I't a lot like the Allied soldiers who were fighting in Germany, being told all these horror stories about how evil the Nazis actually were, and then coming upon a concentration camp and finding out that these stories were real after all.
It won't be the same until the leader of Iran states that the backdoor never happened.
Honestly? It's probably a remastering of the episodes.
No probably about it; they're 16:9 on the DVDs. I know because we're in the midst of a marathon at home, watching the first 8 seasons at the rate of 3 or 4 eps a weekend.
I guess public space imagery matters if your biggest military rivals don't have their own satellites. Our biggest rival in 1974 was in space before we were, so I don't see what made this such an issue.
Your biggest rivals are not your only rivals, and what they think they know may not be 100% correct.
Now we don't have to wonder why it's not being used anymore.
Oh, I knew exactly why it wasn't being used anymore. However, there is still hope. If there's sufficient support for the idea, an Amendment is always possible. I'd support that, as long as there was sufficient safeguard in it to prevent doing things like vetoing the word "not" out of statements like "agency foo shall not engage in act bar". I seem to recall that Oklahoma had to make a change for exactly that reason.
Although one of the six justices who ruled it unConstitutional has since died and been replaced, it's likely that his replacement would continue to rule against it, and Justice Alito (if confirmed) would likely change that mix to 7-2. An Amendment is the only way it will happen any time soon.
On my Chaintech mobo, if I install Service Pack 2 for XP, the whole system locks up during the shutdown, and if reset it bluescreens on boot, every time.
I rebuilt it and tried that again; same result. That box has sat on Service Pack 1 forever as a result.
Recently I upgraded the mobo to a Gigabyte with an AMD dual-core. I'm afraid to try again with SP2; I don't have a clue how to go about trouble-shooting the problem if it happens again, I'd just be reinstalling everything again.
I'm not a computer dope; I do system administration, UNIX security, and SOX compliance for a Fortune 100 company that every single one of you has heard of. But Windows? THAT'S hard.
My Ubuntu partition on the same box works great. Even a security fix that leaves the box non-bootable is easily fixed, and I know exactly how to go about troubleshooting even brand-new problems.
I don't think this is aimed at gamers, exactly. I would think this would be aimed at professionals. I could be wrong. Who else would need the ability to drive 4 monitors at over 1600x1200 each?
That's one of its uses. The other is to drive one monitor at 41 gigapixels a second. As in, 1600x1200 with Anisotropic Filtering and Anti-Aliasing turned up to whatever-the-hell is the highest level (like I'd know with my measely 6800 GS) at 150 frames per second.
Why, yes, there is probably some version of Office running on it. Now, if it is not the same version that I used to create the doc, can it even read it? and how much reformatting do I have to do to get it to print the same?
To the (limited) extent that I wasn't joking, that was sort of the point; we don't need a portable fooOffice so much as we need a portable document format.
ROBERT R. PROVINE Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland; Author, Laughter
The empirically testable idea that the here and now is all there is and that life begins at birth and ends at death is so dangerous that it has cost the lives of millions and threatens the future of civilization.
I won't address the question of whether or not the idea that "the here and now is all there is" is testable, because I frankly don't know whether it's testable or not, and agree with your conclusion that it's a true statement.
However, the second question you tried to lump together as a single one, that "life begins at birth and ends at death" is either meaningless or wrong, depending on how you define "birth" and "death". If you define "birth" as "when life begins", then your statement is meaningless. If, however, you define "birth" as "when the baby exits the birth canal entirely", then your statement is demonstrably wrong; there is no quantitative difference between a fetus halfway down the birth canal and one that has exited it other than relative position. Please don't attempt to argue that the intake of breath is a quantitative difference present only after birth, because I have two weeks of my life spent in a hospital to demonstrate that sometimes this occurs while still inside the mother.
Similarly, if death is defined as "when life ends", then again, you've tacked on meaningless words. But if it's defined as almost anything else commonly used by the medical profession, there are examples of people resuming function after these conditions have passed.
The reason the fight between your point of view on this question and the point of view of the other side is so acrimonious isn't because they cling to a demonstrably-false proposition; it's because you claim your side is demonstrably true when it's just as much a religious belief as theirs.
JAMES O'DONNELL Classicist; Cultural Historian; Provost, Georgetown University; Author, Avatars of the Word
From the earliest Babylonian and Chinese moments of "civilization", we have agreed that human affairs depend on an organizing power in the hands of a few people (usually with religious charisma to undergird their authority) who reside in a functionally central location. "Political science" assumes in its etymology the "polis" or city-state of Greece as the model for community and government.
But it is remarkable how little of human excellence and achievement has ever taken place in capital cities and around those elites, whose cultural history is one of self-mockery and implicit acceptance of the marginalization of the powerful. Borderlands and frontiers (and even suburbs) are where the action is.
Said conclusion financed by tax dollars collected and distributed by a strong nation-state.
...do it right. Make a cheap-ass box that takes digital broadcast signals and converts them to NTSC letterboxed. If grandma wants to keep her ancient TV, let her look at nasty black bars. If she doesn't like nasty black bars, she can save up for a new TV.
The boxes shouldn't cost much, compared to buying everybody a new TV.
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I bet the on-line barbie forum attracts a lot of pre-teen girls,
Do you realize what you just unleashed on the Barbie forums?
James Lovelock is predicting doomsday? Is it January again already? My how the time flies.
Anybody on Slashdot who thinks there is no Open Source Community of which to run afoul is unable to see the forest because he's a tree.
I't a lot like the Allied soldiers who were fighting in Germany, being told all these horror stories about how evil the Nazis actually were, and then coming upon a concentration camp and finding out that these stories were real after all.
It won't be the same until the leader of Iran states that the backdoor never happened.
No, wait; not even then.
Honestly? It's probably a remastering of the episodes.
No probably about it; they're 16:9 on the DVDs. I know because we're in the midst of a marathon at home, watching the first 8 seasons at the rate of 3 or 4 eps a weekend.
Wait till you see that baby in action. Then laugh.
Ha ha, stupid Dalek.
EL-E-VATE.
Oh crap.
According to Jobs, iTunes notifies the FISA court within 72 hours about all information it gathers from your system, so it's perfectly legit.
I guess public space imagery matters if your biggest military rivals don't have their own satellites. Our biggest rival in 1974 was in space before we were, so I don't see what made this such an issue.
Your biggest rivals are not your only rivals, and what they think they know may not be 100% correct.
Now we don't have to wonder why it's not being used anymore.
Oh, I knew exactly why it wasn't being used anymore. However, there is still hope. If there's sufficient support for the idea, an Amendment is always possible. I'd support that, as long as there was sufficient safeguard in it to prevent doing things like vetoing the word "not" out of statements like "agency foo shall not engage in act bar". I seem to recall that Oklahoma had to make a change for exactly that reason.
Although one of the six justices who ruled it unConstitutional has since died and been replaced, it's likely that his replacement would continue to rule against it, and Justice Alito (if confirmed) would likely change that mix to 7-2. An Amendment is the only way it will happen any time soon.
I got a story accepted and I only got one naked picture. And I think it was CowboyNeal.
On my Chaintech mobo, if I install Service Pack 2 for XP, the whole system locks up during the shutdown, and if reset it bluescreens on boot, every time.
I rebuilt it and tried that again; same result. That box has sat on Service Pack 1 forever as a result.
Recently I upgraded the mobo to a Gigabyte with an AMD dual-core. I'm afraid to try again with SP2; I don't have a clue how to go about trouble-shooting the problem if it happens again, I'd just be reinstalling everything again.
I'm not a computer dope; I do system administration, UNIX security, and SOX compliance for a Fortune 100 company that every single one of you has heard of. But Windows? THAT'S hard.
My Ubuntu partition on the same box works great. Even a security fix that leaves the box non-bootable is easily fixed, and I know exactly how to go about troubleshooting even brand-new problems.
Line. Item. Veto.
Incidentally - why does everybody feel the need to list the TV programmes they like to record?
:)
Information wants to be free! What's wrong with sharing?
Go pay to get Jose Padilla's phone records this way. There's a story there no matter what you find.
I don't think this is aimed at gamers, exactly. I would think this would be aimed at professionals. I could be wrong. Who else would need the ability to drive 4 monitors at over 1600x1200 each?
That's one of its uses. The other is to drive one monitor at 41 gigapixels a second. As in, 1600x1200 with Anisotropic Filtering and Anti-Aliasing turned up to whatever-the-hell is the highest level (like I'd know with my measely 6800 GS) at 150 frames per second.
Wait, you'd wear shorts and a t-shirt at 53 kelvin?
That's totally sweater weather; you're crazy!
Out of the corner of my eye that looked like they were filing a "Second Amendment Complaint" and I was like "huh?"
Wait, we're wondering if consumers who bought an XBox while PS/2 and Gamecube already existed will want a format war?
Why, yes, there is probably some version of Office running on it. Now, if it is not the same version that I used to create the doc, can it even read it? and how much reformatting do I have to do to get it to print the same?
:)
To the (limited) extent that I wasn't joking, that was sort of the point; we don't need a portable fooOffice so much as we need a portable document format.
But mostly I was joking.
ROBERT R. PROVINE
Psychologist and Neuroscientist, University of Maryland; Author, Laughter
The empirically testable idea that the here and now is all there is and that life begins at birth and ends at death is so dangerous that it has cost the lives of millions and threatens the future of civilization.
I won't address the question of whether or not the idea that "the here and now is all there is" is testable, because I frankly don't know whether it's testable or not, and agree with your conclusion that it's a true statement.
However, the second question you tried to lump together as a single one, that "life begins at birth and ends at death" is either meaningless or wrong, depending on how you define "birth" and "death". If you define "birth" as "when life begins", then your statement is meaningless. If, however, you define "birth" as "when the baby exits the birth canal entirely", then your statement is demonstrably wrong; there is no quantitative difference between a fetus halfway down the birth canal and one that has exited it other than relative position. Please don't attempt to argue that the intake of breath is a quantitative difference present only after birth, because I have two weeks of my life spent in a hospital to demonstrate that sometimes this occurs while still inside the mother.
Similarly, if death is defined as "when life ends", then again, you've tacked on meaningless words. But if it's defined as almost anything else commonly used by the medical profession, there are examples of people resuming function after these conditions have passed.
The reason the fight between your point of view on this question and the point of view of the other side is so acrimonious isn't because they cling to a demonstrably-false proposition; it's because you claim your side is demonstrably true when it's just as much a religious belief as theirs.
JAMES O'DONNELL
Classicist; Cultural Historian; Provost, Georgetown University; Author, Avatars of the Word
From the earliest Babylonian and Chinese moments of "civilization", we have agreed that human affairs depend on an organizing power in the hands of a few people (usually with religious charisma to undergird their authority) who reside in a functionally central location. "Political science" assumes in its etymology the "polis" or city-state of Greece as the model for community and government.
But it is remarkable how little of human excellence and achievement has ever taken place in capital cities and around those elites, whose cultural history is one of self-mockery and implicit acceptance of the marginalization of the powerful. Borderlands and frontiers (and even suburbs) are where the action is.
Said conclusion financed by tax dollars collected and distributed by a strong nation-state.
If I'd known this is what Firefox needed for a "killer app", I'd have written an Extension to integrate GAIM into it ages ago.
We don't need a "portable Microsoft Office". It's on every freakin' PC you might find yourself using that's otherwise out of your control anyway.
...do it right. Make a cheap-ass box that takes digital broadcast signals and converts them to NTSC letterboxed. If grandma wants to keep her ancient TV, let her look at nasty black bars. If she doesn't like nasty black bars, she can save up for a new TV.
The boxes shouldn't cost much, compared to buying everybody a new TV.
I tried to read the story on Mirrordot, but it looks like they've been Slashdotted.