Your elision makes it appear contradictory. Your post really should have included the critical "At their extreme, these traits would be highly detrimental for life in traditional human societies" bit. But hey, eliding is fun! Here, watch me do it:
"People with these personalities risk being shunned by [...] predators."
James Fallows wrote in The Atlantic (twice) about small airplanes being equipped with a parachute to deploy in case of engine failure. Here's the technology. If terrorists take over a plane, just deploy that sucker.
Good point. Think of it as a donation to FOSS, or like paying ("patronizing?") artists for music that you like so that they can afford to continue making it.
If you stand on principle, you may cost Microsoft a few bucks, but in the process you will end up costing yourself a few bucks too. It's hardly worth it since it's really a drop in the bucket for MS whereas it's probably a real cost to you.
No, you'll feel better if you stand on principle, especially if it only cost you a few bucks. Judas killed himself over twenty silver pieces, right?
Look at it this way, every voice probably counts for something, but in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter all that much what you as an individual do, so why go out on a limb and do something that is going to directly harm yourself?
Every voice probably counts for something? That should really inspire the next generation.
So pay the Microsoft tax and save a few bucks. Whatever money MS gets will go into coming out with a better competitor to Linux, and that perpetuates the good positive feedback cycle that competition is supposed to spur.
Come on, man. You do actually use Linux, don't you? Do you really believe your own post? I encourage you to think critically about it. Participating in slashdot should embolden us to eliminate the Microsoft tax, not rationalize paying it.
It's a bad day for shy geeks who are unable to piss in public. Not that I have that problem. Really, I've just heard about it. Still, I hope my friends never ask me over to play...
You obviously don't have young children, or if you do, turn in your geek card now for dismissing appropriate technology for a problem that has vexed geek dads for generations. My dad attached his scissors to his desk with a chain. We learned to subvert that by using his letter opener to pry open the link. Voila, scissors walk off and disapper. With kids of my own, I find that anything of value must be physically secured, with lock and key. It is irritating when they pull out the entire set of pots, pans, and storage containers and build a barricade in the kitchen, but that's what kids do, and it is kind of cute, after all, and it's probably just a phase that they go through. But no matter what, the door to my basement office stays locked.
Growth from 575,000 units to 879,000 units in three years represents 15 percent growth, when compounded annually. Are you in a market segment that is growing that fast?
and there's a confusing license scheme for the various degrees of crippledness: MS Beer Home Edition -- available only as a six-pack. MS Small Beer Server MS Beer Enterprise Edition MS BeerCE -- tastes like water but at least it's potable, er, portable.
And don't forget MS Trace, for counting the number of hops.
it's the only OS to have left the earth, which is something.
You had better clarify. I worked for GRiD Systems, which made magnesium-cased portables in the 1980's and 1990's that were standard equipment on all space shuttle missions. The OS was GRiDOS, followed by MS-DOS. Now, didn't those operating systems leave the earth?
Back in January, Hallmark Meat Packing got caught slaughtering sick animals, resulting in the largest meat recall in US history. Some of the animals slaughtered couldn't stand on their own feet.
What will we test to determine "fit to consume" when meat is grown in a vat?
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Thank you, Mr Checkov. Mr Sulu, lay in a course for the 1970's.
Your elision makes it appear contradictory. Your post really should have included the critical "At their extreme, these traits would be highly detrimental for life in traditional human societies" bit. But hey, eliding is fun! Here, watch me do it:
"People with these personalities risk being shunned by [...] predators."
Presto! Not at all what the article is saying!
Perhaps if we built a large wooden badger...
James Fallows wrote in The Atlantic (twice) about small airplanes being equipped with a parachute to deploy in case of engine failure. Here's the technology.
If terrorists take over a plane, just deploy that sucker.
If they were, we wouldn't have to read through all these lame jokes about "doing it at night."
Are there any apps that Google has released in the traditional sense? Seems like they stay beta forever.
Bowdlerize seems pretty likely, but isn't it at least possible that the FCC is turning that part of the spectrum into a boulder?
Good point. Think of it as a donation to FOSS, or like paying ("patronizing?") artists for music that you like so that they can afford to continue making it.
No, you'll feel better if you stand on principle, especially if it only cost you a few bucks. Judas killed himself over twenty silver pieces, right?
Every voice probably counts for something? That should really inspire the next generation.
Come on, man. You do actually use Linux, don't you? Do you really believe your own post? I encourage you to think critically about it. Participating in slashdot should embolden us to eliminate the Microsoft tax, not rationalize paying it.
Surely that's a "treatment protocol" that airline food could handle...
That reminds me of a restaurant in Texas where if you can finish a 72-ounce steak, it's free. Offtopic? Yes. Stupid? Yes.
I'm not so sure. Consensus around here seems to be that Vista is a disaster, after all.
That's clearly a spelling error, but did you mean "devastating" or "de-Vista-ing?"
It's a bad day for shy geeks who are unable to piss in public. Not that I have that problem. Really, I've just heard about it. Still, I hope my friends never ask me over to play...
You obviously don't have young children, or if you do, turn in your geek card now for dismissing appropriate technology for a problem that has vexed geek dads for generations. My dad attached his scissors to his desk with a chain. We learned to subvert that by using his letter opener to pry open the link. Voila, scissors walk off and disapper. With kids of my own, I find that anything of value must be physically secured, with lock and key. It is irritating when they pull out the entire set of pots, pans, and storage containers and build a barricade in the kitchen, but that's what kids do, and it is kind of cute, after all, and it's probably just a phase that they go through. But no matter what, the door to my basement office stays locked.
"Western civilization isn't possible without relational databases." -- Bruce Lindsay, IBM fellow. I always loved that quote.
Growth from 575,000 units to 879,000 units in three years represents 15 percent growth, when compounded annually. Are you in a market segment that is growing that fast?
and there's a confusing license scheme for the various degrees of crippledness:
MS Beer Home Edition -- available only as a six-pack.
MS Small Beer Server
MS Beer Enterprise Edition
MS BeerCE -- tastes like water but at least it's potable, er, portable.
And don't forget MS Trace, for counting the number of hops.
You had better clarify. I worked for GRiD Systems, which made magnesium-cased portables in the 1980's and 1990's that were standard equipment on all space shuttle missions. The OS was GRiDOS, followed by MS-DOS. Now, didn't those operating systems leave the earth?
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Riggall? That's rich. Yeah, mod me offtopic, I just Felten urge to post this.
Back in January, Hallmark Meat Packing got caught slaughtering sick animals, resulting in the largest meat recall in US history. Some of the animals slaughtered couldn't stand on their own feet.
What will we test to determine "fit to consume" when meat is grown in a vat?
"Meat" and "Faceboogle" brought to mind the final scene of "Boogie Nights."
John McEnroe, is that you?
You mean "James, Traffic James?"
He's quite mad, you know.