Probably some of the truest words ever written on/.
I don't really understand why all engineers/programmers don't love to cook. It is truly a systematic discipline that you can steadily improve if you have a little patience and decent tastebuds. Not to mention "normal" people tend to appreciate a good meal far more than some nifty code snippet
And by the way, just as you can apply engineering techniques to cooking, you can apply them in the bedroom as well. Pay attention to your inputs and the sort of outputs they give, and iterate, iterate, iterate until you reach an optimal solution!
Twitter, instead of, you know, email. Because it's more likely to be real.
Or maybe, and I know this may be hard to realize for those of us who have had smartphones for years and years, it was just a standard, plain vanilla cell phone capable of only sms and phone calls.
I pay for at least one site simply because it's quality is better than the free stuff.
I mean, I can appreciate production value as much as the next guy, but I'll take the hit & miss of sites like burningcamel.com, keezmovies.com, and so on before I make the mistake of giving my credit card to a porn site again. Those guys are almost universally crooks who will keep charging you until you just cancel your card and get a new number.
The internet will be carved up into a unusable CompuServe like mess with nickel and dime plans similar to the crap cable tv bundle plans
"Yeah, I used to get Youtube, but then my trial ran out and the monthly fee was just too hefty... I can't afford both it AND my social networking package"
What about the credit ratings agencies? Why do they have the right to record information about you without your consent?
They actually don't, I believe you can call them to be removed from their databases. Just don't expect to ever get any credit ever again. Or a cell phone contract. Or Internet service or other utilities without a formidable deposit.
Oh, poppycock. If you want to see real news, you have to look elsewhere than Fox News. Fox News channel has political commentary masquerading as news, and then they have demagoguery masquerading as political commentary.
let the content producers compensate the ISPs directly.
That's a dangerous precedent to set; you would then have the copyright holders paying the ISPs to give the police information on what people are doing on the internet. I don't know if I like the idea of corporations hiring armies of private investigators to snoop on us so they can report the results to the government. In France, at least, I'm willing to bet they'd rather leave the whole thing in the hands of the government. Over there, they trust the government more than private interests.
The million to one was the safety valve gizmo failing, I think it was called the "blowout preventer" or something to that effect. Fires and explosions happen on oil rigs all the time.
Wasn't the moratorium on deep water drilling? I haven't been able to find this info, but I'm not sure this was a deepwater rig. It was 80 miles offshore, but the Gulf doesn't get "deep" until a long ways out.
Anyways, fires happen all the time on oil rigs, it's nothing new, or even exceptional: "The U.S. Minerals Management Service reported 69 offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries, and 858 fires and explosions on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico from 2001 to 2010." [wikipedia.org]
This might be coincidence, but I would look very closely at both events for evidence of terrorist activities(Environmental, Islamic, or perhaps some sort of alliance)
Are you serious? A fire starts on a platform pulling extremely flammable gases and liquids from great depths at extremely high pressures, and you suspect terrorist activities? Fires are a regular occurrence on oil rigs, it comes with the territory.
Just to back up my own argument that this is nothing new:
The U.S. Minerals Management Service reported 69 offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries, and 858 fires and explosions on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico from 2001 to 2010. [wikipedia.org]
We're only hearing about every new fire/explosion now because of the massive spill. Give it a few months, and nobody will be reporting on these types of stories.
It's retarded to suggest that these cycles are not going on.
I understand that there are cycles. I just think it is fairly pointless to make statements such as "The Earth would still be warming, absent of humanity". I think there are really far too many variables for such a statement to ever be proven concretely one way or the other. To me, that's like saying WWII would have still happened, even if Hitler had died during WWI. Sure, it may be true, and it may even be an interesting thing to discuss, but in the end, there's no way to prove either side.
The fact that people in Western nations tend to recognize China's use of public schooling for these purposes (because China is teh evil!) but fail to recognize the less-extreme version employed by their own countries (because we are patriotic!) is a masterful triumph of this system.
I'd venture to say that it would be impossible to teach certain subjects, particularly history, without injecting some sort of bias. Of course, the US education system is far more biased than it needs to be, and is frequently allowed to be corrupted by politics (for example, how the Texas Textbook curriculum planners decided to leave Jefferson out of their texts).
On the other hand, I would say that higher education in the Western world is fairly unbiased.
Keep in mind the key difference between the U.S. and China - in the U.S. you can always go to the library or online and verify what your teachers are telling you. Good luck trying to get the real story on Mao, Tibet, or Tienanmen square inside of China. Or at least good luck trying to do it without getting yourself put on some watchlist
Or they've been indoctrinated through years of Chinese public education.
In reality they probably don't even exist. Why go out on the street to get comments on something, especially if you know everyone is too scared to give you anything but the party line anyways?
Well it seems like Australia actually has some of the most draconian laws in the "western" world concerning things like the internet, anonymity, porn, censorship and so on. And yes, I know Australia isn't in the west.
Cell phone users simply should register with their real identification, said Li Mi, a coffee shop worker. "This is good, it will be secure," she said. "I know some people will be afraid about revealing their personal information, but I don't think that will happen. The (companies) won't give that out."
Seriously Li Mi? You don't think the companies will sell your information to the highest bidder?
"I think it will be more secure and the carriers will be able to track and store my information", said Li Junru
Jeez. These kids are pretty brainwashed.
They're getting rid of one of the last anonymous communication tools in a country that heavily polices any speech which criticizes the government. And all these kids can think of is that it will allow them to restore their contact list from the company's server if they lose their phone.
I seem to recall AT&T demanding my social security number when I signed up
That's probably because they run a credit check on you since you're entering into a contract with them and they typically subsidize your phone price.
I'm not sure, but I believe you can get a prepaid phone without a social or anything like that. And since most phones in China run on the pre-paid model, there's no need to keep track of who people actually are.
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I don't really understand why all engineers/programmers don't love to cook. It is truly a systematic discipline that you can steadily improve if you have a little patience and decent tastebuds. Not to mention "normal" people tend to appreciate a good meal far more than some nifty code snippet
And by the way, just as you can apply engineering techniques to cooking, you can apply them in the bedroom as well. Pay attention to your inputs and the sort of outputs they give, and iterate, iterate, iterate until you reach an optimal solution!
Twitter, instead of, you know, email. Because it's more likely to be real.
Or maybe, and I know this may be hard to realize for those of us who have had smartphones for years and years, it was just a standard, plain vanilla cell phone capable of only sms and phone calls.
I pay for at least one site simply because it's quality is better than the free stuff.
I mean, I can appreciate production value as much as the next guy, but I'll take the hit & miss of sites like burningcamel.com, keezmovies.com, and so on before I make the mistake of giving my credit card to a porn site again. Those guys are almost universally crooks who will keep charging you until you just cancel your card and get a new number.
It's a trap!
The solution really *is* to not be an idiot, and you will avoid 99% of malware.
Ah, but you see, I want to avoid all of it.
Dell can go to hell for all I care
Only this year? Seriously neat trick.
Yeah its a neat trick that 2010 only happens in 2010. Now if only they can manage to make it to 2110, they can be the meaning of life again.
The internet will be carved up into a unusable CompuServe like mess with nickel and dime plans similar to the crap cable tv bundle plans
"Yeah, I used to get Youtube, but then my trial ran out and the monthly fee was just too hefty... I can't afford both it AND my social networking package"
What about the credit ratings agencies? Why do they have the right to record information about you without your consent?
They actually don't, I believe you can call them to be removed from their databases. Just don't expect to ever get any credit ever again. Or a cell phone contract. Or Internet service or other utilities without a formidable deposit.
Oh, poppycock. If you want to see real news, you have to look elsewhere than Fox News. Fox News channel has political commentary masquerading as news, and then they have demagoguery masquerading as political commentary.
+1 for using poppycock
and +1 for general truth
That's some interesting grammar you have there, Coward.
let the content producers compensate the ISPs directly.
That's a dangerous precedent to set; you would then have the copyright holders paying the ISPs to give the police information on what people are doing on the internet. I don't know if I like the idea of corporations hiring armies of private investigators to snoop on us so they can report the results to the government. In France, at least, I'm willing to bet they'd rather leave the whole thing in the hands of the government. Over there, they trust the government more than private interests.
The million to one was the safety valve gizmo failing, I think it was called the "blowout preventer" or something to that effect. Fires and explosions happen on oil rigs all the time.
Anyways, fires happen all the time on oil rigs, it's nothing new, or even exceptional: "The U.S. Minerals Management Service reported 69 offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries, and 858 fires and explosions on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico from 2001 to 2010." [wikipedia.org]
This might be coincidence, but I would look very closely at both events for evidence of terrorist activities(Environmental, Islamic, or perhaps some sort of alliance)
Are you serious? A fire starts on a platform pulling extremely flammable gases and liquids from great depths at extremely high pressures, and you suspect terrorist activities? Fires are a regular occurrence on oil rigs, it comes with the territory.
The U.S. Minerals Management Service reported 69 offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries, and 858 fires and explosions on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico from 2001 to 2010. [wikipedia.org]
We're only hearing about every new fire/explosion now because of the massive spill. Give it a few months, and nobody will be reporting on these types of stories.
And if you want to make enough cake to feed 230 million American cars, you better get crackin asap
Really? I mean.......really? You can't think of a single reason why anyone would want one?
Seriously... I mean, it does EVERYTHING. Or so I've been told.
Call me back when there's oil spewing.
It's retarded to suggest that these cycles are not going on.
I understand that there are cycles. I just think it is fairly pointless to make statements such as "The Earth would still be warming, absent of humanity". I think there are really far too many variables for such a statement to ever be proven concretely one way or the other. To me, that's like saying WWII would have still happened, even if Hitler had died during WWI. Sure, it may be true, and it may even be an interesting thing to discuss, but in the end, there's no way to prove either side.
The fact that people in Western nations tend to recognize China's use of public schooling for these purposes (because China is teh evil!) but fail to recognize the less-extreme version employed by their own countries (because we are patriotic!) is a masterful triumph of this system.
I'd venture to say that it would be impossible to teach certain subjects, particularly history, without injecting some sort of bias. Of course, the US education system is far more biased than it needs to be, and is frequently allowed to be corrupted by politics (for example, how the Texas Textbook curriculum planners decided to leave Jefferson out of their texts).
On the other hand, I would say that higher education in the Western world is fairly unbiased.
Keep in mind the key difference between the U.S. and China - in the U.S. you can always go to the library or online and verify what your teachers are telling you. Good luck trying to get the real story on Mao, Tibet, or Tienanmen square inside of China. Or at least good luck trying to do it without getting yourself put on some watchlist
In reality they probably don't even exist. Why go out on the street to get comments on something, especially if you know everyone is too scared to give you anything but the party line anyways?
Well it seems like Australia actually has some of the most draconian laws in the "western" world concerning things like the internet, anonymity, porn, censorship and so on. And yes, I know Australia isn't in the west.
Cell phone users simply should register with their real identification, said Li Mi, a coffee shop worker. "This is good, it will be secure," she said. "I know some people will be afraid about revealing their personal information, but I don't think that will happen. The (companies) won't give that out."
Seriously Li Mi? You don't think the companies will sell your information to the highest bidder?
"I think it will be more secure and the carriers will be able to track and store my information", said Li Junru
Jeez. These kids are pretty brainwashed.
They're getting rid of one of the last anonymous communication tools in a country that heavily polices any speech which criticizes the government. And all these kids can think of is that it will allow them to restore their contact list from the company's server if they lose their phone.
I seem to recall AT&T demanding my social security number when I signed up
That's probably because they run a credit check on you since you're entering into a contract with them and they typically subsidize your phone price.
I'm not sure, but I believe you can get a prepaid phone without a social or anything like that. And since most phones in China run on the pre-paid model, there's no need to keep track of who people actually are.