Now that is a feat: getting your enemy to obtain your goal for you.
By politics or terror, bombs or rules, the goals of many politicians and religious terrorists are one in the same: It's about control-- imposing their will onto yours.
I tested out the Toolbar as a way to keep Firefox's bookmarks synced on all my various workstations. It didn't work out too well.
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Ah yeah, we had someone like you in my dorms. Stupid rooster alarm clock in his room set to go off at 3AM when he left for a long holiday weekend (We didn't have annoying websites back then).
We went to the room above his, tied some sheets together, sent down a brave soul to climb in through his window and smash the thing to bits.
And yeah, he was a stoner.
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It's even more fun when you own the original Raffi album.
The kids LOVE Raffi!
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Here's a cruel joke to play on stoner friends.
Find some stoned college students. Point them to the Badgerbadgerbadger site. Tell them that the end of the video is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY funny!
Come back two hours later, see that they still staring at the screen, and have a good chuckle with them.
Yeah, but being unemployeed in Europe isn't as big of a deal as it is here.
In Europe, you still get healthcare and enough money to eat & pay rent.
Here, the government doesn't care if you loose your job, loose your healthcare, are evicted from your apartment and starve to death. Just get a job lazy fucker.
But European Car Makers are pretty competitive, and their unions are much stronger and demand greater benefits then American Unions.
And Japan has alot of socialized services, such as National Health Care. As a result, the Japanese corporations are able to remain much, much more competitive. Here in the States, the companies pay for the healthplan. I don't know any auto assemblers, but a typical healthplan for my professional friends costs $10,000-12,000 for 2-4 people. That's a ton!
No, A/C sucks because the major car manufacturers are too lame to figure out how to build good A/C without Freon. It's possible, they just won't do it.
American auto manufacturers especially. They fail to innovate, and are going down the tubes. Nobody to blame but themselves, really.
I'm not liberal. I'm a moderate. It's just that the rest of the country has moved to the right.:)
And well, I consider Stalin to be the same sort of fascist dictators as Hitler & Pinochet. Castro is a little more tollerant, even if he is a controling fucker.
And Bush, Nixon, etc. come nowhere close to that extreme. I don't agree with what some of the extreme leftists say, and I sometimes defend Bush to (hard to believe).
In other news, research has shown that the latest trend is a Masters in Business Administration.
Many people throughout the country are enrolling in MBA programs, with dreams of getting rich quick (at an $60,000 pricetag).
I can't wait till these guys get out of school and find that the next logical round of outsourcing is to outsource many of the Business Administrators. It's a cost cutting measure, and fixes many of the communication problems that happen when the Managers live on a different continent from the Engineers.
90% of the people I know in the tech field have been laid off once in the last 4 years. I only know of one mid-sized technical company that hasn't laid off employees, and everyone there hates their job. I quit after 6 months.
Granted, this is just from my own perspective. But look, the tech job world is slowly creeping out of a multi-year massacre, now the tech world is being run by business people who don't know what an IP address is, but spend a million bucks because IBM said it was good (and promised a trip to Hawaii!)
Sure, there's opportunity here, but students are going to have a hard time competing with we techies with 6+ years experience.
I've been using Mozilla/Firefox since Mozilla since M13 or so (mid-2000). I used Netscape 4.x before that. In all that time, I have never had a single piece of detectable malware installed on my system-- even after browsing the many advertizing & exploit laden grey-area websites. This is on 10 different computers.
In that same time I've seen hundreds malware programs installed on my coworkers machines, all through IE.
Hundreds of infections for them, zero infections for me. That's quite a difference.
So part of this is because Mozilla/Firefox has not been heavily targeted, but it's also clear that there are some fundamental design flaws in the Microsoft products.
I'll disagree with some of your points. They simply take the prevailing media atmosphere to an extreme. They refined the process, focus on stories better, have very good marketing, and run with it. Because you're right-- that's where the money is.
CNN has never been liberal. The liberal news outlets are all pretty darn small, and are constantly flirting with bankruptcy, because that's where the money isn't.
Right, so Rupert Murdoch is a fascist and a big control freak. He supports whatever group allows him the most power. In the US, he supports Bush. In China, he supports the Communists. There's really no disconnect here.
because the sex scene is the primary point of debate over the rating.
It's the primary point of debate today, but the censors, government groups & parent groups have been GTA for years. I remember some pretty heavy debates back in 1999 & 2000. Maybe most of the posters here are too young to remember, and that's why I keep losing the argument.
Yes-- it's totally stupid that killing a prostitute only requires a M rating, but the presence of a sex scene requires an AO rating. It's stupid.
Oh oh! Slashdot fanboys to the rescue! Won't someone please think of the poor corporations!
You're not even arguing against my post. Again, you're putting up a straw man and knocking him down.
See the irony here is that you're saying that parents need to take responsiblity for their children. I agree with you. I also don't think GTA should be banned. I never implied anything else.
But Rockstar also needs to stop whining and take responsibility for their games. They're trying to scapegoat some modder, deny that there is pornographic code in the game, etc. They lie.
They asked for it, and I they really deserve no sympathy.
I find it quite telling that when GTA only allowed you to pay for sex and then murder the prostitute in cold blood to get your money back, it was commented on but there was no big push to governmentally censor games.
Build a straw man argument, knock it down, and people somehow think you proved your point.
What planet do you live on? There has been PLENTY of effort to censor games like GTA in recent years. We had US presidential candidates speaking about the game during the 2000 & 2004 elections. Joe Lieberman made it part of his Presidential platform.
GTA is one of the reasons why the ESRB ratings have become so important. Even the FIRST game is banned in a number of regions throughout the world because of the violence and prostitution, and that game came out years ago.
This HotCoffee incident is only the latest in a long string of controversy.
I have no sympathy for Rockstar. They asked for it.
Rockstar is staffed by idiots. They want sympathy? You made the fucking bed, now sleep in it!
They produce incredibly violent games while flipping off government officials and parent groups everywhere. This isn't illegal or wrong, but it makes them a target.
They 'claim' the game is marketed to adults, but do everything legally possible to market to kids. This makes them an even bigger target.
They allow a developer to slip in some pornographic scenes into the code of the latest installation of the series. This is food for the censors you idiots.
They send out a press release and lie about the code in the game, and try to scapegoat a GTA modder instead. What assholes.
but the second sex comes in to the picture - it's horrible and it kills little baby angels!
Holy shit, do you live in a cave or something? The anger didn't start with the HotCoffee stuff. The game has pissed off alot of people ever since it came out.
How could you miss all the angry parents and politicians who have complained about every single GTA release for months on end?
Why we have this complex, unbelieveably expensive shuttle, I will never know.
One of the major reasons it's expensive is due to unethical space contractors who charged up the wazoo, such as the company that your dad worked for.
This is often done after the bidding process is over, and sometimes companies do this after the project is well underway, and hold the project hostage until NASA agrees to the new fees. NASA often didn't have much choice in these sorts of practices, and it was already too late for other companies to bid on the project.
So, maybe your dad can tell us why so many space and defense contracts are so fucking expensive.
And yes, I agree that NASA probably could be more cost efficient. But it's not like they're selling cookies-- many free market principles don't really apply when you're doing something massive like building massive space vehicles, and when only 1 or 2 organizations can do it at all.
Go ahead and try. Anyone who tries to 'roll back rights' is a fucking fascist and a traitor.
What exactly gives Dr. Mark the authority to deprive the rights of any citizens?
Somehow I don't think a NASA Interim Head and Aerospace Engineering professor is exactly an expert on social issues. Perhaps he should stick with building better widgets.
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Now that is a feat: getting your enemy to obtain your goal for you.
By politics or terror, bombs or rules, the goals of many politicians and religious terrorists are one in the same: It's about control-- imposing their will onto yours.
You seem to be implying that Yahoo is copying Google. I can't believe I'm defending Yahoo, but this Google cheerleading has got to stop.
Yahoo released the beta version of their Firefox toolbar in February, months before Google Toolbar.
Yahoo has had the login on the right side of the screen for as long as I can remember-- 1997 or so?
Slashdot = Google Cheerleading.
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The Yahoo Toolbar was even reported on Slashdot-- it wasn't that long ago:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?threshold=1&op=stor
I tested out the Toolbar as a way to keep Firefox's bookmarks synced on all my various workstations. It didn't work out too well.
Ah yeah, we had someone like you in my dorms. Stupid rooster alarm clock in his room set to go off at 3AM when he left for a long holiday weekend (We didn't have annoying websites back then).
We went to the room above his, tied some sheets together, sent down a brave soul to climb in through his window and smash the thing to bits.
And yeah, he was a stoner.
It's even more fun when you own the original Raffi album.
The kids LOVE Raffi!
Here's a cruel joke to play on stoner friends.
Find some stoned college students. Point them to the Badgerbadgerbadger site. Tell them that the end of the video is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY funny!
Come back two hours later, see that they still staring at the screen, and have a good chuckle with them.
Yeah, but being unemployeed in Europe isn't as big of a deal as it is here.
In Europe, you still get healthcare and enough money to eat & pay rent.
Here, the government doesn't care if you loose your job, loose your healthcare, are evicted from your apartment and starve to death. Just get a job lazy fucker.
I'll partially agree.
But European Car Makers are pretty competitive, and their unions are much stronger and demand greater benefits then American Unions.
And Japan has alot of socialized services, such as National Health Care. As a result, the Japanese corporations are able to remain much, much more competitive. Here in the States, the companies pay for the healthplan. I don't know any auto assemblers, but a typical healthplan for my professional friends costs $10,000-12,000 for 2-4 people. That's a ton!
No, A/C sucks because the major car manufacturers are too lame to figure out how to build good A/C without Freon. It's possible, they just won't do it.
American auto manufacturers especially. They fail to innovate, and are going down the tubes. Nobody to blame but themselves, really.
I'm not liberal. I'm a moderate. It's just that the rest of the country has moved to the right. :)
And well, I consider Stalin to be the same sort of fascist dictators as Hitler & Pinochet. Castro is a little more tollerant, even if he is a controling fucker.
And Bush, Nixon, etc. come nowhere close to that extreme. I don't agree with what some of the extreme leftists say, and I sometimes defend Bush to (hard to believe).
Well that's fine.
But I'm in it for the hot chips!
In other news, research has shown that the latest trend is a Masters in Business Administration.
Many people throughout the country are enrolling in MBA programs, with dreams of getting rich quick (at an $60,000 pricetag).
I can't wait till these guys get out of school and find that the next logical round of outsourcing is to outsource many of the Business Administrators. It's a cost cutting measure, and fixes many of the communication problems that happen when the Managers live on a different continent from the Engineers.
attribute to perception issues
It's not a perception issue. It's a real issue.
90% of the people I know in the tech field have been laid off once in the last 4 years. I only know of one mid-sized technical company that hasn't laid off employees, and everyone there hates their job. I quit after 6 months.
Granted, this is just from my own perspective. But look, the tech job world is slowly creeping out of a multi-year massacre, now the tech world is being run by business people who don't know what an IP address is, but spend a million bucks because IBM said it was good (and promised a trip to Hawaii!)
Sure, there's opportunity here, but students are going to have a hard time competing with we techies with 6+ years experience.
I wonder if they will be proven right?
The proof will be in the pudding.
I've been using Mozilla/Firefox since Mozilla since M13 or so (mid-2000). I used Netscape 4.x before that. In all that time, I have never had a single piece of detectable malware installed on my system-- even after browsing the many advertizing & exploit laden grey-area websites. This is on 10 different computers.
In that same time I've seen hundreds malware programs installed on my coworkers machines, all through IE.
Hundreds of infections for them, zero infections for me. That's quite a difference.
So part of this is because Mozilla/Firefox has not been heavily targeted, but it's also clear that there are some fundamental design flaws in the Microsoft products.
You're right, it's about money.
But supporting the people in control is often the best way to make money. Dissent is rarely profitable.
Don't you see that Fox *is* dissenting?
I'll disagree with some of your points. They simply take the prevailing media atmosphere to an extreme. They refined the process, focus on stories better, have very good marketing, and run with it. Because you're right-- that's where the money is.
CNN has never been liberal. The liberal news outlets are all pretty darn small, and are constantly flirting with bankruptcy, because that's where the money isn't.
most pro-communist government leaning,
Right, so Rupert Murdoch is a fascist and a big control freak. He supports whatever group allows him the most power. In the US, he supports Bush. In China, he supports the Communists. There's really no disconnect here.
There's nothing new here.
I agree with everything you said, except this:
because the sex scene is the primary point of debate over the rating.
It's the primary point of debate today, but the censors, government groups & parent groups have been GTA for years. I remember some pretty heavy debates back in 1999 & 2000. Maybe most of the posters here are too young to remember, and that's why I keep losing the argument.
Yes-- it's totally stupid that killing a prostitute only requires a M rating, but the presence of a sex scene requires an AO rating. It's stupid.
How exactly do they market to children.
Oh give me a fucking break. Have you ever opened a gaming magazine? Seen the fucking cartoon billboards? Seen the schwag that only a child would wear?
Honestly, it's like your totally happy letting Rockstar think for you.
Oh oh! Slashdot fanboys to the rescue! Won't someone please think of the poor corporations!
You're not even arguing against my post. Again, you're putting up a straw man and knocking him down.
See the irony here is that you're saying that parents need to take responsiblity for their children. I agree with you. I also don't think GTA should be banned. I never implied anything else.
But Rockstar also needs to stop whining and take responsibility for their games. They're trying to scapegoat some modder, deny that there is pornographic code in the game, etc. They lie.
They asked for it, and I they really deserve no sympathy.
I find it quite telling that when GTA only allowed you to pay for sex and then murder the prostitute in cold blood to get your money back, it was commented on but there was no big push to governmentally censor games.
Build a straw man argument, knock it down, and people somehow think you proved your point.
What planet do you live on? There has been PLENTY of effort to censor games like GTA in recent years. We had US presidential candidates speaking about the game during the 2000 & 2004 elections. Joe Lieberman made it part of his Presidential platform.
GTA is one of the reasons why the ESRB ratings have become so important. Even the FIRST game is banned in a number of regions throughout the world because of the violence and prostitution, and that game came out years ago.
This HotCoffee incident is only the latest in a long string of controversy.
I have no sympathy for Rockstar. They asked for it.
Rockstar is staffed by idiots. They want sympathy? You made the fucking bed, now sleep in it!
They produce incredibly violent games while flipping off government officials and parent groups everywhere. This isn't illegal or wrong, but it makes them a target.
They 'claim' the game is marketed to adults, but do everything legally possible to market to kids. This makes them an even bigger target.
They allow a developer to slip in some pornographic scenes into the code of the latest installation of the series. This is food for the censors you idiots.
They send out a press release and lie about the code in the game, and try to scapegoat a GTA modder instead. What assholes.
but the second sex comes in to the picture - it's horrible and it kills little baby angels!
Holy shit, do you live in a cave or something? The anger didn't start with the HotCoffee stuff. The game has pissed off alot of people ever since it came out.
How could you miss all the angry parents and politicians who have complained about every single GTA release for months on end?
Why we have this complex, unbelieveably expensive shuttle, I will never know.
One of the major reasons it's expensive is due to unethical space contractors who charged up the wazoo, such as the company that your dad worked for.
This is often done after the bidding process is over, and sometimes companies do this after the project is well underway, and hold the project hostage until NASA agrees to the new fees. NASA often didn't have much choice in these sorts of practices, and it was already too late for other companies to bid on the project.
So, maybe your dad can tell us why so many space and defense contracts are so fucking expensive.
And yes, I agree that NASA probably could be more cost efficient. But it's not like they're selling cookies-- many free market principles don't really apply when you're doing something massive like building massive space vehicles, and when only 1 or 2 organizations can do it at all.
Roll back women's lib.
Go ahead and try. Anyone who tries to 'roll back rights' is a fucking fascist and a traitor.
What exactly gives Dr. Mark the authority to deprive the rights of any citizens?
Somehow I don't think a NASA Interim Head and Aerospace Engineering professor is exactly an expert on social issues. Perhaps he should stick with building better widgets.