Hey, that looks like one word to me, the four word reaction would be O M F G!:) OK, so perhaps I celibrated this one bit to much. I'll know in the morning.
This really should have been modded higher than this, it is a well written rebuttel to a the incorrect details in my origional post. Although I must say, if I saw the photo mentioned above I WOULD beleive it was fake... but so whould most rational people.
Care to document this completly unfounded allagation, that flies in the face of all world wide intellegnce agencies, both those with the US diplomaticly and those against it? Care to speculate on how this "dead" man is still acting to insite terrorism, including the tape sent about Iraq, calling on Arabs of the world to unite against the US? Hoffa is dead, bin Laden is either alive, or extremly recently dead.
Even in the countries that officialy support us, the populace is almost unamiously against the war. I for one think the people's voice is more important than their government's.
Umm, perhaps the reason they can't explain why we're truly at war, is because they can't comprehend ANY good reason to launch a massive, unprovoked invasion, against the clear will of the international community and against international law, against a country that poses little threat to the country launching the attack?
I have to admit I can't explain why we're truly at war either, economicly it will be disasterous, it has ruined the international diplomatic ties the US once had, and it makes the citizens of the Uninted States more at risk to future terrorist attacks and in the worst case senario could start World War III
No, I can't explain why we're truly at war either, it baffles me. It is the most ill-conceived thing our government has done in my lifetime. Pray tell, why are we REALLY at war?
It isn't because Iraq has violated UN mandates, Isreal has violated more, and we still support them. It isn't because they have weapons of mass destruction, North Korea has more in that catagory, and we're trying "diplomatic means" to deal with them. It isn't because of Saddam's human rights record, or we'd be at war with China, not granting them favoured trade status. It isn't because the inspections were failing, the inspectors themselves thought the process was working, and shouldn't they know? Come, come, since you're so ready to critisize others for being unable to explain the cause of this war, explain the real reason we are at war, instead of alluding to it in an ambigious manner...
No, I got that memo, and it goes to further my main point. THIS WAR IS GOOD FOR BIN LADEN, it gives him even more of a rallying cry for those who would not otherwise follow him. It increases anti-US thoughts around the world (find a nation that has over a 60% positive view of the US). We are helping bin Laden when we should be kicking his arse! (I did not protest us going into Afganistan, although I find the results abhorent after the fact, no more civil rights for women and girls than before, bin Laden at large, more civilian casualities than military)
Agreed. Note however Saddam is NOT, and has no documented connections to any, "militant islamic terrorist[s]." Saddam is, in the views of the most notorious "militant islamic terrorist" (Osama bin Laden) also "an infedel that needs to die."
We're helping Osama bin Laden by taking out a non-extremist, and making the area a more fertile recruiting ground for extremist terrorist! Osama bin Laden couldn't be more pleased with this war!
This proposal is not the blessing it seems. What it means is that you have to register yourself to get protection that should be yours without such registration. Spammers tie up your computer resources, and those of your ISP. It should not be regaurded as a prank, it should not be regaurded as a buisness practice, it should be regaurded as a crime, and you shouldn't have to register to be protected from criminals.
The reason the Mac is running the application slower may be software, not hardware, but this doesn't change the fact that the Mac is running slower, which is the most important thing, the final results.
Well, there are a few minor differences in the patch and the pill so far as vitamin absorbtion is concerned. First of all, one of the biggest problems with vitamin pills is the fact that so much of the vitmamin hits at once, that the body only absorbs a small precentage, "thinking" that if the vitamen is present in such high consentrations in the local food supply, 100% absorbtion would lead to dangerously high amounts in the system. (Yes, I know the digestive system doesn't think, these actions are automat responces to changes in enviroment, but it makes more sense to explain it the other way.)
The vitamin patch would eliminate that problem by delivering only a small amount of the vitamen at a time.
The other problem with a vitamen pill, is that in extreme need (when the body is suffering from massive malnutrition) it is likly that a pill will be thrown up. A patch would allow a small amount of nutrient to reach a starving individual untill a nutrition IV cold be established. (Liquid foods could later be introduced, followed by solid).
The second benifit, hopefully, will not apply to much to geeks on coding binges. The first benifit of the patch over the pill, however, would make for a better absorbtion of the vitemins in a geek's body.
Remember that most projectors have bulb life of 2000 hours or less. And watch out those bulb expences--some do cost well over $500 a piece.
Yes, but how long a life does the plasma display (remember the plasma display? It's a story about a plasma display) have. I'd rather replace a $500 bulb every 2,000 hours than a $10k plasma display every 20,000 hours...
And Most bulbs I've worked with only cost about $100-$250, sorry.
I have a better method, I ask for a new card, every time. I've put some pretty fun information on the forms to. They sure can't trace me by it, and if enough people did this, Kroger would get the hint and discontinue the card system...
Ok, and now its time for the counter-argument: Aliens are likly to be at least simi-intrested in conquest...
1. ET species evolved because it was the most fit to survive.
2. ET species came from a planet with limited resources, because without a challenge towards life, there would have been no evelutionary reason to develope intelligence.
3. In a situation of limited resources, the species able to demolosh another species will survive, whereas the species unable to demolish another species will not.
4. Therefore any ET intelligence will have reached its advanced state because it, at some point, had the ability to do more damage to, (or possibly steal from) other, more "friendly" species.
It is almost certain, that the alien species have some instinctive agressive/oppressive instincts, while it is at best slightly probable they have surpassed these instincts. Where do you put your money?
On the other hand, the possibibility of them being able to actualy get to us is small, so finding them for radio communication, with years of lagtime, shouldn't be dangerous...
Please don't let my spelling get in the way of my arguments...
OK, I know this wasn't intentional, but there is a little bit of the strawman facillicy at play here.
Your first analogy, that of the loaf of bread, while your closest analogy, isn't exactly right. First of all, for the sake of the analogy, it must be assumed that. 1. The baker, as a condition of the sale to the person, said, "I will sell this bread to you on the condition that you don't make copies of it, I realize you can, but please don't.
2. The bread is not a neccicity for those eating it, but is eaten for entertainment. Yes, this makes a difference, what is immoral to do for intertainment (for an extreme example killing someone) may not be immoral in order to save your own life (self defence killing) or the lives of others (PROPER use of police power (not what all to often actualy happens)).
3. The baker invented the paticular recipie used in the creation of the bread (or paid money to somebody else for the right to use the recipie) and primarly receives profit, not because it is bread he is selling but because of people like the recipie.
As to your analogy of the apple, apples are generaly considered public domain, as they have been around long enough for the copyright to have expired several times...:)
The candle analogy needs a few changes as well.
1. It must be assumed that the first man not only had a match or whatnot, but invented the use of fire.
It must also be assumed that Fire is not of practical purpose (at least on candles) and is being used purly for asthetic value.
You yourself said "It is to societies benefit that information flows freely." but your examples were all not about information, but more or less tangible items. (Well except the candle example, fire is a bit intangable as it is really not a substance but a reaction). Furthermore, the issue in question here isn't information, it is entertainment, plain and simple. Your aruments are good, but, unfortuneatly, not relavant to the topic at hand.
Well I don't use it much anymore, but I've got a Zenith Datasystems Portable system, with an 8086 processor, 512k RAM two 5.25 drives, (not hi density) oh it did have an internal modem, a full 300 baud... Did I mention it was a monochrome display with pseudo EGA graphics...
I think it is important to note that the person described as a "Microsoft Apoligist" is Farber, who testified against Microsoft in the antitrust trial...
I'll trade you, I've got a Hitachi notebook, with a Pentium 120Mhz processor, 16MB ram, 1MBVRAM, and a display adapter with a max res of 800X600 at 8bpp. It has a 1GB HDD but it's CD-ROM works fine!
(AP)Today Slashdot Icon CowboyNeil, issued a warning to worldwide corperations. "If you use the Uniform Dispute Resolution Procedure to steal somebody's domain name, me and my posse [the slashdot community] will DoS your website." The announcement was made after the example setting cannadian.biz and Unix.org rustlers were "slashdotted" out of existance. When asked if he was taking the wild-west theme of "Cowboy" a bit far, Neil answered "yessiree partner!"
Disclaimer: Duh! this never happened, CowyboyNeil never said that, you beleived me? What a shmuck!
Um unless I'm way behind the time most ships in the US Navy are still, and will continue to be, nuclear powered...
And yes, they have engineers. Not enough to power the world perhaps, but enough to teach others how...
I'd like to see your figures on the absence of nueclear power and lack of intrest in the industry. I was considering going to UT Knoxville, which I hear has an amazing nueclear engineering program, and while I'm not intrested in that program, if nobody wants to be a nueclear engineer anymore, UTK might just shut down its doors...
Ok, I'm somewhat playing Devil's Advocate here, but the other side of this argument has a point, although probably no legal ground to stand on.
It is a generaly known fact that television networks show advertisements as a form of revenue.
It is also generaly understood that allowing bringing you your programming is a service rendered to you in return for other goods and services.
Thus a television viewer should understand an implied agreement that, as part of their payment for the services, they should subject themselves to the advertisments.
I know there are a lot of people here with the mindset that any data transmittible should be done unrestricted and available to anyone, and I agree with that ideal, but in the world as present it isn't an acheivalbe goal.
We live in a capitalist state (those of us in the USA at least) which means you have to make money to live.
We can hope that we can someday get our OS for free, our television for free, our food and medicine for free, but for this world to come about, we would have to be willing to work for nothing...
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Hey, that looks like one word to me, the four word reaction would be O M F G! :) OK, so perhaps I celibrated this one bit to much. I'll know in the morning.
Care to document this completly unfounded allagation, that flies in the face of all world wide intellegnce agencies, both those with the US diplomaticly and those against it? Care to speculate on how this "dead" man is still acting to insite terrorism, including the tape sent about Iraq, calling on Arabs of the world to unite against the US? Hoffa is dead, bin Laden is either alive, or extremly recently dead.
Even in the countries that officialy support us, the populace is almost unamiously against the war. I for one think the people's voice is more important than their government's.
I have to admit I can't explain why we're truly at war either, economicly it will be disasterous, it has ruined the international diplomatic ties the US once had, and it makes the citizens of the Uninted States more at risk to future terrorist attacks and in the worst case senario could start World War III
No, I can't explain why we're truly at war either, it baffles me. It is the most ill-conceived thing our government has done in my lifetime. Pray tell, why are we REALLY at war?
It isn't because Iraq has violated UN mandates, Isreal has violated more, and we still support them. It isn't because they have weapons of mass destruction, North Korea has more in that catagory, and we're trying "diplomatic means" to deal with them. It isn't because of Saddam's human rights record, or we'd be at war with China, not granting them favoured trade status. It isn't because the inspections were failing, the inspectors themselves thought the process was working, and shouldn't they know? Come, come, since you're so ready to critisize others for being unable to explain the cause of this war, explain the real reason we are at war, instead of alluding to it in an ambigious manner...
I just see one dim bulb....
No, I got that memo, and it goes to further my main point. THIS WAR IS GOOD FOR BIN LADEN, it gives him even more of a rallying cry for those who would not otherwise follow him. It increases anti-US thoughts around the world (find a nation that has over a 60% positive view of the US). We are helping bin Laden when we should be kicking his arse! (I did not protest us going into Afganistan, although I find the results abhorent after the fact, no more civil rights for women and girls than before, bin Laden at large, more civilian casualities than military)
I stand corrected, but still oppose the war.
We're helping Osama bin Laden by taking out a non-extremist, and making the area a more fertile recruiting ground for extremist terrorist! Osama bin Laden couldn't be more pleased with this war!
First of all, we don't rave at all new technology some of it we find downright stupid.
Secondly, have you read the comments on this article? About half of them seem to be whining about the lack of a keyboard.
Thirdly, a slight majority of slashdot readership is from the U.S.A. where HDTV isn't mainstream yet.
Can't just turn it upside down and shake it? That's how I reboot my "Laptop"
-LittleBrother
The reason the Mac is running the application slower may be software, not hardware, but this doesn't change the fact that the Mac is running slower, which is the most important thing, the final results.
The vitamin patch would eliminate that problem by delivering only a small amount of the vitamen at a time.
The other problem with a vitamen pill, is that in extreme need (when the body is suffering from massive malnutrition) it is likly that a pill will be thrown up. A patch would allow a small amount of nutrient to reach a starving individual untill a nutrition IV cold be established. (Liquid foods could later be introduced, followed by solid).
The second benifit, hopefully, will not apply to much to geeks on coding binges. The first benifit of the patch over the pill, however, would make for a better absorbtion of the vitemins in a geek's body.
LittleBrother
Yes, but how long a life does the plasma display (remember the plasma display? It's a story about a plasma display) have. I'd rather replace a $500 bulb every 2,000 hours than a $10k plasma display every 20,000 hours...
And Most bulbs I've worked with only cost about $100-$250, sorry.
I have a better method, I ask for a new card, every time. I've put some pretty fun information on the forms to. They sure can't trace me by it, and if enough people did this, Kroger would get the hint and discontinue the card system...
1. ET species evolved because it was the most fit to survive.
2. ET species came from a planet with limited resources, because without a challenge towards life, there would have been no evelutionary reason to develope intelligence.
3. In a situation of limited resources, the species able to demolosh another species will survive, whereas the species unable to demolish another species will not.
4. Therefore any ET intelligence will have reached its advanced state because it, at some point, had the ability to do more damage to, (or possibly steal from) other, more "friendly" species.
It is almost certain, that the alien species have some instinctive agressive/oppressive instincts, while it is at best slightly probable they have surpassed these instincts. Where do you put your money?
On the other hand, the possibibility of them being able to actualy get to us is small, so finding them for radio communication, with years of lagtime, shouldn't be dangerous...
Please don't let my spelling get in the way of my arguments...
On other note, I admit to a brain fart... The word Werez instantly got me thinking games, and only games, forgot that other part...
Your first analogy, that of the loaf of bread, while your closest analogy, isn't exactly right. First of all, for the sake of the analogy, it must be assumed that.
1. The baker, as a condition of the sale to the person, said, "I will sell this bread to you on the condition that you don't make copies of it, I realize you can, but please don't.
2. The bread is not a neccicity for those eating it, but is eaten for entertainment. Yes, this makes a difference, what is immoral to do for intertainment (for an extreme example killing someone) may not be immoral in order to save your own life (self defence killing) or the lives of others (PROPER use of police power (not what all to often actualy happens)).
3. The baker invented the paticular recipie used in the creation of the bread (or paid money to somebody else for the right to use the recipie) and primarly receives profit, not because it is bread he is selling but because of people like the recipie.
As to your analogy of the apple, apples are generaly considered public domain, as they have been around long enough for the copyright to have expired several times... :)
The candle analogy needs a few changes as well.
1. It must be assumed that the first man not only had a match or whatnot, but invented the use of fire.
It must also be assumed that Fire is not of practical purpose (at least on candles) and is being used purly for asthetic value.
You yourself said "It is to societies benefit that information flows freely." but your examples were all not about information, but more or less tangible items. (Well except the candle example, fire is a bit intangable as it is really not a substance but a reaction). Furthermore, the issue in question here isn't information, it is entertainment, plain and simple. Your aruments are good, but, unfortuneatly, not relavant to the topic at hand.
Well I don't use it much anymore, but I've got a Zenith Datasystems Portable system, with an 8086 processor, 512k RAM two 5.25 drives, (not hi density) oh it did have an internal modem, a full 300 baud... Did I mention it was a monochrome display with pseudo EGA graphics...
I think it is important to note that the person described as a "Microsoft Apoligist" is Farber, who testified against Microsoft in the antitrust trial...
I'll trade you, I've got a Hitachi notebook, with a Pentium 120Mhz processor, 16MB ram, 1MBVRAM, and a display adapter with a max res of 800X600 at 8bpp. It has a 1GB HDD but it's CD-ROM works fine!
Disclaimer: Duh! this never happened, CowyboyNeil never said that, you beleived me? What a shmuck!
And yes, they have engineers. Not enough to power the world perhaps, but enough to teach others how...
I'd like to see your figures on the absence of nueclear power and lack of intrest in the industry. I was considering going to UT Knoxville, which I hear has an amazing nueclear engineering program, and while I'm not intrested in that program, if nobody wants to be a nueclear engineer anymore, UTK might just shut down its doors...
It is a generaly known fact that television networks show advertisements as a form of revenue.
It is also generaly understood that allowing bringing you your programming is a service rendered to you in return for other goods and services.
Thus a television viewer should understand an implied agreement that, as part of their payment for the services, they should subject themselves to the advertisments.
I know there are a lot of people here with the mindset that any data transmittible should be done unrestricted and available to anyone, and I agree with that ideal, but in the world as present it isn't an acheivalbe goal.
We live in a capitalist state (those of us in the USA at least) which means you have to make money to live.
We can hope that we can someday get our OS for free, our television for free, our food and medicine for free, but for this world to come about, we would have to be willing to work for nothing...