I did some sparse game development on the N64. It had a library that was very close to OpenGL. Close enough that I would prototype graphics code using a c compiler and OpenGL on windows. Moving the code over most of the time took little to no modifications.
If you truly knew what you were talking about, you wouldn't be against it. Simple as that. And to throw your own story back in your face, let's do a little experiment:
And I used to live on the same corridor as a guy who drank beer at uni. I particularly recall him stepping out of his room one afternoon with his eyes bloodshot and streaming, all relaxed but having to concentrate to see anything. I remember him and his friends just staring into space and not really actively conversing with those of us who weren't drunk.
See what I did there? I replaced specific references to pot and just replaced it the booze equivalent... and it STILL has the same meaning. Only booze are legal my friend. If this is your basis for an argument against legalization, either you are stupid, a hypocrite, or you want booze to be illegal.
Your argument falls apart pretty easily. I don't mean to target you specifically, but there seems to be a rather retarded inclination by the general populous to justify why marijuana is illegal. And in reaching so far and hard to find one, most come up with these shallow reasons that can be picked clean with little effort.
Let's call it how it's shown. Marijuana has potentially similar mental side effects as alcohol would. It can impair your driving and your social skills. However, the number of variables at play make it difficult to say "This is bad". With alcohol, the government leaves it up to the user to be responsible, else face the wrath of the legal system. There is NO reason you can't have the same for pot.
The fact that you put that kind of time into such a reply is rather sad. You are playing up something that is way simpler than you want anyone to believe. Maybe you have your own botnet that is falling apart at the seams. I have no idea. My reply was a kneejerk reaction to someone who ALSO tried to play up how "hard" it is to successfully exploit a Windows machine.
You know what it takes to create a botnet? Throwing a torrent up on thepiratebay.org something along the lines of "Windows XP SP3 Corporate Edition WGA cracked" or "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Keygen". What is even sicker about this vector is, you might actually deliver what you are saying they would be downloading. Hell, you don't even need to be programming savvy. Hide your code in DLLMain of any random DLL on the machine (MFC or VB6 virtual machine DLLs are possibly a good choice). SIMPLE stuff. It may sound complicated until you actually do a Google search and see the code. And that "DLL Injection" you swore was "so hard"... you can either use "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\AppInit_DLLs"/CreateRemoteThread/SetWindowsHook(Ex) and/or a Browser Helper Object that has become ever so popular. All easy-to-understand Google-search-away crap. Coordinate over IRC/Usenet/Tor/web forum/comprimised ftp site/already exploited zombie pc/whatever.
I could go on and on, but I think I said what needs said. If you think it takes "writing your own SMTP engine in assembly", may $GOD$ help your children.
Yeah... I get it. Table layouts in Java, GTK, whatever dialog/form/window toolkit you use is GOOD, but on a web page, it's bad. Lets ignore the fact that browsers had table rendering mastered over 10 years ago... lets all just look the other way in the face that it is easier to follow.
In the realm of the world wide web, if you don't use the trendy technologies, you're a "n00b".
There's some skill involved and you have to know details about vulnerabilities and how to exploit them.Not generally. When you see a run of the mill buffer-overflow-execute-anything-you-want exploit, it usually only takes changing values of a few variables to get it to deliver your payload vs. what the example was doing.
Sometimes I get annoyed with something in Linux, and then I stop and think, wait a minute, this stuff is all free and people have volunteered their time to write a lot of it, so why should I be complaining. I'm just glad that it exists!
Think about that next time you walk through Wal-Mart looking at the average shopper. After all... $God$ gave us those "hotties" for FREE. Why SHOULD you complain?~
I see. You don't care, so it doesn't matter. How juvenile, and by your post, ironic.
Also, no one said anything about society paying for anything to anyone. Your leaps in logic are bordering schizophrenic at this point.
I was merely complaining that the costs of having a child are ridiculous... and inferring the fact that the average home can't take on the cost of such all by themselves.
Now take that in. If you don't have insurance (more than you obviously know) and you happen to be below the average, YOU are SAYING that these people don't DESERVE children? Are you so blind to not see that the problem isn't the income of a typical family, but the gross exaggerated costs of medical care...
So... I've been making this amount for how long? I've had what kind of previous bills in the past? How many other children do I have? Where do I live?
You have NO idea... yet you make assumptions that makes your situation more deserving, and you a better person for it. Should I file this under "Not a bug" because it "Works on your machine"?
Seriously. Take a minute and comprehend a world outside of your perspective. REALLY think about it. Take in the fact that the world is uncontrollable. Lament about how everyone's different situation may not come even close to resembling yours. Cry about the fact that most of the work force out there doesn't have enough health insurance enough to cover a real hospital visit. When you are done, come back, and we will talk.
What makes you think I have insurance? What makes you assume that ANYONE has insurance without them mentioning it? I think this is the fallacy in your viewpoint.
Anyone who has ever had a child can tell you one thing with certainty... you might THINK you know what it costs to have a child, but no one REALLY comprehends the magnitude of it until it happens.
My wife is currently 6 months pregnant. The trips to the OBGYN themselves cost almost $5k which I had to pay a LARGE chunck of every visit for the first few months. While I can cope now that it is paid off, during that time, it hurt really bad. $700 twice a month is nothing to sneeze at. And that DOES NOT include costs of lab tests at the hospital, or what the hospital will charge us for the delivery and all of the goodies that come with it. I will consider myself lucky if I walk away only paying $10k in the span of a year... I make good money, but that is 1/4 of my post-tax income. To blow it off as insignificant is tasteless and wrong.
FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
The benefit of, say Gentoo, is not the speed increase or the saved bytes... it IS the customization. In Gentoo, you would add support for features via keywords in your USE flag environment variable. You want your system to only support Gnome and mp3 playback? USE="mp3 gnome". Then when you build the system, each package is compiled with mp3 support and Gnome support in mind, when there is an option.
I am inclined to say "No", but a better answer is "probably not". We all know those little offices, work processes stitched together by a global excel spreadsheet with countless obscure VB Macros... touch one little thing and everything grinds to a halt. Hell, this happens when just upgrading to a new version of Microsoft Office. Imagine the pain of trying to get these things to work with OpenOffice's shoddy VBA support.
But it HAS to travel in space. See, space and time are as intertwined a green and grass. Let's skip the over-the-top explanation and illustrate where this mistake is comprehensible. While, in your frame of reference, you are not moving, in the grand scheme of things you are. The earth is rotating and revolving around the sun. The solar system is likely gyrating around something else. This very galaxy is moving as a whole. So many movements going on that no one even thinks of.
So, think about it... if you moved through time, forward one minute, and somehow skipped any spatial movement, the earth is going to be AT LEAST 1000 miles away from the point, relative to JUST its movement around the sun. That says nothing about how our solar system is moving through the galaxy or the galaxy moving in the universe.
Well, that is more or less what I was illustrating. You go to a mechanic because you DON'T know how to fix a car. You would want the person who knows what they are doing... actually UNDERSTANDS what is going on, because you don't want to kill your family in a fiery crash because the brakes were put on completely wrong.
Why people nowadays accept people using a computer without having the slightest clue what is going on is just as ridiculous... it just happens to be one that everyone accepts and even empathizes with them. That in itself is sad.
Once upon a time, you had to learn how to use a computer to use it. This was an inherent prerequisite to using a computer effectively for school and/or work. Nowadays, any bonehead thinks that a computer needs to do it all for them, and if it doesn't, it is a failing of the system. Could you imagine if your car mechanic came back to you and said "I can't fix your car. My new tools have a green rubber handle. I only know how to use tools with a black spongy handle"...
To add to this, if you are capable of rational thinking outside of your absolute beliefs... It is just as crazy to think that a "God" has always been there as it is to think that the "Universe" has always been there. Both are ridiculous. Arguing which is true is a practice in madness. Sometimes the best answer to a question is "I don't know"
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I did some sparse game development on the N64. It had a library that was very close to OpenGL. Close enough that I would prototype graphics code using a c compiler and OpenGL on windows. Moving the code over most of the time took little to no modifications.
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If you truly knew what you were talking about, you wouldn't be against it. Simple as that. And to throw your own story back in your face, let's do a little experiment:
And I used to live on the same corridor as a guy who drank beer at uni. I particularly recall him stepping out of his room one afternoon with his eyes bloodshot and streaming, all relaxed but having to concentrate to see anything. I remember him and his friends just staring into space and not really actively conversing with those of us who weren't drunk.
See what I did there? I replaced specific references to pot and just replaced it the booze equivalent... and it STILL has the same meaning. Only booze are legal my friend. If this is your basis for an argument against legalization, either you are stupid, a hypocrite, or you want booze to be illegal.
What about NyQuil? Nutmeg? Glue?
Your argument falls apart pretty easily. I don't mean to target you specifically, but there seems to be a rather retarded inclination by the general populous to justify why marijuana is illegal. And in reaching so far and hard to find one, most come up with these shallow reasons that can be picked clean with little effort.
Let's call it how it's shown. Marijuana has potentially similar mental side effects as alcohol would. It can impair your driving and your social skills. However, the number of variables at play make it difficult to say "This is bad". With alcohol, the government leaves it up to the user to be responsible, else face the wrath of the legal system. There is NO reason you can't have the same for pot.
The fact that you put that kind of time into such a reply is rather sad. You are playing up something that is way simpler than you want anyone to believe. Maybe you have your own botnet that is falling apart at the seams. I have no idea. My reply was a kneejerk reaction to someone who ALSO tried to play up how "hard" it is to successfully exploit a Windows machine.
You know what it takes to create a botnet? Throwing a torrent up on thepiratebay.org something along the lines of "Windows XP SP3 Corporate Edition WGA cracked" or "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Keygen". What is even sicker about this vector is, you might actually deliver what you are saying they would be downloading. Hell, you don't even need to be programming savvy. Hide your code in DLLMain of any random DLL on the machine (MFC or VB6 virtual machine DLLs are possibly a good choice). SIMPLE stuff. It may sound complicated until you actually do a Google search and see the code. And that "DLL Injection" you swore was "so hard"... you can either use "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\AppInit_DLLs"/CreateRemoteThread/SetWindowsHook(Ex) and/or a Browser Helper Object that has become ever so popular. All easy-to-understand Google-search-away crap. Coordinate over IRC/Usenet/Tor/web forum/comprimised ftp site/already exploited zombie pc/whatever.
I could go on and on, but I think I said what needs said. If you think it takes "writing your own SMTP engine in assembly", may $GOD$ help your children.
Yeah... I get it. Table layouts in Java, GTK, whatever dialog/form/window toolkit you use is GOOD, but on a web page, it's bad. Lets ignore the fact that browsers had table rendering mastered over 10 years ago... lets all just look the other way in the face that it is easier to follow.
In the realm of the world wide web, if you don't use the trendy technologies, you're a "n00b".
There's some skill involved and you have to know details about vulnerabilities and how to exploit them.Not generally. When you see a run of the mill buffer-overflow-execute-anything-you-want exploit, it usually only takes changing values of a few variables to get it to deliver your payload vs. what the example was doing.
Sometimes I get annoyed with something in Linux, and then I stop and think, wait a minute, this stuff is all free and people have volunteered their time to write a lot of it, so why should I be complaining. I'm just glad that it exists!
Think about that next time you walk through Wal-Mart looking at the average shopper. After all... $God$ gave us those "hotties" for FREE. Why SHOULD you complain?~
I see. You don't care, so it doesn't matter. How juvenile, and by your post, ironic.
Also, no one said anything about society paying for anything to anyone. Your leaps in logic are bordering schizophrenic at this point.
I was merely complaining that the costs of having a child are ridiculous... and inferring the fact that the average home can't take on the cost of such all by themselves.
Now take that in. If you don't have insurance (more than you obviously know) and you happen to be below the average, YOU are SAYING that these people don't DESERVE children? Are you so blind to not see that the problem isn't the income of a typical family, but the gross exaggerated costs of medical care...
Speaking of CAPTCHA's, does anyone remember GOTCHA guns? I recently brought it up to my wife, then my coworkers... no one remembers them.
So... I've been making this amount for how long? I've had what kind of previous bills in the past? How many other children do I have? Where do I live?
You have NO idea... yet you make assumptions that makes your situation more deserving, and you a better person for it. Should I file this under "Not a bug" because it "Works on your machine"?
Seriously. Take a minute and comprehend a world outside of your perspective. REALLY think about it. Take in the fact that the world is uncontrollable. Lament about how everyone's different situation may not come even close to resembling yours. Cry about the fact that most of the work force out there doesn't have enough health insurance enough to cover a real hospital visit. When you are done, come back, and we will talk.
What makes you think I have insurance? What makes you assume that ANYONE has insurance without them mentioning it? I think this is the fallacy in your viewpoint.
Anyone who has ever had a child can tell you one thing with certainty... you might THINK you know what it costs to have a child, but no one REALLY comprehends the magnitude of it until it happens.
My wife is currently 6 months pregnant. The trips to the OBGYN themselves cost almost $5k which I had to pay a LARGE chunck of every visit for the first few months. While I can cope now that it is paid off, during that time, it hurt really bad. $700 twice a month is nothing to sneeze at. And that DOES NOT include costs of lab tests at the hospital, or what the hospital will charge us for the delivery and all of the goodies that come with it. I will consider myself lucky if I walk away only paying $10k in the span of a year... I make good money, but that is 1/4 of my post-tax income. To blow it off as insignificant is tasteless and wrong.
FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!
HACK THE PLANET!
The benefit of, say Gentoo, is not the speed increase or the saved bytes... it IS the customization. In Gentoo, you would add support for features via keywords in your USE flag environment variable. You want your system to only support Gnome and mp3 playback? USE="mp3 gnome". Then when you build the system, each package is compiled with mp3 support and Gnome support in mind, when there is an option.
Hell, Microsoft isn't even making any new versions of Frontpage
That is because it has been renamed SharePoint Designer
I am inclined to say "No", but a better answer is "probably not". We all know those little offices, work processes stitched together by a global excel spreadsheet with countless obscure VB Macros... touch one little thing and everything grinds to a halt. Hell, this happens when just upgrading to a new version of Microsoft Office. Imagine the pain of trying to get these things to work with OpenOffice's shoddy VBA support.
You had them run a WHOLE NEW LINE to your house... and you never even tried changing the phone cable?
You, sir, are an asshole.
But it HAS to travel in space. See, space and time are as intertwined a green and grass. Let's skip the over-the-top explanation and illustrate where this mistake is comprehensible. While, in your frame of reference, you are not moving, in the grand scheme of things you are. The earth is rotating and revolving around the sun. The solar system is likely gyrating around something else. This very galaxy is moving as a whole. So many movements going on that no one even thinks of.
So, think about it... if you moved through time, forward one minute, and somehow skipped any spatial movement, the earth is going to be AT LEAST 1000 miles away from the point, relative to JUST its movement around the sun. That says nothing about how our solar system is moving through the galaxy or the galaxy moving in the universe.
Well, that is more or less what I was illustrating. You go to a mechanic because you DON'T know how to fix a car. You would want the person who knows what they are doing... actually UNDERSTANDS what is going on, because you don't want to kill your family in a fiery crash because the brakes were put on completely wrong.
Why people nowadays accept people using a computer without having the slightest clue what is going on is just as ridiculous... it just happens to be one that everyone accepts and even empathizes with them. That in itself is sad.
Once upon a time, you had to learn how to use a computer to use it. This was an inherent prerequisite to using a computer effectively for school and/or work. Nowadays, any bonehead thinks that a computer needs to do it all for them, and if it doesn't, it is a failing of the system. Could you imagine if your car mechanic came back to you and said "I can't fix your car. My new tools have a green rubber handle. I only know how to use tools with a black spongy handle"...
***WOOOOOOOOSH***
I'm not sure it will matter. It is there to keep your head dry when it rains and the bugs out... just like the house you live in now.
To add to this, if you are capable of rational thinking outside of your absolute beliefs... It is just as crazy to think that a "God" has always been there as it is to think that the "Universe" has always been there. Both are ridiculous. Arguing which is true is a practice in madness. Sometimes the best answer to a question is "I don't know"