Not to mention that little issue of launching a space shuttle in near freezing weather even though engineers at Morton Thiokol were screaming bloody freakin' murder that the O-rings were going to fail.
I was in Huntsville, AL at the time of the Challenger disaster and got a close up view of the shit hitting the fan at Marshall Space Flight Center after that one. Not pretty.
That's probably the smartest way to go about it, in order to get the most balanced picture of the news.
It just amuses me to no end when people complain about how biased FOX News is. Maybe (probably) so, but they are no more biased IMHO than any other large news network. It's just that their biases are different, so they tend to stand out from what we've traditionally been conditioned to accept as 'journalism'.
Funny how we don't hear these same people complain about Dan Rather or Peter Jennings, who are blatantly and unrepentantly biased (especially Rather).
All I saw was the dame standing there in the glare of the headlights waving her arms like a huge puppet and the code I spit out filled the server and my own buffer.
I wrenched the wheel over, felt the backend start to slide, brought it out with a splash of bandwidth and almost ran up the side of a cliff as the car fishtailed. The brakes bit in, gouging a furrow in the uptime, then jumped to the pavement and held.
Somehow I had managed a sweeping curve around the babe. For a few nanoseconds she had been living on stolen time because instead of getting out of the way she had tried to stay in the stream of the headers. I sat there and let myself stabilize. The butt that had fallen out of my mouth had burned a hole in the leg of my pants and I flipped it out the port. The stink of burned silicon and brake lining hung in the air like smoke and I was thinking of every damn thing I ever wanted to say to a hairbrained MCSE so I could have it ready when I got my hands on her (?).
If the "grey goo" theory is true, just for argument's sake, how does the fact that these nanomachines would not be in widespread use change anything? Wouldn't it only take one batch (or one machine, for that matter) to set the exponential replication chain in motion?
I Am Not A Nanotechnologist, so there are obviously factors that I'm not aware of in play, but still....
Wow. All I really meant was that the original poster assumed that I had a wife and kids (i.e. dependents), and that I would not be taking proper care of them. If that were true, well, yeah, I would be pretty selfish. But as it stands now, I just don't think anyone's gonna care too much about my/. password when I'm gone. Least of all, me.
I like your comment about Star Trek: Voyager, et. al. That's probably the main thing that has bothered me about shows and movies like that. I can't believe that people will suddenly just lose their individuality in 200 years, space travel or no. And don't even try to sell me on the idea that people would wear those dorky uniforms even when they are on leave. How great would it have been to see a crew member occasionally hanging out in the bar decked out in shorts, sandals, and a Mickey Mouse T-shirt? They will remember who Mickey Mouse is in the future, won't they? You'd think.
No, I didn't dispute anything you said. Now I will. You are full of shit. I don't care about Microsoft, I'm not here to defend them. I just don't want a headline on/. every time Bill Gates farts in public. I don't care about it.
Why are you arguing with me anyway? You should be agreeing with me, if you are really "anti-MS" as your username says and want to see Linux, et.al. succeed. Or is just being a troll more important to you?
Oh, I'm not worried about that at all. I'm pretty sure that the shotgun/electric shock contraption that I have rigged up will work fine long after I'm gone.
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...as well as a justifiable reason to post a goatse link to demonstrate what happens when the technology fails...
Not to mention that little issue of launching a space shuttle in near freezing weather even though engineers at Morton Thiokol were screaming bloody freakin' murder that the O-rings were going to fail.
I was in Huntsville, AL at the time of the Challenger disaster and got a close up view of the shit hitting the fan at Marshall Space Flight Center after that one. Not pretty.
And you stand so firmly behind those cheerful comments that you feel the need to post anonymously. Who exactly was it giving /. a bad rep again?
He could have just as easily hid the issues and blamed the time to fix the problem on...[somebody else]
If he did that, his name would not be 'Bert Rutan'. it would be 'NASA'.
That's probably the smartest way to go about it, in order to get the most balanced picture of the news.
It just amuses me to no end when people complain about how biased FOX News is. Maybe (probably) so, but they are no more biased IMHO than any other large news network. It's just that their biases are different, so they tend to stand out from what we've traditionally been conditioned to accept as 'journalism'.
Funny how we don't hear these same people complain about Dan Rather or Peter Jennings, who are blatantly and unrepentantly biased (especially Rather).
Phoenix? Really humid? Uhh, no. A quick check of weather.com shows today's relative humidity in Phoenix at a downright syrupy 8%.
If you want to know what "really humid" actually means, try taking a visit to Houston or New Orleans in the middle of June sometime.
Now, smog, that's another story....
Well, at least if the chips suck, I can build miniature guitars out of them....
All I saw was the dame standing there in the glare of the headlights waving her arms like a huge puppet and the code I spit out filled the server and my own buffer.
I wrenched the wheel over, felt the backend start to slide, brought it out with a splash of bandwidth and almost ran up the side of a cliff as the car fishtailed. The brakes bit in, gouging a furrow in the uptime, then jumped to the pavement and held.
Somehow I had managed a sweeping curve around the babe. For a few nanoseconds she had been living on stolen time because instead of getting out of the way she had tried to stay in the stream of the headers. I sat there and let myself stabilize. The butt that had fallen out of my mouth had burned a hole in the leg of my pants and I flipped it out the port. The stink of burned silicon and brake lining hung in the air like smoke and I was thinking of every damn thing I ever wanted to say to a hairbrained MCSE so I could have it ready when I got my hands on her (?).
That was as far as I got.
So you decide to use such "unbiased" sources as Eric Alterman and "workingforchange.com" to refute the media bias accusations?
Someone please mod this up as funny.
Wait, is this the application for internship or the Official NPR Affiliate Peer Review checklist?
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If the "grey goo" theory is true, just for argument's sake, how does the fact that these nanomachines would not be in widespread use change anything? Wouldn't it only take one batch (or one machine, for that matter) to set the exponential replication chain in motion?
I Am Not A Nanotechnologist, so there are obviously factors that I'm not aware of in play, but still....
It's as if all the characters have been shot up with some ungodly amount of Botox and are no longer able to make Earthlike expressions....
And this is different from real Hollywood actors how?
How about the Association to Stifle the Scale of the World Intellectual Property Organization?
In other words, the ASSWIPO.
Well, if it's not, you can always say that your memory "went down the nanotubes."
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2. Pope Discovered to be Catholic
3. Bill Gates did Something Evil(TM) Today (oh shit, wait, that's a
Two words: Johnny Mnemonic.
It isn't the crappy English measurement system. That's all the "logic" I need.
Flamebait? It was a joke, people! Lighten up!
Isn't BSD dying or something? I keep seeing that posted on /., so it must be true!
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Wow. All I really meant was that the original poster assumed that I had a wife and kids (i.e. dependents), and that I would not be taking proper care of them. If that were true, well, yeah, I would be pretty selfish. But as it stands now, I just don't think anyone's gonna care too much about my /. password when I'm gone. Least of all, me.
I like your comment about Star Trek: Voyager, et. al. That's probably the main thing that has bothered me about shows and movies like that. I can't believe that people will suddenly just lose their individuality in 200 years, space travel or no. And don't even try to sell me on the idea that people would wear those dorky uniforms even when they are on leave. How great would it have been to see a crew member occasionally hanging out in the bar decked out in shorts, sandals, and a Mickey Mouse T-shirt? They will remember who Mickey Mouse is in the future, won't they? You'd think.
No, I didn't dispute anything you said. Now I will. You are full of shit. I don't care about Microsoft, I'm not here to defend them. I just don't want a headline on /. every time Bill Gates farts in public. I don't care about it.
Get back in the fucking basement, troll.
Why are you arguing with me anyway? You should be agreeing with me, if you are really "anti-MS" as your username says and want to see Linux, et.al. succeed. Or is just being a troll more important to you?
Oh, I'm not worried about that at all. I'm pretty sure that the shotgun/electric shock contraption that I have rigged up will work fine long after I'm gone.