Re:Still dunno why all the fuss about blogs...
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Why a "book"?
Yeah! What's all this piffle about people wanting "income" to buy "food" and a "roof over their heads", and all that nonsense that pales in comparison to information's ***WILL*** to be free!
before the terrorist attacks of September 11th unleashed a torrent of political blogging that has yet to peak."
So... the terrorists won?;-)
I've yet to find a political blog that isn't just cut and paste of some Party platform or ideological manifesto or just flat out kookery. And I'm FAR from a prude, but you have the word "fuck" seventeen times in your first paragraph, I'm not going to take you very seriously.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to flee. The Bush controlled Skull & Bones hit squad of illegal alien ninjas is coming after me in the black Haliburton helicopters that detonated WTC7.
No, seriously. Think about it. The folks assigned to sort through a million tons (virtual) of inane chatter every day would eventually commit suicide, and they'd never be able to hire anyone to do it again.
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs could do a show on it.
Mike Rowe: So what do you sort through the most here? Government Drone: Um, well... mostly every day life stuff. Middle America sending email to friends and family. MR: You OK? You look depressed. GD: It gets to you, the nullity of it all. As if life itself was declared obscene and the whole thing wrapped up in plain brown paper. It makes me feel too clean instead of dirty. It makes me want to take a *golden* shower. MR: Anything exciting ever show up? GD: What? Nah, just inane, boring shit. Even the sex chat is so plain vanilla it puts you to sleep. MR: There must be the occasional gem. GD: And there seems to be a lot about toenail clipping and corns on feet and, and, and, my God, my God, painful rectal itch. Sweet Smoking Baby Jesus I think 80% is about things like that. Who knew? What does it mean? The banality makes me long for the sweet, cold sleep of everlasting ebony we call death. MR: Uh, I don't think I want to take my turn here, guys. Can't we do another show about the sewers of San Francisco? GD: Could you excuse me? I need to to extinguish my own life. MR: Remember, cut up the freeway, not across it! Ha ha! GD:...thanks... (leaves) MR: He was kidding, right?
Any medium-sized server farm has more storage capacity that the human brain.
Meaningless. The interactions and inteconnectivity aren't the same. There's some who theorize the brain may even involve some level of quantum level phenomina, made macro thanks to Chaos Theory 101. IOW, there may be butterfly wings down at some level we can never reliably replicate with something so crude as a digital computer.
People always misunderstand. I don;t mean to bring down sports. I only mean to elevate other things.
And for pro sports being thugs, well, we'll have to agree to disagree, and I never said *everyone* was a thug.
In a smarter society I wouldn;t even have to make these caveats. They'd be assumed. But that's another skill lost: the perception of anything but the Gaussian tails. Linke when I once suported that idiot Bush on something (SS reform, I think) and everyone automatically thought I also supported the war, the anti-stem cell crap, and so on, INCLUDING people who KNEW I was anti war and pro stem cell research of all kinds.
No one THINKS anymore. It's all mantras, slogans, ideology and politics.
And if I get one more fucking "it has been 9 minutes since you have posted" broken warning, I'm going to hack an Al-Quaeda server and make Slashdot their next target. Fix that already. At least have the script realize it's completely bones when the variable for minutes is >2.
Really? It seems so much organized over there, what with the O levels and A levels and all that. A British woman I once dated always went on about how schools were better there. Sports were important, but in their own place. A better balance.
I liked Dune, but am I the only one who finds the rest a bit overrated?
I tried reading the Dune books by Kevin Anderson and Brian Herbert. Eh... mediocre. Anderson should stick with the Seven Suns saga. He works best when playing with his own toys.
But anyway, I read message boards where people act like they want to kill Anderson and B. Herbert. You'd think someone flushed their Koran. They go on and on about what a visionary Frank Herbert was. Visionary about what? Some universe he made up? And after book one the whole thing goes to crap, and after book three, I'm sorry, but it is flat out unreadable.
I say let J.K. Rowling have a stab at the Dune universe. That'd be fun at least.
Been that way for a long time. There's the occasional aknowledgment of scholarship, but look at the schools. Great athletes are paraded about like gods. Great scholars get a Printshop certificate. It's a tired old complaint, but nothing ever gets done about it. Our pro sports teams have become high paid clubs for thugs, and still no one cares.
I mean, like, dog fights? A guy makes it huge and becomes a millionaire and is staging asswiping dog fights? He doesn't need to be put in jail, he need to be put to sleep and have his brain srudied by science so we figure out the fuck happened in there.
I still remember the time I was at a gym and overheard a guy complaining how his ex-wife was raising hid son. "Fuck, she probably has him coming home with straight-A's some stupid shit!", he said. I've seen this stuff over and over. Even the parents thing smart = bad because it's how THEY were raised. It's a generation that thinks it's perfectly OK for a 50 year old to be a bagger at the supermarket.
So you see, this is why I laugh when laws get passed that fuck over the population.
Whatever. We'll all be wiped out soon by nuclear holy war or an asteroid or giant bees, so what matter?
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Why a "book"? Yeah! What's all this piffle about people wanting "income" to buy "food" and a "roof over their heads", and all that nonsense that pales in comparison to information's ***WILL*** to be free!
before the terrorist attacks of September 11th unleashed a torrent of political blogging that has yet to peak."
;-)
So... the terrorists won?
I've yet to find a political blog that isn't just cut and paste of some Party platform or ideological manifesto or just flat out kookery. And I'm FAR from a prude, but you have the word "fuck" seventeen times in your first paragraph, I'm not going to take you very seriously.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to flee. The Bush controlled Skull & Bones hit squad of illegal alien ninjas is coming after me in the black Haliburton helicopters that detonated WTC7.
Did the "web startup" take away all of your paragraph tags?
small company founded by [1] Harvard MBA who [2] smoked lots of weed, [3] drove a VW, and was [4] out to "save the world"
Any ONE of those alone is enough to make me walk quickly in the opposite direction and seek a job elsewhere.
If the website designer has to pay for bits each time you view their website without viewing their banner ads, are you engaged in theft?
But if I block all the ads, won't the web site have to serve me far less bits?
On so many sites now the ads are the *bulk* of the served content in terms of raw bits.
So by blocking ads, I save the web site time and money. Q.E.D.
See, I can make hand waving arguments, too!
If a car dealer says "If you don't buy this car, I'll starve and you'll kill my family," would you still buy the car?
If his wife was hot and the kids healthy (read: good workers) , I'd make an offer on his family.
Spin all you want about how it is theft or immoral, but the advertising industry can collectively kiss my shiny white ass.
So consider my ad blocking and commercial skipping as civil disobedience if that helps.
The new weed burning cars will be available is many, many, many different colors.
So many colors...
Wait... what?
Anyone driving through the south could just pull over and refuel.
You can if your car is a horse.
OK, let me get this straight....
A list of what I like says something about me.
Truly, is there no bounds to what science can reveal?
I am well and truly stunned.
It was this or the announcement of Barbie Horse Adventures 2: The Gates Of Slaughter. Take your pick.
Because my scale of irritation goes something like:
0. relevant stuff.
1. text adds.
3. graphical adds.
10. animated/video adds.
11. People using add instead of ad.
And don't EVEN claim to have meant "additions" or I WILL unleash Hell.
Do you go home at night and bang hookers on piles of $100 bills?
I love it. They should do that here in the USA.
...thanks... (leaves)
No, seriously. Think about it. The folks assigned to sort through a million tons (virtual) of inane chatter every day would eventually commit suicide, and they'd never be able to hire anyone to do it again.
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs could do a show on it.
Mike Rowe: So what do you sort through the most here?
Government Drone: Um, well... mostly every day life stuff. Middle America sending email to friends and family.
MR: You OK? You look depressed.
GD: It gets to you, the nullity of it all. As if life itself was declared obscene and the whole thing wrapped up in plain brown paper. It makes me feel too clean instead of dirty. It makes me want to take a *golden* shower.
MR: Anything exciting ever show up?
GD: What? Nah, just inane, boring shit. Even the sex chat is so plain vanilla it puts you to sleep.
MR: There must be the occasional gem.
GD: And there seems to be a lot about toenail clipping and corns on feet and, and, and, my God, my God, painful rectal itch. Sweet Smoking Baby Jesus I think 80% is about things like that. Who knew? What does it mean? The banality makes me long for the sweet, cold sleep of everlasting ebony we call death.
MR: Uh, I don't think I want to take my turn here, guys. Can't we do another show about the sewers of San Francisco?
GD: Could you excuse me? I need to to extinguish my own life.
MR: Remember, cut up the freeway, not across it! Ha ha!
GD:
MR: He was kidding, right?
Again, you are about 10,000 klicks away from what I intended.
Just give it up, Pookie. You're not the insightful an online profiler as you think you are.
Seriously, you're just embarassing yourself at this point.
OK, I'm done with you.
Any medium-sized server farm has more storage capacity that the human brain.
Meaningless. The interactions and inteconnectivity aren't the same. There's some who theorize the brain may even involve some level of quantum level phenomina, made macro thanks to Chaos Theory 101. IOW, there may be butterfly wings down at some level we can never reliably replicate with something so crude as a digital computer.
Seriously, I toss "The Singularity" in the same bin as Young Earth Creationists and Apollo Hoax Believers.
It's much kerfuffle about piffle.
You start with random recording schedules and breed them off one another based on user provided success metrics.
In about 15 to 20 years you should have developed a sufficiently agile show selection expert system that you won't need any steeekin' TV guides.
Or something.
People always misunderstand. I don;t mean to bring down sports. I only mean to elevate other things.
And for pro sports being thugs, well, we'll have to agree to disagree, and I never said *everyone* was a thug.
In a smarter society I wouldn;t even have to make these caveats. They'd be assumed. But that's another skill lost: the perception of anything but the Gaussian tails. Linke when I once suported that idiot Bush on something (SS reform, I think) and everyone automatically thought I also supported the war, the anti-stem cell crap, and so on, INCLUDING people who KNEW I was anti war and pro stem cell research of all kinds.
No one THINKS anymore. It's all mantras, slogans, ideology and politics.
Wow. You completely misunderstood what I said. Seriously, you are so far out on left field we need a telescope just to see your sorry ass. LOL!
Well...
OK, the trebichet to launch the garbage bags into the can from 40 feet away may be a bit much, but the neighborhood kids like it.
Cosmos was pretentious. There. I said it.
And if I get one more fucking "it has been 9 minutes since you have posted" broken warning, I'm going to hack an Al-Quaeda server and make Slashdot their next target. Fix that already. At least have the script realize it's completely bones when the variable for minutes is >2.
Really? It seems so much organized over there, what with the O levels and A levels and all that. A British woman I once dated always went on about how schools were better there. Sports were important, but in their own place. A better balance.
As for the giant bees, you heard it here first.
Good Will Hunting
A Beautiful Mind
Oh, great! Two films depicting very smart people as highly dysfunctional!
Another movie of interest would be Pi by the wonderful Darren Arronofsky (Requiem for a Dream)
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND? Good flick, but WTF? The smart guy in that film DRILLS A HOLE IN HIS OWN HEAD!
And this is from an Arronofsky fan who *loved* The Fountain.
though I'm not sure how that would go over with your typical 8th graders.
Ya think?
I liked Dune, but am I the only one who finds the rest a bit overrated?
I tried reading the Dune books by Kevin Anderson and Brian Herbert. Eh... mediocre. Anderson should stick with the Seven Suns saga. He works best when playing with his own toys.
But anyway, I read message boards where people act like they want to kill Anderson and B. Herbert. You'd think someone flushed their Koran. They go on and on about what a visionary Frank Herbert was. Visionary about what? Some universe he made up? And after book one the whole thing goes to crap, and after book three, I'm sorry, but it is flat out unreadable.
I say let J.K. Rowling have a stab at the Dune universe. That'd be fun at least.
Here in the States, Smart = Uncool.
Been that way for a long time. There's the occasional aknowledgment of scholarship, but look at the schools. Great athletes are paraded about like gods. Great scholars get a Printshop certificate. It's a tired old complaint, but nothing ever gets done about it. Our pro sports teams have become high paid clubs for thugs, and still no one cares.
I mean, like, dog fights? A guy makes it huge and becomes a millionaire and is staging asswiping dog fights? He doesn't need to be put in jail, he need to be put to sleep and have his brain srudied by science so we figure out the fuck happened in there.
I still remember the time I was at a gym and overheard a guy complaining how his ex-wife was raising hid son. "Fuck, she probably has him coming home with straight-A's some stupid shit!", he said. I've seen this stuff over and over. Even the parents thing smart = bad because it's how THEY were raised. It's a generation that thinks it's perfectly OK for a 50 year old to be a bagger at the supermarket.
So you see, this is why I laugh when laws get passed that fuck over the population.
Whatever. We'll all be wiped out soon by nuclear holy war or an asteroid or giant bees, so what matter?