I didn't read it that way, anyway. When I read "Ohio Cracker", I first read it with the connotation of "cracker" as in "I just stepped on 50-Cent's shoes and he's insulting my white ass before the beatdown comes".
I define using your brain as being more than an automaton
Exactly. So you and I both agree. Teachers should use their brains, rather than having some crappy piece of code automating the process.
And don't whine to be about the hard life of a teacher and the low salary. It's not like it's a fucking new situation. If you've gone into educating as a profession at any point in the last 30 years, you knew what a shit job it was and didn't have a problem taking it - supposedly because you enjoy the actual job itself.
Yeah, whatever. You say that now, but I bet you were one of those jerks hating on Network Solutions for making "new error pages" last year, weren't, you?
I would suspect they've introduced new errors, entirely! Maybe some 700s, 800s.. maybe even some googols!
Since I'm not going to install it on my mac, someone want to post screenshots of the new screens? Please tell me they're more informative (for unsophisticated users) but not mimics of MSIE.
new features including a new automatic update system
Awesome - because we all know how well auto-updating stuff goes. Take Windows, for example!:P
Seriously though, I can't wait until we get an OSX port that doesn't suck (Camino is okay, but what good is it if you can't use all the cool firefox extensions?).
Mostly, I would consider any hospital with honest to god candy stripers to be a good hospital. Nothing heals faster than ample tits and ass. If only the HMOs would catch on and start funding my Captain Stabbin' subscriptions as a medical prescription.
Paying farmers not to farm is good. It's a way of keeping farmlands fertile while not forcing farmers out of business.
Aside from the assertion that we supposedly live in a capitalist, market-driven, society . . .
A wiser person than any who have ever served in government would realize that the same could be achieved - and more - by paying farmers to farm and distributing their product to the homeless and hungry within the states and around the world.
You should read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Edwards.
And you should just just return to your Oral Roberts university dorm and shoot yourself in the head before you reproduce. You have no grasp on anything other than as a perverted method of spreading your stupid jesus message.
So life is a soul? So cows aren't alive? Plants aren't alive? You're claiming that some unproven supernatural invisible entity has created an unproven invisible "entity"? That stands for science for you people?
And your argument is "the odds are against one thing happening, so if this one thing happens, it proves there's a god!". The odds are seriously stacked against winning the lottery, but winning it doesn't prove the existance of god.
The cool thing Intelligent Design is we know God made us.
So you're not so much espousing any kind of scientific theory as just saying "intelligent design exists because god made us"?
Does your state not provide science text books to students or something? You really seem to be lacking a lot of basic knowledge and concepts. Your idea of science appears to be "I have a belief that is not, has not and can not be proven true - but if I apply a name to my belief, it becomes a scientific theory and gains sudden validity".
How is your belief that there's a god and he literally grabbed ten gazillion lumps of dirt and physically formed planets out of them like a two year old with playdough any more valid than someone who claims a giant spaghetti monster poofed into existence and created life, the universe and everything?!
People like you frustrate people with brains and common sense, because your "arguments" follow no logic and your only recourse is quoting shit out of a bible or saying "but I know it to be true!".
I can't state for a fact that there is no god or greater entity that created the universe, just like I can't state for a fact that there isn't life out there somewhere else in the universe on another planet. Likewise, you absolutely can not with certainty claim that there is a god, much less that he created the world and yadda yadda... and even much less that he wants specific commands followed, like not mixing various fibers in your wearable textiles.
So rather than being a stupid asshat, why not just be sensible and say "I have no consistant, tangible evidence of anything, so I reserve my judgement". Science is about discovery. Theology and religion is about making silly arguments to bolster your insistance on something that can absolutely not be proven.
"God made life. It's called a soul"... Holy shit, I'll be laughing at that one for years. That's your one great bit of proof. That and your belief that because things are "really complex", they couldn't possibly have occurred any other way than being directly made by the "hands of god". Because, of course, the entire point of evolution couldn't POSSIBLY be to do precisely that -- to pick and continue and advance things toward a more complex, adaptable, efficient nature -- right?
You're ignoring a million dominoes that fell, causing the final domino to fall over - and just claiming that the magical touch of santa clause tipped it over directly. Just silly.
Please, tell me you're a fifth grader who is still heavily influenced by his parents believe and that you're not an actual full-grown adult, presumably having received an actual education already?
Wow. You can choose which news station you want in the UK?!
In the states, you just order whatever tier of cable you want (which can easily run over $100/mo) and you get whatever comes with that package. It may mean you get 10 public access stations with naked people smoking pot and talking about jesus, 12 religious nut stations, 10 shopping stations, 12 foreign language stations, 20 sports stations, 20 streaming music stations and 10 news stations, but you can't pick and choose.
Of course, I've found that BBC America is largely crap. It's nothing but thirty different shows about cleaning the clutter from your house and selling it at a yardsale, Trading Spaces and Garden Force. Like, 24x7. I think there is like a half hour of international news at some point during the day, but that's it. otherwise, it's completely indistinguishable from TLC (The Ladies Channel).
What kind of teacher expects kids to do work that the teacher won't see and can't be bothered to deal with? If you want some fancy computer gizmo to do your homework grading for you, do your students get to have the same attitude and just copy and paste wikipedia articles?
This is off topic, but I do want to mention that I'm not against private healthcare. I think that if you're super rich and you want a really great hospital with particular doctors and have particular things done and are willing to pay for it (directly or via an insurance plan), then more power to you. I would not want my quality of care being reduced just to spread it out to other people who don't work for a living or have been washing dishes for thirty years.
However, free healthcare (no matter how lacking) is still free healthcare and while it may be quasi-utopian and socialistic of me (I'm a republican turned long-time libertarian), I think that any country where we are sending men to the Moon and Mars, spending billions in humanitarian aid (and hundreds of billions on war efforts) in other nations, giving corporate fat-cats major subsidies, paying farmers not to farm and everyone has at least one large color television and a car and, soon, an iPod, we can afford to be utopian enough to make sure people get at least basic medical attention - both emergency and preventative. The trick is accomplishing that without taking away the health care choices the "upper tiers" of people have now and without blowing unnecessary tax dollars on inevitable corruption and corporate charity that would result in the "health care" contracts for the "poorer" among us.
Anyway... That was a pointless rant... I just didn't want to be directly related to Canada-bashing just because their good intent sucks in execution. Heh.
No, it just means that there will now be a weighted "baby jesus" factor in every game rating. And they'll be able to profit from the evil, horrible videogames they complain about on Fox News.
I don't think it's possible for the human mind to grasp the concepts necessary for anything before the moment of that initial instant spark in the universe (whatever it may have been). There will be a limitation before which we will never have true knowledge of.
But that doesn't mean we should just go around inventing campfire stories to explain it, either. If we let religion hinder us even more than we already do, we would never even be at the point where we were exploring space at all, because we'd still believe that they were gods rather than planets.
I was using the most conservative number I had seen, giving fellow Americans the favor of attributing less ignorance than some statistics would indicate.
To start with, I have a problem with "believing" anything. There's no place for "believing". You can't just say I "believe" this drug will cure AIDS. It either does or doesn't. You either have evidence and practical material showing that it truly does or you do not. Likewise, you can't just say "I believe the world was created by a giant ice cream monster" and have that fall into the category of "scientific theory".
However, if one must believe in the baby jesus and all that stuff, why is it so unreasonable to believe "there was some intelligent being that created the universe... and the method he used to initiate it could have been the big bang and evolution" and so on? Is that not also creationism?
Also, a lot of Americans believe in space aliens, but that doesn't mean a thing. Believing in creationism or space aliens is like believing in reincarnation or karma. It may help the individual cope with the unfathomable unknown, but it doesn't belong in science. And it most certainly does not belong hindering scientific discovery and exploration.
I just saw a poll recently that at least 35% of people believe in "creationism" over "big bang" (if you have to believe in a god, I don't know why you can't believe that he created everything starting from a big bang - but whatever).
I find it hard to believe that a country that has such a significant percentage of people who believe in a fairy-tale rather than giving any weight to the big bang - or at least reserving any judgement at all until scientific efforts have solidly made a determination beyond all doubt - will make any great space-related discovery or exploratory achievement at any time in the near future.
Ignorance and mythology has held progress in check and limited it greatly and it always will - unless maybe Pat Robertson runs for president again and starts a "faith-based space program" or something.
Rather than dealing with democracy and politics and the opinions of "the people" and dealing with environmental regulations and countless other limitations and concerns by other parties, these guys would jump ahead of everyone else by beating people and governments to the punch, essentially owning and controlling whatever they can touch out there. Who's going to stop them?
It's good to know that, in the future, corporations will not be hampered by government regulations or the will of the people. Space needs to be "first come, first served". If Wal-Mart and Exxon read everything in the solar system first, then damn it, they should get to do with it what they wish.
Also, I think it is a brilliant idea to continue burning fuels and manufacturing things that have toxic byproducts on this planet, with resources imported from the rest of the galaxy. That way we don't have to limit ourselves to just poisoning ourselves with the limited local resources, but can import them from off-world and poison ourselves to now end. PERFECT!
This will also be good for the average American. By the time they accomplish this, most American's will be jobless. Remember, Americans are lazy, un-creative and unable to compete with the rest of the world. Once all of our jobs (short of janitorial work) have been exported, ventures such as this will provide us with wonderful opportunities to be employed once again, providing physical labor mining and processing goods on other planets (at least, until they are able to automate it). Corporate extra-terrestrial slavery/employment will be our one way to remain relevant in the world.
Having to have Tim Berners Lee explained to you on an internet tech site is like having to have Henry Ford explained to you on a car enthusiasts site or George Washington explained on an American history site.
Salesmen and marketers generate income. They are your bread and butter.
Programmers and support people are unfortunate expenses, like keeping the vending machines stocked and janitorial services cleaning the offices. The only people that generate money are the salesmen and marketers.
You could make pizzas, but nobody is going to buy them without sales and marketing. A programmer is like the zit-faced kid making $6/hr twirling dough and tossing it in a stove.
Of course, you can't (currently, at least) really outsource sales, marketing, management or pizza making overseas for $5/hr. Programming and support, you can.
There was a brief time in the country where professional, educated, experienced, intelligent, knowledge-based people were well-regarded. That time has passed and people are going to have to get with the new program where, unfortunately, you're going to have to play the game. That may mean going back to school for another four years and going into debt again to start a new career all over as an MBA or something similar and wearing suits and losing your tech knowledge for buzz-words.
Well, considering I've never heard of most of the things they listed, I guess I won't be able to bitch and complain about whether they butchered anything.
Of course, I've never read/seen/whatever the couple that I did hear of, either.
The main reason I'm going to be most of my gaming (for non-strategy games, at least) on PS3/XBOX 360 from this point on (though I've never had a console before in my life) is that with a console, I can buy one game, have four controls and play with four people at the same time.
On the PC, if I want to play Unreal T2K4 with a couple buddies at my place, I've got to have multiple copies of the game (so a couple hundred bucks per game right there) plus several pretty sweet boxes to play on (as opposed to just one sweet box for myself and crap to run linux on).
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I didn't read it that way, anyway. When I read "Ohio Cracker", I first read it with the connotation of "cracker" as in "I just stepped on 50-Cent's shoes and he's insulting my white ass before the beatdown comes".
I define using your brain as being more than an automaton
Exactly. So you and I both agree. Teachers should use their brains, rather than having some crappy piece of code automating the process.
And don't whine to be about the hard life of a teacher and the low salary. It's not like it's a fucking new situation. If you've gone into educating as a profession at any point in the last 30 years, you knew what a shit job it was and didn't have a problem taking it - supposedly because you enjoy the actual job itself.
In a new tab?!?!
Screw that. I'll take the very annoying dialogue popup instead.
How hard is it to make the error just pop up on a page in place of the page that didn't load in the first place?!
Yeah, whatever. You say that now, but I bet you were one of those jerks hating on Network Solutions for making "new error pages" last year, weren't, you?
No, they said NEW ones.
I would suspect they've introduced new errors, entirely! Maybe some 700s, 800s.. maybe even some googols!
Since I'm not going to install it on my mac, someone want to post screenshots of the new screens? Please tell me they're more informative (for unsophisticated users) but not mimics of MSIE.
new features including a new automatic update system
:P
Awesome - because we all know how well auto-updating stuff goes. Take Windows, for example!
Seriously though, I can't wait until we get an OSX port that doesn't suck (Camino is okay, but what good is it if you can't use all the cool firefox extensions?).
Mostly, I would consider any hospital with honest to god candy stripers to be a good hospital. Nothing heals faster than ample tits and ass. If only the HMOs would catch on and start funding my Captain Stabbin' subscriptions as a medical prescription.
Paying farmers not to farm is good. It's a way of keeping farmlands fertile while not forcing farmers out of business.
Aside from the assertion that we supposedly live in a capitalist, market-driven, society . . .
A wiser person than any who have ever served in government would realize that the same could be achieved - and more - by paying farmers to farm and distributing their product to the homeless and hungry within the states and around the world.
You should read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Edwards.
And you should just just return to your Oral Roberts university dorm and shoot yourself in the head before you reproduce. You have no grasp on anything other than as a perverted method of spreading your stupid jesus message.
God made life. It is called a soul.
So life is a soul? So cows aren't alive? Plants aren't alive? You're claiming that some unproven supernatural invisible entity has created an unproven invisible "entity"? That stands for science for you people?
And your argument is "the odds are against one thing happening, so if this one thing happens, it proves there's a god!". The odds are seriously stacked against winning the lottery, but winning it doesn't prove the existance of god.
The cool thing Intelligent Design is we know God made us.
So you're not so much espousing any kind of scientific theory as just saying "intelligent design exists because god made us"?
Does your state not provide science text books to students or something? You really seem to be lacking a lot of basic knowledge and concepts. Your idea of science appears to be "I have a belief that is not, has not and can not be proven true - but if I apply a name to my belief, it becomes a scientific theory and gains sudden validity".
How is your belief that there's a god and he literally grabbed ten gazillion lumps of dirt and physically formed planets out of them like a two year old with playdough any more valid than someone who claims a giant spaghetti monster poofed into existence and created life, the universe and everything?!
People like you frustrate people with brains and common sense, because your "arguments" follow no logic and your only recourse is quoting shit out of a bible or saying "but I know it to be true!".
I can't state for a fact that there is no god or greater entity that created the universe, just like I can't state for a fact that there isn't life out there somewhere else in the universe on another planet. Likewise, you absolutely can not with certainty claim that there is a god, much less that he created the world and yadda yadda... and even much less that he wants specific commands followed, like not mixing various fibers in your wearable textiles.
So rather than being a stupid asshat, why not just be sensible and say "I have no consistant, tangible evidence of anything, so I reserve my judgement". Science is about discovery. Theology and religion is about making silly arguments to bolster your insistance on something that can absolutely not be proven.
"God made life. It's called a soul"... Holy shit, I'll be laughing at that one for years. That's your one great bit of proof. That and your belief that because things are "really complex", they couldn't possibly have occurred any other way than being directly made by the "hands of god". Because, of course, the entire point of evolution couldn't POSSIBLY be to do precisely that -- to pick and continue and advance things toward a more complex, adaptable, efficient nature -- right?
You're ignoring a million dominoes that fell, causing the final domino to fall over - and just claiming that the magical touch of santa clause tipped it over directly. Just silly.
Please, tell me you're a fifth grader who is still heavily influenced by his parents believe and that you're not an actual full-grown adult, presumably having received an actual education already?
Silly Brits. Who do you think you are -- Americans?!
You can't just go around telling citizens in other nations what licenses and laws they must obey!
Wow. You can choose which news station you want in the UK?!
In the states, you just order whatever tier of cable you want (which can easily run over $100/mo) and you get whatever comes with that package. It may mean you get 10 public access stations with naked people smoking pot and talking about jesus, 12 religious nut stations, 10 shopping stations, 12 foreign language stations, 20 sports stations, 20 streaming music stations and 10 news stations, but you can't pick and choose.
Of course, I've found that BBC America is largely crap. It's nothing but thirty different shows about cleaning the clutter from your house and selling it at a yardsale, Trading Spaces and Garden Force. Like, 24x7. I think there is like a half hour of international news at some point during the day, but that's it. otherwise, it's completely indistinguishable from TLC (The Ladies Channel).
I don't think they even do Dr. Who anymore.
What kind of teacher expects kids to do work that the teacher won't see and can't be bothered to deal with? If you want some fancy computer gizmo to do your homework grading for you, do your students get to have the same attitude and just copy and paste wikipedia articles?
This is off topic, but I do want to mention that I'm not against private healthcare. I think that if you're super rich and you want a really great hospital with particular doctors and have particular things done and are willing to pay for it (directly or via an insurance plan), then more power to you. I would not want my quality of care being reduced just to spread it out to other people who don't work for a living or have been washing dishes for thirty years.
However, free healthcare (no matter how lacking) is still free healthcare and while it may be quasi-utopian and socialistic of me (I'm a republican turned long-time libertarian), I think that any country where we are sending men to the Moon and Mars, spending billions in humanitarian aid (and hundreds of billions on war efforts) in other nations, giving corporate fat-cats major subsidies, paying farmers not to farm and everyone has at least one large color television and a car and, soon, an iPod, we can afford to be utopian enough to make sure people get at least basic medical attention - both emergency and preventative. The trick is accomplishing that without taking away the health care choices the "upper tiers" of people have now and without blowing unnecessary tax dollars on inevitable corruption and corporate charity that would result in the "health care" contracts for the "poorer" among us.
Anyway... That was a pointless rant... I just didn't want to be directly related to Canada-bashing just because their good intent sucks in execution. Heh.
No, it just means that there will now be a weighted "baby jesus" factor in every game rating. And they'll be able to profit from the evil, horrible videogames they complain about on Fox News.
Yeah, they just don't get all the fancy things that private hospitals get. Like beds and rooms and aspirin and xray machines and qualified doctors!
I don't think it's possible for the human mind to grasp the concepts necessary for anything before the moment of that initial instant spark in the universe (whatever it may have been). There will be a limitation before which we will never have true knowledge of.
But that doesn't mean we should just go around inventing campfire stories to explain it, either. If we let religion hinder us even more than we already do, we would never even be at the point where we were exploring space at all, because we'd still believe that they were gods rather than planets.
I was using the most conservative number I had seen, giving fellow Americans the favor of attributing less ignorance than some statistics would indicate.
To start with, I have a problem with "believing" anything. There's no place for "believing". You can't just say I "believe" this drug will cure AIDS. It either does or doesn't. You either have evidence and practical material showing that it truly does or you do not. Likewise, you can't just say "I believe the world was created by a giant ice cream monster" and have that fall into the category of "scientific theory".
However, if one must believe in the baby jesus and all that stuff, why is it so unreasonable to believe "there was some intelligent being that created the universe... and the method he used to initiate it could have been the big bang and evolution" and so on? Is that not also creationism?
Also, a lot of Americans believe in space aliens, but that doesn't mean a thing. Believing in creationism or space aliens is like believing in reincarnation or karma. It may help the individual cope with the unfathomable unknown, but it doesn't belong in science. And it most certainly does not belong hindering scientific discovery and exploration.
I just saw a poll recently that at least 35% of people believe in "creationism" over "big bang" (if you have to believe in a god, I don't know why you can't believe that he created everything starting from a big bang - but whatever).
I find it hard to believe that a country that has such a significant percentage of people who believe in a fairy-tale rather than giving any weight to the big bang - or at least reserving any judgement at all until scientific efforts have solidly made a determination beyond all doubt - will make any great space-related discovery or exploratory achievement at any time in the near future.
Ignorance and mythology has held progress in check and limited it greatly and it always will - unless maybe Pat Robertson runs for president again and starts a "faith-based space program" or something.
Nevertheless, you have to admire the intent.
Rather than dealing with democracy and politics and the opinions of "the people" and dealing with environmental regulations and countless other limitations and concerns by other parties, these guys would jump ahead of everyone else by beating people and governments to the punch, essentially owning and controlling whatever they can touch out there. Who's going to stop them?
It's good to know that, in the future, corporations will not be hampered by government regulations or the will of the people. Space needs to be "first come, first served". If Wal-Mart and Exxon read everything in the solar system first, then damn it, they should get to do with it what they wish.
Also, I think it is a brilliant idea to continue burning fuels and manufacturing things that have toxic byproducts on this planet, with resources imported from the rest of the galaxy. That way we don't have to limit ourselves to just poisoning ourselves with the limited local resources, but can import them from off-world and poison ourselves to now end. PERFECT!
This will also be good for the average American. By the time they accomplish this, most American's will be jobless. Remember, Americans are lazy, un-creative and unable to compete with the rest of the world. Once all of our jobs (short of janitorial work) have been exported, ventures such as this will provide us with wonderful opportunities to be employed once again, providing physical labor mining and processing goods on other planets (at least, until they are able to automate it). Corporate extra-terrestrial slavery/employment will be our one way to remain relevant in the world.
Hurrah!
Give me a break.
Having to have Tim Berners Lee explained to you on an internet tech site is like having to have Henry Ford explained to you on a car enthusiasts site or George Washington explained on an American history site.
Nope. The way corporations see it is this:
Salesmen and marketers generate income. They are your bread and butter.
Programmers and support people are unfortunate expenses, like keeping the vending machines stocked and janitorial services cleaning the offices. The only people that generate money are the salesmen and marketers.
You could make pizzas, but nobody is going to buy them without sales and marketing. A programmer is like the zit-faced kid making $6/hr twirling dough and tossing it in a stove.
Of course, you can't (currently, at least) really outsource sales, marketing, management or pizza making overseas for $5/hr. Programming and support, you can.
There was a brief time in the country where professional, educated, experienced, intelligent, knowledge-based people were well-regarded. That time has passed and people are going to have to get with the new program where, unfortunately, you're going to have to play the game. That may mean going back to school for another four years and going into debt again to start a new career all over as an MBA or something similar and wearing suits and losing your tech knowledge for buzz-words.
Well, considering I've never heard of most of the things they listed, I guess I won't be able to bitch and complain about whether they butchered anything.
Of course, I've never read/seen/whatever the couple that I did hear of, either.
*shrug*
You reaps the benefit
If you're going to be a game developer, you should also have a basic grasp of grammar, too. Unless you want us to set you up the bomb and such.
The main reason I'm going to be most of my gaming (for non-strategy games, at least) on PS3/XBOX 360 from this point on (though I've never had a console before in my life) is that with a console, I can buy one game, have four controls and play with four people at the same time.
On the PC, if I want to play Unreal T2K4 with a couple buddies at my place, I've got to have multiple copies of the game (so a couple hundred bucks per game right there) plus several pretty sweet boxes to play on (as opposed to just one sweet box for myself and crap to run linux on).