... on Wikipedia because there will always be people who will argue that Abraham Lincoln was was worse than Hitler, that all Christians must be killed, that the Earth is flat, and other crackpot ideas. Not worth arguing about.
But you are known by the company you keep, and if enough shite posted by idoits piles up on Wikipedia, then I'm also going to stop finding it useful for things like how many bytes are in an Ethernet header, and just go somewhere else.
... in it's own foul way. But I know what you are saying. MY analogy would be to say that the whole world speaks one language, and if an English-speaker has trouble understanding Chinese, well, then, you just haven't read that part of the manual.
Personally, I take care to write my Perl in grunts and whistles, which are fairly universally understood. Except in those equivalent places where "nodding your head" means "no" and "extending your middle finger" means "hi there!"
And gravity did the work. Stuff slides around in my kitchen all the time, none of our countertops are level and all it takes is a lubricating layer of water, or a vessel turned upside-down with water sealing the edges, and things turn into little gravity-powered hovercraft.
It WOULD be an interesting theory - by definition lake beds are absolutely level, because they dry out after getting wet. BUT if wind were pushing the lake around while it was full of water, and continued to push until the lake dried out, seems plausible to be that the lake bed could be non-level.
But then, when it got wet enough to let rocks slide around, it would level itself again.
But then, the tilt in the lake bed could build up over time.
BSA: "According to what we found, it appears you're liable for tens of millions of dollars of damages according to current copyright fines." Company: "GTFO" BSA: "OK but if you fork over $90,000 on top of paying our legal bills and purchasing licenses for all that software we discovered, and you admit no wrongdoing, and you also agree to annual audits from here on, you won't regret it." Company: "GTFO!" BSA: "Are you sure you want us to GTFO?" Company: "GTFO!" BSA: "And just how shall we GTFO?" Company: "GTFO!"
At this point the golden rule of law enforcement kicks in: The Law will always be a bigger asshole than you can. They have years of training and professional experience.
There was an endless thread once in Make magazine's forums arguing the pros and cons of putting solar powered fans on a sail-powered car to make it go faster! Sheesh.
I welcome our giant comet overlords. When we are put to work to toil in their ice and ammonia mines, or whatever this comet is made of, we can say to ourselves, 'This sure beats working on the surface of the Sun, we sure put one over on old Sol!"
One of my professors in college was Chief Scientist at GM for a while and wrote some papers on this in the 80s or 90s. I don't have the citations, but there was not a lot of benefit to buying a new car just for a 20 or 30 percent improvement in mileage back in those days. However, these days, a large portion of a car gets recycled, and new cars are made from a lot of recycled materials, so there is probably some benefit if you can double your mileage or thereabouts.
And, how much do you drive? I have a 99 Cr-V which only gets 23 mpg. I consider that a guzzler, but I only drive it 3000 miles a year.
The basic point is that the "marketplace" is pretty efficient - a car has a large variety of materials in it, including energy, so the cost of production pretty much reflects the envionmental cost of producing it.
20 mpg is not very good mileage these days, and if you have an old Subaru it will eventually spew oil everywhere (trust me, I used to own one.) I say upgrade if you can afford it and you drive a lot.
Most 800-number trunks allow you to put whatever you want in the caller-ID, so most of the phony calls have phony (or no) info in the caller ID.
You can block un-IDed calls, which is free and easy in most states. And you can ask legit callers, like your bank, to stop, and they will. Friends who call you will then have to dial *82 and opt-in to sending their caller ID on a call by call basis.
We put that three-tone, dee-dee-dii thing you get when you call a disconnected number on our answering machine message. Some automated dialers will strike your number off their list of they get that tone.
Nothing you can do about the callers with bogus caller-IDs, except go to their office with a an AK-47, if you can find out who they are. Not that I am advocating anything illegal or anything.
> All too often on Slashdot people actually believe that "Smart==Thinks like me" and "Stupid==Doesn't think like me"
That only happens in YRO. The rest of Slashdot is surprisingly sane by comparison with practically anywhere, and I have pretty much default filter settings. Anonymous moderation works, in its own subtle way.
Disguise it as a stealth-plasma flagpole and proudly fly a red-white-and-blue flaming sheet-o-plasma flag! Has the added advantage of shocking the hell out of any pot-smoking hippies who try to burn it!
Although Mexico was technically neutral and recovering from years of bloody civil war and skirmishes with the US, they certainly were up to some skullduggery in the years leading up to WWI; google for "Zimmermann Telegram". It would have been an interesting time to be a spy in Mexico.
And Mexico thought about siding with the Axis in WWII, but dropped their support after Hitler broke his nonaggression pact with Russia. Mexico finally switched sides in 1942 when Germany began sinking Mexican shipping, and by the end of the war a few Mexican citizens had served their country in the Pacific theater:
Maybe you're hearing it, but it sounds too much like garbled cell phone speech for you to be sure it's Google and not your phone.
I mean WTF, why don't they just play the Jeopardy theme or something like that. Then everyone would be going around humming the "Google Theme" and we'd have a gen-yoo-wyne meme on our hands.
More proof it's 1999 again - already, co-workers are flipping Google stock instead of working (and losing thousands of dollars last week.) Time to sell everything!
Do I hear a few tens of thousands of 9-11 victims and their relatives agreeing with me? Seeing as how I myself am two degrees of separation from 4 or 5 Unabomber, 9-11, and Murragh bombing victims.
As the parent says, Real ID failed because it screwed the states by providing no way to pay for the massive changes required to issue everyone a new driver's license. The states won.
Why not implement, just for the hell of it, a switch on some old mobo that could slow the CPU down by a factor of a million or two, and then rig a panel full of Blinkenlichten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights) to the bus, flip the switch, and turn down the room lights and enjoy the fun.
Would a Pentium still work, underclocked to a few thousand Hz?
Considering the length of TFA exceeds/.'s mandatory 5-second-attention-span limitation by an order of magnitude or two, he doesn't need the Course to bring him up to speed.
The WSJ had an article a few weeks ago about something similar, "bribing" blogs to give favorable placement. It seems most bloggers are just fine with this practice:
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... on Wikipedia because there will always be people who will argue that Abraham Lincoln was was worse than Hitler, that all Christians must be killed, that the Earth is flat, and other crackpot ideas. Not worth arguing about.
But you are known by the company you keep, and if enough shite posted by idoits piles up on Wikipedia, then I'm also going to stop finding it useful for things like how many bytes are in an Ethernet header, and just go somewhere else.
... in it's own foul way. But I know what you are saying. MY analogy would be to say that the whole world speaks one language, and if an English-speaker has trouble understanding Chinese, well, then, you just haven't read that part of the manual.
Personally, I take care to write my Perl in grunts and whistles, which are fairly universally understood. Except in those equivalent places where "nodding your head" means "no" and "extending your middle finger" means "hi there!"
WTF? Yet another annoying captcha. Half the pictures are so shitty I can't tell if it's a dog or a cat.
I'm just leaving my password at "changeme" and getting on with my life.
And gravity did the work. Stuff slides around in my kitchen all the time, none of our countertops are level and all it takes is a lubricating layer of water, or a vessel turned upside-down with water sealing the edges, and things turn into little gravity-powered hovercraft.
It WOULD be an interesting theory - by definition lake beds are absolutely level, because they dry out after getting wet. BUT if wind were pushing the lake around while it was full of water, and continued to push until the lake dried out, seems plausible to be that the lake bed could be non-level.
But then, when it got wet enough to let rocks slide around, it would level itself again.
But then, the tilt in the lake bed could build up over time.
OK. who lives close to this place? Nobody.
BSA: "According to what we found, it appears you're liable for tens of millions of dollars of damages according to current copyright fines."
Company: "GTFO"
BSA: "OK but if you fork over $90,000 on top of paying our legal bills and purchasing licenses for all that software we discovered, and you admit no wrongdoing, and you also agree to annual audits from here on, you won't regret it."
Company: "GTFO!"
BSA: "Are you sure you want us to GTFO?"
Company: "GTFO!"
BSA: "And just how shall we GTFO?"
Company: "GTFO!"
At this point the golden rule of law enforcement kicks in: The Law will always be a bigger asshole than you can. They have years of training and professional experience.
There was an endless thread once in Make magazine's forums arguing the pros and cons of putting solar powered fans on a sail-powered car to make it go faster! Sheesh.
And obviously, as recent events prove (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/09/BAD8T8PLU.DTL ) , you need a non-dumbass boat driver who knows where the bridges are.
The Big Auto Lobby will never buy in to a vehicle with zero mass.
However, they are just fine with vehicles that use 2-3 times the energy of the Sun.
Write your Congressman today!
Mod me offtopic for this but how do you get a "Troll" rated to a positive score?
Is the "qualifier" just the most common qualifier from all the votes?
Then you could have, for example, +1 Insightful, +1 Interesting, +1 Informative, -2 Troll and still have a positive score, eh?
I welcome our giant comet overlords. When we are put to work to toil in their ice and ammonia mines, or whatever this comet is made of, we can say to ourselves, 'This sure beats working on the surface of the Sun, we sure put one over on old Sol!"
One of my professors in college was Chief Scientist at GM for a while and wrote some papers on this in the 80s or 90s. I don't have the citations, but there was not a lot of benefit to buying a new car just for a 20 or 30 percent improvement in mileage back in those days. However, these days, a large portion of a car gets recycled, and new cars are made from a lot of recycled materials, so there is probably some benefit if you can double your mileage or thereabouts.
And, how much do you drive? I have a 99 Cr-V which only gets 23 mpg. I consider that a guzzler, but I only drive it 3000 miles a year.
The basic point is that the "marketplace" is pretty efficient - a car has a large variety of materials in it, including energy, so the cost of production pretty much reflects the envionmental cost of producing it.
20 mpg is not very good mileage these days, and if you have an old Subaru it will eventually spew oil everywhere (trust me, I used to own one.) I say upgrade if you can afford it and you drive a lot.
Most 800-number trunks allow you to put whatever you want in the caller-ID, so most of the phony calls have phony (or no) info in the caller ID.
You can block un-IDed calls, which is free and easy in most states. And you can ask legit callers, like your bank, to stop, and they will. Friends who call you will then have to dial *82 and opt-in to sending their caller ID on a call by call basis.
We put that three-tone, dee-dee-dii thing you get when you call a disconnected number on our answering machine message. Some automated dialers will strike your number off their list of they get that tone.
Nothing you can do about the callers with bogus caller-IDs, except go to their office with a an AK-47, if you can find out who they are. Not that I am advocating anything illegal or anything.
They should ban that stuff. (dhmo.org)
> All too often on Slashdot people actually believe that "Smart==Thinks like me" and "Stupid==Doesn't think like me"
That only happens in YRO. The rest of Slashdot is surprisingly sane by comparison with practically anywhere, and I have pretty much default filter settings. Anonymous moderation works, in its own subtle way.
(Sorry ham radio nerd humor.)
Disguise it as a stealth-plasma flagpole and proudly fly a red-white-and-blue flaming sheet-o-plasma flag! Has the added advantage of shocking the hell out of any pot-smoking hippies who try to burn it!
Although Mexico was technically neutral and recovering from years of bloody civil war and skirmishes with the US, they certainly were up to some skullduggery in the years leading up to WWI; google for "Zimmermann Telegram". It would have been an interesting time to be a spy in Mexico.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
And Mexico thought about siding with the Axis in WWII, but dropped their support after Hitler broke his nonaggression pact with Russia. Mexico finally switched sides in 1942 when Germany began sinking Mexican shipping, and by the end of the war a few Mexican citizens had served their country in the Pacific theater:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/ww2latinos/narratives/02PEREZ_GALLARDO.HTML
http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/may09-03/pilot.htm
Maybe you're hearing it, but it sounds too much like garbled cell phone speech for you to be sure it's Google and not your phone.
I mean WTF, why don't they just play the Jeopardy theme or something like that. Then everyone would be going around humming the "Google Theme" and we'd have a gen-yoo-wyne meme on our hands.
More proof it's 1999 again - already, co-workers are flipping Google stock instead of working (and losing thousands of dollars last week.) Time to sell everything!
First they came for the falafel, and I did not speak out - because, I mean, WTF?, you can buy falafel everywhere!
....
Then they came for the hummus and I did not speak out - because hummus makes me fart like a bull.
Next thay came for the baba ganoush, and, well, who eats that mushy goo?
Next they came for the
Next question, tinfoil hat people?
Do I hear a few tens of thousands of 9-11 victims and their relatives agreeing with me? Seeing as how I myself am two degrees of separation from 4 or 5 Unabomber, 9-11, and Murragh bombing victims.
- Putting on diapers and driving nonstop across the country to kill your romantic rival with a hammer will get you arrested pretty much anywhere.
As the parent says, Real ID failed because it screwed the states by providing no way to pay for the massive changes required to issue everyone a new driver's license. The states won.
Why not implement, just for the hell of it, a switch on some old mobo that could slow the CPU down by a factor of a million or two, and then rig a panel full of Blinkenlichten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights) to the bus, flip the switch, and turn down the room lights and enjoy the fun.
Would a Pentium still work, underclocked to a few thousand Hz?
Like all modern applications, /. emulates the "funny" flag with 100,000 lines of XML.
That big picture at the top is the stuff of friggin' nightmares:
http://linuxdevices.com/files/misc/buglabs_community_legos-sm.jpg
"How come I don't hear nothin' when I connect my speakers to my GPS? I tried calling support on the video camera and got no answer!"
Considering the length of TFA exceeds /.'s mandatory 5-second-attention-span limitation by an order of magnitude or two, he doesn't need the Course to bring him up to speed.
The WSJ had an article a few weeks ago about something similar, "bribing" blogs to give favorable placement. It seems most bloggers are just fine with this practice:
- "Your iPhone suxx0r!"
- "Sorry to hear that, here's your free iPhone"
- "iPhone rocks, A++++++++++++++"
They will probably lower their prices big time:
http://www.nanocarbonsales.com/
http://www.cnanotech.com/pages/store/6-0_online_store.html