lest we forget that computers are meant to be tools to accomplish work, such as writing stuff. Is it important for people to understand how it works? Sure. Is it MORE important that they can leaverage the machine to produce something useful? Yes. Why? Well, most people in the world do not just want to use computers for the sake of using a computer. They don't want to call someone on the telephone and talk to them about telephones. They want to write their reports, do their research, et cetera. Of course, we all can type rather effectivly anyway (although most of us can't spell and ignore grammar), so our point of view is jaded. But the fact is that there are more secretaries than their are UNIX administrators or C programmers and they needed to know how to type quickly likes longer than 'cd/usr/src/sys/i386/'
concidering firefighters have burned to death because envrionmentalists said some fucking guppy was more important than putting out the forestfire by getting the water for the planes from the neartest river;
that people's houses have burned because tehy couldn't cut brush do to endangered rats, and then the house burned andthe rats died anyway
that the epa made them stop using asbestoa in the wtc 10 floors from where the planes hit, thereby caussing the ability to let the beams MELT and fall and crush the beams that were coated with asbestos and killing 3,000 people
YES, they do think that scaring the silly little animals is worse than not advancing technology. they think animals are more important than human life or property rights.
only god damned commie pinko liberals refer to things are "progressive." Every soviet spy and communist sympathizer in American history has been a Democrat. Every liberal is a potential Alger Hiss. Joesph McCarthy and Ronald Reagan were the greatest Americans in history. And this is a not a troll. This is an not a joke. I hate you all and I wish you would get stuck in Nazi camps. All commies must die!!!
How is this "big brother"ish? We are just supposed to let foriegners in willy-nilly to trapse about and not know anything about them? Hello!! Defense of borders is part of maintaining soverignty...since when is that "orwellian?" The fact that the US has computers to help just means that we have a better chance than the Roman Empire.
This is not a troll, I really believe this is a basic, common-sense thing. Maintaining the integrity of the borders is a basic function of ALL government.
'we think what we are doing is more important than what others are doing' -- how god damned full of himself is this guy? and what is this 'we' shit anyway? has he done anything since checking the code on the Altair BASIC interpreter that one time?
i submitted this this morning. I also submitted about "Scotty" having Alzheimer's a couple of weeks ago. Rejected. Bah. Fuck you Rob Malda!! I'll 0wnz0r your m0m bitch!
where as I - 1) sort of like TV 2) don't really know what a 'character based menu interface' is 3) enjoy pipes and cigars 4) money depends on the situation. nothing wrong with money. 5) even more fucked than this 6) i like dogs 7) this is true, but also for doctors.
i guess i'm not a hacker... at least i'm not ESR. I do like guns though...
i read in the jargon file once that you cannot "become" a hacker -- rather, others must bestow it upon you. you have to earn it. you can't buy it. you can't decide you are. Yeah, you have to do stuff, but you should be doing it just because. Then others will decide you are a "hacker"
of american blind justice and the judge wasn't going to look at the 27 8x10 color glossy photographs.....
I know that's the son. but the 'alices resteraunt' movie was on this morning. kind of ironic all this...
my website doesn't have advertising, and i suspect that neither do any of ours. Plus, I am sure we have better content than anything on "gurrlpages.com" or whatever. then again, this is slashdot....
it's murder 2 if you recklessly create the situation that leads to someone's death, knowing their could be dire consiquences -- for instance, not taking your psycho drugs and then you're skitzed-out self committs a murder; telling your boyfriend your dad won't let you see him anymore, and your boyfriend kills your dad; watching a DVD on those windy mountain roads instead of watching out for elk, or other cars. I've driven in Alaska -- the whole Al-Can highway, and the 'top of the world' and the bottom loop through civilization. It's not the kind of place drivers should be watching movies. if he hadn't been watching movies, maybe man 2. i'd say murder 2. of course, i havn't even taken my LSATS yet -- i just watch law & order a lot.
there is no right to not be offended. it might fall under 'persuit of happiness,' but then again, there is no right to actually/be/ happy, just to try. obviously, no one can guarantee happiness.
there are 2 reasons someone becomes a rock star: money and chicks (even the women.... lilith fair casualties the lot of them). The more money, the more chicks. Plus, if most rock today is art, then Jackson Pollock is Raphael.
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for some reason i think i would be less offended if they just did it, rather than asking permission and GETTING IT!!!
lest we forget that computers are meant to be tools to accomplish work, such as writing stuff. Is it important for people to understand how it works? Sure. Is it MORE important that they can leaverage the machine to produce something useful? Yes. Why? Well, most people in the world do not just want to use computers for the sake of using a computer. They don't want to call someone on the telephone and talk to them about telephones. They want to write their reports, do their research, et cetera. Of course, we all can type rather effectivly anyway (although most of us can't spell and ignore grammar), so our point of view is jaded. But the fact is that there are more secretaries than their are UNIX administrators or C programmers and they needed to know how to type quickly likes longer than 'cd /usr/src/sys/i386/'
"communist, anti-american, pro-terrorist" linux users
admitting you have a problem is the first step towards recovery.
i guess it's like how strippers all have stage names like Lolita and Bambi when they are really named Mary and Elizabeth
Can you imagine Beowulf in one of these?
concidering firefighters have burned to death because envrionmentalists said some fucking guppy was more important than putting out the forestfire by getting the water for the planes from the neartest river; that people's houses have burned because tehy couldn't cut brush do to endangered rats, and then the house burned andthe rats died anyway that the epa made them stop using asbestoa in the wtc 10 floors from where the planes hit, thereby caussing the ability to let the beams MELT and fall and crush the beams that were coated with asbestos and killing 3,000 people YES, they do think that scaring the silly little animals is worse than not advancing technology. they think animals are more important than human life or property rights.
That's H. Ross Perot's company right? I bet that probably explaines it.
only god damned commie pinko liberals refer to things are "progressive." Every soviet spy and communist sympathizer in American history has been a Democrat. Every liberal is a potential Alger Hiss. Joesph McCarthy and Ronald Reagan were the greatest Americans in history. And this is a not a troll. This is an not a joke. I hate you all and I wish you would get stuck in Nazi camps. All commies must die!!!
you have a dozen friends? share some!
they ain't never got no brain or nothin'
How is this "big brother"ish? We are just supposed to let foriegners in willy-nilly to trapse about and not know anything about them? Hello!! Defense of borders is part of maintaining soverignty...since when is that "orwellian?" The fact that the US has computers to help just means that we have a better chance than the Roman Empire. This is not a troll, I really believe this is a basic, common-sense thing. Maintaining the integrity of the borders is a basic function of ALL government.
'we think what we are doing is more important than what others are doing' -- how god damned full of himself is this guy? and what is this 'we' shit anyway? has he done anything since checking the code on the Altair BASIC interpreter that one time?
unfortunatly, the nature of a job is doing what your boss says.
i submitted this this morning. I also submitted about "Scotty" having Alzheimer's a couple of weeks ago. Rejected. Bah. Fuck you Rob Malda!! I'll 0wnz0r your m0m bitch!
this is true.
this is not the Soviet Union. That is not the job of the government.
where as I -
1) sort of like TV
2) don't really know what a 'character based menu interface' is
3) enjoy pipes and cigars
4) money depends on the situation. nothing wrong with money.
5) even more fucked than this
6) i like dogs
7) this is true, but also for doctors.
i guess i'm not a hacker... at least i'm not ESR. I do like guns though...
i read in the jargon file once that you cannot "become" a hacker -- rather, others must bestow it upon you. you have to earn it. you can't buy it. you can't decide you are. Yeah, you have to do stuff, but you should be doing it just because. Then others will decide you are a "hacker"
i prefer to be called a McCarthyist.
undermining soverignty is unpatriotic. pink commie.
of american blind justice and the judge wasn't going to look at the 27 8x10 color glossy photographs..... I know that's the son. but the 'alices resteraunt' movie was on this morning. kind of ironic all this...
my website doesn't have advertising, and i suspect that neither do any of ours. Plus, I am sure we have better content than anything on "gurrlpages.com" or whatever. then again, this is slashdot....
it's murder 2 if you recklessly create the situation that leads to someone's death, knowing their could be dire consiquences -- for instance, not taking your psycho drugs and then you're skitzed-out self committs a murder; telling your boyfriend your dad won't let you see him anymore, and your boyfriend kills your dad; watching a DVD on those windy mountain roads instead of watching out for elk, or other cars. I've driven in Alaska -- the whole Al-Can highway, and the 'top of the world' and the bottom loop through civilization. It's not the kind of place drivers should be watching movies. if he hadn't been watching movies, maybe man 2. i'd say murder 2. of course, i havn't even taken my LSATS yet -- i just watch law & order a lot.
there is no right to not be offended. it might fall under 'persuit of happiness,' but then again, there is no right to actually /be/ happy, just to try. obviously, no one can guarantee happiness.
there are 2 reasons someone becomes a rock star: money and chicks (even the women.... lilith fair casualties the lot of them). The more money, the more chicks. Plus, if most rock today is art, then Jackson Pollock is Raphael.