Lately? This has been ongoing (or maybe complete) for years. The user submissions are either really bad as a whole or poorly selected by the editors to reflect only the low-quality posts we actually see, and then the editors further frustrate the readership by neglecting to do any editing at all, much less fact-checking.
The least they could do is read the story and decide whether the story is accurate and whether the submission accurately reflects its content. If an editor can't decide one or both of those questions, then that editor should not post the story and some other editor who can understand the subject matter can take it up.
ALF: [about Lucky, the cat] Last time I saw him he was high-tailing it out the window. Willie: And why was that? ALF: Cause I was chasing him with a fork. ... Brian: ALF wouldn't eat lucky, would he? ALF: I'm not saying nothing until I speak to my attorney. ... ALF: A minute and a half Luckmiester, then I'll be down on you like a buzzard on a gut wagon. ... [Lucky has died and the Tanners are having a funeral for him] ALF: I'm reminded of a prayer he used to recite every night before going to bed : "And if I die before I wake, chicken-fry me like a steak." ... [Also at Lucky's funeral] ALF: Where I'm from, this is ludicrous. It's like having a funeral for a hamburger. ... ALF: Raining cats? You open the skylight and I'll get the relish. ... ALF: Hey Willie. Let's throw a cat on the barbi. ... ALF: The only good cat is a stir-fried cat. ... ALF: [trying to hypnotize Lucky] You are getting sleepy. You... are no longer a cat. You are a bagel. ... Willie: There's more than one way to skin a cat. ALF: You've been looking at my recipe book. ... Gordon 'ALF' Shumway: Yo Kate, where do you keep your casserole dishes? Kate: Why? Gordon 'ALF' Shumway: The cat won't fit in the toaster. Never mind, I'll make a peanut butter sandwich, where's the blender?
Of course, ALF's diet was not limited to cats...
ALF: Oh, by the way, don't bother looking for your laxative on a rope. Willie: Oh, you mean my soap on a rope? ALF: Trust me on this one.
I understand that the submitter is just confused between dispense and disburse, but I know for a fact that I never want a fish, yummy or otherwise, dispersed in my home.
You can build a decent and small Debian box for the same money, and MacOS X in a small package is the main reason for buying the Mini in the first place.
I just ordered a PowerBook. I'm going to run MacOS X on it. If I wanted a laptop running Debian, I already have one. I want something with absolutely perfect support for all the hardware on the machine, but which doesn't hold me back like Windows does. MacOS X is the answer, and I bought a PowerBook to run it.
If I got a Mini, it, too, would run MacOS X. I already have Debian boxes, and I didn't pay $500 just to spend an hour undermining half the benefits of having the machine in the first place.
It was tongue-in-cheek, not entirely a joke but not entirely serious. I hope to put in some of my pro bono time helping the OS world, but obviously taking up a class action against SCO is not the place to do it. However, such a class action would hardly be a one-man operation. If it comes to fruition, through EFF or anywhere else, you will probably see my name in the credits somewhere if I can help it.
Your reply is the most sensible, and I agree. Oracle can, however, charge on whatever basis it wants to. If it remains cost-justified for Oracle's customers to use it under their draconian, senseless, profitable, or pricing scheme.
I have to disagree. On a dual-core chip, can two lines of execution go on simultaneously? If so, then it is, for all intents and purposes, two processors. Basing your logic on how the acronym is spelled is weak, at best.
I don't know why I got an "Insightful" mod - it was meant to be "Funny" or "Troll.";)
I have no problem believing that train controllers have more stress than ATC. With ATC, you have three dimensions to deal with, meaning that, statistically speaking, it's far less likely that they'll run into each other, anyhow. Add to that that you have three degrees of freedom to solve any impending collisions, and it's relatively stress-free, compared to train control where the ability to correct errors is extremely limited.
That's what I was thinking. All you need, even without an accurate timetable, is an odometer. Trains' positions can be measured in one dimension - there is no need to bring two other dimensions and a constellation of satellites into this.
Do you know of any class action attorneys that will work with no chance of recompense?
Give me 3 years and I might take the case, assuming I can find anyone stupid enough to have actually bought a SCO license and humble enough to actually admit it to act as the class representative.;)
Exactly my thoughts on the matter. Whatever is left of SCO is going to get a taste of its own medicine in the courtroom. Except for one thing - the class action filed against it will not be frivolous, and will probably win once it is shown that SCO's licensing system gives you a license to something SCO never owned, and they knew it all along.
You'd think that one of those thousands of lawyers they've hired would have warned them about this.
Yes, I know that. Wasn't he born in DE or CT? Regardless, I don't see the relevance of Bush's birthplace to Kerry's propensity for only actually submitting feel-good legislation. But even that's not all that relevant to the third amendment, which itself is entirely irrelevant to the actual story. How far off-topic can we get?;)
I comprehend it fully. When you piss a judge off by filing a frivolous and repressive lawsuit, you are going to usually have to pay for it. You really need to be more careful of whom you insult, and how. There are valid insults to throw at me, but that the Indian who took over my old job (never happened, sorry to disappoint you) is brighter than I am (which he isn't) or that his intelligence has anything to do with understanding the American legal system (which it doesn't) is not one of them.
The thing is that, after you do your time and pay your fine, with the DVDs you won't have anything to watch, while with P2P downloads you will have made a backup to watch.:)
So you're saying that the loser-pays system is not strict, and making the loser actually pay is at the discretion of the court? Wow, sounds familiar. That's how we do it anyhow!
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Lately? This has been ongoing (or maybe complete) for years. The user submissions are either really bad as a whole or poorly selected by the editors to reflect only the low-quality posts we actually see, and then the editors further frustrate the readership by neglecting to do any editing at all, much less fact-checking.
The least they could do is read the story and decide whether the story is accurate and whether the submission accurately reflects its content. If an editor can't decide one or both of those questions, then that editor should not post the story and some other editor who can understand the subject matter can take it up.
The UK domain isn't international - it's only used by sites in the UK.
You promise me that there are absolutely zero *.uk domains that resolve to the IP of a host that is anywhere outside of the United Kingdom?
Or even better when Cat was taking the bullhorn around the ship announcing his availability to all females aboard and requesting them to form a queue.
;)
Good times.
Um...that really doesn't sound like the Good Times I didn't grow up watching.
No problem - I was going for the karma-free Funny votes and you gave me a good opportunity. :)
self-cleaning robotic litterbox ... does it run linux?
I don't know, but as long as nobody makes a Beowulf cluster of them, I'll be happy.
You can, but /dev/null isn't available. And even if it were, we know from experience that "cat /dev/random > /dev/null" is a futile exercise, at best.
I understand that the submitter is just confused between dispense and disburse, but I know for a fact that I never want a fish, yummy or otherwise, dispersed in my home.
You mean all that hardware that only MacOS X supports? That's a great reason to install Debian! Thanks for the revelation.
You can build a decent and small Debian box for the same money, and MacOS X in a small package is the main reason for buying the Mini in the first place.
I just ordered a PowerBook. I'm going to run MacOS X on it. If I wanted a laptop running Debian, I already have one. I want something with absolutely perfect support for all the hardware on the machine, but which doesn't hold me back like Windows does. MacOS X is the answer, and I bought a PowerBook to run it.
If I got a Mini, it, too, would run MacOS X. I already have Debian boxes, and I didn't pay $500 just to spend an hour undermining half the benefits of having the machine in the first place.
Evidently the two actual fans managed to find a third person to help sponsor the effort.
It was tongue-in-cheek, not entirely a joke but not entirely serious. I hope to put in some of my pro bono time helping the OS world, but obviously taking up a class action against SCO is not the place to do it. However, such a class action would hardly be a one-man operation. If it comes to fruition, through EFF or anywhere else, you will probably see my name in the credits somewhere if I can help it.
Your reply is the most sensible, and I agree. Oracle can, however, charge on whatever basis it wants to. If it remains cost-justified for Oracle's customers to use it under their draconian, senseless, profitable, or pricing scheme.
I have to disagree. On a dual-core chip, can two lines of execution go on simultaneously? If so, then it is, for all intents and purposes, two processors. Basing your logic on how the acronym is spelled is weak, at best.
I don't know why I got an "Insightful" mod - it was meant to be "Funny" or "Troll." ;)
I have no problem believing that train controllers have more stress than ATC. With ATC, you have three dimensions to deal with, meaning that, statistically speaking, it's far less likely that they'll run into each other, anyhow. Add to that that you have three degrees of freedom to solve any impending collisions, and it's relatively stress-free, compared to train control where the ability to correct errors is extremely limited.
That's what I was thinking. All you need, even without an accurate timetable, is an odometer. Trains' positions can be measured in one dimension - there is no need to bring two other dimensions and a constellation of satellites into this.
Do you know of any class action attorneys that will work with no chance of recompense?
;)
Give me 3 years and I might take the case, assuming I can find anyone stupid enough to have actually bought a SCO license and humble enough to actually admit it to act as the class representative.
IANALBIAMTO
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Exactly my thoughts on the matter. Whatever is left of SCO is going to get a taste of its own medicine in the courtroom. Except for one thing - the class action filed against it will not be frivolous, and will probably win once it is shown that SCO's licensing system gives you a license to something SCO never owned, and they knew it all along.
You'd think that one of those thousands of lawyers they've hired would have warned them about this.
Yes, I know that. Wasn't he born in DE or CT? Regardless, I don't see the relevance of Bush's birthplace to Kerry's propensity for only actually submitting feel-good legislation. But even that's not all that relevant to the third amendment, which itself is entirely irrelevant to the actual story. How far off-topic can we get? ;)
I'll keep my eyes peeled. Congratulations on surviving the first 20 miles of the marathon, and good luck this spring and beyond.
I hate to break it to you, but "boxen" is not understood to be a joke by the majority of people who use it.
I comprehend it fully. When you piss a judge off by filing a frivolous and repressive lawsuit, you are going to usually have to pay for it. You really need to be more careful of whom you insult, and how. There are valid insults to throw at me, but that the Indian who took over my old job (never happened, sorry to disappoint you) is brighter than I am (which he isn't) or that his intelligence has anything to do with understanding the American legal system (which it doesn't) is not one of them.
The thing is that, after you do your time and pay your fine, with the DVDs you won't have anything to watch, while with P2P downloads you will have made a backup to watch. :)
So you're saying that the loser-pays system is not strict, and making the loser actually pay is at the discretion of the court? Wow, sounds familiar. That's how we do it anyhow!