The idea IIRC is that a nuclear blast next to an asteroid would heat one side of it, causing it to vent gas from that side and that this venting would have a thrust effect- like a rocket.
Back in pioneer days, the father of the family kept a loaded musket by the doors, and somehow none of the kids picked it up and shot their siblings/friends. Even when the parents were away.
How?
They taught their kids wrong from right, good from bad, imaginary from reality
I'm afraid that's BS, the difference was there was no mass-media a la CNN et al informing the pioneer's of times when the kids went postal...
ok, some people are going to think I'm a complete idiot for asking this, and I may need that flame-proof hat... but what is so good about a compiler being able to compile itself?
The big deal is that these guys, who are never going to have to work another day in there lives are taking parts that would otherwise have gone to struggling actors who really need the money. Don't you think it's funny seeing big name actors in tiny bitparts in their early days?
This is a lame list made by idiotic fundamentalist Christians (they're called the Lion and the Lamb, for crying out loud) who want to take all the 'bad things' out of our lives, what next, post capalert's opinion on LOTR on to the story above?
There's plenty of these idiots about, please do not encourage them by giving them hits. Try Landover Baptist if you feel the need to mock them.
Vote with your wallet then my man! I also hate this stuff, and there's no way I won't go see the film- but I'm not going to eat at McD's/BK (not hard) or buy any of the other useless tat (even easier- although I might end up with some misguided presents this christmas) They only do it because it makes them money, and it'll only stop when people by so little of the rubbish that they won't shell out for licensing fees.
Sure there are a lot of trolling idiots out there saying oss/fs is socialist, but there's an equal amount a meta-trolls saying that calling someone calling oss/fs socialist.
It's quite possible to hold the belief that oss/fs is socialist, indeed if you didn't live in a country where McCarthy beat socialism out of and turned it into an 'evil' you might come to the logical conclusion that it is...
Capital is just an abstraction of the physical. The people you pay will want to buy 'real' goods, food, a house, etc. Money is just the abstraction layer we use instead of bartering for everything
And if you want a modem you need to buy a modem, but you can fit it yourself and maybe even write a driver. Both the mechanic and you may be able to ressurect dead parts as well.
It's the idea of the workers owning the means of production. I believe we see it more than ever these days though, in share options which I believe to be much better than the way some of the trade unions that got into that kind of position behaved.
How much does that lump of silicon you want to run Linux on cost though? It's only as difficult to make your own auto-parts as it is for a mechanic to compile his own kernel
You already have a free car. You can take the bonnet up (I believe you call them 'hoods') and mess with the engine to make it faster or more efficient (or not work if you don't know what you're doing) you can get new suspension, tyres and so on. Pretty much get the car you want providing you have the ability and money for the parts- not so remote from Linux is it?
Damn right my man (+5 He's not wrong;-) It's quite obvious to those of us who were brought up in parts of the world where socialism isn't a dirty word that Linux, and Open Source/Free Software is a socialist idea.
I also can't see Communism making a political return, until a time when we have the communication infrastructure to catch and eliminate all corruption and wastage. IIRC Peter F. Hamilton had a similar idea for the 'Martians' in the Night's Dawn trilogy. To be honest I think this would be a good thing- It's quite obvious that capitalism cannot see past the near term and this had lead to the way we are shafting the environment. I can only see the Chinese (with their AWFUL implementation of communism) actually making enough of a go of a space program to get off of this rock and I'm damn glad their getting involved as hopefully pride if not profit shall make the US really go for it again.
None of this is trolling, flamebait or any other negative thang. If you disagree with me (and I'm sure plenty of you do;-) please respond and debate rather than denting my karma further...
This is a word, not an acronym- it's probably being spelled in caps for same reason Unix is UNIX (cos the guys in charge like the way it looks that way) I'm not sure if accents are used on caps, but the existence within the char set suggest they are to me
Think Joke which is liable to offend any European who reads it. Would you make the same joke about a Woman/Black/Muslim/Gay? Hopefully you realise that this would be hugely offensive, this isn't really very different
Indeed, I work at a British university, and just graduated from another. The last mile problem doesn't exist for us (unless you count the mile across campus, but even then fast ethernet and decent switches solve that- maybe what we should be doing at home?) Janet has just been upgraded and this uni now has a 100Mbps link, of which about 5% is used. I guess this means the upgrade will last a fair bit (in internet time at leaset) and lets us play with the newest tech- which hopefully will do my skills and cv a favour;-)
I have to agree, it's just joe racing game and there's plenty of those around already. It's not as if this is the first game to come out on Linux either (although granted they do normally take a few months after the windows release)
Will I get mod'ed down as well for having my own opinion?
and the older story was about FM radio waves which would be much more useful (in this country anyway) sadly the link has died, anyone know where I might find more stuff on this?
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The idea IIRC is that a nuclear blast next to an asteroid would heat one side of it, causing it to vent gas from that side and that this venting would have a thrust effect- like a rocket.
by that logic maybe we should promote violent games in the hope that the kids weed themselves out ;-)
Back in pioneer days, the father of the family kept a loaded musket by the doors, and somehow none of the kids picked it up and shot their siblings/friends. Even when the parents were away.
How?
They taught their kids wrong from right, good from bad, imaginary from reality
I'm afraid that's BS, the difference was there was no mass-media a la CNN et al informing the pioneer's of times when the kids went postal...
I'm also in the UK, the map has me in Greece- really wouldn't mind if I was though ...;-)
ok, some people are going to think I'm a complete idiot for asking this, and I may need that flame-proof hat... but what is so good about a compiler being able to compile itself?
The big deal is that these guys, who are never going to have to work another day in there lives are taking parts that would otherwise have gone to struggling actors who really need the money. Don't you think it's funny seeing big name actors in tiny bitparts in their early days?
I'm not trolling, flaming or anything else but...
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What the hell is this doing posted to
This is a lame list made by idiotic fundamentalist Christians (they're called the Lion and the Lamb, for crying out loud) who want to take all the 'bad things' out of our lives, what next, post capalert's opinion on LOTR on to the story above?
There's plenty of these idiots about, please do not encourage them by giving them hits. Try Landover Baptist if you feel the need to mock them.
Vote with your wallet then my man! I also hate this stuff, and there's no way I won't go see the film- but I'm not going to eat at McD's/BK (not hard) or buy any of the other useless tat (even easier- although I might end up with some misguided presents this christmas) They only do it because it makes them money, and it'll only stop when people by so little of the rubbish that they won't shell out for licensing fees.
>>capitalism is in deep crisis.
>Well if this isn't a troll i don't know.
I call a global recession just a bit of crisis...
Sure there are a lot of trolling idiots out there saying oss/fs is socialist, but there's an equal amount a meta-trolls saying that calling someone calling oss/fs socialist.
It's quite possible to hold the belief that oss/fs is socialist, indeed if you didn't live in a country where McCarthy beat socialism out of and turned it into an 'evil' you might come to the logical conclusion that it is...
And no, I'm not meta-meta-trolling
Capital is just an abstraction of the physical. The people you pay will want to buy 'real' goods, food, a house, etc. Money is just the abstraction layer we use instead of bartering for everything
And if you want a modem you need to buy a modem, but you can fit it yourself and maybe even write a driver. Both the mechanic and you may be able to ressurect dead parts as well.
It's the idea of the workers owning the means of production. I believe we see it more than ever these days though, in share options which I believe to be much better than the way some of the trade unions that got into that kind of position behaved.
How much does that lump of silicon you want to run Linux on cost though? It's only as difficult to make your own auto-parts as it is for a mechanic to compile his own kernel
You already have a free car. You can take the bonnet up (I believe you call them 'hoods') and mess with the engine to make it faster or more efficient (or not work if you don't know what you're doing) you can get new suspension, tyres and so on. Pretty much get the car you want providing you have the ability and money for the parts- not so remote from Linux is it?
Damn right my man (+5 He's not wrong ;-) It's quite obvious to those of us who were brought up in parts of the world where socialism isn't a dirty word that Linux, and Open Source/Free Software is a socialist idea.
;-) please respond and debate rather than denting my karma further...
I also can't see Communism making a political return, until a time when we have the communication infrastructure to catch and eliminate all corruption and wastage. IIRC Peter F. Hamilton had a similar idea for the 'Martians' in the Night's Dawn trilogy. To be honest I think this would be a good thing- It's quite obvious that capitalism cannot see past the near term and this had lead to the way we are shafting the environment. I can only see the Chinese (with their AWFUL implementation of communism) actually making enough of a go of a space program to get off of this rock and I'm damn glad their getting involved as hopefully pride if not profit shall make the US really go for it again.
None of this is trolling, flamebait or any other negative thang. If you disagree with me (and I'm sure plenty of you do
This is a word, not an acronym- it's probably being spelled in caps for same reason Unix is UNIX (cos the guys in charge like the way it looks that way) I'm not sure if accents are used on caps, but the existence within the char set suggest they are to me
Think Joke which is liable to offend any European who reads it. Would you make the same joke about a Woman/Black/Muslim/Gay? Hopefully you realise that this would be hugely offensive, this isn't really very different
Indeed, I work at a British university, and just graduated from another. The last mile problem doesn't exist for us (unless you count the mile across campus, but even then fast ethernet and decent switches solve that- maybe what we should be doing at home?) Janet has just been upgraded and this uni now has a 100Mbps link, of which about 5% is used. I guess this means the upgrade will last a fair bit (in internet time at leaset) and lets us play with the newest tech- which hopefully will do my skills and cv a favour ;-)
Maybe they're pointing 'up' in a 2-d kind of way at satellites?
Didn't you see the sign?
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cowardly shit
Why do you bring up The War Against Terrorism? You're not the revenge troll are you?
I have to agree, it's just joe racing game and there's plenty of those around already. It's not as if this is the first game to come out on Linux either (although granted they do normally take a few months after the windows release)
Will I get mod'ed down as well for having my own opinion?
and the older story was about FM radio waves which would be much more useful (in this country anyway) sadly the link has died, anyone know where I might find more stuff on this?
Ford have been using Steve McQueen to hawk cars for a couple of years over her in blighty also.