Stomach cancer is what did him in. But in the mid 1960's he also had lung cancer. That's why he had to have his lung and ribs removed. Smoking 5 packs a day for decades was probably still a contributing factor to the stomach cancer though.
and the latest group hypnotism - that they're somehow gay or faggy.
Did you ever see John Wayne smoke an e-Cigarette? No. The guy was 6 foot 4 and smoked 5 packs a day. After he had to have a lung and a couple of ribs removed due to cancer, he switched to cigars and chewing tobacco.
I was too young at the time to notice, but anyone know if there was this kind of "lets-ban-all-evil-things!" reaction when remote control cars first became available to average consumers?
Is this a natural reaction to something new, or is there really a never before seen level of danger with tiny unmanned drones in the skies above us?
The difference is that RC airplanes used to be fairly expensive and required enough talent to build and fly them. I was at a store last week and there was a quad-copter with controller for sale for $70. It had auto landing, auto-leveling and a setting to set it to maintain a specified altitude.
The first time I flew an RC airplane, around 40 years ago, you couldn't by the controller for that little. You might have been able to buy a very low powered gas engine for a glider/trainer type plane. but you'd still need a kit for a plane to put it in, prop, fuel tank and lines, electronics, controller, starter, and the time and tools to build it. After plunking down close to $1000 and many hours building it, you didn't go out and do something stupid with it. I think today, people may do stupid things with $1K+ drones as it's not nearly as much money in current dollars. But you also don't have all of the time and effort into building it either.
I'm not saying there weren't stupid people back then. I'm sure there were. But you couldn't walk into Walmart, drop $100 and be flying a couple of hours later once the batteries were charged. That seems to be the biggest difference I see.
If you want to see change, do this to Mickey Mouse ASAP.
Change is about all you will have left to your name if you were to try it. Disney has a bit more money and a slightly larger legal team than the creator of Pepe the Frog.
For the first time in 90-year Oscar history, a video game is eligible for an Academy Award
How many video games were there 90 years ago? How many video game trailers were there 90 years ago? 25 years ago? It's not like the Oscars have been holding down the video game trailers for almost a century.
I've yet to encounter any ransomware on my stone tablets either. And the charge lasts a damn long time. I'm not sure when they were plugged in last, it was before I was born and I haven't had to charge them yet. They are kind of old, so a little dim to use in in the dark, but I never have issues with them being washed out in the sun, and there's never any glare on the screen. Plus they are fairly durable. I dropped large plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce on one, so I powered it down and put it in the dishwasher on light wash and it was as good as new the next day.
I believe the better generalization would be that Colleges are teaching students "What" to think, and not "How" to think. Since cognitive dissonance is painful, and it feels good to belong to something you believe is important, it's easy to get people to go along with the game.
Isn't that what the TV movie "The Wave" was supposed to show was a bad thing 25-30 years ago? Or I could be mis-remembering it, as it's been a long time since I saw it.
The government of Denmark is NOT banning electric cars.
No they aren't. According to the headline, they aren't just banning them. Denmark is "killing" them.
Apparently auto-pilot has become self aware and is now considered alive. Perhaps they are putting the car on trial for murder in cases where the driver is killed in a crash. I'm pretty sure Denmark doesn't have capital punishment for humans, so it must just be for AI.
This is probably what will push Skynet over the edge.
I usually look at the reviews, but they don't tend to make up my mind about a movie I want to see. I suppose I give them a little more credence when it's in regards to a movie my daughter wants me to take her to that I think looks like it's going to be bad though.
Critics and audiences have been wrong many times. I don't recall Blade Runner being a huge hit in the theaters, nor with the many critics in the US when it was released. The Shining (1980) didn't do well when it was first released, and critics were pretty hard on it too. I don't know about the critics, but The Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life bombed at the theater. Fight Club was another movie that I enjoyed, but bombed at the theater and I don't recall the critics being too kind. Office Space, Heathers, Citizen Kane, Brazil, and Dredd bombed. All movies which I really enjoyed. My daughter and I liked The Iron Giant and Mars Needs Moms, both of which bombed too.
a) He didn't realize the technician would actually view the recovered photos. b) He had deleted the photos, and didn't realize recovering data might include files he'd deleted on purpose. c) Who reads those forms? He probably thought the technician would treat any photos he found as confidential. d) People doing stupid things that don't make sense is a very regular occurrence.
e) He had a refurbished drive in his computer and the previous owner was responsible for them being there. f) Best Buy employees get paid a bounty for finding these and placed them on there. g) Best Buy employees don't get paid a bounty, but put them there because they thought he was rude to them. h) Best Buy employee put the images on the drive because they were having a bad day. i) The owners computer got rooted and some one put those images on the hard drive, but the owner was appalled and deleted them prior to who ever had control of the computer screwed with the boot partition. j) The owner of the computer was surfing regular porn and accidentally clicked on a child porn link which put the images in the browser cache. k) The owners spouse was pissed off at him for some reason and put the images on before reformatting the boot partition. l) The owners sociopathic child thought putting those images on there and then deleted the MBR because would be a funny thing to do.
I can keep going if you would like me to, but I think you get the point. You could very likely be correct with your four possibilities, but those are by no means the only options.
At this point in time, no nation on earth has ever successfully stopped an ICBM attack.
The US and the Soviet Union both stopped their own launches several times, successfully. MAD also stopped launches from both nations during the entire cold war.
My guess is that were a country attacked and some sizable fraction of incoming missiles were stopped, the people who did survive would consider the defense to be very effective.
If we're talking about all out war between the US and Russia, they may in the short term. But once fallout and radiation sickness starts to take affect, they may change their minds considerably. Not to mention the probable lack of electricity, running water, and other things we all take for granted.
and all you see are people with their faces stuck in their phones.
I'm not sure why so many people refuse to live in the moment at all these days. When I go to a public place anymore, I feel like I'm surrounded by zombies half of the time. I'm starting to think that if the Matrix came out today, most people would feel it was a better fantasy world to live in than Star Trek.
Unless in the virtual Workd make me a geek living in my oarent's basement posting on Slashdot as an AC.
It appears there's been a glitch in the subroutine that renders your keyboard and it's shifted a couple of the keys slightly to the right of where you expected them to be.
They've found people simply don't care. It's the same with bands that used to play in bars and clubs. The venue owners found out they didn't have to pay live bands or performers,
I used to play guitar in bands 25+ years ago. I'll never forget a discussion I had with our rhythm guitarist one night. Being that he was probably almost twice my age, I figured he was old and didn't know what he was talking about. He told me that no one really cared about anything we did as long as the drum beat kept time. He explained to me that he thought there might be one or two people out of 500+ in the crowd that would even notice if one of us made a mistake.
To prove his point, during a song in the middle of the set he let go of the fret-board and strummed the open strings a couple of times. Not a single person stopped dancing, or even noticed as far as I could see. No one said a thing to us about it. While were were packing up, the owner of the bar even told us we were really on that night. So, you're probably right.
Yeah, that's pretty much what did them in of me too. I spent a lot of time an money at Radio Shack in the 70's and into the late 80's. But once they started selling cell phones, it was over for me pretty quick. I actually had a very similar conversation sometime in the very early 90's, except I was looking for a resister. The sad part was that they actually carried all of those components still, they just had them stuffed into drawers. But no one seemed to know about anything other than phones. Nor were they interested in anything else either.
You are henceforth the newly appointed Slashdot ambassador to Junior Soprano.
Oh, how cool. Now I just need a time machine to go back in time to when the show was still on and a way to insert myself into a fictional TV show.
Tony very nearly loses his mind just trying to maintain a sightly lower profileâ"with all the money, all the sex, the big house, the big car, the family, the prestige and the power, yada yada yada...
Junior's situation is closer to Julian's, only he (Junior) makes it worse than it needs to be by failing to ask his friendly GP for the little blue pill (it's a pride thing).
Congratulations! You've managed to not only make me, for the first time ever, think this but actually type that it sounds like "first world problems". Thank you sir.
The Rosenbergs got plans for how to build nukes to the Russians. There's no comparison to the people you mention.
I never stated that there was. Simply that, that was the last time anyone had been executed for treason/espionage.
However, if you want to look at someone who has passed classified intelligence to the Russians, there's been a story in the news recently...
Yeah, that was pretty stupid, but the president has the right to choose to declassify things like that. Just look at vice president Joe Biden when he chose to tell the world that Seal team 6 was the group that conducted the raid that kill Osama Bin Laden.
You know, apart from exile or being confined to a single building for multiple years on end. I mean apart from that nothing too serious.
There was a time when execution was a very real possibility for treason. I believe that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the last people to be put to death (officially at least) in 1953. I would guess that Julian Assange gets much better food, treatment, visitation and access to communications compared to what he would in a federal prison. Snowden as well.
Does anyone remember post 2000 when NSA stood for No Such Agency? It was actually before that. But it seems like they've almost become a bad joke since around 2000. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, but ever since DHS was formed and everything was to be shared, the intelligence community leaks like a sieve.
You don't understand. When Republicans/Conservatives/Righties do it, it's noble and bravely challenging rampant over political correctness. When Democrats/Liberals/Lefties do it, it's proof that they're all evil monsters.
No, when "republicans/conservatives/righties" get caught cheating on their wives, get outed as gay, or it comes out they are drug addicts they look like hypocritical douche bags.
When "democrats/liberals/lefties" get caught being racist, sexist, homophobic, name callers they look like hypocritical douche bags.
Anytime anyone gets caught blatantly behaving in the opposite manner that they profess to be their "core values", they look like a lying ass. It doesn't matter if they are left, right or center.
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Stomach cancer is what did him in. But in the mid 1960's he also had lung cancer. That's why he had to have his lung and ribs removed. Smoking 5 packs a day for decades was probably still a contributing factor to the stomach cancer though.
and the latest group hypnotism - that they're somehow gay or faggy.
Did you ever see John Wayne smoke an e-Cigarette? No. The guy was 6 foot 4 and smoked 5 packs a day. After he had to have a lung and a couple of ribs removed due to cancer, he switched to cigars and chewing tobacco.
I was too young at the time to notice, but anyone know if there was this kind of "lets-ban-all-evil-things!" reaction when remote control cars first became available to average consumers?
Is this a natural reaction to something new, or is there really a never before seen level of danger with tiny unmanned drones in the skies above us?
The difference is that RC airplanes used to be fairly expensive and required enough talent to build and fly them. I was at a store last week and there was a quad-copter with controller for sale for $70. It had auto landing, auto-leveling and a setting to set it to maintain a specified altitude.
The first time I flew an RC airplane, around 40 years ago, you couldn't by the controller for that little. You might have been able to buy a very low powered gas engine for a glider/trainer type plane. but you'd still need a kit for a plane to put it in, prop, fuel tank and lines, electronics, controller, starter, and the time and tools to build it. After plunking down close to $1000 and many hours building it, you didn't go out and do something stupid with it. I think today, people may do stupid things with $1K+ drones as it's not nearly as much money in current dollars. But you also don't have all of the time and effort into building it either.
I'm not saying there weren't stupid people back then. I'm sure there were. But you couldn't walk into Walmart, drop $100 and be flying a couple of hours later once the batteries were charged. That seems to be the biggest difference I see.
Maybe some poor bastard's been stuck on that comet for the last 40 years.
If you want to see change, do this to Mickey Mouse ASAP.
Change is about all you will have left to your name if you were to try it. Disney has a bit more money and a slightly larger legal team than the creator of Pepe the Frog.
For the first time in 90-year Oscar history, a video game is eligible for an Academy Award
How many video games were there 90 years ago? How many video game trailers were there 90 years ago? 25 years ago? It's not like the Oscars have been holding down the video game trailers for almost a century.
The problem is that the number of snippets you'd have to store is enormous
Have you been to the movies lately? I'm not sure you'd need that many.
I've yet to encounter any ransomware on my stone tablets either. And the charge lasts a damn long time. I'm not sure when they were plugged in last, it was before I was born and I haven't had to charge them yet. They are kind of old, so a little dim to use in in the dark, but I never have issues with them being washed out in the sun, and there's never any glare on the screen. Plus they are fairly durable. I dropped large plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce on one, so I powered it down and put it in the dishwasher on light wash and it was as good as new the next day.
As a non-native english speaker, I ask: is this an actual, socially acceptable name in english-speaking countries?
It's socially acceptable. But it is a bit odd.
I believe the better generalization would be that Colleges are teaching students "What" to think, and not "How" to think. Since cognitive dissonance is painful, and it feels good to belong to something you believe is important, it's easy to get people to go along with the game.
Isn't that what the TV movie "The Wave" was supposed to show was a bad thing 25-30 years ago? Or I could be mis-remembering it, as it's been a long time since I saw it.
I wonder if it was formed the same way. Something really big must have impacted that star prior to the start of the fusion reaction.
No kidding. This is obvious about a Sun Macro system.
The government of Denmark is NOT banning electric cars.
No they aren't. According to the headline, they aren't just banning them. Denmark is "killing" them.
Apparently auto-pilot has become self aware and is now considered alive. Perhaps they are putting the car on trial for murder in cases where the driver is killed in a crash. I'm pretty sure Denmark doesn't have capital punishment for humans, so it must just be for AI.
This is probably what will push Skynet over the edge.
I usually look at the reviews, but they don't tend to make up my mind about a movie I want to see. I suppose I give them a little more credence when it's in regards to a movie my daughter wants me to take her to that I think looks like it's going to be bad though.
Critics and audiences have been wrong many times. I don't recall Blade Runner being a huge hit in the theaters, nor with the many critics in the US when it was released. The Shining (1980) didn't do well when it was first released, and critics were pretty hard on it too. I don't know about the critics, but The Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life bombed at the theater. Fight Club was another movie that I enjoyed, but bombed at the theater and I don't recall the critics being too kind. Office Space, Heathers, Citizen Kane, Brazil, and Dredd bombed. All movies which I really enjoyed. My daughter and I liked The Iron Giant and Mars Needs Moms, both of which bombed too.
I can think of 4 possibilities.
a) He didn't realize the technician would actually view the recovered photos.
b) He had deleted the photos, and didn't realize recovering data might include files he'd deleted on purpose.
c) Who reads those forms? He probably thought the technician would treat any photos he found as confidential.
d) People doing stupid things that don't make sense is a very regular occurrence.
e) He had a refurbished drive in his computer and the previous owner was responsible for them being there.
f) Best Buy employees get paid a bounty for finding these and placed them on there.
g) Best Buy employees don't get paid a bounty, but put them there because they thought he was rude to them.
h) Best Buy employee put the images on the drive because they were having a bad day.
i) The owners computer got rooted and some one put those images on the hard drive, but the owner was appalled and deleted them prior to who ever had control of the computer screwed with the boot partition.
j) The owner of the computer was surfing regular porn and accidentally clicked on a child porn link which put the images in the browser cache.
k) The owners spouse was pissed off at him for some reason and put the images on before reformatting the boot partition.
l) The owners sociopathic child thought putting those images on there and then deleted the MBR because would be a funny thing to do.
I can keep going if you would like me to, but I think you get the point. You could very likely be correct with your four possibilities, but those are by no means the only options.
At this point in time, no nation on earth has ever successfully stopped an ICBM attack.
The US and the Soviet Union both stopped their own launches several times, successfully. MAD also stopped launches from both nations during the entire cold war.
My guess is that were a country attacked and some sizable fraction of incoming missiles were stopped, the people who did survive would consider the defense to be very effective.
If we're talking about all out war between the US and Russia, they may in the short term. But once fallout and radiation sickness starts to take affect, they may change their minds considerably. Not to mention the probable lack of electricity, running water, and other things we all take for granted.
and all you see are people with their faces stuck in their phones.
I'm not sure why so many people refuse to live in the moment at all these days. When I go to a public place anymore, I feel like I'm surrounded by zombies half of the time. I'm starting to think that if the Matrix came out today, most people would feel it was a better fantasy world to live in than Star Trek.
Unless in the virtual Workd make me a geek living in my oarent's basement posting on Slashdot as an AC.
It appears there's been a glitch in the subroutine that renders your keyboard and it's shifted a couple of the keys slightly to the right of where you expected them to be.
They've found people simply don't care. It's the same with bands that used to play in bars and clubs. The venue owners found out they didn't have to pay live bands or performers,
I used to play guitar in bands 25+ years ago. I'll never forget a discussion I had with our rhythm guitarist one night. Being that he was probably almost twice my age, I figured he was old and didn't know what he was talking about. He told me that no one really cared about anything we did as long as the drum beat kept time. He explained to me that he thought there might be one or two people out of 500+ in the crowd that would even notice if one of us made a mistake.
To prove his point, during a song in the middle of the set he let go of the fret-board and strummed the open strings a couple of times. Not a single person stopped dancing, or even noticed as far as I could see. No one said a thing to us about it. While were were packing up, the owner of the bar even told us we were really on that night. So, you're probably right.
Project Icarus. This needs to be called Project Icarus.
Yeah, that didn't exactly work out the way he planned, did it?
Yeah, that's pretty much what did them in of me too. I spent a lot of time an money at Radio Shack in the 70's and into the late 80's. But once they started selling cell phones, it was over for me pretty quick. I actually had a very similar conversation sometime in the very early 90's, except I was looking for a resister. The sad part was that they actually carried all of those components still, they just had them stuffed into drawers. But no one seemed to know about anything other than phones. Nor were they interested in anything else either.
You are henceforth the newly appointed Slashdot ambassador to Junior Soprano.
Oh, how cool. Now I just need a time machine to go back in time to when the show was still on and a way to insert myself into a fictional TV show.
Tony very nearly loses his mind just trying to maintain a sightly lower profileâ"with all the money, all the sex, the big house, the big car, the family, the prestige and the power, yada yada yada ...
Junior's situation is closer to Julian's, only he (Junior) makes it worse than it needs to be by failing to ask his friendly GP for the little blue pill (it's a pride thing).
Congratulations! You've managed to not only make me, for the first time ever, think this but actually type that it sounds like "first world problems". Thank you sir.
The Rosenbergs got plans for how to build nukes to the Russians. There's no comparison to the people you mention.
I never stated that there was. Simply that, that was the last time anyone had been executed for treason/espionage.
However, if you want to look at someone who has passed classified intelligence to the Russians, there's been a story in the news recently...
Yeah, that was pretty stupid, but the president has the right to choose to declassify things like that. Just look at vice president Joe Biden when he chose to tell the world that Seal team 6 was the group that conducted the raid that kill Osama Bin Laden.
You know, apart from exile or being confined to a single building for multiple years on end. I mean apart from that nothing too serious.
There was a time when execution was a very real possibility for treason. I believe that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the last people to be put to death (officially at least) in 1953. I would guess that Julian Assange gets much better food, treatment, visitation and access to communications compared to what he would in a federal prison. Snowden as well.
Does anyone remember post 2000 when NSA stood for No Such Agency? It was actually before that. But it seems like they've almost become a bad joke since around 2000. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, but ever since DHS was formed and everything was to be shared, the intelligence community leaks like a sieve.
No, when "republicans/conservatives/righties" get caught cheating on their wives, get outed as gay, or it comes out they are drug addicts they look like hypocritical douche bags.
When "democrats/liberals/lefties" get caught being racist, sexist, homophobic, name callers they look like hypocritical douche bags.
Anytime anyone gets caught blatantly behaving in the opposite manner that they profess to be their "core values", they look like a lying ass. It doesn't matter if they are left, right or center.