Astrological calculations can get very complicated. On the principle that anything with lots of math in has to be right, astrologers added increasing complexity to each of the several competing and contradictory systems in use. Exactly when the AoA starts depends mostly upon estimating by eye where to site the invisible line that separates constellations.
LOL, exactly: "it's perfectly scientific! Just calculate these variables, and then multiply by your resting heart rate and divide by your chakra resistance, and you have your astrological coefficient!"
I can't see how easier that could be. Only the user can know the relative orientation of each monitor to its peers, as well as the preferred resolution.
"Please wave the Kinect around the room for five seconds. Thank you, your monitor orientation has been observed, you may now put down the Kinect."
When asked about WMD their response it is a "Slam Dunk". That really stopped all questions about WMD until the war went on and no major Weapons were found.
Yeah, if the fourth estate wasn't already usurped by the moneyed elite, they'd have asked, "Hang on a second, this isn't basketball we're talking about; where's your evidence?"
IMO, the real terrorists now are the war contractors, our elected officials and the fucking sheeple who put them there.
Eisenhower did warn us about this. Not that I was alive back then, but at least I can read history. (Not directed at you; directed at my brethren in this idiocracy nation...)
But, once again, the double standard rears it's ugly head - parrot someone (undeservedly) regarded as an 'expert' and beloved of Slashdot, and they get a free pass.
Yeah, exactly! I mean, parrot truth and freedom, and it gets a free pass. Talk about people subjugating others, and man we have it out for them. I mean, we're the ones being unfair here, right!??!!?1eleven!1
I agree that their airport security model is superior, and maybe it can scale to large airports in the USA, but if we have dozens of airports with more traffic than their busiest airport, scaling is very far from a simple task.
Yeah, but our tactic of just pouring feces all over everything doesn't seem to be very effective. It might scale, and perhaps that's why we're doing it, but it's not effective. Unless you're running a farm.
Okay, I am going OT; big deal. I remember hearing a news article on the radio many years ago, when I was a teenager. It said, "Should you strain on the toilet?" I had an image of a colander under someone's butt. And now you do too.:)
The only way this is going to be fixed is by wiping out the whole department. There's a primary coming up a candidate who would do that.
I and many of my friends have registered Republican this year, solely so we can vote for Ron Paul in the primaries. (I believe that is what you meant, and wanted to inform those who were unaware.) I also heard on NPR on the way home tonight that Newt Gingrich is basically out of money, and both Ron Paul and Mitt Romney have "super-PACs" that are not in their control, which are generating attack ads that Newt will not be able to afford to overcome, so he's effectively out of the running. The gist of that story was that it's a two-way race now, between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul! That is amazing, I always thought he was "fringe", but now he's about to attract some government lead. Too bad, I like his ideas.
Well, I'm sure GoDaddy is reading this thread, so I just wanted to chime in: my employer is moving all of our ten trillion domains off of GoDaddy. And, we're suing GoDaddy for breach of contract; our contract contained explicit terms that the hosting company would not participate in the political process.
It strikes me that you might benefit from some VSL3. From this and other writing, it sounds like there's a war going on inside your gut. Did you ever watch that video on money?
I was referred to "What if Cannabis Cured Cancer?" here, some time ago, and bought the DVD at Amazon. The DVD has references, and shows the scientists discussing their findings; it also discusses the history, both usage and prohibition, and the reasons for prohibition (biggest reason? It competed with trees, and William Randolph Hearst had just invested in a forest for his newspaper business, and wanted to eliminate "competition"). Here's a link; right now it's $15. Enjoy!
Then stop giving them a reason. If you don't want the enforcement agencies to kill the internet, then find another way to protest. [...] Two wrongs don't make a right.
I wonder, what's your take on marijuana laws? Because that substance cures the cancers that we are constantly growing inside our bodies. To extrapolate your position from your writing, I would say that it's something like "Stop healing yourself until the legislators allow you to", and I would respond that I'd rather they lock me up.
Although this is not a login issue, I've had the following pet peeve for some time now. My bank will not allow me to pay more than the balance of my credit card, via an on-line bill pay (i.e., electronic check). I have reported this several times, to no response.
In the real world, if I write them a check for more than the balance, they don't return it to me; they cash it and apply a credit to the card! I could initially get around it by doing two payments (i.e., balance is $1900, I make two payments of $1,000), and now they have new detection software that prevents me from making two payments of the same amount. Easily resolved; second payment is $1000.01.
However, why the fuck should I have to jump through these hoops electronically, when the real-world equivalent has no such hoops???
[...] turning that patrol into surveillance is essentially just a matter of doing the DB lookup. We haven't reached that point yet [...]
Well, perhaps not domestically. Aerial surveillance, I read recently, is working great in Baghdad, where the occupiers had enough drones flying to completely blanket the city with coverage. As soon as a car blows up, the video is played in reverse, and they follow it back to the bomb-making factory, generally with explosive results. Look for this type of activity to come to your home town. Where I am, they already have DHS cameras down at the waterfront.
No, I'm agreeing with the other poster that conventions are cool. For instance, I am hoping that their production conventions are significantly better than their communication conventions, otherwise you might not find it so cool to be an owner.
However for many US citizens the Constitution seems to be a near holy object treated with undo reverence.
That's correct, we did manage to repeal the 18th Amendment; I hold in high regard the ability to undo the damage. (Yes, I realize you meant "undue", and thought you might like the veal.)
A lot of Americans also seem to think that if you are a citizen of the US you are inherently superior to anyone else in the world. As in more deserving, more intelligent, a better person, superior to foreigners, more deserving of everything. Conversely, non-US citizens are inferior human beings with less rights, less intelligence, less value etc.
As an American I can sadly say that I was raised this way, and "thought" (although it wasn't so much a conscious decision) that "third world countries and peoples" were not able to think as well as residents of this country. Which is a truly disgusting way of looking at the world and I'm glad that I've since learned to think differently. Having been married to a Brazilian helped a great deal in that regard, although I would not recommend marriage to anyone, having experienced it.
I agree with phantomfive, that humans can easily wrap their brains around the ability to operate without internal self-censoring. In fact, they generally tend to operate more efficiently in that configuration.
Also, you raise the separate issue of the glass ceiling. It is unfortunately a biological fact that a female employee may decide to procreate, and generally this results in the disruption of her service in the workplace. A male employee procreating does not (although there have been "paternal leave" instituted more recently, it's for a shorter duration and is not as physically and emotionally draining on the new father as it is on the mother, what with post-partum depression, breast feeding, and the associated hormonal changes). I think that it's good that women are making purposeful steps towards equalization, but until our biology changes, men and women will continue to have differently-ranked skill sets.
You rant an awful lot. But please, respond to my point: all those bank runs were caused by the banks, in the way that they set up their system of fractional reserve lending. If the banks could not lend out more money than they brought in, there could never be a banking panic because they'd always be able to pay their account holders. Please, please, even if you must use all caps and swear at me while doing so, please explain why bankers created a system that could be abused in this manner?
I read your link. It does not explain the "why", only the "what":
A bank run occurs when a large number of bank customers withdraw their deposits because they believe the bank might fail. There have been many runs on individual banks throughout history; for example, some of the 2008-2009 bank failures in the United States were associated with bank runs.
It does not explain the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for there to even be an ability to have a run on a bank.
Oh, and have you watched the video on money yet? It would be nice to have a pleasant debate but at least we could have an informed one.
Besides this, I went to high school with someone who was told, in his sophomore year, that he was a year older than he thought he was. So that he could get his driver's license at the correct age; they had previously lied because of religious reasons about childbirth out of wedlock (aside, the "lock" seems like a warning). So, even before the Internet existed, parents lied to children about their ages. So, how can children be expected to tell the actual truth when asked for their age, when they're young???
I think teaching how to circumvent COPPA is dangerous without teaching when to do so.
Yeah, I'm thinking teaching our legislators how to write intelligent laws is the least dangerous approach. Barring that, teaching my children that the reason I teach them about the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and God is the reason I am teaching them to question authority, is the appropriate response.
Slashdot Mirror
Astrological calculations can get very complicated. On the principle that anything with lots of math in has to be right, astrologers added increasing complexity to each of the several competing and contradictory systems in use. Exactly when the AoA starts depends mostly upon estimating by eye where to site the invisible line that separates constellations.
LOL, exactly: "it's perfectly scientific! Just calculate these variables, and then multiply by your resting heart rate and divide by your chakra resistance, and you have your astrological coefficient!"
I can't see how easier that could be. Only the user can know the relative orientation of each monitor to its peers, as well as the preferred resolution.
"Please wave the Kinect around the room for five seconds. Thank you, your monitor orientation has been observed, you may now put down the Kinect."
When asked about WMD their response it is a "Slam Dunk". That really stopped all questions about WMD until the war went on and no major Weapons were found.
Yeah, if the fourth estate wasn't already usurped by the moneyed elite, they'd have asked, "Hang on a second, this isn't basketball we're talking about; where's your evidence?"
IMO, the real terrorists now are the war contractors, our elected officials and the fucking sheeple who put them there.
Eisenhower did warn us about this. Not that I was alive back then, but at least I can read history. (Not directed at you; directed at my brethren in this idiocracy nation...)
But, once again, the double standard rears it's ugly head - parrot someone (undeservedly) regarded as an 'expert' and beloved of Slashdot, and they get a free pass.
Yeah, exactly! I mean, parrot truth and freedom, and it gets a free pass. Talk about people subjugating others, and man we have it out for them. I mean, we're the ones being unfair here, right!??!!?1eleven!1
I agree that their airport security model is superior, and maybe it can scale to large airports in the USA, but if we have dozens of airports with more traffic than their busiest airport, scaling is very far from a simple task.
Yeah, but our tactic of just pouring feces all over everything doesn't seem to be very effective. It might scale, and perhaps that's why we're doing it, but it's not effective. Unless you're running a farm.
Okay, I am going OT; big deal. I remember hearing a news article on the radio many years ago, when I was a teenager. It said, "Should you strain on the toilet?" I had an image of a colander under someone's butt. And now you do too. :)
The only way this is going to be fixed is by wiping out the whole department. There's a primary coming up a candidate who would do that.
I and many of my friends have registered Republican this year, solely so we can vote for Ron Paul in the primaries. (I believe that is what you meant, and wanted to inform those who were unaware.) I also heard on NPR on the way home tonight that Newt Gingrich is basically out of money, and both Ron Paul and Mitt Romney have "super-PACs" that are not in their control, which are generating attack ads that Newt will not be able to afford to overcome, so he's effectively out of the running. The gist of that story was that it's a two-way race now, between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul! That is amazing, I always thought he was "fringe", but now he's about to attract some government lead. Too bad, I like his ideas.
Well, I'm sure GoDaddy is reading this thread, so I just wanted to chime in: my employer is moving all of our ten trillion domains off of GoDaddy. And, we're suing GoDaddy for breach of contract; our contract contained explicit terms that the hosting company would not participate in the political process.
It strikes me that you might benefit from some VSL3. From this and other writing, it sounds like there's a war going on inside your gut. Did you ever watch that video on money?
I was referred to "What if Cannabis Cured Cancer?" here, some time ago, and bought the DVD at Amazon. The DVD has references, and shows the scientists discussing their findings; it also discusses the history, both usage and prohibition, and the reasons for prohibition (biggest reason? It competed with trees, and William Randolph Hearst had just invested in a forest for his newspaper business, and wanted to eliminate "competition"). Here's a link; right now it's $15. Enjoy!
Probably close to zero Americans actually drive 40 miles per day.
Driving commuter here, 37 miles between work and home. I drive almost twice the average. On weekdays.
Then stop giving them a reason. If you don't want the enforcement agencies to kill the internet, then find another way to protest. [...] Two wrongs don't make a right.
I wonder, what's your take on marijuana laws? Because that substance cures the cancers that we are constantly growing inside our bodies. To extrapolate your position from your writing, I would say that it's something like "Stop healing yourself until the legislators allow you to", and I would respond that I'd rather they lock me up.
I guess if one gets enough cadmium [...]
Mmm, Cadmium Creamy Eggs... Oh sorry, wrong holiday.
Although this is not a login issue, I've had the following pet peeve for some time now. My bank will not allow me to pay more than the balance of my credit card, via an on-line bill pay (i.e., electronic check). I have reported this several times, to no response.
In the real world, if I write them a check for more than the balance, they don't return it to me; they cash it and apply a credit to the card! I could initially get around it by doing two payments (i.e., balance is $1900, I make two payments of $1,000), and now they have new detection software that prevents me from making two payments of the same amount. Easily resolved; second payment is $1000.01.
However, why the fuck should I have to jump through these hoops electronically, when the real-world equivalent has no such hoops???
[...] turning that patrol into surveillance is essentially just a matter of doing the DB lookup. We haven't reached that point yet [...]
Well, perhaps not domestically. Aerial surveillance, I read recently, is working great in Baghdad, where the occupiers had enough drones flying to completely blanket the city with coverage. As soon as a car blows up, the video is played in reverse, and they follow it back to the bomb-making factory, generally with explosive results. Look for this type of activity to come to your home town. Where I am, they already have DHS cameras down at the waterfront.
No, I'm agreeing with the other poster that conventions are cool. For instance, I am hoping that their production conventions are significantly better than their communication conventions, otherwise you might not find it so cool to be an owner.
However for many US citizens the Constitution seems to be a near holy object treated with undo reverence.
That's correct, we did manage to repeal the 18th Amendment; I hold in high regard the ability to undo the damage. (Yes, I realize you meant "undue", and thought you might like the veal.)
A lot of Americans also seem to think that if you are a citizen of the US you are inherently superior to anyone else in the world. As in more deserving, more intelligent, a better person, superior to foreigners, more deserving of everything. Conversely, non-US citizens are inferior human beings with less rights, less intelligence, less value etc.
As an American I can sadly say that I was raised this way, and "thought" (although it wasn't so much a conscious decision) that "third world countries and peoples" were not able to think as well as residents of this country. Which is a truly disgusting way of looking at the world and I'm glad that I've since learned to think differently. Having been married to a Brazilian helped a great deal in that regard, although I would not recommend marriage to anyone, having experienced it.
I agree with phantomfive, that humans can easily wrap their brains around the ability to operate without internal self-censoring. In fact, they generally tend to operate more efficiently in that configuration.
Also, you raise the separate issue of the glass ceiling. It is unfortunately a biological fact that a female employee may decide to procreate, and generally this results in the disruption of her service in the workplace. A male employee procreating does not (although there have been "paternal leave" instituted more recently, it's for a shorter duration and is not as physically and emotionally draining on the new father as it is on the mother, what with post-partum depression, breast feeding, and the associated hormonal changes). I think that it's good that women are making purposeful steps towards equalization, but until our biology changes, men and women will continue to have differently-ranked skill sets.
You rant an awful lot. But please, respond to my point: all those bank runs were caused by the banks, in the way that they set up their system of fractional reserve lending. If the banks could not lend out more money than they brought in, there could never be a banking panic because they'd always be able to pay their account holders. Please, please, even if you must use all caps and swear at me while doing so, please explain why bankers created a system that could be abused in this manner?
I read your link. It does not explain the "why", only the "what":
A bank run occurs when a large number of bank customers withdraw their deposits because they believe the bank might fail. There have been many runs on individual banks throughout history; for example, some of the 2008-2009 bank failures in the United States were associated with bank runs.
It does not explain the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for there to even be an ability to have a run on a bank.
Oh, and have you watched the video on money yet? It would be nice to have a pleasant debate but at least we could have an informed one.
Besides this, I went to high school with someone who was told, in his sophomore year, that he was a year older than he thought he was. So that he could get his driver's license at the correct age; they had previously lied because of religious reasons about childbirth out of wedlock (aside, the "lock" seems like a warning). So, even before the Internet existed, parents lied to children about their ages. So, how can children be expected to tell the actual truth when asked for their age, when they're young???
I think teaching how to circumvent COPPA is dangerous without teaching when to do so.
Yeah, I'm thinking teaching our legislators how to write intelligent laws is the least dangerous approach. Barring that, teaching my children that the reason I teach them about the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and God is the reason I am teaching them to question authority, is the appropriate response.
Why you still have slashdot account?
Why does your pre-teen daughter have an e-mail account to begin with?
To communicate?