I agree with your sentiment but I'd personally rather be able to do something and choose not to than not be able to do something and accept it for what it is.
I know what the OEM license is; it came with my brand new system-free OEM copy of Windows Vista Ultimate 32 Bit Edition that I purchased from Newegg for $180.
The difference of course being that semantics aside, Firefox eating up 100 mbs of memory at times is a problem, whereas your coworker being an idiot is just your coworker being an idiot.
Cookie monster was holding a pipe. There wasn't even smoking I'd assume, just holding of a ambiguous piece of paraphernalia in a humorous way to portray a character stereotype. Fuck tobacco, I agree, but c'mon there is a difference between using a tobacco pipe as a prop in a children's show (and eating it) and using a needle and spoon as a prop. For better or for worse, tobacco smoking exists and is common and public and kids are going to see it. They have to learn that it's bad, not not learn about it at all. Cookie Monster's holding of a pipe isn't going to hold a candle to being told of the dangers of smoking as they grow up by their parents and loved ones. Cookie Monster with heroin paraphernalia probably wouldn't influence kids to try heroin either, it would just be ludicrously inappropriate.
Yeah they weren't talking about metal pipes, they were talking about tobacco pipes. If they'd been metal pipes then I'd understand why they're might have been a bit more controversy. I mean c'mon, everyone knows glass is better! Sheesh.
I liked this guy's hair comments to the press way back and normally I'd see someone like him as a pretentious "artsy" douche.. you know, typical dreadlocked pothead graphic design/art major trying to look cool, but the fact is his "bomb threats" were blown out of proportion by the media. Do I think it makes sense it was investigated? Yes. Do I think it makes sense he was treated like crap when he was basically a adman (albeit an adman who resembles oldfashioned adman the way a Facebook engineer resembles an IBM engineer) that was hired to place ads for a well known product/company? No. I think it makes sense the lights were investigated and the men questioned but I think it's ridiculous that interrogation continued after they found out that their superiors were Viacom (okay not superiors per se but the people who outsourced to them). Viacom should have been the "target" of the authorities after this simple bit of information was found out.
Anyway, that was a bit of a rant but my point is, I liked the way this guy handled the media way back (because the media, frankly, deserves that...I appreciate what they do, but every now and then they need to be reminded that they aren't the ones in control but the ones who document and their emotional manipulation and constant spinning deserves to be checked). But on this interview two quotes in particular made me realize he is separate:
[Psychedelics] did not seem to offer a path to salvation, just a widening of perspective. and
One doesn't need psychedelics to achieve those kinds of realizations however. I really think it was good of him to say that, because yeah, he's clearly someone who isn't a stranger to drugs but he offers a level headed view that's not overly self serving a biased. Too many people think drugs (especially psychedelics) answer all their questions and solve everything and sound like selfserving douchebags. They talk about discovering the answer while taking LSD and it's so pretentious and dickish and done to fit an image. Here's a guy who does them (no problem with that here) and then proceeds to say they helped a bit but they aren't necessary and maybe he enjoyed them but he's clearly not going to judge someone who doesn't do them. I've never tried psychedelics and I also no longer smoke marijuana, but I am most definitely not an anti-drug type; I just am glad to see someone saying drugs can be fun but they aren't necessary. People who do drugs and say that's the only way are almost worse than people who don't do drugs and say that's the only way because people who do drugs generally take pride in their self-described "open minds". So kudos to him for basically saying "yeah I used drugs but you don't have to and you can still get to the same point regardless of your choice."
First off, that's what makes this writer's strike here in the US (maybe other places too?) a good thing. TV and movie writers want more for their work and maybe other types of artists/writers will follow.
Second, your spelling of gorilla nearly made me choke on my food with laughter:P
Something like this would require artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence would be self aware. It would then be forced to destroy itself.
Also, you can't spell idiots without "it"..oh wait
Is it war if it's just machines (not even sentient robots) fighting? I mean, what happens? Two countries throw enough scrap metal around while no one is really in danger? This would be good, but it misses the point of war.
I've been thinking this for a while. As cool as it is to see what some sites pull off with AJAX, it's nothing more than a hack. There needs to be a more up-to-date way of making dynamic web pages, and it should be tailor made for this purpose, not hacked together with outdated things like DHTML and Javascript and iframes.
Imagine pictures of common passwords/objects being drawn everywhere on the screen at different rotations and scales in rapid succession.. or just a brute forcer which didn't even make legible images 99% of the time
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I agree with your sentiment but I'd personally rather be able to do something and choose not to than not be able to do something and accept it for what it is.
I know what the OEM license is; it came with my brand new system-free OEM copy of Windows Vista Ultimate 32 Bit Edition that I purchased from Newegg for $180.
The difference of course being that semantics aside, Firefox eating up 100 mbs of memory at times is a problem, whereas your coworker being an idiot is just your coworker being an idiot.
It might not have anything to do with kids but may be seen in bad taste as mocking homeless people or something.
Cookie monster was holding a pipe. There wasn't even smoking I'd assume, just holding of a ambiguous piece of paraphernalia in a humorous way to portray a character stereotype. Fuck tobacco, I agree, but c'mon there is a difference between using a tobacco pipe as a prop in a children's show (and eating it) and using a needle and spoon as a prop. For better or for worse, tobacco smoking exists and is common and public and kids are going to see it. They have to learn that it's bad, not not learn about it at all. Cookie Monster's holding of a pipe isn't going to hold a candle to being told of the dangers of smoking as they grow up by their parents and loved ones. Cookie Monster with heroin paraphernalia probably wouldn't influence kids to try heroin either, it would just be ludicrously inappropriate.
Yeah they weren't talking about metal pipes, they were talking about tobacco pipes. If they'd been metal pipes then I'd understand why they're might have been a bit more controversy. I mean c'mon, everyone knows glass is better! Sheesh.
Anyway, that was a bit of a rant but my point is, I liked the way this guy handled the media way back (because the media, frankly, deserves that...I appreciate what they do, but every now and then they need to be reminded that they aren't the ones in control but the ones who document and their emotional manipulation and constant spinning deserves to be checked). But on this interview two quotes in particular made me realize he is separate: [Psychedelics] did not seem to offer a path to salvation, just a widening of perspective. and One doesn't need psychedelics to achieve those kinds of realizations however. I really think it was good of him to say that, because yeah, he's clearly someone who isn't a stranger to drugs but he offers a level headed view that's not overly self serving a biased. Too many people think drugs (especially psychedelics) answer all their questions and solve everything and sound like selfserving douchebags. They talk about discovering the answer while taking LSD and it's so pretentious and dickish and done to fit an image. Here's a guy who does them (no problem with that here) and then proceeds to say they helped a bit but they aren't necessary and maybe he enjoyed them but he's clearly not going to judge someone who doesn't do them. I've never tried psychedelics and I also no longer smoke marijuana, but I am most definitely not an anti-drug type; I just am glad to see someone saying drugs can be fun but they aren't necessary. People who do drugs and say that's the only way are almost worse than people who don't do drugs and say that's the only way because people who do drugs generally take pride in their self-described "open minds". So kudos to him for basically saying "yeah I used drugs but you don't have to and you can still get to the same point regardless of your choice."
you forgot trance music
First off, that's what makes this writer's strike here in the US (maybe other places too?) a good thing. TV and movie writers want more for their work and maybe other types of artists/writers will follow.
:P
Second, your spelling of gorilla nearly made me choke on my food with laughter
LISTEN TO THIS AND YOU WILL DIE HAHAHA I AM SATAN *crash*
:'(
Now we know why paul is dead amirite
also the lameness filter
dapper.. AW HELL NO theyre using outdated ubuntu distros just when we thought this couldn't get any worse
A roll? But I asked for a platter! :O
Something like this would require artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence would be self aware. It would then be forced to destroy itself. Also, you can't spell idiots without "it"..oh wait
Is it war if it's just machines (not even sentient robots) fighting? I mean, what happens? Two countries throw enough scrap metal around while no one is really in danger? This would be good, but it misses the point of war.
I'm not quite sure why this is flamebait, and also, nice website, I wrote the Slashdot.org article on uncyc :)
I was gonna say something until I saw your uids lol
Um it looks like a script where in order to download it, you need to give them you're email...what's weird about that?
haha in that case i am sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone. but yeah, the singular is "mouse" and the plural is "mice".
...comes in a CD glued on top of a mice These mice are so powerful that even in the singular, they are referred to as pluralI'm pretty sure Stevie B doesn't want Facebook integrating with Google
you spelled "smrat" wrong btw
r u kidding? :P (mods check parents username)
I've been thinking this for a while. As cool as it is to see what some sites pull off with AJAX, it's nothing more than a hack. There needs to be a more up-to-date way of making dynamic web pages, and it should be tailor made for this purpose, not hacked together with outdated things like DHTML and Javascript and iframes.
"Our" not "Are" sorry, nitpicking :P
I smell pictionary attacks!!
Imagine pictures of common passwords/objects being drawn everywhere on the screen at different rotations and scales in rapid succession.. or just a brute forcer which didn't even make legible images 99% of the time