The Standard is the rag that used Richard Mellon Scaife's money to fund largely false inquiries and to pay off sources to produce such journalistic rot as Troopergate and to further the "Vince Foster murdered" theory. These people are about as low as you can get while still having opposable thumbs.
Pinochet? Benign? Crap, man.
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That's a common perception, but I really don't think it's true. I'm from the US and most of my friends are. I'm pretty sure mostly all of us could identify an arbitrary country that existed in the last century. I might get caught up with island nations or certain Balkans, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be embarrassed.
I agree with you in principle, but your comment about the permanent changes really isn't as compelling as it might be. Luke loses a hand, but gets a new one five minutes later and there are no consequences. Han gets frozen (which is a really cool idea) but gets thawed and is fine. Obiwan dies and comes to visit every time there's a problem.
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You're clearly too old. Everybody knows that if you're going to be a coder d00d, you have to be no older than 16. 14 is ideal.
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That would be a good bumper sticker, "I am from a country you probably haven't heard of."
I'm not moaning about your spelling, but you don't need an apostrophe every time there's an s. The apostrophe is to denote posession (Joe's car) or contraction (he is -> he's.) Sucks is the present tense, third person conjugation of 'to suck.' No need for an apostrophe there. Photos is the plural of photo. No need for one there, either.
How about a picture of a mushroom cloud with waves shooting out of it? It's pretty darned simple. Any advanced civilization ought to get the idea at once.
Of course, it will also be necessary to have a version for un-advanced civilizations, in case there's been some sort of massive event that throws things back into technological oblivion.
I don't know about you, but I don't trust half the people I know (mostly the programmer half) to design a decent interface to the front door, let alone a one-ton hunk of metal that I might one day be hurtling down the road and have to figure out. The very thought makes me shudder.
1. Liberals are a cult/cabal/conspiracy. They hate America.
2. Liberals like America when America is in trouble. When America is no longer in trouble, they go back to plotting its destruction from the inside.
3. We (good Americans, that is) can deal with their destruction of America when we're at peace. When at war, though, we should kill them.
4. Liberals have no connection to reality, despite the fact that they apparently secretly run the world.
5. They are ungrateful for what God and America (the distinction seems fuzzy) gives them. We should batter them into compliance.
6. They are mentally unstable and have conditioned the rest of Us to not notice it.
7. They have bizarre sex and use drugs. This is horrible and unthinkable.
8. The pacifists have declared war on people who want to hate others and have to be punished.
9. Abolish all universities. Fire all administrators. Have the military take them over.
He raves and drools on, but I, in my liberal apathy and sloth, don't really want to click on the link to read the rest. You can at your leisure, and I won't oppose it because I'm a permissive milquetoast who is probably too busy having sex with an animal to stop you.
He may not have founded it, but he sure did create it. It was named the "Bureau of Investigation" in 1909, the first person to be called the "Director" was Flynn in 1919, the thing was a big mess and a general embarrassment until Coolidge's attorney general appointed Hoover in 1924. (Not to say it wasn't an embarrassment, but it was an embarrassment in a different way.) Hoover is quite responsible for everything that the FBI became until his death (1972?) and for a while beyond. I have no compunction agreeing with the poster who suggests that Hoover 'founded' the organization that the FBI became.
Funny, true story: My friend and I were in line at a fast food restaurant when a little girl, probably about two years old, came running in with an AT&T cell phone. My friend looked to me and asked, "do you get one at birth now?" Two weeks later, he and his fiancee went out and got their own cell phones.
As I see it, almost all of the Simpson's episodes execute simultaneously in time, so it's quite possible that the nerds were helping homer at the very time he was deriding them in the Poochie episode.
Of course, that's BS, but it explains why time doesn't pass except when provisions are made.
At least you capitalized the name properly. Does the original poster really think that it's spelled "HitchHiker"? I know it's not really a problem, but it shows a certain lack of attention tohat people are doing that's really obnoxious.
How the hell is that a troll? I read books on the can all the time and enjoy doing it. I found his comment both interesting and insightful. Is it a troll because he said 'toilet' or because you disagree with him? Either reason is a poor one.
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There, is, though a healthy secondhand trade in them on cmu.misc.market. I trust with a little effort you could easily secure one for $5.
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Yea, sorry. You're right. The Standard is the one that Bill Kristol edits/edited, then, right?
My God.
The Standard is the rag that used Richard Mellon Scaife's money to fund largely false inquiries and to pay off sources to produce such journalistic rot as Troopergate and to further the "Vince Foster murdered" theory. These people are about as low as you can get while still having opposable thumbs.
Pinochet? Benign? Crap, man.
That's a common perception, but I really don't think it's true. I'm from the US and most of my friends are. I'm pretty sure mostly all of us could identify an arbitrary country that existed in the last century. I might get caught up with island nations or certain Balkans, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be embarrassed.
I agree with you in principle, but your comment about the permanent changes really isn't as compelling as it might be. Luke loses a hand, but gets a new one five minutes later and there are no consequences. Han gets frozen (which is a really cool idea) but gets thawed and is fine. Obiwan dies and comes to visit every time there's a problem.
You're clearly too old. Everybody knows that if you're going to be a coder d00d, you have to be no older than 16. 14 is ideal.
That would be a good bumper sticker, "I am from a country you probably haven't heard of."
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I'm not moaning about your spelling, but you don't need an apostrophe every time there's an s. The apostrophe is to denote posession (Joe's car) or contraction (he is -> he's.) Sucks is the present tense, third person conjugation of 'to suck.' No need for an apostrophe there. Photos is the plural of photo. No need for one there, either.
Sorry, it's a major peeve.
When you turn the phone off, the touchscreen is easily wiped.
Curiously, I love both my Mac and my Volvo with its "Gore/Lieberman" bumper sticker.
How about a picture of a mushroom cloud with waves shooting out of it? It's pretty darned simple. Any advanced civilization ought to get the idea at once.
Of course, it will also be necessary to have a version for un-advanced civilizations, in case there's been some sort of massive event that throws things back into technological oblivion.
When did WMV become a universal format?
I don't know about you, but I don't trust half the people I know (mostly the programmer half) to design a decent interface to the front door, let alone a one-ton hunk of metal that I might one day be hurtling down the road and have to figure out. The very thought makes me shudder.
so was mine.
Summary of author's points:
1. Liberals are a cult/cabal/conspiracy. They hate America.
2. Liberals like America when America is in trouble. When America is no longer in trouble, they go back to plotting its destruction from the inside.
3. We (good Americans, that is) can deal with their destruction of America when we're at peace. When at war, though, we should kill them.
4. Liberals have no connection to reality, despite the fact that they apparently secretly run the world.
5. They are ungrateful for what God and America (the distinction seems fuzzy) gives them. We should batter them into compliance.
6. They are mentally unstable and have conditioned the rest of Us to not notice it.
7. They have bizarre sex and use drugs. This is horrible and unthinkable.
8. The pacifists have declared war on people who want to hate others and have to be punished.
9. Abolish all universities. Fire all administrators. Have the military take them over.
He raves and drools on, but I, in my liberal apathy and sloth, don't really want to click on the link to read the rest. You can at your leisure, and I won't oppose it because I'm a permissive milquetoast who is probably too busy having sex with an animal to stop you.
He may not have founded it, but he sure did create it. It was named the "Bureau of Investigation" in 1909, the first person to be called the "Director" was Flynn in 1919, the thing was a big mess and a general embarrassment until Coolidge's attorney general appointed Hoover in 1924. (Not to say it wasn't an embarrassment, but it was an embarrassment in a different way.) Hoover is quite responsible for everything that the FBI became until his death (1972?) and for a while beyond. I have no compunction agreeing with the poster who suggests that Hoover 'founded' the organization that the FBI became.
Any killer bee movie?
Funny, true story: My friend and I were in line at a fast food restaurant when a little girl, probably about two years old, came running in with an AT&T cell phone. My friend looked to me and asked, "do you get one at birth now?" Two weeks later, he and his fiancee went out and got their own cell phones.
Don't forget that awful, confrontational song that all my basketball friends insisted was the best things since butter.
As I see it, almost all of the Simpson's episodes execute simultaneously in time, so it's quite possible that the nerds were helping homer at the very time he was deriding them in the Poochie episode.
Of course, that's BS, but it explains why time doesn't pass except when provisions are made.
Hehe. This is why Slashdot will never be taken seriously, and it's why I'm glad I don't take it seriously.
In other words: Worst followup ever.
At least you capitalized the name properly. Does the original poster really think that it's spelled "HitchHiker"? I know it's not really a problem, but it shows a certain lack of attention tohat people are doing that's really obnoxious.
How the hell is that a troll? I read books on the can all the time and enjoy doing it. I found his comment both interesting and insightful. Is it a troll because he said 'toilet' or because you disagree with him? Either reason is a poor one.
There, is, though a healthy secondhand trade in them on cmu.misc.market. I trust with a little effort you could easily secure one for $5.
All the diodes are mounted on rotating plates so that when they invert polarity, all of the diodes use auxiliary power to rotate.