But I do have to comment on one thing: The sales of these cards is strictly a matter of business. What people do with them afterwards, and what they decide to do because of them is strictly a matter for the individual, rather than the "state" to decide. Any other course of action will simply be another step along the way to the iron fist of totalitarian government.
By the same reasoning, people should be able to buy thermonuclear weapons, a deadly biological viruses, nerve gas, and gun add-ons to let people shoot down police helocopters(obscure Simpsons reference). Sure, whatever.
Because it is searching for information and the truth about life. Some people seem to think that God wants humans to remain idiots. If this AC were alive 500 years ago, he'd have been petitioning to get Galileo burned at the stake.
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I got started on the internet in late '96, with a local ISP. I had a bunch of connection problems, and I was always getting busy signals. I had heard about AOL, and my impression was that with AOL you basically got all the internet, just like my old ISP, plus new services from AOL. I thought: obviously there's nothing to lose. How wrong I was.
Anyway, you all know how crappy AOL is, but have you ever tried using it on a 75MHz Mac w/ 8 megs of RAM? I quickly decided I hated AOL, and got rid of it, switching to Prodigy(yes they have services, but you can just connect normally, w/o the app). Eventually cable modems came to our area, and I've been happy with RoadRunner ever since.
But... a couple months after trashing AOL, my mom(no freedom for me yet), realized AOL was still charging us. She called them and told them very clearly we had already cancelled the service, we weren't using it, and they had better stop charging us. They said sorry and promised the account was canceled.
Yesterday, my mom looks at her bank statement and sees $21.95, going to AOL. She looks through a couple old statements, it's on every one(apparently she doesn't look at these statements too closely). So, two years after we cancelled AOL, she is again calling them telling her sorry, and that the account is now, definitely, closed. Unfortunetely they can only refund 2 months of payments, or $44 out of the $500 those cheating bastards at AOL stole.
Anyone want to start a class-action suit? I've heard complaints like this before.
The name of the charity is "Getting girls for geeks". The basic purpose is to hire prostitutes for under-sexed, over-stressed geek guys who would otherwise have to do something crazy like shooting up a school.
Actually there was Gore and Bradley, and, at one point, 12 Republicans. All but Gore and Bush(and Alan Keyes) have dropped.
BTW, you libertarians complaining about your choices should shut up. You're the ones against campaign finance reform, and then you complain when the people getting the huge checks from corporations are able to win.
There are several ways that this could be accomplished privately. One, you could have a subscription system, where you pay a monthly charge for the privilege of using the highway. Another would be to have a card you swap at the exit and entrance. A third would be to have sensors in the road and magnetically encoded data on the underside of your car. All three of these are technically feasible, and wouldn't inconvenience drivers much.
Yeah, how does that work? What company is going to be able to buy the unbelievable amounts of land needed to build a nation highway system? Also, when the someone's house is in the way, the gov't just gives them a check and tells them to get packing. How is the corporation going to do this(you know there's gonna be some places people won't move no matter what)?
The simple fact is that there are some thing the government can do better. Give credit where credit is due.
A Slashdot editor and writer urged me to ask Pinkerton what remedies students and parents would have against false accusations. (The answer: None. Pinkerton doesn't make accusations, they just pass along information. That wasn't the company's problem, the execs said. Nor were any misuses of anonymously reported information by the schools that received it).
Did this remind anyone else of "Wernher Von Braun", and I was singing the Tom Lehrer song to myself "...'vonce rockets are up, who cares vere ze come down, zat's not my depaatment' says Wernher Von Braun"
I have been moderated down before for responding to a point made in another post that wasn't moderated down. I really think moderators abuse the "Offtopic" classification. If we had a story on Mars, and some people started a KDE/Gnome flamewar, that would be offtopic. But that post moderated down was taking issue with a point made in a previous post, a point relating to the topic at hand, I might add.
Personally I think there should be no "offtopic" moderation past the top level. As people discuss things, the conversation just naturally tends to drift. Slashdot should not be so regimented that such drift is not allowed.
Furthermore, these moderators quick to the trigger finger really degrade Slashdot, because people don't want to be modded down, and so they either don't post or they post as an AC. Anytime anyone wants to say something even the least bit controversial about the way Slashdot works, they switch to AC mode.
Moderators: just settle down. (how was that for offtopic?)
An interview with someone like Leon Lederman or Steve Wozniak may be hot stuff to you and me, but the overwhelming majority of the world's population would rather read about Bill Clinton or Leonardo DiCaprio.
Or, better yet: Leonardo DiCaprio interviewing Bill Clinton!!! Only ABC could bring you that level of journalism. Time-Warner/AOL can't hold a candle to that.
Unfortunetely it would cost about $450 billion, according to NASA. And for all the expense, and though it would take 30 years to accomplish, it wouldn't actually get much done on Mars.
If you haven't read the book by Zubrin, I'd highly recommend it.
$50,000 would be an unbelievable bargain. Try more like $25 million. Also, I think I heard that the movie plans went down the toilet. I can't be sure though.
After just finishing "Case for Mars" by Robert Zubrin, and seeing that NASA has no will to be enthusiastic explorers of the red planet, I'm very glad to that private companies are going to put humans in space.
I personally think the JFK-style mission Zubrin describes would be work best, but I also think the Gingrich plan could effect the same results.
But I'll cross my fingers in the hope that whoever gets elected, Gore or Bush, would be willing to give space exploration a boost using the bully pulpit(though it doesn't look likely, neither of them has a spine).
As far as your wishes go I do not see yet why can not you levitate around (like astronauts do using acceleration or using some kind of force compensation like magnetic suspension.) You really do not need Warp Drive to get to distant stars in reasonable period of time. You just have to go fast enough. Take a look at Special Relativity Theory formulae and you will see that if you move with the speed of light you reach any destination point instantly by you clocks.
Well.....sort of. I mean, you could, if you didn't care that when you got back to Earth your family and friends would all be dead. The great thing about a warp drive is that you wouldn't have to have such a large gap in time between you and the rest of humanity.
I've had that book on my "to read" list for quite some time, I'll have to get around to it soon(even though I don't understand a lot of that complex physics stuff)
Wow, and ten paragraphs in the post, too. Could that be a coincidence? I doubt it.
Here's an example:
"When assessing Bytme's manuscripts, one need not resort to vicious name-calling or opprobrious epithets. One need only present the facts. But before I continue, allow me to explain that Bytme's cowardly attacks not only demean Bytme's victims, they dehumanize all of us and are contrary to the principles of a free society. Looking at it another way, he evinces a bulldog-like instinct for going after the jugular of his intended victims. Why doesn't Bytme try doing something constructive for once in his life? Still, there are no easy solutions for dealing with ribald scientists ("easy" being defined as a solution that will not create new (and reinforce existing) prejudices and misconceptions).
Above all, until we fight to the end for our ideas and ideals, he will continue to make a big deal out of nothing. It's not that I have anything against know-nothings in general. It's just that Bytme's hideous cronies seem to think they can escape the consequences of their actions. Someone needs to exemplify the principles of honor, duty, loyalty, and courage. Who's going to do it? Bytme? I think not.
To treat the disease, not the symptoms, we have to work diligently and effectively to anneal discourse with honesty, clear thinking, and a sense of moral good. Likewise, the poisonous wine of sesquipedalianism had been distilled long before he entered the scene. Bytme is merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle into the jug that is world humanity. I will not quibble with him as to whether or not his lackeys have been arrested in numerous murders, violent assaults, and bank robberies across the nation. Instead, I'll simply state that whenever I ponder over the meanings and implications of Bytme's intrusive methods of interpretation, I feel little peace, and leave it at that. Judging by the generally neo-impertinent nature of his henchmen, I can see that he and other manipulative fanatics continue to whine and pule about how their rights are so much more important than anyone else's. What I'm saying is this: Bytme's mottos are doubtlessly despised by everyone but cynical adolescents. The Bytme Foundation's latest report on insensitive clericalism is filled with fabrications, half-truths, innuendo, and guilt by association. Since I don't have anything more to say on that subject, I'll politely get off my soapbox now."
See, I like agnosticism. I also think all the religions are pretty stupid, but I don't think someone like a Deist, who just believed, in general, that an intelligent entity created our universe, would be less rational than an atheist.
For me where it breaks down is when the religious types believe that God came to Earth and had a nice chat with humans and blah blah blah. It's nonsene, IMO, of course.
But, while I doubt there is/was a God, I don't think it's immpossible. And it seems to me that atheists are going on faith just as much as religious people by pretending to know that God doesn't exist.
I guess my point is that no one knows. If you want to think you do, fine, but don't think you're superior to everyone else. And that goes for atheists as well as Bible-thumping Christians.
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But I do have to comment on one thing:
The sales of these cards is strictly a matter of business. What people do with them afterwards, and what they decide to do because of them is strictly a matter for the individual, rather than the "state" to decide. Any other course of action will simply be another step along the way to the iron fist of totalitarian government.
By the same reasoning, people should be able to buy thermonuclear weapons, a deadly biological viruses, nerve gas, and gun add-ons to let people shoot down police helocopters(obscure Simpsons reference). Sure, whatever.
Because it is searching for information and the truth about life. Some people seem to think that God wants humans to remain idiots. If this AC were alive 500 years ago, he'd have been petitioning to get Galileo burned at the stake.
I got started on the internet in late '96, with a local ISP. I had a bunch of connection problems, and I was always getting busy signals. I had heard about AOL, and my impression was that with AOL you basically got all the internet, just like my old ISP, plus new services from AOL. I thought: obviously there's nothing to lose. How wrong I was.
Anyway, you all know how crappy AOL is, but have you ever tried using it on a 75MHz Mac w/ 8 megs of RAM? I quickly decided I hated AOL, and got rid of it, switching to Prodigy(yes they have services, but you can just connect normally, w/o the app). Eventually cable modems came to our area, and I've been happy with RoadRunner ever since.
But... a couple months after trashing AOL, my mom(no freedom for me yet), realized AOL was still charging us. She called them and told them very clearly we had already cancelled the service, we weren't using it, and they had better stop charging us. They said sorry and promised the account was canceled.
Yesterday, my mom looks at her bank statement and sees $21.95, going to AOL. She looks through a couple old statements, it's on every one(apparently she doesn't look at these statements too closely). So, two years after we cancelled AOL, she is again calling them telling her sorry, and that the account is now, definitely, closed. Unfortunetely they can only refund 2 months of payments, or $44 out of the $500 those cheating bastards at AOL stole.
Anyone want to start a class-action suit? I've heard complaints like this before.
The name of the charity is "Getting girls for geeks". The basic purpose is to hire prostitutes for under-sexed, over-stressed geek guys who would otherwise have to do something crazy like shooting up a school.
Moderation Totals:Offtopic=2, Funny=2, Total=4.
And the score was 3. How does that work?
Actually there was Gore and Bradley, and, at one point, 12 Republicans. All but Gore and Bush(and Alan Keyes) have dropped.
BTW, you libertarians complaining about your choices should shut up. You're the ones against campaign finance reform, and then you complain when the people getting the huge checks from corporations are able to win.
There are several ways that this could be accomplished privately. One, you could have a subscription system, where you pay a monthly charge for the privilege of using the highway. Another would be to have a card you swap at the exit and entrance. A third would be to have sensors in the road and magnetically encoded data on the underside of your car. All three of these are technically feasible, and wouldn't inconvenience drivers much.
Yeah, how does that work? What company is going to be able to buy the unbelievable amounts of land needed to build a nation highway system? Also, when the someone's house is in the way, the gov't just gives them a check and tells them to get packing. How is the corporation going to do this(you know there's gonna be some places people won't move no matter what)?
The simple fact is that there are some thing the government can do better. Give credit where credit is due.
A Slashdot editor and writer urged me to ask Pinkerton what remedies students and parents would have against false accusations. (The answer: None. Pinkerton doesn't make accusations, they just pass along information. That wasn't the company's problem, the execs said. Nor were any misuses of anonymously reported information by the schools that received it).
Did this remind anyone else of "Wernher Von Braun", and I was singing the Tom Lehrer song to myself "...'vonce rockets are up, who cares vere ze come down, zat's not my depaatment' says Wernher Von Braun"
BTW, here's an interesting study(probably the one Katz was referring to): http://www.cjcj.org/schoolhousehype/shh2.html
I have been moderated down before for responding to a point made in another post that wasn't moderated down. I really think moderators abuse the "Offtopic" classification. If we had a story on Mars, and some people started a KDE/Gnome flamewar, that would be offtopic. But that post moderated down was taking issue with a point made in a previous post, a point relating to the topic at hand, I might add.
Personally I think there should be no "offtopic" moderation past the top level. As people discuss things, the conversation just naturally tends to drift. Slashdot should not be so regimented that such drift is not allowed.
Furthermore, these moderators quick to the trigger finger really degrade Slashdot, because people don't want to be modded down, and so they either don't post or they post as an AC. Anytime anyone wants to say something even the least bit controversial about the way Slashdot works, they switch to AC mode.
Moderators: just settle down.
(how was that for offtopic?)
Check out www.moonshop.com, they're selling the same thing. I think that makes it pretty clear how legit this is.
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wonder why?
An interview with someone like Leon Lederman or Steve Wozniak may be hot stuff to you and me, but the overwhelming majority of the world's population would rather read about Bill Clinton or Leonardo DiCaprio.
Or, better yet: Leonardo DiCaprio interviewing Bill Clinton!!! Only ABC could bring you that level of journalism. Time-Warner/AOL can't hold a candle to that.
Unfortunetely it would cost about $450 billion, according to NASA. And for all the expense, and though it would take 30 years to accomplish, it wouldn't actually get much done on Mars.
If you haven't read the book by Zubrin, I'd highly recommend it.
That is an excellent April Fools joke. That really had me going, especially since it was coordinated between the two sites. Great work, guys.
$50,000 would be an unbelievable bargain. Try more like $25 million. Also, I think I heard that the movie plans went down the toilet. I can't be sure though.
After just finishing "Case for Mars" by Robert Zubrin, and seeing that NASA has no will to be enthusiastic explorers of the red planet, I'm very glad to that private companies are going to put humans in space.
I personally think the JFK-style mission Zubrin describes would be work best, but I also think the Gingrich plan could effect the same results.
But I'll cross my fingers in the hope that whoever gets elected, Gore or Bush, would be willing to give space exploration a boost using the bully pulpit(though it doesn't look likely, neither of them has a spine).
And where's the IPO for this? - I want in.
actually I try to keep my Karma right around 42. That dropped it to 41. moderators are getting pissy these days(now it's down to 39)
I don't like all his stuff, but that book was hysterical.
As far as your wishes go I do not see yet why can not you levitate around (like astronauts do using acceleration or using some kind of force compensation like magnetic suspension.) You really do not need Warp Drive to get to distant stars in reasonable period of time. You just have to go fast enough. Take a look at Special Relativity Theory formulae and you will see that if you move with the speed of light you reach any destination point instantly by you clocks.
Well.....sort of. I mean, you could, if you didn't care that when you got back to Earth your family and friends would all be dead. The great thing about a warp drive is that you wouldn't have to have such a large gap in time between you and the rest of humanity.
Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe?
I've had that book on my "to read" list for quite some time, I'll have to get around to it soon(even though I don't understand a lot of that complex physics stuff)
I have a pretty good idea how he "wrote" this:
m plaint
http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/co
Wow, and ten paragraphs in the post, too. Could that be a coincidence? I doubt it.
Here's an example:
"When assessing Bytme's manuscripts, one need not resort to vicious name-calling or opprobrious epithets. One need only present the facts. But before I continue, allow me to explain that Bytme's cowardly attacks not only demean Bytme's victims, they dehumanize all of us and are contrary to the principles of a free society. Looking at it another way, he evinces a bulldog-like instinct for going after the jugular of his intended victims. Why doesn't Bytme try doing something constructive for once in his life? Still, there are no easy solutions for dealing with ribald scientists ("easy" being defined as a solution that will not create new (and reinforce existing) prejudices and misconceptions).
Above all, until we fight to the end for our ideas and ideals, he will continue to make a big deal out of nothing. It's not that I have anything against know-nothings in general. It's just that Bytme's hideous cronies seem to think they can escape the consequences of their actions. Someone needs to exemplify the principles of honor, duty, loyalty, and courage. Who's going to do it? Bytme? I think not.
To treat the disease, not the symptoms, we have to work diligently and effectively to anneal discourse with honesty, clear thinking, and a sense of moral good. Likewise, the poisonous wine of sesquipedalianism had been distilled long before he entered the scene. Bytme is merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle into the jug that is world humanity. I will not quibble with him as to whether or not his lackeys have been arrested in numerous murders, violent assaults, and bank robberies across the nation. Instead, I'll simply state that whenever I ponder over the meanings and implications of Bytme's intrusive methods of interpretation, I feel little peace, and leave it at that. Judging by the generally neo-impertinent nature of his henchmen, I can see that he and other manipulative fanatics continue to whine and pule about how their rights are so much more important than anyone else's. What I'm saying is this: Bytme's mottos are doubtlessly despised by everyone but cynical adolescents. The Bytme Foundation's latest report on insensitive clericalism is filled with fabrications, half-truths, innuendo, and guilt by association. Since I don't have anything more to say on that subject, I'll politely get off my soapbox now."
See, I like agnosticism. I also think all the religions are pretty stupid, but I don't think someone like a Deist, who just believed, in general, that an intelligent entity created our universe, would be less rational than an atheist.
For me where it breaks down is when the religious types believe that God came to Earth and had a nice chat with humans and blah blah blah. It's nonsene, IMO, of course.
But, while I doubt there is/was a God, I don't think it's immpossible. And it seems to me that atheists are going on faith just as much as religious people by pretending to know that God doesn't exist.
I guess my point is that no one knows. If you want to think you do, fine, but don't think you're superior to everyone else. And that goes for atheists as well as Bible-thumping Christians.
cost savings to you? $0
why? because both the machine and software are made by Apple, it's not like Apple spends any money giving you the OS on your machine, so BFD.
Here's an example of the influence religion has on people's lives:
m /mm00a.html
http://www.paganteahouse.com/malleus_maleficaru
it sounds to me like you just want to fuck everyone else's girlfriend in the name of open source communism :)