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You'll recoup that in like what? A hundred years or so?

This link explains when the good taxpayers of WI will recoup their payment to Fox-con.

Sure, and "If your don't buy the magazine we will kill this dog" .

What is that other line, "we do not negotiate with terrorists", so take your effing fast food joint and sink the millions of dollars into automation, get sued by customers who receive metal and plastic in their food, while your competitors continue to function and see how long the board and stockholders tolerate it

Or, go run off to some "free market haven" and weep over the bodies of your loved ones as you wish that the US army gave enough of a fuck to save your lives from the local militia and bribe demanding thugs

Take all of your lies and bullshit and just gtfo, it was juvenile fantasy when Rand dreamed up Atlas Shrugged and it is juvenile fantasy today

Atlas is the people, not a few rich, spoiled, .01%ers, and it is way past time that we drove that point home

" ... a young man with a ponytail and an earring!"

Doesn't say "young white man", but one might infer as much from the ponytail.

I could see it being used in high-traffic areas, so the electric cars can get a nice charge-up while they are sitting in the parking lot.

I have this poster of the movie Trainpotting (1996) on my wall:
http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/%5C7%5C713%5CZYKA000Z.jpg

Note hat it says "Choose fixed interest mortgage repaiments".
If only people had listened.

Lower IQ huh? Isn't that interesting.

We're talking devices here, not application compatibility. Unless you're talking about this kind of flash, there's no hard-ware involved (pun intended).

The nice thing about war is that it gives something for people to rally behind. It's easier for the government to get people to sacrifice, even for a short time, when there is an easily marketable enemy to collectively hate.
http://www.postmodernclog.com/archives/poster-war-bonds.jpg
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/DES/D614~War-Bonds-Iwo-Jima-Posters.jpg

I guess in a WWII we weren't exactly losing all of the material goods we were producing. We traded them with Nazis and, in exchange, were returned the favor in addition to giving our military personnel fun and interesting experiences~

But seriously, you mentioned that getting everybody in motion to rectify things can begin to resemble Keynasianism, which I agree with. Regardless, the government wouldn't be able to pull it off without something fairly dramatic, like a war, to motivate people, and I'm definitely not talking about the Iraq war.

Since we don't have any massively wealthy people who are willing to step in and take the risk of pushing industry forward, the government is really the only entity I can think of that can. They can ease this recession, at least shortening it if somehow people can be bothered to sacrifice voluntarily. Right now, people are sacrificing involuntarily and it's pissing them off. They are losing their possessions, lifestyle, etc.

I can't imagine what posters expounding this concept would look like. They definitely wouldn't be as easy to make as anti-Nazi propaganda.

http://www.ocolly.okstate.edu/issues/2001_Fall/011011/pix/1.%20OSAMA%20BIN%20LADEN.jpg

This is NOT a terrorist:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/242259~Cliff-Richard-Posters.jpg

See! Clearly a difference. Easy.

I don't see the problem...

it does work pretty well for example i searched for this:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/BRGPOD-WM/BRGWM-158277_72_48~The-Great-Wave-of-Kanagawa-from-the-Series-36-Views-of-Mt-Fuji-Fugaku-Sanjuokkei-Posters.jpg

it did find the actual great wave, to be true after a ton of images that had replaced the poster with other posters from the same site but it did find them which was pretty good and would be useful for research

eg if you had a section of a photo and you wanted to find the rest etc.

A CS department? Try "The Kiss."

I'll leave the exercise of finding a poster women will enjoy up to the reader.

Shocker!

No, you...

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/145/HR0148~The-Simpsons-Eat-My-Shorts-Posters.jpg

hardeeharhar

Before you know it, we'll be overrun by chimp-human hybrids. Who knows, maybe one day they'll be running the place. Oh wait...

What happens in the Long River, stays in the Long River.

This kind of image comes to mind:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/IMA/G 468~Pool-Shark-Posters.jpg

no crack.

Also missing.

We already have monkey overlords in the US, by the names of Bush, Cheney and Gonzales. Proof is at http://www.allposters.com/-sp/George-W-Bush-Monkey -Posters_i987192_.htm for the curious.

It's those bad ass SUVs of the gods that does it.

can be seen right here

Or try this sign.

blacks were often likened to monkeys and apes

Which even from the perspective of a racist seemingly makes no sense, since many apes have white skin, and they all seem to have straight hair, oftentimes brown. Ridiculous as it is in either case, it makes just as much sense for black folks to call white folks monkeys or apes, so I'm not sure how this particular idiocy got started. I guess it just demostrates a little more ignorance and stupidity on the part of those making such comparisons.

Cheers

Bender is using the very same technology.

Let's forget about those killer fridge magnets for a moment. The future is here.

I think I know what my first keymapping would be!

Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane

Damn that's right. I am an American citizen of the United States and I live a squeaky clean life. Hacking is illegal. Spam is illegal and russian sites are illegal to view. I believe in ID cards and plugging my ID card into a special socket on my American made computer to access the American internet to prevent terrorism .Spam is terrorism and russians are communists and terrorists. Soon we will outlaw all non US sites and make our God blessed borders safer for good upright wholesome citizens of the US.

Our proud American fathers like John Wayne and Gary Cooper who made this country great by slaughtering the savage indian invaders would turn in their graves if they thought America's borders were under attack from Russian hackers.

Damn.

The idea that we could go to the moon was considered by some as being too much of a technical challenge, that just too many things could go wrong. I then watched on tv as the first moon landing was made. After that, I assumed that the government would always have enough money to explore space, put up a space station. In the 40's and 50's, the space shuttle in it's present form was not expected, or put forth in the ideas of what the future of space travel would be like. Buck Rogers had a spaceship that looked like a real space ship. I had expected the first powered space ship would go beyond Earth, to at least the Moon. The Apollo craft were shot into space, and guided themselves into place around the moon, using small rockets, with no comparison to the power of the Space Shuttle rocket motors. One would think that the Space Shuttle could go out far beyond the Moon, just for the fun of it, but with nothing there to see or do, then no mission.

Even so, the Space Shuttle is an amazing vehicle, and has had a long and dangerous history, now to continue for a while longer. Fixing the Hubble telescope was one of the good moments, how cool that was. Concerning the Shuttle accidents, I suppose we did always expect space ships to be destroyed, but by enemy alien spacecraft, death rays, or something. The idea of a space ship that would have design flaws, or push the limits of their design, was not commonly entertained. Most of what we kids knew came from comic books, so the idea of orbiting satellites was not even there, or the lumbering space truck that the Space Shuttle seems to resemble, wasn't in comic books either.

Too bad that there is so little of the national budget spend on space exploration, we all wanted "men on mars" by now.

No one needs to take the Shuttle Program for granted, it is one of a kind, and one wonders if funding will be available for something to take it's place.

That too, but it isn't the deciding factor from what I can see. Putting aside the fact that getting a 100% accurate report of what she's really thinking on the subject is kinda unlikely.

Here's a hundred sexiest men list if you want to go through and count the number of wistful/thoughtful expressions :-P

Or take a look at Orlando Bloom posters like this, or this, this, or this ... or this (note the posture reminiscent of Rodin's The Thinker)...

For some reason, this stuff sells. Despite lack of uncovered hot body :-)

Not really a random choice of an animal, since it's well known that loggerhead turtles are harcore users of magnetic fields for finding traces of their nests and the general ability to freely move without a gps embeded on da swinging thingis. * apart from that the choice could be well driven by the fact that thay get to be 100 years and speak fluent surf slang

Keep in mind that this was paid by the Microsoft tax often ridiculed by slashdotters....

Well, the Linux community can do just as well!

There's no real connection between the psychology of Slashdot and the management of VA Linux. The managers wisely decided to leave Slashdot as it was before they bought it. Slashdot is the same, with all its strengths and warts. (Except there is very little talk now about Signal11 and Natalie Portman.)

I've been employed, and very busy, the entire time I have read Slashdot.

Slashdot is very helpful. I have no better way to learn all that I need to learn about what's happening in the computer industry. I became friends with a woman who worked for a well-known computer industry magazine. She had very little technical knowledge and very little caring about technical issues. She owned a Mac, but she wrote about PCs. The quality of computer magazines is very low, and is influenced by advertisers.

In contrast, I am informed every day by Slashdot about the industry by people who are actually doing the work. It's true that I have to wade through a lot of comments that are of no interest to me, but I have found no better way.

Slashdot is very important in my thinking and in the thinking of other people who are and will be the leaders of the computer industry.

There is a bug in the SlashCode that sometimes prevents users from seeing all the comments. Nothing has been done about that serious bug for YEARS.

I tried to write an article about the shortcomings of Windows XP: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going. I found that, even if I worked all day every day, I could not clearly document all the problems with Microsoft's adversarial, un-idealistic approach to business management. This is not an exaggeration.

It's not true that non-technical people don't have opinions about Microsoft. In fact, many well-educated, well-informed people who don't work in the computer industry are very negative toward Microsoft. They've read the newspaper coverage. They thought Bill Gates lied to the court during the anti-trust trial; they don't like it when big companies try to corrupt the government.

You see a lot of teenage attitudes represented on Slashdot. Some of the teenagers are in their twenties. That's life. Just ignore it. Slashdot is not the only place where there are opinions that don't seem well informed. Don't forget, the evangelicals and born-again Christians, 40% of U.S. voters, voted 87% for George W. Bush, and strongly support the violence in Iraq.

"GNU" is not the fault of Slashdot. "GNU/Linux" is a trademark designed by a very intelligent man who benefited the entire computer industry with his socially advanced ideas, but who is very backward in marketing. I bow down to him with respect even though I think GNU is a very poor trademark, and the drawing of the Gnu even worse.

From the parent comment: "Slashdot professes to be some sort of golden defender of consumer copyright law." Slashdot is a group of maybe 100,000 people who have many very varied opinions.

He's working hard for his money.

• Grace Hopper : Girl Genius of Vassar
• Lt. Hopper of the U.S. Navy
• Grace Hopper and the Mystery of the Hollerith Code
• Grace Hopper Tames the MARK I
• Grace Hopper Defeats the NAZIs
• Grace Hopper vs the Pernicious Moth
• Grace Hopper Unravells Sputnik
• Grace Hopper vs the Commie Russians
• Grace Hopper Unleashes the Scourage of COBOL
• Grace Hopper Arm-Wrestles Hyman Rickover
• Cmdr. Grace Hopper : Recalled to Duty (special double issue)
• Cmdr. Grace Hopper Defeats the Commie Russians
• Grace Hopper CyberGrrrrrl

• And remember, (+1, Funnay) does nothing for karma!

Hey, do you know who painted this?

That's from [The Fifth Element] you copycat!

Lilo (Leeloo) your half naked redhat (redhead) that stands in the circle with Bruce Willis in the end to prevent armageddon.

Here and Here

Please email me for shipping info.

Ha ha!!!! Birds of feather really do flock together. See my other post in this very thread. Mine took longer because of the links.

Wonder woman was a great sci-fi babe of that era. Another babe was Erin Grey as Wilma in Buck Rogers. She still looks great and is still the subject of much lust (there is a yahoo group devoted to her). She signs photos at the sci-fi cons (I need to go to one). Pam Hensley was another babe on Buck Rogers.

There were other space babes too - Battlestar Galactica babes not to mention princess Leia.

Everything a teenage geek could love - science fiction and space babes. It would seem the producers of these shows knew well what their target audience wanted.

Ahh, the memories.

Granted, it's kewl, sexy, and has a wide screen, but so does JLo.

You think that's disturbing? I once slept with a girl who had an enormous poster of Jack Nicholson's face on the wall over her bed. So every time I looked up while we were having sex, I saw a giant, gaping mouth surrounded by a field of disgusting stubble. Now that was disturbing. I don't think I'll ever get that image out of my head. :(

-Crow T. Robot

Training Day

Here is a link to Amazon's review of the movie. Here is a link to Yahoo's review of the movie. [User Rating: (4.1/5) ]

Chicago Tribune said this about Training Day.

"Training Day," for most of its length, is genuinely thrilling, explosively cynical about life on the streets and in the squad cars. More strikingly, it lets Washington play a really juicy heavy: hard driving, acid-tongued Detective Sgt. Alonzo Harris. Harris is Washington's meanest, most brutal and dangerous character in years -- an L.A. cop who's adjusted so completely to life among the wolves that he's become a wolf himself. Washington is magnificently vicious and wily in the role."

"Dares to be a cop movie based on character and not on pyrotechnics."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

"The film works a bit better as a vehicle for Washington, and it often gets by on his devilish charm. But it loses all its punch as he becomes more hissable."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

"A taut -- if violent -- police thriller."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE

"Washington's performance is so good, in fact, that it may temporarily blind you from seeing that the movie has obscured its message."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

All Posters.com as a poster of the show if you are looking for one.

Here is the director Antoine Fuqua's filmography. I was interested to see if he was an action director that is continuing his specialization or if he directed mainly heart felt drama's and was crossing genre's. With a limited filmography that includes previous B+ rated action flicks as The Replacement Killers, it seems that he has the background to provide us with an entertaining medium grade action flick. I would definately see this movie over The Musketeer.

Indeed. Here is a fine work of his that looks like sliced, multi-colored potatoes to me.

It adds a lot of atmosphere to my 150 square feet of books and computers.