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I recently took a 10,000 mile road trip around the States (soon to be chronicled on my journal) and seriously considered doing this. I even set up a profile and started contacting people but, in the end, the safety concerns kept we away. Now I don't believe that the world is as scary as the media portrays it, and I'm sure I missed out on meeting some great people and learning more about the local areas (Not to mention saving £1,000) but in the end, I just couldn't feel secure knowing I was going to some random house at the end of the night.

-Grey.

Hey Anonymous Questioner,

I'm the guy who asked the 'if not America, then where' question a week or so ago on slashdot, so I thought I'd throw in my own example. The first half was luck of birth. When I was looking in to possibly living abroad, I discovered that I qualified for an Irish passport due to my ancestry. So if you want to work in another country, I'd check the citizenship laws and trawl through your family tree to see if you have any useful connections.

Secondly, I picked an occupation with a critical shortage: physics teachers. If you seriously want to live and work abroad anywhere in the world, I cannot recommend a better job. Every week I see loads of ads for science teachers to work abroad, and I've even received a few job offers from schools (in China for example) through my journal.

So check that family tree, pick a job with a shortage and get out into the world. It was the best decision I ever made.

-Grey

Apparently they aren't ranked?

vastu shastra, the Indian counterpart of feng shui

just because you won't get a citation or a CV bullet point out of it doesn't mean it's completely worthless to you.

Oh yeah? Well, I'm calling for Congressman Markey's arrest. Who's with me?

-Grey

and plants (where they do not risk safety obviously)

But what if it's spending so much time on the internet that makes me depressed?

-Grey

No question always demands an absolute yes or no answer... The answer can be "maybe, sometimes, sort-of, or with added caveats".

from the a-new-home-for-the-free-and-brave dept.

Sounds like we should have a Free State Project on a national scale.

-Grey

Wiki-based script creation

I don't doubt that you could get an OK or even good script by committee, but I think to get a great movie, you need one mind unhindered by others. (But you also get A LOT more junk that way)

-Grey

It's obviously best to simply give up and leave, rather than actually stand up and do something about changing your country.

Whoops, I'm a moron. Didn't see the link because it wasn't in a second paragraph that I had. Apologies to our Editor Overlords.

-Grey

It's always interesting to see how the Slashdot Editors modify story submissions. In this case they left out my link to a boing boing story that might be useful for those trying to get out of America. What's the matter guys? Do you think of boing boing as a rival?

-Grey

Wow! The third firefox 2.0 article in 24 hours. Boy, I can't wait to read all the insightful comments people will leave. Again.

-Grey

So you're implying better decisions are made by those who aren't concerned enough about the outcome to be (in my words) "serious" or (in your words) "crazy [and] single-minded"? Hmm. So if I decide how your income is spent, and vice versa, we'll both be better off? Interesting logic

Stop using the Enlightenment icon for unrelated stories, kdawson. I don't think it means what you think it means.

What's the problem? Do you expect there to be a sudden rush of Enlightenment news and developments that you don't want his story to get confused with?

-Grey

I say make it much harder to vote. Make people crawl a hundred yards over broken glass on Sunday night at 4 AM in a driving rainstorm to vote. Then only those of us really fucking serious about the whole business will be making the decisions.

even threatens journalists whose investigations have no connection at all with terrorism.

Look at my shocked face :o

-Grey

One cannot help but get the impression that changes from this point forward will resemble consecutive versions of the Windows OS -- more a honing than transformation.

Only if you have the most narrow, linear and unimaginative mind.

-Grey

How do you define ... non-commercial use in this context?

This is the question I've always had with creative commons: just what counts as non-commercial? If I take a BY-NC image off flickr, and want to use it in my blog, is that OK? What if I have google ads on my blog? Is that still OK? Does it make any difference if I'm actually making a profit or not? I've gone so far as to email some of the CC lawyers about this issue, and there seems to be no clear answer.

-Grey

"Don't ask why, that's just how it is." Imagine if you told your kids that.

Like the current TV and radio license fees, the money will support national and local public TV and radio stations.

Shouldn't the money go to supporting internet related media, like podcasts? If I don't have a TV, why should I be forced to pay taxes that support it?

-Grey

My Nipples Explode With Delight writes...

And so, in the October of 2006 the great slashdot war of dirtiest-handle-on-the-frontpage was begun.

-Grey

The patch shows a film reel, a music CD and the international copyright symbol, a "C" enclosed in a circle. The movie industry has developed the curriculum.

Shouldn't the boy scouts decide what their badges are? This is like McD's making the health curriculum for a school.

-Grey

Putting the fair use argument aside for a moment, who thinks it's a good idea to reward people for what they should be doing anyway. Should I expect to be rewarded because I didn't shoplift today or commit murder?

-Grey

Can I get a merit badge for not being a boy scout?

-Grey

So will the telemarketers turn this emotional software on themselves?

Output:
Subject: Telemarketer
Aparent Emotion State: Cheerful
Real Emotional State: Depressed and soul crushed.

-Grey

t seemed to indicate it was more related to customer contact things where the customer is calling about their service, and getting frustrated with the voicemail maze

The standard breakdown is something like: * Linguistic intelligence * Logical-mathematical intelligence * Spatial intelligence * Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence * Musical intelligence * Interpersonal intelligence * Intrapersonal intelligence * Naturalist intelligence

but there are certainly aspects of it that cannot be denied

but I think a fixed duration of copyright, regardless of how long the copyright holder lives, might be better.

I say we tie it to the average life expectancy in the country at the time the work was published.

-Grey

And most unbelievable, a president who understands, and gives a speech in favor of, science. Man, that scene brings a tear to my eye every time.

-Grey

I don't know about anyone else, but I've about had it with eBay. It hasn't improved in the last five years and they slowly nickle and dime you to death. I'd love an article on The Science of Leaving eBay: ten reasonable alternatives.

-Grey

1 in 10? Why, they'll be decimated!

-Grey

Under the new approach, page edits will no longer be immediately applied to pages but will instead have to be approved by an administrator before they become visible. Vandalism or changes which are not approved will not appear.

With the thousands of edits that happen on wikipedia per second, I don't see how this change will do anything but create an impossible backlog.

-Grey

Rules like this are clearly written by those who do not understand the internet well. What counts as 'possession' on the 'net? If I save a picture to my hard drive, that I would say is clearly possession, but what if I'm just looking at it on the originating website? It's clearly on my computer (in RAM) but is that possession?

-Grey

Just how much and how long is it to travel from London to New York by ship these days? It's looking like a more and more attractive option these days with all the pain-in-the-ass travel restrictions.

-Grey

Two hundred innocent people are killed and people are worried that future events like these might cause an IT outage?

Why do we always outsource to places that are stuck in eternal struggles.

The question people need to ask is not, "why should I switch to OpenOffice", but "what is the killer feature in MS Office that I absolutely need?"

Looks like they could use a bit more cash to keep their site up and running.

-Grey

My appartment has one bed, 3 chairs (a gift, I didn't buy those,) a notebook computer, an old filing cabinet (another gift,) a couple of kettles, a frying pan, a steaming pot, some drinking glasses, an oscilloscope, a 3 way power transformer, a digital CPU programmer, an unfinished 3D printer, a few small tools, a VEX robot set with some addons, some clothing, a vacuum cleaner and a few normal household appliences (washer/dryer/fridge/stove/microwave oven/dishwasher.) That is it.

Must. Restrain myself. From making. Lack of girlfriend joke. Arrgh!

-Grey

If you got a couple hundred people to go down to your local Best Buy, they'd probably call the cops.

You mean like this?

-Grey

Voices though... that's a different story.

Yes it is, my precious.

-Grey

That Andy Serkis didn't get nominated for best supporting actor speaks to how out of touch the accademy awards are.

-Grey

No kidding. Bring on the meta-chair-throwing jokes instead.

-Grey

I use Boinc, which lets me divide my time between a bunch of projects. I give about 99% of the time to medical research and 1% to SETI. I think of SETI as the lottery: it's fun to play, inspiring and would change my life if I won, but it's not worth spending a lot of time on. I spend just enough to be in the game.

-Grey

Just like the Daily Show guy.

-Grey

Let's put the blame where it belongs: I have less close friends because I spend too much time on the internet. It's not like the internet's fault, it's mine for taking the easy option.

-Grey