Scientists were also surprised by evidence of ancient volcanoes on many parts of the planet's surface and how different it looks compared with the moon, which is about the same size.
FAIL. Mercury has about 1.4 times the Moon's radius and 4.5 times its mass.
"13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
...Oh, yes, of course. It's not about women's freedoms or proper science education, so the Bible-thumpers can't be bothered.
If you rip your CDs to an MP3 player, and don't share the files, the RIAA will never know. Even if it's illegal as hell, you won't be sued if the would-be plaintiff doesn't know it has a case.
Some commenters seem to misunderstand that point: the license grants rights under several patents. Sound recordings weren't eligible for copyright at the time.
I visited jihadist's website and it looks more like the sort of thing that a Falwellista would put up. Of course Falwellistas and the Islam über Alles crowd believe in some of the same things -- hate them feelthy queers, a woman's place is barefoot and pregnant.
In short, "jihadist" probably isn't a Muslim, just an average wrong-wing jerkwad. May God protect us from his followers.
Artistic merit cannot be objectively measured, but longevity can. We can observe what is still popular long after its release, and what is forgotten within a couple of years.
I personally think the Beatles' older material is overrated. But people still listen to it, and their much better later songs, 37 years after they broke up.
Meanwhile the Spice Girls are already yesterday's news, only a decade after their first album.
Now we all know what Mr. Sturgeon said, and surely 90% of the music of the Beatles' era was also crud; but the crud from that era is as forgotten as the Spice Girls. But who from the Spice Girls' era, or from now, will still be on the radio 37 years from now?
Can any of the big labels honestly claim to have released even one single this year with the longevity of "Come Together"?
...it is not the greatest of threats. (Rassafraggin' title-length limit...)
Bush has tanks, guns, planes, bombs and a million men and women in uniform. Osama has maybe a few thousand guys with TATP and box cutters.
Bush has a budget of many trillions of dollars. Osama has maybe a few million.
Bush has thousands of nuclear weapons. Osama has none.
Bush can call up the draft. Osama can't.
Bush can comb through our financial records, find out what library books we've been reading, and search our homes and our hard drives. Osama can't.
Bush can throw us in the slammer, take away our bank accounts and our homes, and make life a living hell for ourselves and everyone around us. Osama can only kill a few of us now and then.
On fanaticism, though, I'll have to give the edge to Osama. At least his followers are willing to step up and go kill some enemies, rather than prattling about the rightness of their cause from behind a keyboard.
Yes, terrorism is a threat. But repressive government is a far greater threat. Somehow the wingnuts seem to remember that when they talk of Saddam, but forget it when they talk of Bush.
There is no safety without liberty. Any government powerful enough to protect you from every possible threat, whether it's terrorists or common street muggers, is also powerful enough to become a far greater threat than terrorists or muggers can ever be. Give me liberty or give me death.
I'd have been delighted if Google had stood up and told the Chinese government that it wouldn't go along. But Beijing has guns, and Google doesn't. I can't say I blame Google.
Here at home in the States, however, they're standing up to the Kaiser and his efforts to snoop on us all, under color of defending an antiporn law. Perhaps on this point, Google saw a fight it could win.
It's all about choosing your battles. Google couldn't win in China, and had to cut its losses. But they made a stand for the rights of its users in the case where they had a reasonable chance of success.
...before the Nuke Washington crowd finally agrees that we've stopped?
The last proven instance of the USA toppling a democratically elected government was in Chile in 1973. That's 32 years ago. Maybe 32 years doesn't constitute "stopped"?
Yes, I know about Venezuela. And Haiti. As you say elsewhere in this thread, "allegedly." Allegedly doesn't cut it. Iraq "allegedly" had WMD.
And I always had my doubts of CIA involvement in Venezuela. Foreign leaders ousted by the CIA tend to stay ousted. Go ask Mossadegh, Goulart, Allende....
Applauding the coup, and may that idiot Bush burn in hell for it, is one thing. Instigating it is quite another.
The trouble with holding the shift key is that you have to do it every single time you insert a copy-protected disc. Forget just once and you're hosed.
So just disable autoplay, if you're one of those unwilling to get Linux or a Mac.
15 Y le fué dado que diese espíritu a la imágen de la bestia, y que la imágen de la bestia hable, y hará que cualesquiera que no adoraren la imágen de la bestia, sean muertos.
16 Y hace a todos los pequeños y grandes, ricos y pobres, libres y siervos, tomar la señal en su mano derecha, o en sus frentes;
17 y que ninguno pueda comprar o vender, sino el que tiene la señal, o el
nombre de la bestia, o el número de su nombre.
18 Aquí hay sabiduría. El que tiene entendimiento, cuente el número de la
bestia: porque el número es del hombre, y el número de ella es seiscientos
sesenta y seis.
(Traducción por Reina y Valera, dos hombres que sí esperaban la Inquisición Española....)
I call them SCUM. And the name of the SCUM Information Minister could be a name for the FUD that they spew. E.g., SCUM spewed even more blakestowell today.
I suppose by gzip and bzip2 you mean these two programs combined with tar. By themselves they compress only single files. In fact, on a single file, gzip achieves only slightly better compression than zip -- it uses the same compression method, and any improvement is solely due to its simpler structure. Bzip2 still gets somewhat better compression.
The.tar.gz and.tar.bz2 formats are "solid" archives: they enchain the files into a single archive, the.tar file, and then compress that as a whole. This allows them to achieve better compression because they can compress redundancies between files as well as within them. Zip, OTOH, is what I call a "segmented" archive: the files are individually compressed and the compressed images are enchained.
Solid archives can be smaller than segmented, but are more difficult to manipulate after the fact:
To extract a single file from a solid archive, you have to read everything in the archive, at least up to the file you're extracting. A zip file has a directory at the end that quickly locates the desired file.
To add, delete, or replace files in a preexisting archive, you have to decompress the whole thing, manipulate the files, and then compress the whole thing again. It can be done, but it's slow and can take up lots of disk space. Zip can do these things directly, leaving unaffected files unchanged.
Finally, solid archives are more fragile than segmented ones. If a solid archive is damaged, everything from the point of the damage onward is lost. With zip, however, only the files at the damaged portion are lost, and subsequent files are still recoverable.
IIRC RAR can generate either a solid or a segmented archive.
Zip, furthermore, has a feature that can preserve arbitrary file metadata such as NTFS file permissions. Tar, OTOH, is meant for Unix, and can only preserve metadata relating to Unix.
There's no technical reason that you couldn't create a.zip.gz or.zip.bz2 file, getting a solid archive that preserves all the metadata, but alas, you'd probably confuse most people doing that:-(
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Neener neener neener.
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
My child got his shots. My child became autistic. So the autism must have been because of the shots.
If you rip your CDs to an MP3 player, and don't share the files, the RIAA will never know. Even if it's illegal as hell, you won't be sued if the would-be plaintiff doesn't know it has a case.
Do they want their players to keep on playing, and spending that real cash on their Second Life subscriptions?
It's distributed in the Washington and Baltimore areas, among other places. Free. And worth every penny.
Indeed, neither Python nor Ruby was created in an English-speaking country.
Some commenters seem to misunderstand that point: the license grants rights under several patents. Sound recordings weren't eligible for copyright at the time.
I visited jihadist's website and it looks more like the sort of thing that a Falwellista would put up. Of course Falwellistas and the Islam über Alles crowd believe in some of the same things -- hate them feelthy queers, a woman's place is barefoot and pregnant.
In short, "jihadist" probably isn't a Muslim, just an average wrong-wing jerkwad. May God protect us from his followers.
I personally think the Beatles' older material is overrated. But people still listen to it, and their much better later songs, 37 years after they broke up.
Meanwhile the Spice Girls are already yesterday's news, only a decade after their first album.
Now we all know what Mr. Sturgeon said, and surely 90% of the music of the Beatles' era was also crud; but the crud from that era is as forgotten as the Spice Girls. But who from the Spice Girls' era, or from now, will still be on the radio 37 years from now?
Can any of the big labels honestly claim to have released even one single this year with the longevity of "Come Together"?
Bush has tanks, guns, planes, bombs and a million men and women in uniform. Osama has maybe a few thousand guys with TATP and box cutters.
Bush has a budget of many trillions of dollars. Osama has maybe a few million.
Bush has thousands of nuclear weapons. Osama has none.
Bush can call up the draft. Osama can't.
Bush can comb through our financial records, find out what library books we've been reading, and search our homes and our hard drives. Osama can't.
Bush can throw us in the slammer, take away our bank accounts and our homes, and make life a living hell for ourselves and everyone around us. Osama can only kill a few of us now and then.
On fanaticism, though, I'll have to give the edge to Osama. At least his followers are willing to step up and go kill some enemies, rather than prattling about the rightness of their cause from behind a keyboard.
Yes, terrorism is a threat. But repressive government is a far greater threat. Somehow the wingnuts seem to remember that when they talk of Saddam, but forget it when they talk of Bush.
There is no safety without liberty. Any government powerful enough to protect you from every possible threat, whether it's terrorists or common street muggers, is also powerful enough to become a far greater threat than terrorists or muggers can ever be. Give me liberty or give me death.
I'd have been delighted if Google had stood up and told the Chinese government that it wouldn't go along. But Beijing has guns, and Google doesn't. I can't say I blame Google.
Here at home in the States, however, they're standing up to the Kaiser and his efforts to snoop on us all, under color of defending an antiporn law. Perhaps on this point, Google saw a fight it could win.
It's all about choosing your battles. Google couldn't win in China, and had to cut its losses. But they made a stand for the rights of its users in the case where they had a reasonable chance of success.
...before the Nuke Washington crowd finally agrees that we've stopped?
The last proven instance of the USA toppling a democratically elected government was in Chile in 1973. That's 32 years ago. Maybe 32 years doesn't constitute "stopped"?
Yes, I know about Venezuela. And Haiti. As you say elsewhere in this thread, "allegedly." Allegedly doesn't cut it. Iraq "allegedly" had WMD.
And I always had my doubts of CIA involvement in Venezuela. Foreign leaders ousted by the CIA tend to stay ousted. Go ask Mossadegh, Goulart, Allende....
Applauding the coup, and may that idiot Bush burn in hell for it, is one thing. Instigating it is quite another.
Speeding ticket: $500.
Cost of court: $70.
Remedial driving course: $300.
Bus fare until you get your license back: $1.50 per trip. Transfers are free.
Go ask a Trojan, if you can find one.
Furem sua hegemonia internacional eu seu McDonalds e seu Hollywood onde o sol não brilha.
Pela maneira, amo muito todo isso[1] do Big Mac e essa Julia Roberts!
[1]Esto é a mesma frase que McDonalds usa nas suas copas por I'm Lovin' It.
A melhor parte dos seus errores foram por não saber as formas plurales, especialmente os verbos que terminam com M.
E não, não falo português, falo espanhol com palavras portuguesas.
So just disable autoplay, if you're one of those unwilling to get Linux or a Mac.
Attention, moderators: A robotranslation is not +3, Informative. It's -1, Karma Whore. We can use Babblefish for ourselves, thank you very much.
Now a real translation by a human being into real English, that deserves a few mod points.
16 Y hace a todos los pequeños y grandes, ricos y pobres, libres y siervos, tomar la señal en su mano derecha, o en sus frentes;
17 y que ninguno pueda comprar o vender, sino el que tiene la señal, o el nombre de la bestia, o el número de su nombre.
18 Aquí hay sabiduría. El que tiene entendimiento, cuente el número de la bestia: porque el número es del hombre, y el número de ella es seiscientos sesenta y seis.
(Traducción por Reina y Valera, dos hombres que sí esperaban la Inquisición Española....)
Am I the only one who thinks it's no coincidence that the Feds sprung this on us right after the bombings in Madrid?
You're new here, aren't you?
I call them SCUM. And the name of the SCUM Information Minister could be a name for the FUD that they spew. E.g., SCUM spewed even more blakestowell today.
The .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 formats are "solid" archives: they enchain the files into a single archive, the .tar file, and then compress that as a whole. This allows them to achieve better compression because they can compress redundancies between files as well as within them. Zip, OTOH, is what I call a "segmented" archive: the files are individually compressed and the compressed images are enchained.
Solid archives can be smaller than segmented, but are more difficult to manipulate after the fact:
- To extract a single file from a solid archive, you have to read everything in the archive, at least up to the file you're extracting. A zip file has a directory at the end that quickly locates the desired file.
- To add, delete, or replace files in a preexisting archive, you have to decompress the whole thing, manipulate the files, and then compress the whole thing again. It can be done, but it's slow and can take up lots of disk space. Zip can do these things directly, leaving unaffected files unchanged.
- Finally, solid archives are more fragile than segmented ones. If a solid archive is damaged, everything from the point of the damage onward is lost. With zip, however, only the files at the damaged portion are lost, and subsequent files are still recoverable.
IIRC RAR can generate either a solid or a segmented archive.Zip, furthermore, has a feature that can preserve arbitrary file metadata such as NTFS file permissions. Tar, OTOH, is meant for Unix, and can only preserve metadata relating to Unix.
There's no technical reason that you couldn't create a .zip.gz or .zip.bz2 file, getting a solid archive that preserves all the metadata, but alas, you'd probably confuse most people doing that :-(