As i walk throught the valley where i harvest my grain,
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain.
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me,
you know I shun fancy things like electricity.
At 4:30 in the mornin' i'm milking cows,
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool
and I've been milking and plowing so long that
even Ezekial thinks that my mind is gone.
I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline,
got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin,
but if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine,
then tonight we're going to party like it's 1699.
(Chorus)
we've been spending most our lives living in an Amish Paradise,
I churn butter once or twice, living in an Amish Paradise,
It's hard work and sacrifice, living in an Amish Paradise,
We sell quilts at discount price, living in an Amish Paradise.
A local boy kicked me in the butt last week,
i just smiled at him, and I turned the other cheek.
I don't really care, in fact I wish him well,
cause I'll be laughing my head off when he's burning in Hell.
I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it,
an Amish with a 'tude, you know that's unheard of.
I never wear buttons, but I got a cool hat,
and my homies agree i really look good in black, fool
If you come to visit, you'll be bored to tears,
we haven't even payed the phone bill in 300 years,
But we ain't really quaint, so please don't point and stare,
we're just technologically impaired.
there's no phone, no lights, no motorcars, not a single
luxury,
like robonson Crusoe, it's as primitive as can be,
(chorus)
we've been spending most our lives living in an Amish Paradise,
we're just plain and simple guys, living in an Amish Paradise,
there's no time for sin and vice, living in an Amish Paradise,
We don't fight, we all play nice, living in an Amish Paradise
Hitching up the buggy, churning lots of butter,
raised a barn on Monday, soon i'll raise anutter
think you're really rightious?
think you're pure in heart?
well i know i'm a million times as humble as thou art.
I'm the pioust guy the little Amletts want to be like
on my knees day and night scoring points for the afterlife.
so don't be vain, and don't be whiney,
or else my brother might have to get medieval on your hiney.
(chorus)
we've been spending most our lives living in an Amish Paradise,
We're all crazy Mennonites, living in an Amish Paradise,
there's no cops or traffic lights, living in an Amish Paradise,
But you'd probably think it bites, living in an Amish Paradise,
Linux is dying...get over it. Developers have better shit to do than code anything for an obsolete, barely functional, gimmick OS. Move on man, it's the 21st century.
Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers".
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit BlogAds to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at Network Solutions ). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced ( link ) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the Clarahost Advanced hosting service, he is out $130 leaving him with a maximum net profit of $650 each month. Keeping your website registered with Network Solutions cost $34.99 per year, or about $3 per month. This leaves Roland Piquepaille with $647 each month. He may pay for additional services related to his online journal, but I was unable to find any evidence of this.
I hate to say...I'm sure most folks in IT have had to perform under the 'questionable' heading due to outside influence. I've seen many folks go against their gut feeling to appease a foolish CEO regardless of consequence. This hardly applies just to science.
Maybe/. should have a 'We'll spin anything as geek just to keep the front page full' section.
Slashdot Mirror
From where did you plagiarise that opinion?
As i walk throught the valley where i harvest my grain,
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain.
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me, you know I shun fancy things like electricity. At 4:30 in the mornin' i'm milking cows, Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool and I've been milking and plowing so long that even Ezekial thinks that my mind is gone. I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline, got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin, but if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine, then tonight we're going to party like it's 1699.
(Chorus) we've been spending most our lives living in an Amish Paradise, I churn butter once or twice, living in an Amish Paradise, It's hard work and sacrifice, living in an Amish Paradise, We sell quilts at discount price, living in an Amish Paradise.
A local boy kicked me in the butt last week, i just smiled at him, and I turned the other cheek. I don't really care, in fact I wish him well, cause I'll be laughing my head off when he's burning in Hell. I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it, an Amish with a 'tude, you know that's unheard of. I never wear buttons, but I got a cool hat, and my homies agree i really look good in black, fool If you come to visit, you'll be bored to tears, we haven't even payed the phone bill in 300 years, But we ain't really quaint, so please don't point and stare, we're just technologically impaired.
there's no phone, no lights, no motorcars, not a single luxury, like robonson Crusoe, it's as primitive as can be,
(chorus) we've been spending most our lives living in an Amish Paradise, we're just plain and simple guys, living in an Amish Paradise, there's no time for sin and vice, living in an Amish Paradise, We don't fight, we all play nice, living in an Amish Paradise
Hitching up the buggy, churning lots of butter, raised a barn on Monday, soon i'll raise anutter think you're really rightious? think you're pure in heart? well i know i'm a million times as humble as thou art. I'm the pioust guy the little Amletts want to be like on my knees day and night scoring points for the afterlife. so don't be vain, and don't be whiney, or else my brother might have to get medieval on your hiney.
(chorus) we've been spending most our lives living in an Amish Paradise, We're all crazy Mennonites, living in an Amish Paradise, there's no cops or traffic lights, living in an Amish Paradise, But you'd probably think it bites, living in an Amish Paradise,
Now you're using your head.
The world needs more independant thinkers like you homefries. Feel free to add me to your friend list.
Linux is dying...get over it. Developers have better shit to do than code anything for an obsolete, barely functional, gimmick OS. Move on man, it's the 21st century.
If this is true it has really offended me. I feel bad for Mr. Taco.
Thankfully I don't live in the US.
Oh, and thankfully no one here gives a shit what you think.
You must be a riot at parties.
I'm having a BBQ/Piss-Up tomorrow. Please don't come.
"believed to hold the secret for transforming base metals"
I beleive the word is Transmuting, no?
I was about to say yes until I realized you didn't say slutting.
They want their crappy book back.
...They want their crappy interface back.
Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers".
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit BlogAds to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at Network Solutions ). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced ( link ) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the Clarahost Advanced hosting service, he is out $130 leaving him with a maximum net profit of $650 each month. Keeping your website registered with Network Solutions cost $34.99 per year, or about $3 per month. This leaves Roland Piquepaille with $647 each month. He may pay for additional services related to his online journal, but I was unable to find any evidence of this.
All of the
Hoooray to /. and it's perpetuation of crappy mysogyny!
Today's fortune:
"I've finally found the perfect girl, I couldn't ask for more, She's deaf and dumb and over-sexed, And owns a liquor store. "
Do you have a fuckin job?
I hate to say...I'm sure most folks in IT have had to perform under the 'questionable' heading due to outside influence. I've seen many folks go against their gut feeling to appease a foolish CEO regardless of consequence. This hardly applies just to science.
/. should have a 'We'll spin anything as geek just to keep the front page full' section.
Maybe
We figured you would confuse TPB with the 6 o'clock news.
mailto:hijackthecube@yahoo.ca
How can I get more spam? Is there anyone with info for me? email me at my new email address!
I hate to say it:
I am endlessly thankful I don't live in your country.
Actually, I love to say it.
It means the Jedi Order must be instituted immediately.
Peace and Justice do not dispense themselves.
You can also tell if hardware sucks if the following occur anywhere in the name of said hardware:
X-TREME!
EXTREME!
EX-TREME!
Who gives a shit?
To confirm you're not a script,
please type the text shown in this image:
WAIT JUST A GODDAMN MINUTE!
Oh, nevermind...I thought you were my mom.
The Proof IS HERE!
hhahahahhaha!
I'm celebrating by BOYCOTTING ENGLAND!
They don't own me. Fuckin Limeys.
Montreal?