Clearly the crowd was not a threat and they knew that. Most cops are just scared pussies with small dicks. That's why they use excessive force in the first place.
Tasing him once maybe twice would have been sufficient. Anything else is dangerous and brutal. Have you ever been tased? Have you ever read a taser manual? Are you familiar with proper police procedure involving tasers?
Obvioulsy they wanted to continue to be able to taser him because he could not get up. They get shot with those things at least once before they are issued one, so they know how they feel. It's the same as those skinhead pigs that shot that iraq vet awhile back during a trafic stop. They told him to get up then shot him because he got up. Shot him several times I believe.
You'll feel different if you ever have a child. Not trying to flame you... I felt the same way you do, and no one could convince me otherwise except my newborn daughter. I wanted her aborted so bad because we couldn't handle it financially. Now I still feel guilt for that (she's a week old).
Watch the birth for even more effect. You'll probably look it in the eyes before its mother as they have to rush it aside for shots, etc. and they generally take you over there to keep your eyes off the afterbirth. Just wait until it grabs your finger with its tiny, soft little hand.
I still hate babies, but I love mine. Eventually you'll knock someone up that won't get an abortion and you'll see what I mean. Good luck.
If you're going to be posting things for public consumption, then you better get a thicker skin. They're typed words from nose-picking deweebs. The only reason they nit-picked everything you did is because they have nothing else in life that gives them a sense of self-worth. Most think the only thing that matters is their computer and their ability to haxor a script. The ones who have out-grown that mentality are either keeping their mouths shut or have written something constructive to you.
You're right, they're snobs. You should get a good chuckle out of it because the kids that are like that really don't have anything else in life to be proud of. Consider yourself better off for that.
Seven years ago I used to be just like them. A karma whoring know-it-all. Then I started using drugs, drinking, got a girlfriend, started having sex with a real vagina anytime I wanted, had a baby, cleaned up my act. The whole experince showed me how truely low and depraved I was as a nerd (and all fucked up all the time). I still know everything I did back then. I also know there's A LOT more to life than technology and my computer. I spend about 1 hour a day average on my home PC. Sometimes I don't use it at all. I don't check my e-mail because I don't get anything at home unless I'm expecting it. I don't chat. I don't use Linux anymore. Windows works fine, and I don't reinstall it every 30 days. And I come to slashdot when I'm bored.
Now I just read the funny posts and trolls. And I troll when I see some depraved know-it-all post. I've trolled on this story a little, but I just feel bad now that I see how sensitive you are. Fuck these people are morons in the "street smart" sense. There's still hope for you! Believe me, you can be a knowledgeable nerd with a hobby. Just don't forget that there are much more fulfilling things in life.
Develop a drug habbit for a few years if you have some kind of social inhibition that's keeping you locked up as a nerd desperate for nerdy friends.
And "M$" isn't cool. It's fucking immature. A company that makes money!?! $ony, Pep$i, $eagate, Pana$onic, George Luca$, Indu$trial Light and Magic, George Bu$h, Dreamwork$, $ubaru... Red Hat is careful to keep 'S' out of their name for a good reason I guess. I know: "my$QL" -------- TROLL!!!
Ignore these fucks that are saying anything destructive. Speak to the constructive ones. You are better than them if you are not one of them. Trust me!
Someone who can use Linux can install it on their own PS3. Someone who can use Linux and bought the auction item would reinstall the OS anyway. Someone who can't use Linux and buys this won't get a whole lot of use out of it will they?
It's like taking a single tuning fork into a room of 1000 identical tuning forks and striking it... All the others will begin resonating too and produce sound.
I've never tried this, but some quack I was reading claimed it would work this way. Is this true? The article makes a similar analogy, but doesn't claim that n tuning forks will all equally resonate with just one starting it all.
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You actually read this site for the comments and the news? That's crazy! Read comments at -1, Nested. The trolls and the Beuowolf clusters and Natalie Portman and the Linux/Microsoft FUD are what make this site worth reading in the first place.
Sure, Slashdot used to be a hell of place to engage in intelligent conversation, but it's just not that anymore. Usenet used to be too.
But things aren't that way anymore, so we should just accept them as they are and have a laugh.
Hell, on sci.math, some guy used to always post about solving Fermat's Last Theorem using elementary algebra (he may still be doing so, actually). Then some other guy named "Hi" would always reply to his posts telling him to take more meds. Funny shit!
Perhaps they should be building a car containing the motor described in US Patent 6,392,370.
Or if they don't want to go that route, they can maybe try US Patent 6,362,718
Fuel cells are a waste of money.
Optical mice don't use lasers
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All the optical mice I've seen don't use lasers. If they did, they'd be required by law to have the standard laser warning sticker in plain view on them. I have yet to see a mouse with such a sticker.
They just use very bright LEDs. If you think about it, that's all that's really necessary. It just needs to illuminate the surface under the mouse with a color that the sensor is sensitive to.
Off topic, but the second law of thermodynamics only applies to systems in equilibrium with their active environment.
G. Nicolis and I. Prigogine, (1987), Exploring Complexity, Piper, Munich, 1987.
Gregoire Nicolis, "Physics of far-from-equilibrium systems and self-organization," Chapter 11 in Paul Davies, Ed., The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, p. 317-347.
Ilya Prigogine, The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature, Free Press, New York, 1996, 1997.
Systems in disequilibrium with their environment are allowed to:
1. self-order
2. self-oscillate or self-rotate
3. output more energy than the operator inputs (the extra energy is received from its active environment)
4. power itself and its loads simultaniously
5. exhibit negentropy
Just a little FYI to get you up to speed with modern physics.
Console developers also get to use lower level APIs. PC developers almost have to use OpenGL or DirectX. If one were able to code directly to a GF3's hardware, and they had a minimal OS on top of it, things would be a lot different.
It's free, but is this really obvious to the casual-type user who's been described in a few previous posts?
How do people like this first hear about Linux? They casually surf over to Red Hat's web site, and they see a link that allows them to ORDER Linux.
The means by which a person acquires Linux for free are seldom obvious unless a lot of information is scrutinized. And even then, the methods are generally too complex for a causal Windows user to understand.
Linux advocates need to remember that casual computer people don't think in terms of a free and open Linux kernel packaged in distributions that are sold with support but can also be freely downloaded.
Casual computer people think of Red Hat Linux 7.1 costing $39.95 when they think of Linux. In other words, their perception of Linux as a whole is the size of a pinhead, and they don't realize what Linux purely is, and they don't realize that it can be acquired for free.
I think Linux advocates should start an organization that accepts donations. This organization would then use the donations to distribute an easy to use Linux distribution on a CD with a lot of information targeted at the casual computer user. The CDs would then be mailed for free to people across the country like AOL CDs are now.
The distribution would have to install from Windows without overwriting Windows, and it would have to be idiot proof yet still provide access to the "under-the-hood" features.
People would use it, and their natural curiosity would make them eventually discover what's under-the-hood, and they'd be proficient at and appreciative of Linux. And if they didn't have this curiosity: hey, they might still just decide to stick with it, and the Linux community would have just recruited another casual computer user.
In any case, I wouldn't mind a few Linux coasters mixed in with my AOL coasters.:-)
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Clearly the crowd was not a threat and they knew that. Most cops are just scared pussies with small dicks. That's why they use excessive force in the first place.
Tasing him once maybe twice would have been sufficient. Anything else is dangerous and brutal. Have you ever been tased? Have you ever read a taser manual? Are you familiar with proper police procedure involving tasers?
Obvioulsy they wanted to continue to be able to taser him because he could not get up. They get shot with those things at least once before they are issued one, so they know how they feel. It's the same as those skinhead pigs that shot that iraq vet awhile back during a trafic stop. They told him to get up then shot him because he got up. Shot him several times I believe.
All baby mammals are cute. What's up with that? Built in instinct?
You'll feel different if you ever have a child. Not trying to flame you... I felt the same way you do, and no one could convince me otherwise except my newborn daughter. I wanted her aborted so bad because we couldn't handle it financially. Now I still feel guilt for that (she's a week old).
Watch the birth for even more effect. You'll probably look it in the eyes before its mother as they have to rush it aside for shots, etc. and they generally take you over there to keep your eyes off the afterbirth. Just wait until it grabs your finger with its tiny, soft little hand.
I still hate babies, but I love mine. Eventually you'll knock someone up that won't get an abortion and you'll see what I mean. Good luck.
If you're going to be posting things for public consumption, then you better get a thicker skin. They're typed words from nose-picking deweebs. The only reason they nit-picked everything you did is because they have nothing else in life that gives them a sense of self-worth. Most think the only thing that matters is their computer and their ability to haxor a script. The ones who have out-grown that mentality are either keeping their mouths shut or have written something constructive to you.
You're right, they're snobs. You should get a good chuckle out of it because the kids that are like that really don't have anything else in life to be proud of. Consider yourself better off for that.
Seven years ago I used to be just like them. A karma whoring know-it-all. Then I started using drugs, drinking, got a girlfriend, started having sex with a real vagina anytime I wanted, had a baby, cleaned up my act. The whole experince showed me how truely low and depraved I was as a nerd (and all fucked up all the time). I still know everything I did back then. I also know there's A LOT more to life than technology and my computer. I spend about 1 hour a day average on my home PC. Sometimes I don't use it at all. I don't check my e-mail because I don't get anything at home unless I'm expecting it. I don't chat. I don't use Linux anymore. Windows works fine, and I don't reinstall it every 30 days. And I come to slashdot when I'm bored.
Now I just read the funny posts and trolls. And I troll when I see some depraved know-it-all post. I've trolled on this story a little, but I just feel bad now that I see how sensitive you are. Fuck these people are morons in the "street smart" sense. There's still hope for you! Believe me, you can be a knowledgeable nerd with a hobby. Just don't forget that there are much more fulfilling things in life.
Develop a drug habbit for a few years if you have some kind of social inhibition that's keeping you locked up as a nerd desperate for nerdy friends.
And "M$" isn't cool. It's fucking immature. A company that makes money!?! $ony, Pep$i, $eagate, Pana$onic, George Luca$, Indu$trial Light and Magic, George Bu$h, Dreamwork$, $ubaru... Red Hat is careful to keep 'S' out of their name for a good reason I guess. I know: "my$QL" -------- TROLL!!!
Ignore these fucks that are saying anything destructive. Speak to the constructive ones. You are better than them if you are not one of them. Trust me!
Someone who can use Linux can install it on their own PS3. Someone who can use Linux and bought the auction item would reinstall the OS anyway. Someone who can't use Linux and buys this won't get a whole lot of use out of it will they?
What a dumbass auction.
Until they get WMD
It's like taking a single tuning fork into a room of 1000 identical tuning forks and striking it... All the others will begin resonating too and produce sound.
I've never tried this, but some quack I was reading claimed it would work this way. Is this true? The article makes a similar analogy, but doesn't claim that n tuning forks will all equally resonate with just one starting it all.
Agreed. This is a bullshit story. Way to go Slashdot!
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Drivers essentially tell the operating system how to communicate with the hardware. Linux can't use Window's drivers because it's a different OS.
I use "can't" loosely. Anything's possible, but that doesn't mean anything's practical.
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You actually read this site for the comments and the news? That's crazy! Read comments at -1, Nested. The trolls and the Beuowolf clusters and Natalie Portman and the Linux/Microsoft FUD are what make this site worth reading in the first place.
Sure, Slashdot used to be a hell of place to engage in intelligent conversation, but it's just not that anymore. Usenet used to be too.
But things aren't that way anymore, so we should just accept them as they are and have a laugh.
Hell, on sci.math, some guy used to always post about solving Fermat's Last Theorem using elementary algebra (he may still be doing so, actually). Then some other guy named "Hi" would always reply to his posts telling him to take more meds. Funny shit!
Perhaps they should be building a car containing the motor described in US Patent 6,392,370.
Or if they don't want to go that route, they can maybe try US Patent 6,362,718
Fuel cells are a waste of money.
All the optical mice I've seen don't use lasers. If they did, they'd be required by law to have the standard laser warning sticker in plain view on them. I have yet to see a mouse with such a sticker.
They just use very bright LEDs. If you think about it, that's all that's really necessary. It just needs to illuminate the surface under the mouse with a color that the sensor is sensitive to.
1/0 = +/-infiniti?
Most major browsers can selectively block cookies. Even IE since version 4... Maybe even since version 3.
Isn't that Simcopter 1?
Mod this up. It's supposed to be funny. I don't see how it's a troll.
Off topic, but the second law of thermodynamics only applies to systems in equilibrium with their active environment.
G. Nicolis and I. Prigogine, (1987), Exploring Complexity, Piper, Munich, 1987.
Gregoire Nicolis, "Physics of far-from-equilibrium systems and self-organization," Chapter 11 in Paul Davies, Ed., The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, p. 317-347.
Ilya Prigogine, The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature, Free Press, New York, 1996, 1997.
Systems in disequilibrium with their environment are allowed to:
1. self-order
2. self-oscillate or self-rotate
3. output more energy than the operator inputs (the extra energy is received from its active environment)
4. power itself and its loads simultaniously
5. exhibit negentropy
Just a little FYI to get you up to speed with modern physics.
Console developers also get to use lower level APIs. PC developers almost have to use OpenGL or DirectX. If one were able to code directly to a GF3's hardware, and they had a minimal OS on top of it, things would be a lot different.
It's free, but is this really obvious to the casual-type user who's been described in a few previous posts?
:-)
How do people like this first hear about Linux? They casually surf over to Red Hat's web site, and they see a link that allows them to ORDER Linux.
The means by which a person acquires Linux for free are seldom obvious unless a lot of information is scrutinized. And even then, the methods are generally too complex for a causal Windows user to understand.
Linux advocates need to remember that casual computer people don't think in terms of a free and open Linux kernel packaged in distributions that are sold with support but can also be freely downloaded.
Casual computer people think of Red Hat Linux 7.1 costing $39.95 when they think of Linux. In other words, their perception of Linux as a whole is the size of a pinhead, and they don't realize what Linux purely is, and they don't realize that it can be acquired for free.
I think Linux advocates should start an organization that accepts donations. This organization would then use the donations to distribute an easy to use Linux distribution on a CD with a lot of information targeted at the casual computer user. The CDs would then be mailed for free to people across the country like AOL CDs are now.
The distribution would have to install from Windows without overwriting Windows, and it would have to be idiot proof yet still provide access to the "under-the-hood" features.
People would use it, and their natural curiosity would make them eventually discover what's under-the-hood, and they'd be proficient at and appreciative of Linux. And if they didn't have this curiosity: hey, they might still just decide to stick with it, and the Linux community would have just recruited another casual computer user.
In any case, I wouldn't mind a few Linux coasters mixed in with my AOL coasters.