Exactly. All the people of lesser intelligence are the breeders. It's vanity. It's disgusting. It's as if they enjoy playing god by making "mini-me's".
It's like when two adults say, "Shit, we don't have much in common but we're too afraid to be with anybody else. Let's just get stuck together and have kid or two" without taking into account astronomical divorce rates -- and the kids are always the losers in that case.
The more intelligent people I know are putting off having children because there is still so much to discover, and there is so much sex to be had. Offspring are crying, puking, shitting money-holes which serve no purpose except to induce misery and tedium in their parents. Imagine yourselves trying to have an intimate moment with your S.O. without some little pissant banging on your bedroom door yelling, "MoooooOOOOOM! DaaaaAAAAAD! The ICE CREAM man is OUTSIDE! Can I get some money for the ICE CREAM MaaaaNNNN?!"
See how obnoxious that is? Just reading it is irritating, but then there are the breeders who bring their crotch-fruit in public, to restaraunts, to ball games, to movies, and sometimes even to parties. Yeah, great, force everybody else to have to be parents and watch their mouths because you don't know how to use condoms. If my taxes are going to pay for your medical bills, I got two words for you: FORCED STERILIZATION.
Well done. Your troll got me. It hasn't happened in awhile.
If it wasn't so craptastic looking it could catch on like wine. People pay huge amounts of money for specific vintage wines because the rain, sun and soil nutrients were a specific amount to create a certain taste.
Well it's possible people would by a chair, because it fits their ass perfectly due to the random timing of sun and clouds.
There'll be chair snobs! Drink your Château La Conseillante 1865 on your 2012 chair.
At least in the fan film Aragon looks more like the Aragon I pictured when reading the books. The Elves look like Elves and the Orcs look like Orcs and . ..well you know the rest.
Today, "investigative reporting" means blowing trivial and menial things completely out of proportion, asking non-experts their oppinions, and twisting experts words into doom and gloom. It's pathetic how hard these people work to do nothing.
No one will ever read this, but anyhow.
Reporting that provides real news is like baking. Bake too fast and it's burnt or gooey. News needs time to confirm and fact check. Too late and its old. Information can now travel at the speed of stupid, since it's delivered to thousands of people immediately. It's a case of shoot data out first then confirm it later. Modern society is getting too comfortable getting information in seconds.
News sources justify their existence and keep eyes on the screen by doing exactly what you describe. If only there was someway to keep our attention only reliable sources and not flit from place to place. Oops gotta go! Checking Facebook, email, IM, phone texting, Twitter, MySpace and MSN chat.
BSG is going to end. They don't have any strong contenders.
Maybe that's the point with this new 'image change'. The heads of SyFy are going to redo the format with completely new crap. For example, before changing format some radio stations will stop playing their signature music and play one type non-stop (e.g. Christmas music) for a couple weeks to throw off the listener base. Then start playing their new format with a new station ID, but same freq.
Either way when BSG goes, so does my subscription on DISH Network.
Go your own way SyFy. There are other channels than this.
Likewise, why don't Christians off themselves, since heaven is such a great place? Ta ta, tootle-oo, don't forget to write.
Because if you 'off' yourself you don't get there. See how that works? Yet Christians still have this hypocritical dichotomy that we value life for that and many other reasons, but kill in the name of God sometimes. Which in true practice we shouldn't be killing.
I'm Christian, but I'm not under the illusion that the topic of killing isn't all a big grey area with few clear answers.
Moving onto the topic. Most zoos and people don't really respect the social manners of primates. I went one time to the National Zoo in D.C. While the zoo tries a great deal to keep and care for all its animals, the primates all looked very sad and frustrated. There weren't many places for them to hide from the scores of kids banging on the plexiglass barriers. People didn't bother to read the posted signs telling them how to approach any of the apes or orangutans properly.
As for Santino the chimp no wonder why he was upset. For even normal people of limited cognitive ability when you confine them in a limited space and have them examined for hours and days on end by everyone they are going to be upset. Zoos might be gilded cages that allow animals to live a better life in terms of food and care, but it's still confinement. What's the solution? Increasing Zoo sizes and modify zoo habitat more to suit a particular animal's behavioral needs. We can't get rid of zoos, because some are still able to serve as a sanctuary for certain animals and it does provide exposure to animals for people in urban areas who barely see any animal life.
Really, I want to see the Energizer Bunny walk across the screen on this story, because . . . . it's fake!
When will someone else pop out of the woodwork to say "April Fools!"?
1. I for one welcome our new feeling robot overlords who only have things done to them by Soviet Russia or Korean old peoples' bases who belong to us. 2. Naked and Petrified Natalie Portman with a bowl of hot grits 2.5 Tony Vu's late night financial lessons. You stupid Americans! 2.75 ???? 3. Profit
Extra points for the savvy/.er who can cram more Slashdot memes into that.
Why would Microsoft put in a sexual orientation field for a profile if they intended to ban people for using it? Hell, you could type in that section "Cardboard boxes." Would someone be banned for being a boxisexual!?
It's possible one of two things occurred:
1. The banned person was a flag bearer for the Lesbian society and made her orientation blatant and annoying. 2. Someone viewed her profile at random or with purpose and had an agenda against her.
Even being a cynic, I'm going for #2, because the gaming lunatic fringe has just those kind of people in it.
Sure it might work, but I can imagine the look on some foreman's face when he sees the blueprints for this. "What the foiking HELL is this?! C'mon boys. eff this foiking sh*t! I'm goin' home!"
It looks like an anthill from the bowels of Hades. Or a coral plant.
Creepy.
If everything looked like organic hippy town then it might fit in.
I would also recommend an old farm remedy. Peppermint oil. It has to be real peppermint oil, not the McCormick extract stuff. Mix about 5 drops into a spray bottle with water and spray the hell out of all the corners and walls. If you have drop ceilings in the comm rooms, spray above the drop tiles. If spraying scented moisture in your comm room isn't an option then find out where they are coming in.
Holes in the side wall? From the ceiling? Along any opening where cabling is coming to and from the room?
Can any of these holes be plugged or closed with spray foam?
Exterminators should be able to advise you on the more common places rodents and pests come into a building.
If closing out the comm room doesn't work then follow the parent poster's plan. Increase the extermination!
What I would really like to see is Amazon to take on the college books scam. I finished college more than 14 years ago, and I still feel like I got raped as far as the cost of my books went. My friends that are currently going through college break my heart when they tell me about what they are paying for their books, it is just unreasonable as hell, especially when the subject matter on some of these doesn't change from year-to-year.
That is what I'm hoping to do where I work. Sure a student pays $349, but get the textbooks to cost $10-20 a crack. It does require breaking the textbooks banditry that currently happens. There's still the myth publisher's have that say putting a book initially to a digital format costs more. It's also getting profs and administration to accept their use. I'd had a discussion with some of our university's profs last week. They see this as an inevitable change which is available in certain avenues. It's the publishers they had problems with adopting their texts in a digital format.
It's a balance. Kindle 1.0 has a 6" diagonal screen. It could be larger, but increasing to textbooks size (approx. 11" x 8.5") might shoot up the cost to over people's possible range.
Really if it could get to possibly 8" x 5" to start. When the technology became more common then get rid of the keyboard and go to a full touch screen. What you can do with electronic ink seeming to be the stopping point.
I've tried straight textbooks with too much difficulty. Kindle 1.0 does allow font sizes changes, but only to 6 different levels and doesn't allow for custom point size changes based on what I can find.
Like I've said previously, the Kindle works well with text. I don't want to be learning Linear Algebra or Differential Equations on it, but if it's a one page proof or basic math it seems to be fine.
Don't know why except maybe a fusion between SQL programming and trying to type text for users with small screens. I'm sure I could type everything on one line. *Whew* That's refreshing. Oops. Word wrap.
Someday I might type like real people again. Maybe there's a therapy program. OK, class. Our first step is to type a whole line without pressing the 'Enter' key.
they will convert personal documents you email to them. They will email it back and you can download it to your Kindle or get it over their Whispernet (aka cel phone tranmissions) for a small fee. The do say PDFs are tricky to convert and might retain their original formatting which will cause viewing problems.
The Kindle 1.0 beefs I had:
Page buttons placed to almost automatically get in the way when holding the device (Fixed in 2.0) Page transitions slow (Fixed in 2.0) Picture and diagram handling in books. (Possibly fixed in 2.0)
Color screen (not fixed in 2.0) I know it's going to take a couple years for electronic ink to catch up with normal screen displays.
Why is a color screen an issue for text? Highlighting and diagram distinction for starters. I work at a university. I looked at the Kindle as an inexpensive way for students to get most (or all) their textbooks digitally. The $349 is nothing compared to the cash amounts students are bilked every year. Amazon's Kindle content management hangs onto a copy for another download if necessary due to Kindle loss etc. Although without color it makes most graphic examples in scientific texts impossible to read.
For straight text the Kindle is still the strongest Ebook reader out there for text. Plus Wireless download, basic internet surfing, audiobooks, mp3 player. OK, you get this all with a laptop, tablet, or now notebook, but not in such a compact form.
If you can find anything better good on ya mate. Otherwise, I'll hang onto my 1.0 for awhile and upgrade as time moves on.
I'm probably not playing to the crowd here, but in this case DRM whiners can either go home or hack around it. For all my beefs the Kindle's still a nice reader.
Uh. Yeah. Like what he said. Friends don't let friends hack the Matrix.
Actually, I was just listening to Pandora while reading this article and reading the comments. About halfway through the Lie to Me ad turned on. A minor interruption that sounds like ads you see in and hear at movie theaters.
Pandora. It's a nice radio service with customization. The fact that I can pick and choose my music style is miles better than conventional radio. With normal radio I find myself having to change the station every few minutes to dodge the commercials. Yes, radio is also free and stations still need to make money, but ads have gone way over the limit in order to make it profitable. Even my local PBS radio station has ads promoting itself. Way too much signal to ad noise ratio.
Like the parent poster said you don't like it then don't use it. But if Pandora is so bad what other services are people using and why? Even without the ads are they really better?
Until the recording industry's back is finally broken this is what we have to deal with people. Be you a king or a lowly street sweeper everyone eventually dances with the RIAA reaper.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't know anyone will see this.
This is the secret to the first test.
It's not the smile. It's the whole face.
1)A true smile engages more muscles. It makes the face and especially the eyes look "bright".
2)A fake smile doesn't use as much. Those faces actually look like a predator about ready to eat you.
3)Contempt is a little more difficult. You almost could hear the "Hrmph" coming from the person.
To the Moon! Alice! TO THE MOON!
Actually this reminds me more of the Pave The Earth movement.
http://www.geocities.com/southbeach/1380/pave.html
Which actually ties in with CHROME THE MOON!
http://www.geocities.com/southbeach/1380/crmoon.html
Shooting a projectile into the moon is minor. Meh.
Exactly. All the people of lesser intelligence are the breeders. It's vanity. It's disgusting. It's as if they enjoy playing god by making "mini-me's".
It's like when two adults say, "Shit, we don't have much in common but we're too afraid to be with anybody else. Let's just get stuck together and have kid or two" without taking into account astronomical divorce rates -- and the kids are always the losers in that case.
The more intelligent people I know are putting off having children because there is still so much to discover, and there is so much sex to be had. Offspring are crying, puking, shitting money-holes which serve no purpose except to induce misery and tedium in their parents. Imagine yourselves trying to have an intimate moment with your S.O. without some little pissant banging on your bedroom door yelling, "MoooooOOOOOM! DaaaaAAAAAD! The ICE CREAM man is OUTSIDE! Can I get some money for the ICE CREAM MaaaaNNNN?!"
See how obnoxious that is? Just reading it is irritating, but then there are the breeders who bring their crotch-fruit in public, to restaraunts, to ball games, to movies, and sometimes even to parties. Yeah, great, force everybody else to have to be parents and watch their mouths because you don't know how to use condoms. If my taxes are going to pay for your medical bills, I got two words for you:
FORCED STERILIZATION.
Well done. Your troll got me. It hasn't happened in awhile.
My response. Die in a fire.
Noone will ever see my comment, but here goes.
Actually, this is genius.
This puts furniture in a whole new realm.
If it wasn't so craptastic looking it could catch on like wine.
People pay huge amounts of money for specific vintage wines because
the rain, sun and soil nutrients were a specific amount to create a
certain taste.
Well it's possible people would by a chair, because it fits their ass perfectly
due to the random timing of sun and clouds.
There'll be chair snobs! Drink your Château La Conseillante 1865 on your 2012 chair.
OK. We can go over this topic again.
once Jack Bauer dies
Jack Bauer can't die.
He doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and he
absolutely will not stop. Until you have told him where the bomb is!
Non Oblig Simpsons video.
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/59005/detail/
Booyah!
At least in the fan film Aragon looks more like the Aragon I pictured when reading the books. .well you know the rest.
The Elves look like Elves and the Orcs look like Orcs and . .
smaddox said
Today, "investigative reporting" means blowing trivial and menial things completely out of proportion, asking non-experts their oppinions, and twisting experts words into doom and gloom. It's pathetic how hard these people work to do nothing.
No one will ever read this, but anyhow.
Reporting that provides real news is like baking. Bake too fast and it's burnt or gooey. News needs time to confirm and fact check. Too late and its old. Information can now travel at the speed of stupid, since it's delivered to thousands of people immediately. It's a case of shoot data out first then confirm it later. Modern society is getting too comfortable getting information in seconds.
News sources justify their existence and keep eyes on the screen by doing exactly what you describe. If only there was someway to keep our attention only reliable sources and not flit from place to place. Oops gotta go! Checking Facebook, email, IM, phone texting, Twitter, MySpace and MSN chat.
It's an honorary degree. Assimilate enough people and they give you one.
Purchase. Oh well.
This is a complete bonehead maneuver.
BSG is going to end. They don't have any strong contenders.
Maybe that's the point with this new 'image change'.
The heads of SyFy are going to redo the format with completely new crap.
For example, before changing format some radio stations will stop playing
their signature music and play one type non-stop (e.g. Christmas music) for a couple weeks to throw off
the listener base. Then start playing their new format with a new station ID, but same freq.
Either way when BSG goes, so does my subscription on DISH Network.
Go your own way SyFy. There are other channels than this.
Likewise, why don't Christians off themselves, since heaven is such a great place? Ta ta, tootle-oo, don't forget to write.
Because if you 'off' yourself you don't get there. See how that works?
Yet Christians still have this hypocritical dichotomy that we value life for that and many other reasons, but kill in the name of God sometimes. Which in true practice we shouldn't be killing.
I'm Christian, but I'm not under the illusion that the topic of killing isn't all a big grey area with few clear answers.
Moving onto the topic. Most zoos and people don't really respect the social manners of primates. I went one time to the National Zoo in D.C. While the zoo tries a great deal to keep and care for all its animals, the primates all looked very sad and frustrated. There weren't many places for them to hide from the scores of kids banging on the plexiglass barriers. People didn't bother to read the posted signs telling them how to approach any of the apes or orangutans properly.
As for Santino the chimp no wonder why he was upset. For even normal people of limited cognitive ability when you confine them in a limited space and have them examined for hours and days on end by everyone they are going to be upset. Zoos might be gilded cages that allow animals to live a better life in terms of food and care, but it's still confinement. What's the solution? Increasing Zoo sizes and modify zoo habitat more to suit a particular animal's behavioral needs. We can't get rid of zoos, because some are still able to serve as a sanctuary for certain animals and it does provide exposure to animals for people in urban areas who barely see any animal life.
I've taught the toaster to feel love!
Really, I want to see the Energizer Bunny walk across the screen on this story, because . . . .
it's fake!
When will someone else pop out of the woodwork to say "April Fools!"?
1. I for one welcome our new feeling robot overlords who only have things done
to them by Soviet Russia or Korean old peoples' bases who belong to us.
2. Naked and Petrified Natalie Portman with a bowl of hot grits
2.5 Tony Vu's late night financial lessons. You stupid Americans!
2.75 ????
3. Profit
Extra points for the savvy /.er who can cram more Slashdot memes into that.
What's really odd is this.
Why would Microsoft put in a sexual orientation field for a profile if they intended to
ban people for using it? Hell, you could type in that section "Cardboard boxes."
Would someone be banned for being a boxisexual!?
It's possible one of two things occurred:
1. The banned person was a flag bearer for the Lesbian society and made her orientation blatant and annoying.
2. Someone viewed her profile at random or with purpose and had an agenda against her.
Even being a cynic, I'm going for #2, because the gaming lunatic fringe has just those kind of people in it.
Watch out for the monolith!
AAAAAHHHHHH!!! MONOLITH!!
*splat*
Ugh. I got monolith all over the windshield.
Sure it might work, but I can imagine the look on some foreman's face when he sees the blueprints for this.
"What the foiking HELL is this?! C'mon boys. eff this foiking sh*t! I'm goin' home!"
It looks like an anthill from the bowels of Hades.
Or a coral plant.
Creepy.
If everything looked like organic hippy town then it might fit in.
I would also recommend an old farm remedy. Peppermint oil. It has to be real peppermint oil, not
the McCormick extract stuff. Mix about 5 drops into a spray bottle with water and spray the hell out of
all the corners and walls. If you have drop ceilings in the comm rooms, spray above the drop tiles.
If spraying scented moisture in your comm room isn't an option then find out where they are coming in.
Holes in the side wall?
From the ceiling?
Along any opening where cabling is coming to and from the room?
Can any of these holes be plugged or closed with spray foam?
Exterminators should be able to advise you on the more common places rodents and pests
come into a building.
If closing out the comm room doesn't work then follow the parent poster's plan. Increase the extermination!
Don't bother looking, Mr. Anderson.
Let's deal with the McSecurity after going to McDonald's for a McPizza Mmmckay?
What I would really like to see is Amazon to take on the college books scam. I finished college more than 14 years ago, and I still feel like I got raped as far as the cost of my books went. My friends that are currently going through college break my heart when they tell me about what they are paying for their books, it is just unreasonable as hell, especially when the subject matter on some of these doesn't change from year-to-year.
That is what I'm hoping to do where I work. Sure a student pays $349, but get the textbooks to cost $10-20 a crack. It does require breaking the textbooks banditry that currently happens. There's still the myth publisher's have that say putting a book initially to a digital format costs more. It's also getting profs and administration to accept their use. I'd had a discussion with some of our university's profs last week. They see this as an inevitable change which is available in certain avenues. It's the publishers they had problems with adopting their texts in a digital format.
It's a balance. Kindle 1.0 has a 6" diagonal screen. It could be larger, but increasing to textbooks size (approx. 11" x 8.5") might shoot up the cost to over people's possible range.
Really if it could get to possibly 8" x 5" to start. When the technology became more common then get rid of the keyboard and go to a full touch screen. What you can do with electronic ink seeming to be the stopping point.
I've tried straight textbooks with too much difficulty. Kindle 1.0 does allow font sizes changes, but only to 6 different levels and doesn't allow for custom point size changes based on what I can find.
Like I've said previously, the Kindle works well with text. I don't want to be learning Linear Algebra or Differential Equations on it, but if it's a one page proof or basic math it seems to be fine.
Don't know why except maybe a fusion between SQL programming and trying to type text for users with small screens. I'm sure I could type everything on one line. *Whew* That's refreshing. Oops. Word wrap.
Someday I might type like real people again. Maybe there's a therapy program. OK, class. Our first step is to type a whole line without pressing the 'Enter' key.
I have a 1.0 Kindle.
This is what I gather. Yes, it's a proprietary format, but
according to Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200140600
(no I'm not going to hyperlink it)
they will convert personal documents you email to them.
They will email it back and you can download it to your Kindle or get
it over their Whispernet (aka cel phone tranmissions) for a small fee.
The do say PDFs are tricky to convert and might retain their original formatting
which will cause viewing problems.
The Kindle 1.0 beefs I had:
Page buttons placed to almost automatically get in the way when holding the device (Fixed in 2.0)
Page transitions slow (Fixed in 2.0)
Picture and diagram handling in books. (Possibly fixed in 2.0)
Color screen (not fixed in 2.0) I know it's going
to take a couple years for electronic ink to catch up with normal screen displays.
Why is a color screen an issue for text? Highlighting and diagram distinction for starters.
I work at a university. I looked at the Kindle as an inexpensive way for students to get most (or all)
their textbooks digitally. The $349 is nothing compared to the cash amounts students are bilked every year.
Amazon's Kindle content management hangs onto a copy for another download if necessary due to Kindle loss etc.
Although without color it makes most graphic examples in scientific texts impossible to read.
For straight text the Kindle is still the strongest Ebook reader out there for text. Plus Wireless download, basic internet surfing, audiobooks, mp3 player. OK, you get this all with a laptop, tablet, or now notebook, but not in
such a compact form.
If you can find anything better good on ya mate. Otherwise, I'll hang onto my 1.0 for awhile and upgrade
as time moves on.
I'm probably not playing to the crowd here, but in this case DRM whiners can either go home or hack around it.
For all my beefs the Kindle's still a nice reader.
Don't try to hack the matrix to save 15 seconds.
Uh. Yeah. Like what he said. Friends don't let friends hack the Matrix.
Actually, I was just listening to Pandora while reading this article and reading the comments.
About halfway through the Lie to Me ad turned on. A minor interruption that sounds like
ads you see in and hear at movie theaters.
Pandora. It's a nice radio service with customization. The fact that I can pick and choose my music style
is miles better than conventional radio. With normal radio I find myself having to change the station
every few minutes to dodge the commercials. Yes, radio is also free and stations still need to make money,
but ads have gone way over the limit in order to make it profitable. Even my local PBS radio station has
ads promoting itself. Way too much signal to ad noise ratio.
Like the parent poster said you don't like it then don't use it. But if Pandora is so bad
what other services are people using and why? Even without the ads are they really better?
Until the recording industry's back is finally broken this is what we have to deal with people.
Be you a king or a lowly street sweeper everyone eventually dances with the RIAA reaper.
a proposal was floated that suggested that pilots be allowed/encouraged to play video games during those 'down times'
Maybe a flight sim?
The difference is, in MMO you pay money to grind and work, in RL you get paid for grind and work.
So, it's a loop.
10 I work grind so .[repeat until dead]
20 I get paid so
30 I can play grind so
10 I can work grind . .