You can claim that this is mostly or wholly due to the overwhelming dominance of Windows over all other operating systems (in terms of "market share"), but the fact remains.
"My argument is right! (If you ignore all those silly facts that make it wrong, I mean.)"
People like you really need to learn to keep your unfounded hatred of anything you don't understand in check so you don't come off sounding like a complete tool all the time.
Obviously Mexicans. They're fine when they're in Mexico. It's only when they come over here to America that they become lazy freeloading squatters who steal all of our jobs, likely through some ancient Aztec black magic voodoo involving the brutal sacrifice of American children to their dark gods.
Not everyone lives someplace where they can go play a sport. In suburbia, maybe. If you're lucky. In an urban sprawl such as where I live? That is something for which there is not a chance in hell. The romantic images you see in movies and commercials with little kids playing baseball in an alleyway or even the middle of the street are just that - unrealistic romantic images. I know for a fact that the cops would put a stop to that in a heartbeat (most likely while a bank is being robbed down the street -- "It's outside my jurisdiction!").
Even aside from that, videogame sports don't just simulate the sport, they simulate the players. I've always been a scrawny runt of a guy. I play with my kids, of course, but I'm no athelete, and I'll never be one. Trying to organize the sorts of impromptu sporting get-togethers you see and read about, where a bunch of burly manly-men all go out to a (convieniently located) open field and throw around the good 'ol, all-American pigskin while drinking some good 'ol, all-American Miller lite (tm) doesn't seem likely for me.
But a guy who sits at a desk all day filling out paperwork and wearing a tie?
I dunno about you, but when I was a kid, "banker" conjured up images of being a fat cat wearing only the finest cut suits, sitting behind a huge mahogony desk at the very tippy top of a massive skyscraper, smoking fine cigars all day, barking out orders to cringing subordinates, riding in limos, eating at the finest restaurants, etc etc etc. Similarly, "astronaut" conjured images of Buck Rogers and Captain Kirk, and sometimes those guys and girls you saw on the TV who were floating around their high-tech spaceship, throwing M&Ms to each other and making little bubbles of water fly around.
When you're a kid, you have the leisure of idealizing everything. It's not until later that reality kicks in and you realize that all those jobs you thought were so cool when you were a kid really aren't all they're cracked up to be.
The colour of that kettle has nothing to do with the pot.
Keep thinking that every other country can do whatever they want because you think the US is evil, though. I'm sure someday you'll see how much of a complete tool you are. Too bad it will probably take a nuke and several tens of thousands of innocent lives first.
Yeah, I've had cases before where I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a Word Processor that also hoovered my den, or a vacuum that also crunched spreadsheets.
I think what he means by "developmentally disabled" is not, say, ADD. He means more along the lines of retarded kids and invalids. There is a difference between a kid who doesn't learn well in a normal classroom setting, and a kid with Down's Syndrome. In my highschool, there were basically three programs that got the great majority of the budget: The program for kids who didn't speak English (primarilly hispanics. Ostensibly, this program was supposed to teach the kids English so they could then enter into a normal classroom with the rest of the student body. In actuality, the teachers were all just giving them their lessions in Spanish, then tossing them at the classrooms where they all, needless to say, failed), The program for the retarded kids, and (of course) the sports teams. Everyone else got shafted. Hell, my American History book stopped at Vietnam.
If you really insist on making yourself look like a tool, you could have just bashed Bill or Bush or Christianity or any number of other things the cool kids are bashing in this thread.
Slashdot Mirror
Or /. editor?
Unless it's a 24-hour watch.
More reputable? Well... There's noplace for /. to go but up in that department.
"My argument is right! (If you ignore all those silly facts that make it wrong, I mean.)"
People like you really need to learn to keep your unfounded hatred of anything you don't understand in check so you don't come off sounding like a complete tool all the time.
I believe he called the state congress "Economic Girly Men" in a somewhat-recent speech. If nothing else, living there would be comedic gold!
People have been using paper to store their porn long before the web was here.
Obviously Mexicans. They're fine when they're in Mexico. It's only when they come over here to America that they become lazy freeloading squatters who steal all of our jobs, likely through some ancient Aztec black magic voodoo involving the brutal sacrifice of American children to their dark gods.
Not everyone lives someplace where they can go play a sport. In suburbia, maybe. If you're lucky. In an urban sprawl such as where I live? That is something for which there is not a chance in hell. The romantic images you see in movies and commercials with little kids playing baseball in an alleyway or even the middle of the street are just that - unrealistic romantic images. I know for a fact that the cops would put a stop to that in a heartbeat (most likely while a bank is being robbed down the street -- "It's outside my jurisdiction!").
Even aside from that, videogame sports don't just simulate the sport, they simulate the players. I've always been a scrawny runt of a guy. I play with my kids, of course, but I'm no athelete, and I'll never be one. Trying to organize the sorts of impromptu sporting get-togethers you see and read about, where a bunch of burly manly-men all go out to a (convieniently located) open field and throw around the good 'ol, all-American pigskin while drinking some good 'ol, all-American Miller lite (tm) doesn't seem likely for me.
I dunno about you, but when I was a kid, "banker" conjured up images of being a fat cat wearing only the finest cut suits, sitting behind a huge mahogony desk at the very tippy top of a massive skyscraper, smoking fine cigars all day, barking out orders to cringing subordinates, riding in limos, eating at the finest restaurants, etc etc etc. Similarly, "astronaut" conjured images of Buck Rogers and Captain Kirk, and sometimes those guys and girls you saw on the TV who were floating around their high-tech spaceship, throwing M&Ms to each other and making little bubbles of water fly around.
When you're a kid, you have the leisure of idealizing everything. It's not until later that reality kicks in and you realize that all those jobs you thought were so cool when you were a kid really aren't all they're cracked up to be.
A partnership between all spacefaring nations is probably the best thing for the long-term health of space exploration as a whole.
The colour of that kettle has nothing to do with the pot.
Keep thinking that every other country can do whatever they want because you think the US is evil, though. I'm sure someday you'll see how much of a complete tool you are. Too bad it will probably take a nuke and several tens of thousands of innocent lives first.
You've got your stereotypes all mixed up, man. Let me lay it out for you:
Black people and White trash work in fast food.
Hispanics work in agriculture and sometimes construction.
Come on man, you gotta do your homework to be a proper racist.
Maybe for picking up milimetre waves, but more likely it's for focusing the sun's rays to cook the wold's largest chalupa. Mmmm...
Yeah, but unfortunately, my $50 bills won't have sex with each other and make little baby $10 bills. Believe me, I've been trying for a while.
Can you please tell me where you work so I know not to invest in a company whose employees waste time posting bullshit on slashdot?
Yeah, I've had cases before where I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a Word Processor that also hoovered my den, or a vacuum that also crunched spreadsheets.
About as good as the Democrat's test which would go something like
Are you
A. A Democrat
B. A Facist
The fact that you're both enough of a tool to be fooled by party politics and that you are probably able to vote frightens me.
I am right, if you ignore all the inconvenient facts that make me wrong.
Because crossword puzzles have a solution.
If that's what they have to offer in the 'office suite' department, I'll stick with MSO, thanks.
I think what he means by "developmentally disabled" is not, say, ADD. He means more along the lines of retarded kids and invalids. There is a difference between a kid who doesn't learn well in a normal classroom setting, and a kid with Down's Syndrome. In my highschool, there were basically three programs that got the great majority of the budget: The program for kids who didn't speak English (primarilly hispanics. Ostensibly, this program was supposed to teach the kids English so they could then enter into a normal classroom with the rest of the student body. In actuality, the teachers were all just giving them their lessions in Spanish, then tossing them at the classrooms where they all, needless to say, failed), The program for the retarded kids, and (of course) the sports teams. Everyone else got shafted. Hell, my American History book stopped at Vietnam.
Which just goes to show you that Microsoft is out of touch with its crazy hammer-wielding, scuba-diving customer base.
Which just goes to show you, people will believe anything.
If you really insist on making yourself look like a tool, you could have just bashed Bill or Bush or Christianity or any number of other things the cool kids are bashing in this thread.