I'd be content with us not being so damn schizoid over what we want out of the third world. We can't just walk in, depose the government, and leave. We might as well annex any country we invade. We need to either be neutral and free or imperialist and rule with an iron fist. We can't have ourselves going halfway through. Essentially, we should probably wipe those who oppose Us off the face of the earth and regulate the beliefs to become more western and Christianized.
for idiots: it's meant to point out the absurdity in trying to "finish the job"
I mean, I recently installed windows (for one reason and one reason only: WoW.), but don't have problems with spyware or viruses: The fact of the matter is anti-virus software prevents viruses, worms, and trojans- well, against those they have signatures for. Spyware not covered. Viruses- actual viruses have been relatively non-existent of late, mostly because the malicious, anarchistic nature is no longer profitable. It's a lot better to steal information than destroy it, since everyone has backups and will be online in maybe two hours after resetting their infrastructure. It's also easier to DDoS a system than to "zomg delete everything11!!1", so worms have a distinct advantage over virii. Worms and Trojans are relatively hard to get unless you're really dumb and browsing porn all the time. Seriously, there are places to browse for porn that will not install spyware or trojans (4chan/s/, etc.), and worms are basically a nullified threat as soon as the signature's released. All except for spyware, malicious code is generally targeted at corporate environments these days- consumers are largely unaffected by anything but spyware and adware, which can be prevented by simply getting adblock plus for firefox and staying away from porn sites.
I used to be a Christian, up until the latter part of high school. I pretty much came to the conclusion that yes, Christianity was perfectly logical and justified given one base axiom that the bible is infallible. Most every single component of the religion can be debunked using Reductio Ad Absurdum- except most people won't accept contradictions with the natural world in Christianity simply because the framework of Christian belief is not only circular logic, but PERFECT circular logic. Over 2000 years, the church has built up theological frameworks that actually define a perfect circular world in which, given that God's word is law, you can actually ignore the paradox rule- everything under God is what God says it is, because he is omnipotent. Even reflexive logic can be false under certain circumstances if need be. A == A? Maybe, depends on how the almighty is feeling. And it's true, believing in God and not the Bible doesn't make you a Christian. God? Which God? Yahweh is distinct from Elohim, Adonai, Allah, Dios... names connected to concepts which different people have different ideas of. Addressed as the name given in the bible, you must accept the bible as true or you have no basis for faith in God alone. Finally, Pascal's Wager leaves us no solace- maybe back in the day where you could simply ignore abortion clinic bombings, or opposing medical research to cure paraplegia, leukemia, multiple sclerosis, parkinson's, et cetera, creating problems with overpopulation in third world countries and in some cases INSPIRING female genital mutilation to discourage promiscuity, or the recent example of opposing an executive order (in Texas) to require young girls be given the HPV vaccine, and so on- but what one "gains" by faith in God is, even to them, damn near outweighed by the damage religious beliefs have done to the world at large.
Silhouettes are untrademarkable Ads are uncopyrightable and nothing in here is patentable plus I'm sure Miss Summers is making enough money off of daddy's-money-12-year-old-girls' sexual needs to assert these things in court.
Stick an OSX86 install CD on an Athlon Desktop. Notice how it gets through about 1% of startup before it bitches at you for not having x, y, and z instructions that it expects you to? That's why it won't work on AMD, smartass.
wait... what? I read the first part and almost shrugged this off, and then I read the last part. Apparently you're acknowledging that this is a troll (and for some reason an astonishingly EPIC troll for being so goddamned obvious), and yet you're serving as his chef...
slashdotters really ARE that dumb... Seriously people, let's be introspective for a bit and perhaps realize that slashdot really HAS been reduced to an exercise in pseudointellectual elaboration rather than serious discussion on current events. Seriously, when trolls from 4chan can bring this shit out of you, perhaps you should consider reevaluating the way you conduct yourself on this forum. That having been said, "!!3YJU/k9Wuhz" is my tripcode on/b/.
I hate to bite, but I was in a similar competition in middle school, so my first response to FIRST is "so what?" Robotics competitions in all ages aren't all that uncommon, so is this a slow news day? I mean, what would make this important would be if it was something more than a glorified exercise in Lego Mindstorms.
Oh god I've got to start reading these comments right after the article is posted. First we've got this guy who busts on OP's grammar using the phrase "dune coon", which albeit racist as fuck makes me laugh to the point of epilepsy- and then we have this wiseass who says if you get Dvorak to hate the Zune you're good to go. *wipes a tear away* Slashdot is good again...
I assume you're somewhat into Computer Science, can you tell me why the UpHeap algorithm is average constant complexity? Because generally 50% of the smaller nodes are on the bottom of the tree. How many sales associates work under each manager? How many managers work under each store manager? How many store managers work under the regional coordinator? They're pruning the bottom of the tree- rather than take a chunk out of the executive money-sink, they'd kill off FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EMPLOYEES. They're not offering them a PAY CUT even! They're not changing to a commission system to try to increase competition! They are DOWNSIZING FIVE THOUSAND EMPLOYEES. The fact of the matter is, taking care of workers is better for the economy because workers CONSUME. Need I remind you that the American economy is held up chiefly by international corporations and massive consumption? In terms of economic health, executive salary fluctuation is nothing, because all executive salaries go to is corporate investment. To actually pull a return on that investment, it would be wiser to put money into the hands of the people who can drive your profits upwards...
Wow, your symbolic fabrication of hatred against me really intimidates me, almost as much as my dick in your ass. Shut the fuck up and get off the internet.
Wow, it really says something about Slashdot that this was modded -1. Clearly enough mods were put down just like in high school when those mean alpha males took their women that they couldn't build up the courage to ask out. Staying a virgin until you're 21 doesn't keep you from being accountable for having no sense of humor. The joke was funny, but slashdot's clientele is too insecure about being nerds that they have to mod it down as a passive-aggressive resistance against the almighty count jockula. Get a pair of fucking nuts and act like men once in a while. Jesus fucking Christ.
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I'd be content with us not being so damn schizoid over what we want out of the third world. We can't just walk in, depose the government, and leave. We might as well annex any country we invade. We need to either be neutral and free or imperialist and rule with an iron fist. We can't have ourselves going halfway through.
Essentially, we should probably wipe those who oppose Us off the face of the earth and regulate the beliefs to become more western and Christianized.
for idiots: it's meant to point out the absurdity in trying to "finish the job"
God forbid you had been around during the polio vaccine's inception. The population would be a lot smaller if you had.
I mean, I recently installed windows (for one reason and one reason only: WoW.), but don't have problems with spyware or viruses: /s/, etc.), and worms are basically a nullified threat as soon as the signature's released.
The fact of the matter is anti-virus software prevents viruses, worms, and trojans- well, against those they have signatures for. Spyware not covered. Viruses- actual viruses have been relatively non-existent of late, mostly because the malicious, anarchistic nature is no longer profitable. It's a lot better to steal information than destroy it, since everyone has backups and will be online in maybe two hours after resetting their infrastructure. It's also easier to DDoS a system than to "zomg delete everything11!!1", so worms have a distinct advantage over virii.
Worms and Trojans are relatively hard to get unless you're really dumb and browsing porn all the time. Seriously, there are places to browse for porn that will not install spyware or trojans (4chan
All except for spyware, malicious code is generally targeted at corporate environments these days- consumers are largely unaffected by anything but spyware and adware, which can be prevented by simply getting adblock plus for firefox and staying away from porn sites.
I used to be a Christian, up until the latter part of high school. I pretty much came to the conclusion that yes, Christianity was perfectly logical and justified given one base axiom that the bible is infallible. Most every single component of the religion can be debunked using Reductio Ad Absurdum- except most people won't accept contradictions with the natural world in Christianity simply because the framework of Christian belief is not only circular logic, but PERFECT circular logic. Over 2000 years, the church has built up theological frameworks that actually define a perfect circular world in which, given that God's word is law, you can actually ignore the paradox rule- everything under God is what God says it is, because he is omnipotent. Even reflexive logic can be false under certain circumstances if need be. A == A? Maybe, depends on how the almighty is feeling.
And it's true, believing in God and not the Bible doesn't make you a Christian. God? Which God? Yahweh is distinct from Elohim, Adonai, Allah, Dios... names connected to concepts which different people have different ideas of. Addressed as the name given in the bible, you must accept the bible as true or you have no basis for faith in God alone.
Finally, Pascal's Wager leaves us no solace- maybe back in the day where you could simply ignore abortion clinic bombings, or opposing medical research to cure paraplegia, leukemia, multiple sclerosis, parkinson's, et cetera, creating problems with overpopulation in third world countries and in some cases INSPIRING female genital mutilation to discourage promiscuity, or the recent example of opposing an executive order (in Texas) to require young girls be given the HPV vaccine, and so on- but what one "gains" by faith in God is, even to them, damn near outweighed by the damage religious beliefs have done to the world at large.
>> Crazy modding...
Yeah, tell me about it. Which retards gave him 30% funny?
Deserves a big fat 100% redundant.
Silhouettes are untrademarkable
Ads are uncopyrightable
and nothing in here is patentable
plus I'm sure Miss Summers is making enough money off of daddy's-money-12-year-old-girls' sexual needs to assert these things in court.
hah! Ben Folds? TALENT?
.45 being cocked and pointed at a certain music industry organization's foot.
In other news, this article gave me the feeling of the fresh sound of
Telecommuters hack off the Boss's HP like nobody's business, HUTTAH!
Does that mean Wine won't even be listed in the package manager?
Typical Zonk unfounded idiotic editorial statement.
Koreaman
Koreaman
Doing what a Koreaman can
Koreaman!
What a man!
Tosses the bad guys in garbage cans!
But watch out-
he's reckless, that Koreaman!
I've tried my patched copy on my Athlon XP 2700+. Kernel panics due to bad opcodes.
Stick an OSX86 install CD on an Athlon Desktop.
Notice how it gets through about 1% of startup before it bitches at you for not having x, y, and z instructions that it expects you to?
That's why it won't work on AMD, smartass.
same way some guy owns the copyright to happy birthday.
Jokes about netcraft are smarter than this shit.
Slashdot is the new bugzilla.
wait... what? I read the first part and almost shrugged this off, and then I read the last part. Apparently you're acknowledging that this is a troll (and for some reason an astonishingly EPIC troll for being so goddamned obvious), and yet you're serving as his chef...
/b/.
slashdotters really ARE that dumb...
Seriously people, let's be introspective for a bit and perhaps realize that slashdot really HAS been reduced to an exercise in pseudointellectual elaboration rather than serious discussion on current events. Seriously, when trolls from 4chan can bring this shit out of you, perhaps you should consider reevaluating the way you conduct yourself on this forum.
That having been said, "!!3YJU/k9Wuhz" is my tripcode on
I hate to bite, but I was in a similar competition in middle school, so my first response to FIRST is "so what?"
Robotics competitions in all ages aren't all that uncommon, so is this a slow news day? I mean, what would make this important would be if it was something more than a glorified exercise in Lego Mindstorms.
Should have posted it under the username SteveBallmer
Oh god I've got to start reading these comments right after the article is posted. First we've got this guy who busts on OP's grammar using the phrase "dune coon", which albeit racist as fuck makes me laugh to the point of epilepsy- and then we have this wiseass who says if you get Dvorak to hate the Zune you're good to go.
*wipes a tear away* Slashdot is good again...
Seriously, why can't we moderate articles?
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I assume you're somewhat into Computer Science, can you tell me why the UpHeap algorithm is average constant complexity?
Because generally 50% of the smaller nodes are on the bottom of the tree.
How many sales associates work under each manager? How many managers work under each store manager? How many store managers work under the regional coordinator? They're pruning the bottom of the tree- rather than take a chunk out of the executive money-sink, they'd kill off FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EMPLOYEES. They're not offering them a PAY CUT even! They're not changing to a commission system to try to increase competition! They are DOWNSIZING FIVE THOUSAND EMPLOYEES.
The fact of the matter is, taking care of workers is better for the economy because workers CONSUME. Need I remind you that the American economy is held up chiefly by international corporations and massive consumption? In terms of economic health, executive salary fluctuation is nothing, because all executive salaries go to is corporate investment. To actually pull a return on that investment, it would be wiser to put money into the hands of the people who can drive your profits upwards...
Wow, your symbolic fabrication of hatred against me really intimidates me, almost as much as my dick in your ass.
Shut the fuck up and get off the internet.
Wow, it really says something about Slashdot that this was modded -1.
Clearly enough mods were put down just like in high school when those mean alpha males took their women that they couldn't build up the courage to ask out. Staying a virgin until you're 21 doesn't keep you from being accountable for having no sense of humor. The joke was funny, but slashdot's clientele is too insecure about being nerds that they have to mod it down as a passive-aggressive resistance against the almighty count jockula.
Get a pair of fucking nuts and act like men once in a while. Jesus fucking Christ.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the World of Warcraft!!!111 I'm out of here!
woah, wait, what are you doing outside of the kitchen?!