Commune -- a body of people or families living together and sharing everything Communism -- Theory of political and economic development proposed by Karl Marx and developed and implemented by V. I. Lenin. In Marxist theory, "communism" denotes the final stage of human historical development in which the people rule both politically (compare: democracy) and economically (contrast: capitalism). Since the government, according to Marxist theory, is essentially an instrument of class oppression, and the society which emerges in this final stage is classless, as this final state is approaches government will gradually wither away (compare: anarchism).
Capital -- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value -- assets available for use in the production of further assets Capitalism -- A socio-economic system characterized by private initiative and the private ownership of factors of production. In such a system individuals have the right to own and use wealth to earn income and to sell and purchase labor for wages. Furthermore, capitalism is predicated on a relative absence of governmental control of the economy. The function of regulating the economy is achieved largely through the operation of market forces, whereby the price mechanism acts as a signalling system which determines the allocation of resources and their uses.
Capitol -- the place with all the politicians Capitolism -- never heard of it;-)
of course -- the country is in a moral decline. Look what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah! Sure, there were decent, god-fearing folk (at least a few, I'm sure) who got caught up in that whole fire and brimstone thing. If only they had taken to the streets and demanded that their city officials did something to stem the debauchery, at least one of the two cities might have been saved! America is no different. How can we sleep at night knowing that there is sinning going on in our neighbor's homes -- little kiddies watching satanic evil network tv shows. If we do not make our voices heard and demand that our government do something about it, we are no better than the Sodomites and Gammorons who sat quitetly in their homes doing nothing to combat the evil in their very midst until the lord could no longer stand the pugnent stench rising from the cities and and had to nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Well, yeah -- but there's a story that goes with this.
Coupler years ago I found myself on the sucky end of a reorg where I ended up working for this dweeb in Orlando (I'm in Chicago) where he would always do annoying things like ask what the weather was in Chicago and then spend 10 minutes talking about how it was 70 in January in Florida and he couldn't understand how anyone could stand 20 degree weather and then go on to blather about how he had gone fishing and caught fish and cooked them and on and on.
I had already set up a camera on my workstation long ago for netmeetings and I had occasionally pointed it out the window to show what the weather was like and the traffic down on the tollway below or the little driving range that is across the office park.
For some reason I got off the phone one day with this guy and decided I didn't want to get any work done for the rest of Friday afternoon and went about setting my camera up as a webcam (I used webcam2000 and then just set up a frames page on my webserver to include the image from the little port 8080 server that webcam2k runs).
"There, now the asshole can bring this up and take a look at the weather instead of asking me every time he calls!" I told my cube farm neighbors (who didn't work *for* him but still had to deal with his shit on a daily basis).
Next time he was on a call and asked about the weather, I told him what URL to use. Backfired. "Oh, looks really cold! What is it, like 20 below, bet even worse with the wind chill, huh?"
So, I wasted another hour or so in frustration (not because I needed to, but because it made me feel a little better) working on the webcam page to download the weather.com feed to show the current temp, wind, conditions, forecast and all that shit.
"Fucker, now he can just look at that and doesn't have to fukin ask me about the shitty weather in Chicago as a prelude to talking about how much he likes living in Florida and about his boat and what kind of fucking fish he caught last weekend and how he cooked it and what kind of beer he had with it and how could anyone live somewhere like Chicago where it's cold and you can't spend weekends in the Gulf fishing and drinking beer and getting fucked up the ass with a fishing pole. Fucker."
He still asked me about the weather every fucking day until I quit.
I set up a little script a long time ago to get weather data from an XML feed from the weather channel for our office webcam. It's free and was really easy to use...
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w require LWP::UserAgent; use XML::DOM; use CGI qw(:standard); # first, get the XML feed my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(env_proxy => 1, keep_alive => 1, timeout => 30); my $base_url="http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/6 0143?cc=*&prod=xoap"; my $par="&par=[removed]"; my $key="&key=[sign up to get one]"; $response = $ua->get("$base_url$par$key"); die "Error while getting ", $response->request->uri,
" -- ", $response->status_line, "\nAborting"
unless $response->is_success; my %weather = %$response; # then, parse out the crap we want my $parser = XML::DOM::Parser->new(); foreach(keys %weather){
$xmldoc = $parser->parse($weather{$_}) if(/content/); } foreach my $cur_cond ($xmldoc->getElementsByTagName('cc')){
$curr_cond{'lastup'} = $cur_cond->
getElementsByTagName('lsup')->item(0)->
getFirstChild->getNodeValue;
$curr_cond{'obsvst'} = $cur_cond->
getElementsByTagName('obst')->item(0)->
getFirstChild->getNodeValue;
$curr_cond{'temp'} = cur_cond->
getElementsByTagName('tmp')->item(0)-> &nb s p; getFirstChild->getNodeValue;
$curr_cond{'chill'} = $cur_cond->
getElementsByTagName('flik')->item(0)->
getFirstChild->getNodeValue;
$curr_cond{'text'} = $cur_cond->
getElementsByTagName('t')->item(0)->
getFirstChild->getNodeValue;
$curr_cond{'icon'} = cur_cond->
getElementsByTagName('icon')->item(0)->
getFirstChild->getNodeValue; } print header; print start_html("nice little cgi page to display the time/weather"); print <<EOF; <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p > <p><font size="-1">WebCam is located on 9th floor in Itasca<br/>
pointed out southeast window overlooking Thorndale</font></p> <form name="clock" onSubmit="0"> <input type="button" name="face" size=13 value=""> </form> EOF print end_html;
sorry about the atrocious formating - slashcode made me take out whitespace (what is the fricking point of an ecode tag supported if you can't post a small snippet like this without removing all the whitespace!?)
Elaine: See, the great thing about robbing a fat guy is it's an easy getaway. You know? They can't really chase ya!
George: He's actually doing him a favor. It's less money for him to buy food.
Robber: I want your wallet. Come on. Come on, come on.
Jerry: That's a shame. Alright, I'm gonna call NBC.
Victim: Officer, he's stealing my car! Officer, I was carjacked. I was held up at gunpoint! He took my wallet, everything!
Jerry: Okay, thanks anyway. They can't get another plane.
Kramer: All right, what's wrong with the plane we got? They're just checking it out.
Elaine: Forget it.
Jerry: No, no, no. We're not getting on there. Come on, let's go get something to eat in Sticksville.
Officer: All right, hold it right there.
Kramer: What?
Officer: You're under arrest.
Jerry: Under arrest? What for?
Officer: Article 223-7 of the Latham County Penal Code.
Elaine: What? No, no - we didn't do anything.
Officer: That's exactly right. The law requires you to help or assist anyone in danger as long as it's reasonable todo so.George: I never heard of that.
Officer: It's new. It's called the Good Samaritan Law. Let's go.
I think what he meant was people typing www.lokitorrent.com and www.suprnova.org into their browser because not only are there no links in the summary, there are no urls.;-p
*I know what you're saying though - being able to highlight and open as a url or even just do a google search is just too convenient and I can't imagine living life on this earth without it.
Yes, a vaccination typically refers to a preventive medical procedure where weakened or dead infectious material is injected into the patient to strengthen the immune system so it can fight off the real bug. This is called a "prophylactic" vaccine.
A vaccine isn't exclusively preventative, however. The term comes from how it is prepared, and does not exclude any particular use including treatment of an already infected patient.
a preparation that contains an infectious agent or its components which is administered to stimulate an immune response that will protect a person from illness due to that agent. A therapeutic (treatment) vaccine is given after infection and is intended to reduce or arrest disease progression. A preventive (prophylactic) vaccine is intended to prevent initial infection. Agents used in vaccines may be whole-killed (inactive), live-attenuated (weakened) or artificially manufactured. aids.hallym.ac.kr/dict/v.html
a preparation that stimulates an immune response that can prevent an infection or create resistance to an infection. www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/GLOSSARY. htm
A substance containing antigenic components from an infectious organism. By stimulating an immune response, it protects against subsequent infection by that organism. www.winabc.org/glossary/glossary5.html
I thought this too until I participated in HL2/Steam survey. After taking the survey post-install, you have the option to upload your system specs and then you get to see the stats on all other systems that have install HL2/Steam and have participated in the survey and allowed steam to upload their system specs.
I was floored by the large number of systems that reported XP SP1.
Federal conspiracy charges were filed in White Plains yesterday against two men whose alleged attempt to steal 150 circuit boards from a Verizon building Wednesday night disrupted 911 emergency service across the county for about seven hours.
oops - I'm sure they weren't interested in disrupting 911 service across state lines to make it a Federal "conspiracy" charge. Sounds like they will be made an example of and will likely end up in federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison.
Perot, H. Ross (Henry Ross Perot), 1930-, American business executive and political leader, b. Texarkana, Tex., grad. Annapolis, 1953. In 1957 he resigned his commission and became a salesman for IBM. In 1962 he founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS), one of the first computer data service companies. In 1984, he sold EDS to General Motors, but retained an interest in the company. Bitterly critical of General Motors management, he sold his remaining interests in EDS to GM for $700 million (1986). He diversified into real estate, gas, and oil and in 1988 started a new computer service company, Perot Systems.
On June 7 (96), after 11 years of GM ownership, EDS became an independent company. EDS announced a major restructuring, replacing the Leadership Council with an Executive Council and a Global Operations Council. The new structure was designed to bring smaller, more agile decision-making bodies closer to EDS organizations and clients. EDS also established a new board of directors and named several new corporate officers. GM announced a 10-year service contract with EDS and a similar agreement covering its international operations. On June 10, shares of a new EDS stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "EDS." The following day, EDS shares began trading on the London Stock Exchange.
I was picturing the reactors on the moon generating the power there and then "beaming" it to the earth (via microwave, or something) where it is collected by huge dish arrays and converted to electricity.
Only, there will have to be some failsafe to prevent the beamed energy from missing the collection dishes and vaporizing a nearby city.
Then we can concentrate on building the arcologies.
Slashdot Mirror
I stand corrected :-)
Capitalism or capitolism?
I just never heard of it, eh?
Commune -- a body of people or families living together and sharing everything
;-)
Communism -- Theory of political and economic development proposed by Karl Marx and developed and implemented by V. I. Lenin. In Marxist theory, "communism" denotes the final stage of human historical development in which the people rule both politically (compare: democracy) and economically (contrast: capitalism). Since the government, according to Marxist theory, is essentially an instrument of class oppression, and the society which emerges in this final stage is classless, as this final state is approaches government will gradually wither away (compare: anarchism).
Capital -- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value -- assets available for use in the production of further assets
Capitalism -- A socio-economic system characterized by private initiative and the private ownership of factors of production. In such a system individuals have the right to own and use wealth to earn income and to sell and purchase labor for wages. Furthermore, capitalism is predicated on a relative absence of governmental control of the economy. The function of regulating the economy is achieved largely through the operation of market forces, whereby the price mechanism acts as a signalling system which determines the allocation of resources and their uses.
Capitol -- the place with all the politicians
Capitolism -- never heard of it
Cingular Wireless is reportedly preparing to lay off about 10% of its 68,000.
How many employees does AOL have? What % is 950?
My company is giving out packages looking to reduce management by 20% (some 250 heads). I'm sure my company is nowhere near the size of AOL.
> Is that acceptable?
uh, read this http://www.rapturealert.com/sodomandgomorrah.html
of course -- the country is in a moral decline. Look what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah! Sure, there were decent, god-fearing folk (at least a few, I'm sure) who got caught up in that whole fire and brimstone thing. If only they had taken to the streets and demanded that their city officials did something to stem the debauchery, at least one of the two cities might have been saved! America is no different. How can we sleep at night knowing that there is sinning going on in our neighbor's homes -- little kiddies watching satanic evil network tv shows. If we do not make our voices heard and demand that our government do something about it, we are no better than the Sodomites and Gammorons who sat quitetly in their homes doing nothing to combat the evil in their very midst until the lord could no longer stand the pugnent stench rising from the cities and and had to nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
</sarcasm>
cold, but the winds are under 120 mph ;-p
Well, yeah -- but there's a story that goes with this.
Coupler years ago I found myself on the sucky end of a reorg where I ended up working for this dweeb in Orlando (I'm in Chicago) where he would always do annoying things like ask what the weather was in Chicago and then spend 10 minutes talking about how it was 70 in January in Florida and he couldn't understand how anyone could stand 20 degree weather and then go on to blather about how he had gone fishing and caught fish and cooked them and on and on.
I had already set up a camera on my workstation long ago for netmeetings and I had occasionally pointed it out the window to show what the weather was like and the traffic down on the tollway below or the little driving range that is across the office park.
For some reason I got off the phone one day with this guy and decided I didn't want to get any work done for the rest of Friday afternoon and went about setting my camera up as a webcam (I used webcam2000 and then just set up a frames page on my webserver to include the image from the little port 8080 server that webcam2k runs).
"There, now the asshole can bring this up and take a look at the weather instead of asking me every time he calls!" I told my cube farm neighbors (who didn't work *for* him but still had to deal with his shit on a daily basis).
Next time he was on a call and asked about the weather, I told him what URL to use. Backfired. "Oh, looks really cold! What is it, like 20 below, bet even worse with the wind chill, huh?"
So, I wasted another hour or so in frustration (not because I needed to, but because it made me feel a little better) working on the webcam page to download the weather.com feed to show the current temp, wind, conditions, forecast and all that shit.
"Fucker, now he can just look at that and doesn't have to fukin ask me about the shitty weather in Chicago as a prelude to talking about how much he likes living in Florida and about his boat and what kind of fucking fish he caught last weekend and how he cooked it and what kind of beer he had with it and how could anyone live somewhere like Chicago where it's cold and you can't spend weekends in the Gulf fishing and drinking beer and getting fucked up the ass with a fishing pole. Fucker."
He still asked me about the weather every fucking day until I quit.
http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html?
sorry about the atrocious formating - slashcode made me take out whitespace (what is the fricking point of an ecode tag supported if you can't post a small snippet like this without removing all the whitespace!?)
*snif* my experiences as a slashdot participant is complete -- I got a +5 funny fp (unintentionally).
I'd like to thank all the moderators for their generous contributions that made this possible! *snif*
Great boobies honeybun, my lower intestine is full of spam, egg, spam, bacon, spam, tomato, spam ...</english/hungarian phrase book>
this is pretty interesting, Hormel embracing the Python language and its role in combating unsolicited commercial email!
what? oh, nevermind then...
>My Ericcson(sic, probably)
Yup - Ericsson. Eric's son (scandinavian company/name)
The company's history dates back to 1876 when the founder, Lars Magnus Ericsson, opened a repair shop for telegraph equipment.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/freshwater/histlme.htm
just another barely on-topic post -- I don't feel much like doing any work tonight
>I don't think someone can be held responsible for inaction
Tell that to Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine
Robber: Alright fatso, out of the car.
Kramer: I want to capture this.
Robber: Come on! Gimme your wallet.
Victim: Don't shoot.
Jerry: Well, there goes the money for the lipo.
Elaine: See, the great thing about robbing a fat guy is it's an easy getaway. You know? They can't really chase ya!
George: He's actually doing him a favor. It's less money for him to buy food.
Robber: I want your wallet. Come on. Come on, come on.
Jerry: That's a shame. Alright, I'm gonna call NBC.
Victim: Officer, he's stealing my car! Officer, I was carjacked. I was held up at gunpoint! He took my wallet, everything!
Jerry: Okay, thanks anyway. They can't get another plane.
Kramer: All right, what's wrong with the plane we got? They're just checking it out.
Elaine: Forget it.
Jerry: No, no, no. We're not getting on there. Come on, let's go get something to eat in Sticksville.
Officer: All right, hold it right there.
Kramer: What?
Officer: You're under arrest.
Jerry: Under arrest? What for?
Officer: Article 223-7 of the Latham County Penal Code.
Elaine: What? No, no - we didn't do anything.
Officer: That's exactly right. The law requires you to help or assist anyone in danger as long as it's reasonable todo so.George: I never heard of that.
Officer: It's new. It's called the Good Samaritan Law. Let's go.
I could happen....
I didn't know that, thanks!!
that was really funny that the post appearing immediately below yours is a "Netcraft confirms it!" troll
9 84213
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131560&cid=10
There's a url in the summary?
;-p
I think what he meant was people typing www.lokitorrent.com and www.suprnova.org into their browser because not only are there no links in the summary, there are no urls.
*I know what you're saying though - being able to highlight and open as a url or even just do a google search is just too convenient and I can't imagine living life on this earth without it.
or http://www.moretgage.info/x/loan2.php?id=f17
btw, isn't mortgage spelled mortgage, not moretgage?
>18 - Only if we start letting them drink beer also
hey, we let them vote, isn't that *enough* !?
*shudder* 18 year old drinking beer with a remote-control armed robot
hell, I remember being 18 and getting all the beer I wanted -- now if I'd had access to an armed robot at the same time *shudder again*
Yes, a vaccination typically refers to a preventive medical procedure where weakened or dead infectious material is injected into the patient to strengthen the immune system so it can fight off the real bug. This is called a "prophylactic" vaccine.
. htm
A vaccine isn't exclusively preventative, however. The term comes from how it is prepared, and does not exclude any particular use including treatment of an already infected patient.
take your pick among Definitions of vaccine on the Web::
a preparation that contains an infectious agent or its components which is administered to stimulate an immune response that will protect a person from illness due to that agent. A therapeutic (treatment) vaccine is given after infection and is intended to reduce or arrest disease progression. A preventive (prophylactic) vaccine is intended to prevent initial infection. Agents used in vaccines may be whole-killed (inactive), live-attenuated (weakened) or artificially manufactured.
aids.hallym.ac.kr/dict/v.html
a preparation that stimulates an immune response that can prevent an infection or create resistance to an infection.
www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/GLOSSARY
A substance containing antigenic components from an infectious organism. By stimulating an immune response, it protects against subsequent infection by that organism.
www.winabc.org/glossary/glossary5.html
etc...
I was floored by the large number of systems that reported XP SP1.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
>at what point the embryos become a Human fetus
when does it attain a soul?
I'm not being sarcastic or serious, but that seems to be that non-scientific aspect that causes so much difference of opinion on this type of issue.
What you say makes sense to me. At some point, the living tissue becomes recognizable as human (by one standard or another).
>I've heard every argument from conception, to the development of a heart, to the development of a brain/brain activity
that's the sticky bit, isn't it -- who decides where to draw the line, based on science, morality, religious belief?
Hey, if it is stupid enough to come close enough to the little blue planet with the angry monkeys with rockets, it's its* own fault!
If the aliens want to keep their comet from getting a bathtub-sized copper suppository, keep it the hell away from us!
* wow, I hope I used the correct forms of possesive and contractions so the grammar nazis leave me alone!
Federal conspiracy charges were filed in White Plains yesterday against two men whose alleged attempt to steal 150 circuit boards from a Verizon building Wednesday night disrupted 911 emergency service across the county for about seven hours.
oops - I'm sure they weren't interested in disrupting 911 service across state lines to make it a Federal "conspiracy" charge. Sounds like they will be made an example of and will likely end up in federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison.
I think the first time I heard this was on star trek?
Mostly correct, though "recently" was 1996:
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Perot, H. Ross (Henry Ross Perot), 1930-, American business executive and political leader, b. Texarkana, Tex., grad. Annapolis, 1953. In 1957 he resigned his commission and became a salesman for IBM. In 1962 he founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS), one of the first computer data service companies. In 1984, he sold EDS to General Motors, but retained an interest in the company. Bitterly critical of General Motors management, he sold his remaining interests in EDS to GM for $700 million (1986). He diversified into real estate, gas, and oil and in 1988 started a new computer service company, Perot Systems.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0838476.htm
On June 7 (96), after 11 years of GM ownership, EDS became an independent company. EDS announced a major restructuring, replacing the Leadership Council with an Executive Council and a Global Operations Council. The new structure was designed to bring smaller, more agile decision-making bodies closer to EDS organizations and clients. EDS also established a new board of directors and named several new corporate officers. GM announced a 10-year service contract with EDS and a similar agreement covering its international operations. On June 10, shares of a new EDS stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "EDS." The following day, EDS shares began trading on the London Stock Exchange.
http://www.eds.com/about/history/timeline.aspx
I was picturing the reactors on the moon generating the power there and then "beaming" it to the earth (via microwave, or something) where it is collected by huge dish arrays and converted to electricity.
Only, there will have to be some failsafe to prevent the beamed energy from missing the collection dishes and vaporizing a nearby city.
Then we can concentrate on building the arcologies.