"DRM is a complicated bunch of technical crap that might be tacked on to music, videos, etc., which is designed to keep you from doing what you feel like you should be able to do."
Next attack attempt: weapons/substances smuggled in via anally-inserted container Response: All passengers must submit to anal probe prior to takeoff. You may request a same-sex examiner, but it may delay you further.
Next attack attempt: weapons/substances swallowed, produced in-flight either by regurgitation or timed bowel movement Response: All passengers must submit to a 24-hour fasting/emetic/diuretic/laxative regimen before takeoff. Water will be provided; outside drinks not allowed. You must use the provided toilet facilities to ensure proper testing/inspection of waste.
Next attack attempt: a team of guys trained to bite effectively Response: All passengers must have all teeth removed prior to takeoff. There will be two dentists on duty per airport to process the unprepared, but lines will be long, so plan ahead.
Next attack attempt: regular old martial arts Response: Seats eliminated; all passengers shall be assigned a sealed 3' x 3' x 8' pen and will be locked in for duration of flight.
Next attack attempt: guys wait near airports with surface-to-air rockets Response: All buildings/cities/people removed from all airports to a distance of five miles, and land paved (and landfill created, if near water); round-the-clock patrols and spotters emplaced, with orders to shoot on sight anyone straying from the single barbed-wire/barrier-encrusted access road.
Next attack attempt: bomb detonated and/or machine guns deployed in by-now immense crowd waiting to get through initial security checkpoint Response: ????
How far does this idiocy go before we decide there must be a better way, folks? Hm?
Indeed the posting of this as "we never went there anyway" even as a joke angers me.
It doesn't anger me -- it fills me with pity. Why? Well:
It's called denying reality, assuming the worst of everyone, and willful stupidity.
Because I don't think it's called any of these things, at root. To me, the reason people glom on to the standard litany of conspiracy theories -- at least at first -- is that, by believing in them, a person can convince himself that he "knows better than" everyone else, that he's, in some sense, superior. Better at seeing "what's really going on", not like those "believe-anything sheep" out there. Then they meet another person who has gone through this process, and find that it's kinda fun to share this superiority complex with others. It snowballs from there: just one big self-reinforcing ball of "we know better", with precious little reference to reality. Sad.
Republicans who don't sit in clearly gerrymandered districts (which is a serious cancer on democracy spreading throughout this nation so _wake up_). Don't expect a large volume of changes in either house of Congress due this incumbency stranglehold/advantage
Gerrymandering can definitely backfire, though, especially in an environment of shifting and/or unpredictable voting patterns.
Gerrymandering works by concentrating your opponents' voters together in as few districts as possible, and distributing your voters in as many as possible (but still over 50% in each one), thus minimizing their representatives' numbers and maximizing your own. This only works as long as you're pretty sure you know how everyone is going to vote. Cut it too close, or piss off enough people in your districts, or both, and you lose big time.
...that we have programmers. Writing and interpreting the confusing babble -- except it's babble makes the computers useful, instead of the law useful.
I've often thought programmers and lawyers have similar jobs.
Sounds like they'll actually be delivering whole AP articles, rather than snippets with links. Which might mean people wouldn't have to go to regular newspaper/TV-news sites to get those AP articles they all regurgitate.
We may soon find out just how much those sites were "hurt" by being linked from Google News, once they lose that sweet AP article traffic...
The thing is, once you've paid the varying rent, where do you spend the rest of your money? The decent spec new PC will be $2,000 in Rancho Santa Fe, Manhattan or BFI. The new $25,000 car will be $25,000 wherever you buy it. The big TV is the same price wherever. And, most important of all, the internet porn subscriptions run the same wherever you are too.
At that point, would you rather the job that's 5 times "cost of living" but only leaves you with $40,000 or the one that gives a sucky 2.5x but leaves you with $60,000 extra.
I so wish I still had that last mod point I lost overnight. That's exactly what I came in here to say.
Then again, maybe I should hide this clear thinking from others -- leaves more for me.
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Clearly, your outpouring of sarcasm there is intended to imply that, in reality, blastocysts are people, and to destroy them is murder.
Let's find out what you really believe.
You find yourself in a room containing a 3-month-old infant, and a cryogenically stabilized container holding 20,000 blastocysts. The room is on fire. You have time to save either the infant or the 20,000 blastocysts. Which do you save?
a part that makes its debut in the new Mindstorms set -- a rare event at Lego, which treats every individual piece with reverence
Clearly they don't. Have you seen some of the specialized peices they've been making for the past decade and a half? I can imagine what's next. Look, I built a Lego computer! Which is to say, a regular computer, split in half, with lego dots holding the halves together.
There were other problems that simply can't be put down to actual recognition problems; it clearly understood perfectly the pronunciation of "delete select all", yet didn't act on any of that as a command.
Why should they trust you with their own business' well-being when you have proven unable to manage your own financial well-being?
Because it's none of their goddamned business?
What's next? Requiring meal logs to make sure you're eating right? Blood-alchohol/nicotine/caffeine/etc. monitors strapped to the arm to make sure you're not "irresponsible" with those? Daily car-computer download to check on your driving habits? Logging all your home Internet access to check if you're into porn, and thus of questionable character?
The only thing -- the ONLY thing -- they need to know is how well you do your job.
They're your employer, not your mommy. Grow a pair.
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I, too, loathe any link that leads me to MySpace.
But I loathe the RIAA more.
"DRM is a complicated bunch of technical crap that might be tacked on to music, videos, etc., which is designed to keep you from doing what you feel like you should be able to do."
Feel free to submit proposed revisions.
Airline security is a joke. And it's on us.
Next attack attempt: weapons/substances smuggled in via anally-inserted container
Response: All passengers must submit to anal probe prior to takeoff. You may request a same-sex examiner, but it may delay you further.
Next attack attempt: weapons/substances swallowed, produced in-flight either by regurgitation or timed bowel movement
Response: All passengers must submit to a 24-hour fasting/emetic/diuretic/laxative regimen before takeoff. Water will be provided; outside drinks not allowed. You must use the provided toilet facilities to ensure proper testing/inspection of waste.
Next attack attempt: a team of guys trained to bite effectively
Response: All passengers must have all teeth removed prior to takeoff. There will be two dentists on duty per airport to process the unprepared, but lines will be long, so plan ahead.
Next attack attempt: regular old martial arts
Response: Seats eliminated; all passengers shall be assigned a sealed 3' x 3' x 8' pen and will be locked in for duration of flight.
Next attack attempt: guys wait near airports with surface-to-air rockets
Response: All buildings/cities/people removed from all airports to a distance of five miles, and land paved (and landfill created, if near water); round-the-clock patrols and spotters emplaced, with orders to shoot on sight anyone straying from the single barbed-wire/barrier-encrusted access road.
Next attack attempt: bomb detonated and/or machine guns deployed in by-now immense crowd waiting to get through initial security checkpoint
Response: ????
How far does this idiocy go before we decide there must be a better way, folks? Hm?
Because I don't think it's called any of these things, at root. To me, the reason people glom on to the standard litany of conspiracy theories -- at least at first -- is that, by believing in them, a person can convince himself that he "knows better than" everyone else, that he's, in some sense, superior. Better at seeing "what's really going on", not like those "believe-anything sheep" out there. Then they meet another person who has gone through this process, and find that it's kinda fun to share this superiority complex with others. It snowballs from there: just one big self-reinforcing ball of "we know better", with precious little reference to reality. Sad.
Some days, that wouldn't be enough.
Gerrymandering works by concentrating your opponents' voters together in as few districts as possible, and distributing your voters in as many as possible (but still over 50% in each one), thus minimizing their representatives' numbers and maximizing your own. This only works as long as you're pretty sure you know how everyone is going to vote. Cut it too close, or piss off enough people in your districts, or both, and you lose big time.
Hoist by their own petard, as it were...
...that we have programmers. Writing and interpreting the confusing babble -- except it's babble makes the computers useful, instead of the law useful.
I've often thought programmers and lawyers have similar jobs.
Sounds like they'll actually be delivering whole AP articles, rather than snippets with links. Which might mean people wouldn't have to go to regular newspaper/TV-news sites to get those AP articles they all regurgitate.
We may soon find out just how much those sites were "hurt" by being linked from Google News, once they lose that sweet AP article traffic...
Then again, maybe I should hide this clear thinking from others -- leaves more for me.
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Stack depth exceeded
First joker to ask if one of those women's "technology devices" is waterproof and vibratory gets...um...well, modded heavily, probably.
When's the next chance for the voters of the UK to give the jerks in charge the old heave-ho?
On this side of the pond, ours is in November.
Race ya!
Nerds everywhere should be deeply concerned about tree traversal being made illegal.
Just make the whole uniform out of kevlar coated with this stuff. Might not need that many layers before your regular uniform is bullet resistant...
An + Other = Another
Another - A = Nother ?
Therefore:
"A whole nother"?
And the apostrophe on top of it?
[Choke, gag]
(Hint: try "a whole other".)
What part of "either" do you not understand?
Clearly, your outpouring of sarcasm there is intended to imply that, in reality, blastocysts are people, and to destroy them is murder.
Let's find out what you really believe.
You find yourself in a room containing a 3-month-old infant, and a cryogenically stabilized container holding 20,000 blastocysts. The room is on fire. You have time to save either the infant or the 20,000 blastocysts. Which do you save?
You may wish to look into a little idea from ancient Greece called Ethos.
This is true in real life too.
There were other problems that simply can't be put down to actual recognition problems; it clearly understood perfectly the pronunciation of "delete select all", yet didn't act on any of that as a command.
What's next? Requiring meal logs to make sure you're eating right? Blood-alchohol/nicotine/caffeine/etc. monitors strapped to the arm to make sure you're not "irresponsible" with those? Daily car-computer download to check on your driving habits? Logging all your home Internet access to check if you're into porn, and thus of questionable character?
The only thing -- the ONLY thing -- they need to know is how well you do your job.
They're your employer, not your mommy. Grow a pair.
This is why I exclusively use Underrated and Overrated. No editorializing from me, just bare points.