Re:I read this and found it to be terribly funny
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Microsoft in 2008
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If you say so....
And there are still people who don't believe in alternate realities!
Re:I read this and found it to be terribly funny
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Microsoft in 2008
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Windows is an environment? I thought it was a box....
Seriously though, you still can't drag and drop to a writable CD without a $100 add-on program, and they're gonna sell THAT as an environment? Don't make me gag.
"Just the fact that tabbed browsing is missing is horrible"
You know, you can hit ctrl-n and get a second version of the IE window, then use that to get to a new page. I used this method for years doing genealogy so I could jump back and forth quickly between censuses, mapquest, SSDI, etc. It's nice that Firefox lets you do this with a center click but it's certainly not unique. You just have to learn how to do it with IE. Which, of course, is why it's helpful for those who don't have a lot of built-in creativity to have a manual.
Re:What could firefox hacks possibly cover?
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This is a webwide problem, not just Slashdot. The pages of my genealogy-program-generated website sometimes look funny too. But you don't have to enlarge/shrink, you can just reload the page and the misalignments go away. I'm really hoping they get this fixed by version 1.1.
Yeah, there would be a stability problem carrying that oversized blob around on a mouse's shoulders. Perhaps they should concentrate on creating a minibrain first.
No, you are right, this is obviously the work of some dildo in middle management who decided to make a name for himself by starting his own little homegrown national security program. Yes, there are folks like this with no concept of concensus reality and a bred-in belief that their perverted little reality is the only one.
I am reminded of a story told me by a security guard. A friend of his in the police was part of an operation in which they broke down the door of the wrong apartment. What did they do? Nothing. Just another one of the thousands of unsolved break-ins that happen in America every year. The moral? There's very rarely anybody in a position to keep an eye on every idiot in the workforce who misreads his assignment for the day. Stupidity is epidemic.
The story is about AMERICAN AIRLINES personnel, not the employees of any government. Nor were there any forms involved, just a blank piece of paper. Why does this seem like rocket science to you folks? Do you really think he would have protested if it were a standard immigration form? THINK, GODDAMN IT, THINK!
Do you begin to get the feeling that if the story said they shoved a cucumber up his ass and asked him to whistle Dixie, that half a dozen people would say that this is exactly what happened to them last time they flew from Nairobi to Kinshasa?
No it's not a form, Homer. It's a blank piece of paper. To which they could later add at the top: FOLKS I HAVE HAD SEX WITH IN THE PRESENCE OF MINORS. Are you just stupid or did they drop you on your head when you were three?
"We do not and never have had an employee named 'Filbert Fosdick' in the employ of our UK office. This is all a terrible mistake perpetrated by a lunatic street theater band based in Northern Ireland. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers. Have a nice day. And fly American!"
We're not talking about immigration, Einstein. We're talking about a security guard for American Airlines. In England! This is how folks like W get elected.
"Freedom" has to do with the freedom of American corporations to rob the inhabitants of the Third World blind. It has nothing to do with Tom Jefferson and all that jazz. Please get your definitions straight.
So why did they keep ascribing it to federal law? And why on a blank piece of paper? This was a test to see if their concealed hypnotic messages--"Do what they tell you to do"--were having an impact...
And how exactly do these congenital pinhead clones of John Ashcroft know you're not making it all up? "Yeah, officer, I'm stayin' with my good buddy Frolickin' Fred at his LA digs." Please, God, create a friggin' virus that kills everybody with an IQ under 80.
And why in the name of Tap-dancin' Tom Jefferson would anyone actually give the name and address of their real friends....I am appalled, astonished, fried deeply, even....
How often has your router/internet connection died?
Are those statistics close enough that you'd put your life or those of your loved ones in the hands of the latter?
I am not a Luddite. But I can tell an American shoe from a Chinese shoe and the latter don't bloody well fit right. You pays your money and you takes your choice. But remember, cheap isn't necessarily a principle normal folks always need or want to live by.
Huh? Would you kindly reread what you wrote and edit it to make sense? Then resubmit it and I will consider answering it. This is PRECISELY the kind of fractured language usage one needs to look out for. And as I suggested, I have never been burned. But then my sensitivity to such things is set extremely high. Most folks aren't linguistically aware enough to pick up the nuances. I didn't say it was a useful practice for the average plebeian, just for me.
Bigot? One wonders who I'm supposed to be bigoted against. I'm not prejudiced against the linguistically. I just don't buy anything from they.
As for the scammers' excellent English, it may be excellent by YOUR standards, but I've never seen one who didn't make some mistake. I suppose I should have mentioned I'm an ex-printer and typographer and a published author, so my sensitivity to poor language/orthography/style is set higher than most.
I'm still waiting for the first person to die because their 911 call didn't make it through when their computer crashed. One wonders if the user agreement covers this contingency. If it does, the phone companies could blast it all over the airwaves in response.
"Do you want to put YOUR family's safety in the hands of Bill Gates and Windows?"
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If you say so.... And there are still people who don't believe in alternate realities!
Windows is an environment? I thought it was a box....
Seriously though, you still can't drag and drop to a writable CD without a $100 add-on program, and they're gonna sell THAT as an environment? Don't make me gag.
Why not just use the system they use with graphic arts film? Have little notches in the upper right-hand corner that vary with the denomination?
The Government of Tibet in Exile: http://www.tibet.com/
It doesn't seem to work with my website, and reloading the page does. So obviously the problem is a bit more complex than you are assuming.
"Just the fact that tabbed browsing is missing is horrible"
You know, you can hit ctrl-n and get a second version of the IE window, then use that to get to a new page. I used this method for years doing genealogy so I could jump back and forth quickly between censuses, mapquest, SSDI, etc. It's nice that Firefox lets you do this with a center click but it's certainly not unique. You just have to learn how to do it with IE. Which, of course, is why it's helpful for those who don't have a lot of built-in creativity to have a manual.
This is a webwide problem, not just Slashdot. The pages of my genealogy-program-generated website sometimes look funny too. But you don't have to enlarge/shrink, you can just reload the page and the misalignments go away. I'm really hoping they get this fixed by version 1.1.
Yeah, there would be a stability problem carrying that oversized blob around on a mouse's shoulders. Perhaps they should concentrate on creating a minibrain first.
No, you are right, this is obviously the work of some dildo in middle management who decided to make a name for himself by starting his own little homegrown national security program. Yes, there are folks like this with no concept of concensus reality and a bred-in belief that their perverted little reality is the only one.
I am reminded of a story told me by a security guard. A friend of his in the police was part of an operation in which they broke down the door of the wrong apartment. What did they do? Nothing. Just another one of the thousands of unsolved break-ins that happen in America every year. The moral? There's very rarely anybody in a position to keep an eye on every idiot in the workforce who misreads his assignment for the day. Stupidity is epidemic.
The story is about AMERICAN AIRLINES personnel, not the employees of any government. Nor were there any forms involved, just a blank piece of paper. Why does this seem like rocket science to you folks? Do you really think he would have protested if it were a standard immigration form? THINK, GODDAMN IT, THINK!
If you had read the article you would know that he was given a blank piece of paper by an airline security guard.
Do you begin to get the feeling that if the story said they shoved a cucumber up his ass and asked him to whistle Dixie, that half a dozen people would say that this is exactly what happened to them last time they flew from Nairobi to Kinshasa?
No it's not a form, Homer. It's a blank piece of paper. To which they could later add at the top: FOLKS I HAVE HAD SEX WITH IN THE PRESENCE OF MINORS. Are you just stupid or did they drop you on your head when you were three?
"We do not and never have had an employee named 'Filbert Fosdick' in the employ of our UK office. This is all a terrible mistake perpetrated by a lunatic street theater band based in Northern Ireland. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers. Have a nice day. And fly American!"
We're not talking about immigration, Einstein. We're talking about a security guard for American Airlines. In England! This is how folks like W get elected.
"Freedom" has to do with the freedom of American corporations to rob the inhabitants of the Third World blind. It has nothing to do with Tom Jefferson and all that jazz. Please get your definitions straight.
So why did they keep ascribing it to federal law? And why on a blank piece of paper? This was a test to see if their concealed hypnotic messages--"Do what they tell you to do"--were having an impact...
Chu vi parolas Esperante?
Only in its ground state, meta-muslium.
And how exactly do these congenital pinhead clones of John Ashcroft know you're not making it all up? "Yeah, officer, I'm stayin' with my good buddy Frolickin' Fred at his LA digs." Please, God, create a friggin' virus that kills everybody with an IQ under 80. And why in the name of Tap-dancin' Tom Jefferson would anyone actually give the name and address of their real friends....I am appalled, astonished, fried deeply, even....
Let me just ask you this:
How often has your phone died?
How often has your router/internet connection died?
Are those statistics close enough that you'd put your life or those of your loved ones in the hands of the latter?
I am not a Luddite. But I can tell an American shoe from a Chinese shoe and the latter don't bloody well fit right. You pays your money and you takes your choice. But remember, cheap isn't necessarily a principle normal folks always need or want to live by.
Huh? Would you kindly reread what you wrote and edit it to make sense? Then resubmit it and I will consider answering it. This is PRECISELY the kind of fractured language usage one needs to look out for. And as I suggested, I have never been burned. But then my sensitivity to such things is set extremely high. Most folks aren't linguistically aware enough to pick up the nuances. I didn't say it was a useful practice for the average plebeian, just for me.
Bigot? One wonders who I'm supposed to be bigoted against. I'm not prejudiced against the linguistically. I just don't buy anything from they.
As for the scammers' excellent English, it may be excellent by YOUR standards, but I've never seen one who didn't make some mistake. I suppose I should have mentioned I'm an ex-printer and typographer and a published author, so my sensitivity to poor language/orthography/style is set higher than most.
I own a dictionary. Do you?
I'm still waiting for the first person to die because their 911 call didn't make it through when their computer crashed. One wonders if the user agreement covers this contingency. If it does, the phone companies could blast it all over the airwaves in response.
"Do you want to put YOUR family's safety in the hands of Bill Gates and Windows?"