There are cases of government initiatives working really well though. Take, for example, the anti-currency DRM they have installed in every (?) consumer-grade printing device.
When it *really* matters to them, the government can be highly effective.
Don't just *have* the sextant. Make it a habit to take a daily noon sighting and record your distance logger. Always assume the GPS is wrong until verified by hand.
There's a real difference between the expected level of writing quality of a "for credit" English course at university, and a forum comment on an online news site.
David Brin's short story "The Giving Plague" (from the 1994 collection "Otherness") uses this idea as a central concept. The idea was that, over LONG periods of time, viruses form symbiotic relationships with humans. In some cases, even integrating themselves directly into our DNA.
I love it when science fiction writers guess correctly about the future. (Though I hope that's the ONLY part of that story he got right... the rest was double plus ungood)
Speaking as a Canadian...I think we should tell those paranoid xenophobes to go fuck themselves.
Jean Chrétien had a lot of flaws, but at least he had the balls to tell the Americans to stop pushing us around.
If they are concerned about passenger security then they can damn well set up more of those "you're guilty until proven innocent" security-theatre checkpoints on their own soil and search people getting off the plane. Hell, they can even build special security airports at the borders to inspect people's shoes and water bottles.
(Sad to think that would probably be a better use of their funding than most of the stupid crap they've wasted their money on in the last 9 years)
Go ahead and mod me down American nationalist zealots... I have karma to burn and I'm tired of putting up with America's bullshit.
I see a lot of people on the slickdeals.net and other "hot deals" forums using bing to take advantage of it's cashback ads.
(That is, you buy a product through a bing search, and you get a certain amount of money returned to you)
Here's the part where I wish/. had a brief "whoops, I didn't mean that" button.
I misclicked "submit" instead of "continue editing":-(
(The "you must wait before publishing another comment" thing also sucks in this case)
How do you handle the case where you've shared your music folder, then you download a song for personal use? Do you keep multiple music folders? Some can be shared and others cannot?
That seems kind of onerous.
Why don't we ever hear any GOOD news out of Australia? Is it just the media companies (and here I include/. ) only talking about the shitty stuff they're doing... or is it really that shitty there now?
Do you have any idea what that would do to the March Pi Day?
pi is stupid anyway. It should be 6.283185 (the current value of 2pi) instead of 3.141593
That would make it June 28th in the US and 6th Feb everywhere else. Which is still screwed up... but at least we wouldn't have to mess around with 2pi in all our equations...
We're making pretty good money and want to pull together a large enough nest egg to allow us to move home, buy a house, and start a business. After that, we'll likely only ever return here to take the kids to Disneyworld
Oh yeah...that kind of sentiment will endear you tremendously to the local populace.
Sadly, this is plan B. Plan A was to immigrate, integrate, and raise our family here.
My wife and I came to this country because it is the land of opportunity. The place where the very best in the world go to build the best business. We're thinking of leaving because that don't seem to actually be true... at least, not anymore. Instead you:
treat us like criminals whenever we want to cross the border or enter a government building
limit H1 terms to force us to leave
have a surprisingly poor primary and elementary education system (on a side note... your President wants kids to stay in school longer?!? You already have them in school for more hours than other countries whose kids score better on tests... it's not the quantity you need to improve, it's the quality)
allow your religious nutjobs a frightening amount of political power. This is less evident under Obama than it was under Bush II but still scares the hell out of me
disappear people to Guantanamo under Bush II and Bagram under Obama
I wanted to make this permanent, get my green card and eventually citizenship. But it seeme to me that you guys are trending hard towards compleat paranoid xenophobia. We have kids now and I'm thinking more and more about what living here is going to do to them. I don't want my kids to grow up in what, to me, seems like a poisonous atmosphere of stranger hate, militant and religious zealotry, misplaced sense of entitlement, and a "we're the greatest because we're the greatest" view of the world.
At this point, it's just a matter of time for us. We're making pretty good money and want to pull together a large enough nest egg to allow us to move home, buy a house, and start a business. After that, we'll likely only ever return here to take the kids to Disneyworld
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There are cases of government initiatives working really well though. Take, for example, the anti-currency DRM they have installed in every (?) consumer-grade printing device.
When it *really* matters to them, the government can be highly effective.
Don't just *have* the sextant. Make it a habit to take a daily noon sighting and record your distance logger.
Always assume the GPS is wrong until verified by hand.
I'm interested to see if this counts as a true error and thus deserving a check.
I want a Portal device
There's a real difference between the expected level of writing quality of a "for credit" English course at university, and a forum comment on an online news site.
Sheesh.
You got a response from Google about a technical problem with one of their products?
How the hell did you accomplish that?
David Brin's short story "The Giving Plague" (from the 1994 collection "Otherness") uses this idea as a central concept.
The idea was that, over LONG periods of time, viruses form symbiotic relationships with humans. In some cases, even integrating themselves directly into our DNA.
I love it when science fiction writers guess correctly about the future. (Though I hope that's the ONLY part of that story he got right... the rest was double plus ungood)
Speaking as a Canadian...I think we should tell those paranoid xenophobes to go fuck themselves.
Jean Chrétien had a lot of flaws, but at least he had the balls to tell the Americans to stop pushing us around.
If they are concerned about passenger security then they can damn well set up more of those "you're guilty until proven innocent" security-theatre checkpoints on their own soil and search people getting off the plane. Hell, they can even build special security airports at the borders to inspect people's shoes and water bottles.
(Sad to think that would probably be a better use of their funding than most of the stupid crap they've wasted their money on in the last 9 years)
Go ahead and mod me down American nationalist zealots ... I have karma to burn and I'm tired of putting up with America's bullshit.
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Trust /. to nitpit the neologism and skip discussing the merit of the rest of the sentence. :-)
That would make a great name for a "They Might Be Giants" tribute band.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu
Because it would be political suicide to let those particular ones go?
I see a lot of people on the slickdeals.net and other "hot deals" forums using bing to take advantage of it's cashback ads.
(That is, you buy a product through a bing search, and you get a certain amount of money returned to you)
That's fair. Firefox's search defaults to Google. *shrug*
Yes, you can change it... but seriously... who does?
You assume that the legislature is willing and capable of passing simple laws. I think the evidence is against you there.
Here's the part where I wish /. had a brief "whoops, I didn't mean that" button.
I misclicked "submit" instead of "continue editing" :-(
(The "you must wait before publishing another comment" thing also sucks in this case)
How do you handle the case where you've shared your music folder, then you download a song for personal use? Do you keep multiple music folders? Some can be shared and others cannot? That seems kind of onerous.
Iirc, it's legal to download music in Canada. It's illegal to provide downloads
Why the hate for Chrome?
When Linus does it... can his followers be far behind? http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html I'm looking at doing the same thing for my next machine.
Why don't we ever hear any GOOD news out of Australia? Is it just the media companies (and here I include /. ) only talking about the shitty stuff they're doing ... or is it really that shitty there now?
Australia used to be cool.
Do you have any idea what that would do to the March Pi Day?
pi is stupid anyway. It should be 6.283185 (the current value of 2pi) instead of 3.141593
That would make it June 28th in the US and 6th Feb everywhere else. Which is still screwed up... but at least we wouldn't have to mess around with 2pi in all our equations...
Sadly, this is plan B. Plan A was to immigrate, integrate, and raise our family here.
My wife and I came to this country because it is the land of opportunity. The place where the very best in the world go to build the best business. We're thinking of leaving because that don't seem to actually be true... at least, not anymore. Instead you:
I wanted to make this permanent, get my green card and eventually citizenship. But it seeme to me that you guys are trending hard towards compleat paranoid xenophobia. We have kids now and I'm thinking more and more about what living here is going to do to them. I don't want my kids to grow up in what, to me, seems like a poisonous atmosphere of stranger hate, militant and religious zealotry, misplaced sense of entitlement, and a "we're the greatest because we're the greatest" view of the world.
At this point, it's just a matter of time for us. We're making pretty good money and want to pull together a large enough nest egg to allow us to move home, buy a house, and start a business. After that, we'll likely only ever return here to take the kids to Disneyworld
Is there such a thing as a "good" pun?