It's still good to keep reminding people that there's another recent meaning though. Reading a computer book from just 20 years ago could otherwise make you think the Hackers back then were criminals.
replying to self as an addendum:
I do the same thing as GP; but I know someone who really is paranoid/delusional, and when she hears any laughter or whispers, she gets angry and confrontational (to the bewilderment of people who don't know her; then they _do_ start talking about her).
Except that - as a nerd - you grew up in a culture (presumably public school) where 80% of the time, the snickering _was_ about you. You're just exhibiting an old learned response, kind of like a veteran might duck when he hears a car backfire.
"We didn't pay them any money... we promised them money, even had a contract drawn up, but we never signed it because they bought the laptops with Windows anyway."
Forget D shop around town at hobby stores for used 1980/90's era Star Wars Roleplaying books from West End Games (the D6 system rules). Cheap, plenty of books, and slightly more socially acceptable to talk about in public. Also, if you're in the need for Fluff, there's tons of novels, and I hear four new movies (or was it three and a TV show turned into a theater movie?).
So, if people start relying on google warnings, two things will result: Increased searches for "flu symptoms" after a google warning (increasing the size and scope of a warning), and almost no searches for "flu symptoms" when no warnings are issued (reducing the frequency of the warnings).
Except the economy is fake and "they" pull this recession bullshit every ten years or so.
you got quotation marks, but no point. please elaborate.
Obviously the Anti-Illuminati. You'd think "they" meant Illuminati, which is why it has to be the Anti-Illuminati. Unless "they" knew you'd think that...
Isn't it? I mean, it's named.org, so it's a domain name (URL), right?
I _still_ refuse to call it openoffice.org out loud, because people have confused it with the website since the start. Before webapps were the buzzword, pointy haired bosses thought it was a web app just from the name. Until Microsoft starts renaming MS Office as Office.com (maybe there was an 8bit executable named office.com back in the day?), the openoffice folk need to stop being weird and use language the way the rest of society does.
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Or install Linux for free.
Heck, even real Windows guys use a cmd.exe window and a mixture of Microsoft and Sysinternals(now MS) utils.
It's still good to keep reminding people that there's another recent meaning though. Reading a computer book from just 20 years ago could otherwise make you think the Hackers back then were criminals.
How do you know what Pepsi is?
You really thought you were getting that free boat, didn't you?
This is an "idle" story. The ambulance story is a technology story. Clearly the databases are crossed.
Interestingly enough, the "bullies" from my school days are quite pleasant now that they finally matured.
70% of my friends on FB are over 27. I'm pretty sure the average age in my list is 30-31
And you just helped confirm her delusions by having /. vastly increase her view count in less than a day. Bravo.
replying to self as an addendum:
I do the same thing as GP; but I know someone who really is paranoid/delusional, and when she hears any laughter or whispers, she gets angry and confrontational (to the bewilderment of people who don't know her; then they _do_ start talking about her).
Except that - as a nerd - you grew up in a culture (presumably public school) where 80% of the time, the snickering _was_ about you. You're just exhibiting an old learned response, kind of like a veteran might duck when he hears a car backfire.
But pound for pound, how many calories are in meat versus grain?
That, and they don't know what a null pointer is.
Does that help?
Not if they're programmers.
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/penguin.html
They'll jam and start venting compressed gas to cool down.
"We didn't pay them any money... we promised them money, even had a contract drawn up, but we never signed it because they bought the laptops with Windows anyway."
Forget D shop around town at hobby stores for used 1980/90's era Star Wars Roleplaying books from West End Games (the D6 system rules). Cheap, plenty of books, and slightly more socially acceptable to talk about in public. Also, if you're in the need for Fluff, there's tons of novels, and I hear four new movies (or was it three and a TV show turned into a theater movie?).
So, if people start relying on google warnings, two things will result: Increased searches for "flu symptoms" after a google warning (increasing the size and scope of a warning), and almost no searches for "flu symptoms" when no warnings are issued (reducing the frequency of the warnings).
Only if you bring pie. I can't imagine pie very well.
Worcestershire sauce, but knowing German, it took me a while, because it really would have sounded like "Vawt ist here sauce"
It's part of their overall plan to create the "Hooloovoo screen of death", an alien invasion plot where crashing machines generate the invaders.
Except the economy is fake and "they" pull this recession bullshit every ten years or so.
you got quotation marks, but no point. please elaborate.
Obviously the Anti-Illuminati. You'd think "they" meant Illuminati, which is why it has to be the Anti-Illuminati. Unless "they" knew you'd think that...
Isn't it? I mean, it's named .org, so it's a domain name (URL), right?
I _still_ refuse to call it openoffice.org out loud, because people have confused it with the website since the start. Before webapps were the buzzword, pointy haired bosses thought it was a web app just from the name. Until Microsoft starts renaming MS Office as Office.com (maybe there was an 8bit executable named office.com back in the day?), the openoffice folk need to stop being weird and use language the way the rest of society does.
store the documents where I can access them whenever I like.
Except when Google decides they'll be down for a day. "Didn't you know we were in Beta? Sorry, you're out of luck."
Yay, another use for gold. I can't wait until its value as a useful material outweighs its arbitrary "value" for just being semi-rare.