To say beer flows like water at some of these events is an understatement to say the least. It isn't hard to see how this can lead to sexual assault as well.
Fuck off. Alcohol is no excuse. You either respect people or you do not. Alcohol is not an excuse.
I am unsure why you are proposing the situation. If you would assault someone while you are drunk, you already have the will to assault someone regardless of being drunk or not. The most alcohol can do is loosen up your restrictions. Regardless, YOU are still CHOOSING to perform that action.
If you don't want to look like a creep - ask the girl to your room around witnesses (they don't have to hear, just as long as you make it feel safe for her to refuse).
I am sure you are not aware of this but many guys are shy. They do not want to have the world witness them getting turned down in a forceful and rude manner by some girl they thought was not actually a bitch.
This kind of shit makes me want to hate women and treat them like animals. Fuck them and their requirements for special treatment. You know what? Fuck you for supporting that shit.
People are people. Women are people. Men are people. Women do not deserve special treatment just because they have been treated like shit in some cultures and some periods of time.
They are the weaker sex so therefore they deserve special rules? Fine. But to be balanced, if one thing is given, another must be taken. Remember that.
Your phone was probably also using cell tower triangulation and getting confused/tripped up by a stingray device. I have noticed similar behavior on my phones, but not pure GPS devices, on the east coast. The place where it was worst was Washington D.C. Out west seems to be mostly trouble free.
Wait a second. Let me get this straight because it seems too unbelievable that so many of you are advocating it:
You are recommending a device that is useless without an always-on internet connection to people who use dial-up? Really?
I do not have one but I expect 30-40 megabyte updates would be common for that device. I am unsure you could download that much over dial-up, much less do anything useful on top of that.
It seems pretty clear that many people here were not around for the "good 'ol" dial-up days.
You remind me of a guy I was arguing on IRC with about 15 years ago.
He said I was wrong for returning when there was an error with fopen(). He insisted that I should just keep looping and looping around fopen() until it stopped having an error.
This is what was taught in colleges at the time, to loop around fopen().
However, if you have ever used such a program, you would know that if you made a typo, the file was NEVER going to open (to save) and the only way out was to kill the program. Well, if it was a text editor, you just lost all of your work...
SystemD may seem like a good idea. It may implement what was taught in class. I can guarantee you that it will bring more than one person to tears when they get screwed over by it... and let there be no mistake, people WILL get screwed over by it.
Please tell me how you will fix your system when SystemD aborts because one aspect of everything it touches is not what it expects? You will not and you can not fix it. Reinstalling is the only option at that point because you can not even get to a recovery console. Sure, you could boot off of a "repair" disk but how will you view the logfiles? Oh, right, you will need a specialized executable to view anything at all. Ah, but the file did not close properly... what fucking good is a torn up binary log file?! At least with a torn up text file, you can get something out of it.
Mark my words, someone somewhere will be laughing their asses off at the fact that they got people like you to push SystemD... and there will be someone somewhere else cursing people like you who pushed SystemD (out of ignorance or malice?).
It is not just because people love the old way. No, it is cursed at. But cursed at less violently than "the new hotness" is cursed at.
Also known as the days when you were most likely a teenager or young adult.
Believe that if you will, but music from the late 60s to early 2000s was pretty good. The poison pill was introduced in the 80s. It took a while to kill, but it surely did. On the bright side, that pill caused pressure to build and some of the best thrash metal came out then (late 80s).
However; Ozzy was wrong... apparently you CAN kill Rock 'n Roll. I would say that today, it is dead; not even on life support any more. It may be underground, but it seems like it is 6 feet underground.
He is bringing legitimate usability problems to light. I did not stop recommending Firefox to friends and relatives because of slow javascript performance. I stopped recommending it because it became less usable. It is people like me who spread Firefox so widely. In fact, I am personally responsible for over 100 thousand people being able to use Firefox on their work computers. Granted, I would not have been able to push it over the top if others had not already pushed it up as a possibility... but,
Very few of us a give a fuck any more. And again, it is not because of javascript and mobile and all that other bullshit. We are the real users and we want a usable fucking interface that WE can configure. We want the browser to do what we want. Fuck you and your goddamned "optimal paradigms" that remove choice ans super optimal javascript. Do you think it is a coincidence that Gnome started dying when they took the same fucking attitude? No.
Firefox will die. They are incapable of providing what their real users want. Perhaps Microsoft has someone on the inside pushing this shit. It would not surprise me. They did it to Nokia. They surely hate Mozilla enough to do it there too.
Massively optimized javascript is useful for only ONE thing. Applications in web browsers. Very few end users want that but all the corporate types are drooling over it. We want control over our applications which applications in web browsers take from us. It is clear that all of this effort at optimizing the javascript engine is NOT for the end users but for the corporations who want to control us.
I dunno... Geography and Chemistry seem like they could be enhanced with VR. Sure, 90% of the time, even in those ideal classes, you would not be using VR... but 20 minutes of VR could likely replace 30 days of failed learning about electron "orbits" and sharing.
Or simply temporarily leaving them behind? I'd leave my phone on the desk in my office if I was going to meet a contact I didn't want associated with me...
Sure, but when the RFID tags in your tires are noted going under an overpass and the tollbooth notes your EZPASS... all combined with your cell phone not being seen, you will stand out for immediate black helicopter inspection.
Many gun affectionados I know think your idea of storing guns in a safe is the start of the guvernment taking them away. Same for a trigger lock. All of those things slow them down if some thug comes into their house.
My father was a police officer. My father had guns unattended around the house relatively frequently. As a child, I picked them up. I looked at them. There was zero chance anyone was ever going to get hurt.
Why?
I was taught what guns could could do. I had actually fired guns. I fired my first gun (a rifle) when I was I was 3 years old.
I never had guns in my house when I became an adult. It was not because I was afraid of them, it was because I had children and knew I could not train them like I had been trained. I did take them to the range but only my daughter shot a gun there. My son wanted nothing to do with it.
Relying on a gun safe to keep your children out of trouble is insanity. If you love guns so much and need to have them around, train your children. That way, if you accidentally forget to lock a gun up one day, you do not come home to a catastrophe. Children may be irresponsible but if they know they are handling something that is dangerous, they will NOT play with it. It can not just be words either. They have to SEE that it is dangerous.
Apple provided security updates for 3GS released 6/2009 in 2/2014.
There is a bit of a lie in what you say: As soon as the 4 was released, the updated to IOS pretty much killed the 3GS off by making it unusably slow. I "restored" it to an earlier version and never updated it anymore. What was that, IOS 3.2 or somesuch? Yeah. You can claim updates but that is essentially a lie.
Oh, and the Nexus 4 has famously bad battery life. I borrowed one for a while from a friend to try it out, and I could lose 60% of the battery in two hours while it was sitting in a locker while I was swimming. My venerable iPhone 4 would lose 0-2% in the same time frame.
Odd. I have a Nexus 4 (using my Nexus 5 now though) and I had exceedingly good battery life from it. Much better than the Galaxy Note and other Galaxy versions (and iPhones) that I have owned. To be quite frank, it was the best battery life I had ever experienced up until I started using my Nexus 5.
At the end of the day, I usually had at least 40% battery left. With the various Galaxy and iPhone devices I have used, it was usually closer to 10%. If you are getting poor battery life out of a Nexus 4, you either have an app installed (Facebook?) that is sucking the life out of it or you just have a phone with a bad battery.
In short, show me the "famously" part of your claim.
I could write a counter-narrative that really didn't conflict with Tolkien's all that much, which would put the forces of industrialism stumbling badly on their way to making a new society, with influence from the southern democracies, before being wiped out by the autocratic reactionaries of the West.
Hm. Your ideas are intriguing. I still can not get over the lack of Free Will from Sauron's and Saruman's armies. If there were any evidence of liberty and/or freedom at all, I could easily swallow such a reversal as you are proposing. Very interesting.
Hm. All valid points. Something is wrong since I can fly in other countries and have more service from airlines making more profit all while charging me less and harassing me less at the airport. WTF? I do not know. A 7 million dollar a year salary can not be helping the situation but it surely is not the main problem.
...because Word 2.0 was centuries ahead of Word Perfect for the vast majority of the population.
lolwut? Word was crap and still is crap. It is barely suitable for writing cheap business documents.
Word Perfect owned the word processing market but lost it because the development and management teams were utterly incompetent...
You are correct that they owned the word processing market but you are utterly and completely wrong about the development and management teams being incompetent. Microsoft was changing the functionality of the APIs and such so that ALL competitors would appear to be incompetent and incapable of matching the "utter awesomeness" of Word.
That is all documented in the anti-trust trial so I will not continue to argue with you about it. The Netscape issue was how the whole trial started so I fail to understand why you are even arguing about all of this. Perhaps you wish for the world to be different than it is...
With enough study, you can pass the exams to be a medical doctor.
That is true... and I have had many bad experiences with medical doctors. Just because someone can pass a test immediately after studying for it, that does NOT mean that they understand whatever it is that they just passed.
I kind of want a doctor, and a security professional, who have studied their fields.
I want more than just studying. I want understanding of the material.
Sorry you couldn't pass.
Heh. You are funny. I passed Security+, Server+, CISSP, etc all without breaking a book to specifically study for all of those certifications. I have read lots of books. I have learned lots of stuff. Knowing that stuff was sufficient for passing the tests. It is almost a form of cheating if you have to study to pass a test that checks for whether or not you understand the material.
I am well paid for my services.
I suppose it MIGHT be possible to do that, but that would be the hard way. Understanding the material is a lot easier than memorizing every possible question and answer.
You say that as if it is negating what I am saying. On the contrary, you are just validating what I say.
Understanding takes a LOT of mental energy. It also requires a certain speed of synapse firing or somesuch. Most people are not willing or are not capable of expending that type of energy... but they still want the high paying jobs. So they study. And study some more. They take the tests. They fail them. They study some more. Eventually, after several more failures, they pass them. They get hired into a high paying job... and then can not perform at the level of some of those around them.
People kill for money. Studying to get money is not so hard as actually learning, knowing, and understanding the material. People would rather than kill than expend the energy needed to understand.
In summary, the average person is a lazy and murderous brute who wants money and will take the path of least resistance to get it. Regurgitating facts is that path.
Lying on those forms or omitting facts like that is one of the things they really look for. You can have a clearance suspended for forgetting to mention minor financial debts.
Heh. Filling out those forms is so stressful that on my first one, I forgot to include my kids! D'oh! It is VERY difficult finding and gathering all of the information that they want. Essentially, your entire life is audited.
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To say beer flows like water at some of these events is an understatement to say the least. It isn't hard to see how this can lead to sexual assault as well.
Fuck off. Alcohol is no excuse. You either respect people or you do not. Alcohol is not an excuse.
I am unsure why you are proposing the situation. If you would assault someone while you are drunk, you already have the will to assault someone regardless of being drunk or not. The most alcohol can do is loosen up your restrictions. Regardless, YOU are still CHOOSING to perform that action.
If you don't want to look like a creep - ask the girl to your room around witnesses (they don't have to hear, just as long as you make it feel safe for her to refuse).
I am sure you are not aware of this but many guys are shy. They do not want to have the world witness them getting turned down in a forceful and rude manner by some girl they thought was not actually a bitch.
This kind of shit makes me want to hate women and treat them like animals. Fuck them and their requirements for special treatment. You know what? Fuck you for supporting that shit.
People are people. Women are people. Men are people. Women do not deserve special treatment just because they have been treated like shit in some cultures and some periods of time.
They are the weaker sex so therefore they deserve special rules? Fine. But to be balanced, if one thing is given, another must be taken. Remember that.
What did you load it on? An iPhone 1? A 4? An Osborne Executive?
Who cares? It is slower. That is all that matters here.
The US isn't the world.
LOL, What planet do you live on?
(Just kidding. It is common for people to assume that what is around them is normal. I am just making a joke.)
Your phone was probably also using cell tower triangulation and getting confused/tripped up by a stingray device. I have noticed similar behavior on my phones, but not pure GPS devices, on the east coast. The place where it was worst was Washington D.C. Out west seems to be mostly trouble free.
Wait a second. Let me get this straight because it seems too unbelievable that so many of you are advocating it:
You are recommending a device that is useless without an always-on internet connection to people who use dial-up? Really?
I do not have one but I expect 30-40 megabyte updates would be common for that device. I am unsure you could download that much over dial-up, much less do anything useful on top of that.
It seems pretty clear that many people here were not around for the "good 'ol" dial-up days.
By that logic, Windows 8 should see Bill Gates hanged..
Sounds good to me.
The lesson here is: Never offer an incentive counter to your intent. ;)
I already have a program to read all logs, more or less.
Ha! I see what you did there. ;)
You remind me of a guy I was arguing on IRC with about 15 years ago.
He said I was wrong for returning when there was an error with fopen(). He insisted that I should just keep looping and looping around fopen() until it stopped having an error.
This is what was taught in colleges at the time, to loop around fopen().
However, if you have ever used such a program, you would know that if you made a typo, the file was NEVER going to open (to save) and the only way out was to kill the program. Well, if it was a text editor, you just lost all of your work...
SystemD may seem like a good idea. It may implement what was taught in class. I can guarantee you that it will bring more than one person to tears when they get screwed over by it... and let there be no mistake, people WILL get screwed over by it.
Please tell me how you will fix your system when SystemD aborts because one aspect of everything it touches is not what it expects? You will not and you can not fix it. Reinstalling is the only option at that point because you can not even get to a recovery console. Sure, you could boot off of a "repair" disk but how will you view the logfiles? Oh, right, you will need a specialized executable to view anything at all. Ah, but the file did not close properly... what fucking good is a torn up binary log file?! At least with a torn up text file, you can get something out of it.
Mark my words, someone somewhere will be laughing their asses off at the fact that they got people like you to push SystemD... and there will be someone somewhere else cursing people like you who pushed SystemD (out of ignorance or malice?).
It is not just because people love the old way. No, it is cursed at. But cursed at less violently than "the new hotness" is cursed at.
Also known as the days when you were most likely a teenager or young adult.
Believe that if you will, but music from the late 60s to early 2000s was pretty good. The poison pill was introduced in the 80s. It took a while to kill, but it surely did. On the bright side, that pill caused pressure to build and some of the best thrash metal came out then (late 80s).
However; Ozzy was wrong... apparently you CAN kill Rock 'n Roll. I would say that today, it is dead; not even on life support any more. It may be underground, but it seems like it is 6 feet underground.
You're just whining about minor cosmetic changes.
NO!
He is bringing legitimate usability problems to light. I did not stop recommending Firefox to friends and relatives because of slow javascript performance. I stopped recommending it because it became less usable. It is people like me who spread Firefox so widely. In fact, I am personally responsible for over 100 thousand people being able to use Firefox on their work computers. Granted, I would not have been able to push it over the top if others had not already pushed it up as a possibility... but,
Very few of us a give a fuck any more. And again, it is not because of javascript and mobile and all that other bullshit. We are the real users and we want a usable fucking interface that WE can configure. We want the browser to do what we want. Fuck you and your goddamned "optimal paradigms" that remove choice ans super optimal javascript. Do you think it is a coincidence that Gnome started dying when they took the same fucking attitude? No.
Firefox will die. They are incapable of providing what their real users want. Perhaps Microsoft has someone on the inside pushing this shit. It would not surprise me. They did it to Nokia. They surely hate Mozilla enough to do it there too.
Massively optimized javascript is useful for only ONE thing. Applications in web browsers. Very few end users want that but all the corporate types are drooling over it. We want control over our applications which applications in web browsers take from us. It is clear that all of this effort at optimizing the javascript engine is NOT for the end users but for the corporations who want to control us.
They will have polarized glasses.
I dunno... Geography and Chemistry seem like they could be enhanced with VR. Sure, 90% of the time, even in those ideal classes, you would not be using VR... but 20 minutes of VR could likely replace 30 days of failed learning about electron "orbits" and sharing.
Or simply temporarily leaving them behind? I'd leave my phone on the desk in my office if I was going to meet a contact I didn't want associated with me...
Sure, but when the RFID tags in your tires are noted going under an overpass and the tollbooth notes your EZPASS... all combined with your cell phone not being seen, you will stand out for immediate black helicopter inspection.
Don't forget about all of the cameras...
Many gun affectionados I know think your idea of storing guns in a safe is the start of the guvernment taking them away. Same for a trigger lock. All of those things slow them down if some thug comes into their house.
My father was a police officer. My father had guns unattended around the house relatively frequently. As a child, I picked them up. I looked at them. There was zero chance anyone was ever going to get hurt.
Why?
I was taught what guns could could do. I had actually fired guns. I fired my first gun (a rifle) when I was I was 3 years old.
I never had guns in my house when I became an adult. It was not because I was afraid of them, it was because I had children and knew I could not train them like I had been trained. I did take them to the range but only my daughter shot a gun there. My son wanted nothing to do with it.
Relying on a gun safe to keep your children out of trouble is insanity. If you love guns so much and need to have them around, train your children. That way, if you accidentally forget to lock a gun up one day, you do not come home to a catastrophe. Children may be irresponsible but if they know they are handling something that is dangerous, they will NOT play with it. It can not just be words either. They have to SEE that it is dangerous.
Apple provided security updates for 3GS released 6/2009 in 2/2014.
There is a bit of a lie in what you say: As soon as the 4 was released, the updated to IOS pretty much killed the 3GS off by making it unusably slow. I "restored" it to an earlier version and never updated it anymore. What was that, IOS 3.2 or somesuch? Yeah. You can claim updates but that is essentially a lie.
Oh, and the Nexus 4 has famously bad battery life. I borrowed one for a while from a friend to try it out, and I could lose 60% of the battery in two hours while it was sitting in a locker while I was swimming. My venerable iPhone 4 would lose 0-2% in the same time frame.
Odd. I have a Nexus 4 (using my Nexus 5 now though) and I had exceedingly good battery life from it. Much better than the Galaxy Note and other Galaxy versions (and iPhones) that I have owned. To be quite frank, it was the best battery life I had ever experienced up until I started using my Nexus 5.
At the end of the day, I usually had at least 40% battery left. With the various Galaxy and iPhone devices I have used, it was usually closer to 10%. If you are getting poor battery life out of a Nexus 4, you either have an app installed (Facebook?) that is sucking the life out of it or you just have a phone with a bad battery.
In short, show me the "famously" part of your claim.
All of existence is bi-polar and has needed the lithium just to maintain it's current state...
You jest, but people are still trying to figure out why most of the universe appears to matter rather than anti-matter. It is the lithium!
Am I the only person who has a problem with that?
No. You are not the only one.
I could write a counter-narrative that really didn't conflict with Tolkien's all that much, which would put the forces of industrialism stumbling badly on their way to making a new society, with influence from the southern democracies, before being wiped out by the autocratic reactionaries of the West.
Hm. Your ideas are intriguing. I still can not get over the lack of Free Will from Sauron's and Saruman's armies. If there were any evidence of liberty and/or freedom at all, I could easily swallow such a reversal as you are proposing. Very interesting.
Hm. All valid points. Something is wrong since I can fly in other countries and have more service from airlines making more profit all while charging me less and harassing me less at the airport. WTF? I do not know. A 7 million dollar a year salary can not be helping the situation but it surely is not the main problem.
Yeah, no problem. Because paying people minimum wage for most jobs worked out so well in Los Angeles. Bloods? Crips? Nah, MS13.
Rock on.
Word Perfect for Windows was total crap.
I agree, the first version for Windows was crap.
...because Word 2.0 was centuries ahead of Word Perfect for the vast majority of the population.
lolwut? Word was crap and still is crap. It is barely suitable for writing cheap business documents.
Word Perfect owned the word processing market but lost it because the development and management teams were utterly incompetent...
You are correct that they owned the word processing market but you are utterly and completely wrong about the development and management teams being incompetent. Microsoft was changing the functionality of the APIs and such so that ALL competitors would appear to be incompetent and incapable of matching the "utter awesomeness" of Word.
That is all documented in the anti-trust trial so I will not continue to argue with you about it. The Netscape issue was how the whole trial started so I fail to understand why you are even arguing about all of this. Perhaps you wish for the world to be different than it is...
With enough study, you can pass the exams to be a medical doctor.
That is true... and I have had many bad experiences with medical doctors. Just because someone can pass a test immediately after studying for it, that does NOT mean that they understand whatever it is that they just passed.
I kind of want a doctor, and a security professional, who have studied their fields.
I want more than just studying. I want understanding of the material.
Sorry you couldn't pass.
Heh. You are funny. I passed Security+, Server+, CISSP, etc all without breaking a book to specifically study for all of those certifications. I have read lots of books. I have learned lots of stuff. Knowing that stuff was sufficient for passing the tests. It is almost a form of cheating if you have to study to pass a test that checks for whether or not you understand the material.
I am well paid for my services.
I suppose it MIGHT be possible to do that, but that would be the hard way. Understanding the material is a lot easier than memorizing every possible question and answer.
You say that as if it is negating what I am saying. On the contrary, you are just validating what I say.
Understanding takes a LOT of mental energy. It also requires a certain speed of synapse firing or somesuch. Most people are not willing or are not capable of expending that type of energy... but they still want the high paying jobs. So they study. And study some more. They take the tests. They fail them. They study some more. Eventually, after several more failures, they pass them. They get hired into a high paying job... and then can not perform at the level of some of those around them.
People kill for money. Studying to get money is not so hard as actually learning, knowing, and understanding the material. People would rather than kill than expend the energy needed to understand.
In summary, the average person is a lazy and murderous brute who wants money and will take the path of least resistance to get it. Regurgitating facts is that path.
Lying on those forms or omitting facts like that is one of the things they really look for. You can have a clearance suspended for forgetting to mention minor financial debts.
Heh. Filling out those forms is so stressful that on my first one, I forgot to include my kids! D'oh! It is VERY difficult finding and gathering all of the information that they want. Essentially, your entire life is audited.