This just proves that Thompson is just an over-hyped nut-job idiot. The fact only 2/5 of these charges have anything to do with video games continues to discredit him in my eyes not only as a lawyer but as a nut who claims that "videogames are evil." Don't get me wrong, I think video-games are awesome, but cameo'ing him in webcomics and screaming his name at people who claim games are evil is like saying all hippies are like Manson, right? This guy's name isn't even worth mentioning in such cases...I feel bad that he has a slashdot article this late in the game even dedicated to him...I don't think its worth it...
Its like saying "lunatic charged of murder cases thinks he should be able to kill people!" Who cares...in both cases its some stupid crazy loon getting what he deserves...
I'm glad to see someone making use of this technology. I was just frustrated with the system probably...when our system is actually running, its a muddled mess.
I'm going to say, as a college student, blackboard sucks. Only about 15% of my teachers bother using it, and even among that percent, only around 50% of those who do use it know how. I can hardly use the messy interface of this horrible little system. Honestly, if I had a class, I'd just pop-up an invision or phpbb forum. I've only seen the "submit homework" feature used once. Having a place to get your syllabus is nice and all, but in the end all our teachers have free web space they hardly use anyways.
The only decent thing blackboard does is connect to our school's account systems so we have 1 account for 5 different systems (library, e-mail, direct payments and some other system too). And personally I see that as a security risk if anything...
I don't get it. I'm just trying to sell people some high quality v1@gr@. I can't sell the stuff on the streets...I don't know how to pronounce it correctly in real life...
Yeah...Los Angeles was a small town alright...actually Santa Fe Springs, but it was the only Catholic Prep school in the area (save for Servite really). I probably would have got higher if my dad didn't die in the summer before senior year. But yeah, I didn't even get auto-acceptance into the UC system...only top 10 got that...kinda a downer. But I was the only person left in AP Latin (Virgil) who wasn't practically kicked out...good times...
Oh, and sorry for the typos. I was awfully tired when I wrote that. I didn't even change the formatting to "Plain Old Text" (no matter how much I love putting over and over again...).
Until some vandal (inside the company* or outside) finds your wiki and has your employee jumping up and down in a grass skirt on the top of his cubicle screaming at the height of his lungs "ITS A TRAP! ITS A TRAP! THE LAWNMOWERS ARE PLANNING A REBELLION AGAINST US! WE WILL SERVE TO EVERY ONE OF THEIR GREASY, SHEERING-INDUCED WHIMS!"**
Wait, that might be a good way to preemptively screen for people who don't have the balls, foresight and brain power to determine if an idea is bad or not, even if its an order.
*Disgruntled workers, ho!
**I for one welcome our new sheering-intoxicated lawn-cutting overlords.
The "zero" in your score makes me laugh. Super patriotism of others for the win. But seriously, joining the military is quite interesting...on one hand you have the people who obviously have all the right reasons: nuclear technicians without enough money or high school GPA (which doesn't mean your dumb by the way...the fact I was 11th in my class means nothing) to get education from a decent college, people down on their luck because they got laid off and can no longer afford schooling, etc...etc...
In both cases, and many others, a good reason for military conscription is in fact a lack of college. Which isn't saying your too stupid or poor to get into the college mind you. A good example would be my own father-in-law: extremely smart man. Never graduated high-school and dropped out after reading every decent book they had in their library (never went to class and the principle didn't know what to do with him; took him a good year and a half to read everything that interested him). Yet he joined the military AND went to college (3 PHDs and more masters and Bachelors than I can count).
On the other hand, you have gang members who want a legal excuse to shoot people. I know, that sounds horrible, and my karma will hurt after this post. But, honestly its true. My father was in the military, and my best friend is in bootcamp right now, and they'll agree with me. Gangs since the beginning of war have been formed after wars were over by soldiers with too much extra aggression...
Why am I replying to a "0" scored post? I dunno, perhaps I wanted to talk about my dad. Perhaps I'm waiting for a virus scan to end on my laptop before driving out to the lab to get some late-night work done. Or perhaps I felt that the moderation system of slashdot is such that one ticked off guy who copies and pastes: "I for one..." into every biology post can turn your essay into troll-bait.
And so I say "farewell to karma..."
I for one welcome our new deep-diving shar...no wait...its dead.
I guess I was a little hasty in my previous declarations. I would like to formally really myself with this race and country...it may not be perfect but its the best thing we have. For now.
Along with the desk-that-charges gizmos and hard-chip that converts heat-energy to electricity, until I see one (or at least hear about one on a reputable site other than their own), I won't believe they are trying to do anything other than get hype to achieve the allocation of the almighty grant.
Actually I think "whenever I see Microsoft mentioned in this news site...I see it spelled in comments as 'Micro$oft'". I assumed that's how its spelled around here.
Oh, and for some reason I forgot to make my post "plain old text" instead of "HTML Formatted", which cluttered my post.
Your allowed to sell other companies you don't own to other companies now?
M$oft: Hey Walmart, wanna buy Linux?
WalMart: You own Linux?
Linux:...no he doesn't...
M$oft: Don't listen to him and his crazy open source communist lies.
WalMart: So how much?
Linux: I'm not for sale!
M$oft: How 'bout $20 and a pack of smokes?
Linux: Seriously...I'm not for sale.
WalMart: Wait a minute...why would we have to pay...they are open source, right? As in free "everything"...
Linux: You can't just take our company...
M$oft: Stop listening to his silly lies. Anyways, we claimed Linux first and we are going to put a price on it. $20 and a pack of smokes.
Walmart: Fine fine...
Linux:...
...really? Almost all my fellow architecture under-grads practically give themselves heart-attacks trying to be grad students themselves.
I wasn't trying to troll...I'm serious...people love the "grad student on a vespa pulling into a borders running entirely on caffeine" look. Even though notice I said "look". Truth be told all the grad students I know don't have enough time to go to borders...they are all working on projects...
I wonder if the kid visits enough "porn is really good" sites (like masturbate for peace, etcetera...you know exactly what kind of sites I'm talking about), it can trick the AI into thinking its acceptable...
1.) Parents raise kids. 2.) Parents both need jobs to survive with kids. 3.) Parents buy AI to raise kids so they have time for job. 4.) Kids trick AI to giving them everything they want (since they know more about computers than parents). 5.) Parents realize they must raise kid, so buy AI to do job. 6.) Company fires parents for fraudulent work and misrepresentation in the workforce. They keep AI. 7.) Republicans withdraw from all branches of government upon gaining complete financial control over the workforce. 7.) ??? 8.) Profit!
I've always wondered about a pokemon game in which you played the "random trainer"...
You must stand entirely still, hoping to hell that after 20-40 hours the hero comes around. If he does, without avoiding your watchful gaze, you get a single battle against him. Oh joy.
Afterwards, he might be desprete enough to talk with you...maybe even register your phone number...
But seriously, this is basically DnD inversed (1 player vs. 90 GMs). Sounds like Splinter-Cell Multiplayer...or objective counterstrike maps on servers that don't kick you for rescuing hostages/pslnting the bomb.
Doesn't matter though. In the end it'll go down to "get the most kills".
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This just proves that Thompson is just an over-hyped nut-job idiot. The fact only 2/5 of these charges have anything to do with video games continues to discredit him in my eyes not only as a lawyer but as a nut who claims that "videogames are evil." Don't get me wrong, I think video-games are awesome, but cameo'ing him in webcomics and screaming his name at people who claim games are evil is like saying all hippies are like Manson, right? This guy's name isn't even worth mentioning in such cases...I feel bad that he has a slashdot article this late in the game even dedicated to him...I don't think its worth it...
Its like saying "lunatic charged of murder cases thinks he should be able to kill people!" Who cares...in both cases its some stupid crazy loon getting what he deserves...
I'm glad to see someone making use of this technology. I was just frustrated with the system probably...when our system is actually running, its a muddled mess.
See if you support Bush, its flame-bait.
If you bash him, its funny or even insightful.
Not saying I believe the mildy-retarded half-wit.
I'm going to say, as a college student, blackboard sucks. Only about 15% of my teachers bother using it, and even among that percent, only around 50% of those who do use it know how. I can hardly use the messy interface of this horrible little system. Honestly, if I had a class, I'd just pop-up an invision or phpbb forum. I've only seen the "submit homework" feature used once. Having a place to get your syllabus is nice and all, but in the end all our teachers have free web space they hardly use anyways.
The only decent thing blackboard does is connect to our school's account systems so we have 1 account for 5 different systems (library, e-mail, direct payments and some other system too). And personally I see that as a security risk if anything...
Wasting my time googling a simpsons quote for a simple slashdot post is just plain...a waste.
Well, for one thing, we could mass migrate birds with concentrated amounts of this chemical. Not sure what use mass-migrating sea-birds would have...
"Its ok...its just a bird thing...you don't control the birds...not yet anyways..."~Lisa Simpson
Are they TRYING to piss off the volcano god?
I don't get it. I'm just trying to sell people some high quality v1@gr@. I can't sell the stuff on the streets...I don't know how to pronounce it correctly in real life...
Yeah, but they all just redirect to microsoft.com.
.kkk, that sounds like a successful domain idea...
In Soviet Russia, webmaster kills easy to use site hosting applications.
Oooh...a sting to soaring brick designers everywhere.
Yeah...Los Angeles was a small town alright...actually Santa Fe Springs, but it was the only Catholic Prep school in the area (save for Servite really). I probably would have got higher if my dad didn't die in the summer before senior year. But yeah, I didn't even get auto-acceptance into the UC system...only top 10 got that...kinda a downer. But I was the only person left in AP Latin (Virgil) who wasn't practically kicked out...good times... Oh, and sorry for the typos. I was awfully tired when I wrote that. I didn't even change the formatting to "Plain Old Text" (no matter how much I love putting
over and over again...).
Until some vandal (inside the company* or outside) finds your wiki and has your employee jumping up and down in a grass skirt on the top of his cubicle screaming at the height of his lungs "ITS A TRAP! ITS A TRAP! THE LAWNMOWERS ARE PLANNING A REBELLION AGAINST US! WE WILL SERVE TO EVERY ONE OF THEIR GREASY, SHEERING-INDUCED WHIMS!"** Wait, that might be a good way to preemptively screen for people who don't have the balls, foresight and brain power to determine if an idea is bad or not, even if its an order. *Disgruntled workers, ho! **I for one welcome our new sheering-intoxicated lawn-cutting overlords.
The "zero" in your score makes me laugh. Super patriotism of others for the win. But seriously, joining the military is quite interesting...on one hand you have the people who obviously have all the right reasons: nuclear technicians without enough money or high school GPA (which doesn't mean your dumb by the way...the fact I was 11th in my class means nothing) to get education from a decent college, people down on their luck because they got laid off and can no longer afford schooling, etc...etc... In both cases, and many others, a good reason for military conscription is in fact a lack of college. Which isn't saying your too stupid or poor to get into the college mind you. A good example would be my own father-in-law: extremely smart man. Never graduated high-school and dropped out after reading every decent book they had in their library (never went to class and the principle didn't know what to do with him; took him a good year and a half to read everything that interested him). Yet he joined the military AND went to college (3 PHDs and more masters and Bachelors than I can count). On the other hand, you have gang members who want a legal excuse to shoot people. I know, that sounds horrible, and my karma will hurt after this post. But, honestly its true. My father was in the military, and my best friend is in bootcamp right now, and they'll agree with me. Gangs since the beginning of war have been formed after wars were over by soldiers with too much extra aggression... Why am I replying to a "0" scored post? I dunno, perhaps I wanted to talk about my dad. Perhaps I'm waiting for a virus scan to end on my laptop before driving out to the lab to get some late-night work done. Or perhaps I felt that the moderation system of slashdot is such that one ticked off guy who copies and pastes: "I for one..." into every biology post can turn your essay into troll-bait. And so I say "farewell to karma..."
"Secrecy is the art of hiding unbeknownst information from people." ~Il Palazzo, Vol 1, Ch 1, Excel Saga
Yeah, nukes aren't messy at all.
I for one welcome our new deep-diving shar...no wait...its dead. I guess I was a little hasty in my previous declarations. I would like to formally really myself with this race and country...it may not be perfect but its the best thing we have. For now.
Along with the desk-that-charges gizmos and hard-chip that converts heat-energy to electricity, until I see one (or at least hear about one on a reputable site other than their own), I won't believe they are trying to do anything other than get hype to achieve the allocation of the almighty grant.
Actually I think "whenever I see Microsoft mentioned in this news site...I see it spelled in comments as 'Micro$oft'". I assumed that's how its spelled around here.
Oh, and for some reason I forgot to make my post "plain old text" instead of "HTML Formatted", which cluttered my post.
Your allowed to sell other companies you don't own to other companies now? M$oft: Hey Walmart, wanna buy Linux? WalMart: You own Linux? Linux: ...no he doesn't...
M$oft: Don't listen to him and his crazy open source communist lies.
WalMart: So how much?
Linux: I'm not for sale!
M$oft: How 'bout $20 and a pack of smokes?
Linux: Seriously...I'm not for sale.
WalMart: Wait a minute...why would we have to pay...they are open source, right? As in free "everything"...
Linux: You can't just take our company...
M$oft: Stop listening to his silly lies. Anyways, we claimed Linux first and we are going to put a price on it. $20 and a pack of smokes.
Walmart: Fine fine...
Linux: ...
Cat got your...eye? This makes the whole "cats eating your eyes when you die" thing even creepier.
...really? Almost all my fellow architecture under-grads practically give themselves heart-attacks trying to be grad students themselves. I wasn't trying to troll...I'm serious...people love the "grad student on a vespa pulling into a borders running entirely on caffeine" look. Even though notice I said "look". Truth be told all the grad students I know don't have enough time to go to borders...they are all working on projects...
I wonder if the kid visits enough "porn is really good" sites (like masturbate for peace, etcetera...you know exactly what kind of sites I'm talking about), it can trick the AI into thinking its acceptable...
1.) Parents raise kids.
2.) Parents both need jobs to survive with kids.
3.) Parents buy AI to raise kids so they have time for job.
4.) Kids trick AI to giving them everything they want (since they know more about computers than parents).
5.) Parents realize they must raise kid, so buy AI to do job.
6.) Company fires parents for fraudulent work and misrepresentation in the workforce. They keep AI.
7.) Republicans withdraw from all branches of government upon gaining complete financial control over the workforce.
7.) ???
8.) Profit!
I've always wondered about a pokemon game in which you played the "random trainer"... You must stand entirely still, hoping to hell that after 20-40 hours the hero comes around. If he does, without avoiding your watchful gaze, you get a single battle against him. Oh joy. Afterwards, he might be desprete enough to talk with you...maybe even register your phone number... But seriously, this is basically DnD inversed (1 player vs. 90 GMs). Sounds like Splinter-Cell Multiplayer...or objective counterstrike maps on servers that don't kick you for rescuing hostages/pslnting the bomb. Doesn't matter though. In the end it'll go down to "get the most kills".