The phrase "That should be grammar Nazis." is an incomplete clause. Our readership is scandalized, and I rebuke you in the strongest possible terms, madam or sir.
Bezos wants to suck the entire market into the Amazon central economy.
But let us reason together: the distinguishing qualities of both Ballmer and Cuban are that they were both at the right place at the right time. And both are complete pricks.
Bezos is a menace. But Ballmer strikes me as clown and a lackwit.
Is he planning on making back the $2B from the Clippers? Or did he just need his own shiny like Cuban?
This caused me to login and post for the first time in a long while.
Just spoke to one of Senator Snowe's assistants in the DC office. The assistant was not familiar with HR 2471. I asked that the Senator oppose such legislation. Senator Collins' office in DC only gave me a voicemail...
Called Senator Sanders' office in DC, since Sanders seems to actually understand little things like the Constitution. Sanders' assistant seemed to think that warrantless access was already the norm.
Apparently I woke up in Russia this morning...
Will contact Leahy's office soon. A little less time with Batman movies, Senator Leahy, a little more time guarding the rights of the citizenry.
"Dear Leader" is currently gambling on losing his kidnapped Japanese girls, Playstation and VSOP. Starving, murdering, subjugating and indoctrinating millions to satisfy his own bizarre megalomaniac urges.
On one hand, the President of the United States allowed (...and was limited to allowing...) the qualified private sector engineers and managers to fix the problem that they created.
On the other hand, the President coddles the fascist rightists by keeping Guantanamo open, allowing an idiotic "no-fly" list to continue, and continues to delude himself into thinking that Karzai is the partner for conquering Afghanistan. Teabagger corporatists (do you fall into this group...hmm?) blame the President for inaction on the spill, then scream at the idea of increased regulation and oversight.
The President is flawed. BP, TransOcean, and oh...oh yes...Halliburton are at minimum not properly regulated and most likely corrupt. Kim is an insane tyrant.
You, on the gripping hand, are the beacon of logic and liberty.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
And in this corner: Soviet T-34. Supermarine Spitfire. P-51 Mustang D. The B motherfucking -17. Pervasive use of submachineguns by Soviet infantry. Ubiquity of the semiautomatic rifle for American troops: M-1 Garand. The B "Smilin' Joe Fission" -29. The American escort aircraft carrier.
I'm not trying to rain (ash) on your apocalypse debunking parade, but I seem to recall that there are soil layers throughout the midwest that are meters thick.
But I am curious. Has anyone uncovered evidence of more examples of these devices? Is there any clue as to who designed it?
Is it possible that this machine was a breakthrough, one-off prototype, and that its genius inventor went down with the ship? Was the loss of the device a significant blow to the progress of technology?
Or was this an interesting side road that just sort of petered out? I'd be interested to know. Was this a huge loss...or the classical equivalent of the eight-track tape of maritime navigational technology?
Term limits solve nothing. They just lead to total institutional inexperience and move corruption one rung to the side --- either state/federal bureaucrats or lobbyist "culture".
We elect those we deserve. The election methodology (run-offs, what-have-you...) and mandatory public financing would help.
As much as I cringe...term limits should be abolished...even for the Presidency. It is up to an informed electorate. Term limits only ensure that a new set of rubes is rotated in every 6 to 10 years. Is that long enough to complete infrastructure overhaul? Long enough for Moon/Mars planning and execution? Long enough for a creation of a health care system? Not likely. The next gang of idiots just slashes what the last gang started
"...enough to give a win to McCain (who is also a liberal)"
WTF?
An anti-abortion rights hawk (100 years in Iraq, anyone?) who stood on stage hugging and endorsing Bush 43 is a LIBERAL?
Get bent.
Oh...and tangentially: Nader is an imbecile. I don't know if he lost the 2000 election (TN would have been nice, Al...) but he's an egomaniac who thinks than anyone not in lockstep with his ideals is scum. Sort of like Bush 43.
I am curious: what kind of rig you are using to run X-Plane on Linux? Are you using Wine or Cedega? Or is there some X-Plane Linux binary I missed from their website. Thanks for any info.
"Individual soldiers make tactical decisions. Marines are especially big on this. It's Marine doctrine to equip the Marine, not man the equipment."
Bullseye. I got my print copy of Wired yesterday (guilty shrug). I skimmed the article. Batshit loony garbage.
I left the Marines 10 years ago. We were just getting digital radios, just getting the first GPS units, and just getting laptops. No intrasquad comms (unless SEALs had them, maybe...) and the laptops were basically just for tracking inventory and leave request admin crap. The GPS units were brand new to everyone...and very cool.
The rest is all crap. Extra weight. To the infantryman: weight is evil unless it is in flavors of 5.56 or 7.62. Everything else is garbage. The radios will break, NVG batteries will die, and you may get stuck without things as basic as fuel or MRE re-supply. Our indoctrinated response to such calamity? MISSION ACCOMPLISHMENT. My GPS broke! Tough shit, break out the lensatic and find the target. My radio is busted! Tough shit...you better stretch those quads, Private.
I understand the quoted Naval "operators" point of view. Its accurate. I know this from experience working with squi---er--sailors aboard ship and my brother's experience as a naval officer. The officers don't learn the tasks, they learn how to manage the enlisted ranks to accomplish tasks to complete the mission.
On the ground it is different. Marines have it pounded into them that it basically takes one Marine to overcome an enemy division. "Rifleman Dodd" was on the required reading list. It tells how a Brit sharpshooter gets isolated in Portugal during the Napoleonic Wars. The concept to be conveyed to the enlisted ranks is basically you are the Corps. One Marine. One Rifle. Accomplish The Mission. Lacking the rifle you accomplish it with a knife, an e-tool, a sharp rock, your fists, or harsh language. End of story.
If every technological gizmo had failed at the outset of the war we still would have kicked their collective asses. The difference was not just technological advantage but human will. Iraqi units would get crushed or fade into the dust because: A: our troops hit what they aim at & B: our troops have individual initiative to complete mission objectives. Its the lesson of Thermopylae writ over and over again: enslaved souls make poor soldiers.
The same point is true of the insurgency. Human will. They want us the hell out. Just like the Viet Cong (remember that one?!?!), just like the Mujahedeen, and just like every other insurgency of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Vietnamese were essentially able to muster the social will to absorb any number of casualties. American society did not have that will. We withdrew, and the conflict resolved itself. The Iraqi insurgency remains in question, since, according to some, it appears that people are growing tired of dying for religious fanatics and Baathist stooges. But the question has nothing to do with technology.
It has to do with will. And the most egregiously ill-conceived and poorly planned military occupation in American history.
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Good gracious, to what depths have we sunk?
The phrase "That should be grammar Nazis." is an incomplete clause. Our readership is scandalized, and I rebuke you in the strongest possible terms, madam or sir.
$2 billion. For the Clippers.
Bezos wants to suck the entire market into the Amazon central economy.
But let us reason together: the distinguishing qualities of both Ballmer and Cuban are that they were both at the right place at the right time. And both are complete pricks.
Bezos is a menace. But Ballmer strikes me as clown and a lackwit.
Is he planning on making back the $2B from the Clippers? Or did he just need his own shiny like Cuban?
We have always been at war with your beta.
We have always been at war with your beta.
Yeah. Hysterical. I will tell my dead grandfather the submariner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Flounder_(SS-251)
Who helped sink a U-boat.
But you probably do that all the time.
This caused me to login and post for the first time in a long while.
Just spoke to one of Senator Snowe's assistants in the DC office. The assistant was not familiar with HR 2471. I asked that the Senator oppose such legislation. Senator Collins' office in DC only gave me a voicemail...
Called Senator Sanders' office in DC, since Sanders seems to actually understand little things like the Constitution. Sanders' assistant seemed to think that warrantless access was already the norm.
Apparently I woke up in Russia this morning...
Will contact Leahy's office soon. A little less time with Batman movies, Senator Leahy, a little more time guarding the rights of the citizenry.
No. Sorry. I can't let this one go.
"Dear Leader" is currently gambling on losing his kidnapped Japanese girls, Playstation and VSOP. Starving, murdering, subjugating and indoctrinating millions to satisfy his own bizarre megalomaniac urges.
On one hand, the President of the United States allowed (...and was limited to allowing...) the qualified private sector engineers and managers to fix the problem that they created.
On the other hand, the President coddles the fascist rightists by keeping Guantanamo open, allowing an idiotic "no-fly" list to continue, and continues to delude himself into thinking that Karzai is the partner for conquering Afghanistan. Teabagger corporatists (do you fall into this group...hmm?) blame the President for inaction on the spill, then scream at the idea of increased regulation and oversight.
The President is flawed. BP, TransOcean, and oh...oh yes...Halliburton are at minimum not properly regulated and most likely corrupt. Kim is an insane tyrant.
You, on the gripping hand, are the beacon of logic and liberty.
I believe you meant to say "d'oh!".
Worst. Nitpicking. Ever.
Uuuraaah.
USMC. '93-'97.
"...to the shores of Tripoli".
One Brigand...One Bullet.
You jerk.
Another book I have to go read now...
Said the Prophet Heinlein:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Dammit...what is the conversion formula for Volkswagens to Library Of Congresses?
Or am I confusing dry weight with volumetric measurement?
Oh...drat...maybe Library Of Congresses only convert into teraGutenbergs?
"Holds it...holds it....HOLDS IT!"
EPIC FAIL.
"The Nazi's built the best, but fewer..."
In this corner:
V2.
Me-262.
Sturmgewehr-44.
And in this corner:
Soviet T-34.
Supermarine Spitfire.
P-51 Mustang D.
The B motherfucking -17.
Pervasive use of submachineguns by Soviet infantry.
Ubiquity of the semiautomatic rifle for American troops: M-1 Garand.
The B "Smilin' Joe Fission" -29.
The American escort aircraft carrier.
I'm just saying...
I'm not trying to rain (ash) on your apocalypse debunking parade, but I seem to recall that there are soil layers throughout the midwest that are meters thick.
Meters thick of ash.
From volcanoes.
In North America.
So...it might do more than make your shoes dirty.
You know...that is a funny post.
But I am curious. Has anyone uncovered evidence of more examples of these devices? Is there any clue as to who designed it?
Is it possible that this machine was a breakthrough, one-off prototype, and that its genius inventor went down with the ship? Was the loss of the device a significant blow to the progress of technology?
Or was this an interesting side road that just sort of petered out? I'd be interested to know. Was this a huge loss...or the classical equivalent of the eight-track tape of maritime navigational technology?
"strong police: that's the path to low crime"
Wait...wait a moment...I am channeling a response from the Founding Fathers....
"BWAHAHAHHAHHHAHHHAHAHAHAHA!"
Individual liberty and social prosperity are the ONLY solutions to crime.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled delusions.
It's a FESTIVUS miracle.
You insensitive clod.
Where's my aluminum pole?
This Slashdot meme was invented by Hellburner.
You may license it from me for grits brought from Soviet Russia by Natalie Portman. Or a Beowulf cluster of equivalent Overlord Quotient value.
Thank you.
Amsn...Skype...Qute...Wengophone...Ekiga...Gyachi...?
Is this the target list created by Grand Admiral Thrawn after he captures the Sluis Van shipyards?
I've got to blast off from Hulu and get to the Gentoo system! He must be stopped at all costs!
Damn that hypergravity Interdictor in the Debian sector. Damn it to hell!
Term limits solve nothing. They just lead to total institutional inexperience and move corruption one rung to the side --- either state/federal bureaucrats or lobbyist "culture".
We elect those we deserve. The election methodology (run-offs, what-have-you...) and mandatory public financing would help.
As much as I cringe...term limits should be abolished...even for the Presidency. It is up to an informed electorate. Term limits only ensure that a new set of rubes is rotated in every 6 to 10 years. Is that long enough to complete infrastructure overhaul? Long enough for Moon/Mars planning and execution? Long enough for a creation of a health care system? Not likely. The next gang of idiots just slashes what the last gang started
"...enough to give a win to McCain (who is also a liberal)"
WTF?
An anti-abortion rights hawk (100 years in Iraq, anyone?) who stood on stage hugging and endorsing Bush 43 is a LIBERAL?
Get bent.
Oh...and tangentially: Nader is an imbecile. I don't know if he lost the 2000 election (TN would have been nice, Al...) but he's an egomaniac who thinks than anyone not in lockstep with his ideals is scum. Sort of like Bush 43.
Hello,
I am curious: what kind of rig you are using to run X-Plane on Linux? Are you using Wine or Cedega? Or is there some X-Plane Linux binary I missed from their website. Thanks for any info.
"Well, it's illegal to rip DVDs..."
If the Law supposes that --- the Law is an Ass.
"Individual soldiers make tactical decisions. Marines are especially big on this. It's Marine doctrine to equip the Marine, not man the equipment."
Bullseye. I got my print copy of Wired yesterday (guilty shrug). I skimmed the article. Batshit loony garbage.
I left the Marines 10 years ago. We were just getting digital radios, just getting the first GPS units, and just getting laptops. No intrasquad comms (unless SEALs had them, maybe...) and the laptops were basically just for tracking inventory and leave request admin crap. The GPS units were brand new to everyone...and very cool.
The rest is all crap. Extra weight. To the infantryman: weight is evil unless it is in flavors of 5.56 or 7.62. Everything else is garbage. The radios will break, NVG batteries will die, and you may get stuck without things as basic as fuel or MRE re-supply. Our indoctrinated response to such calamity? MISSION ACCOMPLISHMENT. My GPS broke! Tough shit, break out the lensatic and find the target. My radio is busted! Tough shit...you better stretch those quads, Private.
I understand the quoted Naval "operators" point of view. Its accurate. I know this from experience working with squi---er--sailors aboard ship and my brother's experience as a naval officer. The officers don't learn the tasks, they learn how to manage the enlisted ranks to accomplish tasks to complete the mission.
On the ground it is different. Marines have it pounded into them that it basically takes one Marine to overcome an enemy division. "Rifleman Dodd" was on the required reading list. It tells how a Brit sharpshooter gets isolated in Portugal during the Napoleonic Wars. The concept to be conveyed to the enlisted ranks is basically you are the Corps. One Marine. One Rifle. Accomplish The Mission. Lacking the rifle you accomplish it with a knife, an e-tool, a sharp rock, your fists, or harsh language. End of story.
If every technological gizmo had failed at the outset of the war we still would have kicked their collective asses. The difference was not just technological advantage but human will. Iraqi units would get crushed or fade into the dust because: A: our troops hit what they aim at & B: our troops have individual initiative to complete mission objectives. Its the lesson of Thermopylae writ over and over again: enslaved souls make poor soldiers.
The same point is true of the insurgency. Human will. They want us the hell out. Just like the Viet Cong (remember that one?!?!), just like the Mujahedeen, and just like every other insurgency of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Vietnamese were essentially able to muster the social will to absorb any number of casualties. American society did not have that will. We withdrew, and the conflict resolved itself. The Iraqi insurgency remains in question, since, according to some, it appears that people are growing tired of dying for religious fanatics and Baathist stooges. But the question has nothing to do with technology.
It has to do with will. And the most egregiously ill-conceived and poorly planned military occupation in American history.