So what do you call a Chinaman without being raked over the coals by the PC Police? And why are China men offended by "Chinaman" but English men aren't offended by being called "Englishmen" and Irish men aren't offended by being called "Irishmen?"
This topic would have bothered me yesterday, especially the part about the guy having to shit in the same bowl he eats from, but I just got off the phone with some Indian wanker that works for my mortgage company. Jesus Christ, if they have to ship a job that involves talking to Americans overseas couldn't they find some foreign assholes who actually know how to speak English? I'm starting to think that the mortgage crisis is a plot by foreigners.
Yesterday I'd have said "Google, 'do no evil' no longer applies" but today I'm cheering them! Yay google! Boo, shit-eating Indians!
What if the government decided to do away with the fourth ammendment and declare it was their right to search and seize simply becuase they're fighting a war against a noun?
That hits close to home; No noun or other excuse is needed. My car and person were searched for the "probable cause" of giving two women a ride to a house the cops were watching (there were no arrests, because there were no laws broken and no contraband found) and my garage was "looked around in" on the day we set aside to honor the soldiers who died defending the Constitution. More details in an old slashdot journal.
What if governments drugged me with pot to deprive my right to free thought?
Pot doesn't deprive you of free though, it promotes free thought. That's why all but the most enlightened governments have outlawed it.
Monosodium Glutimate, OTOH, is a neurotransmitter with a sodium ion attached. Read the ingredients label on almost any bag of potato chips, frozen food, etc.
How would a "gay gene" evolve, exactly, since sex between two men or two women don't produce offspring?
Any such pathetically antievolutionary genetic material produced by an unfortunate mutation wouldn't be fatal, but it wouldn't be passed along, either. In order for a man to produce offspring he has to perform heterosexual sex.
you kick her to the road and find a new 'model' that won't bother you like that with petty games
In all my fifty six years of breathing I've never met such a woman. Maybe out of the three billion females on earth there are one or two, but afaik they're more rare than unicorns. Like Heinlein said and somebody's sig quotes, "women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs need to get used to the idea."
That would defeat YOUR porpose for having a cell phone. I'll turn my phone off any time I want. I don't carry a phone to be reached, I carry a phone because it's a lot handier to have a phone in my pocket when I want to call somebody.
I probably don't use my computer for what you use yours for, either.
Yes, but by "intentional" I don't mean that they have to give it any thought, any more than you have to plan out how to move your feet when you walk. It just comes naturally to them, just like moving your stuff so you have to ask them where it is.
Women are devious creatures. They WANT to piss you off, and a man's being annoyed is a punishable offense in woman's eyes. Man aren't ever allowed to be angry, so thay are delighted to piss you off so they can have the upper hand in whatever game she's playing.
She does that when she wants something. Which with most woman is always.
I had a book by that title several decades ago. From memory (which fails me often these days, but thanks to this slashdot thread I can now blame it on electromagnetic radiation instead of all the pot I've smoked).
There was an entire chapter devoted to psychaitrists.
"My wife thnks she's an elevator" "Hmm, sounds serious. Have her come see me." I can't, she doesn't stop at your floor.
"My wife thinks she's a racehorse." "That's going to be expensive!" "That's OK, she just won the Kentucky Derby"
"My wife eats grapes!" "There's nothing wrong with that." "Off the wallpaper?"
Q. How many psychaitrists does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one, but the bulb has to want to change.
ClintJCL says "it's simple to store data to memory and transmit next time the phone is on -- a smaller, secondary battery can easily be inserted. You do know they are allowed to enter your house and bug your stuff without ever notifying you, right?"
You reply "Unless you don't live in the US, which of course covers MOST people."
First, roughly half the people at slashdot are in the US. Second, most countries are as bad as the US when it comes to civil liberties. They have to have a warrant signed by a judge to bug you in the US (at least for any of it to be admissable in court) and in Illinois it's a felony to bug someone's conversation without that warrant or permission from the people you're bugging. If I find a bug in my house and proof of what cop planted it, he'd better have a warrant or he can be thrown in prison.
I seriously doubt the North Korean, Columbian, Mexican, Syrian, Iranian (ar most for that matter) governments need any kind of warrant to do any damned thing they wish.
2. Don't believe everything you see on the TV news
3. Have these governments admitted this? Do you have a link to a.gov site that the US acknowledges this?
4. Is it legal for shopping centers to do this? According to Southern Illinois University it's a class IV felony to record a telephone conversation without the consent of both parties in the state of Illinois. The 4th amendment to the US Constitution says it's illegal for a government agency to do this without a warrant. Of course, it's illegal to search someone's garage without a warrant too, but the cops don't care about the law and apparently a lot of US citizens don't car that the cops don't care.
You spend over a hundred dollars to upgrade a product, it won't work as advertised, and than just just say "oh well I'll download it?" That's not how I would react.
No, if you bought Vista because of the commercials that tell you how it's a "mddia center" and you find out that your "media center" won't work, you're going to be pissed.
And "something else to record it with" includes Linux (or other UNIX clone like Apple or Be) and MythTV.
The thing is, afaik this only affects Vista. XP boxes vastly outnumber Vista boxes, and not many people use their computers to record TV anyway, except those who have a dedicated DVR that they don't even realise is a computer.
If it was Tivo that did this you would see NBC losing ratings and you would be right. But this will actually affect very few people.
That reminds me, I have to go get my DTA converter for my TV. Lets see, plug the DTA into the VCR, the VCR into the TV...
Yes, this is the place where those of us who loathe Vista as a bloated, DRM-ridden piece of crap that just can't wait to rat on its owners come for an apology from all those people who accused us of spreading FUD about it.
But don't expect them to come with apologies. Astroturfing Microsoft shills never apologise. They'l call this story FUD, too. It's how they've always done business.
Nice one by MS, but this won't have much of an impact on Windows I think. What else are people going to use?
Huh? That is the absolutely dumbest question I've heard all week (but it's Monday). There are a lot of flavors of Linux, there's Sun, there's Be, there's Apple. or did I misunderastand the question?
Are you a Microsoft employee, did you get to slashdot by mistake somehow. or are you just trolling?
Then you should have no more interest in the situation than I do. Sorry I offended you by assuming you were gay just because you vehemently and insultingly insist that we not just be tolerant of homosexuals, but accepting of homosexuality as well. Bring on the politically correct thought police!
and I'm happily married to a woman
I've known more than one gay that was. Like I said, it isn't illegal for gays to marry.
See, I support the rights of others, even if it's not my rights aren't being trampled upon
Not letting men marry men tramples nobody's rights, but you sure aren't showing that you support the right to think how one pleases.
Hopefully you'll make such a choice as well
It's a little late, kid. Both my daughters are grown. Attitudes and ideas aren't inborn.
OTOH, saying gay people are really mentally ill is pretty bigoted
You have something against the mentally ill?
Oh, and other animials do have sex with members of their same sex
A dog will hump your leg. You supprt the right to have sex with other species?
Humans are different, because we don't just have sex to reproduce,
Humans aren't different. Humans are animals. All animals have sex for the same reasons: it is a biological imperitive, a necessity, like eating and sleeping. However, sometimes brain circutry gets wierded out sometimes in any species. Do you support the right of an anorexic to starve himself? Of a bulemic to gorge and puke?
and some even choose not to reproduce at all
That's a good thing, evolutionarily speaking. Some choose to have sex with members of their immediate families, do you support the right of two consenting adult siblings to marry?
so that we can be rid of the closed minded
Look whoise talking, mr. "open-minded" politically correct herd follower. Are you open minded enough to let a man marry his mother? I'm not.
bible banger morons
Where in any of this did I mention the bible? I didn't. Not once. I said homosexuality is counter-evolution, not couner-bible. In fact, I often chastise people for bringing the bible into the argument, because first, not everybody follows the same bible and second, because the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish bibles have these ten commandments that are the primary laws of their respective religions, and not one of them says "thou shalt not buttfuck another man, nor shall thou suck another man's dick." As sins go, homosexuality itself isn't at all, and homosexual acts aren't even in the Big ten.
that are holding back our progress to a peaceful civialization.
If you want peace, you might dispense with such terminology as "moron," which you've now used twice in this discussion, mr hipocrite. Talk like that in a bar and see how much peace your ill-mannered, uncouth, uncivilized, abhorrent attitude provides. Hint: It will take you at least out of the bar when the bartender tosses you out, and likely to jail if you give HIM any lip. And you may well find yourself bloodied before the bartender has a chance to get rid of your obnoxious ass.
PS- you and those like you make it certain that the next President will be named "McCain". Thanks a WHOLE LOT for ensuring that the Iraq war will go on for at least four more years. I hope you and your gay buddies are happy about that.
I'm not the one proposing such an amendment. However, if it were true that we have the God-given right ("endowed by the creator" as the Declaration of Independance puts it) to free speech, it woudn't need an amendment spelling it out, either.
You have my sincerest sympathy. I hope they find a suitable treatment for her. You should count your blessings, however - most mentally ill people in the US have no access to health care at all, let alone mental health care.
My friend Amy, who suffers from depression, has limited health care. At least she has Zoloft. Tami is bipolar, perhaps since her husband is now in the military she can get treatment before her condition is fatal. Her monied family has pretty much disowned her. I've helped talk her out of suicide before.
Don't you play stupid. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman, and has been defined as such ever since the advent of monogamy.
If you want to redefine the definition of marriage, then be honest about the fact. You did OK redefining the definition of "gay", now Deck the halls has a line that says you should cross-dress at Christmas.
Why are you gays all so God dmaned bigoted? Why do you insist on jumping to conclusion as to what someone else thinks?
If you think you can read my tiny little mind I have news for you, buddy. Your post just changed my mind about gays.
Previously, I've been stating that I wish all the heterosexual men would turn gay so I could have their women, but you have convinced me to wish that all the gays would turn hetero so I didn't have to read your incessant whining about how discriminated against you are.
Stop trying to make your mental illness somehow seem normal. It isn't. Your condition is unnatural and counter-evolutionary. Only one in twenty people is gay, and evolution has made us that way. You are an evolutionary dead end, and what you do is no more natural than bestiality.
Please shut the fuck up about your mental illness. Perhaps if political correctness didn't keep researchers from admitting that your condition was as much an abberation as any other mental illness a treatment could be found.
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Just like all the bullshit because of those Mohammed pictures over here in scandinavia, I mean who gives a fuck?
:D
I would say the Muslims, but UnNews says I'm wrong.
Or Jesus for all I care, or may I say it _YOUR MOM_ to whoever reads this
They have an article about your mom, too.
So what do you call a Chinaman without being raked over the coals by the PC Police? And why are China men offended by "Chinaman" but English men aren't offended by being called "Englishmen" and Irish men aren't offended by being called "Irishmen?"
This topic would have bothered me yesterday, especially the part about the guy having to shit in the same bowl he eats from, but I just got off the phone with some Indian wanker that works for my mortgage company. Jesus Christ, if they have to ship a job that involves talking to Americans overseas couldn't they find some foreign assholes who actually know how to speak English? I'm starting to think that the mortgage crisis is a plot by foreigners.
Yesterday I'd have said "Google, 'do no evil' no longer applies" but today I'm cheering them! Yay google! Boo, shit-eating Indians!
don't usually complain about badly written summaries, but this one made my head explode.
Heads don't explode, they as plode".
"A little asplosion is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely hilarious" ~ Oscar Wilde on a splode
What if the government decided to do away with the fourth ammendment and declare it was their right to search and seize simply becuase they're fighting a war against a noun?
That hits close to home; No noun or other excuse is needed. My car and person were searched for the "probable cause" of giving two women a ride to a house the cops were watching (there were no arrests, because there were no laws broken and no contraband found) and my garage was "looked around in" on the day we set aside to honor the soldiers who died defending the Constitution. More details in an old slashdot journal.
What if governments drugged me with pot to deprive my right to free thought?
Pot doesn't deprive you of free though, it promotes free thought. That's why all but the most enlightened governments have outlawed it.
Monosodium Glutimate, OTOH, is a neurotransmitter with a sodium ion attached. Read the ingredients label on almost any bag of potato chips, frozen food, etc.
Drugs in your food, indeed.
How would a "gay gene" evolve, exactly, since sex between two men or two women don't produce offspring?
Any such pathetically antievolutionary genetic material produced by an unfortunate mutation wouldn't be fatal, but it wouldn't be passed along, either. In order for a man to produce offspring he has to perform heterosexual sex.
you kick her to the road and find a new 'model' that won't bother you like that with petty games
In all my fifty six years of breathing I've never met such a woman. Maybe out of the three billion females on earth there are one or two, but afaik they're more rare than unicorns. Like Heinlein said and somebody's sig quotes, "women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs need to get used to the idea."
That would defeat YOUR porpose for having a cell phone. I'll turn my phone off any time I want. I don't carry a phone to be reached, I carry a phone because it's a lot handier to have a phone in my pocket when I want to call somebody.
I probably don't use my computer for what you use yours for, either.
Do they do that intentionally to piss us off?
Yes, but by "intentional" I don't mean that they have to give it any thought, any more than you have to plan out how to move your feet when you walk. It just comes naturally to them, just like moving your stuff so you have to ask them where it is.
Women are devious creatures. They WANT to piss you off, and a man's being annoyed is a punishable offense in woman's eyes. Man aren't ever allowed to be angry, so thay are delighted to piss you off so they can have the upper hand in whatever game she's playing.
She does that when she wants something. Which with most woman is always.
mcgrew's law: Women are evil, men are stupid.
-mcgrew
I had a book by that title several decades ago. From memory (which fails me often these days, but thanks to this slashdot thread I can now blame it on electromagnetic radiation instead of all the pot I've smoked).
There was an entire chapter devoted to psychaitrists.
"My wife thnks she's an elevator"
"Hmm, sounds serious. Have her come see me."
I can't, she doesn't stop at your floor.
"My wife thinks she's a racehorse."
"That's going to be expensive!"
"That's OK, she just won the Kentucky Derby"
"My wife eats grapes!"
"There's nothing wrong with that."
"Off the wallpaper?"
Q. How many psychaitrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Only one, but the bulb has to want to change.
ClintJCL says "it's simple to store data to memory and transmit next time the phone is on -- a smaller, secondary battery can easily be inserted. You do know they are allowed to enter your house and bug your stuff without ever notifying you, right?"
You reply "Unless you don't live in the US, which of course covers MOST people."
First, roughly half the people at slashdot are in the US. Second, most countries are as bad as the US when it comes to civil liberties. They have to have a warrant signed by a judge to bug you in the US (at least for any of it to be admissable in court) and in Illinois it's a felony to bug someone's conversation without that warrant or permission from the people you're bugging. If I find a bug in my house and proof of what cop planted it, he'd better have a warrant or he can be thrown in prison.
I seriously doubt the North Korean, Columbian, Mexican, Syrian, Iranian (ar most for that matter) governments need any kind of warrant to do any damned thing they wish.
Even CNN verifies this.
.gov site that the US acknowledges this?
1. Link? CNN does have a website.
2. Don't believe everything you see on the TV news
3. Have these governments admitted this? Do you have a link to a
4. Is it legal for shopping centers to do this? According to Southern Illinois University it's a class IV felony to record a telephone conversation without the consent of both parties in the state of Illinois. The 4th amendment to the US Constitution says it's illegal for a government agency to do this without a warrant. Of course, it's illegal to search someone's garage without a warrant too, but the cops don't care about the law and apparently a lot of US citizens don't car that the cops don't care.
The batteries come out in every model I've ever seen. They're not iPods, even if they can play rented music.
...they'll find something else to record it with
You spend over a hundred dollars to upgrade a product, it won't work as advertised, and than just just say "oh well I'll download it?" That's not how I would react.
No, if you bought Vista because of the commercials that tell you how it's a "mddia center" and you find out that your "media center" won't work, you're going to be pissed.
And "something else to record it with" includes Linux (or other UNIX clone like Apple or Be) and MythTV.
The thing is, afaik this only affects Vista. XP boxes vastly outnumber Vista boxes, and not many people use their computers to record TV anyway, except those who have a dedicated DVR that they don't even realise is a computer.
If it was Tivo that did this you would see NBC losing ratings and you would be right. But this will actually affect very few people.
That reminds me, I have to go get my DTA converter for my TV. Lets see, plug the DTA into the VCR, the VCR into the TV...
Yes, this is the place where those of us who loathe Vista as a bloated, DRM-ridden piece of crap that just can't wait to rat on its owners come for an apology from all those people who accused us of spreading FUD about it.
But don't expect them to come with apologies. Astroturfing Microsoft shills never apologise. They'l call this story FUD, too. It's how they've always done business.
I don't watch a lot of TV. In fact I watch very little, as you can't watch TV in the bars because there's no sound. But I make it a point to see My Name Is Earl, the funniest show on TV. I could have sworn it was a FOX show, but wikipedia says it's NBC.
In fact I would be surprised that the hack is already out there
It is, the fix is here.
Nice one by MS, but this won't have much of an impact on Windows I think. What else are people going to use?
Huh? That is the absolutely dumbest question I've heard all week (but it's Monday). There are a lot of flavors of Linux, there's Sun, there's Be, there's Apple. or did I misunderastand the question?
Are you a Microsoft employee, did you get to slashdot by mistake somehow. or are you just trolling?
-mcgrew
Nevermind that I'm not even gay
Then you should have no more interest in the situation than I do. Sorry I offended you by assuming you were gay just because you vehemently and insultingly insist that we not just be tolerant of homosexuals, but accepting of homosexuality as well. Bring on the politically correct thought police!
and I'm happily married to a woman
I've known more than one gay that was. Like I said, it isn't illegal for gays to marry.
See, I support the rights of others, even if it's not my rights aren't being trampled upon
Not letting men marry men tramples nobody's rights, but you sure aren't showing that you support the right to think how one pleases.
Hopefully you'll make such a choice as well
It's a little late, kid. Both my daughters are grown. Attitudes and ideas aren't inborn.
OTOH, saying gay people are really mentally ill is pretty bigoted
You have something against the mentally ill?
Oh, and other animials do have sex with members of their same sex
A dog will hump your leg. You supprt the right to have sex with other species?
Humans are different, because we don't just have sex to reproduce,
Humans aren't different. Humans are animals. All animals have sex for the same reasons: it is a biological imperitive, a necessity, like eating and sleeping. However, sometimes brain circutry gets wierded out sometimes in any species. Do you support the right of an anorexic to starve himself? Of a bulemic to gorge and puke?
and some even choose not to reproduce at all
That's a good thing, evolutionarily speaking. Some choose to have sex with members of their immediate families, do you support the right of two consenting adult siblings to marry?
so that we can be rid of the closed minded
Look whoise talking, mr. "open-minded" politically correct herd follower. Are you open minded enough to let a man marry his mother? I'm not.
bible banger morons
Where in any of this did I mention the bible? I didn't. Not once. I said homosexuality is counter-evolution, not couner-bible. In fact, I often chastise people for bringing the bible into the argument, because first, not everybody follows the same bible and second, because the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish bibles have these ten commandments that are the primary laws of their respective religions, and not one of them says "thou shalt not buttfuck another man, nor shall thou suck another man's dick." As sins go, homosexuality itself isn't at all, and homosexual acts aren't even in the Big ten.
that are holding back our progress to a peaceful civialization.
If you want peace, you might dispense with such terminology as "moron," which you've now used twice in this discussion, mr hipocrite. Talk like that in a bar and see how much peace your ill-mannered, uncouth, uncivilized, abhorrent attitude provides. Hint: It will take you at least out of the bar when the bartender tosses you out, and likely to jail if you give HIM any lip. And you may well find yourself bloodied before the bartender has a chance to get rid of your obnoxious ass.
PS- you and those like you make it certain that the next President will be named "McCain". Thanks a WHOLE LOT for ensuring that the Iraq war will go on for at least four more years. I hope you and your gay buddies are happy about that.
I'm not the one proposing such an amendment. However, if it were true that we have the God-given right ("endowed by the creator" as the Declaration of Independance puts it) to free speech, it woudn't need an amendment spelling it out, either.
You have my sincerest sympathy. I hope they find a suitable treatment for her. You should count your blessings, however - most mentally ill people in the US have no access to health care at all, let alone mental health care.
My friend Amy, who suffers from depression, has limited health care. At least she has Zoloft. Tami is bipolar, perhaps since her husband is now in the military she can get treatment before her condition is fatal. Her monied family has pretty much disowned her. I've helped talk her out of suicide before.
It is indeed heartbreaking.
Don't you play stupid. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman, and has been defined as such ever since the advent of monogamy.
If you want to redefine the definition of marriage, then be honest about the fact. You did OK redefining the definition of "gay", now Deck the halls has a line that says you should cross-dress at Christmas.
You're going to have to show me.
Why are you gays all so God dmaned bigoted? Why do you insist on jumping to conclusion as to what someone else thinks?
If you think you can read my tiny little mind I have news for you, buddy. Your post just changed my mind about gays.
Previously, I've been stating that I wish all the heterosexual men would turn gay so I could have their women, but you have convinced me to wish that all the gays would turn hetero so I didn't have to read your incessant whining about how discriminated against you are.
Stop trying to make your mental illness somehow seem normal. It isn't. Your condition is unnatural and counter-evolutionary. Only one in twenty people is gay, and evolution has made us that way. You are an evolutionary dead end, and what you do is no more natural than bestiality.
Please shut the fuck up about your mental illness. Perhaps if political correctness didn't keep researchers from admitting that your condition was as much an abberation as any other mental illness a treatment could be found.