Poor coward. If you made the same bitch from a European perspective, you'd be +5, Insightful. Such is the way of the self-loathing intellectual elite, I suppose.
You're making a basic logical fallacy - my statement that Jews are weird stands alone, but you're attempting to put it in a context that wasn't there, and then arguing from that context.
I think Christians are all weird, as well, so don't get too excited.
You're on Slashdot. The next man is probably a rabid socialist.
In any case:
Do you have a right to good roads? No. Roads aren't a right, they're a service. Using them is a privilege.
clean air? Sure, why not. Don't know how you can provide this one, though.
power lines strung to your home? Sort of, except that those are almost always privately provided. I don't want to get into the discussions over regulation and natural monopolies and all that other crap, but basically, it's paid for by the consumers, not provided by momma gov't. The main tradeoff is that everyone gets wired in exchange for the right to sell the power, of course, but that's not the same as having the right to be wired.
a crime-free neighbourhood? Definitely not. Couldn't be done without destroying many other, vastly more important rights.
This is an extremely simplified explanation, and is a total lie in reality. However, it is a useful lie, and a good place to start.
Essentially, a multitasking operating system divides the processing time of the computer amongst several processes. It does this by letting the process run for some deterministic amount of time, and then pausing that process and switching to another one. Each process labors under the illusion that it has the whole machine to itself. Maintaining this illusion is one of the primary purposes of the OS.
A process is basically analogous to an application, although that's not 100% true.
More information is available, from people who spent more time explaining things. Google has more, naturally. This topic is as deep as you feel like swimming.
Assuming you are serious in your desire to leave the US for Canada, why would the logistics be anyone's problem but your own? It's not society's responsibility to put you in a pasture where you think there is greener grass.
The upside to people wanting a nanny state is that such people tend to be the lazier elements of society. If they ever get off their asses long enough to enact such a nanny state, I'll just make sure I'm the nanny.
That's why it's ethical to blow people up with car bombs under their car...after all, they started their car and set of off the bomb. And why I've trained dogs to maul people...who the hell cares about the morals of a dog?
You can't make points with rhetorical tricks and logical fallacies, no matter how clever it makes you feel. Particularly since in both cases you 'cite,' the perpetrator is obvious and alone, and no guilt can be assigned elsewhere at all.
Actually, I'm not even sure what you were going for here. Maybe a linguistic illusion to fool stupid people? This is the wrong site for that.
Overall, the rest of your post kind of makes sense, but this paragraph just derailed it for me.
Since you won't call the cops, I think that some of my buddies and I should come over to your place and see if you have anything we could use...
I'm not a child, and I'm not an easy target. You're welcome to try me.
Hey, you've inspired me! I'm gonna go home and slap my wife and kids around, and if they complain, I'll tell them to quit being pussies. I mean, I'm bigger than they are, and my friends are higher status than theirs (bankers and local politicians vs housewives and kids), so the situation's almost identical to school bullying.
I was speaking of children, which pretty much destroy your claim of being 'almost identical.' You can certainly extrapolate whatever ignorant shit you like from my comment, but that has no bearing on my meaning.
It seem you're one of those jackasses that believes children are tiny adults and should be treated as such. If you are, god help you if you actually have children - they are going to be extremely maladjusted teenagers.
HAHAH. Sheeple!! Did you come up with that all by yourself? It's so clever. I'm going to use it all the time from now on! Do you have anything else I should do? Let me know, because you're so smart I'll follow you forever!!
Okay, I've read your article. I'll try to save the obvious jokes, and instead give you honest feedback.
1. It's really hard to stay interested. You wander from paragraph to paragraph without being cohesive. 2. Your grasp of the English language is... lacking. Your grammar and vocabulary usage remind me of reading high school assignments, and not from the smart class. 3. You take enormous liberties with the facts. For instance, this sentence: 'As experience tells us, "easily used" operating systems such as Windows are notorious for poor security, both local and remote because they allow the ignorant user to do virtually anything, even delete important system files.' is actually completely opposite to the truth. Windows actively prevents the user from deleting system files, while in Unix (or Unixish systems), root can completely wipe the file system. 4. You don't actually address the idea of an 'executable internet' anywhere, aside from the title.
There are more, but I'm already tired of reading this closely. Basically, your blog post is a poorly worded, excessively long bitch about an operating system you don't use. Or understand.
Congratulations on making Slashdot, though. Shame the bar is apparently so low.
I mean this in the least flamish possible way: you Jews are weird. I already know Christians are weird, since I grew up surrounded by them, but the more I learn about the Jews, the more I am amazed at the strangeness.
see, you took a funnyu joke and made it mean. I bet whenever you join in a raucous conversation full of laughter, everything grinds to halt, with people shaking their head sadly.
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Yeah, nothing says 'please be my friend' like intentionally being weird.
Now you tell me, what's my tone?
Compile it? You don't do a lot of this programming thing, do you?
Poor coward. If you made the same bitch from a European perspective, you'd be +5, Insightful. Such is the way of the self-loathing intellectual elite, I suppose.
It's a matter of someone making the opposite assertion. You bother to read the thread, or did you just reply to me?
Oh, I get it - you had to take a shot at the US. Yeah, that was probably important to get off your chest. Sorry, carry on, help yourself to feel good.
Japanese people have good taste? I take it the crappy j-pop, tentacle rape hentai, and feces-based porn flicks haven't crossed your radar yet.
You're making a basic logical fallacy - my statement that Jews are weird stands alone, but you're attempting to put it in a context that wasn't there, and then arguing from that context.
I think Christians are all weird, as well, so don't get too excited.
Don't you understand? It's 'progressive' to punish people for doing well. Don't you dare question.
I am as much of a minarchist as the next man
You're on Slashdot. The next man is probably a rabid socialist.
In any case:
Do you have a right to good roads?
No. Roads aren't a right, they're a service. Using them is a privilege.
clean air?
Sure, why not. Don't know how you can provide this one, though.
power lines strung to your home?
Sort of, except that those are almost always privately provided. I don't want to get into the discussions over regulation and natural monopolies and all that other crap, but basically, it's paid for by the consumers, not provided by momma gov't. The main tradeoff is that everyone gets wired in exchange for the right to sell the power, of course, but that's not the same as having the right to be wired.
a crime-free neighbourhood?
Definitely not. Couldn't be done without destroying many other, vastly more important rights.
This is an extremely simplified explanation, and is a total lie in reality. However, it is a useful lie, and a good place to start.
Essentially, a multitasking operating system divides the processing time of the computer amongst several processes. It does this by letting the process run for some deterministic amount of time, and then pausing that process and switching to another one. Each process labors under the illusion that it has the whole machine to itself. Maintaining this illusion is one of the primary purposes of the OS.
A process is basically analogous to an application, although that's not 100% true.
More information is available, from people who spent more time explaining things. Google has more, naturally. This topic is as deep as you feel like swimming.
Liar.
No, but your inferiority complex is.
Assuming you are serious in your desire to leave the US for Canada, why would the logistics be anyone's problem but your own? It's not society's responsibility to put you in a pasture where you think there is greener grass.
The upside to people wanting a nanny state is that such people tend to be the lazier elements of society. If they ever get off their asses long enough to enact such a nanny state, I'll just make sure I'm the nanny.
That's why it's ethical to blow people up with car bombs under their car...after all, they started their car and set of off the bomb. And why I've trained dogs to maul people...who the hell cares about the morals of a dog?
You can't make points with rhetorical tricks and logical fallacies, no matter how clever it makes you feel. Particularly since in both cases you 'cite,' the perpetrator is obvious and alone, and no guilt can be assigned elsewhere at all.
Actually, I'm not even sure what you were going for here. Maybe a linguistic illusion to fool stupid people? This is the wrong site for that.
Overall, the rest of your post kind of makes sense, but this paragraph just derailed it for me.
Since you won't call the cops, I think that some of my buddies and I should come over to your place and see if you have anything we could use...
I'm not a child, and I'm not an easy target. You're welcome to try me.
Hey, you've inspired me! I'm gonna go home and slap my wife and kids around, and if they complain, I'll tell them to quit being pussies. I mean, I'm bigger than they are, and my friends are higher status than theirs (bankers and local politicians vs housewives and kids), so the situation's almost identical to school bullying.
I was speaking of children, which pretty much destroy your claim of being 'almost identical.' You can certainly extrapolate whatever ignorant shit you like from my comment, but that has no bearing on my meaning.
It seem you're one of those jackasses that believes children are tiny adults and should be treated as such. If you are, god help you if you actually have children - they are going to be extremely maladjusted teenagers.
Well we all know that only assholes have opinions
:P
Sorry for being a douche, correcting you and whatnot.
It's 'opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.'
Your opinions match the paradigm, though. They stink
HAHAH. Sheeple!! Did you come up with that all by yourself? It's so clever. I'm going to use it all the time from now on! Do you have anything else I should do? Let me know, because you're so smart I'll follow you forever!!
Okay, I've read your article. I'll try to save the obvious jokes, and instead give you honest feedback.
1. It's really hard to stay interested. You wander from paragraph to paragraph without being cohesive.
2. Your grasp of the English language is... lacking. Your grammar and vocabulary usage remind me of reading high school assignments, and not from the smart class.
3. You take enormous liberties with the facts. For instance, this sentence: 'As experience tells us, "easily used" operating systems such as Windows are notorious for poor security, both local and remote because they allow the ignorant user to do virtually anything, even delete important system files.' is actually completely opposite to the truth. Windows actively prevents the user from deleting system files, while in Unix (or Unixish systems), root can completely wipe the file system.
4. You don't actually address the idea of an 'executable internet' anywhere, aside from the title.
There are more, but I'm already tired of reading this closely. Basically, your blog post is a poorly worded, excessively long bitch about an operating system you don't use. Or understand.
Congratulations on making Slashdot, though. Shame the bar is apparently so low.
I mean this in the least flamish possible way: you Jews are weird. I already know Christians are weird, since I grew up surrounded by them, but the more I learn about the Jews, the more I am amazed at the strangeness.
So that comparison seems apt to you? You don't think it overstates the case just a tad?
It's the man, not the region. We're good people here in the DC metro area. Don't let one non-representative repressed freak ruin it for you.
Dude, you pulled your article. I feel robbed. Care to reproduce it here in a comment so I can ridicule it properly?
They'll have my attention when they make Voltron
What is the difference between what you're saying and an OS scheduler?
see, you took a funnyu joke and made it mean. I bet whenever you join in a raucous conversation full of laughter, everything grinds to halt, with people shaking their head sadly.