It was the primary election. In the primary you vote for who will be running for office. In Illinois you have to declare a party, as there are different ballots for each party. The choices were Republican, Democrat, and Green.
I'll probably vote Green in the general election, if the Libertarians aren't on the ballot I will for sure.
Perhaps I should reword that for the mentally handicapped.
you would have to be a damned fool would vote for someone who would condone laws that would put you in prison for something you enjoy that has nothing to do with anyone but yourself.
If you take my wallet you are harming me. If you shoot heroin, snort cocaine you're only harming yourself.
Maybe someday, I'll figure out a way to write a fully recursive story.
That's the easy part. The hard part is getting it on slashdot's front page. Since Mr. Beckerman is writing about something that is near and dear to many slashdotters' hearts (mine included) it's easy for him, hard for you and me.
Speaking of which, I apologize for the dearth of self-referential slashdot journals lately.
Well it makes sense, since the expression "you have egg on your face" means you're embarrassed. And having your fly open is rather embarrassing, especially if you're not wearing underwear.
So how did you wind up on a site with "News For Nerds" as its purpose? I was going to open Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike to ask slashdot WTF the witesr's strike has to do with me, an American nerd who watches very little TV, let alone all the non US slashdotters.
Thank you for answering that for me and saving me the trouble of opening it.
Could we maybe do some kind of "nerd test" and if you fail it, you get redirected to DIGG instead?
In the story about Linux having.08% on the desktop I commented that there is no way to determine Linux (or any other OSS software) useage since its license says it can be freely distributed, that my one download of Mandriva is now installed on half dozen friends' computers as well as my own.
It was answered with "User Agent".
I answered that with "spoofing" noting the number of moronically designed web sites that check the user agent and if it isn't IE on Windows tells you to "upgrade to a modern browser".
I was answered with "if you spoof you're part of the problem".
Ha! Take that!
Now, lets take this to its logical conclusion (and I apologise if you're a programmer for Microsoft but you should get a job with a better company if you value your reputation). IE hires web site coders who code stupid web sites stupidly - in this case, Hotmail. It is simplly moronic to exclude ANY potential customers. It isn't a leap of the imagination to say that if their site coders are fucktarded morons, their OS and app programmers probably are as well.
Again, that's not the coders' fault, it's HR's fault. It may be that the coders are competent intelligent people but the PHBs and their moronic policies require stupid code. The end result is that same; bad web sites, bad OSes and bad apps.
I dislike Microsoft becaue I'm forced to use their products at work. I'm using Yahoo mail, where does that leave me if Microsoft is sucessful in buying them out?
Trolls are often on topic but are expressing unpopular opinions.
Just because a slashdot moderator mods a comment as "troll" doesn't mean it's a troll. The parent comment is a bit offtopic, as this duscusses trolls and flamers on the internet in general, and has nothing whatever to do with how slashdot comments are modded.
Make a few posts supporting copyrights or speaking out against illegal downloading and see how fast you get trolled or flamebaited
I've made comments that were supportive of P2P and argued that any nonncommercial use not be considered infringement and have been modded both "troll" and "flamebait", although they usually wind up being modded back up after all is said and done. So I guess some MAFIAA members have mod points sometimes.
Here in Springfield where Alderman Simpson serves on the city council, we do our trolling offline. Internet trolls are cowards, offline trolls are asking for a bottle upside the head.
A single funny mod actually reduces the maximum karma a person can receive for a post, making it in some ways WORSE than a negative mod
That's funny (as in odd, not as in LOLlers) because I often go for "funny" even though I know "funny" adds no karma and probably have a lot more comments modded "+5 funny" than insightful, informative, or interesting. Yet my karma remains excellent.
"Funny" doesn't seem to have hurt my karma a bit. Perhaps karma whores are shooting themselves in the foot? I should probably take one of my "whore journals" and twist it into a story about karma whoring.
-mcgrew
OK, here goes:
Three slashdot comments are on the Titanic when it hits an iceberg. "Save the children" yells the insightful comment. "Fuck the children" snarls the flamebait. "No time for that!" exclaims the troll.
...the white paper calls current copyright law a "carefully designed compromise" meant to balance the interests of both parties
I don't. I think copyright is WAY out of hand. Terms should be brought back to the eighteenth century's tewnty years, and no noncommercial use should be called infringing except in the case of plagairism.
P2P is advertising and MP3s are free samples of a far better commodity.
If copyright were reasonable, you wouldn't have folks on slashdot calling for its abolition like you do now.
-mcgrew
PS- I hold hundreds of copyrights, two having ISBN numbers. The two registered ones would have gone into the public domain already if I'd had my way, as they are both over 20 years old. How are you going to convince Jimi hendrix to record any more songs? That is what the US Constitution says the purpose of copyright is!
I'm in danger every day. When I drive my car I'm in incredible danger. I could die, or worse, be confined in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. If you work construction you are in the most dangerous profession there is. If I'm in a bar I'm in danger of some drunk busting a bottle over my head. If I walk outside I can get struck by lightning. If I cross the street I can be hit by a car.
Danger? I don't think that word means what you people on the internet think it means.
I wrote a slashdot journal last year about a local child molester who died in the Sangamon County Jail. "Klutzo the Clown" was a former policeman, day care worker, clown, and preacher. Klutzo is the guy you and your children need to fear, not some clown on slashdot.
I fear fearmongers more than anyone, because these are the people who want to take away my rights.
Folks who fear the internet yet fearlessly jaywalk at night wearing dark clothing are the same people who, when a gun is pointed at them and the man with the gun says "your money or your life" say "wait a minute, let me think..."
-mcgrew (Now watch, this guy referenced in an update to this journal will find me and pop a cap in my ass.
My ex-wife, Evil-X, AKA "Satan", moved to Springfield from Chatham last year, effectively making Springfield "Hell, Illinois".
It's snowing as I type this.
Does George read slashdot, I wonder? Does he still post at Planet Crap? Is Planet Crap still online even? DN4ever has taken so long I'm not only not looking 4ward to it anymore, I haven't played anything but "Road Rash" in ages. Oh wait, I played "guitar hero" with my great nephew last Christmas, that game ROCKS!
As to what took it so long, George and Charlie were waiting until their toddlers were old enough to buy it (NC17, right? Or am I thinking of movies? Damn, speaking of DN4ever I'm getting old.
I was playing Duke Nukem since he was a squeaky little side scroller. I wonder if he still has hair and teeth?
At one time they had analog computers, where the values were represented by voltages. I built a very, very primitive one in the 7th grade (actually it was more like an electric slide rule), but grownups made big complex ones.
The advantage of analog computers was that they had no rounding errors. The disadvantage was noise.
I shouldn't have to google to find out what a non-nerd term means, any more than a banker reading "news for greedheads, stiffs that mutter" should have to google to find out what RAM is.
In sales, yes. But there are too many differences. Microchannel was technically good, Vista is percieved (I haven't used it) to be a turd. Microchannel's rejection came from the fact that it was proprietary. OOXML may well be Microsoft's Microchannel.
Someone pointed out to me yesterday that Obama did not, in fact, vote for Benkrupcy reform but joined my other Senator (Durbin) in voting against it.
My respect for Obama went up quite a bit on this news.
It's true that many black people (most black people?) think that the system is stacked against black people, and this is exactly how the rich people want them to think.
Racism is a tool of the rich. Its purpose is to keep poor and middle class whites and blacks at each others' throats, to keep them from attacking the real reason they are being kept down.
Someone who wouldn't want one of my trashy poor black friends living next door to them is considered a racist, while someone who wouldn't want one of my poor trashy redneck friends living next door to them is considered normal.
Nobody would object to Bill Cosby or Oprah Winfrey living next door to them. What is percieved by blacks as racism is in most cases really classism. It's not the color of your skin that matters, it's the contents of your bank account that matters.
The rich don't want you to even THINK about the possibility.
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It was the primary election. In the primary you vote for who will be running for office. In Illinois you have to declare a party, as there are different ballots for each party. The choices were Republican, Democrat, and Green.
I'll probably vote Green in the general election, if the Libertarians aren't on the ballot I will for sure.
Perhaps I should reword that for the mentally handicapped.
you would have to be a damned fool would vote for someone who would condone laws that would put you in prison for something you enjoy that has nothing to do with anyone but yourself.
If you take my wallet you are harming me. If you shoot heroin, snort cocaine you're only harming yourself.
I wonder if you want Universal Health Care? I wonder if you even realize why I ask?
Yes, and no.
Maybe someday, I'll figure out a way to write a fully recursive story.
That's the easy part. The hard part is getting it on slashdot's front page. Since Mr. Beckerman is writing about something that is near and dear to many slashdotters' hearts (mine included) it's easy for him, hard for you and me.
Speaking of which, I apologize for the dearth of self-referential slashdot journals lately.
Well it makes sense, since the expression "you have egg on your face" means you're embarrassed. And having your fly open is rather embarrassing, especially if you're not wearing underwear.
my pop-culture saturated brain
So how did you wind up on a site with "News For Nerds" as its purpose? I was going to open Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike to ask slashdot WTF the witesr's strike has to do with me, an American nerd who watches very little TV, let alone all the non US slashdotters.
Thank you for answering that for me and saving me the trouble of opening it.
Could we maybe do some kind of "nerd test" and if you fail it, you get redirected to DIGG instead?
Hmm, maybe I'll do one as a slashdot journal. That is, if I don't get my nerd license suspended again (linked journal is from last year, you probably already saw it).
Oh yeah, while I'm here I want to join you and all my other fellow slashdotters in once again thanking NYCL for his efforts.
-mcgrew
How do I mod thee? Let me count the ways. -1 offtopic, -2 troll, -3 flamebait...
Damn it Jim I'm a nerd, not a geek!
-mcgrew
In the story about Linux having .08% on the desktop I commented that there is no way to determine Linux (or any other OSS software) useage since its license says it can be freely distributed, that my one download of Mandriva is now installed on half dozen friends' computers as well as my own.
It was answered with "User Agent".
I answered that with "spoofing" noting the number of moronically designed web sites that check the user agent and if it isn't IE on Windows tells you to "upgrade to a modern browser".
I was answered with "if you spoof you're part of the problem".
Ha! Take that!
Now, lets take this to its logical conclusion (and I apologise if you're a programmer for Microsoft but you should get a job with a better company if you value your reputation). IE hires web site coders who code stupid web sites stupidly - in this case, Hotmail. It is simplly moronic to exclude ANY potential customers. It isn't a leap of the imagination to say that if their site coders are fucktarded morons, their OS and app programmers probably are as well.
Again, that's not the coders' fault, it's HR's fault. It may be that the coders are competent intelligent people but the PHBs and their moronic policies require stupid code. The end result is that same; bad web sites, bad OSes and bad apps.
I dislike Microsoft becaue I'm forced to use their products at work. I'm using Yahoo mail, where does that leave me if Microsoft is sucessful in buying them out?
-mcgrew
And of course, you never know when Slashdot might start selling troll's IP addresses as a service :)
AC.
*IANAL
Is apple going to release the iAnal soon?
I was going to FP but i was afraid of getting moderated "Troll"
A lot of FPs are oddly modded "redundant".
Trolls are often on topic but are expressing unpopular opinions.
Just because a slashdot moderator mods a comment as "troll" doesn't mean it's a troll. The parent comment is a bit offtopic, as this duscusses trolls and flamers on the internet in general, and has nothing whatever to do with how slashdot comments are modded.
Make a few posts supporting copyrights or speaking out against illegal downloading and see how fast you get trolled or flamebaited
I've made comments that were supportive of P2P and argued that any nonncommercial use not be considered infringement and have been modded both "troll" and "flamebait", although they usually wind up being modded back up after all is said and done. So I guess some MAFIAA members have mod points sometimes.
Here in Springfield where Alderman Simpson serves on the city council, we do our trolling offline. Internet trolls are cowards, offline trolls are asking for a bottle upside the head.
-mcgrew
Makes me wonder what a '+1 whinny' would do to ones soul?
That's "whiney" you insensitive clod! Now I have to go sit in the cornera nd pout.
A single funny mod actually reduces the maximum karma a person can receive for a post, making it in some ways WORSE than a negative mod
That's funny (as in odd, not as in LOLlers) because I often go for "funny" even though I know "funny" adds no karma and probably have a lot more comments modded "+5 funny" than insightful, informative, or interesting. Yet my karma remains excellent.
"Funny" doesn't seem to have hurt my karma a bit. Perhaps karma whores are shooting themselves in the foot? I should probably take one of my "whore journals" and twist it into a story about karma whoring.
-mcgrew
OK, here goes:
Three slashdot comments are on the Titanic when it hits an iceberg. "Save the children" yells the insightful comment. "Fuck the children" snarls the flamebait. "No time for that!" exclaims the troll.
True, but then I only have to fight my own state's laws... or move to a different one. It's a step in the right direction.
...the white paper calls current copyright law a "carefully designed compromise" meant to balance the interests of both parties
I don't. I think copyright is WAY out of hand. Terms should be brought back to the eighteenth century's tewnty years, and no noncommercial use should be called infringing except in the case of plagairism.
P2P is advertising and MP3s are free samples of a far better commodity.
If copyright were reasonable, you wouldn't have folks on slashdot calling for its abolition like you do now.
-mcgrew
PS- I hold hundreds of copyrights, two having ISBN numbers. The two registered ones would have gone into the public domain already if I'd had my way, as they are both over 20 years old. How are you going to convince Jimi hendrix to record any more songs? That is what the US Constitution says the purpose of copyright is!
Users worldwide are idiots.
You couldn't be more right.
I'm in danger every day. When I drive my car I'm in incredible danger. I could die, or worse, be confined in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. If you work construction you are in the most dangerous profession there is. If I'm in a bar I'm in danger of some drunk busting a bottle over my head. If I walk outside I can get struck by lightning. If I cross the street I can be hit by a car.
Danger? I don't think that word means what you people on the internet think it means.
I wrote a slashdot journal last year about a local child molester who died in the Sangamon County Jail. "Klutzo the Clown" was a former policeman, day care worker, clown, and preacher. Klutzo is the guy you and your children need to fear, not some clown on slashdot.
I fear fearmongers more than anyone, because these are the people who want to take away my rights.
Folks who fear the internet yet fearlessly jaywalk at night wearing dark clothing are the same people who, when a gun is pointed at them and the man with the gun says "your money or your life" say "wait a minute, let me think..."
-mcgrew
(Now watch, this guy referenced in an update to this journal will find me and pop a cap in my ass.
My ex-wife, Evil-X, AKA "Satan", moved to Springfield from Chatham last year, effectively making Springfield "Hell, Illinois".
It's snowing as I type this.
Does George read slashdot, I wonder? Does he still post at Planet Crap? Is Planet Crap still online even? DN4ever has taken so long I'm not only not looking 4ward to it anymore, I haven't played anything but "Road Rash" in ages. Oh wait, I played "guitar hero" with my great nephew last Christmas, that game ROCKS!
As to what took it so long, George and Charlie were waiting until their toddlers were old enough to buy it (NC17, right? Or am I thinking of movies? Damn, speaking of DN4ever I'm getting old.
I was playing Duke Nukem since he was a squeaky little side scroller. I wonder if he still has hair and teeth?
-mcgrew
PS- GET OFF MY LAWN!!
Hi. You are stupid.
I normally don't repond to flames or folamebait, but I'll make an exception since it seems you are most likely not drinking age yet.
You own, for a limited time, the right to determine who can or cannot enter the apartment you rent.
You do not own that apartment. You cannot will it to your heirs in perpetuity.
I own my house. I have all rights asociated with a rented house, but I own it foreverand can will it to my heirs in perpetuity.
Now grow up or stay the hell out of a grown up forum, kid.
So when the basic, sole premise and of the story is wrong, and by extension the clear implication, where do we go from there?
Ewe muss bee knew hear.
I wish you would have posted that early enough to get modded, it was hilarious. Thank you for it!
At one time they had analog computers, where the values were represented by voltages. I built a very, very primitive one in the 7th grade (actually it was more like an electric slide rule), but grownups made big complex ones.
The advantage of analog computers was that they had no rounding errors. The disadvantage was noise.
I'm sorry, I'll try to keep from cutting any more.
Oh CABLES, never mind.
I shouldn't have to google to find out what a non-nerd term means, any more than a banker reading "news for greedheads, stiffs that mutter" should have to google to find out what RAM is.
In sales, yes. But there are too many differences. Microchannel was technically good, Vista is percieved (I haven't used it) to be a turd. Microchannel's rejection came from the fact that it was proprietary. OOXML may well be Microsoft's Microchannel.
Someone pointed out to me yesterday that Obama did not, in fact, vote for Benkrupcy reform but joined my other Senator (Durbin) in voting against it.
My respect for Obama went up quite a bit on this news.
It's true that many black people (most black people?) think that the system is stacked against black people, and this is exactly how the rich people want them to think.
Racism is a tool of the rich. Its purpose is to keep poor and middle class whites and blacks at each others' throats, to keep them from attacking the real reason they are being kept down.
Someone who wouldn't want one of my trashy poor black friends living next door to them is considered a racist, while someone who wouldn't want one of my poor trashy redneck friends living next door to them is considered normal.
Nobody would object to Bill Cosby or Oprah Winfrey living next door to them. What is percieved by blacks as racism is in most cases really classism. It's not the color of your skin that matters, it's the contents of your bank account that matters.
The rich don't want you to even THINK about the possibility.