Actually, I don't think trading sexual favors for other favors is inherently incompatible with feminism, but I still thought it was funny.
Although I guess if I lived in Finland, and had to deal with anti-personal choice people trying to ban prostitution, it'd probably get my hackles up too.
I'm inclined to agree. They talk about the psychology of gambling as if they'd never knowed nothin' about it before (because, being college students, they probably didn't), and then they delve deep into the economics and get all polemical, but without the kind of evidence they really need to back it up. Just a few pictures of pretty Vegas casinos.
Mr. AC, I think you have done a very good job of brainwashing yourself. A different child post demonstrates how a slot can be designed to frequently display 2 of 4 or maybe even 3 of four matching symbols legally. Whether this is thought of as a "near miss" or not depends on point of view of course, but if you think the average slot player will think of it as anything *other* than a near miss, then you are at least as deceived in your perception as the player is in theirs.
And the article didn't say it was abnormal for a machine to have frequent small payouts--the article merely pointed out how, once again, having machines give frequent small payouts plays neatly into the casino's "hand".
The lesson is simple. You really want to win at gambling? Ok. Then what you do is, you go *buy* yourself a casino and run it. There. Problem solved.
Stupid and ignorent? Go fuck yourself. I understand the desire to attack the big corp, but the line level employees? They just do what they are told.
The human world is the way that it is as a result of the sum total of all of the actions and decisions of all of the people in it, including you and me.
When normal, good people inflict injustice on other normal, good people, they frequently try to justify or rationalize their act of injustice by saying that they are "just do[ing] what they are told."
Yeah, I agree it was rude of the dude to lazily call a whole large grouping of people stupid or ignorant, but please don't try to cop out of your fair share of social responsibility for the status quo of the world in which we live. Thanks.
Ok, I'm pissed off at Wal-mart now. Damn those monopolistic f*cks. The thing is, it's *obvious* that they're explicitly not supporting other browsers so they can get the lock-in, not for any other reason. We need a big Don't-Download-From-Wal-Mart campaign.
I love that you have dersive_laughter as a standard header file. I with I'd thought of that. Many of my conversations with people I didn't want to talk to would have been much shorter and simpler.
Thank you for your rant. I thought it was very insightful, and also humerous. I think that's the reason why I've never quite been able to get up the courage to get into web development. The number of kludges I would have to learn is scary and would probably make me unhappy almost all of the time.
Maybe it's better to have to use a programming language to do something that most people would expect you to have to use a programming language for. There's this thing called the Principle of Least Surprise.
Today's thick client is tomorrow's thin client. The modern example of the "thin" client is pretty loaded with, what only a few years ago, used to be really processor intensive software. Stretching this trend forward into the future (probably not valid, but who cares this is slashdot), I forsee a time when "thin client" means you've *only* got *four* processors in your system instead of *eight* or something.
Switch to another provider... Good idea. Where I live right now, my choices are: 1) AT&T High Speed Internet -- works pretty good, but the rate at which AT&T is re-emerging as a monopoly makes me not want to support them. 2) Comcast High Speed Internet -- Comcast, in this particular area at least, is fairly sucky. They won't let me have Internet unless I pay for cable channels as well, and I don't want to do that. 3) A couple different sattelite-based ISPs. But, if I go with one of those, then I can't use it for digital phone as well because the latency is too high for reliable VoIP, or so they tell me. So that means I'd still have to have AT&T for phone so I'd still be supporting their rise to monopoly-hood.
Yeah, that's a lotta choices I got there. Any route I go, I feel rather screwed. I sincerely wish there were real competition going on here, but there ain't.
This has the potential to be snakes-on-a-plane cool.
I have recently been becoming more dependant on Yahoo! Calendar and, in so doing, it's limitations are becoming more glaring and more annoying. This forces me to consider changing to some other calendaring software/thngie, but I really don't want my calendar/thingie to be tied to just one comptuer (hence Yahoo!). Google cal is iCal compliant, or so they say, and I don't think Yahoo! Calendar is. Or, if it is, I somehow missed it. (which is possible)
Yeah, I already know about this. Some dumb ass put a little piece of paper in my apartment door one day that read "spychips.com Rev 13:16-18". As you might guess, Revelations 13:16-18 is that oh so happy and all too oft quoted section about the number of the Beast.
I find this crap so banally boring. I mean, lookit--Revelations itself is chock full of stuff that you could spin into whatever apocolyptic message you want to. The fact that people are so pathetically boring as to only focus on a couple or three passages is at least as depressing as the fact that they feel the need to make up apocolyptic crap in the first place.
Oh well. By the way, if you're high or tripping sometime and you really want to freak yourself out, go read Revelations. Whole thing is whacked out on the weirdness. And you don't even have to get a bible, you can get as many translations as you want from http://www.biblegateway.com/ .
Consider: the average American supposedly watches about that much TV a day, right? Now, suppose a person doesn't have cable or sattelite but still wants to consume that level of boob tube watching. Well there's those DVDs.
Man, either this thing is made up, or that contractor was immensely stupid. Yeah, I realize not everyone is a geek, but like other people here have mentioned there's the good ol' 3, 4, 5 right triangle for squaring an angle. See, I'm not in construction, but I used to listen to Adam Carolla who has done a lot of construction work and he mentioned the 3-4-5 rule.
There's this general principle that people tend to learn and remember things that help them do their job better, regardless of whether they know or care about math or science at all. So maybe that guy learned something new that day, but if so, it's really kinda sad. I would've thought that he would have picked up the rule quite a long while ago already. Oh well.
See, this is why we should kill all old people like me. I remember this story from way back. I mean, not like last month, but from several *years* ago. *nix systmes, and Linux in particular, have goofy naming conventions for many of their application programs? No shit. It can be an obstacle to some users? Effing *duh*.
But I was under the impression that the major distros that were concerned about usability had already solved this by putting little descriptions in parentheses next to the names of the programs in the Start/KDE/Gnome/DoStuff menu.
So. The solution to make sure we never have any more duplicate articles, nor never have that annoying feeling of de ja vu is just to kill all the old people so that the young can continue to carry on the same ancient conversations on over and over again and never have the fear of it getting boring or repetitious. The only thing they'll have to fear is age.
USA only gets control over USA, and you always have a choice where to live.
I'm sorry, but that's kind of naive. Suppose I've invested a great deal of time and energy to build a life in a given location. I haven't really, but just suppose I had. Now, is it realistic for me to rip up everything by the roots and move? Or what if I simply can't afford it? Sometimes you have to take a stand and fight instead because moving is too damn difficult.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for these guys because obviously they were doing more than modding consoles. But is a 5 year prison sentence appropriate for this? I'm not sure how prison sentences work in California, but in Canada a 5 year sentence doesn't neccesarily mean you spend 5 years behind bars.
Well, ya see, it's quite simple. The I.S. government is sending a message, and the message is pretty clear. If you're the President of the country, then you can pretty much do anything you want--spy on whomever you like, it's no big deal. But, on the other hand, if you're gonna aid video game piracy and most especially if you attempt to make money off of such an endeavour, then that means you must be a terrorist (because you impinged on corporate profits) so... yer goin' down. Five years in prison is a small price to pay to uphold the sanctity of the Incorporated States of America, yeah buddy.
If we rip out certain parts of your brain, you may no longer be able to escape into ClosetLand. 2+2=5. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell. The comfort you have requested is now madatory.
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Actually, I don't think trading sexual favors for other favors is inherently incompatible with feminism, but I still thought it was funny.
Although I guess if I lived in Finland, and had to deal with anti-personal choice people trying to ban prostitution, it'd probably get my hackles up too.
I'm inclined to agree. They talk about the psychology of gambling as if they'd never knowed nothin' about it before (because, being college students, they probably didn't), and then they delve deep into the economics and get all polemical, but without the kind of evidence they really need to back it up. Just a few pictures of pretty Vegas casinos.
Mr. AC, I think you have done a very good job of brainwashing yourself. A different child post demonstrates how a slot can be designed to frequently display 2 of 4 or maybe even 3 of four matching symbols legally. Whether this is thought of as a "near miss" or not depends on point of view of course, but if you think the average slot player will think of it as anything *other* than a near miss, then you are at least as deceived in your perception as the player is in theirs.
And the article didn't say it was abnormal for a machine to have frequent small payouts--the article merely pointed out how, once again, having machines give frequent small payouts plays neatly into the casino's "hand".
The lesson is simple. You really want to win at gambling? Ok. Then what you do is, you go *buy* yourself a casino and run it. There. Problem solved.
The human world is the way that it is as a result of the sum total of all of the actions and decisions of all of the people in it, including you and me.
When normal, good people inflict injustice on other normal, good people, they frequently try to justify or rationalize their act of injustice by saying that they are "just do[ing] what they are told."
Yeah, I agree it was rude of the dude to lazily call a whole large grouping of people stupid or ignorant, but please don't try to cop out of your fair share of social responsibility for the status quo of the world in which we live. Thanks.
Ok, I'm pissed off at Wal-mart now. Damn those monopolistic f*cks. The thing is, it's *obvious* that they're explicitly not supporting other browsers so they can get the lock-in, not for any other reason. We need a big Don't-Download-From-Wal-Mart campaign.
I love that you have dersive_laughter as a standard header file. I with I'd thought of that. Many of my conversations with people I didn't want to talk to would have been much shorter and simpler.
Thank you for your rant. I thought it was very insightful, and also humerous. I think that's the reason why I've never quite been able to get up the courage to get into web development. The number of kludges I would have to learn is scary and would probably make me unhappy almost all of the time.
Maybe it's better to have to use a programming language to do something that most people would expect you to have to use a programming language for. There's this thing called the Principle of Least Surprise.
Today's thick client is tomorrow's thin client. The modern example of the "thin" client is pretty loaded with, what only a few years ago, used to be really processor intensive software. Stretching this trend forward into the future (probably not valid, but who cares this is slashdot), I forsee a time when "thin client" means you've *only* got *four* processors in your system instead of *eight* or something.
Switch to another provider... Good idea. Where I live right now, my choices are:
1) AT&T High Speed Internet -- works pretty good, but the rate at which AT&T is re-emerging as a monopoly makes me not want to support them.
2) Comcast High Speed Internet -- Comcast, in this particular area at least, is fairly sucky. They won't let me have Internet unless I pay for cable channels as well, and I don't want to do that.
3) A couple different sattelite-based ISPs. But, if I go with one of those, then I can't use it for digital phone as well because the latency is too high for reliable VoIP, or so they tell me. So that means I'd still have to have AT&T for phone so I'd still be supporting their rise to monopoly-hood.
Yeah, that's a lotta choices I got there. Any route I go, I feel rather screwed. I sincerely wish there were real competition going on here, but there ain't.
more grammar checking might be more gooder-er here.
This has the potential to be snakes-on-a-plane cool.
I have recently been becoming more dependant on Yahoo! Calendar and, in so doing, it's limitations are becoming more glaring and more annoying. This forces me to consider changing to some other calendaring software/thngie, but I really don't want my calendar/thingie to be tied to just one comptuer (hence Yahoo!). Google cal is iCal compliant, or so they say, and I don't think Yahoo! Calendar is. Or, if it is, I somehow missed it. (which is possible)
wtf!? Oooohh, it's April 1st.
That's pretty cool. :)
Yeah, I already know about this. Some dumb ass put a little piece of paper in my apartment door one day that read "spychips.com Rev 13:16-18". As you might guess, Revelations 13:16-18 is that oh so happy and all too oft quoted section about the number of the Beast.
I find this crap so banally boring. I mean, lookit--Revelations itself is chock full of stuff that you could spin into whatever apocolyptic message you want to. The fact that people are so pathetically boring as to only focus on a couple or three passages is at least as depressing as the fact that they feel the need to make up apocolyptic crap in the first place.
Oh well. By the way, if you're high or tripping sometime and you really want to freak yourself out, go read Revelations. Whole thing is whacked out on the weirdness. And you don't even have to get a bible, you can get as many translations as you want from http://www.biblegateway.com/ .
Consider: the average American supposedly watches about that much TV a day, right? Now, suppose a person doesn't have cable or sattelite but still wants to consume that level of boob tube watching. Well there's those DVDs.
Don't count your jokes before they're hatched, dude. I for one plan on sticking with the DNF jokes shiv up until if/when the thing actually ships.
You make a good point. But then this is slashdot where stuff like actually using the correct word (e.g. than/then) matters little.
It's the current logo for "computer/Internet virus/WORM".
Man, either this thing is made up, or that contractor was immensely stupid. Yeah, I realize not everyone is a geek, but like other people here have mentioned there's the good ol' 3, 4, 5 right triangle for squaring an angle. See, I'm not in construction, but I used to listen to Adam Carolla who has done a lot of construction work and he mentioned the 3-4-5 rule.
There's this general principle that people tend to learn and remember things that help them do their job better, regardless of whether they know or care about math or science at all. So maybe that guy learned something new that day, but if so, it's really kinda sad. I would've thought that he would have picked up the rule quite a long while ago already. Oh well.
See, this is why we should kill all old people like me. I remember this story from way back. I mean, not like last month, but from several *years* ago. *nix systmes, and Linux in particular, have goofy naming conventions for many of their application programs? No shit. It can be an obstacle to some users? Effing *duh*.
But I was under the impression that the major distros that were concerned about usability had already solved this by putting little descriptions in parentheses next to the names of the programs in the Start/KDE/Gnome/DoStuff menu.
So. The solution to make sure we never have any more duplicate articles, nor never have that annoying feeling of de ja vu is just to kill all the old people so that the young can continue to carry on the same ancient conversations on over and over again and never have the fear of it getting boring or repetitious. The only thing they'll have to fear is age.
I'm sorry, but that's kind of naive. Suppose I've invested a great deal of time and energy to build a life in a given location. I haven't really, but just suppose I had. Now, is it realistic for me to rip up everything by the roots and move? Or what if I simply can't afford it? Sometimes you have to take a stand and fight instead because moving is too damn difficult.
Well, ya see, it's quite simple. The I.S. government is sending a message, and the message is pretty clear. If you're the President of the country, then you can pretty much do anything you want--spy on whomever you like, it's no big deal. But, on the other hand, if you're gonna aid video game piracy and most especially if you attempt to make money off of such an endeavour, then that means you must be a terrorist (because you impinged on corporate profits) so... yer goin' down. Five years in prison is a small price to pay to uphold the sanctity of the Incorporated States of America, yeah buddy.
"mute" is not the same word as "moot". They have different meanings and different pronunciations.
If we rip out certain parts of your brain, you may no longer be able to escape into ClosetLand. 2+2=5. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell. The comfort you have requested is now madatory.