As a technical-type guy, I should add that machines of any kind (indeed, any things of any kind) rarely can be made to operate any better by slamming one's fist against any part thereof.
Breaking one of the God damned things DOES make it work better! Just slam HARDER! Hell, use a brick!
Goddamn fucking shit those things piss me off. Not the ATMs that spit out money, the "self-swipe" at the checkout. It asks "credit or debit?" and you press credit. THEN THE GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SHIT ASKS FOR A FUCKING PIN NUMBER! wtf???
If you program these shitty things, I hate your fucking guts! When did they start hiring stupid fucking morons to do engineering, anyway?
If I'm going to do the checkout clerk's job, then damn it I want his paycheck. At least with gasoline self service was cheaper! This way the clerk loses, the store wins, and you get... what, an extra fifteen seconds?
WTF are you going to do when ALL the checkouts are self service? You think the wait is bad now!
I'll tell you what I'LL do - I'll cuss you for using them in the first place.
But, as an innocent person, why am I singled out for bureaucratic harrasement? I am denied the conveniences of other citizens simply because of my name existing on a watch list.
What, you haven't sued them? Np wonder you're on a watch list! That's unamerican! </sarcasm>
"Good thing I'm too broke to fly" parent modded insightful (I liked it!) while this ("Secret government list? Well, I wouldn't call it a secret anymore.") is modded funny.
I think we've been infiltrated by the air marsha^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[no carrier]
I never said a God was required. I only say that it makes more sense from a logical standpoint; it can't be proven.
Where did the original singularity come from? There wasn't supposed to be any such thing as time or space before it, if what I read (and I'm not a cosmologist) is to be believed.
It's typical law enforcement. A kid in my daughter's class (a few years ago) who was taken out to the hall, handcuffed in front of God and everybody, and hauled to jail. They didn't even bother taking him to the principal's office to slip on the cuffs.
And this was local cops, I hear the FBI is even more heartless (Waco, Ruby Ridge...)
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Off topic, but I must read too fast, I keep getting the "cowboy" message. Am I the only one here who isn't dyslexic?
It never ceases to amaze me how underhanded some people can be.
Ah, the idealiam of youth!
As to your sig, first I was four eyes, then I got old and had reading glasses over my contacts and I was six eyes. Then I got a CrystaLens in my left eye, now I'm three eyes. And I hate being called "sir!"
For now, Internet service providers are prohibited from discriminating against connections to particular sites on the Internet: they are required to treat traffic to Google exactly the same as traffic to Yahoo! or MSN.
The net neutrality bill was VOTED DOWN. And more BS later: "...closely mirrors the technical functionality of the Internet...the US cellular phone network."
No it doesn't "closely mirror the technal functionality" of the internet. It may seem like it to the user, but cells are nothing like backbones. Technically there are few similarities.
Why is there no MySpace, Craigslist, Amazon, Flikr, or eBay accessible through this network?
Because a cell phone has a two inch screen. DUH.
I can't read any more of this crap. I am 100% FOR network neutrality, but when you have to resort to rank bullshit to make your point, you're doing your side no favors. This guy should STFU and let someone with a three digit IQ argue for network neutrality; he's making us all look like fools.
Why should you have to pay for a child you don't want? She doesn't have to! If she wants to carry it to term, let her - but if she has a choice, so should you.
You've been brainwashed. You're a nerd, look at what you see, not what they tell you.
How many people do you know who have died of cancer? Heart disease? Accident? Suicide? Aids?
I know quite a few people who have died of all of the above - except aids. Of all the people I've known, only two have had aids. One was a gay man, and one was a woman who liked it in the back door.
Aids is a blood disease, not a sex disease. At any rate, at my age I'm more likely to die of a heart attack during sex than of a disease from it. Now, if I had a sore on my penus I'd refrain from all sex, but penis-vagina sex is the least of my worries.
We have yet to see "something pop out of nothing" as creationism suggests.
Yes, and we're not likely to. And we have definite proof that evolution exists.
However, have you heard of the "big bang theory"? It postulates that the entire UNIVERSE popped into existance from nothing, for no reason at all (or rather, no reason that we are ever likely to fathom).
Likewise, it's thought that life itself somehow or other "popped out of" non-living chemicals, despite the fact that nobody has ever been able to replicate this "accident of nature".
Both groups are disingenuous, to say the least. Most "pro life" people are also for the death penalty. Abortion is OK after the fetus grows up and kills someone, apparently.
Most "pro-choice" people are perfectly OK with having cocaine and heroin illegal.
When you have to resort to wordplay and trickery to make your point, it can hardly be valid. Both sides are clearly wrong.
What about a man's choice? He has none! If he wants the fetus aborted, tough. He's going to pay child support for 18 years anyway, despite the fact that there is no male contraceptive short of surgery (condoms are "couples contraception", if she says "you ain't fuckin' me with that thing on" you know damned well you're taking it off and sticking it in. It's simple biology).
OTOH if he wants to bring it to term and raise the kid himself, well, tough shit, man. Your kid's (not and never will be) history.
Personally, I'm pro-choice. An abortion should NOT be done without the father's permission. If both (adult) parents want to abort it, that should be between them, a doctor, and God (whether you believe in Him or not). Like that's ever going to happen in this female dominated politically correct culture.
And I think all drugs should be legal. ALL of them. If you want to screw your life up, that should be your business.
I'm also pro life; by that I mean I'm against the death penalty. When I die (and we ALL die) it's most likely going to be very unpleasant; cancer, heart attack, stroke, accident, alzheimers or worse yet, old age with a deteriorated body yet agile mind and everyone you ever knew dead. The worse thing about arthritis is it isn't fatal. Yet the pro-death people want to give a mass murderer a nice painless messless death. I say put the bastard in prison and keep him there!
I think it's a "backhoe DOS", I was googling for medical information and half the hits gave me the same error as trying to go to 2600.
It's said that you should never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity, but this governmant has proved its maliciousness more than once. Maybe somebody took out a backbone on purpose?
What was the guy's name? If he had a really wierd name (e.g. Dmitri Skylarov) then it would be easy to find the guy. But there were six people on the internet with my name in 1998, and one of them was a semi-famous comedian (he'd been on Comedy Channel and had performed with Jeff Foxworthy). I'm guessing you'd have a hell of a hard time finding info about me with only my name.
Holding someone because you want to interrogate them for information isn't the same thing as holding them because you think they themselves have done or will do something bad.
It is if you're the one being detained. Call them detainees, call them prisoners, call them jailbirds, call them terrorists but the fact is they've been imprisoned for YEARS without charge or trial.
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people just need to realize when and when not to use self-checkout.
When to use self-checkout: when you're a fucking moron.
When not to: When you have a 3 digit IQ.
Easy.
As a technical-type guy, I should add that machines of any kind (indeed, any things of any kind) rarely can be made to operate any better by slamming one's fist against any part thereof.
Breaking one of the God damned things DOES make it work better! Just slam HARDER! Hell, use a brick!
It's there as a convenience to the shopper
Bullshit, it's there so the greedy God damned owners can hire fewer people.
"Cowboy?" Since when could cowboys read fast?
Worse yet as with many ATMs machines
Goddamn fucking shit those things piss me off. Not the ATMs that spit out money, the "self-swipe" at the checkout. It asks "credit or debit?" and you press credit. THEN THE GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SHIT ASKS FOR A FUCKING PIN NUMBER! wtf???
If you program these shitty things, I hate your fucking guts! When did they start hiring stupid fucking morons to do engineering, anyway?
If I'm going to do the checkout clerk's job, then damn it I want his paycheck. At least with gasoline self service was cheaper! This way the clerk loses, the store wins, and you get... what, an extra fifteen seconds?
WTF are you going to do when ALL the checkouts are self service? You think the wait is bad now!
I'll tell you what I'LL do - I'll cuss you for using them in the first place.
The US are turning faster and faster into everything I hated about the communist system.
Under Communism, government runs industry. Under Facism, industry runs government. I must be dumb, I don't see much difference.
Italy won WWII, obviously.
But, as an innocent person, why am I singled out for bureaucratic harrasement? I am denied the conveniences of other citizens simply because of my name existing on a watch list.
What, you haven't sued them? Np wonder you're on a watch list! That's unamerican!
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So far it only works on slashdot
"Good thing I'm too broke to fly" parent modded insightful (I liked it!) while this ("Secret government list? Well, I wouldn't call it a secret anymore.") is modded funny.
I think we've been infiltrated by the air marsha^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[no carrier]
I never said a God was required. I only say that it makes more sense from a logical standpoint; it can't be proven. Where did the original singularity come from? There wasn't supposed to be any such thing as time or space before it, if what I read (and I'm not a cosmologist) is to be believed.
Yet nobody has (YET, you're right) replicated it. If we find no life anywhere else in the universe, what then? Asimov's Eternals are to blame?
You say "an accident" created life, I say occam's razor says that's unlikely.
It's not just a board game any more. If there's a computer involved, it's a computer game.
"Your search - link:mcgrew.info - did not match any documents."
It's typical law enforcement. A kid in my daughter's class (a few years ago) who was taken out to the hall, handcuffed in front of God and everybody, and hauled to jail. They didn't even bother taking him to the principal's office to slip on the cuffs.
And this was local cops, I hear the FBI is even more heartless (Waco, Ruby Ridge...)
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Off topic, but I must read too fast, I keep getting the "cowboy" message. Am I the only one here who isn't dyslexic?
It never ceases to amaze me how underhanded some people can be.
Ah, the idealiam of youth!
As to your sig, first I was four eyes, then I got old and had reading glasses over my contacts and I was six eyes. Then I got a CrystaLens in my left eye, now I'm three eyes. And I hate being called "sir!"
Mod that guy up!
Then why not arrest him AFTER he gave his speech?
The net neutrality bill was VOTED DOWN. And more BS later: "...closely mirrors the technical functionality of the Internet...the US cellular phone network."
No it doesn't "closely mirror the technal functionality" of the internet. It may seem like it to the user, but cells are nothing like backbones. Technically there are few similarities.
Because a cell phone has a two inch screen. DUH.
I can't read any more of this crap. I am 100% FOR network neutrality, but when you have to resort to rank bullshit to make your point, you're doing your side no favors. This guy should STFU and let someone with a three digit IQ argue for network neutrality; he's making us all look like fools.
Why should you have to pay for a child you don't want? She doesn't have to! If she wants to carry it to term, let her - but if she has a choice, so should you.
You've been brainwashed. You're a nerd, look at what you see, not what they tell you.
How many people do you know who have died of cancer? Heart disease? Accident? Suicide? Aids?
I know quite a few people who have died of all of the above - except aids. Of all the people I've known, only two have had aids. One was a gay man, and one was a woman who liked it in the back door.
Aids is a blood disease, not a sex disease. At any rate, at my age I'm more likely to die of a heart attack during sex than of a disease from it. Now, if I had a sore on my penus I'd refrain from all sex, but penis-vagina sex is the least of my worries.
We have yet to see "something pop out of nothing" as creationism suggests.
Yes, and we're not likely to. And we have definite proof that evolution exists.
However, have you heard of the "big bang theory"? It postulates that the entire UNIVERSE popped into existance from nothing, for no reason at all (or rather, no reason that we are ever likely to fathom).
Likewise, it's thought that life itself somehow or other "popped out of" non-living chemicals, despite the fact that nobody has ever been able to replicate this "accident of nature".
Both groups are disingenuous, to say the least. Most "pro life" people are also for the death penalty. Abortion is OK after the fetus grows up and kills someone, apparently.
Most "pro-choice" people are perfectly OK with having cocaine and heroin illegal.
When you have to resort to wordplay and trickery to make your point, it can hardly be valid. Both sides are clearly wrong.
What about a man's choice? He has none! If he wants the fetus aborted, tough. He's going to pay child support for 18 years anyway, despite the fact that there is no male contraceptive short of surgery (condoms are "couples contraception", if she says "you ain't fuckin' me with that thing on" you know damned well you're taking it off and sticking it in. It's simple biology).
OTOH if he wants to bring it to term and raise the kid himself, well, tough shit, man. Your kid's (not and never will be) history.
Personally, I'm pro-choice. An abortion should NOT be done without the father's permission. If both (adult) parents want to abort it, that should be between them, a doctor, and God (whether you believe in Him or not). Like that's ever going to happen in this female dominated politically correct culture.
And I think all drugs should be legal. ALL of them. If you want to screw your life up, that should be your business.
I'm also pro life; by that I mean I'm against the death penalty. When I die (and we ALL die) it's most likely going to be very unpleasant; cancer, heart attack, stroke, accident, alzheimers or worse yet, old age with a deteriorated body yet agile mind and everyone you ever knew dead. The worse thing about arthritis is it isn't fatal. Yet the pro-death people want to give a mass murderer a nice painless messless death. I say put the bastard in prison and keep him there!
I think it's a "backhoe DOS", I was googling for medical information and half the hits gave me the same error as trying to go to 2600.
It's said that you should never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity, but this governmant has proved its maliciousness more than once. Maybe somebody took out a backbone on purpose?
What was the guy's name? If he had a really wierd name (e.g. Dmitri Skylarov) then it would be easy to find the guy. But there were six people on the internet with my name in 1998, and one of them was a semi-famous comedian (he'd been on Comedy Channel and had performed with Jeff Foxworthy). I'm guessing you'd have a hell of a hard time finding info about me with only my name.
Holding someone because you want to interrogate them for information isn't the same thing as holding them because you think they themselves have done or will do something bad.
It is if you're the one being detained. Call them detainees, call them prisoners, call them jailbirds, call them terrorists but the fact is they've been imprisoned for YEARS without charge or trial.