- "The patient was well aware of the fact that she had no vagina" Well, that's a relief!
It's so annoying when you're in bed with a hot girl and you take off your pants and then you spend all night reading an anatomy book to figure out why she screamed "Oh my God you're a Ken doll!" and then jumped out the window. I'm so glad proper education has brought us to a point where all people of all races know when their sex organs are missing.
- "She had never had a period" Am I missing something here? How exactly would this happen given her condition?
Presumably a built-in response to a typical question - "If she has no vagina, where does menstrual blood go?"
The most likely explanation of this incident is it's horseshit.
Which I seem to remember was the consensus the last time I heard this. Unless there's a lot of vagina-less teenagers getting knifed, this chestnut's on at least its third time making the rounds.
The problem is sorting them out from the 10,000 other useless artists and writers who "know for certain" that they are the next big thing and are waiting to be discovered.
(Looks at Billboard Top 10.) I've yet to see proof that the industry knows how to do this better than anyone else.
Why would someone keep this private and/or secret for so long?
Conspiracy theorists obsess over things more the longer they were 'kept hidden'. Being handed over by a dying man? Well, that's even better. He's got nothing to lose anymore, so OBVIOUSLY releasing it before now would have brought the rage of the Illuminati down on him!
So my theory is that it's a conspiracy against conspiracy theorists.
If someone uses specific language though, like "Throws an error code" - They obviously have some technical knowledge, usually in computer programming.
(Insert hardware joke here.)
I've had people who can talk the talk but for whatever reason can't walk the walk. The unfortunate thing is that:
1) a large number of people are idiots
2) a large number of people sound like idiots
3) the overlap isn't perfect. Almost, but not quite.
4) It's YOUR ass that gets burned if you fall for one of the corner cases and escalate a mundane issue.
When the guy who signs your paycheque and told you to never trust anyone asks you why you trusted someone and cost the company money as a result, "because he sounded smart" doesn't fly as an excuse.
Yep, they try to spread terror through random(ish) acts of violence that sometimes result in deaths.
Precisely. And the more scared we get, the easier it is to scare us. Eventually you don't even need something that can kill people - hypothetical death gets the same response. And then eventually people will run in fear from anything and everything, like Lite-Brites and sixth-grade science projects. And then you don't need to do anything but remind people you're still alive every now and then - their fear will do all the work for you. Really, bin Laden's got a great job. Once or twice a year, sit in front of a camcorder and rant about the evil imperialist Americans for half an hour. It's like blogging with a smaller time and effort commitment.
A few years ago some dumbass who lit his pants on fire in a crowd would be called the village idiot. Now, he's some sort of terrorist mastermind.
Or maybe not. When I did phone support (never again), most of our reps were young and not technically inclined.
When I did phone support (EDS for HP pre-buyout - and yes, never again), our reps were a mix of young and older. The older set had a few middle-aged men (laid-off laborers, usually) but were mostly housewives. Technical experience in both age groups? Little to none. People with actual skill got the hell out ASAP if they weren't driven out for spending time trying to fix problems rather than increase company revenue by taking more calls. The general rule our boss handed down was that to keep call times low, if you hit 20 minutes without a problem resolution, tell the person to go out and buy a cable. Didn't matter what cable - power, USB, video, power bar, extension cord, etc. Just something to get them off the phone for an hour or so. Two short phone calls means twice the revenue of a long one, and three means three times the revenue.
That said, would they necessarily believe that they were actually talking to THE Steve Jobs? Probably not.
Given the sheer number of liars your average phone support slave talks to in a day, more like 'hell no'. Hundreds of "I didn't do anything!" that are always "I didn't do anything except install a game off Limewire/open the printer and pull this plastic thing out/plug this extra wire thing into this extra pin thing because I'm a tech and I know that everything in a computer needs to be plugged in".
Really, if everyone I ever spoke to doing phone support told the truth, I'd have been murdered twice, on the front page of the New York Times for my horrible behavior (no, seriously, claimed he was best friends with 'the editor'), and in jail for raping some woman's grandson (because you can rape someone over the phone by telling them that taking tin snips to their computer voids their warranty and no we're not gonna fix it).
Anyway, if they get John Leeson to do the voice, I'm buying one.
Oh, God, no. If I'm running from some fundamentalist Dalek I'm not going to stop and hold the door for some slow-ass bot to trundle through before continuing my frenzied dash just because the public likes it better than they like me!
This is Slashdot. Most of us refuse to wear one tie, never mind two. Although the Doc Brown chrome glasses would let us sleep at work without anyone knowing, currently only possible if one goes though the trouble of learning how to sleep with one's eyes open.
I wonder, if a robot program like this were let loose on the internet, and was capable of learning... what would it learn?
Well, when a Dalek (ahem) 'downloaded the Internet' on Doctor Who it killed itself by the end of the episode. So I imagine that whatever it learns, it can't be good.
It reduces the probability that earth could be quickly located.
We gotta consider the possibility, that any extraterrestrials close enough to hear our signals in any reasonable amount of time, and with the sophistication to pinpoint us....
Might have the technology and desire to invade earth.
Fear not fellow primitive meatbag; alien societies are friendly! and nice and want to GIVE you enlightenment and technology and snakes. Snaks. Snacks. Snacakes. Ckaes of snaking. twinkies?
Please continu to send singles. Signals out to space so enlightenment and snackcake! dreadnoughts can find you and DROP technology all over primitive disgusting meatbag world and hopefully pick up advance infilitrational scout first.
If a newcast airs with nothing but meaningful content--completely ignoring the audience, and no one is there to here it, does it make a sound?
Nope, because once the advertisers realize their paid-for ads aren't being seen, they pull out and the show goes off the air.
The 'news' industry's first order of business is to keep the advertisers happy, since without them there is no business. Everything else follows on.
I went from merely disliking televised news to not watching it at all when I realized that they were bound by the same rules of advertising and ratings that made prime time a vapid wasteland of suck.
Your example is dumb. In a murder there is clearly a victim and it is someone other than the perpetrator. If a person takes a naked photo of themselves and is convicted for that, they're basically being punished for victimizing themselves.
It's even more amazing when the prosecution wants a teenager who took naked photos of themselves tried as an adult. So they want a person punished as an adult, because they're mature enough to understand what they were doing. And what they were doing was taking advantage of someone who was not mature enough to understand what they were doing.
You wrote "naked boy toddlers", please report yourself to the nearest police station.
Thanks.
(ad infinitum...)
And since the original post is at +5, almost everyone on Slashdot has therefore looked at "naked boy toddlers". So come on everyone! We're taking a field trip to the police station!
GP said: "provided there's a good GM in charge of player role accuracy"
All of the DMs I've played with, who were concerned about role playing, have had reasonable views on the lawful good alignment. I'm sorry about your experiences though.
No worries, stuff happens. I know a few good ones now; many of the ones my age have done at least a bit of growing up.:)
I guess the $0.50 is the online delivery charge... all those tubes and all...
It's the extra cost of the unpaper and anti-ink for the noncopies that aren't sent to the online customers. Very rare stuff, but it's the only way to keep the balance sheet even.
Given that the newspaper obviously didn't have the staff on hand to develop the new site, I wonder who they outsourced it to - that could explain a few things.
But they had a site before this. Presumably those guys were unavailable...? (Or perhaps not the lowest bidder.)
While I like the idea of Kate Beckinsale being trapped there with me
You say that now. Wait until Kurt Russell, Keith David and T.K. Carter burst into your room and, at gunpoint, orders you and Kate tied to chairs while they draw blood for a test...
I don't know what you're talking about. I'm liking it even more now.
On the other hand with a Core2 the case is not that clear. Is a Core2 Duo 3000 MHz better than a Core2 Duo 2833 MHz? Nope, the former one is an E6850, the latter an E8300.
And the wildly different model numbers - the things they're sold by - tell me right off they're fundamentally different and need to be looked at closer. Without even looking, one's 65nm and one's 45nm. I pull up the specs and the cache sizes are also different.
Maybe it's just me, but that the difference between AM2 and AM3 was that the AM3 had a 2 after the name (Athlon II and Phenom II) didn't strike me as the most obvious way to advertise that change.
Conclusion: Buying parts because of a single number will eventually get you burned no matter who you buy from.
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- "The patient was well aware of the fact that she had no vagina" Well, that's a relief!
It's so annoying when you're in bed with a hot girl and you take off your pants and then you spend all night reading an anatomy book to figure out why she screamed "Oh my God you're a Ken doll!" and then jumped out the window. I'm so glad proper education has brought us to a point where all people of all races know when their sex organs are missing.
- "She had never had a period" Am I missing something here? How exactly would this happen given her condition?
Presumably a built-in response to a typical question - "If she has no vagina, where does menstrual blood go?"
And now they're scaring parents who might want to research this issue by posting a picture of a young guy with mumps in the middle of the article...
FUD!
Yeah, they really shoulda gone with the Fark.com shot of Jenny McCarthy with the caption "Every time a child dies I GET STRONGER!"
Sure, please enter your Credit or Debit card info along with Name, Address ... Allow six weeks for delivery.
I did that. Not a very good book. "Chapter One: Social Engineering." is just six pages of "LOL!" repeated over and over.
The most likely explanation of this incident is it's horseshit.
Which I seem to remember was the consensus the last time I heard this. Unless there's a lot of vagina-less teenagers getting knifed, this chestnut's on at least its third time making the rounds.
The problem is sorting them out from the 10,000 other useless artists and writers who "know for certain" that they are the next big thing and are waiting to be discovered.
(Looks at Billboard Top 10.) I've yet to see proof that the industry knows how to do this better than anyone else.
Why would someone keep this private and/or secret for so long?
Conspiracy theorists obsess over things more the longer they were 'kept hidden'. Being handed over by a dying man? Well, that's even better. He's got nothing to lose anymore, so OBVIOUSLY releasing it before now would have brought the rage of the Illuminati down on him!
So my theory is that it's a conspiracy against conspiracy theorists.
If someone uses specific language though, like "Throws an error code" - They obviously have some technical knowledge, usually in computer programming.
(Insert hardware joke here.)
I've had people who can talk the talk but for whatever reason can't walk the walk. The unfortunate thing is that:
1) a large number of people are idiots
2) a large number of people sound like idiots
3) the overlap isn't perfect. Almost, but not quite.
4) It's YOUR ass that gets burned if you fall for one of the corner cases and escalate a mundane issue.
When the guy who signs your paycheque and told you to never trust anyone asks you why you trusted someone and cost the company money as a result, "because he sounded smart" doesn't fly as an excuse.
Peoples fear is scarier than terrorism.
Yep, they try to spread terror through random(ish) acts of violence that sometimes result in deaths.
Precisely. And the more scared we get, the easier it is to scare us. Eventually you don't even need something that can kill people - hypothetical death gets the same response. And then eventually people will run in fear from anything and everything, like Lite-Brites and sixth-grade science projects. And then you don't need to do anything but remind people you're still alive every now and then - their fear will do all the work for you. Really, bin Laden's got a great job. Once or twice a year, sit in front of a camcorder and rant about the evil imperialist Americans for half an hour. It's like blogging with a smaller time and effort commitment.
A few years ago some dumbass who lit his pants on fire in a crowd would be called the village idiot. Now, he's some sort of terrorist mastermind.
Or maybe not. When I did phone support (never again), most of our reps were young and not technically inclined.
When I did phone support (EDS for HP pre-buyout - and yes, never again), our reps were a mix of young and older. The older set had a few middle-aged men (laid-off laborers, usually) but were mostly housewives. Technical experience in both age groups? Little to none. People with actual skill got the hell out ASAP if they weren't driven out for spending time trying to fix problems rather than increase company revenue by taking more calls. The general rule our boss handed down was that to keep call times low, if you hit 20 minutes without a problem resolution, tell the person to go out and buy a cable. Didn't matter what cable - power, USB, video, power bar, extension cord, etc. Just something to get them off the phone for an hour or so. Two short phone calls means twice the revenue of a long one, and three means three times the revenue.
That said, would they necessarily believe that they were actually talking to THE Steve Jobs? Probably not.
Given the sheer number of liars your average phone support slave talks to in a day, more like 'hell no'. Hundreds of "I didn't do anything!" that are always "I didn't do anything except install a game off Limewire/open the printer and pull this plastic thing out/plug this extra wire thing into this extra pin thing because I'm a tech and I know that everything in a computer needs to be plugged in".
Really, if everyone I ever spoke to doing phone support told the truth, I'd have been murdered twice, on the front page of the New York Times for my horrible behavior (no, seriously, claimed he was best friends with 'the editor'), and in jail for raping some woman's grandson (because you can rape someone over the phone by telling them that taking tin snips to their computer voids their warranty and no we're not gonna fix it).
Anyway, if they get John Leeson to do the voice, I'm buying one.
Oh, God, no. If I'm running from some fundamentalist Dalek I'm not going to stop and hold the door for some slow-ass bot to trundle through before continuing my frenzied dash just because the public likes it better than they like me!
So that reminds me, we all need to start wearing our multiple ties and chrome sunglasses
This is Slashdot. Most of us refuse to wear one tie, never mind two. Although the Doc Brown chrome glasses would let us sleep at work without anyone knowing, currently only possible if one goes though the trouble of learning how to sleep with one's eyes open.
You may be on to something here.
I wonder, if a robot program like this were let loose on the internet, and was capable of learning... what would it learn?
Well, when a Dalek (ahem) 'downloaded the Internet' on Doctor Who it killed itself by the end of the episode. So I imagine that whatever it learns, it can't be good.
(Puts on shades.)
Yeah.
It reduces the probability that earth could be quickly located.
We gotta consider the possibility, that any extraterrestrials close enough to hear our signals in any reasonable amount of time, and with the sophistication to pinpoint us....
Might have the technology and desire to invade earth.
Fear not fellow primitive meatbag; alien societies are friendly! and nice and want to GIVE you enlightenment and technology and snakes. Snaks. Snacks. Snacakes. Ckaes of snaking. twinkies?
Please continu to send singles. Signals out to space so enlightenment and snackcake! dreadnoughts can find you and DROP technology all over primitive disgusting meatbag world and hopefully pick up advance infilitrational scout first.
While I can see why the gun banners want this, I can not see why anyone would want one for themselves.
And I think that sums up this invention quite nicely: It's something you want everyone else to have.
Now look, I've refrained from profanity, calling you Nazis, and typing in all caps.
YOUR ALL NAZI FAGEOTS.
(Sorry, but this is Slashdot. We have standards to maintain.)
Your average conservative hears nothing but Fox News, the conservative talk show crowd and the Tea Party Movement people,
Where do you get that idea?
Probably from CNN. Your average liberal hears nothing but CNN, the liberal talk show crowd and the Green Party people.
If a newcast airs with nothing but meaningful content--completely ignoring the audience, and no one is there to here it, does it make a sound?
Nope, because once the advertisers realize their paid-for ads aren't being seen, they pull out and the show goes off the air.
The 'news' industry's first order of business is to keep the advertisers happy, since without them there is no business. Everything else follows on. I went from merely disliking televised news to not watching it at all when I realized that they were bound by the same rules of advertising and ratings that made prime time a vapid wasteland of suck.
Your example is dumb. In a murder there is clearly a victim and it is someone other than the perpetrator. If a person takes a naked photo of themselves and is convicted for that, they're basically being punished for victimizing themselves.
It's even more amazing when the prosecution wants a teenager who took naked photos of themselves tried as an adult. So they want a person punished as an adult, because they're mature enough to understand what they were doing. And what they were doing was taking advantage of someone who was not mature enough to understand what they were doing.
You wrote "naked boy toddlers", please report yourself to the nearest police station.
Thanks.
(ad infinitum...)
And since the original post is at +5, almost everyone on Slashdot has therefore looked at "naked boy toddlers". So come on everyone! We're taking a field trip to the police station!
GP said: "provided there's a good GM in charge of player role accuracy"
All of the DMs I've played with, who were concerned about role playing, have had reasonable views on the lawful good alignment. I'm sorry about your experiences though.
No worries, stuff happens. I know a few good ones now; many of the ones my age have done at least a bit of growing up.:)
I guess the $0.50 is the online delivery charge... all those tubes and all...
It's the extra cost of the unpaper and anti-ink for the noncopies that aren't sent to the online customers. Very rare stuff, but it's the only way to keep the balance sheet even.
Given that the newspaper obviously didn't have the staff on hand to develop the new site, I wonder who they outsourced it to - that could explain a few things.
But they had a site before this. Presumably those guys were unavailable...? (Or perhaps not the lowest bidder.)
While I like the idea of Kate Beckinsale being trapped there with me You say that now. Wait until Kurt Russell, Keith David and T.K. Carter burst into your room and, at gunpoint, orders you and Kate tied to chairs while they draw blood for a test...
I don't know what you're talking about. I'm liking it even more now.
On the other hand with a Core2 the case is not that clear. Is a Core2 Duo 3000 MHz better than a Core2 Duo 2833 MHz? Nope, the former one is an E6850, the latter an E8300.
And the wildly different model numbers - the things they're sold by - tell me right off they're fundamentally different and need to be looked at closer. Without even looking, one's 65nm and one's 45nm. I pull up the specs and the cache sizes are also different.
Maybe it's just me, but that the difference between AM2 and AM3 was that the AM3 had a 2 after the name (Athlon II and Phenom II) didn't strike me as the most obvious way to advertise that change.
Conclusion: Buying parts because of a single number will eventually get you burned no matter who you buy from.