It's not supposed to be funny. Democrats and Republicans alike are scared shitless of Palin because they know she'll kick their ass and expose them for what they really are if she gets into office. So tell me what you prefer: A president who looks and sounds great but has all kinds of nasty stuff in his history and promises to raise taxes to the sky, or a president who can't lift his arms above his shoulders but promises to keep taxes low and brings with him a candidate with a history of exposing dirty truths, even when the perpetrator is from her own party... Think about it: Those making the biggest noise AGAINST Palin are those who have the biggest dirty secrets to hide. What could be so bad? Because of her smart decisions, residents of Alaska are getting $1,200 checks in the mail! But you think it's a joke.
Kind of like something out of 1984. Wikipedia is supposed to be this massive work that people can only ADD to, meaning that if you edit something, the prior versions are still there for viewing. Well, this is only true until something is deleted. And that's simply not right. A central authority erasing text that doesn't meet their agenda is just what the Ministry of Information does in 1984.
What I love most about "high-speed" ISPs is that they promise you "up to" X megabits per second. So if you're getting one bit per millennium, they are providing services as advertised.
How about a better idea. They should put into place a system whereby the speed of your access is inversely proportional to the amount of data you transfer. Thus, when people first sign on to this service, they'll be impressed by its speed. But as time goes on, it'll slow down increasingly, until Google's homepage takes a year to load.
What your candidate says sounds great. But if you had any idea about his history, you wouldn't be so enthusiastic about him. You want transparent government? Palin has a history of kicking the asses of unethical politicians, including politicians in her own party.
Unfortunately, it seems that everyone is a hypocrite nowadays. Some kid breaks into Palin's email and it's treated like no big deal. From TFA, he's just a curious kid, he'll probably get away with it, worst case, zero to six months in jail. But God forbid if he had broken into, oh I don't know, Obama's email, the whole world would demand for that kid to fry in the electric chair. We're not talking about the subtle legal nuance of whether an email that was unread or read is considered a stored communication under some obscure law or another. We're talking about a person's personal information being stolen without their consent and widely distributed on the Internet. I don't give a damn if it's Palin's email, Obama's email, or your grandma's email. It's wrong.
There was a movie where this dude from the 1700's traveled through time and came to present-day New York. While walking a dog that took a dump, a police officer asked him to clean it up. He said, "Do you mean to tell me there is a law compelling gentlemen to remove canine feces?" And for the life of me, I can't remember the name of that movie.
Well the ad wasn't exactly imaginative. If it was supposed to compete with Apple's Mac vs. PC ads, which many people apparently find comical and true, it didn't do a very good job. They really need to come up with something better than that.
Well, that's what happens when a totalitarian regime gets into control. They make sure you only use the brands THEY want you to use. Want this phone? Only with that service. Want a shoe with this feature? Only with the brand shoe we tell you. And if you do anything different... lawsuit! I find it amusing that many of/.'s readers recognize this sort of thing (and hate it) when it's done by this company or that, but simultaneously want to vote into government offices people who will implement this sort of thing on a national scale. And I find it even more amusing that they don't recognize that their political opinions are actually exactly the opposite of what they want.
That's OK, because when all their computers start coming with touch interfaces (imagine that not only will you have the keyboard and mouse, but you'll be able to reach out and move/resize things right on the screen) then they're gonna be bad-ass again.
Well in that case, I have an idea. The next version of Windows should be called Excalibur, and it should be a complete bottom-up reimplementation. It will be based on a Mach microkernel surrounded by a fork of FreeBSD, all of which they can codename Natural Selection and release as an open source core of their operating system. Then, they'll simply port the GUI, Win32,.NET, DirectX, and their other programming systems over to this new OS, which should be relatively quick given that the underlying implementation is based on widely accepted standard methodologies. Binary compatibility layers for DOS and other backwards-compatibility stuff they want to support will be added as loadable modules. Most features they need to implement in the system can be implemented by existing F/OSS software, such as Apache, Samba, etc. This will be followed by a recompile of all their applications, and voila! Brand new OS. Brand new implementation. And they can tell everyone how great it is that Windows is based on Open Source and has a rock-solid UNIX core. (Something about all of this seems very familiar.)
You should not eat black olives on the third Tuesday after the summer solstice, or if it has been raining for four consecutive days with lightning appearing on the second or the fourth days but not on the first and third.
What I don't fscking like is that they don't charge for SENDING text messages, they charge for RECEIVING them. If you don't want to pay for individual text messages received, you have to pay $5 each month for unlimited texts. So you either pay them 50 or 60 cents a month for some spam texts that you never wanted, or you pay them $5. It's theft. Imagine if the postal service charged you to receive mail. Think of all the junk mail out there that people would send you for free. Fsck that. They should charge for sending texts. Receiving should be free.
Hell and damnation and the LHC!
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In about two weeks, they'll find out about the microscopic rift that opened in spacetime. A wormhole. To hell! The rift will grow slowly, until in about a month, it'll be large enough to drive a Mack truck through. There will be a coverup, but the world will find out very soon when demons and monsters start spewing out of it and attacking people, who will themselves change into similar demons and monsters. Within several months, the entire population of the Earth will be changed into monsters from hell! By then, the entire planet will be sucked directly into the blazes of hell and damnation itself. Meh. The post I wrote yesterday was much funnier.
No translation. You have to use the original, which was in ancient Hebrew. This original has been passed down from generation to generation by specially "licensed" copiers who must adhere to over two thousand strict rules to ensure an exact copy. If a single pen stroke is off, the whole thing is deemed invalid, in much the same way that if you jack up a single bit in an executable image (during a bad copy or by using a hex editor) you'll end up with a program that probably crashes. The extra significance I talk about is this: Every letter in this work has three different dimensions of significance: Its sound, its shape (as written), and its numerical value. Now these letters are combined into words, which each have multiple literary definitions, and which inherit the sounds, shapes, and the sum of the numerical values of the letters. Each word has multiple definitions, and all of the definitions are simultaneously correct. Therefore, the same sentence can be read numerous different ways and significantly more literary data can be extracted from the same amount of text. Think of it as a sort of data compression scheme. Also, if you rearrange the letters of each word in all possible ways, each permutation is a different word which is related to the original. Numerically, their value is equal. Literarily, each word is a metaphor for the others. Therefore, different words written with different permutations of the same letters are related. Words written with completely different letters whose numerical value is equal are similarly related. Thus, by studying these connections, the meaning of each word (and thus the sentences that contain it) can be more closely understood, unlocking even more data from the same quantity of text. Think of it as a data compression scheme that works across multiple dimensions to achieve a very high compression ratio -- sort of like the way video compression takes surrounding pixels into consideration and also compresses temporally, across frames. There are actually algorithms for dealing with the many ways to parse this text, and numerous computer programs around that implement these algorithms. Thus, one can number-crunch through this text to provide the alternate "unwritten" meanings. It has been demonstrated that the same algorithms do not produce coherent results when fed data from other literary works. Any translation of this text loses all of this additional meaning beyond the simplest literal reading.
The Bible in its entirety is not the unblemished work of God. The so-called Five Books of Moses were dictated by God and written down by man. The rest of the Bible is made up of many works of man. So my proof is the first five books. And what if I could tell you that it can be shown mathematically that these first five books have certain numerical characteristics not found in any work of man? It has been demonstrated mathematically.
If this experiment is successful, it will finally prove, once and for all, that life was not created by intelligent design. How will it prove that? Well, if an intelligent being (the aforementioned biologist) succeeds in creating a life form, then it follows, logically, that the life form he creates is not the result of the work of an intelligent being. It's simple logic, and any idiot can see that.
Incidentally, all the generations that came before ours thought that life came from some intelligent being, but they were all stupid because they didn't live in the enlightened world that we live in today. There were no cars, computers, airplanes, and other technologies. They didn't have the Internet or Wikipedia. Thus, they were stupid. Today, we're much smarter than that and we know better than to believe in such nonsense.
Mark my word. The minute they turn that thing on, all hell is gonna break loose. For one thing, the LHC will produce something very similar to a microscopic black hole, except that it will actually be a wormhole. A wormhole... to hell! And then this wormhole will gradually grow. Given that it's a tear in the fabric of space/time, it will be impossible to do anything about it. How the hell do you sew space/time back together?! Within weeks, it will be large enough that demons and monsters of all shapes and sizes are gonna start spewing out, and everyone they bite will turn into a similar demon/monster. Within six months, the world will be like in I Am Legend, with one dude in New York being the only person left alive. The wormhole will slowly continue to grow, and within several years, even that dude will be killed as the entire planet is sucked in and finds itself directly within the blazes of hell and damnation itself. That is what the LHC will cause. Not some pipsqueak black hole that will probably evaporate within a few milliseconds.
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It's not supposed to be funny. Democrats and Republicans alike are scared shitless of Palin because they know she'll kick their ass and expose them for what they really are if she gets into office. So tell me what you prefer: A president who looks and sounds great but has all kinds of nasty stuff in his history and promises to raise taxes to the sky, or a president who can't lift his arms above his shoulders but promises to keep taxes low and brings with him a candidate with a history of exposing dirty truths, even when the perpetrator is from her own party... Think about it: Those making the biggest noise AGAINST Palin are those who have the biggest dirty secrets to hide. What could be so bad? Because of her smart decisions, residents of Alaska are getting $1,200 checks in the mail! But you think it's a joke.
Kind of like something out of 1984. Wikipedia is supposed to be this massive work that people can only ADD to, meaning that if you edit something, the prior versions are still there for viewing. Well, this is only true until something is deleted. And that's simply not right. A central authority erasing text that doesn't meet their agenda is just what the Ministry of Information does in 1984.
Yeah. There is a lesson to be learned here: Yet another reason (along with infinite others) not to use that OS.
What I love most about "high-speed" ISPs is that they promise you "up to" X megabits per second. So if you're getting one bit per millennium, they are providing services as advertised.
Correction: She did NOT support the bridge to nowhere.
How about a better idea. They should put into place a system whereby the speed of your access is inversely proportional to the amount of data you transfer. Thus, when people first sign on to this service, they'll be impressed by its speed. But as time goes on, it'll slow down increasingly, until Google's homepage takes a year to load.
What your candidate says sounds great. But if you had any idea about his history, you wouldn't be so enthusiastic about him. You want transparent government? Palin has a history of kicking the asses of unethical politicians, including politicians in her own party.
Unfortunately, it seems that everyone is a hypocrite nowadays. Some kid breaks into Palin's email and it's treated like no big deal. From TFA, he's just a curious kid, he'll probably get away with it, worst case, zero to six months in jail. But God forbid if he had broken into, oh I don't know, Obama's email, the whole world would demand for that kid to fry in the electric chair. We're not talking about the subtle legal nuance of whether an email that was unread or read is considered a stored communication under some obscure law or another. We're talking about a person's personal information being stolen without their consent and widely distributed on the Internet. I don't give a damn if it's Palin's email, Obama's email, or your grandma's email. It's wrong.
That's ok. I think it would be more amusing if people would beat each other up with 2x4s instead.
There was a movie where this dude from the 1700's traveled through time and came to present-day New York. While walking a dog that took a dump, a police officer asked him to clean it up. He said, "Do you mean to tell me there is a law compelling gentlemen to remove canine feces?" And for the life of me, I can't remember the name of that movie.
Well the ad wasn't exactly imaginative. If it was supposed to compete with Apple's Mac vs. PC ads, which many people apparently find comical and true, it didn't do a very good job. They really need to come up with something better than that.
Well, that's what happens when a totalitarian regime gets into control. They make sure you only use the brands THEY want you to use. Want this phone? Only with that service. Want a shoe with this feature? Only with the brand shoe we tell you. And if you do anything different... lawsuit! I find it amusing that many of /.'s readers recognize this sort of thing (and hate it) when it's done by this company or that, but simultaneously want to vote into government offices people who will implement this sort of thing on a national scale. And I find it even more amusing that they don't recognize that their political opinions are actually exactly the opposite of what they want.
That's OK, because when all their computers start coming with touch interfaces (imagine that not only will you have the keyboard and mouse, but you'll be able to reach out and move/resize things right on the screen) then they're gonna be bad-ass again.
Well in that case, I have an idea. The next version of Windows should be called Excalibur, and it should be a complete bottom-up reimplementation. It will be based on a Mach microkernel surrounded by a fork of FreeBSD, all of which they can codename Natural Selection and release as an open source core of their operating system. Then, they'll simply port the GUI, Win32, .NET, DirectX, and their other programming systems over to this new OS, which should be relatively quick given that the underlying implementation is based on widely accepted standard methodologies. Binary compatibility layers for DOS and other backwards-compatibility stuff they want to support will be added as loadable modules. Most features they need to implement in the system can be implemented by existing F/OSS software, such as Apache, Samba, etc. This will be followed by a recompile of all their applications, and voila! Brand new OS. Brand new implementation. And they can tell everyone how great it is that Windows is based on Open Source and has a rock-solid UNIX core. (Something about all of this seems very familiar.)
You should not eat black olives on the third Tuesday after the summer solstice, or if it has been raining for four consecutive days with lightning appearing on the second or the fourth days but not on the first and third.
What I don't fscking like is that they don't charge for SENDING text messages, they charge for RECEIVING them. If you don't want to pay for individual text messages received, you have to pay $5 each month for unlimited texts. So you either pay them 50 or 60 cents a month for some spam texts that you never wanted, or you pay them $5. It's theft. Imagine if the postal service charged you to receive mail. Think of all the junk mail out there that people would send you for free. Fsck that. They should charge for sending texts. Receiving should be free.
In about two weeks, they'll find out about the microscopic rift that opened in spacetime. A wormhole. To hell! The rift will grow slowly, until in about a month, it'll be large enough to drive a Mack truck through. There will be a coverup, but the world will find out very soon when demons and monsters start spewing out of it and attacking people, who will themselves change into similar demons and monsters. Within several months, the entire population of the Earth will be changed into monsters from hell! By then, the entire planet will be sucked directly into the blazes of hell and damnation itself. Meh. The post I wrote yesterday was much funnier.
No translation. You have to use the original, which was in ancient Hebrew. This original has been passed down from generation to generation by specially "licensed" copiers who must adhere to over two thousand strict rules to ensure an exact copy. If a single pen stroke is off, the whole thing is deemed invalid, in much the same way that if you jack up a single bit in an executable image (during a bad copy or by using a hex editor) you'll end up with a program that probably crashes. The extra significance I talk about is this: Every letter in this work has three different dimensions of significance: Its sound, its shape (as written), and its numerical value. Now these letters are combined into words, which each have multiple literary definitions, and which inherit the sounds, shapes, and the sum of the numerical values of the letters. Each word has multiple definitions, and all of the definitions are simultaneously correct. Therefore, the same sentence can be read numerous different ways and significantly more literary data can be extracted from the same amount of text. Think of it as a sort of data compression scheme. Also, if you rearrange the letters of each word in all possible ways, each permutation is a different word which is related to the original. Numerically, their value is equal. Literarily, each word is a metaphor for the others. Therefore, different words written with different permutations of the same letters are related. Words written with completely different letters whose numerical value is equal are similarly related. Thus, by studying these connections, the meaning of each word (and thus the sentences that contain it) can be more closely understood, unlocking even more data from the same quantity of text. Think of it as a data compression scheme that works across multiple dimensions to achieve a very high compression ratio -- sort of like the way video compression takes surrounding pixels into consideration and also compresses temporally, across frames. There are actually algorithms for dealing with the many ways to parse this text, and numerous computer programs around that implement these algorithms. Thus, one can number-crunch through this text to provide the alternate "unwritten" meanings. It has been demonstrated that the same algorithms do not produce coherent results when fed data from other literary works. Any translation of this text loses all of this additional meaning beyond the simplest literal reading.
The Bible in its entirety is not the unblemished work of God. The so-called Five Books of Moses were dictated by God and written down by man. The rest of the Bible is made up of many works of man. So my proof is the first five books. And what if I could tell you that it can be shown mathematically that these first five books have certain numerical characteristics not found in any work of man? It has been demonstrated mathematically.
I doubt Palin will end the world. She'll probably improve things a great deal. Especially when she puts Air Force One on eBay.
Because it has a cooler name than the boring sounding WebKit. Besides, it'll save you 15% on car insurance.
a big man from the sky didn't do it in seven days 6000 years ago
Are you sure about that? I have proof it did happen that way -- in writing. It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal.
If this experiment is successful, it will finally prove, once and for all, that life was not created by intelligent design. How will it prove that? Well, if an intelligent being (the aforementioned biologist) succeeds in creating a life form, then it follows, logically, that the life form he creates is not the result of the work of an intelligent being. It's simple logic, and any idiot can see that.
Incidentally, all the generations that came before ours thought that life came from some intelligent being, but they were all stupid because they didn't live in the enlightened world that we live in today. There were no cars, computers, airplanes, and other technologies. They didn't have the Internet or Wikipedia. Thus, they were stupid. Today, we're much smarter than that and we know better than to believe in such nonsense.
Mark my word. The minute they turn that thing on, all hell is gonna break loose. For one thing, the LHC will produce something very similar to a microscopic black hole, except that it will actually be a wormhole. A wormhole... to hell! And then this wormhole will gradually grow. Given that it's a tear in the fabric of space/time, it will be impossible to do anything about it. How the hell do you sew space/time back together?! Within weeks, it will be large enough that demons and monsters of all shapes and sizes are gonna start spewing out, and everyone they bite will turn into a similar demon/monster. Within six months, the world will be like in I Am Legend, with one dude in New York being the only person left alive. The wormhole will slowly continue to grow, and within several years, even that dude will be killed as the entire planet is sucked in and finds itself directly within the blazes of hell and damnation itself. That is what the LHC will cause. Not some pipsqueak black hole that will probably evaporate within a few milliseconds.
A Disney lawyer? Why didn't they hire Mickey Mouse?