"Seriously: Trees are just a carbon sink. Accordingly, when trees rot, the carbon will be set free again. Having a "machine" remove the excess carbon formerly bound to dessert ground from air would help us compensate the loss of trees through forest burning and chopping as well as the carbon set free by burning oil. However, I would not know what machine is sustainable, effective and efficient in this way yet."
Tell me more about this "dessert ground". It sounds delicious. Can I get mine with sprinkles?
>>>draw attention to US poor broadband penetration"
"The U.S. is no worse-off than Canada, Australia, or the European Union. We all have the same average speed of 9-10 Megabit/s."
I think he was referring to the...ahem.. size of our cable modems, which are on average a few centimeters smaller than the average Canadian, Australian or European modems. Its why our women flock to those countries. What? You thought it was the accents?
And don't even get me started on bridges! If people want to live on the other side of the goddamned river, then they should pay for their own goddamned bridges, or go back to Russia, I say. I mean what the fuck? Why can't people just live exactly like I do already? Its obviously the most perfect way to live.
Exactly! And while we are on the topic, what the fuck is the government doing running asphalt out to these people's homes in the sticks? Or ROADS for that matter. Interstate highways, I can sort of see, but apart from that, the rest of the roads outside of major cities are essentially private driveways as far as I'll ever use them. If people want to live outside of Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, then they should pay for their own goddamned roads!
No lie, I once had Windows 3.1 running on a 286. Not sure how much RAM I had. Oh, and the monitor was monochrome orange and black (or may have just been broken). The keyboard connected with something resembling a phone jack. I probably still have that machine in the attic. Note that I said it was running. I can't comment on if it was running *well* or not because I just booted it for curiosity's sake, then shut it down and promptly forgot about it until just now. This was well into the days of the Pentium 233, and someone had just given me the machine as a cast-off. I do remember it took a hell of a time to boot though...
Actually, thinking about it now, I may have deleted those memories out of sheer trauma.
"Exactly right. "Correlation is not causation" has become more like a reflexive meme around here rather than a thoughtful addition to the conversation."
I don't see how you can say that, just because a lot of commenters tend to reflexively reply with that meme to articles about scientific studies linking one thing to another. There can be many reasons for this. Correlation does not necessarily equal cau... uh... oh, I see your point.
Whatever. People need to be searched when getting on airplanes because of smartasses like you who think they can do whatever the fuck they damn well please, and fuck everybody else, because its your god damn god given right and you know better than everybody else. You arrogant prick. Some of us don't want fuckups like you bringing bombs or knives on airplanes because you have aspergers or something and and don't know any better. Let me make this perfectly clear: I don't give a fuck that they have metal detectors at the front of the security line. In fact, I WANT THEM TO, because I KNOW for a fact that if they let anybody bring whatever they damn well pleased on an airplane, airplanes would be dropping from the sky like flies, not because of terroristic malice, but because some retard will inevitably think its OK to bring something dangerous on board. The government isn't protecting me from terrorists -- its protecting me from Libertardians like you who can't understand that you can't just do whatever the fuck you want because your 'rights' in fact intersect with other people's rights.
So Fuck you. Fuck you deeply and hard, because you are a fucking twat.
Not sure I see what's the big deal. You can still put your laptop on the conveyor belt like always, or you can now put it on the conveyor belt in a special bag. They are adding an option, not taking one away. AND its an OPTION for fuck's sake! Not mandatory.
So you people are bitching now because we have 2 options at the security line instead of one? How does that make any sense at all?
Let me guess: pointing out the stupidity of a slashdotter: -1 Troll.
Yeah, but if the demo didn't work on your PC, why the hell would you spend money for the retail version, knowing full well from the demo that the game sucks?
"No, the GP (my GGP) is not correct, and neither are you. You are both having a problem with the phrase "stage after the demo". That phrase is referring to a point in the full game happening chronologically after the demo. In other words, you play the demo from point A to point B and everything works great. You buy the full game, play from point A to point B, everything works great, and then some time after point B, the game crashes.
The original point of this side-thread was that the demo for a game would run flawlessly, and that the "stage after the demo" would crash. That point is still valid."
Yeah, but the GGP does have a point. You shouldn't buy the game if they screwed up the demo. I know I wouldn't. That is just common sense.
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"Seriously: Trees are just a carbon sink. Accordingly, when trees rot, the carbon will be set free again.
Having a "machine" remove the excess carbon formerly bound to dessert ground from air would help us compensate the loss of trees through forest burning and chopping as well as the carbon set free by burning oil. However, I would not know what machine is sustainable, effective and efficient in this way yet."
Tell me more about this "dessert ground". It sounds delicious. Can I get mine with sprinkles?
>>>draw attention to US poor broadband penetration"
"The U.S. is no worse-off than Canada, Australia, or the European Union. We all have the same average speed of 9-10 Megabit/s."
I think he was referring to the ...ahem .. size of our cable modems, which are on average a few centimeters smaller than the average Canadian, Australian or European modems. Its why our women flock to those countries. What? You thought it was the accents?
And don't even get me started on bridges! If people want to live on the other side of the goddamned river, then they should pay for their own goddamned bridges, or go back to Russia, I say. I mean what the fuck? Why can't people just live exactly like I do already? Its obviously the most perfect way to live.
Thank god the rest of the country already failed Libertarianism, or the country would be a big stretch of nothingness outside of a few major cities.
Exactly! And while we are on the topic, what the fuck is the government doing running asphalt out to these people's homes in the sticks? Or ROADS for that matter. Interstate highways, I can sort of see, but apart from that, the rest of the roads outside of major cities are essentially private driveways as far as I'll ever use them. If people want to live outside of Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, then they should pay for their own goddamned roads!
No lie, I once had Windows 3.1 running on a 286. Not sure how much RAM I had. Oh, and the monitor was monochrome orange and black (or may have just been broken). The keyboard connected with something resembling a phone jack. I probably still have that machine in the attic. Note that I said it was running. I can't comment on if it was running *well* or not because I just booted it for curiosity's sake, then shut it down and promptly forgot about it until just now. This was well into the days of the Pentium 233, and someone had just given me the machine as a cast-off. I do remember it took a hell of a time to boot though...
Actually, thinking about it now, I may have deleted those memories out of sheer trauma.
Hey, watch it! Commodore Taco is one of the best dotslash editors out there! Anyone who says otherwise is obviously snorting too much pot.
"Exactly right. "Correlation is not causation" has become more like a reflexive meme around here rather than a thoughtful addition to the conversation."
I don't see how you can say that, just because a lot of commenters tend to reflexively reply with that meme to articles about scientific studies linking one thing to another. There can be many reasons for this. Correlation does not necessarily equal cau... uh ... oh, I see your point.
I actually have my iphone configured so that when I press the home button, it kills a random stranger somewhere, that I will never know.
""They who can give up essential privacy to obtain a little temporary eye-candy, deserve neither privacy nor eye-candy.""
That was beautiful, man.
or even just cops who are fuckups, and use the system to cover up their incompetence so they don't get fired.
"Of course a real serial killer can still live without a telephone for a few hours. It's part of the sacrifices of the job."
What am I supposed to do between torture sessions with my victims then, chit-chat with them? Normally I use that time to catch up on my RSS feeds.
So does this mean Linux how-to videos are now illegal? I KID! I KID! They always were illegal under obscenity laws anyway.
That will work when the world finally migrates to IP v6 in 2097 AD.
However, Freedom fighter training videos will still be OK.
Yeah, China is the destination for people whose opinions about political systems differ from yours. Go back to Russia, intolerance-tard.
"not until Star Trek: TNG was something of that scale attempted (languages created, cultures defined, etc...) "
Obviously, you have never heard of Scientology.
Whatever. People need to be searched when getting on airplanes because of smartasses like you who think they can do whatever the fuck they damn well please, and fuck everybody else, because its your god damn god given right and you know better than everybody else. You arrogant prick. Some of us don't want fuckups like you bringing bombs or knives on airplanes because you have aspergers or something and and don't know any better. Let me make this perfectly clear: I don't give a fuck that they have metal detectors at the front of the security line. In fact, I WANT THEM TO, because I KNOW for a fact that if they let anybody bring whatever they damn well pleased on an airplane, airplanes would be dropping from the sky like flies, not because of terroristic malice, but because some retard will inevitably think its OK to bring something dangerous on board. The government isn't protecting me from terrorists -- its protecting me from Libertardians like you who can't understand that you can't just do whatever the fuck you want because your 'rights' in fact intersect with other people's rights.
So Fuck you. Fuck you deeply and hard, because you are a fucking twat.
Yes, because the TSA *adding* options to the security check-in process is exactly equivalent to slavery. Idiot.
you're weird.
Not sure I see what's the big deal. You can still put your laptop on the conveyor belt like always, or you can now put it on the conveyor belt in a special bag. They are adding an option, not taking one away. AND its an OPTION for fuck's sake! Not mandatory.
So you people are bitching now because we have 2 options at the security line instead of one? How does that make any sense at all?
Let me guess: pointing out the stupidity of a slashdotter: -1 Troll.
"In other words, you'll burn more kilojoules at rest."
This is America, bub. Use the correct unit: Imperial Hogsheads. Don't make me have to come down there and run a conversion calculation on your ass.
Yeah, but if the demo didn't work on your PC, why the hell would you spend money for the retail version, knowing full well from the demo that the game sucks?
"No, the GP (my GGP) is not correct, and neither are you. You are both having a problem with the phrase "stage after the demo". That phrase is referring to a point in the full game happening chronologically after the demo. In other words, you play the demo from point A to point B and everything works great. You buy the full game, play from point A to point B, everything works great, and then some time after point B, the game crashes.
The original point of this side-thread was that the demo for a game would run flawlessly, and that the "stage after the demo" would crash. That point is still valid."
Yeah, but the GGP does have a point. You shouldn't buy the game if they screwed up the demo. I know I wouldn't. That is just common sense.
I'm partial to 'killing and raping games'. It makes about as much sense as stealing or piracy, and makes you sound tougher.