Whenever a Labour policy was announced the only question that came to mind was "How much is this going to cost me?" and it was usually quite a lot.
And while your bleating is cute, they had over a decade of the best economic conditions I've seen in my lifetime, and still managed to screw up the economy. And that's all before you take into account their abhorrent social policies - ASBOs, CCTV, ID cards, just to name a few.
I'm fine with you not voting for the Tory party (I never have), but voting labour is just as bad, if not worse, than you try to make out voting conservative to be.
Yup. It's a bad system in schools as well. A kid with few to no stars may decide the system just doesn't really seem to apply to him or her, and it becomes a really effective demotivator.
But in the workplace?
Hell no, I am not a child. Maybe if you have an office full of recent grads that need to be corralled into behaving themselves, but not in an engineering lab with experience and self-imposed discipline.
You make money out of making everyone else's life worse, but only just enough that they still put up with it to watch their shows.
People are learning how to cut you out of their lives. I hope your whole industry shrivels and dies as a result of people realising that you and people like you just make everything worse, insinuating yourselves into every aspect of human life and communications like a plague, a plague of serial liars.
Heh. You may joke but there's considerable poverty in some of the more remote communities in Oz, this could be a considerable educational boost to some of the deprived, rural towns I passed through on my travels here a couple of years back.
That sort of fits in with the ad that was served to me in the middle of TFA. No, this isn't a joke (well, the site may be, but I haven't been there, but the ad is real). It was this -
"The End-Time is Here! www.the-end.com 2008 was God's last warning. 2012 is economic collapse & WW III"
Eh, most men I know go clothes shopping rarely, and by themselves. The ones that have the wife or girlfriend along are usually the ones that care about it the least, so let her pick because that way is less trouble.
Me, I pick things I like the look of, usually these are black things.
I guess in the end the jokes on them - slashdot is no longer somewhere that the technology drivers come, their continued nonsense will devalue it to the point it becomes useless even for their perverted needs.
There are other places now, none I've found yet is quite was slashdot was, but there are other places to get tech news of various flavours that don't have these issues.
Unfortunately it's not just the comments either, the increasing frequency of slashvertisements, more blatant every time, also makes me sad.
Not that I like borrowing phraseology from/b/, but it seems to be true. Half of slashdot these days is people yelling 'shill' at each other, and that's because people like those you mention are on here, being paid shills.
Marketers, brand managers, social networking managers, image managers, whatever you want to call them, can and will insert themselves into every aspect of human communication, exploit it for their own short term gain, and ruin it.
Bill Hicks came right out and told them to kill themselves. I would ask that first they look inside and ask themselves if being a professional liar is what they wanted to be when they grew up, you know, a complete scumbag that undermines faith in humanity. Because that's what they are, make no mistake, a drain on society and a waste of human flesh.
And if that doesn't wake them from their behaviour then, well, go watch some Bill Hicks.
Not taking on people because they can't afford it?
It's probably good that that happens. Hell, it's a positive that they're not taking someone on (who may then organise their life around the job) if they think they'll have to ditch them again at short notice.
Enlightened countries realise workers need rights too, and the right to remain employed so long as they fulfil their end of the deal and the company can afford it, that's a good right.
I agree there should be no barrier to getting rid of useless people, or making people redundant in a downturn in the business's fortunes, but that's as far as it goes. Kicking someone out 'just because' is unreasonable. Sorry if you feel it's your money, but it's also their life.
"those are certainly arsehat reasons to fire someone, but I would argue that really that is their right it is their money and their business, if they want to run it into the ground it is their right, just as it would be the employees right not to work there for half the pay."
And that's where you disagree with modern (and I would say enlightened) labour laws in places other than the US. This sort of thing is the reason I (and many others) would never consider going there to work. People are kept in a state of fear for their employment, work stupidly long hours, take little to no vacation, frankly it's hell.
Somehow, places like Australia and the UK that have more reasonable employee protections haven't completely fallen apart yet.
Scientific dissenters are fine, dissenters are great in fact!
We don't have masses of those though, we have people invested in denying it at any cost, who continue to repeat known-incorrect talking points and play the media game. There's a difference between honest dissent, honest scepticism and dishonest denialism.
"Barbara, not Barbie" should be pitied, as (s)he's clearly not competent enough to get linux running.
15 years ago that might ahve been a reasonable complaint. Nowadays? It tells me that they shouldn't be employed in the tech sector, or posting to a tech site. If they can't do something that incredibly simple then they're next to useless as far as I can tell.
Politics of OS choice aside, that's just someone that is incapable of the simplest task, and should think twice about telling the world how dumb they are.
If you can't make any of these things work then you should probably look at the common factor - you.
You are clearly incompetent to be posting on a tech site.
No, no, I'm aware that this is a discussion about desktop usability, that doesn't matter. If you can't even get a modern linux up and running then you are incompetent and should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.
This is one of the major objections to the London one - we were sold it under the lie that it would be a money-making exercise, of benefit to all. Of course back then it was only going to cost 2.5 to 3 billion as well, not the 9 billion that has actually been spent.
There are so many objectionable things about this festival of excess that I can't list them all without getting angry.
This has been a farce from day 1, starting with the chronically underestimated budget for the whole thing, and the unfounded, misguided claims that it would be profitable for the country and spark unprecedented 'urban renewal', as well as a renaissance in sports for everyone in the country as people became inspired.
As each and every one of these things has been debunked, the fanatics and toadies have continued to shout them, just louder. The level of denial here is incredible. The best one I've heard so far was putting the lie to the idea that it would get the population back into sports. Studies have shown that this doesn't happen in host countries, for the olympics, the commonwealth games or whatever the event. When faced with this the organisers just repeated their feelgood bunk about how inspirational the whole thing was, despite having just been shown unequivocally that the opposite is true.
So now surface to air missiles? Well I suppose a gathering that big could be a target. I know what londoners will be saying though, the same as they said from the start (when I was living there) - "We never wanted them in the first place".
I made the mistake of looking up the price of a car I was interested in on their US site a while back. When I realised I was looking in the wrong place and found the australia site, it was a straight double in price.
This is not just a question of handedness, shipping and volume. These cars already come in right-hand drive because of Japan and Europe, shipping does not cost $30,000, and people buy a lot of Toyota's in Australia.
It seems to be very variable by person. Maybe because I started my account in the UK I fall under different rules?
What they won't send me are computer games that have been banned here, so they must be applying some rules, but I can get electronics, books and most games.
I don't own any apple stuff, but whenever I've done price conversions between the US and Australian prices on the Apple website, they've been pretty close. I don't think you can point to apple on this one. Maybe third party resellers of Apple stuff?
A novel here usually costs in the 20-25 AUD range. This is because there is a special book tax meant to protect Australian local publishers. It's ludicrous.
Everyone, and I do mean pretty much everyone, now orders books, electronics and computer games from overseas, usually the US or UK, because the likes of Amazon can sell you the item and ship it to you for half the price of buying local.
Still, if you were in 1920s Germany out to buy a loaf of bread with your wheelbarrow full of paper script, I think you might pause to wonder wtf was going on.
A screwed economy is a screwed economy, whether you use shiny rocks, bits or paper to transact. If you think the inter-war basket case that was germany is entirely down to its choice of currency... well, that seems a bit much to me.
No, I don't believe that money should be treated that way.
Yes, I know, that much is obvious. I was simply saying that many people (myself included) have given this some thought and think that the status quo is far from desirable, but far better than what is proposed by goldbugs.
I don't care what's in Fort Knox, it doesn't affect me, I do care that money supply can grow when needed, and be adjusted as the economy demands, and encourage moderate spending rather than hoarding based on expectation of future growth. I know these things are anathema to you and people that think like you, I just want you to appreciate that some of us have heard your arguments and disagree.
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At least it's not labour in power.
Whenever a Labour policy was announced the only question that came to mind was "How much is this going to cost me?" and it was usually quite a lot.
And while your bleating is cute, they had over a decade of the best economic conditions I've seen in my lifetime, and still managed to screw up the economy. And that's all before you take into account their abhorrent social policies - ASBOs, CCTV, ID cards, just to name a few.
I'm fine with you not voting for the Tory party (I never have), but voting labour is just as bad, if not worse, than you try to make out voting conservative to be.
Yup. It's a bad system in schools as well. A kid with few to no stars may decide the system just doesn't really seem to apply to him or her, and it becomes a really effective demotivator.
But in the workplace?
Hell no, I am not a child. Maybe if you have an office full of recent grads that need to be corralled into behaving themselves, but not in an engineering lab with experience and self-imposed discipline.
You make money out of making everyone else's life worse, but only just enough that they still put up with it to watch their shows.
People are learning how to cut you out of their lives. I hope your whole industry shrivels and dies as a result of people realising that you and people like you just make everything worse, insinuating yourselves into every aspect of human life and communications like a plague, a plague of serial liars.
Heh. You may joke but there's considerable poverty in some of the more remote communities in Oz, this could be a considerable educational boost to some of the deprived, rural towns I passed through on my travels here a couple of years back.
That sort of fits in with the ad that was served to me in the middle of TFA. No, this isn't a joke (well, the site may be, but I haven't been there, but the ad is real). It was this -
"The End-Time is Here!
www.the-end.com
2008 was God's last warning. 2012 is economic collapse & WW III"
Some people are crazy.
I would go as far as to say that if there's anything you consider to be of value on facebook, then you're doing it wrong.
It's just idle conversation and the odd photograph that you probably already have somewhere else, isn't it?
Eh, most men I know go clothes shopping rarely, and by themselves. The ones that have the wife or girlfriend along are usually the ones that care about it the least, so let her pick because that way is less trouble.
Me, I pick things I like the look of, usually these are black things.
I guess in the end the jokes on them - slashdot is no longer somewhere that the technology drivers come, their continued nonsense will devalue it to the point it becomes useless even for their perverted needs.
I think you're probably right there. Shame.
There are other places now, none I've found yet is quite was slashdot was, but there are other places to get tech news of various flavours that don't have these issues.
Unfortunately it's not just the comments either, the increasing frequency of slashvertisements, more blatant every time, also makes me sad.
This is the cancer that is killing slashdot....
Not that I like borrowing phraseology from /b/, but it seems to be true. Half of slashdot these days is people yelling 'shill' at each other, and that's because people like those you mention are on here, being paid shills.
Marketers, brand managers, social networking managers, image managers, whatever you want to call them, can and will insert themselves into every aspect of human communication, exploit it for their own short term gain, and ruin it.
Bill Hicks came right out and told them to kill themselves. I would ask that first they look inside and ask themselves if being a professional liar is what they wanted to be when they grew up, you know, a complete scumbag that undermines faith in humanity. Because that's what they are, make no mistake, a drain on society and a waste of human flesh.
And if that doesn't wake them from their behaviour then, well, go watch some Bill Hicks.
Not taking on people because they can't afford it?
It's probably good that that happens. Hell, it's a positive that they're not taking someone on (who may then organise their life around the job) if they think they'll have to ditch them again at short notice.
Enlightened countries realise workers need rights too, and the right to remain employed so long as they fulfil their end of the deal and the company can afford it, that's a good right.
I agree there should be no barrier to getting rid of useless people, or making people redundant in a downturn in the business's fortunes, but that's as far as it goes. Kicking someone out 'just because' is unreasonable. Sorry if you feel it's your money, but it's also their life.
"those are certainly arsehat reasons to fire someone, but I would argue that really that is their right it is their money and their business, if they want to run it into the ground it is their right, just as it would be the employees right not to work there for half the pay."
And that's where you disagree with modern (and I would say enlightened) labour laws in places other than the US. This sort of thing is the reason I (and many others) would never consider going there to work. People are kept in a state of fear for their employment, work stupidly long hours, take little to no vacation, frankly it's hell.
Somehow, places like Australia and the UK that have more reasonable employee protections haven't completely fallen apart yet.
Scientific dissenters are fine, dissenters are great in fact!
We don't have masses of those though, we have people invested in denying it at any cost, who continue to repeat known-incorrect talking points and play the media game. There's a difference between honest dissent, honest scepticism and dishonest denialism.
"Barbara, not Barbie" should be pitied, as (s)he's clearly not competent enough to get linux running.
15 years ago that might ahve been a reasonable complaint. Nowadays? It tells me that they shouldn't be employed in the tech sector, or posting to a tech site. If they can't do something that incredibly simple then they're next to useless as far as I can tell.
Politics of OS choice aside, that's just someone that is incapable of the simplest task, and should think twice about telling the world how dumb they are.
If you can't make any of these things work then you should probably look at the common factor - you.
You are clearly incompetent to be posting on a tech site.
No, no, I'm aware that this is a discussion about desktop usability, that doesn't matter. If you can't even get a modern linux up and running then you are incompetent and should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.
This is one of the major objections to the London one - we were sold it under the lie that it would be a money-making exercise, of benefit to all. Of course back then it was only going to cost 2.5 to 3 billion as well, not the 9 billion that has actually been spent.
There are so many objectionable things about this festival of excess that I can't list them all without getting angry.
This has been a farce from day 1, starting with the chronically underestimated budget for the whole thing, and the unfounded, misguided claims that it would be profitable for the country and spark unprecedented 'urban renewal', as well as a renaissance in sports for everyone in the country as people became inspired.
As each and every one of these things has been debunked, the fanatics and toadies have continued to shout them, just louder. The level of denial here is incredible. The best one I've heard so far was putting the lie to the idea that it would get the population back into sports. Studies have shown that this doesn't happen in host countries, for the olympics, the commonwealth games or whatever the event. When faced with this the organisers just repeated their feelgood bunk about how inspirational the whole thing was, despite having just been shown unequivocally that the opposite is true.
So now surface to air missiles? Well I suppose a gathering that big could be a target. I know what londoners will be saying though, the same as they said from the start (when I was living there) - "We never wanted them in the first place".
I made the mistake of looking up the price of a car I was interested in on their US site a while back. When I realised I was looking in the wrong place and found the australia site, it was a straight double in price.
This is not just a question of handedness, shipping and volume. These cars already come in right-hand drive because of Japan and Europe, shipping does not cost $30,000, and people buy a lot of Toyota's in Australia.
It's just a giant rip off
It seems to be very variable by person. Maybe because I started my account in the UK I fall under different rules?
What they won't send me are computer games that have been banned here, so they must be applying some rules, but I can get electronics, books and most games.
Apple?
I don't own any apple stuff, but whenever I've done price conversions between the US and Australian prices on the Apple website, they've been pretty close. I don't think you can point to apple on this one. Maybe third party resellers of Apple stuff?
Don't get me started on books in Australia!
A novel here usually costs in the 20-25 AUD range. This is because there is a special book tax meant to protect Australian local publishers. It's ludicrous.
Everyone, and I do mean pretty much everyone, now orders books, electronics and computer games from overseas, usually the US or UK, because the likes of Amazon can sell you the item and ship it to you for half the price of buying local.
A screwed economy is a screwed economy, whether you use shiny rocks, bits or paper to transact. If you think the inter-war basket case that was germany is entirely down to its choice of currency... well, that seems a bit much to me.
Clearly you've never been to Western Australia, where the black swan is more common than the white!
Yes, I know, that much is obvious. I was simply saying that many people (myself included) have given this some thought and think that the status quo is far from desirable, but far better than what is proposed by goldbugs.
I don't care what's in Fort Knox, it doesn't affect me, I do care that money supply can grow when needed, and be adjusted as the economy demands, and encourage moderate spending rather than hoarding based on expectation of future growth. I know these things are anathema to you and people that think like you, I just want you to appreciate that some of us have heard your arguments and disagree.