"You"? Who is this 'you' you are talking about? Okay, to be fair, I do actually come from the States, but I haven't lived there since before Fox even had a news program (at least, I don't remember it). Either way, only about half the Americans have been brainwashed by Fox, otherwise this election wouldn't even be close.
In any case, what led you to the assumption that I'm American? Just because you happened to be right, doesn't mean it wasn't a huge leap.
Oh I agree with the main thrust of your point, I just wanted to emphasize that you can't lump them together. I suspect there are some hypocrites of the kind you describe, but I have trouble believing that they are anything but a niche group. I admit I could be mistaken, especially since I've never personally met anyone who admitted supporting the IRA (even morally), so I can't say where they stand on other issues.
One of my personal beefs has been how the Catholic church will excommunicate priests for ordaining a woman as a priest (sorry, no link, maybe you can google it) but they won't excommunicate so-called Catholics who engage in terrorism.
In the case of no candidate winning a mayority of the votes (and a plurality doesn't count) the NEW house gets to choose the president and the NEW senate gets to choose the VP. I'm not sure if Kerry or Edwards get a vote, or what would happen if the vote gets tied in the senate again (since normally the VP casts the deciding votes). But it is possible that we could end up with a Bush/Edwards presidency.
New Senate means new Senate. Neither Kerry nor Edwards are running for Senate this time so neither would vote. Another interesting thing is that in the House each state gets only one vote, e.g. all 53 Californian representatives vote among themselves and submit that as their vote, etc. That means some states (with split delegations) might have to abstain. According to CNN (sorry, no link) this could result in the Vice President chosen by the Senate becoming 'Acting President' if the House is tied. President Cheney? President Edwards? It's possible!!
I find it highly amusing, but at the same time disturbing, that the Americans since 9/11 have been shouting for terrorists heads on a plate while for many years before 9/11, and quite likely after 9/11 as well, collections has been and are being made in support of the IRA.
Do tell me that you actually realise the double morale in that...
Hmmmm.... could it be - and I know I'm reaching here - that those are different groups of Americans? I mean I know it's a wild theory to think that not all 290,000,000 Americans think and behave alike... but it's worth considering.
The problem with mplayer is that it can sometimes be tough to find the dvdcsslibs and configure them properly
I think you must be a little out of date. Mplayer already coms with css decoding built-in these days. The only extra stuff you need to download is if you want to watch stuff that needs win32 codecs.
Works fine for me in XP. ftp://sitename/.. and I get a list of folders I can play with. From Notepad, no less.
Now, after playtime, can you work with them? Namely open, edit, then save them again? Note, this is a serious question, since I only have Win2K as a reference here, where it doesn't work.
Cue rant about the Electoral College, and their lack of a good football team
Well the Electoral College thing is debatable, but if you mean the national team, it led England in the FIFA rankings for a good part of the last year or so, and it still leads Germany. You may argue that the rankings are no exact measure of how good the teams are, but you have to admit the top 15 or so have to at least be considered 'good' teams.
Exactly what is better organized in the UK? The trains?
Man, you might as well throw in anything that has to do with transport/infrastructure. I mean any trip that can't be done by foot is basically a lottery as to whether you'll get 'there' (for any given 'there') on time. Don't even start me on Heathrow (*shudder*), the worst excuse for an Airport in an industrialized nation, and likely worse than a couple in the third world.
Yeah, I know it's flamebait, but it's *true*. I mean what kind airport doesn't know the departure gate of any flight until 10 minutes before boarding!?!? But then all the airports in the UK share this (*cough*) 'feature'.
Actually, that's probably the meanest thing I've ever said on Slashdot;-)
I never implied that I didn't know.
Getting burned is passive, something you can't avoid. Either someone held a gun to your head or you didn't know...
I really don't need to spend a weekend watching someone else do their job.
Ummmm... then don't.
I should force Peter Jackson to watch 24 hours of footage showing me writing software.
You were forced? Call the cops, not slashdot!! Otherwise, if you can get Peter Jackson to buy a DVD containing scenes of you programming, then the more power to you.
You mean after you burned yourself?!?! Were you stuck in Moria when they announced the extended versions? I mean it was announced before the very first DVD that they would all be released 2 times.
P.S. When you've made even 1/10th the money we've made on the merchandising alone for these movies, then you can come back and apply for the job of telling us how to do our marketing.
It will be expensive, and it won't have any scientific value that couldn't be achieved with robots, but it's worth doing for the same reasons that it was worthwhile for the ancient Egyptians to build the pyramids.
To keep the young men of the upper Euphrates too busy to think about rebelling against the Pharaohs? As I understand it that was the driving reason. Of course, with Bush as President....
The *nix box won't be affected by any of those viruses, but the machines it shares them with can be infected. And that infection can put a load on the network (particularly the viruses that do scanning).
It's easy to put anti-virus on the file server and just kill the infections there.
But the Unix server will be equally affected by viruses the clients get from other sources, so having a virus scanner really only protects the clients from files on the server itself. The server is vulnerable only because vulnerable clients have access.
Actually, solid-state does not equivocate to "digital"
*Sigh* I'm not normally a grammar nazi, but one of my pet peeves is people using 'bigger' words than necessary to sound more sophisticated... especially when it's the wrong word:
Function: intransitive verb Inflected Form(s): -cated; -cating 1 : to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive 2 : to avoid committing oneself in what one says synonym: see LIE
Next time try: 'Actually, solid-state is not the same as "digital"' or 'Actually, solid-state does not necessarily mean "digital" or 'Actually, solid-state doesn't have to mean (or be) "digital"'
Your remark about politicians is ironic considering you seem to be trying to sound like one;-)
how many taxi drivers do you know that are smart enough to create a blog, making the images smaller for display, and witty enough to go and make up a story on it?
Ummmm, how many taxi drivers do you know at all? I have a good friend who's a Taxi driver and he's very intelligent; just not motivated enough to do something else for a living. Among his colleagues there are quite a few very intelligent guys, who have various reasons for driving a taxi: Some are students (it's perfect for the flexible hours), at least 2 I've met are even PhD's in purely academic fields (i.e. no big job opportunities); one was like a PhD in Music Theory or something and plays in a Folk Music group, which isn't lucrative enough to make a living, but he loves it. Okay, this is in Germany, but I think this applies elsewhere too.
I agree to a certain extent, but tend to view the difference between rockets and jets in a different light: a rocket carries its reaction mass, a jet picks it up along the way (as does a Bussard ramjet).
That's a good point. Still, you have to admit the original comparison of the octupus and squid still fits better for either kind of jet than a rocket;-)
But to extend this senseless intellectualization a bit further(wheee!): The practical reason against rockets underwater (getting back to the parent's analogy) has less to do with either your reaction mass distinction or my action-reaction distinction, than simply with the fact that rockets need to get their reaction-mass very hot. This is pretty impractical in water, since it tends to absorb a lot of the heat energy, and then their are all sorts of turbulence effects from the water boiling (at least at shallow depths). It's doable: I know the Navy uses several underwater rockets; but it's not nearly as efficient or practical in most cases. In the case of the Navy weapons I know of, most are air-rockets made for underwater launch (i.e. they only need to work underwater long enough to get in the air) and the rest were taken out of service.
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Annihilating win for Bush. Electoral votes 393 to 145, popular vote was 55/45 Bush.
;-)
Interestingly (but not surprising), the TEACHERS in the same schools also voted, 85/15 for Kerry.
<flamebait>IOW, the ignorant vote for the ignorant, the educated vote for the educated.</flamebait>
-chris
"You"? Who is this 'you' you are talking about? Okay, to be fair, I do actually come from the States, but I haven't lived there since before Fox even had a news program (at least, I don't remember it). Either way, only about half the Americans have been brainwashed by Fox, otherwise this election wouldn't even be close.
In any case, what led you to the assumption that I'm American? Just because you happened to be right, doesn't mean it wasn't a huge leap.
-Chris
Oh I agree with the main thrust of your point, I just wanted to emphasize that you can't lump them together. I suspect there are some hypocrites of the kind you describe, but I have trouble believing that they are anything but a niche group. I admit I could be mistaken, especially since I've never personally met anyone who admitted supporting the IRA (even morally), so I can't say where they stand on other issues.
One of my personal beefs has been how the Catholic church will excommunicate priests for ordaining a woman as a priest (sorry, no link, maybe you can google it) but they won't excommunicate so-called Catholics who engage in terrorism.
-chris
In the case of no candidate winning a mayority of the votes (and a plurality doesn't count) the NEW house gets to choose the president and the NEW senate gets to choose the VP. I'm not sure if Kerry or Edwards get a vote, or what would happen if the vote gets tied in the senate again (since normally the VP casts the deciding votes). But it is possible that we could end up with a Bush/Edwards presidency.
New Senate means new Senate. Neither Kerry nor Edwards are running for Senate this time so neither would vote. Another interesting thing is that in the House each state gets only one vote, e.g. all 53 Californian representatives vote among themselves and submit that as their vote, etc. That means some states (with split delegations) might have to abstain. According to CNN (sorry, no link) this could result in the Vice President chosen by the Senate becoming 'Acting President' if the House is tied. President Cheney? President Edwards? It's possible!!
-chris
I thought football was that game where the ball was only played with the feet. Oh that's right, you think that's called Soccer.
;-)
Hell, the term originates in England, not in America, so don't blame us Americans for being more traditional
-chris
I find it highly amusing, but at the same time disturbing, that the Americans since 9/11 have been shouting for terrorists heads on a plate while for many years before 9/11, and quite likely after 9/11 as well, collections has been and are being made in support of the IRA.
Do tell me that you actually realise the double morale in that...
Hmmmm.... could it be - and I know I'm reaching here - that those are different groups of Americans? I mean I know it's a wild theory to think that not all 290,000,000 Americans think and behave alike... but it's worth considering.
-chris
The problem with mplayer is that it can sometimes be tough to find the dvdcsslibs and configure them properly
I think you must be a little out of date. Mplayer already coms with css decoding built-in these days. The only extra stuff you need to download is if you want to watch stuff that needs win32 codecs.
-chris
Works fine for me in XP. ftp://sitename/ .. and I get a list of folders I can play with. From Notepad, no less.
Now, after playtime, can you work with them? Namely open, edit, then save them again? Note, this is a serious question, since I only have Win2K as a reference here, where it doesn't work.
-chris
Works for me in Notepad in Win2K SP4, too. What exactly didn't work for you?
Save
-Chris
no. 0.02 EURO is 0.03 CENT...
;-)
Wow!!! Did the Euro crash? Last I saw 0.02 EURO was more like 2.54 U.S. CENTS which would round to 0.03 U.S. DOLLARS
-chris
p.s. Euro also has cents, so 'CENTS' has to be qualified anyway.
Cue rant about the Electoral College, and their lack of a good football team
;-)
Well the Electoral College thing is debatable, but if you mean the national team, it led England in the FIFA rankings for a good part of the last year or so, and it still leads Germany. You may argue that the rankings are no exact measure of how good the teams are, but you have to admit the top 15 or so have to at least be considered 'good' teams.
-Chris (one of the 10 U.S. Soccer fans
Exactly what is better organized in the UK?
The trains?
Man, you might as well throw in anything that has to do with transport/infrastructure. I mean any trip that can't be done by foot is basically a lottery as to whether you'll get 'there' (for any given 'there') on time. Don't even start me on Heathrow (*shudder*), the worst excuse for an Airport in an industrialized nation, and likely worse than a couple in the third world.
Yeah, I know it's flamebait, but it's *true*. I mean what kind airport doesn't know the departure gate of any flight until 10 minutes before boarding!?!? But then all the airports in the UK share this (*cough*) 'feature'.
-chris
Want to see Kerry's changing positions on Iraq, in his own words?
For a more analytical look with some of Bush's words thrown in for context look here.
You are so kind.
;-)
Actually, that's probably the meanest thing I've ever said on Slashdot
I never implied that I didn't know.
Getting burned is passive, something you can't avoid. Either someone held a gun to your head or you didn't know...
I really don't need to spend a weekend watching someone else do their job.
Ummmm... then don't.
I should force Peter Jackson to watch 24 hours of footage showing me writing software.
You were forced? Call the cops, not slashdot!! Otherwise, if you can get Peter Jackson to buy a DVD containing scenes of you programming, then the more power to you.
-chris
After I got burned on the 2 versions of FotR
You mean after you burned yourself?!?! Were you stuck in Moria when they announced the extended versions? I mean it was announced before the very first DVD that they would all be released 2 times.
-1 Ignorant fucking whiner.
-chris
P.S. When you've made even 1/10th the money we've made on the merchandising alone for these movies, then you can come back and apply for the job of telling us how to do our marketing.
It will be expensive, and it won't have any scientific value that couldn't be achieved with robots, but it's worth doing for the same reasons that it was worthwhile for the ancient Egyptians to build the pyramids.
To keep the young men of the upper Euphrates too busy to think about rebelling against the Pharaohs? As I understand it that was the driving reason. Of course, with Bush as President....
The *nix box won't be affected by any of those viruses, but the machines it shares them with can be infected. And that infection can put a load on the network (particularly the viruses that do scanning).
It's easy to put anti-virus on the file server and just kill the infections there.
But the Unix server will be equally affected by viruses the clients get from other sources, so having a virus scanner really only protects the clients from files on the server itself. The server is vulnerable only because vulnerable clients have access.
Actually, solid-state does not equivocate to "digital"
;-)
*Sigh* I'm not normally a grammar nazi, but one of my pet peeves is people using 'bigger' words than necessary to sound more sophisticated... especially when it's the wrong word:
equivocate
Main Entry: equivocate
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cated; -cating
1 : to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive
2 : to avoid committing oneself in what one says
synonym: see LIE
Next time try:
'Actually, solid-state is not the same as "digital"'
or
'Actually, solid-state does not necessarily mean "digital"
or
'Actually, solid-state doesn't have to mean (or be) "digital"'
Your remark about politicians is ironic considering you seem to be trying to sound like one
-chris
LOL :-)
Of course intelligence is neither necessary nor sufficient to govern or win office.
-chris
how many taxi drivers do you know that are smart enough to create a blog, making the images smaller for display, and witty enough to go and make up a story on it?
Ummmm, how many taxi drivers do you know at all? I have a good friend who's a Taxi driver and he's very intelligent; just not motivated enough to do something else for a living. Among his colleagues there are quite a few very intelligent guys, who have various reasons for driving a taxi: Some are students (it's perfect for the flexible hours), at least 2 I've met are even PhD's in purely academic fields (i.e. no big job opportunities); one was like a PhD in Music Theory or something and plays in a Folk Music group, which isn't lucrative enough to make a living, but he loves it. Okay, this is in Germany, but I think this applies elsewhere too.
-chris
Ah, the same church that imprisoned Galileo for his findings and writings?
OK, that was a cheap shot, that was hundreds of years ago.
No, that's not a cheap shot. In fact the "hundreds of years ago" makes it worse: they didn't admit they were wrong about Galileo until 1992!!
-chris
Dude, you're quoting Village Voice to someone who wants Bill O'Reilly as president? That in itself deserves the moderation: '-1 Futile' ;-)
-chris
Actually, in this essay, OSC refers to himself as a Democrat.
So does Zell Miller. 'Nuff said.
-chris
I agree to a certain extent, but tend to view the difference between rockets and jets in a different light: a rocket carries its reaction mass, a jet picks it up along the way (as does a Bussard ramjet).
;-)
That's a good point. Still, you have to admit the original comparison of the octupus and squid still fits better for either kind of jet than a rocket
But to extend this senseless intellectualization a bit further(wheee!): The practical reason against rockets underwater (getting back to the parent's analogy) has less to do with either your reaction mass distinction or my action-reaction distinction, than simply with the fact that rockets need to get their reaction-mass very hot. This is pretty impractical in water, since it tends to absorb a lot of the heat energy, and then their are all sorts of turbulence effects from the water boiling (at least at shallow depths). It's doable: I know the Navy uses several underwater rockets; but it's not nearly as efficient or practical in most cases. In the case of the Navy weapons I know of, most are air-rockets made for underwater launch (i.e. they only need to work underwater long enough to get in the air) and the rest were taken out of service.
Isn't digression fun?
Now I'm really going to bed.
-chris