Incidentally, I have a sort of instinctual protection against this kind of thing to make sure I get the downtime I need. After enough computer use my brain says ENOUGH! and I just stop for a few minutes. Maybe it's a sort of attention deficit disorder, but I say it's my brain knowing when enough input is enough input.
"Good news, everyone! I have created a device that smashes atoms together and will provide enough energy for New New York indefinitely! Yes, indefinitely..."
As opposed to North Korea, where you can spend as much time on MMOs as you'd like. Except the only MMO is standing guard at the DMZ, awaiting an attack by the South Koreans or the Americans. And it's not a game.
I find that the effectiveness of a software license is directly proportional to the amount of money the coder has to spend on legal fees. Maybe I don't have enough experience here, but free-software coders don't strike me as particularly wealthy.
(This statement is not an endorsement of software license violation, which is considered copyright infringement and not just contract violation.)
This leveling-up problem is not unique to Wikipedia. It's endemic throughout the entire world. People "level up" all the time for a promotion or raise, and people "level up" for political advancement. Sometimes one's idea of "leveling up" is assassinating the current guy with the level above him and then assuming his position.
Does it absorb *carbon* or *carbon dioxide*? It really grinds my gears when the two are used interchangeably. Let's begin.
Carbon is an element. Because of its sp3 hybridized orbitals, it can basically bond with whatever the fuck it wants. For that reason, it will either bond with itself, forming allotropes such as coal, graphite, or diamonds; alternatively, it can bond with other elements, forming molecules. (There are also cases where carbon forms carbanions and carbocations).
Once of these molecules that can form is carbon dioxide, CO2. In addition to having carbon, it also has two oxygen atoms. Yet here is the big difference: because there is a lack of polarity between the carbon atom and the oxygen atoms, there are very few van der Waals forces attracting carbon dioxide together, making it a colorless gas. Compare this to carbon, which is usually a black solid or a colorless crystalline solid.
In conclusion: CARBON is not CARBON DIOXIDE. And do NOT conflate the two EVER AGAIN!
Wikipedia did not ban Scientology, it did not ban Scientologists, you do not get banned for being a Scientologist.
An IP address which belonged to the CoS was banned, not because of its affiliation, but because it has a history of taking a dump on Wikipedia articles, which Wikipedia's administrators don't take kindly to.
Slashdot Mirror
The Boob Panel. Also a good name for a pornographic website.
Incidentally, I have a sort of instinctual protection against this kind of thing to make sure I get the downtime I need. After enough computer use my brain says ENOUGH! and I just stop for a few minutes. Maybe it's a sort of attention deficit disorder, but I say it's my brain knowing when enough input is enough input.
Why limit sex strictly to intercourse? Surely there are Slashdotters out there who masturbate frequently.
"In effect, the government has forced one party to give a permanent easement to another party, destroying the first's "right to exclude.""
They surrendered their right to exclude when they agreed to join a network not controlled by any one ISP called the Internet.
I read this headline and for a moment I thought they were slamming the school I go to, which is *called* American University.
Sometimes the greatest incentive to change your ways is to have your foibles on public display.
So 3D pornography naturally follows 3D anything else -- after the strain of 3D glasses, you need some kind of relief.
Dan Brown just came.
Have you ever tried masturbating with eye strain and a headache? Neither have I, but I can't imagine it being very comfortable.
I'm not sure what this has to do with my rights online. This pertains to an internal governmental review of *its own* websites, not other people's.
"Good news, everyone! I have created a device that smashes atoms together and will provide enough energy for New New York indefinitely! Yes, indefinitely..."
As opposed to North Korea, where you can spend as much time on MMOs as you'd like. Except the only MMO is standing guard at the DMZ, awaiting an attack by the South Koreans or the Americans. And it's not a game.
Don't question the ingenuity of the Internet.
I'm referring to the people who are using the licenses, yes.
I find that the effectiveness of a software license is directly proportional to the amount of money the coder has to spend on legal fees. Maybe I don't have enough experience here, but free-software coders don't strike me as particularly wealthy.
(This statement is not an endorsement of software license violation, which is considered copyright infringement and not just contract violation.)
Freenode in general is annoying. They take running an IRC network way too seriously.
The minute you figure out how to build an online society without strife is the day an elephant pops out of the sky to hand you a trillion dollars.
This leveling-up problem is not unique to Wikipedia. It's endemic throughout the entire world. People "level up" all the time for a promotion or raise, and people "level up" for political advancement. Sometimes one's idea of "leveling up" is assassinating the current guy with the level above him and then assuming his position.
Does it absorb *carbon* or *carbon dioxide*? It really grinds my gears when the two are used interchangeably. Let's begin.
Carbon is an element. Because of its sp3 hybridized orbitals, it can basically bond with whatever the fuck it wants. For that reason, it will either bond with itself, forming allotropes such as coal, graphite, or diamonds; alternatively, it can bond with other elements, forming molecules. (There are also cases where carbon forms carbanions and carbocations).
Once of these molecules that can form is carbon dioxide, CO2. In addition to having carbon, it also has two oxygen atoms. Yet here is the big difference: because there is a lack of polarity between the carbon atom and the oxygen atoms, there are very few van der Waals forces attracting carbon dioxide together, making it a colorless gas. Compare this to carbon, which is usually a black solid or a colorless crystalline solid.
In conclusion: CARBON is not CARBON DIOXIDE. And do NOT conflate the two EVER AGAIN!
After reading this article, I decided to go pet my cat. She's so adorable with her purring. I feel like feeding her now.
Wikipedia did not ban Scientology, it did not ban Scientologists, you do not get banned for being a Scientologist.
An IP address which belonged to the CoS was banned, not because of its affiliation, but because it has a history of taking a dump on Wikipedia articles, which Wikipedia's administrators don't take kindly to.
"Flag" in this case being a euphemism for "penis" somehow?
The FSF actually got the GFDL changed so that Wikipedia would be able to ditch it.
The only things which I have had the privilege to name lately are, unfortunately, only routers.
When I got an AirPort Extreme, I named it "Stanley".
When that broke down, and the router that came with FiOS was handling most of the work again, I named it "Morgan"
Then I realized: the FiOS router came first, so really I ended up naming the two routers "Morgan Stanley".
I know I have named things "Thing 1" and "Thing 2".