I'm giving him/her the benefit of the doubt and assuming it's talking about regular-ass trannies and not the sex trade since the latter is not only gross but an abomination (no I don't mean in the biblical sense, I mean in the "they enslave children and force them to have sex with tourists who are there to sate their most twisted and lascivious appetites in a place far enough away that they feel safe thinking their consciences will never hear about it" sense), but even so I see no situation where a conversation on that subject would be profitable for either of us.
Do you honestly believe that a handheld laser is shooting 1,000 kW? For reference, a hair drier or microwave is about 1kW. Now picture a thousand^Wbeowulf cluster of those.
The last decade? Let's go with "more than quarter-century". He was in on the joke, seemingly, before anyone else was: Shatner does Rocket-Man, spoken-word.
My favorite part about that is how the audience doesn't quite seem to get it.
Personally, I like the Jordan style much, much better for WoT. There's an essential life to the story, and characters, that's missing. A lot of the things that seem unnecessary, even in retrospect, are there to justify the otherwise insane decisions the characters make; for me, it was clearest at the beginning of the Galad/Perrin confrontation--the characters just seem to move on strings, acting for no real reason other than that's what's necessary to move the plot along. I don't mean that to discourage anyone from reading the Sanderson WoT books though--especially since there is a lot in there where, either Jordan wrote it himself, or Sanderson's ability to imitate his style waxes and wanes, because the magic is there, just in spurts. The example I spoke of was probably the worst, and it wasn't that bad.
Anyway, even (or maybe especially) if you don't lie WoT at all, you should check out Sanderson's other works. Mistborn was pretty good--that's a high compliment for fantasy, which is usually absolute shit--and The Way of Kings, the only published book from the Stormlight Archives, is fucking amazing. I honestly haven't loved a book this much since The Fires of Heaven (I liked WoT before that, but that's the book that made me love it).
As for what the article is actually about, for those who have read it, is there an actual story arc going on? I read I think around halfway through the first book, and it just seemed like a bunch of disconnected subplots, and keeping track of all the characters even in that little bit was extremely difficult--now that I know he takes his PoV characters seriously it'd probably be easier, but I remember it being a real challenge to even remember what I already read about them. And maybe it's trite of me as a reader, but if I'm going to read about swords and magic and all that, I'm looking for a story about something more than the machinations of a bunch of people squabbling over power. From what I read, it seemed that that's all there would be.
But, I loved the writing. I loved the characters, and how well the author got into their heads. I guess I'd like to be on the bandwagon for this one, so (please) without spoiling anything, is there an actual story here?
Not really, to be honest I just wanted to see if I could take you from being a condescending tool to defending your sexual history to a complete stranger using nothing but insults--now that we're here, I'm running out of interest.
Anyway, even though I think you're an annoying twat, I wish you all the happiness you can find (as long as I don't have to deal with your whiny complaints). Later fag!
Hey, thanks for the genital resume, now I totally don't doubt that you're a huge winner and I should definitely take your advice about what is and is not appropriate, given all your success at being a fuckdoll for who or whatever decides to crook their finger. Although I always thought I'd prefer to be the one who abuses the friendship of an emotionally crippled friend for a cheap thrill, after seeing how much smug self-satisfaction it's given you, maybe I should take a masochistic glee in abdicating my own sexual preferences in deference to... well, apparently anyone other than myself... until I don't even know what those preferences are anymore without referring to my own historical statistics!
Hey, just between you, me, and the rest of the internet, have you ever noticed how dudes tend to have an open relationship with a particular girl, when they're with that girl, but girls who are "open" tend to be that way outside the context of any particular relationship? What's that all about?
Oh, I get it, you had problems getting laid, let yourself get talked into fooling around with a dude due to your crippling loneliness, it made you sick so you rationalized it as honest experimentation, and now you've reinvented yourself as an enlightened male who exclusively fucks fat girls out of choice instead of necessity. Well, your secret's safe with me, doctor.
I'm carefully dropping hints that I may be worth saving. Eventually, I plan to lead you to the conclusion that perhaps, by meeting with me in person, you might be able to change my wicked ways. Once that happens it should be a simple matter to seduce you (given your close association with the homosexual community you almost certainly harbor a latent desire that you placate by playing white knight to your secret brethren, I merely have to make you not so ashamed to admit it, if only to yourself) and then we can both be faggots together, forever and ever.
Remember the part about minding your own business? The only message I'm trying to get out there, to you, is "fuck off", and despite my restraint from calling you a nonsense word that people attach way too much meaning to you still haven't heard it. Go offer your help to someone who either wants or needs the preachings of a self-righteous douche and leave me out of your stupid crusade.
What does "fuck" mean? It means nothing. It's just a curse. Calm down.
As for it being by definition insulting to your friends, I strongly disagree with that. Not only is it generally known that people don't generally mean "gay", I made it explicitly clear that I didn't mean it in that way. If you still continue to choose to be offended, I have no further apologies or explanations for you, and only hope that in the future I figure out a way to offend you so badly that your head explodes.
I, like most people who use the word, have used the word since before I knew what it "really" meant. You say it means homosexual, I say it's blindingly clear through context when it does and when it doesn't. You're sick of it being used, I'm sick of people pretending not to know what I mean so they can make a statement. If you were personally hurt by it, I'm sorry, I truly am, but I know what it's like to be hurt by words about something you can't change, and the best advice I can offer is to grow a thicker skin. If you weren't personally hurt by it, then fuck off and mind your own business.
Clearly I meant "faggot" as "gay". I could tell by his lack of parens that his lisp is terrible.
Also if you're going to make judgements about a person's value system (based on a reply to an obviously trolling AC no less) and find it so opposed to your own as to be contemptible, just for future reference the emoticon kind of kills the gravitas.
Well, you're a massive faggot too scared to troll from his own account, but you're right, not all people are created equal. For instance, some people understand that you can speak in general terms without making a claim to absolute certainty or completeness of explanation, and some are weird sperglords.
Well you see, an obsessive devotion to a single pursuit tends to lead to two things:
Expertise in that area.
A corresponding lack in other areas.
When you take that devotion to extremes, you can make a lot of money and not have the time or desire to spend it on anything. And unless you work hard to avoid it, the "lack in other areas" is likely to include your love life.
Rent a dedicated server, or get your own co-location space. I have one that I pay $70 a month for with 1and1. I use 'em because I was able to install my own OS image on there, and they're generous with the bandwidth, although I'm not sure I'd run a company's e-mail server through them--the network connection can be flaky. About a year ago they went down after 5pm for an hour or so for a week or two due to a DDoS, then the last week they have been not accepting new connections (existing connections work fine) for periods of 1-3 hours during business hours. Seems to have cleared up now, and those are the only issues I can recall. Not sure if they have a multihomed network connection available for more money.
Of course, pretty much anything would be a step up from running it off a cable modem.
Anyway, rent a dedicated server, or get to a co-lo. 1U would be plenty, and shouldn't cost too much. Preferably one run by an ISP, as they have plenty of experience being on both sides of the spam issue and if you're on a nearby address space, a personal interest in keeping that address space off of spam lists.
They're made of considerably smaller platters, so there's much less gyroscopic force (or whatever the fuck it's called), they spin down within minutes of being idle on most laptops, and every laptop these days comes with an accelerometer-based parking utility that stops the drive no matter what it's doing if there's too much force--they're almost certainly configured to be over-conservative from the factory, but generally it's difficult to even carefully pick a laptop up without it parking the drive.
Exactly what assumptions am I making? I stated, explicitly, that I don't know the truth, and offered a number of plausible scenarios where an actual, unforeseeable accident could have occurred since you didn't seem to be capable of imagining them yourself. I am neither willing to give up the possibility of conviction, nor make it a forgone conclusion. You have already decided guilt based on a few paragraphs on a random website.
But, you seem to be almost willing to admit the same, that you don't know the truth, but offer people's general irresponsibility as a justification for punishing her just because she might have acted recklessly. Further, you are skirting on the edge of claiming that there are no accidents, that we have somehow taken the inherently safe activity of hurling 4,000 pounds of steel faster than a person can run and made it unsafe instead of the opposite, through our stubborn insistence on not being omniscient. Well, congratulations on having achieved total enlightenment so soon, but I'm afraid you're stuck down here with the rest of us while we figure it out.
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I'm giving him/her the benefit of the doubt and assuming it's talking about regular-ass trannies and not the sex trade since the latter is not only gross but an abomination (no I don't mean in the biblical sense, I mean in the "they enslave children and force them to have sex with tourists who are there to sate their most twisted and lascivious appetites in a place far enough away that they feel safe thinking their consciences will never hear about it" sense), but even so I see no situation where a conversation on that subject would be profitable for either of us.
For shame. $name is not a string literal, '$name' is. $name is a variable. One nerd demerit.
Do you honestly believe that a handheld laser is shooting 1,000 kW? For reference, a hair drier or microwave is about 1kW. Now picture a thousand^Wbeowulf cluster of those.
I'm waiting with baited something.
The last decade? Let's go with "more than quarter-century". He was in on the joke, seemingly, before anyone else was: Shatner does Rocket-Man, spoken-word.
My favorite part about that is how the audience doesn't quite seem to get it.
Personally, I like the Jordan style much, much better for WoT. There's an essential life to the story, and characters, that's missing. A lot of the things that seem unnecessary, even in retrospect, are there to justify the otherwise insane decisions the characters make; for me, it was clearest at the beginning of the Galad/Perrin confrontation--the characters just seem to move on strings, acting for no real reason other than that's what's necessary to move the plot along. I don't mean that to discourage anyone from reading the Sanderson WoT books though--especially since there is a lot in there where, either Jordan wrote it himself, or Sanderson's ability to imitate his style waxes and wanes, because the magic is there, just in spurts. The example I spoke of was probably the worst, and it wasn't that bad.
Anyway, even (or maybe especially) if you don't lie WoT at all, you should check out Sanderson's other works. Mistborn was pretty good--that's a high compliment for fantasy, which is usually absolute shit--and The Way of Kings, the only published book from the Stormlight Archives, is fucking amazing. I honestly haven't loved a book this much since The Fires of Heaven (I liked WoT before that, but that's the book that made me love it).
As for what the article is actually about, for those who have read it, is there an actual story arc going on? I read I think around halfway through the first book, and it just seemed like a bunch of disconnected subplots, and keeping track of all the characters even in that little bit was extremely difficult--now that I know he takes his PoV characters seriously it'd probably be easier, but I remember it being a real challenge to even remember what I already read about them. And maybe it's trite of me as a reader, but if I'm going to read about swords and magic and all that, I'm looking for a story about something more than the machinations of a bunch of people squabbling over power. From what I read, it seemed that that's all there would be.
But, I loved the writing. I loved the characters, and how well the author got into their heads. I guess I'd like to be on the bandwagon for this one, so (please) without spoiling anything, is there an actual story here?
And yet they've done it before. Anybody remember the Super Nintendo version?
Not really, to be honest I just wanted to see if I could take you from being a condescending tool to defending your sexual history to a complete stranger using nothing but insults--now that we're here, I'm running out of interest.
Anyway, even though I think you're an annoying twat, I wish you all the happiness you can find (as long as I don't have to deal with your whiny complaints). Later fag!
Hey, thanks for the genital resume, now I totally don't doubt that you're a huge winner and I should definitely take your advice about what is and is not appropriate, given all your success at being a fuckdoll for who or whatever decides to crook their finger. Although I always thought I'd prefer to be the one who abuses the friendship of an emotionally crippled friend for a cheap thrill, after seeing how much smug self-satisfaction it's given you, maybe I should take a masochistic glee in abdicating my own sexual preferences in deference to ... well, apparently anyone other than myself ... until I don't even know what those preferences are anymore without referring to my own historical statistics!
Hey, just between you, me, and the rest of the internet, have you ever noticed how dudes tend to have an open relationship with a particular girl, when they're with that girl, but girls who are "open" tend to be that way outside the context of any particular relationship? What's that all about?
Oh, I get it, you had problems getting laid, let yourself get talked into fooling around with a dude due to your crippling loneliness, it made you sick so you rationalized it as honest experimentation, and now you've reinvented yourself as an enlightened male who exclusively fucks fat girls out of choice instead of necessity. Well, your secret's safe with me, doctor.
A set of eyes large enough to roll at this story and anyone who's blaming Facebook for the dissolution of their marriage doesn't exist.
(by the way I meant the gay kind of faggots that last time)
I'm carefully dropping hints that I may be worth saving. Eventually, I plan to lead you to the conclusion that perhaps, by meeting with me in person, you might be able to change my wicked ways. Once that happens it should be a simple matter to seduce you (given your close association with the homosexual community you almost certainly harbor a latent desire that you placate by playing white knight to your secret brethren, I merely have to make you not so ashamed to admit it, if only to yourself) and then we can both be faggots together, forever and ever.
Remember the part about minding your own business? The only message I'm trying to get out there, to you, is "fuck off", and despite my restraint from calling you a nonsense word that people attach way too much meaning to you still haven't heard it. Go offer your help to someone who either wants or needs the preachings of a self-righteous douche and leave me out of your stupid crusade.
What does "fuck" mean? It means nothing. It's just a curse. Calm down.
As for it being by definition insulting to your friends, I strongly disagree with that. Not only is it generally known that people don't generally mean "gay", I made it explicitly clear that I didn't mean it in that way. If you still continue to choose to be offended, I have no further apologies or explanations for you, and only hope that in the future I figure out a way to offend you so badly that your head explodes.
I, like most people who use the word, have used the word since before I knew what it "really" meant. You say it means homosexual, I say it's blindingly clear through context when it does and when it doesn't. You're sick of it being used, I'm sick of people pretending not to know what I mean so they can make a statement. If you were personally hurt by it, I'm sorry, I truly am, but I know what it's like to be hurt by words about something you can't change, and the best advice I can offer is to grow a thicker skin. If you weren't personally hurt by it, then fuck off and mind your own business.
Clearly I meant "faggot" as "gay". I could tell by his lack of parens that his lisp is terrible.
Also if you're going to make judgements about a person's value system (based on a reply to an obviously trolling AC no less) and find it so opposed to your own as to be contemptible, just for future reference the emoticon kind of kills the gravitas.
Yeah that would roughly be the joke. Man, subtlety is dead.
Well, you're a massive faggot too scared to troll from his own account, but you're right, not all people are created equal. For instance, some people understand that you can speak in general terms without making a claim to absolute certainty or completeness of explanation, and some are weird sperglords.
Well you see, an obsessive devotion to a single pursuit tends to lead to two things:
When you take that devotion to extremes, you can make a lot of money and not have the time or desire to spend it on anything. And unless you work hard to avoid it, the "lack in other areas" is likely to include your love life.
How do you not know this?
Are we simply sharing anecdotes now? What are you trying to say?
Yeah, that's why I specified dedicated.
Rent a dedicated server, or get your own co-location space. I have one that I pay $70 a month for with 1and1. I use 'em because I was able to install my own OS image on there, and they're generous with the bandwidth, although I'm not sure I'd run a company's e-mail server through them--the network connection can be flaky. About a year ago they went down after 5pm for an hour or so for a week or two due to a DDoS, then the last week they have been not accepting new connections (existing connections work fine) for periods of 1-3 hours during business hours. Seems to have cleared up now, and those are the only issues I can recall. Not sure if they have a multihomed network connection available for more money.
Of course, pretty much anything would be a step up from running it off a cable modem.
Anyway, rent a dedicated server, or get to a co-lo. 1U would be plenty, and shouldn't cost too much. Preferably one run by an ISP, as they have plenty of experience being on both sides of the spam issue and if you're on a nearby address space, a personal interest in keeping that address space off of spam lists.
They're made of considerably smaller platters, so there's much less gyroscopic force (or whatever the fuck it's called), they spin down within minutes of being idle on most laptops, and every laptop these days comes with an accelerometer-based parking utility that stops the drive no matter what it's doing if there's too much force--they're almost certainly configured to be over-conservative from the factory, but generally it's difficult to even carefully pick a laptop up without it parking the drive.
Exactly what assumptions am I making? I stated, explicitly, that I don't know the truth, and offered a number of plausible scenarios where an actual, unforeseeable accident could have occurred since you didn't seem to be capable of imagining them yourself. I am neither willing to give up the possibility of conviction, nor make it a forgone conclusion. You have already decided guilt based on a few paragraphs on a random website.
But, you seem to be almost willing to admit the same, that you don't know the truth, but offer people's general irresponsibility as a justification for punishing her just because she might have acted recklessly. Further, you are skirting on the edge of claiming that there are no accidents, that we have somehow taken the inherently safe activity of hurling 4,000 pounds of steel faster than a person can run and made it unsafe instead of the opposite, through our stubborn insistence on not being omniscient. Well, congratulations on having achieved total enlightenment so soon, but I'm afraid you're stuck down here with the rest of us while we figure it out.