I see you've never been in a bar... whiskey NEVER makes anyone nicer. At best, it only makes them obnoxious. More likely they were samping another fine Tennessee product.
I was going to reply until I saw your sig... aw, the hell with it. I assume you were not alive before the EPA regs. Even though cars weren't air conditioned then, you had to roll your windows up while driving past Monsanto even in 100 degree heat, because the air would burn your lungs. Rivers, lakes, and streams actually caught fire. It was a god damned stinking mess.
Dumb kid... as to Ron Paul, he was alive then, so I can only assume he's either evil (he IS rich and has a vested interest in getting rid of the EPA), or has Alzheimer's.
Rolling blackouts in California during Enron? Because of deregulation.
The banking meltdown of 2008? Again, because of deregulation.
You might want to stop listening to a drug addicted sex tourist with a radio show. He gets good money to spew his absolute bullshit to fools like you, and you're stupid for listening to him. Fucking crackpot...
And then we should make it compulsory for workers to join such a group and garnish their salary!
Your increased salary alone, even without the extra benefits those union dues buy, far outweigh the puny dues themselves. Not very good at math, eh? 1000+100-20 >1000.
There's an example of the topic right there, spoken by a mammon worshiper. Money can motivate, but it is by no means the only motivation. What motivated you to post that comment? Did somebody pay you?
just because you can invent a word doesn't mean it has any meaning
Every word in existance was coined at one time or another. The word "nerd" didn't exist until a 1954 Dr. Suess book titled "If I Ran the Zoo". Isaac Asimov coined the word "robotics" in his robot short stories in the '40s. I won't mention the stratodoober...
it's a trendy term invented by cynical douchebags who hold their fellow citizens in contempt
No, it's a term invented by cynical citizens who hold their idiotic douchebag leaders in contempt.
If hepatitis C is a sexually transmitted disease, then I should have contracted it -- a woman I was dating about 5 years ago had it. Unlike the other two forms of hepatitis, C is very hard to catch. Usually it comes from dirty needles, a woman can get it from anal sex (yuck).
Damn, I hope I live long enough to see 'garage project' spacecraft head for space. That would be so damned cool. My problem is, I'll be way old to build one for myself.
That depends on how old you are. I was 12 when I saw my first computer at a tech show in 1962. At the time they cost millions each and took an entire building to house, and were about as powerful as a TS-1000. Nobody thought that within our lifetimes we'd all have one on our desks an order of magnatude more powerful, and would cost a couple hundred bucks.
That would only be true if the majority of people were seamen, when in fact only a tiny percent of the population ever got on a boat. I'd wager that the life span of a sailor in those times was less than 30 (they didn't send infants on sea voyages).
And the last I checked, prices of most stuff aren't all that different.
Bullshit, you've never checked. I was in Thailand in 1974 serving in the USAF, and a bungalow was $30 per month including a woman. A meal for 4 was a dollar in a nice restaraunt. It cost a nickle to ride a bus to any part of the entire country. A tailored shirt was $4.
When I got home, McDonald's was five times as high priced as a nice thai restaraunt, a run down shotgun house was $150 per month, a bus was fifty cents, local only -- Chicago to St Louis (equivalent to Bong Chong to Bankok) was $40.
You, Mr AC troll, are wrong. Please take your incredible ignorance elsewhere.
Whilst the exploiters get raised to the Christian Right, doing greed and exploitation in God's image
Which is ironic, because that's exactly the opposite of what Jesus taught. Yet people who exploit the environment and their fellow man consider themselves to be Christian.
Jesus was a liberal. Caiaphas was a conservative. If you consider yourself both Christian and conservative, you might want to read your bible. If you're rich and consider yourself a Christian, you'd better not because you won't like what you read.
So any woman having sex with me is a cyborg? We cyborgs are pretty common these days. I know quite a few people with implanted devices, and in fact have an implant of my own.
Nobody said that computer PROFESSIONALS would not still have the words trojan, backdoor, rootkit, etc
YOU did. YOU railed against those at slashdot who correct you when you call a trojan a virus. It's understandable from a layman, but you've claimed to be a professional, and believe it or not, this ain't People Magazine, it's NEWS FOR NERDS. Real computer professionals, some with PhDs in the field (not you with the MSCE who cleans out corrupted Windows machines) come here to discuss technology. If you don't know the lingo, learn it or stay away.
Your argument is frankly as foolish as saying "because doctors need to know which specific germ is making a patient sick then the patients should all learn latin medical terminology" because that is pretty much what you are advocating.
Your reasoning there is really bad. Everyone knows that "germ" encompasses all species of bacteria, and "bug" encompasses all species of virus and bacteria. If a layman called the influenza virus "Hepatitus" the doctor would correct him. Calling an influenza virus "hepatitis" is as incorrect as calling a trojan a virus.
If you wanna be a douchebag grammar nazi that is your choice
And if you want to look like an ignorant douchebag, that's YOUR choice. You're wrong here, son. Apologize to the fellow you insulted and move on.
That's a Republican lie. Wealth is not created in the boardroom, it's created in the programmer's cube, the recording studio, the factory floor, the fry-cook's stove, the copper mine. Wealth is created by the poor and middle class.
Wealth doesn't trickle down, it flows upwards. The wealthy don't create wealth, they aggregate and control wealth.
There's no confirmation bias in his comment, it is accurate. Tobacco is in fact an addictive poison that kills almost all its users with no beneficial effects at all, while marijuana is benign if eaten (if smoked can contribute to emphesyma), can be helpful for some medical problems, is not addictive, is not carcinogenic, and in fact has no bad side effects at all (although the main effect is unpleasant for some people).
No, he's accurate. The confirmation bias is your own, not his.
Take virus, I'm so damned tired of listening to the geeks have a royal shitfit over whether something is a virus, a rootkit, or a trojan because for all intents and purposes the common word for ALL computer bugs is virus.
Just because the uneducated masses ignorantly misuse technical terms doesn't mean that those who are educated should follow the ignorant. A virus, trojan, and rootkits ARE different things; the umbrella term for them is "malware".
Would you be OK with everyone calling their monitor a "computer"? Because when you say "computer" to the uneducated, they look at the screen. Some call the computer itself (the box with memory, HD, BIOS, motherboard, etc) the "hard drive". You're ok with that?
Educate ignorance, don't let the ignorant uneducate you.
Just native Linux games. I have another tower on the other side of the TV I'm setting up with XP to run my old Windows games. I have no interest in the new games; I refuse to give my money to people who support DRM.
I'll have to be able to control the Windows machine from the Linux machine, with the video output going through the Linux box to the TV. I may be a little tricky to pull off, but I'm going to try.
Probably Springfield, capital of Illinois. People drive stupidly here. There's a local joke about a man from New York visiting Chicago. The New Yorker gets in a cab, and the cab driver promptly runs a red light.
"You ran a red light!"
"It's ok, I'm from Springfield!" A mile down the road and he runs another. "YOU RAN ANOTHR ONE!!!" the excited passenger exclaims.
"Don't worry, I'm from Springfield".
The next light is green, and the cab driver slams on the brakes. "WTF did you do that for???" the passenger asks.
"My brother's in town. He's from Springfield, too."
Are you an aliterate? Look the word up in the dictionary. An aliterate is someone who knows how to read, but doesn't do so. To misquote Mark Twain, "An aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate."
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I see you've never been in a bar... whiskey NEVER makes anyone nicer. At best, it only makes them obnoxious. More likely they were samping another fine Tennessee product.
I was going to reply until I saw your sig... aw, the hell with it. I assume you were not alive before the EPA regs. Even though cars weren't air conditioned then, you had to roll your windows up while driving past Monsanto even in 100 degree heat, because the air would burn your lungs. Rivers, lakes, and streams actually caught fire. It was a god damned stinking mess.
Dumb kid... as to Ron Paul, he was alive then, so I can only assume he's either evil (he IS rich and has a vested interest in getting rid of the EPA), or has Alzheimer's.
Rolling blackouts in California during Enron? Because of deregulation.
The banking meltdown of 2008? Again, because of deregulation.
You might want to stop listening to a drug addicted sex tourist with a radio show. He gets good money to spew his absolute bullshit to fools like you, and you're stupid for listening to him. Fucking crackpot...
And then we should make it compulsory for workers to join such a group and garnish their salary!
Your increased salary alone, even without the extra benefits those union dues buy, far outweigh the puny dues themselves. Not very good at math, eh? 1000+100-20 >1000.
Motivation is measured in dollars
There's an example of the topic right there, spoken by a mammon worshiper. Money can motivate, but it is by no means the only motivation. What motivated you to post that comment? Did somebody pay you?
just because you can invent a word doesn't mean it has any meaning
Every word in existance was coined at one time or another. The word "nerd" didn't exist until a 1954 Dr. Suess book titled "If I Ran the Zoo". Isaac Asimov coined the word "robotics" in his robot short stories in the '40s. I won't mention the stratodoober...
it's a trendy term invented by cynical douchebags who hold their fellow citizens in contempt
No, it's a term invented by cynical citizens who hold their idiotic douchebag leaders in contempt.
If hepatitis C is a sexually transmitted disease, then I should have contracted it -- a woman I was dating about 5 years ago had it. Unlike the other two forms of hepatitis, C is very hard to catch. Usually it comes from dirty needles, a woman can get it from anal sex (yuck).
Damn, I hope I live long enough to see 'garage project' spacecraft head for space. That would be so damned cool. My problem is, I'll be way old to build one for myself.
That depends on how old you are. I was 12 when I saw my first computer at a tech show in 1962. At the time they cost millions each and took an entire building to house, and were about as powerful as a TS-1000. Nobody thought that within our lifetimes we'd all have one on our desks an order of magnatude more powerful, and would cost a couple hundred bucks.
That would only be true if the majority of people were seamen, when in fact only a tiny percent of the population ever got on a boat. I'd wager that the life span of a sailor in those times was less than 30 (they didn't send infants on sea voyages).
And the last I checked, prices of most stuff aren't all that different.
Bullshit, you've never checked. I was in Thailand in 1974 serving in the USAF, and a bungalow was $30 per month including a woman. A meal for 4 was a dollar in a nice restaraunt. It cost a nickle to ride a bus to any part of the entire country. A tailored shirt was $4.
When I got home, McDonald's was five times as high priced as a nice thai restaraunt, a run down shotgun house was $150 per month, a bus was fifty cents, local only -- Chicago to St Louis (equivalent to Bong Chong to Bankok) was $40.
You, Mr AC troll, are wrong. Please take your incredible ignorance elsewhere.
Wrecking havoc is the exact opposite of wreaking havok. Wrecking havok would be destroying havoc, while wreaking havok is creating havok.
Whilst the exploiters get raised to the Christian Right, doing greed and exploitation in God's image
Which is ironic, because that's exactly the opposite of what Jesus taught. Yet people who exploit the environment and their fellow man consider themselves to be Christian.
Jesus was a liberal. Caiaphas was a conservative. If you consider yourself both Christian and conservative, you might want to read your bible. If you're rich and consider yourself a Christian, you'd better not because you won't like what you read.
There are five that were on enough ballots last election to win, if the press had given them any coverage.
So any woman having sex with me is a cyborg? We cyborgs are pretty common these days. I know quite a few people with implanted devices, and in fact have an implant of my own.
Nobody said that computer PROFESSIONALS would not still have the words trojan, backdoor, rootkit, etc
YOU did. YOU railed against those at slashdot who correct you when you call a trojan a virus. It's understandable from a layman, but you've claimed to be a professional, and believe it or not, this ain't People Magazine, it's NEWS FOR NERDS. Real computer professionals, some with PhDs in the field (not you with the MSCE who cleans out corrupted Windows machines) come here to discuss technology. If you don't know the lingo, learn it or stay away.
Your argument is frankly as foolish as saying "because doctors need to know which specific germ is making a patient sick then the patients should all learn latin medical terminology" because that is pretty much what you are advocating.
Your reasoning there is really bad. Everyone knows that "germ" encompasses all species of bacteria, and "bug" encompasses all species of virus and bacteria. If a layman called the influenza virus "Hepatitus" the doctor would correct him. Calling an influenza virus "hepatitis" is as incorrect as calling a trojan a virus.
If you wanna be a douchebag grammar nazi that is your choice
And if you want to look like an ignorant douchebag, that's YOUR choice. You're wrong here, son. Apologize to the fellow you insulted and move on.
That's a Republican lie. Wealth is not created in the boardroom, it's created in the programmer's cube, the recording studio, the factory floor, the fry-cook's stove, the copper mine. Wealth is created by the poor and middle class.
Wealth doesn't trickle down, it flows upwards. The wealthy don't create wealth, they aggregate and control wealth.
There's no confirmation bias in his comment, it is accurate. Tobacco is in fact an addictive poison that kills almost all its users with no beneficial effects at all, while marijuana is benign if eaten (if smoked can contribute to emphesyma), can be helpful for some medical problems, is not addictive, is not carcinogenic, and in fact has no bad side effects at all (although the main effect is unpleasant for some people).
No, he's accurate. The confirmation bias is your own, not his.
Take virus, I'm so damned tired of listening to the geeks have a royal shitfit over whether something is a virus, a rootkit, or a trojan because for all intents and purposes the common word for ALL computer bugs is virus.
Just because the uneducated masses ignorantly misuse technical terms doesn't mean that those who are educated should follow the ignorant. A virus, trojan, and rootkits ARE different things; the umbrella term for them is "malware".
Would you be OK with everyone calling their monitor a "computer"? Because when you say "computer" to the uneducated, they look at the screen. Some call the computer itself (the box with memory, HD, BIOS, motherboard, etc) the "hard drive". You're ok with that?
Educate ignorance, don't let the ignorant uneducate you.
I got the reference (I think I have that DVD) but the South Park parody mirrors what some people actually believe.
Just native Linux games. I have another tower on the other side of the TV I'm setting up with XP to run my old Windows games. I have no interest in the new games; I refuse to give my money to people who support DRM.
I'll have to be able to control the Windows machine from the Linux machine, with the video output going through the Linux box to the TV. I may be a little tricky to pull off, but I'm going to try.
Probably Springfield, capital of Illinois. People drive stupidly here. There's a local joke about a man from New York visiting Chicago. The New Yorker gets in a cab, and the cab driver promptly runs a red light.
"You ran a red light!"
"It's ok, I'm from Springfield!" A mile down the road and he runs another. "YOU RAN ANOTHR ONE!!!" the excited passenger exclaims.
"Don't worry, I'm from Springfield".
The next light is green, and the cab driver slams on the brakes. "WTF did you do that for???" the passenger asks.
"My brother's in town. He's from Springfield, too."
I wish I'd known about the music player app!
No, I'm not going to carry a gun; everyone has to die, but not everyone has to kill. However, you shouldn't be prohibited from carrying guns.
He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun. But it should be your choice.
The maniac was standing in ONE SPOT firing at moving targets. He would have been an easy target.
Are you an aliterate? Look the word up in the dictionary. An aliterate is someone who knows how to read, but doesn't do so. To misquote Mark Twain, "An aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate."
I have an old HP running kubuntu that only has 750 meg of memory, and its BIOS probably won't support more than a meg. Flash quit working after the last update, and I strongly suspect that some extra bloat in Flash makes 750 meg insufficient. I wonder if he new Linux kernel will ease the memory problems or make them worse?