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Let's try some correct, instead of misleading, statistics: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/US_annual_federal_deficits_over_receipts_1901_to_2006.svg

You need to read about what a budget surplus means.

I vote for Peter the Great. His painting looks friendly

He looks too much like Ron Jeremy to be entirely friendly....

I vote for Peter the Great. His painting looks friendly

He looks too much like Ron Jeremy to be entirely friendly....

Take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption and this map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Alcohol_consumption_per_capita_world_map.PNG

I wouldn't say that it supports your thesis very well.. For instance, Spain is 61 places ahead of Norway. Cyprus is 12 places above Russia.

Mod Parent +1 Right The court rules in favor of Allosaurus: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Allosaurus_in_Baltow_20060916_1500.jpg

He looks more like an allosaurus or perhaps a Dryptosaurus

Along the same lines, have you seen the symbol shown in the Wikipedia article. WTF?! Are they trying to make it impossible to freehand draw circuits?

Apple worked around that anyway

I have seen one of those massive floppies in real life.
Until just recently, I saw one of these massive floppies almost every day. I had it pinned on the partition behind my monitor. It was right next to my 3380 disk platter, and my (much later) quote for 300GB of SCSI disk for about $USD500,000.

It was my own mini-museum of data storage.

Yeah, I'm nostalgic. *shrug*

Sidenote for anyone who knows what a 3380 was (or is interested) : I once new a guy who used a 3380 HDA as a base for a glass coffee table.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Cray_2_Arts_et_Metiers_dsc03940.jpg

No, it's called a Vaporator, and it was invented by George Lucas in the 70's: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Luke-Treadwell_close_large.jpg

Here's a picture of the prototype.

Alpha who?

Alpha Centauri, that's who!

That nothing compared to this image sent back by the British probe

This was a triumph?*

No... this was a Triumph!

* sorry, as much as I love portal... it's getting old!

They're also looking into indexing images based on whether they contain boobies.

You mean like these boobies? What about these great tits? And would you tap that ass?

They're also looking into indexing images based on whether they contain boobies.

You mean like these boobies? What about these great tits? And would you tap that ass?

They're also looking into indexing images based on whether they contain boobies.

You mean like these boobies? What about these great tits? And would you tap that ass?

Now we lost Dewey, too.

For me, relative directory changing is only for local boxes. When you routinely log on to equipment all over the country (my country being a bit smaller than yours), you want 'history' to be able to show you exactly where you did what.

Quick, go check in the mirror, I think you have an accessory a bit loose...

That's one o' them thingies that lets a truck go over a river without gettin' all wet.

I can definitely understand how some bridges could be perceived as similar to the ability of the constitution to keep your freedom of speech from becoming submerged.

In other words, stop letting other people write your cue cards for you, think for yourself.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Vote.jpg

Apologies for my crummy artistry. I'm not much of an artist and it's hard to draw with a mouse anyway.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Vote.jpg

Commons:File types - this is what is permitted by the WMF MediaWiki installation.

How about you get one of these instead? Well, more something like the modern version. You can also get those in a slightly adjusted size so you can actually take it with you on your boat or whatever. As for boating I can tell you from experience that they're great.

That is absurd!

You should have shit your undies and flung the poo at the mayor's fuckface head until he pickin' corn kernels out of his nostrils. The nerve of some motherfuckin' mayors like Marion Barry and Kwame Kilpatrick. Git off my astroturf, ya god damn niggas!

Your second design shown in ASCII art: what is that? Is that the form with an over-sized delete button right next to a page-up and page down pair, with the home and end keys on top?

Overall, it sounds like ypu insist on the keyboard layout shown at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pc104_wide_delete_short_enter_xfree86_us_keyboard_full_size.png

Right?

VP: Donald the Death Knight.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Rumsfeld1.jpg/225px-Rumsfeld1.jpg

That's what the new MacFags are indoctrinated with.

After they climb through the ranks, they're able to fit this into their anus, as long as they set it with the screen down on the floor and work their way from the back forward.

The high population of the main belt makes for a very active environment, where collisions between asteroids occur frequently. Collisions between main belt bodies with a mean radius of 10 km are expected to occur about once every 10 million years.

If you were to take a random picture of some place in the belt, you'd get nothing but blackness. If I recall correctly, the average distance between asteroids in the belt is around 100,000 miles. You have an extremely good chance of not hitting anything even by blindly going through.

The joke comes from South Park. In the South Park Episode, "Gnomes", the following sign explains the gnomes' plan to steal underpants: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Gnomes_plan.png .

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Stemmen.jpg

Not complicated at all

hehe, sticking them isn't that much work if you co-opt the kids, but yours are a bit young. painting the constellations properly, yeah, that's a challenge.

as for the changing sky thing, that is why I used the black light. i put a cylinder box around it, with a cardboard cutout on top of the box over the lamp, which projected an ellpse over the whole sky the way those paper planispheres do -- I was only litting up the visible portion of the sky by turning the paper cover of the box with my bare hands.

it was okay, but you had to move around the room for a closer look as the seasons went by ;)

ah, childhood memories ...

The sort of stuff that attracts Template:Nopenis. Wikipedia is not censored for taste.

My hat goes off to you for a decent try, sir. It's more than I can say for the NeverVotedBush's failure to back up his statements.

Cesium-137 does not pose a significant airborne hazard. While it can spread by airborne dispersion, the hazard of Cs-137 is that it is water soluble and is treated by the body as if it were potassium. Cs-137 has a half-life of ~30 years and is one of the key isotopes still posing a potential danger in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

FWIW, much of the dispersion of Cs-137 and Su-90 materials into the food supply were caused by nuclear weapons tests and thus are commonly found around the world. Levels have been dropping since testing ceased.

So what caused the global warming during the mid-Egyptian period (circa 3000 B.C.) or the late Roman Empire? Was it Caesar and his buddies riding around in cars? Maybe it was the air-conditioned villas, or the oil burner-heated homes in Gaul? And what caused the sudden chill from 1350 to 1850? Come on!

To presume global warming is man-made is to (1) commit hubris and (2) ignore the previous cycles which has nothing to do with man.

One more final thing to think about: *We are in the middle of a glacial age.* As long as there is ice on the poles, earth is cooler than its normal condition, which would be tropical. We are currently 3 degrees below the earth's average temperature. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png

Expect global warming rate to accelerate.

Before Sunrise Semester and Captain Kangaroo TV stations aired test patterns, and there was this Indian chief at the top of the test pattern. Evidently he held an exalted position among the gods of TV, who was he? Why isn't he on color bars? What is the technical significance of all those numbers on the test pattern?

There is more about it here, and also a higher res version of the card.

Every drug store used to have a tube tester where you could bring in the vacuum tubes from your TV to see if they needed replacement.

Ah, trips to the hardware store with my dad. He'd look up the tube number in that plastic flip chart thingy. Then he would let me set those big black plastic dials. Let the tube heat up, then push a button, and see if the needle jumped up to a green area.

When you turned off the TV, there was a little white dot that remained in the middle of the screen.

Wow, *THAT* dot! And then they got Walter Cronkite out of bed too early, and he really had bags under his eyes . . . and then Alan Shepard hit golf balls on the Moon!

What is the technical significance of all those numbers on the test pattern?

Alas, my dad would be able to tell you that. He designed television transmitter antenna for RCA. His biggest work went down with the World Trade Center. Sniff, sniff :-(

We didn't have color TV until I was 7.

Things you probably don't remember about TV.

TV didn't used to be all night. After Johnny Carson the booth announcer would come on and read a long blurb about how the station is licensed by the FCC to transmit from Mt. Foobar with a radiated power of blah blah and serve the public interest blah blather.

Then they would show a film of a military band playing The Star-Spangled Banner and then they would turn off the transmitter, filling your living room with snow and white noise.

TV used to be three channels which is why millions of people voluntarily watched programs like Gilligan's Island or Mr. Ed. It took an act of Congress to set up a fourth channel.

Every drug store used to have a tube tester where you could bring in the vacuum tubes from your TV to see if they needed replacement.

When you turned off the TV, there was a little white dot that remained in the middle of the screen.

Before Sunrise Semester and Captain Kangaroo TV stations aired test patterns, and there was this Indian chief at the top of the test pattern. Evidently he held an exalted position among the gods of TV, who was he? Why isn't he on color bars? What is the technical significance of all those numbers on the test pattern?

I know of an easier, cheaper solution that nobody seems to want for some reason. Shame.

These people really need to lighten up and learn to deal with it.

Define 'illegal material'. Is a nipple illegle? What if it is a male nipple? What if you can't see if it is male or female? What about a penis? What about this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Penis_Anatomy.gif

The problem with censorship is that is can't be foolproof.

You cast aside a lot of things, thinking that it will break down the discussion to the bare essentials of censorship. Unfortunatly the things you cast aside are part of censorship and as why it would be bad.

Censorship is a technical solution to a social problem. Wether this is books, images or the internet. It is a social decison made by emotional beings. There is no technical asnwer to it. There WILL be false positives and false negatives. Even if each item is screened by a commission, there will be falso positives and false negatives. You can not leave that out if the discussion.

The problem is that it is percieved that the false negatives are worse then the false postives. The only way to solve this is highten the treshold. This means less (not 0) false negatives and more false positives.
An even higher treshold will make the number closer to 0, but will also filter out much more. At a certain moment you will have nothing left, because everything is filterd.

For that reason people could get arrested to send images of their nekid baby to grandma.

Tell your legislator that you are watching them very closely on this issue, and if they vote in favor of it, they won't be your legislator for much longer, because you will organize a campaign to de-elect them in two, four, or however many years it takes. Add that you won't allow your right to free speech to be trampled. That written speech should NEVER be censored no matter what it might be, and that anybody who supports censorship of webpages deserves the label "book burner" and include a picture like so: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG/250px-1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG

Here in the States there are certain persons who want to block internet downloads of "Huckleberry Finn" because they think it's racist. Well, anybody who's actually read the book knows it is the exact opposite of racist, and in fact teaches a lesson about how blacks are no different than whites. Fortunately for us, our government agrees and does not censor Mark Twain's greatest novel.

Unfortunately for Aussies, your government doesn't have the common sense God granted a jackass. They are the 2000-era equivalent of book burners.

Look at some pictures of famous people in their late-20s and early-30s from two hundred years ago. They look like they're in their forties or fifties, compared to our standards for today. It's not a stretch to imagine that, in the 23rd century, a 30 year old will resemble (to our eyes) a young adult (16 to 22).

Ref: Look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Declaration_independence.jpg. Notice how old Thomas Jefferson (tall figure in middle) looks. This painting is based on what he looked like 33, but he looks like an old man of 50.

Arrrggg ... my eyes! The Fiat Multipla (above) is truely the Goatse of cars, closely followed by the pathetically weedy Renault Twingo and pre-2002 Nissan Micra :])

Arrrggg ... my eyes! The Fiat Multipla (above) is truely the Goatse of cars, closely followed by the pathetically weedy Renault Twingo and pre-2002 Nissan Micra :])

Is it just me, or did they increase the bezel on the Macbook Pro by like 30-40%??

Before: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/MacBook_Pro.jpg
After: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/mbp05.jpg

Here is most of that list in pretty graph form: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Windows_Family_Tree.png

Even though there is no Wikipedia article, Wikimedia Commons appears to have an annotated illustration:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Taylor_column_rising_ball.png