Yeah, electing someone who is up front and honest about his corporate ties would set a very bad precedent. For starters, it would make everyone else look bad. I think he should go all the way and start his own party, the Tasty Doriticans.
And an angry user is 10 fold more likely to post than a happy one. And when nobody can agree on anything... well there's meaning in that too.
Angry/happy doesn't work. Perhaps angry/placid and sad/happy. I'd agree angry posts outweigh placid ones, but I fail to see the same correlation between happy and sad, in fact I would find it very difficult to categorise any given post in this manner.
I feel the 100% scoring is broken. Simply put, it is very rare to see a score below 60%, making scores between 0-50% next to useless. Anything that is not majorly flawed yet still unexceptional is usually rated 70%+, where on a five star system it would be lucky to get more than two stars (or 40%).
I guess my complaint is that a decent conversion from percentages to stars would need to subtract 50 from the scores, and assign half a star for every 5 points thereafter. The scores are grossly skewed and overinflated, and games should be regularly receiving scores around 20-40 (one or two stars) which very rarely happens.
For those not familiar with the terms of the former German Democratic Republic, the "Stasi" was the "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit" (department for interior security). Comparable with the Gestapo of earlier German times.
<tinfoil>Or the US Department of Homeland Security in modern times.</tinfoil>
Exactly how much plutonium will we dump in the atmosphere before we realise there are no boundaries, that we all live in a nuclear explosion site, at ground zero. It's not an instant death I fear, its a toxic overload of the food chain. I didn't refer to nukes as 'raping' the earth, though I would refer to strip mining and driftnet trawling and deforestation as such. Simply, if we treat Earth as a dead rock, we can set off nukes and pollute and poison the planet with no consequence. If we treat it like a living biosphere the repercussions of poisoning it are immediately obvious. It's a useful metaphor dammit, but fine if you want to get all starry eyed I'll change the metaphor, just think of it as Spaceship Earth. You wouldn't go setting off nukes or practice any other unsustainable, poisonous actions on board a spaceship now, would you? Easier still, just anthropomorphise the spaceship then don't do anything to kill it.
Guess what? If you take either concept literally, you end up looking stupid and ignorant. They are a metaphor, a simile, an interpretation, not a literal truth.
Is it really that hard to grasp that the Gaia concept is a metaphor for our incredibly complex and precious biosphere. It bloody well is holy because this rock is our symbiote, our petri dish. Fuck it up and we're toast. So yeah, anthropomorphising the planet makes perfect sense. Sentimental value my arse, if we keep poisoning and harvesting the planet to extinction life as we know it will cease to exist. Mining it to the core or testing nuclear weapons is literally killing the planets lifeforce. The only stupidity is your ignorance in thinking humanity can survive outside of the fertile lifestream that birthed it.
Oh. I, see. That's why, why he talks... talks like that. It's just that, there's quite, a few pauses, in Esperanto. You don't, you know, hear it, well not much, thanks to the lack... lack of, native speakers.
You know, generic hardware by its very nature can be extremely high end and state of the art, both driver wise and hardware wise. Also, even the lowest, shoddiest box can be upgraded piece by piece to the high end model. There is nothing to enjoy about hardware lockdown other than mediocrity.
It's easy for them to do, many want to replace Windows, it would attract developers. They are stubborn fools. So what, that they fubared clones 10 years back doesn't mean they can't open their OS to *gasp* 3rd party hardware manufacturers today. Unfortunately, they've got their heads firmly planted up their arses.
To be fair, he was writing for a '.biz' site, which by all rights should have died in the dot com meltdown like all the other '.biz' sites. He's just doing his part, bringing it down from the inside.
That's because Norton works by being the mother of all viruses. It works by making your system appear infected even when it isn't. In this way, when the user encounters an actual wild virus, they are already used to the endless barrage of popups, random disk accesses and inexplicable system slowdowns. Thus, a virus has little effect on a Norton infected computer, and the user merrily plows away on their minesweeper highscore while the botnet bolsters third world economies. A win-win situation!.
Gibbon has just been released, give it a while. Inform those who care, the issues you are dealing with work in Feisty because the developers got feedback then made it work. It sucks having things intermittently break between releases, but usually there is a trivial fix for the issue that was merely overlooked on release. If you point it out, many eyes will focus, confront and solve your issue. Such is the power of open source software. Utilise the feedback mechanisms and everyone benefits.
You know, there are far to many oversensitive pansies on WP. Oh, and biographical statements about living persons must cite appropriate references. Your opinion contravenes this, as well as WP:NPOV and WP:OR. As such, I am reverting your statement. ~~~~
If they can suspend the constitution and impose martial law, what's a little thing like freedom of the press? Oh sure, they say they can't do all that, and they look incompetent, but the truth is out there.
"Are you familiar with FEMA? What the Federal Emergency Management Agency's real power is? FEMA allows the White House to suspend constitutional government upon declaration of a national emergency. To create a non-elected government. Think about that."
The scientist goes on to describe FEMA's "broad, sweeping power."
They haven't consolidated into the Totally Information Aware Federal Emergency Department of Homeland Safety Management yet, so I think they're behind schedule.
Ah! but you can fit angels onto the head of a pin (though I can't quite recall how many) wheras ghosts just make that spooky 'wooooh' sound. I'd say they're in completely different classes.
Or you could communicate back and forth for weeks with large cardboard signs as you snipe the ever growing horde of the undead, only to lose him when he stocked too many bullets and not enough lunch.
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Yeah, electing someone who is up front and honest about his corporate ties would set a very bad precedent. For starters, it would make everyone else look bad. I think he should go all the way and start his own party, the Tasty Doriticans.
You missed the part where the lock is DRMed to only accept Halliburton approved fuel.
Angry/happy doesn't work. Perhaps angry/placid and sad/happy. I'd agree angry posts outweigh placid ones, but I fail to see the same correlation between happy and sad, in fact I would find it very difficult to categorise any given post in this manner.
Oh, and we <3 you too Rob.
Question (1) Given a set {x: x=Pony^Natalie} where {y: y=x^OMG^pink^frolic}. Can we infer x>y, and why?
I guess my complaint is that a decent conversion from percentages to stars would need to subtract 50 from the scores, and assign half a star for every 5 points thereafter. The scores are grossly skewed and overinflated, and games should be regularly receiving scores around 20-40 (one or two stars) which very rarely happens.
<tinfoil>Or the US Department of Homeland Security in modern times.</tinfoil>
Exactly how much plutonium will we dump in the atmosphere before we realise there are no boundaries, that we all live in a nuclear explosion site, at ground zero. It's not an instant death I fear, its a toxic overload of the food chain. I didn't refer to nukes as 'raping' the earth, though I would refer to strip mining and driftnet trawling and deforestation as such. Simply, if we treat Earth as a dead rock, we can set off nukes and pollute and poison the planet with no consequence. If we treat it like a living biosphere the repercussions of poisoning it are immediately obvious. It's a useful metaphor dammit, but fine if you want to get all starry eyed I'll change the metaphor, just think of it as Spaceship Earth. You wouldn't go setting off nukes or practice any other unsustainable, poisonous actions on board a spaceship now, would you? Easier still, just anthropomorphise the spaceship then don't do anything to kill it.
Guess what? If you take either concept literally, you end up looking stupid and ignorant. They are a metaphor, a simile, an interpretation, not a literal truth.
Is it really that hard to grasp that the Gaia concept is a metaphor for our incredibly complex and precious biosphere. It bloody well is holy because this rock is our symbiote, our petri dish. Fuck it up and we're toast. So yeah, anthropomorphising the planet makes perfect sense. Sentimental value my arse, if we keep poisoning and harvesting the planet to extinction life as we know it will cease to exist. Mining it to the core or testing nuclear weapons is literally killing the planets lifeforce. The only stupidity is your ignorance in thinking humanity can survive outside of the fertile lifestream that birthed it.
Oh. I, see. That's why, why he talks... talks like that. It's just that, there's quite, a few pauses, in Esperanto. You don't, you know, hear it, well not much, thanks to the lack... lack of, native speakers.
Woah. That site is so bad, I'm almost considering installing Vista just to spite them.
You know, generic hardware by its very nature can be extremely high end and state of the art, both driver wise and hardware wise. Also, even the lowest, shoddiest box can be upgraded piece by piece to the high end model. There is nothing to enjoy about hardware lockdown other than mediocrity.
It's easy for them to do, many want to replace Windows, it would attract developers. They are stubborn fools. So what, that they fubared clones 10 years back doesn't mean they can't open their OS to *gasp* 3rd party hardware manufacturers today. Unfortunately, they've got their heads firmly planted up their arses.
I hear the CPU coming, it's rolling off the press
And I ain't seen this performance since the 90nm process.
I'm stuck in Folsom Labs, and the clocks keep running faster,
But that deadline keeps on coming, from that Santa Clara.
When I was just a junior, my mentor told me, "Look,
Always be a good engineer, don't ever push your clock"
But I overclocked a CPU just to watch it die.
When I heard that core blowing, I hung my head and cried.
I bet those folks at AMD in their fancy die package
Are probably overclocking 'till it's smoking wreckage
Well, I know I'm ticking and tocking, I'm building two or three,
But those specs just keep on moving, and thats what tortures me.
If they freed me from the deadline, if that assembly line was mine
I'd take that 90nm process and make it smaller, more refined
Boss of Folsom Labs, that's where I want to be.
And I'd let that CPU clockspeed grow exponentially.
To be fair, he was writing for a '.biz' site, which by all rights should have died in the dot com meltdown like all the other '.biz' sites. He's just doing his part, bringing it down from the inside.
That's because Norton works by being the mother of all viruses. It works by making your system appear infected even when it isn't. In this way, when the user encounters an actual wild virus, they are already used to the endless barrage of popups, random disk accesses and inexplicable system slowdowns. Thus, a virus has little effect on a Norton infected computer, and the user merrily plows away on their minesweeper highscore while the botnet bolsters third world economies. A win-win situation!.
You could try furnitureporn.com for some hot hardwood action, but I'm having trouble finding an ASUS model.
By 'pansies' I meant 'screaming faggots'. Does that help your conundrum?
Gibbon has just been released, give it a while. Inform those who care, the issues you are dealing with work in Feisty because the developers got feedback then made it work. It sucks having things intermittently break between releases, but usually there is a trivial fix for the issue that was merely overlooked on release. If you point it out, many eyes will focus, confront and solve your issue. Such is the power of open source software. Utilise the feedback mechanisms and everyone benefits.
You know, there are far to many oversensitive pansies on WP. Oh, and biographical statements about living persons must cite appropriate references. Your opinion contravenes this, as well as WP:NPOV and WP:OR. As such, I am reverting your statement. ~~~~
The scientist goes on to describe FEMA's "broad, sweeping power."
They haven't consolidated into the Totally Information Aware Federal Emergency Department of Homeland Safety Management yet, so I think they're behind schedule.
Ah! but you can fit angels onto the head of a pin (though I can't quite recall how many) wheras ghosts just make that spooky 'wooooh' sound. I'd say they're in completely different classes.
Sure, or anywhere else that recognises that you can't patent mathematics. Like most of the planet.
Or you could communicate back and forth for weeks with large cardboard signs as you snipe the ever growing horde of the undead, only to lose him when he stocked too many bullets and not enough lunch.