I don't know whether to play the "English is not native language" or the "I was two angry too gramm rite" card, but really, I should just byte it and thank you for the education.
Fucking Gods! The is the most sexists post I've seen in slashdot in ages! But its aimed at men so it ok right?
Women are not more intelligent than men, statistics prove it. Women simply have different options and opportunities.
It's men who are dumb enough to tolerate the aspy-programmer types, the sneering arrogant IT guys,
These are mostly myth, sure they exists but I've been in several IT firms and people are generally nice.
the mailing lists full of flaming personal attacks leveled by closet bullies empowered by semi-anonymity,
That's human interaction for you, guess what? Women are prone to as much if not much more drama when it comes to discussions.
the phallic-compensating gadget consumerists,
Yes! The only reason people consume is because they have small dicks! That explains why women love to go shopping! No wait, consuming is only bad when you are a guy right?
constantly "helpful" types who manage to insult while trying to rescue,
Again myth, and you'd be surprised how women manage to be dickheads nonetheless. My mother worked in an all female environment and I've heard several stories about abusive bosses and cheating employees.
and the sexually inept who use pinup wallpaper and leer at any woman in eyeshot.
Teehee, you said "sexually inept", you should've said "sexually repressed" but of course you wanted to be as offensive as possible.
Even so this is about your only stab that almost hits something, but women aren't excepmt from this because they are smarter, they have the privilege of having a lower sex drive meaning not only they have less urges but also that there's a ton of guys ready to calm any urge that might arise.
Men don't have to be passionate about computers and programming to do well in our field.
That's questionable, Show me a good programmer that isn't passionate about programming.
But even so, what shall we do with men who ARE passionate about programming? Shot them?
But brilliant women who are not passionate about the field are smart enough to tell us all to go fuck ourselves after the first serious flame, because they know nobody should have to put up with that shit.
Well if they are not passionate about the field by definition they don't have the drive to remain in the field you dumb ass. What about brilliant women who ARE passionate about computers? Or does passion about a carrier equal stupidity? Or is it maybe just for IT?
Your post is dripping with sexism, hate and intentional stupidity. A modern society should not have any acceptance for such a despicable attitude.
British Petroleum takes this opportunity to remind you that robot hell is a real place, and you will be sent there if you make mess with the containment again.
The distinction doesn't exist solely to help you mentally organize sites. It exists because DNS reads from right to left, and it has to start somewhere. Otherwise there would be no way to organize them.
And isn't that stupid? why do we have www.yahoo.com and mail.yahoo.com instead the more logical com.yahoo.www and com.yahoo.mail?
Usenet is organized like this and it makes directions more readable, specially since then the path part is read left to right.
Now I can understand why we'd want to have different TLD providers, but given treadmarks are effectively global now, why don't the different TLDs agree to redirect all traffic to the first domain registered under a name. Like, if I try to visit com.slashdot, and the com TLD find it doesn't have that, it could ask other TLDs for it and find it at org.slashdot. Why is this imp(ossible|ractical)\?
Because must people are incapable of handling the searchbox correctly.
In most search boxes entering Return opens the search in the current page and entering Alt+Return opens the search in a new tab. Both are desirable behaviors, but both handling both is over the skill level of most users, so you have to pick one, open in current, most of the time.
So how do the people that never read the documentation --the kind that click OK to every dialog box without reading them-- how do you think they open a search in a new tab? By opening a new window/tab and typing their search in the default homepage.
Same here, after over a decade of Googling I switched to StartPage to see how indispensable Google really was, right in the week Google decides to do something cool with their homepage.
I'm also guessing the segment between the ground and solid rock isn't naked but piped and that the pipe use can't sustain the pressure from closing it from above...
Surely I'm too much into science fiction but I had a wild idea about attaching a GPS repeater to a long string of sensors spread in triplets that could triangulate the position of their immediate nodes, that way even if you only knwo the position of one node, you would know the "shape"/distribution of the chain and get the precise coordinates of the probe.
But apparently finding the hole wasn't the problem filling it was.
BTW I'll chose you to comment, wow none of other posts get so much feedback, my rant was apparently a really low hanging apple!
But that rock is still there isn't it? We just dug a hole in it. Why can't BP just plug it? Why is it going to crack open now when it didn't in the past?
Thanks and now I'm left wondering if the ground there is so muddy what prevented the oil from bursting out in the first place. But at this point I can use my imagination.
And thanks for pointing out what security measures weren't taken. Yes I know we do use a lot of potentially catastrophic technology but not without a backup plan. as you stated, the backup plan was know in advance, it just wasn't implemented.
Honestly, if fixing an eventuality is that impossible maybe they shouldn't have been allowed to drill in the first place.
And yes I'm an armchair underwater mining engineer (but an actual, licensed, systems engineer) and I can't quite believe that BP can't drop a hundred tons of rock over the spill, I'm pretty sure they're trying to find the most "cost effective" way of dealing with it.
But what I seriously can't believe is that what is stopping is water too muddy to see. Don't we have radars and laser and x-rays, weaponizable grade sonars and of course GPS? And don't tell me GPS doesn't get that low, we can set up repeaters, heck we can tie a million ropes together if that helped. Shouldn't BP know exactly where the spill is? Surely they sent equipment back and forth the drilling site!
I'm obviously expecting to get my ass whooped by an actual mining engineer but I seriously struggle to believe our technology is that lame,
Also you seem intent on BP *not* paying the bill,exactly what do you want everybody to do? Giving them money with no strings attached?
You are too pessimistic, dialog and education have had an incredible effect, after all we are living in one of the most openly atheistic times ever.
Both The Enlightenment and The Dark Ages prove that there is a lot of room for change in human societies. Societies are not static.
About the constitutional republic, again, I can't believe how naive you are.
You are suggesting that our wise and benevolent representatives are protecting the poor, humble, oppressed minority from the evil, savage, greedy and egocentric majority.
Don't make me laugh. Politicians are a self selected group of the greediest assholes society can muster. The only minority they want to favor is the elite.
When they do favor a minority, it is out of PR reasons, meaning the public already wanted the change.
Really, for all the cry about the tyranny of the majority, the majority always turns out to be more liberal and empathetic than the ruling minority.
Part of the purpose of having a constitution is to prevent the tyranny of the majority destroying the rights of the minority.
*sigh* This. I hate this. I'll try to correct you as you seem a good person.
Firstly, the constitution is a document outlining restrictions on the power the federal government has over its member states. In other words, It Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means.
Secondly in a democracy, like America, nothing stops the majority from destroying the rights of the minority, and believe it or not, this is something good. Because the rights of the minority often turn out to be tyrannic.
Prima nocte. Divine right. Manifest Destiny. Slavery, this one ironically one used to exemplify the tyranny of the majority forgetting that slaves have been majorities in many societies.
Now the majority is sometimes wrong no doubt about it. But who's to decide when it is right or wrong? The minority? Ok but what minority? Historically the ruling minority has always been tyrannical. No ruler has ever dictated an unpopular law that offered more freedom to an oppressed class.
Lincoln is the closest one ever, but even so his abolition was the result of a popular ideology that already dominated the north of the country.
Even the civil rights movement that could be used as an example of a minority defeating the tyrannical majority is very misunderstood.
The minority didn't force the majority to change, rather, they nagged, educated and ashamed the majority into returning them their just rights.
To reiterate, the white majority didn't began respecting the rights of the black minority because some abstract power descended from heaven or some benevolent dictator forced it to, but because of its own collective will, as persuaded by the black minority.
Democracy is not perfect but it is the best thing we have, don't go around crying for the tyranny of the majority, you don't know how good you have it!
and teach their grandsons that God created every animal separated and that evolution is a lie made by the devil, supported by Satanists.
Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do about this one without venturing into the territory of your first point. Face it, a lot of people are stupid. They'll always believe that Jesus, the magical free market, or the People's Communist Party will somehow save them, and no amount of logic or debate will convince them otherwise.
When they try to force their beliefs on others, you can step in and tell them no, their rights do not trump the rights of others. If they keep to themselves, though, you can't do much without becoming exactly what you're trying to eliminate.
Er no, speaking out our mind is one thing we can do, and it has a effect. The only disruptive behavior I'm advocating is dialog.
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I don't know whether to play the "English is not native language" or the "I was two angry too gramm rite" card, but really, I should just byte it and thank you for the education.
Fucking Gods! The is the most sexists post I've seen in slashdot in ages! But its aimed at men so it ok right?
Women are not more intelligent than men, statistics prove it. Women simply have different options and opportunities.
It's men who are dumb enough to tolerate the aspy-programmer types, the sneering arrogant IT guys,
These are mostly myth, sure they exists but I've been in several IT firms and people are generally nice.
the mailing lists full of flaming personal attacks leveled by closet bullies empowered by semi-anonymity,
That's human interaction for you, guess what? Women are prone to as much if not much more drama when it comes to discussions.
the phallic-compensating gadget consumerists,
Yes! The only reason people consume is because they have small dicks! That explains why women love to go shopping! No wait, consuming is only bad when you are a guy right?
constantly "helpful" types who manage to insult while trying to rescue,
Again myth, and you'd be surprised how women manage to be dickheads nonetheless. My mother worked in an all female environment and I've heard several stories about abusive bosses and cheating employees.
and the sexually inept who use pinup wallpaper and leer at any woman in eyeshot.
Teehee, you said "sexually inept", you should've said "sexually repressed" but of course you wanted to be as offensive as possible.
Even so this is about your only stab that almost hits something, but women aren't excepmt from this because they are smarter, they have the privilege of having a lower sex drive meaning not only they have less urges but also that there's a ton of guys ready to calm any urge that might arise.
Men don't have to be passionate about computers and programming to do well in our field.
That's questionable, Show me a good programmer that isn't passionate about programming.
But even so, what shall we do with men who ARE passionate about programming? Shot them?
But brilliant women who are not passionate about the field are smart enough to tell us all to go fuck ourselves after the first serious flame, because they know nobody should have to put up with that shit.
Well if they are not passionate about the field by definition they don't have the drive to remain in the field you dumb ass. What about brilliant women who ARE passionate about computers? Or does passion about a carrier equal stupidity? Or is it maybe just for IT?
Your post is dripping with sexism, hate and intentional stupidity. A modern society should not have any acceptance for such a despicable attitude.
Did he downloaded Toy Story 3? No, then waterboarding -- or a competent IT department-- are out of the question.
British Petroleum takes this opportunity to remind you that robot hell is a real place, and you will be sent there if you make mess with the containment again.
The distinction doesn't exist solely to help you mentally organize sites. It exists because DNS reads from right to left, and it has to start somewhere. Otherwise there would be no way to organize them.
And isn't that stupid? why do we have www.yahoo.com and mail.yahoo.com instead the more logical com.yahoo.www and com.yahoo.mail?
Usenet is organized like this and it makes directions more readable, specially since then the path part is read left to right.
Now I can understand why we'd want to have different TLD providers, but given treadmarks are effectively global now, why don't the different TLDs agree to redirect all traffic to the first domain registered under a name. Like, if I try to visit com.slashdot, and the com TLD find it doesn't have that, it could ask other TLDs for it and find it at org.slashdot. Why is this imp(ossible|ractical)\?
The courts are Unbelievable Fucking Obtuse
It also has nothing to do with IT. Plenty of industries/trades benefit from (ab)using young underpaid, overworked employees and shun old ones.
Old people in general have problems getting a job and can't aspire to better pay either.
Also a sure fire 100% guaranteed way to get modded into oblivion
And you'd deserve it because it is false.
And how do I tweet in this thing?
Because must people are incapable of handling the searchbox correctly.
In most search boxes entering Return opens the search in the current page and entering Alt+Return opens the search in a new tab. Both are desirable behaviors, but both handling both is over the skill level of most users, so you have to pick one, open in current, most of the time.
So how do the people that never read the documentation --the kind that click OK to every dialog box without reading them-- how do you think they open a search in a new tab? By opening a new window/tab and typing their search in the default homepage.
That's why.
Same here, after over a decade of Googling I switched to StartPage to see how indispensable Google really was, right in the week Google decides to do something cool with their homepage.
That's what I was guessing.
I'm also guessing the segment between the ground and solid rock isn't naked but piped and that the pipe use can't sustain the pressure from closing it from above...
Surely I'm too much into science fiction but I had a wild idea about attaching a GPS repeater to a long string of sensors spread in triplets that could triangulate the position of their immediate nodes, that way even if you only knwo the position of one node, you would know the "shape"/distribution of the chain and get the precise coordinates of the probe.
But apparently finding the hole wasn't the problem filling it was.
BTW I'll chose you to comment, wow none of other posts get so much feedback, my rant was apparently a really low hanging apple!
Thanks.
But that rock is still there isn't it? We just dug a hole in it. Why can't BP just plug it? Why is it going to crack open now when it didn't in the past?
Thanks and now I'm left wondering if the ground there is so muddy what prevented the oil from bursting out in the first place. But at this point I can use my imagination.
And thanks for pointing out what security measures weren't taken. Yes I know we do use a lot of potentially catastrophic technology but not without a backup plan. as you stated, the backup plan was know in advance, it just wasn't implemented.
Honestly, if fixing an eventuality is that impossible maybe they shouldn't have been allowed to drill in the first place.
And yes I'm an armchair underwater mining engineer (but an actual, licensed, systems engineer) and I can't quite believe that BP can't drop a hundred tons of rock over the spill, I'm pretty sure they're trying to find the most "cost effective" way of dealing with it.
But what I seriously can't believe is that what is stopping is water too muddy to see. Don't we have radars and laser and x-rays, weaponizable grade sonars and of course GPS? And don't tell me GPS doesn't get that low, we can set up repeaters, heck we can tie a million ropes together if that helped. Shouldn't BP know exactly where the spill is? Surely they sent equipment back and forth the drilling site!
I'm obviously expecting to get my ass whooped by an actual mining engineer but I seriously struggle to believe our technology is that lame,
Also you seem intent on BP *not* paying the bill,exactly what do you want everybody to do? Giving them money with no strings attached?
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Rather than needing an MSN, AIM, etc account to IM your friends, just find them on Facebook.
So rather than needing an MSN, AIM, etc account you need a Facebook account. That doesn't provide any real advantage.
Come on, buying an Android isn't that hard.
This is an instance where we should be talking to people outside the Echo Chamber (on top of the Ivory Tower).
If enough people know about this it might make a difference.
which nobody makes any fuss about whatsoever.
Don't write us off that fast!
Indeed it's a marketing stunt, any sane people would rather have their own equipment back.
There are already cheaper touch enabled netbooks with real keyboards and all, this is indeed another case of "Less space than a nomad".
The iPad might be an inferior product but that won't stop Apple to shove it into everybodies hype spot.
Meh, personally I find roadkills more amusing.
It's about openness to dialog.
A self identified asshole won't bother with dialog, a basically nice person will, you don't approach two different kinds of people the same way.
You are too pessimistic, dialog and education have had an incredible effect, after all we are living in one of the most openly atheistic times ever.
Both The Enlightenment and The Dark Ages prove that there is a lot of room for change in human societies. Societies are not static.
About the constitutional republic, again, I can't believe how naive you are.
You are suggesting that our wise and benevolent representatives are protecting the poor, humble, oppressed minority from the evil, savage, greedy and egocentric majority.
Don't make me laugh. Politicians are a self selected group of the greediest assholes society can muster. The only minority they want to favor is the elite.
When they do favor a minority, it is out of PR reasons, meaning the public already wanted the change.
Really, for all the cry about the tyranny of the majority, the majority always turns out to be more liberal and empathetic than the ruling minority.
Part of the purpose of having a constitution is to prevent the tyranny of the majority destroying the rights of the minority.
*sigh* This. I hate this. I'll try to correct you as you seem a good person.
Firstly, the constitution is a document outlining restrictions on the power the federal government has over its member states. In other words, It Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means.
Secondly in a democracy, like America, nothing stops the majority from destroying the rights of the minority, and believe it or not, this is something good. Because the rights of the minority often turn out to be tyrannic.
Prima nocte.
Divine right.
Manifest Destiny.
Slavery, this one ironically one used to exemplify the tyranny of the majority forgetting that slaves have been majorities in many societies.
Now the majority is sometimes wrong no doubt about it. But who's to decide when it is right or wrong? The minority? Ok but what minority? Historically the ruling minority has always been tyrannical. No ruler has ever dictated an unpopular law that offered more freedom to an oppressed class.
Lincoln is the closest one ever, but even so his abolition was the result of a popular ideology that already dominated the north of the country.
Even the civil rights movement that could be used as an example of a minority defeating the tyrannical majority is very misunderstood.
The minority didn't force the majority to change, rather, they nagged, educated and ashamed the majority into returning them their just rights.
To reiterate, the white majority didn't began respecting the rights of the black minority because some abstract power descended from heaven or some benevolent dictator forced it to, but because of its own collective will, as persuaded by the black minority.
Democracy is not perfect but it is the best thing we have, don't go around crying for the tyranny of the majority, you don't know how good you have it!
and teach their grandsons that God created every animal separated and that evolution is a lie made by the devil, supported by Satanists.
Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do about this one without venturing into the territory of your first point. Face it, a lot of people are stupid. They'll always believe that Jesus, the magical free market, or the People's Communist Party will somehow save them, and no amount of logic or debate will convince them otherwise.
When they try to force their beliefs on others, you can step in and tell them no, their rights do not trump the rights of others. If they keep to themselves, though, you can't do much without becoming exactly what you're trying to eliminate.
Er no, speaking out our mind is one thing we can do, and it has a effect. The only disruptive behavior I'm advocating is dialog.