Well, if you've ever seen the Coyote and Road Runner Cartoons, you'll know that the crew on the boat blows really hard into the sail, thereby creating a much larger velocity associated with the relative wind, increasing the "lift" of the sails and thereby propelling the craft faster than the wind. Now, if you place a large amount of ACME TNT behind the craft, the crew, out of shear terror, will blow even harder and thereby adding a few more knots to said velocity of the craft.
Maybe. Or it's Government that's feels continually threatened by Western powers and Israel, it finds it's control continually slipping among the populace, worried about their enemy to the South will become more of a threat now that it's an American ally, a leadership that's embolden by Islamic militancy to stand up to the Great Satan, and a Government that fears that unless it goes nuclear, it will never be treated with the respect, no reverence, it thinks it deserves from the International Community.
I've got a business process patent that I think Microsoft should be aware of: "A specific process and procedure for patenting pre-existing technology in order to build a patent portfolio which can be leveraged using the court system to gain substantive competitive advantage."
I already found a way around it: A specific process and procedure for patenting existing technology in order to build a patent portfolio which can be leveraged using the court system to gain substantive competitive advantage.
Ha ha! You have a patent for PRE-existing technology whereas, I have a patent for EXISTING technology. Which means your patent patents mine..Oh Shit!
Pfft! Who needs Skype when you have the FEMA Phone! Yes! With the FEMA Phone you can call anywhere in the World for FREE! And if you act now, you can get your own FEMA Trailer for Free!
Subject to criminal prosecution and penalties. Offerer is not responsible for purchaser's stupidity.
That notion struck Chief Judge Alex Kozinski as nonsensical....
The appeals court, overturning the lower court, is also allowing Ibrahim to sue Bondanella personally. She alleges that his order to detain her violated her constitutional rights, since the no-fly list is not a list of wanted terrorists, but rather a list of people suspected of being too dangerous to board a plane.
Could it be? No! It can't be!!
Why, I'm starting to have faith in the system again! I better turn off my internet connection, my TV, and cancel my Economist subscription before the feeling goes away!
3) The right to privacy is a right just like freedom of speech is a right.
You may want to turn off email notification for a while. You're about to get bombarded by the arm-chair lawyers who are going to say the there's no Right to Privacy.
And I'd like to add that ALL the posts I've seen assumes the information is accurate. I've seen many times folks who have a very common name get into trouble because of a jerk with the same name.
Or, folks who've had charges dismissed, but the clerks did not put that into the database. So now, the poor bastard gets nailed in another state for whatever. And that's just law enforcement. Then we get into the corporate arena. It's unbelievable how folks with similar names to deadbeats are harassed by debt collectors. And those sleazebags (the debt collectors) will just sell that debt to another collector who will then go after the wrong guy again! How's this pertinent? Debt collectors use government records, among other sources, for "tracking" folks.
As we all know here, when there's an error in someone's database, it's gets propagated. It's never anyone's fault or problem when that happens - except the poor bastard who's name is sullied.
Oh, to head off the "Why don't they use the SSN?" responses. You would think! But no, with all that damned information they collect on you, they still screw it up. The credit bureaus, as a matter of fact, are the first ones to say that many times debt and what not is attributed to the wrong person - even with the proper SSN, address, DOB, etc....
Let's face it. This data is entered by barely literate clerks in Government who basically can't get fired, and there's no repercussions to them or their employer when they screw up. In the meantime us, Joe citizen, gets screwed over by the system.
One day, no matter how much training you get or how well you do your job or even how productive you are, your life and career will be shaken up. With globalization and technology, things change fast and in directions that you will never anticipate. The guys that survive are the "people" people - not the die -hard techies. Looking back, I really wish I knew that and I really wish I wasn't so goddamn arrogant to think that people and networking skills weren't necessary because I mistakenly thought that technical ability mattered above all.
Chad encourages you to refrain from learning vendor-specific technologies that can disappear with the vendor
Yeah, but it pays really well when you know something that's hot i.e. the latest fad product (that's ALWAYS called a "new technology"). Just save your money and be prepared to jump to the next big thing.
"Learn How To Fail", where Chad emphasizes how to fail gracefully and the rewards that can be learned from failure.
Failure. The trouble is if you fail big, you're labeled as a failure and you're fucked for a very long time. And folks just love to kick a guy when he's down. Then you become older, wiser, and fucking bitter at the goddamn machine!
I have to go. The cafe is throwing me, my cats, and my shopping cart out.
NASA is going to use 17 super-sized shock absorbers in its not-yet-built rocket to keep the top from shaking too much for astronauts, agency officials said in a Tuesday press conference.
Part of the reasons the IOC chose China was to shine a spotlight on their censorious, opaque and human-rights-violating ways. The idea being that, if the Chinese government gets enough egg on their face, they might decide anything is better than being humiliated/embarrassed in front of the world. At most, that high wattage bulb is going to be shining for another week.
Where in the World did you hear this?
What makes you think the Chinese Government actually cares what the rest of the World thinks? They have well over a trillion dollars in cash, they are getting more and more business from the West regardless of their human rights record, they know we won't do anything about it (The Dalai Lama asked the US for help when the Chinese first invaded and we turned a blind eye because it wasn't in our interest i.e. no oil) and even if we did, corp America would immediately put a stop to it and the Chinese have enough military power to stop anything we throw at them. That's assuming we could actually put a force together to do something - someone has our military jerking around in the Middle East while real threats go unchecked.
And I'm sure if he'd thought you'd listen to more than 16 minutes, he'd have made a more complex argument.
I see: Longer arguments == more intelligent. Got you.
Penetration - that's all I want to hear.
Lessig! Who the hell does he think he is making a clear and concise argument in only 16 minutes! Geeze! He could have made a completely obfuscated, overly complex, and important sounding argument that would last an hour! Or more! But I hear you. Long arguments are for intelligent and boring people but more important! If you can say it in 16 minutes, you can say it in in 160 minutes - and it'll be more intelligent because it's longer.
Even though it's not my post, I want to thank you for being a fair a decent Slashdot community member. If it were up to me, I'd give you your mod point(s) back because you're obviously someone who's responsible, fair,decent, and thoughtful.
I mean that.
This post is not a joke and I fully expect to be down modded for being off topic or whatever. I want level4 to know that his/her actions is appreciated.
By the way, I don't appreciate your racist, antisemitic, and terroristic threats. If you keep this up, I will have to report you to the Secret Service and the FBI as well as complain to the Slashdot owners about your behavior.
These kids exhibited quite a bit of talent, creativity, and chutzpa. The fact that they're on an open street is irrelevant if they're not causing harm to anyone. That's what I meant.
I don't protest my own mods, until now, but this is something against these creative and daring kids. We don't see that anymore. We are so scared about our own and others safety that we're smothering our human inventiveness. How sad.
Listen, the term limits thing is a really bad idea for a number of reasons. Not only is it anti-Democratic, it requires a Constitutional Amendment to put in place.
So, having a career politician who gets elected time and time again - because others do not have the resources to challenges them - is democratic? I fail to see your reasoning. Then again, I'm too stupid to understand.
I'm not so sure about that. What I mean is, I watch movies on my PC (has to use IE to download and view) and the quality isn't that good. You really notice it with text. For example, I watched Logan's Run over the weekend and the beginning text on my monitor was unreadable. I'm assuming that the on demand box they have will deliver better quality.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, if you've ever seen the Coyote and Road Runner Cartoons, you'll know that the crew on the boat blows really hard into the sail, thereby creating a much larger velocity associated with the relative wind, increasing the "lift" of the sails and thereby propelling the craft faster than the wind. Now, if you place a large amount of ACME TNT behind the craft, the crew, out of shear terror, will blow even harder and thereby adding a few more knots to said velocity of the craft.
Maybe. Or it's Government that's feels continually threatened by Western powers and Israel, it finds it's control continually slipping among the populace, worried about their enemy to the South will become more of a threat now that it's an American ally, a leadership that's embolden by Islamic militancy to stand up to the Great Satan, and a Government that fears that unless it goes nuclear, it will never be treated with the respect, no reverence, it thinks it deserves from the International Community.
mass destruction, a non-democratic theocracy and oil. I can't possibly see what could go wrong.
I've got a business process patent that I think Microsoft should be aware of: "A specific process and procedure for patenting pre-existing technology in order to build a patent portfolio which can be leveraged using the court system to gain substantive competitive advantage."
I already found a way around it: A specific process and procedure for patenting existing technology in order to build a patent portfolio which can be leveraged using the court system to gain substantive competitive advantage.
Ha ha! You have a patent for PRE-existing technology whereas, I have a patent for EXISTING technology. Which means your patent patents mine ..Oh Shit!
So he doesn't have a Skype account?
Pfft! Who needs Skype when you have the FEMA Phone! Yes! With the FEMA Phone you can call anywhere in the World for FREE! And if you act now, you can get your own FEMA Trailer for Free!
Subject to criminal prosecution and penalties. Offerer is not responsible for purchaser's stupidity.
The appeals court, overturning the lower court, is also allowing Ibrahim to sue Bondanella personally. She alleges that his order to detain her violated her constitutional rights, since the no-fly list is not a list of wanted terrorists, but rather a list of people suspected of being too dangerous to board a plane.
Could it be? No! It can't be!!
Why, I'm starting to have faith in the system again! I better turn off my internet connection, my TV, and cancel my Economist subscription before the feeling goes away!
Airline pilot sues
You may want to turn off email notification for a while. You're about to get bombarded by the arm-chair lawyers who are going to say the there's no Right to Privacy.
And I'd like to add that ALL the posts I've seen assumes the information is accurate. I've seen many times folks who have a very common name get into trouble because of a jerk with the same name.
Or, folks who've had charges dismissed, but the clerks did not put that into the database. So now, the poor bastard gets nailed in another state for whatever. And that's just law enforcement. Then we get into the corporate arena. It's unbelievable how folks with similar names to deadbeats are harassed by debt collectors. And those sleazebags (the debt collectors) will just sell that debt to another collector who will then go after the wrong guy again! How's this pertinent? Debt collectors use government records, among other sources, for "tracking" folks.
As we all know here, when there's an error in someone's database, it's gets propagated. It's never anyone's fault or problem when that happens - except the poor bastard who's name is sullied.
Oh, to head off the "Why don't they use the SSN?" responses. You would think! But no, with all that damned information they collect on you, they still screw it up. The credit bureaus, as a matter of fact, are the first ones to say that many times debt and what not is attributed to the wrong person - even with the proper SSN, address, DOB, etc....
Let's face it. This data is entered by barely literate clerks in Government who basically can't get fired, and there's no repercussions to them or their employer when they screw up. In the meantime us, Joe citizen, gets screwed over by the system.
Hey, if I was coming home to this, I wouldn't be too eager to get anything shot off either!
Anyone that runs, is a VC. Anyone that stands still, is a well-disciplined VC.
VC ... Venture Capitalist? So, we're talking about a war with venture capitalists?
I like it!
One day, no matter how much training you get or how well you do your job or even how productive you are, your life and career will be shaken up. With globalization and technology, things change fast and in directions that you will never anticipate. The guys that survive are the "people" people - not the die -hard techies. Looking back, I really wish I knew that and I really wish I wasn't so goddamn arrogant to think that people and networking skills weren't necessary because I mistakenly thought that technical ability mattered above all.
Yeah, but it pays really well when you know something that's hot i.e. the latest fad product (that's ALWAYS called a "new technology"). Just save your money and be prepared to jump to the next big thing.
"Learn How To Fail", where Chad emphasizes how to fail gracefully and the rewards that can be learned from failure.
Failure. The trouble is if you fail big, you're labeled as a failure and you're fucked for a very long time. And folks just love to kick a guy when he's down. Then you become older, wiser, and fucking bitter at the goddamn machine!
I have to go. The cafe is throwing me, my cats, and my shopping cart out.
Did they get'em on sale at NAPA?
It tried to find them, I put in the model is "Ares", but what do I put in for the "Make"?
Where in the World did you hear this?
What makes you think the Chinese Government actually cares what the rest of the World thinks? They have well over a trillion dollars in cash, they are getting more and more business from the West regardless of their human rights record, they know we won't do anything about it (The Dalai Lama asked the US for help when the Chinese first invaded and we turned a blind eye because it wasn't in our interest i.e. no oil) and even if we did, corp America would immediately put a stop to it and the Chinese have enough military power to stop anything we throw at them. That's assuming we could actually put a force together to do something - someone has our military jerking around in the Middle East while real threats go unchecked.
I have Caller ID now and I just don't pickup now if I see "Out of Area" or a number of "1-999-999-999" - which I'm sure Card Services is doing.
And I'm sure if he'd thought you'd listen to more than 16 minutes, he'd have made a more complex argument.
I see: Longer arguments == more intelligent. Got you.
Penetration - that's all I want to hear.
Lessig! Who the hell does he think he is making a clear and concise argument in only 16 minutes! Geeze! He could have made a completely obfuscated, overly complex, and important sounding argument that would last an hour! Or more! But I hear you. Long arguments are for intelligent and boring people but more important! If you can say it in 16 minutes, you can say it in in 160 minutes - and it'll be more intelligent because it's longer.
I mean that.
This post is not a joke and I fully expect to be down modded for being off topic or whatever. I want level4 to know that his/her actions is appreciated.
That is all.
By the way, I don't appreciate your racist, antisemitic, and terroristic threats. If you keep this up, I will have to report you to the Secret Service and the FBI as well as complain to the Slashdot owners about your behavior.
That's all.
These kids exhibited quite a bit of talent, creativity, and chutzpa. The fact that they're on an open street is irrelevant if they're not causing harm to anyone. That's what I meant.
I don't protest my own mods, until now, but this is something against these creative and daring kids. We don't see that anymore. We are so scared about our own and others safety that we're smothering our human inventiveness. How sad.
German engineering.
So, having a career politician who gets elected time and time again - because others do not have the resources to challenges them - is democratic? I fail to see your reasoning. Then again, I'm too stupid to understand.
I'm not so sure about that. What I mean is, I watch movies on my PC (has to use IE to download and view) and the quality isn't that good. You really notice it with text. For example, I watched Logan's Run over the weekend and the beginning text on my monitor was unreadable. I'm assuming that the on demand box they have will deliver better quality.
I'll sink to any depth for a joke.