Re:If Ars Technica is so concerned about usability
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A Better Finder?
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...why is this article in white print on a black background?... There's a reason books and newspapers are printed in black print on a white background: IT'S EASIER TO READ.
Amen, brother.
Fortunately, I use Opera, which has a nifty "remove fancy-schmancy" formatting and presents everything in an eminently readable black-on-white (or whatever you configure it to be) font.
The biggest idiots in money laundering were these weed growers back home who tried to plow millions in profit through a combination driving range batting cage in a town of 10,000.
Dry cleaners are also a good outlet for that. Some years ago, around here, some guy started a dry cleaner's chain with a $1 flat rate per item. Within days, all his stores were torched...
I'm interested as to why someone who has "nothing to hide" should be worried about mass surveillance by their government?
Because what guarantees you that some bureaucrat who gets peeved by something legal you do decides to make your day??? Seeing someone being cuffed and booked simply for wearing a tee-shirt that said "FUCK YOU" in Hampton Beach (NH) neatly drove home that point in my case. Or how about being arrested for wearing a "Give peace a chance" tee-shirt???
... U.S. President G. W. Bush has announced that he is stepping down from US leadership, and has accepted a position in the United Nations as head of a new organization dedicaced to the development of democracy through diplomacy through the world.
Wait lets not forget those middle schoolers. I know they download music too. But how to jail kids under 16. Disney Jails of course. With a special school in jail teaching all about the evils of downloaded music. I call it Disney Jail. Smaller cells for smaller minds. Jailers/teachers dressed in big eared mouse costumes. Special areas for kindergarden and preschool. Punish them while they're young. Better yet pre-crime... jail them before they do... cause you know they will.
And don't forget the smaller penises for the smaller anuses, too!!!
"It's a fairly end-of-life move for the stockholders and managers of that company," said Jonathan Eunice, an Illuminata analyst.
I thought it was the illuminati???
The elevator won't let you save any energy at all.
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One thing that puzzles me with a space elevator is the horizontal inertial component.
On the ground, an object moves forward at the speed of rotation of the surface of the earth; the same object, in geostationnary orbit moves much faster, simply to cover the much greater distance from the center of the earth in 24 hours.
So, presumably, as the object is moved up the elevator, it will need to be accelerated until it has the orbital velocity at the geostationary orbit height.
As the object moves higher, the cable will therefore not only have to support it vertically, but give it an accelerating shove to increase it's horizontal velocity.
To reverse the reasonning, the inertia of the object will tend to drive the cable backwards in respect to it's orbital rotation along with the earth; this backwards drive will have to be compensated somehow; either by putting small rockets along the cable, or by making it very taut with an extremely heavy counterweight at a very great height.
Let's make no mistake: the space elevator WILL NOT let you put a given mass in orbit for less energy.
We monitor what our child does, in fact the computer is in our living room so we know what she is doing. At the same time, all it takes is a trivial error to expose her to pornographic material. For example, type whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov. This bit me the other day. She wanted to buy something for her "American Girl" doll. So we sat down at the computer. Unfortunately, I typed americangirls.com instead of americangirl.com.
What a puritan dolt you are. If you make a fuss to your child about pr0n, she will be affected. When I was a kid, when I picked-up my father's Penthouses, they didn't make a fuss, and when I was a nice boy, I was allowed to look at "Hara-Kiri" (which is the french version of "Hustler" - in all senses). After a while, pr0n does not have any attractiveness left and I never bothered with it afterwards.
(Reposted account being moderated to "troll" & "flamebait" - Moderators: just because you're fucking idiot yankees doesn't mean you should shove your idiotic way of life down the throat of the rest of the planet)
Sheesh. Here is yet another french character/story rip-off. Can't anybody imagine better things than the (already good) stuff that exists??? Helllooo???
Or are Hollywood producers so deep-stuck in the ruts of their brains that they won't risk unknown new things???
And those assholes pretend to tell us what to do with OUR computers!!!
We monitor what our child does, in fact the computer is in our living room so we know what she is doing. At the same time, all it takes is a trivial error to expose her to pornographic material. For example, type whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov. This bit me the other day. She wanted to buy something for her "American Girl" doll. So we sat down at the computer. Unfortunately, I typed americangirls.com instead of americangirl.com.
What a puritan dolt you are. If you make a fuss to your child about pr0n, she will be affected. When I was a kid, when I picked-up my father's Penthouses, they didn't make a fuss, and when I was a nice boy, I was allowed to look at "Hara-Kiri" (which is the french version of "Hustler" - in all senses). After a while, pr0n does not have any attractiveness left and I never bothered with it afterwards.
I have nothing to hide; neither does anyone else I know. I'm suspicious of anyone who doesn't want any way for his actions to be traceable.
Does Ashcroft has a huge penis? I just wonder how it feels to have Ashcroft's boner inserted in one's anus... Does it feel good? You must think so, judging from your response...
For NASA's bureaucrats (and some politicians), it appears that risking astronauts' lives, NOT for the "unknown variables," but for glamour, expediency, and selfishness, is "acceptable." Perhaps this is to be expected in today's America where style and appearance are far more valued than substance and tangibility.
No shit. A friend of mine's brother-in-law is an astro-nut, and, being a doctor, he's the one who's in charge of piecing back together the various assorted body parts that befell Texas some time ago. Nevertheless, despite the very fun job he's doing, he's still an eager beaver to go back up on the space shuttle... Astro-nut indeed...
If you read Erich Von Däniken's nonsensical books (Chariot of the gods), you'll find those batteries used to "prove" that aliens visited the Earth in the distant past...
Never mind that since History endlessly repeats itself, technology gets discovered, forgotten and discovered again...
It's not because people worship Pazuzu instead of Jesus H. Fucking Christ (you know, the god that got nailed) that they are stupid...
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Fortunately, I use Opera, which has a nifty "remove fancy-schmancy" formatting and presents everything in an eminently readable black-on-white (or whatever you configure it to be) font.
Boy I'm glad the network I secure behind a NAT firewall is not in the USA!!!
Do the specs support metasearch, like for looking only for pr0n???
... U.S. President G. W. Bush has announced that he is stepping down from US leadership, and has accepted a position in the United Nations as head of a new organization dedicaced to the development of democracy through diplomacy through the world.
Don't we see a blimp hovering in the offices of Mad magazine whenever they have to depict their offices????
Déjà vu? Hey, this is Slashdot!!!
When you pirate MP3s, you're downloading COMMUNISM!!!
By stealing a little bit of computer ressources, they are effectively slowly but inexorably shutting-down the Internet.
On the ground, an object moves forward at the speed of rotation of the surface of the earth; the same object, in geostationnary orbit moves much faster, simply to cover the much greater distance from the center of the earth in 24 hours.
So, presumably, as the object is moved up the elevator, it will need to be accelerated until it has the orbital velocity at the geostationary orbit height.
As the object moves higher, the cable will therefore not only have to support it vertically, but give it an accelerating shove to increase it's horizontal velocity.
To reverse the reasonning, the inertia of the object will tend to drive the cable backwards in respect to it's orbital rotation along with the earth; this backwards drive will have to be compensated somehow; either by putting small rockets along the cable, or by making it very taut with an extremely heavy counterweight at a very great height.
Let's make no mistake: the space elevator WILL NOT let you put a given mass in orbit for less energy.
(What is the number of the senegalese penal code that prohibits such scams???)
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Or are Hollywood producers so deep-stuck in the ruts of their brains that they won't risk unknown new things???
And those assholes pretend to tell us what to do with OUR computers!!!
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Never mind that since History endlessly repeats itself, technology gets discovered, forgotten and discovered again...
It's not because people worship Pazuzu instead of Jesus H. Fucking Christ (you know, the god that got nailed) that they are stupid...