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Here's a picture of the hose in action

When I saw this video, the first thing that popped into my mind was Get a life!

You chose that latter, which makes you a moron whether you were right on the particular point or not.

First you chose to spread around tired old wingnut BS, which the country has little patience for after 8 years. Talk like a moran, get treated like a moran.

The CEOs of the banks and financial institutions all got massive bonuses as their companies were in free-fall.

Here's a case where executive pay had a direct relation to losses: the top 5 securities companies lost $25.3 billion dollars last year. How much did they pay out in bonuses? $26 billion. w/o the bonuses, they barely would have lost any money.

So many people were so stupidly anti-W (on one hand, they'd criticize him mercilessly, and on the other hand write that anyone who criticized W would get thrown in Gitmo) then worshiped B.O. so blindly that it's just really pissed me off.

Only if:

1) You were in a coma in 2001-2002 or
2) You're this guy.

After 9/11/2001, Bush enjoyed astronomical approval ratings. 90% of the country was with him after the attacks, and through the invasion of Afganistan. It was only when Bush, Cheney, Rove and the rest of the GOP decided to use the tragedy for partisan gains (and an insane invasion of Iraq) that those approval ratings started to go down.

Whereas the right wing resistance to Obama is based on straight up bullshit. Just look at all those tea parties they had last week when Obama lowered their tax rates.

And even after that, the press didn't stop sucking his cock until Katrina wiped out the Gulf coast. Anger towards Bush is perfectly rational, and anyone who doesn't realize that was either a coma patient, or is a pathetic partisan hack. Which one are you?

I'm not sure if all the posts are still there (the site went down many years back and I haven't looked since), but you can poke around the flat earth society website. There was at least one true believer that had counter-arguments for just about everything. They also have a FAQ

Before reading through their posts, I didn't really understand how one could think the Earth was flat. This map was enlightening. I also liked their model for the sun and moon. Basically the arguments in the thread (which was many hundreds of pages long) came down to two camps. One is the ability to trust what somebody else tells you (astronauts landed on the moon, so-and-so city is XYZ miles away from you, etc). The other was to bend science just a little so that it was technically true but meaningless. For example, [in their model] gravity is actually caused by the flat plane of the Earth accelerating. To which, somebody might ask, "Wouldn't we accelerate to the speed of light?" Well, no, because acceleration is asymptotic in their reference frame. What they don't answer is, "Wouldn't you need infinite energy to keep accelerating and where does this energy come from?"

A question I never did see asked and answered was, "If the map is as you say it is, why are plane flights from the tip of South America to the tip of Africa not excessively longer than those from NYC to London?" (I suspect the answer would be, "How do you know it isn't? Have you traveled both by plane and timed it with a stopwatch?")

Overall, they have bad science backed up by paranoia and distrust. The Electric Universe people are in the same category.

I feel a need to expound on this "no open ports" issue. Go ahead and ignore my ravings if you like.

Many a postdoc will be glad to show you his bulletproof method for running a service that can't be exploited. Signed code, insane encryption, public keys... It's all bullshit, and your marketing department knows this because they've got trolls on every board posting that "any software can be exploited - Linux and Mac OS-X aren't because they're not popular."

Look. This isn't rocket science. If you have an exposed service it will eventually be exploited. Even that Conficker jerk will get pwned in time, and his app only runs signed code. What's funny is that his services are more secure than your database connector, the second and third botnet owners are likely to compromise his network before you are, and none of the authors are over 30 years old. Any service that's available on the network can be exploited. You can't avoid it. What you can do is mitigate it to the point where someone had to deliberately open a service to the outside world to be vulnerable. Road Warriors ensure that some evil node will be on your network eventually. Therefore desktops must not have open ports by default, all servers must use secure authentication and report intrusion attempts. Even Intranet servers must be prepared for distributed slow password hacking. Expect attack and inspect what you expect. There is no defensive move that can't be countered except "don't be there when the attack happens." So let me quote President Madagascar: "Shut. Down. Everything!" This is an indirect reference to an online game called Pandemic 2.

Oh, and on a separate note, my humor may have been too subtle and for that I apologize. I make that mistake a lot. I don't work for Limited Brands. That was a Meme reference to your arrogance.

As long as I'm wasting my time, I might as well throw out some more not-in-your-department things: Exchange 2007 datastores. You guys do know that a gmail box is already 7GB, right? WTF are you thinking? This is an "enterprise" email solution? Oh, yeah: Sharepoint. Nuke it from orbit. Kill it with fire. That thing is heinous. The first time I saw it in the enterprise I right-clicked it closed in the task bar and waited two weeks to see if security would walk me out for accidentally clicking on an internal communication. When that didn't happen I realized they were serious. You might as well open up an ftp server on your root directory. Jeebus WTH is going on with Sharepoint? Is it supposed to be the enterprise web version of BearShare?

Again, this post is in the public domain. All rights reversed.

As I have stated elsewhere:

O=W

Here it is represented visually:
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Save fuel? Buy a hybrid or electric vehicle. California should start mandating that all manufacturers sell only hybrids or all electric vehicles. Grandfather in vehicles purchased before a certain date and start weening the populous off of petroleum while forcing automakers to make better, less harmful, more efficient (energy wise) vehicles. Period.

The big problem with all-electric vehicles is that they're only good as commuters. If you actually want to go somewhere in your car, they're useless, because after their range runs out, they take forever to charge back up. The figures for the Tesla, for example: it could go over 200 miles on one charge, but it needs 16 hours to recharge from a normal (British) 13-amp electrical socket (not sure about American sockets).

Meanwhile, even the most efficient hybrids made today can still be beaten by a modern diesel car (and modern diesels are much cleaner than their reputation). See the Honda Insight, compared with the VW Polo BlueMotion. Those cars are roughly comparable in size.

You also seem to forget that not everyone uses their vehicles for transporting themselves to and from their office. Personally, I'd love to have the ability for my car to turn off its engine when I'm stuck at a red light, but for some people, the electrical engine would never do any work, and they'd be paying extra for an unused battery and engine, and lugging all that weight around, driving down their gas-powered engine's efficiency.

Personally, I'm waiting for hydrogen fuel cell cars. No more oil needed, in a platform that allows continuous driving with only the need to stop every once 300 miles for a few minutes to fill the tank back to capacity. Until then, I'll keep my 10-year-old V6, and just lay off the gas pedal.

That's the thing: the best thing for our environment is not to replace our current car for a more efficient one, but to keep using the current cars until they're really dead. It may use a bit more oil, but the overall impact is lower.

What the hell were you trying to say with this: "At typical RPMs you use not driving aggressively, car engines can only make well under 100hp." ??? Gibberese to me and patently absurd.

If your car has a manual transmission, try putting it in the highest gear while cruising down the road at 40. Put your foot all the way down. You'll get no torque, and no power. Take a look at a torque-band graph, like this one or this one.

With that first one, you can see that the max power of this car is over 220hp, but that's at around 4500rpm. If you drop to 3000rpm, the engine is only producing about 120hp. Most people cruise while their engine is doing less than 2000rpm. It follows logically from that graph that 2000rpm would be less than 100hp.

With the second graph, it's the same thing: about 220hp peak, at 5500rpm. Drop to 2500rpm, and the engine's producing less than 100hp.

This may be relative to your interests, fellow fan of the radio show. Note the rat cavity.

It is happening (though you're right, not on a huge scale), chiefly to people with old 60gb models (like me). I actually had the same exact problem as the OP. Halfway through RE5 my laser crapped out. I shelled out 75 bucks and got a new one, but during my research I found tons of people having the same problem.

The reason it's not reported much is because:
- The occurrence of the problem seems to be relatively low (supposedly less than 1% of all PS3s)

- The PS3 has a smaller install base with a slower uptake than the 360. It seems to be happening to mainly the launch/early models (which most people don't have), but the fear is that in a year or two the newer models will have the same problem.

- It's covered by the one-year warranty and relatively easy to fix yourself if it's out of warranty. Sometimes it's not even the cause of a dead last; just a dusty one, so you don't even have to buy any replacement parts.

When my laser broke I was interested in buying a new one straight from Sony. There's apparently a bad replacement model of the laser (you can spot the difference because it has a white clip instead of a brown one) Of course, they can't offer anything like that, because it'd be admitting that there's a problem, so you just have to try your chances with 3rd party vendors and hope that their image is accurate and not just a stock photo.

What you describe can only lead to.... Let's send the machines to find another planet while we kick back and smell the flowers...and have another...

Are you sure?. Doesn't quite look like it

Anon

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I hate to have to explain the joke, but we were quoting TV openings.

Sexconker went for Full House, and I responded with Family Guy.

I thought it was funny because it almost seemed like a valid conversational response.

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I just masturbated to a picture of Gadget the mouse.

Is that wrong?

Captcha: organs

Midori, for one. I got perfect score on Acid 1, 2, and 3 months, ago and I *think* that it was the first. I had a screenshot, but misplaced it. A more recent screeny here: http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/Midori_Acid3.png Can't remember Arora's score - I'm pretty sure it passes all three test as well.

@stoolpigeon
When there, what you gonna do?

You bastard.

Man, have you seen the picture of his cat?

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk318/uwhatu/animatedfrenchprick.gif

haha
refering link
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/02/27/mgmt-sarkozy.html

"Looks like Safari might be the first Acid 3 browser to the market." New screeny, freshly uploaded. Midori wins! http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/?action=view&current=Midori_Acid3.png

Is this what we want all of America to be? I don't think Americans should think so.

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Yep, free trade is working great. The evidence is there for everyone to see!

Looks like you've got a winner of a plan there.

Retard.

Kick the foreign occupiers companies out.

Though, to be fair, I think that sort of thing should be saved until retirement.

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Okay, I replied to this post on another thread, but I have to link the screenshot here too since the same MS propaganda site has been posted to this thread as well. My last visit to "Get the Facts": http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s294/morghanphoenix/msreliability.png

Amuzing little screenshot from the last time I went to the "Get the Facts" Web site. http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s294/morghanphoenix/msreliability.png

I want to give this anonymous coward the stupid reply his stupid question deserves:

>>>Shouldn't you be masturbating to posters of Ron Paul or something? ...unf unf unf oh Ayn Rand oh yes Ayn...

Those old farts? No way. Give me some nice, fresh roses that are not wilted/wrinkled. Like the Jonas Brothers. Or the Disney women - mmmm Emily Osment: http://i.somethingawful.com/m3imgs/streetlamp.gif http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh179/11hawkdown/ChrisHanson.jpg

No. Destroying them is way more fun. I prefer some target practice: link

This was a single board computer that I determined was unrepairable:

Before

During

After

I love Tannerite.

"Despite what this article says, Arctic ice has decreased significantly in recent years. Satellite imagery from as recent as 1979 shows enormously more ice than we see today."

Yes, but why are you under the impression that 1979 was "normal"? There's nothing unusual about the ice cover we have today if you look back through the decades and centuries.

1979 is a convinient year because that's when we started to use satellites to have a look. It's not a good year if we want to be truthful about climate trends.

Btw, today's ice extent is pretty close to the 1979-2000 mean (within 5%).

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Pull a wire. We fussed with WiFi for years, and it is often problematic. If you are in a house or office, pull the wire. It's no that hard (for the simple cases he is listing, like two rooms above one another). Get the land lord's permission if you don't own the place. It's not worth all the fussing you may end up having to do with WiFi (thanks to neighbor access points, cheap $30 APs, etc).

I'd love to wire up my apartment, but I really don't see how it would even be feasible. If you can give me a good solution, I'd love to hear it:

My apartment

Basically, I want cable running from the TV, where I have the cable modem set up, to both desks. I live on the second floor of three, so I don't think I can go through the floor or ceiling.

Is there a good solution?

You probably can't convince a security guard that you are me by pasting a photo of me to your forhead.

Well, if it works against the Blu team....
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Second.

knock-knock!

Who's there?

Jigga.

Jigga who?

Jigga-BOO!

Yeah, check dis out, this is O.G.L.B, Knowhatimsayin'? Im on my little O.G.
-- Warren G --
And he just droppin this to let you B.G.'s know
Whas happen, y'all got to recognize
Cause this is y'know a Long Beach thang -
21st street, but check this out,
G. gonna go out there, knoamsayin'?
And handle that shit now?
Yeah.

My jaw dropped when I saw this article. I lived on Sampsonia Drive nine years ago, which is incredible, because it's one of the shortest little streets in Pittsburgh.

I'm amazed that there is a custom Slashdot spelling even for such a tiny little one-way street in Pittsburgh. You remove the "p" from the middle. What do you put it? I guess you can just stick it behind a colon, like this :P

My girlfriend and I were paying a rent of $400/month to live on this street. It's in a really poor part of the North Side of Pittsburgh. We were the only white people in the neighborhood I think, but even though we stuck out a little, this was the nicest neighborhood I ever lived in. Everyone was really pleasant; it's a fun little place. I'm totally not surprised that they would arrange something like this there. Plus, $400. That was sweet even back then.

Here are some 8-9 year old pictures of it:
A pretty sunset where you unfortunately can't really see anything...
Facing eastward with my 86 T-Bird in the foreground
Facing westward
Facing eastward again.

And BTW this wasn't the first time I've looked at the Google Maps street view on Sampsonia. These people weren't there last time.

My jaw dropped when I saw this article. I lived on Sampsonia Drive nine years ago, which is incredible, because it's one of the shortest little streets in Pittsburgh.

I'm amazed that there is a custom Slashdot spelling even for such a tiny little one-way street in Pittsburgh. You remove the "p" from the middle. What do you put it? I guess you can just stick it behind a colon, like this :P

My girlfriend and I were paying a rent of $400/month to live on this street. It's in a really poor part of the North Side of Pittsburgh. We were the only white people in the neighborhood I think, but even though we stuck out a little, this was the nicest neighborhood I ever lived in. Everyone was really pleasant; it's a fun little place. I'm totally not surprised that they would arrange something like this there. Plus, $400. That was sweet even back then.

Here are some 8-9 year old pictures of it:
A pretty sunset where you unfortunately can't really see anything...
Facing eastward with my 86 T-Bird in the foreground
Facing westward
Facing eastward again.

And BTW this wasn't the first time I've looked at the Google Maps street view on Sampsonia. These people weren't there last time.

My jaw dropped when I saw this article. I lived on Sampsonia Drive nine years ago, which is incredible, because it's one of the shortest little streets in Pittsburgh.

I'm amazed that there is a custom Slashdot spelling even for such a tiny little one-way street in Pittsburgh. You remove the "p" from the middle. What do you put it? I guess you can just stick it behind a colon, like this :P

My girlfriend and I were paying a rent of $400/month to live on this street. It's in a really poor part of the North Side of Pittsburgh. We were the only white people in the neighborhood I think, but even though we stuck out a little, this was the nicest neighborhood I ever lived in. Everyone was really pleasant; it's a fun little place. I'm totally not surprised that they would arrange something like this there. Plus, $400. That was sweet even back then.

Here are some 8-9 year old pictures of it:
A pretty sunset where you unfortunately can't really see anything...
Facing eastward with my 86 T-Bird in the foreground
Facing westward
Facing eastward again.

And BTW this wasn't the first time I've looked at the Google Maps street view on Sampsonia. These people weren't there last time.

My jaw dropped when I saw this article. I lived on Sampsonia Drive nine years ago, which is incredible, because it's one of the shortest little streets in Pittsburgh.

I'm amazed that there is a custom Slashdot spelling even for such a tiny little one-way street in Pittsburgh. You remove the "p" from the middle. What do you put it? I guess you can just stick it behind a colon, like this :P

My girlfriend and I were paying a rent of $400/month to live on this street. It's in a really poor part of the North Side of Pittsburgh. We were the only white people in the neighborhood I think, but even though we stuck out a little, this was the nicest neighborhood I ever lived in. Everyone was really pleasant; it's a fun little place. I'm totally not surprised that they would arrange something like this there. Plus, $400. That was sweet even back then.

Here are some 8-9 year old pictures of it:
A pretty sunset where you unfortunately can't really see anything...
Facing eastward with my 86 T-Bird in the foreground
Facing westward
Facing eastward again.

And BTW this wasn't the first time I've looked at the Google Maps street view on Sampsonia. These people weren't there last time.

Yeah, check dis out, this is O.G.L.B,
Knoamsayin? Im on my little O.G.
-- Warren G --
And he just droppin this to let you B.G.'s know
Whas happen, y'all got to recognize
Cause this is -- y'know -- a Long Beach thang.
21st street, but check this out,
And handle that shit now?
Yeah.

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Once you reach the end of this sig, turn your monitor over and continue the test on the other side.

I'm the "Arse bandits" AC. Here's a screenshot.

Note how it says "Arse band it s". Yes, the gap between "band" and "it" isn't quite a full space and the gap between "it" and "s" is even smaller, but it is still VERY ugly.

Although I'm still mostly a Windows user almost all the application software I use is open source, and I've contributed patches to a few projects. I like open source. But ugly is ugly.

Bucking for some informative karma I've tracked down some visual aids for our comparison:

Windows 7

KDE 4

Your welcome.

"Your welcome" ????? WTF
Where did you see my welcome?

Bucking for some informative karma I've tracked down some visual aids for our comparison:

Windows 7

KDE 4

Your welcome.

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The Finns stood up to Stalin and resisted his aggressive designs -- they managed to stalemate the Soviets for more than three months even though they were outnumbered 4 to 1 (in men, the disparity in tanks/aircraft/artillery was even worse) and kept their sovereignty.

A simple, yet effective presentation.

Did you try this filter before you suggested it? I've been getting completely new spam redirected to my Spam folder since I created the filter you described; it isn't being delivered via POP3 as it should.

IT DOES NOT WORK.

Since I know you'll refuse to believe that I configured it correctly, I have a screen capture for you:

http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q211/macraig/Slashdot/?action=view&current=Gmail-Searchresults-markacraiggmail.png

At the very least there must be contributing factors about which you knew nothing, perhaps the effect of one of my other filters or the specific ordering of them. And no, I don't have any other filters which use a simple * wildcard by itself; that would be too obvious a conflict.

Whatever the reason, now my installation of PopFile and other changes was a waste because this doesn't work. I should have been more skeptical, but it certainly looked good on paper.

You see? It's like I said in the first place, apparently: Google demands the right to be the exclusive arbiter of what is and isn't spam so long as you agree to use their service. Perhaps Google does this because in the process of having to check that Spam folder you are exposed to some of Google's advertising within the GMail Web interface.

inb4 lame blue screen of death jokes

Aw, dude, why'd you have to go stealing my one-trick-pony thunder like that? It's all I've got ...

Natalie isn't looking so great these days: http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m18/loonytunestu/portman19.jpg

Shut up nigger!

At least my own business don't involve ho'in or stealin' or slangin' rocks, you damn dirty ape! Only those of Aryan blood may have the first post. Don't hate the player, bro, hate the game.

Your master,
-- Alain 94040 -- see, i got 2 forties compared to your measly half-drank one.