Posts by wowfood

I have no issue with the gender dysmorphia, just the aspergers.

There is a difference between not caring after the fact, and being complacent in letting the act take place.

Here's a better example. A real life example. My sister had her bike stolen. She called the police and they didn't care. A bike isn't high up on their radar and internally they don't care about one being stolen when they have car thefts, burglery, rape, and immediate crimes to take care of. Why don't they care about a bike? How will they identify it? A bike is a bike is a bike. A blue Ford Fiesta with the registration J876 SSX is possible to find and return. But if you steal a bike in front of a police officer they will arrest you.

As such the minimum effort will go into returning a stolen bike because it's not possible. When information is leaked, they can't unleak it, it's not possible so they don't care. It doesn't mean however that they will let it leak.

Re: TV Remote Prior Art?

Maybe microsoft should sue. After all their controller has yellow green red and blue buttons.

Re: Meh,

What I don't get is why Larry(evil_1) is still beaing the dead horse over the java issue. It's as good as over, the courts have sided with Larry(evil_2) repeatedly. Moreover Larry(evil_2) had the java clone made when Sun owned it, and Sun have testified in googles favour!

That and comparing not the competing company, but the individual Larry(evil_2) to criminals, accusing him of theft, accusing him of being 'Absolutely Evil' etc. Isn't he opening himself up to some kind of libel case?

Re: If he's an expert...

Honestly this seems like a load of bollucks if you ask me. With summer coming to an end we're balls deep in joke and shock stories, it's absolutely nuts.

*We are sorry, but the play you are trying to research contains scenes of nudity,*

Re: torrent it

Yeah that stuff. Also glad to see they have a single... well I guess it's an installer, for all the stuff. Much easier than tracking them down individually.

As idiotic as it is to hack a megacorp and leak customers information etc, I kinda feel sorry for the guy. Not for the jail or the community service, but the fine on top. Lets face it, he's never going to be able to pay that. Hell, even if he could get a good job after spending a year in jail I doubt he could pay that.

I'd have to work around 25 years to save up that amount, And that's just to earn that amount, if you take living expenses etc he's basically going to be paying back that fine for the rest of his life.

I mean lets face it, there are rapists, child molesters and violent criminals who get fined less than that. They should at least lower the fine to something sane that the guy might be able to pay off.

Re: Oh the irony

More to the point they're saying they're being punished because they can't sell books via Apple. But the DoJ has said that apple must allow ebook sales via google / amazon et al. Surely that circumvents the 'we're losing out our apple customers' complaint the ebook pubs have, right?

Re: I do the same thing with my house keys.

Obviously never watched fresh prince of bel air.

I propose we cut taxes

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Re: whoa whoa

*Best Obama impersonation*

"Why would i need to kill anyone? I have people to do that for me"

Re: Personally

I suppose by the end of it the only style guide that really applies is what's already in place.

As much as I prefer

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fed may prefer

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and harry may like

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Each is just as viable as the last (code isn't set in stone like grammar) so really the style you use should be the style of the rest of the code.

If an entire project is done this_is_my() { face }

then I'll write it in that way. If it's my own project, I'll write it the way I prefer. It's really down to the project, it's kind've why coding standards existi in companies (and if they don't then they should.)

Re: Sad

They've already tried that, haven't you seen the message at the beginning of a film in a cinema?

"If you watch pirated movies, you're supporting terrorism"

Erm... How is downloading a free torrent supporting terrorism? Honestly I want to know.

Actually I have noticed alcohol makes a mile improvement before. Especially when playing pool. Start off okay, first couple pints my game improves amazingly. Then it gets worse, and then I can't get teh pool queue on my hand.

I have noticed there's a tipping point however, between my eyes slowing down, and my brain failing to compensate any more.

And yeah, nystagmus isn't the only problem. Occular Albenism, comes with all the bells and whistles, Myopia, photophobia, nystagmus, I'm always convinced there's a fourth one, but can never remember what it is.

Wait, you actually read the instructions?

Only time I've had to read instructions was for a collapsable weights bench I'd bought, and that's only because it had about 20 different types of screw in the pack (for no apparent reason but to annoy you)

I agree though, it's nice having a way to see if the furniture will fit in with the rest of the room. Nothing worse than thinking "That's a nice table" getting it home and finding that, although nice, it just doesn't fit with the rest of yoru stuff.

Reminds me of a quote from Dark Knight Returns

President

Now, those Soviets would like to see us

turn our tails and run.

But we've got to protect our interest...

I mean, stand up for freedom...

Re: Credenza?

Is a credenza anything like a Moss-covered, three-handled family gredunza?

Re: Marge Simpson Mother

She also said "Whores use rouge ,ladies pinch"