Barbarian.. here in the REAL civilized world, a glass of coke at a restaurant is about 5 Liters. usually coupled with a 3 meat patty burger covered in gobs of crap and fries dipped in salt and sugar.
We are the the most civilized, I would strike you down but I can't reach my sword anymore and get get up from this couch.... I stab at thee with my sausage fingers....
Because that is easier to sell to the Republicans than legalizing. The republicans cant understand that Legalization will solve a Lot of these problems AND create a huge tax revenue stream as you have to tax it.
They can only see that "drugs are evil" we must kill to protect ourselves from the drugs.
Therefore, the logical answer is to blow the hell out of everything. Nuking is bad as it's too close to the United states and will will suffer fallout. Unless we use Neutron bombs that just kill everyone in a 20 mile radius and the radiation and fallout are minimal. the prevailing winds will take most of it out to the Islands in the Atlantic, solving the cuba problem and all those nasty natives on the prime real estate islands there.
That would bake many republicans smile. it would open up a lot of real estate in Belese!
Locate a Cartel headquarter or farm. carpet bomb 1 square mile around it. I'm talking sending in 5, B-52's with a full load of 1000 pound bombs, turn that location into the surface of the moon.
Find another cartel location, repeat. dont ask for the countries permission. Central america and south america. Kill everyone and everything for 4 square miles centered on the farm or cartel location.
Honestly, the pussy footing we did in Iraq and Afganastan is ineffective.
the US govt does nothing. Honestly a few drones targeting these and blowing them up will do a lot to disrupt the cartels comms. I am certain the Mexico Govt will happily let us do that.
Makes me wonder if the "war on drugs" is actually an excuse just to jail random poor people if the cops dont like them.
Put a small nuclear warhead in the bird and wait for it to be overhead the target. BOOM, a nice wide area EM pulse to take out all of your enemy's electronics.
If the China system does not have the same DOP setup then it will be easy for hackers to use two receivers to read a location from both and create a correctional signal or negate the DOP that the Us military puts on the US GPS system. Giving the TERRORISTS ultra precise coordinates to invoke their TERROR
That is not a safe thing to do. Godaddy will register a domain you search for if you let it sit 24 hours. At least that is what I observed the lst time I went domain name speculating for a customer.
We searched on GoDaddy for 5 different domain names, the customer dragged his feet for 2 days and when we came back to register, ALL of them were registered and were available for "purchase" at their auction site.
" I can already do the PITA that is waiting for a physical DVD and rip that trivially."
PITA? really? I have automated DVD ripping so well that all I have to do is insert the disc and it rips automagically. Handbrake CLI is awesome for that with a bit of scripting. (also using the libraries to restore the decss functionality to handbrake,m or use a older version)
Less than 6 seconds of my time spent. Open package, drop in disc, walk away. IT magically appears in my XBMC movie list when done. I grab the disc from the now open tray and put back in the case.
If that is a PITA, you must think having to go to the bathroom as Gitmo level of torture.
If you want Netflix on XBMC, simply buy a Roku box and switch from HDMI input 1 to hdmi input 2 on your TV. works great. Or use the app on your Xbox or PS3. You will never see Netflix on XBMC, Netflix is very hostile to XBMC and will never EVER release an official client for that media center.
Will not abandon users for corporate gold like the Boxee goofballs.
I hope the Boxee guys dont think they can go closed source, 90% of their product is XBMC still under there. they need to rewrite all of that before they can go the corperate overlord route.
E readers cant replace "traditional schooling" it can replace "traditional textbooks" though. Tablets Could with interactivity and specialized software certainly can.
But unfortunately e-reader cant play video, cant display color, etc... only a small subset like the ipad and the high end android tablets can do this, and those are not e-readers but tablets.
I'm thinking the author does not know what he is talking about, or is confused, his comment about libraries is also incredibly misinformed. His point on "e learning" is also very misguided.
The biggest problem I see is that schools will have a significantly increased cost because greedy publishers will make sure the math textbooks the school buys will have to be "renewed" every year or even every semester. so the "beginning algebra" books from the 1980's a school will use today and costs them $0.00 to store for the year will now cost them $21.95 each student per semester for "licensing fees"
Publishers are drooling all over themselves with the idea of raping the school systems with book licensing fees they can have with digital editions.
"You can't get BASIC for your phone for the same reason you can't get a reasonable BASIC for your average GNU/Linux distro. It's just not that good and it only teaches you bad habits, and in the end - it's just not useful. It's not that good language for the masses as it is advertised, and you can't do much in it."
This is the exact same mantra the computer geeks had about Microsoft BASIC when it came out for the altair. they were wrong then and you are wrong now.
Microsoft got RICH off of that useless language, and it was pirated like crazy. BASIC is very useful for the average joe as they can do simple things with it. It's why Office scripting is done with BASIC and not C#
That said, the reason we don't have a nice "visual basic" for phones is because Apple and Google does not WANT that on the platform. They do not want people writing their own apps easily. It's not profitable to allow everyone to write their own custom apps.
Like when cop car cams were starting out and they were getting "broken" a lot? Yup, I remember those days in the 90's right after rodney king. the VCR in the trunk would get bashed, or the tapes would get magnetized a lot... (big honking magnet on the casing will screw it up badly)
""compared the situation to buying a used car without an extended warranty ""
it seems that the Chief is an idiot, as 90% of the time the extended warranty is a waste of money and you come out ahead if you did not buy it and banked the cash. Consumer reports and tons of other places have this well documented...
Bet you $100 that it was designed to fail from day 1. it was under funded, someone that has NO education at all in tech was in charge of it, and everyone involved that had a clue was ignored when they voiced their concerns.
This is typical of ANY local government project. some idiot in finance believe he can cut corners to bring the costs down.
I dont, I dont care. I'm not PAID to care after hours. That comes with age, learning to stop caring about work and what goes on at work when you go home.
It has made my home life great, and fixed my marriage.
and yes I have told my bosses to their face that when I walk out that door I don't give a flying fart about anything that goes on here at the office. When I am on call, I do, but otherwise after work all I care about is my wife and kids. It's called balancing home and work. If you don't figure it out, it will eat you alive.
If you are not getting on call pay, sucks to be them. My work cellphone is turned OFF the second I walk out the door at work, and it does not get turned on until I arrive.
I have had one supervisor complain at me about it, I responded with, "so I get a 20% pay raise and on call pay?" suddenly the request dissolved. They will glady abuse you if you let them.
Same here, I have 5 domains and 5 sites hosted there. Migrated from 1&1 because of 1&1's crappy service and yet another rate hike. I've been at godaddy now for 4 years, zero problems at all.
Now I'm stuck. I am not staying at a provider that supports SOPA. I either have to double my rates to customers and waste an entire weekend moving all this crap and locating a hosting service that is not ran by idiots.
And even that can be fixed. the limit is in the firmware. I have a PC ATI card in my PPC mac that is running a workstation firmware that unlocked some serious processing power. This was back when ATI video cards for the quad core G5 were anal rape robbery pricing and the exact same hardware for the PC was going for $199.00 That system utterly screamed running shake and after effects back in 2007-2008
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Barbarian.. here in the REAL civilized world, a glass of coke at a restaurant is about 5 Liters. usually coupled with a 3 meat patty burger covered in gobs of crap and fries dipped in salt and sugar.
We are the the most civilized, I would strike you down but I can't reach my sword anymore and get get up from this couch.... I stab at thee with my sausage fingers....
BRING ME MORE SUGAR AND FAT!
Because that is easier to sell to the Republicans than legalizing. The republicans cant understand that Legalization will solve a Lot of these problems AND create a huge tax revenue stream as you have to tax it.
They can only see that "drugs are evil" we must kill to protect ourselves from the drugs.
Therefore, the logical answer is to blow the hell out of everything. Nuking is bad as it's too close to the United states and will will suffer fallout. Unless we use Neutron bombs that just kill everyone in a 20 mile radius and the radiation and fallout are minimal. the prevailing winds will take most of it out to the Islands in the Atlantic, solving the cuba problem and all those nasty natives on the prime real estate islands there.
That would bake many republicans smile. it would open up a lot of real estate in Belese!
You dont do it like Afganastan.
Locate a Cartel headquarter or farm. carpet bomb 1 square mile around it. I'm talking sending in 5, B-52's with a full load of 1000 pound bombs, turn that location into the surface of the moon.
Find another cartel location, repeat. dont ask for the countries permission. Central america and south america. Kill everyone and everything for 4 square miles centered on the farm or cartel location.
Honestly, the pussy footing we did in Iraq and Afganastan is ineffective.
the US govt does nothing. Honestly a few drones targeting these and blowing them up will do a lot to disrupt the cartels comms. I am certain the Mexico Govt will happily let us do that.
Makes me wonder if the "war on drugs" is actually an excuse just to jail random poor people if the cops dont like them.
We are the borg.... you will be assimilated.
Dont need that.
Put a small nuclear warhead in the bird and wait for it to be overhead the target. BOOM, a nice wide area EM pulse to take out all of your enemy's electronics.
If the China system does not have the same DOP setup then it will be easy for hackers to use two receivers to read a location from both and create a correctional signal or negate the DOP that the Us military puts on the US GPS system. Giving the TERRORISTS ultra precise coordinates to invoke their TERROR
Or at least that is how Fox news will spin it.
That is not a safe thing to do. Godaddy will register a domain you search for if you let it sit 24 hours. At least that is what I observed the lst time I went domain name speculating for a customer.
We searched on GoDaddy for 5 different domain names, the customer dragged his feet for 2 days and when we came back to register, ALL of them were registered and were available for "purchase" at their auction site.
" I can already do the PITA that is waiting for a physical DVD and rip that trivially."
PITA? really? I have automated DVD ripping so well that all I have to do is insert the disc and it rips automagically. Handbrake CLI is awesome for that with a bit of scripting. (also using the libraries to restore the decss functionality to handbrake,m or use a older version)
Less than 6 seconds of my time spent. Open package, drop in disc, walk away. IT magically appears in my XBMC movie list when done. I grab the disc from the now open tray and put back in the case.
If that is a PITA, you must think having to go to the bathroom as Gitmo level of torture.
If you want Netflix on XBMC, simply buy a Roku box and switch from HDMI input 1 to hdmi input 2 on your TV. works great. Or use the app on your Xbox or PS3.
You will never see Netflix on XBMC, Netflix is very hostile to XBMC and will never EVER release an official client for that media center.
Will not abandon users for corporate gold like the Boxee goofballs.
I hope the Boxee guys dont think they can go closed source, 90% of their product is XBMC still under there. they need to rewrite all of that before they can go the corperate overlord route.
E readers cant replace "traditional schooling" it can replace "traditional textbooks" though. Tablets Could with interactivity and specialized software certainly can.
But unfortunately e-reader cant play video, cant display color, etc... only a small subset like the ipad and the high end android tablets can do this, and those are not e-readers but tablets.
I'm thinking the author does not know what he is talking about, or is confused, his comment about libraries is also incredibly misinformed. His point on "e learning" is also very misguided.
The biggest problem I see is that schools will have a significantly increased cost because greedy publishers will make sure the math textbooks the school buys will have to be "renewed" every year or even every semester. so the "beginning algebra" books from the 1980's a school will use today and costs them $0.00 to store for the year will now cost them $21.95 each student per semester for "licensing fees"
Publishers are drooling all over themselves with the idea of raping the school systems with book licensing fees they can have with digital editions.
"You can't get BASIC for your phone for the same reason you can't get a reasonable BASIC for your average GNU/Linux distro. It's just not that good and it only teaches you bad habits, and in the end - it's just not useful. It's not that good language for the masses as it is advertised, and you can't do much in it."
This is the exact same mantra the computer geeks had about Microsoft BASIC when it came out for the altair. they were wrong then and you are wrong now.
Microsoft got RICH off of that useless language, and it was pirated like crazy. BASIC is very useful for the average joe as they can do simple things with it. It's why Office scripting is done with BASIC and not C#
That said, the reason we don't have a nice "visual basic" for phones is because Apple and Google does not WANT that on the platform. They do not want people writing their own apps easily. It's not profitable to allow everyone to write their own custom apps.
Like when cop car cams were starting out and they were getting "broken" a lot? Yup, I remember those days in the 90's right after rodney king. the VCR in the trunk would get bashed, or the tapes would get magnetized a lot... (big honking magnet on the casing will screw it up badly)
he is user 1125189.. he is not a "long time slashdotter" with a 7 digit UID.
""compared the situation to buying a used car without an extended warranty ""
it seems that the Chief is an idiot, as 90% of the time the extended warranty is a waste of money and you come out ahead if you did not buy it and banked the cash. Consumer reports and tons of other places have this well documented...
The chief must not read much.
Bet you $100 that it was designed to fail from day 1. it was under funded, someone that has NO education at all in tech was in charge of it, and everyone involved that had a clue was ignored when they voiced their concerns.
This is typical of ANY local government project. some idiot in finance believe he can cut corners to bring the costs down.
That salesman needs to be directly fired instantly for being a complete dumbshit and not making telephone calls to make sure things happen.
I dont, I dont care. I'm not PAID to care after hours. That comes with age, learning to stop caring about work and what goes on at work when you go home.
It has made my home life great, and fixed my marriage.
and yes I have told my bosses to their face that when I walk out that door I don't give a flying fart about anything that goes on here at the office. When I am on call, I do, but otherwise after work all I care about is my wife and kids. It's called balancing home and work. If you don't figure it out, it will eat you alive.
Only the idiots do that.
If you are not getting on call pay, sucks to be them. My work cellphone is turned OFF the second I walk out the door at work, and it does not get turned on until I arrive.
I have had one supervisor complain at me about it, I responded with, "so I get a 20% pay raise and on call pay?" suddenly the request dissolved.
They will glady abuse you if you let them.
godaddy does not read slashdot. you need to EMAIL THEM directly.
Yes you lose all that money and have to spend it again.
It's the one tactic I hate about godaddy, you get no refunds for anything. It's better to go month to month so you can leave them.
News flash, really rich assholes like to do this kind of thing. you had better start boycotting all the oil companies, all computer companies, etc....
Same here, I have 5 domains and 5 sites hosted there. Migrated from 1&1 because of 1&1's crappy service and yet another rate hike. I've been at godaddy now for 4 years, zero problems at all.
Now I'm stuck. I am not staying at a provider that supports SOPA. I either have to double my rates to customers and waste an entire weekend moving all this crap and locating a hosting service that is not ran by idiots.
And even that can be fixed. the limit is in the firmware. I have a PC ATI card in my PPC mac that is running a workstation firmware that unlocked some serious processing power. This was back when ATI video cards for the quad core G5 were anal rape robbery pricing and the exact same hardware for the PC was going for $199.00 That system utterly screamed running shake and after effects back in 2007-2008