I can offer personal experience. When my boys were little, I came home almost every day to find them watching television. Daddy booted their little arses out the door, unless the weather was bad. "Let's play ball" or "Let's weed the garden", or "let's mow the lawn", or, "Help daddy wash the car". All translated to "Get your butt outside and exercise!" Just because you are a feminist, and you want to feel good about challenging a stereotype, doesn't mean that the stereotype isn't true. The primary caregiver in most households is the mother, and mother often takes the path of least resistance. If you have a problem with that, that is your problem. Maybe you should kick some well-meaning mother's asses, and make them change the stereotype. I could have used your help 15 years ago.
Demonstrate that there is a lie in my post. Go for it. Show Slashdot that there is an appreciable number of Mr. Moms. If/when we can establish that there is a significant number of single dads raising houses full of children, then we might examine if there is any difference between their child rearing habits, and the habits of mommies.
Meanwhile, are you capable of addressing what my post says? Mommies are more than happy to allow their children to sit in front of the boob tube for hours every day, to be brainwashed into eating unhealthy foods.
Awww, bite my mysogenistic arse, alright? Just how many Mr. Moms do you know? How many regular Moms do you know? Those little kids sitting in front of the television for 5 to 10 hours a day while Mama cleans, cooks, or talks on the phone are often times just waiting for Daddy to get home, so that they can go outside with him. I've seen it.
Do you care to address my previous post, or are you just trolling for the odd sexist comment that you can unload on?
Maybe it's just me, but I can't get it to sound right. Maybe we should get West Point and Annapolis to start recruiting from Sing Sing, and see how it works. Maybe in the future, maybe the military can hold courts martial, and sentence the convicted to serving as officers.
"The fact is that people do not make good choices when it comes to food."
Can't really argue that. But, look just a little further. From childhood, people are bombarded with advertisements. Most women use television as a babysitter. That boob tube is on all day, every day in most households. Little children can sing a McDonald's song before they start day care. They are indoctrinated for hours each day to believe that various high sugar foods are good for them. Children's icons such as Sponge Bob endorse "foods" that are pure garbage.
People don't make good choices, true. But a lifetime of brainwashing does contribute to making poor choices.
I would rather see the government simply tax the manufacturers of corn syrup, bleached sugar, and bleached flour to the point that those ingredients become to expensive to use for filler. I very much want to see other unhealthy ingredients banned. Alzheimer's, ADD, and other ailments have been tentatively linked to a number of food colorings and preservatives. Such studies are quickly "discredited" by the corporations that produce these unnecessary additives, but the links keep coming up.
Let's put an end to the brainwashing, and tax all the ingredients that are proven to be unhealthy along with questionable additives. That will be enough to cut America's obesity problem drastically.
America is addicted to trashy foods because the government approves of the pushers. Government permits the pushers to come into our living rooms to warp the minds of our children.
It would make an interesting sidenote in the records, at least. It would be even more interesting when someone started selling production models from the prototype. But, the shuttle isn't even a land craft, after all. It's a hybrid spacecraft/aircraft. It only sits on the ground after it has fallen out of the sky.
As with the Z900, it is quite possible that this Seven that set the record will spawn production models. I'm not holding my breath, of course, but I'm willing to wait and see where this goes.
A mere change in coloration can lead to extinction, or dominance in an ecological niche. How exactly, did you arrive at the conclusion that the most intelligent of other species usually dies? Citations, please, or you're talking out your ass.
"Pubs will always need musicians to play gigs, and that's a liveable wage if you're halfway talented."
That's the real problem. A bunch of lazy oafs who happen to be photogenic are herded into a studio, where a crew of technicians make synthesized music, and dub voices where appropriate get used to an artificial lifestyle. While the industry is making billions, they sprinkle a few millions on the lazy oafs, which convinces them that they must be talented.
How many popular "artists" today actually worked their way up from Bourbon Street, or Bakersfield, or some smoky bar in Backwoods, Nowhere? Precious few.
"Hollywood as we know it would die. The music industry as we know it would die."
Key words are "as we know it". Of course, you knew that, or you wouldn't have typed the words.;^)
Allow me to say, that I'm ready for those deaths. Seriously, screw them. When they are dead, someone will inherit the assets, figure out how to make the assets work profitably, and the world will go on as it always does. No big deal. The world has survived the deaths of emperors, kings, prophets, monopolists, and corporations, as well as entire industries. Ask the monks who copied all those fancy bibles in centuries gone by.
No matter how illegal, how immoral, how unethical a down loader's conduct might be - those people who wish to punish him need to go to court to punish him. The ISP has no authority to punish anyone, nor do the rights holders. Only the court has that authority. Attempting to delegate that authority to anyone other than the court for any reason undermines any claims of "justice". It's really that simple.
I will not change my mind for some argument of "Woe is me, I can't afford to file an injunction and a suit against everyone who "steals" my song!" To that, I say, "Tough shit, dude. Find another way to make money from your work, or find another line of work!"
Yeah, but it's still two wheels and a power plant. The streamlining is required at those speeds, no matter how may wheels, or how you sit on it. Google "The World's Fastest Indian" That bike was streamlined almost as much as this Seven, with only the rider's head sticking out. But, it was obviously an ancient Indian motorcycle when you opened up the sides. The movie is worth watching too!;^)
"Hard winter" in local areas is a totally different thing from a hard winter that affects a continent. Since 1999, there have only been a few isolated instances of roads being impassible in more than local areas. I can't remember the date - I think it was 2001, I left the Yakima valley in Washington, headed to Florida. A huge storm front came in over Washington, and another came in over California, and met each other over Colorado. Everything was a mess - but roads were maintained. I was on ice all the way from Washington until I was almost to Atlanta, but the roads were open, and usable.
You can look at the trucking industry for an indicator of how mild recent winters have been. The majority of American truck drivers will readily tell you that they WILL NOT DRIVE on ice. They are accustomed to mild winters, and they are accustomed to states having the resources to keep up with snowfall and ice accumulation. The VAST majority of truck drivers will readily tell you that if driving conditions require chains, they will not drive. Phhht. Buncha sissies, if you ask me. I remember my grandfather carrying his chains year round, because you could never be sure what you would find at higher elevations, even as far south as northern California.
Today, the fact that we rely on "Just in Time" trucking proves that we haven't experienced a harsh winter recently. When the Ozarks have a hard freeze for Thanksgiving, and don't thaw until March, then we will remember what a hard winter really is. And, a lot of that "Just in Time" nonsense will be discarded.
That has always been my attitude with sports in general. The only time I ever got excited over sports was in high school, then (much) later when my sons played sports. I've only RARELY watched an entire Super Bowl, NEVER watched an entire World Series, and nothing else even comes close. Wait - to be fair, I have a passing interest in track and field, and I've watched Olympic events pretty attentively. My career as a spectator pretty much ends there. I'd rather read a book, or argue with dummies about politics or something.
I trim my greying beard from time to time, so it may not be as long as yours. But, I remember all the Harley heads laughing at my bike. "Riceburner" they called it. The only things they had more contempt for were cagers - and it was a close call at that.
IMHO - this is a bike. A very specialized bike, true, but a bike all the same.
I never managed to get my KZ900 up to the speed record set by the Z900, but I managed to get to ~180. Not bad, IMO. Maybe there will be a production bike made someday based on this Seven. Maybe no. I mean, the reason I never got the KZ going any faster, was that I didn't have a long enough straightaway to go any faster. Where do we find a straightaway to crank our machine up to double that speed?
Whatever. It takes plenty of balls to get out on the street with the 4-wheelers, and it took the same kind of balls (if bigger) to crank this bike up to 360 MPH.
Just curious - are you old enough to remember a hard winter? I'm 53, and I only remember a couple of them.
As for the "horny young guys" - I never noticed that to be a seasonal phenomenon. Receptive, fertile females might be seasonal, but horny guys certainly are not.
That remains to be seen. Web designer people may look at this as salvation from tweaking and retweaking for IE6. Some of them may or may not put a disclaimer on their site, "If you have problems viewing this site with IE6, you should upgrade to a more modern browser, or install Google's addon" complete with links to the addon, as well as the more popular browsers.
If such an approach were taken, who knows? Let's take another look in 3 months, then again in 6 months. Stuff happens, you know?
I was thinking they should just send the skin of the dragon Gunney doesn't test the skin's effectiveness against cosmic rays or other radiation, but the skin should stop the random bit or space debris! All we need is a tailor to make us a set of dragonskin large enough for for the ISS!
No, I've been scared off of large organizations ever since I served in the Navy. Are you agreeing that a stifling work environment attracts workers who are mediocrities, or worse? We all know people who show up just to get a paycheck. The guy who comes to work all fresh faced and raring to go doesn't get sucked into an environment where ideas are automagically quashed before he can properly verbalize them.
Alright, I'll admit. Outside of the corporate world, at least 3 or 4 percent of users run as a restricted user.
Among the other 95% + we find gamers whose games won't run unless they are Admin, we find people who routinely install apps from the web and can't be bothered to "Run as" Administrator, we find OEM machines with a single default user who has Admin rights - I could go on.
No, you don't get away with pointing to Vista and Win7 - they have NOT been widely adopted by the public. Most of the computing public is still running XP, and are unlikely to upgrade soon. (Recession, remember? A lot of people who MIGHT upgrade to Win7 don't have money to spend on frivolities!)
"but your leaky row boat is still leaky, over weight, and now requires a constrant stream of fuel."
"Aye, Captain, I'll pull into the next Exxon station for more nuclear rods!"
Alright, asshat comment completed, I agree with "force users to upgrade to IE8, or to switch to FF or Chrome." I'm quite tired of hearing about some lame ass in-house trash that only works in IE6. NO ONE WANTS IT, so dump it!
Coming to a community college near you: Reading Comprehension 101
The plugin sits idle UNTIL CALLED by a call ON THE SERVER. If the call isn't made by the intranet server, the plugin doesn't do anything, meaning IEx does what it would have done anyway.
"Irrelevant when you are verboten to use anything else."
I would argue with that. User satisfaction is never irrelevant. I'm doing a job - ANY JOB - and I have dozens of employees. 25% to 50% of my employees tell me that they know a better, faster, easier, more efficient way to do the job, but I insist on doing the job MY WAY, because I'm the boss. I will lose good employees who are dissatisfied, over time. I will attract poorer employees over time - employees who aren't bright enough to see these obviously better ways of doing the job.
Insisting on using outdated methods and/or technology because "I'm the boss!" is a cancer that will eat at the organization.
Verboten? How much do you enjoy working for an organization where improvements are verboten?
Alright, so look at this addon as a tool to encourage MS and it's customers to abandon IE6. One by one, installations of IE6 are "infected" with the Google addon, MS doesn't like it very much, so they make a HUGE push to get rid of IE6.
As for IE7 & 8 - MS can always "update" them to refuse the plugin. Such a move is certainly not unheard of - hence my sig.
No one in the world with half a mind really wants IE6 anyway. Google is just helping those with less than half a mind to move forward! Win - win!
It's a HELLUVA lot easier to put a coffee bean into a mobile device than it is to stuff a damned BISON in there!! WTF, didn't you ever try to put 10 pounds of shit into a 5 pound bag? Did ever study physics at all?
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I can offer personal experience. When my boys were little, I came home almost every day to find them watching television. Daddy booted their little arses out the door, unless the weather was bad. "Let's play ball" or "Let's weed the garden", or "let's mow the lawn", or, "Help daddy wash the car". All translated to "Get your butt outside and exercise!" Just because you are a feminist, and you want to feel good about challenging a stereotype, doesn't mean that the stereotype isn't true. The primary caregiver in most households is the mother, and mother often takes the path of least resistance. If you have a problem with that, that is your problem. Maybe you should kick some well-meaning mother's asses, and make them change the stereotype. I could have used your help 15 years ago.
Demonstrate that there is a lie in my post. Go for it. Show Slashdot that there is an appreciable number of Mr. Moms. If/when we can establish that there is a significant number of single dads raising houses full of children, then we might examine if there is any difference between their child rearing habits, and the habits of mommies.
Meanwhile, are you capable of addressing what my post says? Mommies are more than happy to allow their children to sit in front of the boob tube for hours every day, to be brainwashed into eating unhealthy foods.
Awww, bite my mysogenistic arse, alright? Just how many Mr. Moms do you know? How many regular Moms do you know? Those little kids sitting in front of the television for 5 to 10 hours a day while Mama cleans, cooks, or talks on the phone are often times just waiting for Daddy to get home, so that they can go outside with him. I've seen it.
Do you care to address my previous post, or are you just trolling for the odd sexist comment that you can unload on?
criminal - - officer - - criminal - - officer - - criminal - - officer
I don't know. It just doesn't have the proper ring. Let's try again.
felon - - officer - - felon - - officer - - felon - - officer
Maybe it's just me, but I can't get it to sound right. Maybe we should get West Point and Annapolis to start recruiting from Sing Sing, and see how it works. Maybe in the future, maybe the military can hold courts martial, and sentence the convicted to serving as officers.
Alright, I'm impressed. Very much against my will, I am impressed.
I'd still rather ride around in the '59 Belair......
"The fact is that people do not make good choices when it comes to food."
Can't really argue that. But, look just a little further. From childhood, people are bombarded with advertisements. Most women use television as a babysitter. That boob tube is on all day, every day in most households. Little children can sing a McDonald's song before they start day care. They are indoctrinated for hours each day to believe that various high sugar foods are good for them. Children's icons such as Sponge Bob endorse "foods" that are pure garbage.
People don't make good choices, true. But a lifetime of brainwashing does contribute to making poor choices.
I would rather see the government simply tax the manufacturers of corn syrup, bleached sugar, and bleached flour to the point that those ingredients become to expensive to use for filler. I very much want to see other unhealthy ingredients banned. Alzheimer's, ADD, and other ailments have been tentatively linked to a number of food colorings and preservatives. Such studies are quickly "discredited" by the corporations that produce these unnecessary additives, but the links keep coming up.
Let's put an end to the brainwashing, and tax all the ingredients that are proven to be unhealthy along with questionable additives. That will be enough to cut America's obesity problem drastically.
America is addicted to trashy foods because the government approves of the pushers. Government permits the pushers to come into our living rooms to warp the minds of our children.
It would make an interesting sidenote in the records, at least. It would be even more interesting when someone started selling production models from the prototype. But, the shuttle isn't even a land craft, after all. It's a hybrid spacecraft/aircraft. It only sits on the ground after it has fallen out of the sky.
As with the Z900, it is quite possible that this Seven that set the record will spawn production models. I'm not holding my breath, of course, but I'm willing to wait and see where this goes.
As AC says, "Complete rubbish"!
A mere change in coloration can lead to extinction, or dominance in an ecological niche. How exactly, did you arrive at the conclusion that the most intelligent of other species usually dies? Citations, please, or you're talking out your ass.
"Pubs will always need musicians to play gigs, and that's a liveable wage if you're halfway talented."
That's the real problem. A bunch of lazy oafs who happen to be photogenic are herded into a studio, where a crew of technicians make synthesized music, and dub voices where appropriate get used to an artificial lifestyle. While the industry is making billions, they sprinkle a few millions on the lazy oafs, which convinces them that they must be talented.
How many popular "artists" today actually worked their way up from Bourbon Street, or Bakersfield, or some smoky bar in Backwoods, Nowhere? Precious few.
"Hollywood as we know it would die.
The music industry as we know it would die."
Key words are "as we know it". Of course, you knew that, or you wouldn't have typed the words. ;^)
Allow me to say, that I'm ready for those deaths. Seriously, screw them. When they are dead, someone will inherit the assets, figure out how to make the assets work profitably, and the world will go on as it always does. No big deal. The world has survived the deaths of emperors, kings, prophets, monopolists, and corporations, as well as entire industries. Ask the monks who copied all those fancy bibles in centuries gone by.
No matter how illegal, how immoral, how unethical a down loader's conduct might be - those people who wish to punish him need to go to court to punish him. The ISP has no authority to punish anyone, nor do the rights holders. Only the court has that authority. Attempting to delegate that authority to anyone other than the court for any reason undermines any claims of "justice". It's really that simple.
I will not change my mind for some argument of "Woe is me, I can't afford to file an injunction and a suit against everyone who "steals" my song!" To that, I say, "Tough shit, dude. Find another way to make money from your work, or find another line of work!"
Yeah, but it's still two wheels and a power plant. The streamlining is required at those speeds, no matter how may wheels, or how you sit on it. Google "The World's Fastest Indian" That bike was streamlined almost as much as this Seven, with only the rider's head sticking out. But, it was obviously an ancient Indian motorcycle when you opened up the sides. The movie is worth watching too! ;^)
"Hard winter" in local areas is a totally different thing from a hard winter that affects a continent. Since 1999, there have only been a few isolated instances of roads being impassible in more than local areas. I can't remember the date - I think it was 2001, I left the Yakima valley in Washington, headed to Florida. A huge storm front came in over Washington, and another came in over California, and met each other over Colorado. Everything was a mess - but roads were maintained. I was on ice all the way from Washington until I was almost to Atlanta, but the roads were open, and usable.
You can look at the trucking industry for an indicator of how mild recent winters have been. The majority of American truck drivers will readily tell you that they WILL NOT DRIVE on ice. They are accustomed to mild winters, and they are accustomed to states having the resources to keep up with snowfall and ice accumulation. The VAST majority of truck drivers will readily tell you that if driving conditions require chains, they will not drive. Phhht. Buncha sissies, if you ask me. I remember my grandfather carrying his chains year round, because you could never be sure what you would find at higher elevations, even as far south as northern California.
Today, the fact that we rely on "Just in Time" trucking proves that we haven't experienced a harsh winter recently. When the Ozarks have a hard freeze for Thanksgiving, and don't thaw until March, then we will remember what a hard winter really is. And, a lot of that "Just in Time" nonsense will be discarded.
"Really, car racing is boring as fuck to watch."
That has always been my attitude with sports in general. The only time I ever got excited over sports was in high school, then (much) later when my sons played sports. I've only RARELY watched an entire Super Bowl, NEVER watched an entire World Series, and nothing else even comes close. Wait - to be fair, I have a passing interest in track and field, and I've watched Olympic events pretty attentively. My career as a spectator pretty much ends there. I'd rather read a book, or argue with dummies about politics or something.
I trim my greying beard from time to time, so it may not be as long as yours. But, I remember all the Harley heads laughing at my bike. "Riceburner" they called it. The only things they had more contempt for were cagers - and it was a close call at that.
IMHO - this is a bike. A very specialized bike, true, but a bike all the same.
I never managed to get my KZ900 up to the speed record set by the Z900, but I managed to get to ~180. Not bad, IMO. Maybe there will be a production bike made someday based on this Seven. Maybe no. I mean, the reason I never got the KZ going any faster, was that I didn't have a long enough straightaway to go any faster. Where do we find a straightaway to crank our machine up to double that speed?
Whatever. It takes plenty of balls to get out on the street with the 4-wheelers, and it took the same kind of balls (if bigger) to crank this bike up to 360 MPH.
"horny young guys after a hard winter."
Just curious - are you old enough to remember a hard winter? I'm 53, and I only remember a couple of them.
As for the "horny young guys" - I never noticed that to be a seasonal phenomenon. Receptive, fertile females might be seasonal, but horny guys certainly are not.
That remains to be seen. Web designer people may look at this as salvation from tweaking and retweaking for IE6. Some of them may or may not put a disclaimer on their site, "If you have problems viewing this site with IE6, you should upgrade to a more modern browser, or install Google's addon" complete with links to the addon, as well as the more popular browsers.
If such an approach were taken, who knows? Let's take another look in 3 months, then again in 6 months. Stuff happens, you know?
I was thinking they should just send the skin of the dragon Gunney doesn't test the skin's effectiveness against cosmic rays or other radiation, but the skin should stop the random bit or space debris! All we need is a tailor to make us a set of dragonskin large enough for for the ISS!
No, I've been scared off of large organizations ever since I served in the Navy. Are you agreeing that a stifling work environment attracts workers who are mediocrities, or worse? We all know people who show up just to get a paycheck. The guy who comes to work all fresh faced and raring to go doesn't get sucked into an environment where ideas are automagically quashed before he can properly verbalize them.
Alright, I'll admit. Outside of the corporate world, at least 3 or 4 percent of users run as a restricted user.
Among the other 95% + we find gamers whose games won't run unless they are Admin, we find people who routinely install apps from the web and can't be bothered to "Run as" Administrator, we find OEM machines with a single default user who has Admin rights - I could go on.
No, you don't get away with pointing to Vista and Win7 - they have NOT been widely adopted by the public. Most of the computing public is still running XP, and are unlikely to upgrade soon. (Recession, remember? A lot of people who MIGHT upgrade to Win7 don't have money to spend on frivolities!)
"but your leaky row boat is still leaky, over weight, and now requires a constrant stream of fuel."
"Aye, Captain, I'll pull into the next Exxon station for more nuclear rods!"
Alright, asshat comment completed, I agree with "force users to upgrade to IE8, or to switch to FF or Chrome." I'm quite tired of hearing about some lame ass in-house trash that only works in IE6. NO ONE WANTS IT, so dump it!
Coming to a community college near you: Reading Comprehension 101
The plugin sits idle UNTIL CALLED by a call ON THE SERVER. If the call isn't made by the intranet server, the plugin doesn't do anything, meaning IEx does what it would have done anyway.
"Irrelevant when you are verboten to use anything else."
I would argue with that. User satisfaction is never irrelevant. I'm doing a job - ANY JOB - and I have dozens of employees. 25% to 50% of my employees tell me that they know a better, faster, easier, more efficient way to do the job, but I insist on doing the job MY WAY, because I'm the boss. I will lose good employees who are dissatisfied, over time. I will attract poorer employees over time - employees who aren't bright enough to see these obviously better ways of doing the job.
Insisting on using outdated methods and/or technology because "I'm the boss!" is a cancer that will eat at the organization.
Verboten? How much do you enjoy working for an organization where improvements are verboten?
Alright, so look at this addon as a tool to encourage MS and it's customers to abandon IE6. One by one, installations of IE6 are "infected" with the Google addon, MS doesn't like it very much, so they make a HUGE push to get rid of IE6.
As for IE7 & 8 - MS can always "update" them to refuse the plugin. Such a move is certainly not unheard of - hence my sig.
No one in the world with half a mind really wants IE6 anyway. Google is just helping those with less than half a mind to move forward! Win - win!
It's a HELLUVA lot easier to put a coffee bean into a mobile device than it is to stuff a damned BISON in there!! WTF, didn't you ever try to put 10 pounds of shit into a 5 pound bag? Did ever study physics at all?