Actually, SCO is more like gollum. It's pathetic, corrupted, and still capable of doing some evil and cause harm.. but it is rotten and will not live much longer, and he may yet have some part to play in all this before the end:)
The scene in the mirror where sam is whiped by an orc is not from the scourge, but from the part when they join the orc company in mordor heading to the orc camp.
Mhmmm haven't seen them around here in Buenos Aires, but if I see them, I'll try to get them a special tour to tierra del fuego and "accidentally" lose the return tickets:)
Not only that, studying a language gives you a better understanding of the people's way of organizing thoughts, understanding and expressing things. From an anthropological perspective, it's an incredibly valuable resource.
exactly WHERE did you work on fingerprints? not only it works perfectly well in crmiminal investigations, it's used both for person identification and latent recognition around the world with great results.
In the article they say accuracy is around 98% which is perfectly wrong. In some devices like sagem's morphotouch , accuracy is around 99,98%. And that's what you get from mobile identification devices. AFIS systems, used by the police to identify persons and latent prints (there's a difference between searching for a tenprint card and a single latent print taken from a crime scene) are always operated by fingerprint experts, who just use thi s instead of a magnifying glass.You scan a tenprint, you get a list of (about 10 or 20) candidates, with the most likely on top, compare prints, then decide if the person has been identified or not.
Fingerprints are unique enough, and are a great method (albeit not perfect, just like any other) to identify persons. Normally biometric devices used for this kind of stuff don't use thumbs, but *both* indexes. not only indexes have more variety of patterns statistically, but having to check both reduces the possibility of a false id dramatically. And indexes are (statistically) the fingers less likely to be missing in someone's hand.
I put up with commercials on TV because thats what pays for TV content.
remember those days when you had no ads on cable because, as opposed to air TV, you actually paid a monthly fee for the service?
Now not only you pay, but you STILL have to put up with ads, AND (as if that wasn't enough) channels like HBO want to charge a 'plus' because they're 'premium' channels
before they bundled it (and made it a pain in the ass to remove msn if you intended to use OE), icq was a lot more used than msn. I used to communicate with coworkers using icq, now many of them use msn 'because it comes with the pc and works just the same as icq'
Agreed. you can not know the entire source code, but if you are going to sell a product, it is your responsibility to be aware of what you are selling exactly.
Don't worry. The Police, the FBI, etc use the index fingers for identification, not the thumbs. Let them get the thumb, the only use they got for it is sticking it up their a$$;)
oh that must be that 'freedom of speech' you always talk about (asi if no other country had it). You can say whatever you want, but if you don't like it I'll attack you (verbally).. how nice, you actually proved the original post right
who said iraq wants a democracy? did anybody ask them if that's what they want? I'm just wondering.. did anybody ask them? how? who? who are we to decide what their government should be like?
Oh my! you're told you're a poor member of the world community! If third world countries don't do what they're told, they get sanctioned economically or sometimes even worse. It's a complicated topic to discuss like this, and besides we got way offtopic already. Here's an article that sort of summarizes my opinion in this matter:
First, I'm not talking about penalizing anyone, just about letting us alone. Second, it's not just a matter of stop using american products or not going to macdonald's. The US got almos complete control over most markets worldwide, not just economically, but sociologically, politically, etc. what part of -we have no choice- didn't you understand? you think we want to end up like cuba? (did you think for a moment that cuba would be as poor as it is if they didn't have an embargo on them?
Oh, i forgot, it's not just 'a website talking about americans doing it'. If you had bothered looking at the site, you'd see that it belongs to a non-lucrative american organization supported bye Cheney and Wolfowitz among others: people who ALREADY ARE part of the US government, and in non-trivial positions.
let's see.. where can I begin...
Bullying. Ok. Here's a page with amounts of USAID that have been given to South America and Mexico.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/aid/aid96/Assi st ance/current.html
How does this mean the US are not bullying??? It's like in iraq: strike them, tear the country to pieces, then help them rebuild? why don't they just DON'T attack them in the first place?
If I punch you in the face and break your nose, then give you a band aid, I'm a good guy(tm)?
HERE is a common viewpoint of a South American:
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/US Ai d.asp
As you can see, despite the fact that the US is the largest provider of foreign aid both globally and specifically in South America, we are told that it's not enough because we have to pay a certain percent.
Again, you show how nice they are in helping us. It is no good to help people if a) that money gets invested in american companies or businesses that attend only to american interests, b) they use it as a cohersion factor in making every country pass whatever laws are good for US business (happens here every day). You don't control a country only by direct political means, you know.
I don't care how much the US helps us economically. It's useless. If they REALLY wanted to help us, they'd leave us alone, stop pushing us around with the IMF and such, and let us take our own decisions and help ourselves out of the crap we're in. Why do you think the US gives that money away? why do you think the IMF always puts new restrictions on payment options and always maks it harder and harder for us to pay our debt? have you thought that maybe they DONT WANT us to pay? they have us under control. As of now, laws are being passed which are dictated by the IMF, and countries who give economical 'help', to promote their business here, which let me assure you, do not benefit the local population. Did you know that most of the oil extraction rights in the patagonia (that is south of argentina) were sold to the US? I assure you, we didn't sell it willingly. Did you know that most of the territory is being SOLD? that zone is one of the biggest sources for one resource the US wants to control, which will become pretty important in the next decades: water.
there is already US military presence here. Do you think we WANT them here? we have no choice. Any country that does something the US doesn't like gets embargoes away. Look at cuba. How strange, the US attacks iraq to liberate the people from the evil dictator, yet cuba continues empoverishing and fidel stills smokes his cigars... and they're MUCH closer to continental US. damn, I have so many things to say about this... I just don't have the time, I'd really like to meet you and talk this out while having a beer. Every time I read posts like this i get the feeling that they come from people who know only what the press or the government (which are almos the same) feeds them, and haven't ever seen what it's like outside their shiny beautiful country. Please don't take offense at this, it's nothing personal.. I just whish you could live in argentina or bolivia or whatever 3rd world country for a couple of months, or years, to really see what is going on.
well i was going to continue criticizing the points you were making, but i have no time.. if you want to talk about this i'm on irc.limanet.com.ar, #irctolkien
Bush and previous US presidents have been bullying the rest of the world for decades. Come live in south america for a couple of years, and maybe you'll understand.
You know, maybe you wouldn't need to stop terrorists if you didn't give them a reason to take on you. It's like you piss someone off, then when they are about to riposte, you try to stop them.. If Mr Bush, and previous administration really did care about their people safety more than they care about personal (economic/power) interests, they wouldn't have put the US in that situation. But no, they HAVE to rule the world, whatever the cost (check www.newamericancentury.org). Trying to force everyone under your 'leadership' isn't a great way to stop them hating you, you know.. and it's not very democratic either, especially from those who use that word a zillion times a day to justify their involvement in other countries's affairs
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mmmmhh if SCO is Shelob, then we could say Microsoft is Ungoliant? :)
Actually, SCO is more like gollum. It's pathetic, corrupted, and still capable of doing some evil and cause harm.. but it is rotten and will not live much longer, and he may yet have some part to play in all this before the end :)
I knew the church of scientology was behind this!
The scene in the mirror where sam is whiped by an orc is not from the scourge, but from the part when they join the orc company in mordor heading to the orc camp.
As Yoda would have said:
"LOTR leads to fantasy,
fantasy leads to roleplay,
roleplay leads to nerdity..
and I sense much LOTR in you"
Mhmmm haven't seen them around here in Buenos Aires, but if I see them, I'll try to get them a special tour to tierra del fuego and "accidentally" lose the return tickets :)
Not only that, studying a language gives you a better understanding of the people's way of organizing thoughts, understanding and expressing things. From an anthropological perspective, it's an incredibly valuable resource.
exactly WHERE did you work on fingerprints? not only it works perfectly well in crmiminal investigations, it's used both for person identification and latent recognition around the world with great results.
In the article they say accuracy is around 98% which is perfectly wrong. In some devices like sagem's morphotouch , accuracy is around 99,98%. And that's what you get from mobile identification devices. AFIS systems, used by the police to identify persons and latent prints (there's a difference between searching for a tenprint card and a single latent print taken from a crime scene) are always operated by fingerprint experts, who just use thi s instead of a magnifying glass.You scan a tenprint, you get a list of (about 10 or 20) candidates, with the most likely on top, compare prints, then decide if the person has been identified or not.
Fingerprints are unique enough, and are a great method (albeit not perfect, just like any other) to identify persons. Normally biometric devices used for this kind of stuff don't use thumbs, but *both* indexes. not only indexes have more variety of patterns statistically, but having to check both reduces the possibility of a false id dramatically. And indexes are (statistically) the fingers less likely to be missing in someone's hand.
Evev better, you can torrent it
Same here, and as a student too, using debian, gentoo and slack.
This has just gone too far.
I put up with commercials on TV because thats what pays for TV content.
remember those days when you had no ads on cable because, as opposed to air TV, you actually paid a monthly fee for the service?
Now not only you pay, but you STILL have to put up with ads, AND (as if that wasn't enough) channels like HBO want to charge a 'plus' because they're 'premium' channels
fuck'em, i say.
EXACTLY
before they bundled it (and made it a pain in the ass to remove msn if you intended to use OE), icq was a lot more used than msn. I used to communicate with coworkers using icq, now many of them use msn 'because it comes with the pc and works just the same as icq'
Ah, so you can die of hunger buy you won't catch a cold! that's what I call an era of plenty.
Right..
Relative to a hundred years ago, this is an era of plenty.
tell that to the millions of people dying of starvation in 3rd world countries.
This is not plenty, but merely further misdistribution.
Agreed.
you can not know the entire source code, but if you are going to sell a product, it is your responsibility to be aware of what you are selling exactly.
I've never tried RH's kickstart disks, but what about dd ?
Don't worry. The Police, the FBI, etc use the index fingers for identification, not the thumbs. Let them get the thumb, the only use they got for it is sticking it up their a$$ ;)
oh that must be that 'freedom of speech' you always talk about (asi if no other country had it). You can say whatever you want, but if you don't like it I'll attack you (verbally).. how nice, you actually proved the original post right
wait.
who said iraq wants a democracy? did anybody ask them if that's what they want? I'm just wondering.. did anybody ask them? how? who? who are we to decide what their government should be like?
not ranting, I just can't find answers to this.
Oh my! you're told you're a poor member of the world community!
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If third world countries don't do what they're told, they get sanctioned economically or sometimes even worse. It's a complicated topic to discuss like this, and besides we got way offtopic already.
Here's an article that sort of summarizes my opinion in this matter:
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws99/imperialism
You mean the same way Saddam stops the people of iraq from hating him?
First, I'm not talking about penalizing anyone, just about letting us alone.
Second, it's not just a matter of stop using american products or not going to macdonald's. The US got almos complete control over most markets worldwide, not just economically, but sociologically, politically, etc.
what part of -we have no choice- didn't you understand? you think we want to end up like cuba? (did you think for a moment that cuba would be as poor as it is if they didn't have an embargo on them?
Oh, i forgot, it's not just 'a website talking about americans doing it'. If you had bothered looking at the site, you'd see that it belongs to a non-lucrative american organization supported bye Cheney and Wolfowitz among others: people who ALREADY ARE part of the US government, and in non-trivial positions.
It sounds VERY scary to me
you're so naive i can't believe it.
let's see.. where can I begin...
Bullying. Ok. Here's a page with amounts of USAID that have been given to South America and Mexico. http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/aid/aid96/Assi st ance/current.html
How does this mean the US are not bullying??? It's like in iraq: strike them, tear the country to pieces, then help them rebuild? why don't they just DON'T attack them in the first place? If I punch you in the face and break your nose, then give you a band aid, I'm a good guy(tm)?
HERE is a common viewpoint of a South American: http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/US Ai d.asp As you can see, despite the fact that the US is the largest provider of foreign aid both globally and specifically in South America, we are told that it's not enough because we have to pay a certain percent.
Again, you show how nice they are in helping us. It is no good to help people if a) that money gets invested in american companies or businesses that attend only to american interests, b) they use it as a cohersion factor in making every country pass whatever laws are good for US business (happens here every day). You don't control a country only by direct political means, you know. I don't care how much the US helps us economically. It's useless. If they REALLY wanted to help us, they'd leave us alone, stop pushing us around with the IMF and such, and let us take our own decisions and help ourselves out of the crap we're in. Why do you think the US gives that money away? why do you think the IMF always puts new restrictions on payment options and always maks it harder and harder for us to pay our debt? have you thought that maybe they DONT WANT us to pay? they have us under control. As of now, laws are being passed which are dictated by the IMF, and countries who give economical 'help', to promote their business here, which let me assure you, do not benefit the local population. Did you know that most of the oil extraction rights in the patagonia (that is south of argentina) were sold to the US? I assure you, we didn't sell it willingly. Did you know that most of the territory is being SOLD? that zone is one of the biggest sources for one resource the US wants to control, which will become pretty important in the next decades: water.
there is already US military presence here. Do you think we WANT them here? we have no choice. Any country that does something the US doesn't like gets embargoes away. Look at cuba. How strange, the US attacks iraq to liberate the people from the evil dictator, yet cuba continues empoverishing and fidel stills smokes his cigars... and they're MUCH closer to continental US. damn, I have so many things to say about this... I just don't have the time, I'd really like to meet you and talk this out while having a beer. Every time I read posts like this i get the feeling that they come from people who know only what the press or the government (which are almos the same) feeds them, and haven't ever seen what it's like outside their shiny beautiful country. Please don't take offense at this, it's nothing personal.. I just whish you could live in argentina or bolivia or whatever 3rd world country for a couple of months, or years, to really see what is going on.
well i was going to continue criticizing the points you were making, but i have no time.. if you want to talk about this i'm on irc.limanet.com.ar, #irctolkien
Bush and previous US presidents have been bullying the rest of the world for decades. Come live in south america for a couple of years, and maybe you'll understand.
You know, maybe you wouldn't need to stop terrorists if you didn't give them a reason to take on you. It's like you piss someone off, then when they are about to riposte, you try to stop them.. If Mr Bush, and previous administration really did care about their people safety more than they care about personal (economic/power) interests, they wouldn't have put the US in that situation. But no, they HAVE to rule the world, whatever the cost (check www.newamericancentury.org).
Trying to force everyone under your 'leadership' isn't a great way to stop them hating you, you know.. and it's not very democratic either, especially from those who use that word a zillion times a day to justify their involvement in other countries's affairs