Okay, ignoring the gotta have a gun link, think about this:
It isn't okay for the nipple of a grown woman to be shown on television because that will ruin our children, but it's okay for the local news to scare the crap out of everyone and watching violent movies is totally cool, but violent video games are making children kill. What?
Even if playing video games made a person less able to tell the difference between right and wrong, shooting a person in the head in real life and doing it in a video game require VASTLY different actions. The former is grabbing a gun and raising it and firing the trigger. The latter is pushing a couple of buttons on a controller. I don't see how the two are related, or how a person can be doing one but feel like they're doing the other.
See also: the Law and Order last week that made me scream at my tv.
Unless you want to get one against a guy who assaulted you who you don't know who you would prefer is not permitted to come near you again, then they're a pain in the ass to get.
Ah, but someone who gives enough of a shit to code hacks into their CSS to make IE work will notice that they're broken and new hacks will come out.
Please, Microsoft, please break our hacks. Please make them pointless. Please make our pages render weirdly in IE7 because of standards compliance. Please.
Except for all those people who are linking to the front page? I don't know. I don't see how they are going to stop Google, or why they'd even want to. They're stupid, but are they THAT stupid?
But you are assuming a lot. I have a website where I write about my life, and at work, I do work. I might mention something funny that happened that day, but I don't waste work hours daydreaming or writing entries in my head.
Ahh, mutual masturbation club. No, I don't have a blog. I'm sure you would call it that, but I don't.
I mean a social characteristic in that I interact with people in a public way.
I don't think that your italicized version of normal has much to do with the norms, and I don't think that being outside of the norms is something you should deride someone for.
And really, you aren't being clear with your rebuttals. You could have said that bloggers aren't funny, except I never said that they were.
Perhaps then, to follow your rules of how to talk about this, I should say that no stand-up comics should ever be employed if people who write about their lives online shouldn't be employed. Your argument makes no sense, and I'm apparently unable to show you that.
Then why pay people who have friends? Or who go out for drinks after work and are funny with their coworkers?
That's such crap. Just because you don't particularly care for the method in which they communicate doesn't mean that all bloggers should be denied employment.
And what if they write on their own time? Then you've got nothing to prop yourself up, tiger. Try again.
Does it ever occur to you that maybe he was blogging on his own time?
The times of the posts are all after work except for two and they could conceivably be in his lunch hour. (One was noon, one was two, and they were both short.)
When I was in high school it bothered me, too. It bothered me that the band had uniforms that were nearly a decade old while the football team got new jerseys every year.
Except then I found out that it was the football boosters who were paying for it, not the school. They raised money doing stuff and got nice charter buses to take to away games and bought new uniforms all the time. The parents of the football players put their time and effort and money into it.
That isn't to say that priorities are whack, but sometimes the money isn't actually coming from the school itself.
Obviously you aren't the majority or else people would be buying Karmas. People aren't as stupid as you think. If they found the iPod difficult to use, they wouldn't buy it. Period.
I am so sick of people saying that the iPod is popular because of marketing.
If it were marketing, the first wave of iPod users would have told their friends that it's sort of neat looking but isn't anything special and it wouldn't have as much of the market as it does.
It is great because of how easy it is to use. Because of how the entire experience of moving the music is easy. Because of its simplicity.
I don't do things because they are popular. Neither do a lot of other people. Maybe consider that it's popular because of its merits, not because of its ads.
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You've designed a site that uses frames and you're bitching about how IE handles it?
Pot, thy name is black.
Wait, what? What on earth does one have to do with the other? Sorry, charlie, doesn't fly.
Okay, ignoring the gotta have a gun link, think about this:
It isn't okay for the nipple of a grown woman to be shown on television because that will ruin our children, but it's okay for the local news to scare the crap out of everyone and watching violent movies is totally cool, but violent video games are making children kill. What?
Even if playing video games made a person less able to tell the difference between right and wrong, shooting a person in the head in real life and doing it in a video game require VASTLY different actions. The former is grabbing a gun and raising it and firing the trigger. The latter is pushing a couple of buttons on a controller. I don't see how the two are related, or how a person can be doing one but feel like they're doing the other.
See also: the Law and Order last week that made me scream at my tv.
Damn my lack of mod points. That was funny.
Unless you want to get one against a guy who assaulted you who you don't know who you would prefer is not permitted to come near you again, then they're a pain in the ass to get.
Lucky? I very carefully plan where I live. There is no luck involved in living in a place where I can commute to work by bike.
Ah, but someone who gives enough of a shit to code hacks into their CSS to make IE work will notice that they're broken and new hacks will come out.
Please, Microsoft, please break our hacks. Please make them pointless. Please make our pages render weirdly in IE7 because of standards compliance. Please.
Except for all those people who are linking to the front page? I don't know. I don't see how they are going to stop Google, or why they'd even want to. They're stupid, but are they THAT stupid?
Right, except they aren't that stupid, so they give Google permission. Simple.
Gonna get modded flame, but I don't care. This is not meant to correct you or make you feel like a dick, but to teach.
The singular for of "alumni" for a man is "alumnus". Thus you would say, "I am an alumnus." I would say, "I am an alumnae."
Just fyi.
But you are assuming a lot. I have a website where I write about my life, and at work, I do work. I might mention something funny that happened that day, but I don't waste work hours daydreaming or writing entries in my head.
I don't think I am the exception.
Ahh, mutual masturbation club. No, I don't have a blog. I'm sure you would call it that, but I don't.
I mean a social characteristic in that I interact with people in a public way.
I don't think that your italicized version of normal has much to do with the norms, and I don't think that being outside of the norms is something you should deride someone for.
And really, you aren't being clear with your rebuttals. You could have said that bloggers aren't funny, except I never said that they were.
Perhaps then, to follow your rules of how to talk about this, I should say that no stand-up comics should ever be employed if people who write about their lives online shouldn't be employed. Your argument makes no sense, and I'm apparently unable to show you that.
Um, I never said that they did, you moron.
You suggested nobody hire bloggers. I extended that to include people who have friends and people who are funny at drinks after work.
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?
Wait, so what happens when someone connects your ID with your real name and your office finds out about you posting on /.?
Are you acting like an idiot then?
Or Mark Jens got a fat wad of cash and is trying not to screw up the deal he made with Google when he left by being definite about things.
Then why pay people who have friends? Or who go out for drinks after work and are funny with their coworkers?
That's such crap. Just because you don't particularly care for the method in which they communicate doesn't mean that all bloggers should be denied employment.
And what if they write on their own time? Then you've got nothing to prop yourself up, tiger. Try again.
Source, please, on the hundreds of complaints?
Does it ever occur to you that maybe he was blogging on his own time?
The times of the posts are all after work except for two and they could conceivably be in his lunch hour. (One was noon, one was two, and they were both short.)
Right, but my grandma doesn't play games. She wants to email her grandchildren and play bridge online. That's it.
A Mac would be perfect for her. I'll probably never convince her of it, though.
Don't tell my boyfriend that.
Or one of those people who leaves the job at the office and whose personal life has nothing to do with his or her current employment.
You know, THOSE crazy people.
When I was in high school it bothered me, too. It bothered me that the band had uniforms that were nearly a decade old while the football team got new jerseys every year.
Except then I found out that it was the football boosters who were paying for it, not the school. They raised money doing stuff and got nice charter buses to take to away games and bought new uniforms all the time. The parents of the football players put their time and effort and money into it.
That isn't to say that priorities are whack, but sometimes the money isn't actually coming from the school itself.
Obviously you aren't the majority or else people would be buying Karmas. People aren't as stupid as you think. If they found the iPod difficult to use, they wouldn't buy it. Period.
Did you check it? They've got an awful lot of javascript for it to come close to being compliant.
I didn't look that closely, but apparently Yahoo has done the same thing and man oh MAN is their CSS ugly and cluttered.
I am so sick of people saying that the iPod is popular because of marketing.
If it were marketing, the first wave of iPod users would have told their friends that it's sort of neat looking but isn't anything special and it wouldn't have as much of the market as it does.
It is great because of how easy it is to use. Because of how the entire experience of moving the music is easy. Because of its simplicity.
I don't do things because they are popular. Neither do a lot of other people. Maybe consider that it's popular because of its merits, not because of its ads.