Yes, you did fail. I had no trouble reading it, and I'm at work and can't log in to G+. You didn't miss anything though, the article was way too long, rambling, poorly written, and didn't really say much of anything.
Blizzard couldn't have mistreated Diablo fans much worse without infecting every one of them with Ebola virus and then smacked them in the face with a meat tenderizer.
Oh, I don't know... besides losing you private data, they could have installed malware that disabled all your P2P and disk burning software, and taken features out of the product you've already paid for and used.
Just because Sony treats it customers worse than Blizzard doesn't excuse Blizzard, and I gave up gaming ten years ago because the industry as a whole started acting like they could do without us and we couldn't do without them. I think the last game I bought was Quake III. Probably the last Blizzard game was D1 or D2 (I'd have to dig it out to see which one I have).
Another problem crops up, and that's upgrading to a new version for an older machine. You usually don't have that problem with Windows, because you have to pay for the new version of Windows, while Linux (at least my distro) notifies that a newer version of the OS is available. One click and one reboot and it's done. I'm going to have to downgrade the OS on my old Linux box, because the upgrade to 12.1 broke Flash on it (the newer Flash is probably more to blame than Linux, the latest Flash bug fix on my Win 7 machine made Flash crash at least five times a day when I'm listening to KSHE over the internet on it).
And more on topic, that 11 to 14 cents per pizza is going to be dwarfed by the current drought affecting most of the US. That pepperoni and sausage and whatever other meat you use comes from animals fed on feed made from corn. There's going to be way less than half the corn this year because of the lack of WATER. That cheese is made from milk from cows that eat feed made from corn. That coke you drink with your pizza is sweetened by corn syrup. The crust will probably cost more too, because iinm it's affecting Kansas as well.
I take it you've never met anyone from my church. Yes, there are holier-than thou, judgemental, total assholes in churches, but there are as many or more non-Christians and even anti-christians with the same attitude.
When you paint all blacks as lazy, you are a bigot. When you paint all Muslims as violent, you are a bigot. When you judge all homosexuals as evil and insane, you are a bigot. When you paint all Christians as judgemental and holier-than-thou, YOU ARE A BIGOT.
Yes, we are eternally saved, but we don't take joy in the fact that you aren't, in fact quite the opposite.
They use the information to serve their stockholders.
If I buy a cheap minute phone with cash, the only thing they know is where I am. They don't even know who I am. What good is knowlege of my position to the stockholders without any other information? The "where I am" only benefits the stockholders because without it the phone would be worthless and they would have no income.
It's enough for me, but I live alone. As long as internet radio, HULU, and the like work well at the same time it's fine with me. Of course, if I were still a gamer I'd have to move to St. Louis where they have 30 MBPS from Charter.
I was in Thailand at the end of the Vietnam war, and the Thais were of the same opinion (of course, they were on our side during the war).
That part of the world has a written history going back thousands of years, and for most of that history China was an agressive empire that repeatedly invaded Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, India, and anybody else they could reach. Vietnam may have a ten year history to hate us for, but they have thousands of years of history to hate the Chinese for.
Plus, it was a civil war we were involved in, just like Korea. Had the south won we would be to them what the French were to the US after the revolution.
It's a story about temperatures in the US, on a US-based web site, using US nomenclature. If it were about records in Europe, C would be more appropriate, but it's about the US. And as you noted, Google ain't hard to use.
Actually, in the last Presidential election, there were five parties on the ballot in enough states to have a chance of winning, if only the other three parties got any recognition. Even in the so-called debates the other three viable parties are always locked out.
I always either vote Libertarian or Green, the other three want to put me in prison.
The [sic] here does serve a useful purpose though. It lets us know the submitter is illiterate
You misspelled "aliterate." If he were illiterate, he wouldn't have been able to write the summary at all. But it doesn't matter, as Mark Twain noted, someone who doesn't read has no advantage over someone who can't read.
I don't want government to limit consumer access to tech at all, but I certainly want them to keep a firm regulatory grip on what the 1% can do to fuck over, exploit, and damage the 99%. You don't become a billionaire by being altruistic. We need fewer laws that limit you, more that limit corporations.
Yes, but those laws are easy to work around. Take the auto industry's past slogans: Chevy: like a rock! (damned thing won't start) Ford: quality is job#1! (they have their work cut out for them) Plymouth: we build excitement! (brakes, steering, and handling suck)
Notice that American advertisers seldom actually sell the product on its merits. "Sell the sizzle, not the steak."
Look at the Partnership for a Drug Free America. They formerly stated flat out that marijuana causes cancer until a study proved that not only does it not cause cancer, but prevents cancer in tobacco smokers. So they changed it to "marijuana contains carcinogens" which the average person who hasn't heard of the study will take to mean "marijuana causes cancer." Why note that a substance contains carcinogens when it's been proven not to cause cancer?
One can be both religious and a whacko, just as one can be athiest and whacko. Whether or not you're nuts has no bearing on your religion or lack of one.
The magician's shill is no more a fraud than his palming of cards during a card trick is. Praising your employer without disclosing that you work for him is underhanded and should not be done. If you're going to praise someone who's paying you, even if that praise is valid, DISCLOSE IT or you are being dishonest.
I am responsible for a piece of software running on JBoss (Java, Red Hat)
Well, there's your problem right there. Red Hat is NOT a good desktop distro. If you're running a server, Red Hat is excellent. If you want to do photo editing, sound editing, video editing, Red Hat is tha last distro you should be using. You can't say "Linux won't..." when Red Hat is what you're familiar with. Try Mandriva or Ubuntu. But not on your sever, of course! The right tool for the job.
Considering the amount of absolute bullshit that guy is spewing, like "no video editos" when replying to my comment that had a link to Google showing PLENTY of them, he just repeats the same damned lies.
I use both Windows and Linux (XP, 7, and kubuntu), and kubuntu is far superior to Windows in useability. What takes one or two clicks in kubuntu takes five or ten in Windows.
I think he's trolling, so I didn't respond to him. It's been well over five years since Linux passed Windows in useability, stability, driver availability, and software availability.
The guy probably has a business cleaning viruses and trojans off of Windows computers. If everyone switched to Linux he'd be out of a job.
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It's just the right thing to do.
Which doesn't matter a bit to the sociopaths that run these big corporations.
Well, I never heard of him, but he does have a wikipedia entry so he can't be that obscure.
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Yes, you did fail. I had no trouble reading it, and I'm at work and can't log in to G+. You didn't miss anything though, the article was way too long, rambling, poorly written, and didn't really say much of anything.
Blizzard couldn't have mistreated Diablo fans much worse without infecting every one of them with Ebola virus and then smacked them in the face with a meat tenderizer.
Oh, I don't know... besides losing you private data, they could have installed malware that disabled all your P2P and disk burning software, and taken features out of the product you've already paid for and used.
Just because Sony treats it customers worse than Blizzard doesn't excuse Blizzard, and I gave up gaming ten years ago because the industry as a whole started acting like they could do without us and we couldn't do without them. I think the last game I bought was Quake III. Probably the last Blizzard game was D1 or D2 (I'd have to dig it out to see which one I have).
They've upgraded software on the other two rovers, as well as probes even farther away. I doubt there's any reasonable chance they'll brick it.
Another problem crops up, and that's upgrading to a new version for an older machine. You usually don't have that problem with Windows, because you have to pay for the new version of Windows, while Linux (at least my distro) notifies that a newer version of the OS is available. One click and one reboot and it's done. I'm going to have to downgrade the OS on my old Linux box, because the upgrade to 12.1 broke Flash on it (the newer Flash is probably more to blame than Linux, the latest Flash bug fix on my Win 7 machine made Flash crash at least five times a day when I'm listening to KSHE over the internet on it).
And more on topic, that 11 to 14 cents per pizza is going to be dwarfed by the current drought affecting most of the US. That pepperoni and sausage and whatever other meat you use comes from animals fed on feed made from corn. There's going to be way less than half the corn this year because of the lack of WATER. That cheese is made from milk from cows that eat feed made from corn. That coke you drink with your pizza is sweetened by corn syrup. The crust will probably cost more too, because iinm it's affecting Kansas as well.
The supply of food will be far lower than normal, cause by far less water than normal. The best things in life, including rain and air, are free.
Of course, the bigoted moron you responded to will of course see the rise of food prices caused by this terrible drought and blame it on Obamacare.
I take it you've never met anyone from my church. Yes, there are holier-than thou, judgemental, total assholes in churches, but there are as many or more non-Christians and even anti-christians with the same attitude.
When you paint all blacks as lazy, you are a bigot. When you paint all Muslims as violent, you are a bigot. When you judge all homosexuals as evil and insane, you are a bigot. When you paint all Christians as judgemental and holier-than-thou, YOU ARE A BIGOT.
Yes, we are eternally saved, but we don't take joy in the fact that you aren't, in fact quite the opposite.
They use the information to serve their stockholders.
If I buy a cheap minute phone with cash, the only thing they know is where I am. They don't even know who I am. What good is knowlege of my position to the stockholders without any other information? The "where I am" only benefits the stockholders because without it the phone would be worthless and they would have no income.
It's enough for me, but I live alone. As long as internet radio, HULU, and the like work well at the same time it's fine with me. Of course, if I were still a gamer I'd have to move to St. Louis where they have 30 MBPS from Charter.
No, AM radio causes mental retardation.
I was in Thailand at the end of the Vietnam war, and the Thais were of the same opinion (of course, they were on our side during the war).
That part of the world has a written history going back thousands of years, and for most of that history China was an agressive empire that repeatedly invaded Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, India, and anybody else they could reach. Vietnam may have a ten year history to hate us for, but they have thousands of years of history to hate the Chinese for.
Plus, it was a civil war we were involved in, just like Korea. Had the south won we would be to them what the French were to the US after the revolution.
No it is god punishing you for using fahrenheit.
It's a story about temperatures in the US, on a US-based web site, using US nomenclature. If it were about records in Europe, C would be more appropriate, but it's about the US. And as you noted, Google ain't hard to use.
I wish I had mod points today, you'd get one.
Actually, in the last Presidential election, there were five parties on the ballot in enough states to have a chance of winning, if only the other three parties got any recognition. Even in the so-called debates the other three viable parties are always locked out.
I always either vote Libertarian or Green, the other three want to put me in prison.
They give phones to poor people in the US, too. They have for quite a while now. If you're eligible for food stamps, you're eligible for a free phone here.
The [sic] here does serve a useful purpose though. It lets us know the submitter is illiterate
You misspelled "aliterate." If he were illiterate, he wouldn't have been able to write the summary at all. But it doesn't matter, as Mark Twain noted, someone who doesn't read has no advantage over someone who can't read.
Not RIAA. Universal Records.
Universal is part of the RIAA. All the major labels are.
I don't want government to limit consumer access to tech at all, but I certainly want them to keep a firm regulatory grip on what the 1% can do to fuck over, exploit, and damage the 99%. You don't become a billionaire by being altruistic. We need fewer laws that limit you, more that limit corporations.
We still have laws against deceptive advertising
Yes, but those laws are easy to work around. Take the auto industry's past slogans:
Chevy: like a rock! (damned thing won't start)
Ford: quality is job#1! (they have their work cut out for them)
Plymouth: we build excitement! (brakes, steering, and handling suck)
Notice that American advertisers seldom actually sell the product on its merits. "Sell the sizzle, not the steak."
Look at the Partnership for a Drug Free America. They formerly stated flat out that marijuana causes cancer until a study proved that not only does it not cause cancer, but prevents cancer in tobacco smokers. So they changed it to "marijuana contains carcinogens" which the average person who hasn't heard of the study will take to mean "marijuana causes cancer." Why note that a substance contains carcinogens when it's been proven not to cause cancer?
One can be both religious and a whacko, just as one can be athiest and whacko. Whether or not you're nuts has no bearing on your religion or lack of one.
The magician's shill is no more a fraud than his palming of cards during a card trick is. Praising your employer without disclosing that you work for him is underhanded and should not be done. If you're going to praise someone who's paying you, even if that praise is valid, DISCLOSE IT or you are being dishonest.
I am responsible for a piece of software running on JBoss (Java, Red Hat)
Well, there's your problem right there. Red Hat is NOT a good desktop distro. If you're running a server, Red Hat is excellent. If you want to do photo editing, sound editing, video editing, Red Hat is tha last distro you should be using. You can't say "Linux won't..." when Red Hat is what you're familiar with. Try Mandriva or Ubuntu. But not on your sever, of course! The right tool for the job.
I was going for "funny," which is always dangerous.
Considering the amount of absolute bullshit that guy is spewing, like "no video editos" when replying to my comment that had a link to Google showing PLENTY of them, he just repeats the same damned lies.
I use both Windows and Linux (XP, 7, and kubuntu), and kubuntu is far superior to Windows in useability. What takes one or two clicks in kubuntu takes five or ten in Windows.
I think he's trolling, so I didn't respond to him. It's been well over five years since Linux passed Windows in useability, stability, driver availability, and software availability.
The guy probably has a business cleaning viruses and trojans off of Windows computers. If everyone switched to Linux he'd be out of a job.