Well, she *is* a black, female, conservative, Christian libertarian daugher of a sharecropper- things either physical or self-professed. I think you misunderstand my use of the term pigeon hole, or, in fact, the term itself.
I'm no fan of Bush and could give a flip about Meirs, but isn't this reaching a bit? If this is the worst anyone can come up with... or were you just looking for a tech angle?
I was hoping he would nominate Janice Rogers Brown, a black female conservative Christian libertarian and daughter of a sharecropper, if only for the fun in watching the media and politicians desperately try to pigeon hole her. Thousands and thousands of exploding heads guaranteed with that one. Oh well...
And a lot of us really didn't like "Mostly Harmless". Even Adams admits it was a bleak book due to some problems in his life, and wanted to write a more upbeat sixth book, but he didn't get the chance.
I gave up on disc 1 season 1 of Lost from Netflix (perpetually listed as Very Long Wait), and am downloading the three episodes from the disc via bittorrents. Man, it's taking a day for each episode.
I think Michael Griffin stuck his foot in his mouth; at the very least he could have chosen his words more carefully.
NO! That way leads to politics, and I am so effing sick of politics I want to randomly stab twenty people every election cycle. I'm stunned by what Griffin said because it's exactly what I have been wanting someone high up at NASA to say for 20 years. There might be some actual hope if he follows through with this thinking. I *want* some feelings to be hurt here.
I once mentioned in a meeting way back when we had Mac SE/30s about the office that I heard SE/30s needed annual reanodizing of their processor shields or there could be a gamma radiation leak, and at least three people believed me. Two of them complained to their section heads about the dangerous computers. As Dave Barry said, I am not making this up.
I'm asked every day how to do some simple things on Windows by people who have used every version every work day from Win3.1 through to WinXP. And I'm a Mac-head! I had a guy (he'd been using Windows since Win95) drop his jaw when he saw me drag a file from one window to another to move them. I mean, is he for real? Wassup wit all dis?
And the ones who store everything on their Windows desktops so it's a mass of icons in some sort of personal Rorschach pattern from which I'm sure you can derive ther sexual proclivities... don't get me started. Do they even know you can create new folder/directories to store files in? Ooooo! Ebola bombs for them all!
You format your own DVDs? Hard core, man. Fucking hard core.
Geezus... Formatting the video. Encoding it into something a DVD player recognizes. You savvy?
Or perhaps they place a greater value on their freedom.
That's another wacky concept. As if anything to do with DVRs is some sort of major blow for freedom against the Man, as the rag tag rebel fleet yada yada yada. It's histrionics, Atario. Nothing but sound and fury.
Because a Tivo generally does what people want it to do. Of all Tivo owners I know, and it's quite a few, I'm the only one who even follows it enough to know about this issue. Tivo still acts as an easy digital VCR with nice software and a generally reliable schedule. That's what most people are after.
I don't know a single one in real life, as opposed to message boards, who give a flip about transfering shows to their PCs. Most don't even bother with PPV movies, which is what the expiration flag is intended for. It's just not that important. If they really, desperately want a season of a show, they buy the box set for $60 rather than spend who knows how long formatting and burning their own DVDs.
That's the thing people who push the "roll your own" solutions forget: the TIME involved. They place no value on their time. I have the skill level to do a MythTV. Heck, I have the skill to WRITE a DVR solution, but I read accounts of installs, and I'd have to be on a steady diet of boilermakers and cheap crack to waste my time like that for something as trical as television.
And if a network activates the flag to prevent recording of their show? Fuck 'em. Who cares? No Tivo owners will watch. The network is just hurting themselves.
Yes, this is similar if they are using common futures market methods. That event illustrated more than most what a collection of barely-single-celled organisms humanity is. People here on Slashdot we're foaming at the mouth thinking there was going to be actual money wagered of terrorist events, even though that should fail to get past even rudimentary BS detectors. Even mainstream news media was incorrectly reporting that. I remember it made me want to start lobbing Ebola bombs or start stabbing people at random, despite the fact I was already a complete misanthrope and thought I could not be disappointed by people anymore.
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Well, she *is* a black, female, conservative, Christian libertarian daugher of a sharecropper- things either physical or self-professed. I think you misunderstand my use of the term pigeon hole, or, in fact, the term itself.
I was hoping he would nominate Janice Rogers Brown, a black female conservative Christian libertarian and daughter of a sharecropper, if only for the fun in watching the media and politicians desperately try to pigeon hole her. Thousands and thousands of exploding heads guaranteed with that one. Oh well...
Realize that if you die, you won't give a shit about any of that, so do nothing. Q.E.D.
Ah. Scientologists.
That was the fastest +5 I ever got, though.
What? And miss out on years of spreading my misery? Ha!
I'm such a black hearted emotionless wreck at this point, looking for happiness is a fruitless endeavor.
And a lot of us really didn't like "Mostly Harmless". Even Adams admits it was a bleak book due to some problems in his life, and wanted to write a more upbeat sixth book, but he didn't get the chance.
I gave up on disc 1 season 1 of Lost from Netflix (perpetually listed as Very Long Wait), and am downloading the three episodes from the disc via bittorrents. Man, it's taking a day for each episode.
Besides, I was measuring by weight.
80% Bush sucks! Grrrr! Rowlf! Hisss! Spit! (modded Insightful)
10% General antireligious screeds. Woof! Bark! (modded Flamebait)
9% "Bush only bans funding for embryonic stem cells" Hiss! Grrr! (modded Troll)
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Although I was one of the only people who liked Graffiti. I thought it was really intuitive.
NO! That way leads to politics, and I am so effing sick of politics I want to randomly stab twenty people every election cycle. I'm stunned by what Griffin said because it's exactly what I have been wanting someone high up at NASA to say for 20 years. There might be some actual hope if he follows through with this thinking. I *want* some feelings to be hurt here.
Or you could, like, duct tape a bunch of cheaper camers into, like, a ball.
Yes. Click. Click. Walk away. Come back. Click. Done.
And I fraking HATE Windows. You have me defending Windows! Blast you! ;-)
No, I did not get into trouble. :)
And the ones who store everything on their Windows desktops so it's a mass of icons in some sort of personal Rorschach pattern from which I'm sure you can derive ther sexual proclivities... don't get me started. Do they even know you can create new folder/directories to store files in? Ooooo! Ebola bombs for them all!
Geezus... Formatting the video. Encoding it into something a DVD player recognizes. You savvy?
Or perhaps they place a greater value on their freedom.
That's another wacky concept. As if anything to do with DVRs is some sort of major blow for freedom against the Man, as the rag tag rebel fleet yada yada yada. It's histrionics, Atario. Nothing but sound and fury.
I've seen better FUD in a Microsoft Linux memo.
Because a Tivo generally does what people want it to do. Of all Tivo owners I know, and it's quite a few, I'm the only one who even follows it enough to know about this issue. Tivo still acts as an easy digital VCR with nice software and a generally reliable schedule. That's what most people are after.
I don't know a single one in real life, as opposed to message boards, who give a flip about transfering shows to their PCs. Most don't even bother with PPV movies, which is what the expiration flag is intended for. It's just not that important. If they really, desperately want a season of a show, they buy the box set for $60 rather than spend who knows how long formatting and burning their own DVDs.
That's the thing people who push the "roll your own" solutions forget: the TIME involved. They place no value on their time. I have the skill level to do a MythTV. Heck, I have the skill to WRITE a DVR solution, but I read accounts of installs, and I'd have to be on a steady diet of boilermakers and cheap crack to waste my time like that for something as trical as television.
And if a network activates the flag to prevent recording of their show? Fuck 'em. Who cares? No Tivo owners will watch. The network is just hurting themselves.
Yes, this is similar if they are using common futures market methods. That event illustrated more than most what a collection of barely-single-celled organisms humanity is. People here on Slashdot we're foaming at the mouth thinking there was going to be actual money wagered of terrorist events, even though that should fail to get past even rudimentary BS detectors. Even mainstream news media was incorrectly reporting that. I remember it made me want to start lobbing Ebola bombs or start stabbing people at random, despite the fact I was already a complete misanthrope and thought I could not be disappointed by people anymore.
Air marshals putting bullets in the heads of potential hijackers can foil them, too. :)
:D
Why bother with potentially cranky technological solutions when extreme violence works better, and is much more satisfying?
Remember: violence is the last refuge of the incompenent... because the competent don't leave it until last.
PILOT: Oh, crap! Hijackers.
COPILOT: Switch on the computer control.
PILOT: (flips switch)
COMPUTER: Would you like to play a game?
PILOT: Oh, crap!
Until you're over 40. Then one good cranking can do you for days.
We get a slow expansion to red giant, then it peters out to a dwarf. I think we at least get a planetary nebula in the deal.