No. The level of pigment in the skin is irrelevant to the color of muscle tissue. What you should have said to not appear like some knee-jerk political correctness harpy was something along the lines of people being red meat. Then you'd just seem like some freak cannibal...;)
Is a stylized window frame logo any better? How about an apple with a chunk missing? Quit trying to make an objection to a devil sound like it is rational. Even if you aren't actually offended and disturbed, you ought to be ashamed for catering to the morons and idiots who are.
I have heard rumors that you, in fact, prefer the taste of babies to chicken. Can you please confirm whether or not you eat babies,and if yes, your individual preference in terms of taste compared to the other white meats? (chicken = white meat, pork = the other white meat, babies = the other other white meat)
plz/thnx
Oh, a real question while I'm at it:
Of the Linux distributions you've extensively tested, assuming that you have so that your arguments are based on information rather than conjecture, which do you feel is the most desktop-ready?
Slashdot's EvilAlien asks: Why Does Mark Morford's Significant Other Suck? Afterall, the amount of malware circulating which targets any number of OSes is well known, particularly the fact that the vast majority attack the very dominant Windows platform. It is irresponsible and possible even stupid to connect any computer directly to the Internet without benefit of a firewall or without having been patched. The availability of patches, SP2 on CD for free, personal firewalls, antivirus and antispyware applications, and other security measures should lead everyone to toss accusations of negligence at users like Mark Morford's Significant Other.
Yes, it is how it can work. Notice-and-takedown (which is what the DMCA requires) is very different from notice-and-notice. Futhermore, what is required by law does not determine how the law is interpreted and implemented in terms of policy and practice by ISPs subject to it. All it takes is for an ISP to decide that there is more risk of liability by not suspending and/or terminating service, and the account goes off.
A notice-and-takedown demand from a rightsholder is a different matter from a demand under the DMCA to ignore privacy rights and disclose customer information. The DMCA not only required notice-and-takedown, but also was interpreted as requiring non-court ordered disclosure by virture of a mere subpoena without judicial oversight. That is the nature of Verizon's battle against the RIAA and the DMCA over the last couple of years.
Yes, Jar Jar was necessary for the plot... the problem is that the plot could have been developed without characters that sucked. The role of naive bit player being manipulated into catalyzing a critical shift in politics could have been filled with something that wasn't a moronic cartoon character designed so that kids had something to laugh at.
Lucas has proven that he shouldn't be allowed to make movies without someone to remind him when has slipped into "talentless hack" mode. The problem isn't the nature story that needed to be told in Ep1-2, the problem is the way in which Lucas told the story. It is entirely possible to do non-war Sci-Fi competantly with engaging characters, good dialog, and great acting. That is not what we got out of Ep1-2... there were some shocking examples of pathetic acting (examples: Amidala falling out of the airborn troop transport, gets up a moment later without bothering to act the role of someone who would have been severely winded at best; Mannequin Skywalker... 'nuff said).
IMO, Lucas' strengths are in the big picture, the overall story arc, but when he is left to do dialog and little important details, his movies turn into big action figure commercials (moreso than ROTJ). Visually, very impressive, but lacking substance. Don't get me wrong... he's a better screenwriter and director than Uwe Boll...
That being said, I have high hopes for this movie. It had better not suck, because I'm sick and tired of people with way more money than talent being able to churn out crap while real artists have to bow and scrape to the studios so that half their vision can end up on the cutting room floor.
"The MPAA isn't quite that dumb but it is a nice idea."
Yes they are. They specialize in hiring third-party copyright bounty hunters to spam ISPs with poorly or completely unfounded complaints based on pattern matches of filenames on P2P networks. If you have My-son-in-Spiderman-costume_movie.mpg, it would probably be picked up and generate an automated complaint to your ISP. Under horribly broken US law (i.e., the DMCA), your ISP would be forced to comply with the notice-and-takedown provisions and shut your Internet access off or terminate service.
What the filesharers should do is post files that are encrypted with encrypted filenames and descriptions, and rely on private keys. Of course, the risk is that the searchs for the encrypted strings could be intercepted allowing the code to be broken, but a WW2 flavored one-time key method could do the trick.
The only thing we are born with is flesh and the potential of that flesh.
Objectively, you are born with nothing but the certainty of death, not the right to death. Rights are an abstraction, they are concepts societies create to define morality and ethics and what individuals should expect in terms of treatment from other individuals and society as a whole. Some rights are much more rational than others, but they are not things that exist without the context of society or individual expections of treatment by other individuals. In other words, they are artifacts of our minds.
The concept of "rights" belongs in philosophy and applied philosophy (i.e., political science, ethics, etc). However, the nature of thinking beings is to be able to make decisions, and we must all make decisions on what is and is not acceptable behavior from those we share the world with. Individual freedoms assumed to be absolute values in the west may not be accepted as truths in China, but that doesn't mean both points of view are rational. Both could be, neither could be, or only one of them could be.
Right... and many worms shouldn't be a big deal (eg Slammer) because admins should be patching diligently. Meanwhile, in the real world, humans are lazy and irresponsible.
The planet couldn't care less about change, the organisms on it are another matter. The organisms that evolve thanks to wonderous change may very well thank us for our SUV-driving efforts.
I, for one, welcome the coming of our new -40 degree Celcius winter defeating climate masters.
What is reality is that the ignorant masses will decrease the signal to noise ratio in communication if you let them. Slang exists, as does cancer, rape, and pollution. Existance does not negate the worth of attempts to mitigate.
The more those are aren't ignorant allow those who are to change the meanings of words so that they no longer contain as much information as when conceived, the more those who aren't ignorant must be held responsible. We shouldn't let high school dropouts define language and we must allow the educated to define and protect relevant meaning.
That is incorrect. I have used a shop that will assemble the unit for me. For example, the NCIX.com QUBE a360 can be picked up for a mere $838 CDN ($684.46 USD - they sell to US customers as well, but are based in Vancouver), including:
1 x SOLTEK QBIC EQ3702A MINI PC ALUMINUM NFORCE2 SOCKETA DDR 2VGA TV 10/100 LAN
1 x AMD SEMPRON 2400+ PROCESSOR 1.67GHZ SOCKETA 256K 333FSB RETAIL BOX 3YR MFR WARRANTY
1 x BENQ DW1620 DVD+-RW 16X4X16 DUAL LAYER +R 2.4X BEIGE IDE OEM W/ SW
1 x SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.7 80GB HARD DRIVE ATA/100 8.5MS 7200 OEM
1 x SAMSUNG 512MB PC3200 DDR400 184PIN OEM
1 x MITSUMI FA404A 7-IN-1 FLOPPY DRIVE & FLASH READER CF/SM/SD/MMC/MS
1 x MICROSOFT MULTIMEDIA KEYBOARD & OPTICAL MOUSE OEM (WITH SYSTEM ONLY)
1 x NCIXPC $30 INSTANT REBATE FOR SELECTED MODELS FROM 9/22/04 - 10/31/04
1 x MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL OEM (WITH SYSTEM ONLY)
Fully assembled NCIXPC systems come with a 1 year limited parts and labor warranty.
Unless you need specific aspects of the Mini (or iLife) you can get a SFF PC including OS (by why bother paying for Windows when Linux would do the trick?) for much less than the $832 it could cost to build a Mini with similar hardware (as per a Mini I configured on Apple's US site about 1 minute ago).
My time is worth a hell of a lot to me, but part of how I choose to spend my time includes the hobby of computers. I'd have fun building it, and would rather build it than have someone do it for me in most cases.
Such as Purolator. I've contacted them several times about their extremely annoying javascript browser check that pops up a warning that online shipment tracking requires IE or Netscape 6. I get a typical canned response about their developers looking at Firefox support.
I think you mean s/stereotyped as/bloodthirsty vandals and/, don't you?
That joke will work pretty much everywhere except for the football ignorant in the US and Canada. The Scots know, afterall Celtic and Rangers supporters like to kill each other, and much of Europe has had to deal with the annoyance and damage inflicted by roving bands of England supporters. They way I see it, its just fair payback for Celtic/Roman/Saxon/Viking/Norman invasions for the last several centuries.
At last the Picts will reveal themselves to the Europeans... at last they will have revenge.
Too bad you mix useful objective information like numbers in with useless subjective opinion like "best OS on the planet" and "killer system". Even with those upgrades, I don't consider the box even remotely "killer". How do you define "best OS"?
I can build what I consider to be a much more capable machine for less thanks to good ol' commodity hardware. I'll have to do the comparison again vs. a SFF PC with a Sempron CPU, the last time I did price/performance analysis was with the old ludicrously expensive upgrade pricing.
Thank you, this has to be the most insightful comment on this thread yet. Spam is not a simple problem, and the blame for the problem isn't solely on the shoulders of ISPs any more than on the shoulders of the people who insist on not securing their PCs or clicking on trojanzombie-ladden emails.
There are real risks involved in solving the spam problem with knee-jerk big brother tactics. ISPs fail to be about free exchange of information when common carrier liability exemptions go away, and nothing is worth risking that. Spammers need to be treated like the criminals they are, and people who fail to secure their email servers and PCs need to face real consequences as well. The US, though the hosts for the source networks of at least 25% of the world's spam on any given day, needs to work with other governments, just as those governments need to work with others.
Ferget that... if we're willing to destroy the forests to stick it to SCO, we ought to be willing to march en mass to even SCO office and sack/pillage them out of existance, barbarian horde style. Leave the damn forests alone, haven't they suffered enough?
Gotta agree with you there... Trek needs to die. It needs to be taken off life support so it can expire. The last thing sci-fi needs is another Trek series, movie, video game, or book. It has never been brilliant, and revering Roddenberry or Majel as the high-priests of the genre has damaged it to the point where non-cookie-cutter Whedon series (i.e., Firefly) can't survive because its too different from the schlock people are used to.
Maybe Battlestar Gallactica can save us... or maybe its time for sci-fi to go into the ground for awhile. You'll agree with me on something I bet... Grendel: Warchild the movie. That would kick ass.
I think the joke will continue until either of two things happens:
BSD actually dies;)
BSD fans stop reacting so defensively
I don't get defensive when someone attacks BSD, but I have to admit I get a little defensive when Solaris bigots attack Linux.
I tried to have a conversation with someone today about why they thought "OpenBSD sucks!", and actually got to some rational reasons while others were whining about stopping yet another OS holy war discussion. Everybody needs to stop looking at operating systems as a religious issue and discuss things rationally. Personally, technical merit (including user interface design) is all I care about. I don't choose technology for any Stallmanesque ethic.
The First Ammendment needs to protect jackasses too. Labelling a speaker as a "jackass" due to what was said is a matter of perception, not fact. The court case resulting from this will be the test for the two alleged jackasses... unfortunately, the cursory description of the incident leads to easy classification of the speakers as jackasses, the lawyers as bloodsucking fiends, etc etc.
If the two were wrongfully arrested, would they be capable of getting some sort of compensation under US law?
Please step away from the crackpipe... Gordon Freeman was a scrawny physicist, not a brawny asskicker. He had to put on an HEV suit just to scrap through the kind of hazards that Duke Nukem would have done in a torn tank top, the guy from Far Cry would have battled through in a hawaiian shirt, and Lara Croft would have... mmmmm Lara Croft... Boobies...
Which brings to mind the real question left unanswered (perhaps since I don't care to RTFA)... is Zoe Flowers hot? Millions of gamers want to know. A good portion of the girlgamers I know want to know too. Plz advise & send pics... thnx.
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Disclaimer: I don't actually know if babies are the other other white meat or red meat, but I hear that we taste more like pork than chicken.
Is a stylized window frame logo any better? How about an apple with a chunk missing? Quit trying to make an objection to a devil sound like it is rational. Even if you aren't actually offended and disturbed, you ought to be ashamed for catering to the morons and idiots who are.
plz/thnx
Oh, a real question while I'm at it:
Of the Linux distributions you've extensively tested, assuming that you have so that your arguments are based on information rather than conjecture, which do you feel is the most desktop-ready?
I wonder if it is going to be something like the p-p-p-powerbook?
Do all those features sound like they are designed to make management and enjoyment of porn easier?
Slashdot's EvilAlien asks: Why Does Mark Morford's Significant Other Suck? Afterall, the amount of malware circulating which targets any number of OSes is well known, particularly the fact that the vast majority attack the very dominant Windows platform. It is irresponsible and possible even stupid to connect any computer directly to the Internet without benefit of a firewall or without having been patched. The availability of patches, SP2 on CD for free, personal firewalls, antivirus and antispyware applications, and other security measures should lead everyone to toss accusations of negligence at users like Mark Morford's Significant Other.
Why is the development pace of GNU/HURD so damn pathetic? I'd expect more progress out of 1 person working on a project like this for 15 years...
A notice-and-takedown demand from a rightsholder is a different matter from a demand under the DMCA to ignore privacy rights and disclose customer information. The DMCA not only required notice-and-takedown, but also was interpreted as requiring non-court ordered disclosure by virture of a mere subpoena without judicial oversight. That is the nature of Verizon's battle against the RIAA and the DMCA over the last couple of years.
Lucas has proven that he shouldn't be allowed to make movies without someone to remind him when has slipped into "talentless hack" mode. The problem isn't the nature story that needed to be told in Ep1-2, the problem is the way in which Lucas told the story. It is entirely possible to do non-war Sci-Fi competantly with engaging characters, good dialog, and great acting. That is not what we got out of Ep1-2... there were some shocking examples of pathetic acting (examples: Amidala falling out of the airborn troop transport, gets up a moment later without bothering to act the role of someone who would have been severely winded at best; Mannequin Skywalker... 'nuff said).
IMO, Lucas' strengths are in the big picture, the overall story arc, but when he is left to do dialog and little important details, his movies turn into big action figure commercials (moreso than ROTJ). Visually, very impressive, but lacking substance. Don't get me wrong... he's a better screenwriter and director than Uwe Boll...
That being said, I have high hopes for this movie. It had better not suck, because I'm sick and tired of people with way more money than talent being able to churn out crap while real artists have to bow and scrape to the studios so that half their vision can end up on the cutting room floor.
Yes they are. They specialize in hiring third-party copyright bounty hunters to spam ISPs with poorly or completely unfounded complaints based on pattern matches of filenames on P2P networks. If you have My-son-in-Spiderman-costume_movie.mpg, it would probably be picked up and generate an automated complaint to your ISP. Under horribly broken US law (i.e., the DMCA), your ISP would be forced to comply with the notice-and-takedown provisions and shut your Internet access off or terminate service.
What the filesharers should do is post files that are encrypted with encrypted filenames and descriptions, and rely on private keys. Of course, the risk is that the searchs for the encrypted strings could be intercepted allowing the code to be broken, but a WW2 flavored one-time key method could do the trick.
Objectively, you are born with nothing but the certainty of death, not the right to death. Rights are an abstraction, they are concepts societies create to define morality and ethics and what individuals should expect in terms of treatment from other individuals and society as a whole. Some rights are much more rational than others, but they are not things that exist without the context of society or individual expections of treatment by other individuals. In other words, they are artifacts of our minds.
The concept of "rights" belongs in philosophy and applied philosophy (i.e., political science, ethics, etc). However, the nature of thinking beings is to be able to make decisions, and we must all make decisions on what is and is not acceptable behavior from those we share the world with. Individual freedoms assumed to be absolute values in the west may not be accepted as truths in China, but that doesn't mean both points of view are rational. Both could be, neither could be, or only one of them could be.
Right... and many worms shouldn't be a big deal (eg Slammer) because admins should be patching diligently. Meanwhile, in the real world, humans are lazy and irresponsible.
The planet couldn't care less about change, the organisms on it are another matter. The organisms that evolve thanks to wonderous change may very well thank us for our SUV-driving efforts.
I, for one, welcome the coming of our new -40 degree Celcius winter defeating climate masters.
The more those are aren't ignorant allow those who are to change the meanings of words so that they no longer contain as much information as when conceived, the more those who aren't ignorant must be held responsible. We shouldn't let high school dropouts define language and we must allow the educated to define and protect relevant meaning.
1 x SOLTEK QBIC EQ3702A MINI PC ALUMINUM NFORCE2 SOCKETA DDR 2VGA TV 10/100 LAN
1 x AMD SEMPRON 2400+ PROCESSOR 1.67GHZ SOCKETA 256K 333FSB RETAIL BOX 3YR MFR WARRANTY
1 x BENQ DW1620 DVD+-RW 16X4X16 DUAL LAYER +R 2.4X BEIGE IDE OEM W/ SW
1 x SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.7 80GB HARD DRIVE ATA/100 8.5MS 7200 OEM
1 x SAMSUNG 512MB PC3200 DDR400 184PIN OEM 1 x MITSUMI FA404A 7-IN-1 FLOPPY DRIVE & FLASH READER CF/SM/SD/MMC/MS
1 x MICROSOFT MULTIMEDIA KEYBOARD & OPTICAL MOUSE OEM (WITH SYSTEM ONLY)
1 x NCIXPC $30 INSTANT REBATE FOR SELECTED MODELS FROM 9/22/04 - 10/31/04
1 x MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL OEM (WITH SYSTEM ONLY)
Fully assembled NCIXPC systems come with a 1 year limited parts and labor warranty.
Unless you need specific aspects of the Mini (or iLife) you can get a SFF PC including OS (by why bother paying for Windows when Linux would do the trick?) for much less than the $832 it could cost to build a Mini with similar hardware (as per a Mini I configured on Apple's US site about 1 minute ago).
My time is worth a hell of a lot to me, but part of how I choose to spend my time includes the hobby of computers. I'd have fun building it, and would rather build it than have someone do it for me in most cases.
Here is the contact form to reach out and poke them about Firefox: Questions to our Webmaster
That joke will work pretty much everywhere except for the football ignorant in the US and Canada. The Scots know, afterall Celtic and Rangers supporters like to kill each other, and much of Europe has had to deal with the annoyance and damage inflicted by roving bands of England supporters. They way I see it, its just fair payback for Celtic/Roman/Saxon/Viking/Norman invasions for the last several centuries.
At last the Picts will reveal themselves to the Europeans... at last they will have revenge.
I can build what I consider to be a much more capable machine for less thanks to good ol' commodity hardware. I'll have to do the comparison again vs. a SFF PC with a Sempron CPU, the last time I did price/performance analysis was with the old ludicrously expensive upgrade pricing.
There are real risks involved in solving the spam problem with knee-jerk big brother tactics. ISPs fail to be about free exchange of information when common carrier liability exemptions go away, and nothing is worth risking that. Spammers need to be treated like the criminals they are, and people who fail to secure their email servers and PCs need to face real consequences as well. The US, though the hosts for the source networks of at least 25% of the world's spam on any given day, needs to work with other governments, just as those governments need to work with others.
Ferget that... if we're willing to destroy the forests to stick it to SCO, we ought to be willing to march en mass to even SCO office and sack/pillage them out of existance, barbarian horde style. Leave the damn forests alone, haven't they suffered enough?
If it doesn't scan your whole harddrive, how are we supposed to be able to search for stuff we want that you might have?
Maybe Battlestar Gallactica can save us... or maybe its time for sci-fi to go into the ground for awhile. You'll agree with me on something I bet... Grendel: Warchild the movie. That would kick ass.
- BSD actually dies
;)
- BSD fans stop reacting so defensively
I don't get defensive when someone attacks BSD, but I have to admit I get a little defensive when Solaris bigots attack Linux.I tried to have a conversation with someone today about why they thought "OpenBSD sucks!", and actually got to some rational reasons while others were whining about stopping yet another OS holy war discussion. Everybody needs to stop looking at operating systems as a religious issue and discuss things rationally. Personally, technical merit (including user interface design) is all I care about. I don't choose technology for any Stallmanesque ethic.
If the two were wrongfully arrested, would they be capable of getting some sort of compensation under US law?
Which brings to mind the real question left unanswered (perhaps since I don't care to RTFA)... is Zoe Flowers hot? Millions of gamers want to know. A good portion of the girlgamers I know want to know too. Plz advise & send pics... thnx.