A stronger indication of "idiocy," per se, might be in using purely invective arguments against philosophical or political opponents. This, by the way, is what you have just done
Which is also all Rush has ever done as well. Is that what you were getting at?
I've never had one either but it sure sounds like a foofy drink by the name. The only reason I even know what it is was that it was mentioned in Space Cadet by Heinlein. I was curious how someone could get trashed off a mint drink and looked it up;-)
..although not if they serve it with an umbrella....
Too true.
Did you ever see that skit "Girl drink drunk" on Kids in the Hall? Basically a guy had never had a drink before and a friend egged him into trying a 6 umbrella with 9 fruit hanging off 'em drink claiming, "it's just a girl drink". He ends up a gutter drunk in an alley drinking whatever kind of nasty stuff but panhandling for the little umbrellas and stuff. Pretty funny.
See Also: Red Hat 9.0 - 5 650MB ISO's. Talk about windows having a huge install footprint! 5CD's??
Not quite an accurate comparison. Try Windows plus Exchange plus MSSQL Server plus MSDN plus Visual Studio plus every other program they've ever made plus many they haven't.
Not commenting on the relative quality of the products, just the basic functionality.
I'm a documentation editor for Gentoo, and I know first-hand that many, if not all, of the developers scour the Web (well, their favorite sites, like Slashdot, anyhow) and report back any news about Gentoo in the press. They gladly take the bad news with the good--using the bad, as in this case (the former lack of a PPC LiveCD) to retool things, add new features, and generally make people happier.
A lot of people scoff at the Gentoo fanatacism--including the developers--but at least, in this case, I think a lot of that is warranted. Perhaps not all of it, mind you, but definitely a lot. I think we're a good bunch of guys and gals.
Hmmmm... perhaps you can help me out with something then. I recently installed Gentoo on my wife's computer after she borked her RedHat install. She is quite happy with it and we've had no problems.
Did I do something wrong? This isn't normal behavior for a computer.
How did the 50% of the people in abject poverty make it possible for the top 1% to accumulate "that ridiculous amount of wealth"?
Do you suppose that they did all the work to earn it themselves?
It doesn't make sense to say, "they made it by X", since X will tend to vary tremendously, but in many cases it was inherited hence they have no real "right" to it. In many cases it was made by illegal immoral activities using government sponsored thugs see the strikebreakers back at the start of the labor movement.
But the least frequent case would be one where the person with the huge bank account did the hard work to earn it. Generally they started out with money and used it to make more off the backs of the poor.
This has been true throughout history. You might argue that this is a good thing, but I certainly hope you wouldn't try to say it isn't true. That would just make you look dumb.
Bit of shame, because the UK population votes for the government and then is compelled to pay a tax to the BBC so it can attack and deride that very same govt.
I don't know if this is actually true, but if it is it certainly isn't a shame.
Are you seriously so clueless that you don't know that that is the only purpose of having a freaking news service anyway?!?!?
The media is allowed to exist because it is supposed to be crawling up the government's ass.
There are other reasons, but of essentially zero importance comparitively.
That is the only thing that can allow a free society to work. Transparent government.
That means that if you earn over $26,000 or so, you're part of the "elite" that pay 96% of the taxes!
You seem to miss the obvious conclusion to be drawn from this fact:
50% of the people in this country are living at near or below abject poverty. Since the top 1% of the population owns over 90% of the wealth, why shouldn't they pay some of it back to the people who made it possible for them to accumulate that ridiculous amount of wealth which it isn't even possible for them to spend?
I mean why publish something on the web if you don't want people to see it and why should you care if they are connected to your server when they do so.
Well, there is one logical reason I can think of off the top of my head. If you browse their content on their site, then they can run statistical analysis of their server logs and find ways to improve the navigability of their site.
Whether this is a factor in this decision in most cases is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'm sure all the dead Iraqis that Saddam murdered by the thousands would agree with you.
I'm sure that they are very happy to have the country who supported Saddam in their murder moving in to take over.
What the US did in Iraq was RIGHT from any kind of conceivable moral standpoint.
It might have been right if any nation besides the US did it, or even any other US administration than one filled with the people who encouraged those murders when they were hoping to make a buck off of Saddam.
The cowards in Europe and the UN are just having a hard time digesting the difference between peace and justice.
The ignorant tools in the US who refuse to pay any attention to our own history (that most definitely includes you) have a hard time digesting the difference between war and peace, freedom and slavery etc.
Stop believing what the democrats feed you on the evening news and look reality in the eyes.
The major media hasn't had the slightest hint of a liberal leaning in some decades. To repeat your words, "Are you really that ignorant"?
I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation.
So would you support the rest of the world in invading the US? If so, well OK. If not, then you just shot your argument in the head. America has engaged in many acts of terrorism and is in willful violation of far more UN resolutions than Iraq was. Plus we actually have weapons of mass destruction.
So which are you, a lying hypocrite, or an ignorant tool? I fail to see what else it is possible for you to be given your statements.
Slashdot Mirror
Client on phone: My internet connection doesn't work anymore. Do you know why?
;)
Sure... much easier
Well, some things are equally {easy|difficult} on any system.
Is it plugged in?
Is it turned on?
Did you pay the bill?
Did you have a power outage?
This pretty much sums it up.
An equal headline and probably more accurate one would be "MS launches new media campaign to portray company as customer-friendly".
Owning the media outlet doesn't hurt.
A stronger indication of "idiocy," per se, might be in using purely invective arguments against philosophical or political opponents. This, by the way, is what you have just done
Which is also all Rush has ever done as well.
Is that what you were getting at?
Indeed it is.
;-)
..although not if they serve it with an umbrella....
I've never had one either but it sure sounds like a foofy drink by the name.
The only reason I even know what it is was that it was mentioned in Space Cadet by Heinlein. I was curious how someone could get trashed off a mint drink and looked it up
Too true.
Did you ever see that skit "Girl drink drunk" on Kids in the Hall?
Basically a guy had never had a drink before and a friend egged him into trying a 6 umbrella with 9 fruit hanging off 'em drink claiming, "it's just a girl drink". He ends up a gutter drunk in an alley drinking whatever kind of nasty stuff but panhandling for the little umbrellas and stuff.
Pretty funny.
See Also: Red Hat 9.0 - 5 650MB ISO's. Talk about windows having a huge install footprint! 5CD's??
Not quite an accurate comparison.
Try Windows plus Exchange plus MSSQL Server plus MSDN plus Visual Studio plus every other program they've ever made plus many they haven't.
Not commenting on the relative quality of the products, just the basic functionality.
I'm a documentation editor for Gentoo, and I know first-hand that many, if not all, of the developers scour the Web (well, their favorite sites, like Slashdot, anyhow) and report back any news about Gentoo in the press. They gladly take the bad news with the good--using the bad, as in this case (the former lack of a PPC LiveCD) to retool things, add new features, and generally make people happier.
A lot of people scoff at the Gentoo fanatacism--including the developers--but at least, in this case, I think a lot of that is warranted. Perhaps not all of it, mind you, but definitely a lot. I think we're a good bunch of guys and gals.
Hmmmm...
perhaps you can help me out with something then.
I recently installed Gentoo on my wife's computer after she borked her RedHat install.
She is quite happy with it and we've had no problems.
Did I do something wrong? This isn't normal behavior for a computer.
And those of us out of High School who are ready for mature drinks
Methinks you have no clue whatsoever what a mint julep is.
Ha, you fell into his trap.
You're clear of DMCA violations, but he can get you on copyright now.
Did Iraq have WMD?
Well, Wolfowitz just admitted that they made the whole thing up, so no.
Expect the usual donation, and good luck with the finding WMD thing.
Oh never mind about the whole WMD thing.
Wolfowitz already admitted they made the whole thing up
If the US government is delivering a missle to you you probably won't have much time or incentive to use that source code!
We might want to rethink promoting the idea of "Release early, release often".
My bad.
I was in fact just having one of those days and was talking totally out of my ass.
Nothing to see here move along.
How did the 50% of the people in abject poverty make it possible for the top 1% to accumulate "that ridiculous amount of wealth"?
Do you suppose that they did all the work to earn it themselves?
It doesn't make sense to say, "they made it by X", since X will tend to vary tremendously, but in many cases it was inherited hence they have no real "right" to it.
In many cases it was made by illegal immoral activities using government sponsored thugs see the strikebreakers back at the start of the labor movement.
But the least frequent case would be one where the person with the huge bank account did the hard work to earn it.
Generally they started out with money and used it to make more off the backs of the poor.
This has been true throughout history.
You might argue that this is a good thing, but I certainly hope you wouldn't try to say it isn't true.
That would just make you look dumb.
The "poor" in this country live far better than an average person in most of the world.
It's all relative.
Bit of shame, because the UK population votes for the government and then is compelled to pay a tax to the BBC so it can attack and deride that very same govt.
I don't know if this is actually true, but if it is it certainly isn't a shame.
Are you seriously so clueless that you don't know that that is the only purpose of having a freaking news service anyway?!?!?
The media is allowed to exist because it is supposed to be crawling up the government's ass.
There are other reasons, but of essentially zero importance comparitively.
That is the only thing that can allow a free society to work. Transparent government.
That means that if you earn over $26,000 or so, you're part of the "elite" that pay 96% of the taxes!
You seem to miss the obvious conclusion to be drawn from this fact:
50% of the people in this country are living at near or below abject poverty.
Since the top 1% of the population owns over 90% of the wealth, why shouldn't they pay some of it back to the people who made it possible for them to accumulate that ridiculous amount of wealth which it isn't even possible for them to spend?
. it's 55 degrees here today, and it's JUNE
What, are you in Chicago too?
I mean why publish something on the web if you don't want people to see it and why should you care if they are connected to your server when they do so.
Well, there is one logical reason I can think of off the top of my head.
If you browse their content on their site, then they can run statistical analysis of their server logs and find ways to improve the navigability of their site.
Whether this is a factor in this decision in most cases is left as an exercise for the reader.
I once set up a WinXP computer as an internet gateway once, and I lost about 50% of my bandwidth.
Knowing practically nothing about XP, I'd guess you used home when you should have used pro.
What I can do with the new technologu is a different matter. Would still like to see more ideas than how to share porn.
No thank you.
That alone will do fine.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I'm sure all the dead Iraqis that Saddam murdered by the thousands would agree with you.
I'm sure that they are very happy to have the country who supported Saddam in their murder moving in to take over.
What the US did in Iraq was RIGHT from any kind of conceivable moral standpoint.
It might have been right if any nation besides the US did it, or even any other US administration than one filled with the people who encouraged those murders when they were hoping to make a buck off of Saddam.
The cowards in Europe and the UN are just having a hard time digesting the difference between peace and justice.
The ignorant tools in the US who refuse to pay any attention to our own history (that most definitely includes you) have a hard time digesting the difference between war and peace, freedom and slavery etc.
Are you that ignorant, or are you just a troll?
Stop believing what the democrats feed you on the evening news and look reality in the eyes.
The major media hasn't had the slightest hint of a liberal leaning in some decades.
To repeat your words, "Are you really that ignorant"?
I consider acts of terrorism and twenty something direct violations of international law and cease fire treaty reasonable fucking provocation.
So would you support the rest of the world in invading the US? If so, well OK.
If not, then you just shot your argument in the head. America has engaged in many acts of terrorism and is in willful violation of far more UN resolutions than Iraq was. Plus we actually have weapons of mass destruction.
So which are you, a lying hypocrite, or an ignorant tool?
I fail to see what else it is possible for you to be given your statements.
Yeah, show me the jails filled with political prisoners in America.
You do know that we have more people in prison than any other country in the world?
Promoters were concerned that killing the audience may harm ticket sales and impact mechandising and so are unlike ly to proceed.
Seriously, there's no reason to suspect that ticket sales would be affected.
Now repeat sales on the other hand...
For example, IIT-Bombay (now named IIT-Mumbai) greatly increased in overall rankings after yours truly graduated from it.
;-)
So you're saying that their stats went up once you left?