If the gender balance of Slashdot is as similar to the gender balance in my upper division undergrad science courses as I think it is, the vast majority of/.'ers could only reproduce by infecting someone else's DNA.
And this is a negative, how? Autoconf/automake create a sucking sound that threatens the doppler shifting of galaxies. Anything that helps you escape from their grip is a good thing.
the u.s. today is considerably more repressive than, say, germany in 1939. the top layer of leadership is similarly demonic, and behaves similarly. i guess rebellion in berlin, 1939, would have been unwarranted as well?
agree, disagree, i don't care. but i ask the question because i'm genuinely interested in your answer.
> I suppose it's just a matter of time until the > thetans will land and provide us with free > energy. That's why we don't need emission free > energy sources.
Who is this "we" you talk about? I know "U.S." just spent about that much to turn one of the richest nations on earth into a festering slum of terrorists. It seems the plans of "U.S." don't match up with the plans of "we".
I don't know about the poster to whom you are responding, but I can answer for my own part:
I know it by divine revelation. I arrived at the conclusion that this futuristic fact was divinely revealed by a complex process which involved a substantial element of sensory evidence, as well as a great deal of fairly sophisticated logical and probabilistic reasoning, informed by years of study and experimentation. As you can surely understand, therefore, it is infeasible to provide the case in the space of a slashdot post.
While there are undoubtedly any number of people who adhere to the position in question who do so without the benefit of an educated critical thinking apparatus, one should not conclude thereby that the two are mutually exclusive -- that would be an erroneous bigotry. Quite a large number of persons, with the benefit of recent developments in human culture, and by an assiduous application of well-trained reasoning skills and a well-developed span of knowledge and experience, have come to similar conclusions. If one should wish to understand why, one should refer to those media in which they develop their positions adequately.
Or if you just want to sneer at dummies, I guess slashdot is just the right venue.
in that case please explain to me why people who move oil from below ground level to above it are called oil producers? and isn't "breeding" a form of production?
the real error would be to fail to engage in magical thinking in the manifest presence of magical phenomena.
You might want to look into the facts on this one. We have accurate CO2 concentration measurements from Mauna Kea observatory for 48 years. During that time the rate of increase has been fairly well constant, with variations reasonably well-understood, such as those attributable to el Nino, or Mt. Pinatubo. For the past two years the rate of increase in CO2 has jumped. If that should continue, it would imply that a global sequenstration mechanism has saturated, and all previous estimates of temperature rise through the century will need to be restated on a scale of 20 years or less.
Billions of years of geological history are not relevant to the current phase, because the relevant conditions did not pertain. Studying statistics is unlikely to alleviate chicken-little fears in this case. A massive dose of benzodiazepenes would probably do the trick, though.
We did too put the oil there. We put it there by living and growing and dying and decaying and getting compressed under layers of rock. You can't escape your responsibility as a member of the class of living organisms for your role in this situation.
Good point. Hydrocarbons are a great way to sequester carbon. So... let's convert that CO2 into petrol, and pump that into the oil wells. In this way, we can save on the cost of refining the pumped hydrocarbons as well!
the folks at blackbox voting did this with one of the major systems. i can't remember if it was ES&S, Sequoia, or Diebold, but i do remember vividly that they changed the outcome of an election with a 5-line piece of VBScript.
at least with paper ballots it took actual human hands to change each vote individually. now it's a script-kiddie job.
Actually, I don't think the Supreme Court had jurisdiction over that case. States decide their electors according to the rules and laws and whims of each state. For the federal government to adjudicate on those rules is antipathetic to the federal principle, and to the Constitution.
And tyranny of the majority is worse than tyranny of the minority, how?
Personally, I'd like to see the office of the President eliminated in favor of a popular vote for each bill than passes congress, and direct election of the cabinet. All executive powers would be distributed over the elected secretaries and the people. And since voting via internet is so cheap, there should be a confidence vote every three months, where a slight supermajority can determine that a secretary needs to run again. C-in-C of the armed forces would be devolved to the secretary of defense. And making pre-emptive war would be a capital offense.
Personally, I think it very accurately reflects George Bush's positions, policies, and performance. I voted for that fascist murdering thief, but we have an old saying in Minnesota -- I know its in Texas, it should be in Minnesota -- "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, fool me... you can't get fooled again!".
Why not just inject a voip chip into the jawbone at birth? It should be firmware-upgradable, to support new applications, and powered by the body. Perhaps piezo stress from chewing, or temperature differences due to circulation. Software would support subvocalization, and sound would be produced by MEMS bone vibration. Voila, telepathic society.
Personally, I expect Eclipse development using SWT to catch on, and supplant vs.net/c# development, because.net programs are such incredible resource pigs. A couple of tiny applets running at once can bury a current model laptop, easily.
Excelsior JET is an *excellent* commercial Java-to-native compiler, which eliminates that nasty JVM dependency that has been the bane of desktop Java.
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agreed. the alphabet is obsolete. kanji is superior for transmitting meanings, and IPA is superior for transmitting sounds.
i don't think there is any suggestion that concentration camps were killing people on an industrial scale in 1939.
i'd like to know why its off limits to make a comparison to the nazi administration. i mean, if the shoe fits...
If the gender balance of Slashdot is as similar to /.'ers could only reproduce by infecting someone
the gender balance in my upper division undergrad
science courses as I think it is, the vast majority
of
else's DNA.
Depends on how much you like C++.
> lack of autoconf support
And this is a negative, how? Autoconf/automake create a sucking sound that threatens the doppler shifting of galaxies. Anything that helps you escape from their grip is a good thing.
if? were?
the u.s. today is considerably more repressive than, say, germany in 1939. the top layer of leadership is similarly demonic, and behaves similarly. i guess rebellion in berlin, 1939, would have been unwarranted as well?
agree, disagree, i don't care. but i ask the question because i'm genuinely interested in your answer.
> I suppose it's just a matter of time until the
> thetans will land and provide us with free
> energy. That's why we don't need emission free
> energy sources.
And you thought OPEC was a problem?
> Humans need anywhere from 10-15 calories per pound per day to just sit on a couch.
Whoa, Dude. You shoulda married a chicken instead.
Who is this "we" you talk about? I know "U.S." just spent about that much to turn one of the richest nations on earth into a festering slum of terrorists. It seems the plans of "U.S." don't match up with the plans of "we".
I don't know about the poster to whom you are responding, but I can answer for my own part:
I know it by divine revelation. I arrived at the conclusion that this futuristic fact was divinely revealed by a complex process which involved a substantial element of sensory evidence, as well as a great deal of fairly sophisticated logical and probabilistic reasoning, informed by years of study and experimentation. As you can surely understand, therefore, it is infeasible to provide the case in the space of a slashdot post.
While there are undoubtedly any number of people who adhere to the position in question who do so without the benefit of an educated critical thinking apparatus, one should not conclude thereby that the two are mutually exclusive -- that would be an erroneous bigotry. Quite a large number of persons, with the benefit of recent developments in human culture, and by an assiduous application of well-trained reasoning skills and a well-developed span of knowledge and experience, have come to similar conclusions. If one should wish to understand why, one should refer to those media in which they develop their positions adequately.
Or if you just want to sneer at dummies, I guess slashdot is just the right venue.
in that case please explain to me why people who move oil from below ground level to above it are called oil producers? and isn't "breeding" a form of production?
the real error would be to fail to engage in magical thinking in the manifest presence of magical phenomena.
ok, i'll stop whining now.
You might want to look into the facts on this one. We have accurate CO2 concentration measurements from Mauna Kea observatory for 48 years. During that time the rate of increase has been fairly well constant, with variations reasonably well-understood, such as those attributable to el Nino, or Mt. Pinatubo. For the past two years the rate of increase in CO2 has jumped. If that should continue, it would imply that a global sequenstration mechanism has saturated, and all previous estimates of temperature rise through the century will need to be restated on a scale of 20 years or less.
Billions of years of geological history are not relevant to the current phase, because the relevant conditions did not pertain. Studying statistics is unlikely to alleviate chicken-little fears in this case. A massive dose of benzodiazepenes would probably do the trick, though.
We did too put the oil there. We put it there by living and growing and dying and decaying and getting compressed under layers of rock. You can't escape your responsibility as a member of the class of living organisms for your role in this situation.
Good point. Hydrocarbons are a great way to sequester carbon. So... let's convert that CO2 into petrol, and pump that into the oil wells.
In this way, we can save on the cost of refining the pumped hydrocarbons as well!
the folks at blackbox voting did this with one of the major systems. i can't remember if it was ES&S, Sequoia, or Diebold, but i do remember vividly that they changed the outcome of an election with a 5-line piece of VBScript.
at least with paper ballots it took actual human hands to change each vote individually. now it's a script-kiddie job.
Actually, I don't think the Supreme Court had jurisdiction over that case. States decide their electors according to the rules and laws and whims of each state. For the federal government to adjudicate on those rules is antipathetic to the federal principle, and to the Constitution.
I'm with Penn. I have two words for Parker and Stone: "Fuck" and "you".
> I mean, that's what Apple is all about- licking stuff.
that is almost enough to make me 'switch' right there.
And tyranny of the majority is worse than tyranny of the minority, how?
Personally, I'd like to see the office of the President eliminated in favor of a popular vote for each bill than passes congress, and direct election of the cabinet. All executive powers would be distributed over the elected secretaries and the people. And since voting via internet is so cheap, there should be a confidence vote every three months, where a slight supermajority can determine that a secretary needs to run again.
C-in-C of the armed forces would be devolved to the secretary of defense. And making pre-emptive war would be a capital offense.
Personally, I think it very accurately reflects George Bush's positions, policies, and performance.
I voted for that fascist murdering thief, but we have an old saying in Minnesota -- I know its in Texas, it should be in Minnesota -- "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, fool me... you can't get fooled again!".
Why not just inject a voip chip into the jawbone at birth? It should be firmware-upgradable, to support new applications, and powered by the body. Perhaps piezo stress from chewing, or temperature differences due to circulation. Software would support subvocalization, and sound would be produced by MEMS bone vibration. Voila, telepathic society.
The population of the maldives will relocate, or they will all die. End of story.
Personally, I expect Eclipse development using SWT to catch on, and supplant vs.net/c# development, because .net programs are such incredible resource pigs. A couple of tiny applets running at once can bury a current model laptop, easily.
Excelsior JET is an *excellent* commercial Java-to-native compiler, which eliminates that nasty JVM dependency that has been the bane of desktop Java.
Java has always had multiple inheritence. Cf. the 'interface' and 'implements' keywords.
Admittedly you have to manually delegate to get re-use of implementation, which is kinda stupid (blame Gosling), but it's still there.
KDE/Win32 is doing it. Help them, help yourself, help the world. We can end Outlook in our time.