If an "enemy" planned to flush solar particles into our atmosphere, we'd call that an "attack".
I guess if you're the same people killing the whales, then dumping little-understood materials into the little-understood upper atmosphere is a smart business decision.
My theory is that Slashdot's Anonymous Cowards are all Guantanamo kidnappees, forced to astroturf for Rumsfeld. That explains how lame are their arguments repeating BushCo propaganda.
Bush will buy these systems that let one in six lying terrorists through, while sending one in twelve random innocents to Guantanamo. Instead of spending a mere $6M (2/1000ths of 1% of the Iraq War bill to date) on explosives detection systems.
There's nothing "ironic" about a dictator censoring media while putting out their own. It isn't even contradictory. "Dictator" means "commander", as in "speaking a command", as in "word is law". What they say is the official truth, they define reality by speaking it. Other people saying different "versions" of reality gets in the way, so they stop it.
The popular sense of the word "irony" has been ruined. People don't even blink while Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" asks "isn't it ironic?" about a list of situations that aren't ironic. It's not ironic if its words don't contradict the reality. Just because two events are inconsistent or surprising doesn't make irony.
I think irony has just been overloaded in our modern age, where lies outnumber truth, but reality stubbornly persists. When people's reality is defined by faith in lies rather than their own personal experience, there is no irony, because there is only irony.
How secure is MS software that responds to vulnerability discoveries by ignoring them or lying about them, fixing them after months or even several versions (years) later? Because users have to rely on MS to fix them.
Compared to OO.o, which anyone can fix, even the French government itself, but which does fix bugs quickly.
I remember seeing a DSP demo in probably 1992 where two upright sticks were joined in the middle by a pair of hinges, one allowing the "z axis" stick to bend in half in the xz plane, the other to bend in half along the yz plane. The DSP got feedback from a mercury switch in each of the x and y directions, indicating whether the top stick was balanced in that direction, and opening/closing the respective hinge to compensate for being off-balance.
That stick just stood up straight on its end, wobbling ever so slightly. Slap it and it would bend like a knee, until it stood up again. Simple, effective, and it looks magic.
I've been waiting to see some kind of home robot that does that effect. Now this robot does it with a ball. I'd prefer to see the much cooler stick hopping around my house. It might have an easier time getting across the debris that clutters my floor. I know I do.
You didn't say them. Popsmear said them. I replied to Popsmear in that post to which I linked in my reply to you. My reply to you was in agreement with you, pointing at an example of the people who don't know what they're talking about, and of my stinkfinger for them.
I stopped deleting messages from my email boxes long after I stopped sorting out into which folders I download files. These hierarchical DBs are useless for nearly everything but long transaction lists. When I want to find something, I use a search function. When I want to associate different items, I create links. I rarely know what I'll need to find, or how it relates to what else I'll have stored, when I first receive or create it. All those relationships are virtual, views and links - ways of using the data that's not directly related to where I store it.
Who cares what any of these corporations say about "protecting our privacy"? When was the last time anyone successfully sued a corporation for privacy policy violations?
When will my mobile phone encrypt everything it transmits? Privacy violation over wires was bad enough, but broadcasting traffic over the air is begging for trouble, even if practically no one realizes it.
State is citing even less reliable sources: the Mujahideen, the CIA, and their favorite experts. These same people also sent us to war in Iraq for nonexistent WMD, the worst in a long line of selfserving lies the State Department has cooked up, particularly in that region, with those same people.
The US State Department is an even less credible source in this discussion than is the Guardian.
I might get a chance to read Coll's book. Because I like to know the new ways people are covering up the CIA's long history of smuggling drugs and guns in Asia (and sometimes Central America, and usually the US).
You're just the kind of fool who loves a "wildcard" in an obscenity so that others will take it seriously. The kind of fool who will stalk another poster just because you've been shown to be a chump in some other thread. Any other major malfunctions you labor under that you need to project on someone else who threatens you?
Addicts are easier to treat when they're not "drug criminals" because they're not forced underground. There's no legal penalty for admitting their addiction or abuse. When caught, they can be forced into treatment rather than into jail (where they would become sicker).
Most addicts don't die from the drugs, but rather from what it takes to get the drugs, or from living "underground" where drugs can be obtained.
You clearly don't know much about drugs, drug users, drug abusers, or much else that constitutes the Drug War. "How on Earth" is a question answered comprehensively in many countries on Earth, like Netherlands, UK, Germany, Switzerland. If you're really interested in improving the situation, you should learn from the massive evidence of actual failures and successes in keeping people from damaging themselves and each other with drugs. If you're really just interested in pretending you know how to deal with drugs without any actual competence, there's a huge, profitable, powerful Drug War waiting for you to "help".
Office smokers routinely take 3 or 4 15 minute cigarette breaks a day, or 10-12% of their productivity. Not to mention the time they take getting the cigarettes, or the time out sick, or dying early.
I've known several crack and meth abusers over the years who held regular jobs with less downtime than smokers. And were more productive in their stimulated state than most of their coworkers.
Just because you don't get the point of drugs, including cigarettes, the point of work, and the point of life, doesn't remove the point from the argument. You can go ahead and just say no, but that doesn't obligate everyone to your simple existence, where "it ain't gonna happen" is a pointless argument.
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We say "that's funny" even when laughter is inappropriate. When we learn something faster than expected, sometimes we like it, sometimes we don't.
If an "enemy" planned to flush solar particles into our atmosphere, we'd call that an "attack".
I guess if you're the same people killing the whales, then dumping little-understood materials into the little-understood upper atmosphere is a smart business decision.
Not only is "speaking truth to power" not "Flamebait", but it looks like DHS certified Slashdot's moderation system:
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My theory is that Slashdot's Anonymous Cowards are all Guantanamo kidnappees, forced to astroturf for Rumsfeld. That explains how lame are their arguments repeating BushCo propaganda.
Bush will buy these systems that let one in six lying terrorists through, while sending one in twelve random innocents to Guantanamo. Instead of spending a mere $6M (2/1000ths of 1% of the Iraq War bill to date) on explosives detection systems.
There's nothing "ironic" about a dictator censoring media while putting out their own. It isn't even contradictory. "Dictator" means "commander", as in "speaking a command", as in "word is law". What they say is the official truth, they define reality by speaking it. Other people saying different "versions" of reality gets in the way, so they stop it.
The popular sense of the word "irony" has been ruined. People don't even blink while Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" asks "isn't it ironic?" about a list of situations that aren't ironic. It's not ironic if its words don't contradict the reality. Just because two events are inconsistent or surprising doesn't make irony.
I think irony has just been overloaded in our modern age, where lies outnumber truth, but reality stubbornly persists. When people's reality is defined by faith in lies rather than their own personal experience, there is no irony, because there is only irony.
The oil corps love you for all the gas you burn, and your attacks on the person doing the most to hurt them.
You're a Republican pedophile.
How secure is MS software that responds to vulnerability discoveries by ignoring them or lying about them, fixing them after months or even several versions (years) later? Because users have to rely on MS to fix them.
Compared to OO.o, which anyone can fix, even the French government itself, but which does fix bugs quickly.
I remember seeing a DSP demo in probably 1992 where two upright sticks were joined in the middle by a pair of hinges, one allowing the "z axis" stick to bend in half in the xz plane, the other to bend in half along the yz plane. The DSP got feedback from a mercury switch in each of the x and y directions, indicating whether the top stick was balanced in that direction, and opening/closing the respective hinge to compensate for being off-balance.
That stick just stood up straight on its end, wobbling ever so slightly. Slap it and it would bend like a knee, until it stood up again. Simple, effective, and it looks magic.
I've been waiting to see some kind of home robot that does that effect. Now this robot does it with a ball. I'd prefer to see the much cooler stick hopping around my house. It might have an easier time getting across the debris that clutters my floor. I know I do.
You didn't say them. Popsmear said them. I replied to Popsmear in that post to which I linked in my reply to you. My reply to you was in agreement with you, pointing at an example of the people who don't know what they're talking about, and of my stinkfinger for them.
Sorry if my message confused you.
Why not? After all, this thread comes complete with the usual Anonymous stalker Coward showing how pathetic and stupid they are.
Boy am I glad that Bush has destroyed socialism.
I stopped deleting messages from my email boxes long after I stopped sorting out into which folders I download files. These hierarchical DBs are useless for nearly everything but long transaction lists. When I want to find something, I use a search function. When I want to associate different items, I create links. I rarely know what I'll need to find, or how it relates to what else I'll have stored, when I first receive or create it. All those relationships are virtual, views and links - ways of using the data that's not directly related to where I store it.
Who cares what any of these corporations say about "protecting our privacy"? When was the last time anyone successfully sued a corporation for privacy policy violations?
When will my mobile phone encrypt everything it transmits? Privacy violation over wires was bad enough, but broadcasting traffic over the air is begging for trouble, even if practically no one realizes it.
My penis on your mind is your problem, stalker bitch. Don't mistake my contempt for your bafflement for being upset. Now get used to being ignored.
State is citing even less reliable sources: the Mujahideen, the CIA, and their favorite experts. These same people also sent us to war in Iraq for nonexistent WMD, the worst in a long line of selfserving lies the State Department has cooked up, particularly in that region, with those same people.
Most people with an opinion on the Drug War don't know any of the facts. I do. And I've got a stinkfinger for all of them :).
The US State Department is an even less credible source in this discussion than is the Guardian.
I might get a chance to read Coll's book. Because I like to know the new ways people are covering up the CIA's long history of smuggling drugs and guns in Asia (and sometimes Central America, and usually the US).
You're just the kind of fool who loves a "wildcard" in an obscenity so that others will take it seriously. The kind of fool who will stalk another poster just because you've been shown to be a chump in some other thread. Any other major malfunctions you labor under that you need to project on someone else who threatens you?
Yep, drugs are for kids ;).
"Space Age" used to mean "so new it's futuristic". Now it's starting to mean "ancient history".
And all we got is lots more crappy TV.
Addicts are easier to treat when they're not "drug criminals" because they're not forced underground. There's no legal penalty for admitting their addiction or abuse. When caught, they can be forced into treatment rather than into jail (where they would become sicker).
Most addicts don't die from the drugs, but rather from what it takes to get the drugs, or from living "underground" where drugs can be obtained.
You clearly don't know much about drugs, drug users, drug abusers, or much else that constitutes the Drug War. "How on Earth" is a question answered comprehensively in many countries on Earth, like Netherlands, UK, Germany, Switzerland. If you're really interested in improving the situation, you should learn from the massive evidence of actual failures and successes in keeping people from damaging themselves and each other with drugs. If you're really just interested in pretending you know how to deal with drugs without any actual competence, there's a huge, profitable, powerful Drug War waiting for you to "help".
Office smokers routinely take 3 or 4 15 minute cigarette breaks a day, or 10-12% of their productivity. Not to mention the time they take getting the cigarettes, or the time out sick, or dying early.
I've known several crack and meth abusers over the years who held regular jobs with less downtime than smokers. And were more productive in their stimulated state than most of their coworkers.
Just because you don't get the point of drugs, including cigarettes, the point of work, and the point of life, doesn't remove the point from the argument. You can go ahead and just say no, but that doesn't obligate everyone to your simple existence, where "it ain't gonna happen" is a pointless argument.
Why don't you go down to the corner bar and start there? After proving that you have contributed something to society, of course, and are "needed".
There's plenty of documentation. I suppose you'll want video of bin Laden shaking Bush Sr's hands in a Kabul basement as "evidence".