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The "Why is it that I can't even fart...PC hysteria" part was a quote from the parent, and the rest was me explaining why saying "If xyz" instead of "xyz" doesn't get you off the hook for saying some incendiary xyz without anything to back it up...
Why is it that I can't even fart in Slashdot's general direction without some extremist leftist fuckwit modding me troll or flamebait in a kneejerk fit of PC hysteria?
Well, if you happen to be a crazy trolling fucktard who, by the way preys on innocent children, then it only makes sense to mod your comments that way. Not that I know that to be true or have anything with which to back that up, but IF...
If you have a problem with what I just said then you deserve the troll/flamebait moderation. If not, then you're either an idiot or I described you perfectly and you're proud of it. Either way...
Without a price rise, it'd cost $5000 USD to have the luxury of playing just one song from the 80s under the 'renting' business model.
That $5000 gives you the luxury of playing just about ALL songs from the 80's + songs from the 90's and 00's as they came out, not to mention songs from previous decades. Whether it's worth it to you depends on your listening habits. It's worth ten dollars a month to me easily to have access to all the music I want on up to three computers. Plus, if you want to buy a track like on iTunes you *can* pay a dollar and get terms similar to what Apple gives you, including burning CDs.
Also, iTunes really does lock you in to using an iPod. Just about every other music store uses DRM'd WMA files. That means that you actually have a choice of player and service, as the tracks you buy will still play if you get a new music player. As for subscription services, it doesn't matter if there is vendor lock-in because if something goes wrong you can just get a subscription with some other service and instantly have all your music again.
Keep in mind that I was talking about you going to court to prove you're married. If you are on trial and you needed to prove that you're actually married to your wife, refusing to kiss her would probably be a bad start. Considering that it is customary to kiss during a wedding ceremony (and implied that you'll be doing much more soon after), you can't tell me that it's somehow an indecent request. Besides, we were talking about you fake marrying your roommates. You wouldn't have any proof at all that you're married!
Children, animals and dead people are considered unable to know what the hell is going on. Besides not being able to get married, they're also unable to be a part of *any* legally binding contract. "Kill-and-eat-me relations" fall under murder or assisted suicide, both of which are illegal. It's not really that slippery a slope at all.
And if you really want that tax rebate, next time pick a female friend to live with. In some states you'd be married automatically if you stayed together long enough. Luckily our system prevents people from fake marrying in this way by applying common sense (as judged by a court of law) to see if you were actually married. All the judge has to do is ask you to start making out with your friends to see that you're full of it.
How is it that you're accusing the guy of being racist on all the points where he complained about racists?
You don't state your race on a resume, which is good because it's none of their business, but:
a) many people have names that give it away and
b) the person you're responding to apparently does not find the reverse discrimination of which you speak to be particularly helpful, and since he explicitly said that he doesn't take advantage of it (on purpose), it doesn't help your point...
Apparently you are not human, because Japanese are human, and you clearly don't consider her to be one of "your" people. I would certainly consider her one of MY people. Unless you mean racists by "your people".
Wow. Megaracism there. I mean, he only MARRIED the woman and went on at length about how there was no issue to speak of except that other people had a problem with it...
A statement isn't racist just because it mentions race. It's a complicated subject, and saying "just don't talk about it" won't solve all of our problems.
From TFA:... In fact, they have this slogan that they are going to organize the world's information. Our slogan is that we are going to give people tools to let them organize the world's information. It's a slightly different approach, based on the platformization of all of our capabilities and not thinking of ourselves as the organizer.
So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point?
Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.
I've got all the same shopping, restaurants, and other conveniences that they have...
I sincerely doubt that. Chicago is alright, but it really can't compare to LA (for shopping or restaurants at least). I'm not sure there's anything else in the midwest that compares to Chicago so... yeah.
on the left coast.
I've never understood this. Does it follow that the east coast is the right coast? I guess that means you live in the mid-left, east?
Same screen multiplayer isn't a genre so much as a hack to bring MP games that have been enjoyed for years on the PC to the console market.
You clearly do not own a gamecube. Stuff like Mario Party, Mario Golf, Mario Baseball, Super Smash Bros., and the like wouldn't work at all over the internet. They just wouldn't be as fun if you couldn't talk to the other players.
Tell me how a game like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals would even work without people being in the same room together. (OK, this one is a single/multi-screen hybrid, but still).
Really, I'd say that multi-player games don't work at all on the PC except FPS, RTS and MMO, <flamebait>of which only RTS is worth playing</flamebait>.:-)
The first line of the post you responded to began with a comment about the first line of the bill of rights. The first ammendment begins: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"
If you think the accepted interpretation is revisionist, what do *you* think that means?
Hooray! Let's all buy all our old games again! Ooh! And let's play them on a screen that doesn't quite match the resolution of the original system and missing two buttons! WHAT A GREAT IDEA!
Yeah... I sold my gba...
If someone stole a nuke and it exploded in by any means then yes, the military would be blamed. If you got hit by a nuke that was booby trapped to go off when stolen I bet you wouldn't be happy...
Heh when I was in high school I wrote JOS - an OS that could do everything DOS could. It was only five lines of code too...
PRINT "JOS V1.0"
DO
INPUT "command", A$
SHELL A$
LOOP
I commented that you should understand people *from* your country who speak the same language as you. Also, your customer wasn't really speaking English, and he didn't understand your English either. So-called Ebonics is different, as it is a *dialect* of English rather than just words strung together in something like sentences. Not only that, but it's a very common dialect in the US and probably something like 99% similar to what most Americans speak. If that guy doesn't understand it I believe it's because he doesn't want to and not because he *can't*. And no I've never been to Georgia, but I'm sure I could communicate with someone from there in a customer service setting with no or very few problems!
Yeah, with Sprint, instead of the heavy Indian accent, you get a heavy Ebonics umm...accent? They're just as hard to understand and much less likely to be able to read.
I'm not sorry to be harsh when it's the truth based on not only my experience, but also that of everyone I know and everything I've read.
literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
female: 97% (1979 est.)
male: 97%
total population: 97%
There, now you've read something that contradicts your "truth". Most Americans know how to read. Maybe you'll be less harsh now? And by the way, if you can't understand people from your own country speaking the same language as you that's probably your fault rather than theirs. Next thing you'll tell me is that they should only hire members of your race with the same level of education as you (no higher or they'll talk too "smart") who live within 2 miles of you (but not in that part of town) to do customer service for you.
Any major that isn't aimed towards a job at the private sector shouldn't be offered as a major in college (minors are fine).
And why not? Colleges are for learning. If someone wants to major in women studies or philosophy or anything else, then who are you to say that they shouldn't be able to?
Someone trying this stunt in Texas would find that they owned a nice set of lead pellets, which were returned to them at high velocity.
And then the person who so graciously returned those pellets would find that the government doesn't take kindly to those who shoot at people with legal authorization to be where they are. Death penalty probably considering it's Texas we're talking about. Since you love your guns so much you can ask for a firing squad.:-P
Er... how are compiler switches and makefiles real computer science? Be it a button or a command line switch, it's all just an implementation of a utility and has nothing to do with the actual task being completed, let alone real computer science.
If Bush had told the nation that it was necessary to bomb Iraq for some reason, I don't think anyone would have cared more than people cared about when Clinton did it... but what he actually did was say that he needed to forcefully occupy Iraq and wipe its government (which I admit the world is better off without) off the face of the Earth and then have us pay for an expensive occupation and reconstruction, against the wishes of most of the rest of the world. Whether or not it was the right thing to do, you can't tell me that you think that it's the same thing...
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In the USA killing your would be legal executioner would be classified as first or second degree murder, depending on premeditation.
If you've reached that point it doesn't really matter...
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The "Why is it that I can't even fart...PC hysteria" part was a quote from the parent, and the rest was me explaining why saying "If xyz" instead of "xyz" doesn't get you off the hook for saying some incendiary xyz without anything to back it up...
Why is it that I can't even fart in Slashdot's general direction without some extremist leftist fuckwit modding me troll or flamebait in a kneejerk fit of PC hysteria? Well, if you happen to be a crazy trolling fucktard who, by the way preys on innocent children, then it only makes sense to mod your comments that way. Not that I know that to be true or have anything with which to back that up, but IF... If you have a problem with what I just said then you deserve the troll/flamebait moderation. If not, then you're either an idiot or I described you perfectly and you're proud of it. Either way...
Without a price rise, it'd cost $5000 USD to have the luxury of playing just one song from the 80s under the 'renting' business model. That $5000 gives you the luxury of playing just about ALL songs from the 80's + songs from the 90's and 00's as they came out, not to mention songs from previous decades. Whether it's worth it to you depends on your listening habits. It's worth ten dollars a month to me easily to have access to all the music I want on up to three computers. Plus, if you want to buy a track like on iTunes you *can* pay a dollar and get terms similar to what Apple gives you, including burning CDs. Also, iTunes really does lock you in to using an iPod. Just about every other music store uses DRM'd WMA files. That means that you actually have a choice of player and service, as the tracks you buy will still play if you get a new music player. As for subscription services, it doesn't matter if there is vendor lock-in because if something goes wrong you can just get a subscription with some other service and instantly have all your music again.
Keep in mind that I was talking about you going to court to prove you're married. If you are on trial and you needed to prove that you're actually married to your wife, refusing to kiss her would probably be a bad start. Considering that it is customary to kiss during a wedding ceremony (and implied that you'll be doing much more soon after), you can't tell me that it's somehow an indecent request. Besides, we were talking about you fake marrying your roommates. You wouldn't have any proof at all that you're married!
Children, animals and dead people are considered unable to know what the hell is going on. Besides not being able to get married, they're also unable to be a part of *any* legally binding contract. "Kill-and-eat-me relations" fall under murder or assisted suicide, both of which are illegal. It's not really that slippery a slope at all.
And if you really want that tax rebate, next time pick a female friend to live with. In some states you'd be married automatically if you stayed together long enough. Luckily our system prevents people from fake marrying in this way by applying common sense (as judged by a court of law) to see if you were actually married. All the judge has to do is ask you to start making out with your friends to see that you're full of it.
How is it that you're accusing the guy of being racist on all the points where he complained about racists?
You don't state your race on a resume, which is good because it's none of their business, but:
a) many people have names that give it away and
b) the person you're responding to apparently does not find the reverse discrimination of which you speak to be particularly helpful, and since he explicitly said that he doesn't take advantage of it (on purpose), it doesn't help your point...
Apparently you are not human, because Japanese are human, and you clearly don't consider her to be one of "your" people. I would certainly consider her one of MY people. Unless you mean racists by "your people".
Wow. Megaracism there. I mean, he only MARRIED the woman and went on at length about how there was no issue to speak of except that other people had a problem with it...
A statement isn't racist just because it mentions race. It's a complicated subject, and saying "just don't talk about it" won't solve all of our problems.
I think someone missed the joke...
From TFA: ... In fact, they have this slogan that they are going to organize the world's information. Our slogan is that we are going to give people tools to let them organize the world's information. It's a slightly different approach, based on the platformization of all of our capabilities and not thinking of ourselves as the organizer.
So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point?
Gates: Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.
I sincerely doubt that. Chicago is alright, but it really can't compare to LA (for shopping or restaurants at least). I'm not sure there's anything else in the midwest that compares to Chicago so... yeah.
on the left coast.
I've never understood this. Does it follow that the east coast is the right coast? I guess that means you live in the mid-left, east?
Same screen multiplayer isn't a genre so much as a hack to bring MP games that have been enjoyed for years on the PC to the console market.
:-)
You clearly do not own a gamecube. Stuff like Mario Party, Mario Golf, Mario Baseball, Super Smash Bros., and the like wouldn't work at all over the internet. They just wouldn't be as fun if you couldn't talk to the other players.
Tell me how a game like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals would even work without people being in the same room together. (OK, this one is a single/multi-screen hybrid, but still). Really, I'd say that multi-player games don't work at all on the PC except FPS, RTS and MMO, <flamebait>of which only RTS is worth playing</flamebait>.
Don't forget that eDonkey2000 also supports overnet, which is actually a more mature serverless network with more a lot of users.
More like 640x480x4...
Hey my school had an SF4M! That reminds me, I really should return that book I borrowed five years ago...
The first line of the post you responded to began with a comment about the first line of the bill of rights. The first ammendment begins: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" If you think the accepted interpretation is revisionist, what do *you* think that means?
Hooray! Let's all buy all our old games again! Ooh! And let's play them on a screen that doesn't quite match the resolution of the original system and missing two buttons! WHAT A GREAT IDEA! Yeah... I sold my gba...
If someone stole a nuke and it exploded in by any means then yes, the military would be blamed. If you got hit by a nuke that was booby trapped to go off when stolen I bet you wouldn't be happy...
Heh when I was in high school I wrote JOS - an OS that could do everything DOS could. It was only five lines of code too... PRINT "JOS V1.0" DO INPUT "command", A$ SHELL A$ LOOP
I commented that you should understand people *from* your country who speak the same language as you. Also, your customer wasn't really speaking English, and he didn't understand your English either. So-called Ebonics is different, as it is a *dialect* of English rather than just words strung together in something like sentences. Not only that, but it's a very common dialect in the US and probably something like 99% similar to what most Americans speak. If that guy doesn't understand it I believe it's because he doesn't want to and not because he *can't*. And no I've never been to Georgia, but I'm sure I could communicate with someone from there in a customer service setting with no or very few problems!
Yeah, with Sprint, instead of the heavy Indian accent, you get a heavy Ebonics umm...accent? They're just as hard to understand and much less likely to be able to read.
I'm not sorry to be harsh when it's the truth based on not only my experience, but also that of everyone I know and everything I've read.
From the CIA Factbook entry for the United States
literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
female: 97% (1979 est.)
male: 97%
total population: 97%
There, now you've read something that contradicts your "truth". Most Americans know how to read. Maybe you'll be less harsh now? And by the way, if you can't understand people from your own country speaking the same language as you that's probably your fault rather than theirs. Next thing you'll tell me is that they should only hire members of your race with the same level of education as you (no higher or they'll talk too "smart") who live within 2 miles of you (but not in that part of town) to do customer service for you.
Any major that isn't aimed towards a job at the private sector shouldn't be offered as a major in college (minors are fine). And why not? Colleges are for learning. If someone wants to major in women studies or philosophy or anything else, then who are you to say that they shouldn't be able to?
And then the person who so graciously returned those pellets would find that the government doesn't take kindly to those who shoot at people with legal authorization to be where they are. Death penalty probably considering it's Texas we're talking about. Since you love your guns so much you can ask for a firing squad. :-P
Three seasons already? Man... time flies when you avoid watching shitty bastardizations of your childhood.
Er... how are compiler switches and makefiles real computer science? Be it a button or a command line switch, it's all just an implementation of a utility and has nothing to do with the actual task being completed, let alone real computer science.
If Bush had told the nation that it was necessary to bomb Iraq for some reason, I don't think anyone would have cared more than people cared about when Clinton did it... but what he actually did was say that he needed to forcefully occupy Iraq and wipe its government (which I admit the world is better off without) off the face of the Earth and then have us pay for an expensive occupation and reconstruction, against the wishes of most of the rest of the world. Whether or not it was the right thing to do, you can't tell me that you think that it's the same thing...