Even though my politics is diametrically opposite everyone who seems to
log in here? ;)
Not sure what you mean by that, since we seem to pretty much run the gamut of political backgrounds. About the only thing we all agree on is that there's someone else here who's completely WRONG! :)
And we sort of have an understanding that if you're not into heated political arguments then you should zap the politics room.
Outside of there, we're all pretty chummy.
is that there's someone else here who's completely WRONG! :)
I'm never wrong. ;D
Yeah, I've already zapped rooms that have incendiary effects on me. (One of the nicest features of Citadel, frankly.)
So ... in the news today, it seems that Facebook has committed a cold blooded murder.
I call for the summary execution of the entire senior management of Facebook, and the immediate shutdown of the service.
Umm...that wasn't supposed to happen. As I originally tried to say, ...
Gah-dang-it! I just applied there!
Gah-dang-it! I just applied there!
CEO are evil,
I'm glad they included Mark Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler Zuckerberg, the bona fide Worst Person In The World.
Way back in the early days of the internet a co-worker thought it would be clever to register the domain name www.dot.com because he thought it would be funny to say to people double-u, double-u, double-u, dot, dot, dot, com.
Why that memory just came back to me I am not sure.
4-digit /. UID here. If I'd bet on it, I would have assumed Slashdot would
go the way of the dodo before Sourceforge.
My cell phone is nearly useless as a device to use to receive calls now.
Someone named Sandi (with an I) has put my phone number on fucking everything, and now I am relentlessly pursued by spammers.
I really want to find this person and destroy her.
I've had this number for over 10 years, only to be fucking destroyed by this asshole. How I'd like to strap her to a chair and answer *every* *fucking* *call*.
Seven calls yesterday. Six calls the day before that. Five calls the day before that. I'm already four calls in today, and it isn't even noon yet.
I should start answering my phone using a voice similar to that of Peter Lorre.
"Yes? Who is this? Why don't you come to my home for tea?"
Slashdot *is* SourceForge, last I checked, run by the same people? Anyway,
I've got a 4-digit UID as well. Once in a blue moon I pop in and post something
random just to keep it alive.
A friend of mine took care of crank callers by answering the phone, "Utica
Police Department, sergeant <made up name> speaking." They usually hung up
pretty quick.
Personally, I get a ton of phone calls from Mexico (of all places). It's
gotten bad enough that I set my phone to silent *except* if I *know* ahead
of time that someone will *try* to call. When I was interviewing, I absolutely
required my prospective employers to give me the area codes that they were
going to call from, so that I could filter them out from the noise.
The only possibly good thing that comes out of this is how it impacts salespeople.
Salespeople have to take the calls they don't know on the odd chance it's a sale. Since their brethren are kind of responsible for creating this mess, it feels just that they have to endure this very special form of hell made just for them.