Agreed. I don't mind having tech related political discussions on here, but can we have one fucking place on the internet that stays clean of "libtards durp durp" and "republithugs durp durp"? News flash. Both guys are idiotic sides of the same coin. A choice between a shit-sandwich and a shit-burger. You have to be naive to see anything else in all of this bullshit and waste your energy playing the "my team wears the red jersey so I'ma support that one!" game. All it leads to, even on Slashdot, is a bunch of mindless navel-gazing and the quality of discourse you expect to see when you click on any link from drudgereport.com that goes to an article that has a comment section on it. And, frankly, I don't need to know my fellow Slashdotters *that* well, the same way I don't need to know my *neighbors* that well. It's only going to give me more reasons to dislike people I'd otherwise like just fine. And visa versa.
In other words, stick to news-for-nerds. Not links-for-linkbait.
Or an iPod Classic for $250 that holds 160gb. I'll take that over a dinky little 32gb. Shit, that wouldn't even hold my current podcasts - much less audiobooks, music, and some videos.
I don't have a smart phone, because I care about battery life and call quality and don't give a shit about playing Angry Birds on the toilet. However, I do have an iPod, because I like having 150gb of storage for my content (actually, I don't like it enough for that -- it really needs to be upped to a terabyte, but that's never going to happen, I guess).
If TV has such a negative impact on children under four years old, perhaps we need to draw up legislation to address children being indoctrinated with religion. And, for that matter, the racism and hate in many households. Hell, forget all that shit. Just come take all children as soon as they're weened off the tit and let the government raise them. Grant immediate family bi-weekly visits.
The flash game serves as an artistic analogy (see: dictionary), and it's actually a very poignant and well-placed one. Everyone understands the Pokemon universe and yet few have questioned the role of the animals in it. Are battles like cockfights? Or are they like baseball games? What rights does a Pokemon have? We don't think about these questions because we're not thinking about Pokemon (animals), we're thinking primarily about humans in our very self-absorbed way.
You don't condemn or boycott a fucking analogy. Also, you have sympathy for animals, because they actually exist in the real world and computer characters do not and if you don't have sympathy for animals in the real world, you aren't going to have sympathy for computer characters and will never relate one to the other. Also, in such a case, you'd also probably be a sociopath.
OFFTOPIC. But...
You are incorrect, but continue with your political correctness, if you like.
"Retarded" is polite and kinder word the medical community adopted to replace cruel words like "stupid" and "lame" and "dumb" and "imbecile". Those words were hurtful and cruel *and* they were used medically. Since the word "retarded" came to replace the other words, those words have since been brought into every day usage without unintended insult to those who were now clinically "retarded" and no longer clinically "stupid", "lame", "dumb, "imbeciles".
By organizations for the cause, I am told that the correct term is no longer "retarded", but "intellectually disabled". Therefore, "retarded" no longer applies to those who used to be medically "retarded" (and before that, medically lame or stupid or dumb, etc). Therefore, "retarded" now holds the same place that those other words do. No longer applicable to anyone as a medical term and now relegated to a general word slighting another person with regard to alleged intellect.
TL;DR: "Retarded", no matter what some shitty commercial during an episode of Glee tells you, is now linguistically equal to "stupid" and "lame" and "dumb" and "imbecile". If you find one hurtful, then for consistency, you should find them all hurtful.
"This week we're releasing almost completely unusable alpha code, but on the bright side, the tshirts with our new logo should be shipping within a month!"
That sounds pretty much like what could be said in September of 2010.
Not really. As someone who kicked a few bucks into the Diaspora Kickstarter project, I have to say that for all the hype and excitement and promises of the project (which sought $10,000 and received more than $200,000), they have basically accomplished fuck-all in the last two years.
To be fair, part of that is due to the difficulty of proposing a social network that by nature is only going to interest serious geeks (you have to either host a server running a seed or find someone who is to run your stuff through). Another part is due to the abysmal insecurities in their first released code (though, granted, it was extremely early code and probably deserved a little more slack than it got). And then there's the part where one of the Ilya (the founder of the Diaspora project) died almost one year ago.
It's never really going to accomplish something, but it caught a lot of attention early on and may be one of those fruitless endeavors that must be forged for its own sake, even if it's not ever actually going to supplant Facebook.
Look, we all eschew mistreatment of animals, but aside from the deceit and near criminality of PETA as an organization . . . they're just downright fucking retarded:
The way that Pokémon are stuffed into pokéballs is similar to how circuses chain elephants inside railroad cars and let them out only to perform confusing and often painful tricks that were taught using sharp steel-tipped bullhooks and electric shock prods,'
No. No, they are NOTHING ALIKE. For one thing, elephants are real and pokemon don't actually fucking exist.
And everyone on all sides is biased toward whoever shoves their god down everyone else's throat, because that's more important than upholding our Bill of Rights.
Make them automated vehicles and they *are* safe. Plus, then you don't have to drive them. I would rather get punched in the testicles[*] than spend time driving. Why not get these Google bots out there to do it for us?
Yeah, goals like this for MPG always strike me as the same as the space exploration bullshit. "Our goal is to be, fifteen years from now, exactly where we should already have been fifteen years *ago*".
Yeah, I was alive to see the first commercial contracted flight to deliver a shitter to the decaying ISS.
It's hard to be massively impressed by something that should have occurred twenty years ago and by something that will be the biggest success for probably the rest of our lives (other than when they send a person in t he rocket up to the ISS, which could just as well happen right now, if they wanted, so it'll happen quickly).
There's a pretty decent feed on http://live.twit.tv/ with Andrew Mayne and Molly Wood on-site for the launch, right now.
I'm not particular excited about this, but whatever. Wake me up when something epic like the moon missions of 69-72 happen. I won't hold my breath in my life-time.
In the US, in the 80s and 90s (at least, in my experience), computers were monochrome Apple IIs and eventually Macintosh SEs and they were only used for teaching students how to type (up until the fifth grade), except for the one in the library, which was used for looking up stuff on an encyclopedia on CD. If there was one in the classroom, it was usually used for one student per class (rotated through) to play Oregon Trail or this game I can't really remember that had something to due with dolphins becoming president.
Yes, because now all those girlfriends and elderly mothers that make up the majority of the WoW player-base some eight years later are going to need something to occupy themselves and will likely be coming for all of us to entertain them and spend "quality time" with them.:)
My experience with Silverlight is that the only thing which uses it is Netflix and every time I install it, it's only a matter of time before I try to launch Netflix and it says "damn, you don't have Silverlight installed" (even though I do) and I have to re-install it.
Actually, it's something like 50% of the American population that believes that way. *sigh*
And if people need an example, here's a direct copy and paste of a comment left by some mouth-breather in response to the linked article about this guy:
If the earth is billions of years old, due to the magnetic pull the moon would have been almost on top of the earth during the time of dinosaurs. Additionally, DNA loses pieces and becomes weaker with time it does not develope and created new pieces. Carbon dating of a mammoth was sent to two different labs and each lab dated the mammoth 20-30,000 years apart (so much for carbon dating). Are you aware there are fosils of trees standing up and going between the multiple layers of earth. How could a tree transend millions of years of layers and grow straight through the layers. The answer if GLOBAL FLOOD and the layers aren't as old as evolutionists believe. I agree you can see micro evolution within the same species but saying that suddenly an amebia grew a respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system and muscularskeletal system all at the same point do be able to reproduce it very, very far fetched. By the way if big bang was true, where did the energy come from to creat the bang? GOD IS THE ANSWER.
The constitution is written to inversely state the limitations of citizens (anything not stated is the right of free men) and the allowance of government role (anything not stated is NOT the right of government).
But we've forgotten that somewhere along the line and have the idea that government has all granted authority *unless* expressly forbidden by the constitution and that citizens have *no* right to a freedom unless specifically *noted* in the constitution.
And we eat it up like idiots, because we're educated by that same government.
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Agreed. I don't mind having tech related political discussions on here, but can we have one fucking place on the internet that stays clean of "libtards durp durp" and "republithugs durp durp"? News flash. Both guys are idiotic sides of the same coin. A choice between a shit-sandwich and a shit-burger. You have to be naive to see anything else in all of this bullshit and waste your energy playing the "my team wears the red jersey so I'ma support that one!" game. All it leads to, even on Slashdot, is a bunch of mindless navel-gazing and the quality of discourse you expect to see when you click on any link from drudgereport.com that goes to an article that has a comment section on it. And, frankly, I don't need to know my fellow Slashdotters *that* well, the same way I don't need to know my *neighbors* that well. It's only going to give me more reasons to dislike people I'd otherwise like just fine. And visa versa.
In other words, stick to news-for-nerds. Not links-for-linkbait.
Or an iPod Classic for $250 that holds 160gb. I'll take that over a dinky little 32gb. Shit, that wouldn't even hold my current podcasts - much less audiobooks, music, and some videos.
I don't have a smart phone, because I care about battery life and call quality and don't give a shit about playing Angry Birds on the toilet. However, I do have an iPod, because I like having 150gb of storage for my content (actually, I don't like it enough for that -- it really needs to be upped to a terabyte, but that's never going to happen, I guess).
They need to finally ship a new iPod CLASSIC that has something bigger than a dinky fucking 150gb drive. I've been waiting YEARS for this.
If TV has such a negative impact on children under four years old, perhaps we need to draw up legislation to address children being indoctrinated with religion. And, for that matter, the racism and hate in many households. Hell, forget all that shit. Just come take all children as soon as they're weened off the tit and let the government raise them. Grant immediate family bi-weekly visits.
Agreed, but the significant difference is that people actually use linux.
Both, however, face a similar sort of uphill battle with features on their side, but complexity against them.
Are they referring to Racoon Mario?
Yes.
When he touches the Leaf, he becomes a fucking racoon.
Yes.
The flash game serves as an artistic analogy (see: dictionary), and it's actually a very poignant and well-placed one. Everyone understands the Pokemon universe and yet few have questioned the role of the animals in it. Are battles like cockfights? Or are they like baseball games? What rights does a Pokemon have? We don't think about these questions because we're not thinking about Pokemon (animals), we're thinking primarily about humans in our very self-absorbed way.
You don't condemn or boycott a fucking analogy. Also, you have sympathy for animals, because they actually exist in the real world and computer characters do not and if you don't have sympathy for animals in the real world, you aren't going to have sympathy for computer characters and will never relate one to the other. Also, in such a case, you'd also probably be a sociopath.
OFFTOPIC. But...
You are incorrect, but continue with your political correctness, if you like.
"Retarded" is polite and kinder word the medical community adopted to replace cruel words like "stupid" and "lame" and "dumb" and "imbecile". Those words were hurtful and cruel *and* they were used medically. Since the word "retarded" came to replace the other words, those words have since been brought into every day usage without unintended insult to those who were now clinically "retarded" and no longer clinically "stupid", "lame", "dumb, "imbeciles".
By organizations for the cause, I am told that the correct term is no longer "retarded", but "intellectually disabled". Therefore, "retarded" no longer applies to those who used to be medically "retarded" (and before that, medically lame or stupid or dumb, etc). Therefore, "retarded" now holds the same place that those other words do. No longer applicable to anyone as a medical term and now relegated to a general word slighting another person with regard to alleged intellect.
TL;DR: "Retarded", no matter what some shitty commercial during an episode of Glee tells you, is now linguistically equal to "stupid" and "lame" and "dumb" and "imbecile". If you find one hurtful, then for consistency, you should find them all hurtful.
Yes, their shameless media manipulation *is* retarded as is the media who just eats it up every time.
"This week we're releasing almost completely unusable alpha code, but on the bright side, the tshirts with our new logo should be shipping within a month!"
That sounds pretty much like what could be said in September of 2010.
Not really. As someone who kicked a few bucks into the Diaspora Kickstarter project, I have to say that for all the hype and excitement and promises of the project (which sought $10,000 and received more than $200,000), they have basically accomplished fuck-all in the last two years.
To be fair, part of that is due to the difficulty of proposing a social network that by nature is only going to interest serious geeks (you have to either host a server running a seed or find someone who is to run your stuff through). Another part is due to the abysmal insecurities in their first released code (though, granted, it was extremely early code and probably deserved a little more slack than it got). And then there's the part where one of the Ilya (the founder of the Diaspora project) died almost one year ago.
It's never really going to accomplish something, but it caught a lot of attention early on and may be one of those fruitless endeavors that must be forged for its own sake, even if it's not ever actually going to supplant Facebook.
Look, we all eschew mistreatment of animals, but aside from the deceit and near criminality of PETA as an organization . . . they're just downright fucking retarded:
The way that Pokémon are stuffed into pokéballs is similar to how circuses chain elephants inside railroad cars and let them out only to perform confusing and often painful tricks that were taught using sharp steel-tipped bullhooks and electric shock prods,'
No. No, they are NOTHING ALIKE. For one thing, elephants are real and pokemon don't actually fucking exist.
And everyone on all sides is biased toward whoever shoves their god down everyone else's throat, because that's more important than upholding our Bill of Rights.
Make them automated vehicles and they *are* safe. Plus, then you don't have to drive them. I would rather get punched in the testicles[*] than spend time driving. Why not get these Google bots out there to do it for us?
[*] This might be hyperbole.
Yeah, goals like this for MPG always strike me as the same as the space exploration bullshit. "Our goal is to be, fifteen years from now, exactly where we should already have been fifteen years *ago*".
Big whoop.
Exactly. Equate software engineering with digging ditches and suddenly you can justify paying ditch-digging wages.
Yeah, I was alive to see the first commercial contracted flight to deliver a shitter to the decaying ISS.
It's hard to be massively impressed by something that should have occurred twenty years ago and by something that will be the biggest success for probably the rest of our lives (other than when they send a person in t he rocket up to the ISS, which could just as well happen right now, if they wanted, so it'll happen quickly).
Well, it just happened. It . . . was pretty much like every rocket launch I've ever seen on film dating back to the 60s.
There's a pretty decent feed on http://live.twit.tv/ with Andrew Mayne and Molly Wood on-site for the launch, right now.
I'm not particular excited about this, but whatever. Wake me up when something epic like the moon missions of 69-72 happen. I won't hold my breath in my life-time.
Oh, wait. In middle school we had Commodores in the computer lab. Again, only used to teach kids how to type.
In the US, in the 80s and 90s (at least, in my experience), computers were monochrome Apple IIs and eventually Macintosh SEs and they were only used for teaching students how to type (up until the fifth grade), except for the one in the library, which was used for looking up stuff on an encyclopedia on CD. If there was one in the classroom, it was usually used for one student per class (rotated through) to play Oregon Trail or this game I can't really remember that had something to due with dolphins becoming president.
Yes, because now all those girlfriends and elderly mothers that make up the majority of the WoW player-base some eight years later are going to need something to occupy themselves and will likely be coming for all of us to entertain them and spend "quality time" with them. :)
My experience with Silverlight is that the only thing which uses it is Netflix and every time I install it, it's only a matter of time before I try to launch Netflix and it says "damn, you don't have Silverlight installed" (even though I do) and I have to re-install it.
Actually, it's something like 50% of the American population that believes that way. *sigh*
And if people need an example, here's a direct copy and paste of a comment left by some mouth-breather in response to the linked article about this guy:
If the earth is billions of years old, due to the magnetic pull the moon would have been almost on top of the earth during the time of dinosaurs. Additionally, DNA loses pieces and becomes weaker with time it does not develope and created new pieces. Carbon dating of a mammoth was sent to two different labs and each lab dated the mammoth 20-30,000 years apart (so much for carbon dating). Are you aware there are fosils of trees standing up and going between the multiple layers of earth. How could a tree transend millions of years of layers and grow straight through the layers. The answer if GLOBAL FLOOD and the layers aren't as old as evolutionists believe. I agree you can see micro evolution within the same species but saying that suddenly an amebia grew a respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system and muscularskeletal system all at the same point do be able to reproduce it very, very far fetched. By the way if big bang was true, where did the energy come from to creat the bang? GOD IS THE ANSWER.
The constitution is written to inversely state the limitations of citizens (anything not stated is the right of free men) and the allowance of government role (anything not stated is NOT the right of government).
But we've forgotten that somewhere along the line and have the idea that government has all granted authority *unless* expressly forbidden by the constitution and that citizens have *no* right to a freedom unless specifically *noted* in the constitution.
And we eat it up like idiots, because we're educated by that same government.