I'm on both sides. I used to hate Apple for the same reasons that you prefer non-Apple products: I like to feel like I have control and figure out how things work, etc. However I got a Macbook Pro for school to go with my PC I've had for ages. The fact is, I don't use my PC anymore because as much as like messing with things, I'd rather they work 99% of the time and I'm willing to sacrifice the nerdiness and wasted time getting things to work in order to successfully use my comp when I need to. Of course, I was running XP but I cannot deal with it any more. I was trying to use it again yesterday, I don't know how I used Windows for my whole life until now. Nothing works! Everything crashes, games just choke to the point of hard shutdowns being a requirement despite having enough processing power, RAM, video card power etc (I invested a lot into my system). I just can't deal with it anymore because I feel like kicking the thing everytime I turn it on. Ideally, I'd move over to Linux and although I've tried a few times, it's always delegated to a secondary OS because it still can't support everything 100% without tons of excess effort. However Linux at least combines stability with the nerdiness factor, after using Windows for years thinking getting things to work proved my 1337ness, I realized it was just that Windows couldn't handle shit and I was proving my 1337ness but for no real reason.. getting things to run that a normal user may have trouble with is good, but it's also pointless. I know this probably reads like a troll but it's the absolute truth from my perspective and I'm only saying it in response to the parent who has similar views to my old self.
I agree. Jetways are probably the most badass non-technological pseudo-scifi thing we have right now. So what if Japan is making robots? The real scifi/future feel comes from walking down a jetway and pretending you're boarding a spaceship or walking through a space station to get on a scout pod or something. The whole plane docking with it makes the whole thing feel like a movie.
You're forgetting, they're human. They would lick the butter off themselves and no longer be frictionless. Like the guy said before, you can't have an assembly line process with humans.
Meh maybe I overreacted but I go to NYU so I'm around gay people all the time and I have no problem with them. But I'm straight and the idea of gay sex, to me, is as someone stated, revolting. Not revolting if others are doing it, but the idea of me doing it. And no it's not because I'm insecure, it's because I'm straight. I'm more secure with that than most "straight" guys who constantly have to prove it.
I just wanna say up front I have nothing against gay people. But honestly, your bashing America because you say Germany is more tolerant of gays and yet you admit that 50% of the allegedly straight men you know have had a homosexual experience. Straight guys don't have homosexual experiences unless they are gay or at least bi. That's like saying an out gay man has heterosexual experiences. It isn't common and it isn't true to the person's feelings. I guess what I'm trying to say is if Germany is so liberal towards gays and there is no stigma, then why are these "straight" people so scared to come out? You can say they aren't scared because they admit to gay experiences but I feel that they should come out if they are truly not scared because I honestly doubt that 50% is all really straight. It doesn't help your argument at all really.
I dunno with Linux you may have to manually edit some config files to the point where the average user will just forget about it and apt-get remove (using Synaptic of course). Until someone creates a GUI it won't be a threat and even then there will be a 3 year beta with the worst HCI ever that runs on obselete versions of GTK. Windows on the other hand will willingly let it destroy the registry and boot sector while prompting a user with a "yes/no" when they try to open Word.
Of course Apple will release their own version that will be prettier and yet not actually be compatible with humans. They already did this (FIV). Also, FOSS developers will constantly try to port it to NetBSD but NetBSD's kernel is deeply hardcoded to not allow anything competingly bad compared to the OS itself to run on the system. You can try recompiling the kernel but the last few people from our team who tried that went insane. Well, the ones who didn't mysteriously hemmorage from every orifice and die went insane. They keep saying something about hell and how they don't want to go back. It may have something to do with this weird anomoly noticed during tests where people dissapeared for 5 minutes and when they reappared their watches were 2 hours ahead. We're still looking into that. Also the compile keeps segfaulting.
I just don't get why these companies keep serving subpoenas to everyone. If they really want to fix their leaks they should just hire a plumber. I have the number of a guy who's really good, he fixed my toilet once. He's a bit pricey for what he does but that's not really his fault; the union drives up the prices. I'm sure he could fix this banks leaks in no time!
On a color related note, they should have a pink theme. I showed some female co-workers all the different ways you could make Ubuntu look and all of them, without exception, flipped out when they saw pink; doubly so when it was pink and black. Until it's embedded in their washing machines and stoves, women shouldn't be using Linux, much less computers. What's next, letting them vote? And where does it go from there? Maybe they'll actually start hunting instead of just gathering!
I mean, if they are what they say they are, a superstar, then they shouldn't have any fear about saying so. I mean they (the employer) wants to know. I only suggest that they wear their shades because sometimes the spotlights can burn holes through the stage, but otherwise they're a pretty safe bet. The interviewee should also be asked about previous projects, did they improve on the design? Did they do something new? If they don't have much to say they're too much of a new comer. If you make a mistake when typing up notes on the interviewee then go back, whatever you did, you undo (Ctrl+Z).
I agree with all the stuff people say about how marijuana is not as bad as its made out to be. And no, it isn't addictive like heroin or even cigs or coffee. But there is tolerance and there are symptoms of withdrawal amongst daily or near daily users, like it or not. Just ask someone who's quitting daily marijuana use cold turkey how they slept their first night. Their answer will probably be "I didn't." Also ask if they still get as high as they used to. Plenty will say they no longer even feel high, they only pull themselves back to normal. I am talking about heavy use of course, but usage that is still common amongst teens-20 year olds who do stuff besides weed (functioning pot-heads I suppose). I used to smoke occasionally, but I was and am around people who do it (or used to do it) daily (sometimes more, occasionally less) and they function but they need weed to function and that's the issue. Don't assume only slackers/losers smoke that much or that it isn't a problem unless you are a slacker/loser. Plenty of people who fit in fine are in the bad habit of smoking too often and they certainly have increased tolerance and restless/anxious withdrawal symptoms.
Don't you get it? If scientists can turn matter into cell phone signals, then you won't have to take a DC-9 jet to Jupiter anymore. You can warp there as radiation! Talk about missing the forest for the trees.
I agree with your point about kids not understanding why aiming to fail isnt as cool as its made out to be by certain aspects of our society. But young kids serving in the war.. that really wouldn't help. In the end, a kid dying because he fell in with the wrong crowd and a kid dying because he was fighting in a war is really no different. You can try to paint it with as much pride and respect as you want but the kid is still dead. And if by kid, you mean 10 or 11, then your reffering to something only countries in Africa and South America still do and these are pretty shitty countries where the kids are in even worse postions
I know you are joking but just to be clear, using oil based lubricants and/or using multiple condoms will increase the risk of condoms breaking during sex.
Well keep in mind, as well that the major atrocities commited by the church were at a time when the Bible was in Latin and people couldn't read for the most part. Thus, it was a dark age of the religion because the word wasn't being spread. Nowadays, we don't have Christians doing that type of thing because you read the Bible or have it read and explained to you. The religion holds no secrets. This isn't a debate of whose beliefs are better. It's a debate of what makes a cult different from religion. Finally, something that is less empirical but holds true is that a religion, such as Christianity, is followed by true believers and led by them too. Somehow I doubt the leaders of Scienotology believe what they preach. This of course isn't proof per se, but assuming you subscribe to that line of thought already, it's just another way to justify the difference.
If I want to know about Christianity, I can buy a Bible. I could even get free bibles if I know where to look. I could find a million different people preaching about the religion. I could find people who would be head over heals to go in depth about their beliefs for absolutley no money. I could sell a Bible on eBay and the pope isn't going to delete it. On the other hand, Scientology offers nothing except a promise of enlightment for a large sum of money. They don't follow through and have so much against them legally and morally that it is sophomoric to compare them to a real religion. Say what you want about religion, but a true religion is open (like most major religions) and a cult is closed (like Scientology). Taking jabs at mainstream religion is childish and ignores the real issues. And finally, Christianity's largest atrocities occured centuries ago, the stuff Scientology has done is completely out of place for the 20th and 21st century. I'm not trying to defend Christianity out of zealotry (I do not practice Christianity or Judaism, the two religions of my parents, although I do believe in God), I'm defending it because in this day and age it is a respectful religion to follow and one that isn't based around money, crime and tax breaks. Sure, one may not agree with some views but those views are open book. Scientology won't tell you their views because they are idiotic. All the stuff we know about Xenu is from leaks. Scientology never volunteered that information, and for a good reason. Until you are brainwashed, it sounds like pure BS.
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I'm on both sides. I used to hate Apple for the same reasons that you prefer non-Apple products: I like to feel like I have control and figure out how things work, etc. However I got a Macbook Pro for school to go with my PC I've had for ages. The fact is, I don't use my PC anymore because as much as like messing with things, I'd rather they work 99% of the time and I'm willing to sacrifice the nerdiness and wasted time getting things to work in order to successfully use my comp when I need to. Of course, I was running XP but I cannot deal with it any more. I was trying to use it again yesterday, I don't know how I used Windows for my whole life until now. Nothing works! Everything crashes, games just choke to the point of hard shutdowns being a requirement despite having enough processing power, RAM, video card power etc (I invested a lot into my system). I just can't deal with it anymore because I feel like kicking the thing everytime I turn it on. Ideally, I'd move over to Linux and although I've tried a few times, it's always delegated to a secondary OS because it still can't support everything 100% without tons of excess effort. However Linux at least combines stability with the nerdiness factor, after using Windows for years thinking getting things to work proved my 1337ness, I realized it was just that Windows couldn't handle shit and I was proving my 1337ness but for no real reason.. getting things to run that a normal user may have trouble with is good, but it's also pointless. I know this probably reads like a troll but it's the absolute truth from my perspective and I'm only saying it in response to the parent who has similar views to my old self.
I agree. Jetways are probably the most badass non-technological pseudo-scifi thing we have right now. So what if Japan is making robots? The real scifi/future feel comes from walking down a jetway and pretending you're boarding a spaceship or walking through a space station to get on a scout pod or something. The whole plane docking with it makes the whole thing feel like a movie.
You're forgetting, they're human. They would lick the butter off themselves and no longer be frictionless. Like the guy said before, you can't have an assembly line process with humans.
Meh maybe I overreacted but I go to NYU so I'm around gay people all the time and I have no problem with them. But I'm straight and the idea of gay sex, to me, is as someone stated, revolting. Not revolting if others are doing it, but the idea of me doing it. And no it's not because I'm insecure, it's because I'm straight. I'm more secure with that than most "straight" guys who constantly have to prove it.
I just wanna say up front I have nothing against gay people. But honestly, your bashing America because you say Germany is more tolerant of gays and yet you admit that 50% of the allegedly straight men you know have had a homosexual experience. Straight guys don't have homosexual experiences unless they are gay or at least bi. That's like saying an out gay man has heterosexual experiences. It isn't common and it isn't true to the person's feelings. I guess what I'm trying to say is if Germany is so liberal towards gays and there is no stigma, then why are these "straight" people so scared to come out? You can say they aren't scared because they admit to gay experiences but I feel that they should come out if they are truly not scared because I honestly doubt that 50% is all really straight. It doesn't help your argument at all really.
It's sounds more like the parent was talking about buying alcohol with a fake :P
I dunno with Linux you may have to manually edit some config files to the point where the average user will just forget about it and apt-get remove (using Synaptic of course). Until someone creates a GUI it won't be a threat and even then there will be a 3 year beta with the worst HCI ever that runs on obselete versions of GTK. Windows on the other hand will willingly let it destroy the registry and boot sector while prompting a user with a "yes/no" when they try to open Word.
Of course Apple will release their own version that will be prettier and yet not actually be compatible with humans. They already did this (FIV). Also, FOSS developers will constantly try to port it to NetBSD but NetBSD's kernel is deeply hardcoded to not allow anything competingly bad compared to the OS itself to run on the system. You can try recompiling the kernel but the last few people from our team who tried that went insane. Well, the ones who didn't mysteriously hemmorage from every orifice and die went insane. They keep saying something about hell and how they don't want to go back. It may have something to do with this weird anomoly noticed during tests where people dissapeared for 5 minutes and when they reappared their watches were 2 hours ahead. We're still looking into that. Also the compile keeps segfaulting.
So in other words unless we progress in this field... we won't progress in this field? How insightful. Good job mods.
I just don't get why these companies keep serving subpoenas to everyone. If they really want to fix their leaks they should just hire a plumber. I have the number of a guy who's really good, he fixed my toilet once. He's a bit pricey for what he does but that's not really his fault; the union drives up the prices. I'm sure he could fix this banks leaks in no time!
too bad, i wikileaked your id.. not so anonymous now are you? you will be hearing from my lawyers shortly.
http://www.completealbumlyrics.com/lyric/132191/Lupe+Fiasco+-+Superstar.html
nah you make two and there goes your market
I mean, if they are what they say they are, a superstar, then they shouldn't have any fear about saying so. I mean they (the employer) wants to know. I only suggest that they wear their shades because sometimes the spotlights can burn holes through the stage, but otherwise they're a pretty safe bet. The interviewee should also be asked about previous projects, did they improve on the design? Did they do something new? If they don't have much to say they're too much of a new comer. If you make a mistake when typing up notes on the interviewee then go back, whatever you did, you undo (Ctrl+Z).
I agree with all the stuff people say about how marijuana is not as bad as its made out to be. And no, it isn't addictive like heroin or even cigs or coffee. But there is tolerance and there are symptoms of withdrawal amongst daily or near daily users, like it or not. Just ask someone who's quitting daily marijuana use cold turkey how they slept their first night. Their answer will probably be "I didn't." Also ask if they still get as high as they used to. Plenty will say they no longer even feel high, they only pull themselves back to normal. I am talking about heavy use of course, but usage that is still common amongst teens-20 year olds who do stuff besides weed (functioning pot-heads I suppose). I used to smoke occasionally, but I was and am around people who do it (or used to do it) daily (sometimes more, occasionally less) and they function but they need weed to function and that's the issue. Don't assume only slackers/losers smoke that much or that it isn't a problem unless you are a slacker/loser. Plenty of people who fit in fine are in the bad habit of smoking too often and they certainly have increased tolerance and restless/anxious withdrawal symptoms.
Don't you get it? If scientists can turn matter into cell phone signals, then you won't have to take a DC-9 jet to Jupiter anymore. You can warp there as radiation! Talk about missing the forest for the trees.
I agree with your point about kids not understanding why aiming to fail isnt as cool as its made out to be by certain aspects of our society. But young kids serving in the war.. that really wouldn't help. In the end, a kid dying because he fell in with the wrong crowd and a kid dying because he was fighting in a war is really no different. You can try to paint it with as much pride and respect as you want but the kid is still dead. And if by kid, you mean 10 or 11, then your reffering to something only countries in Africa and South America still do and these are pretty shitty countries where the kids are in even worse postions
Now if only they invented self-mending grammar and spelling. Spell check, they could call it.
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I' m sorry I had too lol
i loled i wish i had mod points
I know you are joking but just to be clear, using oil based lubricants and/or using multiple condoms will increase the risk of condoms breaking during sex.
Well keep in mind, as well that the major atrocities commited by the church were at a time when the Bible was in Latin and people couldn't read for the most part. Thus, it was a dark age of the religion because the word wasn't being spread. Nowadays, we don't have Christians doing that type of thing because you read the Bible or have it read and explained to you. The religion holds no secrets. This isn't a debate of whose beliefs are better. It's a debate of what makes a cult different from religion. Finally, something that is less empirical but holds true is that a religion, such as Christianity, is followed by true believers and led by them too. Somehow I doubt the leaders of Scienotology believe what they preach. This of course isn't proof per se, but assuming you subscribe to that line of thought already, it's just another way to justify the difference.
If I want to know about Christianity, I can buy a Bible. I could even get free bibles if I know where to look. I could find a million different people preaching about the religion. I could find people who would be head over heals to go in depth about their beliefs for absolutley no money. I could sell a Bible on eBay and the pope isn't going to delete it. On the other hand, Scientology offers nothing except a promise of enlightment for a large sum of money. They don't follow through and have so much against them legally and morally that it is sophomoric to compare them to a real religion. Say what you want about religion, but a true religion is open (like most major religions) and a cult is closed (like Scientology). Taking jabs at mainstream religion is childish and ignores the real issues. And finally, Christianity's largest atrocities occured centuries ago, the stuff Scientology has done is completely out of place for the 20th and 21st century. I'm not trying to defend Christianity out of zealotry (I do not practice Christianity or Judaism, the two religions of my parents, although I do believe in God), I'm defending it because in this day and age it is a respectful religion to follow and one that isn't based around money, crime and tax breaks. Sure, one may not agree with some views but those views are open book. Scientology won't tell you their views because they are idiotic. All the stuff we know about Xenu is from leaks. Scientology never volunteered that information, and for a good reason. Until you are brainwashed, it sounds like pure BS.
I'm pretty sure when music is transferred to an iPod the DRM is stripped, but I could be wrong.
something tells me a hairless furby with basic dream interpretation ability isn't going to be getting too many people in legal trouble anytime soon.