Good point, but I mean't people presenting opinions as if they were fact.
...George Bush is an idiot.
This is a view that some hold as fact, since he has made some serious mistakes (another opinion, verifiable as fact by credible national polls), but it is nonetheless still an opinion. However, some politically passionate people cannot make this disinction
This is a prime example of people today. Yes, people are entitled to their opinions, but Wikipedia is meant to be a reference source, not an editorial column. When you get someone like Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, George Bush, or John F. Kennedy, their is inevitably going to be some idiot who thinks his opinion is fact and will do whatever he can to vent his feelings about the subject. Yes, it can be good to use such entries as a social observation tool, but it is not good when you are using it in the context of fact. Wheather George W. Bush is good at his job is a matter of opinion. He, however is our president, and that is a fact. Wikipedi is not an editorial column, BBS, forum, or blog. It is intended as a free online encyclopedia that draws upon internet users to contribute their own facts on any given subject in an effort to build op a database of acquired information. For example, encyclopedias that are in print are restricted in what they can contain by a myriad of factors, such as cost, research costs, production costs, experts available on hand, publication sizes, publication deadlines, marketing potential, and content relevancy. With an "on-line" encyclopedia, each internet user can be a contributor, and the content that is available can be on an unlimited number of subjects, since there is no worry about what people are most likely to need information on.
Wow. Someone who doesn't have a clue really hates life. First of all, no taxpayer money goes to Wikipedia. Second, if you allow everyone to edit all of the articles, then every jackass and his mother is going to do something stupid with any given article. Third, "Artificial_Soul" needs to grown up and take this blatantly untrue liberal crap somewhere else, like on a P.E.T.A. or GreenPeace site.
Now, even though I am a somewhat conservative person, I do tolerate liberals and their argument (some are even legit and rational), but I will say that it is these clueless extremists who blame all of their misfortunes on "evil corporations" and want to us to live on cummunes, that give liberals their negative image. Artificial_Soul is a *PRIME* example.
Wikipedia *is* free information, but that doesn't mean that the Wikipedia operators cannot keep out any bias they perceive in their articles (yes, as the operators of the site, the articles ARE theirs). This is just another case of someone feeling that they are being violated because someone is editing out the clear biases that they support. Just because you think something is true doesn't make it true, no matter who you are. Wiki has the right to edit out anything they want, regardless of if you agree. If you want to keep opinions that you want, regardless of how biased or unbiased they are, then get off you ass and start your own "Wiki"-type site.
The only thing your comment does is it shows what happens when you give a yuppie who is mad at the world a computer. You must have smoked some BAAAD granola!
think advertising, in general, has gotten *WAY* out of control. Companies think that showing us their product is going to make us get up, go to the dealership, and buy a new car. Advertisements have invaded every aspect of daily life, and have become far more annoying than even some medical illnesses. Politicians need to know that companies DO NOT have the right to shove their unwanted products down our throats. For example, who in the hell wants to hear about a vaginal herpes medication (Valtrex) or urinary medications (Avodart) DURING DINNER?!?! By the way, if you think showing my a laxative / stool softener commercial while I eat my meatloaf dinner is going to make me go out and buy it, get real. Seeing how companies are hyperfocused on consumers, Ii stnd in front of you, with ou sitting on the couchdoubt any marketing heads stopped to think about how many potential consumers they are aggravating.
Look, companies should be able to advertise their products, but it is clearly obvious that they have grossly abused this priviledge by saturating every aspect of daily life with advertisements. As much as I hate more laws regulating society, I think that someone needs to start slapping some duct tape over the mouths of companies who abuse avertising.
Has anyone ever realized that whenever web sites integrate 'search features' into their esign, the amount of spam, pop-up farms, and irrelevent web results skyrockets?
Um..... China *is* evil, and a lab that produced a bomb that vaporized 25,000 people in a fraction of a second *is* 'presigious' and a 'legend', considering the Japanese threw the first punch, weren't backing down, and were hell bent on traing their civilians on military tactics and warfare. If you start a war, be damn ready to suffer if you lose. The next time you want to criticize history, remember: Survival and History outweigh Propaganda and Liberal "group-hug" sentimentalities.
The Bomb was the best thing that happened during the war. Seeing as how the only other alternative was to stage an even more massive, D-Day-style invasion, which would have (and was projected to) cost far more American lives to carry out than the number of lives taken by the atomic bombs, nobody can create a rational argument against the use of the bomb.
If you are training your civilian population in military tactics (and, yes, the Japanese WERE doing that, down to males as young as 8), then they are just as much a fair target as any Japanese soldier was)
"Have ISPs actually be required to provide the bandwidth that they advertise, so they are forced to stop overselling, so that your own router is the only place you'd have to set QOS to have your VOIP be perfectly high-priority."
Yes!
Where I live, I constantly see Comcast advertisements, oozing with promises of "high-speed access". Someone needs to kick the ISPs in the nuts over such promises, since they routinely advertise more than they can offer.
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Welfare should be for War Veterans and the mentally handicapped only.....Not parasites and lamprey.
People who get offended by insignificant crap like that have serious issues problems. If someone, anyone, attacks a persons, than it is human nature that the attacked individual will, in the future, fear people who resemble their attacker. That is PURE human nature, and is a primary reason people fear things that they do today, and the human race has still survived. If you happen the be someone who resembles someone who is feared, and thus, is feared, then TOUGH SHIT.
People who want to live in a world where everybody is loved and hugged, will eventually have their wallet stolen. I am white, and have been beaten over the head (he missed my temple by 1/8th of an inch) with a baseball bat (at least it sounded like one) and a tire iron by a scraggly, unkempt white man. Now, is it unreasonable for me to dislike scraggley, unkempt white men? No.
Now that you have read the above story, I'll be honest.....the man was black.
People in today's world need to take the bottles out of their mouths and grow up. It's amazing how some highly educated people fail to understand human nature. It is perfectly OK for someone to dislike, hate, or hold in contempt ANYONE for ANY REASON. I live next to Berkeley, the most ass-backward city in the nation, so you can't imagine how much crap we have to put up with. The only people I know who think that everybody can live in harmony, people who think that immigrants should learn English are racist and anti-immigrant, weapons are uneccessary, and that rich people are evil scum who oppress minorities.....are still breast-fed.
If someone attempts to rob my house, I could give a rat's ass how poor he or his family is, what race he is, what color his skin is, if he is a man or a woman, how rich or poor he is, what sexual preference he is, what language he speaks, what ethnic origin or nationality he is, or what he political affiliation is. I work hard for what I have, and NOBODY else is entitled to it. The only words to any robber that I will say are "I'M ARMED! LEAVE NOW OR BE SHOT!". If they have any questions about that fair warning, easily understandable warning, they can bring them up with my M1A.
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Welfare should be for War Veterans and te mentally handicapped ONLY.....not parasites and lamprey.
This is a pretty good way of getting someone else to do the dirty work for you. The "hacker" can completely deny any wrongdoing, since he can legitimately claim that he "lost" the drives. Then, he can make another legitimate claim that the bank employees, acting completely on their own, without any influence whatsoever, uploaded whatever viruses/trojans/deviled eggs happened to be on the drives.
Ron White put it perfectly - "You can't fix stupid."
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This is a little off-topic, but what the hell is up with the new Slashdot color scheme?! It's just downright FUGLY! Just because something is new, novel, revolutionary, or abstract DOES NOT mean that it is a good idea. Get with the program.
How on Earth could these be used for secret, or anything even *remotely* secret, missions?! The radar signatures these guys would reflect would be massive.
It depends on who you are asking. If you ask the same question to a consumer and a manufacturer (company), you will get two different answers. The more gadgets and gizmos that a consumer has to buy means that the manufacturer has more opportunities to make money off of the consumer.
For example, if a consumer needs to have A) clean windows, B) clean floors, C) clean toilets (the quantity of which multiplies the number of toilet gadgets that need to be purchased), D) clean tables, E) clean lighting fixture (chandoliers, track lights, etc.), then the consumer must purchase 5 different devices.
The equation can be expressed this way (me thinks):
a+b+(c(q))+d+e = Number of purchases. "q" represents the number of toilets to clean, unless one gadget can clean all of the toilets in a house by itself. This means that the manufacturer get to sell 5 different devices to the same consumer.
Now, if there was only one thing that could do all of these tasks (obvious jokes aside), then the manufacturer would only have one chance to make money off the consumer, and that amount would be modest in comparison to selling 5 separate gadgets, since it's price would have to compete with the degree of convenience that it offers.
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The "Rube Goldberg" phenomenon: People will always, over time, over-complicate the simplest of tasks. This article shows that.
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This is a view that some hold as fact, since he has made some serious mistakes (another opinion, verifiable as fact by credible national polls), but it is nonetheless still an opinion. However, some politically passionate people cannot make this disinction
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Opinions DO NOT belong in encyclopedias. Period.
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Now, even though I am a somewhat conservative person, I do tolerate liberals and their argument (some are even legit and rational), but I will say that it is these clueless extremists who blame all of their misfortunes on "evil corporations" and want to us to live on cummunes, that give liberals their negative image. Artificial_Soul is a *PRIME* example.
Wikipedia *is* free information, but that doesn't mean that the Wikipedia operators cannot keep out any bias they perceive in their articles (yes, as the operators of the site, the articles ARE theirs). This is just another case of someone feeling that they are being violated because someone is editing out the clear biases that they support. Just because you think something is true doesn't make it true, no matter who you are. Wiki has the right to edit out anything they want, regardless of if you agree. If you want to keep opinions that you want, regardless of how biased or unbiased they are, then get off you ass and start your own "Wiki"-type site.
The only thing your comment does is it shows what happens when you give a yuppie who is mad at the world a computer. You must have smoked some BAAAD granola!
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Only $.10 per drive destroyed.
Or, if you want the ultimate in cost savings, just use a 10 lb. sledge.
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Look, companies should be able to advertise their products, but it is clearly obvious that they have grossly abused this priviledge by saturating every aspect of daily life with advertisements. As much as I hate more laws regulating society, I think that someone needs to start slapping some duct tape over the mouths of companies who abuse avertising.
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The Bomb was the best thing that happened during the war. Seeing as how the only other alternative was to stage an even more massive, D-Day-style invasion, which would have (and was projected to) cost far more American lives to carry out than the number of lives taken by the atomic bombs, nobody can create a rational argument against the use of the bomb.
If you are training your civilian population in military tactics (and, yes, the Japanese WERE doing that, down to males as young as 8), then they are just as much a fair target as any Japanese soldier was)
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Ya know, just about any line from Dr. Strangelove makes a great one-liner in IT.
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"Want to play a game?"
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Mr. Burns: "Are these scandals personal, financial, or treasonous?" Krusty the Clown: "Russian hooker.....You tell me."
Yes!
Where I live, I constantly see Comcast advertisements, oozing with promises of "high-speed access". Someone needs to kick the ISPs in the nuts over such promises, since they routinely advertise more than they can offer.
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Welfare should be for War Veterans and the mentally handicapped only.....Not parasites and lamprey.
People who want to live in a world where everybody is loved and hugged, will eventually have their wallet stolen. I am white, and have been beaten over the head (he missed my temple by 1/8th of an inch) with a baseball bat (at least it sounded like one) and a tire iron by a scraggly, unkempt white man. Now, is it unreasonable for me to dislike scraggley, unkempt white men? No.
Now that you have read the above story, I'll be honest.....the man was black.
People in today's world need to take the bottles out of their mouths and grow up. It's amazing how some highly educated people fail to understand human nature. It is perfectly OK for someone to dislike, hate, or hold in contempt ANYONE for ANY REASON. I live next to Berkeley, the most ass-backward city in the nation, so you can't imagine how much crap we have to put up with. The only people I know who think that everybody can live in harmony, people who think that immigrants should learn English are racist and anti-immigrant, weapons are uneccessary, and that rich people are evil scum who oppress minorities.....are still breast-fed.
If someone attempts to rob my house, I could give a rat's ass how poor he or his family is, what race he is, what color his skin is, if he is a man or a woman, how rich or poor he is, what sexual preference he is, what language he speaks, what ethnic origin or nationality he is, or what he political affiliation is. I work hard for what I have, and NOBODY else is entitled to it. The only words to any robber that I will say are "I'M ARMED! LEAVE NOW OR BE SHOT!". If they have any questions about that fair warning, easily understandable warning, they can bring them up with my M1A.
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Welfare should be for War Veterans and te mentally handicapped ONLY.....not parasites and lamprey.
Comments from group-hug yuppies are welcome!
Ron White put it perfectly - "You can't fix stupid."
----- This is a little off-topic, but what the hell is up with the new Slashdot color scheme?! It's just downright FUGLY! Just because something is new, novel, revolutionary, or abstract DOES NOT mean that it is a good idea. Get with the program.
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Good morning! / Good night! (Circle one)
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Good morning! / Good night! (Circle one)
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Good morning! / Good night!
It's called a Wife/Mom/Girlfriend. (Whichever fits your current situation. Hopefully, not more than one of them)
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I'm sorry, my dog ate my sig.
For example, if a consumer needs to have A) clean windows, B) clean floors, C) clean toilets (the quantity of which multiplies the number of toilet gadgets that need to be purchased), D) clean tables, E) clean lighting fixture (chandoliers, track lights, etc.), then the consumer must purchase 5 different devices.
The equation can be expressed this way (me thinks):
a+b+(c(q))+d+e = Number of purchases. "q" represents the number of toilets to clean, unless one gadget can clean all of the toilets in a house by itself. This means that the manufacturer get to sell 5 different devices to the same consumer.
Now, if there was only one thing that could do all of these tasks (obvious jokes aside), then the manufacturer would only have one chance to make money off the consumer, and that amount would be modest in comparison to selling 5 separate gadgets, since it's price would have to compete with the degree of convenience that it offers.
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I'm sorry, my dog ate my sig.
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Excellent sig!