What's wrong with that? I like the word 'literally.' It has a nice syllabic structure to it, the triple l's allow it to roll off the tongue well. Its inherent meaning helps to solidify the fact that your statement is grounded in reality, as opposed to being some abstract, theoretical construct of the mind. Literal and all of its variants are very powerful words that, when used in the appropriate context, can really hammer an idea home. Its one of my favorite words.
I can't see myself giving off a heartwarming smile when I see something happy or frowning when I'm sad.
Well that's too bad. Where's the fun in watching a movie if you can't get lost enough in it to actually feel something? I mean, sure, it's fiction. That doesn't mean you can't let yourself empathize with the characters, or smile at their triumphs, or beetle your brow at one of their more perplexing decisions. Don't get me wrong, movies are not a substitute for real life, but being unable to watch a performance and not feel anything is... well... sad.
I hope you can open yourself up a bit someday, for your own sake and enjoyment.
Hehe, your post kind of rubbed in a sentiment I got at work earlier today when I first read this story on Spaceflightnow. Something finally clicked, while I was sitting there at my cubicle, that we are literally probing other solar systems for planets. Did you play Mass Effect? I am sure someone here did. What about Star Wars Rebellion? Does anyone remember how most of the systems in those games are mostly unexplored. The entries in the galactic database, or whatever, were a few short paragraphs describing what conditions were probably like on the planet, but no explorers had ever returned to find out. I remember when I played those games I would click through the text unthinkingly so I could go blow some shit up. But when I was sitting at my cubicle reading this story today, it hit me:
Kepler is literally writing those first few galactic database entries for us. Some years from now, be it years, decades, or centuries, when our ancestors are poking around other solar systems, they are going to be pulling up a few scant words describing the likely surface composition and climate data of some of these planets. They will pull up the mass estimates and other numbers associated with each body before dropping onto the surface of the planet to update/verify the database. They will literally be using the information gathered by Kepler and its successors to give them some insight about what they are going to step into.
Does that register with anyone else? We are literally starting to compile a database on planets in other solar systems, so that one day explorers will have something, no matter how small, to refer to when stepping into the unknown. We are writing our own version of Mass Efffect's Codex. When that dawned on me today I almost crapped my pants. Sure folks, we joke about instant communication and flying robot overlords being signs that we literally are living in the future, but holy mother of crap, we have a spacecraft, on orbit, sending data down to us right now that is compiling data on systems that we hope to one day explore. That just makes my heart flutter to think about. Our infantile species, that leaped into orbit only half a century ago, can start to seriously consider studying, and maybe one day exploring, extra-system planets. Say what you will about how stupid and hopeless humans are, but I'll be damned if something like the Kepler mission doesn't make me gasp at how amazing a species we can be....
Secondly, this study seems to have left out a lot of time from the day. Primarily, the study looks at humans who have spent greater than 6 hours per day sitting, or less than 3 hours per day sitting. What it doesn't do is discuss relevant times that were spent doing other things. For instance, suppose you sit right on the threshold. Suppose someone sits for 6 hours a day, but stands for three hours a day. I am pretty sure that still leaves 15 hours in that day. If we generously compensate for a 12 hour sleep period (far more than most folk I know), that still leaves 3 hours unaccounted for. I would assume those three hours were spent doing some combination of sitting and standing, and that the 6/3 hour marks are simply dividers as noted within the data. What I am curious about, though, is what exactly is the 'healthiest' method for spending your day. If I spend less than three hours a day sitting, that means I am spending 21 hours doing other stuff. If I sleep 12 hours, that means I get 9 hours of standing/physical activity. Have there been any studies done that discuss the health effects of 9 hours of straight standing/activity? I know that I've spent 10 hours doing hard manual labor before, and I can promise you that I did not feel healthy afterwards.
Also, is there any discussion or research being done regarding the best ways to break up these time intervals? Is it best to stand for three hours, sit for one, stand for three, sit for one, stand for three, and go to bed? Is it best to stand for 9 hours? Does it matter at all? For those of us spending 8 hours sitting at work, and possibly 1 to 2 hours commuting, that is a grand total of 9 to 10 hours a day of sitting. However, if we get up and bugger around for a 10 - 15 minute break every hour, that adds up to 150 minutes max, which is 2.5 hours. So now, if I take a 15 minute activity break every hour at work, I still am sitting more than 6 hours a day and standing less than three hours a day. So I am still screwed. And even more importantly, that kind of activity would probably show up on my review as damaging productivity. Can this be used as justification for insisting that my employer guarantees me more activity in my job, or perhaps more breaks?
This study certainly seems interesting from a relevancy point of view (despite the asinine way of presenting the results: chance of dying? come on that's ridiculous). However, there is almost no useful information that can be extracted from it that relates to the average office worker. In other words, what could I actually do to fix this other than changing jobs? From what I can tell, there is not a whole hell of a lot. All in all, it's an interesting study, but the results seem inescapably damning for modern work environments.
Nope. If you want to bow your head to whatever powers you recognize, go right ahead. I, for one, am a citizen. I will stand with my gaze locked to that of whomever thinks he can subjugate me. That will remain true until the day I die, even if it becomes the cause.
They're organized and have guns. Citizens are generally not organized, even when they have guns. I'm afraid the math doesn't work in your favor.
Ah, except we aren't in the stage that requires guns yet are we? Right now we're in the same cat and mouse stage that we play on the freeways every day. Police started fining for speed limits. Citizens started hiring lawyers. Police started using radar guns. Citizens started making radar detectors. Police set up speed traps. Citizens marked said speed traps on Google maps and GPS units to inform people. Police organize using CV radios. Citizens install CV radios in their cars. Since we aren't at the Mad Max stage of society yet, all those big guns that police are driving around with in their cars are useless in the ongoing battle between liberty and the law on the freeways.
Similarly, we are not at the stage yet where citizen armies need to organize and wage all out war on the police with regards to invasion of privacy. Right now, we get to play cat and mouse with technology. So the police want to use their better funding and organized networks to track us and invade our privacy? Fine, we take it to the courts. That doesn't work? Fine, we take it to the streets. They have funding and radios. We have access to every bit of tribal knowledge that every citizen has (regarding technology) and access to the internet. You say the math doesn't work in my favor. I disagree. I think armies of engineers, hackers, scientists, idealists, artists, and makers organizing cleverly across the internet can trump a few understaffed and underfunded state police departments any day. So they have paid R&D to make their jobs easier? We have hobbyists and folks with a chip on their shoulder that will R&D citizen technology for no reason other than ego. I say we are more than a match.
You can call me idealistic, or unrealistic, but I think you would be selling me short. I have watched open source operating systems go toe-to-toe with established organized corporations. I have watched open source microcontrollers go toe-to-toe with embedded systems technology in everything from robots to Segways. I have watched open-source data crunching projects fold proteins and discover pulsars. I have watched bloggers turn out stories that big media outlets have missed. I have watched citizens battle HOA's and states in court based on knowledge of the law they could gain from the internet. I have watched peer-to-peer networks topple an entire wing of the media industry.
You think the math is not on our side? We are citizens of one of the brightest, strongest, most diverse countries in the world. Freedom is our heritage. Strength is our creed. Justice is our birthright. It is here, on the internet, through collaboration and instant communication that we citizens have been fighting a turf war for liberty for over three decades now, and I've seen us win battles even when the losers want to cry foul and say we didn't play fair. I have seen an entire generation of kids brought up on the notion that knowledge wants to be free and any entity infringing on that notion is evil whether it be government, corporate, or private citizen. You don't think we are organized? Go look at make.com sometime. Go look at ifixit.com. Go look at any website that organizes the entire sum of human knowledge on a particular subject and pits it against those who would deprive us of resources.
The cops have guns and radios. We have the minds, hearts, hands, backs, and ideals of every loony, hero, genius, crackpot, and madman out there. We are the citizens of the United States of America. If the government really wants to start an arms race with its citizens, you can be damned sure it's going to regret it.
Okay, so, as a citizen of California, I have a question for the Slashdot techies out there. These GPS trackers that can be tacked onto my vehicle. How large are they? What do they resemble? Do they give off any transmission signal/EM radiation of some sort. I am personally appalled by this particular ruling, but if that's how things are going to be, then let the arms race begin. I want to know what, exactly, these GPS trackers do. Do they transmit your location data back to the GPS sat system? Or do they transmit to some kind of local receiver? Do we know that frequency they transmit on?
If the police and government are going to take active duty to track all citizens, without the burden of providing a reasonable level of suspect, then I say we, as citizens fight back for our rights. If the local police want to track our vehicles, what kind of devices can we hack together to detect these nasty little tracker chips? There has to be some way to build a receiver similar to whatever the police use to detect the GPS data, attach it to a small wand or golf club or something, and wave it around our car every time we get in it to make sure the trackers are not installed. So, GPS nerds out there, how's about we start putting together a How-To to homebrew a GPS tracker detector? Then, if we find a tracker attached to our vehicle, we can simply pull it off and duct tape it to the local stray cat.
When I was telling one of my friends he was amazed that I could sit for so long without doing anything. I can't understand how he's so constantly doing things.
He might be distracting himself from the reality of his own thoughts. If you tend to have an overly self-critical personality, or if you are generally unhappy about your present life situation, then sitting and doing nothing can afford you the opportunity to face the unpleasant thoughts that can come with such territory. Similarly, if your friend feels lonely, sitting around alone would afford him the opportunity to ponder his situation, which he may not want to do. I know I've had periods in my life where I had to keep myself distracted in order to avoid facing the pains that come along with heartbreak, a loss of a friend, etc. Watching the world go by, as you describe, tends to let reality settle in on one's self-awareness. That can be a hard thing to cope with.
Alternatively, your friend might just be the kind of person that values action above thought. There's nothing wrong with that, and I would wager that constantly doing things helps to fulfill your friend in ways nobody but himself understands. Ah well, to each their own.
So far that I know of, having a "reverse convention" in all circuit diagrams everywhere hasn't gotten people killed yet. If you touch a circuit that is powerful enough to kill you, it won't matter what direction the current is flowing in vs. what direction it is labeled as flowing in on the diagram. Of course, feel free to point me to any sources/stories of a backwards convention in electronics directly resulting in a person's death.
Now, the case with tubes in the medical industry is not analogous. Is it convention to use all clear, indistinguishable tubes? Yes. Has this single convention demonstrably gotten people killed? Yes. Would it really be impossible to make sure all oxygen tubes were blue, all liquid tubes pink, and all gas tubes green, or something similar? No. Should, therefore, the convention be changed? Yes.
The the backwards current issue is about as benign as basing all of our coordinate mathematics of "right hand" conventions. It really doesn't matter in the large scope of things. The medical tube convention is similar to using the same interface plugs for audio wiring as is used for power jacks, it's a practical application that can lead to costly fuck ups.
Have you fond that as you get older, you need more quite time to think than you did when you were younger? Do little distractions like email and IMs really cut into your productivity?
I'm 24 now. As I've grown out of my college years I've noticed this to be true. I can turn out more stuff (poetry, blog updates, electronic gizmos, whatever I'm working on) if I keep the instant messengers closed. I also like to have my door closed because my roomate has a bad habit of popping into my room to show me "the funniest thing ever" on Youtube which is usually a 10 second clip of someone injuring themselves. I don't really have the problem with music though. However, I do make a point to tune my internet radio station to a type of music that would make an appropriate soundtrack for whatever I am working on (for instance, if I am writing up a short story about a swordfight, the music would be some kind of kick-ass symphonic metal, or something similar). I do notice, however, that as I get older I have more of a tendency to turn on music and just stare at a wall while sipping a nice glass of whiskey. I used to always just think of music as appropriate background noise. These days I treat it almost like T.V., where I want to take the time to get lost in it.
What law does it violate? I am seriously asking and very curious about this as I have never heard of such a law before. So what law/statute/penal code would paying bloggers undisclosed money violate? Also, does that law encompass forms of payment like taking bloggers out to lunch? Or buying them memberships to something they might be interested in?
Yeah, I was a bit surprised by that to. I know since I created a UID here, I started making slashdot meme jokes in public and my social life has been on a steady decline ever since... >
The other half gets distributed among thieves claiming credit for your work, even though they didn't do a damn thing. They are parasites... nothing more.
Not a bad idea, but that's going to have to be a very strong 'X.' Rockets are used for orbital escape for a reason. They provide more thrust than any other engine existing today. Even the small basketball sized ones pack one hell of a punch.
Yeah, the more I read it the more I think you are right. There is nothing "rocket" about the science I would bet. Essentially, I would wager that all they are going to do is burn the N20 like in any other combustible engine and the only "rocket science" that will go into the process will be figuring out proper mixture ratios and flow rates...
So, you'd rather he bias whatever documents are leaked to his organization with his own personal views and analysis? I thought one of the defining creeds of slashdot was open and free data. If Assange posted nothing more than a personal analysis of the documents he's leaked, he'd be criticized for keeping secrets from the public and letting his personal bias take over objective analysis. It would be that whole stupid climate-gate scandal thing all over again.
At one point I held onto the romantic, idealistic hope that a Pirate Party could take hold here in the U.S. eventually. I think this publicity stunt will effectively keep that from happening.If a PP on American soil starts to gain any ground, they are going to be immediately lambasted and hung out to dry as terrorist supporting, anti-American, extremists because, hey, look, the Swedish branch helped embarrass the U.S. Military.
Ah well, time to start looking for a new source of hope in the States.
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What's wrong with that? I like the word 'literally.' It has a nice syllabic structure to it, the triple l's allow it to roll off the tongue well. Its inherent meaning helps to solidify the fact that your statement is grounded in reality, as opposed to being some abstract, theoretical construct of the mind. Literal and all of its variants are very powerful words that, when used in the appropriate context, can really hammer an idea home. Its one of my favorite words.
Huh, I hadn't thought of that. Strange, but interesting.
That's what I get for posting at midnight before falling asleep.
/facepalm for you.
Here, let me take care of my own
I can't see myself giving off a heartwarming smile when I see something happy or frowning when I'm sad.
Well that's too bad. Where's the fun in watching a movie if you can't get lost enough in it to actually feel something? I mean, sure, it's fiction. That doesn't mean you can't let yourself empathize with the characters, or smile at their triumphs, or beetle your brow at one of their more perplexing decisions. Don't get me wrong, movies are not a substitute for real life, but being unable to watch a performance and not feel anything is ... well ... sad.
I hope you can open yourself up a bit someday, for your own sake and enjoyment.
Such a shot of perspective might help you profit in the knowledge that profit is really a pretty meaningless and petty pursuit....
Hehe, your post kind of rubbed in a sentiment I got at work earlier today when I first read this story on Spaceflightnow. Something finally clicked, while I was sitting there at my cubicle, that we are literally probing other solar systems for planets. Did you play Mass Effect? I am sure someone here did. What about Star Wars Rebellion? Does anyone remember how most of the systems in those games are mostly unexplored. The entries in the galactic database, or whatever, were a few short paragraphs describing what conditions were probably like on the planet, but no explorers had ever returned to find out. I remember when I played those games I would click through the text unthinkingly so I could go blow some shit up. But when I was sitting at my cubicle reading this story today, it hit me:
Kepler is literally writing those first few galactic database entries for us. Some years from now, be it years, decades, or centuries, when our ancestors are poking around other solar systems, they are going to be pulling up a few scant words describing the likely surface composition and climate data of some of these planets. They will pull up the mass estimates and other numbers associated with each body before dropping onto the surface of the planet to update/verify the database. They will literally be using the information gathered by Kepler and its successors to give them some insight about what they are going to step into.
Does that register with anyone else? We are literally starting to compile a database on planets in other solar systems, so that one day explorers will have something, no matter how small, to refer to when stepping into the unknown. We are writing our own version of Mass Efffect's Codex. When that dawned on me today I almost crapped my pants. Sure folks, we joke about instant communication and flying robot overlords being signs that we literally are living in the future, but holy mother of crap, we have a spacecraft, on orbit, sending data down to us right now that is compiling data on systems that we hope to one day explore. That just makes my heart flutter to think about. Our infantile species, that leaped into orbit only half a century ago, can start to seriously consider studying, and maybe one day exploring, extra-system planets. Say what you will about how stupid and hopeless humans are, but I'll be damned if something like the Kepler mission doesn't make me gasp at how amazing a species we can be....
First off, here is a link to the abstract of the paper itself (if anyone could find a non-locked version, I'd be interested in reading).
Secondly, this study seems to have left out a lot of time from the day. Primarily, the study looks at humans who have spent greater than 6 hours per day sitting, or less than 3 hours per day sitting. What it doesn't do is discuss relevant times that were spent doing other things. For instance, suppose you sit right on the threshold. Suppose someone sits for 6 hours a day, but stands for three hours a day. I am pretty sure that still leaves 15 hours in that day. If we generously compensate for a 12 hour sleep period (far more than most folk I know), that still leaves 3 hours unaccounted for. I would assume those three hours were spent doing some combination of sitting and standing, and that the 6/3 hour marks are simply dividers as noted within the data. What I am curious about, though, is what exactly is the 'healthiest' method for spending your day. If I spend less than three hours a day sitting, that means I am spending 21 hours doing other stuff. If I sleep 12 hours, that means I get 9 hours of standing/physical activity. Have there been any studies done that discuss the health effects of 9 hours of straight standing/activity? I know that I've spent 10 hours doing hard manual labor before, and I can promise you that I did not feel healthy afterwards.
Also, is there any discussion or research being done regarding the best ways to break up these time intervals? Is it best to stand for three hours, sit for one, stand for three, sit for one, stand for three, and go to bed? Is it best to stand for 9 hours? Does it matter at all? For those of us spending 8 hours sitting at work, and possibly 1 to 2 hours commuting, that is a grand total of 9 to 10 hours a day of sitting. However, if we get up and bugger around for a 10 - 15 minute break every hour, that adds up to 150 minutes max, which is 2.5 hours. So now, if I take a 15 minute activity break every hour at work, I still am sitting more than 6 hours a day and standing less than three hours a day. So I am still screwed. And even more importantly, that kind of activity would probably show up on my review as damaging productivity. Can this be used as justification for insisting that my employer guarantees me more activity in my job, or perhaps more breaks?
This study certainly seems interesting from a relevancy point of view (despite the asinine way of presenting the results: chance of dying? come on that's ridiculous). However, there is almost no useful information that can be extracted from it that relates to the average office worker. In other words, what could I actually do to fix this other than changing jobs? From what I can tell, there is not a whole hell of a lot. All in all, it's an interesting study, but the results seem inescapably damning for modern work environments.
Nope. If you want to bow your head to whatever powers you recognize, go right ahead. I, for one, am a citizen. I will stand with my gaze locked to that of whomever thinks he can subjugate me. That will remain true until the day I die, even if it becomes the cause.
They're organized and have guns. Citizens are generally not organized, even when they have guns. I'm afraid the math doesn't work in your favor.
Ah, except we aren't in the stage that requires guns yet are we? Right now we're in the same cat and mouse stage that we play on the freeways every day. Police started fining for speed limits. Citizens started hiring lawyers. Police started using radar guns. Citizens started making radar detectors. Police set up speed traps. Citizens marked said speed traps on Google maps and GPS units to inform people. Police organize using CV radios. Citizens install CV radios in their cars. Since we aren't at the Mad Max stage of society yet, all those big guns that police are driving around with in their cars are useless in the ongoing battle between liberty and the law on the freeways.
Similarly, we are not at the stage yet where citizen armies need to organize and wage all out war on the police with regards to invasion of privacy. Right now, we get to play cat and mouse with technology. So the police want to use their better funding and organized networks to track us and invade our privacy? Fine, we take it to the courts. That doesn't work? Fine, we take it to the streets. They have funding and radios. We have access to every bit of tribal knowledge that every citizen has (regarding technology) and access to the internet. You say the math doesn't work in my favor. I disagree. I think armies of engineers, hackers, scientists, idealists, artists, and makers organizing cleverly across the internet can trump a few understaffed and underfunded state police departments any day. So they have paid R&D to make their jobs easier? We have hobbyists and folks with a chip on their shoulder that will R&D citizen technology for no reason other than ego. I say we are more than a match.
You can call me idealistic, or unrealistic, but I think you would be selling me short. I have watched open source operating systems go toe-to-toe with established organized corporations. I have watched open source microcontrollers go toe-to-toe with embedded systems technology in everything from robots to Segways. I have watched open-source data crunching projects fold proteins and discover pulsars. I have watched bloggers turn out stories that big media outlets have missed. I have watched citizens battle HOA's and states in court based on knowledge of the law they could gain from the internet. I have watched peer-to-peer networks topple an entire wing of the media industry.
You think the math is not on our side? We are citizens of one of the brightest, strongest, most diverse countries in the world. Freedom is our heritage. Strength is our creed. Justice is our birthright. It is here, on the internet, through collaboration and instant communication that we citizens have been fighting a turf war for liberty for over three decades now, and I've seen us win battles even when the losers want to cry foul and say we didn't play fair. I have seen an entire generation of kids brought up on the notion that knowledge wants to be free and any entity infringing on that notion is evil whether it be government, corporate, or private citizen. You don't think we are organized? Go look at make.com sometime. Go look at ifixit.com. Go look at any website that organizes the entire sum of human knowledge on a particular subject and pits it against those who would deprive us of resources.
The cops have guns and radios. We have the minds, hearts, hands, backs, and ideals of every loony, hero, genius, crackpot, and madman out there. We are the citizens of the United States of America. If the government really wants to start an arms race with its citizens, you can be damned sure it's going to regret it.
Okay, so, as a citizen of California, I have a question for the Slashdot techies out there. These GPS trackers that can be tacked onto my vehicle. How large are they? What do they resemble? Do they give off any transmission signal/EM radiation of some sort. I am personally appalled by this particular ruling, but if that's how things are going to be, then let the arms race begin. I want to know what, exactly, these GPS trackers do. Do they transmit your location data back to the GPS sat system? Or do they transmit to some kind of local receiver? Do we know that frequency they transmit on?
If the police and government are going to take active duty to track all citizens, without the burden of providing a reasonable level of suspect, then I say we, as citizens fight back for our rights. If the local police want to track our vehicles, what kind of devices can we hack together to detect these nasty little tracker chips? There has to be some way to build a receiver similar to whatever the police use to detect the GPS data, attach it to a small wand or golf club or something, and wave it around our car every time we get in it to make sure the trackers are not installed. So, GPS nerds out there, how's about we start putting together a How-To to homebrew a GPS tracker detector? Then, if we find a tracker attached to our vehicle, we can simply pull it off and duct tape it to the local stray cat.
When I was telling one of my friends he was amazed that I could sit for so long without doing anything. I can't understand how he's so constantly doing things.
He might be distracting himself from the reality of his own thoughts. If you tend to have an overly self-critical personality, or if you are generally unhappy about your present life situation, then sitting and doing nothing can afford you the opportunity to face the unpleasant thoughts that can come with such territory. Similarly, if your friend feels lonely, sitting around alone would afford him the opportunity to ponder his situation, which he may not want to do. I know I've had periods in my life where I had to keep myself distracted in order to avoid facing the pains that come along with heartbreak, a loss of a friend, etc. Watching the world go by, as you describe, tends to let reality settle in on one's self-awareness. That can be a hard thing to cope with.
Alternatively, your friend might just be the kind of person that values action above thought. There's nothing wrong with that, and I would wager that constantly doing things helps to fulfill your friend in ways nobody but himself understands. Ah well, to each their own.
This system is virtually idiot proof.
I have a few friends and a Youtube-ready video camera that would like to challenge that assertion....
So far that I know of, having a "reverse convention" in all circuit diagrams everywhere hasn't gotten people killed yet. If you touch a circuit that is powerful enough to kill you, it won't matter what direction the current is flowing in vs. what direction it is labeled as flowing in on the diagram. Of course, feel free to point me to any sources/stories of a backwards convention in electronics directly resulting in a person's death.
Now, the case with tubes in the medical industry is not analogous. Is it convention to use all clear, indistinguishable tubes? Yes. Has this single convention demonstrably gotten people killed? Yes. Would it really be impossible to make sure all oxygen tubes were blue, all liquid tubes pink, and all gas tubes green, or something similar? No. Should, therefore, the convention be changed? Yes.
The the backwards current issue is about as benign as basing all of our coordinate mathematics of "right hand" conventions. It really doesn't matter in the large scope of things. The medical tube convention is similar to using the same interface plugs for audio wiring as is used for power jacks, it's a practical application that can lead to costly fuck ups.
You can also do this kind of thing while driving. So much so that you can often forget the details of how you got somewhere.
Have you fond that as you get older, you need more quite time to think than you did when you were younger? Do little distractions like email and IMs really cut into your productivity?
I'm 24 now. As I've grown out of my college years I've noticed this to be true. I can turn out more stuff (poetry, blog updates, electronic gizmos, whatever I'm working on) if I keep the instant messengers closed. I also like to have my door closed because my roomate has a bad habit of popping into my room to show me "the funniest thing ever" on Youtube which is usually a 10 second clip of someone injuring themselves. I don't really have the problem with music though. However, I do make a point to tune my internet radio station to a type of music that would make an appropriate soundtrack for whatever I am working on (for instance, if I am writing up a short story about a swordfight, the music would be some kind of kick-ass symphonic metal, or something similar). I do notice, however, that as I get older I have more of a tendency to turn on music and just stare at a wall while sipping a nice glass of whiskey. I used to always just think of music as appropriate background noise. These days I treat it almost like T.V., where I want to take the time to get lost in it.
What law does it violate? I am seriously asking and very curious about this as I have never heard of such a law before. So what law/statute/penal code would paying bloggers undisclosed money violate? Also, does that law encompass forms of payment like taking bloggers out to lunch? Or buying them memberships to something they might be interested in?
Absolutely genius... I am going to have to try that.
Yeah, I was a bit surprised by that to. I know since I created a UID here, I started making slashdot meme jokes in public and my social life has been on a steady decline ever since... >
The other half gets distributed among thieves claiming credit for your work, even though they didn't do a damn thing. They are parasites... nothing more.
So....it follows the middle management model?
Not a bad idea, but that's going to have to be a very strong 'X.' Rockets are used for orbital escape for a reason. They provide more thrust than any other engine existing today. Even the small basketball sized ones pack one hell of a punch.
Yeah, the more I read it the more I think you are right. There is nothing "rocket" about the science I would bet. Essentially, I would wager that all they are going to do is burn the N20 like in any other combustible engine and the only "rocket science" that will go into the process will be figuring out proper mixture ratios and flow rates...
So, you'd rather he bias whatever documents are leaked to his organization with his own personal views and analysis? I thought one of the defining creeds of slashdot was open and free data. If Assange posted nothing more than a personal analysis of the documents he's leaked, he'd be criticized for keeping secrets from the public and letting his personal bias take over objective analysis. It would be that whole stupid climate-gate scandal thing all over again.
At one point I held onto the romantic, idealistic hope that a Pirate Party could take hold here in the U.S. eventually. I think this publicity stunt will effectively keep that from happening.If a PP on American soil starts to gain any ground, they are going to be immediately lambasted and hung out to dry as terrorist supporting, anti-American, extremists because, hey, look, the Swedish branch helped embarrass the U.S. Military.
Ah well, time to start looking for a new source of hope in the States.
Homestarrunner.com is still running on flash.
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