Sorry to nitpick, but you are not stealing a second hand book. The book is still in the store while you read your electronic version. I'm sure there are many people who like their library the way it is: physical, not subject to reformatting your hard drive. By making your choice though, you are diminishing the demand for the article. Which will diminish its price. But that's not a huge deal either.
Well I agree that they rather pale in comparison to Afghanistan and Iraq, but during Reagan there *was* Grenada, Beirut and Panama. But I suppose that by now just killing a few hundred people cannot be properly called a 'war' anymore. That's just 'collateral damage' from an 'incident'.
You have to understand where Mr. Oelewapperke comes from: he's not an American, he's a European, part of a neo-conservative movement that is becoming increasingly popular around here, trying to outdo their neocon-idols in the US ten years after the fact (but then again, we're always a bit behind the times, aren't we). These people roam internet-fora to express their total dislike for socialists everywhere at the merest hint of somebody sharing something, instantly building straw-men in the form of comparisons to Stalin, Mao and Che. And their favourite talking point: Hitler was a lefty.
Oh yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent. And apart from the cheek, the neck, behind the ear and on the lips, there was always one other place that had a very distinctive smell to it. Now what was that again ? It was something that I had to wash off vigorously with soap before returning to the wife, that's for sure. Come, help me out !
If you *don't* vote, you *can't* complain about the results. I think that is true. However, if you *do* vote, you *still* get to complain about the results. The sheep hasn't compromised by voting; the sheep has no knowledge of how the two wolves will vote. In large enough groups, he doesn't even know the other voters are wolves. Hindsight is 20/20. Cynicism always works best in hindsight.
It's about Opera having thought of a innovative way to get a browsing-experience into a phone where (apart from the screensize) the network is a bottleneck. Doing the browsing at the server-end, transferring images to a phone instead of HTML is kind of elegant and, given that you trust the provider to anonimize you, can even have nice privacy implications; you can parse text from HTML, but you can't parse text from an image easily.
Yes, a glitch in the system, but not an argument against the absence of a papertrail. Dont forget that some people purposely go into the voting box, expressly not to vote. Directions are the key here. That is to say - had there been a papertrail, then the people guiding the procedure could have told them to 'put their slip of paper in the other box', upon which they would have said: 'what paper ?'
To compare the South Korean cloning scam with the Piltdown man is a stretch - the latter was a joke while the former really just a bit of bluffing from a proper scientist who otherwise had performed quite impressively in his field.
I just map 'em to 127.0.0.1 in my/etc/hosts file. Dunno if I miss anything because of it, but it speeds up your browsing-experience a lot. Just look at your status-bar when your page has properly loaded (or won't load) and you see hosts passing that are obviously ad-hosts; put those in your/etc/hosts file mapped to 127.0.0.1. Takes a while, but is well worth it.
Just cover the Sahara with solar panels already ! Route water to each one of them and let them desalinate and split it, and use it to irrigate the ground underneath. The Sahara is so big, it should cover a good percentage of the sun's warmth if you could just funnel it away like that, and solve problems of infertile grounds, clean water and energy at the same time.
Alexander the Great was the son of Phillipus of Macedonia, and destined to be a king; he didn't fight himself out of the gutter to greatness or something, even though admittedly, he could have just stayed at home. And the odds for Saddam and Che weren't good. By today's psychological standards, you'd probably call them suicidal. For them, hundreds of their peers with equal chances at barbaric fame died. But they didn't, and that's why we know their names. Which, when you look at it again, is a perfect illustration for the scenario you have in mind for your little American Revolution 2.0: your chances are minimal and if you don't succeed you'll be immediately forgotten, and if you do, because of the things you have to do to succeed, chances are history will remember you as a bloody tyrant anyway.
The point is that child pornographers might well have secret messages to exchange between themselves. And that's just on top of any old police procedure these days that just leads any digital image through steganography detection automatically.
IF, and that's a big if, this were actually true, it'd never be accidentally leaked. That's not how intelligence agencies work. My guess is that some child pornographers were trying out their signal reception by hiding fake messages. That or some AQ operative was being very, very stupid.
- So Mr. eh Garriott is it ? Why exactly do you want to go to the ISS ? The form says 'reasons for visit' you see, and I have to fill it in. - Oh. Eh, isn't just for fun enough ? I thought that these days it was well accepted that if you were loaded enough, you could just hitch a ride ? - 'recreational purposes'. Ok. - On the other hand, wait - I see what you mean. It looks kind of decadent, doesn't it ? So eh, could you make it 'promotion of my new product' ? A computer game ? - Sorry, I already submitted it. But I can add more reasons. 'promotion of a computer game'. Good. Anything else, before I submit again ? - Yes, sure. Eh, I could take this disk I made which has the latest company outing photographs on it - the guys will like that, and perhaps I have a cigarette butt or two from some really famous but not so rich people I briefly met. But why would I do that ? O, I have it ! Make it that I'll take all that stuff into space 'in case of a disaster on earth' ! Yes that's it. That'll look good. - Yes sir. Very good. I'll take it that you will be 'participating in various experiments' too, sir ? - Will there be any girls involved ? - No sir. - Well then no, I mean - of course ! The experiments ! How could I forget about those ! Sure. - Enjoy your flight sir.
And the 'selection' bit may have been on a bit of a hold, now, for about two generations, in certain parts of the world. The 'mutation' bit, however, has been thriving in those self same parts.
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Sorry to nitpick, but you are not stealing a second hand book. The book is still in the store while you read your electronic version. I'm sure there are many people who like their library the way it is: physical, not subject to reformatting your hard drive. By making your choice though, you are diminishing the demand for the article. Which will diminish its price. But that's not a huge deal either.
Filesystems are the new 'definitive, authoritive, all-encompassing audio userland' on Linux.
I thought Neanderthals actually had *bigger* brains than we do.
Yes, but to compensate he added muppets.
Vietnam was a tie !
Ok. So go see 'a fish called Wanda'.
Well I agree that they rather pale in comparison to Afghanistan and Iraq, but during Reagan there *was* Grenada, Beirut and Panama. But I suppose that by now just killing a few hundred people cannot be properly called a 'war' anymore. That's just 'collateral damage' from an 'incident'.
You have to understand where Mr. Oelewapperke comes from: he's not an American, he's a European, part of a neo-conservative movement that is becoming increasingly popular around here, trying to outdo their neocon-idols in the US ten years after the fact (but then again, we're always a bit behind the times, aren't we). These people roam internet-fora to express their total dislike for socialists everywhere at the merest hint of somebody sharing something, instantly building straw-men in the form of comparisons to Stalin, Mao and Che. And their favourite talking point: Hitler was a lefty.
Oh yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent. And apart from the cheek, the neck, behind the ear and on the lips, there was always one other place that had a very distinctive smell to it. Now what was that again ? It was something that I had to wash off vigorously with soap before returning to the wife, that's for sure. Come, help me out !
Isn't the plural of 'one anus' 'two ani' ? I jest, I jest..
That's an urban myth, invented by the Sun.
In Soviet Russia, the desktop you !
If you *don't* vote, you *can't* complain about the results. I think that is true. However, if you *do* vote, you *still* get to complain about the results. The sheep hasn't compromised by voting; the sheep has no knowledge of how the two wolves will vote. In large enough groups, he doesn't even know the other voters are wolves. Hindsight is 20/20. Cynicism always works best in hindsight.
It's about Opera having thought of a innovative way to get a browsing-experience into a phone where (apart from the screensize) the network is a bottleneck. Doing the browsing at the server-end, transferring images to a phone instead of HTML is kind of elegant and, given that you trust the provider to anonimize you, can even have nice privacy implications; you can parse text from HTML, but you can't parse text from an image easily.
Yes, a glitch in the system, but not an argument against the absence of a papertrail. Dont forget that some people purposely go into the voting box, expressly not to vote. Directions are the key here. That is to say - had there been a papertrail, then the people guiding the procedure could have told them to 'put their slip of paper in the other box', upon which they would have said: 'what paper ?'
Who knows ? 'Nancy' might even be a woman ! But then, this is the internet.
To compare the South Korean cloning scam with the Piltdown man is a stretch - the latter was a joke while the former really just a bit of bluffing from a proper scientist who otherwise had performed quite impressively in his field.
I just map 'em to 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file. Dunno if I miss anything because of it, but it speeds up your browsing-experience a lot. Just look at your status-bar when your page has properly loaded (or won't load) and you see hosts passing that are obviously ad-hosts; put those in your /etc/hosts file mapped to 127.0.0.1. Takes a while, but is well worth it.
I thought you couldn't really kill beer - sporulation and all that.
Just cover the Sahara with solar panels already ! Route water to each one of them and let them desalinate and split it, and use it to irrigate the ground underneath. The Sahara is so big, it should cover a good percentage of the sun's warmth if you could just funnel it away like that, and solve problems of infertile grounds, clean water and energy at the same time.
Alexander the Great was the son of Phillipus of Macedonia, and destined to be a king; he didn't fight himself out of the gutter to greatness or something, even though admittedly, he could have just stayed at home. And the odds for Saddam and Che weren't good. By today's psychological standards, you'd probably call them suicidal. For them, hundreds of their peers with equal chances at barbaric fame died. But they didn't, and that's why we know their names. Which, when you look at it again, is a perfect illustration for the scenario you have in mind for your little American Revolution 2.0: your chances are minimal and if you don't succeed you'll be immediately forgotten, and if you do, because of the things you have to do to succeed, chances are history will remember you as a bloody tyrant anyway.
The point is that child pornographers might well have secret messages to exchange between themselves. And that's just on top of any old police procedure these days that just leads any digital image through steganography detection automatically.
IF, and that's a big if, this were actually true, it'd never be accidentally leaked. That's not how intelligence agencies work. My guess is that some child pornographers were trying out their signal reception by hiding fake messages. That or some AQ operative was being very, very stupid.
'It acts like a real plant'. 'It dances when you play music to it'. Makes you wonder if these guys have ever *seen* a real plant ?!
Wait, you're replying to a post which is referring to the taste of sperm, and you write "Hey - how would you like to go get some dinner" ? WTF ?
Scene at the Soyuz Space Center take-in desk:
- So Mr. eh Garriott is it ? Why exactly do you want to go to the ISS ? The form says 'reasons for visit' you see, and I have to fill it in.
- Oh. Eh, isn't just for fun enough ? I thought that these days it was well accepted that if you were loaded enough, you could just hitch a ride ?
- 'recreational purposes'. Ok.
- On the other hand, wait - I see what you mean. It looks kind of decadent, doesn't it ? So eh, could you make it 'promotion of my new product' ? A computer game ?
- Sorry, I already submitted it. But I can add more reasons. 'promotion of a computer game'. Good. Anything else, before I submit again ?
- Yes, sure. Eh, I could take this disk I made which has the latest company outing photographs on it - the guys will like that, and perhaps I have a cigarette butt or two from some really famous but not so rich people I briefly met. But why would I do that ? O, I have it ! Make it that I'll take all that stuff into space 'in case of a disaster on earth' ! Yes that's it. That'll look good.
- Yes sir. Very good. I'll take it that you will be 'participating in various experiments' too, sir ?
- Will there be any girls involved ?
- No sir.
- Well then no, I mean - of course ! The experiments ! How could I forget about those ! Sure.
- Enjoy your flight sir.
And the 'selection' bit may have been on a bit of a hold, now, for about two generations, in certain parts of the world. The 'mutation' bit, however, has been thriving in those self same parts.