Comment Re:Onlione. (Score 1) 131
More of that high-quality Slashdot/Dice.com editing.
Is there any other kind?</snark>
More of that high-quality Slashdot/Dice.com editing.
Is there any other kind?</snark>
I recall an old Science Fiction story along the same lines, back in the early 80s.
The protagonist was a young man in a third-world middle-eastern shitehole. He was tired of war, of losing friends and families, when he had a revelation: the "Blue Hats" (UN) were neutral, so if he joined their "army" he'd be relatively safe and wouldn't have to fight any more.
So, he obtains a discarded steel pot and paints it blue. Reveling in his newfound "immunity," he convinces his friends and neighbors to do the same. Even the other side starts doing it until everyone is a Blue Hat -- and peace breaks out for the first time in living memory.
I forget how it ended, but the gist was that the First-World was using the Third-World as a "live culture" of warfare, to keep the former's own troops trained and budgets justified. The old sides were eventually convinced to go back to fighting one another.
Yeah. They destroy legitimate businesses with their wonderful algorithms...
You went long on Demand Media stock, didn't you?
That butthurt's gotta burn!
Some of the stupid interviewing criteria that my colleagues and me [sic] had to deal with boggles my mind.
Ahh, reminds me of the Angry Aussie and his response to pointless interview questions:
For instance, there was the putz I had to see this week who thought he was being really clever. It seems as though someone gave him the book of Microsoft interview questions and he was eager to show off his new "knowledge". This style of interviewing gives you abstract questions that have no relationship whatsoever to the work you'll be doing. Or to the real world.
Proponents say they're trying to see how creatively you can think. Normal humans say it's a waste of time.
For the random people that use Orkut like others use Facebook, it really is not a lot of time to figure out what to do with potentially gigabytes of information. That holds particularly true for anyone that is not technically savvy.
How long does it take to slide over to Google Takeout and download all of your data?
A few minutes? An hour?
When Goog crushed Wave, I downloaded all my stuff in a matter of minutes. Couldn't really do much with it, but it lowered my White Hot Rage down to Red.
The alternative I would like to see would be to forbid the company from doing business for a time equivalent of what the prison sentence would be.
Imagine if the US wasn't bought and paid for? If an oil company poisoned the gulf like what happened with the Deepwater Horizon (11 dead and massive damage to the fishing industry and the environment), the US government would simply pull its charter and be done with it: that company would cease to exist.
All the other corporations would thereafter straighten up and fly right, lest the same thing happen to them. (Or they would try to buy the government and defang it like it is now).
He should have remained silent. Being a lawyer he should have known that.
He must be a pretty shite lawyer. (Hopefully he isn't a criminal defense lawyer, because then he really IS a shite lawyer.)
FTFA:
“During his postarrest interview with State police Trooper Patrick M. Johnson, the defendant stated
What a dumb-bumble-fark. He deserves to burn for bragging/taunting the cops.
Rules for Talking to Cops
I've seen the fractal article, and then I fact-checked it
Did you fact check [phpsadness.com] it using PHP [phpsadness.com]?
I am not sure what that second bit of PHP sadness it really moaning about to be honest.
And that...is why you fail.
JS is NOT a big contender for PHP, because it isn't the functional equivalent of the double-clawed hammer.
The unwashed masses gravitate to PHP because it is very easy to get something running and imposes almost no restrictions on the developer. Thus, we get nightmares like phpBB and vBulletin.
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The odds of your gun being grabbed and used against you are high.
[citation needed]
Specifically: annual number of "gun grabs" per year (from reputable data) versus total number of firearms, correlated by geographic location.
~ newly freed pervs ~
Not all SOs are perverts.
Take a leak in an alley when you're 15? You can get on the list.
Get a little drunk at a football game your freshman year and decide to streak across the field? You can get on the list.
~ it's right up there with the theory of gravity. I want to see these bozos go roof-side and test that one out for us.
The High Prophet Tim Minchin said it best (NSFW).
"Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt.