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Someone want to get home addresses, phone #s, list of first-born children?
London, England. Today BP Chairman Johan Georing declared responsibilty for the recently discovered mass extinction of species on Planet Earth. "With 10 to 15 million down," Georing said, "we only have four or five million more to go. And just look how well we seem to be doing this month."
Redmond, Wash: Today MicroSoft announced that it had obtained a patent on the process necessary to obtain a patent, said Steve Ballmer, simultaneously announcing his position as MicroSoft's new Chief Extortionist. "This is a testament to MicroSoft's continuing innovation in the area of innovation," said Ballmer, "and the debt that all corporations owe to MicroSoft for innovating and, er, innovating the patent process." MicroSoft then announced a patent license application process, wherein all new patent license applicants will need to apply to MicroSoft and pay a licensing fee before applying to the USPTO. Rumours on the street also indicated that MicroSoft was preparing its legal division to send Cease and Desist notices to anyone filing patent application who had not applied for and received a license to apply for a patent from MicroSoft, and a concurrent series of suits claiming that patents granted to applicants who had not received licenses from MicroSoft were the property of MicroSoft. "Innovatively protecting our innovation and all our innovative property rights is the core of innovation," said Ballsymer.
er; wikipedia actually says: >Serrano received death threats and hate mail, and lost grants due to the controversy.[2] The work was vandalized at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ.[3] Supporters argued the controversy over Piss Christ is an issue of artistic freedom and freedom of speech.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
to Spanish:
Cuando en el curso de los acontecimientos humanos se hace necesario para un pueblo disolver los lazos políticos que lo han ligado a otro y tomar entre las naciones de la tierra el puesto separado e igual a que las leyes de la Naturaleza y de la Naturaleza Dios les dan derecho, un justo respeto a las opiniones de la humanidad exige que declare las causas que lo impulsan a la separación.
to German:
Wenn im Verlauf der menschlichen Geschichte wird es für ein Volk auflösen, um die politischen Bande, die sie mit einem anderen verbunden zu haben und unter den Völkern der Erde die gesonderte und gleiche Station übernehmen, die erforderlich sind, um die Gesetze der Natur und der Gott der Natur haben sie Anspruch, ein menschenwürdiges Bezug auf die Meinungen der Menschen verlangt, dass sie die Ursachen, die sie zur Trennung getrieben wird.
to Czech:
Kdy se v prbhu lidských djin, bude to rozptýlí pro národ politické svazky, které je spojené s jiným a pevzít mezi národy zem, oddlené a stejné stanici, je nutné, aby zákony pírody a Bh pírody mu, pokud jde o sluné názory lidstva vyaduje, aby byly píiny, které jsou pohánny oddlit.
To Russian:
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To Italian:
Quando, nel corso della storia umana, si dissiperà connessioni politiche della nazione, che è collegato a un altro e prendere tra le nazioni della terra, separato e parità di stazione, è necessario che le leggi della natura e il Dio della natura, dal punto di vista le opinioni dignitose del genere umano prevede che, per ragioni che portare ad ulteriori separatamente.
To Yiddish: [Slashdot does not accept]
To English again:
When in the course of human history, it will Dissipate the nation's political Connections, which is connected to others and take between the Nations of the earth, the separate and equal station, "it is necessary that the Laws of nature and the God of nature, from the point spectacle of the Latvian Opinion of humanity Requires that for reasons which lead to further Separately.
In other news, the Prime Minister released a press release today, explaining that recent government scandals were the result of "problems with the WiFi" which caused "mass delusions among Parliamentarians" which "made them do it." Mr. Brown promises that henceforth that the Parliamentary floor, retreats and other events will be WiFi-free in order to combat corruption. No word on Browning Street.
Actually-- Mexico spends a large percentage of our federal budget on indigenous peoples, who represent a large portion of the population. In this case royalties may simply be paid to the Archaeological Service-- but yes, in essence, this helps support indigenous groups (not: tribes, this is not the US, nos no hablamos Ingles aqui).
(About a year ago I informed a hosting company that I was turning the loglevel up, so I could monitor what their monkeys were doing / and prove there was a disk problem on the server).
The above poster quotes the statistics for so-called "alcohol-influened" fatalities. This is a highly-questionable statistic, derived from drivers (and sometimes passengers) being asked if they have consumed alcohol within 24 hours of an accident.
Correlation not being causality, it is not very useful or indicative to have a number of the fatal accidents in the US, in which 10%, 20%, or 50% may consist of drivers or passengers who had a half a beer yesterday afternoon.
This might be fine if you know the entry and exit stations... actually, not, as you must also know the line.
In my case, I was in London for a 48-hour stop and am minimally familiar with Central London. Briefly explained, my expectation (you might call it hope) is to be able to receive an address over the handy, look it up, and immediately leave for the destination-- central or not.
If you have the U's trip planner online, you are of course fine. If you have a handy that can't get online (I called AT&T after leaving to resolve the problem), it is another story.
In this case, it was easy to look up an address via GPS (Nokia Maps) and locate the nearest Metro station to the destination address. However, Nokia Maps (at least) does not have subways lines (I'll contact them about that-- Nokia's pretty responsive).
In comparison with Berlin or Paris or Brussels or even Budapest or Prague (less lines in the latter cases, but plenty of local tram etc), the fact that the Underground Map is not roughly geographical creates a large difficulty for someone who is not familiar with the territory-- if you don't know the line a station is on, it seemed to me to be very difficult to find a random station name on a map which was not geographically representative.
One can imagine any number of ways to fix this-- a list of stations with an index, better directional indicators, kiosks, or available staff to answer questions. However, I'm not sure I've been to another city that uses a subway map that is so disconnected from actual geography as London, which makes it disorienting in itself.
Of course, there are a large number of smaller cities throughout Europe, of the size of Wodz to Antwerp, where there seem to be no linear maps or serious attempts at explanation of the transportation system at all. While one can (with GPS) generally walk faster than you can make it on public transport in these cites, they are true fun if you're only in town for a few days, especially if your language skills are low-- and I reserve actual scorn for such cities that don't bother; I'm only making fun of London. Though the London concept of "North" and "South" seems a little odd, when labeling direction on lines.
Now North or South America... nothing like cities where people tell you to take a bus "up," and mean "towards the mountain."
>the simplicity of London's Underground map (not directionally accurate but visually easy to understand)
This is perfectly fine and true if all you wish to do is understand the map and only the map itself. (I'm all for cyclical adirectional forms).
While in London last week, visiting a semi-employed mathematical friend from Cambridge, I was confronted with the unusual task, probably never considered by the Underground Map's planners, of needing to travel from one point to another. (It is well-known cartographic that a math degree from C&O is the best path to semi-cartography on the planet, or, at least, in the United Kingdom).
Anyways, since the Underground map has little (not quite no) spacial correspondence to the location of the geographic points it maps, it is consequently difficult-to-impossible for an outsider to locate the actual, physical locations of the stations on a traditional map (I mean the kind drawn by a normal human interested in say, grocery shopping instead of matrix algebra, and uninclined to turn their shopping route into an exercise in said algebraic) --or, say, in reality.
If you do not already know the station locations, at which point you probably wouldn't need the map, this is a significant impediment to getting where one needs to go.
(Disclaimer: of course, I'm male and genetically predisposed to look at the map and not to ask for directions. Individuals without this genetic anomaly may find the Underground maps perfectly fine and useful. Or they may just be from Venus.)
the public transportation is so poor that most people would be unable to function without driving. They would quickly lose their job and become homeless. This certainly isn't true for many cities,
Name one outside NYC.
The unfortunate result is that our society has become much more relaxed about drunk driving.
Compared to when? Five years ago? Ten? Twenty? Fifty?
And exactly how many people die per year due to drunk driving in the States? Exactly how much does it cost to eliminate a so-called drunk driving death, when you've reduced the number of accidents due to intoxication to a few tens in each State?
DUI in the United States is not a practical issue, measured in terms of cost and benefit. It's a quasi-moral, religious issue, where the States is willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to punish people for a supposed immorality, when the same amount of money spent on health care, social services or (egads!) education would save hundreds of lives. MADD-- Typical American hypocrisy, of course.
>If you have an abusive ex, you've (hopefully) already taken measures to protect your privacy, >such as moving somewhere your ex can't find you, getting an unlisted number, etc.
That's one approach. Training hand-to-hand and knife defense, and the school of Glock and Beretta, is another.
Please review US federal labour law. It is NOT legal to turn an employee position into an "independent contractor" position. Being an independent contractor means that you work with your own equipment and facilities, at your own schedule, completing the task(s) as you deem appropriate, without substantive instruction from the contracting business. Anything else is a regular old employment relationship.
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Someone want to get home addresses, phone #s, list of first-born children?
London, England. Today BP Chairman Johan Georing declared responsibilty for the recently discovered mass extinction of species on Planet Earth. "With 10 to 15 million down," Georing said, "we only have four or five million more to go. And just look how well we seem to be doing this month."
Redmond, Wash: Today MicroSoft announced that it had obtained a patent on the process necessary to obtain a patent, said Steve Ballmer, simultaneously announcing his position as MicroSoft's new Chief Extortionist. "This is a testament to MicroSoft's continuing innovation in the area of innovation," said Ballmer, "and the debt that all corporations owe to MicroSoft for innovating and, er, innovating the patent process."
MicroSoft then announced a patent license application process, wherein all new patent license applicants will need to apply to MicroSoft and pay a licensing fee before applying to the USPTO. Rumours on the street also indicated that MicroSoft was preparing its legal division to send Cease and Desist notices to anyone filing patent application who had not applied for and received a license to apply for a patent from MicroSoft, and a concurrent series of suits claiming that patents granted to applicants who had not received licenses from MicroSoft were the property of MicroSoft.
"Innovatively protecting our innovation and all our innovative property rights is the core of innovation," said Ballsymer.
er; wikipedia actually says:
>Serrano received death threats and hate mail, and lost grants due to the controversy.[2] The work was vandalized at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ.[3] Supporters argued the controversy over Piss Christ is an issue of artistic freedom and freedom of speech.
>not only haven't improved all that much, some of it is sliding back down hill.
sLIDING? Slid, sunk...
English:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
to Spanish:
Cuando en el curso de los acontecimientos humanos se hace necesario para un pueblo disolver los lazos políticos que lo han ligado a otro y tomar entre las naciones de la tierra el puesto separado e igual a que las leyes de la Naturaleza y de la Naturaleza Dios les dan derecho, un justo respeto a las opiniones de la humanidad exige que declare las causas que lo impulsan a la separación.
to German:
Wenn im Verlauf der menschlichen Geschichte wird es für ein Volk auflösen, um die politischen Bande, die sie mit einem anderen verbunden zu haben und unter den Völkern der Erde die gesonderte und gleiche Station übernehmen, die erforderlich sind, um die Gesetze der Natur und der Gott der Natur haben sie Anspruch, ein menschenwürdiges Bezug auf die Meinungen der Menschen verlangt, dass sie die Ursachen, die sie zur Trennung getrieben wird.
to Czech:
Kdy se v prbhu lidských djin, bude to rozptýlí pro národ politické svazky, které je spojené s jiným a pevzít mezi národy zem, oddlené a stejné stanici, je nutné, aby zákony pírody a Bh pírody mu, pokud jde o sluné názory lidstva vyaduje, aby byly píiny, které jsou pohánny oddlit.
To Russian:
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To Italian:
Quando, nel corso della storia umana, si dissiperà connessioni politiche della nazione, che è collegato a un altro e prendere tra le nazioni della terra, separato e parità di stazione, è necessario che le leggi della natura e il Dio della natura, dal punto di vista le opinioni dignitose del genere umano prevede che, per ragioni che portare ad ulteriori separatamente.
To Yiddish:
[Slashdot does not accept]
To English again:
When in the course of human history, it will Dissipate the nation's political Connections, which is connected to others and take between the Nations of the earth, the separate and equal station, "it is necessary that the Laws of nature and the God of nature, from the point spectacle of the Latvian Opinion of humanity Requires that for reasons which lead to further Separately.
Better job than I expected it to do.
And in the case of EM, he could simply cover his walls with anti-EM wallpaper.
Holy Crap! What an idea!!! I'm going to buy a domain name and market it, right now!!!
In other news, the Prime Minister released a press release today, explaining that recent government scandals were the result of "problems with the WiFi" which caused "mass delusions among Parliamentarians" which "made them do it." Mr. Brown promises that henceforth that the Parliamentary floor, retreats and other events will be WiFi-free in order to combat corruption. No word on Browning Street.
Acording to the aztec, their Tlatoani Ahuizotl, persoally killed 84,400 prisioners in four days using a stone knife...
However, most experts consider these numbers to be overstated.mos historia asume the aztec put a few extra zeroes as propaganda...
I suspect merely computational error. Have you ever tried to multiply MXXIII by XXIV in Roman numerals alone? And they didn't even have that.
Actually-- Mexico spends a large percentage of our federal budget on indigenous peoples, who represent a large portion of the population. In this case royalties may simply be paid to the Archaeological Service-- but yes, in essence, this helps support indigenous groups (not: tribes, this is not the US, nos no hablamos Ingles aqui).
Your Host's staff can read log files? (Smile).
(About a year ago I informed a hosting company that I was turning the loglevel up, so I could monitor what their monkeys were doing / and prove there was a disk problem on the server).
The above poster quotes the statistics for so-called "alcohol-influened" fatalities. This is a highly-questionable statistic, derived from drivers (and sometimes passengers) being asked if they have consumed alcohol within 24 hours of an accident.
Correlation not being causality, it is not very useful or indicative to have a number of the fatal accidents in the US, in which 10%, 20%, or 50% may consist of drivers or passengers who had a half a beer yesterday afternoon.
The answer would be "no." Taken a look at Mexico lately?
Jeez, the Cubans are getting lax. Hard to find good, old fashioned totalitarians these days.
This might be fine if you know the entry and exit stations... actually, not, as you must also know the line.
In my case, I was in London for a 48-hour stop and am minimally familiar with Central London. Briefly explained, my expectation (you might call it hope) is to be able to receive an address over the handy, look it up, and immediately leave for the destination-- central or not.
If you have the U's trip planner online, you are of course fine. If you have a handy that can't get online (I called AT&T after leaving to resolve the problem), it is another story.
In this case, it was easy to look up an address via GPS (Nokia Maps) and locate the nearest Metro station to the destination address. However, Nokia Maps (at least) does not have subways lines (I'll contact them about that-- Nokia's pretty responsive).
In comparison with Berlin or Paris or Brussels or even Budapest or Prague (less lines in the latter cases, but plenty of local tram etc), the fact that the Underground Map is not roughly geographical creates a large difficulty for someone who is not familiar with the territory-- if you don't know the line a station is on, it seemed to me to be very difficult to find a random station name on a map which was not geographically representative.
One can imagine any number of ways to fix this-- a list of stations with an index, better directional indicators, kiosks, or available staff to answer questions. However, I'm not sure I've been to another city that uses a subway map that is so disconnected from actual geography as London, which makes it disorienting in itself.
Of course, there are a large number of smaller cities throughout Europe, of the size of Wodz to Antwerp, where there seem to be no linear maps or serious attempts at explanation of the transportation system at all.
While one can (with GPS) generally walk faster than you can make it on public transport in these cites, they are true fun if you're only in town for a few days, especially if your language skills are low-- and I reserve actual scorn for such cities that don't bother; I'm only making fun of London. Though the London concept of "North" and "South" seems a little odd, when labeling direction on lines.
Now North or South America... nothing like cities where people tell you to take a bus "up," and mean "towards the mountain."
Wait, isn't sucking at multitasking already multitasking
That would be sucking while multitasking. Obviously you've never worked at a programming shop which employs fluffers.
Now look here guys, see, I'll spore as soon as each of you spore, but if any one of you display any signs of competence, it's...
>the simplicity of London's Underground map (not directionally accurate but visually easy to understand)
This is perfectly fine and true if all you wish to do is understand the map and only the map itself. (I'm all for cyclical adirectional forms).
While in London last week, visiting a semi-employed mathematical friend from Cambridge, I was confronted with the unusual task, probably never considered by the Underground Map's planners, of needing to travel from one point to another. (It is well-known cartographic that a math degree from C&O is the best path to semi-cartography on the planet, or, at least, in the United Kingdom).
Anyways, since the Underground map has little (not quite no) spacial correspondence to the location of the geographic points it maps, it is consequently difficult-to-impossible for an outsider to locate the actual, physical locations of the stations on a traditional map (I mean the kind drawn by a normal human interested in say, grocery shopping instead of matrix algebra, and uninclined to turn their shopping route into an exercise in said algebraic) --or, say, in reality.
If you do not already know the station locations, at which point you probably wouldn't need the map, this is a significant impediment to getting where one needs to go.
(Disclaimer: of course, I'm male and genetically predisposed to look at the map and not to ask for directions. Individuals without this genetic anomaly may find the Underground maps perfectly fine and useful. Or they may just be from Venus.)
I know its old fashioned but if I think of interesting things to say, I say them to my wife or my friends face to face :P
Egads! Ye Luddite!! And what a way to lose wife and friends!!!
the public transportation is so poor that most people would be unable to function without driving. They would quickly lose their job and become homeless. This certainly isn't true for many cities,
Name one outside NYC.
The unfortunate result is that our society has become much more relaxed about drunk driving.
Compared to when? Five years ago? Ten? Twenty? Fifty?
And exactly how many people die per year due to drunk driving in the States? Exactly how much does it cost to eliminate a so-called drunk driving death, when you've reduced the number of accidents due to intoxication to a few tens in each State?
DUI in the United States is not a practical issue, measured in terms of cost and benefit. It's a quasi-moral, religious issue, where the States is willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to punish people for a supposed immorality, when the same amount of money spent on health care, social services or (egads!) education would save hundreds of lives. MADD-- Typical American hypocrisy, of course.
Here in the UK you'd be very lucky to still have a driving licence after that. I believe the typical punishment for being caught once is a year's ban.
Congrats. You Brits have managed to implement fascism more effectively than the Americans. I've believe you've now surpassed the Germans as well.
A cup of Godwin's law, anyone?
>try the "Post Humously" option.
I'll prefer to post while alive, thank you.
>If you have an abusive ex, you've (hopefully) already taken measures to protect your privacy,
>such as moving somewhere your ex can't find you, getting an unlisted number, etc.
That's one approach. Training hand-to-hand and knife defense, and the school of Glock and Beretta, is another.
Really? I've never done it. Never. /me goes to point .cm to 127.0.0.1 .
Please review US federal labour law. It is NOT legal to turn an employee position into an "independent contractor" position. Being an independent contractor means that you work with your own equipment and facilities, at your own schedule, completing the task(s) as you deem appropriate, without substantive instruction from the contracting business. Anything else is a regular old employment relationship.