What can I say - APK, you're the gift that keeps on giving:)
Here's a deal - I'll start maintaining my own hosts file if you can have a conversation with yourself about the benefits while pretending to be 5 different anonymous cowards. Every sentence has to be a non-sequitur and there must be a link back to a similar conversation you've had that's at least ten years old
If the slashdot admins wanted to keep APK out they could compile a kind of blocklist of IP addresses that he posts from. But what to keep it in...? Some kind FILE full of HOSTS maybe? I'm sure APK could weigh in with some suggestions...
He's 16 years old. Perhaps this is the first step in him learning chip design? Or maybe you think 4 year olds should be ridiculed and scorned because they're wasting their time learning the alphabet instead of just reading Lord of the Rings.
Seriously, if you're that bitter about wasting your life, maybe you should go and do something with it, instead of wasting time on slashdot jealously projecting onto people who are actually trying to fulfill their potential.
They have invented a vaccine for being an ass-hat. Accountability and transparency. If you know people are watching what you are doing and that there are consequences for doing what they dissaprove of, then you don't do it.
There are a lot of people working tirelessly around the world attempting to administer this vaccine, but unfortunately in most cases the patient needs to be restrained and forcibly injected, which is slowing the process down somewhat.
If you read it like a history book you've missed the point.
Which is the entire beef here. If creationists read the bible like a history / science textbook and try to inflict their mixed-up ideas on the rest of us, we have to respond to their argument by analysing the validity of the bible as a science/history text book.
You can't attack someone for addressing the argument raised.
I'm not sure which 50 software packages you're thinking of, but you can also run FOSS software on windows too. I have to use windows due to some proprietary crap (not crap because it's proprietary, just crap) that I need for work, but everything else installed is what you'd find on Ubuntu, LibreOffice, Firefox, Gpodder, GIMP, Tomboy, VLC, MySQL, Python, VNC, then free beer proprietary stuff like spotify and dropbox that also runs under Linux, so it's a two-way street.
Sure i'd prefer to be using Linux and do at home, but ultimately windows can run those apps as well as makes no odds.
It's a continuum. Basically the more control the religous authorities try to exert over what the adherents think and do, the more it moves towards the cult end of the scale. People that want to categorise things one way or the other draw their own arbitrary line at some point on the continuum.
It's not circumventing criticism, unless you think Mother Theresa will be answering on slashdot.
This is a non-sequitur. He's not arguing with Mother Theresa, he's arguing about her with a third party.
you still hate her guts
characterising a legitimate criticism as an irrational emotional reaction, without any reason to do so, is an attempt to avoid addressing the criticism. At no point did he claim he hated her guts. This claim comes across as infantile.
Notice at no point during this post, do I mention her guts, or how I feel about them. I never knew the woman, and have no emotional investment in her reputation one way or the other. If you were to provide some substantive evidence that the majority of this were untrue or unsubstantiated, I will happily change my opinion.
I don't appreciate attacking people who cannot defend themselves
Characterising criticism as an attack is another way to deflect attention away from the shortcomings being pointed out. I'm sure you can see the absurdity of someone being dead procluding them as a subject of critical discussion. The study of History would be impossible.
Perfection is unattainable. This is like trying to write some code and anticipate every possible bug before you ship. There will be bugs - accept that there will be a beta phase to your handover.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a deal - I'll start maintaining my own hosts file if you can have a conversation with yourself about the benefits while pretending to be 5 different anonymous cowards. Every sentence has to be a non-sequitur and there must be a link back to a similar conversation you've had that's at least ten years old
I'm wary and weary of MS standards.
If the slashdot admins wanted to keep APK out they could compile a kind of blocklist of IP addresses that he posts from. But what to keep it in...? Some kind FILE full of HOSTS maybe? I'm sure APK could weigh in with some suggestions...
Here come all the OMG SONY SUCKS people.
Well... they do suck. Hence all the people.
biomechatronics
i'm sure hasbro produced this line of action figures in the 80's
He's 16 years old. Perhaps this is the first step in him learning chip design? Or maybe you think 4 year olds should be ridiculed and scorned because they're wasting their time learning the alphabet instead of just reading Lord of the Rings.
Seriously, if you're that bitter about wasting your life, maybe you should go and do something with it, instead of wasting time on slashdot jealously projecting onto people who are actually trying to fulfill their potential.
They have invented a vaccine for being an ass-hat. Accountability and transparency. If you know people are watching what you are doing and that there are consequences for doing what they dissaprove of, then you don't do it.
There are a lot of people working tirelessly around the world attempting to administer this vaccine, but unfortunately in most cases the patient needs to be restrained and forcibly injected, which is slowing the process down somewhat.
I've had several male managers that were priggish martinets
so it isn't just me that had trouble when working as an 18th century footman
I see what you did there
If you read it like a history book you've missed the point.
Which is the entire beef here. If creationists read the bible like a history / science textbook and try to inflict their mixed-up ideas on the rest of us, we have to respond to their argument by analysing the validity of the bible as a science/history text book.
You can't attack someone for addressing the argument raised.
I'm not sure which 50 software packages you're thinking of, but you can also run FOSS software on windows too. I have to use windows due to some proprietary crap (not crap because it's proprietary, just crap) that I need for work, but everything else installed is what you'd find on Ubuntu, LibreOffice, Firefox, Gpodder, GIMP, Tomboy, VLC, MySQL, Python, VNC, then free beer proprietary stuff like spotify and dropbox that also runs under Linux, so it's a two-way street.
Sure i'd prefer to be using Linux and do at home, but ultimately windows can run those apps as well as makes no odds.
It's 1 louder
It's a continuum. Basically the more control the religous authorities try to exert over what the adherents think and do, the more it moves towards the cult end of the scale. People that want to categorise things one way or the other draw their own arbitrary line at some point on the continuum.
It's not circumventing criticism, unless you think Mother Theresa will be answering on slashdot.
This is a non-sequitur. He's not arguing with Mother Theresa, he's arguing about her with a third party.
you still hate her guts
characterising a legitimate criticism as an irrational emotional reaction, without any reason to do so, is an attempt to avoid addressing the criticism. At no point did he claim he hated her guts. This claim comes across as infantile.
Notice at no point during this post, do I mention her guts, or how I feel about them. I never knew the woman, and have no emotional investment in her reputation one way or the other. If you were to provide some substantive evidence that the majority of this were untrue or unsubstantiated, I will happily change my opinion.
I don't appreciate attacking people who cannot defend themselves
Characterising criticism as an attack is another way to deflect attention away from the shortcomings being pointed out. I'm sure you can see the absurdity of someone being dead procluding them as a subject of critical discussion. The study of History would be impossible.
Those filthy communists! They violated hue patents and stole paint revenue from big pigment! You wouldn't steal an ox-cart...
The Tevatron is currently being raided for parts
Now I have an image of it being pulled apart by a gang of Sandpeople
That's the Joke
we don't wanna mess with no reefer addicts!
There is nothing wrong with valuing design, but valuing design more than necessity is vain, shallow and self defeating.
also, assuming for arguments sake that the database id was "68324090857" now anyone who can type that number "owns" your virtual item
Bitches leave
Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid!
I'm trying to cover all my bases
Perfection is unattainable. This is like trying to write some code and anticipate every possible bug before you ship. There will be bugs - accept that there will be a beta phase to your handover.
well at least he's fucking
The emperor reacts violently when without clothes.
now there's an image...
So be it...Jedi. *yanks off robe*