If they're intelligent beasts that can talk, I'd say that's pretty good evidence that they can think. And if they can think, doesn't that make them people?
This is why we can't get dates... because we are too busy arguing about fine details of fictional characters that a single person made up, as if it somehow explains a broader topic called racism.
Seeing how I don't play WoW, but I do know how most other games work... are you sure it isn't both TCP and UDP?
Game traffic tends to work where: UDP handles non-important info, like state/location coordinates that get sent on a constant basis (because if/when lag happens, we no longer care where the person was 5 seconds ago, we just drop the packet anyways). TCP handles important info, like item drops/damage counts that get sent once and never change.
I don't know where "2 billion" came from but 800 million sounds about right.
According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the gravest single threat to the world's public health.[1]According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 25,000 people died of starvation every day in 2003,[2] and as of 2001 to 2003, about 800 million people were chronically undernourished
Wikipedia told me Now, 800m/6.6b = 12% of the world was starving in 2003. But lets just say somehow we cured world hunger.
The original point was about wealth for the majority. Linking starvation to wealth is a big leap. Rich countries are 'buying' food for poor countries. Even then, technology has improved, we have rice that yields 4x more than it did 100 years ago. So, having better technology makes the definition of 'wealth' even harder to define. I would say wealth means you have 1/6.6b percent of the world's economy means you are wealthy.
You don't seem to understand the difference between bad eyesight, and unfit for work eyesight.
Everyone who had bad eyesight back in the day, could still cook/clean/farm/make tools/clothes (perhaps a lesser quality than an eagle eye tailor).
Nowadays 'better' eyesight has become a requirement for newer types of jobs. Reading small print on a computer screen. Just because people wear glasses does not mean they NEED them. You were right, it was a "struggle" but still manageable. Besides, a physical property of a human being should not remove someones intellectual ideas.
OTOH, having an Internet trend set in with most servers switching to SSL (i.e. HTTPS, etc) keeps the government (and corps providing its "security" snooping services) from profiling people based on their everyday choices of art, books, and ways of socializing. It takes ISPs out of the loop as far as acting as surrogate cops snooping on peoples' data.
If only you can mod higher than +5...
Everything on the Internet SHOULD be encrypted. I really really wish that I could encrypt every piece of data I send and receive regardless of its content. The only current solutions for constant encryption are things like TOR which uses proxies and there's still a point for failure (the proxy itself to the destination), and can be LAGGY as hell...
We regret to inform you, that VeNoM0619 has perished... in the real world. He has advised us in his will to inform his online accomplices of his early demise. Also, that 4 strength, 4 stam leather belt, is his, and will not be given away.
Hope this has brought nothing but sadness and unnecessary bad news to your once bright and cheery day,
Anonymous Family Member
Somebody set up us the sandwich
We get order (What?)
Main machine turn on (It's you!)
How are you, may I take order? All your burgers are belong to us
You are on the way to construction (What you say?)
You have no chance to fry, make your time Ha ha ha Manager !!
Take off every 'ZIG'
You know what you doing
Move 'ZIG'
For great cheesburgers
Weekends, off time, and vacations are all spent in bed.
I spend my weekends/off time/vacations in bed too.. 12 hours a day, I have 12 more hours to do whatever I want. I know how to state partial truths as much as you (my family member tried this lie just like you). You don't sleep 6+24+24=56 hours straight every week.
My kids only see me in bed or know I am away working
Really?! You and I both know that, you sir, are in fact a big liar. If the above response wasn't proof enough, then WHY are you POSTING on slashdot? You have NO sympathy from me. You can try and lie to yourself all you like, but when you learn to face life, it will be much more enjoyable and you may actually EARN people's respect.
I have a clue you ignorant git!
If the only response you have is insults and lies. Then I believe you have overstayed your welcome.
After reading the discussion here, I was about to take sides with Sealand until I noticed your pictures... then thought... that's SeaLAND??!?! Can someone please find me the piece of dirt/earth that it occupies? I thought part of being a nation required land... so now if I were to make a small outpost far in the water it would be my own "country"? Then perhaps I could join the UN, then try and take over the world...
Just imagine the nightmares kids would get, when they learn that having something pop up on your screen could cause you to be locked up in prison for 40 years.
Mod parent up... because for once... someone actually did "think of the children".
Get a clue you ignorant git! Most suffers have become
Put another way, most sufferers
It happened to a close friend of mine
I actually have a family member who "has" it (although I love them, I hate the fact they take advantage of something like this, and try telling me to get a job/work - which I did get), and I am still biased towards it. They won't talk about it, unless its used as an excuse NOT to do something. It's is hard to diagnose (taken from the link) meaning it can be abused.
Regardless of "most", or your relations with someone who has it, it is still being abused like the occasional obese person who abuses their 'disability'. Most people like to pretend their lives are "worse" than anyone elses. Sometimes they wish to go as far as a 'legal' way of defining how bad it is, so they can get sympathy and excuses.
Notice, how most people who are actually disabled: DON'T want sympathy? I have seen disabled people who could legally not have to get a job, but still go to work because they want to be normal (and respected, which they are).
I have yet to see someone who can't do anything about their weight.
I see people who eat 5 meals a day complain how hard it is.
Or 3 meals, but require 3 full plate-loads in a meal
But ANYONE 'CAN' get surgery/liposuction. So.. I disagree about being "helpless", and I agree with the GP. They get an extra luxury because of a "disability". How many other people do you see get an extra seat for claustrophobia? Zip, zilch, nada.
Defining obesity as a disability nowadays is really sickening. Seeing people not having to work, or park far away because the threshold for "disability" being lowered is just sad. Soon they will have a disability that allows you to not work, just because you are too tired. Oh wait, they already have that!
I know I've long since learned, anything that can be abused, will be abused eventually
To make an analogy for/.:
Most programmers make mistakes
Most groups of programmers make mistakes (no matter how big your group is)
These mistakes do get abused eventually. The problem is that there is no one doing 'sanity' tests on these laws and attempting to abuse them before they get made, while we have companies who do 'sanity' tests with QA and hired security consultants.
You are right, we need more sanity checks, especially for things like laws, the controlling factor of society.
You're right, I'll work on my skills. Like posting anonymously when attempting to insult someone's social skills showing lack of responsibility and fear of voicing one's opinion.
And making an analogy, that's another no-no, because I can't see what "prejudice" that quote has. Perhaps you would like to use your 21st century superior social skills and explain what's wrong with my comment, and why you think that way. Not that you will followup on an AC post, but I will thank you for your time and effort.
Excuse me? I learned my social skills and tech skills from ONLINE games.
To actually say you do not learn social skills online, while online is a bit hypocritical...its like calling someone a nerd WHILE online.
Sure, maybe some game industry is saying this, but I would rather have my kids online gaming, than; watching mindless TV, going outdoors and jumping off trees, joining a gang, hanging out with a pothead friend, etc.
I do not have kids, and this is only my opinion though, but ONLINE gaming has taught me more useful tech skills and how to socialize with people from different age groups and countries fairly well. If I just so happened to hang out with my friends in school (which I did on rare occasions) learning how to socialize from them, I would have turned into racists like them.
Slashdot Mirror
Tolkien was unclear on the nature of orcs.
If they're intelligent beasts that can talk, I'd say that's pretty good evidence that they can think. And if they can think, doesn't that make them people?
This is why we can't get dates... because we are too busy arguing about fine details of fictional characters that a single person made up, as if it somehow explains a broader topic called racism.
Seeing how I don't play WoW, but I do know how most other games work... are you sure it isn't both TCP and UDP?
Game traffic tends to work where: UDP handles non-important info, like state/location coordinates that get sent on a constant basis (because if/when lag happens, we no longer care where the person was 5 seconds ago, we just drop the packet anyways). TCP handles important info, like item drops/damage counts that get sent once and never change.
According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the gravest single threat to the world's public health.[1]According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 25,000 people died of starvation every day in 2003,[2] and as of 2001 to 2003, about 800 million people were chronically undernourished
Wikipedia told me Now, 800m/6.6b = 12% of the world was starving in 2003. But lets just say somehow we cured world hunger.
The original point was about wealth for the majority. Linking starvation to wealth is a big leap. Rich countries are 'buying' food for poor countries. Even then, technology has improved, we have rice that yields 4x more than it did 100 years ago. So, having better technology makes the definition of 'wealth' even harder to define. I would say wealth means you have 1/6.6b percent of the world's economy means you are wealthy.
You don't seem to understand the difference between bad eyesight, and unfit for work eyesight.
Everyone who had bad eyesight back in the day, could still cook/clean/farm/make tools/clothes (perhaps a lesser quality than an eagle eye tailor).
Nowadays 'better' eyesight has become a requirement for newer types of jobs. Reading small print on a computer screen. Just because people wear glasses does not mean they NEED them. You were right, it was a "struggle" but still manageable. Besides, a physical property of a human being should not remove someones intellectual ideas.
OTOH, having an Internet trend set in with most servers switching to SSL (i.e. HTTPS, etc) keeps the government (and corps providing its "security" snooping services) from profiling people based on their everyday choices of art, books, and ways of socializing. It takes ISPs out of the loop as far as acting as surrogate cops snooping on peoples' data.
If only you can mod higher than +5...
Everything on the Internet SHOULD be encrypted. I really really wish that I could encrypt every piece of data I send and receive regardless of its content. The only current solutions for constant encryption are things like TOR which uses proxies and there's still a point for failure (the proxy itself to the destination), and can be LAGGY as hell...
Dear anonymous coward,
We regret to inform you, that VeNoM0619 has perished... in the real world. He has advised us in his will to inform his online accomplices of his early demise. Also, that 4 strength, 4 stam leather belt, is his, and will not be given away.
Hope this has brought nothing but sadness and unnecessary bad news to your once bright and cheery day,
Anonymous Family Member
I'm more curious, does this make you easier to float because it has air pockets? Or easier to sink (preventing drag on water)?
The real question is... will you be around to care?
Somebody set up us the sandwich
We get order
(What?)
Main machine turn on
(It's you!)
How are you, may I take order?
All your burgers are belong to us
You are on the way to construction
(What you say?)
You have no chance to fry, make your time
Ha ha ha
Manager !!
Take off every 'ZIG'
You know what you doing
Move 'ZIG'
For great cheesburgers
Great idea, where do we send your check?
Weekends, off time, and vacations are all spent in bed.
I spend my weekends/off time/vacations in bed too.. 12 hours a day, I have 12 more hours to do whatever I want. I know how to state partial truths as much as you (my family member tried this lie just like you). You don't sleep 6+24+24=56 hours straight every week.
My kids only see me in bed or know I am away working
Really?! You and I both know that, you sir, are in fact a big liar. If the above response wasn't proof enough, then WHY are you POSTING on slashdot? You have NO sympathy from me. You can try and lie to yourself all you like, but when you learn to face life, it will be much more enjoyable and you may actually EARN people's respect.
I have a clue you ignorant git!
If the only response you have is insults and lies. Then I believe you have overstayed your welcome.
After reading the discussion here, I was about to take sides with Sealand until I noticed your pictures... then thought... that's SeaLAND??!?! Can someone please find me the piece of dirt/earth that it occupies? I thought part of being a nation required land... so now if I were to make a small outpost far in the water it would be my own "country"? Then perhaps I could join the UN, then try and take over the world...
Just imagine the nightmares kids would get, when they learn that having something pop up on your screen could cause you to be locked up in prison for 40 years.
Mod parent up... because for once... someone actually did "think of the children".
Get a clue you ignorant git!
Most suffers have become
Put another way, most sufferers
It happened to a close friend of mine
I actually have a family member who "has" it (although I love them, I hate the fact they take advantage of something like this, and try telling me to get a job/work - which I did get), and I am still biased towards it. They won't talk about it, unless its used as an excuse NOT to do something. It's is hard to diagnose (taken from the link) meaning it can be abused.
Regardless of "most", or your relations with someone who has it, it is still being abused like the occasional obese person who abuses their 'disability'. Most people like to pretend their lives are "worse" than anyone elses. Sometimes they wish to go as far as a 'legal' way of defining how bad it is, so they can get sympathy and excuses.
Notice, how most people who are actually disabled: DON'T want sympathy? I have seen disabled people who could legally not have to get a job, but still go to work because they want to be normal (and respected, which they are).
Hmm... cute... not news for nerds, but I'll make an exception...
I have yet to see someone who can't do anything about their weight.
I see people who eat 5 meals a day complain how hard it is.
Or 3 meals, but require 3 full plate-loads in a meal
But ANYONE 'CAN' get surgery/liposuction. So.. I disagree about being "helpless", and I agree with the GP. They get an extra luxury because of a "disability". How many other people do you see get an extra seat for claustrophobia? Zip, zilch, nada.
Defining obesity as a disability nowadays is really sickening. Seeing people not having to work, or park far away because the threshold for "disability" being lowered is just sad. Soon they will have a disability that allows you to not work, just because you are too tired. Oh wait, they already have that!
Because after he got his virus, he became afraid of the internet and didn't visit any sites up until Chromes recent release.
Welcome to the internet, I'll show you around.
I know I've long since learned, anything that can be abused, will be abused eventually
To make an analogy for /.:
Most programmers make mistakes
Most groups of programmers make mistakes (no matter how big your group is)
These mistakes do get abused eventually. The problem is that there is no one doing 'sanity' tests on these laws and attempting to abuse them before they get made, while we have companies who do 'sanity' tests with QA and hired security consultants.
You are right, we need more sanity checks, especially for things like laws, the controlling factor of society.
You're right, I'll work on my skills. Like posting anonymously when attempting to insult someone's social skills showing lack of responsibility and fear of voicing one's opinion.
And making an analogy, that's another no-no, because I can't see what "prejudice" that quote has. Perhaps you would like to use your 21st century superior social skills and explain what's wrong with my comment, and why you think that way. Not that you will followup on an AC post, but I will thank you for your time and effort.
I guess when you're running on hot air, you sometimes run out of steam)."
And already having these 3 tags appear: steamisntair, steamiswater, !steam I'd say he made a slam dunk with his soccer ball for topic relations.
Excuse me? I learned my social skills and tech skills from ONLINE games.
To actually say you do not learn social skills online, while online is a bit hypocritical...its like calling someone a nerd WHILE online.
Sure, maybe some game industry is saying this, but I would rather have my kids online gaming, than; watching mindless TV, going outdoors and jumping off trees, joining a gang, hanging out with a pothead friend, etc.
I do not have kids, and this is only my opinion though, but ONLINE gaming has taught me more useful tech skills and how to socialize with people from different age groups and countries fairly well. If I just so happened to hang out with my friends in school (which I did on rare occasions) learning how to socialize from them, I would have turned into racists like them.
Only 2 million...? For a new plane design?
Taco needs karma too you know...
Or perhaps because Australia is filtering their content and losing their common carrier status?
I wonder what she thinks of how she designed her own tombstone?
Most people design their tombstones crazy, so people can remember them. Look at Penn and Teller's tombstone for a card trick.
Do you think people will remember you if you put something fancy, or just a big stone stating your name?