Culturally maybe, but not biologically. I just read an article a few months back about why our penises are shaped the way they are. Basically, the head is optimized to siphon another male's semen out of a woman during the thrusting action. That slightly uncomfortable sensitivity you feel after orgasm is nature's way to stop your thrusting so you don't accidentally siphon out your own semen.
Hello World is fantastic for its intended purpose. It's a simple sanity test of your environment. For new programmers, just getting to that step is a big hurdle.
The 4th has been fudged for years. First, they went after kids w/ baggy pants in NYC, and we said nothing...This is what happens when you let the precedents get set.
I saw this in a documentary maybe 10 years ago. I couldn't tell enough from the article to know what was new besides being a study on one specific trinket.
Slightly OT, but one of the theories posited in Carl Sagan's Comet was that magic swords were historically crafted from meteorites composed of a higher grade of iron than could be smelted/mine/whatever at the time. The magic came from how much better they performed in battle and having been dropped to earth from the heavens.
Once they got in and started floating that insane value for Facebook pre IPO, it should've been obvious to investors that the fix was in. If you see GS jumping in on anything, think of it as a neon "Warning: anal rape ahead" sign. Unless, you're privy to the innards of the deal of course...
So, inflating charges is one thing, but I guess I have a much bigger problem with the idea that the government can buffer some of the inflated charges for later and keep you in a state of permanently accused and tried. I've heard of this for serial killers, where they only bring 1/2 of the cases in one block in case they don't get the conviction or the convict is released at a later date. I have no clue how you address this, but it sounds like a horrible precedent. A really unscrupulous DA could trickle out charges one at a time and keep you in court for life for all kinds of offenses.
Slightly OT, but I just watched a movie called American Violet about disreputable DAs in Texas who were piling on charges with sometimes innocent poor people, getting them to plead out under the threat of YEARS in prison, then collecting money from the Feds for successful drug convictions.
No it's not. They've got the massive economic advantage based on our pro-international corporation, anti-US market economic policies. Our economies are intertwined and they're still dependent on us, but we've helped them build a foundation to beat us at that game.
US foreign policy in the last 15 years has effectively constructed our own nemesis capable of usurping our position in the world. We've moved our manufacturing base there and devastated the working class here, we're locked into multilateral trade agreements that allow the Chinese to undercut our own industries, nevermind espionage when all the Chinese need to do for intel is look at the assembly line next door or drop a backdoor into the routers they're producing for our military, and our arrogant, abusive relationships with other countries as created huge gaps for Chinese vendors.
In twenty years, some people are going to be scratching their heads wondering how it happened.
LOL wow this sums up Slashdot perfectly. A whole ton of posters railing against this silly corporate legalese of Paypal, and the one guy who reads the article smacks it all down with one sentence!
Honestly, I don't think Bloomberg himself really believes in the BS he's pushing. But, he is a HUGE attention whore and he desperately wants to be President. He's found his PR niche where he knows exactly how to get his name in the papers. So, he just keeps dropping these nanny state jewels every few months. I'd feel that he was sincere if he came at it with a sound comprehensive plan rather than a drip-drip-drip of "he's what our strong, dear determined Leader is going to do for us today" edicts.
Paraphrasing a great line from The Grapes of Wrath, if you take a tire you didn't pay for that's a crime, that' stealing; if you sell a guy a tire with a hole in it that's 'good business'.
They're trying to paint juvenile attacks and posting private data with a veneer of social justice. I've actually wasted my time digging through a couple of their dumps. They're completely arbitrary. I'm sure their membership trawls the interwebz looking for vulnerable systems, and when they're digging around one associated with a "bad guy," they post what they've found and pat themselves on the back. Real social justice is based on a philosophy more distinct than "ooh lookie what WE found!".
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Culturally maybe, but not biologically. I just read an article a few months back about why our penises are shaped the way they are. Basically, the head is optimized to siphon another male's semen out of a woman during the thrusting action. That slightly uncomfortable sensitivity you feel after orgasm is nature's way to stop your thrusting so you don't accidentally siphon out your own semen.
Because in networking, every new connection comes from a "non-player" until you're authenticated as otherwise.
I was just wondering why I couldn't log in! I criticize you guys a lot, gotta give you props this time.
...uh...will...uh...always...find a way...hmm.
Just what the world needs. More people with remedial skills at poking around someone else's network.
Hello World is fantastic for its intended purpose. It's a simple sanity test of your environment. For new programmers, just getting to that step is a big hurdle.
British badgers would never be so crude as to simply not "give a fuck." British badgers press on with steely resolve and a stiff upper lip.
It took me over 20 years to figure out this joke. It wasn't until I went through the AFI 100 greatest list a few years back.
The 4th has been fudged for years. First, they went after kids w/ baggy pants in NYC, and we said nothing...This is what happens when you let the precedents get set.
I'm sure there's a pic somewhere on Google Maps of a super hero ducking into his lair.
It's got another asteroid orbiting it
I saw this in a documentary maybe 10 years ago. I couldn't tell enough from the article to know what was new besides being a study on one specific trinket.
Slightly OT, but one of the theories posited in Carl Sagan's Comet was that magic swords were historically crafted from meteorites composed of a higher grade of iron than could be smelted/mine/whatever at the time. The magic came from how much better they performed in battle and having been dropped to earth from the heavens.
Once they got in and started floating that insane value for Facebook pre IPO, it should've been obvious to investors that the fix was in. If you see GS jumping in on anything, think of it as a neon "Warning: anal rape ahead" sign. Unless, you're privy to the innards of the deal of course...
Check out that tractor beam YouTube video. I don't understand the mechanics, but someone was dumping a lot of money into keeping that stock price up.
So, inflating charges is one thing, but I guess I have a much bigger problem with the idea that the government can buffer some of the inflated charges for later and keep you in a state of permanently accused and tried. I've heard of this for serial killers, where they only bring 1/2 of the cases in one block in case they don't get the conviction or the convict is released at a later date. I have no clue how you address this, but it sounds like a horrible precedent. A really unscrupulous DA could trickle out charges one at a time and keep you in court for life for all kinds of offenses.
Slightly OT, but I just watched a movie called American Violet about disreputable DAs in Texas who were piling on charges with sometimes innocent poor people, getting them to plead out under the threat of YEARS in prison, then collecting money from the Feds for successful drug convictions.
No it's not. They've got the massive economic advantage based on our pro-international corporation, anti-US market economic policies. Our economies are intertwined and they're still dependent on us, but we've helped them build a foundation to beat us at that game.
US foreign policy in the last 15 years has effectively constructed our own nemesis capable of usurping our position in the world. We've moved our manufacturing base there and devastated the working class here, we're locked into multilateral trade agreements that allow the Chinese to undercut our own industries, nevermind espionage when all the Chinese need to do for intel is look at the assembly line next door or drop a backdoor into the routers they're producing for our military, and our arrogant, abusive relationships with other countries as created huge gaps for Chinese vendors.
In twenty years, some people are going to be scratching their heads wondering how it happened.
Oh, for mod points...
LOL wow this sums up Slashdot perfectly. A whole ton of posters railing against this silly corporate legalese of Paypal, and the one guy who reads the article smacks it all down with one sentence!
Honestly, I don't think Bloomberg himself really believes in the BS he's pushing. But, he is a HUGE attention whore and he desperately wants to be President. He's found his PR niche where he knows exactly how to get his name in the papers. So, he just keeps dropping these nanny state jewels every few months. I'd feel that he was sincere if he came at it with a sound comprehensive plan rather than a drip-drip-drip of "he's what our strong, dear determined Leader is going to do for us today" edicts.
The bank is always tacking on a new charge for service improvements. OK, if you've improved service shouldn't my charges go *down*?
Paraphrasing a great line from The Grapes of Wrath, if you take a tire you didn't pay for that's a crime, that' stealing; if you sell a guy a tire with a hole in it that's 'good business'.
And, Solyndra ends up like Solyndra because we lost a subsidy battle with China.
They're trying to paint juvenile attacks and posting private data with a veneer of social justice. I've actually wasted my time digging through a couple of their dumps. They're completely arbitrary. I'm sure their membership trawls the interwebz looking for vulnerable systems, and when they're digging around one associated with a "bad guy," they post what they've found and pat themselves on the back. Real social justice is based on a philosophy more distinct than "ooh lookie what WE found!".
"owes" in what sense? As in, owes a politician protection money?