As the OLPC project well demonstrated, giving laptops to children only results in them surfing more porn then they did before. So this is really more of a "sex ed" project then anything...whether they want to admit it or not.
" the Chernobyl nuclear accident led to more than one hundred times the nuclear fallout of what was experienced during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. "
Fucking retards
You make a flawed argument. It may well be that the nuclear fallout was 100 times worse, but Chernobyl was not a bomb. It did not kill ~150000 people outright _and_ also have lasting effects. Lots of people died as a result of Chernobyl, but nowhere near the scale of the two atomic bombings on Japan.
The vikings in Greenland considered eating fish taboo. They died pure.
What? The Norse in Greenland went from a 20% fish diet during the medieval warming period to 80% fish towards the the beginning of the little ice-age before the population collapse. As with many things there wasn't one clear reason. Deforestation, soil erosion, over grazing and a few harsh winters in a row seem to have been the culprits.
Unfortunately that's still subject to a man-in-the-middle attack.
Do you really want to live with the thought that maybe in 3 million years time some aliens will come to Earth, seek out your descendants and taunt them mercilessly about your collection of goat pr0n?
Think of your great great... great great mutant humanoid grandchildren!
What gets me is: "The president [USA] earns a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 non-taxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment." And: "At present the Prime Minister [UK] receives £127,334 in addition to a salary of £60,277 as a Member of Parliament." Compared to: "Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman was the highest paid CEO in 2008, taking home $702,440,573 in salary and stock options. Schwarzman will receive the other 75% of his $4.7 billion equity grant from the IPO in equal installments over the next four years."
Question: Are we paying the leaders of two of the largest/most influential countries in the world too much, or too little?
Thank you for this. It's true the early stages were cagey to say the least. You have to remember that everyone was only just recovering from WWI at this time. It is with sorrow that we (British) didn't step in sooner but no one really knew how far and how hard Hitler was willing to push things. The hope for diplomacy was held out until almost too late. I think most of Europe hoped that Germany would just annex Poland (sorry) and that would be that. Wish you hadn't posted AC as you should be modded up.
"...but if you take out the hard to get past old english..."
Just to pick nits, Shakespeare is absolutely _not_ Old English. It's Middle English. "cearu and sacu ádreccað ðæt folc" would be an example of Old English. A tad harder to ken than Shakespearian English.
That's senseless. I lived in Australia for 17 years with temperatures that peaked around 45-47c and I've never had A/C. Before Australia I lived in Papua New Guinea, guess what... no A/C. Oh and before that it was South Africa; have a wild guess at the A/C situation then. I'm not attacking you as your outlook makes a lot of sense, but the culture of energy usage that I see in other countries makes me twitch to say the least.
I still find it funny to tell the Welsh that the name of their country (Wales) comes from an Old English word "Wealas" meaning slave. This minor fact doesn't seem to stop people identifying themselves as Welsh.
Margaret Thatcher fucked up pretty well everything for us British. I'm going to say this once, and only once... Letting private enterprise take over public utilities is one of the worst ideas ever formulated. I will be one of the first to dance on that cow's grave singing "ding dong the witch is dead"
I dislike the layout of them. They may or may not be better for your posture etc, but they do in fact force you into a set way of typing. This is not always a good thing. The human body is complex and varies between person to person. response from the body will naturally guide you on which way to do a repetitive action. The thing that does swings it for me is postive response keyboards. After working for a few years at an ISP working in the command line constantly and programming a bit I started feeling a little pain across the back of my hands which grew steadily worse. I left that job to move country and after a couple of months not using a computer it faded away. When I took a new job the old pain started to come back after only a few months. I swapped from the generic soflty sprung keyboard to one of the old style "clicky" keyboards like IBM's or Cherry on the advise of a programmer friend of mine, since then (read: quite a few years) I've had no problems and I'm typing probably 12 hours a day. Now if only I could somehow get hold of an old Sun 3/60 keyboard and attach it to my PC...
I work for a major online stockbroker and we have hit this "exchange/outlook vs. unix/(insert MTA of your choice here)" scenario before. The only thing I can say is, for god's sake let the first point of contact be a unix machine running sendmail. Letting (s)exchange be the MTA is positivly retarded on a grand scale. I choose sendmail purely because I have always used it, there may be better options but I havn't evaluated them. Having clarified that, I suggest the model we use which is: big_bad_nasty_internet[tm]->unix box+sendmail->exchange. If there are people that want to handle their own mail (like me) let the unix box forward it on, everything else goes to the exchange box and all the clueless users can live in a land of fallible bliss swappping diaries, schedules and viruses alike 'til the provurbial cows come home. Don't let exchange become your first port of call, put a unix box in there to do the mail routing and you will allow techies and retards(read: marketing) to enjoy their email. I have nothing against "corporate email" systems as such, it just seems to me that this model can keep everyone happy without forcing anything on anyone.
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As the OLPC project well demonstrated, giving laptops to children only results in them surfing more porn then they did before. So this is really more of a "sex ed" project then anything...whether they want to admit it or not.
"than". AAAARRRGGGHHH!
The strange punctuation and the misuse of then/than on the topic of education amuses me. I do like the /. comic effect sometimes.
Well the Egyptian Pound uses the £ sign as well, so qualifying GBP seems reasonable.
From the article
"
the Chernobyl nuclear accident led to more than one hundred times the nuclear fallout of what was experienced during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
"
Fucking retards
You make a flawed argument. It may well be that the nuclear fallout was 100 times worse, but Chernobyl was not a bomb. It did not kill ~150000 people outright _and_ also have lasting effects. Lots of people died as a result of Chernobyl, but nowhere near the scale of the two atomic bombings on Japan.
The vikings in Greenland considered eating fish taboo. They died pure.
What? The Norse in Greenland went from a 20% fish diet during the medieval warming period to 80% fish towards the the beginning of the little ice-age before the population collapse. As with many things there wasn't one clear reason. Deforestation, soil erosion, over grazing and a few harsh winters in a row seem to have been the culprits.
I love the smell of a pissed off maths major in the morning
Black holes: nature's ultimate shredder.
Unfortunately that's still subject to a man-in-the-middle attack.
Do you really want to live with the thought that maybe in 3 million years time some aliens will come to Earth, seek out your descendants and taunt them mercilessly about your collection of goat pr0n?
Think of your great great ... great great mutant humanoid grandchildren!
What gets me is:
"The president [USA] earns a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 non-taxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment."
And:
"At present the Prime Minister [UK] receives £127,334 in addition to a salary of £60,277 as a Member of Parliament."
Compared to:
"Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman was the highest paid CEO in 2008, taking home $702,440,573 in salary and stock options. Schwarzman will receive the other 75% of his $4.7 billion equity grant from the IPO in equal installments over the next four years."
Question:
Are we paying the leaders of two of the largest/most influential countries in the world too much, or too little?
66F is uncomfortable?
Try their apple cider sometime and ask for extra caramel drizzle. It really is delicious.
Where I'm from Cider is an alcoholic drink made from fermented apples. The thought of adding "caramel drizzle" to it will give me nightmares I'm sure!
Thank you for this. It's true the early stages were cagey to say the least. You have to remember that everyone was only just recovering from WWI at this time. It is with sorrow that we (British) didn't step in sooner but no one really knew how far and how hard Hitler was willing to push things. The hope for diplomacy was held out until almost too late. I think most of Europe hoped that Germany would just annex Poland (sorry) and that would be that. Wish you hadn't posted AC as you should be modded up.
What? Never been to a Motörhead gig? Sorry, can't hear you. What was that you said?
Isn't being able to print "2010 Olympics" on anything you like and sell it the generally approved Slashdot libertarian free market way?
I think my just IQ plummeted to new depths after reading that.
(Score:5, Science. It works, bitches)
"...but if you take out the hard to get past old english..."
Just to pick nits, Shakespeare is absolutely _not_ Old English. It's Middle English. "cearu and sacu ádreccað ðæt folc" would be an example of Old English. A tad harder to ken than Shakespearian English.
For someone with "Hail Eris" in your sig you should know about not eating hotdog buns!
POEE
Baseball, isn't that cricket for people with short attention spans?
That's senseless. I lived in Australia for 17 years with temperatures that peaked around 45-47c and I've never had A/C. Before Australia I lived in Papua New Guinea, guess what... no A/C. Oh and before that it was South Africa; have a wild guess at the A/C situation then.
I'm not attacking you as your outlook makes a lot of sense, but the culture of energy usage that I see in other countries makes me twitch to say the least.
I still find it funny to tell the Welsh that the name of their country (Wales) comes from an Old English word "Wealas" meaning slave. This minor fact doesn't seem to stop people identifying themselves as Welsh.
Margaret Thatcher fucked up pretty well everything for us British. I'm going to say this once, and only once... Letting private enterprise take over public utilities is one of the worst ideas ever formulated.
I will be one of the first to dance on that cow's grave singing "ding dong the witch is dead"
I dislike the layout of them. They may or may not be better for your posture etc, but they do in fact force you into a set way of typing. This is not always a good thing. The human body is complex and varies between person to person. response from the body will naturally guide you on which way to do a repetitive action. The thing that does swings it for me is postive response keyboards. After working for a few years at an ISP working in the command line constantly and programming a bit I started feeling a little pain across the back of my hands which grew steadily worse. I left that job to move country and after a couple of months not using a computer it faded away. When I took a new job the old pain started to come back after only a few months. I swapped from the generic soflty sprung keyboard to one of the old style "clicky" keyboards like IBM's or Cherry on the advise of a programmer friend of mine, since then (read: quite a few years) I've had no problems and I'm typing probably 12 hours a day. Now if only I could somehow get hold of an old Sun 3/60 keyboard and attach it to my PC...
I work for a major online stockbroker and we have hit this "exchange/outlook vs. unix/(insert MTA of your choice here)" scenario before. The only thing I can say is, for god's sake let the first point of contact be a unix machine running sendmail. Letting (s)exchange be the MTA is positivly retarded on a grand scale. I choose sendmail purely because I have always used it, there may be better options but I havn't evaluated them. Having clarified that, I suggest the model we use which is: big_bad_nasty_internet[tm]->unix box+sendmail->exchange. If there are people that want to handle their own mail (like me) let the unix box forward it on, everything else goes to the exchange box and all the clueless users can live in a land of fallible bliss swappping diaries, schedules and viruses alike 'til the provurbial cows come home. Don't let exchange become your first port of call, put a unix box in there to do the mail routing and you will allow techies and retards(read: marketing) to enjoy their email. I have nothing against "corporate email" systems as such, it just seems to me that this model can keep everyone happy without forcing anything on anyone.