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The bullet catch is actually a classic trick, and very dangerous.

Isn't snort something you do with your nose (http://www.answers.com/snort&r=67)?

An individual or business that advertises to the public that it is available for hire to transport people or property in exchange for a fee.

A common carrier is legally bound to carry all passengers or freight as long as there is enough space, the fee is paid, and no reasonable grounds to refuse to do so exist. A common carrier that unjustifiably refuses to carry a particular person or cargo may be sued for damages.

"A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members."

Some people have much longer names. And I mean really, really long names.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2bf dscxhgb7kc?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=P.+V.+Narasimh a+Rao&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc06b

That is a fairly short name.

any terrorist that is capable of doing harm (ie has enough of a clue) knows to assume any and all communications are monitored

Only because the NSA caught the other ones.

the name leigh Teabing(from da vinci code)'s first name is taken from the authors of Holy Blood. Teabing is an anagram for Baigent and Leigh happens to be the name of the other author. Jacques Saunière from Da Vinci Code is based on Bérenger Saunière, also from HBHG (from here.

Dan Brown did not just steal the ideas, he stole a lot more from the book. What is most amazing is that while deliberately taking the ideas and the names there was not one reference to Holy Blood, Holy Grail. While he had made references to movies/novels like The Last Temptation of Christ which shares the same idea.

Speaking of which, the idea of Jesus and Mary Magdalene being married was first potrayed in The Last Temptation of Christ. A book which first appeared in 1960

As I'm sure you are aware, the English language changes and grows over time. According to the encyclopedia section in answers.com's entry regarding slang, the word typo seems to be more of a colloquialism. This analysis is supported by the fact that "typo" appears in several dictionaries as cited in previous posts.

Since you are a reader of slashdot, you are no doubt accustomed to keeping abreast of changes in a very dynamic field of knowledge. I hope you agree that the same diligence is due to the English language. Welcome to our funny argument about slang. Make yourself at home.

There's something seriously fucked with our public trust in this country. Why would this guy take this stuff to the media instead of the appropriate government authorities? Shouldn't he at least have tried to go through official channels first? It's not like the 'media' option would have gone away had those attempts failed.

The answer to your question is emphasized (mine).

For historical reference, see The Pentagon Papers.

subliminably*

* Real word

Third, fourth, fifth... All can be reciprocals, no? 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, right?

What, then, is the ordinal number for song number one billion?

Third, fourth, fifth... All can be reciprocals, no? 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, right?

What, then, is the ordinal number for song number one billion?

Third, fourth, fifth... All can be reciprocals, no? 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, right?

What, then, is the ordinal number for song number one billion?

google does not nessesarily create these apps with a plan in mind

You know I have hear some really crackpot stuff, but that is just flat out lucid...

Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) is THE thing used to enforce DRM in DVD players and are burnt in during production of the players. However it is AFAIK only mandatory in US, meaning u could get a player without CPRM keys that can play (and write) pirated DVDs in South American and Asian COuntries (except Japan and maybe a few other countries). Got a friend in Singapore? He could get you a good player

XD

In fact, the dictionary has two appropriate definitions of co-opt:

To take or assume for one's own use
To neutralize or win over through assimilation

Rule 1 of effective propaganda is telling the truth.

If it's the truth, then it's not propoganda:

Definition: information which is false or twisted
Antonyms: truth

"engaging in the same kinds of torture that the former dictator did"

That's not propaganda?

No, that's rhetoric. Propaganda is when you use a systematic means to promote your agenda (pay a newspaper to put it on the front page).

Regards,
Ross

"engaging in the same kinds of torture that the former dictator did"

That's not propaganda?

No, that's rhetoric. Propaganda is when you use a systematic means to promote your agenda (pay a newspaper to put it on the front page).

Regards,
Ross

It's debacle. I don't know where you got the R from.

Apparently 968 other people have used it that way.

Yep, and Iceland's glacier's are ADVANCING at 100 yards PER DAY.

Can you give me a reference to back up your claim?

He obviously meant 'economies of scale'. That is, exactly what you are talking about: improvements in efficiency based on the ability to invest more in a superior design when you build one big power plant rather than a thousand little ones.

http://today.answers.com/topic/economies-of-scale

I think the word you were looking for was averse. But what you say is spot-on in many companies. That whole "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft" bit.

a virus is actually an executable that attaches itself to other executables & runs whenever they run.

this is a trojan/worm, just like most malware that matches your incorrect description of a virus.

computer virus n. A computer program that is designed to replicate itself by copying itself into the other programs stored in a computer. It may be benign or have a negative effect, such as causing a program to operate incorrectly or corrupting a computer's memory.

I'm sure, you'd heard so many lives destroyed by caffeine users and death toll by caffeine OD addicts. LD50 of THC is about 21 grams, but how many people died from smoking pot alone?

LD50 for caffeine is 150mg/kilo of body weight,orally using the 'standard' 66kilo human makes lethal dose about 10 grams.

Where'd you get 21 grams? The closest I can figure is the 30 mg/kg for intravenous usage with female rats(males can stand double).

For humans, no LD50 has been established. The closest we've come is monkeys, and we didn't achieve LD50 even with 3000 mg/kilo. That'd be 198 grams for our 66 kilo human (most likely rounded to 200).

Well, This site says 79 grams, converting the 2.8 ounces they list to the standard grams. Note they did this off of rat studies, not the larger mammal studies that showed much larger tolerances. This still translates to eating 1.4kg of normal strength weed. Lethality is controlled the same way caffeine is. The drug is simply too diluted in normal substances to be dangerous.

What planet are you from and what biological composition is your body made out of? For a casual marijuana smoker, that may be true, but the effect is definitely not "milder" by volume.

I don't really care about 'volume', but by dose. They're different drugs. It just happens that a MJ dose is more or less one cigarette or 'doobie'. An alcohol dose is generally a 'can' or a 'shot', but is done sequentially for a harder effect. Many pile on 12 or more doses. By milder effects, I was mostly refering to subsequent violent behavior. Marijuana users are almost legendary for their non-violent, non-aggressive behavior. On the other hand, anytime you combine 20 people and a keg of beer and the cops get worried.

So has Prohibition of 1920. So has World War 2. It still does not count for many other things that violates the rights, such as abuse of power. After all, this is where you are going, the abuse of power.

Yep. A major reason that I dislike the war on drugs is that I feel that the LRT(Legalization, Regulation, Taxation) solution is better than the current prohibition. I mean, there are documented instances of police planted drugs in people's homes in order to confiscate them without trial due to drug property forfeiture laws. No knock warrents with weapons any military kill team would be proud of that occasionally hit the wrong house. We're waging a successful if slow campaign against smoking without making it illegal(well, mostly, there are areas that are prohibited).

No, it doesn't. Moderation works. Without moderation, there is no evidence that shows regulation of alcohol could have worked. For instance, Islamic countries around the world shows that alcohol CAN BE EFFECTIVELY ILLEGALIZED.

That's what I'm arguing for. Moderation. I'll fully admit that there would be problems that would be traced to the legalization. However, I feel that we're already experiencing most of them, as well as a rash of problems, including violence, resulting from the prohibition. As for the islamic countries, well, like the other commenter said, this is a dual component of their religion and harsh sentences. We're talking about death, amputations, and whippings. Even so, I've been in a number of Islamic countries and guess what, alcohol was available even there.

Your math is a bit fuzzy and deceptive. 1) 445 years of colonization? I don't think so. 2) wide spread usage of marijuana in US wasn't even until 19th century. 3) herbal use in religious settings wasn't even practiced that commonly, I doubt it's being used that commonly today regardless of the legality

1. I wasn't stating that colonization started then, but that was the first introduction of europeans to the americas, thus the first potential exposure to the plant. It could

I know I might be accused of not picking up the humorous tone of your post here ;), but most modern grammarians do seem to agree it's OK to end a sentence with a preposition. From answers.com:

"It was John Dryden who first promulgated the doctrine that a preposition may not be used at the end of a sentence, probably on the basis of a specious analogy to Latin. Grammarians in the 18th century refined the doctrine, and the rule has since become one of the most venerated maxims of schoolroom grammar. But sentences ending with prepositions can be found in the works of most of the great writers since the Renaissance. English syntax does allow for final placement of the preposition, as in 'We have much to be thankful for' or 'I asked her which course she had signed up for'. Efforts to rewrite such sentences to place the preposition elsewhere can have stilted and even comical results, as Winston Churchill demonstrated when he objected to the doctrine by saying 'This is the sort of English up with which I cannot put.'"

My first computer was as old as me, and I spent hours playing Karateka and Spy Hunter

All I remember about Karateka is that I never beat it as a kid, and I tried it again a couple years ago (Yes, my Apple IIe still works), and I made it to the princess, and BOOM! she kicks me in the head and I die... the sense of utter rejection I got from that has kept me from attempting to save her again.

My first computer was as old as me, and I spent hours playing Karateka and Spy Hunter

All I remember about Karateka is that I never beat it as a kid, and I tried it again a couple years ago (Yes, my Apple IIe still works), and I made it to the princess, and BOOM! she kicks me in the head and I die... the sense of utter rejection I got from that has kept me from attempting to save her again.

It could also mean http://www.answers.com/topic/reinforcement-learnin g?method=22 (Wikipedia itself is currently down). Reinforcement Learning (RL) is about learning from reward - and about finding optimal sequences of action. Especially for learning sequences over time - like the rats - it is THE method of choice. And yes, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are often used for representing the "optimal policy" in RL. The weights in those networks are then altered by the RL process.

You could describe the process in the rats brain as doing a "virtual policy search RL".

Pure Backpropagation for long sequences over time, on the other hand, is quite an intractable problem, because you have to feed so many time-states into the network.

Sorry for the undefined terms... I was kind of fishing to see if anyone really cared ;) I apologise also for the links in the response; however, the linked pages have multiple definitions describing the same meaning with different wording which might help more readers understand the meaning: Macroevolution: http://www.answers.com/topic/macroevolution Microevolution: http://www.answers.com/topic/microevolution In short, microevolution covers things like natural selection, genetic drift, and other small progressive changes while macroevolution involves large scale genetic changes. This is a pretty lame summary... I'd encourage you to check out the links!

Sorry for the undefined terms... I was kind of fishing to see if anyone really cared ;) I apologise also for the links in the response; however, the linked pages have multiple definitions describing the same meaning with different wording which might help more readers understand the meaning: Macroevolution: http://www.answers.com/topic/macroevolution Microevolution: http://www.answers.com/topic/microevolution In short, microevolution covers things like natural selection, genetic drift, and other small progressive changes while macroevolution involves large scale genetic changes. This is a pretty lame summary... I'd encourage you to check out the links!

Depends on who you ask:

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=comparison

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=compariso n

American Heritage and a couple of others include similarities *and* differences.

Anyone else find it fitting that this comes right after the thread about Darwin? Natural Selection sure works wonders

That's not cool Crussy, NOT cool. Without them japs we would not have this or this but would be stuck with these

I'm tired of seeing this analogy. It isn't even close to the mark. If you RTFA, you'll see the student got $100k from the adware company. So, a better analogy would be: Maffia boss offers 100 grand for your head. Jimmy the Tulip nails you and collects prize. Would you say the Maffia boss was innocent? The law doesn't say so. Louis Lepke, for instance, died at the electric chair in Sing Sing, not because of someone he killed, but because of someone whose murder he ordered.

The true victims here are the patients. The hospital, the adware companies, the companies that supplied the software to the hospital, the doctors, they are all criminals, they all cooperated with the student that broke into the hospital system.

This "let's not blame the victims" meme is incorrect, and it's not in the spirit of modern legislation. In many cases, according to the law in most places, the victim *is* guilty, if he did not take adequate precautions to avoid a crime or an accident. You must wear seatblets, you cannot disable your airbags, bikers must wear helmets, etc. In the same way, having a computer system without adequate security protection should be a misdemeanor. And where human lives are in danger it should be a felony.

"allot"? What's an "allot"? Like a shallot? That might be yummy. I can't say that I've ever heard of an allot on someone's plate before, though.

Or do you mean that he had a distribution on his plate? Hell, that's even more confusing.

Please do enlighten us as to your intended meaning of an "allot", assuming of course that it wasn't a blatant misspelling of the two separate words "a lot".

Probably, but private has many meanings. private 4 c) Conducted and supported primarily by individuals or groups not affiliated with governmental agencies or corporations: a private college; a private sanatorium. In that context private P2P is correct even if it is open to everyone.

and cell phones just so happen to use the same frequency of 2.4GHz to trasmit. So one would question the use of cell phones, since the frequency is the same

Interestingly, this is a bunch of crap. GSM frequencies are GSM-900 (890 - 915 MHz up, 935 - 960 MHz down), GSM-1800 (1710 - 1785 MHz up, 1805 - 1880 MHz down), GSM-850 (824 - 849 MHz up, 869 - 894 MHz down), GSM-1900 (1850 - 1910 MHz up, 1930 - 1990 MHz down) and GSM-400 (450.4 - 457.6 MHz paired with 460.4 - 467.6 MHz, or 478.8 - 486 MHz paired with 488.8 - 496 MHz). Up means from the mobile to the cell, down means from the cell to the phone.
(Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/gsm-frequency-ranges)

CDMA/UMTS:
1920-1980 and 2110-2170 MHz Frequency Division Duplex (FDD, W-CDMA) Paired uplink and downlink, channel spacing is 5 MHz and raster is 200 kHz. An Operator needs 3 - 4 channels (2x15 MHz or 2x20 MHz) to be able to build a high-speed, high-capacity network. 1900-1920 and 2010-2025 MHz Time Division Duplex (TDD, TD/CDMA) Unpaired, channel spacing is 5 MHz and raster is 200 kHz. Tx and Rx are not separated in frequency. 1980-2010 and 2170-2200 MHz Satellite uplink and downlink.
(Source: http://www.umtsworld.com/technology/frequencies.ht m)

TDMA/AMPS:
AMPS operates in the 800 and 1900 MHz
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-136)

The closest thing is 2.2 GHz. None of them use 2.4GHz. At least, not that I can find. Now, Wireless ethernet, that's 2.4GHz. Well, most of it.

What I am getting at, is that from what I've been told, cell-phones can produce the same affect as microwaves, and really mess with the water in your brain, and supposedly cause cancer.

Any wave between 1GHz and 300GHz (30cm to 1mm wavelength) is a microwave. Maybe you meant microwave oven? It's important to make the distinction when you're talking about these things.

It seems to me elevation is of more importance than whether or not the two cell phones are communicating directly.

Elevation is 100% irrelevant. Not all cellphone towers are on mountains (though they certainly are here, where I live, in Lake County, California, USA, Terra) and the only important thing is the distance to the tower. Don't worry about the current, worry about the power of the transmission. All current portable cellular phones are under 1 watt. Most flip phones are under half a watt. The only reason anyone is worried about it at all is that it's very close to your head.

Would you pay 1c every time you opened Google's continuall-improved word processor?

In a word, NO.

Sounds like a way to get nickel and dimed to death.

Yeah they provide content from other sources, but let's face it. All they've done is screen sraped and rebranded dictionary.com . In my opinion, this just makes them biggest leach on the block.

"gimp" is also slang for someone who is crippled or handicapped.

http://www.answers.com/gimp&r=67
The noun gimp has one meaning:
Meaning #1: disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
      Synonyms: lameness, limping, gimpiness, gameness, claudication

Could it be??

Personally, I've found gimp to be pretty limited. Sure, it can do a few neat things but for the largest part, it's pretty darn limited.
Way back when when I was using M$ winders I had taken a liking to Paintshop Pro.
As they upgraded through numerous revisions I found that out of all of them, I liked the 6.x version the best. I don't know what version they are up to now but sometime back I tried to get 8.x (I think) working under WINE and had no luck.
I then played with it on a winders box and decided that I didn't like the newer version.

I tried to find the 6.x on http://www.oldversion.com but no luck.

As for photoshop, I never cared too much for it, the price is insanely high and it's massive overkill and overly complicated for the basic stuff I play with on occassion.

Good luck. Google links the biggest parasite of them all.

Perfect carry-case for this mod

No. The hands were crossed over his chest. Clearly he was pointing at the W and the S on the compass dial... so obviously, Waylon Smithers did it. On the other hand, the way that the Egyptians orient a sarcophagus would mean that, from the Tut's point of view, the "W" would've appeared as an "M", so then it must've been Maggie Simpson ;)

"Dilettante"of course.

"If they can claim copyright, they CAN dictate what you can do with the image INCLUDING your weblog, making duplicate photos at a photo shop, making copies on your computer, or even viewing them if they happen to be digital pics."

I said cite case law not the law itself. You know, decisions that support what you posted.

Amusingly enough, the old Microsoft AntiVirus for DOS and later for Windows was just a repackaged underpowered version of Central Point's CPAV software. Who bought CPAV? Symantec... http://www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-anti-virus/

"economics, study of how human beings allocate scarce resources to produce various commodities and how those commodities are distributed for consumption among the people in society (see distribution). The essence of economics lies in the fact that resources are scarce, or at least limited, and that not all human needs and desires can be met."

Economics is said to be normative when it recommends one choice over another, or when a subjective value judgment is made. Conversely, economics is said to be positive when it tries objectively to predict and explain consequences of choices, given a set of assumptions and/or a set of observations.

Because obviously everything meant insultingly that uses the word "black" is a racial slur, you blackguard!