Perhaps my experience is different from most folks. I've been in most of the 50 states and spent 4 years in the military. I speak both Redneck and Ebonics fluently, although I have trouble with "EastSeaboardSnob". Especially those speech impediment stricken Bastaneons (which normal Americans call "Bostonians").
There was a comedian (don't remember who) saying that the reason people from the eastern seaboard couldn't pronounce the letter R (Da dwag! Da dyam dwag is unda da ca! Get da dyam ca awf da dwag!) is because people in the south have them all (A'm gonna warsh the winders termorrey)
If I rewrite my journals so instead of hookers the girls are teenagers, are the UK police going to come across the pond after me? Or is it only illustrations? Text can tittilate also, you know.
Tami (link NSFW) is only about four foot eight, if I draw her (only flat chested instead of those big fat boobies) would I be breaking the law in England? How about if I draw "Bighead", the hooker with the smallest boobs I've ever seen?
I't nice to know that politicians in other countries are as fucktardedly brain dead as ours. There's hope for my country after all!
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Oddly, the Windows key works just fine in KDE. Yes, the Windows key does in fact run Linux.
So maybe we should stop calling it a "windows" key?
Now the SysReq key, otoh, is a huge mistake, especially in Linux. Why copy Windows' lame Alt-tab to switch between apps? SysReq is far more logical and has no other use outside the mainframe world that I've ever seen in 25 years of computing. Have you ever used the SysReq key?
I see you've never had to enter a long series of numbers into a database. Entering numbers from the number row above the letters is slow, cumbersome, and error-prone.
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maybe you like all of them, or maybe you just want to encourage the political process.
In that case you're wasting your money. If you like all of them, it shouldn't matter to you which one wins.
And if you want to encourage the political process you should be using your money to encourage people to run for office in uncontested races. Contributing to two candidates who are already on the ballot doesn't encourage the political process at all. You'd be better off buying cigarettes for the homeless (like the Democratd did in Florida in 2000) to get them to the polls!
Yet you are comparing it to the IBM model M. When that model was out over 20 years ago. A cheap keyboard was over a hundred bucks back then.
Tell me again how we should be glad gas prices are low "after inflation?"
Of course, that hundred dollar keyboard was connected to a four thousand dollar PC with a color monitor (green). It had no mouse. It held less than 1 meg of memory and ran at less than 16 mhz (the 286 five years later; the 8088 was 4 mhz, a thousand times slower than today's CPUs).
I paid $70 for my keyboard/mouse combo. Of course, they're wireless and the mouse has no ball.
Just a few changes to the bits you are sending to the bank changes will cause a real change in money.
Keep those reciepts and they won't. Bits are easy to change. I don't understand how anyone who understands how computers work can trust bits. I don't.
Just as on a CD the bits themselves are useless to the listener other than they tell the speakers how to behave.
That's Anthropomorphism. Bits don't tell speakers anything. The output voltage and polarity determine which way the speaker cone moves, how far, and how fast. The bits only contain representations of plus and minus voltages. You might as well say "information wants to be free" (my schitzophrenic friend says that information told him it wanted to be paid for, but he's crazy)
You do realize the reason most people are starving is because of transport of food
Actually people are starving because of politics - the politics of greed. Regardless, destroying food is wrong.
I don't worship money and have no faith in "market forces".
There will be music, just less of it
You have no evidence of that, because there is none. The statement is false.
People don't listen to indie music even though it's free
Funny, the bars here in Springfield are all jam packed when there's a band. Like the Confederate said to the Northerner in "Outlaw Josey Wales, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining, Senator".
Again the cost to record music is cheap, the cost to find the talent and market bands that people want to listen to is still expensive.
The major labels aren't producing anything listenable which is why they're having trouble. When I go to a bar, the bands aren't covering 21st century music, they're playing Skynard, Zepplin, Stones, Who, Van Halen. And the audiences are invariably in their twenties.
The RIAA labels market to twelve year olds. The reason? You can tell a twelve year old what's cool. A young adult knows better. Meanwhile the bar owners have figured out what bands put butts on barstools and which ones don't. They don't spend much money doing so, either.
As for acting & writing it's hard to tell from a trailer.
Download the movie, it's free. It's Hollywood's worst nightmare.
the value of an iPod is not the manufacture but the design
The value of an iPod is the fact that it's real. It is a tangible item that does what people want it to do, and does it well. "Find (or create) a need and fill it."
I've never heard of the DEA arresting people for possession after traffic stops. I've never heard of the DEA knocking on my door because the neighbor smelled some pot smoke and called the cops.
A year ago I would have completely agreed with you, but I, my car, and passengers were searched last year for parking in front of the wrong house. The ladies who were with me were there to collect on a debt. It turned out to be a drug dealer's house, they had overpaid for some pot. Apparently reefer wasn't the only thing that was sold there, I imagine they probably had everything form heroin to stolen property.
The DEA guy had a ski mask on - in summer in Illinois! I don't know what pissed me off more, the violation of my Constitutional rights against warrantless search (there was no consent, apparently the fact that the ladies went into the house was "probable cause") or the complete and utter waste of my tax money. If they knew it was a dope house they should have raided the house instead of searching cars.
Three out of five officers were federal. As we had no drugs we were let go after being searched and forty five minutes of our time wasted.
Of course I eventually wrote a slashdot journal about the incident. The journal includes the warrantless searching of my garage by the local fuzz as well.
If you seriously think that a car alarm would deter anyone from stealing or damaging your car then you are not being 'devalued', you are deluded
That's not the purpose of the blinking light. The blinking light lowers my car insurance! Mine only comes on when the car is locked.
There's a reason cities are starting to ban car alarms - they are just annoying and serve little to no useful purpose whatsoever.
I hadn't heard that cities are banning alarms, what cities? My alarm is built into the car, it activates when the doors are locked. The only way to not activate the alarm is to not lock the car! If they should pass such a law in my city how could I possibly comply?
I bought the car used, and it had no owner's manual. Last winter I hit the "panic" button by mistake and had no idea how to shut it off. A cop cruised by in less than two minutes, HE know how to shut it off! Now I know too.
But the lesson I got there is the alarms DO serve a purpose. Had someone been stealing the car, they would have gotten caught.
A friend has a "protected by XXX Security company" sign in his yard. He doesn't really have a home alarm, he stole the sign!
I really missed a few nice touches, mostly the ability to hit the "Start" button on my keyboard, type the first few letters of a program and hit enter to launch it.
XP Professional is on the machine I'm typing this on, and I tried it - hitting the "windows" key and the letter "n" brings up Notepad. So it's not a new Vista feature, it's in XP.
If I commit fraud on a massive scale I'll go to prison for years. Why isn't Michael Dell going to prison?
Because in the US the only time a rich, powerful man goes to prison is when a richer, more powerful man wants him there. Our nation is a plutocracy and our national religion is the worship of the almighty dollar.
Support's the sort of thing that makes you customers for life or loses customers for life
Customers? Fuck the customers. Who needs customers? Customers are a dime a dozen. There are six billion prospective customers on this planet and there are more customers born every day.
That's the 21st century way of doing business.
As to the accent, you won't find many American accents that can't be parsed by someone in America. The accent has two bad things in people's minds. First, when you call someone for support you expect them to speak the language that you used to buy the product, and what's more to speak it fluently and understandably.
Second, if the phone jockey has a foreign accent, the person calling for support is reminded that the thieving, unpatriotic bastards they bought the product from are shipping American jobs overseas. Nobody likes a traitor, and an "American" company that ships jobs overseas is seen by working people as traitorous. Because you know, it IS traitorous. Only a traitor sells out his native country for filthy lucre.
I guess you don't understand accounting and how businesses do taxes
Correct. Or rather, "dammit Jim, I'm a nerd, not a businessman!"
But your account of accounting is pretty much how I would expect it to work. The bottom line, however, is that no businessman is going to do anything he percieves as bringing the tax man's wrath, and for most businesses the new taxman's tool will do little.
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Thanks, seems the W3C needs to update then.
Disclaimer: most people don't work for psychopaths. I hear radio is stupid to work in as well.
Perhaps my experience is different from most folks. I've been in most of the 50 states and spent 4 years in the military. I speak both Redneck and Ebonics fluently, although I have trouble with "EastSeaboardSnob". Especially those speech impediment stricken Bastaneons (which normal Americans call "Bostonians").
There was a comedian (don't remember who) saying that the reason people from the eastern seaboard couldn't pronounce the letter R (Da dwag! Da dyam dwag is unda da ca! Get da dyam ca awf da dwag!) is because people in the south have them all (A'm gonna warsh the winders termorrey)
As will this Greek statue from about 300 BC and this young boy with the small penis that Michaelangelo Bonoratti carved about a thousand years ago (it's been thirty years since my art classes and I've slept since then and can't be arsed to look it up).
I haven't seen the 2 girls 1 cup, is that new?
If I rewrite my journals so instead of hookers the girls are teenagers, are the UK police going to come across the pond after me? Or is it only illustrations? Text can tittilate also, you know.
Tami (link NSFW) is only about four foot eight, if I draw her (only flat chested instead of those big fat boobies) would I be breaking the law in England? How about if I draw "Bighead", the hooker with the smallest boobs I've ever seen?
I't nice to know that politicians in other countries are as fucktardedly brain dead as ours. There's hope for my country after all!
Man, you REALLY need to visit monster.com or some place, your job sucks. My condolences.
0.065 m to 0.045 m
(the backwards "u" mark for "micro" won't print in the actual comment link but pastes into the texr box w/ no prob. Nerds? There are nerds here? We need micrometers and math symbols!)
Oddly, the Windows key works just fine in KDE. Yes, the Windows key does in fact run Linux.
So maybe we should stop calling it a "windows" key?
Now the SysReq key, otoh, is a huge mistake, especially in Linux. Why copy Windows' lame Alt-tab to switch between apps? SysReq is far more logical and has no other use outside the mainframe world that I've ever seen in 25 years of computing. Have you ever used the SysReq key?
Cut off the numeric keypad and we'll talk
I see you've never had to enter a long series of numbers into a database. Entering numbers from the number row above the letters is slow, cumbersome, and error-prone.
Wow, you're right! I looked up "internet" on the internet and it does indeed suck.
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maybe you like all of them, or maybe you just want to encourage the political process.
In that case you're wasting your money. If you like all of them, it shouldn't matter to you which one wins.
And if you want to encourage the political process you should be using your money to encourage people to run for office in uncontested races. Contributing to two candidates who are already on the ballot doesn't encourage the political process at all. You'd be better off buying cigarettes for the homeless (like the Democratd did in Florida in 2000) to get them to the polls!
At $69 it's somewhat expensive
Yet you are comparing it to the IBM model M. When that model was out over 20 years ago. A cheap keyboard was over a hundred bucks back then.
Tell me again how we should be glad gas prices are low "after inflation?"
Of course, that hundred dollar keyboard was connected to a four thousand dollar PC with a color monitor (green). It had no mouse. It held less than 1 meg of memory and ran at less than 16 mhz (the 286 five years later; the 8088 was 4 mhz, a thousand times slower than today's CPUs).
I paid $70 for my keyboard/mouse combo. Of course, they're wireless and the mouse has no ball.
Just a few changes to the bits you are sending to the bank changes will cause a real change in money.
Keep those reciepts and they won't. Bits are easy to change. I don't understand how anyone who understands how computers work can trust bits. I don't.
Just as on a CD the bits themselves are useless to the listener other than they tell the speakers how to behave.
That's Anthropomorphism. Bits don't tell speakers anything. The output voltage and polarity determine which way the speaker cone moves, how far, and how fast. The bits only contain representations of plus and minus voltages. You might as well say "information wants to be free" (my schitzophrenic friend says that information told him it wanted to be paid for, but he's crazy)
You do realize the reason most people are starving is because of transport of food
Actually people are starving because of politics - the politics of greed. Regardless, destroying food is wrong.
I don't worship money and have no faith in "market forces".
There will be music, just less of it
You have no evidence of that, because there is none. The statement is false.
People don't listen to indie music even though it's free
Funny, the bars here in Springfield are all jam packed when there's a band. Like the Confederate said to the Northerner in "Outlaw Josey Wales, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining, Senator".
Again the cost to record music is cheap, the cost to find the talent and market bands that people want to listen to is still expensive.
The major labels aren't producing anything listenable which is why they're having trouble. When I go to a bar, the bands aren't covering 21st century music, they're playing Skynard, Zepplin, Stones, Who, Van Halen. And the audiences are invariably in their twenties.
The RIAA labels market to twelve year olds. The reason? You can tell a twelve year old what's cool. A young adult knows better. Meanwhile the bar owners have figured out what bands put butts on barstools and which ones don't. They don't spend much money doing so, either.
As for acting & writing it's hard to tell from a trailer.
Download the movie, it's free. It's Hollywood's worst nightmare.
Base our economy on what instead?
Something tangible. Food, manufactured goods, technology.
the value of an iPod is not the manufacture but the design
The value of an iPod is the fact that it's real. It is a tangible item that does what people want it to do, and does it well. "Find (or create) a need and fill it."
So in other words, they're going after online garage sales? What a pathetic waste of tax money!
I've never heard of the DEA arresting people for possession after traffic stops. I've never heard of the DEA knocking on my door because the neighbor smelled some pot smoke and called the cops.
A year ago I would have completely agreed with you, but I, my car, and passengers were searched last year for parking in front of the wrong house. The ladies who were with me were there to collect on a debt. It turned out to be a drug dealer's house, they had overpaid for some pot. Apparently reefer wasn't the only thing that was sold there, I imagine they probably had everything form heroin to stolen property.
The DEA guy had a ski mask on - in summer in Illinois! I don't know what pissed me off more, the violation of my Constitutional rights against warrantless search (there was no consent, apparently the fact that the ladies went into the house was "probable cause") or the complete and utter waste of my tax money. If they knew it was a dope house they should have raided the house instead of searching cars.
Three out of five officers were federal. As we had no drugs we were let go after being searched and forty five minutes of our time wasted.
Of course I eventually wrote a slashdot journal about the incident. The journal includes the warrantless searching of my garage by the local fuzz as well.
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If you seriously think that a car alarm would deter anyone from stealing or damaging your car then you are not being 'devalued', you are deluded
That's not the purpose of the blinking light. The blinking light lowers my car insurance! Mine only comes on when the car is locked.
There's a reason cities are starting to ban car alarms - they are just annoying and serve little to no useful purpose whatsoever.
I hadn't heard that cities are banning alarms, what cities? My alarm is built into the car, it activates when the doors are locked. The only way to not activate the alarm is to not lock the car! If they should pass such a law in my city how could I possibly comply?
I bought the car used, and it had no owner's manual. Last winter I hit the "panic" button by mistake and had no idea how to shut it off. A cop cruised by in less than two minutes, HE know how to shut it off! Now I know too.
But the lesson I got there is the alarms DO serve a purpose. Had someone been stealing the car, they would have gotten caught.
A friend has a "protected by XXX Security company" sign in his yard. He doesn't really have a home alarm, he stole the sign!
I really missed a few nice touches, mostly the ability to hit the "Start" button on my keyboard, type the first few letters of a program and hit enter to launch it.
XP Professional is on the machine I'm typing this on, and I tried it - hitting the "windows" key and the letter "n" brings up Notepad. So it's not a new Vista feature, it's in XP.
If I commit fraud on a massive scale I'll go to prison for years. Why isn't Michael Dell going to prison?
Because in the US the only time a rich, powerful man goes to prison is when a richer, more powerful man wants him there. Our nation is a plutocracy and our national religion is the worship of the almighty dollar.
My problem is they installed a rootkit on my computer. Your problem is reading comprehension.
You don't always get what you pay for - that's what the trial was all about. You do, however, usually pay for what you get, although not always.
So, you're saying that burglars shouldn't be prosecuted because armed robbers are worse?
Support's the sort of thing that makes you customers for life or loses customers for life
Customers? Fuck the customers. Who needs customers? Customers are a dime a dozen. There are six billion prospective customers on this planet and there are more customers born every day.
That's the 21st century way of doing business.
As to the accent, you won't find many American accents that can't be parsed by someone in America. The accent has two bad things in people's minds. First, when you call someone for support you expect them to speak the language that you used to buy the product, and what's more to speak it fluently and understandably.
Second, if the phone jockey has a foreign accent, the person calling for support is reminded that the thieving, unpatriotic bastards they bought the product from are shipping American jobs overseas. Nobody likes a traitor, and an "American" company that ships jobs overseas is seen by working people as traitorous. Because you know, it IS traitorous. Only a traitor sells out his native country for filthy lucre.
That's true. There are a lot of mean spirited assholes in the world, and unfortunately a lot of them are in government.
I was responding to the "you break the rules, you're fired". Had the GP said "Break a federal law, you're fired" I would have agreed with him.
I guess you don't understand accounting and how businesses do taxes
Correct. Or rather, "dammit Jim, I'm a nerd, not a businessman!"
But your account of accounting is pretty much how I would expect it to work. The bottom line, however, is that no businessman is going to do anything he percieves as bringing the tax man's wrath, and for most businesses the new taxman's tool will do little.