More perverted than American Pie? Puh-leaze :)
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While the rest of this post is absolutely OUTSTANDING (and I mean that:), I've got to disagree with the comment that the Starr Report was more perverted than American Pie. Get real guys -- an intern giving a married man a blowjob is somehow more offensive and perverse than a teenager humping a pie? *Chuckle* I love it -- our culture just gave me an excuse to use the phrase "teenager humping a pie":) I'm sorry for posting a barely on-topic post, but I just wanted to chime in about that comment.
It's an *opinion* piece. Good grief, if you know you disagree with Katz' opinions, why the hell to you bother reading his articles?
Does anybody else find it interesting, by the way, that although we think censorship is bad, we still find some of these very same anti-censorship people crying out to have Katz stopped from posting on slashdot? Sounds like censorship of "different" ideas to me.
Bob wrote: So I think I know what I'm talking about.
--Bob Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
An AC wrote: Take anything that a physicist named "Bob" says with a grain of salt. If the guy thinks that there is actually some General named "Failure" reading his hard drive and doesn't recognize it as an ERROR CODE then he is NOT a physicist. Maybe a wannabe like the majority of the people on this newsgroup but definately not a real one.
humor, n, 2: the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor;" "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: humour, sense of humor, sense of humour]
sarcasm, n: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent;" "irony is wasted on the stupid" [syn: irony, satire, caustic remark]
Read these definitions. It might help you understand. Next, this is a forum, not a newsgroup. Newsgroups are kept on NNTP news servers.
Why must a physicist be computer literate? I realize it's a stretch to say no computing skills are required, but not all physicists write their own analysys tools, y'know.
Y'know, I think the last example in sarcasm's definition is quite fitting here.:)
Look at the version number on your 2.0.36 kernel. Thirty-six. This means that it went through over *THIRTY* major revisions before it became "stable"... and that's if you *don't* count the AC patches.
It's more stable solely because it's older. Wait until 2.2 gets a bit more mature, and it'll be just as stable (if not moreso) than 2.0 is, and will beat it senseless in the performance department as well.
Best Buy isn't a video rental store. However, to take your side on one point, you are completely right about that utter crap warranty they push. They push that damned thing *hard*. I once had to tell a yokel at BB "no" *three* times. The third time I got quite nasty with him and he finally understood. I think they're not completely honest on the commission issue -- they may not make commission on sales, but I betcha they either get a kickback or incentive for warranty sales, or they get disciplined/fired if they don't meet a quota.
Again, as the poster you responded to asked, how is a video store drone worse than a CC drone?
Video stores are also open more often than CC is. More hours per day. While you may not get bothered by CC drones (that's a load of dung, by the way -- I've *never* made it through a CC without being pestered) whilst searching through the small DIVX rack, you have to go search for one to let you pay for it.
I don't quite get the "when it is convenient for the video store" statement... wtf does that mean? Haven't you ever gone into a video store on a weekend afternoon? *GASP*! Look at that! IT'S OPEN!!!
If you want to rent a DVD, you go to the video store and rent one. You don't get bothered by sales drones, and there's always one waiting to take less of your money. If you want a DIVX, you wander to CC, shake off some drones, then hunt one down when you're ready to part with your money.
I have always laughed hysterically at the notion that some people are legitimately lazy enough that the "convenience" of not having to return a stupid disc to a video store outweighs the crippling downsides of DIVX. "I don't mind not having widescreen, multi-lingual, multi-camera-angle, etc.; I don't have to take this back when I'm done with it! Bwahahaha!"
If that's the only legitimate reason to use DIVX, then it's pathetic (but we knew that already:) You just keep spending five bucks for a crippled disc. I'll spend half that to rent the real thing.
So a completely helpless baby = a completely helpless mother. I see just one slight problem with this equation. The baby can be aborted before it becomes a burden, and a person can choose not to have unprotected sex to prevent a baby in the first place.
Or do you also consider contraception evil as well?
Now wasn't your completely helpless mother at one time a sentient, competent human being? Can you say the same for a 2-month old zygote?
Would the baby approve of being raised by a single mother (another thing Christians are against), or by a drug addict, or by a rape victim, or simply by a mother who just didn't want a baby?
Should a baby be punished for a woman's irresponsibilit in choosing to have unprotected sex? Believe me, forcing a woman (either by "legal" means or by programming her to equate abortion with murder) to raise a child she didn't want does *NOT* instantly change all her ethical and moral beliefs, and all her behaviors.
The real question is what is the real motivation behind pro-life? Saving the life of an innocent creature? Nah. The innocent creature in question has absolutely *NO* idea what's going on anyway.
Perhaps it's just a clenching way to punish an irresponsible woman for daring to have unprotected sex. "Make her have that baby! That'll learn her!" Great. That's *REAL* fair to the innocent creature, isn't it?
Sorry... my vehicle shipped with a 1.5 DIN deck with an AM/FM tuner, a CD player, and a cassette player. While I realize this isn't a CD-ROM drive, I don't buy for one second that if they can pack all that into a 1.5 DIN unit, they couldn't do the same with a CD-ROM drive.
A couple months ago (long before the x-mess rush) I placed two seperate orders at Amazon.com. One was for DVDs (ordered on a Sunday) and the other for two books (ordered the Friday before).
From another company, I ordered a PlayStation game the Tuesday immediately after. It was shipped US Priority Mail.
Amazon, in its efforts to be "nice," gave me a "complimentary upgrade" from UPS ground to US Priority Mail for the books. Both orders actually shipped Monday. The game shipped Wednesday.
The DVDs arrived that Thursday. The game arrived Saturday. The books finally arrived *NEXT* Wednesday.
So not only was UPS more than twice as fast, but an order placed and shipped *after* another arrived *EARLIER* than the first USPS shipment.
*Sigh*. I'll never use USPS again for shipping stuff.
No thanks. This perv prefers to simply make use of his knowledge of newsreaders and newsgroups (oh how *TERRIBLY* hard this is to learn [END SARCASM]) to get his porn.
Pay-for-porn sites get worse day by day. Don't bother with them.
Now, do *you* have anything important to contribute to this thread, or are you going to generate some more irrelevant insults? Who, for example, gives a flying rat's ass about whether you stole someone's girlfriend? I certainly don't.
The fox smells his own hole... look who's ranting, monkey:) This post of yours is *NOT* on-topic. You seem to be the one experiencing some post-relationship anxiety (try dating outside the family... works wonders:P (since you love tossing stupid insults around:)). Mebbe you should see a good therapist about that.
Note, folks, that Zico here is using a hotmail.com account -- owned by Micro$oft of course.
And to answer the question posed in the subject: Yes, Anonymous Cowards are much more human than you are acting.
Um, I realize this is playing with words a bit but if one is renting an apartment one does not also need to mortgage a home.:)
Seriously, though, if you mortgage your house, you own however much you've paid back on your loan. You *are* buying it. Do you have a few hundred thousand dollars laying around to buy a house outright? Well, if so, fabulous! But for the rest of us, we have to borrow money to buy things.
So yes, every penny (except of course for the damned interest:) spent on a mortgage is *buying* something.
I didn't lease my vehicle, but I do have a loan on it. I just didn't have $25,000 laying around screaming "buy a truck with me!". However, every month when I make a payment on that loan, that money goes to work for *me*... not someone else. Later I can sell the thing if I want and keep the difference between what I get on it and what I owe on it.
Renting an apartment sucks. I do that now. I hate it. I'm saving up for a down payment on a mortgage for a house, though, and when I get that mortgage, I *will* own that house. Granted, I'll own less than 1% of it at first, but whatever I've paid into it is *mine*.
I don't donate to charities. And when you buy dinner, I'm pretty sure you then own the food you've put into your body. I somehow doubt anybody would dispute ownership of something that's being digested or excreted:)
I, too, insist on owning things I pay for. Renting an apartment is counter-productive in that regard; I intend to fix it:P (keep in mind I'm 20 years old here, folks, so I don't have any major stashes of money laying around:P)
I will never buy Divx. I never do pay-per-view. I dislike seeing movies in theatres. And I *really* despise paying late fees (on anything: credit card bills, rent, phone bills, etc.), so I avoid doing so. Anything I buy should be something that works for *me*... not someone else.
When I was arguing with a monkey at Circus City (hehehe:) about Divx, he and the other three guys who ganged up on me to force my mind to change in Divx's favor finally admitted that Divx is just a way for the movie studios to make more money. Now if you're satisfied with renting your apartment, where the rent money you pay never does anything good for you again, then perhaps Divx *is* good for you. However, *I* don't care about lining a movie studio's pockets. I want to watch good movies over and over again, *wherever* I am.
People don't laugh at funerals because people are idiots. *grin* Seriously, funerals are far too "depressed" for my taste.
When I drop I expect people to celebrate either my passing on to something better (assuming there *is* anything after death:) or at least celebrate my escape from this world filled with humourless retards.
There *has* to be humour in the world. It is possible to find humour in anything. It does not make somebody a "bad person" to find something humourous in everything that happens.
Life constantly tries to teach us things. Instead of learning, we solve our problems by suing anyone who does even the slightest thing wrong, making silly, silly laws (one can't sell sex but can freely give it away? Huh?), and call each other names for finding humour in something that others do not.
I found it quite humourous. People acting stupid. An animal getting busted by natural selection. What more could one ask for? >:P
Alrighty. Who was complaining? I want names >:(
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Who exactly had the balls to complain about this free service? Do any of these monkeys have the balls to 'fess up here and perhaps explain themselves?
This crap really pisses me off. My apologies for the language. I just hate people that do this kind of thing. Long live Freshmeat!!! Bring it back, Scoop! Not all of us hate it!:P
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While the rest of this post is absolutely OUTSTANDING (and I mean that :), I've got to disagree with the comment that the Starr Report was more perverted than American Pie. Get real guys -- an intern giving a married man a blowjob is somehow more offensive and perverse than a teenager humping a pie? *Chuckle* I love it -- our culture just gave me an excuse to use the phrase "teenager humping a pie" :) I'm sorry for posting a barely on-topic post, but I just wanted to chime in about that comment.
It's an *opinion* piece. Good grief, if you know you disagree with Katz' opinions, why the hell to you bother reading his articles?
Does anybody else find it interesting, by the way, that although we think censorship is bad, we still find some of these very same anti-censorship people crying out to have Katz stopped from posting on slashdot? Sounds like censorship of "different" ideas to me.
Bob wrote:
:)
So I think I know what I'm talking about.
--Bob
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
An AC wrote:
Take anything that a physicist named "Bob" says with a grain of salt. If the guy thinks that there is actually some General named "Failure" reading his hard drive and doesn't recognize it as an ERROR CODE then he is NOT a physicist. Maybe a wannabe like the majority of the people on this newsgroup but definately not a real one.
humor, n, 2: the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor;" "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: humour, sense of humor, sense of humour]
sarcasm, n: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent;" "irony is wasted on the stupid" [syn: irony, satire, caustic remark]
Read these definitions. It might help you understand. Next, this is a forum, not a newsgroup. Newsgroups are kept on NNTP news servers.
Why must a physicist be computer literate? I realize it's a stretch to say no computing skills are required, but not all physicists write their own analysys tools, y'know.
Y'know, I think the last example in sarcasm's definition is quite fitting here.
Look at the version number on your 2.0.36 kernel. Thirty-six. This means that it went through over *THIRTY* major revisions before it became "stable" ... and that's if you *don't* count the AC patches.
It's more stable solely because it's older. Wait until 2.2 gets a bit more mature, and it'll be just as stable (if not moreso) than 2.0 is, and will beat it senseless in the performance department as well.
It's nitpicking, but here we go :)
... wtf does that mean? Haven't you ever gone into a video store on a weekend afternoon? *GASP*! Look at that! IT'S OPEN!!!
:) You just keep spending five bucks for a crippled disc. I'll spend half that to rent the real thing.
Best Buy isn't a video rental store. However, to take your side on one point, you are completely right about that utter crap warranty they push. They push that damned thing *hard*. I once had to tell a yokel at BB "no" *three* times. The third time I got quite nasty with him and he finally understood. I think they're not completely honest on the commission issue -- they may not make commission on sales, but I betcha they either get a kickback or incentive for warranty sales, or they get disciplined/fired if they don't meet a quota.
Again, as the poster you responded to asked, how is a video store drone worse than a CC drone?
Video stores are also open more often than CC is. More hours per day. While you may not get bothered by CC drones (that's a load of dung, by the way -- I've *never* made it through a CC without being pestered) whilst searching through the small DIVX rack, you have to go search for one to let you pay for it.
I don't quite get the "when it is convenient for the video store" statement
If you want to rent a DVD, you go to the video store and rent one. You don't get bothered by sales drones, and there's always one waiting to take less of your money. If you want a DIVX, you wander to CC, shake off some drones, then hunt one down when you're ready to part with your money.
I have always laughed hysterically at the notion that some people are legitimately lazy enough that the "convenience" of not having to return a stupid disc to a video store outweighs the crippling downsides of DIVX. "I don't mind not having widescreen, multi-lingual, multi-camera-angle, etc.; I don't have to take this back when I'm done with it! Bwahahaha!"
If that's the only legitimate reason to use DIVX, then it's pathetic (but we knew that already
I dare say 75% of Slashdot readers couldn't figure out how to make use of more than one processor at all.
:)
[Clears throat]
make -j bzImage
rc5
povray
trueSpace4 (non-Linux *gasp*, but quite fun)
lcdproc (ran several thousand times at once
Guess I must be part of that 25%, or perhaps you're generalizing a *bit* too much.
Subject says it all.
Hmmm... interesting analogy.
So a completely helpless baby = a completely helpless mother. I see just one slight problem with this equation. The baby can be aborted before it becomes a burden, and a person can choose not to have unprotected sex to prevent a baby in the first place.
Or do you also consider contraception evil as well?
Now wasn't your completely helpless mother at one time a sentient, competent human being? Can you say the same for a 2-month old zygote?
Would the baby approve of being raised by a single mother (another thing Christians are against), or by a drug addict, or by a rape victim, or simply by a mother who just didn't want a baby?
Should a baby be punished for a woman's irresponsibilit in choosing to have unprotected sex? Believe me, forcing a woman (either by "legal" means or by programming her to equate abortion with murder) to raise a child she didn't want does *NOT* instantly change all her ethical and moral beliefs, and all her behaviors.
The real question is what is the real motivation behind pro-life? Saving the life of an innocent creature? Nah. The innocent creature in question has absolutely *NO* idea what's going on anyway.
Perhaps it's just a clenching way to punish an irresponsible woman for daring to have unprotected sex. "Make her have that baby! That'll learn her!" Great. That's *REAL* fair to the innocent creature, isn't it?
Sorry ... my vehicle shipped with a 1.5 DIN deck with an AM/FM tuner, a CD player, and a cassette player. While I realize this isn't a CD-ROM drive, I don't buy for one second that if they can pack all that into a 1.5 DIN unit, they couldn't do the same with a CD-ROM drive.
You think that's bad?
A couple months ago (long before the x-mess rush) I placed two seperate orders at Amazon.com. One was for DVDs (ordered on a Sunday) and the other for two books (ordered the Friday before).
From another company, I ordered a PlayStation game the Tuesday immediately after. It was shipped US Priority Mail.
Amazon, in its efforts to be "nice," gave me a "complimentary upgrade" from UPS ground to US Priority Mail for the books. Both orders actually shipped Monday. The game shipped Wednesday.
The DVDs arrived that Thursday. The game arrived Saturday. The books finally arrived *NEXT* Wednesday.
So not only was UPS more than twice as fast, but an order placed and shipped *after* another arrived *EARLIER* than the first USPS shipment.
*Sigh*. I'll never use USPS again for shipping stuff.
No thanks. This perv prefers to simply make use of his knowledge of newsreaders and newsgroups (oh how *TERRIBLY* hard this is to learn [END SARCASM]) to get his porn.
Pay-for-porn sites get worse day by day. Don't bother with them.
Good grief you're a bitter little turd, ain'tcha?
... look who's ranting, monkey :) This post of yours is *NOT* on-topic. You seem to be the one experiencing some post-relationship anxiety (try dating outside the family ... works wonders :P (since you love tossing stupid insults around :)). Mebbe you should see a good therapist about that.
Now, do *you* have anything important to contribute to this thread, or are you going to generate some more irrelevant insults? Who, for example, gives a flying rat's ass about whether you stole someone's girlfriend? I certainly don't.
The fox smells his own hole
Note, folks, that Zico here is using a hotmail.com account -- owned by Micro$oft of course.
And to answer the question posed in the subject: Yes, Anonymous Cowards are much more human than you are acting.
Um, I realize this is playing with words a bit but if one is renting an apartment one does not also need to mortgage a home. :)
Seriously, though, if you mortgage your house, you own however much you've paid back on your loan. You *are* buying it. Do you have a few hundred thousand dollars laying around to buy a house outright? Well, if so, fabulous! But for the rest of us, we have to borrow money to buy things.
So yes, every penny (except of course for the damned interest :) spent on a mortgage is *buying* something.
I didn't lease my vehicle, but I do have a loan on it. I just didn't have $25,000 laying around screaming "buy a truck with me!". However, every month when I make a payment on that loan, that money goes to work for *me* ... not someone else. Later I can sell the thing if I want and keep the difference between what I get on it and what I owe on it.
Renting an apartment sucks. I do that now. I hate it. I'm saving up for a down payment on a mortgage for a house, though, and when I get that mortgage, I *will* own that house. Granted, I'll own less than 1% of it at first, but whatever I've paid into it is *mine*.
I don't donate to charities. And when you buy dinner, I'm pretty sure you then own the food you've put into your body. I somehow doubt anybody would dispute ownership of something that's being digested or excreted :)
I, too, insist on owning things I pay for. Renting an apartment is counter-productive in that regard; I intend to fix it :P (keep in mind I'm 20 years old here, folks, so I don't have any major stashes of money laying around :P)
I will never buy Divx. I never do pay-per-view. I dislike seeing movies in theatres. And I *really* despise paying late fees (on anything: credit card bills, rent, phone bills, etc.), so I avoid doing so. Anything I buy should be something that works for *me* ... not someone else.
When I was arguing with a monkey at Circus City (hehehe:) about Divx, he and the other three guys who ganged up on me to force my mind to change in Divx's favor finally admitted that Divx is just a way for the movie studios to make more money. Now if you're satisfied with renting your apartment, where the rent money you pay never does anything good for you again, then perhaps Divx *is* good for you. However, *I* don't care about lining a movie studio's pockets. I want to watch good movies over and over again, *wherever* I am.
People don't laugh at funerals because people are idiots. *grin* Seriously, funerals are far too "depressed" for my taste.
When I drop I expect people to celebrate either my passing on to something better (assuming there *is* anything after death :) or at least celebrate my escape from this world filled with humourless retards.
There *has* to be humour in the world. It is possible to find humour in anything. It does not make somebody a "bad person" to find something humourous in everything that happens.
Life constantly tries to teach us things. Instead of learning, we solve our problems by suing anyone who does even the slightest thing wrong, making silly, silly laws (one can't sell sex but can freely give it away? Huh?), and call each other names for finding humour in something that others do not.
I found it quite humourous. People acting stupid. An animal getting busted by natural selection. What more could one ask for? >:P
Who exactly had the balls to complain about this free service? Do any of these monkeys have the balls to 'fess up here and perhaps explain themselves?
This crap really pisses me off. My apologies for the language. I just hate people that do this kind of thing. Long live Freshmeat!!! Bring it back, Scoop! Not all of us hate it! :P