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If I can't get a recipe to make something for dinner that someone wants, because some individuals decided to keep said recipe to themselves, it may be a problem with them in that they're not sharing knowledge, but it's still my fucking problem that I don't fucking have it.
You can blame the vendors all you want, but when it comes to my OS, if the drivers for it don't exist, it IS the OS's problem if I can get them for another OS. Is that entirely fair? No. But life isn't fucking fair.
Then they can be the kind of friends that you never see and can imagine don't exist. A lot like House Elfs, really, only less sentient and subsequently more socially acceptable to "enslave"
I don't care. I don't care if they just want to cuddle, make you dinner, and sing sweetly in the dusk. I don't care if they all have a sack of a million dollars they're dragging behind them. I don't care if they know the keys to long life and perfect health and are just dying to tell us.
Kill them. Kill them all. Every last one. Then kill everyone who ever saw one, just in case.
No, we don't think the UN is good because countries like Libya chair the human fucking rights commission, for fucks sake. The only way to make that any more surreal would be to put North Korea in charge, or resurrect Hitler, form the country of "Hitleria", and put THEM in charge.
Actually, after this event and the last "glitch", I'm leaning toward Barnes and Noble and simple Google Product Search for the rest of my needs. Amazon was already reeling from the "we hate gays lol (but we actually don't, it just looked that way)" uppercut of a few days ago, and this last jab was just enough to send them to the mat.
As for the individual returning items - maybe he was a legitimate asshat, maybe he was not, but revoking his access to the products he's already purchased is, in my mind, no better than theft. After someone steals something that you lawfully paid for, you no longer have access to it. After Amazon revokes your access to something that you lawfully paid for, you no longer have access to it. The only difference here, to me, is that you can't toss Amazon in jail for doing this, even if the access were only revoked for a few minutes. (Would you feel it acceptable if a thief snuck into your home, stole your HDTV for a day or two, then returned it? Or would it still be theft, even if they did have at least a minor modicum of decency to return it after it was done?)
Even if this was a mistake on Amazon's part, I frankly don't give a damn. This is something that flat out cannot happen.
Cool your jets, turbo. It's just a stupid state legislature nobody cares about wasting their tax payers' dollars on stupid shit nobody will take seriously anyway. Outside of the "roflnoobs" we all had when we read this, it's surely not worth getting this fired up over.
Happy now? Is that a better analogy? Does it meet your fucking criteria or should I come up with something better? You let me know, Estanislao, and I'll do my best to comply.
You're absolutely right. And people who claim that we shouldn't have elected President Obama because his name was "Barack Hussein Obama" aren't fucking idiots, either.
Guess what? When you say something incredibly stupid, it makes you a fucking idiot. Typing loose instead of lose is fucking stupid. Get over it.
Getting hung up over someone else who can't tell the fucking difference and coming off sounding like a fucking retard? That makes you an even bigger retard.
Let me put it another way: you're either a natural retard, or you've had to put in long hours for many years to get to the point you're at at this precise moment.
And just to make sure there's no confusion: I'm calling *you*, Estanislao Martinez, a retard. Not the General You, the Specific You.
I just wanted to make sure that was abundantly clear to you.
(But that's okay. Apparently there's no way to become a fucking idiot, in your book, because it's always based on petty pet peeves, you hypocritical jackass.)
I disagree. Sure, it's embarrassing, but it's also embarrassing when someone pulls the "kick me" sign off your back, too. Does that mean, for the sake of politeness, you leave it attached? In my opinion, it is far worse social behavior to leave it on in the hopes of not drawing attention to it than pointing it out.
I feel we're going to have to agree to disagree on this - and that's okay. I'll always be there to pull the kick me sign from your back, and you'll always be there to leave it on mine. I'm content with that:]
You would be surprised how many people think it is "loosing" instead of "losing". It's very common, and what's more, you can read it in written letters, notes, signs, etc all the time. In my experience, it is far more likely that he typed "loosing" because he thought it was correct than because he had ring-finger jitter - it's one thing if you type worsd liek thsi if you're having freaky fingers - then it's pretty obvious. Otherwise, due to non-trivial numbers of people unable to tell the difference between "loosing" and "losing", we must assume he didn't know the difference.
Further, I don't buy douchebag being two words anymore (just like I don't buy anymore being two words). But I will admit it's ironic that I'm defending someone who called someone else on a misspelling (or typo) when I'm full of idiosyncrasies like demanding that "douchebag" (and other words, like dammit) being "okay". You win this time, Gadget!
(Note: if that doesn't give away my age, nothing will. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine my childhood era, and further as to whether I could be considered an old man at this point. Grumpy seems silly, but I wouldn't be overtly upset over that right now. I did get woken up early on my day off, after all.)
Not pointing it out and letting them go through life with the misguided impression that nobody cares that they sound like a fucking idiot is even worse. It's the same level of social apathy as letting someone walk around with a kick me sign taped to their back.
You do realize you could have just not bought the machine entirely, right?
Bitching about it coming with Windows is like getting upset because it came with a floppy drive and you want your money back.
There's a real simple solution for you; don't fucking buy it. Go watch a few videos on building your own PC on youtube - they're out there. It'll take you about 2 hours to finish it entirely and then it'll be PRECISELY what you want.
Seriously, I don't like the radio in my car, but claiming I should be able to take it out and get the money for it back from the manufacturer is just retarded.
I disagree. Then, when the non-MS software fails, it's "that damned Windows is broken", not "stupid fucking HP shipped an adobe acrobat that doesn't work".
It's a big risk you're all asking Microsoft to take here; let third party software be bundled, potentially causing issues straight out of the box and having their name drug through mud when it's actually Adobe or HP's fault, especially for no money.
As far as I'm concerned, if I'm producing software for a client, it works with very specific versions. If that client turns around and sells their license to it again, but deploying it with JBoss instead of Tomcat (or vice versa), but kept my branding all over it, and it failed - what economic impact does that have on me?
In my opinion, for that to be acceptable, you're going to have to pay me to accept that risk. If you damage my name because you're an idiot or the other software you're using with it is broken, then I want recompense.
So maybe that's how Microsoft should proceed; allow them to Bundle all 3rd party apps, for free, but then sue these companies for every last bug report that gets generated and automatically submitted to Windows for damages.
I'm pretty sure that, no matter what, you can't authorize anything other than another human adult to act on your behalf.
At the same time, if she's luring it there with bits of food or whatever, then that's (in my mind) her effectively agreeing to it. Now, if she set this thing up, and the cat just happened to walk on it at some point, I could maybe see that, but I don't know that a judge would see it that way.
Exactly. Of course, all those temperatures depend on the wind. I'll get wind ripping up over the mountain (I live right at the top) and I've had my fingers frozen fast to bits of metal in no time. It was only about 0F at the time, but with the wind flying at 20+ mph, it feels a whole hell of a lot colder than that - or worse, doesn't feel cold at all!
Which is also true. It'd be silly going through 3-4 months of the year always saying "negative ____" out every day. As it is, we only get negatives pretty rarely, and it usually really DOES indicate "it's pretty balls cold right now, you may want to avoid running to your car to get something in your boxers", whereas in Celsius, I wouldn't have that line of demarcation.
But, at the end of the day, I say a single public standard is better than many public standards. I don't care which one gets picked, and I don't care if it isn't perfectly ideal. We get in this argument all the time at work. Is it better to baseline on a specific set of tools, or is it better to let everyone use whatever the hell they want.
Maybe I'm jaded at this point, but I'd rather deal with someone else's crappy choice in a Java IDE than I would in having people use 18 different options and the associated problems that pop up as a result. I'm a proponent of standards, even if that means my chosen side loses in the end.
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If I can't get a recipe to make something for dinner that someone wants, because some individuals decided to keep said recipe to themselves, it may be a problem with them in that they're not sharing knowledge, but it's still my fucking problem that I don't fucking have it.
You can blame the vendors all you want, but when it comes to my OS, if the drivers for it don't exist, it IS the OS's problem if I can get them for another OS. Is that entirely fair? No. But life isn't fucking fair.
So you keep your fridge at or below freezing?
How do you like your milk slushy on your cereal each morning? Is it nummers?
Then they can be the kind of friends that you never see and can imagine don't exist. A lot like House Elfs, really, only less sentient and subsequently more socially acceptable to "enslave"
I don't care. I don't care if they just want to cuddle, make you dinner, and sing sweetly in the dusk. I don't care if they all have a sack of a million dollars they're dragging behind them. I don't care if they know the keys to long life and perfect health and are just dying to tell us.
Kill them. Kill them all. Every last one. Then kill everyone who ever saw one, just in case.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Need moar fucks.
No, we don't think the UN is good because countries like Libya chair the human fucking rights commission, for fucks sake. The only way to make that any more surreal would be to put North Korea in charge, or resurrect Hitler, form the country of "Hitleria", and put THEM in charge.
Really? As part of the global warming camp, I didn't realize we got the go-ahead to start killing people.
This should make my job a lore more enjoyable.
Actually, after this event and the last "glitch", I'm leaning toward Barnes and Noble and simple Google Product Search for the rest of my needs. Amazon was already reeling from the "we hate gays lol (but we actually don't, it just looked that way)" uppercut of a few days ago, and this last jab was just enough to send them to the mat.
As for the individual returning items - maybe he was a legitimate asshat, maybe he was not, but revoking his access to the products he's already purchased is, in my mind, no better than theft. After someone steals something that you lawfully paid for, you no longer have access to it. After Amazon revokes your access to something that you lawfully paid for, you no longer have access to it. The only difference here, to me, is that you can't toss Amazon in jail for doing this, even if the access were only revoked for a few minutes. (Would you feel it acceptable if a thief snuck into your home, stole your HDTV for a day or two, then returned it? Or would it still be theft, even if they did have at least a minor modicum of decency to return it after it was done?)
Even if this was a mistake on Amazon's part, I frankly don't give a damn. This is something that flat out cannot happen.
I think I had that quest in WoW
Without a doubt, BeOS. Christ I loved that OS.
Cool your jets, turbo. It's just a stupid state legislature nobody cares about wasting their tax payers' dollars on stupid shit nobody will take seriously anyway. Outside of the "roflnoobs" we all had when we read this, it's surely not worth getting this fired up over.
Fine then, jackass, he didn't zip up his zipper.
He brought that one on himself.
Happy now? Is that a better analogy? Does it meet your fucking criteria or should I come up with something better? You let me know, Estanislao, and I'll do my best to comply.
In the mean time, you're still a douchebag.
You're absolutely right. And people who claim that we shouldn't have elected President Obama because his name was "Barack Hussein Obama" aren't fucking idiots, either.
Guess what? When you say something incredibly stupid, it makes you a fucking idiot. Typing loose instead of lose is fucking stupid. Get over it.
Getting hung up over someone else who can't tell the fucking difference and coming off sounding like a fucking retard? That makes you an even bigger retard.
Let me put it another way: you're either a natural retard, or you've had to put in long hours for many years to get to the point you're at at this precise moment.
And just to make sure there's no confusion: I'm calling *you*, Estanislao Martinez, a retard. Not the General You, the Specific You.
I just wanted to make sure that was abundantly clear to you.
(But that's okay. Apparently there's no way to become a fucking idiot, in your book, because it's always based on petty pet peeves, you hypocritical jackass.)
I disagree. Sure, it's embarrassing, but it's also embarrassing when someone pulls the "kick me" sign off your back, too. Does that mean, for the sake of politeness, you leave it attached? In my opinion, it is far worse social behavior to leave it on in the hopes of not drawing attention to it than pointing it out.
I feel we're going to have to agree to disagree on this - and that's okay. I'll always be there to pull the kick me sign from your back, and you'll always be there to leave it on mine. I'm content with that :]
You would be surprised how many people think it is "loosing" instead of "losing". It's very common, and what's more, you can read it in written letters, notes, signs, etc all the time. In my experience, it is far more likely that he typed "loosing" because he thought it was correct than because he had ring-finger jitter - it's one thing if you type worsd liek thsi if you're having freaky fingers - then it's pretty obvious. Otherwise, due to non-trivial numbers of people unable to tell the difference between "loosing" and "losing", we must assume he didn't know the difference.
Further, I don't buy douchebag being two words anymore (just like I don't buy anymore being two words). But I will admit it's ironic that I'm defending someone who called someone else on a misspelling (or typo) when I'm full of idiosyncrasies like demanding that "douchebag" (and other words, like dammit) being "okay". You win this time, Gadget!
(Note: if that doesn't give away my age, nothing will. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine my childhood era, and further as to whether I could be considered an old man at this point. Grumpy seems silly, but I wouldn't be overtly upset over that right now. I did get woken up early on my day off, after all.)
Not pointing it out and letting them go through life with the misguided impression that nobody cares that they sound like a fucking idiot is even worse. It's the same level of social apathy as letting someone walk around with a kick me sign taped to their back.
Only douchebags think that's acceptable.
We'd learn some sweet Mandarin phrases, get some space ships, and then live in a pseudo wild-west sci-fi sort of situation.
Just remember; I do the job, I get paid.
You do realize you could have just not bought the machine entirely, right?
Bitching about it coming with Windows is like getting upset because it came with a floppy drive and you want your money back.
There's a real simple solution for you; don't fucking buy it. Go watch a few videos on building your own PC on youtube - they're out there. It'll take you about 2 hours to finish it entirely and then it'll be PRECISELY what you want.
Seriously, I don't like the radio in my car, but claiming I should be able to take it out and get the money for it back from the manufacturer is just retarded.
I disagree. Then, when the non-MS software fails, it's "that damned Windows is broken", not "stupid fucking HP shipped an adobe acrobat that doesn't work".
It's a big risk you're all asking Microsoft to take here; let third party software be bundled, potentially causing issues straight out of the box and having their name drug through mud when it's actually Adobe or HP's fault, especially for no money.
As far as I'm concerned, if I'm producing software for a client, it works with very specific versions. If that client turns around and sells their license to it again, but deploying it with JBoss instead of Tomcat (or vice versa), but kept my branding all over it, and it failed - what economic impact does that have on me?
In my opinion, for that to be acceptable, you're going to have to pay me to accept that risk. If you damage my name because you're an idiot or the other software you're using with it is broken, then I want recompense.
So maybe that's how Microsoft should proceed; allow them to Bundle all 3rd party apps, for free, but then sue these companies for every last bug report that gets generated and automatically submitted to Windows for damages.
I'm pretty sure that, no matter what, you can't authorize anything other than another human adult to act on your behalf.
At the same time, if she's luring it there with bits of food or whatever, then that's (in my mind) her effectively agreeing to it. Now, if she set this thing up, and the cat just happened to walk on it at some point, I could maybe see that, but I don't know that a judge would see it that way.
Exactly. Of course, all those temperatures depend on the wind. I'll get wind ripping up over the mountain (I live right at the top) and I've had my fingers frozen fast to bits of metal in no time. It was only about 0F at the time, but with the wind flying at 20+ mph, it feels a whole hell of a lot colder than that - or worse, doesn't feel cold at all!
Which is also true. It'd be silly going through 3-4 months of the year always saying "negative ____" out every day. As it is, we only get negatives pretty rarely, and it usually really DOES indicate "it's pretty balls cold right now, you may want to avoid running to your car to get something in your boxers", whereas in Celsius, I wouldn't have that line of demarcation.
But, at the end of the day, I say a single public standard is better than many public standards. I don't care which one gets picked, and I don't care if it isn't perfectly ideal. We get in this argument all the time at work. Is it better to baseline on a specific set of tools, or is it better to let everyone use whatever the hell they want.
Maybe I'm jaded at this point, but I'd rather deal with someone else's crappy choice in a Java IDE than I would in having people use 18 different options and the associated problems that pop up as a result. I'm a proponent of standards, even if that means my chosen side loses in the end.
Absolutely. Let me know when you find me pissing away 2k at a clip.
I'd prefer just dropping their call, preferably with a snotty message of some sort.
"Unblock your number and I'll think about picking up the phone, jackass."
Don't even let it ring in that case. Don't even tell me the call came in. Think of it as rejecting emails without an email address in the "from" line.
Yeah, I was going to say. I thought that was the entire reason I donate my cell phones to the YWCA when I'm done with them.