Let me further elaborate. "Abstain" would be a valid option. It would be perfectly legitimate to go to the polling place and essentially vote for nobody. But you still have to show up and vote.
We should enact Compulsory voting like many other countries have. Show up or face a fine, and repeated offenses without a good excuse equate to jail time.
Before someone brings up the whole "freedom" thing, keep in mind that a lot of states (if not the entire country) have a lot of other compulsory things that are viewed as unsavory by some people, such as Selective Service, paying into Social Security, and mandatory car insurance. (I'm not saying that's a justification, but it sort of kills the whole "against freedom" argument IMO.)
I'm just as quick to dismiss people who shout "false flag, false flag!" reflexively, but our government has done false flags before. Iran has also been in the news an awful lot - the media seems to be trying to paint them as a horrible villain that we should be afraid of. While I think it is unlikely, considering the age of the ship it would be a hell of a thing if it got sunk (even with no loss of life) by an "Iranian attack".
They keep pushing for Iran Iran Iran, but we're not biting. Not after Iraq and Afghanistan bit us in the ass so hard. It wouldn't be entirely insane to assume that our government (or some element in our government) feels one big news story will be all the justification they need to push public opinion in favor of attacking Iran.
They're not saying "We were attacked for being a socially irresponsible company, so we're going to do less evil shit." They're saying "We were attacked for doing evil shit, so we're going to keep doing evil shit and make it harder to successfully attack us."
There is no religion of any significant size in the world that doesn't have variations in it. Ignore all of the trash that other people try to impose on you. Study spirituality and philosophy on your own and follow what you feel is right to follow.
Hand someone a rack-mount server-class piece of hardware
You mean those things that MMOs are hosted on today? Or how about MUD1? Thirty years ago that particular sort of hardware was used to host one of the earliest multiplayer games.
The purpose of a machine is to be used for what it's good at. You shouldn't use, say, a drill for mixing margaritas (although I'm sure you could and I'd wager you could find someone trying it on YouTube easily enough). Computers are good at crunching numbers, storing lots of data, etc. A phone of any kind today is a computer. Computers are sometimes used to play games.
"It can't be done" has been said about lots of things with technology in the past, and they've been proven wrong a hell of a lot of the time.
Wouldn't soundwaves going through the air cause the wall to vibrate, even if only slightly?
What about when an airplane flies over head or a large truck drives down the road? In both cases my house shakes a little bit - you can certainly feel the vibration in the walls.
Is this real or parody? It's honestly so ridiculous that it seems like a joke, but it's not like this kind of idiocy hasn't turned up in the international community before.
I think the Slashdot crowd is at least above the average level of intelligence for Internet communities.
Yet even so, they throw a shit-fit over Google.
As far as I understand it, Google uses all of its free (awesome) tools to collect information on you. This is the route you take to work everyday. You like this genre of book. Your wife is a cheating whore. You know, basically a personality profile. They then take this profile and sell it (along with millions of others) to advertisers - or rather, Google sells their service of targeting advertising. So if I really like martial arts movies, I'll see ads from Google.
Let's posit that I had nothing beyond the basic protection of an antivirus and a weekly MBAM scan. No adblock, no NoScript, and I'm running Chrome. After Google's evil plan comes to fruition, I see... advertisements. Which precisely do nothing to me. Sure an ad might give me a suggestion on something I was looking for in the general area, but I'm not going to buy a product solely on the quality of its ad alone. I very rarely buy things at all, anyway.
You might appreciate Realm of the Mad God. It seems like you like a hardcore, permadeath style of play. Mad God is very much that. Downside is if you die you lose all of your gear and levels. Upside is that you can level a character from 1 to 20 (max level) in 40-60 minutes. Try it out, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it. I certainly do. And if you do give it a whirl and like it, fire me off an e-mail and I'll hook you up with some gear.
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Let me further elaborate. "Abstain" would be a valid option. It would be perfectly legitimate to go to the polling place and essentially vote for nobody. But you still have to show up and vote.
We should enact Compulsory voting like many other countries have. Show up or face a fine, and repeated offenses without a good excuse equate to jail time.
Before someone brings up the whole "freedom" thing, keep in mind that a lot of states (if not the entire country) have a lot of other compulsory things that are viewed as unsavory by some people, such as Selective Service, paying into Social Security, and mandatory car insurance. (I'm not saying that's a justification, but it sort of kills the whole "against freedom" argument IMO.)
Funny how these guys keep growing without being evil:
http://www.redhat.com/
But what they don't tell you is the hat is red because... it's dipped in the blood of emacs users! BOOOOOoooooOOOooOoOOOO!
Your significant other is an amorphous blob? Has she tried Jenny Craig?
I think once a business reaches a certain critical mass, evil is inevitable.
Are there any companies in the Fortune 500 (or even Fortune 1000) that aren't complete monsters?
Why reinvent the wheel? Let's just figure out what Finland is doing right and copy it. We'd be all the better for it.
I'm just as quick to dismiss people who shout "false flag, false flag!" reflexively, but our government has done false flags before. Iran has also been in the news an awful lot - the media seems to be trying to paint them as a horrible villain that we should be afraid of. While I think it is unlikely, considering the age of the ship it would be a hell of a thing if it got sunk (even with no loss of life) by an "Iranian attack".
They keep pushing for Iran Iran Iran, but we're not biting. Not after Iraq and Afghanistan bit us in the ass so hard. It wouldn't be entirely insane to assume that our government (or some element in our government) feels one big news story will be all the justification they need to push public opinion in favor of attacking Iran.
You have to read between the lines here man.
They're not saying "We were attacked for being a socially irresponsible company, so we're going to do less evil shit." They're saying "We were attacked for doing evil shit, so we're going to keep doing evil shit and make it harder to successfully attack us."
There is no religion of any significant size in the world that doesn't have variations in it. Ignore all of the trash that other people try to impose on you. Study spirituality and philosophy on your own and follow what you feel is right to follow.
Yeah, it's kind of like a piece of armor being considered arrow-proof, and then you fire an arrow out of a railgun.
I wonder how you would even measure it, though, and distinguish the heat from a bit changing from the ambient heat from drive operation.
Hand someone a rack-mount server-class piece of hardware
You mean those things that MMOs are hosted on today? Or how about MUD1? Thirty years ago that particular sort of hardware was used to host one of the earliest multiplayer games.
The purpose of a machine is to be used for what it's good at. You shouldn't use, say, a drill for mixing margaritas (although I'm sure you could and I'd wager you could find someone trying it on YouTube easily enough). Computers are good at crunching numbers, storing lots of data, etc. A phone of any kind today is a computer. Computers are sometimes used to play games.
"It can't be done" has been said about lots of things with technology in the past, and they've been proven wrong a hell of a lot of the time.
Assume the party escort submission position!
Wouldn't soundwaves going through the air cause the wall to vibrate, even if only slightly?
What about when an airplane flies over head or a large truck drives down the road? In both cases my house shakes a little bit - you can certainly feel the vibration in the walls.
How about a secret knock detector?
I imagine there were more than a few people 20 or 30 years ago saying the same things about servers and PCs.
What ICANN could be doing -- but isn't -- is to reign in the epidemic abuses.
But that would cost money, not make money. That is heresy in the Church of the Almighty Dollar.
Is this real or parody? It's honestly so ridiculous that it seems like a joke, but it's not like this kind of idiocy hasn't turned up in the international community before.
I think the Slashdot crowd is at least above the average level of intelligence for Internet communities.
Yet even so, they throw a shit-fit over Google.
As far as I understand it, Google uses all of its free (awesome) tools to collect information on you. This is the route you take to work everyday. You like this genre of book. Your wife is a cheating whore. You know, basically a personality profile. They then take this profile and sell it (along with millions of others) to advertisers - or rather, Google sells their service of targeting advertising. So if I really like martial arts movies, I'll see ads from Google.
Let's posit that I had nothing beyond the basic protection of an antivirus and a weekly MBAM scan. No adblock, no NoScript, and I'm running Chrome. After Google's evil plan comes to fruition, I see... advertisements. Which precisely do nothing to me. Sure an ad might give me a suggestion on something I was looking for in the general area, but I'm not going to buy a product solely on the quality of its ad alone. I very rarely buy things at all, anyway.
So what's the big worry here?
"They're not spying on your house with telephoto lenses, they're just measuring the the visible light emanating from within!"
What they need is a good viral advertising campaign.
7 inches... it's coming.
Say hello to the SHAGMOBILE! Yeah baby!
You might appreciate Realm of the Mad God. It seems like you like a hardcore, permadeath style of play. Mad God is very much that. Downside is if you die you lose all of your gear and levels. Upside is that you can level a character from 1 to 20 (max level) in 40-60 minutes. Try it out, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it. I certainly do. And if you do give it a whirl and like it, fire me off an e-mail and I'll hook you up with some gear.
Check out Dwarf Fortress. It's an easy game that's fun to play and certainly not in any way addictive! Really!
HELP ME.
Oh yeah? Well I don't have a computer!
Or, you can sit in an idle server overnight, Check in the morning and you have your weekly allotment of items.