24/7 checking email with blackberry doesn't really mean working... maybe the feeling of working? we all have a couple of minutes in our evenings sometimes to answer an email here and there...
I hate this. When did people become so obsessed with work? I've posted my feelings about doing work on "personal time" before and I'm going to restate it here: When you leave the office, you're done. Regardless of how the company decides to pay you and regardless of your own warped feelings about how you should operate, you should NOT work once you leave.
Leave work at work even if you LOVE your job. You should LOVE your personal time a ton more.
In my opinion people there at google tend to be pretentious and full of themselves.
I feel the same way about people that feel that they are so important that they must work from home... It's as if the world will stop turning if they take vacation or have personal time. I work with a woman like that and being that she spends most of her day taking personal phone calls and playing Hearts, I have a real problem with her telling everyone how important her job is to the institution.
In this day and age there is a good chance that it would be leaked faster than you can say BitTorrent.
Too bad we're even having this discussion in the first place. The devices are not necessary as pen and paper work just fucking fine. Since the morons at the state and federal levels believe these pointless machines are good then they should have been all open and presented to the public (even via BitTorrent) for comment.
In any case, it's pretty judgmental to assume that dave is preparing to launch an assault on some Slashdot sacred cow, and he doesn't have any links in his posts (in a sig or in the header) to a commercial site or blog, only his webpage at his school, so he's not making money off of people reading his posts.
Just so you know, even though I do link to my website that contains ads, very few Slashdotters have ever clicked on any of them and I actually lose money when I get a ton of traffic from Slashdot postings.
So, for me, money isn't a motivation for my posting even though my website is prominently linked from my posts here.
I'm curious just how disparate the social classes & their use of myspace/facebook can be if both classes have enough internet access to create and regularly use the social networking sites.
Then my suggestion to you is to gather data, study said data, and report on it in a straightforward manner. When you distribute that report to the Internet (and it's subsequently posted to the front page of Slashdot) make certain that it doesn't show your political slant/bias or it will be ignored by those of us with a brain just the same as this one.
It's actually an interesting read and worth your time.
Only if you're into Social Networking sites. If you're like me and you aren't, the article is just as worthless as the SNSs themselves.
But because I did take your advice and read the article, here's one little bit that summed it all up for me:
A month ago, the military banned MySpace but not Facebook. This was a very interesting move because there's a division, even in the military. Soldiers are on MySpace; officers are on Facebook. Facebook is extremely popular in the military, but it's not the SNS of choice for 18-year old soldiers, a group that is primarily from poorer, less educated communities. They are using MySpace.
If Facebook is "extremely popular" then it would be used by the "grunts" and not just the officers as the author claims is how it really works in the military. While I personally believe that anyone who uses MySpace is generally a fucking retard that doesn't mean that the "unwashed masses" use only MySpace. I know plenty of intellectuals that love hiding their dirty little MySpace secret.
Don't bother believing the blurb that it's worth a read. It really isn't. This "article" is nothing more than an attempt to push their political slant/POV. They seriously could have left out the non-sense about the Walmart Nation, etc as it has absolutely nothing to do w/the rest of the article.
Bush is hardly the only American who believes that immigrants to America should learn our common language.
You're correct and I didn't infer that he was. Sorry for your misunderstanding. What I did say was that because of him we have a bill passed in the Senate and now on to the House as part of that "immigration" bill that would change the official language to English.
.... five users wonder what happened to their favorite web site.
I'm sure those that listen to Internet radio will know ahead of time and are outraged by this decision. The rest of those that surf the Internet, those that make the laws, and just about everyone else (minus those that will see a financial gain from this ruling) don't know or care to know about what will happen to Internet radio.
When the White House refuses to release them, which they will most definitely do, will this Congress have the intestinal fortitude to fight back? Or will they pass more "non-binding" resolutions and whine about it while doing nothing?
Even if the resolution has teeth it won't matter. The Bush Administration will abuse their power to ensure that the information released will be useless. Hell, if they are using third party e-mail accounts to subvert regulations for other shit and Cheney's office refusing to allow the Information Security Oversight Office in, what the fuck do you think that they are doing for this?
Forcing long term visitors to learn English in the US would help them in the same way AND help them to meld into our society quicker. I kinda miss the old 'melting pot' theory of the US...where the immigrants come in to the culture, bring with them their 'gifts', but meld into the greater culture, rather than segregate themselves into a mini-society within the US society. (emphasis mine)
I love the way that was written. I am sure you didn't do it intentionally but it's spoken like many Americans I know and is fairly arrogant. Using the words "force" and "visitor" as well as putting quotes around your choice word "gifts" really shows how you feel about these people and it's quite sad IMHO.
These people are not necessarily "long term visitors", they may be very interested in living here permanently and we shouldn't "force" anyone to do anything. This used to be America, land of the free and not some fucking shithole where everyone is an arrogant fucktwit douchebag that believes are still the world's "Superpower" even though we are slipping in the rankings of everything worldwide.
Pointing out that the traditions, customs, and languages of these immigrants are 'gifts' seems to me like you feel that they are unimportant compared to the "greater culture" that has been amassed by the immigrants to the United States in the last 200 or so years (most of which in the last 120). Just because the current loud-mouth consensus of the United States happens to be that we should ignore those that are interested in keeping their heritage does not mean that the rest of us need to fall into that. That thinking is not open and certainly doesn't meet the ideals we have held so close to being American all those years ago. Honestly, it's disappointing and sad that we have been reduced to this.
Although the United States currently has no official language, English has long been the de facto national language, which is spoken by about 82% of the population as a native language. (emphasis mine)
There are a number of languages of France. The French language is by far the most widely spoken and the only official language of France. (emphasis mine)
And while there is currently a bill waiting in the House to change the official language of the United States, it is only because of pressure by our President who believes that you should learn the language to live in our country. The "melting pot" or "salad" comparisons of our country's "welcoming" of years' gone by are now replaced with the ignorant suggestions that we eliminate those same ideals we have held since our inception.
What would you have done differently, if presented with a drunk driver who had zero command of the common language of your country? How do you expect the cops to behave in a situation like this? Really, I'm curious.
I work in the admissions office of a community college and I work daily with those individuals that do not have a command of the English language or are otherwise difficult to communicate with verbally or by writing (you would be surprised by the number of people who grew up in this country and should know English 100% but still spell phonetically or cannot adequately convey their thoughts to others). I take my time and attempt to treat every individual with the same respect, patience, and understanding that I am capable of.
This particular drunk driver, aside from being intoxicated and not understanding English as well as the arresting officers, did nothing that I could see that deserved the ire of those arresting him. I can't tell you if these particular officers were trained poorly, if they were having a bad day, or if they are always lack professionalism but in my experiences during traffic stops with them, I haven't been treated nearly as poorly as the two I have described in my original post. So, I would hope that if I was an officer of the law with arresting powers that I would be able to apply the courtesy and patience that I do day in and out with the same population I currently work with. Obviously their job is quite a bit different than mine in many ways but I don't see how police officers in the situation I encountered are any less customer service oriented than my job.
I saw someone pulled over on Monday and because I happened to be going through the one lane they were now blocking with the traffic stop, I pulled into a nearby lot and watched it all occur.
1. The officers were very rude and were completely intolerant of the individual's lack of English skills. I realize I live in a state where people find KQRS' resident racist Tom Bernard "entertaining", but the cops should at least be a little more understanding.
2. They were obviously mocking the individuals that they pulled over because they spoke very little English. Waving (princess style) and "shooing" with their hands while saying "bye bye" and "adios" was ignorant as can be.
3. When they told the driver that "if you put your tongue in front of the mouthpiece one more time we will take you to jail without question", I wasn't surprised when the drunken driver was more than a little confused when they spun him around and cuffed him.
I, knowing the brutality and hostility that police officers have been exerting lately, wasn't about to say anything to them but I certainly am willing to pass the information off to everyone that needs to know.
I don't think it's unreasonable for a foreign government to suspect that our government is not currently obeying any laws, morals, or ethics where snooping on electronic information is concerned.
Currently? Why would they have ever trusted them? This time period is little different from the Cold War era. The only serious change is that it is now easier than ever for the Government to automatically spy and have less chance of getting caught.
Botnets mostly. They are continually hammering my site with 100s of hits in a few minutes and because they are from across the globe (mostly residential cable connections) I can't ban them fast enough.
I keep them mostly out with the Apache rules linked to above but they are still hammering me.
I own the Tivo box but being that I have DirecTV I have to pay for the receiver either way.
What if you want to record from another source onto the HD or to a DVD?
I don't and neither do *most* other people that don't want to fuck around w/their PVR.
What if you discontinue your DSS and get something else like cable or Dish? Will the TiVo still work?
I won't and probably not.
What we need is a simple tapeless video recorder that lets you watch a show that has already started while it finishes recording. That's all I want, and I want it in a 19" appliance and without any subscription to anything. I haven't found it yet.
Buy a TiVo, don't get a subscription and manually set the device to record your show.
I consider myself far more computer savvy than the typical "Average Joe", running Linux for over 10 years, yet I cannot be bothered with purchasing, building, installing, and dealing with a MythTV setup when my DirecTivo does everything I need just fine.
No, it's not quite as reliable and efficient as a static interface to this data, but if these companies are stupid enough to remove static interfaces, thinking we're just going to go back to doing everything manually and looking at all the ads, this seems like a reasonable solution.
That's exactly the problem. Scraping relies on the format remaining mostly unchanged. I had to write a scraper to compile data for work. Because of the way the site was designed, I had to make 600+ queries to the site to get all the information I needed and that puts an enormous strain on my connection and the remote server (it's like 55MB at a time).
There's no way of preventing automated scripts from downloading webpages.
It's called an IP ban and that's exactly what plenty of webservers do when you start pulling enormous amounts of data from their site on a regular basis.
How? I had my DirecTivo installed in 2005 and haven't touched it since. When it was installed I didn't have to do anything, someone came out and hooked it up and turned it on. Ever since it's been working like it should w/o me having to fuck with it in the least.
Until MythTV boxes come ready to plug and play for less than $100 (mine was free b/c DirecTV's new firmware (at the time) put up a screensaver that my standalone TiVo recorded instead of the show) it won't "beat the pants off of TiVo".
Yes, well done, Slashdotters. Let's dodge the initial problem of "Corruption in the White House" and "what does it take to convince you about this administration" by screaming OMG HILLARY SUCKS over and over until no one remembers what the original argument was about. As for the OP's original question - I think you have your answer. They'd rather ignore the scandal and the implications it has and go back to partisan squabbling on the internet.
I'm the last person to "ignore the scandal" and I realize that you, being a 1 million+ UID, don't have a clue who I am but I am tired of being told I'm a communist, left-wing lover, and freedom hater by the douchebags that troll this forum when in fact I'm a TRUE Republican. I decided to ignore the 1009th post on Slashdot about how the New Aged GOP has once again committed a federal crime that is going to get swept under the rug by the rest of the administration but you had to come out and tell me that I'm a pussy, which I'm not. Instead of having a buried response that anyone else would have written I decided to reply to another thread entirely. Sorry, that's how Slashdot works (as you were modded up for).
Go ahead. Mod me down. I dare you.
Oh please, you've got a lot to learn. It's the Internet and it's Slashdot at that. Stop being a douchebag on a site well known for them. Being the king douche doesn't make you cool.
Hillary would be a fine president, as good as any other candidate who's thrown their hat in the ring.
That's not saying much.
She's principled, seasoned, intelligent, and capable of working across party lines.
1. She's intelligent, I'll give you that but so are plenty of the other candidates. It doesn't raise her above the level of anyone else currently running.
2. The only principles she has are saying whatever she can to get her elected and while being a fence riding media cunt works to get voters, I don't see it as a positive quality.
3. She's not capable of working across party lines. She's only capable of telling the right wingers that she's going to make them happy by banning all those horrible things and bringing the family first! As soon as she's in office she's going to dump all of that bullshit and continue to be the staunch, horrendous, and power-hungry bitch she's always been.
She's no better or no worse than anyone else but she's certainly not worth voting for because of what you said.
My Mac Mini is hooked up to my TV/Surround system, and works way better than I was expecting, but I hardly consider myself a "geek with fancy computers".
You still have a dedicated computer for your television which is far beyond what most people are willing to do. In addition you understand that the DVI port on the back of the Mini works with modern HD TV sets. Most people do not have plasma/LCD and would need additional hardware to do the TV out with an out of the box Mini.
Digital distribution is the way of the future, not Blu-Ray or HD DVD discs. Isn't netflix already selling movie downloads?
For whom? Geeks with fancy computers hooked up to their TVs? The only digital distribution for movies I use is empornium.us for my fix because the local video store with a "back room" has a shit selection of what I want to watch and I don't like being taxed $8/video because there are no other porn peddling stores in town.
For the rest, I go to the Hollywood Video kiosk at the grocery store instead of the Hollywood Video brick and mortar store across the street or even to Blockbuster across the other street. It takes me exactly 15 seconds to pick something I want and pay for it. It takes me another 4 minutes to drive to and from the store. I'm out of my house and back in less than 10 minutes every time. Wake me up when the digital distribution is that fast (hint: it won't be until someone kicks McLeod in the fucking ass and they drag that last 75 feet of fiber that runs next to my house through my kitchen and into my NAT box upstairs).
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I noticed the IM option in my profile the other day as I updated it and was glad you chose to not show that publicly. Thanks for that.
Please also note that you can get Slashdot feeds via Slashdot on Twitter if you are in the need of SMS updates for the time being.
24/7 checking email with blackberry doesn't really mean working... maybe the feeling of working? we all have a couple of minutes in our evenings sometimes to answer an email here and there...
I hate this. When did people become so obsessed with work? I've posted my feelings about doing work on "personal time" before and I'm going to restate it here: When you leave the office, you're done. Regardless of how the company decides to pay you and regardless of your own warped feelings about how you should operate, you should NOT work once you leave.
Leave work at work even if you LOVE your job. You should LOVE your personal time a ton more.
In my opinion people there at google tend to be pretentious and full of themselves.
I feel the same way about people that feel that they are so important that they must work from home... It's as if the world will stop turning if they take vacation or have personal time. I work with a woman like that and being that she spends most of her day taking personal phone calls and playing Hearts, I have a real problem with her telling everyone how important her job is to the institution.
In this day and age there is a good chance that it would be leaked faster than you can say BitTorrent.
Too bad we're even having this discussion in the first place. The devices are not necessary as pen and paper work just fucking fine. Since the morons at the state and federal levels believe these pointless machines are good then they should have been all open and presented to the public (even via BitTorrent) for comment.
That wouldn't make for good drama though.
In any case, it's pretty judgmental to assume that dave is preparing to launch an assault on some Slashdot sacred cow, and he doesn't have any links in his posts (in a sig or in the header) to a commercial site or blog, only his webpage at his school, so he's not making money off of people reading his posts.
Just so you know, even though I do link to my website that contains ads, very few Slashdotters have ever clicked on any of them and I actually lose money when I get a ton of traffic from Slashdot postings.
So, for me, money isn't a motivation for my posting even though my website is prominently linked from my posts here.
The dyke says the grunts mostly use MySpace instead Facebook.
If you were expecting me to respond to your comments after using that word, you were mistaken.
I'm curious just how disparate the social classes & their use of myspace/facebook can be if both classes have enough internet access to create and regularly use the social networking sites.
Then my suggestion to you is to gather data, study said data, and report on it in a straightforward manner. When you distribute that report to the Internet (and it's subsequently posted to the front page of Slashdot) make certain that it doesn't show your political slant/bias or it will be ignored by those of us with a brain just the same as this one.
It's actually an interesting read and worth your time.
Only if you're into Social Networking sites. If you're like me and you aren't, the article is just as worthless as the SNSs themselves.
But because I did take your advice and read the article, here's one little bit that summed it all up for me:
A month ago, the military banned MySpace but not Facebook. This was a very interesting move because there's a division, even in the military. Soldiers are on MySpace; officers are on Facebook. Facebook is extremely popular in the military, but it's not the SNS of choice for 18-year old soldiers, a group that is primarily from poorer, less educated communities. They are using MySpace.
If Facebook is "extremely popular" then it would be used by the "grunts" and not just the officers as the author claims is how it really works in the military. While I personally believe that anyone who uses MySpace is generally a fucking retard that doesn't mean that the "unwashed masses" use only MySpace. I know plenty of intellectuals that love hiding their dirty little MySpace secret.
Don't bother believing the blurb that it's worth a read. It really isn't. This "article" is nothing more than an attempt to push their political slant/POV. They seriously could have left out the non-sense about the Walmart Nation, etc as it has absolutely nothing to do w/the rest of the article.
-1 Political Troll
Bush is hardly the only American who believes that immigrants to America should learn our common language.
You're correct and I didn't infer that he was. Sorry for your misunderstanding. What I did say was that because of him we have a bill passed in the Senate and now on to the House as part of that "immigration" bill that would change the official language to English.
.... five users wonder what happened to their favorite web site.
I'm sure those that listen to Internet radio will know ahead of time and are outraged by this decision. The rest of those that surf the Internet, those that make the laws, and just about everyone else (minus those that will see a financial gain from this ruling) don't know or care to know about what will happen to Internet radio.
And unfortunately it's not +1 Funny either.
When the White House refuses to release them, which they will most definitely do, will this Congress have the intestinal fortitude to fight back? Or will they pass more "non-binding" resolutions and whine about it while doing nothing?
Even if the resolution has teeth it won't matter. The Bush Administration will abuse their power to ensure that the information released will be useless. Hell, if they are using third party e-mail accounts to subvert regulations for other shit and Cheney's office refusing to allow the Information Security Oversight Office in, what the fuck do you think that they are doing for this?
Forcing long term visitors to learn English in the US would help them in the same way AND help them to meld into our society quicker. I kinda miss the old 'melting pot' theory of the US...where the immigrants come in to the culture, bring with them their 'gifts', but meld into the greater culture, rather than segregate themselves into a mini-society within the US society. (emphasis mine)
I love the way that was written. I am sure you didn't do it intentionally but it's spoken like many Americans I know and is fairly arrogant. Using the words "force" and "visitor" as well as putting quotes around your choice word "gifts" really shows how you feel about these people and it's quite sad IMHO.
These people are not necessarily "long term visitors", they may be very interested in living here permanently and we shouldn't "force" anyone to do anything. This used to be America, land of the free and not some fucking shithole where everyone is an arrogant fucktwit douchebag that believes are still the world's "Superpower" even though we are slipping in the rankings of everything worldwide.
Pointing out that the traditions, customs, and languages of these immigrants are 'gifts' seems to me like you feel that they are unimportant compared to the "greater culture" that has been amassed by the immigrants to the United States in the last 200 or so years (most of which in the last 120). Just because the current loud-mouth consensus of the United States happens to be that we should ignore those that are interested in keeping their heritage does not mean that the rest of us need to fall into that. That thinking is not open and certainly doesn't meet the ideals we have held so close to being American all those years ago. Honestly, it's disappointing and sad that we have been reduced to this.
I'll cover your first and second replies here:
Though I wonder if you consider it equally ignorant to move to a country and not even attempt to learn the language?
From Wikipedia's entry of "Languages of the United States":
Although the United States currently has no official language, English has long been the de facto national language, which is spoken by about 82% of the population as a native language. (emphasis mine)
From Wikipedia's entry of "Languages of France":
There are a number of languages of France. The French language is by far the most widely spoken and the only official language of France. (emphasis mine)
And while there is currently a bill waiting in the House to change the official language of the United States, it is only because of pressure by our President who believes that you should learn the language to live in our country. The "melting pot" or "salad" comparisons of our country's "welcoming" of years' gone by are now replaced with the ignorant suggestions that we eliminate those same ideals we have held since our inception.
What would you have done differently, if presented with a drunk driver who had zero command of the common language of your country? How do you expect the cops to behave in a situation like this? Really, I'm curious.
I work in the admissions office of a community college and I work daily with those individuals that do not have a command of the English language or are otherwise difficult to communicate with verbally or by writing (you would be surprised by the number of people who grew up in this country and should know English 100% but still spell phonetically or cannot adequately convey their thoughts to others). I take my time and attempt to treat every individual with the same respect, patience, and understanding that I am capable of.
This particular drunk driver, aside from being intoxicated and not understanding English as well as the arresting officers, did nothing that I could see that deserved the ire of those arresting him. I can't tell you if these particular officers were trained poorly, if they were having a bad day, or if they are always lack professionalism but in my experiences during traffic stops with them, I haven't been treated nearly as poorly as the two I have described in my original post. So, I would hope that if I was an officer of the law with arresting powers that I would be able to apply the courtesy and patience that I do day in and out with the same population I currently work with. Obviously their job is quite a bit different than mine in many ways but I don't see how police officers in the situation I encountered are any less customer service oriented than my job.
I hope that answers your questions adequately.
I saw someone pulled over on Monday and because I happened to be going through the one lane they were now blocking with the traffic stop, I pulled into a nearby lot and watched it all occur.
1. The officers were very rude and were completely intolerant of the individual's lack of English skills. I realize I live in a state where people find KQRS' resident racist Tom Bernard "entertaining", but the cops should at least be a little more understanding.
2. They were obviously mocking the individuals that they pulled over because they spoke very little English. Waving (princess style) and "shooing" with their hands while saying "bye bye" and "adios" was ignorant as can be.
3. When they told the driver that "if you put your tongue in front of the mouthpiece one more time we will take you to jail without question", I wasn't surprised when the drunken driver was more than a little confused when they spun him around and cuffed him.
I, knowing the brutality and hostility that police officers have been exerting lately, wasn't about to say anything to them but I certainly am willing to pass the information off to everyone that needs to know.
I don't think it's unreasonable for a foreign government to suspect that our government is not currently obeying any laws, morals, or ethics where snooping on electronic information is concerned.
Currently? Why would they have ever trusted them? This time period is little different from the Cold War era. The only serious change is that it is now easier than ever for the Government to automatically spy and have less chance of getting caught.
Youtube (and similar services) and trojans.
Botnets mostly. They are continually hammering my site with 100s of hits in a few minutes and because they are from across the globe (mostly residential cable connections) I can't ban them fast enough.
I keep them mostly out with the Apache rules linked to above but they are still hammering me.
Good USA Today article and (even though it's not much) can only equate to a +5 Informative when you post it Dave.
Well, we are talking about Google here, right? Let's ask them how Google defines a lobbyist and what they think are the pros and cons of lobbyists.
;-)
What better source than straight from the horse's mouth?
Do you own your TiVo, or do you pay a fee for it?
I own the Tivo box but being that I have DirecTV I have to pay for the receiver either way.
What if you want to record from another source onto the HD or to a DVD?
I don't and neither do *most* other people that don't want to fuck around w/their PVR.
What if you discontinue your DSS and get something else like cable or Dish? Will the TiVo still work?
I won't and probably not.
What we need is a simple tapeless video recorder that lets you watch a show that has already started while it finishes recording. That's all I want, and I want it in a 19" appliance and without any subscription to anything. I haven't found it yet.
Buy a TiVo, don't get a subscription and manually set the device to record your show.
Average joe doesn't look at it like that.
I consider myself far more computer savvy than the typical "Average Joe", running Linux for over 10 years, yet I cannot be bothered with purchasing, building, installing, and dealing with a MythTV setup when my DirecTivo does everything I need just fine.
No, it's not quite as reliable and efficient as a static interface to this data, but if these companies are stupid enough to remove static interfaces, thinking we're just going to go back to doing everything manually and looking at all the ads, this seems like a reasonable solution.
That's exactly the problem. Scraping relies on the format remaining mostly unchanged. I had to write a scraper to compile data for work. Because of the way the site was designed, I had to make 600+ queries to the site to get all the information I needed and that puts an enormous strain on my connection and the remote server (it's like 55MB at a time).
There's no way of preventing automated scripts from downloading webpages.
It's called an IP ban and that's exactly what plenty of webservers do when you start pulling enormous amounts of data from their site on a regular basis.
FWIW, Myth beats the shorts off of TIVO any day.
How? I had my DirecTivo installed in 2005 and haven't touched it since. When it was installed I didn't have to do anything, someone came out and hooked it up and turned it on. Ever since it's been working like it should w/o me having to fuck with it in the least.
Until MythTV boxes come ready to plug and play for less than $100 (mine was free b/c DirecTV's new firmware (at the time) put up a screensaver that my standalone TiVo recorded instead of the show) it won't "beat the pants off of TiVo".
Yes, well done, Slashdotters. Let's dodge the initial problem of "Corruption in the White House" and "what does it take to convince you about this administration" by screaming OMG HILLARY SUCKS over and over until no one remembers what the original argument was about. As for the OP's original question - I think you have your answer. They'd rather ignore the scandal and the implications it has and go back to partisan squabbling on the internet.
I'm the last person to "ignore the scandal" and I realize that you, being a 1 million+ UID, don't have a clue who I am but I am tired of being told I'm a communist, left-wing lover, and freedom hater by the douchebags that troll this forum when in fact I'm a TRUE Republican. I decided to ignore the 1009th post on Slashdot about how the New Aged GOP has once again committed a federal crime that is going to get swept under the rug by the rest of the administration but you had to come out and tell me that I'm a pussy, which I'm not. Instead of having a buried response that anyone else would have written I decided to reply to another thread entirely. Sorry, that's how Slashdot works (as you were modded up for).
Go ahead. Mod me down. I dare you.
Oh please, you've got a lot to learn. It's the Internet and it's Slashdot at that. Stop being a douchebag on a site well known for them. Being the king douche doesn't make you cool.
Hillary would be a fine president, as good as any other candidate who's thrown their hat in the ring.
That's not saying much.
She's principled, seasoned, intelligent, and capable of working across party lines.
1. She's intelligent, I'll give you that but so are plenty of the other candidates. It doesn't raise her above the level of anyone else currently running.
2. The only principles she has are saying whatever she can to get her elected and while being a fence riding media cunt works to get voters, I don't see it as a positive quality.
3. She's not capable of working across party lines. She's only capable of telling the right wingers that she's going to make them happy by banning all those horrible things and bringing the family first! As soon as she's in office she's going to dump all of that bullshit and continue to be the staunch, horrendous, and power-hungry bitch she's always been.
She's no better or no worse than anyone else but she's certainly not worth voting for because of what you said.
My Mac Mini is hooked up to my TV/Surround system, and works way better than I was expecting, but I hardly consider myself a "geek with fancy computers".
You still have a dedicated computer for your television which is far beyond what most people are willing to do. In addition you understand that the DVI port on the back of the Mini works with modern HD TV sets. Most people do not have plasma/LCD and would need additional hardware to do the TV out with an out of the box Mini.
Digital distribution is the way of the future, not Blu-Ray or HD DVD discs. Isn't netflix already selling movie downloads?
For whom? Geeks with fancy computers hooked up to their TVs? The only digital distribution for movies I use is empornium.us for my fix because the local video store with a "back room" has a shit selection of what I want to watch and I don't like being taxed $8/video because there are no other porn peddling stores in town.
For the rest, I go to the Hollywood Video kiosk at the grocery store instead of the Hollywood Video brick and mortar store across the street or even to Blockbuster across the other street. It takes me exactly 15 seconds to pick something I want and pay for it. It takes me another 4 minutes to drive to and from the store. I'm out of my house and back in less than 10 minutes every time. Wake me up when the digital distribution is that fast (hint: it won't be until someone kicks McLeod in the fucking ass and they drag that last 75 feet of fiber that runs next to my house through my kitchen and into my NAT box upstairs).