You've got this all wrong. If Jon Danzig is throwing in the towel, it just goes to show that you should never rely on a distro that is created and maintained by a rocker.
My company recently purchased another company for several billion dollars and one of the employees sent some sort of an email that was posted on our internal corporate page. It was referring to the culture of our company and how wonderful the language we used was.
One of the comments they made was that "doubleclicking" an idea is brilliant! Where "doubleclicking" means that you want to look at an idea in more detail or discuss something further. As in "let's take a few minutes to doubleclick that interesting idea before we move on".
What the HELL? Who the hell would use such an idiotic statement outside of . . . MAYBE marketing? If you talk like that, you might as well be one of those annoying tools that refers to not being able to find your screw driver as "I looked for a philips in my toolbox but it seems to be 404".
Yeah, you're right. The original poster is completely ridiculous. I mean - Amazon patent wikis? That's as silly a notion as suggestiont that they would patent reviewing items, suggesting items to a customer based on their purchases, one-click ordering and so on. Why . . . just unpossible!
Not only isn't live television that vital - television itself isn't vital. At first, I thought this device would mostly be useful during important news events like a terrorist attack or the death of a president or another massive natural disaster in the country. Some sort of thing you can't tear yourself away from and you feel compelled to watch a lot. However, if the event is serious enough, where could you go to ESCAPE it in the first place?
When the london bombings occurred a few months ago, every television on this campus (I work for a Fortune 200 tech company) was turned to CNN non-stop for several days (that's one television about every 30 feet). Not to mention, the internet and other easily accessible means.
Of course, there are a few good shows on television. I like The Shield, Rescue Me, Over There . . . but those can all be rented from Netflix.
If you're looking for "the one" while still in college, you're an idiot anyway and should really not be breeding, but spending all of that time in front of a gaming console where there is no such reproductive risk posed to the rest of society.
You live for a good 70 years. You don't have to fall in love and settle down in the first 22.
Also, it doesn't matter how much time you spend with your significant other. A great number of (not all) women are simply attention whores. They want the attention from you in the same way they wanted their daddy's attention a decade or two before. It isn't enough that you pay attention to her. You need to pay ALL of your attention to her. Even at the expense of attention to your work, hobbies, family and friends.
I'm sure a lot of idealistic, but relatively inexperienced, young people will whine and complain about how false these statements are, but give them a few years in the real world and a little more experience to rub away the bullshit they've been fed from television and books and magazines the last two decades.
How can you go out with someone who has interests so different from your own?
Huh?!
You pick someone because they're attractive, arouse you and (on a biological level) have the attributes our species find's preferable in producing offspring. The girl I want to hook up with doesn't have to go bowling or playing videogames with me anymore than the guy friends I go bowling with or play videogames with have to come over and blow me.
Why do you have to find someone that likes everything you like, does everything you do and wants to spend every waking moment together? Can't you do your own thing, have your own life and do things you both don't share with other people? Dude, that's what friends are for.
"True love" is when you realize the person you're with is the best you're going to be able to get due to your current and likely future stature in life, so you settle before you lose them and then somehow manage to string together a mediocre relationship for the rest of your life (or until one or both of you is convinced that somehow someone else is a better catch than your current one and that you're deluded into thinking THAT one will be so great that you leave the current "true love").
Seriously. Don't kid yourself. People are oppertunistic and prone to succumb to tempations and infatuations with little logic or rationality. If you're with someone, you are only together because neither of you has had a better offer yet.
The key word in "settling down" is settle. If you're fine with that - great. Just don't delude yourself into thinking it's some grandious thing of another nature that you've concocted in your own mind to rationalize and justify the quality.
It seems that in the mind of many a women, you should be able to remain successful, productive, bring in an impressive income, receive promotions, buy a nice house, car, vacations, raise children and all the other things that women you may hook up with, date, or even marry would want out of a guy and would want to be able to brag to their family and friends about . . . while not actually focusing yourself on your work.
You should make time for the other person, certainly, but chicks need to understand that you only got where you are through hard work and that all the things of yours which she enjoys came at a price. Both monitarily and in personal sacrifices of various kinds.
If you can't respect the fact that, as a man, work and career and achievment are a very large part of my existance and want me to sabotage that to spend even more time with you at, say, the risk of you hooking up with some unemployed loser or the pool boy who don't have the responsibilities and can give you the time while I give you the money and house and nice cars and fancy dinners, then you might as well step-off from the get-go.
So how does the XBOX (or cars or any other hobby) fit into this? Because when you work hard, you need to relax, too. You need time alone to decompress and enjoy yourself and being suffocated by another human being every free second you have is not always the most relaxing thing. Likewise, your mate needs to understand that fact in addition to the "I have a career" fact.
If she can't, it's time to start looking for a better breed of women and start thinking with your head when you choose the next one.
In a lot of companies, you're lucky to to be able to find the extension of the person YOU want to talk to as a colleague. Nevermind a customer even trying to find out. Not to mention, when your company is farming work out to a dozen other countries and you have to figure out a different system / code for each and every campus in each and every country.
Personally, I prefer companies that let me work with them via email. Presuming, of course, the person I'm communicating with can form a coherent sentence, which often is not the case.
If you're in college, why are you involved in a relationship that is so serious that your hobbies and recreational activities play any part in anything? Dude, it's college. You shouldn't even have just *one* "significant other".
What the hell happened to having fun and getting to know yourself in highschool and college and saving settling down and getting serious for around 30+?
Sad. The "XBOX problem" is the least of their worries. The XBOX may be more interesting to the dude than the chick today, but when they get married in two years and he realizes he's never really had any fun and experienced any other relationships before he got so serious and tied down, it's going to be OTHER CHICKS that will be more interesting to him than the chick he has today.
What I want to know is, what do all of you assholes who screamed "SEXUAL HARASSMENT" and all of the other horrible things against this Doctor in the last slashdot article about it have to say now? Seriously, this guy was ripped a new asshole under the premise that he coerced, forced or even threatened his female lab assistant(s) to use their eggs like he was some sick even person.
And then it all turns out THEY did it VOLUNTARILY and SECRETIVELY behind his back.
Actuall, this isn't a troll. It's a proper observation. People are dicks. People are dicks to you in a lot of jobs. You don't have to be Indian or in another country or "taking an American job" to be treated poorly. Ask anyone in a service job and I'm sure they'll tell you of frequent abuse and mistreatment and hateful comments. It has nothing to do with being a foreign chick from a foreign call center "taking an American job". It just happens to be the most readily available thing to pick on for the insult. If it was someone in a call center in San Francisco, or Atlanta, the customers who say that sort of thing to the person on the other line would be insulting and harassing them, too - they'd just be picking something else to attack them about.
And guess what? If you don't like it - seriously get another fucking job.
I'm not sure if you're understanding the distinction with Thanksgiving.
It is currently celebrated as an occasion for families to get together and, supposedly, for people to express their thanks for whatever things in their life they are thankful for (I'm not sure how pigging out on turkey express that thanks, but that's another discussion). Just because Thanksgiving was celebrated by earlier settlers / evil-doers doesn't make Thanksgiving an "anti-native-american" holiday or even a "pro-Columbus" holiday. That's some time in October and nobody outside of government positions take time off for it as far as I know.
Christmas has more to do with celebrating something widely that has traditionally subjected a lot of people to a lot of hate and violence and devistation than celebrating a bunch of turkey eating family time has to do with chopping off the hands of gold-ming slaves and trojaning blankets with small-pox.
When was thanksgiving ever a holiday that had anything to do with being "anti-indian" or "culturally insensitive"? Hell, it's just about the least religious, most benign holiday there is. Just because pilgrams and the evil guys back then sat around and ate turkey together, it makes it evil for us to do it today? Or somehow "insensitive"? I bet they used knives to carve those turkeys and I bet they sat in chairs at tables during the festivities. Does that mean it's insensitive if people sit in chairs around tables and carve their food with knives in 2005?
I sincerely hope you are not trying to correlate or compare a "holiday" based on the violent actions of that night and persecutions that the holiday signifies with eating turkey. The "holiday" in Germany is celebrating a specific violent event with specific hateful connotations. There is nothing vague about it. Thanksgiving, on the other hand, was never a holiday to celebrate - oh, say - the murder of indians and the theft of land. There was no intention or relation of Thanksgiving being to celebrate some bloody massacre. Seriously. Things couldn't be further apart.
I'm not sure that's what you're trying to drive at.
You know, I don't particularly care to continue the "columbus" myth whatsoever, but at the same time . . . What the fuck do you want from me? It's not like this is the only country that was ever conquered or explored or founded or taken by force or anything else. Not the first and not the last.
Frankly, I'm tired of people trying to lay some trip on me because I'm a "white male". What the fuck did I have to do with buttraping the natives on this country and taking their land? Hey - I'm real sorry about how it all went down, but my family was from Russia and Germany - not Spain - and they only came over within the last century. And I'm pretty fucking sure they weren't royalty or had anything to do with or control to change what happened on this continent.
Should all the people who have migrated to Australia in the last decade be responsible for what Britain did to the aboriginies in the last century or two?
On the other hand, it does seem silly to celebrate. But isn't that the Christian way? Fuck someone over, make a holiday for it or take their holiday and make it their own.. voila. Kinda like the whole pagans and Christmas thing. Or the pagans and easter thing.
Interestingly enough, it does still seem to be what is tought in school, which is fairly amazing.
"Native" people? You mean the original asians that crossed over into the country a long time before there were actual "Indians"?
Guess what. It's all old shit that I don't care about. And guess what? I'm not a hypocrit, because I'm not sitting around gorging on turkey and shit all day praying to baby jesus for the wonderful new car he gave me or... whatever.
I'm in the office, getting work done while others slack off. My Thanksgiving dinner will be a coke and a microwavable "hamburger" from the downstairs vending machine.
My favorite thing is when I call into Sprint to talk to someone about the $375 charge on my phone when I've only had it for three weeks and the bill is supposed to be under $100/mo . . . And they complain to me about not being able to hear me because I have a bad connection.
NO SHIT EINSTEIN! I'm using YOUR cell phones on YOUR network! Don't complain to *me* that your coverage sucks in a technical business park in a major city.
But what do you honestly expect? How is the person you call into supposed to know if the person you want to talk to is in? They probably aren't within walking distance of each other. Hell, they probably don't even KNOW the person you're asking for. The probably don't even work in the same city or state and may be on different coast if not different continents.
Yeah, I'll remember to feel sorry for her next time I'm in a cab driven by someone from her country who treats his fares like shit.
Oh, by the way, as people are frequent to tell Americans who complain about their tech jobs - "If you don't like it, find another job, bitch". And apparently, she did.
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You've got this all wrong. If Jon Danzig is throwing in the towel, it just goes to show that you should never rely on a distro that is created and maintained by a rocker.
Perhaps not. But it's at least an expression of complete ignorance on a level that pars with creationism is scientific theory.
You think that's bad?
My company recently purchased another company for several billion dollars and one of the employees sent some sort of an email that was posted on our internal corporate page. It was referring to the culture of our company and how wonderful the language we used was.
One of the comments they made was that "doubleclicking" an idea is brilliant! Where "doubleclicking" means that you want to look at an idea in more detail or discuss something further. As in "let's take a few minutes to doubleclick that interesting idea before we move on".
What the HELL? Who the hell would use such an idiotic statement outside of . . . MAYBE marketing? If you talk like that, you might as well be one of those annoying tools that refers to not being able to find your screw driver as "I looked for a philips in my toolbox but it seems to be 404".
GAAAAAAAH.
Yeah, you're right. The original poster is completely ridiculous. I mean - Amazon patent wikis? That's as silly a notion as suggestiont that they would patent reviewing items, suggesting items to a customer based on their purchases, one-click ordering and so on. Why . . . just unpossible!
An expense is incurred in reproducing a physical object. Not so in duplicating a downloadable MP3.
Apparently the slashdot editors don't know, either.
Not only isn't live television that vital - television itself isn't vital. At first, I thought this device would mostly be useful during important news events like a terrorist attack or the death of a president or another massive natural disaster in the country. Some sort of thing you can't tear yourself away from and you feel compelled to watch a lot. However, if the event is serious enough, where could you go to ESCAPE it in the first place?
When the london bombings occurred a few months ago, every television on this campus (I work for a Fortune 200 tech company) was turned to CNN non-stop for several days (that's one television about every 30 feet). Not to mention, the internet and other easily accessible means.
Of course, there are a few good shows on television. I like The Shield, Rescue Me, Over There . . . but those can all be rented from Netflix.
If you're looking for "the one" while still in college, you're an idiot anyway and should really not be breeding, but spending all of that time in front of a gaming console where there is no such reproductive risk posed to the rest of society.
You live for a good 70 years. You don't have to fall in love and settle down in the first 22.
Also, it doesn't matter how much time you spend with your significant other. A great number of (not all) women are simply attention whores. They want the attention from you in the same way they wanted their daddy's attention a decade or two before. It isn't enough that you pay attention to her. You need to pay ALL of your attention to her. Even at the expense of attention to your work, hobbies, family and friends.
I'm sure a lot of idealistic, but relatively inexperienced, young people will whine and complain about how false these statements are, but give them a few years in the real world and a little more experience to rub away the bullshit they've been fed from television and books and magazines the last two decades.
A-fucking-men.
How can you go out with someone who has interests so different from your own?
Huh?!
You pick someone because they're attractive, arouse you and (on a biological level) have the attributes our species find's preferable in producing offspring. The girl I want to hook up with doesn't have to go bowling or playing videogames with me anymore than the guy friends I go bowling with or play videogames with have to come over and blow me.
Why do you have to find someone that likes everything you like, does everything you do and wants to spend every waking moment together? Can't you do your own thing, have your own life and do things you both don't share with other people? Dude, that's what friends are for.
You choose a mate for very different reasons.
Bull.
"True love" is when you realize the person you're with is the best you're going to be able to get due to your current and likely future stature in life, so you settle before you lose them and then somehow manage to string together a mediocre relationship for the rest of your life (or until one or both of you is convinced that somehow someone else is a better catch than your current one and that you're deluded into thinking THAT one will be so great that you leave the current "true love").
Seriously. Don't kid yourself. People are oppertunistic and prone to succumb to tempations and infatuations with little logic or rationality. If you're with someone, you are only together because neither of you has had a better offer yet.
The key word in "settling down" is settle. If you're fine with that - great. Just don't delude yourself into thinking it's some grandious thing of another nature that you've concocted in your own mind to rationalize and justify the quality.
If it wasn't the xbox, it'd be work.
It seems that in the mind of many a women, you should be able to remain successful, productive, bring in an impressive income, receive promotions, buy a nice house, car, vacations, raise children and all the other things that women you may hook up with, date, or even marry would want out of a guy and would want to be able to brag to their family and friends about . . . while not actually focusing yourself on your work.
You should make time for the other person, certainly, but chicks need to understand that you only got where you are through hard work and that all the things of yours which she enjoys came at a price. Both monitarily and in personal sacrifices of various kinds.
If you can't respect the fact that, as a man, work and career and achievment are a very large part of my existance and want me to sabotage that to spend even more time with you at, say, the risk of you hooking up with some unemployed loser or the pool boy who don't have the responsibilities and can give you the time while I give you the money and house and nice cars and fancy dinners, then you might as well step-off from the get-go.
So how does the XBOX (or cars or any other hobby) fit into this? Because when you work hard, you need to relax, too. You need time alone to decompress and enjoy yourself and being suffocated by another human being every free second you have is not always the most relaxing thing. Likewise, your mate needs to understand that fact in addition to the "I have a career" fact.
If she can't, it's time to start looking for a better breed of women and start thinking with your head when you choose the next one.
In a lot of companies, you're lucky to to be able to find the extension of the person YOU want to talk to as a colleague. Nevermind a customer even trying to find out. Not to mention, when your company is farming work out to a dozen other countries and you have to figure out a different system / code for each and every campus in each and every country.
Personally, I prefer companies that let me work with them via email. Presuming, of course, the person I'm communicating with can form a coherent sentence, which often is not the case.
Jaci and Jake . . . (aw, how cute.. barf)
If you're in college, why are you involved in a relationship that is so serious that your hobbies and recreational activities play any part in anything? Dude, it's college. You shouldn't even have just *one* "significant other".
What the hell happened to having fun and getting to know yourself in highschool and college and saving settling down and getting serious for around 30+?
Sad. The "XBOX problem" is the least of their worries. The XBOX may be more interesting to the dude than the chick today, but when they get married in two years and he realizes he's never really had any fun and experienced any other relationships before he got so serious and tied down, it's going to be OTHER CHICKS that will be more interesting to him than the chick he has today.
What I want to know is, what do all of you assholes who screamed "SEXUAL HARASSMENT" and all of the other horrible things against this Doctor in the last slashdot article about it have to say now? Seriously, this guy was ripped a new asshole under the premise that he coerced, forced or even threatened his female lab assistant(s) to use their eggs like he was some sick even person.
And then it all turns out THEY did it VOLUNTARILY and SECRETIVELY behind his back.
Assuming gits.
EXACTLY like Thanksgiving.
Damn opensource man coming in and taking over the closedsource man's customer base.
Actuall, this isn't a troll. It's a proper observation. People are dicks. People are dicks to you in a lot of jobs. You don't have to be Indian or in another country or "taking an American job" to be treated poorly. Ask anyone in a service job and I'm sure they'll tell you of frequent abuse and mistreatment and hateful comments. It has nothing to do with being a foreign chick from a foreign call center "taking an American job". It just happens to be the most readily available thing to pick on for the insult. If it was someone in a call center in San Francisco, or Atlanta, the customers who say that sort of thing to the person on the other line would be insulting and harassing them, too - they'd just be picking something else to attack them about.
And guess what? If you don't like it - seriously get another fucking job.
I'm not sure if you're understanding the distinction with Thanksgiving.
It is currently celebrated as an occasion for families to get together and, supposedly, for people to express their thanks for whatever things in their life they are thankful for (I'm not sure how pigging out on turkey express that thanks, but that's another discussion). Just because Thanksgiving was celebrated by earlier settlers / evil-doers doesn't make Thanksgiving an "anti-native-american" holiday or even a "pro-Columbus" holiday. That's some time in October and nobody outside of government positions take time off for it as far as I know.
Christmas has more to do with celebrating something widely that has traditionally subjected a lot of people to a lot of hate and violence and devistation than celebrating a bunch of turkey eating family time has to do with chopping off the hands of gold-ming slaves and trojaning blankets with small-pox.
When was thanksgiving ever a holiday that had anything to do with being "anti-indian" or "culturally insensitive"? Hell, it's just about the least religious, most benign holiday there is. Just because pilgrams and the evil guys back then sat around and ate turkey together, it makes it evil for us to do it today? Or somehow "insensitive"? I bet they used knives to carve those turkeys and I bet they sat in chairs at tables during the festivities. Does that mean it's insensitive if people sit in chairs around tables and carve their food with knives in 2005?
I sincerely hope you are not trying to correlate or compare a "holiday" based on the violent actions of that night and persecutions that the holiday signifies with eating turkey. The "holiday" in Germany is celebrating a specific violent event with specific hateful connotations. There is nothing vague about it. Thanksgiving, on the other hand, was never a holiday to celebrate - oh, say - the murder of indians and the theft of land. There was no intention or relation of Thanksgiving being to celebrate some bloody massacre. Seriously. Things couldn't be further apart.
I'm not sure that's what you're trying to drive at.
Most large companies think of their customers as organisms somewhere between slime mold and cattle, at treat them appropriately.
That's also about the level they treat their customer support or technical engineers at, too.
You know, I don't particularly care to continue the "columbus" myth whatsoever, but at the same time . . . What the fuck do you want from me? It's not like this is the only country that was ever conquered or explored or founded or taken by force or anything else. Not the first and not the last.
Frankly, I'm tired of people trying to lay some trip on me because I'm a "white male". What the fuck did I have to do with buttraping the natives on this country and taking their land? Hey - I'm real sorry about how it all went down, but my family was from Russia and Germany - not Spain - and they only came over within the last century. And I'm pretty fucking sure they weren't royalty or had anything to do with or control to change what happened on this continent.
Should all the people who have migrated to Australia in the last decade be responsible for what Britain did to the aboriginies in the last century or two?
On the other hand, it does seem silly to celebrate. But isn't that the Christian way? Fuck someone over, make a holiday for it or take their holiday and make it their own.. voila. Kinda like the whole pagans and Christmas thing. Or the pagans and easter thing.
Interestingly enough, it does still seem to be what is tought in school, which is fairly amazing.
"Native" people? You mean the original asians that crossed over into the country a long time before there were actual "Indians"?
Guess what. It's all old shit that I don't care about. And guess what? I'm not a hypocrit, because I'm not sitting around gorging on turkey and shit all day praying to baby jesus for the wonderful new car he gave me or... whatever.
I'm in the office, getting work done while others slack off. My Thanksgiving dinner will be a coke and a microwavable "hamburger" from the downstairs vending machine.
The poster copied and pasted those comments directly from the press release.
My favorite thing is when I call into Sprint to talk to someone about the $375 charge on my phone when I've only had it for three weeks and the bill is supposed to be under $100/mo . . . And they complain to me about not being able to hear me because I have a bad connection.
NO SHIT EINSTEIN! I'm using YOUR cell phones on YOUR network! Don't complain to *me* that your coverage sucks in a technical business park in a major city.
But what do you honestly expect? How is the person you call into supposed to know if the person you want to talk to is in? They probably aren't within walking distance of each other. Hell, they probably don't even KNOW the person you're asking for. The probably don't even work in the same city or state and may be on different coast if not different continents.
Yeah, I'll remember to feel sorry for her next time I'm in a cab driven by someone from her country who treats his fares like shit.
Oh, by the way, as people are frequent to tell Americans who complain about their tech jobs - "If you don't like it, find another job, bitch". And apparently, she did.