That would be hilarious if on Jan. 19, 2009 a parade float of a boot was pulled up on Pennsylvania Ave. and parked. But, I suppose the SS would have the driver taken down long before it even got into DC.
Ah hahaha, I bet you don't live in Minnesota. (Judging by your name, I'd say you live in Texas...) Every Friday in this state, the highways are jammed with vehicles pulling boats, pontoons, 4-wheelers, jetskis, campers... you name it, all heading in a northerly direction.
Although, I will agree that since gas prices have gone up, there is less of that traffic. Normally Memorial Day is a long weekend, and ALL the Weekend Warriors make the pilgrimage to the cabin, but this past Memorial Day weekend did not have the traffic it usually does. Perhaps the same thing will happen over the 4th.
Could I sell my life to someone as an indentured servant? Instead of someone paying me a week or 80 hours at a crack, I wonder how much someone would pay me (in one lump sum) in order to be "theirs" for the rest of my life?
I feel that my prior work experience in several trades would be worth something to someone. Sounds a lot like slavery, except I wouldn't be a slave: I'd be willing.
I wonder what kind of reserve I would put on my own head... And does eBay have rules against selling people, including yourself?
I think I'd probably regret my decision 5 years into it, because I'd also give up a right to choices and freedoms. Unless I purchased my life back from the owner, that is. Hmmmmm.
Mod up. I've been trying to explain this to some people I know, and they're not quite sure how to take it. I think some of them believe they're destined to live a hundred years if they take the right pills, and I'd rather live a great 50 and go out with a bang, than live a mediocre 100; the last 30 of which is pretty much guaranteed to be useless.
I wonder, what's the last straw? When will everyone else stand up and say that this shit is too much?
When they can actually stand up, and get off the MoF'in couch. There won't be a last straw. For every ideal of freedom that's taken away, another lollipop supplants it's place, like HDTV. It's the reason why there will never be another American Revolution. The populace is getting lazy - too lazy to march, too lazy to riot, too lazy to recall elected officials. It's just easier to sit down at the computer and bitch about it, or talk shit on the cellphone, or go watch TV. Hypocrite, aren't I?
Sure, we have to jump through hoops to fly, but we're going to Disneyland!
Slashdot has ads? Really? I've never seen them. I thought funding for this site came from a cranky old rich guy who was pissed at corporate America, political America, and half the entertainment industry.
So... public parks next to apartment buildings in Seoul would look like a gopher infestation? I have a hard time imagining the amount of dirt it would take to hold Seoul's supply of fermenting kimchi. I can totally see the little refrigerators being part of a modern version of an old custom.
I'm sure it works great in rural areas, and it's cool that it doesn't require any electricity. (Pun intended.)
Who said anything about the internet? He only said it's a box running Debian... it might not even have an ethernet cable attached to it. Maybe she just wants to keep her Carmen Sandiego games protected from everybody else.
I mentioned it in an earlier post that this is an age where children are learning about control and ownership - secret passwords to let people into their "fort", a lockbox for their "precious jewels" with a key that only they have... sibling rivalry can be a big deal, and kids need their space, whether it's a room or a computer.
Who ever hinted that it was a portal to many nasty things? Maybe all that's on it is her favorite Carmen Sandiego games, and she wants a password so her 9-year-old brother can't play her games, or install his games on her computer? It might not even have an ethernet cable attached to it.
Ownership can be complicated when it comes to siblings, and sibling rivalry. I can totally understand her wanting to have her "space", in a sense, that only she can get to. Didn't you ever have a fort, and only let in friends who knew the secret password, or a lock with a secret combination? It implies ownership and control, and that's an age where you start to understand it and work with it.
2. The internals would be really simple, actually. Think big storage tank with air, hose going to a valve (throttle), and then hose going to air motor (like an impact wrench without the impact). When the motor's done with the air and the energy is expelled, the air just exhausts out the motor, and back into the atmosphere. The air exiting the motor would be somewhat warmer, but not much.
The heavy compressor unit would probably stay at home, where it's cheap to use electricity to power a compressor with off-peak grid/solar/wind power.
Nice Total Recall bit... If you don't pay the tax, they can always throw you out the airlock, and then your eyeballs will pop out down to your knees...
But remember you've been pretending to be that persons friend for the last several months, and then back stabbed her, threatened her, and then told her to jump off a bridge. -And- your a minor and that person is a minor... well yeah, I'd say you are guilty of something.
There, fixed that for you. Remember, the girl died believing she had been dealing with a boy her age from MySpace.
Actually, from what I seem to remember from reading about this from a few months ago, the community is/was ostracizing the mother who pretended to be the online boy, as well as her entire family. Small town word-of-mouth travels faster than the speed of light. Everybody knows everybody, everybody knows who's dating who, and damn near everybody's related to everyone else. (I could tell you a few things about moving into a small town, but not being born there.) I think the community is rallying. I don't necessarily agree with it, and I think there are a lot of fingers to be pointed in a lot of different directions in this one-off case.
I saw the last half of it too - good show. Really neat, and with 3-inch resolution in their pictures, _in the 60's_, it makes you wonder what kind of resolution they have _today_.
Props to shows like NOVA, where they don't have to simplify and dramatize the crap out of science to make it palatable for the general public (Modern Marvels and half of the Discovery Channel shows).
Absolutely./. needs more exciting, creative, boisterous headlines that have absolutely nothing to do with TFA. Creative writers come from the WGA. [/sarcasm]
As if the Feds actually know what a browser is. I can just hear Ted Stevens now: "So, is it like a little window where you can look in the tube? Can I see the internet I sent to Bob Dole yesterday in the window?"
I started reading the virginia.edu piece, and came across this line:
It's been a wild success: the most poopular Facebook applications have around 24 million users[...]
That's just it: no one who adds the applications gives a crap about their privacy. When you add an application, there are several checkboxes, and you don't have to have them ALL checked in order to add an application, but the only one you DO have to have checked is the "Allow this application to know who I am and to access my information" box. If you uncheck that and try to add the application, Facebook tells you that you need to have this checked, and if you don't feel safe about that, don't add the application. Therefore, IMHO, Facebook gives plenty of warning to those adding applications.
However, I have very few applications on my Facebook - I don't care about the OC, or Dawson's Creek Quotes, or Hot Or Not. I find that the demographic of people that add those kinds of applications don't give two shits about their privacy, and they never read the fine print. They just want to show their friends how much they like the OC or Dawson's Creek. It's just natural selection, internet-style.
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living in the "great plains" i can see you've never done more than just fly on by have you......
you're missing a lot of really cool stuff.
Like corn! And cows!
And people who will stop and help you change your flat tire, instead of just honking at you or throwing trash at you.
And bars where the patrons know how to have a good time and accept you for who you are, rather that what you wear or what you drive.
Mmmmm, the American people aren't very good at getting hides of anything or anyone. We're armchair quarterbacks and /. whiners. This is not Venezuela.
That would be hilarious if on Jan. 19, 2009 a parade float of a boot was pulled up on Pennsylvania Ave. and parked. But, I suppose the SS would have the driver taken down long before it even got into DC.
Mmmmmm, I don't think EW was bemoaning anything. They just compiled a list, and others (in science-related fields) are bemoaning it.
I'm sure those in the undertaking-related fields are bemoaning it, too.
Ah hahaha, I bet you don't live in Minnesota. (Judging by your name, I'd say you live in Texas...) Every Friday in this state, the highways are jammed with vehicles pulling boats, pontoons, 4-wheelers, jetskis, campers... you name it, all heading in a northerly direction.
Although, I will agree that since gas prices have gone up, there is less of that traffic. Normally Memorial Day is a long weekend, and ALL the Weekend Warriors make the pilgrimage to the cabin, but this past Memorial Day weekend did not have the traffic it usually does. Perhaps the same thing will happen over the 4th.
Could I sell my life to someone as an indentured servant? Instead of someone paying me a week or 80 hours at a crack, I wonder how much someone would pay me (in one lump sum) in order to be "theirs" for the rest of my life?
I feel that my prior work experience in several trades would be worth something to someone. Sounds a lot like slavery, except I wouldn't be a slave: I'd be willing.
I wonder what kind of reserve I would put on my own head... And does eBay have rules against selling people, including yourself?
I think I'd probably regret my decision 5 years into it, because I'd also give up a right to choices and freedoms. Unless I purchased my life back from the owner, that is. Hmmmmm.
Mod up. I've been trying to explain this to some people I know, and they're not quite sure how to take it. I think some of them believe they're destined to live a hundred years if they take the right pills, and I'd rather live a great 50 and go out with a bang, than live a mediocre 100; the last 30 of which is pretty much guaranteed to be useless.
Generally we do. We are a society of enablers, rather than teachers.
When they can actually stand up, and get off the MoF'in couch. There won't be a last straw. For every ideal of freedom that's taken away, another lollipop supplants it's place, like HDTV. It's the reason why there will never be another American Revolution. The populace is getting lazy - too lazy to march, too lazy to riot, too lazy to recall elected officials. It's just easier to sit down at the computer and bitch about it, or talk shit on the cellphone, or go watch TV. Hypocrite, aren't I?
Sure, we have to jump through hoops to fly, but we're going to Disneyland!
I wish I had mod points for you, specifically for your second point.
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original than "Aye!"
Slashdot has ads? Really? I've never seen them. I thought funding for this site came from a cranky old rich guy who was pissed at corporate America, political America, and half the entertainment industry.
[Thank You, ABP!]
Thank You, NoScript, for not wasting my bandwidth. I knew I installed you for good reasons.
So... public parks next to apartment buildings in Seoul would look like a gopher infestation? I have a hard time imagining the amount of dirt it would take to hold Seoul's supply of fermenting kimchi. I can totally see the little refrigerators being part of a modern version of an old custom.
I'm sure it works great in rural areas, and it's cool that it doesn't require any electricity. (Pun intended.)
Who said anything about the internet? He only said it's a box running Debian... it might not even have an ethernet cable attached to it. Maybe she just wants to keep her Carmen Sandiego games protected from everybody else.
I mentioned it in an earlier post that this is an age where children are learning about control and ownership - secret passwords to let people into their "fort", a lockbox for their "precious jewels" with a key that only they have... sibling rivalry can be a big deal, and kids need their space, whether it's a room or a computer.
Who ever hinted that it was a portal to many nasty things? Maybe all that's on it is her favorite Carmen Sandiego games, and she wants a password so her 9-year-old brother can't play her games, or install his games on her computer? It might not even have an ethernet cable attached to it.
Ownership can be complicated when it comes to siblings, and sibling rivalry. I can totally understand her wanting to have her "space", in a sense, that only she can get to. Didn't you ever have a fort, and only let in friends who knew the secret password, or a lock with a secret combination? It implies ownership and control, and that's an age where you start to understand it and work with it.
2. The internals would be really simple, actually. Think big storage tank with air, hose going to a valve (throttle), and then hose going to air motor (like an impact wrench without the impact). When the motor's done with the air and the energy is expelled, the air just exhausts out the motor, and back into the atmosphere. The air exiting the motor would be somewhat warmer, but not much.
The heavy compressor unit would probably stay at home, where it's cheap to use electricity to power a compressor with off-peak grid/solar/wind power.
Nice Total Recall bit... If you don't pay the tax, they can always throw you out the airlock, and then your eyeballs will pop out down to your knees...
There, fixed that for you. Remember, the girl died believing she had been dealing with a boy her age from MySpace.
Actually, from what I seem to remember from reading about this from a few months ago, the community is/was ostracizing the mother who pretended to be the online boy, as well as her entire family. Small town word-of-mouth travels faster than the speed of light. Everybody knows everybody, everybody knows who's dating who, and damn near everybody's related to everyone else. (I could tell you a few things about moving into a small town, but not being born there.) I think the community is rallying. I don't necessarily agree with it, and I think there are a lot of fingers to be pointed in a lot of different directions in this one-off case.
Agreed, but they're probably both over-privileged, and both douchebags.
I saw the last half of it too - good show. Really neat, and with 3-inch resolution in their pictures, _in the 60's_, it makes you wonder what kind of resolution they have _today_.
Props to shows like NOVA, where they don't have to simplify and dramatize the crap out of science to make it palatable for the general public (Modern Marvels and half of the Discovery Channel shows).
Absolutely. /. needs more exciting, creative, boisterous headlines that have absolutely nothing to do with TFA. Creative writers come from the WGA. [/sarcasm]
As if the Feds actually know what a browser is. I can just hear Ted Stevens now: "So, is it like a little window where you can look in the tube? Can I see the internet I sent to Bob Dole yesterday in the window?"
It's been a wild success: the most poopular Facebook applications have around 24 million users[...]
That's just it: no one who adds the applications gives a crap about their privacy. When you add an application, there are several checkboxes, and you don't have to have them ALL checked in order to add an application, but the only one you DO have to have checked is the "Allow this application to know who I am and to access my information" box. If you uncheck that and try to add the application, Facebook tells you that you need to have this checked, and if you don't feel safe about that, don't add the application. Therefore, IMHO, Facebook gives plenty of warning to those adding applications.
However, I have very few applications on my Facebook - I don't care about the OC, or Dawson's Creek Quotes, or Hot Or Not. I find that the demographic of people that add those kinds of applications don't give two shits about their privacy, and they never read the fine print. They just want to show their friends how much they like the OC or Dawson's Creek. It's just natural selection, internet-style.