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I actually want to see that topic site come about. Not for want of pirated software, you understand, but rather I want to see if they can top this ungodly color scheme.
I'm not proposing to know what the solution is, but a big chunk of the problem is that consumers almost never see their purchases as having any effect other than having them end up with X less money and Y more stuff. A choice between two companies' products, one at $1.99 and one at $2.99 doesn't involve consideration of the companies' practices in the mind of the consumer (in fact, extraordinarily few consumers know the policies/histories of _any_ companies whose products they buy). The choice is simply 2.99 > 1.99, therefore I'll go with the 1.99.
I dont mean to imply that I thoroughly research Wonder Bread's history of its management's dealings with labor before i buy a loaf; i have no clue what the companies who make most of the products i buy do, and (this is the worse problem, IMO) even when i do find out horrible things about companies, they rarely stick in my head long enough to affect purchasing decisions.
I think the incredible penetration of advertising into the culture and average person's home is partly to blame as well - for every one report of Nike's child-labor dealings a person sees on the news, how many Nike ads does that person see? 10? 100? 1,000?
Sorry, rambling. Just some thoughts to exercise my hands and burn up good karma:P
I don't know anything that happened to this guy that wasn't covered in the Goodfellas movie, but if I recall correctly didn't he enter the witness protection program at the end? If so, wouldn't this be a tad dangerous? I'm not particularly astute at intelligence-gathering (nor particularly intelligent, for that matter), but I would bet that it would be relatively easy to poke around the staff of the magazine to find out information, find the guy, take care of him, and then drop by your mother's house to eat some food and talk about her painting where "you got one dog looking this way, the other dog's looking the other way, and you got this guy here sayin' 'whaddaya want from me?' "
Oh, sorry. Got carried away. But seriously though, isn't he supposed to be in hiding?
I'm all for public involvement in the political process, but I guess the best we can hope for now is that this somehow leads to Slim Pickens riding a descending hydrogen bomb...
This acceptance of USB2 shows a willingness to accept standards, no matter how wrong they are.
Then why can't they accept the fact that I want a freaking button *on* the CD-ROM drive to eject the CD? They used to make me use a paperclip to get it out if the software didnt' cooperate, but with the new iMac they even took that away from me!!
pssh. All products made for old people are geared toward those kind of innocent granny stereotypes. I want to see some products for the old ladies who wear shirts that say "I Fuck on the First Date"
Yeah, a computer that throws errors (and other blunt objects) constantly, coredumps at least once a day and has 33.3% downtime?
pish-posh. I'll try to find a woman who can produce me an abacus, thank you very much.
Anyone else see visions of the football team, glee club and chess team in an ad-hoc alliance, beating the living shit out of the "tiger team"?
Yeah, but it was immediately followed by a vision in which the football team beats the shit out of the glee club and chess team so they dont tell anyone about their ad-hoc alliance.
but wouldnt the first thing you would design if making a "matrix" be some kind of function to prevent the inhabitants from knowing? For example, in rough rough rough pseudocode (re: English), "if they start asking too many damn questions, erase their memory/rebirth them/plant them in some other location/give them some debilitating mental illness/kill them"? just a thought.
It reminds me of the problems with 'logically designed languages...
Can anyone out there explain what this is referring to? are these computer languages or human-communication ones? I tried to google for the term (with or without a hyphen and singular or plural) and came up with nothing.
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Did anyone else read this and think "eh, that wouldn't be too bad - Linus can probably still work on the kernel in prison"?
I hear ya. I took the brown acid and when I came down I had a blue computer.
I actually want to see that topic site come about. Not for want of pirated software, you understand, but rather I want to see if they can top this ungodly color scheme.
incredibly offensive. I would've gone with "pedotile," personally.
I dont mean to imply that I thoroughly research Wonder Bread's history of its management's dealings with labor before i buy a loaf; i have no clue what the companies who make most of the products i buy do, and (this is the worse problem, IMO) even when i do find out horrible things about companies, they rarely stick in my head long enough to affect purchasing decisions.
I think the incredible penetration of advertising into the culture and average person's home is partly to blame as well - for every one report of Nike's child-labor dealings a person sees on the news, how many Nike ads does that person see? 10? 100? 1,000?
Sorry, rambling. Just some thoughts to exercise my hands and burn up good karma :P
Selling eyeballs probably fucked 'em up plenty, too.
btw i believe it is whiskey that is made from corn.
ha! Inspired by your ingenious idea, I have created a foolproof device for detecting lung cancer: a case of cartons of unfiltered cigarettes.
Oh, sorry. Got carried away. But seriously though, isn't he supposed to be in hiding?
"Lying through one's teeth" comes to mind...
I could at first, but then the acid wore off. Let's call it a draw, OK?
are those Rubik's shoes, perchance?
I'm all for public involvement in the political process, but I guess the best we can hope for now is that this somehow leads to Slim Pickens riding a descending hydrogen bomb...
Then why can't they accept the fact that I want a freaking button *on* the CD-ROM drive to eject the CD? They used to make me use a paperclip to get it out if the software didnt' cooperate, but with the new iMac they even took that away from me!!
pssh. All products made for old people are geared toward those kind of innocent granny stereotypes. I want to see some products for the old ladies who wear shirts that say "I Fuck on the First Date"
Yeah, a computer that throws errors (and other blunt objects) constantly, coredumps at least once a day and has 33.3% downtime? pish-posh. I'll try to find a woman who can produce me an abacus, thank you very much.
"Do you run Linux?" "No, I run Linux." Oh wait - DAMMIT!
Yeah, but it was immediately followed by a vision in which the football team beats the shit out of the glee club and chess team so they dont tell anyone about their ad-hoc alliance.
You're telling me, man - it took me eight years to beat emacs!
No way - you could make tons of money using it as a shuttle to take people to Cure concerts!
Lemonade from lemons, my man...
but wouldnt the first thing you would design if making a "matrix" be some kind of function to prevent the inhabitants from knowing? For example, in rough rough rough pseudocode (re: English), "if they start asking too many damn questions, erase their memory/rebirth them/plant them in some other location/give them some debilitating mental illness/kill them"? just a thought.
Straight outta Ye Olde Compton?
Can anyone out there explain what this is referring to? are these computer languages or human-communication ones? I tried to google for the term (with or without a hyphen and singular or plural) and came up with nothing.
alright, "within-epsilon-of-zero" force typing. Happy now?
How much protection do you need from tinfoil bombs?