How many users would mind a warning message saying "a program is trying to change your dial-up".
About 3 less than will just click "OK" without reading the text, which is in turn 90% more than would have any hope of understanding the text even if they did read it.
Personally I'm in Ireland and opposed to this blocking. This is a case of "The Savvy" preying on "The Clueless-Who-Should-Not-Be-Permitted-Online-Withou t-a-License-Proving-Trained-Ability", and more power to them I say.
The longer you keep that sig, the longer you expose yourself for the socially retarded twit you are.
Heh, the AC in the wrong likes to call names.
Has anyone bothered mapping the behaviour pattern they use when they realise that not only are they wrong, but also exposed as being wrong, and that their only defense is their anonymity?
Does he justify "Could of bean" as well? He should. They're both aspects the same phenomenon.
(The phenomenon being a low intelligence groupthink that parrots what it hears without understanding or questionning).
I won't deny that it could, just about, be spoken sarcastically. However it never is. Even if it were would be a horribly forced sarcasm, completely lacking in the creativity that is the hallmark of sarcasm that works.
*waves* Current Accenture code drone here. Just for the record, any employee of Accenture who includes the name "Andersen" (or even "Anderson") interchangeably in any communication internally or externally like you just did ("...Andersen helped the chicken use...") can expect a visit from the internal newspeak police at best, and (far more commonly) hideous termination (refer to tome IV of the employee contract for details) on surprisingly short notice...
You may have attempted to but it was not very convincingly argued I'm afraid.
Standing against you you have three main points (and a host of minor ones).
Firstly, there's the sheer stupidity of the way your corruption of a usefull phrase sounds, even if you do manage to proclaim it sarcastically.
Secondly there's the general use of the corrupted version by folks who (to put it kindly) are a little too low on the evolutionary ladder and/or (to use a favourite of yours) lacking in general education and intelligence to have mastered any form of sarcasm, never mind irony (though I still don't see how/why you dragged irony into this).
Finally there's the real killer of the whole debate. You're posting as an anonymous coward, hence rendering any input you might have void of any validity it might possibly posess (Not so much of an issue in this case its true).
Grow some balls (or ovaries. Your choice.) If its not worth putting your "Karma" on the line for then it's not worth saying.
Generally people worth speaking with will be able to use the phrase correctly, rather than parroting whatever halfwitted mangling of english they last picked up from Eminem (Though Shania Twain is also guilty of this particular offense).
Face it. "Could care less" is an idiocy, matched only by "Could of been", created by illiterate trash talking halfwits and defended only by anonymously posting trolls (also generally halfwits).
Project A-ko (the first movie) at number 4 is my guilty little secret.
I'm also a severe Rumiko Takahashi addict, which does tend to lessen my standing in the "serious" anime/manga circles, but *shrugs* I just love 'em all.
Dude,
Godwins law is: "As a thread continues the probability of someone making a Nazi/Hitler reference/comparisson tends towards 1".
The only way to violate this law is to have an infinitely long discussion thread with no refences to Hitler or the Nazi regime. As this is impossible it becomes clear that there is no possible means to violate Godwins law.
Note also that Godwins law makes no judgements on the matter of the correctness of such a posting. It merely points out that it will eventually occur.
And for the pedants, yes, its a paraphrase, yes I could probably have googled for the exact wording, yes, such a search would have taken less time than this note to pedants, but strict adherance to exact wording is just one more element of fascist control.
A huge cache of munitions originally intended to be used as a giant army-stopping mine that had been left undisturbed since WW2 recently detonated without human intervention in France. Thankfully there were no witnesses particularly close at the time (Though this could only be determined by going door to door asking "Anyone missing?".
Just because it hasn't gone boom _yet_ doesn't mean that it's not going to tomorrow.
On the other hand, I really, really, really want to see a 3km tall wall of mud. (From a safe height and distance obviously.)
Given that at the time our electricity bill was usually about £5 ($8-ish) (summer) to £10 ($16-ish) (winter) every 2 months and was driven primarilly by lights to do homework/read by, that extra $5 a month (probably a lot more here given the general diferances in various fuel and energy costs) would have been significant.
A very valid point, and yet one more reason that, should I ever have kids (dear $deity say it ain't so) they will be rural raised regardless of my income.
Do you think it would be fair to say the Rural poor have more freedom than the Urban poor, given that that includes the freedom to fall further?
Who keeps modding this asswipe +1 Interesting? You must have a lot of (rich) friends.
1. Grow some balls (or ovaries if thats your thing). If its worth saying, its worth puting your name to it.
2. I'm mopre curious as to who keeps hitting me with "Overrated" when a post is already at 0.
3. I know no-one on slashdot. If I see a story or comment I feel its worth responding to, to which I have a genuine knowledge/insight and I feel like it then I post.
4. The only thing I ever say for mods, regardless of how much I agree/disagree with them is to remind them to browse at -1 to catch insightfull AC's (rare) and moderation abuses (common).
I believe Pratchett through Vimes also makes the point that the very poorest go barefoot.
Being able to afford a crap car indicates that you're still quite a long way from rock bottom.
When you can no longer afford that cars running/repair costs, cannot get to work, cannot live in an area with public transport or jobs in walking distance... Only then do you know poverty.
When you hit that rock hard ground level, where the bottom rung of the ladder is several feet out of reach and there is nothing you can do to get started on it, and your entire familly is down there with you...
When you have learned what weeds are edible, how to snare a rabbit, how to keep wild apples fresh for winter, how to make preserves of wild berries, how to raise chickens from fertilised eggs begged from the farmer who's land you live on, how to set lines and fishtraps you don't have to stay with... Not because you want to, but because this is the only way to keep your painfully large familly fed without sacrificing your kids schoolbooks and uniforms...
I was 8 when we hit bottom. I was 16 before my parents had a TV again. I was lucky my parents put in such effort as they did to minimise the harshness of life at that time.
Comparatively well off now, yes, but only after years of toil and doing without, and (to be completely honest) a fair sized shovelling of luck to get enough footing for my parents and familly to get moving again.
As a person who grew up in a familly that kept a close watch on the electrical meter to ensure we didn't go over budget, and yet had parents pridefull enough to consistantly turn away handouts and christmas baskets on the grounds that there were other people who needed them more (I'd still like to know who) and lived most of my childhod in a three room house in the country (which had been abandoned for generations before my parents (with such aid as may be offered by a 6 year old and an 8 year old) made it semi-habitable using materials scavenged from derelict farm buildings) 5 miles from the nearest bus route without a car for the majority of the time there, I know damn well exactly what poor is. And anyone who can afford to buy (and blithely add to the electrical bill with) tv's and computers is not realisticaly poor.
Apologies for the rant, but you just hit a button with your closing observation.
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How many users would mind a warning message saying "a program is trying to change your dial-up".
u t-a-License-Proving-Trained-Ability", and more power to them I say.
About 3 less than will just click "OK" without reading the text, which is in turn 90% more than would have any hope of understanding the text even if they did read it.
Personally I'm in Ireland and opposed to this blocking. This is a case of "The Savvy" preying on "The Clueless-Who-Should-Not-Be-Permitted-Online-Witho
The longer you keep that sig, the longer you expose yourself for the socially retarded twit you are.
Heh, the AC in the wrong likes to call names.
Has anyone bothered mapping the behaviour pattern they use when they realise that not only are they wrong, but also exposed as being wrong, and that their only defense is their anonymity?
Does he justify "Could of bean" as well? He should. They're both aspects the same phenomenon.
(The phenomenon being a low intelligence groupthink that parrots what it hears without understanding or questionning).
I won't deny that it could, just about, be spoken sarcastically. However it never is. Even if it were would be a horribly forced sarcasm, completely lacking in the creativity that is the hallmark of sarcasm that works.
An AC, posting in support of me? Damn. The internal conflicts this causes me may tear me apart...
In reply to your sig : --
Abusing the clean decent honesty of GMail to promote a pyramid scam, breaching the rules of the pyramid scam in the process?
Have you no shame at all?
*waves*
Current Accenture code drone here. Just for the record, any employee of Accenture who includes the name "Andersen" (or even "Anderson") interchangeably in any communication internally or externally like you just did ("...Andersen helped the chicken use...") can expect a visit from the internal newspeak police at best, and (far more commonly) hideous termination (refer to tome IV of the employee contract for details) on surprisingly short notice...
You may have attempted to but it was not very convincingly argued I'm afraid.
Standing against you you have three main points (and a host of minor ones).
Firstly, there's the sheer stupidity of the way your corruption of a usefull phrase sounds, even if you do manage to proclaim it sarcastically.
Secondly there's the general use of the corrupted version by folks who (to put it kindly) are a little too low on the evolutionary ladder and/or (to use a favourite of yours) lacking in general education and intelligence to have mastered any form of sarcasm, never mind irony (though I still don't see how/why you dragged irony into this).
Finally there's the real killer of the whole debate. You're posting as an anonymous coward, hence rendering any input you might have void of any validity it might possibly posess (Not so much of an issue in this case its true).
Grow some balls (or ovaries. Your choice.) If its not worth putting your "Karma" on the line for then it's not worth saying.
Dear gaaawd!!!! Won't someone think of the chyyyyldruun?!?
Generally people worth speaking with will be able to use the phrase correctly, rather than parroting whatever halfwitted mangling of english they last picked up from Eminem (Though Shania Twain is also guilty of this particular offense).
Face it. "Could care less" is an idiocy, matched only by "Could of been", created by illiterate trash talking halfwits and defended only by anonymously posting trolls (also generally halfwits).
Also, I seem to recall, in Pratchett (plus some less funny guys)s Science of the Discworld...
Akira was the first anime I ever saw, followed the same night by a _lot_ of dominion tank police...
Now I have 70+ DVD's, 40+ tapes and more vcd's and files of unlicensed fansubs than I care to keep track of.
However, my favourite movies are all items generally considered 2nd rate.
Patlabor 1 (Patlabor OVA)
Beautiful Dreamer (Urusei Yatsura OVA)
Castle of Cagliostro (Lupin)
These three movies I can watch almost endlessly.
Project A-ko (the first movie) at number 4 is my guilty little secret.
I'm also a severe Rumiko Takahashi addict, which does tend to lessen my standing in the "serious" anime/manga circles, but *shrugs* I just love 'em all.
Dude,
Godwins law is:
"As a thread continues the probability of someone making a Nazi/Hitler reference/comparisson tends towards 1".
The only way to violate this law is to have an infinitely long discussion thread with no refences to Hitler or the Nazi regime. As this is impossible it becomes clear that there is no possible means to violate Godwins law.
Note also that Godwins law makes no judgements on the matter of the correctness of such a posting. It merely points out that it will eventually occur.
And for the pedants, yes, its a paraphrase, yes I could probably have googled for the exact wording, yes, such a search would have taken less time than this note to pedants, but strict adherance to exact wording is just one more element of fascist control.
You forgot "Mushroom Inspired"...
At laaaaasst! The Gig'o'mail is miiiiine!
Its a damn sight better than seizing peoples property to develop and build daisycutters...
A huge cache of munitions originally intended to be used as a giant army-stopping mine that had been left undisturbed since WW2 recently detonated without human intervention in France. Thankfully there were no witnesses particularly close at the time (Though this could only be determined by going door to door asking "Anyone missing?".
Just because it hasn't gone boom _yet_ doesn't mean that it's not going to tomorrow.
On the other hand, I really, really, really want to see a 3km tall wall of mud. (From a safe height and distance obviously.)
You made me read all the way through that just to meta-moderate your funny moderation as, yes, actually funny. Damn you and your cold chunk of poison!
So being able to speak fluent english is proof, or part of the proof, that you're not a terrorist?
Yeah, I can see how that works...
Dunno about that now...
Over here we draft no-one, and there's a childrens allowance segment to social security.
Given that at the time our electricity bill was usually about £5 ($8-ish) (summer) to £10 ($16-ish) (winter) every 2 months and was driven primarilly by lights to do homework/read by, that extra $5 a month (probably a lot more here given the general diferances in various fuel and energy costs) would have been significant.
A very valid point, and yet one more reason that, should I ever have kids (dear $deity say it ain't so) they will be rural raised regardless of my income.
Do you think it would be fair to say the Rural poor have more freedom than the Urban poor, given that that includes the freedom to fall further?
Who keeps modding this asswipe +1 Interesting? You must have a lot of (rich) friends.
1. Grow some balls (or ovaries if thats your thing). If its worth saying, its worth puting your name to it.
2. I'm mopre curious as to who keeps hitting me with "Overrated" when a post is already at 0.
3. I know no-one on slashdot. If I see a story or comment I feel its worth responding to, to which I have a genuine knowledge/insight and I feel like it then I post.
4. The only thing I ever say for mods, regardless of how much I agree/disagree with them is to remind them to browse at -1 to catch insightfull AC's (rare) and moderation abuses (common).
I believe Pratchett through Vimes also makes the point that the very poorest go barefoot.
Being able to afford a crap car indicates that you're still quite a long way from rock bottom.
When you can no longer afford that cars running/repair costs, cannot get to work, cannot live in an area with public transport or jobs in walking distance... Only then do you know poverty.
When you hit that rock hard ground level, where the bottom rung of the ladder is several feet out of reach and there is nothing you can do to get started on it, and your entire familly is down there with you...
When you have learned what weeds are edible, how to snare a rabbit, how to keep wild apples fresh for winter, how to make preserves of wild berries, how to raise chickens from fertilised eggs begged from the farmer who's land you live on, how to set lines and fishtraps you don't have to stay with...
Not because you want to, but because this is the only way to keep your painfully large familly fed without sacrificing your kids schoolbooks and uniforms...
I was 8 when we hit bottom. I was 16 before my parents had a TV again. I was lucky my parents put in such effort as they did to minimise the harshness of life at that time.
Comparatively well off now, yes, but only after years of toil and doing without, and (to be completely honest) a fair sized shovelling of luck to get enough footing for my parents and familly to get moving again.
As a person who grew up in a familly that kept a close watch on the electrical meter to ensure we didn't go over budget, and yet had parents pridefull enough to consistantly turn away handouts and christmas baskets on the grounds that there were other people who needed them more (I'd still like to know who) and lived most of my childhod in a three room house in the country (which had been abandoned for generations before my parents (with such aid as may be offered by a 6 year old and an 8 year old) made it semi-habitable using materials scavenged from derelict farm buildings) 5 miles from the nearest bus route without a car for the majority of the time there, I know damn well exactly what poor is. And anyone who can afford to buy (and blithely add to the electrical bill with) tv's and computers is not realisticaly poor.
Apologies for the rant, but you just hit a button with your closing observation.