It was an exercise in trying to see if I could successfully fit a poop joke and an insightful comment in the same post, and if so, if I could make the moderators' heads explode.
Another failed experiment.
Just remember, Thomas Edison didn't consider it a 'failure' when his early lightbulb designs didn't work... he merely considered that he'd discovered another way NOT to make a lightbulb.
While the parent's attempt at humor fell flat, whoever modded his post flamebait apparently did not continue to read and consider his second paragraph, which should be modded insightful.
There's nothing in it for me if I flush after I take a shit in a public toilet, yet the world's a better place if I do.
Yes, and my world would have been a better place if you had done a courtesy flush or two while I was in there. I swear to God man, I don't know what you've been eating, but I think you need to see a doctor. The smell could stun a yak at 50 yards.
As for voting, I think you should vote every year, not just in presidential election years. It helps keep you in the habit of voting, and your voice counts a lot more in the local election than it ever could in the national race. Also, your local government is likely to have a much more immediate and tangible effect on your day to day life than the bozos in Washington will.
On a related yarn, I can recall when Falcon 3.0 was going to be linkable with F/A-18, Mig-29, whatever Spectrum Holobyte's tank game was, and A-10 (which, much to my frustration, never got released)...
That never happened either, as I recall... would have been damn cool though.
Also, Falcon 4.0 was a grave disappointment after the copious time I spent playing 3.0 Microprose used to put out some good flight sims, too, but F4 was just so buggy.
Heh... remember how long Falcon 3.0 took to be released? Rumors of it being "too realistic so the government is making them change stuff", etc etc.
Just because something is not explicitly illegal doesn't mean it's not sleazy, and it sure doesn't make it right.
Please, if it was the repubs rounding up the homeless and offering them food and cigarettes to vote for their candidate, then the dems would be crying foul... as well they should. You're deluding yourself if you can't admit that.
Most gamers I've met online are either hulking musclemen capable of deftly engaging multiple attackers with heavy broadswords, or extremely sexy, scantily clad women with ample busts and magical prowess.
Slashdot readers and posters are very big on privacy.
...unless the privacy being violated is that of some politician they don't like. The ability to download and install Linux doesn't imply the existence of any consistent ethical system.
Yes, but just imagine a Beowulf Cluster of consistent ethical systems!
"Guessing" that somebody keeps a spare house key under a rock in their garden, or "guessing" the correct combination to a combination lock doesn't make it any less breaking and entering when a burglar enters that person's home.
"If you look me up on the Internet you'll probably find evidence of whatever drinking and drugging goes on in my personal time. If you want to know about my ability to keep that stuff from affecting my professional life, please feel free to ask my previous employers."
I see no reason to continue the interview if they press the issue beyond that.
Don't worry, they won't keep pressing the issue. They'll say "thank you for your time" and show you to the door.
*Sigh* That attitude doesn't impress anybody nearly as much as most people who profess to hold it wish that it did.
It worried me before, and still does a bit today. But in the end, if it means that I can have the freedom to express my thoughts online, I'll settle on mopping floors for the rest of my life...
That's a hefty price to pay for expressing your thoughts where not only will very few people ever hear them, but fewer still will care about them. Almost none will be swayed by them.
Apparently the business world doesn't believe in freedom of expression.
Why the hell would it? This is the problem I see with the people coming out of college these days (I'm not saying that you fall into that category)... they truly expect that the rest of the world needs to start giving a shit about what they think, just because mommy and daddy never told them 'no', or their college professors made them feel like a member of a subversive clique. Guess what, there are over 300 million people in the US... chances are your opinion isn't worth a whole lot more than any of theirs.
You're supposed to shut the fuck up, do your work, go home, spend time with your family, fuck your wife/girlfriend (or not...?), watch TV and go back to work the next day. But most of the people who are managers are assholes pieces of shit, so I have no remorse over this. I find it odd that the employer that had the biggest balls to say to my face that they don't want me back was a woman. All the men just called the temp agency to ditch me. I think that taught me the most about the business world. Male managers are pussies, female managers have balls.
No, aside from going to work every day and doing your job, your boss doesn't (or shouldn't, anyway) care at all what you do with your personal time. However, if you're out getting so fucked up that it impacts your ability to work the next day, or doing something that can somehow harm the company or its reputation, then that is rightfully a concern of theirs in so far as they should terminate your employment to protect the greater good (the company and the X number of other people who work there).
Otherwise....
You are fucked if you admit to doing drugs. You are fucked if you admit to liking sex. You are fucked if you admit to hating the President. You are fucked if you admit to hating the police. You are fucked if you show any sense of rebellion to anything... the employers will search your name, they will read your postings, and by default you lose. Even if they agree with everything you write.
I like using Alan Turing as an example. He spent probably countless nights doing research to help defeat the Nazi's - but it doesn't matter cause he's gay. The law at the time said being gay is illegal, so some pieces of shit decided to conspire against him, and started a process that basically led him to his suicide...
If you rebel to any facet of society that some bare majority - let's say even 51% objects to - they will make your life hell.
It's best to just assume no one Googled your name, and just keep living life... it just sucks when people start doing things that make you feel like you're going through some awful acid trip, and the totally improbable starts happening for some reason.
Anyone who judges someone from a bunch of random postings online when it comes to a job really needs to rethink their priorities. Come on, I can do a good job mopping floors... why do employers care if I like to smoke weed and get drunk from time to time? Don't they? That must be an awfully large pickle to have up their ass if they do care....
I think employers should start bringing up internet search results during interviews. At least you get a chance to defend yourself. As if I remember everything I w
I've had decent luck with Tigerdirect, although they advertise most of their prices after mail in rebates... funny, I seem to be batting about.600 for those rebates. They seem to get lost in the mail a lot. Had a few faulty pieces show up, too... but that was resolved satisfactorily.
However... I will never, ever use them for business purchasing again... terrible sales managers!
Newegg seems to generally have slightly lower prices than TD's pre-rebate prices. Their service is great, also. They give me a warmer, fuzzier feeling of security also.
Is it true that Newegg is what became of the old Egghead chain? I miss Egghead. A lot.
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God, I fucking hate Republicans.
Why?
It was an exercise in trying to see if I could successfully fit a poop joke and an insightful comment in the same post, and if so, if I could make the moderators' heads explode.
Another failed experiment.
Just remember, Thomas Edison didn't consider it a 'failure' when his early lightbulb designs didn't work... he merely considered that he'd discovered another way NOT to make a lightbulb.
Carry on, in the name of science.
There's nothing in it for me if I flush after I take a shit in a public toilet, yet the world's a better place if I do.
Yes, and my world would have been a better place if you had done a courtesy flush or two while I was in there. I swear to God man, I don't know what you've been eating, but I think you need to see a doctor. The smell could stun a yak at 50 yards.
As for voting, I think you should vote every year, not just in presidential election years. It helps keep you in the habit of voting, and your voice counts a lot more in the local election than it ever could in the national race. Also, your local government is likely to have a much more immediate and tangible effect on your day to day life than the bozos in Washington will.
On a related yarn, I can recall when Falcon 3.0 was going to be linkable with F/A-18, Mig-29, whatever Spectrum Holobyte's tank game was, and A-10 (which, much to my frustration, never got released)...
That never happened either, as I recall... would have been damn cool though.
Also, Falcon 4.0 was a grave disappointment after the copious time I spent playing 3.0 Microprose used to put out some good flight sims, too, but F4 was just so buggy.
Heh... remember how long Falcon 3.0 took to be released? Rumors of it being "too realistic so the government is making them change stuff", etc etc.
[sigh]... simpler times.
At least the flying insects don't get sucked through a fan and splattered throughout the case.
In my 33 years on this planet, and over a decade in IT, I have never, ever seen this happen.
I didn't discover Morecock until college.
Well, that kind of experimentation is likely to get you beat up in high school.
But I'd rather see this feature on eBay.
[Looks at stack of Atari 800 program cassettes that he has nothing on which to run them...]
Just because something is not explicitly illegal doesn't mean it's not sleazy, and it sure doesn't make it right.
Please, if it was the repubs rounding up the homeless and offering them food and cigarettes to vote for their candidate, then the dems would be crying foul... as well they should. You're deluding yourself if you can't admit that.
See? Self-fulfilling prophesy.
Clean tricks?
Yeah. That's going to be on Cinemax, Saturday morning at 1:00, after the Red Shoe Diaries XXVII.
Careful... calling out the dems like that is likely to get you modded troll or flamebait.
Oh shit! I'm gonna get modded down now too!
*sob*
Wanking off to a Playmate of the Month is somewhat less likely to kill him than running into a telephone pole at 95 MPH.
Depends on what religion you subscribe to.
Since all the 4th grade boys think girls are icky, it should be an easy sell.
PC LOAD LETTER... what the FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?!?!
Hm. Good point. Disregard.
No mention of Pac-Man's infamous split screen of garbage on the 256th level?
SYNTAX ERROR
:^)
That's all I ever got out of one when I'd play around with them at Sears back in the day.
But this is not news to me.
Most gamers I've met online are either hulking musclemen capable of deftly engaging multiple attackers with heavy broadswords, or extremely sexy, scantily clad women with ample busts and magical prowess.
Or dwarves.
Slashdot readers and posters are very big on privacy.
...unless the privacy being violated is that of some politician they don't like. The ability to download and install Linux doesn't imply the existence of any consistent ethical system.
Yes, but just imagine a Beowulf Cluster of consistent ethical systems!
"Guessing" that somebody keeps a spare house key under a rock in their garden, or "guessing" the correct combination to a combination lock doesn't make it any less breaking and entering when a burglar enters that person's home.
Okey doke. Good luck with all that.
"If you look me up on the Internet you'll probably find evidence of whatever drinking and drugging goes on in my personal time. If you want to know about my ability to keep that stuff from affecting my professional life, please feel free to ask my previous employers."
I see no reason to continue the interview if they press the issue beyond that.
Don't worry, they won't keep pressing the issue. They'll say "thank you for your time" and show you to the door.
In the end - I don't fucking care.
*Sigh* That attitude doesn't impress anybody nearly as much as most people who profess to hold it wish that it did.
It worried me before, and still does a bit today. But in the end, if it means that I can have the freedom to express my thoughts online, I'll settle on mopping floors for the rest of my life ...
That's a hefty price to pay for expressing your thoughts where not only will very few people ever hear them, but fewer still will care about them. Almost none will be swayed by them.
Apparently the business world doesn't believe in freedom of expression.
Why the hell would it? This is the problem I see with the people coming out of college these days (I'm not saying that you fall into that category)... they truly expect that the rest of the world needs to start giving a shit about what they think, just because mommy and daddy never told them 'no', or their college professors made them feel like a member of a subversive clique. Guess what, there are over 300 million people in the US... chances are your opinion isn't worth a whole lot more than any of theirs.
You're supposed to shut the fuck up, do your work, go home, spend time with your family, fuck your wife/girlfriend (or not...?), watch TV and go back to work the next day. But most of the people who are managers are assholes pieces of shit, so I have no remorse over this. I find it odd that the employer that had the biggest balls to say to my face that they don't want me back was a woman. All the men just called the temp agency to ditch me. I think that taught me the most about the business world. Male managers are pussies, female managers have balls.
No, aside from going to work every day and doing your job, your boss doesn't (or shouldn't, anyway) care at all what you do with your personal time. However, if you're out getting so fucked up that it impacts your ability to work the next day, or doing something that can somehow harm the company or its reputation, then that is rightfully a concern of theirs in so far as they should terminate your employment to protect the greater good (the company and the X number of other people who work there).
Otherwise....
You are fucked if you admit to doing drugs. You are fucked if you admit to liking sex. You are fucked if you admit to hating the President. You are fucked if you admit to hating the police. You are fucked if you show any sense of rebellion to anything ... the employers will search your name, they will read your postings, and by default you lose. Even if they agree with everything you write.
I like using Alan Turing as an example. He spent probably countless nights doing research to help defeat the Nazi's - but it doesn't matter cause he's gay. The law at the time said being gay is illegal, so some pieces of shit decided to conspire against him, and started a process that basically led him to his suicide...
If you rebel to any facet of society that some bare majority - let's say even 51% objects to - they will make your life hell.
It's best to just assume no one Googled your name, and just keep living life ... it just sucks when people start doing things that make you feel like you're going through some awful acid trip, and the totally improbable starts happening for some reason.
Anyone who judges someone from a bunch of random postings online when it comes to a job really needs to rethink their priorities. Come on, I can do a good job mopping floors... why do employers care if I like to smoke weed and get drunk from time to time? Don't they? That must be an awfully large pickle to have up their ass if they do care....
I think employers should start bringing up internet search results during interviews. At least you get a chance to defend yourself. As if I remember everything I w
I've had decent luck with Tigerdirect, although they advertise most of their prices after mail in rebates... funny, I seem to be batting about .600 for those rebates. They seem to get lost in the mail a lot. Had a few faulty pieces show up, too... but that was resolved satisfactorily.
However... I will never, ever use them for business purchasing again... terrible sales managers!
Newegg seems to generally have slightly lower prices than TD's pre-rebate prices. Their service is great, also. They give me a warmer, fuzzier feeling of security also.
Is it true that Newegg is what became of the old Egghead chain? I miss Egghead. A lot.
Also, the version of Wild Gunman released in 1974 was an EM game, not the video game shown in Back to the Future II.
This timeline is rife with mistakes and = FAIL.