMart's changeroom were still under FEMA disaster quarantine? Eh, maybe that was something else...
A day with SCO is like a day without sunshine
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SCOoby Snacks
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No, a day without SCO is a day WITH sunshine.
SCO is the little gray raincloud that follows the Unix world around.
I agree with those that feel the movie should have happened fix or six years ago. Besides, can they top "Blame Canada" at this point?
No. No they cannot.
What the world really needs is the Harvey Birdman movie!! Yeah!! With extreme violence! And extreme litigation! And lots of exclamation points! And extreme full frontal nudity. Especially the full frontal nudity! Hee hee heeeeee! Dangly bits!
What are the chances that when I get older I'll need to go overseas for a one of these new transplants (Now rejection free! Two kidneys for price of one!) because the US has banned all stem cell research and related items.
We need more! Make more people! Quick! There's just not enough baby factories in the world. Look at China, for example. There's hardly anyone there! It's an unpopulated wasteland! More clones now! Rah rah rah sis boom bah!
1. Don't know. I didn't support the war in Iraq. I would have developed more intel and backed up *suprise* inspections with UN troops.
But one nitpick. The Hussein government was irrelevant beyond potentially funding active WMD programs. Those could have made their way into terrorist hands without Hussein ever knowing about it, much less approving it. People act like he was some sort of omnipotent god who controlled every atom in Iraq. There's thought that the anthrax used in those attacks could have been leaked from labs in the US, so how secure would the Iraqi labs be?
That's a point no one ever thinks to talk about. they all say, "Hussein would not have given them to terrorists." The answer is, "So what?" Is it completely unimaginable that organized terrorists couldn't run an operation to get the WMDs by, shall we say, less official means? Whether the Sunii power structure had any direct ties was irrelevant.
2. You really can't answer this on your own? You really cannot see it as a different situation that calls for a different approach? I mean... really?
As for the rest, I read about history voraciously, and I never said the US was innocent, so spare me the lecture.
Is there a convention of people who took the small bus to school today?
Yes, lets look at my exact words: "No, national self-flagellation is actively encouraged here. However, it is preferred if it isn't mired in ideological foofa like yours. You clearly have an outsider view, and seem hellbent on seeing the world in purely monochromatic good versus evil terms. Real life is about a billion times more complex than that."
Where do I even mention Bush? I was talking to the original poster.
From this we know that you think the world is full of "grey areas" to paraphrase a little.
From many statements by Bush we know he thinks that is not the case.
Can you not even see the non sequitur here?
Yes, I said REAL LIFE is grayscale. I DID NOT SAY Bush subscribes to this view. I never applied claimed my POV was in any way, shape or form aligned with Bush. I don't like Bush. I never even mentioned Bush. I accused the ORIGINAL POSTER of also having a mono-view.
What part of this is eluding you?
Apparently you have a major disconnect with the leadership of this country.
Yes. I don't agree with it.
I don't see where I made any error in reading or understanding your statements.
You seem incapable of comprehending that a citizen of the US can have a different point of view from Bush. And that, my dense friend, is what little ideologies are made of.
See what I mean? I never said the US didn't do anything wrong. You just read that in there because you are an ideologue. And you focused on a couple words and expanded that to being the whole thing. The usual obfuscation. It's your mind desperately trying to avoid reality, and tossing up filters and noise with wild abanson.
My post didn't perfectly align with the exotoxic political meme sludge in your head, so I must be on "the other side". Black hats and white hats. So simple and childish. Amazing.
we're just idiots, we should be serving your every desire...
I don't agree with the latter, and your post did nothing to disprove the former.
I got tired of seing Flash based ads, so I followed the instructions on Macromedia's website on how to remove the player.
No more Flash ads.
What I did get was a popup dialog everytime there was Flash content bothering me because there isn't a web designer on the Earth who knows how to check for Flash capability before trying to serve it. And IE has no way to turn off the bloody dialogs that I can find.
Gods, just put the red X up and move on, IE! I don't care!!!
Apparently you have a major dicconect with the leadership of the country. Bush has stated many times in no uncertain terms that there are only two groups of people:
1: The evil-doers (the people we don't like)
2: the people who are against evil-doers
Apparently you have a major disconnect between the reading and thinking centers of your brain. I accused dcordeiro of seeing the world monochromatically. Pointing out that Bush (who I don't like) does the same is supposed to prove what, exactly? That dcordeiro is as stupid as Bush? OK. I shall accept that as your axiom.
That's it. He's left no room for those who think that terrorism is bad, but that US actions in retaliation are also bad. According to George W. Bush and his administration, the world is in fact monochomatically good vs evil.
That's nice. I didn't say Bush wasn't painting a monochrome picture. I said another poster was. Maybe if you try reading a little more slowly you won't miss the fine details.
Yeah, yeah... the usual "if you don't agree with me you are sheep" stinkpile. Really tiresome. Learn a new lyric someday, will ya? I didn't say The US was innocent, you blind fool. I said the US has done shitty things, but that the rest of the world is just as full of BS as the US.
That's a typical strawman put forth by people like you who simply cannot think anymore. There's no point in even arguing with you. Your mind is completely and absolutely DEAD from ideological toxins. All you have is irrational hatemongering. You think you think, but it's just an illusion of sentience at this point.
There's no use arguing with people outside the US. Their view of us is so warped and insane there's just no getting past it. The world has gone truly mad if it's sitting there weeping over the loss of Hussein. When soccer fans can sit there and chant "Osama" as a taunt, then humanity has gone too far down the road to being a race of monsters to ever turn back. The US has become the scapegoat for every two-bit piece of filth in the world (from the "strongman" to the faity-tale suckling theofascist to the self-righteous statists) that needs an excuse to explain why his own country is such a corrput pile of low grade cow manure. I'm sure someone somewhere is blaming Bush or the US in general for a bad spell of weather, or because their child fell and skinned his knee.
Personally, I think the next time there's a major disaster like a volcano or a hurricane, we ought to just keep our foriegn aid and assistence at home.
but I think that someone is trying to block voter's brains with nice images of american flags on martian soil, so they can' think of other wonderfull things that the US made last years:
Not really. People don't respond to that much anymore. Do you see round the clock coverage of the Mars rovers?
- Boicot Kioto pact.
Anyone with a brain free of ideological sludge realized that Kyoto was political bullshit. Even some of those that helped create it admit it's useless.
Attack countries like it was done in the middle age.
Oh, come now. The US armed forces haven't used a trebuchet in *years*.
- Pretend to be the protectors of the world, with power to do everything they want without being questioned.
We're not pretending.:-)
Disband space technology/health studies in favor of military studies.
Oh, please... We spend billions on basic research.
When I was young, I though about America as presented by Hollywood: land of opportunity, freedom and "the good ones".
Your foolish delusions are your problems. Sheesh. You're like Mac fans who believe the rumors about a 32" plasma screen iMac for $500 and then feel ripped off when it's not announced.
Now, every day, week, month that passes I just realize that you're becoming a really strange country where words like privacy and liberty mean nothing, and I find really hard to figure out if the US are still on the "good" side.
That's because you are still swallowing the Hollywood version of things.
I know it's a us centric site, and I'll be modded down, but someone had to say it:P
No, national self-flagellation is actively encouraged here. However, it is preferred if it isn't mired in ideological foofa like yours. You clearly have an outsider view, and seem hellbent on seeing the world in purely monochromatic good versus evil terms. Real life is about a billion times more complex than that.
Yeah, the US has done some shitty things, but so has every other country in the world and in history. That's no excuse, but all this criticism being heaped on us these days is a useless pack of bloody hypocrisy which you all can collectively take and stuff. Get your own houses in order.
...you mean you *WANT* some flowery piffle hacked out by a speech writer? And forget the fact that Kennedy's led to the stupidest boondoggle ever seen instead of a rational and incremental move into space.
Slashdot Mirror
And yet, oddly, there are no blondes.
Anyway, it's the covert camera phones that will usher in a whole new form of rudeness. :-( The tech industry seems singularly devoted these days to giving armaments to the assholes of the world.
invading the silence by utter (moo) rudeness.
*blink* I'm sorry, do you have mad cow disease? :-) What that a strange "udder" reference?
I say give Jackson the money to do Zelazny's Amber series.
There's nothing stupid about it at all. It's called a covert operation. It was done during the Cold War all the time. Someone is seduced into giving away the crown jewels. Yes, people in real life have done that.
Well it's better than dropping it in carbon freeze, I guess. Oh, wait. Different thread.
What probably happened was that Mac users are probably moving to the free Apple stuff like iCal and iChat and iWhatsis instead of Palm Desktop, and then by extension they'd be required by the userbase demand to make the Palms sync with the iApps. So they said, "Feh... whateva..."
I would almost wager on Apple putting a Palm sync feature into the next releases of their iApps. At this rate Apple might wind up making all the hardware AND the software for Macs.
Not that I'd turn my nose up at iBryce. C'mon, Apple. Everyone's grandma wants to do 3D rendering with deep texture editing.
Error checking on /.? Wouldn't that be like mixing matter and antimatter. Or dark matter. Or green cheese. Or whatever curve the cosmologists have fit to the observations this week.
Maybe Red Hat or Apple paid for the *virus*. :-)
One hopes it would bring up the fact that I stuffed the last three "helpful" sales people into the nearest wastebin for bothering me. Hey, I'd pay a couple pennies extra for that.
the handhelds also place orders and book change rooms.
They book change rooms? What are people doing in there? Having high tea? Holding a seance? Reading SCO legal documants?
I'm guessing this isn't coming to Wal*Mart's changerooms when they implement RFID.
I thought WalMart's changeroom were still under FEMA disaster quarantine? Eh, maybe that was something else...
SCO is the little gray raincloud that follows the Unix world around.
No. No they cannot.
What the world really needs is the Harvey Birdman movie!! Yeah!! With extreme violence! And extreme litigation! And lots of exclamation points! And extreme full frontal nudity. Especially the full frontal nudity! Hee hee heeeeee! Dangly bits!
Hey, I was born with a cool instrument.
Geez. I'm sorry. Please mod me down.
What are the chances that when I get older I'll need to go overseas for a one of these new transplants (Now rejection free! Two kidneys for price of one!) because the US has banned all stem cell research and related items.
We need more! Make more people! Quick! There's just not enough baby factories in the world. Look at China, for example. There's hardly anyone there! It's an unpopulated wasteland! More clones now! Rah rah rah sis boom bah!
But... but... but... I like math AND destruction!
But one nitpick. The Hussein government was irrelevant beyond potentially funding active WMD programs. Those could have made their way into terrorist hands without Hussein ever knowing about it, much less approving it. People act like he was some sort of omnipotent god who controlled every atom in Iraq. There's thought that the anthrax used in those attacks could have been leaked from labs in the US, so how secure would the Iraqi labs be?
That's a point no one ever thinks to talk about. they all say, "Hussein would not have given them to terrorists." The answer is, "So what?" Is it completely unimaginable that organized terrorists couldn't run an operation to get the WMDs by, shall we say, less official means? Whether the Sunii power structure had any direct ties was irrelevant.
2. You really can't answer this on your own? You really cannot see it as a different situation that calls for a different approach? I mean... really?
As for the rest, I read about history voraciously, and I never said the US was innocent, so spare me the lecture.
There was no reason for the comparison. It was a complete non sequitir. It existed in a vacuum.
Yes, lets look at my exact words: "No, national self-flagellation is actively encouraged here. However, it is preferred if it isn't mired in ideological foofa like yours. You clearly have an outsider view, and seem hellbent on seeing the world in purely monochromatic good versus evil terms. Real life is about a billion times more complex than that."
Where do I even mention Bush? I was talking to the original poster.
From this we know that you think the world is full of "grey areas" to paraphrase a little. From many statements by Bush we know he thinks that is not the case.
Can you not even see the non sequitur here?
Yes, I said REAL LIFE is grayscale. I DID NOT SAY Bush subscribes to this view. I never applied claimed my POV was in any way, shape or form aligned with Bush. I don't like Bush. I never even mentioned Bush. I accused the ORIGINAL POSTER of also having a mono-view.
What part of this is eluding you?
Apparently you have a major disconnect with the leadership of this country.
Yes. I don't agree with it.
I don't see where I made any error in reading or understanding your statements.
You seem incapable of comprehending that a citizen of the US can have a different point of view from Bush. And that, my dense friend, is what little ideologies are made of.
My post didn't perfectly align with the exotoxic political meme sludge in your head, so I must be on "the other side". Black hats and white hats. So simple and childish. Amazing.
we're just idiots, we should be serving your every desire...
I don't agree with the latter, and your post did nothing to disprove the former.
No more Flash ads.
What I did get was a popup dialog everytime there was Flash content bothering me because there isn't a web designer on the Earth who knows how to check for Flash capability before trying to serve it. And IE has no way to turn off the bloody dialogs that I can find.
Gods, just put the red X up and move on, IE! I don't care!!!
Apparently you have a major disconnect between the reading and thinking centers of your brain. I accused dcordeiro of seeing the world monochromatically. Pointing out that Bush (who I don't like) does the same is supposed to prove what, exactly? That dcordeiro is as stupid as Bush? OK. I shall accept that as your axiom.
That's it. He's left no room for those who think that terrorism is bad, but that US actions in retaliation are also bad. According to George W. Bush and his administration, the world is in fact monochomatically good vs evil.
That's nice. I didn't say Bush wasn't painting a monochrome picture. I said another poster was. Maybe if you try reading a little more slowly you won't miss the fine details.
That's a typical strawman put forth by people like you who simply cannot think anymore. There's no point in even arguing with you. Your mind is completely and absolutely DEAD from ideological toxins. All you have is irrational hatemongering. You think you think, but it's just an illusion of sentience at this point.
Personally, I think the next time there's a major disaster like a volcano or a hurricane, we ought to just keep our foriegn aid and assistence at home.
Not really. People don't respond to that much anymore. Do you see round the clock coverage of the Mars rovers?
- Boicot Kioto pact.
Anyone with a brain free of ideological sludge realized that Kyoto was political bullshit. Even some of those that helped create it admit it's useless.
Attack countries like it was done in the middle age.
Oh, come now. The US armed forces haven't used a trebuchet in *years*.
- Pretend to be the protectors of the world, with power to do everything they want without being questioned.
We're not pretending. :-)
Disband space technology/health studies in favor of military studies.
Oh, please... We spend billions on basic research.
When I was young, I though about America as presented by Hollywood: land of opportunity, freedom and "the good ones".
Your foolish delusions are your problems. Sheesh. You're like Mac fans who believe the rumors about a 32" plasma screen iMac for $500 and then feel ripped off when it's not announced.
Now, every day, week, month that passes I just realize that you're becoming a really strange country where words like privacy and liberty mean nothing, and I find really hard to figure out if the US are still on the "good" side.
That's because you are still swallowing the Hollywood version of things.
I know it's a us centric site, and I'll be modded down, but someone had to say it :P
No, national self-flagellation is actively encouraged here. However, it is preferred if it isn't mired in ideological foofa like yours. You clearly have an outsider view, and seem hellbent on seeing the world in purely monochromatic good versus evil terms. Real life is about a billion times more complex than that.
Yeah, the US has done some shitty things, but so has every other country in the world and in history. That's no excuse, but all this criticism being heaped on us these days is a useless pack of bloody hypocrisy which you all can collectively take and stuff. Get your own houses in order.
...you mean you *WANT* some flowery piffle hacked out by a speech writer? And forget the fact that Kennedy's led to the stupidest boondoggle ever seen instead of a rational and incremental move into space.
Send me $999, and I will personally see to it that a fresh Krispy Kreme donut is delivered right to your door.
I also have a special Donut Of The Month club for a flat fee of $5000 a year.