You find it difficult to believe that a deity capable of creating everything in the known universe could create mass quantities of water and then later make that water go away?
I've never seen a story that claims the flood and Noah's ark were real, but were due to natural causes that had nothing to do with an angry, vengeful God bent on destroying his own creations.
If you read the article you'll see that they are pushing the party line "if you copy it - you stole it".
Whether it's freely available or not, they're making no effort to point out that there are literally gigabytes or terrabytes of data that you can freely copy and distribute to your hearts content and are instead trying to bring it down to a simple point of "if you didn't pay for it then you must have stolen it"... and that's wrong.
"!DANGER! A dangerous toy. This toy is being made for the extreme priority the good looks. The little part which suffocates when the sharp part which gets hurt is swallowed is contained generously. Only the person who can take responsibility by itself is to play."
Yeah, I get a lot of e-mail that contains what appear to be snippets of text from a book before and/or after the main spam message, but its the ones that forget to include the spam message that amaze me... if it happened once or twice I'd ignore it, but I get 2 or 3 a day at work (someone in one of our Latin-America corporate offices sold a chunk of our corporate mailing list to a spammer - a chunk that includes my e-mail address - so I get a couple hundred spam per day).
Except it will most likely show up as "SEXUA11Y EXP1!C!T" and other crap like that to try and get around those filters.
Am I the only one who gets spam mail that has absolutely no way to contact anyone about the product? Between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2003 I must have received at least a hundred e-mails for those mini-RC cars that were everywhere that year and not one of them had an e-mail, web address or phone number to contact in case you wanted to actually buy one.
Now I'm getting really weird spam emails that don't even seem to advertise a product, just a series of random words strung together or sometimes completely blank. Not even in HTML format, just plain text with nothing or just random words.
Are these some sort of bizarre test messages or if I read them out loud will they reverse some subconcious hypnosis induced amnesia and cause me to act out my mission to kill the prime minister of Malaysia?
See, the reason that sprinkler systems are popular is that they tend to preserve human life.
So in the situation where Le Louvre has to choose between seeing the Mona Lisa destroyed by a conventional water sprinkler or seeing a few hundred filthy American tourists being cooked alive by 500 degree anoxic Sapphire steam, which do you think they'll choose?
You don't think a large glass case full of possibly colored clear liquid bubbling away like mad while you're working would look cool?
Toss in a few plastic carrots and other vegetables for decoration, maybe add a concentric spiral of red EL lighting at the bottom to look like an electric oven burner, etc?
This would be about as bright robbing a bank naked, in broad daylight, and using your own car as the getaway vehicle.
Think about the kind of people who are reading this right now...
Now picture them naked.
Ok, now think about what kind of sick, twisted, perverse people are actually going to take a good look at those kind of naked people and ask yourself, "Do any of those sick, twisted or perverse people work at my bank".
If the answer is no, then this might actually be a feasible plan...
but I'll bet that the cost per channel will be higher if this were to happen.
Ah, but if I can get rid of the channels I don't want/need (roughly 1/3 - 1/2 of them) then it should still bring my monthly bill down.
In order to get TechTV, I had to add the $5 per month "Sports Package" which includes several channels I don't want or need. In order to qualify for the Sports Package I had to upgrade to digital cable which includes 37 music-only channels I don't want or need, etc.
I don't really need 6 different news channels (CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, MNSBC, CNBC, Bloomberg) in addition to my local news channels - one would be sufficient, especially if I can save money by dropping 5 of them.
I could also get rid of E! Entertainment, Lifetime (I'd pay extra to be rid of that!), Lifetime Movie Network, The Hallmark Channel, etc. The list goes on and on.
The other reason I would love to drop channels is that unlike with DishNetwork and DirecTV, there is no way to block channels from showing up in the TV guide, so I have to sort through channels I don't even want to see just to try and find the shows that I do want.
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Actually it sounds like something from the RIAA or MPAA.
After all, all music and movies on CDs and DVDs are represented digitally by 1s and 0s. Inside a computer, these are represented by electrons, and since the Buckyballs are "stealing" electrons, they could therefore be used to "steal" music and/or movies. They must be stopped!
Someone alert the FBI and let them know that rampant Buckyballs are undermining our very way of life!
You can download a series of floppy disk images and turn just about any old PC with two NICs into a router with all sorts of limits, including P2P Filtering! www.mikrotik.com
I've been playing the PC version for just over a week now. I'm on the Asura server, and after having just recently played EverQuest, this game world (or maybe just this server) seems almost barren by comparison.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people all around, but you're not constantly having to push and shove your way around like you're in a subway station at rush hour.
I'm not a big fan of anime (I like it, just don't LOVE it like a lot of geeks) and some of the in-game stuff is a little too "cheesy" for my taste, but over all I'm really liking the game so far, it's a welcome change of pace and has been a lot of fun so far.
I'm running an AMD XP 2500+ at stock speeds and voltages with the OEM heatsink and some cheap, white thermal compound and my system sits as 119F (48C) and under heavy load (say many hours of hectic UT2K4) it gets as high as 130F (54C). That's the reading I get on the front of my case from a thermal probe touching the side of the raised center part of the top of the chip.
It's also very quiet, even with three case fans in it.
Jeez, Pedro. Unless you disenfranchise your information boundries, how can you ever hope to leverage your knowledge resources in a dynamic way to effect optimal... uh...
(shit. let me find my brochure. oh - here it is.)...to effect optimal return on your brain-market capitalization?
Whoa... that's a verbatim quote of what my boss said during my last performance appraisal... are you secretly my boss?
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You find it difficult to believe that a deity capable of creating everything in the known universe could create mass quantities of water and then later make that water go away?
I've never seen a story that claims the flood and Noah's ark were real, but were due to natural causes that had nothing to do with an angry, vengeful God bent on destroying his own creations.
Religion is the root of all evil.
No, Money is the root of all evil. Send $9.99 for more information.
If you read the article you'll see that they are pushing the party line "if you copy it - you stole it".
Whether it's freely available or not, they're making no effort to point out that there are literally gigabytes or terrabytes of data that you can freely copy and distribute to your hearts content and are instead trying to bring it down to a simple point of "if you didn't pay for it then you must have stolen it"... and that's wrong.
The difference is:
"10 dogs and one cat" vs. "11 dogs including one cat"
Aluminum. Not very strong, but how often do you see it shatter? It just bends
But if it doesn't shatter, then how can you expect to make a fortune selling replacement parts?
Many classic examples at Engrish.com
One of my favorites being this one which reads
"!DANGER! A dangerous toy. This toy is being made for the extreme priority the good looks. The little part which suffocates when the sharp part which gets hurt is swallowed is contained generously. Only the person who can take responsibility by itself is to play."
I'm not sure what toy that is, but I want one!
We can't even change our background image.
Aha! Well in Soviet Russia your background image can't even change you!
or something like that...
Shhh... This is Slashdot - there is no room for logical counterpoints here!
Patent that idea before they do, you'll make a killing licensing it.
IANAPL but, I'm pretty sure that by revealing it here publicly he has given up any rights to patent it.
Even a segway?
Ok, a Segway, but only with the low-speed key...
Yeah, I get a lot of e-mail that contains what appear to be snippets of text from a book before and/or after the main spam message, but its the ones that forget to include the spam message that amaze me... if it happened once or twice I'd ignore it, but I get 2 or 3 a day at work (someone in one of our Latin-America corporate offices sold a chunk of our corporate mailing list to a spammer - a chunk that includes my e-mail address - so I get a couple hundred spam per day).
Except it will most likely show up as "SEXUA11Y EXP1!C!T" and other crap like that to try and get around those filters.
Am I the only one who gets spam mail that has absolutely no way to contact anyone about the product? Between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2003 I must have received at least a hundred e-mails for those mini-RC cars that were everywhere that year and not one of them had an e-mail, web address or phone number to contact in case you wanted to actually buy one.
Now I'm getting really weird spam emails that don't even seem to advertise a product, just a series of random words strung together or sometimes completely blank. Not even in HTML format, just plain text with nothing or just random words.
Are these some sort of bizarre test messages or if I read them out loud will they reverse some subconcious hypnosis induced amnesia and cause me to act out my mission to kill the prime minister of Malaysia?
If you build it - I'll buy it.
See, the reason that sprinkler systems are popular is that they tend to preserve human life.
So in the situation where Le Louvre has to choose between seeing the Mona Lisa destroyed by a conventional water sprinkler or seeing a few hundred filthy American tourists being cooked alive by 500 degree anoxic Sapphire steam, which do you think they'll choose?
You don't think a large glass case full of possibly colored clear liquid bubbling away like mad while you're working would look cool?
Toss in a few plastic carrots and other vegetables for decoration, maybe add a concentric spiral of red EL lighting at the bottom to look like an electric oven burner, etc?
Dude, Spotted Owl eggs are much tastier... tastes kind of like Snail Darter with a hint of Baby Seal...
This would be about as bright robbing a bank naked, in broad daylight, and using your own car as the getaway vehicle.
Think about the kind of people who are reading this right now...
Now picture them naked.
Ok, now think about what kind of sick, twisted, perverse people are actually going to take a good look at those kind of naked people and ask yourself, "Do any of those sick, twisted or perverse people work at my bank".
If the answer is no, then this might actually be a feasible plan...
but I'll bet that the cost per channel will be higher if this were to happen.
Ah, but if I can get rid of the channels I don't want/need (roughly 1/3 - 1/2 of them) then it should still bring my monthly bill down.
In order to get TechTV, I had to add the $5 per month "Sports Package" which includes several channels I don't want or need. In order to qualify for the Sports Package I had to upgrade to digital cable which includes 37 music-only channels I don't want or need, etc.
I don't really need 6 different news channels (CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, MNSBC, CNBC, Bloomberg) in addition to my local news channels - one would be sufficient, especially if I can save money by dropping 5 of them.
I could also get rid of E! Entertainment, Lifetime (I'd pay extra to be rid of that!), Lifetime Movie Network, The Hallmark Channel, etc. The list goes on and on.
The other reason I would love to drop channels is that unlike with DishNetwork and DirecTV, there is no way to block channels from showing up in the TV guide, so I have to sort through channels I don't even want to see just to try and find the shows that I do want.
Actually it sounds like something from the RIAA or MPAA.
After all, all music and movies on CDs and DVDs are represented digitally by 1s and 0s. Inside a computer, these are represented by electrons, and since the Buckyballs are "stealing" electrons, they could therefore be used to "steal" music and/or movies. They must be stopped!
Someone alert the FBI and let them know that rampant Buckyballs are undermining our very way of life!
You can download a series of floppy disk images and turn just about any old PC with two NICs into a router with all sorts of limits, including P2P Filtering! www.mikrotik.com
dang... where's the "-1 Choad" modifier when you really need it?
I've been playing the PC version for just over a week now. I'm on the Asura server, and after having just recently played EverQuest, this game world (or maybe just this server) seems almost barren by comparison.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people all around, but you're not constantly having to push and shove your way around like you're in a subway station at rush hour.
I'm not a big fan of anime (I like it, just don't LOVE it like a lot of geeks) and some of the in-game stuff is a little too "cheesy" for my taste, but over all I'm really liking the game so far, it's a welcome change of pace and has been a lot of fun so far.
My guess is something is wrong somewhere.
I'm running an AMD XP 2500+ at stock speeds and voltages with the OEM heatsink and some cheap, white thermal compound and my system sits as 119F (48C) and under heavy load (say many hours of hectic UT2K4) it gets as high as 130F (54C). That's the reading I get on the front of my case from a thermal probe touching the side of the raised center part of the top of the chip.
It's also very quiet, even with three case fans in it.
Yeah, but I was more concerned about him calling me Pedro...
Jeez, Pedro. Unless you disenfranchise your information boundries, how can you ever hope to leverage your knowledge resources in a dynamic way to effect optimal... uh... (shit. let me find my brochure. oh - here it is.) ...to effect optimal return on your brain-market capitalization?
Whoa... that's a verbatim quote of what my boss said during my last performance appraisal... are you secretly my boss?