We'll nickname him "The Zuck" and say China named it after the Facebook pioneer. Speaking of which, someone create a Zhuchentyrannus Magnus facebook account, stat.
Chrome doesn't do it for me. I really like Panorama for my tabs and it doesn't have anything like it. It still seems to have a dirth of good extensions and I don't care for the "app store". I just don't see it as an alternative. The only thing I use it for is playing Netflix in a window while I do real work in Firefox.
Also, I don't want a "home" button or a "home" app. Who the fuck uses a home page, anyway? Doesn't everyone have their browser set to load the last session they had when they closed the browser? So instead of giving me a useless button, I get to also have a useless tab taking up horizontal space, too. Wonderful.
Losing me at the "social sharing feature", too. I don't use Facebook, Twitter, or any of those other pieces of crap. I want a browser for browsing. I'm not a highschool kid. I don't need every aspect of my life to feed into self promotion and self indulgence and attention whoring and everyone I know will get along just fine without me forwarding some stupid link or throwing out an inane comment (at least I keep that narrowed to the Slashdot world!).
It sounds, to me, like they're trying too hard to be that Flock fork that was around some time ago. Of course, socializing the browser isn't the worst thing they could do. The worst thing they could do was already done awhile, ago. . . . with those fucking inane "browser profiles" that let little girls decorate their browser in a pink-heart background with ponies.
Wait, what were all these things that he tried to push in his first term, other than health care (which, of course, wasn't a real health care solution but a way to force Americans to put more cash in the pockets of the health care industry)?
He promised that the first thing he would do is get us out of Iraq. He said "you can take that to the bank". Today, we're still in Iraq. And Afghanistan. And Libya. And tensions are brewing elsewhere.
He promised that there would be no more closed door negotiations, but he has had countless of them. Remember how he was going to let everything be viewed on CSPAN or whatever? Yeah, never happened.
He promised no more revolving doors. His administration wouldn't be the place government employees leveraged their positions to go get huge corporate payout gigs or for corporate execs to come to and do the bidding of industry under the guise of being the czar of one thing or another. And that's happened too many times to count, now.
Then there's the whole continuation of the idiotic Bush stimulus handouts. Wasn't one of the first things he did was sign a trillion dollar stimulus giveaway?
He's done very little and attempted very little. Why anyone expected something different, I don't know. It absolutely baffles me how all of these fucking morons come around every four years and say "so we've had 43 pieces of shit fuck things up . . . but THIS TIME it will be TOTALLY DIFFERENT and my vote is going to CHANGE THE FUCKING WORLD!".
No. The next president will be about the same. And the one after. And the one after. *shrug*.
I don't get people who have this idea that government can solve all of our problems if we just feed it enough money. They must be the same idiots in states where more than half of taxes go to education but they still bitch about how lack of funding is the real problem with education and not shitty teachers and shitty educational systems.
If the only thing barring us from a utopian society is our selfish clinging to our own money produced from our own work, then why don't we just let the government take 100% of our income and then it can provide for each of us how it sees fit and with all of that income, they'll be able to provide us with EVERYTHING to live productive, progressive, innovative, meaningful, healthy, rewarding existences!
No, the Libertarian call is "If you want to get yours, get it. But don't cry about wanting mine because you couldn't be bothered to get yours."
If you are too fucking stupid to save up for retirement and you were too busy spending money to go on vacations or buy a boat to put money aside to retire on, then that's your fucking problem.
Life is hard. I guess we should have fellow tax payers foot the bill for everything all the time for everyone, huh? Wouldn't that be neat? Let's do that.
That is the stupidest fucking thing I've read in a long time and is EXACTLY the problem with all of these idiots. We will never get spending under control, because every dipshit wants to protect their own little self interests rather than acting on principal. Here is the stupidest comment, part:
You want to reduce the budget, don't just think about cuts. Think about sensible taxes.
A budget is how much money you spend. The only way to cut how much you spend is to cut how much you spend. If I spend $50,000 this year and spend $80,000 next year, I am INCREASING my budget. No matter how much income I have or how much it grows from one year to the next, I am spending more money. More taxes does nothing to address reducing the budget.
Why are jackasses so eager to defend countless government programs? If we can't afford it, we need to cut it. It's that simple. Apply the same logic on a national scale that you and I have to employ on a personal scale and stop trying to by followers with more government spending. Of course, that will NEVER happen, because you will lose your selfish voter base if you cut programs. People only vote based on selfish demands and never on principal. Are you going to give my kids a free education? Are you going to give me money when I'm old? Will you buy my medication? Will you increase welfare? Will you increase education spending? Will you increase military spending? All people care about is what you're going to do for them and not what you're going to do for the greater good and for the underlying principals the government was founded on. It's impossible to carry on this way indefinitely. At some point, someone will call in their markers of which we're already nearly $20,000,000,000,000.00 in the hole on.
When they first rolled out the ridiculously expensive series of drupal sites (of which recovery.gov was one and so was the federal IT spending site), they claimed they needed something like $10m per year just to run it. (JUST recovery.gov, I believe).
I guess they had to pay all those expensive Drupal licensing fees, huh?
All of these "open" sites were a scam. You do remember that one of them cost something like $40m and another cost like $18m, right? And the sites were Drupal installs. The national "CIO/CTO czar" guy is a brainless twit (seriously, listen to him ramble about how they need to spend money to create a human computer interface, because COBOL is binary) and this whole project was a serious scam.
I'm pretty sure these are some of the same sites we donated $18m and $40m for, to pay for "drupal installations". And by "donate", I mean "paid taxes for". And have you seen a lot of these sites? Broken links. Meaningless data. Often slow updates. These were empty gestures and big cash handouts.
Right. This real time response analysis is going to be the cause of people failing to "making independent evaluations". After all, they aren't already contracting their thought processes out to their religious texts, religious leader, party leader, opinionated bloviator, unions, or other deciders to make such determinations for them.
So this company has an entire database that is secured differently and separately from all of the other databases they have and this one database's purpose is for nothing other than storing first names and email addresses? This seems HIGHLY unlikely. I spell a huge pile of bullshit, here.
Nobody has fun with Slashdot April Fools bullshit. April Fools is the lowest form of humor and Slashdot's take on it has consistently been the lowest form of *that* lowest form of humor, for . . . what . . . fourteen years, now? Do the comments on these idiotic failing attempts not make it clear that the majority of the Slashdot community simply writes the site off for the whole day?
And if YOU personally find this idiocy "fun", then you need to logout and go back to your Jeff Foxworthy tapes so you can laugh at his "redneck television on top of a broken television in the living room durr durr durr!" joke for the millionth time.
If you put some work into a practical joke and it is done well, that's awesome. Most people (especially slashdot) essentially say "pull my finger!" and make a fart noise and then say "that wasn't a real fart! that was my mouth making noise! HAHAHAH! APRIL FOOLS!". Really sad.
Not one singe piece of real news posted today? I know that April Fools is an idiot's holiday that the fucktards at Slashdot indulge in every single year, but come the fuck on. Not even ONE piece of real news this year? Also, how about a "don't fucking waste my time" option, so I can filter this shit out of my RSS feed next year?
Well, the mexican government confirms a "UFO" (something unidentified; not something alien). So it must be legitimate! After all, everything the government asserts is real. Like that van-bomber around xmas in Portland. That . . . you know . . . didn't have a bomb. And was egged on by the government to drive a van full of sawdust to Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Agreed. It is entirely reasonable to accept that there could be aliens. Though a stretch, I could even accept that they might know of our existence and even have been here at some point. What I can't tolerate are the idiots that try to convince the world of their existence and "research" them with a respect for the scientific process and logic that falls somewhere between the mix of paranormal investigators and pseudo-science Coast to Coast AM nutjobs. It's like idiots walking around with an EMF reader saying that there must be paranormal activity in your house, because of fluctuating EMF readings (what evidences has there ever been that one is directly related to the other, for example).
It's not the possibilities that offend me. It's the lack of logic and the embracing of the illogical, which does. They're not any different than nutjobs to employ "faith" as their form of reasoning in any named religion. Except, instead of pointing to a bible as their "evidence", they point to meaningless photos and videos and other unverifiable reports.
I already have a do-not-track. It's called adblock. It's not perfect and it isn't a certainty that I can't be tracked by advertisers and others (in fact, it's a certainty that I can be, I'm sure). At least I can avoid ads and a significant portion of tracking, though.
I kind of miss the days of just having a website. Now it's all blogging and social networking. If you're not putting it on Facebook or Twitter, you might as well be writing it on the back of your toilet's water tank, because nobody is really going to bother going out of their way to visit a website just to read content and the majority of people don't even have a clue what RSS is.
It's unfortunate, because it used to be that you just had a website and you put stuff on it. Now you have to put out your meaningless comments on a regular basis in reverse chronological order and have a column full of links to every fucking dumbass social network you're subscribed to down the side and most of your energy is spent incesting each other's links and content and having inane back and forth.
Slashdot Mirror
They hired the same guys the government uses to create $10mil Drupal websites.
When the government does it, that means that it is not illegal.
We'll nickname him "The Zuck" and say China named it after the Facebook pioneer. Speaking of which, someone create a Zhuchentyrannus Magnus facebook account, stat.
Chrome doesn't do it for me. I really like Panorama for my tabs and it doesn't have anything like it. It still seems to have a dirth of good extensions and I don't care for the "app store". I just don't see it as an alternative. The only thing I use it for is playing Netflix in a window while I do real work in Firefox.
Also, I don't want a "home" button or a "home" app. Who the fuck uses a home page, anyway? Doesn't everyone have their browser set to load the last session they had when they closed the browser? So instead of giving me a useless button, I get to also have a useless tab taking up horizontal space, too. Wonderful.
Losing me at the "social sharing feature", too. I don't use Facebook, Twitter, or any of those other pieces of crap. I want a browser for browsing. I'm not a highschool kid. I don't need every aspect of my life to feed into self promotion and self indulgence and attention whoring and everyone I know will get along just fine without me forwarding some stupid link or throwing out an inane comment (at least I keep that narrowed to the Slashdot world!).
It sounds, to me, like they're trying too hard to be that Flock fork that was around some time ago. Of course, socializing the browser isn't the worst thing they could do. The worst thing they could do was already done awhile, ago. . . . with those fucking inane "browser profiles" that let little girls decorate their browser in a pink-heart background with ponies.
Wait, what were all these things that he tried to push in his first term, other than health care (which, of course, wasn't a real health care solution but a way to force Americans to put more cash in the pockets of the health care industry)?
He promised that the first thing he would do is get us out of Iraq. He said "you can take that to the bank". Today, we're still in Iraq. And Afghanistan. And Libya. And tensions are brewing elsewhere.
He promised that there would be no more closed door negotiations, but he has had countless of them. Remember how he was going to let everything be viewed on CSPAN or whatever? Yeah, never happened.
He promised no more revolving doors. His administration wouldn't be the place government employees leveraged their positions to go get huge corporate payout gigs or for corporate execs to come to and do the bidding of industry under the guise of being the czar of one thing or another. And that's happened too many times to count, now.
Then there's the whole continuation of the idiotic Bush stimulus handouts. Wasn't one of the first things he did was sign a trillion dollar stimulus giveaway?
He's done very little and attempted very little. Why anyone expected something different, I don't know. It absolutely baffles me how all of these fucking morons come around every four years and say "so we've had 43 pieces of shit fuck things up . . . but THIS TIME it will be TOTALLY DIFFERENT and my vote is going to CHANGE THE FUCKING WORLD!".
No. The next president will be about the same. And the one after. And the one after. *shrug*.
I don't get people who have this idea that government can solve all of our problems if we just feed it enough money. They must be the same idiots in states where more than half of taxes go to education but they still bitch about how lack of funding is the real problem with education and not shitty teachers and shitty educational systems.
If the only thing barring us from a utopian society is our selfish clinging to our own money produced from our own work, then why don't we just let the government take 100% of our income and then it can provide for each of us how it sees fit and with all of that income, they'll be able to provide us with EVERYTHING to live productive, progressive, innovative, meaningful, healthy, rewarding existences!
No, the Libertarian call is "If you want to get yours, get it. But don't cry about wanting mine because you couldn't be bothered to get yours."
If you are too fucking stupid to save up for retirement and you were too busy spending money to go on vacations or buy a boat to put money aside to retire on, then that's your fucking problem.
Life is hard. I guess we should have fellow tax payers foot the bill for everything all the time for everyone, huh? Wouldn't that be neat? Let's do that.
That is the stupidest fucking thing I've read in a long time and is EXACTLY the problem with all of these idiots. We will never get spending under control, because every dipshit wants to protect their own little self interests rather than acting on principal. Here is the stupidest comment, part:
You want to reduce the budget, don't just think about cuts. Think about sensible taxes.
A budget is how much money you spend. The only way to cut how much you spend is to cut how much you spend. If I spend $50,000 this year and spend $80,000 next year, I am INCREASING my budget. No matter how much income I have or how much it grows from one year to the next, I am spending more money. More taxes does nothing to address reducing the budget.
Why are jackasses so eager to defend countless government programs? If we can't afford it, we need to cut it. It's that simple. Apply the same logic on a national scale that you and I have to employ on a personal scale and stop trying to by followers with more government spending. Of course, that will NEVER happen, because you will lose your selfish voter base if you cut programs. People only vote based on selfish demands and never on principal. Are you going to give my kids a free education? Are you going to give me money when I'm old? Will you buy my medication? Will you increase welfare? Will you increase education spending? Will you increase military spending? All people care about is what you're going to do for them and not what you're going to do for the greater good and for the underlying principals the government was founded on. It's impossible to carry on this way indefinitely. At some point, someone will call in their markers of which we're already nearly $20,000,000,000,000.00 in the hole on.
It's just so fucking simple. STOP SPENDING.
Social Security is just another word for taxation.
When they first rolled out the ridiculously expensive series of drupal sites (of which recovery.gov was one and so was the federal IT spending site), they claimed they needed something like $10m per year just to run it. (JUST recovery.gov, I believe).
I guess they had to pay all those expensive Drupal licensing fees, huh?
All of these "open" sites were a scam. You do remember that one of them cost something like $40m and another cost like $18m, right? And the sites were Drupal installs. The national "CIO/CTO czar" guy is a brainless twit (seriously, listen to him ramble about how they need to spend money to create a human computer interface, because COBOL is binary) and this whole project was a serious scam.
WOMEN BE SHOPPIN'.
That's because they only usually think taxes are too low for *other* people.
I'm pretty sure these are some of the same sites we donated $18m and $40m for, to pay for "drupal installations". And by "donate", I mean "paid taxes for". And have you seen a lot of these sites? Broken links. Meaningless data. Often slow updates. These were empty gestures and big cash handouts.
Yeah, because only obese NRA members appreciate free speech. Moron.
If you're two hours away from voting and you haven't make up your mind, you should be kicked in the fucking head with a steel toed boot.
Right. This real time response analysis is going to be the cause of people failing to "making independent evaluations". After all, they aren't already contracting their thought processes out to their religious texts, religious leader, party leader, opinionated bloviator, unions, or other deciders to make such determinations for them.
So this company has an entire database that is secured differently and separately from all of the other databases they have and this one database's purpose is for nothing other than storing first names and email addresses? This seems HIGHLY unlikely. I spell a huge pile of bullshit, here.
Nobody has fun with Slashdot April Fools bullshit. April Fools is the lowest form of humor and Slashdot's take on it has consistently been the lowest form of *that* lowest form of humor, for . . . what . . . fourteen years, now? Do the comments on these idiotic failing attempts not make it clear that the majority of the Slashdot community simply writes the site off for the whole day?
And if YOU personally find this idiocy "fun", then you need to logout and go back to your Jeff Foxworthy tapes so you can laugh at his "redneck television on top of a broken television in the living room durr durr durr!" joke for the millionth time.
If you put some work into a practical joke and it is done well, that's awesome. Most people (especially slashdot) essentially say "pull my finger!" and make a fart noise and then say "that wasn't a real fart! that was my mouth making noise! HAHAHAH! APRIL FOOLS!". Really sad.
Not one singe piece of real news posted today? I know that April Fools is an idiot's holiday that the fucktards at Slashdot indulge in every single year, but come the fuck on. Not even ONE piece of real news this year? Also, how about a "don't fucking waste my time" option, so I can filter this shit out of my RSS feed next year?
Well, the mexican government confirms a "UFO" (something unidentified; not something alien). So it must be legitimate! After all, everything the government asserts is real. Like that van-bomber around xmas in Portland. That . . . you know . . . didn't have a bomb. And was egged on by the government to drive a van full of sawdust to Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Agreed. It is entirely reasonable to accept that there could be aliens. Though a stretch, I could even accept that they might know of our existence and even have been here at some point. What I can't tolerate are the idiots that try to convince the world of their existence and "research" them with a respect for the scientific process and logic that falls somewhere between the mix of paranormal investigators and pseudo-science Coast to Coast AM nutjobs. It's like idiots walking around with an EMF reader saying that there must be paranormal activity in your house, because of fluctuating EMF readings (what evidences has there ever been that one is directly related to the other, for example).
It's not the possibilities that offend me. It's the lack of logic and the embracing of the illogical, which does. They're not any different than nutjobs to employ "faith" as their form of reasoning in any named religion. Except, instead of pointing to a bible as their "evidence", they point to meaningless photos and videos and other unverifiable reports.
I already have a do-not-track. It's called adblock. It's not perfect and it isn't a certainty that I can't be tracked by advertisers and others (in fact, it's a certainty that I can be, I'm sure). At least I can avoid ads and a significant portion of tracking, though.
I kind of miss the days of just having a website. Now it's all blogging and social networking. If you're not putting it on Facebook or Twitter, you might as well be writing it on the back of your toilet's water tank, because nobody is really going to bother going out of their way to visit a website just to read content and the majority of people don't even have a clue what RSS is.
It's unfortunate, because it used to be that you just had a website and you put stuff on it. Now you have to put out your meaningless comments on a regular basis in reverse chronological order and have a column full of links to every fucking dumbass social network you're subscribed to down the side and most of your energy is spent incesting each other's links and content and having inane back and forth.