Movies still in the theater aren't sold for a long time. Logically, if someone DLs a movie and likes it enought to see it in the theater, he's going to buy it when it comes out on blu-ray.
The "article" was an abstract from the study, I saw no flaws. "We find that the shutdown had a negative, yet insignificant effect on box office revenues." What was flawed?
No, have you read the slashdot faqs? What he did was recommended. Now, an offtopic post like yours (and my reply) is proof one isn't a karma whore.
And what if one is a "karma whore"? You don't get karma unless you can post interesting, insightful, or funny comments, and those are exactly the comments I want to see. "Karma whore" is an undeserved pejorative usually hurled by someone who is neither insightful nor informative and lacks a sense of humor.
"This guy is a karma whore" adds nothing to the conversation. Please try and stay on topic!
When I was ten (half a century ago), by buddy actually did piss on an electric fence. Poor kid lay there screaming for ten minutes, but there was no permanent damage. I think this is an excellent idea; farmers and ranchers have been using electric fences to keep their animals in for decades, and I have yet to hear of anyone being harmed.
AGW mitigation is coupled with all sorts of stuff that restricts competition in the fossil fuel industry, such as regulation that has prevented any new refineries from being built in the US for decades.
If the masses can't figure out how to use an os themselves within about 10 seconds they start rioting
I've put Linux on clueless, computer-illiterate users' machines for years. Without fail, they all found Mandriva and kubuntu easier to use than Windows. When it comes to useability (especially discoverability), Windows suck big time. From what I've read, W8 and Unity are tied for the #1 unusable OSes (I haven't tried either one).
They all especially like the fact that their computer is faster with Linux than with Windows, and that they don't have to call me every two weeks because it doesn't work at all because they've stupidly installed some trojan.
think the bigger problem is that people neither want, nor like change.
Incorrect, or you wouldn't have a cell phone in your pocket. What people neither like or want is change that affects them negatively. Change the price of gasoline upwards by a dollar and they'll scream bloody mudrer, change it downwards by a dollar and they'll smile.
Tell them you've developed an automobile that gets 200 mpg and they'll cheer. tell them they have to wait half an hour in the snow for a bus rather than driving and the torches and pitchforks come out.
People are lazy and getting everyone to even do something simple like sort their rubbish and recycle more rather than mindlessly throwing stuff in the same old bin to be sent to a single landfill
Again, make them work more and they're not going to like you. If I was required to sort beer cans from the rest of my trash I'd complain; what's in it for me? Yet I save my beer cans because I can take them to the recycling center and get cash for them. Both are changes from simply throwing them away, but asking for the former is rediculous, while the latter is a boon.
If you want change, make that change positively impact the lives of the folks who must change. Negatively impact them and you'll lose.
In the case of your recycling, someone's making money off of your recycled trash, you should be compensated. I'm not going to help you make money unless I get something in return. It's simple psychology.
Mods, any time someone uses the term "freetards" it's flamebait. No nerd would use that term, only a salesman or marketer or MBA. As this is (or at least used to be) a predominantly Linux-driven site, it's also a troll. Please mod the parent to oblivion.
Thank you.
Oh, and I'm offtopic, mod me down as well.
viperidaenz, fuck you and the expensive OS you rode in on, dickweed.
And I say the web site the fucking article is on is the VERY WORST I've seen in years. There were better sites on Geocities. It's about as clumsy, juvenile, and unuseable as any I've seen, obviously done by a rank amateur who has never coded anything in his life. Here is a different one, and it looks like that submitted article was plagairized from the one I linked.
I liked the internet a whole lot better when it was just us nerds. The AC who submitted the story is most probably the owner of the gawdoffal site TFS linked. Oh, the one I linked sucks, too, but not nearly as bad as the one from TFS. So far, thenextweb.com gets my vote as the year's worst site.
Excuse me while I get the blood out of my eyes, damn but it BURNS!
Hmm, not only my original post of a few minutes ago, but the whole thread modded to zero or lower.
The whole thread is offtopic. Kudos to the moderators. If you don't have excellent karma, don't make offtopic comments and don't respond to offtopic comments.
The way to not get modded offtopic is to ridicule whoever made that aliterate (not illiterate) mistake in a way that's genuinely funny. And hint: funny is dangeroud to karma, too.
But at least it's been fixed now
So why did you even post a complaint about being modded down? Mods, the parent is offtopic and so am I. Mod us both down, we're offtopic. Lu3hr, take your karma hit and stop bitching.
Who could have done that?
One moderator with fifteen points, three mods with five points each, or an editor, who has unlimited mod points all the time.
Well DUH. A meter is only a few inches longer than a yard, just multiply by three. If you need accurate measurements, use a meterstick instead of a yardstick.
Forty bucks is twice what an Apple customer pays for an upgrade. I paid $0 for kubuntu, which has features W8 lacks while W8 has nothing kubuntu lacks except loss of productivity with that stupid metro interface. I just don't see how anyone would pay forty bucks for that turd.
So you've discovered that "you get what you pay for" is a lie? Good for you, I don't know why anyone ever believed that horse shit. I don't understand what (except ignorance or stupidity) would have someone buy a can of name brand corn when it's exactly the same corn as generic, except at half the price. I can't understand why anyone would buy Alieve when it's three times as costly as generic naproxin when naproxin is all Alieve is.
I paid seventy five cents for my Nike tea shirt at a garage sale. People are stupid and wasteful.
They decriminalized pot here in Springfield, IL. Rather than sending you to jail as if you'd gotten drunk and ran over a pedestrian, they give you a $350 ticket as if you were driving without insurance.
The two states that legalized it have no penalties whatever; it's perfectly legal. Speeding on the highway is illegal, but it isn't a crime. Smoking pot in those two states is neither a crime nor illegal.
In the midwest we actually help each other and hold each other accountable.
True.
Our states are also not going bankrupt
Illinois isn't in the midwest? We're in worse shape than California.
and haven't had to put "nanny" laws on the books
Anti-pot laws are nanny state laws, and the only two state that have legalized reefer aren't in the midwest. Your soda example doesn't stop you from drinking as much soda as you want, and IINM New York City is the only place with that particular law.
We also immediately help each other during disasters and don't wait for the government to swoop in to save us.
Yes, we help each other during emergencies, but it looked from TV like those caught in Sandy were doing the same. And if you don't think Oklahoma, Missouri, and other midwestern states didn't accept FEMA help after tornados, you're not paying attention.
The rest of your comment was just meaningless lip flapping.
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Movies still in the theater aren't sold for a long time. Logically, if someone DLs a movie and likes it enought to see it in the theater, he's going to buy it when it comes out on blu-ray.
The "article" was an abstract from the study, I saw no flaws. "We find that the shutdown had a negative, yet insignificant effect on box office revenues." What was flawed?
No, have you read the slashdot faqs? What he did was recommended. Now, an offtopic post like yours (and my reply) is proof one isn't a karma whore.
And what if one is a "karma whore"? You don't get karma unless you can post interesting, insightful, or funny comments, and those are exactly the comments I want to see. "Karma whore" is an undeserved pejorative usually hurled by someone who is neither insightful nor informative and lacks a sense of humor.
"This guy is a karma whore" adds nothing to the conversation. Please try and stay on topic!
The last time I turned cans in it netted me $40. That's dinner for two at D'arcy's.
"Aliterate" is someone who doesn't like to read.
Exactly. One who reads doesn't make ignorant mistakes like that.
Actually, the penalty for driving without insurance is twice that here, $750 iinm.
When I was ten (half a century ago), by buddy actually did piss on an electric fence. Poor kid lay there screaming for ten minutes, but there was no permanent damage. I think this is an excellent idea; farmers and ranchers have been using electric fences to keep their animals in for decades, and I have yet to hear of anyone being harmed.
AGW mitigation is coupled with all sorts of stuff that restricts competition in the fossil fuel industry, such as regulation that has prevented any new refineries from being built in the US for decades.
Yet somehow, despite these onerous regs you don't cite, we are exporting more oil than we are importing for the first time in over 60 years and are on track to become the world's #1 exporter in another ten.
If the masses can't figure out how to use an os themselves within about 10 seconds they start rioting
I've put Linux on clueless, computer-illiterate users' machines for years. Without fail, they all found Mandriva and kubuntu easier to use than Windows. When it comes to useability (especially discoverability), Windows suck big time. From what I've read, W8 and Unity are tied for the #1 unusable OSes (I haven't tried either one).
They all especially like the fact that their computer is faster with Linux than with Windows, and that they don't have to call me every two weeks because it doesn't work at all because they've stupidly installed some trojan.
think the bigger problem is that people neither want, nor like change.
Incorrect, or you wouldn't have a cell phone in your pocket. What people neither like or want is change that affects them negatively. Change the price of gasoline upwards by a dollar and they'll scream bloody mudrer, change it downwards by a dollar and they'll smile.
Tell them you've developed an automobile that gets 200 mpg and they'll cheer. tell them they have to wait half an hour in the snow for a bus rather than driving and the torches and pitchforks come out.
People are lazy and getting everyone to even do something simple like sort their rubbish and recycle more rather than mindlessly throwing stuff in the same old bin to be sent to a single landfill
Again, make them work more and they're not going to like you. If I was required to sort beer cans from the rest of my trash I'd complain; what's in it for me? Yet I save my beer cans because I can take them to the recycling center and get cash for them. Both are changes from simply throwing them away, but asking for the former is rediculous, while the latter is a boon.
If you want change, make that change positively impact the lives of the folks who must change. Negatively impact them and you'll lose.
In the case of your recycling, someone's making money off of your recycled trash, you should be compensated. I'm not going to help you make money unless I get something in return. It's simple psychology.
This is a LOOSE LOOSE situation...
I don't know, it seems pretty tight to me.
Or...
(lowers sunglasses)
Windows 8!
Mods, any time someone uses the term "freetards" it's flamebait. No nerd would use that term, only a salesman or marketer or MBA. As this is (or at least used to be) a predominantly Linux-driven site, it's also a troll. Please mod the parent to oblivion.
Thank you.
Oh, and I'm offtopic, mod me down as well.
viperidaenz, fuck you and the expensive OS you rode in on, dickweed.
And I say the web site the fucking article is on is the VERY WORST I've seen in years. There were better sites on Geocities. It's about as clumsy, juvenile, and unuseable as any I've seen, obviously done by a rank amateur who has never coded anything in his life. Here is a different one, and it looks like that submitted article was plagairized from the one I linked.
I liked the internet a whole lot better when it was just us nerds. The AC who submitted the story is most probably the owner of the gawdoffal site TFS linked. Oh, the one I linked sucks, too, but not nearly as bad as the one from TFS. So far, thenextweb.com gets my vote as the year's worst site.
Excuse me while I get the blood out of my eyes, damn but it BURNS!
Hmm, not only my original post of a few minutes ago, but the whole thread modded to zero or lower.
The whole thread is offtopic. Kudos to the moderators. If you don't have excellent karma, don't make offtopic comments and don't respond to offtopic comments.
The way to not get modded offtopic is to ridicule whoever made that aliterate (not illiterate) mistake in a way that's genuinely funny. And hint: funny is dangeroud to karma, too.
But at least it's been fixed now
So why did you even post a complaint about being modded down? Mods, the parent is offtopic and so am I. Mod us both down, we're offtopic. Lu3hr, take your karma hit and stop bitching.
Who could have done that?
One moderator with fifteen points, three mods with five points each, or an editor, who has unlimited mod points all the time.
Well DUH. A meter is only a few inches longer than a yard, just multiply by three. If you need accurate measurements, use a meterstick instead of a yardstick.
Forty bucks is twice what an Apple customer pays for an upgrade. I paid $0 for kubuntu, which has features W8 lacks while W8 has nothing kubuntu lacks except loss of productivity with that stupid metro interface. I just don't see how anyone would pay forty bucks for that turd.
So you've discovered that "you get what you pay for" is a lie? Good for you, I don't know why anyone ever believed that horse shit. I don't understand what (except ignorance or stupidity) would have someone buy a can of name brand corn when it's exactly the same corn as generic, except at half the price. I can't understand why anyone would buy Alieve when it's three times as costly as generic naproxin when naproxin is all Alieve is.
I paid seventy five cents for my Nike tea shirt at a garage sale. People are stupid and wasteful.
Something about contributing to stupidity instead of malice.
You're referring to Hanlon's Razor, which says never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
However, mcgrew's razor trumps Hanlon's: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest.
They decriminalized pot here in Springfield, IL. Rather than sending you to jail as if you'd gotten drunk and ran over a pedestrian, they give you a $350 ticket as if you were driving without insurance.
The two states that legalized it have no penalties whatever; it's perfectly legal. Speeding on the highway is illegal, but it isn't a crime. Smoking pot in those two states is neither a crime nor illegal.
The bill died already, it was in the news this morning.
He's calling you sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.
In the midwest we actually help each other and hold each other accountable.
True.
Our states are also not going bankrupt
Illinois isn't in the midwest? We're in worse shape than California.
and haven't had to put "nanny" laws on the books
Anti-pot laws are nanny state laws, and the only two state that have legalized reefer aren't in the midwest. Your soda example doesn't stop you from drinking as much soda as you want, and IINM New York City is the only place with that particular law.
We also immediately help each other during disasters and don't wait for the government to swoop in to save us.
Yes, we help each other during emergencies, but it looked from TV like those caught in Sandy were doing the same. And if you don't think Oklahoma, Missouri, and other midwestern states didn't accept FEMA help after tornados, you're not paying attention.
The rest of your comment was just meaningless lip flapping.
A major facet of Christianity is that all sin is bad.
Exactly. As I pointed out to my lesbian friend, it's as much of a sin for me to eat pussy as it is for her.
Also, many of the people that talk about other peoples sins the most seem to forget their own.
They also forget "judge not, lest ye be judged yourself."
Personally I never understood the reasoning for hiding the keyboard shortcuts entirely.
My hypothesis is that MS wants computers to be hard to use. It's the only thing that explains the Office ribbon.
He was referring to partisan politics, not vi vs emacs or Gnome vs KDE.