Alright, to help bring in New Orleans tourists, I'd like to ask a question to figure out what to expect. Which of these options comes to mind when I mention "nutria-rat": a) pest b) pet c) yum! d) all of the above
Well, based solely on the number of comments on this story thus far, I'd say Google made the correct decision. It's a touchy topic that a lot of people are upset about, that's enough reason to censor it. There are a couple types of censorship in my mind. There's the kind that holds back information as a way to rewrite history. That's the bad kind. Then there's the kind that holds back something that's not a bad topic, but is somehow distracting from what you're doing. That's the good kind that people still whine about like it's government mind control.
For example, censorship in videogames: If I am playing a game and suddenly hear a lot of cussing, turn around, and there's a naked person running by, it's distracting. I'd rather it just be censored so I can get the idea that I'm in a bad neighborhood without totally losing track of what I was doing. I've heard cussing. I've seen naked people. It doesn't add anything to the plot.
Another example: Food preparation. Do you want to see what happens to the cow/pig/chicken? Probably not. Is the information accessible? Yes. Is it censored so you don't just come across is by accident? Yes. Problem? No. Is good.
Now if we could just get society to censor those tampon commercials that come on every day when I'm eating lunch....
I already know I'm going to get modded down to -1, Troll or -1, Flamebait for posting this, but you can't escape the cold hard truth that so many of you have not been wise, and now you're paying the price.
Nah, all the smug folks facebook. It's the current fad. People in 1880 hated the phonebook, too.
"My name and phone number are in a public directory!? *gasp!* Surely you wouldn't put your real phone number in such a book, someone might call you!" "It has your address, also." "AHHHH!!!! SHARPEN THE PITCHFORKS!"
I remember reading a comic... xkcd or abstruse goose. The strip showed a computer tech telling his friends that they shouldn't use facebook. The next frame showed the friends doing it anyway while the guy was ignored. The final frame showed the friends suddenly hating facebook and the tech was giving them an "I told you so". The punchline though is that the last frame only happened in the tech's mind because he was too stubborn to change his initial opinion of it.
Soooo before my coffee, it looks like this is just them moving the problem area infinitely far away. If you just start with 0.99 and do the same thing, you can see that the numerator =/= the denominator. This is kind of like taking a derivative, throwing away the differential parts because they're "so small anyway", then reintegrating to get your answer. *blinks* Need coffee and donuts.....
There are so many better sites, and better ways of accomplishing social networking. It's just that there are so many lamers who just use the easiest, most popular crap without ever knowing, or caring, that there is far better.
I think you've determined the best social site right there.... The one everyone else is on is the best, the functionality doesn't matter. Stop whining and just use it. The smug person in the corner always sits alone.
This is clearly biased toward democrats because they used Al-Gore-rithms. If I'm the first person to write this, there's something wrong here this morning.
This could be useful info. It'd be good to know the type of places where the memes turn up. A group of us were talking in Star Trek Online the other night trying to think up how to start: Keanu (verb) ________, he said "Woah."
Keanu suddenly understood the 2-party system was borked and invented false issues to discuss that weren't important, he said "Woah."
I agree with most of what you say. However, I had an idiot on the left try to tell me that Colbert was seriously on the right side of the spectrum. He literally couldn't see the difference between the parody and the real thing. He thought Colbert was "The Daily Show" for conservatives. So the "right" does not have a monopoly on the idiot market.
Do I know you? ^.^
I used to watch just the Daily Show. I watched Colbert just at a glance and couldn't tell the difference before switching channels. Your acquaintance probably did the same thing as me. It wasn't until forcing myself to watch several minutes that I realized.
After that epiphany, I'm still wondering if Sarah Palin is actually making fun of them too...:D
What's really funny is that that expression doesn't even make sense in his language.... Which means that someone LIED about Ahmadinejad saying it. It was probably some press person who wanted a story.
I agree with you. Well, mostly. I have a hobby of looking up how much juice my electronics take before I buy them. I wanted to be able to play the most recent games at the same time, so it's pretty rough. Graphics cards tend to be real power slurpers these days, I had to look around to find one that wasn't too bad. I found a fairly good rule of thumb is to look at the amount of heatsink the thing needs. Inefficiency = heat, right?
Meanwhile, I was quite excited when I found out the Wii takes 1/10th the power of it's competitors. O_O Further, I read that it can run older games using less electricity than the original system. Ooooooo
I've been assuming all this time that the drivers would limit my framerate to be equal to my monitor refresh rate. I have a 60 Hz monitor, is there any reason to get more than 60 fps? It seems like having drivers to do that for you would save a bit of electricity and be good PR for the company that made them. Edumacate me, please o_o
Can we have options to block annoying public figures without having to type in all their names? Like an "every guest who was ever on fox news" button would be nice for me.
Don't worry about it. When you drive electric, little fairies will show up and shield your car from the sun with leaves. Wait... Texas, no leaves. They will shield your car from the sun with Mexicans. Besides that though, with electric, global will stop and Texas will cool off anyway, right?
Seriously though, the charge adapters for these things are pricey and large. I don't think you'd be leaving your car outside as often as you think. They're talking about building platforms at businesses just so people can recharge while they're at work. Which is good for the business, because they'll make sure you don't have enough charge to get home until your shift is over.:(
Hmmm I wonder if the separator can extract heavy water at the same time. That might help offset the cost of use. I'm trying to find the price of a gallon of heavy water, but all I keep finding is some type of Vodka....
That was labelled as a troll? Wow. I was on topic and made a comparison to a well known fictional corporation that a lot of folks here adore. Let me help you guys out:/. sucks because if the first person to read something doesn't get your reference, then no one else reads it at all. Buncha nerdholes. That's a troll.
who wants to watch the Alien movies again? Think about it for a moment: if Weyland-Yutani was practicing business today, is there a better way to be evil/deceptive than this? Don't answer that -- you might give them ideas.
The problem isn't when the service men show up to fix a problem -- it's that there's a problem at all. We've had internet outages 20+ times a day since Comcast acquired the local cable company. All they had to do was not touch anything and it would've been fine. But instead, they screwed it up, and have sent people to our house on 4 occasions trying to fix it. They have no idea what the problem is. They don't need help that shows up on time, they need help that can get the job done on the first visit.
A U.S. Department of Defense spokeswoman said she was not familiar with the project, so it's unclear exactly how the watch would be used by the military.
Okay, I didn't go to journalist school, but shouldn't this person have just been crossed off the list and ignored?
We have until 2077 to finish the Pip-Boys before the world ends though, right? Looks like we're on track. I just hope they remember the bomb screensaver this time. I real reporter would have pointed this out.
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Alright, to help bring in New Orleans tourists, I'd like to ask a question to figure out what to expect. Which of these options comes to mind when I mention "nutria-rat":
a) pest
b) pet
c) yum!
d) all of the above
Well, based solely on the number of comments on this story thus far, I'd say Google made the correct decision. It's a touchy topic that a lot of people are upset about, that's enough reason to censor it. There are a couple types of censorship in my mind. There's the kind that holds back information as a way to rewrite history. That's the bad kind. Then there's the kind that holds back something that's not a bad topic, but is somehow distracting from what you're doing. That's the good kind that people still whine about like it's government mind control.
For example, censorship in videogames: If I am playing a game and suddenly hear a lot of cussing, turn around, and there's a naked person running by, it's distracting. I'd rather it just be censored so I can get the idea that I'm in a bad neighborhood without totally losing track of what I was doing. I've heard cussing. I've seen naked people. It doesn't add anything to the plot.
Another example: Food preparation. Do you want to see what happens to the cow/pig/chicken? Probably not. Is the information accessible? Yes. Is it censored so you don't just come across is by accident? Yes. Problem? No. Is good.
Now if we could just get society to censor those tampon commercials that come on every day when I'm eating lunch....
I already know I'm going to get modded down to -1, Troll or -1, Flamebait for posting this, but you can't escape the cold hard truth that so many of you have not been wise, and now you're paying the price.
Nah, all the smug folks facebook. It's the current fad. People in 1880 hated the phonebook, too.
"My name and phone number are in a public directory!? *gasp!* Surely you wouldn't put your real phone number in such a book, someone might call you!"
"It has your address, also."
"AHHHH!!!! SHARPEN THE PITCHFORKS!"
I remember reading a comic... xkcd or abstruse goose. The strip showed a computer tech telling his friends that they shouldn't use facebook. The next frame showed the friends doing it anyway while the guy was ignored. The final frame showed the friends suddenly hating facebook and the tech was giving them an "I told you so". The punchline though is that the last frame only happened in the tech's mind because he was too stubborn to change his initial opinion of it.
Soooo before my coffee, it looks like this is just them moving the problem area infinitely far away. If you just start with 0.99 and do the same thing, you can see that the numerator =/= the denominator. This is kind of like taking a derivative, throwing away the differential parts because they're "so small anyway", then reintegrating to get your answer.
*blinks* Need coffee and donuts.....
There are so many better sites, and better ways of accomplishing social networking. It's just that there are so many lamers who just use the easiest, most popular crap without ever knowing, or caring, that there is far better.
I think you've determined the best social site right there.... The one everyone else is on is the best, the functionality doesn't matter. Stop whining and just use it. The smug person in the corner always sits alone.
This is clearly biased toward democrats because they used Al-Gore-rithms.
If I'm the first person to write this, there's something wrong here this morning.
This could be useful info. It'd be good to know the type of places where the memes turn up. A group of us were talking in Star Trek Online the other night trying to think up how to start:
Keanu (verb) ________, he said "Woah."
Keanu suddenly understood the 2-party system was borked and invented false issues to discuss that weren't important, he said "Woah."
My microwave oven has been making hotdogs dance for years.
I agree with most of what you say. However, I had an idiot on the left try to tell me that Colbert was seriously on the right side of the spectrum. He literally couldn't see the difference between the parody and the real thing. He thought Colbert was "The Daily Show" for conservatives. So the "right" does not have a monopoly on the idiot market.
Do I know you? ^.^
:D
I used to watch just the Daily Show. I watched Colbert just at a glance and couldn't tell the difference before switching channels. Your acquaintance probably did the same thing as me. It wasn't until forcing myself to watch several minutes that I realized.
After that epiphany, I'm still wondering if Sarah Palin is actually making fun of them too...
If you put in the proposed date into a binary translator, 10/10/10, you get an output of 42!!! The answer to everything is this rally!!!
This is better than geese flying over.
... they finish building the ion cannon out front.
Here's another one just as bad: Let's hope they stop having leaks when they start breeding Rachni. Snap!
-goes to corner and puts on dunce cap-
What's really funny is that that expression doesn't even make sense in his language.... Which means that someone LIED about Ahmadinejad saying it. It was probably some press person who wanted a story.
I agree with you. Well, mostly. I have a hobby of looking up how much juice my electronics take before I buy them. I wanted to be able to play the most recent games at the same time, so it's pretty rough. Graphics cards tend to be real power slurpers these days, I had to look around to find one that wasn't too bad. I found a fairly good rule of thumb is to look at the amount of heatsink the thing needs. Inefficiency = heat, right?
Meanwhile, I was quite excited when I found out the Wii takes 1/10th the power of it's competitors. O_O Further, I read that it can run older games using less electricity than the original system. Ooooooo
I've been assuming all this time that the drivers would limit my framerate to be equal to my monitor refresh rate. I have a 60 Hz monitor, is there any reason to get more than 60 fps? It seems like having drivers to do that for you would save a bit of electricity and be good PR for the company that made them. Edumacate me, please o_o
Can we have options to block annoying public figures without having to type in all their names? Like an "every guest who was ever on fox news" button would be nice for me.
Well, you see, the mass puts pressure on the aether and -- *whack*
No, no, no one mentioned aether. Nothing to see here, move along. Move along.
Don't worry about it. When you drive electric, little fairies will show up and shield your car from the sun with leaves. Wait... Texas, no leaves. They will shield your car from the sun with Mexicans. Besides that though, with electric, global will stop and Texas will cool off anyway, right?
Seriously though, the charge adapters for these things are pricey and large. I don't think you'd be leaving your car outside as often as you think. They're talking about building platforms at businesses just so people can recharge while they're at work. Which is good for the business, because they'll make sure you don't have enough charge to get home until your shift is over. :(
You ruined my helium balloon joke :(
Hmmm I wonder if the separator can extract heavy water at the same time. That might help offset the cost of use. I'm trying to find the price of a gallon of heavy water, but all I keep finding is some type of Vodka....
That was labelled as a troll? Wow. I was on topic and made a comparison to a well known fictional corporation that a lot of folks here adore. Let me help you guys out: /. sucks because if the first person to read something doesn't get your reference, then no one else reads it at all. Buncha nerdholes. That's a troll.
who wants to watch the Alien movies again? Think about it for a moment: if Weyland-Yutani was practicing business today, is there a better way to be evil/deceptive than this? Don't answer that -- you might give them ideas.
Yeah yeah, but for now we have to ask flies what the sexy girl pictures smell like.
"Hey Harvey, what about this one?"
*Bzzzztttttt*
"Bananas you say? I figure she'd be more strawberries than bananas."
The problem isn't when the service men show up to fix a problem -- it's that there's a problem at all. We've had internet outages 20+ times a day since Comcast acquired the local cable company. All they had to do was not touch anything and it would've been fine. But instead, they screwed it up, and have sent people to our house on 4 occasions trying to fix it. They have no idea what the problem is. They don't need help that shows up on time, they need help that can get the job done on the first visit.
This thing has an Earth-based identical twin they use to test situations, right? ... Can we send *that* to go fix the frakking oil leak??
A U.S. Department of Defense spokeswoman said she was not familiar with the project, so it's unclear exactly how the watch would be used by the military.
Okay, I didn't go to journalist school, but shouldn't this person have just been crossed off the list and ignored?
We have until 2077 to finish the Pip-Boys before the world ends though, right? Looks like we're on track. I just hope they remember the bomb screensaver this time. I real reporter would have pointed this out.