Yet kids still get investigated by the Secret Service for singing Bob Dylan songs
From the page you linked:
But some students and adults who heard the band rehearse called a radio talk show Thursday morning, saying the song the band sang ended with a call for President Bush to die.
Isn't it sad that people feel compelled to be the gestapo?
The oil market is extremely volatile right now, and the reason for that is that the big investors know that if demand drops significantly, they're going to lose their asses.
September? This bubble could go on for years. All we need is the LA times to have four^H^H^H^Hthree missiles on the front page. Oh yes, notice the ground-plumes of the third and "fourth" ones--HTF did the Times editor miss that?
Standards keep your car from flying apart, jets from dropping out of the sky and bridges from collapsing.
Though I don't intend to carelessly contend your utterly valid point (because I agree with you wholeheartedly) I would argue that the risk of liability plays a large part in these things.
You need to weigh more than just telecom immunity when considering this vote.
One of the principle tenants of Republicanism is the Rule of Law:
Republicanism is the ideology of governing a nation as a republic, with an emphasis on liberty, rule of law, popular sovereignty and the civic virtue practiced by citizens.
The main thing that bothers me about anyone, republican or democrat, voting for any legislation that grants immunity for breaking laws is that sidesteps a core principle of Republicanism. I don't think that the Rule of Law should be open to compromise.
In other news, the public will phase out Mercedes purchases by 2015.
Just like they are phasing out gas guzzler GMs in favor of fuel efficient Toyotas? The proof is already here with GM's troubles and Toyota's market domination: build efficient cars or go under. Its natural selection at its finest. I feel no pity for GM as they continue to dig their own grave by not recognizing that oil is a finite resource.
slashdot permits users to use screen names so their use on slashdot is not a violation of its terms of use.
Alleged felon "Ethanol-fueled" also uses a lot of other services to post to slashdot, some he or she doesn't even know about. Are you sure he or she isn't violating some of those service's terms?
I hope your favorite conservative politician entered an alias one time instead of providing his real email address and my favorite liberal politician uses this as a way to get your favorite conservative politician tossed in jail. That would be sweet!
Translation for the sarcastically challenged: laws like this can be abused for political ends.
This is why they invented -1 Off Topic. Somehow you managed to twist a land resource management issue into a PETA issue. My guess is that the PETA people and the solar people overlap quite a bit, probably because both issues involve populations who attempt to act as responsible custodians of the planet. I'm sure you somehow have a beef against solar energy because it is "hippie", or because Rush says its bad, or you associate it with gay marriage or as an unamerican affront to US's holy wars in the middle east. Whatever the case may be, I hope you hear my laugh the next time you complain that it cost $120 to fill your suburban. Guess what, I saw the oil crunch coming many years ago and my lifestyle reflects that foresight. Gas could go to $120/gal before it starts to even register in my radar. Think about that next time you mix issues and complain about hippies: I'll be able to afford steak when the price of gas goes to $20/gal and you are going to have to sell your truck and move out of the suburbs. Ha!
Diet must be the only factor in body fat composition!
You said that, not me. Learn to use logic. This is like saying that Boyle said the *only* factor in determining the volume of a gas is pressure. Here is what I said: "if you decrease your calorie consumption, you will have less energy left over to store as fat." Maybe, to be perfectly precise, I should have said "in the bonds of the fatty acid molecules that get stored in liposomes in fat cells". Let me put it as a question: where do you get the calories required to form those bonds if not from what you eat? Answer that and you might deserve some of those insightful modifiers.
And [putting on 95% of a biochem degree hat] you are right, the key to long-term weight control *without abnormal hunger*
I'm beginning to realize a common misconception--I don't think most people realize that hunger is normal. If you don't believe me, go into a jungle, find a ripped, beautiful, healthy animal (like a tiger), and offer it some food from its natural diet. Know what its going to do? Its going to eat it--voraciously. Why? Because its hungry. Wild animals are *always* hungry because that's how it is in nature. Animals (and humans fit the biological definition of "animal") have evolved under conditions of hunger. Humans have found a way to overcome hunger by producing a calorie surplus for themselves so most find hunger uncomfortable. But it shouldn't be, especially if it is accompanied by healthy foods.
In my opinion, telling fat people to "just eat less" makes about as much sense as talking v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y to people who don't understand your language.
I gave a formula for calorie distribution. It was very rough. I can be more specific about exactly what I eat every day: (1) Breakfast: 32OZ fruit and yogurt smoothie. (2) Lunch: 1 apple, 1 banana, 1/2 to 3/4 cup of trail mix (walnuts, currants, almonds, soy nuts, sunflower seeds. (3) Dinner: 2 or 3 Vegetable patties on 1 whole wheat bun with lettuce tomatoes and peppers and about 6 oz potato. I regulate calorie consumption by making sure I'm still a little hungry after every meal. Amino acid balancing can be achieved by adding some 7 or 10 grain cereal or whole grain bread to breakfast. I haven't had a flu or a cold in about two years since I started the diet. Give up anything with high fructose corn syrup or other added sweeteners. Especially drop candy, cookies, cake, soda, ice cream--completely. Try that diet or a similarly balanced one for one year (remembering the hungry part) and get back to me about any glandular problem you claim to have. You'll feel better and look better and you will also not feel comfortable when you aren't just a little hungry. (Oh yes, see a doctor before you start, etc.)
Where on earth do you live where fresh food costs more to buy and make yourself than prepackaged meals
This question misses the mark. Notice my standard: "cost per calorie".
Go to a farmer's market
Funny you should mention this alternative. I've been watching farmer's markets disappear over the last few years as well. Yet another healthy alternative succumbing to poor dietary trends.
You say "good genes". I say: "bad math". Body fat is subject to the universal laws of thermodynamics. If you decrease your calorie consumption, you will have less energy left over to store as fat. The overall trend in the USA (or probably all of the western world) is towards unhealthy diets. I have what might be called a "superfood" diet and hover at a trim 30-32" waist size, even with what I must admit is too little exercise. I sport a six-pack and ripped muscles--its all diet. I'm down from about a 36" waist from when I realized I was getting too old for a 20-something diet full of pizza and cheeseburgers. Since beginning my superfood diet (approximately 50% of calories by fruit, 30% by legumes and nuts, 10% by grain, 10% by dairy), I have noticed that the healthy foods I choose have been systematically replaced in the grocery store by less healthy alternatives. For example, at my local Albertson's, whole grain cereals have been replaced by boxes of sugar-coated junk. "Regular" juice is replaced by "pulp free". Etc. Etc. Start a healthy diet and track the availability of the healthy foods you eat in the grocery store. You will see that your choices deteriorate over time. Soon you have to switch to "healthy" stores with elevated prices. Rather than tax employers, the state should tax unhealthy food alternatives. The cost of the unhealthy diet will be passed to the directly to the consumer where it belongs. To save money, people will switch to healthier alternatives that cost less. Right now, the most expensive foods in terms of cost per calorie, are the most healthy foods.
Tesla was a true genius who invented useful devices. Tesla's inventions were grounded in sound scientific observation. BMF was profusely but marginally imaginitive and stumbled on a natural geometry found in viral capsids and clathyrin. Somehow he is credited with inventing this geometry, which is an absurd accreditation. There is no reasonable comparison between the two individuals.
Are you kidding me? Could you imagine the infrastructure cost of a Chicago-LA maglev? Even at a relatively conservative $10M/mile, that's $20B. And at 300mph it would still take almost 7 hours.
If $20B is ridiculous, we must really be kidding about things that cost $500B, right? Let's think of an example. Just a minute...oh yes it just came to me: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
You must be kidding me! What kind of irresponsible bureaucrat pays $500B for something?
Actually, what the author really meant was "Unfortunately it requires you to take 40,000 photos of a postcard with a $10,000 dollar camera." Outside of that tiny little consideration, its almost as neat as Quartz, but you need Silverlight installed.
Some steal because it's the only way to get it, or at least the only way to get it in the form they want.
Corollary: If DRM makes it too hard to steal to get it in the form they need it, then people will seek alternatives to both buying legitimately and stealing, then the companies start to loose their user base. I've phased out Adobe products and Microsoft products for exactly that reason. Both are gradually providing less value to me per dollar and both make it too difficult to get a working copy, so I've moved to OpenOffice, Gimp, and Inkscape. If Apple ever DRMs there OS (and I paid full price for a family pack of 10.5 so I own two more licenses of than I can use), then I'll phase them out too.
As a courtesy to customers in need of technical assistance, we ask callers not to call Microsoft Customer Support Services to request an extension for Windows XP
If they gave the extension to XP, they probably wouldn't need the support line as much.
That section of the law only applies to computer software, not audiovisual works.
So the bits on a dvd aren't instructions interpreted by a dvd player to produce an effect? Software I buy doesn't have sound and images embedded? You either need to precisely define "software" and "audovisual works" or you need to devise some pretty twisted logic to make a sound argument that making a backup of a movie isn't fair use. Either way, it boils down to confused rhetoric and gullible legislators.
I have not found the process of setting up dual monitors using my nvidia cards easy for any linux distribution I've used. In ubuntu, I can't use the built-in video configuration to achieve this, I have to find, install, and use the nvidia control panel and play with it for a while (not too long) before I get my two screens.
Using this as an argument that ubuntu is difficult is stretching it a bit. I just changed to a dual DVI video card (asus w/ATI chip set) for a windows xp box at work (controlling a TEM) and I had to go through the exact same process. We had to wait about 10 minutes for the driver software to copy over and then it was a few reboots before we got both monitors going correctly. Installation of the card correlated very strongly with the complete failure of a 19" LCD after a couple of days. The process wasn't straightforward. "Special" configurations and driver changes are never easy, even though they should be.
Because he has absolutely no idea what he is doing. I'm sure his wireless card drops his connections because he lives in an apartment building with 30 routers all within 20 feet, each fighting for the same 11 channels. And what's up with not getting two monitors going? You really have to struggle to mess that up. Maybe he's using some Acer POS monitor that is semi-defective (I've had that problem) or trying to do it under VESA emulation. If you get a $40 Nvidia card with dual heads, you can install the Nvidia driver pretty easily. If you are clueless, you can let the driver do a virtual screen and run two monitors that way. Or if you have more than a handful of neurons, you can set up your Nvidia card as two separate devices and dual monitors can be supported just like with an iMac (for proof, I've posted the relevant part of my xorg.conf file as a reply to myself with my Karma bonus turned off). Also, gnome is stable. My semi-computer literate brother has been using gnome with breezy badger for about 2 years now. He hasn't had any problems. Basically, the GP is either trolling or has been proactive about hosing his otherwise good system. Even lifelong windows users who don't give a flip about *nix can switch to ubuntu without any effect on PRODUCTIVITY. I've seen it done more than once with old computers. The only people who should have a problem are gamers (voiding the productivity argument), ms windows developers, and corporates who get told what they can and can't run on their desktops.
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Yet kids still get investigated by the Secret Service for singing Bob Dylan songs
From the page you linked:
But some students and adults who heard the band rehearse called a radio talk show Thursday morning, saying the song the band sang ended with a call for President Bush to die.
Isn't it sad that people feel compelled to be the gestapo?
The oil market is extremely volatile right now, and the reason for that is that the big investors know that if demand drops significantly, they're going to lose their asses.
September? This bubble could go on for years. All we need is the LA times to have four^H^H^H^Hthree missiles on the front page. Oh yes, notice the ground-plumes of the third and "fourth" ones--HTF did the Times editor miss that?
Standards keep your car from flying apart, jets from dropping out of the sky and bridges from collapsing.
Though I don't intend to carelessly contend your utterly valid point (because I agree with you wholeheartedly) I would argue that the risk of liability plays a large part in these things.
You need to weigh more than just telecom immunity when considering this vote.
One of the principle tenants of Republicanism is the Rule of Law:
Republicanism is the ideology of governing a nation as a republic, with an emphasis on liberty, rule of law, popular sovereignty and the civic virtue practiced by citizens.
The main thing that bothers me about anyone, republican or democrat, voting for any legislation that grants immunity for breaking laws is that sidesteps a core principle of Republicanism. I don't think that the Rule of Law should be open to compromise.
In other news, the public will phase out Mercedes purchases by 2015.
Just like they are phasing out gas guzzler GMs in favor of fuel efficient Toyotas? The proof is already here with GM's troubles and Toyota's market domination: build efficient cars or go under. Its natural selection at its finest. I feel no pity for GM as they continue to dig their own grave by not recognizing that oil is a finite resource.
slashdot permits users to use screen names so their use on slashdot is not a violation of its terms of use.
Alleged felon "Ethanol-fueled" also uses a lot of other services to post to slashdot, some he or she doesn't even know about. Are you sure he or she isn't violating some of those service's terms?
I hope that they stick it to her
I hope your favorite conservative politician entered an alias one time instead of providing his real email address and my favorite liberal politician uses this as a way to get your favorite conservative politician tossed in jail. That would be sweet!
Translation for the sarcastically challenged: laws like this can be abused for political ends.
multimillion dollar empire
If you are calling a few million dollars an "empire", you are stuck in the 50's.
PETA
This is why they invented -1 Off Topic. Somehow you managed to twist a land resource management issue into a PETA issue. My guess is that the PETA people and the solar people overlap quite a bit, probably because both issues involve populations who attempt to act as responsible custodians of the planet. I'm sure you somehow have a beef against solar energy because it is "hippie", or because Rush says its bad, or you associate it with gay marriage or as an unamerican affront to US's holy wars in the middle east. Whatever the case may be, I hope you hear my laugh the next time you complain that it cost $120 to fill your suburban. Guess what, I saw the oil crunch coming many years ago and my lifestyle reflects that foresight. Gas could go to $120/gal before it starts to even register in my radar. Think about that next time you mix issues and complain about hippies: I'll be able to afford steak when the price of gas goes to $20/gal and you are going to have to sell your truck and move out of the suburbs. Ha!
I can't decide whether you are trying to be funny or just a troll. But here is something for you to think about.
You said that, not me. Learn to use logic. This is like saying that Boyle said the *only* factor in determining the volume of a gas is pressure. Here is what I said: "if you decrease your calorie consumption, you will have less energy left over to store as fat." Maybe, to be perfectly precise, I should have said "in the bonds of the fatty acid molecules that get stored in liposomes in fat cells". Let me put it as a question: where do you get the calories required to form those bonds if not from what you eat? Answer that and you might deserve some of those insightful modifiers.
I'm beginning to realize a common misconception--I don't think most people realize that hunger is normal. If you don't believe me, go into a jungle, find a ripped, beautiful, healthy animal (like a tiger), and offer it some food from its natural diet. Know what its going to do? Its going to eat it--voraciously. Why? Because its hungry. Wild animals are *always* hungry because that's how it is in nature. Animals (and humans fit the biological definition of "animal") have evolved under conditions of hunger. Humans have found a way to overcome hunger by producing a calorie surplus for themselves so most find hunger uncomfortable. But it shouldn't be, especially if it is accompanied by healthy foods.
I gave a formula for calorie distribution. It was very rough. I can be more specific about exactly what I eat every day: (1) Breakfast: 32OZ fruit and yogurt smoothie. (2) Lunch: 1 apple, 1 banana, 1/2 to 3/4 cup of trail mix (walnuts, currants, almonds, soy nuts, sunflower seeds. (3) Dinner: 2 or 3 Vegetable patties on 1 whole wheat bun with lettuce tomatoes and peppers and about 6 oz potato. I regulate calorie consumption by making sure I'm still a little hungry after every meal. Amino acid balancing can be achieved by adding some 7 or 10 grain cereal or whole grain bread to breakfast. I haven't had a flu or a cold in about two years since I started the diet. Give up anything with high fructose corn syrup or other added sweeteners. Especially drop candy, cookies, cake, soda, ice cream--completely. Try that diet or a similarly balanced one for one year (remembering the hungry part) and get back to me about any glandular problem you claim to have. You'll feel better and look better and you will also not feel comfortable when you aren't just a little hungry. (Oh yes, see a doctor before you start, etc.)
This question misses the mark. Notice my standard: "cost per calorie".
Go to a farmer's marketFunny you should mention this alternative. I've been watching farmer's markets disappear over the last few years as well. Yet another healthy alternative succumbing to poor dietary trends.
You say "good genes". I say: "bad math". Body fat is subject to the universal laws of thermodynamics. If you decrease your calorie consumption, you will have less energy left over to store as fat. The overall trend in the USA (or probably all of the western world) is towards unhealthy diets. I have what might be called a "superfood" diet and hover at a trim 30-32" waist size, even with what I must admit is too little exercise. I sport a six-pack and ripped muscles--its all diet. I'm down from about a 36" waist from when I realized I was getting too old for a 20-something diet full of pizza and cheeseburgers. Since beginning my superfood diet (approximately 50% of calories by fruit, 30% by legumes and nuts, 10% by grain, 10% by dairy), I have noticed that the healthy foods I choose have been systematically replaced in the grocery store by less healthy alternatives. For example, at my local Albertson's, whole grain cereals have been replaced by boxes of sugar-coated junk. "Regular" juice is replaced by "pulp free". Etc. Etc. Start a healthy diet and track the availability of the healthy foods you eat in the grocery store. You will see that your choices deteriorate over time. Soon you have to switch to "healthy" stores with elevated prices. Rather than tax employers, the state should tax unhealthy food alternatives. The cost of the unhealthy diet will be passed to the directly to the consumer where it belongs. To save money, people will switch to healthier alternatives that cost less. Right now, the most expensive foods in terms of cost per calorie, are the most healthy foods.
"Sounds a bit like Tesla"
Tesla was a true genius who invented useful devices. Tesla's inventions were grounded in sound scientific observation. BMF was profusely but marginally imaginitive and stumbled on a natural geometry found in viral capsids and clathyrin. Somehow he is credited with inventing this geometry, which is an absurd accreditation. There is no reasonable comparison between the two individuals.
If $20B is ridiculous, we must really be kidding about things that cost $500B, right? Let's think of an example. Just a minute...oh yes it just came to me: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
You must be kidding me! What kind of irresponsible bureaucrat pays $500B for something?
Such a rail between LV and LA would be useful. This is a popular commute, both for recreation and business.
Where critics = oil companies and automobile manufacturers
Actually, what the author really meant was "Unfortunately it requires you to take 40,000 photos of a postcard with a $10,000 dollar camera." Outside of that tiny little consideration, its almost as neat as Quartz, but you need Silverlight installed.
Corollary: If DRM makes it too hard to steal to get it in the form they need it, then people will seek alternatives to both buying legitimately and stealing, then the companies start to loose their user base. I've phased out Adobe products and Microsoft products for exactly that reason. Both are gradually providing less value to me per dollar and both make it too difficult to get a working copy, so I've moved to OpenOffice, Gimp, and Inkscape. If Apple ever DRMs there OS (and I paid full price for a family pack of 10.5 so I own two more licenses of than I can use), then I'll phase them out too.
If they gave the extension to XP, they probably wouldn't need the support line as much.
So the bits on a dvd aren't instructions interpreted by a dvd player to produce an effect? Software I buy doesn't have sound and images embedded? You either need to precisely define "software" and "audovisual works" or you need to devise some pretty twisted logic to make a sound argument that making a backup of a movie isn't fair use. Either way, it boils down to confused rhetoric and gullible legislators.
Using this as an argument that ubuntu is difficult is stretching it a bit. I just changed to a dual DVI video card (asus w/ATI chip set) for a windows xp box at work (controlling a TEM) and I had to go through the exact same process. We had to wait about 10 minutes for the driver software to copy over and then it was a few reboots before we got both monitors going correctly. Installation of the card correlated very strongly with the complete failure of a 19" LCD after a couple of days. The process wasn't straightforward. "Special" configurations and driver changes are never easy, even though they should be.
Because he has absolutely no idea what he is doing. I'm sure his wireless card drops his connections because he lives in an apartment building with 30 routers all within 20 feet, each fighting for the same 11 channels. And what's up with not getting two monitors going? You really have to struggle to mess that up. Maybe he's using some Acer POS monitor that is semi-defective (I've had that problem) or trying to do it under VESA emulation. If you get a $40 Nvidia card with dual heads, you can install the Nvidia driver pretty easily. If you are clueless, you can let the driver do a virtual screen and run two monitors that way. Or if you have more than a handful of neurons, you can set up your Nvidia card as two separate devices and dual monitors can be supported just like with an iMac (for proof, I've posted the relevant part of my xorg.conf file as a reply to myself with my Karma bonus turned off). Also, gnome is stable. My semi-computer literate brother has been using gnome with breezy badger for about 2 years now. He hasn't had any problems. Basically, the GP is either trolling or has been proactive about hosing his otherwise good system. Even lifelong windows users who don't give a flip about *nix can switch to ubuntu without any effect on PRODUCTIVITY. I've seen it done more than once with old computers. The only people who should have a problem are gamers (voiding the productivity argument), ms windows developers, and corporates who get told what they can and can't run on their desktops.