My playground is a 5000-user community at a small university. The students are actually the computer savvy ones, it's faculty and staff that click on phishing scam links and have their weak passwords guessed.
Why don't you learn to read instead of thinking you're too cute for it, smackoff.
Oh, you're just adorable yourself getting all pissy like that!:-)
And for the record I really am just too cute for it. Cute Overload actually rejected me saying even they could not handle my cuteness. I am all that cute *and* a bag of chips.
Smackoff? That's a new one. Even Urban Dictionary provided no illumination. Hmm. A wrestling term perhaps? Is it the groovy new lingo kids are throwing down these days at the soda shoppe?
I don't mind paying three bucks for a head of lettuce instead of $0.99.
Well I would because every analysis I have seen shows that the gathering of the lettuce (or whatever) is a relatively small part of the overall cost. All this attitude does is give the stores and excuse to raise prices three fold and use the "it costs more to pick" excuse. The market would probably exert the final force in the end, but still. The whole "$5 apple" scare tactic is just one of the many mantras of the ideological zombies.
11. Hollywood thinks that the web can present information or articles all on one page, and not broken up into multiple ones. Those silly screenwriters! When will they learn that [NEXT >>>]
The only purpose for a humanoid robot is a sex bot.
Well, unless you go to Furry conventions.
then 6 legs is a good alternative.
I'd go for eight legs because:
[1] You have two spares. One leg gets damaged you can jettison it and activate a spare. then it becomes the software engineer's problem.:-P [2] It's creepier.:-)
I can't even turn on the news anymore. I feel like I went to bed one night and woke up in a nation-sized mental asylum. It's actually kind of scary. It's been bad for a long time, but this is just screaming batshit insane. I feel like a tipping point has been passed. There really is no going back to any kind of rationality.
You know what it's like? Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (the 1970s remake), except that there's two competing groups of pod people. They walk around blathering their own alien language, using alien logic and pursuing their strange and alien ways while the few of us left not infected by one ideology or another have to just keep our heads down, work hard to as early retirement as possible and just get the hell out of Dodge.
And I live in a pretty laid-back country, too (Finland). Arizona is just trying to enforce the existing law.
For some reason the USA, alone in the world, is not allowed to have borders or exert any control with immigration like everyone else. I've looked very seriously into retiring overseas and, holy shit, some of the hoops you have to jump through even if you have money and skills on the particular country's most wanted list are amazing.
The stupid thing is Arizona has been doing this for three years with no problems. The law just formalized it. The ruckus is made by people who live in little reality distortion bubbles and sit around in ideological echo chambers their entire lives. The law's passage and its farcical coverage by our piss poor, controversy fabricating, yellow news media raised it's profile past the threshold of awareness for the armies of idiots.
Also, this is Slashdot where a small legion of tech geeks likes to pretend they are the rag tag rebels fighting the tyranny and the fascism they imagine infests their lazy, pampered and privileged Western existences.
Sadly this is the level of public discourse in the USA. The allusions to Nazis or Soviet Russia come spewing out of the marching morons like projectile diarrhea at a salmonella festival. I guarantee anyone making such a comparison had not read the (easily accessed online) law. And it's not just babbling rhetoric. Many really, honestly do think Arizona has suddenly transformed into Nazi Germany. That's *really* the image they have in their ossified minds. And even if you prove otherwise, they will become *defiant* and even *proud* in their beliefs.
The USA has become the Bizarro world, a parallel universe where every day it Opposite Day. We no longer have to wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes because we *are* the rabbit hole. We're a nation of Mad Hatters celebrating the un-birthdays while the truth sits in a dusty corner, withering away.
So how are things in Finland? Not sure I'd like the weather, but I'm open to many things to get the hell out of this kingdom of eternal idiots. Seriously, this place is fricking doomed.
Use of Don Henley's well-known music implies that he supports the DeVore, which he clearly does not.
I would never in a million years think that.
I think it will go down in history as the pinnacle of Repugnantcan douchebaggery, an affront to intellectual conservatives everywhere.
Repugnantcan? Is that a breed of pug dog?
Anyway, maybe it is a pinnacle (nadir) of politcial ad douchebaggery. We can put it along side the state Democrats and their glowing accomplishment of completely raping and destroying California.
Heard the latest? They passed an edict^H^H^H^H^H motion that we will have a Cinco de Mayo week. Yes, we will be having a Fifth Of May *Week*. Ah well, at least it's a bar holiday.
California upending and falling into the sea will be the one scene from 2012 to come true. The very land itself will rebel and attempt to cleanse itself of the burning, burning stupidity.
And many instances of segregation were just "fucking lunch counters". Perhaps you'd have mocked, "Someone call MLK and Gandhi! A black guy can't eat lunch at this deli!"
No, I wouldn't because I'm not so lacking in perspective to ever equate the two.
Nope. See, some of us actually care about civil rights -- even the rights of people younger than us
Aw, you care! Hey everybody! He cares! You can put that on your campaign posters when you inevitably run for office. Caring we can believe in!
But something tells me you'd have the same reaction if this were about voting, owning property, or anything else: bigots rarely keep their bigotry confined to trivial issues.
Something tells you that, huh? hearing voices in your head? Should get that checked. Hey, I kid.:-)
No, I'm nearly an anarchist when it comes to what adults can do. If an adult wants to smoke pot and gamble online while getting an abortion in a mall kiosk, hey, have at it. What I *am* is a jaded bastard with a cold, black heart.:-P
You're like that scene in the British comedy The Young Ones. There's these interviews with kids on the street complaining that society does not recognized their value, but all they really want is to be able to get drunk in pubs.
So, you go fight those important video game based battles. Or maybe you can get the drinking age lowered to -1. Hey, it could be an alternative to abortion.:-)
It has nothing to do with superstition and everything to do with practicality. We draw a line because it's simple, and there are far more important things to worry about. Some things need to be kept simple because resources and time are finite.
and then require someone to prove that they meet those criteria before allowing them to do it.
And how is this done? Do we have a government bureaucracy devoted to it? Community panels? You pass a test to get a license? It's just not worth it. Draw the line and be done with it. I guarantee if you did do a study of maturity you'd find a bell curve. Draw the line at the mean.
You can expand it further to general goods and services. Everything from adult rated video games to age of consent. We, as a society, say that you need to be an adult to indulge in the following items: $LIST_OF_ADULT_ITEMS. You can draw the age line at different places for different things (18 for voting and 21 for drinking for example).
People will argue that kids mature at different rates, but, well, that's ImaginationLand where there's a magic test for "adultness" that can be applied every birthday to every young person. Part of civilization is agreeing on things like this. I see it as kind of a test. This sort of stuff is Society 101. If we can't get a general consensus on where to draw the age line for various things then we really are hopeless.
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Stan: But Chef, when IS the right time for us to start having sex? Chef: It's very simple, children; The right time to start having sex is...seventeen. Kyle: Seventeen? Chef: Seventeen. Sheila: So, you mean seventeen as long as you're in love? Chef: Nope, just seventeen. Gerald: But what if you're not ready at seventeen? Chef: Seventeen. You're ready.:-)
Yeah, that's the few extra molecules I mentioned, but I tend to track authors I like anyway. I get more use looking at *other* people's lists that happen to have something I read on them.
[1] What's the point of past searches when most of the time I do a search it's to find out something new?
[2] It never works.
Netflix has years of my rental history and algorithms devoted specifically to movies, have held contests to develop a better algorithm and yet their recommendation system is full of fail. It's always notifying me about films you'd have to tie me down to watch, forcing my eyelids open like Malcom McDowell in that scene from Clockwork Orange.
Amazon is the same way, although they are maybe a couple molecules better. However, a lot of their recommendations are later books in series where I have bought the earlier ones.
"If you enjoyed book 1 and 2, you might enjoy book 3 and 4!"
Slashdot Mirror
My playground is a 5000-user community at a small university. The students are actually the computer savvy ones, it's faculty and staff that click on phishing scam links and have their weak passwords guessed.
Have you tried this thing?
http://www.passwordcard.org/
Seems sound conceptually but I'm sure there's some flaw I'm missing. I thought I might try it because I have so many passwords at work.
Why don't you learn to read instead of thinking you're too cute for it, smackoff.
Oh, you're just adorable yourself getting all pissy like that! :-)
And for the record I really am just too cute for it. Cute Overload actually rejected me saying even they could not handle my cuteness. I am all that cute *and* a bag of chips.
Smackoff? That's a new one. Even Urban Dictionary provided no illumination. Hmm. A wrestling term perhaps? Is it the groovy new lingo kids are throwing down these days at the soda shoppe?
I never seem to have these problems. Is there some weird, vulnerable OS out there that a lot of folks are using?
I don't mind paying three bucks for a head of lettuce instead of $0.99.
Well I would because every analysis I have seen shows that the gathering of the lettuce (or whatever) is a relatively small part of the overall cost. All this attitude does is give the stores and excuse to raise prices three fold and use the "it costs more to pick" excuse. The market would probably exert the final force in the end, but still. The whole "$5 apple" scare tactic is just one of the many mantras of the ideological zombies.
Just learn an Open Lock spell. They tend to be pretty universal in my experience.
Name me one major religion that does not have misogyny as a core principal.
Jedis
He treated "America" as a lockstep thinking monobloc. That's automatic +5 Insightful around here.
WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO STOP TREATING SEX AS SPECIAL?
Well, it can be special. I guess you just haven't met that certain someone yet. I'm sorry.
11. Hollywood thinks that the web can present information or articles all on one page, and not broken up into multiple ones. Those silly screenwriters! When will they learn that [NEXT >>>]
and we complain when we need to pay more for gas.
I didn't. At over $4/gal I was having uniformly wonderful daily commutes. I was hoping for $5. :-)
I plan to be Blank Reg
Blank is beautiful!
How about pretentious writing about the future. Is anyone tracking that?
The only purpose for a humanoid robot is a sex bot.
Well, unless you go to Furry conventions.
then 6 legs is a good alternative.
I'd go for eight legs because:
[1] You have two spares. One leg gets damaged you can jettison it and activate a spare. then it becomes the software engineer's problem. :-P :-)
[2] It's creepier.
I can't even turn on the news anymore. I feel like I went to bed one night and woke up in a nation-sized mental asylum. It's actually kind of scary. It's been bad for a long time, but this is just screaming batshit insane. I feel like a tipping point has been passed. There really is no going back to any kind of rationality.
You know what it's like? Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (the 1970s remake), except that there's two competing groups of pod people. They walk around blathering their own alien language, using alien logic and pursuing their strange and alien ways while the few of us left not infected by one ideology or another have to just keep our heads down, work hard to as early retirement as possible and just get the hell out of Dodge.
You really are just a complete dumb shit, aren't you?
And I live in a pretty laid-back country, too (Finland). Arizona is just trying to enforce the existing law.
For some reason the USA, alone in the world, is not allowed to have borders or exert any control with immigration like everyone else. I've looked very seriously into retiring overseas and, holy shit, some of the hoops you have to jump through even if you have money and skills on the particular country's most wanted list are amazing.
The stupid thing is Arizona has been doing this for three years with no problems. The law just formalized it. The ruckus is made by people who live in little reality distortion bubbles and sit around in ideological echo chambers their entire lives. The law's passage and its farcical coverage by our piss poor, controversy fabricating, yellow news media raised it's profile past the threshold of awareness for the armies of idiots.
Also, this is Slashdot where a small legion of tech geeks likes to pretend they are the rag tag rebels fighting the tyranny and the fascism they imagine infests their lazy, pampered and privileged Western existences.
Sadly this is the level of public discourse in the USA. The allusions to Nazis or Soviet Russia come spewing out of the marching morons like projectile diarrhea at a salmonella festival. I guarantee anyone making such a comparison had not read the (easily accessed online) law. And it's not just babbling rhetoric. Many really, honestly do think Arizona has suddenly transformed into Nazi Germany. That's *really* the image they have in their ossified minds. And even if you prove otherwise, they will become *defiant* and even *proud* in their beliefs.
The USA has become the Bizarro world, a parallel universe where every day it Opposite Day. We no longer have to wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes because we *are* the rabbit hole. We're a nation of Mad Hatters celebrating the un-birthdays while the truth sits in a dusty corner, withering away.
So how are things in Finland? Not sure I'd like the weather, but I'm open to many things to get the hell out of this kingdom of eternal idiots. Seriously, this place is fricking doomed.
Use of Don Henley's well-known music implies that he supports the DeVore, which he clearly does not.
I would never in a million years think that.
I think it will go down in history as the pinnacle of Repugnantcan douchebaggery, an affront to intellectual conservatives everywhere.
Repugnantcan? Is that a breed of pug dog?
Anyway, maybe it is a pinnacle (nadir) of politcial ad douchebaggery. We can put it along side the state Democrats and their glowing accomplishment of completely raping and destroying California.
Heard the latest? They passed an edict^H^H^H^H^H motion that we will have a Cinco de Mayo week. Yes, we will be having a Fifth Of May *Week*. Ah well, at least it's a bar holiday.
California upending and falling into the sea will be the one scene from 2012 to come true. The very land itself will rebel and attempt to cleanse itself of the burning, burning stupidity.
"Finders keepers, losers weepers" is not an adequate foundation for a civilized legal architecture.
Socrates said that, or Confucius or someone like that. Chuck Norris, maybe.
And many instances of segregation were just "fucking lunch counters". Perhaps you'd have mocked, "Someone call MLK and Gandhi! A black guy can't eat lunch at this deli!"
No, I wouldn't because I'm not so lacking in perspective to ever equate the two.
Nope. See, some of us actually care about civil rights -- even the rights of people younger than us
Aw, you care! Hey everybody! He cares! You can put that on your campaign posters when you inevitably run for office. Caring we can believe in!
But something tells me you'd have the same reaction if this were about voting, owning property, or anything else: bigots rarely keep their bigotry confined to trivial issues.
Something tells you that, huh? hearing voices in your head? Should get that checked. Hey, I kid. :-)
No, I'm nearly an anarchist when it comes to what adults can do. If an adult wants to smoke pot and gamble online while getting an abortion in a mall kiosk, hey, have at it. What I *am* is a jaded bastard with a cold, black heart. :-P
You're like that scene in the British comedy The Young Ones. There's these interviews with kids on the street complaining that society does not recognized their value, but all they really want is to be able to get drunk in pubs.
So, you go fight those important video game based battles. Or maybe you can get the drinking age lowered to -1. Hey, it could be an alternative to abortion. :-)
Oh stop with the histrionics already. It's fucking video games.
Someone call MLK and Gandhi! A mature-for-his-age 15 year old can't buy a Girls Gone Wild DVD!
no better than convicting someone of a crime because he's statistically likely to have committed it.
You're kidding, right? Aw, you're just gaming me now.
It has nothing to do with superstition and everything to do with practicality. We draw a line because it's simple, and there are far more important things to worry about. Some things need to be kept simple because resources and time are finite.
and then require someone to prove that they meet those criteria before allowing them to do it.
And how is this done? Do we have a government bureaucracy devoted to it? Community panels? You pass a test to get a license? It's just not worth it. Draw the line and be done with it. I guarantee if you did do a study of maturity you'd find a bell curve. Draw the line at the mean.
PARENTS have a responsibility
Exactly! We need, like, a law that requires the parents to buy the game for the kid so the parent can decide... oh, wait...
You can expand it further to general goods and services. Everything from adult rated video games to age of consent. We, as a society, say that you need to be an adult to indulge in the following items: $LIST_OF_ADULT_ITEMS. You can draw the age line at different places for different things (18 for voting and 21 for drinking for example).
People will argue that kids mature at different rates, but, well, that's ImaginationLand where there's a magic test for "adultness" that can be applied every birthday to every young person. Part of civilization is agreeing on things like this. I see it as kind of a test. This sort of stuff is Society 101. If we can't get a general consensus on where to draw the age line for various things then we really are hopeless.
------
Stan: But Chef, when IS the right time for us to start having sex? :-)
Chef: It's very simple, children; The right time to start having sex is...seventeen.
Kyle: Seventeen?
Chef: Seventeen.
Sheila: So, you mean seventeen as long as you're in love?
Chef: Nope, just seventeen.
Gerald: But what if you're not ready at seventeen?
Chef: Seventeen. You're ready.
Yeah, that's the few extra molecules I mentioned, but I tend to track authors I like anyway. I get more use looking at *other* people's lists that happen to have something I read on them.
[1] What's the point of past searches when most of the time I do a search it's to find out something new?
[2] It never works.
Netflix has years of my rental history and algorithms devoted specifically to movies, have held contests to develop a better algorithm and yet their recommendation system is full of fail. It's always notifying me about films you'd have to tie me down to watch, forcing my eyelids open like Malcom McDowell in that scene from Clockwork Orange.
Amazon is the same way, although they are maybe a couple molecules better. However, a lot of their recommendations are later books in series where I have bought the earlier ones.
"If you enjoyed book 1 and 2, you might enjoy book 3 and 4!"
Ummm, thanks?