This has a whole "Fisher-Price/Romper Room" stink about it.
Our Host: Hey, kids! I'm Open Source Bob! Today we're going to have informative fun with the wonder of open source.
Children: (dead silence)
OSB: And here to help me is my sidekick, Tickle-Me-Tux, the Linux penguin! Say hello to the children, Tux!
Tickle-Me-Tux: (takes a draw from cigarette) Hey, kids.
C: (tepid cheers and puzzled looks.)
OSB: Where shall we begin today, Tux?
TMT: (stares at OH while grinding out cig under foot) Look, kids, it's all a lie. Open source is a fun thing, but when you need to get things done in the real word and in mass numbers, just buy a fucking Winblows box and be done with it.
C: (uncomfortable giggles and a few sobs)
OSB: Um. Yeah. Well. Tux. You did get the updated script?
TMT: Script my fuzzy black and white ass. Hey kids, any chance this is a reform school? Any of you got a shiv? How about a nice sharp protractor?
OSB: Tux!
TMT: For fuck's sake, I can't go on living this lie, like some sort of craven icon of hope and desperation for the geek set. Hey, you. Fat kid. Would you fall on me? All I want now is the cold, silent, endless sleep of death.
OSB: That does it, Tux. It's back to the hot box for you. For a month. And you can forget those conjugal visits from Gadget Mouse.
(OSB grabs Tux and storms from the room)
TMT: Like I can get it up anymore, you fucking ballsucking cockgobbler. Hey, you in the back, toss me that drain cleaner. Hurry! Dammit! Augh! Someone fucking kill me!
C: (open bawling from the kids who haven't fled screaming)
All those decades of a culture where intelligence is derided and ridiculed, and vacuous beauty or the ability to do things with a ball are hailed as things to be blindly worshipped are finally coming home to roost.
The endless raging river of media vomited images of the intelligent person being something that should be made fun of and looked down upon, washing over generation after generation of ill-educated and hyperactive minds, worming its way into every single crevice of the collective coma is appearing as a giant sinkhole after eroding away all support beneath the surface.
And you think this news will stop the stupidization of this society? Dream on. 99% of the population will never even become aware of it. They'll be blithering about red states and blue states and angels and demons and what whore Justin Dumbass Timberlake is fucking this week.
Harsh attitude? Tough shit. I have met parents who were bothered when their children did *too* *well* in school, lest they be considered "brainiacs" or "geeks". People aren't remotely harsh enough on these sorts of memes.
I was tapped out of tolerance on this front years ago. I'm on my way to retire in my early 50's, and then I'm outta this dump. Sit an wallow in your celebrity gossip, sports teams composed of sociopaths who are forgiven every crime by their followers and your endless wasteland of (pseudo)reality television and basing scientific legislation on ancient fairy tales.
Yeah, but that's Canada, man. Do they even need maps? I mean... is there anything *to* map? Other than moose migration vectors, barren tundric wastelands, scattered impact crater remnants and the Molson brewing plant, what the hell else is there worth getting a map to?
I could give a damn either way if global warming is happeneing and at what level. I root for the ELE asteroid, after all.
But all that was really asked for was the financing of the research. See Skippy's post for details. Whenever someone claims there is no warming, or no human caused warming, there's always questions by the other side about who funded the research.
So now we have someone asking who funded the research that said warming is happening. Is this so unfair? Full disclosure of funding for ANY research should be mandatory.
Along with that, the research itself should receive the most scrutiny. Too often research is dismissed because of the funding source. Well, maybe, just maybe, someone funds research because they are actually right, and wish to prove a point before vast policy decisions get made based on myth and lies.
In the end, the problem is too much politics and ideology in the sciences.
On the other hand, according to a friend in Texas, Barton is a bit of a tube steak.
In my experience, it *seemed* like an obstacle, and I knew people who veered away from getting a license because of it. I told them getting to 5 WPM was pretty easy, and no harder than learning a programming language, but, well...
Morse code was an early example of electronic data compression. There's a reason the most common letter ("e") is represented by just a single dot.
I think it might get more people into the hobby to get rid of the requirement. It's not hard to learn Morse code, but it does present a *seemingly* daunting task to anyone who gets an interest in amateur radio. Not mention you can automate both the transmission and reception of it.
I've only had a couple phone survey calls around the last election, and I think those are excepted from the Do Not Call list. Other than that, no sales calls.
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Another thing I found useful was to find artists who can generate more than one good song per album. ;-)
Actually, by "this dump" I meant California. ;-)
I knew the stuffed shirt, defenders of the universe, modder downers would come out from under their rocks when this post hit 5.
No. It's rational. It's basic survival instinct.
Look, I was straining for examples... ;-)
Our Host: Hey, kids! I'm Open Source Bob! Today we're going to have informative fun with the wonder of open source.
Children: (dead silence)
OSB: And here to help me is my sidekick, Tickle-Me-Tux, the Linux penguin! Say hello to the children, Tux!
Tickle-Me-Tux: (takes a draw from cigarette) Hey, kids.
C: (tepid cheers and puzzled looks.)
OSB: Where shall we begin today, Tux?
TMT: (stares at OH while grinding out cig under foot) Look, kids, it's all a lie. Open source is a fun thing, but when you need to get things done in the real word and in mass numbers, just buy a fucking Winblows box and be done with it.
C: (uncomfortable giggles and a few sobs)
OSB: Um. Yeah. Well. Tux. You did get the updated script?
TMT: Script my fuzzy black and white ass. Hey kids, any chance this is a reform school? Any of you got a shiv? How about a nice sharp protractor?
OSB: Tux!
TMT: For fuck's sake, I can't go on living this lie, like some sort of craven icon of hope and desperation for the geek set. Hey, you. Fat kid. Would you fall on me? All I want now is the cold, silent, endless sleep of death.
OSB: That does it, Tux. It's back to the hot box for you. For a month. And you can forget those conjugal visits from Gadget Mouse.
(OSB grabs Tux and storms from the room)
TMT: Like I can get it up anymore, you fucking ballsucking cockgobbler. Hey, you in the back, toss me that drain cleaner. Hurry! Dammit! Augh! Someone fucking kill me!
C: (open bawling from the kids who haven't fled screaming)
No sense of humor. Typical Canadian barbarian. :)
Tee hee.
Your monitor would burn out. ;-)
From Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, AMERICAN!
:-P ;-)
The endless raging river of media vomited images of the intelligent person being something that should be made fun of and looked down upon, washing over generation after generation of ill-educated and hyperactive minds, worming its way into every single crevice of the collective coma is appearing as a giant sinkhole after eroding away all support beneath the surface.
And you think this news will stop the stupidization of this society? Dream on. 99% of the population will never even become aware of it. They'll be blithering about red states and blue states and angels and demons and what whore Justin Dumbass Timberlake is fucking this week.
Harsh attitude? Tough shit. I have met parents who were bothered when their children did *too* *well* in school, lest they be considered "brainiacs" or "geeks". People aren't remotely harsh enough on these sorts of memes.
I was tapped out of tolerance on this front years ago. I'm on my way to retire in my early 50's, and then I'm outta this dump. Sit an wallow in your celebrity gossip, sports teams composed of sociopaths who are forgiven every crime by their followers and your endless wasteland of (pseudo)reality television and basing scientific legislation on ancient fairy tales.
MS Virtual Earth zoomed all the way out
Hey, I'm teasing! Calm down!
Look at the right side, though, of where the Apple campus should be. Looks like a crude cut and paste job to me.
Or buy a wife. :)
So they plotted the daily routine of a few people. No big news to theives or assassins who have been doing this since the year dot.
Or enforce some truth in advertising laws.
Make them call it Microsoft Bloated Buggy Pile Of Evil And Mind Crushing Pig Shit That Makes Baby Jesus Cry
Sorry. Had to get that off my chest. Just mod me down. Thank you and good night.
They can peer into the bedroom windows of sexy coeds from THOUSANDS of miles away.
But all that was really asked for was the financing of the research. See Skippy's post for details. Whenever someone claims there is no warming, or no human caused warming, there's always questions by the other side about who funded the research.
So now we have someone asking who funded the research that said warming is happening. Is this so unfair? Full disclosure of funding for ANY research should be mandatory.
Along with that, the research itself should receive the most scrutiny. Too often research is dismissed because of the funding source. Well, maybe, just maybe, someone funds research because they are actually right, and wish to prove a point before vast policy decisions get made based on myth and lies.
In the end, the problem is too much politics and ideology in the sciences.
On the other hand, according to a friend in Texas, Barton is a bit of a tube steak.
In my experience, it *seemed* like an obstacle, and I knew people who veered away from getting a license because of it. I told them getting to 5 WPM was pretty easy, and no harder than learning a programming language, but, well...
I think it might get more people into the hobby to get rid of the requirement. It's not hard to learn Morse code, but it does present a *seemingly* daunting task to anyone who gets an interest in amateur radio. Not mention you can automate both the transmission and reception of it.
Because what happens in vagus stays in vagus.
Ah, good times. :)
I'll take a dozen, please!
Oh, the poor things!
And here's the solution for the pwecious wittle babies: GET THE FUCK OUT OF SUCH AN OBNOXIOUS BUSINESS.
I've only had a couple phone survey calls around the last election, and I think those are excepted from the Do Not Call list. Other than that, no sales calls.