How is "I feel sorry for you" in any way a relevant reply to what he just said?
My anger is managed well, but that doesn't mean I'm not angry, it just means that I don't physically act it out. But I'd be willing to make an exception in your case...
You should change your handle to Dweeb, you are no Geek.
Violence is not always the answer, but when it's impossible to have a battle of wits with such a brainwashed individual as yourself, there's really nothing else a dummy like you understands.
I wouldn't say I'm violent, but I don't suffer intolerant fuckheads like you with much patience.
Can't beat me so you're resorting to picking apart my choice of words? How lame.
Being from severely Christian families, and being young, there was no way to have a serious conversation with our parents about responsible sexuality. See that law of unintended consequences in action there with your bullshit social conservative mentality. Maybe I should have had sex with the farm animals instead? Would that have been better for you.
There was no ignorance of biology, simply bad aim.
Since 20 years ago, when has anyone but myself been supporting me? I've paid probably a million dollars in taxes in the last 20 years, so if anyone's supporting anyone, that would be me supporting you.
Is that all you have for an argument, or is your world view really that small?
I really don't care what you believe, but it's very much the truth. I guess I could show you my resume, but you probably wouldn't believe that either. (Hell, looking back at it, I'm pretty amazed myself that I got this far in the corporate world with nothing but a GED, some college, and a lot of determination.)
As far as the "beat some sense" comment, so it's only OK if some idiot Tea Partier like Ted Nugent said it? I dunno where else to go with this sub-argument, but it strikes me as hypocritical.
I view the social safety net as a great accomplishment of our species. Nothing ever goes as planned. To me, the whole point of a "society" is to increase the living conditions of all who partake in that society. I understand and fully support that now that I've gotten my shit together that I have to pay into that same society that helped me when I was in need. I don't hide behind the facade of "the taxpayers" when I make my point either. I'm a tax payer, you are a tax payer, and a whole bunch of other people are taxpayers. Right now, I just hope that the miniscule amount of my taxes that go towards people in need of assistance are going to people using it as a temporary jumping point to get their lives together too, and not the stereotypical lazy slob. You act as though most of the money you pay in taxes goes to welfare recipients. It's a fleeting drop in the bucket compared to funding the "privatized" wars/industries/prisons that we've been suckered into, so I'm not sure why you're assigning it so much importance.
I don't see where 'pride' fits into the issue either, at that point it's do or die. I could have given up, I could have turned to crime, but instead I took the money essentially as a loan against my future. I've paid that money back about a hundred fold since then too, so you've got zero right to give me any shit.
And your weirdest points: Where was the mom? Where was my family?
Well, the mom was right next to me for the first few years, finishing her senior year in high school, working a job, and we both made it work. We eventually broke up, but are friends these days.
My family? They went with the standard conservative Christian Republican mindset: Ostracism. It was all on me since I'd 'embarrassed' the family by having a child out of wedlock. Made me turn against that whole mindset. It is evil at it's core.
I have no memories of me being in the uterus. If I'd have been aborted, I'd have never known.
To me, consciousness and memory define "person", you have to have thought and memory to destroy before you are really killing a person. First trimester, I have zero problem with it. Second trimester, it's questionable to me, but it is not my place to insist others do as I feel. Third trimester, it's gotta be for the health of the mother, or if the fetus is non-viable (Like will be horribly deformed, retarded, or just won't live more than a few hours/minutes, etc.).
And the mother ALWAYS comes first. A baby is just 'potential', a mother is 'instantiated fact'.
"Most important question in politics evar"?? Give it a rest, it's not even close. My blinders are not on, it sounds like yours are.
In a super selfish mode, I look at it as "Kill your kid? Sure go ahead, more food and resources available for my kids then." There's far more to the discussion than that, but I don't get the people freaking out "Wurst thang evar!" about it. Come talk to me when people want to kill newborns and I'll be on your side.
Look in a few history books for examples of water-monopoly societies - that's the worst thing ever to me.
No, I most certainly do not support censorship in any way. I am not even against "Fire!" being yelled in a movie theater. If the herd-minded panic and trample themselves, that's their own fault. I view it as evolution in action.
"Moral" is such a nebulous word that I don't use it, it means whatever the user means, but does not transmit the meaning. So I'm not sure what you mean there.
Just because I may be personally against a thing, does not mean that I think there should be a law created to force others to act just like me.
My daughter came around before I was financially ready to have kids. (Which happens to a LOT of people) If it wasn't for food stamps, we'd have starved. Having a kid to support put me in hyperdrive. I learned as much as I could at college, quit to start a company, company luckily went pretty good (Till investors chewed me up like the naive kid I was at the time.), still got enough money out of the deal to pay off my student loans, put a down payment on a house, and the experience was better than a stupid degree for getting me into the corporate world. (They want results, not pieces of paper) I've since worked for several Fortune 500 companies, architecting huge projects. The peak taxes I've paid in a year (The year I got bought out of my company) was about $100,000. So I've more than paid back the food stamps and the time welfare paid to fix my car, although the guy who owned the repair place was such a "republican" so he threw a big fit about it being government money and really did a shitty job.
So shove your "Let's feed on the poor" up your ass. Next time it will be you that is poor. This life or the next.
The "Well if they can't afford to have kids, they shouldn't have kids" is the lamest cop-out of a non-realistic solution to a wide-spread problem. You ought get your ass kicked for saying something so stupid and selfish.
Basically you are saying my daughter should have been taken away from me back in the day? You suck shit. I raised her right, she's 22 now, has been thru college, just started her first career job making more money than I made at her age, and never got pregnant while a teenager.
I wish I knew who you were so I could beat some sense in your vacuous head. The world has changed, and you are not part of it...
The answer to your question is CSS3 Media Queries, which allows you to determine the viewport size and use CSS specifically designed for that viewport size.
I am absolutely sure I don't want municipal internet service. Maybe municipal fiber service as an empty last-mile pipe, that multiple ISPs can feed data over rather than just one incumbent provider.
But that would introduce competition, which introduces innovation, which is bad for Fascists.
And no matter what it is, it's not a primary reason to vote one way or another, with all the far more important issues facing the US today. Get your blinders off.
I'm not gay, and I'm not in favor of abortions, but am solidly against any laws forbidding either. It's not my choice to dictate, and it's not yours either.
Awesome: "when people act as a group with a command and control structure and talk about rights and freedoms, the subject ceases to be valid because the command and control structure of organized religion, in the process of imposing edicts on its members, is breaking the rights and freedoms of the individual"
I was gonna give you shit about being a stodgy old codger, but then I looked at that site. You are right. And even worse - Say you want to send your bud a listing of one of the cars for sale: There's no way to send a link to just that page. And if you click on a picture, it pops up on the screen and there's no way to get rid of it, other than dropping the mouse and clicking Esc on the keyboard.
I actually advise other designers to look at the above site to learn what not to do when charged with creating an "exciting" site for some clueless business owners. Learn when to say no.
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How is "I feel sorry for you" in any way a relevant reply to what he just said?
My anger is managed well, but that doesn't mean I'm not angry, it just means that I don't physically act it out. But I'd be willing to make an exception in your case...
You should change your handle to Dweeb, you are no Geek.
Violence is not always the answer, but when it's impossible to have a battle of wits with such a brainwashed individual as yourself, there's really nothing else a dummy like you understands.
I wouldn't say I'm violent, but I don't suffer intolerant fuckheads like you with much patience.
Can't beat me so you're resorting to picking apart my choice of words? How lame.
Being from severely Christian families, and being young, there was no way to have a serious conversation with our parents about responsible sexuality. See that law of unintended consequences in action there with your bullshit social conservative mentality. Maybe I should have had sex with the farm animals instead? Would that have been better for you.
There was no ignorance of biology, simply bad aim.
Since 20 years ago, when has anyone but myself been supporting me? I've paid probably a million dollars in taxes in the last 20 years, so if anyone's supporting anyone, that would be me supporting you.
Is that all you have for an argument, or is your world view really that small?
How is it "entitlement" (A bullshit numb term if I ever heard one) if I've paid back 100x what I took out?
I really don't care what you believe, but it's very much the truth. I guess I could show you my resume, but you probably wouldn't believe that either. (Hell, looking back at it, I'm pretty amazed myself that I got this far in the corporate world with nothing but a GED, some college, and a lot of determination.)
As far as the "beat some sense" comment, so it's only OK if some idiot Tea Partier like Ted Nugent said it? I dunno where else to go with this sub-argument, but it strikes me as hypocritical.
I view the social safety net as a great accomplishment of our species. Nothing ever goes as planned. To me, the whole point of a "society" is to increase the living conditions of all who partake in that society. I understand and fully support that now that I've gotten my shit together that I have to pay into that same society that helped me when I was in need. I don't hide behind the facade of "the taxpayers" when I make my point either. I'm a tax payer, you are a tax payer, and a whole bunch of other people are taxpayers. Right now, I just hope that the miniscule amount of my taxes that go towards people in need of assistance are going to people using it as a temporary jumping point to get their lives together too, and not the stereotypical lazy slob. You act as though most of the money you pay in taxes goes to welfare recipients. It's a fleeting drop in the bucket compared to funding the "privatized" wars/industries/prisons that we've been suckered into, so I'm not sure why you're assigning it so much importance.
I don't see where 'pride' fits into the issue either, at that point it's do or die. I could have given up, I could have turned to crime, but instead I took the money essentially as a loan against my future. I've paid that money back about a hundred fold since then too, so you've got zero right to give me any shit.
And your weirdest points: Where was the mom? Where was my family?
Well, the mom was right next to me for the first few years, finishing her senior year in high school, working a job, and we both made it work. We eventually broke up, but are friends these days.
My family? They went with the standard conservative Christian Republican mindset: Ostracism. It was all on me since I'd 'embarrassed' the family by having a child out of wedlock. Made me turn against that whole mindset. It is evil at it's core.
Thank you :)
> most geeks, can't just auto convert hex in their head or spot patterns easily in hex, its just not how we work.
As it was once, so again it shall be.
You couldn't be a geek prior to 1980 without knowing how to convert hex to decimal to binary to octal.
It seems to be up again, just tried it. :)
I have no memories of me being in the uterus. If I'd have been aborted, I'd have never known.
To me, consciousness and memory define "person", you have to have thought and memory to destroy before you are really killing a person. First trimester, I have zero problem with it. Second trimester, it's questionable to me, but it is not my place to insist others do as I feel. Third trimester, it's gotta be for the health of the mother, or if the fetus is non-viable (Like will be horribly deformed, retarded, or just won't live more than a few hours/minutes, etc.).
And the mother ALWAYS comes first. A baby is just 'potential', a mother is 'instantiated fact'.
"Most important question in politics evar"?? Give it a rest, it's not even close. My blinders are not on, it sounds like yours are.
In a super selfish mode, I look at it as "Kill your kid? Sure go ahead, more food and resources available for my kids then." There's far more to the discussion than that, but I don't get the people freaking out "Wurst thang evar!" about it. Come talk to me when people want to kill newborns and I'll be on your side.
Look in a few history books for examples of water-monopoly societies - that's the worst thing ever to me.
No, I most certainly do not support censorship in any way. I am not even against "Fire!" being yelled in a movie theater. If the herd-minded panic and trample themselves, that's their own fault. I view it as evolution in action.
"Moral" is such a nebulous word that I don't use it, it means whatever the user means, but does not transmit the meaning. So I'm not sure what you mean there.
Just because I may be personally against a thing, does not mean that I think there should be a law created to force others to act just like me.
Oh, sorry, that should have been Fetii
JavaScript is required for AJAX to work. AJAX is what we're all used to and expecting these days.
You want to go back to form submits and page flashes while reloading ALL the HTML for each tiny update on a page?
You are teh dumb. Turn in your geek card. Go sit in your mama's room and suck your thumb.
You are a fucking asshole.
My daughter came around before I was financially ready to have kids. (Which happens to a LOT of people) If it wasn't for food stamps, we'd have starved. Having a kid to support put me in hyperdrive. I learned as much as I could at college, quit to start a company, company luckily went pretty good (Till investors chewed me up like the naive kid I was at the time.), still got enough money out of the deal to pay off my student loans, put a down payment on a house, and the experience was better than a stupid degree for getting me into the corporate world. (They want results, not pieces of paper) I've since worked for several Fortune 500 companies, architecting huge projects. The peak taxes I've paid in a year (The year I got bought out of my company) was about $100,000. So I've more than paid back the food stamps and the time welfare paid to fix my car, although the guy who owned the repair place was such a "republican" so he threw a big fit about it being government money and really did a shitty job.
So shove your "Let's feed on the poor" up your ass. Next time it will be you that is poor. This life or the next.
The "Well if they can't afford to have kids, they shouldn't have kids" is the lamest cop-out of a non-realistic solution to a wide-spread problem. You ought get your ass kicked for saying something so stupid and selfish.
Basically you are saying my daughter should have been taken away from me back in the day? You suck shit. I raised her right, she's 22 now, has been thru college, just started her first career job making more money than I made at her age, and never got pregnant while a teenager.
I wish I knew who you were so I could beat some sense in your vacuous head. The world has changed, and you are not part of it...
The answer to your question is CSS3 Media Queries, which allows you to determine the viewport size and use CSS specifically designed for that viewport size.
I know this will twist your iPhone into knots, but here's a good walkthru (including iPhones and Androids) on Microsoft's site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh882445.aspx
Very good, Mr Zimmermann!
It's "Da Tree Zix Oh" around these parts, yo.
I am absolutely sure I don't want municipal internet service. Maybe municipal fiber service as an empty last-mile pipe, that multiple ISPs can feed data over rather than just one incumbent provider.
But that would introduce competition, which introduces innovation, which is bad for Fascists.
/20, /21 - whatever it takes...
Whoa, I'm a meme now? Scary! :)
BTW: Searching for Klom Dark meme on Bing brings up Inda's post first :)
Abortion is killing fetusii, not babies.
And no matter what it is, it's not a primary reason to vote one way or another, with all the far more important issues facing the US today. Get your blinders off.
I'm not gay, and I'm not in favor of abortions, but am solidly against any laws forbidding either. It's not my choice to dictate, and it's not yours either.
Mod up!! I have no points today.
Awesome: "when people act as a group with a command and control structure and talk about rights and freedoms, the subject ceases to be valid because the command and control structure of organized religion, in the process of imposing edicts on its members, is breaking the rights and freedoms of the individual"
Dude, they call it btrfs because it's the BitTorrent File System. How can you not see that is the perfect answer?
Now you don't have to download all those pesky torrent files, they are just part of your file system.
And you can auto-store your confidential files in THE CLOUD!!!!!!!!!
I was gonna give you shit about being a stodgy old codger, but then I looked at that site. You are right. And even worse - Say you want to send your bud a listing of one of the cars for sale: There's no way to send a link to just that page. And if you click on a picture, it pops up on the screen and there's no way to get rid of it, other than dropping the mouse and clicking Esc on the keyboard.
I actually advise other designers to look at the above site to learn what not to do when charged with creating an "exciting" site for some clueless business owners. Learn when to say no.
Where not only do we dumb-down the people, we dumb-down the computers!
I must have missed that scene in Idiocracy...