Remember that almost all censorware out there has a Christian Fundie slant, and it's easy to see that if junior discovers archaeology then dinosaurs, biology and evolution are next, and then from there you'd might as well write him off as another anti-creationism devil worshiping Darwinist!
Too true. I tried to check my blackmetal.com order status from work, only to run up against this bullshit (Blackmetal.com: extreme: occult). It's not occult, it's fucking music, and I'm pretty sure Billy Graham's "Are You Ready to Meet God?" cult isn't being blocked.
So the bosses have told you "we'd pay you more out of the goodness of our *cough*black*cough* hearts if you didn't have a Union, we'd pay you as much as these people, we promise... but since you have that nasty-anti-American Union you have to suffer while these non-unionized employees get treated better". And you believe that?
Our two biggest competitors aren't unionized. They start their entry-level employees at $18 an hour with great health benefits, compared to our $11/hour (but with great health benefits). Even with the union here, many people are on forced OT, with sometimes as much as 21 days going by before a day off. And we have one of the largest, most powerful unions in America "representing" us.
I'll say it again: Unions are fucking useless. They force people with skills into a lower pay scale to match up with the people who don't have a clue. Yep, those of us who DO have a clue are jumping ship.
In a similar vein, my Pascal teacher in college didn't know what he was doing, even though he had written the textbook for the course. I would go to him with compilation errors, he would point out my mistake, I would fix it and get more errors than I had the first time around, and his response was, "I don't know why you're getting the errors." This was before the explosion of the web, so looking up tutorials myself wasn't an option, although if I had been a bit less lazy, I suppose I could have checked usenet or spent some time in the library. Ah, the good old days.
he had stated to me that he would report me to my supervisor if i didnt stop calling him *MR* so-and-so
Don't these idiots realize that you have all of their personal information at your fingertips? I'd have fun working tech support; "Dr." so-and-so would be receiving about 50 pizzas and several crates full of animal porn (bought with a generated cc number to ensure police interest) within the month.
But that's just me. Imagine the people who snap and have access to large-caliber weapons. This is why I'm always polite to tech support people when I do have to call them.
Unions are fucking useless, and I say this from the experience of someone who has worked truly shitty jobs without representation (roofing in the summer, anyone?). If it weren't for the union, we'd be getting pay commensurate with what other telecom companies give where I work. And yes, I am looking for something better. The reason people work tech support is so they can get a foot in the door to the IT world. Anyone who plans to make a career of it is fooling himself.
Now, if only we could somehow use this on George W. Bush
I'll volunteer to examine his brains later to see if they glow.
(disclaimer in case he wins the lawsuits and motions and is elected President by the Patent Office during the new American Democratic cycle: it's a joke)
I got 4 IPCs and an IPX from work (major telecom company, rhymes with "goose lint"). The admin said he was going to toss them, so...:)
They are pretty nice machines, although I fear I'm going to have to install OpenBSD on them--and from floppy, since there are no CD-ROM drives. Oh well.
you can't believe that such power can be handed over to entities that have proven themselves so rapacious in the past (RIAA, MPAA) with no consequences for the average *non*-criminal.
I posted DeCSS on my site way back when all of this was beginning, only to voluntarily remove it a week later; I figured that my sysadmin was catching enough grief over my page from angry cops and didn't need the added pressure of MPAA lawyers. Last night (what is it, a year later?) I got email from mpaa23@pacbell.net threatening legal action, etc. etc., which was CCd to my ISP's lawyer. Apparently a good way to waste their time and hopefully cost them some money is to poison lists of DeCSS sites.
Also, due to the MPAA's stupidity, I'm going to put up a link to a google search on decss.zip. They'll have to drag me to court to prevent it (links to the program have been prevented by the court, but they're going to have to get another ruling altogether on linking to a program search). Isn't this fun?
On the plus side of their email is the fact that they list all MPAA member organizations to remind me which companies to avoid. How thoughtful.
In 1998, Jeff Gold raised a fuss because NSI automatically rejected the domain name shitakemushrooms.com.
Not that I'm agreeing with NSI (in fact, I just switched to another registrar because I was tired of their stupidity), but if he had spelled it correctly (2 i's) it wouldn't have been a problem.
On checking the headers, I saw that my email address was contained in every message (in other words, no aliases or other things that merely resolved to my address). These guys deliberately spammed me multiple times.
That's fine, though, because I collect 1-800 spam numbers. It would be a real tragedy if they were called repeatedly from a worldwide audience who hates spam, wouldn't it?
Don't use your home phone. ANI will bite you on the ass if you do.
Scientific illiteracy in America is at an all-time low, yet I see people here screeching, "it's just entertainment! Don't be so picky!"
As the Filthy Critic might say, I'm tired of being assraped by Hollywood. Sure, there are plenty of examples of older science fiction films and books that got the science wrong, but they were working with what they had at the time. There's just no fucking excuse for movies like M2M and Red Planet to get even the most basic science wrong.
I'm shocked that this movie got the ATGC DNA bases wrong. I've never studied or even read much about biology or genetics, but even I know what the bases are called.
For those of you who think scientific accuracy is "picky": would it have been much of a different movie if the makers had done a bit of basic research? Or if they had asked a high school science class, for that matter?
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Too true. I tried to check my blackmetal.com order status from work, only to run up against this bullshit (Blackmetal.com: extreme: occult). It's not occult, it's fucking music, and I'm pretty sure Billy Graham's "Are You Ready to Meet God?" cult isn't being blocked.
-Legion
Maybe he shouild look here.
-Legion
You know: *BLAM*! "I think there's some news in that buckshot! We'll just put it all on the page."
-Legion
Our two biggest competitors aren't unionized. They start their entry-level employees at $18 an hour with great health benefits, compared to our $11/hour (but with great health benefits). Even with the union here, many people are on forced OT, with sometimes as much as 21 days going by before a day off. And we have one of the largest, most powerful unions in America "representing" us.
I'll say it again: Unions are fucking useless. They force people with skills into a lower pay scale to match up with the people who don't have a clue. Yep, those of us who DO have a clue are jumping ship.
-Legion
In a similar vein, my Pascal teacher in college didn't know what he was doing, even though he had written the textbook for the course. I would go to him with compilation errors, he would point out my mistake, I would fix it and get more errors than I had the first time around, and his response was, "I don't know why you're getting the errors." This was before the explosion of the web, so looking up tutorials myself wasn't an option, although if I had been a bit less lazy, I suppose I could have checked usenet or spent some time in the library. Ah, the good old days.
-Legion
Don't these idiots realize that you have all of their personal information at your fingertips? I'd have fun working tech support; "Dr." so-and-so would be receiving about 50 pizzas and several crates full of animal porn (bought with a generated cc number to ensure police interest) within the month.
But that's just me. Imagine the people who snap and have access to large-caliber weapons. This is why I'm always polite to tech support people when I do have to call them.
-Legion
-Legion
"And I'll send you a Wendy's job application so you can put your skills to good use."
-Legion
That's what paytheartist.com is going to be for.
-Legion
Wait--the first one died, so you went out and bought another of the SAME BRAND?
Damn. I'm off Sony products forever because a walkman died on me in the 80s.
-Legion
I'll volunteer to examine his brains later to see if they glow.
(disclaimer in case he wins the lawsuits and motions and is elected President by the Patent Office during the new American Democratic cycle: it's a joke)
-Legion
If only I could come up with a catchy name...
-Legion
Unless, of course, you're in a Monty Python skit.
-Legion ["SPAMSPAMSPAM!"]
They are pretty nice machines, although I fear I'm going to have to install OpenBSD on them--and from floppy, since there are no CD-ROM drives. Oh well.
-Legion
(that's a joke; this is a shameless attempt to get "Funny" mod points. Non-moderators ignore it). :P
-Legion
you can't believe that such power can be handed over to entities that have proven themselves so rapacious in the past (RIAA, MPAA) with no consequences for the average *non*-criminal.
I posted DeCSS on my site way back when all of this was beginning, only to voluntarily remove it a week later; I figured that my sysadmin was catching enough grief over my page from angry cops and didn't need the added pressure of MPAA lawyers. Last night (what is it, a year later?) I got email from mpaa23@pacbell.net threatening legal action, etc. etc., which was CCd to my ISP's lawyer. Apparently a good way to waste their time and hopefully cost them some money is to poison lists of DeCSS sites.
Also, due to the MPAA's stupidity, I'm going to put up a link to a google search on decss.zip. They'll have to drag me to court to prevent it (links to the program have been prevented by the court, but they're going to have to get another ruling altogether on linking to a program search). Isn't this fun?
On the plus side of their email is the fact that they list all MPAA member organizations to remind me which companies to avoid. How thoughtful.
-Legion
"HADOUKEN!" <Ryu hurls a flaming briefcase>
-Legion
[...]
I read that as "Wall Street Fighter," which would be a pretty cool game now that I think about it:
"HADOUKEN!"
-Legion
Not that I'm agreeing with NSI (in fact, I just switched to another registrar because I was tired of their stupidity), but if he had spelled it correctly (2 i's) it wouldn't have been a problem.
-Legion
1-800-206-3934 ex. 5858
***1-800-224-5988****
On checking the headers, I saw that my email address was contained in every message (in other words, no aliases or other things that merely resolved to my address). These guys deliberately spammed me multiple times.
That's fine, though, because I collect 1-800 spam numbers. It would be a real tragedy if they were called repeatedly from a worldwide audience who hates spam, wouldn't it?
Don't use your home phone. ANI will bite you on the ass if you do.
-Legion
copkiller.org is my domain. Try to find out where I live.
The registrar only reports the info you give them.
-Legion
He probably saw the typo in the same place I did:
a.root-severs.orsc
You might want to lay off that crack pipe for a bit. Does funny shit to the brain, man.
-Legion
The whole world doesn't revolve around Australia, Slashdot. How about some American articles for a change?
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-Legion (donning Euro-flame-proof suit)
-Legion
As the Filthy Critic might say, I'm tired of being assraped by Hollywood. Sure, there are plenty of examples of older science fiction films and books that got the science wrong, but they were working with what they had at the time. There's just no fucking excuse for movies like M2M and Red Planet to get even the most basic science wrong.
I'm shocked that this movie got the ATGC DNA bases wrong. I've never studied or even read much about biology or genetics, but even I know what the bases are called.
For those of you who think scientific accuracy is "picky": would it have been much of a different movie if the makers had done a bit of basic research? Or if they had asked a high school science class, for that matter?
-Legion