I went to see what's ArsTechnica been up to lately, and holy cow has that site grown in the last couple of years! They have all the topics I'm interested in, and apparently, not days late. Also, they don't have contempt for their members.
So, I'm going to type in a random password for my Slashdot account and log out.
G'bye Slashdot editors, go fuck yirselves!
You do realize that getting a rise out of you,
IS the joke, right? It's funny to the people doing it, and yes does reveal the contempt that just about anyone has for most other people.
While I agree that the "stories" are lame and unfunny, there are several levels of joke here.
While your reply may contain a kernel of truth, let me qualify my statement: the only person I've ever seen "joking" like this - repeating essentially the same unfunny joke over and over and over - was one with IQ of about 65. And yes, he was laughing his retarded ass off, for sure.
Just one day out of the year can't you relax and read some jokes?
If you think these are "jokes", your IQ is the same as Slashdot editors' - about 65.
Some sub-sections of Reddit (like
Personally, I'm happy to see USPTO make another decision that makes sense.
I agree, but am worried that it may be just a fluke.
I was refused entry into Holland decades ago and while I now hold a different citizenship, I have never bothered to to try to go there again. There are so many other, more interesting and friendlier places to visit. Who wants to see boring wind mills, stinking canals and dirty old Rembrands anyway?
That's too bad because, to be honest, The Netherlands is an awesome country, and Amsterdam... is IMHO, the most interesting city in the entire world (and that's compared to some pretty interesting places like Bangkok, Seoul or Atlanta).
Also, I'll never forget the almost universal, genuine kindness of the people in Amsterdam.
It's not an April's fool joke if you can tell by looking at it for 2 microseconds.
April 1st is just the day when Slashdot is utterly useless. Every Single One of the news stories is a ridiculously badly camouflaged "joke".
Too bad, 'cause I'm in bed with a flu. Oh well...
The whole day, and right now, this story is in the top 10 most read articles on BBC News
So clearly, someone does give a rat's ass.
Dude... 50 million without healthcare.
You know which other first world country doesn't have universal heathcare?
None.
Cuba definitely does have better healthcare than the US, where 50 million people have none.
For instance, Cuba has two and a half more doctors per capita than the US
Oh, and here's another datapoint: the table shows literacy levels in Cuba being higher than the USA.
FWIW, in my case cutural differences didn't play a role. It was a misunderstanding about Schengen countries vs. visa requirement.
Also FWIW, I was told that the Belgian border policemen had no business telling me about the 10 year ban on entry. No such thing exists in such cases. Stil, the memory was bad enough that I never went back. I remember that, sometimes 4 or 5 years ago, I just realized "hey, I actually didn't visit Belgium this whole time!!".
He did make the situation worse by being an obnoxious asshole. I don't work for the TSA and would give this guy a hard problem too.
There are only 1-2% psychopaths in the world - psychopaths like you. This place would be heaven if your kind were removed.
The exact same thing happened to me, just replace Poland with Croatia, Mexico with Finland and USA with Belgium. The asshole border police at the Bruxelles airport let me fly to Finland finally, but admonished me that "I am not allowed to come to Belgium for the next 10 years". This was 15 years ago and I now have a Finnish citizenship and have traveled all around the world, visited four different continents. But funnily enough, by pure chance I never went to Belgium again. Maybe it wasn't chance, maybe the bad experience made me put Belgium in the "fuck that country"-category.
So I make a very ordinary salary as a software engineer, but could probably raise it by 25% by changing jobs but not venturing too far outside my comfort zone.
However, I've got friends who went from earning roughly as much as I did, to quadrupling what I'm making, simply because they play fast and loose: lying about past salaries, standing job offers, etc, to get raises; and taking jobs they're not always qualified for, simply because they're good at bullshit.
What this is REALLY saying, is that they're doing well because the free market values liars and bullshitters. The people who are the most profitable to employers however, are the people whose personalities and personal moral code precludes them from earning too much, allowing employers to get a bigger spread between 1) what they pay employees, and 2) what those employees contribute to their bottom line.
The reality is a bit more complex than I make out (bad directors persist, because big institutional investors want stability and don't want to rock the boat; nepotism (sometimes a good thing!!); information asymmetries everywhere, etc., etc.). Simply put, being a slimy, lying cunt pays -- and not everybody can be a director, because not everybody has the stomach to do what they need to do to get there.
I am tempted to declare this, one of the best posts in Slashdot's history.
In what parallel universe is this true?
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
