The show is going to be complete shit. As if CourtTV wasn't stupid enough (not to mention, they brought us Nancy Grace), but now that they're changing themselves to "TruTV" it's mostly just going to be a bunch of videotaped crap. So if you missed the video of the guy driving the wrong way on CCTV in the UK when it was on one of those FOX "wildest blah caught on tape" shows or REALTV or any of the other shows over the last decade, you'll be able to catch it when it airs for the 800th time on some random show on this "TruTV" thing that has been dumbed-down for the Idiocracy crowd.
How long until they stop "subsidizing" the access of competing office suites? How long until you can't access docs.google.com, because it's a competing online office product or google.com/ig, because it competes with the provider's own "portal" home page? Or looking at the pages of competing service providers, so you can't switch to them?
Granted, all they were doing here is cutting off free access to a download that was singled out previously... but the logic that "because they're competing with our stuff" is easily and validly extrapolated to all sorts of possibilities.
Why is an ISP providing an online office suite? They're supposed to provide internet access. Period. I don't even use my provider's email address or server. I've never logged in or touched it. I just want a tube I can back my truck up to and get internet on. Nothing more. No tools. No utilities. No portal home page thing. No applications. No office suites. No filtering. No content management. Give me the network access and the IP of your DNS servers and go the fuck away.
That's bullshit. People who excuse their poor use of grammar, punctuation or spelling because they are "being informal" and don't have the time or brain power to waste on such things when they're just "relaxing" are people who always have poor use of grammar, punctuation and spelling. And that's fine. But don't try to snowjob people by telling us that the only reason is that you don't want to take the time to write carefully "at the moment". It's a lot like the kid back in high school who always told people he has a girlfriend, but she lives in Canada.
Anyone who writes reasonably well will say that it's actually takes more effort to type in internet acronyms along with poor grammar and spelling. And someone who is presumably a professionally employed mass communications and journalist person should know better.
I'm under the impression that a word being accepted de facto into a language has nothing to do with writing well. Just because "ain't" has a definition in the dictionary doesn't mean it's appropriate or preferable to use in intelligent communication (or at least communication in which you want to be taken seriously).
If this guy were a twelve year old girl IM-ing with her friends, it'd be one thing. This is a person who is supposedly a professional communicator.
Yeah, it's not the military's fault that they are employing military personal to vandalize non-profit organization's websites with biased propaganda. It's wikipedia's fault! *eyeroll*
A better analogy would be "next you're going to tell me that Linus Torvals is working for the government and, while on the tax-payer's dime, is posting false information and deleting content that may be true but negative toward linux on wikipedia".
Also, the ideal goal is to keep Wikipedia as void of 'opinion' as possible anyway.
There are two uses for typical social networks. The first is to promote your band, business or service. The other is to satisfy your ego and validate your existence by constant attention-whoring. Some people will say "I use it to keep in touch with people", but that's bullshit, because it's an idiotic substitute for the telephone, email or instant messaging. So claiming that all the hassle of getting, maintaining and monitoring a social network account just to keep in touch with a few people is like saying you only get Hustler and Club for the articles.
I don't understand what they mean by "the cause of" him, but I thought David Borealis played the role of Angel in Buffy extremely well and I enjoyed his spin-off show "Angel". It's too bad the show as canceled.
Yeah, but if you're winning the award, you surely know who is part of your group and who isn't. And if you're running the show, you certainly know who is and is not supposed to be on that stage, right?
Install it on a system. Write a script to constantly browse the most absurd things or nonstop linux stuff and then let it sit in the corner for a few months, until you qualify for the free copy.
I think they did something during this year's E3. I don't remember what it was. They protested or held their own E3 or something. Other than that, I have no idea. Never heard of them before that and this.
But seriously, Ken Levine just sat there and let them rant and then walked off the stage without ever saying a word. So I call bullshit on the whole thing. If it was real, he would have taken time to talk (why would game of the year get less time than every other award?). And even if he didn't shove them out of the way or grab the mic, surely the award show would have shoved the cocks off and allowed Levine time to speak. I mean, c'mon.
And now they ALL get lots of publicity all over the net. Spike, VGA, Game Cocks and 2K.
They were a bunch of idiots dressed up in chicken suits that jumped up on stage. I thought they were supposed to be there. Part of the Bioshock entourage or something.
I don't buy the bullshit that nobody knew about it or they "rushed the stage". It's four or five guys in giant red chicken suits. How do you not see them from 800 feet away?! It's not like some guy in a suit follows everyone up on stage and you mistake him for possibly being a level designer or something with the company winning the award.
I'm actually surprised there would be a demand for this. I mean, with Harry Potter, are kids really branching off to the Wheel of Time books again? I know they were popular with kids back when I was in grade school (did adults actually read them?) but, like the David Eddings books, it seems like they came and went with the 80s and 90s.
I thought we just had a slew of articles around the internet telling us that email is dead and it's all about myspace and instant messaging?
Anyway, if you have truly devious intentions, simply use the telephone or speak in person. It works for the president and it has worked for the mafia (at least, it did in GoodFellas).
Yes, but on the other hand, they get at least three months of vacation every year, massive retirement benifits (in PDX some have retired with 105% of their working income, thanks to the PERS system) and if none of that floats your boat, there is always plenty of child molesting to do on the order of about 500 to 1000 cases per year.
Really, I don't care to hear teachers cry about their suckie jobs, long hours and crap pay. I bust my ass more hours than any teacher ever will, but nobody calls me a "hero" or suggest that I should be revered in some way. I don't get a cushy pension at the end. I don't get to keep my job based on nothing more than the fact that I've been here for a long time.
My opinion is that if you've gone into teaching at any point in the last 30+ years with anything but an expectation to make an average salary or less and work with thankless brats, then you are as deluded as people who continue to smoke with full knowledge of the negative results of it. At that point, they're no different than the starving artist who knows that you can't really make a living on art alone (unless they're the lucky tenth of a percent), but they somehow think they deserve more, everyone owes them more and that they're some how on a higher moral plain than the rest, because of their "career" choice.
I wasn't a big fan of the movie. It wasn't horrible, but it was probably about the worst Mike Judge movie I've ever seen. It just seemed to latch onto the one thing and beat it into the ground until the end of the movie. Not to mention, it's kind of depressing when you think about how outrageous, yet possible, it seems.
Worth a watch if you see it on cable, but not worth a netflix slot.
That said, I was lucky enough to get a couple cans of Brawndo last week and they're pretty genius looking. I haven't tasted them yet, but I plan to taste one and preserve the other probably.:)
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The show is going to be complete shit. As if CourtTV wasn't stupid enough (not to mention, they brought us Nancy Grace), but now that they're changing themselves to "TruTV" it's mostly just going to be a bunch of videotaped crap. So if you missed the video of the guy driving the wrong way on CCTV in the UK when it was on one of those FOX "wildest blah caught on tape" shows or REALTV or any of the other shows over the last decade, you'll be able to catch it when it airs for the 800th time on some random show on this "TruTV" thing that has been dumbed-down for the Idiocracy crowd.
How long until they stop "subsidizing" the access of competing office suites? How long until you can't access docs.google.com, because it's a competing online office product or google.com/ig, because it competes with the provider's own "portal" home page? Or looking at the pages of competing service providers, so you can't switch to them?
Granted, all they were doing here is cutting off free access to a download that was singled out previously... but the logic that "because they're competing with our stuff" is easily and validly extrapolated to all sorts of possibilities.
Why is an ISP providing an online office suite? They're supposed to provide internet access. Period. I don't even use my provider's email address or server. I've never logged in or touched it. I just want a tube I can back my truck up to and get internet on. Nothing more. No tools. No utilities. No portal home page thing. No applications. No office suites. No filtering. No content management. Give me the network access and the IP of your DNS servers and go the fuck away.
IT CAN NOT BE A HOAX.
The article that was submitted to Slashdot clearly says No, really. If this wasn't real, there is no way on earth that sentence would be there.
That's bullshit. People who excuse their poor use of grammar, punctuation or spelling because they are "being informal" and don't have the time or brain power to waste on such things when they're just "relaxing" are people who always have poor use of grammar, punctuation and spelling. And that's fine. But don't try to snowjob people by telling us that the only reason is that you don't want to take the time to write carefully "at the moment". It's a lot like the kid back in high school who always told people he has a girlfriend, but she lives in Canada.
Anyone who writes reasonably well will say that it's actually takes more effort to type in internet acronyms along with poor grammar and spelling. And someone who is presumably a professionally employed mass communications and journalist person should know better.
I'm under the impression that a word being accepted de facto into a language has nothing to do with writing well. Just because "ain't" has a definition in the dictionary doesn't mean it's appropriate or preferable to use in intelligent communication (or at least communication in which you want to be taken seriously).
If this guy were a twelve year old girl IM-ing with her friends, it'd be one thing. This is a person who is supposedly a professional communicator.
Yeah, it's not the military's fault that they are employing military personal to vandalize non-profit organization's websites with biased propaganda. It's wikipedia's fault! *eyeroll*
From the wikileak page where a purported posting from a military communications / journalist / etc officer is displayed:
[quote] I got a little lazy and gained a few pounds, ok more than a few... lol.[/quote]
Please tell me that a supposed journalist and professional communications specialist did not just use 'lol'.
A better analogy would be "next you're going to tell me that Linus Torvals is working for the government and, while on the tax-payer's dime, is posting false information and deleting content that may be true but negative toward linux on wikipedia".
Also, the ideal goal is to keep Wikipedia as void of 'opinion' as possible anyway.
There are two uses for typical social networks. The first is to promote your band, business or service. The other is to satisfy your ego and validate your existence by constant attention-whoring. Some people will say "I use it to keep in touch with people", but that's bullshit, because it's an idiotic substitute for the telephone, email or instant messaging. So claiming that all the hassle of getting, maintaining and monitoring a social network account just to keep in touch with a few people is like saying you only get Hustler and Club for the articles.
My KDE 3.5.8 install gave me testicular cancer and I lost a nut because of it. You hear that?! KDE EATS YOUR BALLS.
I don't understand what they mean by "the cause of" him, but I thought David Borealis played the role of Angel in Buffy extremely well and I enjoyed his spin-off show "Angel". It's too bad the show as canceled.
The title of this article made me, for the first time in my entire life, notice that "took" is a really weird word.
Yeah, but if you're winning the award, you surely know who is part of your group and who isn't. And if you're running the show, you certainly know who is and is not supposed to be on that stage, right?
It'd be cool if there was some online web database you could submit your captures to so you could compare them to other people.
:D
You know . . . for those of us without any friends.
Install it on a system. Write a script to constantly browse the most absurd things or nonstop linux stuff and then let it sit in the corner for a few months, until you qualify for the free copy.
I think they did something during this year's E3. I don't remember what it was. They protested or held their own E3 or something. Other than that, I have no idea. Never heard of them before that and this.
But seriously, Ken Levine just sat there and let them rant and then walked off the stage without ever saying a word. So I call bullshit on the whole thing. If it was real, he would have taken time to talk (why would game of the year get less time than every other award?). And even if he didn't shove them out of the way or grab the mic, surely the award show would have shoved the cocks off and allowed Levine time to speak. I mean, c'mon.
And now they ALL get lots of publicity all over the net. Spike, VGA, Game Cocks and 2K.
They were a bunch of idiots dressed up in chicken suits that jumped up on stage. I thought they were supposed to be there. Part of the Bioshock entourage or something.
I don't buy the bullshit that nobody knew about it or they "rushed the stage". It's four or five guys in giant red chicken suits. How do you not see them from 800 feet away?! It's not like some guy in a suit follows everyone up on stage and you mistake him for possibly being a level designer or something with the company winning the award.
Why are there sex-offender databases that anyone can go look at online, but there's no assault-and-battery database or murder database?
Whoever marked this flamebait obviously didn't read beyond the first line.
Real men use emacs, bitches!
Okay, not really -- but I thought someone should get that out of the way so we can move on.
Besides, most people who say Vi or Emacs are the best secretly use nano/ae/pico when nobody is looking and we all know you do, too.
I'm actually surprised there would be a demand for this. I mean, with Harry Potter, are kids really branching off to the Wheel of Time books again? I know they were popular with kids back when I was in grade school (did adults actually read them?) but, like the David Eddings books, it seems like they came and went with the 80s and 90s.
I thought we just had a slew of articles around the internet telling us that email is dead and it's all about myspace and instant messaging?
Anyway, if you have truly devious intentions, simply use the telephone or speak in person. It works for the president and it has worked for the mafia (at least, it did in GoodFellas).
Yes, but on the other hand, they get at least three months of vacation every year, massive retirement benifits (in PDX some have retired with 105% of their working income, thanks to the PERS system) and if none of that floats your boat, there is always plenty of child molesting to do on the order of about 500 to 1000 cases per year.
Really, I don't care to hear teachers cry about their suckie jobs, long hours and crap pay. I bust my ass more hours than any teacher ever will, but nobody calls me a "hero" or suggest that I should be revered in some way. I don't get a cushy pension at the end. I don't get to keep my job based on nothing more than the fact that I've been here for a long time.
My opinion is that if you've gone into teaching at any point in the last 30+ years with anything but an expectation to make an average salary or less and work with thankless brats, then you are as deluded as people who continue to smoke with full knowledge of the negative results of it. At that point, they're no different than the starving artist who knows that you can't really make a living on art alone (unless they're the lucky tenth of a percent), but they somehow think they deserve more, everyone owes them more and that they're some how on a higher moral plain than the rest, because of their "career" choice.
I wasn't a big fan of the movie. It wasn't horrible, but it was probably about the worst Mike Judge movie I've ever seen. It just seemed to latch onto the one thing and beat it into the ground until the end of the movie. Not to mention, it's kind of depressing when you think about how outrageous, yet possible, it seems.
:)
Worth a watch if you see it on cable, but not worth a netflix slot.
That said, I was lucky enough to get a couple cans of Brawndo last week and they're pretty genius looking. I haven't tasted them yet, but I plan to taste one and preserve the other probably.