For those that cant be bothered to click the wikipedia link, a shibboleth is a mythical creature, like the minotaur or the shakira.
Actually, the truth is funnier than that. The word is Hebrew in origin, used to distinguish race because the Effriam tribe could not pronounce the "sh" sound.
The word means simply "oatmeal", and the children of Effriam would pronounce their oatmeal as "siboboleth" (no "sh"), which made them easy to identify.
The superior product doesn't always win. Just ask apple for Christ's sakes. Apple is an example of what good marketing and good name brand gets for you. They producte inferior product but people still buy in droves. Whereas Microsoft can produxe the best product in the world and the people still won't use based on name. Unfortunate, it it will be hard for people to wash the mouth out of the bad taste from precious Microsoft screwing them.
I'm not a Mac user, but for many years I felt that the opposite was true: Apple had the superior product, but everybody used Wintel systems. This was true at least for the 1998-2005 period, after which Apple got into marketing and released their media players. I'm actually surprised to hear that they are the inferior product now, so I must ask: which Apple product are you to comparing to which competing product? Are you considering desktop PCs to be Apple's core competence, or cellular phones, or what?
It is not a great solution. What happens when you don't live at ground level but on the second , third or 100th floor?
Why does that matter? The system cares about "where does Pablo Pyeterovnichoskayovski Schendenstalvesialvskidurnik the Eleventinth return at the end of the day", not "how to identify which butt cheek to put this vaccination in". Even Western addresses apply to more than one individual, for instance my wife and children all share the same address with me, and the Beduin men share an address with four wifes and children.
Less able to be maneuvered at close range or in buildings
With the sliding butt slid closed, I actually can maneuver around a building more confidently with a M-4 than with a CZ. I keep it pointed low, with the butt in the armpit. The CZ had to be kept high, meaning that an attacker could surprise me and take it, and if I were to use it I would probably be more likely to target the upper body than with the M-4. Also, I like the fact that the M-4 was strapped to me! As with all things related to firearms, it is a matter of training, but I disagree with the blanket statement that pistols are more maneuverable at close range or in buildings.
It's also common parlance among anyone who deals with guns.
I suppose it's like the term "pointy nose" for carrier crew. It's a standard term for anybody who deals with the things daily, but for the intelligent layman to read it in a news article about a subject outside his field, it sounds like the journalist being an idiot (which is the case more often than not).
Those addresses do send autoresponses, though they lack the new email address because I don't want it going to spammers as well. However, the people still mailing that address most certainly have my new address as well, on an individual basis!
Since LA to SF is about 400 miles along the surface and the earth's circumference is about 25000 miles this means arc length is about 0.016 radians. thus 25000/2/pi*(1-cos(0.016/2)) = 0.127 miles. so the center of this would be roughly 1/8th of a mile buried or 672 feet at the deepest point
Now imagine a gradient 200 units long, which slopes down for 1/8th of a unit. What rate of acceleration do you imagine a craft sliding with no friction down that gradient will have? And with friction? Now do you see the need for propulsion?
That doesn't readily correct the behavior of others that send to a given e-mail address though.
You are right, there is no fix for that! I monitor addresses that I've not sent mail from for years, my regular contacts _still_ email those addresses even though I've told them not to and those addresses send replies stating that the address is no longer active. I just pretend that I've never seen the mails sent there in most cases.
i once had a bum sadly asking me for a snickers bar he saw in my car because he thought i looked too nice to have a car broken into. i didn't know whether to appreciate the sentiment or be alarmed. i just stood there confused.
i guess that's an example of a barrier that kept an honest person honest... to this day, i'm still confused about that encounter.
You have left us in complete suspense. Did you give him the Snickers bar?
Thunderbird is perhaps my most-used application after VIM. It is a wonderful app that does what it does WELL. I use all the features mentioned above, plus I use the terrific Virtual Identity addon to manage my outgoing addresses with a catch-all domain. It properly supports reading and composing in all the languages that I use, including Right-To-Left languages. It is always available from a KDE keyboard shortcut no matter what tabs I have open in the browser, and when the browser hangs (Firefox does this often, probably due to a faulty addon) I can still use it.
And for the final touch, with Thunderbird (or any other local email client) I can back up my emails along with the rest of my system.
I can't tell you how many times I've sat there throwing money at my television and nobody would take it. If the copyright holder won't let me buy it, then I feel no guilt about torrenting it.
I agree with you 100%. I was addressing those who do have proper channels to acquire media.
Patriotism is a disease that makes a moron believe (s)he's better than someone else because (s)he's better than someone else because they were squeezed from a vagina that either already was a citizen of a country or squeezed from it in said country.
Unless you're ass was the one planted in the pod which landed on the moon, you're the asshole who thinks Armstrong said "On small step for the United States". A man landed and walked on the moon and you make this about national boundaries? This is about what we can accomplish as human beings if we set our minds to it. Using something that barely counts as a computer and communications systems which worked nearly by accident, we sent humans riding on an enormous bomb into space and managed to actually slow them down enough to land on the surface of the moon.
As much as I agree that the moon landings were something for the whole world to be proud of, _especially_ the Soviet Union which initiated the space race, I think that you underestimate the effort required to put two men on the lunar surface, EVA, and return them alive with lunar samples. It was _not_ something that the Ice Commander and Buzz did while the whole world watched. It was an _American_ effort, with almost half a million people working on the project directly. And those who were not working on the project were paying taxes to pay for it, reaching a peak of almost 1% of the nation's GDP.
Those Americans have a right to feel exclusively proud of the accomplishment in 1969 just as they have the exclusive responsibility for destroying personal privacy in ~2001. By national effort and directed on a national level, they developed new technologies, new materials, new manufacturing methods, new project management techniques, new communication protocols, tested, died, learned, and funded it all.
A friend of mine who worked for PDI (creators of Antz, Shrek, etc, later bought by Dreamworks) said one of his coworkers grepped their source code for "fuck" and there were so many comments using it, he turned it into a poem...
Go grep around the Linux source code. It would make a sailer blush.
In true hasbara style, you are lying about the Wikipedia article.
Are you sick? Here is an exact quote from the article, copy-pasted:
On 1 April 2011, Goldstone retracted his claim that it was Israeli government policy to deliberately target citizens, saying "While the investigations published by the Israeli military and recognized in the U.N. committee's report have established the validity of some incidents that we investigated in cases involving individual soldiers, they also indicate that civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy."
The text then goes on to specifying criticism of Goldstone's recantation, but it stands.
That is to say, the space elevator mention is just clickbait.
This has been happening a lot lately. Just a few articles down is a mention of videos of "execution-style killings" that apparently either the submitter or an editor (ha!) added for clickbait.
I'm not sure if the discussion that these things adds increases site revenue or not, but it completely destroys the ability of the knowledgeable/. community to discuss the article in question properly. We don't need some editor giving our discussions "direction", rather the whole point of/. is as an avenue for people knowledgeable in specialized fields to weigh their opinions on the subjects. Adding speculation to the summary preempts the knowledgeable from properly examining the issue, and gives the trolls a foot hold from where to start derailing the discussion.
I would guess the removed videos haven't been seen by you because they were removed.
I doubt that would be it. Here in Israel we have a huge leftist movement which loves to parade those things, not to mention other genuinely interested parties such as the Arabs. I know of many videos that show Israel soldiers' actions towards the Arab population. But an execution-style killing, I've never even heard of such a thing. The assertion that such a video exists seems fabricated. Yes, I am biased towards the Israeli side of the conflict but I'm not a denialist and I completely acknowledge that Israeli soldiers have committed crimes, grievances, abuses, so on and so forth. I am disputing the existence of "execution-style killings" videos that have no basis in fact other than the submitter or an editor decided that mention of such should be part of the inflammable summary.
Or like, tell their soldiers to stop the execution-style killings?
What are these incidents? I see that the summary claims that videos of "execution-style killings" by Israel soldiers have been taken down, but with all the criticism of Israel I've never before heard of or seen such a video. Israeli representatives might be meeting with Google and Youtube representatives, but the flamebait about "execution-style killings" seems entirely fabricated to generate "discussion".
GE.09-15866
UNITED NATIONS
A General Assembly Distr.
GENERAL
A/HRC/12/48
25 September 2009
Original: ENGLISH
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Twelfth session
Agenda item 7
HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES
It should be noted that the author of the report retracted the claim that it was Israeli government policy to deliberately target civilians. Read the whole wikipedia article or google it for details, TLDR: The report stated that both Hamas and Israel targeted civilians, then the part about Israel targeting civilians was retracted because the author concluded that his sources were bias and inaccurate. Even with that having happened, the anti-Israel crowd still quote the redacted parts of the report because it fits their narrative, and fail to mention the part about Hamas targeting civilians.
shit, forgot - also, fuck you, i wish you would die a painful death with your tongue in your dad's urethra, a donkey dick up the ruptured vein deep in your ass, a usb cable pulled inside your cranium through both ears, a... ah fuck it, too tired, out of more disgusting ideas for today. but yeah, donkey cock and all that shit. fuck you.
The fleas of one thousand camels. You forgot the fleas of one thousand camels, and donkey cock.
While you're on the topic of morals what's your view on the producers endlessly locking up content in copyright, forever milking the customer for every cent they can bare while passing on almost none of the profits to the people who created that work, all the while taking people to court for ludicrously over inflated payouts?
Even if I would be pirating due to financial reasons I would justify it to myself as "doing no moral harm" quite comfortably.
That is not the doing of the producers, rather it is the doing of the politicians. Now ask yourself what did the politicians give to the people when they took away works that should be in the public domain?
I'm all for rebelling against unjust laws, but the truth is that I'll support copyright infringement for an informative work, but not for an entertainment work. One could argue that the entertainment works become culture, to that I answer: when you pirate you are actively basing your culture on non-free works. So the society-benefiting conclusion remains: don't pirate. Just ignore the copyrighted works and base your culture upon ideas and stories that you are free to share.
1. Serial ports, because you don't need a complex microcontroller and driver stack just to throw a few bytes between two machines.
The poster seems to not understand what the words "universal" and "bus" mean in "Universal Serial Bus". He has 12 different varieties of physical connectors, but they all use (different compatible versions of) that same bus protocol, so he can simply use an adapter to interconnect between them. His PS/2 "adapter" is unreliable, does not completely support either the PS/2 or USB protocols, and will not work with many high-draw PS/2 HID devices, such as the PS/2 Model M keyboards (Lexmark, then Unicomp). Rather, there is a 'standard' mapping of PS/2 connectors to USB that most USB controllers support, but that is a USB feature.
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For those that cant be bothered to click the wikipedia link, a shibboleth is a mythical creature, like the minotaur or the shakira.
Actually, the truth is funnier than that. The word is Hebrew in origin, used to distinguish race because the Effriam tribe could not pronounce the "sh" sound.
The word means simply "oatmeal", and the children of Effriam would pronounce their oatmeal as "siboboleth" (no "sh"), which made them easy to identify.
The superior product doesn't always win. Just ask apple for Christ's sakes. Apple is an example of what good marketing and good name brand gets for you. They producte inferior product but people still buy in droves. Whereas Microsoft can produxe the best product in the world and the people still won't use based on name. Unfortunate, it it will be hard for people to wash the mouth out of the bad taste from precious Microsoft screwing them.
I'm not a Mac user, but for many years I felt that the opposite was true: Apple had the superior product, but everybody used Wintel systems. This was true at least for the 1998-2005 period, after which Apple got into marketing and released their media players. I'm actually surprised to hear that they are the inferior product now, so I must ask: which Apple product are you to comparing to which competing product? Are you considering desktop PCs to be Apple's core competence, or cellular phones, or what?
It is not a great solution. What happens when you don't live at ground level but on the second , third or 100th floor?
Why does that matter? The system cares about "where does Pablo Pyeterovnichoskayovski Schendenstalvesialvskidurnik the Eleventinth return at the end of the day", not "how to identify which butt cheek to put this vaccination in". Even Western addresses apply to more than one individual, for instance my wife and children all share the same address with me, and the Beduin men share an address with four wifes and children.
Then why are the drivers inside of the vehicle?
1. No FBW steering or braking.
2. Non-visual senses such as acceleration and sound are very important to performance, especially on a racetrack.
And 48% is still a pretty damn big percentage.
This is the real news. Even if 0.48% of the findings turn out to be Giant Jupiters, that is still a huge number of planets in the galaxy.
Less able to be maneuvered at close range or in buildings
With the sliding butt slid closed, I actually can maneuver around a building more confidently with a M-4 than with a CZ. I keep it pointed low, with the butt in the armpit. The CZ had to be kept high, meaning that an attacker could surprise me and take it, and if I were to use it I would probably be more likely to target the upper body than with the M-4. Also, I like the fact that the M-4 was strapped to me! As with all things related to firearms, it is a matter of training, but I disagree with the blanket statement that pistols are more maneuverable at close range or in buildings.
It's also common parlance among anyone who deals with guns.
I suppose it's like the term "pointy nose" for carrier crew. It's a standard term for anybody who deals with the things daily, but for the intelligent layman to read it in a news article about a subject outside his field, it sounds like the journalist being an idiot (which is the case more often than not).
Those addresses do send autoresponses, though they lack the new email address because I don't want it going to spammers as well. However, the people still mailing that address most certainly have my new address as well, on an individual basis!
Since LA to SF is about 400 miles along the surface and the earth's circumference is about 25000 miles this means arc length is about 0.016 radians. thus 25000/2/pi*(1-cos(0.016/2)) = 0.127 miles. so the center of this would be roughly 1/8th of a mile buried or 672 feet at the deepest point
Now imagine a gradient 200 units long, which slopes down for 1/8th of a unit. What rate of acceleration do you imagine a craft sliding with no friction down that gradient will have? And with friction? Now do you see the need for propulsion?
That doesn't readily correct the behavior of others that send to a given e-mail address though.
You are right, there is no fix for that! I monitor addresses that I've not sent mail from for years, my regular contacts _still_ email those addresses even though I've told them not to and those addresses send replies stating that the address is no longer active. I just pretend that I've never seen the mails sent there in most cases.
Only service I use is email, and I use it somewhat grudgingly since I'm so entrenched (having used it for years).
You can export the mail to Thunderbird using Yahoo's IMAP interface. With the same method you can import it into any other Email service.
i once had a bum sadly asking me for a snickers bar he saw in my car because he thought i looked too nice to have a car broken into. i didn't know whether to appreciate the sentiment or be alarmed. i just stood there confused.
i guess that's an example of a barrier that kept an honest person honest... to this day, i'm still confused about that encounter.
You have left us in complete suspense. Did you give him the Snickers bar?
What SRemick said.
What SteveSgt said.
Thunderbird is perhaps my most-used application after VIM. It is a wonderful app that does what it does WELL. I use all the features mentioned above, plus I use the terrific Virtual Identity addon to manage my outgoing addresses with a catch-all domain. It properly supports reading and composing in all the languages that I use, including Right-To-Left languages. It is always available from a KDE keyboard shortcut no matter what tabs I have open in the browser, and when the browser hangs (Firefox does this often, probably due to a faulty addon) I can still use it.
And for the final touch, with Thunderbird (or any other local email client) I can back up my emails along with the rest of my system.
I can't tell you how many times I've sat there throwing money at my television and nobody would take it. If the copyright holder won't let me buy it, then I feel no guilt about torrenting it.
I agree with you 100%. I was addressing those who do have proper channels to acquire media.
People still believe the USA landed month Moon? That's sad.
The parabolas defined by the falling kicked-up dirt clearly betray the fact that the supposed "moon landings" were filmed in a sound stage on Mars.
Patriotism is a disease that makes a moron believe (s)he's better than someone else because (s)he's better than someone else because they were squeezed from a vagina that either already was a citizen of a country or squeezed from it in said country. Unless you're ass was the one planted in the pod which landed on the moon, you're the asshole who thinks Armstrong said "On small step for the United States". A man landed and walked on the moon and you make this about national boundaries? This is about what we can accomplish as human beings if we set our minds to it. Using something that barely counts as a computer and communications systems which worked nearly by accident, we sent humans riding on an enormous bomb into space and managed to actually slow them down enough to land on the surface of the moon.
As much as I agree that the moon landings were something for the whole world to be proud of, _especially_ the Soviet Union which initiated the space race, I think that you underestimate the effort required to put two men on the lunar surface, EVA, and return them alive with lunar samples. It was _not_ something that the Ice Commander and Buzz did while the whole world watched. It was an _American_ effort, with almost half a million people working on the project directly. And those who were not working on the project were paying taxes to pay for it, reaching a peak of almost 1% of the nation's GDP.
Those Americans have a right to feel exclusively proud of the accomplishment in 1969 just as they have the exclusive responsibility for destroying personal privacy in ~2001. By national effort and directed on a national level, they developed new technologies, new materials, new manufacturing methods, new project management techniques, new communication protocols, tested, died, learned, and funded it all.
A friend of mine who worked for PDI (creators of Antz, Shrek, etc, later bought by Dreamworks) said one of his coworkers grepped their source code for "fuck" and there were so many comments using it, he turned it into a poem...
Go grep around the Linux source code. It would make a sailer blush.
Did you RTFA?
YMBNH!
But thanks for pointing that out! It tradition that we levy criticism but don't take the time to verify sources!
In true hasbara style, you are lying about the Wikipedia article.
Are you sick? Here is an exact quote from the article, copy-pasted:
The text then goes on to specifying criticism of Goldstone's recantation, but it stands.
That is to say, the space elevator mention is just clickbait.
This has been happening a lot lately. Just a few articles down is a mention of videos of "execution-style killings" that apparently either the submitter or an editor (ha!) added for clickbait.
/. community to discuss the article in question properly. We don't need some editor giving our discussions "direction", rather the whole point of /. is as an avenue for people knowledgeable in specialized fields to weigh their opinions on the subjects. Adding speculation to the summary preempts the knowledgeable from properly examining the issue, and gives the trolls a foot hold from where to start derailing the discussion.
I'm not sure if the discussion that these things adds increases site revenue or not, but it completely destroys the ability of the knowledgeable
I would guess the removed videos haven't been seen by you because they were removed.
I doubt that would be it. Here in Israel we have a huge leftist movement which loves to parade those things, not to mention other genuinely interested parties such as the Arabs. I know of many videos that show Israel soldiers' actions towards the Arab population. But an execution-style killing, I've never even heard of such a thing. The assertion that such a video exists seems fabricated. Yes, I am biased towards the Israeli side of the conflict but I'm not a denialist and I completely acknowledge that Israeli soldiers have committed crimes, grievances, abuses, so on and so forth. I am disputing the existence of "execution-style killings" videos that have no basis in fact other than the submitter or an editor decided that mention of such should be part of the inflammable summary.
Or like, tell their soldiers to stop the execution-style killings?
What are these incidents? I see that the summary claims that videos of "execution-style killings" by Israel soldiers have been taken down, but with all the criticism of Israel I've never before heard of or seen such a video. Israeli representatives might be meeting with Google and Youtube representatives, but the flamebait about "execution-style killings" seems entirely fabricated to generate "discussion".
OK, I'll give you your citation.
This post refers to the well-known Goldstone report:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It should be noted that the author of the report retracted the claim that it was Israeli government policy to deliberately target civilians. Read the whole wikipedia article or google it for details, TLDR: The report stated that both Hamas and Israel targeted civilians, then the part about Israel targeting civilians was retracted because the author concluded that his sources were bias and inaccurate. Even with that having happened, the anti-Israel crowd still quote the redacted parts of the report because it fits their narrative, and fail to mention the part about Hamas targeting civilians.
shit, forgot - also, fuck you, i wish you would die a painful death with your tongue in your dad's urethra, a donkey dick up the ruptured vein deep in your ass, a usb cable pulled inside your cranium through both ears, a... ah fuck it, too tired, out of more disgusting ideas for today. but yeah, donkey cock and all that shit. fuck you.
The fleas of one thousand camels. You forgot the fleas of one thousand camels, and donkey cock.
While you're on the topic of morals what's your view on the producers endlessly locking up content in copyright, forever milking the customer for every cent they can bare while passing on almost none of the profits to the people who created that work, all the while taking people to court for ludicrously over inflated payouts?
Even if I would be pirating due to financial reasons I would justify it to myself as "doing no moral harm" quite comfortably.
That is not the doing of the producers, rather it is the doing of the politicians. Now ask yourself what did the politicians give to the people when they took away works that should be in the public domain?
I'm all for rebelling against unjust laws, but the truth is that I'll support copyright infringement for an informative work, but not for an entertainment work. One could argue that the entertainment works become culture, to that I answer: when you pirate you are actively basing your culture on non-free works. So the society-benefiting conclusion remains: don't pirate. Just ignore the copyrighted works and base your culture upon ideas and stories that you are free to share.
1. Serial ports, because you don't need a complex microcontroller and driver stack just to throw a few bytes between two machines.
The poster seems to not understand what the words "universal" and "bus" mean in "Universal Serial Bus". He has 12 different varieties of physical connectors, but they all use (different compatible versions of) that same bus protocol, so he can simply use an adapter to interconnect between them. His PS/2 "adapter" is unreliable, does not completely support either the PS/2 or USB protocols, and will not work with many high-draw PS/2 HID devices, such as the PS/2 Model M keyboards (Lexmark, then Unicomp). Rather, there is a 'standard' mapping of PS/2 connectors to USB that most USB controllers support, but that is a USB feature.