Right and what do you do when you have bad directions? You turn around and go another way.
But the Internet told me to go that way! If it's on the Internet it MUST be true! All I was looking for directions to the protest in front of the store that doesn't serve veterans and refuses to send postcards and bottle caps and UPC codes to children with cancer and gives people AIDS with their payphones!
But I have the patent and trademark on CATFI (wifi on a cat). In fact, I've Patented all technology related to cats through my "On a Cat" patented process, which automatically inserts any technology into "________ on a cat" process.
How many recursions deep did you get before you realized that you'd patented On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat?
(Currently taking bets on who's going to come after you first for 1-Click-On-a-Cat: Amazon or PETA.)
I think in this case you didn't VTFA (View TFA) not RTFA.
Of course. Only someone who completely ignored the article would mistake it for something readable. Had he said he hadn't viewed or watched the article, we could get Encyclopedia Brown in here to prove that the poster stole the pocket watch and that you can't put something in your left pocket with your right hand, or something.
ha ha ha...
I was thinking more along the lines of a nice open "porn" folder in "My Pictures" (because if you have linux they won't likely be able to search, and instead just confiscate your notebook). In said folder I'll place pictures of all the different dismembered electronics bits (Geek Porn), and one rick roll video.
I was thinking more along the lines that Goatse, Lemonparty, and Hitler's face photoshopped onto naked women's bodies all constitute porn.
Really, after an eyefull of that, they're not gonna go looking for my real porn folder.
The United States Senate thinks sharing photos is risky, but sharing DNA is okay. To become a US Senator, is it a requirement to lose all sense of perspective?
No, they've got perfect perspective. This database gives them more info and power over the public, so they want it. Meanwhile, Facebook is giving the public more of THEIR info, so they told Facebook to stop.
Did I mention that the perspective they have the one that comes from being at the top of the heap?
Seriously. Where is all this pressure to bypass warrants coming from?
The ideal state for a police officer is a police state. People want to make their jobs easier, and a police state is where a policeman has the easiest job. It could be deliberate malice, or just a desire to not have to work as hard with no thought put into the repercussions.
The ideal state for a lawmaker is a dictatorship. Same reason.
Thus, only the hard-working visionaries among policemen and lawmakers will actively fight against such changes. The malicious actively want them to happen for the abuses they allow, the slothful only see that it means less paperwork and effort when they go into work.
Police and politicians aren't known for being hard-working visionaries, so the few that exist in their number are lost in the masses. So, both can be assumed to, as a group, desire a dictatorship or police state.
I find this explains a lot about any law put forth to reduce checks and balances or expand powers.
The biggest problem I have with it is that while it has a process for expungement of people who are acquitted or whose guilty verdict is overturned, I didn't see anything in there requiring states to initiate the process when one of these events occurs.
In other words, it's like the TSA banned flyers list. Easy as hell to get onto, impossible to get off of. Throw in "poorly maintained" and "prone to errors/misfiles" and we'll have the TSA list all over again, except one that juries believe because they saw something about DNA on CSI.
I used to have H. Ross Perot coming into my house and showing me pie charts on outsourcing. You're right, it's very painful.
Oh, wait. You're talking about some other EDS.
Yeah, and the disease changes over time. When I was there the symptoms of EDS* were depression, loss of appetite, unwillingness to wake up in the morning, disrupted sleep schedules, deep-seated hatred of people in power, and sudden joblessness after making an expensive insurance claim.
* Also known as "Brown, Dick syndrome" due to how the CEO's name appeared in your inbox on his regular self-congratulatory newsletters to everyone in the company with an @eds.com e-mail address.
Some bitterness can remain even years after other EDS symptoms vanish.
They omitted the sexual organs on a naked medical illustration?
Pitiful.
Could be worse. I recall an infomercial for some medical-ish urinary tract health thing that censored the diagram the huckster in a lab coat was using by sticking a white piece of paper over the head of the penis. Not the whole thing, just the head. So you see this diagram that immediately looks wrong and draws attention to the censorship.
But it gets worse. The white of the censor paper blended with the white of the diagram's background at first glance, so I thought I was looking at a drawing of a penis that had been, er, "decapitated". I quickly realized my mistake, but I'd already got the image of a severed penis in my mind.
WAY more off-putting than your standard cross-section. Their attempts to protect delicate TV-viewing penis-fearing psyches made things so very much worse.
I remember turning my big satellite dish towards galaxy sats. Trying to unscramble the pr0n channels.
Or seeing something unscrambled as you're passing through, assuming your receiver doesn't autoblank the screen while the dish moves. One day, I was just moving the dish, and suddenly there's a buxom blonde whose leopard-print outfit had utterly failed to keep up with her jumping jacks.... And then she's gone, lost to static. By the time I figured out where it was and got back to the channel it was over, and a few weeks later the channel (Las Vegas After Dark or something random) was just as over.
Man, in the days before easy Internet porn, my teenage self cherished those simple moments. And moments like watching Cinemax West coast feeds (living on the east coast) so all the fun stuff was on in the morning.
I sold all my equipment years ago but still miss the big monster and waiting on it to lock in to whatever satellite I was after.
I sold the place where the dish was. The glory days had long passed, but I still miss it.
Remember back when Galaxy 1 was almost all you needed? 24 channels of decent-to-quality programming! Seemed like madness to even move it as far up as Westar 5 to pick up some cable affiliates. And then Westar 5 left and Galaxy 5 took its slot, and most of the channels moved from G1 to either G5 (often keeping the same transponder) or Satcom C4, and G1 (G1R by then) was just left a shadow of its former self.... And moving the dish along the lower half of the arc wasn't a big deal anymore.
Man, I remember one night not only bracing the dish with the wind-storm steel cables we used sometimes but also going outside and manually holding it steady for half an hour while I taped the season finale for Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex: 2nd GIG on Adult Swim. Good times. Cold, but good. And man, did it make the finale so much more enjoyable!
Heh. Possibly even better for you than avoiding the religious indoctrination was seeing an adult contest what is largely set up to be seen by children as
"the absolute authority" of the school.
True enough. I recall once correcting a teacher in some early math class (simple brain fart, she'd said 100 x 100 = 1000) and the kids acted like... well, like I'd gone up to Mount Sinai and told God where to shove his stone tablets.
This latter is especially painful to see when they are being used as pawns by the teachers' unions. "lockstep dissent" is as ugly as it is oxymoronic.
Yeah. Any situation where a group is being led like that hurts.:\
In my day we managed to carry around weed and not get caught. The fact that she got caught with a Jolly Rancher proves what I suspect - kids today are a little slower, mentally speaking.
Not really. You probably assume most schools/offices/stores/police stations take a dim view of lighting up a joint while you're there, so you don't do it. On the other hand, you'd probably think nothing about popping a candy in your mouth until the first time someone took a fit over it. Unless I missed the report that Jolly Ranchers were put on Schedule I....
All a detention will do is set up an adversarial relationship where the parents will fight the school on everything they try to do from now on.
If that happens, it'll be the best thing that ever happened to the kid. My mom's often adversarial relationship with school administrations kept me out of some truly weird shit.
Bruce Schneier: Terrorism is hard, and 'topping' 9/11 in order to really impress their backers is harder.
Columnist: Bruce Schneier says 9/11 made us safer! But not really, that's how I interpret it!
Slashdot: Bruce Schneier says 9/11 made us safer! That's what he said!
Next iteration: Bruce Schneier is AN EVIL MUSLIM NAZI!
Oh, now you're being unfair. Surely a book called "Vreni Schneider: Annemarie Moser-Pröll, FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Winter Olympic Games, Slalom Skiing, Giant Slalom Skiing, Half Man Half Biscuit." couldn't be all bad, could it?
Yeh, cause the rermote steering was the most unbelieveble part of the film. The whole time travel thing was, like totally believable man!
Suspension of disbelief covers the fantastically impossible but not the incredibly improbable. An evil wizard from a magical universe intent on summoning a building-sized demon in the middle of Chicago? No problem. The hero trying random phone numbers and happening to call a plot-relevant phone number on his second try? The audience will be in an uproar, even though it's more possible than the evil wizard.
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Oh @#!$, I just bought a Britney Spears teenage pregnancy collector's doll from the amazon landing page.
My kid moves his head to the music he's listening to and just bought the whole Internet.
I considered 4th wall, but the stage is three dimensional while slashdot is two dimensional.
okay.. yuh got me.... I'm lying. I just fucked it up.
That's okay, some Slashdot posters are known for being consistently off a wall.
Right and what do you do when you have bad directions? You turn around and go another way.
But the Internet told me to go that way! If it's on the Internet it MUST be true! All I was looking for directions to the protest in front of the store that doesn't serve veterans and refuses to send postcards and bottle caps and UPC codes to children with cancer and gives people AIDS with their payphones!
You and everyone in this particular thread should be assassinated for particularly horrid puns.
Please, you couldn't terminate us by yourself. You'd need a friend to help co-ax us.
Murdering over puns; what a twisted pair you'd be!
But I have the patent and trademark on CATFI (wifi on a cat). In fact, I've Patented all technology related to cats through my "On a Cat" patented process, which automatically inserts any technology into "________ on a cat" process.
How many recursions deep did you get before you realized that you'd patented On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat On a Cat?
(Currently taking bets on who's going to come after you first for 1-Click-On-a-Cat: Amazon or PETA.)
Was this your fifth cat, or was it Cat 6?
Cat 5. After the operation, it was Cat 5 enhanced.
I think in this case you didn't VTFA (View TFA) not RTFA.
Of course. Only someone who completely ignored the article would mistake it for something readable. Had he said he hadn't viewed or watched the article, we could get Encyclopedia Brown in here to prove that the poster stole the pocket watch and that you can't put something in your left pocket with your right hand, or something.
I really hate Congress. Is that wrong?
Wrong? I thought it was the default.
ha ha ha... I was thinking more along the lines of a nice open "porn" folder in "My Pictures" (because if you have linux they won't likely be able to search, and instead just confiscate your notebook). In said folder I'll place pictures of all the different dismembered electronics bits (Geek Porn), and one rick roll video.
I was thinking more along the lines that Goatse, Lemonparty, and Hitler's face photoshopped onto naked women's bodies all constitute porn. Really, after an eyefull of that, they're not gonna go looking for my real porn folder.
This isn't the thin end of the wedge: This is the middle portion. Doesn't hurt yet? Don't worry, there's a nice wide base to come yet.
The United States Senate thinks sharing photos is risky, but sharing DNA is okay. To become a US Senator, is it a requirement to lose all sense of perspective?
No, they've got perfect perspective. This database gives them more info and power over the public, so they want it. Meanwhile, Facebook is giving the public more of THEIR info, so they told Facebook to stop.
Did I mention that the perspective they have the one that comes from being at the top of the heap?
Seriously. Where is all this pressure to bypass warrants coming from?
The ideal state for a police officer is a police state. People want to make their jobs easier, and a police state is where a policeman has the easiest job. It could be deliberate malice, or just a desire to not have to work as hard with no thought put into the repercussions.
The ideal state for a lawmaker is a dictatorship. Same reason.
Thus, only the hard-working visionaries among policemen and lawmakers will actively fight against such changes. The malicious actively want them to happen for the abuses they allow, the slothful only see that it means less paperwork and effort when they go into work.
Police and politicians aren't known for being hard-working visionaries, so the few that exist in their number are lost in the masses. So, both can be assumed to, as a group, desire a dictatorship or police state.
I find this explains a lot about any law put forth to reduce checks and balances or expand powers.
The biggest problem I have with it is that while it has a process for expungement of people who are acquitted or whose guilty verdict is overturned, I didn't see anything in there requiring states to initiate the process when one of these events occurs.
In other words, it's like the TSA banned flyers list. Easy as hell to get onto, impossible to get off of. Throw in "poorly maintained" and "prone to errors/misfiles" and we'll have the TSA list all over again, except one that juries believe because they saw something about DNA on CSI.
We may not understand the theory, but we'll sure love the applications!"
- Yeah, apparently the application suspends notquitewrong.com accounts. I think it's a winner.
Fascinating. I thought the account-suspending equation was g + c where g=2 and c=1, g being the number of girls and c being the number of cups.
I used to have H. Ross Perot coming into my house and showing me pie charts on outsourcing. You're right, it's very painful.
Oh, wait. You're talking about some other EDS.
Yeah, and the disease changes over time. When I was there the symptoms of EDS* were depression, loss of appetite, unwillingness to wake up in the morning, disrupted sleep schedules, deep-seated hatred of people in power, and sudden joblessness after making an expensive insurance claim.
* Also known as "Brown, Dick syndrome" due to how the CEO's name appeared in your inbox on his regular self-congratulatory newsletters to everyone in the company with an @eds.com e-mail address.
Some bitterness can remain even years after other EDS symptoms vanish.
What kind of joke is that?
They omitted the sexual organs on a naked medical illustration?
Pitiful.
Could be worse. I recall an infomercial for some medical-ish urinary tract health thing that censored the diagram the huckster in a lab coat was using by sticking a white piece of paper over the head of the penis. Not the whole thing, just the head. So you see this diagram that immediately looks wrong and draws attention to the censorship.
But it gets worse. The white of the censor paper blended with the white of the diagram's background at first glance, so I thought I was looking at a drawing of a penis that had been, er, "decapitated". I quickly realized my mistake, but I'd already got the image of a severed penis in my mind.
WAY more off-putting than your standard cross-section. Their attempts to protect delicate TV-viewing penis-fearing psyches made things so very much worse.
I remember turning my big satellite dish towards galaxy sats. Trying to unscramble the pr0n channels.
Or seeing something unscrambled as you're passing through, assuming your receiver doesn't autoblank the screen while the dish moves. One day, I was just moving the dish, and suddenly there's a buxom blonde whose leopard-print outfit had utterly failed to keep up with her jumping jacks.... And then she's gone, lost to static. By the time I figured out where it was and got back to the channel it was over, and a few weeks later the channel (Las Vegas After Dark or something random) was just as over.
Man, in the days before easy Internet porn, my teenage self cherished those simple moments. And moments like watching Cinemax West coast feeds (living on the east coast) so all the fun stuff was on in the morning.
I sold all my equipment years ago but still miss the big monster and waiting on it to lock in to whatever satellite I was after.
I sold the place where the dish was. The glory days had long passed, but I still miss it.
Remember back when Galaxy 1 was almost all you needed? 24 channels of decent-to-quality programming! Seemed like madness to even move it as far up as Westar 5 to pick up some cable affiliates. And then Westar 5 left and Galaxy 5 took its slot, and most of the channels moved from G1 to either G5 (often keeping the same transponder) or Satcom C4, and G1 (G1R by then) was just left a shadow of its former self.... And moving the dish along the lower half of the arc wasn't a big deal anymore.
Man, I remember one night not only bracing the dish with the wind-storm steel cables we used sometimes but also going outside and manually holding it steady for half an hour while I taped the season finale for Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex: 2nd GIG on Adult Swim. Good times. Cold, but good. And man, did it make the finale so much more enjoyable!
Heh. Possibly even better for you than avoiding the religious indoctrination was seeing an adult contest what is largely set up to be seen by children as "the absolute authority" of the school.
True enough. I recall once correcting a teacher in some early math class (simple brain fart, she'd said 100 x 100 = 1000) and the kids acted like... well, like I'd gone up to Mount Sinai and told God where to shove his stone tablets.
This latter is especially painful to see when they are being used as pawns by the teachers' unions. "lockstep dissent" is as ugly as it is oxymoronic.
Yeah. Any situation where a group is being led like that hurts.:\
My mom's often adversarial relationship with school administrations kept me out of some truly weird shit.
Like gym class? I bet it was gym class, wasn't it?
Catechism class, actually. Public school in the boonies, not much oversight, so we had an off-the-books Catholic indoctrination class every week.
Like I said, some truly weird shit.
In my day we managed to carry around weed and not get caught. The fact that she got caught with a Jolly Rancher proves what I suspect - kids today are a little slower, mentally speaking.
Not really. You probably assume most schools/offices/stores/police stations take a dim view of lighting up a joint while you're there, so you don't do it. On the other hand, you'd probably think nothing about popping a candy in your mouth until the first time someone took a fit over it. Unless I missed the report that Jolly Ranchers were put on Schedule I....
All a detention will do is set up an adversarial relationship where the parents will fight the school on everything they try to do from now on.
If that happens, it'll be the best thing that ever happened to the kid. My mom's often adversarial relationship with school administrations kept me out of some truly weird shit.
Bruce Schneier: Terrorism is hard, and 'topping' 9/11 in order to really impress their backers is harder.
Columnist: Bruce Schneier says 9/11 made us safer! But not really, that's how I interpret it!
Slashdot: Bruce Schneier says 9/11 made us safer! That's what he said!
Next iteration: Bruce Schneier is AN EVIL MUSLIM NAZI!
A month ago is was mentioned here that parasites were advertising on Amazon print-on-demand articles from Wikipedia
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/03/2112203/Print-On-Demand-Publisher-VDM-Infects-Amazon
Oh, now you're being unfair. Surely a book called "Vreni Schneider: Annemarie Moser-Pröll, FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Winter Olympic Games, Slalom Skiing, Giant Slalom Skiing, Half Man Half Biscuit." couldn't be all bad, could it?
Throwing a mat into the ocean would probably soak up more water than oil and then sink. Then you would have a bunch of dolphins with greasy toupees.
And then they'd sell used cars rusting on the bottom to confused old dolphins for exorbitant amounts of fish, and that wouldn't be good.
Yeh, cause the rermote steering was the most unbelieveble part of the film. The whole time travel thing was, like totally believable man!
Suspension of disbelief covers the fantastically impossible but not the incredibly improbable. An evil wizard from a magical universe intent on summoning a building-sized demon in the middle of Chicago? No problem. The hero trying random phone numbers and happening to call a plot-relevant phone number on his second try? The audience will be in an uproar, even though it's more possible than the evil wizard.