"And you know what the difference between brain surgery and using a computer is? Billions of fucking idiots think they're fully qualified to use a computer. They should consider themselves lucky they're only being mocked, cause it should be illegal to be that stupid."
Truely, but not likely to passed into law (especially by Ted Stevens!), as all of the congresscritter's internets are getting clogged up in the tubes- arriving days late.
Name calling to support your little crusade does not add to the discussion, it detracts from it. Get over it, our language changes, it's dynamic. New terms always pop up, old ones change their meaning with successive generations. You ranting about it will not change that. The USA version of the English language has traditionaly changed, mangled, misconstrued, and adopted words from a lot of different languages to get it to where it is today, and will probably continue to do so.
So, go away troll, and BTW, SHEEPLE! SHEEPLE! SHEEPLE! SHEEPLE! SHEEPLE! SSHHEEEEEPPLLE!!!
Huh? WTF? To refresh your memory (my post):"Not my problem, asshat, so have a pitcher of STFU yourself. Buy into the sheeple problem and deal with it."
That has nothing to do with MP3's, which my OS can play just fine, thank you.
Whatever I have said to upset you enough for you to make me your foe I'm not sure of, but wouldn't mind knowing so I could say it better in order to piss you ff enough that you would just not bother to even see my posts to reply to. (hint: go to your Pref.'s- it's your friend!)
P.S. Don't bother with a reply, I won't even see it from now on.;)
I surely see your point, but to not try is just as criminal as what's going on.
Not that it carries much weight, but if you do so, then at least your mind can rest easier that you done all you could.
I know it seems futile, but if we all don't do anything, then no changes take place- keep some hope, try to do your best, and maybe it will work out okay.
BTW, the "If there was a vote for impeachment that the public could vote in, I would vote." idea is a good one, too bad that will probably never happen, the congresscritters would be too afraid it might (and should) apply to them also.
I think that the current moderator's are on crack , or sumthin'. While I agree with you, I think you should have been modded "insightful", or "interesting". I don't see how any of this is "funny". Am I missing something here? Note: I honestly do see your point, but WTF is funny about this?
I remember sitting there in front of the TV also- was AWESOME! The lateest rover pics have brought back that same spellbinding feeling. Amazing accomplishments, and I feel good being a witness for them. Inspirational stuff!
Considereing this:( Exploding laptop old news to Dell? Anonymous writes "CRN is reporting that Dell had about a dozen reports of burned laptops before they announced last year's battery recall. The recall was launched in response to a exploding laptop caught on film at a Japanese conference. Dozens more cases popped up with apparently severe overheating, melted cases, etc., according to the report." ), and the fact that there is a lot of toxic/EPA unfriendly chemicals in laptop batteries (which will need replaced- the discarded ones will go where?), and what EPA unfriendly processes are needed to produce the batteries in the mean time, how can this be good news?
Okay, the tech acheivments are to be commended, but this seems more an answer looking for a valid question.
Maybe I'm wrong and over-reacting, if so, help me out here.
To actually model the human brain, I would think that the number of cpu's needed would impose a really large bus to interconnect, and then enabling each cpu to use memory chips (comparitivly to the human brain's ability) to be a little ahead of our current technology....otherwise AI solutions that actually worked would not be such a big problem, and would already be solved/utilized. We have made big advances in this area, but having even a crude prototype to LT. Data ( Star Trek: Next Generation) is still quite a ways off.
However, I expect that we will eventually solve this problem. I just hope that we do in my lifetime- that would be way cool! (work fast, I'm 49!)
"Asking children to do something like that is a form of indoctrination, making the implication that "ratting" to the government is grand thing to do."
Not a new idea (Hitler Youth, anyone?), but it seems our capacity for learning from history seems tied only to short-term memory.
I think the "...asked my son to explore dark alleys at 3am, just to figure out if drug deals are going on..." was a little overdone, but I do agree with you in principle.
Face it, it is hard for the would be dictators/over-control types to acheive their agenda unless.....they "THINK OF THE CHILDREN", to use an old/. meme.
I see these negative posts, but let's try it like this: 1. they have decided to HELP out the community....+ points 2. not all developers cna afford the bandwidth, or do not have the resources easily available to ship source or provide for download.....+points, as still available from Ubuntu 3. this can go on, I'll not bother- but the point being is Ubuntu is trying to HELP the community-what's not to like about this?
IMHO, this is showing the true spirit of FOSS, so unless you have an agenda against FOSS, then give 'em a hand/applause, whichever you can do!
Good question, and most relevant. Mainly was talking about their personal/home products. That is what I have to deal with the mos, but as far as their business product goes, it is "good", but not great, as it used to be the best as far as popularity goes. They have slipped. Their corporate/business version is still okay, but their home/personal version is crud. The reason I mention this is- how many people have Norton on their work PC, assume that the home version is what they should run on their home PC? Do you see where I am coming from? I'm not trying to totally disabuse Norton, but there is a huge difference between the two versions, and most sheeple will not realise this, just assume that they are the same.
Interesting points you made! I can remember listening to some "underground stations" (yes, on AM) back in the mid and later '60's out of Detroit and various cities in Ohio that would play all kinds of stuff you couldn't even find in the "record stores". It wasn't until the early '70's that I caught on to the fact that the Beatles were popular- I had been listeniong to the likes of "Fat Mattress"(their bass player later joined Jimi Hendrix as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience), Whitew Rhino, MC5, and Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes. My point I guess is this: By the time the "Pop" or top 40 was prevelent, I had already turned my back on that "pop" format in favor of more freedom of choice that was presented by the "underground" stations/music. This attitude has stuck with me, and now has made me a firm adversary to the RIAA and their pap they try to shovel down the public's collective throats.
I know seek out a lot of so-called "indy" music just on principle, as the payolla (sp?) and "top 40" formats espuosed by most stations and lables just smack too much as being force-fed to the public.
I admit, it could be just my rebellious nature, but it could also just be my personal tastes, or could be irrelevant....I just know what I don't like, and am always eager to find new stuff that I may or may not like.
On that note, I will quit ranting, but only abiding by the RIAA's rules and shovel-feed, you will never know what else is out there, and will miss out on a LOT of good stuff!
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I share your confusion and also share your love for FF and those extensions, the web is more pleasant now. :)
"And you know what the difference between brain surgery and using a computer is? Billions of fucking idiots think they're fully qualified to use a computer. They should consider themselves lucky they're only being mocked, cause it should be illegal to be that stupid."
Truely, but not likely to passed into law (especially by Ted Stevens!), as all of the congresscritter's internets are getting clogged up in the tubes- arriving days late.
At least now they are calling their product a beta, and finally charging what it's worth.
But it still is not as much of a bargain as OpenOffice.
"You really sound like an idiot when you do."
Name calling to support your little crusade does not add to the discussion, it detracts from it.
Get over it, our language changes, it's dynamic. New terms always pop up, old ones change their meaning with successive generations. You ranting about it will not change that. The USA version of the English language has traditionaly changed, mangled, misconstrued, and adopted words from a lot of different languages to get it to where it is today, and will probably continue to do so.
So, go away troll, and BTW, SHEEPLE! SHEEPLE! SHEEPLE! SHEEPLE! SHEEPLE! SSHHEEEEEPPLLE!!!
Huh? WTF?
;)
To refresh your memory (my post):"Not my problem, asshat, so have a pitcher of STFU yourself. Buy into the sheeple problem and deal with it."
That has nothing to do with MP3's, which my OS can play just fine, thank you.
Whatever I have said to upset you enough for you to make me your foe I'm not sure of, but wouldn't mind knowing so I could say it better in order to piss you ff enough that you would just not bother to even see my posts to reply to. (hint: go to your Pref.'s- it's your friend!)
P.S. Don't bother with a reply, I won't even see it from now on.
I surely see your point, but to not try is just as criminal as what's going on.
Not that it carries much weight, but if you do so, then at least your mind can rest easier that you done all you could.
I know it seems futile, but if we all don't do anything, then no changes take place- keep some hope, try to do your best, and maybe it will work out okay.
BTW, the "If there was a vote for impeachment that the public could vote in, I would vote." idea is a good one, too bad that will probably never happen, the congresscritters would be too afraid it might (and should) apply to them also.
I think that the current moderator's are on crack , or sumthin'.
While I agree with you, I think you should have been modded "insightful", or "interesting". I don't see how any of this is "funny".
Am I missing something here?
Note: I honestly do see your point, but WTF is funny about this?
Not my problem, asshat, so have a pitcher of STFU yourself. Buy into the sheeple problem and deal with it.
Windows only, luser....Next!
Sounds like you need to find a whole different set of friends/associates!
Or maybe start taking your meds again...I dunno.
Arrghh! Matey, batten down the hatches and prepare a broadside.. teh *AA is trying to come aboard!
LOL!
That was my impression to the title of the story at first.
Then, I actually RTFA, and I like our version more (for the entertainment factor)....nevermind.
I bow to your obvious geeky deviousness!!!
That truly Rocks. Kudos to some very good uses of now tech!
I remember sitting there in front of the TV also- was AWESOME!
The lateest rover pics have brought back that same spellbinding feeling.
Amazing accomplishments, and I feel good being a witness for them.
Inspirational stuff!
LOL!!
One funny post- Kudos!
Considereing this :( Exploding laptop old news to Dell? Anonymous writes "CRN is reporting that Dell had about a dozen reports of burned laptops before they announced last year's battery recall. The recall was launched in response to a exploding laptop caught on film at a Japanese conference. Dozens more cases popped up with apparently severe overheating, melted cases, etc., according to the report." ), and the fact that there is a lot of toxic/EPA unfriendly chemicals in laptop batteries (which will need replaced- the discarded ones will go where?), and what EPA unfriendly processes are needed to produce the batteries in the mean time, how can this be good news?
Okay, the tech acheivments are to be commended, but this seems more an answer looking for a valid question.
Maybe I'm wrong and over-reacting, if so, help me out here.
To actually model the human brain, I would think that the number of cpu's needed would impose a really large bus to interconnect, and then enabling each cpu to use memory chips (comparitivly to the human brain's ability) to be a little ahead of our current technology....otherwise AI solutions that actually worked would not be such a big problem, and would already be solved/utilized.
We have made big advances in this area, but having even a crude prototype to LT. Data ( Star Trek: Next Generation) is still quite a ways off.
However, I expect that we will eventually solve this problem. I just hope that we do in my lifetime- that would be way cool! (work fast, I'm 49!)
You forgot:
4) ?????
5) Profit!
P.S. I see where you're going with this and agree with you, but could not resist.
It's the vodka talking in me, honest.
"Asking children to do something like that is a form of indoctrination, making the implication that "ratting" to the government is grand thing to do."
..." was a little overdone, but I do agree with you in principle.
/. meme.
Not a new idea (Hitler Youth, anyone?), but it seems our capacity for learning from history seems tied only to short-term memory.
I think the "...asked my son to explore dark alleys at 3am, just to figure out if drug deals are going on
Face it, it is hard for the would be dictators/over-control types to acheive their agenda unless.....they "THINK OF THE CHILDREN", to use an old
LOL! Same here wondered what Indiana Jones had to do with China censorship....*grabs another beer*...Oh, never mind....hmmm...poptab....SHINY!
I'm already a besotted alaholic, you insensitive clod!
LOL, that was well done sir!
I see these negative posts, but let's try it like this:
1. they have decided to HELP out the community....+ points
2. not all developers cna afford the bandwidth, or do not have the resources easily available to ship source or provide for download.....+points, as still available from Ubuntu
3. this can go on, I'll not bother- but the point being is Ubuntu is trying to HELP the community-what's not to like about this?
IMHO, this is showing the true spirit of FOSS, so unless you have an agenda against FOSS, then give 'em a hand/applause, whichever you can do!
Hoefully this won't pass, but I would almost bet it will.
We can safely bet it will not be vetoed by POTUS!
I am well familiar with Maj Gen Butler, a true American military hero, and a man of respected character.
Thank you for the heads up, though, I understand.
Good question, and most relevant.
Mainly was talking about their personal/home products. That is what I have to deal with the mos, but as far as their business product goes, it is "good", but not great, as it used to be the best as far as popularity goes.
They have slipped. Their corporate/business version is still okay, but their home/personal version is crud.
The reason I mention this is- how many people have Norton on their work PC, assume that the home version is what they should run on their home PC?
Do you see where I am coming from? I'm not trying to totally disabuse Norton, but there is a huge difference between the two versions, and most sheeple will not realise this, just assume that they are the same.
Interesting points you made!
I can remember listening to some "underground stations" (yes, on AM) back in the mid and later '60's out of Detroit and various cities in Ohio that would play all kinds of stuff you couldn't even find in the "record stores".
It wasn't until the early '70's that I caught on to the fact that the Beatles were popular- I had been listeniong to the likes of "Fat Mattress"(their bass player later joined Jimi Hendrix as part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience), Whitew Rhino, MC5, and Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes.
My point I guess is this:
By the time the "Pop" or top 40 was prevelent, I had already turned my back on that "pop" format in favor of more freedom of choice that was presented by the "underground" stations/music. This attitude has stuck with me, and now has made me a firm adversary to the RIAA and their pap they try to shovel down the public's collective throats.
I know seek out a lot of so-called "indy" music just on principle, as the payolla (sp?) and "top 40" formats espuosed by most stations and lables just smack too much as being force-fed to the public.
I admit, it could be just my rebellious nature, but it could also just be my personal tastes, or could be irrelevant....I just know what I don't like, and am always eager to find new stuff that I may or may not like.
On that note, I will quit ranting, but only abiding by the RIAA's rules and shovel-feed, you will never know what else is out there, and will miss out on a LOT of good stuff!