There's a whole bunch of people out there like me who think the military action in Afghanistan was a good idea and the military action in Iraq was a bad idea.
How does someone even reach the age where they can be selected for jury duty without understanding the basic principle that the jurors can decide pretty much whatever they please behind those closed doors? I mean, who even needs to be told about "jury nullification"?
I imagine this has to do with a combination of factors, namely a campaign on the part of the legal system to suppress knowledge about jury nullification and instruct jurors that they may not use it. The lack of ethics and/or civics classes in modern American secondary education probably has a whole lot to do with it as well, I'm sure.
I don't know about that. One is a filthy, disgusting habit that costs thousands of dollars every year and is only really done by wannabe hipsters, and the other is smoking.
A command and control server doesn't send out spam. It only acts as a server for the bots that do all the spam sending.
Replace "send out spam" with "store pirated media" and "command and control server" with "torrent-indexing website", and you essentially have the same argument for not interfering with their operations.
You know, thanks to the Source engine (and consequently Havoc physics) being available for making mods for free to anyone who owns a Source engine game, I'd wager that it could be used to make a pretty realistic pinball game with the built-in physics. I wonder why anyone hasn't done it yet. =|
I don't know what it is about Brazil, but I've seen a lot of creative electronic engineering come out of that country.
A friend's friend purchased an arcade cabinet with a South American version Street Fighter II. It's is a special (I believe bootleg) version of Street Fighter II with all kinds of mods - pressing Start during the game changes characters in the middle of a round, for instance. Slow Hadouken curves upwards, medium goes straight, and fast goes downwards. You can throw a lot of moves in the air and infinitely float... it's pretty cool.
This guy shows me this other thing he has. It looks like a pretty bulky arcade stick. In it is a JAMA board (kind of like a game cart for arcade machines) with this version of Street Fighter, and you can hook it up direct to a television. Crazy stuff.
That's the one thing to be concerned about: audio looping back through the microphone from the speakers, around and around and around... it would take a good setup to prevent a horrible echo.
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Wow, that sounds way cooler than my initial thought of what you meant (somehow using the dish to build a giant inflatable carnival bouncing attraction).
You go to a recording studio... they're $15-$150 an hour. Cheaper if you just get raw recordings and not mixing. Get your songs right, do a few hours of recording, then mix it yourself. (Or hell, have the profressionals mix it.)
The sad thing is, I imagine Virgin Galactic or a similar company is going to essentially have this and beat most world governments to the punch.
As it stands we have Spaceship One/Two which uses a mothership to launch the craft into low orbit. I'm sure with some scaling up this could be done on a level where we have ships that are capable of dragging cargo out into space if need be. It's sad to see the decline of one of America's finest government institutions.
I'm reading an interesting book called "Why I Am Not A Muslim" by Ibn Warraq. It's a very heady, lengthy read; it's almost like a series of essays by the same author. (I'm about 2/3 through on this read, and there's already been almost 600 footnotes.)
In his book, he basically detailed a turning point in Muslim culture that was the ramp up to their version of the Enlightenment. The problem is that they decided to go the opposite way and crack down on "dangerous" schools of thought (primarily from Greece, like logic and philosophy) and end up essentially the same several hundred years later.
Now we have the intrinsic problem of a society that is (in many place) at best 50-100 years behind the modern world, but with many modern conveniences and tools at their disposal. The common problem of too many unhappy people (mostly due to lack of things like food, clean water, money, etc. - the usual) along with cheap AK-47s and RPGs does not do a whole lot to help.
Frankly, the best thing we could do in my opinion is push for greater civil rights through economic and diplomatic sanctions. Moreover, we can work to improve the infrastructure in countries that don't like us, but from a third party that is generally regarded as friendly to most of the Muslim world (United Arab Emirates, Turkey, etc.) It would be difficult but the only way there is ever going to be peace in the region is if there is clean water, reliable power and telecommunications, and a stable economy. Until that comes most of the Middle East is going to be stuck in the 1900s.
I understand the whole "be brave, show your face in public" thing, but pretty much everyone who has done that has been shot at (and killed many times).
Surely a man with Assange's assets and techincal prowess can telecommute from somewhere safe. The same technology that protects Wikileaks (tor, VPNs, crypto, etc.) means he can stay holed up in a cheateau somewhere unbeknownst to all but a handful of people and continue to get the message out.
I guess he finds it more important to show his face in public (and risk death) than play it safe and keep the mission going. I do hope that he has several good replacements who are in the know about the day-to-day and as charming with the populace as he is.
I know it's got like, 60s-70s era computers in it and whatnot and it has its flaws, but they've run hundreds of missions with the damn thing and they've went pretty fine. The ability to land on a runway has got to be a pretty big bonus as well. Why haven't we tried to make a modernized version of that?
I'm sure there's valid engineering and financial reasons for the "rocket and capsule" route that we (and pretty much every private agency) seem to be going, but aesthetically it seems like a step backward from what I imagine would have eventually been a vehicle that could launch into space under its own power and land similarly.
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I was excited 6 or 7 years ago when all those tablet PCs were coming out. Convertible tablets, finally! A laptop and a tablet in one!
I was as disappointed then as I am now with this whole shindig.
Have any good Windows-based convertible tablets come out, ever? =|
Say 9.80665 m/s^2 again!
How was Iraq involved with September 11th again?
There's a whole bunch of people out there like me who think the military action in Afghanistan was a good idea and the military action in Iraq was a bad idea.
Tell that to the military branches that invented the concept of "mandatory fun".
Wow, how'd you know how my first girlfriend let me know she was interested way back in high school?
How does someone even reach the age where they can be selected for jury duty without understanding the basic principle that the jurors can decide pretty much whatever they please behind those closed doors? I mean, who even needs to be told about "jury nullification"?
I imagine this has to do with a combination of factors, namely a campaign on the part of the legal system to suppress knowledge about jury nullification and instruct jurors that they may not use it. The lack of ethics and/or civics classes in modern American secondary education probably has a whole lot to do with it as well, I'm sure.
I don't know about that. One is a filthy, disgusting habit that costs thousands of dollars every year and is only really done by wannabe hipsters, and the other is smoking.
A command and control server doesn't send out spam. It only acts as a server for the bots that do all the spam sending.
Replace "send out spam" with "store pirated media" and "command and control server" with "torrent-indexing website", and you essentially have the same argument for not interfering with their operations.
You know, thanks to the Source engine (and consequently Havoc physics) being available for making mods for free to anyone who owns a Source engine game, I'd wager that it could be used to make a pretty realistic pinball game with the built-in physics. I wonder why anyone hasn't done it yet. =|
I don't know what it is about Brazil, but I've seen a lot of creative electronic engineering come out of that country.
A friend's friend purchased an arcade cabinet with a South American version Street Fighter II. It's is a special (I believe bootleg) version of Street Fighter II with all kinds of mods - pressing Start during the game changes characters in the middle of a round, for instance. Slow Hadouken curves upwards, medium goes straight, and fast goes downwards. You can throw a lot of moves in the air and infinitely float... it's pretty cool.
This guy shows me this other thing he has. It looks like a pretty bulky arcade stick. In it is a JAMA board (kind of like a game cart for arcade machines) with this version of Street Fighter, and you can hook it up direct to a television. Crazy stuff.
That's the one thing to be concerned about: audio looping back through the microphone from the speakers, around and around and around... it would take a good setup to prevent a horrible echo.
I've worked with a sociopath and a lazy slimeball ( two people ) who both got good recommendations on there.
So did you work for Microsoft and then jump ship to Apple, or was it the other way around?
This rant needs more cowbell.
Can do!
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It aired *tunk* *tunk* April 8, 2000, more than ten years ago *tunk* *tunk* *tunk*. It got old *tunk*. You're not funny or clever *tunk* *tunk* *tunk*. You're not some kind of deep, cultured, worldly guy *tunk* *tunk*. You're *tunk* some *tunk* dude *tunk* on *tunk* Slashdot *tunk* *tunk* *tunk* who's repeating something *tunk* from ten years ago *tunk* that was amusing but *tunk* not all that funny *tunk* in the first place *tunk* *tunk*. It was a bit funny back when that ugly fuck *tunk* Christopher Walken said it and it was a new skit. *tunk* It's repetitive now. *tunk* *tunk* *tunk*
You *tunk* might *tunk* as *tunk* well *tunk* parrot *tunk* another *tunk* predictable, *tunk* cookie-cutter, *tunk* assembly-line *tunk* Slashdot *tunk* meme. *tunk* The *tunk* only *tunk* difference *tunk* is *tunk* that *tunk* it *tunk* would *tunk* be *tunk* a *tunk* Slashdot *tunk* meme *tunk* and *tunk* not *tunk* a *tunk* pop *tunk* culture *tunk* meme. *tunk* Nothin' *tunk* personal. *tunk* Just *tunk* that *tunk* Slashdot *tunk* will *tunk* be *tunk* greatly *tunk* improved *tunk* when *tunk* we *tunk* stop *tunk* celebrating *tunk* this *tunk* bullshit. *tunk*
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Wow, that sounds way cooler than my initial thought of what you meant (somehow using the dish to build a giant inflatable carnival bouncing attraction).
Quick, someone mod him down so we can fuck around with the timeline!
You only pay USD$5 to "activate" an account. (I guess they do 5 Euros as well?). You also pay for the first month's subscription.
After that initial activation, it's only the monthly fee from there. All future expansions are free.
That's how MMOs should be done.
You go to a recording studio... they're $15-$150 an hour. Cheaper if you just get raw recordings and not mixing. Get your songs right, do a few hours of recording, then mix it yourself. (Or hell, have the profressionals mix it.)
The appeal of 3.5e to me was the complexity compared to the simplicity of modern games.
DOUBLE KILL!
The sad thing is, I imagine Virgin Galactic or a similar company is going to essentially have this and beat most world governments to the punch.
As it stands we have Spaceship One/Two which uses a mothership to launch the craft into low orbit. I'm sure with some scaling up this could be done on a level where we have ships that are capable of dragging cargo out into space if need be. It's sad to see the decline of one of America's finest government institutions.
I'm reading an interesting book called "Why I Am Not A Muslim" by Ibn Warraq. It's a very heady, lengthy read; it's almost like a series of essays by the same author. (I'm about 2/3 through on this read, and there's already been almost 600 footnotes.)
In his book, he basically detailed a turning point in Muslim culture that was the ramp up to their version of the Enlightenment. The problem is that they decided to go the opposite way and crack down on "dangerous" schools of thought (primarily from Greece, like logic and philosophy) and end up essentially the same several hundred years later.
Now we have the intrinsic problem of a society that is (in many place) at best 50-100 years behind the modern world, but with many modern conveniences and tools at their disposal. The common problem of too many unhappy people (mostly due to lack of things like food, clean water, money, etc. - the usual) along with cheap AK-47s and RPGs does not do a whole lot to help.
Frankly, the best thing we could do in my opinion is push for greater civil rights through economic and diplomatic sanctions. Moreover, we can work to improve the infrastructure in countries that don't like us, but from a third party that is generally regarded as friendly to most of the Muslim world (United Arab Emirates, Turkey, etc.) It would be difficult but the only way there is ever going to be peace in the region is if there is clean water, reliable power and telecommunications, and a stable economy. Until that comes most of the Middle East is going to be stuck in the 1900s.
He won't be found in a dark alley. He won't be found at all unless they botch something.
I understand the whole "be brave, show your face in public" thing, but pretty much everyone who has done that has been shot at (and killed many times).
Surely a man with Assange's assets and techincal prowess can telecommute from somewhere safe. The same technology that protects Wikileaks (tor, VPNs, crypto, etc.) means he can stay holed up in a cheateau somewhere unbeknownst to all but a handful of people and continue to get the message out.
I guess he finds it more important to show his face in public (and risk death) than play it safe and keep the mission going. I do hope that he has several good replacements who are in the know about the day-to-day and as charming with the populace as he is.
Why haven't we tried an update of the shuttle?
I know it's got like, 60s-70s era computers in it and whatnot and it has its flaws, but they've run hundreds of missions with the damn thing and they've went pretty fine. The ability to land on a runway has got to be a pretty big bonus as well. Why haven't we tried to make a modernized version of that?
I'm sure there's valid engineering and financial reasons for the "rocket and capsule" route that we (and pretty much every private agency) seem to be going, but aesthetically it seems like a step backward from what I imagine would have eventually been a vehicle that could launch into space under its own power and land similarly.
Offhand, there was that whole thing with the hostages in the embassy back in the 80s. That's all I got.