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So the idea is that the majority of people will opt for personal safety rather than collective liberty, and thus acquiesce to the oppression.

But this idea is based on the now flawed assumption that there is "one" source of information and communication. When you have all the phone lines tapped and have virtually outlawed non sanctioned public meetings this may well be the case. But it is not the case anymore, Mass participation in groups like anonymous (who have very active anonet2 IRC chat channels, which are immune to this legislation) and Occupy (no idea, don't really care) are symbolic of a greater problem for the status quo.

The status quo has been rendered irrelevant by modern technology, these are not "subversives" in the sense of wanting to overthrow governments, they are "subversives" that are gods in a digital age and have no need to listen to "governments" opinion - "true" democracy.

The next generation coming through the works seem incredibly likely to simply refuse to pay tax to organisations that have no relevance to their daily lives. Without tax income, and with no way to manipulate the communication channels -governments as we know them simply cannot exist.

It is this that they are fighting against, but they are increasingly shouting in an empty forest.

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Stewardesses with bouffant hairdos, heavy makeup, nice skirts, go-go boots... but then that was back when they served meals on airplanes. Now it is like transports in third world countries where you pack your own food (unless in first class).

In the book TWA: The Howard Hughes Airline by Robert Serling, 1983 ( http://www.amazon.com/Howard-Hughes-Airline-Informal-History/dp/0312396317/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332786396&sr=8-1 ), mentions in the early days with DC-3 some airlines would have co-pilot serve coffee and food (which many pilots didn't want to be bothered with someone in the right seat). However, these airlines lost travelers to other airlines as businessmen preferred being served by attractive ladies.

Also from the 20th century, "Look, you used to be able to sleep in a bed on an aeroplane. Of course that was back when they also served food and changed the cabin air supply regularly." at http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r319/jej_wkrp/Picture12-1.png

just came out today

Quite impressive, considering that Japanese look all the same...

Yeah, sometimes you can't even tell which ones are women.

Well, if you include the stuff his wife wrote and he claimed ownership of, it could add up. Perhaps some of that relativity stuff was hers after all!

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Them Tennessee hicks are a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies when it comes to making their school children stupid as a matter of policy.

Yeah, thank goodness we have the shining examples of Detroit, LA, and NYC public school systems to show those "hicks" what a real, sophisticated education system is!

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No, I don't believe in a 4,000-year-old Earth (6,000? I dunno the exact claims) or that man sprang into being in modern form with a wave of God's hand. Now, I'm not sure (and neither can anyone else be sure) what caused the Big Bang, what exactly "banged" and where it came from, or who/what created it in the first place. Insufficient data. God? Aliens from another universe? The Giant Panda-King Of The Known Multiverse? Who knows?

That being said, I don't think you come off well dumping on the entire TN population and school system. People in glass houses and all.

Strat

If you are curious how I see it all, here is a screen capture.

No, but I've got the map for Europa: http://i1015.photobucket.com/albums/af276/mhajicek/UQM03_17062008_094830.jpg

Fuck this scared shit... Here you all go...

http://s582.photobucket.com/albums/ss263/Toxic_Alli101/?action=view&current=shijuuhatte-48-positions-sd.png&newest=1

Enjoy the horrible child rape porn... (fucking sad)

It looks like the characters were drawn in the super deformed (chibi) style.

Nobody said electronic devices can "bring down" a plane.

So quickly we forget

Fuck this scared shit... Here you all go...

http://s582.photobucket.com/albums/ss263/Toxic_Alli101/?action=view&current=shijuuhatte-48-positions-sd.png&newest=1

Enjoy the horrible child rape porn... (fucking sad)

The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire.

That sounds like a fermentation step - open fermentation with wild yeast - not a sterilisation step. That disclaimer is odd: "Never, ever try to reproduce this recipe using the methods described. Wild fermentation is never advisable, if you are lucky you will simply get very very ill, if not death or fates worth than death could await those foolish enough to drink a beverage fermented in the open air." Funny, that is how the commercial breweries did it for centuries.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v674/MarianLH/Ponies/HatersGonnaHate05.jpg

Is Megamaid

Dear sweet baby jeebus, I know that by nature human's are resistant to change, but this is stupid. People really think the Windows 7 start menu was confusing? It confuses me how anyone could be confused by such a simple interface. And whining about a huge field of icons on the Start screen in Windows 8... really? Organize them you morons, it's not difficult, check out my desktop: http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x26/Blessedben/Desktop2.jpg I press the Windows key, click on one icon, and my program launches. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Evolve, learn, adapt, or die. If you're not moving forward, you're moving backwards. I think that's enough clichés for you to get my point.

Go to party as a floating cock.

You mean like this one?

All the bashers are talking trash, but have probably never even SEEN a Volt in person, yet feel they can comment on it.

My comments are based on the professional review by Edmunds. I put a lot more faith in Edmunds than in the comments of an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot. Edmunds says the Volt gets low 30s on gas. http://www.edmunds.com/chevrolet/volt/2012/?sub=hatchback#fullreview

"In an Edmunds test of a Volt with the battery pack depleted, the car averaged 31.4 mpg in mixed driving. This isn't a bad mileage figure compared to regular gas vehicles, but it is seriously subpar when compared to the mid-40s mpg that a standard hybrid typically provides."

So sorry, but you're full of it.

There - seeing a name make you feel better? Want some cookies? As to quoting Edmunds, at least quote it without changing it - they claim 33mpg, which is still off, at http://www.edmunds.com/chevrolet/volt/2012/?sub=hatchback

Lies, misleading, and BS is all you folks can come up with. And as to electric range, here;s a pic of my dash this morning, after driving in almost 20mi:

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l33/Sharkonwheels/2012%20Chevrolet%20Volt/IMG_20120306_095705.jpg

as you can see, the center console computer says I travelled 19.2mi, consumed 4.9kWh, and if you check the dash, oh my, what's it say? Yes. 21mi left.

Want me to help you with the math? that's almost 41mi. estimated. And guess what, I did the almost 20 home again, and the dash STILL said I had 5mi left in EV mode.

Want me to help you remove that foot that you so vehemently shoved down your throat?

You're quoting some dumbasses you've never met - I'm taking pictures of my dash. We done Einstein? Or you want more pictures and proof?

Oh, and if you look even HARDER at the center console, you'll see it says 66.6mpg lifetime. And that's with dealership idiots putting a couple hundred miles on it, and not driving efficiently.

Never ceases to amaze me the gullibility of people, and believing everything they read as if it's the gospel. How about getting off the computer, and learning a few things on your own, and gathering your own information, instead of taking the lazy way and having someone else do it for you? Knowledge is empowering. Ignorance is the easy way out.

aliens

It's not fascism when we do it

did you push the button?
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I don't know quite enough about Siberia thirty thousand years ago to make a good statement, but I would guess that it was a little more temperate than it currently is

Not likely. 30000 years ago we were not in an interglacial: http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k247/dhm1353/Climate%20Change/alley.png

Now you seem to have missed the point of why I posted the graphs though. Someone who repeats a valid scientific factoid is not a "denier" - which was what you first wrote.

As to selective data, I'm sure we can play that game until the heat death of the universe: http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k247/dhm1353/Climate%20Change/Subatlantic_Had.png

I saw this story and right away I thought of...

Edward's Tomato computer

But she probably used a REAL cardborard box for the casing....

P.S. If you haven't watched COWBOY BEBOP, at least watch the FUNNIEST episode of it I've seen: MUSHROOM SAMBA (episode 17)

Watch it dubbed in English...IT'S HILARIOUS!!! (^_^) \o/ :o) :D

The flute is a heavy, metal instrument.

I'm a pissed-off American, so I'll go with a cheery Track THIS! from a real American hero. :)

You can also make a killer cake with it. start with a yellow cake mix and mix in a handful of semisweet chocolate chips, as its cooking you poke some holes with a toothpick and drop some chocolate chips (or you can use M&Ms for color) into the holes so they make these nice chocolate streaks, and then when you pull it out and the cake is still hot spread a layer of marshmallow fluff so that as it cools it evens out the fluff and makes a nice smooth top. Seriously rich though, best to cut it with some vanilla ice cream when you serve it as it cuts the sweetness.

As for TFA considering the kinds of things people put on their FB this really doesn't surprise me. Privacy has been replaced by "look at me look at meee!" for awhile now as far as the public is concerned and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of folks go "Ooooh free stuff!" and jump on board. It still amazes me how many treat computers as these magical black boxes and are then shocked at how trivially i can find out their surfing habits. i don't know how many times i've had a customer say 'I wish i could remember the name of the site i was on when it happened so i can show you" and when i pull up their browsing history and go right to it they are always "holy crap, how did you do that? are you some sort of hacker?" which is why we PC repair guys pretty much wear this face exclusively during working hours.

This one explains it pretty well, I think.

Take at least a .50 cal BMG to do that.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/1MeanSSMonte/hand.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t206/DynOmni/CanadianBallot.jpg

That's the canadian ballot. Very simple. It is counted by hand. Takes a few hours. You can't stuff the ballot box and it is verifiable. No "do overs".

Maybe because we don't vote on useless propositions, that we don't need 100 page ballots. And if there are other elections at same time, there are multiple ballots that are put in multiple ballot boxes. It's rather quite simple.

It's just a computer with a tv card attached to an HDTV.

So, why not just... connect a computer to your TV??

There are plenty of 'book size' mini-PCs that can be connected via HDMI or even good old-fashioned D-sub cables to your (flatscreen) TV.

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=309&name=Mini-Booksize-Barebone-Systems

And there are plenty of HTPC applications to choose from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_theater_PC#Software

For example, I use MediaPortal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaPortal

The hardware required is such that even an 'old' pc can run it:
        1.4 GHz Intel Pentium III
        256 MB of RAM
        DirectX 9.0 hardware-accelerated GPU
        200 MB free harddisk-drive space for the software
        12 GB or more free harddisk-drive space for Hardware Encoding or Digital TV based TV cards for timeshifting purposes

It's set up is... simple, and it probably has all the features you need. And if it doesn't there are tons of Plug-ins for it. Have an Anime Collection? No problem- there's a plugin to scan it and download the covers/fanart/descriptions/etc. Same with TV series, and Movies. Browsing Youtube. Watching streaming content from the Internet. And so on.

And the great thing is, I can swap out my TV (37") for a bigger one at any time. I can expand it with another Harddrive at any time. I can decide to use any other HTPC software at any time. I'm not locked in at all.

'Smart TV's' will end up looking like this: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x74/chicbn872/Movie%20Stills/idiocracy-tv-dvd.jpg , with ads and extra crap you don't want. And you won't be able to change it without buying a whole new TV.

In singles it is a giant rotating cube of cash while in 20's it would fit in a big backpack.

Does this mean we're actually headed toward planet of the apes or will I finally be able to have my cat-girl soon? (link should be SFW)

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Problem: when you depend on false, intellectually lazy arguments based not on facts but hatorade, they tend to fall apart rather quickly.

If I were to create an MP3 player today, an overly mature and saturated market already,

Except the iPod wasn't created today, in an overly mature and saturated market. WYP?

I could easily make it the "first" something.

Everything is obvious - after someone else has already done it. Jet engines, antibiotics, the Theory of Relativity - it's all "obvious" after someone else has already done the work.

And Apple didn't create the micro HDD.

And I never claimed they did, so again, WYP? Innovation != invention, and putting a micro-hard drive in an MP3 player was innovative. As was combining it with a fast Firewire interface, which Apple did invent.

It has great design... and oh yeah, a HUGE and aggressive legal department which seems to push the extremes which a company might go to keep the competition down...

You mean like when Apple sued Microsoft into the ground for the Zune, even forcing them to disband PlaysForSure, leaving all their former customers in the lurch? Oh wait, Microsoft did that all on their own.

Came back with arguments not based on Haterade, and maybe they will last a little longer.

Comb the desert!

I shudder to think who would win in a hacking duel, Anonymous or the FBI.

If the Feds were smart, they'd recruit certain Anonymous. But they're not, and they won't.

As it stands, neither organization forgives nor forgets. and I say it sounds like a fair fight. I don't know who'd win, but if the two disorganizations in question really want to go at it, my position will be seated on my couch, eating popcorn as I admire the ensuing shitstorm. No matter who wins, it's going to be hilarious.

I'd really prefer if Anon and the US Government could be on the same side - because on the rare occasions their interests do coincide, the results are pretty awesome - but it looks like that's not going to happen.

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Just replace one spin with two.

Benefits of working on something better than a tablet:

• the ability to work offline
• the ability to run more programs at once (without having to switch between them or experience notable performance issues)
• more screen space
• faster compiling

To name a few from the top of my head. I can't imagine doing all of my daily work on a tiny tablet.

But then again, if it's good enough for Picard, it is probably good enough for me.

- Swype automatically adds words to dictionary, only have to tap them in once.

- Swype edit screen with arrow keys etc you can reach with one swipe: http://media.photobucket.com/image/swype%20edit%20screen/syntax_photos/SwypeEdit.png

It takes less than half the screen in portrait mode in 800x480: http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/samsunggalaxys2/swype.jpg

Takes up even less in bigger screen/resolution phones.

You shouldn't be using phones for real work except in an emergency. And in those situations touchscreen with Swype is fine.

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These structures absolutely exist...

Here's a slashdot post by myself from 2001

The links are long since broken (and I said Russia, but it could equally of been China, I wasn't 100% sure where I was), but here are links to two of the photos that I put back online recently:

• Grid lines
• Big diamond structure

-- Pete.

These structures absolutely exist...

Here's a slashdot post by myself from 2001

The links are long since broken (and I said Russia, but it could equally of been China, I wasn't 100% sure where I was), but here are links to two of the photos that I put back online recently:

• Grid lines
• Big diamond structure

-- Pete.

and many, many, moooreeee

-mainconcept http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//i...&limitstart=17
-mediashow http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-fx...ssor-review/14
-h.264 http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-fx...ssor-review/14
-vp8 http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-fx...ssor-review/17
-sha1 http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-fx...ssor-review/17
-photoshop cs5 http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo//i...&limitstart=14
-photoshop cs5 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...x,3043-15.html
-winrar, faster than 2600k http://www.techspot.com/review/452-a...pus/page7.html
-winrar, improves over x6 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...x,3043-16.html
-7-zip better than 2600k here: http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4955/41698.png http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/t...x8150-tested/7
-7-zip same perf as 2600k http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...x,3043-16.html
-POV-ray, faster than 2600k http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1741/10/
-POV-ray http://www.nordichardware.se/test-la...art=15#content
-x264(2nd pass AVX enabled) http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/t...x8150-tested/7
-x264 (2nd pass, better overall than 2600k) http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=2125&pageID=11108
-x264 (2nd pass +.3 than SB2600k) http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1741/7/
-handbrake; http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1741/9/
-truecrypt; http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=2125&pageID=11111
-solidworks; faster than 2600k http://www.techspot.com/review/452-a...pus/page7.html
-abbyy filereader http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...x,3043-16.html
-C-Ray, as fast as $1k i7-990X, http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/v.../c-rayir38.png

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The problem is that fairness in society has been eroded in the name of profit and wholesale greed. This is in large part because those that had much to gain effectively took control of not only government, but also political discourse by controlling the media to hard sell the great supply-side and deregulation myth. I don't think you can interpret those numbers in any other way.

I'm not expecting much from you, however. If you saw the cluestick that hit you on the head, you still won't know what it is.

BEES!!!

Sure thing, here ya go.

The eyes came out a little cockeyed, but meh. The servo is supported with puddy and the whole works are held together with binary epoxy. You can also see the control box, which basically just takes RS232 via the DB9 and converts into signals for the servo. There are six total servo channels, only one of which is in use currently (I was ambitious once upon a time).

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v122/smadurski/toons/?action=view&current=farside-nuclr-boom-paperbag.gif&newest=1

And in color (on a mug):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-Far-Side-1983-mug-Larson-bomb-paper-bag-popping-/320716382907

http://s418.photobucket.com/albums/pp263/Ironic-Mike/?action=view&current=X-WingonAircraftCarrier.jpg

This line is padding.

Well you should be quite happy with MSFT then, since all those corporate contracts and government jobs mean they can only get SO evil before they get their choke chain yanked. as I was telling one guy on the Linux forum who was freaking over Win 8 having secure boot (which they just ripped from ChromeOS BTW) there is NO WAY IN HELL they'll be able to stop other OSes from being installed simply because all those fat software assurance and MSDNs would be flushed down the shitter if the corps can't go back to older Windows. And if older Windows runs? Then Linux runs.

And you sir are a brave man if you are trusting all your data to an SSD, i really hope you got backups. I've found the hot/crazy scale is a little too far on the crazy side for me and my customers ATM, maybe in another 5 years when they get the bugs out. Frankly ATM I honestly don't see much point with win 7 anyway, it prefetches everything I run and has it waiting in RAM so the only time the HDD really comes into play is when I'm doing my multitrack editing or video transcoding and I sure as hell wouldn't want to waste THAT amount of space on an SSD with the prices above $1 a Gb. I'd look into one for my EEE netbook but frankly with the new hibernate it is so fast to start I honestly have it started before i can reach my mouse anyway, and what good would be faster than that? Sadly the machines get faster but my reaction time if anything gets slower, aging sucks.

As for what you've seen on windows? That is a PERFECT example of PEBKAC. the ONLY reason that exists is because of dumbasses. This is an actual conversation i had with a former customer "Me-Don't open that password protected zip file, its a virus! Velma-Oh you worry too much, its from my BFF Kim see? she wouldn't do anything bad!" can you guess what she did? if you guess boned the whole system, you get a cookie! That is why this face comes with the job.

But you will be happy to know that if you don't go around installing "free smilies" and other total dumbshit? Windows 7 is solid as a rock. mine has been running since Oct 09, been through two RAM upgrades, three HDD upgrades, and two GPU upgrades, and has just purred like a kitten. no reactivating or other bullshit, just keeps on humming. But your final answer just shows what I mean, how often is the 99% of the planet that buys PCs ever gonna need to spawn a thread? hell how many of them would even know what a thread is?

I do agree about Apple and mobile in general though, I find it troubling too. Maybe i'm spoiled but I've run BSD and OS/2, I've run win9x and was even tortured by WinME and Vista (Where is my apology and free Windows 7 license Ballmer? You sweaty bastard!) and through it all I HAD CHOICE. i could stay or go, i could send my data to and fro, in the end I was the one in control NOT the corp. what worries me about the cell phones is it looks like they could become the new laptop and if they do? your data ain't yours anymore, its theirs. And the way they can bribe congress for new laws it frankly wouldn't surprise me if we got some "network protection act" that made hacking phones a crime. Hell if they can make copyrights more than two lifetimes long anything is possible. like 'em or not MSFT and the clones made hardware nice and open so you can run what you want, the phones are more and more looking like black boxes with pretty screens and that is truly troubling. BTW did you hear they are talking about killing dumb phones? soon you won't even have a choice, it'll be that or nothing.

I'm hoping for something equivalent to this: WWI Game Parody. (Caveat - I don't think this was the original version).