Don't get me wrong by the way, Saddam was an awful leader and we are much better off without him, but trying to attack military planes which are bombing his country was kind of his job as a country leader.
You attack the one that was shooting at our airplanes every day
You mean shooting the airplanes we were using to bomb him continuously whenever we felt like it, before the second Iraq War? What an ass! He should just take that bombing!
It isn't/the/ UK arm of News Corp, just one of many. The main arms are The Sun and The Times, going by their daily sales (for The Sun) and 'prestige' (The Times).
Hmmm. Well, turing had a computer design back in the 1800s. Maybe you should be using that to post on slashdot, and I'll start teaching with 19th century techniques.
Alan Turing? He wasn't born until 1912. Do you think you're thinking of Charles Babbage instead?
That's why Google is being investigated, for being such cheapskates! Don't they know how to lobby properly?! Microsoft has been known to spend up to $25 million, and that isn't much compared to the really big players!
[SMAUG] VOICEOVER ONLY. Two hundred years earlier, the Dragon SMAUG came down from the barren northern reaches and laid waste to the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Sitting upon his pile of gold, he has grown to a truly immense size. Old and yet not old, his voice still carries the sense of a sharp and lethal mind. He is the most deadly creature in all Middle-earth - and he knows it. Sly, quick and ferociously intelligent SMAUG is a dangerous opponent and not one to under-estimate. If he has weakness it is his unbridled greed and his arrogance. His voice is part of what gives him is power - his ability to seduce, persuade and flatter, even to display a degree of charm. But any sense of civility or consideration for others is utterly false. He is merciless and without empathy for any other living creature. He is a killer sptv050769. AGE: 40-70. ACCENT – STANDARD R.P ACCENT
So...Tim Curry then?
This makes me think of Learned Helplessness
on
Dogs Can Be Pessimistic
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Here is the text from when it was active as the best I can do:
The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.
That is the bizarre - and scary - rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants - with no need for a search warrant. (See a TIME photoessay on Cannabis Culture.)
It is a dangerous decision - one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich.
This case began in 2007, when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents decided to monitor Juan Pineda-Moreno, an Oregon resident who they suspected was growing marijuana. They snuck onto his property in the middle of the night and found his Jeep in his driveway, a few feet from his trailer home. Then they attached a GPS tracking device to the vehicle's underside.
After Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA's actions, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in January that it was all perfectly legal. More disturbingly, a larger group of judges on the circuit, who were subsequently asked to reconsider the ruling, decided this month to let it stand. (Pineda-Moreno has pleaded guilty conditionally to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and manufacturing marijuana while appealing the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained with the help of GPS.)
In fact, the government violated Pineda-Moreno's privacy rights in two different ways. For starters, the invasion of his driveway was wrong. The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a fancy legal term for the area around the home. The government's intrusion on property just a few feet away was clearly in this zone of privacy.
The judges veered into offensiveness when they explained why Pineda-Moreno's driveway was not private. It was open to strangers, they said, such as delivery people and neighborhood children, who could wander across it uninvited. (See the misadventures of the CIA.)
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this month's decision refusing to reconsider the case, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: rich people's. The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers have to put up with the government sneaking around at night.
Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. "There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist," he wrote. "No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter." The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of "cultural elitism."
I don't know how well this stands, but hey, it's something!
It's absolutely breathtaking how the left-wing are completely and utterly incapable of taking responsibility for their incompetence.
What is ridiculous (breathtaking?) is how the left wing gets blamed for the actions of New Labour, which basically moved just to the right of the Conservatives in the political spectrum (ie/ Blair going to Rupert Murdoch for aid with policy decisions), and enacted a bunch of conservative (neo-liberal) economic policies.
Not according this to BBC documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSrcLC6Zz54
(Skip to ~1:40 to see them talking about a state radio in every kitchen that can't be turned off)
From TFA: "they were only able to achieve a 20 percent Equal Error Rate (EER), which means that one time out of five, the phone registered either a false positive or a false negative when trying to determine the identity of the user. And that's with the phone in a hip holster, oriented in the same way every time."
Also, I recently injured my leg - would I be unable to use my phone with my new limp?
The people who use 4chan don't all do this type of thing. It seems more like someone would suggest something and various people there would anonymously opt in, others would complain about the merits of such a thing, others would ignore or report it etc, and to claim it is supported by 4chan isn't right - the users comments are their own, not those of 4chan owners.
From TFA:
"The lack of RGS14 doesn't seem to hurt the altered mice, but it is still possible that they have their brain functions changed in a way that researchers have not yet been able to spot. Besides being resistant to injury by seizure, certain types of CA2 neurons are lost in schizophrenia, and loss of another gene turned on primarily in the CA2 region leads to altered social behaviors, Hepler notes."
More able to learn and remember, but possibly less able to function socially?
>If you committed a crime, they'd be able to subpoena you.
They being the police, not a private company - in TFA it is a private company who is exacting subpoenas.
Slashdot Mirror
Dracula?
I for one cheered when I heard this. A horrid, awful, sensationalist piece of crap 'news'paper. Excellent! Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Don't get me wrong by the way, Saddam was an awful leader and we are much better off without him, but trying to attack military planes which are bombing his country was kind of his job as a country leader.
You attack the one that was shooting at our airplanes every day
You mean shooting the airplanes we were using to bomb him continuously whenever we felt like it, before the second Iraq War? What an ass! He should just take that bombing!
Columbus thought the world was pear shaped! The Greeks knew it was round.
Don't worry, AC, some of us browse at -1
It isn't /the/ UK arm of News Corp, just one of many. The main arms are The Sun and The Times, going by their daily sales (for The Sun) and 'prestige' (The Times).
Hmmm. Well, turing had a computer design back in the 1800s. Maybe you should be using that to post on slashdot, and I'll start teaching with 19th century techniques.
Alan Turing? He wasn't born until 1912. Do you think you're thinking of Charles Babbage instead?
That's why Google is being investigated, for being such cheapskates! Don't they know how to lobby properly?! Microsoft has been known to spend up to $25 million, and that isn't much compared to the really big players!
Here is a proper one! http://uk.gizmodo.com/5778006/the-house-from-up-has-been-built-in-real-lifeand-it-flies
Well Mr Buttle, you certainly do have a bad time with the bureaucrats, don't you.
Others have probably been doing it already.
There will be never be democracy in Zimbabwe with Mugabe in power.
This is one of the many reasons I use Foxit pdf reader. Is Chrome's pdf reader fast compared to something like Foxit, or another good reader?
At least the robot is responding to events that have actually happened!
[SMAUG] VOICEOVER ONLY. Two hundred years earlier, the Dragon SMAUG came down from the barren northern reaches and laid waste to the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Sitting upon his pile of gold, he has grown to a truly immense size. Old and yet not old, his voice still carries the sense of a sharp and lethal mind. He is the most deadly creature in all Middle-earth - and he knows it. Sly, quick and ferociously intelligent SMAUG is a dangerous opponent and not one to under-estimate. If he has weakness it is his unbridled greed and his arrogance. His voice is part of what gives him is power - his ability to seduce, persuade and flatter, even to display a degree of charm. But any sense of civility or consideration for others is utterly false. He is merciless and without empathy for any other living creature. He is a killer sptv050769. AGE: 40-70. ACCENT – STANDARD R.P ACCENT
So...Tim Curry then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness :(
Some dogs never tried to escape the shocks, just giving in and accepting them. Is this technically pessimism? I find this to be a sad study
The link can be searched on Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201315000
Here is the text from when it was active as the best I can do:
The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements. That is the bizarre - and scary - rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants - with no need for a search warrant. (See a TIME photoessay on Cannabis Culture.) It is a dangerous decision - one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich. This case began in 2007, when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents decided to monitor Juan Pineda-Moreno, an Oregon resident who they suspected was growing marijuana. They snuck onto his property in the middle of the night and found his Jeep in his driveway, a few feet from his trailer home. Then they attached a GPS tracking device to the vehicle's underside. After Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA's actions, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in January that it was all perfectly legal. More disturbingly, a larger group of judges on the circuit, who were subsequently asked to reconsider the ruling, decided this month to let it stand. (Pineda-Moreno has pleaded guilty conditionally to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and manufacturing marijuana while appealing the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained with the help of GPS.) In fact, the government violated Pineda-Moreno's privacy rights in two different ways. For starters, the invasion of his driveway was wrong. The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a fancy legal term for the area around the home. The government's intrusion on property just a few feet away was clearly in this zone of privacy. The judges veered into offensiveness when they explained why Pineda-Moreno's driveway was not private. It was open to strangers, they said, such as delivery people and neighborhood children, who could wander across it uninvited. (See the misadventures of the CIA.) Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this month's decision refusing to reconsider the case, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: rich people's. The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers have to put up with the government sneaking around at night. Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. "There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist," he wrote. "No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter." The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of "cultural elitism."
I don't know how well this stands, but hey, it's something!
It's absolutely breathtaking how the left-wing are completely and utterly incapable of taking responsibility for their incompetence.
What is ridiculous (breathtaking?) is how the left wing gets blamed for the actions of New Labour, which basically moved just to the right of the Conservatives in the political spectrum (ie/ Blair going to Rupert Murdoch for aid with policy decisions), and enacted a bunch of conservative (neo-liberal) economic policies.
Not according this to BBC documentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSrcLC6Zz54
(Skip to ~1:40 to see them talking about a state radio in every kitchen that can't be turned off)
Get all the terrorists stoned, and they'll most likely be far too demotivated and/or tranquilised to carry out terrorist acts.
I don't know, the Hashshashins (at least in legend,) took plenty of the stuff and still managed to kill plenty of people!
From TFA: "they were only able to achieve a 20 percent Equal Error Rate (EER), which means that one time out of five, the phone registered either a false positive or a false negative when trying to determine the identity of the user. And that's with the phone in a hip holster, oriented in the same way every time."
Also, I recently injured my leg - would I be unable to use my phone with my new limp?
The people who use 4chan don't all do this type of thing. It seems more like someone would suggest something and various people there would anonymously opt in, others would complain about the merits of such a thing, others would ignore or report it etc, and to claim it is supported by 4chan isn't right - the users comments are their own, not those of 4chan owners.
From TFA: "The lack of RGS14 doesn't seem to hurt the altered mice, but it is still possible that they have their brain functions changed in a way that researchers have not yet been able to spot. Besides being resistant to injury by seizure, certain types of CA2 neurons are lost in schizophrenia, and loss of another gene turned on primarily in the CA2 region leads to altered social behaviors, Hepler notes." More able to learn and remember, but possibly less able to function socially?
>If you committed a crime, they'd be able to subpoena you. They being the police, not a private company - in TFA it is a private company who is exacting subpoenas.