Yeah, but the point is you aren't giving in. Remember, the iPad is like the cool kids at school who beat you up and date women; you hate them because you wish you were them. I'm glad a company with no reputation that I've ever heard of has promised me the iPad but with blackjack and hookers. Oh, and I'm equally enthralled that they gave me permission to use Open Office on it! That sounds like a dream...a nonstandardized and confusing UI trying to work on a form factor it was even _less_ designed for? I sure am tickled with excitement. All I can say is that I sure hope Apple opens up it's development platform so that anyone can cobble anything together in any language they want with no barrier of entry. See, I believe in the free market (Ron Paul!) and to me, this means that Apple is legally obligated to do this because I said so. I don't want an iPhone, nor do I honestly know how to develop a true fullfledged application, but I still want a part. Apple is running themselves into the ground; no consumer likes the fact Apple retains so much control and no one wants to develop for the platform because it's so unpopular. So that is why this Linux slate is going to take the world by storm and completly blow Apple out of the water. The people have wanted this, and Apple doesn't innovate at all or come up with good products which is why end users hate them and they are almost financially ruined.
To give everyone a chance at salvation and allow us to find our own paths with the free will bestowed upon us? I know I'm going to be called a troll but the parent was ignorant and trolling whereas I'm offering a perspective that may not hold as much cynicism but still holds relevence
No one is mad that you dont have friends numbnut..we dont join Facebook to have millions of friends..you are trivializing something when you could just not like it and not want to be a part of it and move on
Why is this stalker argument even relevant? Shit like that can be handled the way it was handled before there was an internet: with the fucking police. I mean someone following you home and camping out in front of your house can be arrested. Same thing here, if you feel it's a threat.
A company is not a conscious entity and acts of capitalism are not "evil" on their own. You have witnessed Microsoft make money in a society based around the freedom to make and lose money.
If Microsoft sold weapons to a foreign country that they knew were going to be used to kill innocent people, because it paid well, then the people who approved such deals would be evil, or at least morally wrong.
Microsoft furthering it's company's agenda in the global marketplace is capitalism. And open source is included in the global marketplace always, not just when convenient. You can't run away crying because you played with the big kids and got hurt.
Lol fine only on Slashdot would I get modded down because I called "atheists" and not atheists (no quotes) out on being neckbeard as fuck with their ideas on pre-emptive punishment based on eugenics, and their dreams of what most people would describe as a dystopia.
This isn't atheism versus creationism you fucking moron, where in my post did I talk about God or santa claus? I'm talking about people too edgy to acknowledge that like it or not, our existence isn't purely defined by genetics and chemicals. The parent, who may or may not be trolling above my original post, is discussing some stupid eugenics based "idea" he has in a pseudo-scientific light while hiding behind a lack of empathy to prove that he is not religious and thus correct (because the opposite of religion is knowledge right?)
Everyone on here is talking about how existence is just genetics and neurological impulses and jerking each other off over it, so I'm not arguing with philosophers and atheists who are published, I'm arguing with a lot of stupid fucking Slashdotters who think that their layman knowledge of science combined with their desired to edgily bring contrarian viewpoints into everything and their lust for power they've felt since they were beat up every day in middle school, is the saving fucking grace of the world.
You are forgetting the extremely important fact that how one is raised is very important. I feel that is way more important to look into than genetics.
No, genetics needs to stay out of law and courts and people need to be punished for things that they do. It is hilariously disgusting to watch wannabe atheists trivializing existence because they don't believe in a god. Nothing wrong with being atheist but this blatant disregard for the reality of the human situation is sickening and you can spew shit from your mouth all day about how we are only chemical computers but both you and I know that our existence is true (whatever that implies) and our feelings and central nervous system exist and that for whatever reason we are important and relevant even if not universally.
We need to continue to see ourselves as living, conscious creatures. Trivializing our existence into firing neurons and randomness doesn't lead us anywhere and when a person is looked at on his genetic level it is like missing a forest for the trees. It is thinly veiled eugenics and just as worthless and serves no purpose in a court of law. We need to see people as people (the whole package) and no matter how much science helps us understand ourselves in a scientific way, we should not change our perceptions of existence. Science isn't trying to explain away existence it is trying to explain how it works. Taking it out of context to act like we are all irrelevant because we are defined by genetics is so incredibly ignorant and sophomoric it is sad.
Frankly, the idea that genetics is used to profile everyone in some sort of twisted future dystopia of "peace" and "freedom" is a lot scarier than the just sentencing people to life in prison or the death penalty if they fuck up and kill someone. I'd rather leave genetics and predisposition out of it and just treat people as they deserve for acts that they have committed rather than figure out what percentage there is that someone will do something.
Rehabilitation is not exactly furthered as an idea when you take the side of "genetics defines everything, the end", anyway. I feel like this thread is going to be filled with people talking out of their ass about rehabilitating victims of circumstance, ignoring the effects on the actual victims and then painting a beautiful portrait of a Minority Report-like future in complete contradiction to whatever they think they are talking about.
That's the best analogy ever.. its so true. Geocities might not have been great but it inspired thought, creativity and learning. Even if it's ugly as hell.
haha holy shit I just did something similar for my index.html on Geocities last day.. after backing up all my old stupid shit: http://geocities.com/insertwackynamehere57/
Since that wont be readable soon, the title is "Goodbye, world!" and the body is:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
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Goodbye, Geocities. For those who care the content previously hosted here is mostly mirrored on wackyhq and a full directory-structure-intact backup of the Geocities has been made by me. It was fun guys! Geocities got me into computer science. I know it's a n00b thing and all but here I am 8 years later a computer science major who started off making websites here.:'( Peace.
I like the idea implied by this post, when read wrong, that you needed to upgrade your webhost solution in order to continue reliably serving wolf-related information to the masses. You only state that you grew out of Geocities...:)
Geocities had some good stuff and if you are using Google, the irrelevant shit shouldn't have shown up anyway. Also, you are probably one of the only people with such a vendetta against advertising so I doubt it affected the ad companies all that much.
Your lack of perspective and understanding of the fundamental differences between the two services is not only astounding but ignorant, laughable and foolish as well. Facebook is in no way a descendant of Geocities, in terms of direct lineage. Furthermore, both Geocities and Facebook serve(d) important purposes and to willfully ignore their usefulness and impact due to personal prejudice and a need to stay ahead of the curve is extraordinarily predictable. The cynical desire to keep things from the masses is the root of censorship as both are based in power. You feel powerful discounting the relevance of websites that bring technology to a consumer level just like China's government feels powerful limiting access and stomping on their civilians rights. Luckily, only one of those power hungry groups is relevant in the long run, however the principal is the same and the idea that so many people feel a self-indulgent sense relevancy when it comes to making decisions on who should get to do what, especially when it comes to science, causes those who actually have pioneered ideas and technology to roll in their graves. This is a message to everyone on Slashdot who feels that their opinion is relevant when it comes to the mass production of consumer driven goods rooted in "nerdy" ideas. So many of you fancy yourselves on the level of Gates, Torvalds or Jobs simple because you have studied computer science, or even just memorized the facts of an obscure (or not-so-obscure) science fiction television show or movie series, but you all forget that you are not. Most of you are coders, or dorks or nerds and while you can all rally around this, you are not automatically geniuses because you tinker with computers as you are not the only ones who have ever done so. Reality check: this is 2009. If you are in this field or this lifestyle because you think it sets you apart, then find something else to do. For people who actually enjoy the fields relating to Slashdot, lose the attitude towards people who aren't part of it.
Geocities brought the web to people. Which is a good thing. We all laugh at the stupidity of the bad pages but a lot of people entered the field of computer science because of openings like this. I made my first website ever in eighth grade and slapped it up on Geocities. I taught myself HTML and everything. Now that seems irrelevant and easy because I'm doing things so far beyond that, but I don't discount it at all. Facebook isn't going to introduce anyone to programming (well, actually maybe some people will start because of Facebook apps), but it's proof of how relevant a website can become. It truly bridges the gap between the web and the world. It is amazing how global something like that has become.
for some like me, it gave me a place to learn html. now im a compsci major. 8 years ago i was using geocities to host my own webcomic web page that was made in notepad
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Yeah, but the point is you aren't giving in. Remember, the iPad is like the cool kids at school who beat you up and date women; you hate them because you wish you were them. I'm glad a company with no reputation that I've ever heard of has promised me the iPad but with blackjack and hookers. Oh, and I'm equally enthralled that they gave me permission to use Open Office on it! That sounds like a dream...a nonstandardized and confusing UI trying to work on a form factor it was even _less_ designed for? I sure am tickled with excitement. All I can say is that I sure hope Apple opens up it's development platform so that anyone can cobble anything together in any language they want with no barrier of entry. See, I believe in the free market (Ron Paul!) and to me, this means that Apple is legally obligated to do this because I said so. I don't want an iPhone, nor do I honestly know how to develop a true fullfledged application, but I still want a part. Apple is running themselves into the ground; no consumer likes the fact Apple retains so much control and no one wants to develop for the platform because it's so unpopular. So that is why this Linux slate is going to take the world by storm and completly blow Apple out of the water. The people have wanted this, and Apple doesn't innovate at all or come up with good products which is why end users hate them and they are almost financially ruined.
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To give everyone a chance at salvation and allow us to find our own paths with the free will bestowed upon us? I know I'm going to be called a troll but the parent was ignorant and trolling whereas I'm offering a perspective that may not hold as much cynicism but still holds relevence
Wait are you brain dead or is your heart flatlining? This is important
No one is mad that you dont have friends numbnut..we dont join Facebook to have millions of friends..you are trivializing something when you could just not like it and not want to be a part of it and move on
Why is this stalker argument even relevant? Shit like that can be handled the way it was handled before there was an internet: with the fucking police. I mean someone following you home and camping out in front of your house can be arrested. Same thing here, if you feel it's a threat.
A company is not a conscious entity and acts of capitalism are not "evil" on their own. You have witnessed Microsoft make money in a society based around the freedom to make and lose money. If Microsoft sold weapons to a foreign country that they knew were going to be used to kill innocent people, because it paid well, then the people who approved such deals would be evil, or at least morally wrong. Microsoft furthering it's company's agenda in the global marketplace is capitalism. And open source is included in the global marketplace always, not just when convenient. You can't run away crying because you played with the big kids and got hurt.
what the hell is your preferred computing language? visual basic?
ah, i see someone has already tried this by modding your post funny! too bad slashdot doesnt remove comments unless under the duress of a lawsuit.
whats this in womprats?
he clearly said people are cows, not sheep. i dont think you know what you are talking about!
Lol fine only on Slashdot would I get modded down because I called "atheists" and not atheists (no quotes) out on being neckbeard as fuck with their ideas on pre-emptive punishment based on eugenics, and their dreams of what most people would describe as a dystopia.
This isn't atheism versus creationism you fucking moron, where in my post did I talk about God or santa claus? I'm talking about people too edgy to acknowledge that like it or not, our existence isn't purely defined by genetics and chemicals. The parent, who may or may not be trolling above my original post, is discussing some stupid eugenics based "idea" he has in a pseudo-scientific light while hiding behind a lack of empathy to prove that he is not religious and thus correct (because the opposite of religion is knowledge right?)
Everyone on here is talking about how existence is just genetics and neurological impulses and jerking each other off over it, so I'm not arguing with philosophers and atheists who are published, I'm arguing with a lot of stupid fucking Slashdotters who think that their layman knowledge of science combined with their desired to edgily bring contrarian viewpoints into everything and their lust for power they've felt since they were beat up every day in middle school, is the saving fucking grace of the world.
You are forgetting the extremely important fact that how one is raised is very important. I feel that is way more important to look into than genetics.
No, genetics needs to stay out of law and courts and people need to be punished for things that they do. It is hilariously disgusting to watch wannabe atheists trivializing existence because they don't believe in a god. Nothing wrong with being atheist but this blatant disregard for the reality of the human situation is sickening and you can spew shit from your mouth all day about how we are only chemical computers but both you and I know that our existence is true (whatever that implies) and our feelings and central nervous system exist and that for whatever reason we are important and relevant even if not universally.
We need to continue to see ourselves as living, conscious creatures. Trivializing our existence into firing neurons and randomness doesn't lead us anywhere and when a person is looked at on his genetic level it is like missing a forest for the trees. It is thinly veiled eugenics and just as worthless and serves no purpose in a court of law. We need to see people as people (the whole package) and no matter how much science helps us understand ourselves in a scientific way, we should not change our perceptions of existence. Science isn't trying to explain away existence it is trying to explain how it works. Taking it out of context to act like we are all irrelevant because we are defined by genetics is so incredibly ignorant and sophomoric it is sad.
Frankly, the idea that genetics is used to profile everyone in some sort of twisted future dystopia of "peace" and "freedom" is a lot scarier than the just sentencing people to life in prison or the death penalty if they fuck up and kill someone. I'd rather leave genetics and predisposition out of it and just treat people as they deserve for acts that they have committed rather than figure out what percentage there is that someone will do something.
Rehabilitation is not exactly furthered as an idea when you take the side of "genetics defines everything, the end", anyway. I feel like this thread is going to be filled with people talking out of their ass about rehabilitating victims of circumstance, ignoring the effects on the actual victims and then painting a beautiful portrait of a Minority Report-like future in complete contradiction to whatever they think they are talking about.
I like the Time Machine reference to two separate species lol.. if thats what you were going for
That's the best analogy ever.. its so true. Geocities might not have been great but it inspired thought, creativity and learning. Even if it's ugly as hell.
I like the idea implied by this post, when read wrong, that you needed to upgrade your webhost solution in order to continue reliably serving wolf-related information to the masses. You only state that you grew out of Geocities... :)
Geocities had some good stuff and if you are using Google, the irrelevant shit shouldn't have shown up anyway. Also, you are probably one of the only people with such a vendetta against advertising so I doubt it affected the ad companies all that much.
Your lack of perspective and understanding of the fundamental differences between the two services is not only astounding but ignorant, laughable and foolish as well. Facebook is in no way a descendant of Geocities, in terms of direct lineage. Furthermore, both Geocities and Facebook serve(d) important purposes and to willfully ignore their usefulness and impact due to personal prejudice and a need to stay ahead of the curve is extraordinarily predictable. The cynical desire to keep things from the masses is the root of censorship as both are based in power. You feel powerful discounting the relevance of websites that bring technology to a consumer level just like China's government feels powerful limiting access and stomping on their civilians rights. Luckily, only one of those power hungry groups is relevant in the long run, however the principal is the same and the idea that so many people feel a self-indulgent sense relevancy when it comes to making decisions on who should get to do what, especially when it comes to science, causes those who actually have pioneered ideas and technology to roll in their graves. This is a message to everyone on Slashdot who feels that their opinion is relevant when it comes to the mass production of consumer driven goods rooted in "nerdy" ideas. So many of you fancy yourselves on the level of Gates, Torvalds or Jobs simple because you have studied computer science, or even just memorized the facts of an obscure (or not-so-obscure) science fiction television show or movie series, but you all forget that you are not. Most of you are coders, or dorks or nerds and while you can all rally around this, you are not automatically geniuses because you tinker with computers as you are not the only ones who have ever done so. Reality check: this is 2009. If you are in this field or this lifestyle because you think it sets you apart, then find something else to do. For people who actually enjoy the fields relating to Slashdot, lose the attitude towards people who aren't part of it.
Geocities brought the web to people. Which is a good thing. We all laugh at the stupidity of the bad pages but a lot of people entered the field of computer science because of openings like this. I made my first website ever in eighth grade and slapped it up on Geocities. I taught myself HTML and everything. Now that seems irrelevant and easy because I'm doing things so far beyond that, but I don't discount it at all. Facebook isn't going to introduce anyone to programming (well, actually maybe some people will start because of Facebook apps), but it's proof of how relevant a website can become. It truly bridges the gap between the web and the world. It is amazing how global something like that has become.
for some like me, it gave me a place to learn html. now im a compsci major. 8 years ago i was using geocities to host my own webcomic web page that was made in notepad
roo bar sounds like some sort of australian programming joke
wait it takes you 12 seconds to rip a dvd? could you elaborate?