yea i agree, fission seems to be the best option to replace all the fossil fuels currently used, ie prop up the power grid alongside hydro and wind, and hopefully produce hydrogen fuel via electrolysis. it seems we have the tech now to do these things, it just requires the want.
well microwave might be the wrong word, but electromagnetic radiation is definitely a problem for a wood encased pc and its unlikely this would be fcc approved if it were a commercial product. then again my desktop currently resides in a plywood box, and i have to say heat dissipation is more of a problem.
wtf, why should you have to insure your car? if you drive responsibly, then you will not cause accidents and you don't need insurance. i would go so far as to say they should ban car insurance (except 1st party and against theft) and make people criminally responsible for any damage they cause while driving.
i think you grossly overestimate how much extra tax you will pay:), for instance on 10 September 2001 Donald Rumsfeld announced that the pentagon could not account (ie they payed twice for stuff) for 3 trillion dollars of taxpayer money, thats $5,000 for every man woman and child. re-factor that spending in more intelligent and perhaps more socialist ways, and indeed you find you have free health care- for free.
or rock on down to the pentagon and ask for your tax money back, in bazookas!
but seriously, the doctor will refer you to a mental-health specialist, for an acute case of hypochondria if you act like that.
you will still pay for those visits, we have socialist health care here, and it costs about US $25 dollars for a doctors visit depending on your income. do your research before making inane comments.
yea socialism mostly just means things like: public health care, welfare system, governmental Philanthropy in the arts and cultural affairs etc. many Americans had an irrational fear of it until Obama mentioned "change", it must have have been a keyword to snap them out of the commie hating hypnotism that Reaganomics put them under. what GP was talking about was Statism, which is kind of more like Microsoft or maybe apple than anyone (Microsoft are Nazis and apple are Stalinists).
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i dunno, ever tried getting pregnant? i hear gender plays a non benign role there:).
exactly, almost everyone else posting here has far to much faith in humanity, when only a decade or so ago people were dumping babies of the wrong sex. thats not even taking into account the vicariousness that people derive from their children, all of their terrible neuroses will manifest themselves in their child's genes, feel bad about your stature? why not design a child thats 7 feet tall and weighs 180kg, why not give him a 10 inch dick, fuck why not go the whole hog and breed a whole heap of these cunts, give em bullet proof scales and send them packing for Iran.
please - these parents want the baby they choose, not whats best for their babies. in the future, the paris hilton types will have "toy" babies in their hag bags, instead of toy dogs.
yes the problem with ethanol fuel, is that the government loses a revenue source. there is nothing stupid about drinking ethanol, in fact almost everyone does it. they really don't care about peoples health because, down and out people will still drink their methanol "denatured" poisoned brew.
the good thing about using fat, is that you don't have to reformat your card when you plug it into your windows/mac box, or perhaps have to install extra software to read it.
may we continue with the slashdot Microsoft apologist categories? first we have the developer who has invested so much time into learning the windows API that he's scared shitless about the thought that customers/bosses might consider using anything else, and his livelihood rests on making jokes about the Linux desktop, free BSD, macOSX, the iphone, google android, or anything else that threatens the software dictatorship that he's to ignorant to look beyond.
Second we have the childish one that likes to play these silly things called "games". strangely enough i have more patience for the second one, because their position is a little more justifiable.
oh yeah i just wrote a FLTK http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/main.html
app that is 241 kilobytes in size for you. its a friggin text box too. (compiled for windows)
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=7fa4fa1 if you are interested.
yea most developers think like you, just add more & more crap until the app is so slow its totally unusable.
how many people actually use the regional encodings of apps anyway? i have heard that most of the common commands dont translate well anyway.
it seems to me that a lot of apps include all the unicode bloat without actually including any localization.
a drunkard would be much easier to fight, because his/her reaction times are more impaired.
however if what your trying to say is that getting high is awesome, then i concur, and for that matter so is getting pissed
perhaps i was being self-righteous, but as for NZ foreign policy, there has never been a threat to NZ soil, so all of or military might (or lack thereof) has been directed at helping our allies.
I personally think our Anti-Nuclear stance is a little restrictive, i would love to see all the coal-fired power plants replaced with nuclear ones, to reduce greenhouse output. But the policy of mutually assured destruction, is fucking ridiculous. i don't think that any tax dollars, should be spent on nuclear submarines, because i don't think anyone should use them.
the only reason countries like Iran and North Korea are developing nuclear arms, is to catch up with the west.
yea unprovoked attacks like the one you mentioned are few and far between here, but one of my neighbors was stabbed to death out of a case of mistaken identity - the attacker thought he was a rival drug dealer. He was actually only four houses down, pretty dodgy stuff. but without wearing a stab proof vest 24/7, the only protection against chance attack like that is an improbability drive.
one of the worst attacks in recent memory was on a 14 yo boy, who was stabbed to death by a businessman, who was "protecting his property" after he caught him spray-painting his garage.
because the judge has your mentality, that man got only 4 years (http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/18436.html)
can i ask you this- how would you respond to finding a burglar in your house?
what i'm saying, is that i am not trying to be arrogant, or morally superior, its just that i can think of to few situations where both:.
A) the response is warranted by the crime
B) a response would be effective.
For me if i found that burglar and decided to attack him/her, chances are he is bigger than me, so i would have to arm myself to stand a chance. this would mean escalating the situation. so i grab a knife/baseball bat/spoon and let into him, probably killing him, resulting in the manslaughter of a man, who if i called the oinkers would got about 3 years behind bars, and been able to get on with his life - for better or worse afterwards.
he would have got the democratically decided sentence (in an ideal world).
actually New Zealand kind of is a monarchy, but thats a different story altogether.
well i guess i was saying, that im not a member of that finite set of customers, so to speak.
When i (hopefully) become a member of that paying elite i will gladly fork out the dollars, just so i can have a collection of pretentious CDs, to show the classy pussy that i invite round for dinner parties.
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but then again, you're liberal by name only if you think this is a good idea.
instead, because its an article about Ext4, theres a load of Ext4-bashing and jokes. it would be quite unfair if it was full of Microsoft-bashing.
yea i agree, fission seems to be the best option to replace all the fossil fuels currently used, ie prop up the power grid alongside hydro and wind, and hopefully produce hydrogen fuel via electrolysis. it seems we have the tech now to do these things, it just requires the want.
the software must run on top of a virtual machine, and both the software and virtual machine must be written in machine code by hand!
well microwave might be the wrong word, but electromagnetic radiation is definitely a problem for a wood encased pc and its unlikely this would be fcc approved if it were a commercial product. then again my desktop currently resides in a plywood box, and i have to say heat dissipation is more of a problem.
wtf, why should you have to insure your car? if you drive responsibly, then you will not cause accidents and you don't need insurance. i would go so far as to say they should ban car insurance (except 1st party and against theft) and make people criminally responsible for any damage they cause while driving.
totally agree, i'm not sure its even an improvement on the Howard regime anymore...
nice quote from thatcher, she really is a shining figure for world leaders to aspire too, right up there with Nixon and Reagan i should think ;).
i think you grossly overestimate how much extra tax you will pay :), for instance on 10 September 2001 Donald Rumsfeld announced that the pentagon could not account (ie they payed twice for stuff) for 3 trillion dollars of taxpayer money, thats $5,000 for every man woman and child. re-factor that spending in more intelligent and perhaps more socialist ways, and indeed you find you have free health care- for free.
or rock on down to the pentagon and ask for your tax money back, in bazookas!
but seriously, the doctor will refer you to a mental-health specialist, for an acute case of hypochondria if you act like that.
if your easily offended by anti-Microsoft sentiments you might feel more at home here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/default.aspx#
you will still pay for those visits, we have socialist health care here, and it costs about US $25 dollars for a doctors visit depending on your income. do your research before making inane comments.
yea socialism mostly just means things like: public health care, welfare system, governmental Philanthropy in the arts and cultural affairs etc. many Americans had an irrational fear of it until Obama mentioned "change", it must have have been a keyword to snap them out of the commie hating hypnotism that Reaganomics put them under. what GP was talking about was Statism, which is kind of more like Microsoft or maybe apple than anyone (Microsoft are Nazis and apple are Stalinists).
i dunno, ever tried getting pregnant? i hear gender plays a non benign role there :).
exactly, a forked tongue would be far more useful when pleasuring women.
exactly, almost everyone else posting here has far to much faith in humanity, when only a decade or so ago people were dumping babies of the wrong sex. thats not even taking into account the vicariousness that people derive from their children, all of their terrible neuroses will manifest themselves in their child's genes, feel bad about your stature? why not design a child thats 7 feet tall and weighs 180kg, why not give him a 10 inch dick, fuck why not go the whole hog and breed a whole heap of these cunts, give em bullet proof scales and send them packing for Iran.
please - these parents want the baby they choose, not whats best for their babies. in the future, the paris hilton types will have "toy" babies in their hag bags, instead of toy dogs.
it really doesn't make any difference to me what the process is, people this shallow shouldn't be breeding at all.
yes the problem with ethanol fuel, is that the government loses a revenue source. there is nothing stupid about drinking ethanol, in fact almost everyone does it. they really don't care about peoples health because, down and out people will still drink their methanol "denatured" poisoned brew.
...i have these things called legs, and i use them to push these things called pedals... but in all seriousness, thighs of steel.
the good thing about using fat, is that you don't have to reformat your card when you plug it into your windows/mac box, or perhaps have to install extra software to read it.
may we continue with the slashdot Microsoft apologist categories? first we have the developer who has invested so much time into learning the windows API that he's scared shitless about the thought that customers/bosses might consider using anything else, and his livelihood rests on making jokes about the Linux desktop, free BSD, macOSX, the iphone, google android, or anything else that threatens the software dictatorship that he's to ignorant to look beyond. Second we have the childish one that likes to play these silly things called "games". strangely enough i have more patience for the second one, because their position is a little more justifiable.
oh yeah i just wrote a FLTK http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/main.html app that is 241 kilobytes in size for you. its a friggin text box too. (compiled for windows) http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=7fa4fa1 if you are interested. yea most developers think like you, just add more & more crap until the app is so slow its totally unusable. how many people actually use the regional encodings of apps anyway? i have heard that most of the common commands dont translate well anyway. it seems to me that a lot of apps include all the unicode bloat without actually including any localization.
a drunkard would be much easier to fight, because his/her reaction times are more impaired. however if what your trying to say is that getting high is awesome, then i concur, and for that matter so is getting pissed
perhaps i was being self-righteous, but as for NZ foreign policy, there has never been a threat to NZ soil, so all of or military might (or lack thereof) has been directed at helping our allies. I personally think our Anti-Nuclear stance is a little restrictive, i would love to see all the coal-fired power plants replaced with nuclear ones, to reduce greenhouse output. But the policy of mutually assured destruction, is fucking ridiculous. i don't think that any tax dollars, should be spent on nuclear submarines, because i don't think anyone should use them. the only reason countries like Iran and North Korea are developing nuclear arms, is to catch up with the west. yea unprovoked attacks like the one you mentioned are few and far between here, but one of my neighbors was stabbed to death out of a case of mistaken identity - the attacker thought he was a rival drug dealer. He was actually only four houses down, pretty dodgy stuff. but without wearing a stab proof vest 24/7, the only protection against chance attack like that is an improbability drive. one of the worst attacks in recent memory was on a 14 yo boy, who was stabbed to death by a businessman, who was "protecting his property" after he caught him spray-painting his garage. because the judge has your mentality, that man got only 4 years (http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/national/18436.html) can i ask you this- how would you respond to finding a burglar in your house? what i'm saying, is that i am not trying to be arrogant, or morally superior, its just that i can think of to few situations where both:. A) the response is warranted by the crime B) a response would be effective. For me if i found that burglar and decided to attack him/her, chances are he is bigger than me, so i would have to arm myself to stand a chance. this would mean escalating the situation. so i grab a knife/baseball bat/spoon and let into him, probably killing him, resulting in the manslaughter of a man, who if i called the oinkers would got about 3 years behind bars, and been able to get on with his life - for better or worse afterwards. he would have got the democratically decided sentence (in an ideal world). actually New Zealand kind of is a monarchy, but thats a different story altogether.
well i guess i was saying, that im not a member of that finite set of customers, so to speak. When i (hopefully) become a member of that paying elite i will gladly fork out the dollars, just so i can have a collection of pretentious CDs, to show the classy pussy that i invite round for dinner parties.