Thank you, I just had a mini-orgasm. And yes, I can admit it. I'm a blog whore. But I stand by my point, I called this on Oct 19th. I'm motherfucking Kreskin!
But thanks for the link anyways. I'm like #6 for a google search for vigina, and the only one showing for blondeantelope. I'm 11 out of 349,000 for succeptable. I think that if I ever do go into advertising on my site, my success would be my poor spelling. That, and Slashdot. And the beard.
Well, aside from the fact that I haven't been a teenager for ten years, I do swear a lot. Some people paint, some build model airplanes. I swear. I swear like a drunken sailor that has been recently sodomized by coal miners. It's a hobby. Hopefully, with practice, I can learn to imprecate in such a style and manner yet unbeknownst to mankind, choosing my words with surgical precision. I understand that less is more, but I see swearing like learning a programming language. The first step is to code everything in it. The next step is to learn the languages limitations, its nuances, and use it when it is the best fit. As for being "edgy", or trying to be, I really couldn't give a rat's ass about it. So what? My loyal readership (both of 'em) enjoy my rants, find insight, and maybe learn a little. The rest just call me crazy. You know who else they called "Crazy"? Jesus. That's who.
Now I'm not likening myself to Jesus, but we both have a kick-ass beard.
Do you want to know where your money has gone? Buying million dollar missiles from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and GE, then dropping them on shantytowns in the desert is not a financial stroke of genius, especially when you could have done the same thing with a steel drum filled with diesel fuel and nitrate. Even with fuel at $2 bucks a gallon, it's a much better bet.
Unless there is third party auditing at the time of voting, or access to the source code with definitive proof that the shown code is compiled on the machines, and the machines haven't been updated, then it's an exercise in futility.
You have to realize that Microsoft attracts the best and the brightest. That's not the best and the brightest programmers, but the best and the brightest managers, and the best and the brightest lawyers. Even if the programmers come out with the digital version of sliced bread, the managers will do what they do best and departmentalize the task, impose deadlines, and micro-manage. The Accountants will decide how to best make a profit off of this work. And the lawyers will implement it to ensure that there is nothing free or open about it.
It's not just Microsoft, it's business. The sad fact is that Microsoft is even better at business than it is at programming.
Can small objects dropped from high buildings or low flying aircraft seriously injure or kill people? I.E. Pennies from the CN Tower, or saletd peanuts from a crop duster?
Oh, boo hoo. I spelled something wrong on Slashdot. I will eviscerate myself for such stupidity. The education system must be failing, since I made two spelling mistakes in such a short post. And how kind and noble of you to point it out. Thank you for furthering the cause of lingusitics and deriding me for such infantile spelling. We won't even get into grammar, else, I be sent back to grade school.
You let them off the hook, but give them an incentive to develop green alternatives that will hopefully, put more money into research for non-polluting electricity. We can only conserve so much, but we can innovate infinately.
Have the industries make green power that can be used to mitigate the energy costs, and is easy and affordable for home use. That would give them a bit more incentive to innovate in the solar and wind power markets, and may eventually have an impact on the demand for coal and oil.
"Aside from being based on the written word, which many game-playing kids would rather not make the effort to compose, Usenet is deeply flawed. Its democratic dream offers no defence against viruses, spammers, criminals, hucksters or deranged individuals. Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place."
Sounds like the entire Internet anyways. But I see their point in not keeping it around. I've never used a lot of the old features of the net. I don't have to have my tires re-vulcanized either, so it really doesn't affect me.
They can have it, but only if they look at it all, and in court. I have gigabytes of midget viking porn, and that's the tamest.
"I would like to introduce Exhibit A, an image of an overweight woman being anally penetrated by a vietnam war amputee's leg stump. Pay special attention to his cartoon-style moose horns as well"
This may seem cold and crass, but think of life as a table. When does the table become a table? When the last coat of lacquer goes on the wood? When the carpenter decides to cut a tree down to carve the table out of? When he actually cuts the tree down? Somewhere inbetween?
We collectively have decided that it's when it's flat enough to put stuff on and not have it fall off. But the artist, might say that it became a table with the inspiration, and the rest was inevitable process. The purchaser might say that it's not a table until it is set up in his dining room. The carpenter might say that it was always a table, and he just removed it from its protective coating.
I think that a table is a table when it has a flat top, and can fufill its designed function. But I respect the carpenter's idea that it was always a table, and the purchaser's idea that it's not really a table until it is actually functioning as a table. I don't really listen to the artist, they're all pseudo batshit-crazy, but I nod and smile so as to get out of there without having to hear how the light reflects of the natural grains of the oak or some shit like that.
Changing any one of the actors ideas of what a table is, is a monumental task, and may never be done.
No, there's no problem for rational people. There can still be a problem. People don't get blood transfusions because it's their religion. Even if it is their own blood. If God didn't put it there, then it shouldn't be there, and all that. Just because it's your own doesn't mean it's automatically accepted. What about plastic surgery? Even fat injections are all your own, but people have a problem with them.
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A revolution of some sort. I'm hoping for a violent one. Something like how the LA Riots abolished racism.
Oh wait.
It's going to take a lot more than a revolution.
Thank you, I just had a mini-orgasm. And yes, I can admit it. I'm a blog whore. But I stand by my point, I called this on Oct 19th. I'm motherfucking Kreskin!
But thanks for the link anyways. I'm like #6 for a google search for vigina, and the only one showing for blondeantelope. I'm 11 out of 349,000 for succeptable. I think that if I ever do go into advertising on my site, my success would be my poor spelling. That, and Slashdot. And the beard.
Well, aside from the fact that I haven't been a teenager for ten years, I do swear a lot. Some people paint, some build model airplanes. I swear. I swear like a drunken sailor that has been recently sodomized by coal miners. It's a hobby. Hopefully, with practice, I can learn to imprecate in such a style and manner yet unbeknownst to mankind, choosing my words with surgical precision. I understand that less is more, but I see swearing like learning a programming language. The first step is to code everything in it. The next step is to learn the languages limitations, its nuances, and use it when it is the best fit. As for being "edgy", or trying to be, I really couldn't give a rat's ass about it. So what? My loyal readership (both of 'em) enjoy my rants, find insight, and maybe learn a little. The rest just call me crazy. You know who else they called "Crazy"? Jesus. That's who.
Now I'm not likening myself to Jesus, but we both have a kick-ass beard.
They'll give you the ability to buy television programs. Bye Bye cable bill.
I wrote about this Last Month
Just cut Sony out of the loop, and have IBM do the work. They could re-revolutionize the desktop PC market.
Do you want to know where your money has gone? Buying million dollar missiles from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and GE, then dropping them on shantytowns in the desert is not a financial stroke of genius, especially when you could have done the same thing with a steel drum filled with diesel fuel and nitrate. Even with fuel at $2 bucks a gallon, it's a much better bet.
Hey, you got a great website there. It looks just like mine!
Unless there is third party auditing at the time of voting, or access to the source code with definitive proof that the shown code is compiled on the machines, and the machines haven't been updated, then it's an exercise in futility.
You have to realize that Microsoft attracts the best and the brightest. That's not the best and the brightest programmers, but the best and the brightest managers, and the best and the brightest lawyers. Even if the programmers come out with the digital version of sliced bread, the managers will do what they do best and departmentalize the task, impose deadlines, and micro-manage. The Accountants will decide how to best make a profit off of this work. And the lawyers will implement it to ensure that there is nothing free or open about it.
It's not just Microsoft, it's business. The sad fact is that Microsoft is even better at business than it is at programming.
So, I guess that it would be a softball question then?
So, what's the answer? I don't have the internet to look it up.
Can small objects dropped from high buildings or low flying aircraft seriously injure or kill people? I.E. Pennies from the CN Tower, or saletd peanuts from a crop duster?
Automatic focus available only on next years model.
Durka Durka? Durka Durka Mohammud Jihad!
Oh, boo hoo. I spelled something wrong on Slashdot. I will eviscerate myself for such stupidity. The education system must be failing, since I made two spelling mistakes in such a short post. And how kind and noble of you to point it out. Thank you for furthering the cause of lingusitics and deriding me for such infantile spelling. We won't even get into grammar, else, I be sent back to grade school.
In other words, fuck off.
Because then they'd have to learn how to do it, and maybe actually have to think.
You let them off the hook, but give them an incentive to develop green alternatives that will hopefully, put more money into research for non-polluting electricity. We can only conserve so much, but we can innovate infinately.
Have the industries make green power that can be used to mitigate the energy costs, and is easy and affordable for home use. That would give them a bit more incentive to innovate in the solar and wind power markets, and may eventually have an impact on the demand for coal and oil.
"Aside from being based on the written word, which many game-playing kids would rather not make the effort to compose, Usenet is deeply flawed. Its democratic dream offers no defence against viruses, spammers, criminals, hucksters or deranged individuals. Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place."
Sounds like the entire Internet anyways. But I see their point in not keeping it around. I've never used a lot of the old features of the net. I don't have to have my tires re-vulcanized either, so it really doesn't affect me.
They can have it, but only if they look at it all, and in court. I have gigabytes of midget viking porn, and that's the tamest.
"I would like to introduce Exhibit A, an image of an overweight woman being anally penetrated by a vietnam war amputee's leg stump. Pay special attention to his cartoon-style moose horns as well"
Or just f*cking everything that moves. We're going to have a lot of tired whales, and a very protein rich ocean.
Well, then there's no place for that here. Not on Slashdot!
This may seem cold and crass, but think of life as a table. When does the table become a table? When the last coat of lacquer goes on the wood? When the carpenter decides to cut a tree down to carve the table out of? When he actually cuts the tree down? Somewhere inbetween?
We collectively have decided that it's when it's flat enough to put stuff on and not have it fall off. But the artist, might say that it became a table with the inspiration, and the rest was inevitable process. The purchaser might say that it's not a table until it is set up in his dining room. The carpenter might say that it was always a table, and he just removed it from its protective coating.
I think that a table is a table when it has a flat top, and can fufill its designed function. But I respect the carpenter's idea that it was always a table, and the purchaser's idea that it's not really a table until it is actually functioning as a table. I don't really listen to the artist, they're all pseudo batshit-crazy, but I nod and smile so as to get out of there without having to hear how the light reflects of the natural grains of the oak or some shit like that.
Changing any one of the actors ideas of what a table is, is a monumental task, and may never be done.
No, there's no problem for rational people. There can still be a problem. People don't get blood transfusions because it's their religion. Even if it is their own blood. If God didn't put it there, then it shouldn't be there, and all that.
Just because it's your own doesn't mean it's automatically accepted. What about plastic surgery? Even fat injections are all your own, but people have a problem with them.
At least he isn't Roland Pipsqalli.
I guess that lawsuits, even the SLAPP type do indeed work. So much for information wanting to be free.