Stop with the silly Iran thing, really. If I break Iranian law by actions in the US without ever having my actions affect any aspect of Iranian society/economy, etc then my actions, not only unknown in Iran, will have no impact on Iran. HOWEVER, when non-US folks break laws that have direct impact on US companies and US citizens INSIDE the US (and they use US computer services)then of course they are fair game to be prosecuted. Sorry you don't like the long arm of the law, but if I start messing with French companies from the US then France certainly has the right to seek me out. Not that France has the backbone for that sort of thing, but still...
Regulations are so tight that Mr. Hamm has only been able to make the top 50 wealthiest Americans. This administration is killing billionaires! When a hard working man can't go from say, number 33 to number 5 in total wealth, it is time for us to realize Obama is killing oil production! (and now for something completely different)
Hamm has the nerve to say Obama is killing US oil with regulations?? How the hell have we ramped up production in the last 5 years if the regulations are so bad? Why are companies developing the Bakken if regulations are so bad? More like they aren't making as much money as they want. Cause billions upon billions just is never enough... never enough. The greed is beyond repulsive; it's psychotic.
(Happily will admit that US production helps keeps gas prices from soaring. I am not complaining about oil production. I am pointing out the greed of these bastards is insatiable.)
Assuming they don't do anything stupid to themselves, NewEgg is going to be just fine.
Newegg announced today they will split into two businesses. One business will allow you to have 3 pieces of hardware out at a time, and the other business will allow you to stream as much hardware video as you want. Oh, dang, wrong company.... (back to making widgets....)
Fellas, how about next time we turn off "Stream of Consciousness Dork Babble" for those of us who don't need to feel like we're in a WoW pug raid while watching amazing beta content of DIII.
This is going to be the first sustained wind even for most areas north of NC. MANY dead and weak branches and trees will be knocked down by Irene. I suspect a mess of power lines are gonna be knocked down. I doubt anyone is in grave peril here (it's too perilous!). But millions of folks will spend the weekend and longer without power. Trust a bayou dweller; get the stinky stuff out'cha freezer and fridge. After 3 days it gets nasty. Good luck.
The Magicians and The Magician King (by Lev Grossman) are very cool fantasy books (imho). Sure there are tons of Narnia and Potter parallels, but it was nice to see wizardry from a darker, adult perspective. If nothing else, I think you're right, a chance to discover new authors.
And no, getting another job somewhere else is not an option. Changing my profession is not an option. Sacrificing what little comfort in life I have for your stupid ideas is NOT a FUCKING OPTION!
Not to be a troll, but why are ideas that conflict with yours "stupid?" I'd say many, many things are changeable options in your life you just don't have the will or means to overcome the obstacles. I think way up top I saw a good analysis of the situation. Come 2050 gas will be so expensive that you will be BEGGING your government to solve your problems for you. "Get me to work! Changing my job is not an option! Changing where I live is not an option! CHANGING POLITICIANS that don't give me what I NEED now now now IS an option!! GIVE ME for I DEMAND you fix my cost of travel." - Kokuyo circa 2047
I know this will cost me, but hell, just throwing it out.
For all the people we save with vaccines (I believe; my kids are full of em) are we setting ourselves up as a planet for creating a bigger dinner party in the future? Of course we have to save as many of people as we can and sort out the issues in the future. But where is the follow up after we save millions of lives? Are those lives sustained? Are the means to support them sustainable? Just hope we can conjure arable land and water as easily as we have conjured magic potions.
What the Catholic church did for geocentrism in the Renaissance, the mega churches and funny-mental Christians are now doing for intelligent design. With all of our problems at hand I wish I lived in a nation that was mature enough to focus on important tasks and not obsess on homosexuality and evolution. Sadly, some children will visit the http://creationmuseum.org/ "Children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden's Rivers" (I swear, I'm not making that up) and have their beliefs reinforced as fact. Seriously! Creation, like Santa, should not be taken seriously as an explanation for how things have come to be.
I am not going for flames, I am being honest here. I teach at what would be called a "rich kids" school (in a medium sized metro area of 1.2 million), even though the real rich kids schools are even higher up the tuition scale than my school. I bring this up to point out what seems to be most important to a vast majority of "elite" families: playing, starting and excelling on sports teams. Science club? What kind of dork does that!? Focus most time on studies? Loser! I fear much of our nation is stuck in a trap where parents are reliving their lives and the kids are feeding like crack addicts off of this behavior. What the hell kind of future do we have when the "top" young people of the future will sit around at board meetings talking about the time they caught the game winning touchdown in a flag football game played in 8th grade?
Solving that distribution problem wouldn't take more resources now, would it? Moving all "that food we can produce" would happen with magic fairy dust, right, not fossil fuels. Distributing all that food would happen with magic neo-awesome materials, not vessels made of iron. And certainly, we'd grow all the food the world needs with mythical unicorn tears, and not the already stretched supply of clean, fresh water. Sure, it's a distribution problem that will NOT BE FIXED without massive amounts of... gasp!... resources. You don't have to believe we are running low on many key components to modern life. In 30 years from now you will live it. And if China and India come anywhere close to a fully developed economy that allows the majority of its residents to live "modern" lives you'll be lucky to get 15 years of your comfortable life before the serious difficulties begin. What's easier to accept, "This is a load of crap! Pass me the bucket o' wings, I gotta watch this in high-def" or... "Damn it, I'm a part of the problem, too!?"
I hate to be a crazy fanboi, but is this a "Holy shit" news moment?? I have been telling my middle school geography students for years that plants can harness solar power cheaply and easily. Are plants smarter than us? Maybe we are turning a corner with this one. Watch out plants, we are on to you! And we just might be on to the greatest break in energy production known to mankind. Once we harness the power of the sun we step up a rung on the advanced civilization ladder. Hooray for bad ass MIT scientists!!
You, too, are capable of some thought... Try this on for size... Population in the "not developed world" - How many iPods are those kids getting at Christmas? Elmo dolls? How many toys? What about XBox, PSP, Nintendo? Are they eating tons of beef and drinking gallons of milk produced in the "developed world"? What about the average caloric intake in the "not developed world"? Does it approach what fat American/European and developed Asian kids and grownups eat? How much energy goes into the production of their food compared to modern food? I would love to know exactly the ratios of child:resources in the developed and non-developed world. I think it's a fair guess (yup, that's all this is) that developed lifestyles over the span of a lifetime so far over-consume resources compared to those in the non developed world as to be scary. If I am wrong I would love to hear about it. (I didn't even get to construction, transportation, medicine, space exploration and defense spending) The non-developed world will not lead the way in consumption of resources until they become... the developed world. And then they join the all-you-can eat buffet. Calvin be damned (which he may be), it is going to be far beyond "interesting" in the next 50 years.
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Stop with the silly Iran thing, really. If I break Iranian law by actions in the US without ever having my actions affect any aspect of Iranian society/economy, etc then my actions, not only unknown in Iran, will have no impact on Iran. HOWEVER, when non-US folks break laws that have direct impact on US companies and US citizens INSIDE the US (and they use US computer services)then of course they are fair game to be prosecuted. Sorry you don't like the long arm of the law, but if I start messing with French companies from the US then France certainly has the right to seek me out. Not that France has the backbone for that sort of thing, but still...
+1 to that
Well, labeling someone a virgin on Slashdot is about as redundant as..... all those shark jokes....
Yeah? What about Bieber!? You got lots of apologizing to do!
Regulations are so tight that Mr. Hamm has only been able to make the top 50 wealthiest Americans. This administration is killing billionaires! When a hard working man can't go from say, number 33 to number 5 in total wealth, it is time for us to realize Obama is killing oil production! (and now for something completely different)
Hamm has the nerve to say Obama is killing US oil with regulations?? How the hell have we ramped up production in the last 5 years if the regulations are so bad? Why are companies developing the Bakken if regulations are so bad? More like they aren't making as much money as they want. Cause billions upon billions just is never enough... never enough. The greed is beyond repulsive; it's psychotic.
(Happily will admit that US production helps keeps gas prices from soaring. I am not complaining about oil production. I am pointing out the greed of these bastards is insatiable.)
Assuming they don't do anything stupid to themselves, NewEgg is going to be just fine.
Newegg announced today they will split into two businesses. One business will allow you to have 3 pieces of hardware out at a time, and the other business will allow you to stream as much hardware video as you want. Oh, dang, wrong company.... (back to making widgets....)
Fellas, how about next time we turn off "Stream of Consciousness Dork Babble" for those of us who don't need to feel like we're in a WoW pug raid while watching amazing beta content of DIII.
"Don't you want a body?" Ahhh yes, the eternal Slashdot quest...
This is going to be the first sustained wind even for most areas north of NC. MANY dead and weak branches and trees will be knocked down by Irene. I suspect a mess of power lines are gonna be knocked down. I doubt anyone is in grave peril here (it's too perilous!). But millions of folks will spend the weekend and longer without power. Trust a bayou dweller; get the stinky stuff out'cha freezer and fridge. After 3 days it gets nasty. Good luck.
Thanks, Rob. You've given us a great part of our a web life. Best wishes on your next path.
The Magicians and The Magician King (by Lev Grossman) are very cool fantasy books (imho). Sure there are tons of Narnia and Potter parallels, but it was nice to see wizardry from a darker, adult perspective. If nothing else, I think you're right, a chance to discover new authors.
"hard to reach regions of the human anatomy"
Ah yes, the perpetual struggle of Slashdudes everywhere.... Meeting those that posses such "regions" is a prerequisite to reaching said regions....
I think they mean "Crakcer-assed cracker sized" satellites.
And no, getting another job somewhere else is not an option. Changing my profession is not an option. Sacrificing what little comfort in life I have for your stupid ideas is NOT a FUCKING OPTION!
Not to be a troll, but why are ideas that conflict with yours "stupid?" I'd say many, many things are changeable options in your life you just don't have the will or means to overcome the obstacles. I think way up top I saw a good analysis of the situation. Come 2050 gas will be so expensive that you will be BEGGING your government to solve your problems for you. "Get me to work! Changing my job is not an option! Changing where I live is not an option! CHANGING POLITICIANS that don't give me what I NEED now now now IS an option!! GIVE ME for I DEMAND you fix my cost of travel." - Kokuyo circa 2047
Trojan called. They want to discuss their new ad campaign using your slogan.
I know this will cost me, but hell, just throwing it out.
For all the people we save with vaccines (I believe; my kids are full of em) are we setting ourselves up as a planet for creating a bigger dinner party in the future? Of course we have to save as many of people as we can and sort out the issues in the future. But where is the follow up after we save millions of lives? Are those lives sustained? Are the means to support them sustainable? Just hope we can conjure arable land and water as easily as we have conjured magic potions.
What the Catholic church did for geocentrism in the Renaissance, the mega churches and funny-mental Christians are now doing for intelligent design. With all of our problems at hand I wish I lived in a nation that was mature enough to focus on important tasks and not obsess on homosexuality and evolution. Sadly, some children will visit the http://creationmuseum.org/ "Children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden's Rivers" (I swear, I'm not making that up) and have their beliefs reinforced as fact. Seriously! Creation, like Santa, should not be taken seriously as an explanation for how things have come to be.
I am not going for flames, I am being honest here. I teach at what would be called a "rich kids" school (in a medium sized metro area of 1.2 million), even though the real rich kids schools are even higher up the tuition scale than my school. I bring this up to point out what seems to be most important to a vast majority of "elite" families: playing, starting and excelling on sports teams. Science club? What kind of dork does that!? Focus most time on studies? Loser! I fear much of our nation is stuck in a trap where parents are reliving their lives and the kids are feeding like crack addicts off of this behavior. What the hell kind of future do we have when the "top" young people of the future will sit around at board meetings talking about the time they caught the game winning touchdown in a flag football game played in 8th grade?
So always marry an ugly girl, Cause that's the only kind. She'll never ever leave you And if she does, you won't mind.
Solving that distribution problem wouldn't take more resources now, would it? Moving all "that food we can produce" would happen with magic fairy dust, right, not fossil fuels. Distributing all that food would happen with magic neo-awesome materials, not vessels made of iron. And certainly, we'd grow all the food the world needs with mythical unicorn tears, and not the already stretched supply of clean, fresh water. Sure, it's a distribution problem that will NOT BE FIXED without massive amounts of... gasp!... resources. You don't have to believe we are running low on many key components to modern life. In 30 years from now you will live it. And if China and India come anywhere close to a fully developed economy that allows the majority of its residents to live "modern" lives you'll be lucky to get 15 years of your comfortable life before the serious difficulties begin. What's easier to accept, "This is a load of crap! Pass me the bucket o' wings, I gotta watch this in high-def" or... "Damn it, I'm a part of the problem, too!?"
To be fair, I thought so far more scientists had been sent into orbit than uber-rich people
You, sir, are correct!
Don't know about India, but in the US most of us consider due process pretty damned important.
I hate to be a crazy fanboi, but is this a "Holy shit" news moment?? I have been telling my middle school geography students for years that plants can harness solar power cheaply and easily. Are plants smarter than us? Maybe we are turning a corner with this one. Watch out plants, we are on to you! And we just might be on to the greatest break in energy production known to mankind. Once we harness the power of the sun we step up a rung on the advanced civilization ladder. Hooray for bad ass MIT scientists!!
You, too, are capable of some thought... Try this on for size... Population in the "not developed world" - How many iPods are those kids getting at Christmas? Elmo dolls? How many toys? What about XBox, PSP, Nintendo? Are they eating tons of beef and drinking gallons of milk produced in the "developed world"? What about the average caloric intake in the "not developed world"? Does it approach what fat American/European and developed Asian kids and grownups eat? How much energy goes into the production of their food compared to modern food? I would love to know exactly the ratios of child:resources in the developed and non-developed world. I think it's a fair guess (yup, that's all this is) that developed lifestyles over the span of a lifetime so far over-consume resources compared to those in the non developed world as to be scary. If I am wrong I would love to hear about it. (I didn't even get to construction, transportation, medicine, space exploration and defense spending) The non-developed world will not lead the way in consumption of resources until they become... the developed world. And then they join the all-you-can eat buffet. Calvin be damned (which he may be), it is going to be far beyond "interesting" in the next 50 years.
Thank Mohammad/Jesus for High Fructose Corn Syrup. Our kids would be so damn skinny and frail without that fricken gem.