Because no ever sees it, right?


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @Lorne Kates said:

    That reminds me, when is Google going to implement regex into their search engine?
    http://www.google.com/help/faq.html#regexp



  • @MiffTheFox said:

    The only problem with a page like that is that it means they either don't have the ability to add a Location header or couldn't figure out how.
     

    I've had to use a workaround like this for a redirect.  The client was on a combined CRM/CMS solution for nonprofits that provided "easy" (read: inflexible) form processing, payment processing, and database "management" for things like newsletter lists spam, online donations, walk-a-thons, etc.

    The CMS was the most inflexible of its species I've ever had the misfortune to use.  The only way to customize the design was to upload a series of poorly-documented XML files.  If you actually knew what you were doing, you could shoehorn a META Redirect tag or some custom javascript into the HTML head.  But no way you could get it to send a Location header unless it was one already programmed into one of their form workflows.

    Oh, and it didn't allow you to save a page with a blank body.

    However, if you weren't totally stupid about it, you'd put in some sort of content saying "if your browser doesn't redirect you, blah blah, blah."  You know, with a link to the destination.

    This was, naturally, the company that ended up gobbling up all its competitors in the space, because they somehow managed to be even less customizable and more confusing.


  • BINNED

    @Speakerphone Dude said:

    The fact that nobody needs websites from Europe is a valid discussion, especially now that it is becoming obvious that within a few years the whole EU will go bankrupt and people will at last stop putting that obsolete piece of land at the center of world maps.

    Don't be too smug about the EU bankruptcy thing. We're most likely going to be next. Unless there's a bond panic, in which case we'll be first.


  • @PedanticCurmudgeon said:

    @Speakerphone Dude said:
    The fact that nobody needs websites from Europe is a valid discussion, especially now that it is becoming obvious that within a few years the whole EU will go bankrupt and people will at last stop putting that obsolete piece of land at the center of world maps.

    Don't be too smug about the EU bankruptcy thing. We're most likely going to be next. Unless there's a bond panic, in which case we'll be first.

    Over the last century most of Europe has been built on the blood and resources of colonies: Africa, Asia, America. Colonial Europe got used to be a bunch of leeches and created a culture of entitlement. Now that there their opulent life style cannot be supported by exploiting colonies, they have weak economies and no natural instinct for creating wealth.

    Americans, meanwhile, have a strong culture of commerce and business and they have no expectation that money will fall from the sky, so they work hard to build their companies and develop economic opportunities.

    So it does not matter if there is a crisis on this side of the pond, the new world is resilient and has successfully handled other crisis in the past (unlike Europe who had to be saved from their own mess by Americans and Russians).



  • Now wait I think you're selling Europe short. You didn't even mention that their restrictive class system guaranteed all their smartest and most ambitious citizens fled across the oceans, which is why pretty much every technological innovation comes from the Americas or Asia.



  • @Speakerphone Dude said:

    Also I'm not a troll. The fact that nobody needs websites from Europe is a valid discussion, especially now that it is becoming obvious that within a few years the whole EU will go bankrupt and people will at last stop putting that obsolete piece of land at the center of world maps.

    It's about time there is a world-wide DMCA/Patriot Act claim and all maps remove any reference to the land mass between Canada and Mexico. Otherwise the terrorists would find it. Then put a fence around it, and the rest of the world can sleep safely.

    Anyway, the only reason that "Americans" (meaning: offspring from white settlers and their slaves living in the USA) don't need European websites is that they are about as internationally oriented as Ayer's Rock. If it ain't American, they don't want it. Because they're good patriots. And good patriots support other patriots. From the same country. Because it's the best country. And no patriot would give his money to some inferior foreigner.

    That's why.



  • @boomzilla said:

    @rootkit said:
    @blakeyrat said:
    You know the British called it soccer too, right? They renamed it to football after it had been brought to the Americas. At the time the Americas adopted the sport, soccer was the name of it.
    So, the British came to their senses lost their spine along with their empire, while the Americans didn't never had either to begin with. Good point there.
    FTFY
    FTFTFY



  • @TGV said:

    @Speakerphone Dude said:

    Also I'm not a troll. The fact that nobody needs websites from Europe is a valid discussion, especially now that it is becoming obvious that within a few years the whole EU will go bankrupt and people will at last stop putting that obsolete piece of land at the center of world maps.

    It's about time there is a world-wide DMCA/Patriot Act claim and all maps remove any reference to the land mass between Canada and Mexico. Otherwise the terrorists would find it. Then put a fence around it, and the rest of the world can sleep safely.

    Anyway, the only reason that "Americans" (meaning: offspring from white settlers and their slaves living in the USA) don't need European websites is that they are about as internationally oriented as Ayer's Rock. If it ain't American, they don't want it. Because they're good patriots. And good patriots support other patriots. From the same country. Because it's the best country. And no patriot would give his money to some inferior foreigner.

    That's why.

    Amen.

    Although I'm sot sure you give Uluru enough credit here.



  • @rootkit said:

    Although I'm sot sure you give Uluru enough credit here.
     

    Okay... she was the first to share an interracial kiss with James T. Kirk. That sufficient?



  • Yes, yes. This is much better than football. Thank you, all.



  • @Anonymouse said:

    @boomzilla said:

    @rootkit said:
    @blakeyrat said:
    You know the British called it soccer too, right? They renamed it to football after it had been brought to the Americas. At the time the Americas adopted the sport, soccer was the name of it.
    So, the British came to their senses lost their spine along with their empire, while the Americans didn't never had either to begin with. Good point there.
    FTFY
    FTFTFY read your mind

    FTFY



  • @Speakerphone Dude said:

    people will at last stop putting that obsolete piece of land at the center of world maps.

    You just need to scroll


  • ♿ (Parody)

    @rootkit said:

    @Anonymouse said:
    @boomzilla said:
    @rootkit said:
    @blakeyrat said:
    You know the British called it soccer too, right? They renamed it to football after it had been brought to the Americas. At the time the Americas adopted the sport, soccer was the name of it.

    So, the British came to their senses lost their spine along with their empire, while the Americans didn't never had either to begin with. Good point there.

    FTFY

    FTFTFY read your mind

    FTFY

    All the fixing is making you guys look really dumb, BTW. That last one isn't even wrong...it just doesn't make any sense.



  •  Yeah, it's like trying start Friday's veal on Thursday noon AM.


  • ♿ (Parody)

    @dhromed said:

    Yeah, it's like trying start Friday's veal on Thursday noon AM.

    That's some young veal.


  • BINNED

    @Speakerphone Dude said:

    Over the last century most of Europe has been built on the blood and resources of colonies: Africa, Asia, America. Colonial Europe got used to be a bunch of leeches and created a culture of entitlement. Now that there their opulent life style cannot be supported by exploiting colonies, they have weak economies and no natural instinct for creating wealth.

    Dude, have you even been to Europe?

    Americans, meanwhile, have a strong culture of commerce and business and they have no expectation that money will fall from the sky, so they work hard to build their companies and develop economic opportunities.

    So it does not matter if there is a crisis on this side of the pond, the new world is resilient and has successfully handled other crisis in the past (unlike Europe who had to be saved from their own mess by Americans and Russians).

    You do know that the western part of Russia (up to the Ural Mountains) is in Europe, right? You know, the part with the vast majority of the population? I hope you're right about American resiliency; we'll need it.


  • @PedanticCurmudgeon said:

    @Speakerphone Dude said:
    Over the last century most of Europe has been built on the blood and resources of colonies: Africa, Asia, America. Colonial Europe got used to be a bunch of leeches and created a culture of entitlement. Now that there their opulent life style cannot be supported by exploiting colonies, they have weak economies and no natural instinct for creating wealth.
    Dude, have you even been to Europe?

    Did he really write that? I guess he went to one of these kindergartens where they keep you until you're 18 without telling about things like writing, geography, and history. Of course he has not been to Europe. He wouldn't be able to locate it on a map. He'd end up in the ocean, 500km (that is 300mi for those raised on colonial units) out of the coast of Ghana (which, AFAIK, is the center of most maps).

    Wrt strong culture of commerce and hard work: he was probably thinking of great towns like Terre Haute, or the great success the USA has in the imprisonement industry.



  • @TGV said:

    the great success the USA has in the imprisonement industry.

    Did you know that one percent of the United States population is behind bars right now? The rest of the world's incarceration rates don't even remotely compare to theirs.


  • ♿ (Parody)

    @toon said:

    @TGV said:
    the great success the USA has in the imprisonement industry.

    Did you know that one percent of the United States population is behind bars right now? The rest of the world's incarceration rates don't even remotely compare to theirs.

    A testament to the efficiency of our legislators' abilities to make things illegal.



  • @toon said:

    @TGV said:

    the great success the USA has in the imprisonement industry.

    Did you know that one percent of the United States population is behind bars right now? The rest of the world's incarceration rates don't even remotely compare to theirs.

     

    Puts me to shame, it does. I wish we could put 2.5 million people behind bars. I wish this country had such a strong culture, or so much lack of expectation. Instead, I have to live in country with a moderate climate, strict gun regulation, and a decent education and health insurance for everyone. Woe is me.



  • @boomzilla said:

    @toon said:
    @TGV said:
    the great success the USA has in the imprisonement industry.

    Did you know that one percent of the United States population is behind bars right now? The rest of the world's incarceration rates don't even remotely compare to theirs.

    A testament to the efficiency of our legislators' abilities to make things illegal.

    I believe it's more of a testament to Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs and also to Zero Tolerance. The same ol' things are illegal, but the penalties are stiffer.


  • ♿ (Parody)

    @rstinejr said:

    @boomzilla said:
    A testament to the efficiency of our legislators' abilities to make things illegal.

    I believe it's more of a testament to Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs and also to Zero Tolerance. The same ol' things are illegal, but the penalties are stiffer.

    Who do you suppose made the penalties stiffer?



  • @TGV said:

    And no patriot would give his money to some inferior foreigner.

    That's why.

    That's right, but patriot can (and do) take the inferior foreigner's money, it's called business (and someone has to finance Obamacare).



  • Siiiigh... It's wonderful discussions like these that really make me miss morbs' posts.



  • @TGV said:

    @PedanticCurmudgeon said:

    @Speakerphone Dude said:
    Over the last century most of Europe has been built on the blood and resources of colonies: Africa, Asia, America. Colonial Europe got used to be a bunch of leeches and created a culture of entitlement. Now that there their opulent life style cannot be supported by exploiting colonies, they have weak economies and no natural instinct for creating wealth.
    Dude, have you even been to Europe?

    Did he really write that? I guess he went to one of these kindergartens where they keep you until you're 18 without telling about things like writing, geography, and history. Of course he has not been to Europe. He wouldn't be able to locate it on a map.

    Europe is easy to find on a map. It's that area north of TerroristLand that Germans tried to take over with their army about 70 years ago and that they are now taking over with their money.

    Been there twice, but I get bored quickly with old churches, old fountains, brick roads, tiny cars and retarded power outlets so it's not my first choice when I go on vacation.


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    @Xyro said:

    Siiiigh... It's wonderful discussions like these that really make me miss morbs' posts.
     

    Sure, if you like constant penis jokes and hedonistic, violent responses to the slightest provocation.

    ...

     You're right, we could use more Morbs.



  • I think I can speak for many posters when I say those hedonistic, violent responses cheered me up.

    But I was actually referring to those masterful posts dripping with so much sarcasm and satire that no one really knew if he was for or against some issue, such as the trollish superiority of nation `whereami`. You know the kind I mean? Those were great.



  • @Xyro said:

    I think I can speak for many posters when I say those hedonistic, violent responses cheered me up.

    But I was actually referring to those masterful posts dripping with so much sarcasm and satire that no one really knew if he was for or against some issue, such as the trollish superiority of nation `whereami`. You know the kind I mean? Those were great.

    Do you have, say, eight billion links to those kinds of posts so I never have to spend time trying to find good sidebar WTF threads to read when I'm bored?


  • Yep... it's just taking me some time to craft the regex for google to trawl CS... hang on...



  • @boomzilla said:

    Who do you suppose made the penalties stiffer?
    Viagra?


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