We've not had "British Rail" for some time. For you USians who may be a little confused, here's a little history.
Before the 50s, the railways were all in lots of groups of competing companies. The government then nationalised these companies (OMG SOCIALISM!!!1) as, well, you can't really run a railway for profit and even if you could it's a son of a bitch to do so without killing hundreds of people. This new confederacy was British Rail, and had that pointy double arrow logo some of you may have seen.
In the 60s, the government axed all of the loss making lines in an attempt to make a profit. This involved axing all of the lines to small rural communities, and it made the railway much less attractive to people and made the car a de facto requirement.
In the 80s, Margaret Thatcher grew weary of nationalised industry, and while sitting on her stylised throne of evil ordered that the railways be privatised, which took effect in 1997, just when the new government was coming in. Clever that.
So now we're stuck with a bunch of fucking idiots who can't run trains on time and have to rely on satellites to do so. As I once heard someone describe, it's fairly simple to run a decent train service; you have a train, you have a track, the former rides on the latter. The problem is that we have lots of people trying to make money off it, which just won't work.
Maybe off topic but may as well say: Click Online is a very Microsoft centric TV programme which is shown on BBC World internationally and on BBC News 24 in the UK. It tends to be very dumbed down and barely scratches the surface on a lot of subjects. I remember one show where they were discussing distributed computing, and had a cluster of Windows 9x boxes (!) all of which duly blue-screened. Ahh, memories. If only the BBC actually did a serious tech show:(
However, we can provide these children with a free open-source operating
system that runs will on older machines, and comes with thousands of applications, tutorials and how-to's.
Except THAT ISN'T WHAT THEY NEED OR WANT.
They need food water and vaccines, how fucking Stallman-compliant your operating system is way down the list of priorities.
I don't know, when I've been searching for solutions to technical problems, sometimes blogs have just the information I need.
(This coming from someone who has a blog and doesn't actually update it because his life is so filled with fun and sex that he doeesn't have time to write about it:)
I think I speak for myself, and the other 6 billion+ human beings resident on this massive ball of petroleum and rocks when I say
Nobody gives a flying fuck.
I don't care if the book deviates from the movie in tiny, pointless ways. If the movie deviates from the plot insanely, as in the case of this atrocity for example, I care. Not when there are just thousands upon thousands of teeny tiny ways which nobody cares about.
Has it ever occurred to you to just sit back, enjoy the movie and (this is the important bit) get a life?
(Although I guess posting on Slashdot on Christmas day means I don't have a life:)
It amazes me how many people STILL use the glaringly inadequate and annoying MSN Messenger service, when there is much better competition available.
Every new version of MSN adds more stupid useless widgets while ignoring the fact that the underlying protocol is a pile of shite. But of course the newbies fucking love it, which means everyone else has to follow suit. Ta, Microsoft.
Mind you, I am the writer of this so I might be a lil biased:)
Why the FUCK should anyone have to receive your choice of operating system for Christmas? It's like receiving an ad for a different phone service as a gift, because "it might be better and cheaper and easier". No way. If they use Windows, spend some time making a little animated Christmas card thing that autoruns or something, rather than trying to get them to use Linux. If I did this shit to any of my family, the ones that have computers, they'd think I was a complete wanker for basically giving them what amounts to a commercial pitch as a present. I'd be insulted, so would they.
Tobacco smoking brings with it deleterious effects on the lungs, mouth and everyone in the immediate vicinity. Nicotine alone brings with it low blood pressure and other nastinesses, which a lot of people are unaware of. If you remove the lung cancer aspect, a lot of people will be still doing themselves damage, and people might take up just taking nicotine for the high without realising they're letting themselves in for impotence and other goodies.
This is not to mention that the tobacco industry will be all over this, claiming it's healthier, when they're really just slimy fucks.
Oh I do worry about caffeine addiction, possibly since my girlfriend is addicted to it. Addiction is one of the creepiest fucking things to me. But seriously, tobacco and nicotine is a far more serious problem than someone having a few too many cups of joe.
I have never had spyware, viruses, MSBlast, Sobig or any other form of Bad Things.
How?
NOT BEING A DICKHEAD.
Keeping Windows spyware free is not impossible and Windows is only really a spyware magnet because of two distinct things: a) user idiocy and b) Internet Explorer, or maybe an insane combination of the two. Stop MS-bashing (OMGWTFLOLBBQ M$ ARE TEH GHEY WITH TEH BONZAY BUDDAY) and realise that for some people, Windows really is quite good. I just want to use my computer, rather than pissing around with KDE and X and kernels and other wank (this from an ex-Gentoo user).
I swear to fucking god, my brother just told me that Bush would be the better president because Kerry hasn't been president yet and so has no experience. This from someone who gleefully admits that he
* never watches the news * doesn't care about the news * doesn't think it matters
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We've not had "British Rail" for some time. For you USians who may be a little confused, here's a little history.
Before the 50s, the railways were all in lots of groups of competing companies. The government then nationalised these companies (OMG SOCIALISM!!!1) as, well, you can't really run a railway for profit and even if you could it's a son of a bitch to do so without killing hundreds of people. This new confederacy was British Rail, and had that pointy double arrow logo some of you may have seen.
In the 60s, the government axed all of the loss making lines in an attempt to make a profit. This involved axing all of the lines to small rural communities, and it made the railway much less attractive to people and made the car a de facto requirement.
In the 80s, Margaret Thatcher grew weary of nationalised industry, and while sitting on her stylised throne of evil ordered that the railways be privatised, which took effect in 1997, just when the new government was coming in. Clever that.
So now we're stuck with a bunch of fucking idiots who can't run trains on time and have to rely on satellites to do so. As I once heard someone describe, it's fairly simple to run a decent train service; you have a train, you have a track, the former rides on the latter. The problem is that we have lots of people trying to make money off it, which just won't work.
This is the funniest fucking post ever made on Slashdot.
China... ...solve China syndrome problem... ...Chinese... ...syndrome...
My head hurts.
Can we please know when the patent was applied for, so we can see if there's any prior art?
I would have thought that in 1985 Apple would have already had a help icon on their Macs...
Another day, another Apple fanboy story (and another tick on my preferences page :).
phew, at least Santa is still real!
Yeah, he's our last vestige of sanity in these uncertain times.
Bush not really a Muslim.
Babies not really delivered by storks.
Bears do not actually have modern sanitation.
Maybe off topic but may as well say: Click Online is a very Microsoft centric TV programme which is shown on BBC World internationally and on BBC News 24 in the UK. It tends to be very dumbed down and barely scratches the surface on a lot of subjects. I remember one show where they were discussing distributed computing, and had a cluster of Windows 9x boxes (!) all of which duly blue-screened. Ahh, memories. If only the BBC actually did a serious tech show :(
I can beat that:
Wargames Wargames Wargames Wargames Wargames Wargames Wargames Wargames Wargames Wargames.
There. TEN references in a THREE line comment. Owned.
(Apols. to The Young Ones).
Except THAT ISN'T WHAT THEY NEED OR WANT.
They need food water and vaccines, how fucking Stallman-compliant your operating system is way down the list of priorities.
In Soviet Russia, IP Communists pirate YOU.
OMG it fits!
I don't know, when I've been searching for solutions to technical problems, sometimes blogs have just the information I need.
:)
(This coming from someone who has a blog and doesn't actually update it because his life is so filled with fun and sex that he doeesn't have time to write about it
I think I speak for myself, and the other 6 billion+ human beings resident on this massive ball of petroleum and rocks when I say
:)
Nobody gives a flying fuck.
I don't care if the book deviates from the movie in tiny, pointless ways. If the movie deviates from the plot insanely, as in the case of this atrocity for example, I care. Not when there are just thousands upon thousands of teeny tiny ways which nobody cares about.
Has it ever occurred to you to just sit back, enjoy the movie and (this is the important bit) get a life?
(Although I guess posting on Slashdot on Christmas day means I don't have a life
Does Netcraft confirm it yet?
It amazes me how many people STILL use the glaringly inadequate and annoying MSN Messenger service, when there is much better competition available.
:)
Every new version of MSN adds more stupid useless widgets while ignoring the fact that the underlying protocol is a pile of shite. But of course the newbies fucking love it, which means everyone else has to follow suit. Ta, Microsoft.
Mind you, I am the writer of this so I might be a lil biased
Oh sweet Jesus Christ no.
Nail head, meet Torak-. Torak-, nail head.
Why the FUCK should anyone have to receive your choice of operating system for Christmas? It's like receiving an ad for a different phone service as a gift, because "it might be better and cheaper and easier". No way. If they use Windows, spend some time making a little animated Christmas card thing that autoruns or something, rather than trying to get them to use Linux. If I did this shit to any of my family, the ones that have computers, they'd think I was a complete wanker for basically giving them what amounts to a commercial pitch as a present. I'd be insulted, so would they.
To me it was like trying to understand a huge body of source code solely by looking at diff output.
Well, yeah. That's because that is exactly what it is.
Um, no. Porn equals geek porn. You cretin.
I think you missed my point.
Tobacco smoking brings with it deleterious effects on the lungs, mouth and everyone in the immediate vicinity. Nicotine alone brings with it low blood pressure and other nastinesses, which a lot of people are unaware of. If you remove the lung cancer aspect, a lot of people will be still doing themselves damage, and people might take up just taking nicotine for the high without realising they're letting themselves in for impotence and other goodies.
This is not to mention that the tobacco industry will be all over this, claiming it's healthier, when they're really just slimy fucks.
Oh I do worry about caffeine addiction, possibly since my girlfriend is addicted to it. Addiction is one of the creepiest fucking things to me. But seriously, tobacco and nicotine is a far more serious problem than someone having a few too many cups of joe.
I run Windows 2000.
I have never had spyware, viruses, MSBlast, Sobig or any other form of Bad Things.
How?
NOT BEING A DICKHEAD.
Keeping Windows spyware free is not impossible and Windows is only really a spyware magnet because of two distinct things: a) user idiocy and b) Internet Explorer, or maybe an insane combination of the two. Stop MS-bashing (OMGWTFLOLBBQ M$ ARE TEH GHEY WITH TEH BONZAY BUDDAY) and realise that for some people, Windows really is quite good. I just want to use my computer, rather than pissing around with KDE and X and kernels and other wank (this from an ex-Gentoo user).
Anything which reduces the health barrier to nicotine addiction is a bad thing. Period.
I swear to fucking god, my brother just told me that Bush would be the better president because Kerry hasn't been president yet and so has no experience. This from someone who gleefully admits that he
* never watches the news
* doesn't care about the news
* doesn't think it matters
God help us all.
Reminds me of a quote by Bill Hicks:
"If you're so pro life, don't go blocking off med clinics. Lock arms...and block cemeteries."