Because I used to live in JoBerg until 1998 when my entire family fled after the 86yo woman who lived next door was raped to DEATH in her own lounge chair one sunny afternoon by the local NIGGER thugs and it was a common occurrence.
I'm sorry to hear that - but surely you don't think this was caused by melanin?
Look, I'm not saying there aren't plenty of bad people - of every race. Maybe there's a higher percentage in some races than others (though separating that effect from environment and income might be a statistical challenge), but even if there were it wouldn't justify PRE-JUDGING people based on a superficial characteristic.
The funny thing is...you talk to the average township black and they want Apartheid back, at least THEY had jobs, food, security and didn't have to worry about THEIR families being slaughtered at night either in the old days. But that doesn't fit in with your bullshit PC "all whites are bad" world view now, does it ?
I never said all whites are bad - I'm white, and I'm not bad!. Hell, I lean a little to the (US) right, so you might expect me to be sympathetic to your position - but I'm not. I think you have to treat people as individuals. Is that so hard?
Actually, given the price of parking, for short visits, I would be apt to tell my car to go around the block until I signal it to retrieve me. I may save a six-dollar parking fee by spending a buck or two for gasoline.
This can't make sense in the long run - a car driving around takes up more space than a parked car, and roads cost more to build/maintain than parking lots. So even ignoring the cost of gas, you're using more of a more expensive resource. The only thing that makes it seem like a good idea is the fact that roads are "free" whereas parking often costs money.
South Africa is a crappy shithole in Africa run by and inhabited mainly by the niggers.
I'm serious by the way.....it's a stupid idea.
Then why do you undermine your argument by using words like "niggers"? It doesn't make your argument any stronger; it just makes you look like a moron. Since you're too stupid to see that, people are going to assume you're also too stupid to analyze the actual pros/cons of the situation.
Could it be that less moral people end up rich as a result of being morally-challenged? That is, it's not that being rich make you more likely to be immoral, but rather than being immoral makes you more likely to be rich?
Getting to the movie theater faster by risking the lives of other people is definitely immoral.
Driving the speed limit involves some risk to other people (mechanical failures can strike at any time). Driving more slowly would reduce that risk; at some point (let's say 1 MPH) the risk is effectively zero - nothing can go so badly wrong that you can't correct it before anyone is hurt (unless you're driving a toyota and the accelerator jams).
So, anyone who drives over 1 MPH is risking other people's live just to get somewhere faster. Do you drive over 1 MPH? Do you consider yourself immoral? If not, why not?
* Toyota's new slogan: Once you drive one, you'll never stop!
Sometimes I get the feeling that my company is the only one left using VC++ 6.
Is your company hiring? I'd love to use VC6 again - it was faster, more stable, and much easier to use than the recent crap MS has been extruding. VC2008 and 2010 have so many god-awful misfeatures that make simple things needlessly complicated, it's amazing anything useful can ever get done with them.
Interesting, but how much energy does it take to run this thing? (they call it a 'battery', but I don't think it actually generates electricity). Many of the places that are short on fresh water are also short on electricity (especially "green" energy), so this may not be as helpful as it sounds.
Those who are yelling "Global Meltdown", like their "Millennium Bug" counterparts a decade or so ago, are nothing more than fear mongers
They engage in fear mongering for one very specific purpose, and that is, they benefit from public panics
The "Millennium Bug" fear mongers spreaded fears so wide that even ridiculous fear such as "Planes dropping from the sky" were uttered by many
The "Millennium Bug" was little more than a hiccup precisely because the publicity spurred decision-makers to invest huge amounts of effort into reviewing/fixing old systems so that they didn't have problems. Had it not been for the publicity, many of the systems probably would not have been fixed and then there would have been hell to pay (as in "How could you eggheads let this happen?")
It was a no-win situation for IT professionals (at least in terms of the general public's view of them; I hear it was a major win for consulting companies who could scrounge up COBOL programmers)
I don't know how prevalent individual voter fraud is.... but I've always been a little skeptical of the claim that it's nearly non-existent, since our current election procedures are incapable of detecting it.
In other news, I've discovered that there's no such thing as poor people, because if I close my eyes real tight when riding through downtown I never see any poor people - so clearly there aren't any!
OK, maybe china's cheating (by giving us goods/services at below cost - those bastards!)
But how did "neo-cons" get involved? I didn't see them (or any mention of politics at all) anywhere in this story until you conjured them up out of thin air. Let me guess: the reason you're not a liberal is because the liberals are way too far to the right - correct?
Besides, the last time I looked, the neo-cons had been out of power for several years, so I don't think you have anything to worry about.
P.S. Neo-cons have been "neo-cons" for 10+ years now, so that's not very new - does the "neo" prefix ever expire?
Please keep your bigotry to yourself - no one here wants it. And DON'T try to put words like that in my mouth (note: no "please" this time - that part's not a request).
I personally don't care for rap music (and being a rhythmic combination of sounds often accompanied by vocals, it's clearly music, whether I like it or not), but that's no reason for anyone to use offensive labels for any segment of humanity.
the problem is finding a superconductor that will operate at room temperature
That insight, and $4.99, will get you a cup of coffee at starbucks.
Maybe if we had a bunch of high-power supercomputers (ideally with low power consumption), we could run more atomic- or quantum-level simulations, research, etc, and find such a room-temperature superconductor!
P.S. On a related note, I have a great idea for improving cities, reducing pollution, and eliminating commute times: just invent teleportation! It would be much more effective than wasting time with incremental side project like hybrids, smart traffic management, public transportation, etc.
if this was applied to American companies and western manufacturing ONLY. Sadly, the neo-cons will push for the to be applied to everybody, esp. China.
Yeah, I hate it when those xenophobic racist neo-cons push to share our advances with China (who has the fastest-growing need for power and one of the dirtiest power sources, namely coal). Hell, a move like that just might reduce poverty AND pollution, and no one wants that!
Thank god we liberals know that the only way to make the world a better place is to reflexively oppose not just everything the conservatives do, but everything we imagine they might do!
If you have an SSD, disable swap. There's no reason to be continually writing to one section of the disk. If you must have swap, use a spinning disk. Also, assuming you're running linux, you should set swappiness=0. Depending on your SSD repeated writes *may* not be an issue, but pretty much all of them fail catastrophically and without warning when they do fail.
So? I'd rather have my swap "disk" (SSD) fail than have my OS or data disks fail. If the swap disk fails, the system crashes, you replace the disk, and it boots right up. BFD!
...and yes, the idea of swapping from one kind of ram to another kind of ram is sort of silly - but try to get a few hundred gigs of DDR3 for a couple hundred bucks. When you're running multiple VMs, 8GB or even 16GB gets used up real fast.
When I saw the title of this story ("High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High"), my first interpretation was that some students had built a 24-kilometer-high man out of legos, and then sent it somewhere... I was wondering how many legos it took, and how much the postage was!
I wonder how tall you could build a tower of legos before the weight crushed the legos making up the bottom level?
In my opinion this demonstrates perfectly that it's entirely possible for Google. It's just that they don't want to do it
...and in other news, McDonalds doesn't want to sell Burger King's hamburgers, despite the fact that it's entirely possible for them to do so. A Burger King spokesman decried this blatant favoritism as "evil".
I don't know about UK agencies - in the US they ARE required to give you a free report, once a year.
The credit reporting agencies (at least in the US) do not make credit decisions - they merely REPORT information (hence the name) and let the recipient make the decision.
It does seem like they ought to work more aggressively to correct mistakes, but it's harder than it sounds: EVERYBODY is going to claim that they paid the bill on time and it must have gotten lost in the mail (or whatever), so it's hard to know who to believe. In the US, if a dispute cannot be resolved to your satisfaction, you can write a letter explaining your version and they're required to include that in your credit report - again, putting the decision on the recipient of the report, not the agency itself.
Hate the game if you must (AFTER considering the fact that the alternative is no one gets credit from strangers, ever), but don't hate the players.
It is precisely because banks have no way of evaluating your repayment potential that they want to surf your phone records.
And of course they have no plans to bring this business model to the North America or the EU precisely because such practices are outlawed in these countries.
No, the reason they have no plans to bring this model to North America or the EU is precisely because they have other (better) was of evaluating your repayment potential. For example, the big 3 credit reporting agencies: as flawed as their data may be from time to time (and I fully support laws requiring them to give you a copy, help to correct mistakes, etc), this data "lubricates" the economy (facilitating transactions between strangers) to an astonishing degree. The information gives sellers a wider market to sell to (most of us can walk into a car dealership full of total strangers, with nothing but our driver's license in our hands, and in an hour or so we can drive out with a $30K car), and it gives buyers wider choices of where to buy from (we can do the above at ANY dealership in the country, not just the one our uncle works for).
It seems like some of the most expensive land you can buy, so I'm not sure why they'd want to use it for a data center, which can be built pretty much anywhere (and which is generally not staffed by mansion-dwellers)
some would argue that no one games anymore, period because modern 'games' are really little more interactive movies designed to create 'wow' moments as backdrops to social communication (audio chat mostly).
Wait, so you're saying that games have evolved to the point that people are actually talking to one another? Ye gads, we can't have that! What's our society coming to?
Back in the good old days, we played all alone in our parent's basements - like gaming is supposed to be!
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Because I used to live in JoBerg until 1998 when my entire family fled after the 86yo woman who lived next door was raped to DEATH in her own lounge chair one sunny afternoon by the local NIGGER thugs and it was a common occurrence.
I'm sorry to hear that - but surely you don't think this was caused by melanin?
Look, I'm not saying there aren't plenty of bad people - of every race. Maybe there's a higher percentage in some races than others (though separating that effect from environment and income might be a statistical challenge), but even if there were it wouldn't justify PRE-JUDGING people based on a superficial characteristic.
The funny thing is...you talk to the average township black and they want Apartheid back, at least THEY had jobs, food, security and didn't have to worry about THEIR families being slaughtered at night either in the old days. But that doesn't fit in with your bullshit PC "all whites are bad" world view now, does it ?
I never said all whites are bad - I'm white, and I'm not bad!. Hell, I lean a little to the (US) right, so you might expect me to be sympathetic to your position - but I'm not. I think you have to treat people as individuals. Is that so hard?
Actually, given the price of parking, for short visits, I would be apt to tell my car to go around the block until I signal it to retrieve me. I may save a six-dollar parking fee by spending a buck or two for gasoline.
This can't make sense in the long run - a car driving around takes up more space than a parked car, and roads cost more to build/maintain than parking lots. So even ignoring the cost of gas, you're using more of a more expensive resource. The only thing that makes it seem like a good idea is the fact that roads are "free" whereas parking often costs money.
Read up on the tragedy of the commons.
South Africa is a crappy shithole in Africa run by and inhabited mainly by the niggers.
I'm serious by the way.....it's a stupid idea.
Then why do you undermine your argument by using words like "niggers"? It doesn't make your argument any stronger; it just makes you look like a moron. Since you're too stupid to see that, people are going to assume you're also too stupid to analyze the actual pros/cons of the situation.
No, questioning the security of the site isn't racism.
But calling people "niggers" is.
Could it be that less moral people end up rich as a result of being morally-challenged? That is, it's not that being rich make you more likely to be immoral, but rather than being immoral makes you more likely to be rich?
Getting to the movie theater faster by risking the lives of other people is definitely immoral.
Driving the speed limit involves some risk to other people (mechanical failures can strike at any time). Driving more slowly would reduce that risk; at some point (let's say 1 MPH) the risk is effectively zero - nothing can go so badly wrong that you can't correct it before anyone is hurt (unless you're driving a toyota and the accelerator jams).
So, anyone who drives over 1 MPH is risking other people's live just to get somewhere faster. Do you drive over 1 MPH? Do you consider yourself immoral? If not, why not?
* Toyota's new slogan: Once you drive one, you'll never stop!
Sometimes I get the feeling that my company is the only one left using VC++ 6.
Is your company hiring? I'd love to use VC6 again - it was faster, more stable, and much easier to use than the recent crap MS has been extruding. VC2008 and 2010 have so many god-awful misfeatures that make simple things needlessly complicated, it's amazing anything useful can ever get done with them.
You're just jealous because you didn't get the first post.
P.S. First! (sorry, I couldn't resist!)
Interesting, but how much energy does it take to run this thing? (they call it a 'battery', but I don't think it actually generates electricity). Many of the places that are short on fresh water are also short on electricity (especially "green" energy), so this may not be as helpful as it sounds.
Those who are yelling "Global Meltdown", like their "Millennium Bug" counterparts a decade or so ago, are nothing more than fear mongers
They engage in fear mongering for one very specific purpose, and that is, they benefit from public panics
The "Millennium Bug" fear mongers spreaded fears so wide that even ridiculous fear such as "Planes dropping from the sky" were uttered by many
The "Millennium Bug" was little more than a hiccup precisely because the publicity spurred decision-makers to invest huge amounts of effort into reviewing/fixing old systems so that they didn't have problems. Had it not been for the publicity, many of the systems probably would not have been fixed and then there would have been hell to pay (as in "How could you eggheads let this happen?")
It was a no-win situation for IT professionals (at least in terms of the general public's view of them; I hear it was a major win for consulting companies who could scrounge up COBOL programmers)
1) You may make no effort to prevent them, but at least you have a procedure in place to detect them
2) I doubt elephants have much incentive to invade your living room
Your analogy is 0 for 2: FAIL!
I don't know how prevalent individual voter fraud is.... but I've always been a little skeptical of the claim that it's nearly non-existent, since our current election procedures are incapable of detecting it.
In other news, I've discovered that there's no such thing as poor people, because if I close my eyes real tight when riding through downtown I never see any poor people - so clearly there aren't any!
OK, maybe china's cheating (by giving us goods/services at below cost - those bastards!)
But how did "neo-cons" get involved? I didn't see them (or any mention of politics at all) anywhere in this story until you conjured them up out of thin air. Let me guess: the reason you're not a liberal is because the liberals are way too far to the right - correct?
Besides, the last time I looked, the neo-cons had been out of power for several years, so I don't think you have anything to worry about.
P.S. Neo-cons have been "neo-cons" for 10+ years now, so that's not very new - does the "neo" prefix ever expire?
Please keep your bigotry to yourself - no one here wants it. And DON'T try to put words like that in my mouth (note: no "please" this time - that part's not a request).
I personally don't care for rap music (and being a rhythmic combination of sounds often accompanied by vocals, it's clearly music, whether I like it or not), but that's no reason for anyone to use offensive labels for any segment of humanity.
the problem is finding a superconductor that will operate at room temperature
That insight, and $4.99, will get you a cup of coffee at starbucks.
Maybe if we had a bunch of high-power supercomputers (ideally with low power consumption), we could run more atomic- or quantum-level simulations, research, etc, and find such a room-temperature superconductor!
P.S. On a related note, I have a great idea for improving cities, reducing pollution, and eliminating commute times: just invent teleportation! It would be much more effective than wasting time with incremental side project like hybrids, smart traffic management, public transportation, etc.
if this was applied to American companies and western manufacturing ONLY. Sadly, the neo-cons will push for the to be applied to everybody, esp. China.
Yeah, I hate it when those xenophobic racist neo-cons push to share our advances with China (who has the fastest-growing need for power and one of the dirtiest power sources, namely coal). Hell, a move like that just might reduce poverty AND pollution, and no one wants that!
Thank god we liberals know that the only way to make the world a better place is to reflexively oppose not just everything the conservatives do, but everything we imagine they might do!
Anything that reduces the amount of rap music out there is a good thing.
Now get off my lawn!
If you have an SSD, disable swap. There's no reason to be continually writing to one section of the disk. If you must have swap, use a spinning disk. Also, assuming you're running linux, you should set swappiness=0. Depending on your SSD repeated writes *may* not be an issue, but pretty much all of them fail catastrophically and without warning when they do fail.
So? I'd rather have my swap "disk" (SSD) fail than have my OS or data disks fail. If the swap disk fails, the system crashes, you replace the disk, and it boots right up. BFD!
...and yes, the idea of swapping from one kind of ram to another kind of ram is sort of silly - but try to get a few hundred gigs of DDR3 for a couple hundred bucks. When you're running multiple VMs, 8GB or even 16GB gets used up real fast.
When I saw the title of this story ("High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High"), my first interpretation was that some students had built a 24-kilometer-high man out of legos, and then sent it somewhere... I was wondering how many legos it took, and how much the postage was!
I wonder how tall you could build a tower of legos before the weight crushed the legos making up the bottom level?
In my opinion this demonstrates perfectly that it's entirely possible for Google. It's just that they don't want to do it
...and in other news, McDonalds doesn't want to sell Burger King's hamburgers, despite the fact that it's entirely possible for them to do so. A Burger King spokesman decried this blatant favoritism as "evil".
I don't know about UK agencies - in the US they ARE required to give you a free report, once a year.
The credit reporting agencies (at least in the US) do not make credit decisions - they merely REPORT information (hence the name) and let the recipient make the decision.
It does seem like they ought to work more aggressively to correct mistakes, but it's harder than it sounds: EVERYBODY is going to claim that they paid the bill on time and it must have gotten lost in the mail (or whatever), so it's hard to know who to believe. In the US, if a dispute cannot be resolved to your satisfaction, you can write a letter explaining your version and they're required to include that in your credit report - again, putting the decision on the recipient of the report, not the agency itself.
Hate the game if you must (AFTER considering the fact that the alternative is no one gets credit from strangers, ever), but don't hate the players.
It is precisely because banks have no way of evaluating your repayment potential that they want to surf your phone records.
And of course they have no plans to bring this business model to the North America or the EU precisely because such practices are outlawed in these countries.
No, the reason they have no plans to bring this model to North America or the EU is precisely because they have other (better) was of evaluating your repayment potential. For example, the big 3 credit reporting agencies: as flawed as their data may be from time to time (and I fully support laws requiring them to give you a copy, help to correct mistakes, etc), this data "lubricates" the economy (facilitating transactions between strangers) to an astonishing degree. The information gives sellers a wider market to sell to (most of us can walk into a car dealership full of total strangers, with nothing but our driver's license in our hands, and in an hour or so we can drive out with a $30K car), and it gives buyers wider choices of where to buy from (we can do the above at ANY dealership in the country, not just the one our uncle works for).
It seems like some of the most expensive land you can buy, so I'm not sure why they'd want to use it for a data center, which can be built pretty much anywhere (and which is generally not staffed by mansion-dwellers)
some would argue that no one games anymore, period because modern 'games' are really little more interactive movies designed to create 'wow' moments as backdrops to social communication (audio chat mostly).
Wait, so you're saying that games have evolved to the point that people are actually talking to one another? Ye gads, we can't have that! What's our society coming to?
Back in the good old days, we played all alone in our parent's basements - like gaming is supposed to be!