Mod parent up. Most first world countries don't have a clue. No matter how bad it gets in the US (or UK, or Europe, or Australia), it'll always be worse in Africa.
I have a sneaking suspicion she's also got a diploma in "Generation Y should I get off my ass", along with a certification in "The world revolves around me"
Clearly you've never lived in a third world country like South Africa, where whites are in the minority. Trying to start up any sort of organisation like this for white people still elicits howls of outrage from the 'previously downtrodden'. Tho when they started up a "Black Journalists' Forum", and gleefully evicted white journalists who tried to attend the opening ceremoney (to report on it), no one said a word. How would this any different?
Please bear in mind that eventually whites will be the minority in the USA, and this kind of thing will suddenly matter a lot more than most people think.
The attitude that everyone in the third world resents everyone in the first world and is willing to set aside their morals to attain material wealth is ignorant and potentially racist.
Agreed, but I disagree on one point: It's maybe potentially classist, but not potentially racist. You get rich black/yellow/green/sky-blue-pink people in non-third-world countries too. These days a lot of people are too peecee and are ready to play the race card too quickly; usually due to the misconception that all whites=haves and all blacks=have-nots.
It was probably milk. The Masaai (and I believe some other tribes) in Africa often mix and drink a mixture of blood and milk when they are low on other food sources. I've been told it can induce lockjaw (not sure how true this is tho). In Africa, cows are (among other things) used as indications of wealth as well as a food source. They have huge herds which completely destroy large tracts of land through overgrazing.
Sounds exactly like a guy I work with. He's a prima donna too. Persistently reinvents the wheel (he's one of those "my wheel is rounder than yours" types) and implements these convoluted solutions to problems that he can't really explain it, or find time to explain it. My philosophy is that if you can't explain it to me, in layman's terms in under 3 minutes (you're allowed a whiteboard), then you can't explain it to a computer. Unfortunately the directors don't see it that way (he's an arse-licker of note) so he gets to implement these horrific solutions which are so much more complicated than they need to be (he prefers to code "impressive looking" over "functional") and which will be completely impossible to maintain. One thing he has taught us all though tho, is how to be a complete self-aggrandizing tosser. He's so toxic that the coders around him are starting to resign, he's impossible to work with.
I take comfort from the fact that I did warn them that this was the kind of guy that he was when he first started, and they didn't listen. The company has turned from being a happy "family" to one where everyone is covering their asses, stealing credit and stabbing each other in the back, just to maintain their positions. I'm leaving too.
You've obviously not spent a reasonable amount of time in a movie theatre where the fscktard in the row in front of you keeps flipping his phone open to send or receive text messages. Being sworn at after asking him (politely) to please not do that, or take it outside, isn't a solution either. Short of physical violence (or a jammer) there's no way to stop some guy with an overblown sense of his own importance from doing this, if he doesn't want to do it.
While the thought of tasering him or sticking a cattle prod in his ear is amusing, it's even less of a solution than a jammer, it's the difference between assault and, well, not assault.
And if you're in a situation where the signal is jammed (or simply not available), please answer as to how you'd be dialling 911 anyway? Or would you be sitting in front of me, flipping your phone open every now and again to see if you had a signal back yet?:)
Normally I wouldn't even dignify this with a response, but I assume you've never actually spent any appreciable amount of time in South Africa? Or Africa in general? Or if you have, or are still, you need to pull your head out of the sand rickytick, because you obviously don't have a clue.
I don't see any factual information in your response that makes it look like you are speaking from a position of authority on the matter. In fact, the details of your response indicate that all you know about SA is what you've read in liberal newspapers and heard from like-minded people.
I strongly recommend you spend a little time on youtube, looking at videos from local TV broadcasts, check out the link in my original post and associated links, and then try and stretch your tiny mind out of the box and read between the lines. It's not about black and white, I never said it was. That was just an interesting correlation, which has been seen in every other country in Africa. There's a class struggle going on here as well, which has a LOT to do with the crime rate.
Have you read "Capitalist Nigger" or "Atlas Shrugged"? Do you support Communism? Marxism? Thought not. We are not fully to blame for the current position of those downtrodden masses. And slowly, the grass-roots level are starting to realise it (government changed hands, and wtf?! we're worse off than before! where's the nice house you promised me? and the BMW? and the swimming pool? and the free education? and the high paying job?).
Slowly, but surely, they are starting to realise that they can't vote the current government out (there's only one real Black party (the ANC), and they're already running the show). You don't get to vote for a president here, you vote for the party, and the party chooses the president. Since most are too scared to vote for anyone other than The Party, they're making a rod for their own backs.
Yeah, whites did oppress non-whites. I'm not condoning it. However, even under that "oppression", the facts speak for themselves: Education was better (even though they did burn down their schools because their leaders told them they were getting an inferior education), if you got TB there was an excellent chance it would be cured (not so, now), life expectancy was about 25% longer than it is now, and tho there was grinding poverty (there always will, this is Africa) there were fewer poor people.
Sadly, no matter how much time you allot to it, there will always be people who blame someone else for their current state. Fifty or a hundred years from now, when they're all dying of consumption, speaking Mandarin, and the primary form of transport is a donkey cart, they'll still be pointing their fingers at their "colonial oppressors". Africa is generally a continent of consumers, not generators, and it will stay that way until its people start to own their problems and become responsible for fixing them.
I'm South African, and this story was all over the news for a couple of days. Seeing the people in the hospital with some of their limbs blown off wasn't a pleasant sight, but there's a consensus here that the whole thing went pear shaped because of inadequate training, and quite probably inadequate maintenance on the machinery.
A bit of background:
Since the government changed from white-run to black about 15 years ago, almost nothing has been done to keep our military equipment up to scratch. We went from having one of the best (sizewise) defence forces in the world to one that "loses" millions of dollars worth of equipment in war torn countries like the Congo and Sudan. And by equipment, I mean armoured cars, transport vehicles, artillery, grenades, millions of rounds of ammo, you name it. When called to account, the minister of defense (Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, I kid you not!) basically said that all armies lose equipment, and that he's not even going to bother looking into it. There's lots of things they won't look into these days. Even when our own health minister expounds on the value of garlic, lemon juice and beetroot as a cure for HIV, she's completely backed by all her cronies in the SA gvt. But I digress...
In an effort to bring our defence force back up to scratch, a number of black former anti-apartheid "struggle heroes" got involved in buying about R40bn (about US$6.5bn) worth of materiel from overseas arms companies based in Sweden, Germany and others. Corruption and kickbacks were so rife at this point that even the Germans are still trying to untangle the South African side of things (our government doesn't believe in transparency when it looks like president Thabo Mbeki might be involved, and he was, which is why the investigations keep stalling). But to give you an idea, the SA government purchased some new corvettes for what passes for our Navy, which are too expensive to run. Last I heard they were sitting in dry dock, because it was going to be too expensive to maintain them if they actually put them in the water and used them for exercises. I'm not sure who we'd be defending ourselves against anyway, actually...
More than to 40% of our military (which is about 90% black now) is infected with HIV, and half of them don't know which end of an automatic rifle is which. They lose or sell their weapons and ammunition to criminal syndicates which use them for cash-in-transit heists (there's at least 2 a day, they don't even make the papers any more unless the guards in the armoured cars died a more gruesome death than usual). They also use them in armed home invasions, where a group of 3-10 armed blacks will burst into a home, torture and rape and kill the homeowners and families (usually white) before making off with the family car and a few electrical goods. We have about 55 murders a day (conservative estimate, (think a tour bus full of people)), roughly 144 rapes a day, and about 880 burglaries a day in this country, all aided indirectly by incompetent military and police personnel. That may not sound like much, until you work it out, to about 50,000 people die. every. single. year. And those are just the ones reported. And it's getting worse. Have a look at what's going on in an average suburb in Pretoria (name sooned to be changed to "Tshwane", see below). http://search.news24.com/search?s=NWS&ref=NWS&q=Lynnwood&imageField.x=0&imageField.y=0/. This page covers just the last 3 months, more links at bottom.
Many of you will nod your heads and go "yeah well, you deserve it after apartheid", but there's a couple of things you need to realise. 1. that most other countries that have at some stage practised (or still practise) some form of racial segregation. That doesn't make it right, but the only main difference between those countries and ours is that SA had an actual word for it. "Apartheid" basically means "separateness" in
Then again, if you take a hand every time he steals something, he won't be able to do it more than twice. It works in Saudi Arabia. A mate of mine forgot his cell phone on a table in a restaurant, and only realised it the next morning. In a flat panic, he asked the staff if anyone had seen it. One of them pointed to the table where he'd been sitting. The phone was still sitting there. Untouched. Exactly where he'd left it.
Contrast that with the brutal home invasions by armed robbers here in South Africa, where they will torture the families (children included) by pouring boiling water on them, or dripping melted plastic on them. This just to get hold of a cellphone or two, some cash and maybe a laptop if they're lucky. And then they'll probably shoot at least one of the family members, and rape another, just because they can. Then they'll go and rob the house next door, because it'll take the cops hours to arrive, if they ever do.
South Africa has the highest rate of murder in the world. Over 50 people a day are murdered in this country. Approximately 18,000 women are raped every year. At least those are the ones being reported. You cannot open a newspaper without being bombarded with news about a baby being raped (certain superstitious sectors of our society believe that raping a 9-month old baby will cure them of HIV/AIDS, or they do it for revenge e.g.(http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=304811&area=/insight/insight__national//)). They have no scruples. No shame. They take what they want, when they want it, and fuck you if you even look like you'll get in their way.
My point (after all that) is that prison doesn't work in terms of rehabilitating these people. Most of the people who do the kinds of atrocities mentioned above are people that have already been in prison, and have been let out or escaped (our prisons are well over 100% full). Prison is no deterrent. The only way to stop these guys from doing exactly the same thing 24 hours out of prison is to make them incapable of doing so. I'll leave those methods out of here, but I am pro-death penalty (I'm sure there's nothing like having your mom tortured, raped and then shot in the face, right in front of you, to make you radically change any liberal views you may have on something like that).
Most people (especially those who have never even been to Africa) are quick to point the finger, play the race card, and blame it all on the previous (White) government, forgetting that the regime changed nigh on 14 years ago (in 1994). That's a whole generation of school kids. With time to spare. And things have not improved. In fact they've deteriorated. Grinding poverty, failing infrastructure, crushing governmental incompetence and a lot of rage and hate are the primary contributors (particularly with regards to the gratuitous brutality of the crimes). We have (on average) a 2% conviction rate for violent crimes. 2%. And that's for the guys who get caught. Most don't get caught. They make a living off robbing people like this. Taking a life, even that of a child, means nothing to them.
And if you're coming here for the soccer world cup in 2010, please, for FFS be careful, because they WILL target foreigne
I work with someone like this. Trying decode his documents and specifications, or be in a meeting he's attending to try and iron out some issue or other makes my head hurt too. He's a seagull manager in the making.
This may (or may not be) useful information, but you can treat ghost (at least Ghost 2003) images as zip files. rename it (or one of the files if you made a split/span set) to give it a '.zip' extension, and give it a go:)
and it's a well known fact that deep-sea fishermen that pull up those creepy critters from waaaaay down deep often have those creepy critters explode if as they're pulled up too fast. Not sure what the differential is there tho, but it's gotta be pretty steep.
1. The guy who is always shitting himself over a deadline, is always going on about how busy he is, never gets anything done, and delivers consistently broken apps. He blames everyone else for either being stupid or lazy when his apps break. He consumes exceptions because he's embarrassed about them, rather than using them to determine what went wrong. He quotes best practices, but seldom uses them. He consistently reinvents the wheel. He's never wrong, and instantly knows the cause of every problem, tho he won't actually do anything constructive towards fixing it. He'll suggest lots of things, but won't be willing to try them in case he's wrong.
2. The second guy (who is often the one accused of being lazy, coz he's "not stressing enough"), often seems to be doing things which are not related to the project, but always has his stuff done. On spec. On time. Working. And pretty much bug free. And he's solved a bunch of other problems along the way.
My biggest problem with it is the lame filtering it offers. I can't even mix 'and' and 'or' in the same filter, which to me is completely non-intuitive. I have to build a string of filters, and daisychain them, one after the other IN THE RIGHT ORDER. "The Bat!" kicks tbirds ass when it comes to this kind of thing. Even an extension which would allow one to build an "and/or" filter as a series of filters would be a godsend!
Yep. Is there any other country in the world where you pay line rental TWICE for the same line, one rental ostensibly to be used for voice and the other for data? It's the same piece of copper running to your house, you just have to rent it TWICE from Telkom (the fixed line operator in this country), like it or not. Rental is about $15 (US) x 2, and there's no such thing as free local calls or anything like that.
The Hellkom http://www.hellkom.co.za/ website can give those in first world countries a good idea of how money-grubbing politicians in this country have fucked up the infrastructure here. Our minister of communications is over 70, and doesn't even know how much a phone call costs...
laugh all you want, but we have "rock squirrels" here in South Africa (very prevalent and tame on Table Mountain in Cape Town). They're called "dassies" or "klipdassies" (literally "rocksquirrel") here, but I believe the official name is a "hyrax". See wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrax/ for more info:)
...and all pictures on all the CRT devices in close proximity to this thing turn purple
yes, this'll work!
1. Obtain large Tesla coil
2. Turn every movie into a blue movie!
3. Profit!
Surely there should be something in place to block things like this? How long as.net been out for? How long has it taken for these guys to realise that their patents are being infringed? I think there should be a counter-suit for being asleep at the wheel, as it were.
Reading some of the negative comments here, it reaffirms why it took such a long time for me to switch to Linux. All those Alpha-Geeks trying to outl33t each other.
*Yawn*.
I take comfort in the fact that Alpha Geeks they may be, but my dick will always be bigger than theirs:)
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Mod parent up. Most first world countries don't have a clue. No matter how bad it gets in the US (or UK, or Europe, or Australia), it'll always be worse in Africa.
I have a sneaking suspicion she's also got a diploma in "Generation Y should I get off my ass", along with a certification in "The world revolves around me"
Or where they murder (or exhume) albinos for their body parts when making "muti" or "magic medicine".
Clearly you've never lived in a third world country like South Africa, where whites are in the minority. Trying to start up any sort of organisation like this for white people still elicits howls of outrage from the 'previously downtrodden'. Tho when they started up a "Black Journalists' Forum", and gleefully evicted white journalists who tried to attend the opening ceremoney (to report on it), no one said a word. How would this any different?
Please bear in mind that eventually whites will be the minority in the USA, and this kind of thing will suddenly matter a lot more than most people think.
The attitude that everyone in the third world resents everyone in the first world and is willing to set aside their morals to attain material wealth is ignorant and potentially racist.
Agreed, but I disagree on one point: It's maybe potentially classist, but not potentially racist. You get rich black/yellow/green/sky-blue-pink people in non-third-world countries too. These days a lot of people are too peecee and are ready to play the race card too quickly; usually due to the misconception that all whites=haves and all blacks=have-nots.
It was probably milk. The Masaai (and I believe some other tribes) in Africa often mix and drink a mixture of blood and milk when they are low on other food sources. I've been told it can induce lockjaw (not sure how true this is tho). In Africa, cows are (among other things) used as indications of wealth as well as a food source. They have huge herds which completely destroy large tracts of land through overgrazing.
Sounds exactly like a guy I work with. He's a prima donna too. Persistently reinvents the wheel (he's one of those "my wheel is rounder than yours" types) and implements these convoluted solutions to problems that he can't really explain it, or find time to explain it. My philosophy is that if you can't explain it to me, in layman's terms in under 3 minutes (you're allowed a whiteboard), then you can't explain it to a computer. Unfortunately the directors don't see it that way (he's an arse-licker of note) so he gets to implement these horrific solutions which are so much more complicated than they need to be (he prefers to code "impressive looking" over "functional") and which will be completely impossible to maintain. One thing he has taught us all though tho, is how to be a complete self-aggrandizing tosser. He's so toxic that the coders around him are starting to resign, he's impossible to work with.
I take comfort from the fact that I did warn them that this was the kind of guy that he was when he first started, and they didn't listen. The company has turned from being a happy "family" to one where everyone is covering their asses, stealing credit and stabbing each other in the back, just to maintain their positions. I'm leaving too.
You've obviously not spent a reasonable amount of time in a movie theatre where the fscktard in the row in front of you keeps flipping his phone open to send or receive text messages. Being sworn at after asking him (politely) to please not do that, or take it outside, isn't a solution either. Short of physical violence (or a jammer) there's no way to stop some guy with an overblown sense of his own importance from doing this, if he doesn't want to do it.
:)
While the thought of tasering him or sticking a cattle prod in his ear is amusing, it's even less of a solution than a jammer, it's the difference between assault and, well, not assault.
And if you're in a situation where the signal is jammed (or simply not available), please answer as to how you'd be dialling 911 anyway? Or would you be sitting in front of me, flipping your phone open every now and again to see if you had a signal back yet?
Normally I wouldn't even dignify this with a response, but I assume you've never actually spent any appreciable amount of time in South Africa? Or Africa in general? Or if you have, or are still, you need to pull your head out of the sand rickytick, because you obviously don't have a clue.
I don't see any factual information in your response that makes it look like you are speaking from a position of authority on the matter. In fact, the details of your response indicate that all you know about SA is what you've read in liberal newspapers and heard from like-minded people.
I strongly recommend you spend a little time on youtube, looking at videos from local TV broadcasts, check out the link in my original post and associated links, and then try and stretch your tiny mind out of the box and read between the lines. It's not about black and white, I never said it was. That was just an interesting correlation, which has been seen in every other country in Africa. There's a class struggle going on here as well, which has a LOT to do with the crime rate.
Have you read "Capitalist Nigger" or "Atlas Shrugged"? Do you support Communism? Marxism? Thought not. We are not fully to blame for the current position of those downtrodden masses. And slowly, the grass-roots level are starting to realise it (government changed hands, and wtf?! we're worse off than before! where's the nice house you promised me? and the BMW? and the swimming pool? and the free education? and the high paying job?).
Slowly, but surely, they are starting to realise that they can't vote the current government out (there's only one real Black party (the ANC), and they're already running the show). You don't get to vote for a president here, you vote for the party, and the party chooses the president. Since most are too scared to vote for anyone other than The Party, they're making a rod for their own backs.
Yeah, whites did oppress non-whites. I'm not condoning it. However, even under that "oppression", the facts speak for themselves: Education was better (even though they did burn down their schools because their leaders told them they were getting an inferior education), if you got TB there was an excellent chance it would be cured (not so, now), life expectancy was about 25% longer than it is now, and tho there was grinding poverty (there always will, this is Africa) there were fewer poor people.
Sadly, no matter how much time you allot to it, there will always be people who blame someone else for their current state. Fifty or a hundred years from now, when they're all dying of consumption, speaking Mandarin, and the primary form of transport is a donkey cart, they'll still be pointing their fingers at their "colonial oppressors". Africa is generally a continent of consumers, not generators, and it will stay that way until its people start to own their problems and become responsible for fixing them.
I'm South African, and this story was all over the news for a couple of days. Seeing the people in the hospital with some of their limbs blown off wasn't a pleasant sight, but there's a consensus here that the whole thing went pear shaped because of inadequate training, and quite probably inadequate maintenance on the machinery.
A bit of background:
Since the government changed from white-run to black about 15 years ago, almost nothing has been done to keep our military equipment up to scratch. We went from having one of the best (sizewise) defence forces in the world to one that "loses" millions of dollars worth of equipment in war torn countries like the Congo and Sudan. And by equipment, I mean armoured cars, transport vehicles, artillery, grenades, millions of rounds of ammo, you name it. When called to account, the minister of defense (Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, I kid you not!) basically said that all armies lose equipment, and that he's not even going to bother looking into it. There's lots of things they won't look into these days. Even when our own health minister expounds on the value of garlic, lemon juice and beetroot as a cure for HIV, she's completely backed by all her cronies in the SA gvt. But I digress...
In an effort to bring our defence force back up to scratch, a number of black former anti-apartheid "struggle heroes" got involved in buying about R40bn (about US$6.5bn) worth of materiel from overseas arms companies based in Sweden, Germany and others. Corruption and kickbacks were so rife at this point that even the Germans are still trying to untangle the South African side of things (our government doesn't believe in transparency when it looks like president Thabo Mbeki might be involved, and he was, which is why the investigations keep stalling). But to give you an idea, the SA government purchased some new corvettes for what passes for our Navy, which are too expensive to run. Last I heard they were sitting in dry dock, because it was going to be too expensive to maintain them if they actually put them in the water and used them for exercises. I'm not sure who we'd be defending ourselves against anyway, actually...
More than to 40% of our military (which is about 90% black now) is infected with HIV, and half of them don't know which end of an automatic rifle is which. They lose or sell their weapons and ammunition to criminal syndicates which use them for cash-in-transit heists (there's at least 2 a day, they don't even make the papers any more unless the guards in the armoured cars died a more gruesome death than usual). They also use them in armed home invasions, where a group of 3-10 armed blacks will burst into a home, torture and rape and kill the homeowners and families (usually white) before making off with the family car and a few electrical goods. We have about 55 murders a day (conservative estimate, (think a tour bus full of people)), roughly 144 rapes a day, and about 880 burglaries a day in this country, all aided indirectly by incompetent military and police personnel. That may not sound like much, until you work it out, to about 50,000 people die. every. single. year. And those are just the ones reported. And it's getting worse. Have a look at what's going on in an average suburb in Pretoria (name sooned to be changed to "Tshwane", see below). http://search.news24.com/search?s=NWS&ref=NWS&q=Lynnwood&imageField.x=0&imageField.y=0/. This page covers just the last 3 months, more links at bottom.
Many of you will nod your heads and go "yeah well, you deserve it after apartheid", but there's a couple of things you need to realise. 1. that most other countries that have at some stage practised (or still practise) some form of racial segregation. That doesn't make it right, but the only main difference between those countries and ours is that SA had an actual word for it. "Apartheid" basically means "separateness" in
Then again, if you take a hand every time he steals something, he won't be able to do it more than twice. It works in Saudi Arabia. A mate of mine forgot his cell phone on a table in a restaurant, and only realised it the next morning. In a flat panic, he asked the staff if anyone had seen it. One of them pointed to the table where he'd been sitting. The phone was still sitting there. Untouched. Exactly where he'd left it.
Contrast that with the brutal home invasions by armed robbers here in South Africa, where they will torture the families (children included) by pouring boiling water on them, or dripping melted plastic on them. This just to get hold of a cellphone or two, some cash and maybe a laptop if they're lucky. And then they'll probably shoot at least one of the family members, and rape another, just because they can. Then they'll go and rob the house next door, because it'll take the cops hours to arrive, if they ever do.
You think I'm joking?
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2184926,00.html/ (Pensioner killed at home)
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2157731,00.html/ 3 women repeatedly gang raped while robbers cook and eat the food they were preparing. Then robbers moved on to another house and repeat the process.
Usually the crime is black on white (gangs of 4 or 5 blacks, usually armed with guns and knives will force their way into a home).
South Africa has the highest rate of murder in the world. Over 50 people a day are murdered in this country. Approximately 18,000 women are raped every year. At least those are the ones being reported. You cannot open a newspaper without being bombarded with news about a baby being raped (certain superstitious sectors of our society believe that raping a 9-month old baby will cure them of HIV/AIDS, or they do it for revenge e.g.(http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=304811&area=/insight/insight__national//)). They have no scruples. No shame. They take what they want, when they want it, and fuck you if you even look like you'll get in their way.
My point (after all that) is that prison doesn't work in terms of rehabilitating these people. Most of the people who do the kinds of atrocities mentioned above are people that have already been in prison, and have been let out or escaped (our prisons are well over 100% full). Prison is no deterrent. The only way to stop these guys from doing exactly the same thing 24 hours out of prison is to make them incapable of doing so. I'll leave those methods out of here, but I am pro-death penalty (I'm sure there's nothing like having your mom tortured, raped and then shot in the face, right in front of you, to make you radically change any liberal views you may have on something like that).
Most people (especially those who have never even been to Africa) are quick to point the finger, play the race card, and blame it all on the previous (White) government, forgetting that the regime changed nigh on 14 years ago (in 1994). That's a whole generation of school kids. With time to spare. And things have not improved. In fact they've deteriorated. Grinding poverty, failing infrastructure, crushing governmental incompetence and a lot of rage and hate are the primary contributors (particularly with regards to the gratuitous brutality of the crimes). We have (on average) a 2% conviction rate for violent crimes. 2%. And that's for the guys who get caught. Most don't get caught. They make a living off robbing people like this. Taking a life, even that of a child, means nothing to them.
And if you're coming here for the soccer world cup in 2010, please, for FFS be careful, because they WILL target foreigne
I work with someone like this. Trying decode his documents and specifications, or be in a meeting he's attending to try and iron out some issue or other makes my head hurt too. He's a seagull manager in the making.
This may (or may not be) useful information, but you can treat ghost (at least Ghost 2003) images as zip files. rename it (or one of the files if you made a split/span set) to give it a '.zip' extension, and give it a go :)
and it's a well known fact that deep-sea fishermen that pull up those creepy critters from waaaaay down deep often have those creepy critters explode if as they're pulled up too fast. Not sure what the differential is there tho, but it's gotta be pretty steep.
Did anyone else immediately thing "sick-stick"?
I've got two kinds of programers:
1. The guy who is always shitting himself over a deadline, is always going on about how busy he is, never gets anything done, and delivers consistently broken apps. He blames everyone else for either being stupid or lazy when his apps break. He consumes exceptions because he's embarrassed about them, rather than using them to determine what went wrong. He quotes best practices, but seldom uses them. He consistently reinvents the wheel. He's never wrong, and instantly knows the cause of every problem, tho he won't actually do anything constructive towards fixing it. He'll suggest lots of things, but won't be willing to try them in case he's wrong.
2. The second guy (who is often the one accused of being lazy, coz he's "not stressing enough"), often seems to be doing things which are not related to the project, but always has his stuff done. On spec. On time. Working. And pretty much bug free. And he's solved a bunch of other problems along the way.
Who would you rather hire?
My biggest problem with it is the lame filtering it offers. I can't even mix 'and' and 'or' in the same filter, which to me is completely non-intuitive. I have to build a string of filters, and daisychain them, one after the other IN THE RIGHT ORDER. "The Bat!" kicks tbirds ass when it comes to this kind of thing. Even an extension which would allow one to build an "and/or" filter as a series of filters would be a godsend!
Yep. Is there any other country in the world where you pay line rental TWICE for the same line, one rental ostensibly to be used for voice and the other for data? It's the same piece of copper running to your house, you just have to rent it TWICE from Telkom (the fixed line operator in this country), like it or not. Rental is about $15 (US) x 2, and there's no such thing as free local calls or anything like that. The Hellkom http://www.hellkom.co.za/ website can give those in first world countries a good idea of how money-grubbing politicians in this country have fucked up the infrastructure here. Our minister of communications is over 70, and doesn't even know how much a phone call costs...
I read this as "mechanical turd". gave me pause for thought...
laugh all you want, but we have "rock squirrels" here in South Africa (very prevalent and tame on Table Mountain in Cape Town). They're called "dassies" or "klipdassies" (literally "rocksquirrel") here, but I believe the official name is a "hyrax". See wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrax/ for more info :)
...and all pictures on all the CRT devices in close proximity to this thing turn purple
yes, this'll work!
1. Obtain large Tesla coil
2. Turn every movie into a blue movie!
3. Profit!
Surely there should be something in place to block things like this? How long as .net been out for? How long has it taken for these guys to realise that their patents are being infringed? I think there should be a counter-suit for being asleep at the wheel, as it were.
Reading some of the negative comments here, it reaffirms why it took such a long time for me to switch to Linux. All those Alpha-Geeks trying to outl33t each other.
:)
*Yawn*.
I take comfort in the fact that Alpha Geeks they may be, but my dick will always be bigger than theirs
I've been waiting for an obligatory 'Doom' quote, myself :)
How about...
Give them the key, then change the lock?
Surely they can do this indefinitely?