Another Samzenpus FacePalm. The/. title is seriously misleading. FTA:
With the way things are run, the state controls and monitors everything shown on your television or your computer. So yeah, China can randomly go back in time and say Marty McFly never existed. Scary, huh? The Doc would be furious.
Fortunately, that's not what they're saying. But somehow the government has taken a sudden disliking to the idea of distorting certain historical events, things and people. (Cough.)....The decision was made earlier this month, with the country's State Administration for Radio, Film & Television stating that "The producers and writers are treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore."
What's wrong with these shows? They “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.”
So time travel comes in because the article decided to link the concept of time-travel to television and movies that convey alternative histories (Which, to the pedants, can include time-travel). But it the main theme discussed is regarding misrepresenting history. Nowhere does it say sitting in your back-yard and working on that warp-drive is verboten. It seems to me they want to cut down on media that strays from the government dictated and allowed 'historical context'. Far from a ban on time-travel. Censorship...Yes...Sensationalist...Unfortunately.
I understand it's SOP, but I do think it is motherfucking bullshit that I pay a higher percentage of my income in taxes than these companies. And I guarantee my net is six to seven orders of magnitude less than what they bring in, which is probably true for most Americans as well. But its the welfare state that is bankrupting us they say!
Nope, known bug. I and others have reported it. The gist is if you are browsing at a +5 threshold, you will only see +5 parents whose parents are +5. If a +5 is under a troll, well the troll wins.
This is what we value in this country. Companies that spam coupons for the masses to buy more shit they don't need. So Wall St. intends on pumping 25 billion into a company that doesn't actually even manufacturer anything. A company whose only value is that it offers discounts to other companies! So in ten years, is their going to be a gang-groupon.com, that groupon pays to send out links to its own coupon links? The service based slave wage economy of the future is going to be quite sad indeed.
Not to mention, when gas goes up, diesel goes up. Then freight cost goes up. Then food cost goes up. Then everything goes up. The economy goes down, and pray your ready for all hell when the country is on the breaking point of mass food riots.
America is not ready for $10/gallon. We don't have the infrastructure to reduce our reliance on petroleum, and a +100% or more increase in petroleum will spell the end of everything we ever thought was remotely cheap.
It was my impression that the imposition of a No-Fly Zone generally means the proverbial bomb-dropping is sanctioned and imminent. The rhetoric of the UN's member nations is very action oriented right now. Technicalities aside, I think next week's news will be footage of SAM installations getting pounded by AGM-114 Hellfires.
I submitted an article on this as well, so I will just repost the question I posed again.
With the intervention of western countries, do you think this resolution will influence further revolutions across the globe, fueled by the hope that the UN will come to the rescue if the targets of revolt become aggressors similar to Gadhafi?
I am of the opinion we will see more revolutions, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and even possibly Iran. This will get real interesting, especially if places where the oil interest become threatened. $10 a gallon average U.S. gas price this summer anybody? Isn't it interesting that social media and modern technology have done more for the desire for democratization than most of our cold-war efforts ever did? Caveats to the benefits of revolution are, however, numerous.
Who will fill the power vacuum? Will the next party be worse than the prior? Is it worth the bloodshed and genocide? Will the county's stability spiral downward, further lowering standards of living and liberty? Interesting times we live in...
I had an idea for a business card with the data stored in RFID. If somebody could create a cheap printer that embeds the RFID chips in them (programmed), and then creates some set of standards that all cell-phone manufacturers start to adopt, you will be rich. Think about it. Give em a card, they wave it by their phone, phone grabs the info and BOOM..."Contact Added!". I think I could work, take it you entrepreneurs! If anything, it would be a cool hack-a-day project. I just don't have the time to make it happen, and don't have the funds to cover the risk of such an endeavor. Maybe if it was open sourced...
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Ya, duh. What is this, 1994 ?
I think somebody found this article saved on an old Windows 98 machine they were throwing away, so to cut cost they just fudged the dates and substringed in modern corporate brands.
Unfortunately, not in the United Plutocratic States of Corporate America. Write your congressm...they're bought out. Write your senato....they're bought out too...erm... become a lobbyist!
Which led him to ask 'What gives Twitter, Facebook, et al. the right to mine that data?' It turns out, users do when they sign up for social networking services, even if they don't realize that
End of discussion. Pointless article is pointless.
Also, what does this have to do with "unemployment, finance and social service?" Are state government unable to pass any law when those things are outside a certain threshold?
It was intended to be sarcastically humorous; the state legislators current dance with wordplay has nothing to do with any of those issues, the joke is the fact that the state government is even spending time mentally masturbating this issue when issues like unemployment, budget-cuts, abortion, gay-marriage, infrastructure spending, etc all remain largely unsolved, but yet these folks take the time to vote on word usage.
I remember my dad telling me a story about a guy who affixed some jet-motor to his car out in the salt-flats. After engaging the motor and going for the land speed record, the car went airborne (he lost all breaking and steering naturally, flying him miles further than he thought and straight into a cliff wall.
All they recovered of him was some particulate bio-mass in the steering wheel, mostly finger-nail fragments. Hopefully these folks have an airborne contingency plan, for 1050mph is pretty unforgiving (thats faster than almost all commercial airliners fly). Just the bow shock alone on the desert floor seems like it will cause stability issues.
...Indirectly, ever since the UI redesign, us users are being throttled every time we attempt to participate in the horrendous white-space laden +5 hiding Web-Two-Point-Oh-ey craptacular chicness that is the latest layout.
There is a definite line of delineation between my friends that use Facebook and my friends that code. The web may have finally gone mainstream, but I find it frustrating that now that it has, all these people using Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and other webby gidget crap all claim to be trendy IT geeks. What has happened is that the tools of the trade that we geeks have known for years finally went mainstream, and the rest of the world thinks they are now 1337 because of it. Not to sound elitist, but the dumb bimbo bitches I see in lecture hall chatting on Facebook are not geeks. They are still dumb bimbo bitches, just with a Web 2.0 platform to spew their idiocy.
At the end of the day, you should still be nice to geeks, because they will probably manage you one day. Unless your in an MBA program, where you don't actually learn anything but get all the real pay but get to pretend to when you order the latest synergy report on your desk by Monday morning. The geek shall inherit the earth!
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With the way things are run, the state controls and monitors everything shown on your television or your computer. So yeah, China can randomly go back in time and say Marty McFly never existed. Scary, huh? The Doc would be furious. Fortunately, that's not what they're saying. But somehow the government has taken a sudden disliking to the idea of distorting certain historical events, things and people. (Cough.) ....The decision was made earlier this month, with the country's State Administration for Radio, Film & Television stating that "The producers and writers are treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore."
What's wrong with these shows? They “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.”
So time travel comes in because the article decided to link the concept of time-travel to television and movies that convey alternative histories (Which, to the pedants, can include time-travel). But it the main theme discussed is regarding misrepresenting history. Nowhere does it say sitting in your back-yard and working on that warp-drive is verboten. It seems to me they want to cut down on media that strays from the government dictated and allowed 'historical context'. Far from a ban on time-travel. Censorship...Yes...Sensationalist...Unfortunately.
I understand it's SOP, but I do think it is motherfucking bullshit that I pay a higher percentage of my income in taxes than these companies. And I guarantee my net is six to seven orders of magnitude less than what they bring in, which is probably true for most Americans as well. But its the welfare state that is bankrupting us they say!
Nope, known bug. I and others have reported it. The gist is if you are browsing at a +5 threshold, you will only see +5 parents whose parents are +5. If a +5 is under a troll, well the troll wins.
My sig says it all.
//Lulz bandwidth hog FTW!
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How many Goldman employees went to jail for stealing taxpayer dollars?
This is what we value in this country. Companies that spam coupons for the masses to buy more shit they don't need. So Wall St. intends on pumping 25 billion into a company that doesn't actually even manufacturer anything. A company whose only value is that it offers discounts to other companies! So in ten years, is their going to be a gang-groupon.com, that groupon pays to send out links to its own coupon links? The service based slave wage economy of the future is going to be quite sad indeed.
I was referring to the genocide of those who choose to up-rise being committed by those being up-risen against. Should have been more clear I suppose.
Not to mention, when gas goes up, diesel goes up. Then freight cost goes up. Then food cost goes up. Then everything goes up. The economy goes down, and pray your ready for all hell when the country is on the breaking point of mass food riots.
America is not ready for $10/gallon. We don't have the infrastructure to reduce our reliance on petroleum, and a +100% or more increase in petroleum will spell the end of everything we ever thought was remotely cheap.
It was my impression that the imposition of a No-Fly Zone generally means the proverbial bomb-dropping is sanctioned and imminent. The rhetoric of the UN's member nations is very action oriented right now. Technicalities aside, I think next week's news will be footage of SAM installations getting pounded by AGM-114 Hellfires.
I submitted an article on this as well, so I will just repost the question I posed again.
With the intervention of western countries, do you think this resolution will influence further revolutions across the globe, fueled by the hope that the UN will come to the rescue if the targets of revolt become aggressors similar to Gadhafi?
I am of the opinion we will see more revolutions, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and even possibly Iran. This will get real interesting, especially if places where the oil interest become threatened. $10 a gallon average U.S. gas price this summer anybody? Isn't it interesting that social media and modern technology have done more for the desire for democratization than most of our cold-war efforts ever did? Caveats to the benefits of revolution are, however, numerous.
Who will fill the power vacuum? Will the next party be worse than the prior? Is it worth the bloodshed and genocide? Will the county's stability spiral downward, further lowering standards of living and liberty? Interesting times we live in...
I had an idea for a business card with the data stored in RFID. If somebody could create a cheap printer that embeds the RFID chips in them (programmed), and then creates some set of standards that all cell-phone manufacturers start to adopt, you will be rich. Think about it. Give em a card, they wave it by their phone, phone grabs the info and BOOM..."Contact Added!". I think I could work, take it you entrepreneurs! If anything, it would be a cool hack-a-day project. I just don't have the time to make it happen, and don't have the funds to cover the risk of such an endeavor. Maybe if it was open sourced...
I mean when you actually watch some of these people, blinding pounding the next [sic]
I know most users are dolts, but I thought that was an old wives tale!
I even took a shot at deciphering your trolling, but alas, your troll dialect is unknown. The trolls of yore were much more entertaining.
That explains the party balloons and cake I delivered to Symantec.
Summary: when you click "I Agree", you're agreeing to let the site do whatever with whatever for whatever reason.
Ya, duh. What is this, 1994 ?
I think somebody found this article saved on an old Windows 98 machine they were throwing away, so to cut cost they just fudged the dates and substringed in modern corporate brands.
Unfortunately, not in the United Plutocratic States of Corporate America. Write your congressm...they're bought out. Write your senato....they're bought out too...erm... become a lobbyist!
Which led him to ask 'What gives Twitter, Facebook, et al. the right to mine that data?' It turns out, users do when they sign up for social networking services, even if they don't realize that
End of discussion. Pointless article is pointless.
Also, what does this have to do with "unemployment, finance and social service?" Are state government unable to pass any law when those things are outside a certain threshold?
It was intended to be sarcastically humorous; the state legislators current dance with wordplay has nothing to do with any of those issues, the joke is the fact that the state government is even spending time mentally masturbating this issue when issues like unemployment, budget-cuts, abortion, gay-marriage, infrastructure spending, etc all remain largely unsolved, but yet these folks take the time to vote on word usage.
Thanks! That's exactly how I had heard it. Interestingly false indeed.
Cheers
I remember my dad telling me a story about a guy who affixed some jet-motor to his car out in the salt-flats. After engaging the motor and going for the land speed record, the car went airborne (he lost all breaking and steering naturally, flying him miles further than he thought and straight into a cliff wall.
All they recovered of him was some particulate bio-mass in the steering wheel, mostly finger-nail fragments. Hopefully these folks have an airborne contingency plan, for 1050mph is pretty unforgiving (thats faster than almost all commercial airliners fly). Just the bow shock alone on the desert floor seems like it will cause stability issues.
So is it just me, or is it fucking police state of America week on Slashdot?
Is Slashdot throttled? I can't possible be FP
So yes.
such as terrestrial radio and television
The ETs take offense to such blatant exclusion. Somebody call the ACLU!
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There is a definite line of delineation between my friends that use Facebook and my friends that code. The web may have finally gone mainstream, but I find it frustrating that now that it has, all these people using Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and other webby gidget crap all claim to be trendy IT geeks. What has happened is that the tools of the trade that we geeks have known for years finally went mainstream, and the rest of the world thinks they are now 1337 because of it. Not to sound elitist, but the dumb bimbo bitches I see in lecture hall chatting on Facebook are not geeks. They are still dumb bimbo bitches, just with a Web 2.0 platform to spew their idiocy.
At the end of the day, you should still be nice to geeks, because they will probably manage you one day. Unless your in an MBA program, where you don't actually learn anything but get all the real pay but get to pretend to when you order the latest synergy report on your desk by Monday morning. The geek shall inherit the earth!