yep, I coach little kids during the summers and they play that fucking game Pokemon all the fucking time. Their lives consist of three things during the summers... Harry fucking Potter, Pokemon, and aggrivating adults.
Remind me to have you killed if you ever try coaching kids in my town. You should probably like them a little more if you're COACHING them, don't you think?
Anyone have any ideas on that? How far is a daywalk, anyways?
Well, the average person walks around 3 - 4 miles per hour, so even with 16 straight hours of walking you're talking only 64 miles or so. Doesn't really sound like much of a hurtle.
...except that I use the thumb to press every key on the cellphone, holding it with the rest of the fingers.
Good point. I dont' think this idea will really take off when people realize they have to put their cell phone down somewhere in order to use it. There's very little point in having a cell phone if you have to go find a desk somewhere to sit just to use it--might as well just get a laptop or something.
And not to sound snotty, but what's really the big deal with typing in names, etc., using the telephone keypads? If you do it enough, you should become pretty fast at it, seriously. If you want to write a novel maybe you should just accept the fact that the cell phone is not the best medium for that type of communication.
America has stood idly by while terrorism has gripped the rest of the world for so long.
So exactly what do you suggest? America already is seen as "the policeman of the world," sticking it's nose in where it doesn't belong. How much can we really do? Is it the fault of our country that so many have decided to attack each other across the globe? Is it the responsibility of our country to step up to everything that is not affecting us?
Yes, this turn of events has made it so that now terrorism is top priority in America, and yes, when we are affected, we will retort. Maybe the rest of the world thinks we "see how it feels", but how stupid must they feel that they've put up with it for so many years and not done a thing about it, but when it comes to America you better believe that we won't stop until we no longer feel threatened. Maybe all of these other countries who are so quick to laugh at our misfortune should laugh at themselves, for sitting idly by while terrorists claimed their own children and freedoms, while they waited for America to come and help them.
This isn't a game people. America never laughed or said "that's what you get" when all of these countries got attacked. People fight back when they are attacked. That is not only human nature, but nature of the entire animal kingdom. Grow up.
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Barring people hiding in a FedEx shipping box and jumping out in mid-flight, I don't see much danger in hijacking a commercial shipping flight such as mentioned, considering there's no passengers. I suppose the pilot could be a nutbag, but that's really always been a problem, and there's not much of a solution...
Is there some type of breathalyzer available to the general public?
I've seen one in Brookstone for about a hundred bucks. Seems a little pricey, but if they have one for a hundred most likely you can find another one somewhere else for half that price. I don't know how reliable these things are, but...
Ooo, see, just did a Google search and found this and this too. Do a little searching people, if you want these thigns they're out there for pretty cheap. 35 bucks or so.
I just browsed around the site a bit using netscape and didn't seem to have a problem... could it be that someone just perused the article and jumped to a hasty conclusion?? I can't imagine such a thing happening on Slashdot, but... it occasionally snows in hell, I suppose.
Although I am in complete agreement that the human body should not be hidden or in any way made to be a cause of shame, especially in light of the way violence is portrayed in modern media, there has to be a line to what children are exposed to at a young age. Nudity is one thing, it's natural. But would you really want your 8-year old exposed to someone being tied up in leather and whipped? How do you distinguish this from regular nudity or "admiration of the natural human body".
In the same light, how do you distinguish actual violence from cartoon violence? We gave up on that one years ago and now look at the extent to which violence runs rampant in the media. Do we want the same thing in the porn industry? I doubt it.
No offense to the challenger (Patrick) of course, but this whole situation just seems petty and a waste of time. I understand that putting forth such a challenge may be irresponsible on the part of the challenger, as his wording did leave himself open to an attack such as this. But in my opinion, the entire challenge was merely an attempt to illustrate a point--that this type of compression is impossible.
Now, I don't know a thing about compression or anything else, and never would have known such a thing was impossible, but that's besides the point. Had I in the least bit cared, I would have seen this challenge, tried it out, realized the futuility, and said "oh, would you look at that. He was right."
Instead our society has raised everyone to be a bunch of babies about wording and specifics, just because everyone wants something for nothing. Despite what you say about Michael, it was obvious what he wanted of this challenge--to prove a point. Patrick completely ignored this point, took advantage of the fact that Michael didn't prepare for every nitpicking possibility, and found a loophole to an honest challenge. And to what end? Just so everyone would try to find similar innocent challenges and take advantage of them too? Simple product of a litigious society--argue everything until you win.
Oh, and to say he was trying to make money by thinking people would flood him with 100 dollar checks is just ridiculous--he stated that the challenge was impossible, and how many people are dying to beat an impossible compression challenge? Not many.
Maybe technically Michael should pay 5000 dollars... but technicalities aren't the best way to win everything.
I'm so incredibly sick of hearing every review of what I call "movies with a message" being taken as preaching. Do you people have a guilty conscience or something? ESPECIALY for someone who didn't even see the movie, who are you to say that the producers and writers are trying to preach to us? They feel a certain way about an issue, they produce a movie that shows that issue in a bad light to illustrate their point. In the case of "15 minutes", which I just recently saw, this issue was essentially media corruption and sensationalism mixed in with a little "no one takes responsibility for their actions".
So, unless you're a reporter peddling sensationalized news or a pansy who won't take responsibility for themselves, how is this preaching? God forbid someone express their fucking opinion without it being aimed directly at you. Maybe I should make a friggin movie about how everyone who sees a movie thinks that movie is aimed directly at them and changing their views on the world.
Know something, if you think people are trying to preach to you through the movie industry, stay the fuck out of the theatres. Otherwise just sit back and enjoy a good movie. That's what it's there for.
Sure, when you first walk into a job and are younger than most people there (specifically your boss), you're going to be looked down on or thought of as a less-than-average worker. But I say use this to impress people. If you have skills that you feel are "beyond your years", flaunt them, and use your coworkers' low expectations to truly wow them and, in all honesty, make yourself look better than you really are.
I work in a company now as a coop through school. I'm 20, a junior in college, and when I first got here I had just finished my freshman year. I had NO skills that pertained to my job, but I learn fast, and by the end of my 3-month internship I was already heading a few small projects. When I came back 3 months later (with improved programming chops thanks to a couple of C++ classes), people were actually looking forward to my return so I could tackle a couple of interesting tasks. Two years later, I'm head diagnostics engineer for the company (despite the fact that six m onths out of the year I'm only working 2 days a week.)
The point of all this is not that I did anything impressive, but merely that by seeing your youth, people will immediately (and most likely inaccurately) mis-judge your skill level, but that doesn't mean you can't get past it and make something of your time with a company. You'll get responsibility and respect when you earn it.
The Ultimate Bachelor pad had a 3000 cubic foot subwoofer for "that movie theatre experience". Is this a typo? Does anyone realize quite how big a 3000 cubic foot subwoofer really is? He stores it underground in an old swimming pool, accessing it by a "submarine-like" hatch. I'm looking around my little cube farm and imagining what the place would look l ike if it was just one big sub.
I'm all for home theatre, but causing avalanches all around the country seems a big much to me. Wow.
1) Local businesses that just want to use their website to advertise a storefront rather than be an e-business. Assuming some sort of directory was set up to list websites starting with (555)555- or something, you'd know what was local. Or if you searched for a certain type of store you'd know by the URL where the store was located.
2) Personal homepages would certainly be a plus, although you'd run into lots of privacy issues--you don't necessarily want everyone who knows your URL to know your home phone number.
Companies that are named with their phone number, like 1-800-CONTACTS certainly wouldn't have a problem anyways... not that CONTACTS is a number... crap
This theme has been recurring for some time in the political world, between censorship and filters and the like. So what's the real solution? Sure you can block them out and filter their entire life into bite-size chunks of distorted reality; we all know that sheltered children grow up to be normal and healthy when they're faced with the real world. OR, something that Gore touched upon (but didn't stress quite enough), w hich is that parents should be taking care of their kids. It's knowing the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, the basics of humanity taht children need to be taught, not "we don't trust you so we're going to block everything we don't want you to see." That just says to kids "wow, this must be really good if they don't want us to see it." Or it says "What, I'm not mature enough to think for myself?" and inspires the rebellious streak. Children are clever, and they'll find a way to look if they really want to.
Just spend some f*cking time with your kids, don't lock them in a room and expect them to come out 18 years later and be normal. Teach them, don't blind them.
It's been brought up that neither candidate has really mentioned any of the real issues. In all honesty, the responses they made can be slightly altered to fit nearly ANY debate. "While [insert radical idea here] has some good points, [insert traditional idea here] should still do or get what it's been doing or getting. It's just a way to make nearly everyone happy, which is all politicians want when campaigning-- to get everyone on their side. All of the Napster proponents are saying "Hey, they both think the technology is good and will stick around, that's good" while all of the opponents are all "Yeah, they want artists to get their money." This is why nothing gets done in government-- the politicians are too afraid to step on anyone's toes, and we get the Henry Clay syndrome (sorry for the obscure historical reference) with everything being a compromise but nothing getting resolved.
Compromise is great, but once in a while things have to just be changed, one way or the other.
A statute of limitations? Something's either admissable or it isn't. If you send someone an email telling them you're going to kill them and you're put up on murder charges six months later, what makes it any less admissable then? In my opinion it shouldn't ever be admissable considering how easy it is to fake an email, but that's not quite relevant...
As for the "delete" key, anyone who works in sensitive information knows how to fully delete something. A lot of times (in fact most of the times) a normal Windows or whatever user would prefer that their data isn't permanantly lost when they accidentally hit the delete key. There's a reason that stupid "recycle bin" (or the original Trash Can from Mac) ever became popular-- people screw up.
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Remind me to have you killed if you ever try coaching kids in my town. You should probably like them a little more if you're COACHING them, don't you think?
Well, the average person walks around 3 - 4 miles per hour, so even with 16 straight hours of walking you're talking only 64 miles or so. Doesn't really sound like much of a hurtle.
Good point. I dont' think this idea will really take off when people realize they have to put their cell phone down somewhere in order to use it. There's very little point in having a cell phone if you have to go find a desk somewhere to sit just to use it--might as well just get a laptop or something.
And not to sound snotty, but what's really the big deal with typing in names, etc., using the telephone keypads? If you do it enough, you should become pretty fast at it, seriously. If you want to write a novel maybe you should just accept the fact that the cell phone is not the best medium for that type of communication.
So exactly what do you suggest? America already is seen as "the policeman of the world," sticking it's nose in where it doesn't belong. How much can we really do? Is it the fault of our country that so many have decided to attack each other across the globe? Is it the responsibility of our country to step up to everything that is not affecting us?
Yes, this turn of events has made it so that now terrorism is top priority in America, and yes, when we are affected, we will retort. Maybe the rest of the world thinks we "see how it feels", but how stupid must they feel that they've put up with it for so many years and not done a thing about it, but when it comes to America you better believe that we won't stop until we no longer feel threatened. Maybe all of these other countries who are so quick to laugh at our misfortune should laugh at themselves, for sitting idly by while terrorists claimed their own children and freedoms, while they waited for America to come and help them.
This isn't a game people. America never laughed or said "that's what you get" when all of these countries got attacked. People fight back when they are attacked. That is not only human nature, but nature of the entire animal kingdom. Grow up.
Barring people hiding in a FedEx shipping box and jumping out in mid-flight, I don't see much danger in hijacking a commercial shipping flight such as mentioned, considering there's no passengers. I suppose the pilot could be a nutbag, but that's really always been a problem, and there's not much of a solution...
I've seen one in Brookstone for about a hundred bucks. Seems a little pricey, but if they have one for a hundred most likely you can find another one somewhere else for half that price. I don't know how reliable these things are, but...
Ooo, see, just did a Google search and found this and this too. Do a little searching people, if you want these thigns they're out there for pretty cheap. 35 bucks or so.
I just browsed around the site a bit using netscape and didn't seem to have a problem... could it be that someone just perused the article and jumped to a hasty conclusion?? I can't imagine such a thing happening on Slashdot, but... it occasionally snows in hell, I suppose.
In the same light, how do you distinguish actual violence from cartoon violence? We gave up on that one years ago and now look at the extent to which violence runs rampant in the media. Do we want the same thing in the porn industry? I doubt it.
Now, I don't know a thing about compression or anything else, and never would have known such a thing was impossible, but that's besides the point. Had I in the least bit cared, I would have seen this challenge, tried it out, realized the futuility, and said "oh, would you look at that. He was right."
Instead our society has raised everyone to be a bunch of babies about wording and specifics, just because everyone wants something for nothing. Despite what you say about Michael, it was obvious what he wanted of this challenge--to prove a point. Patrick completely ignored this point, took advantage of the fact that Michael didn't prepare for every nitpicking possibility, and found a loophole to an honest challenge. And to what end? Just so everyone would try to find similar innocent challenges and take advantage of them too? Simple product of a litigious society--argue everything until you win.
Oh, and to say he was trying to make money by thinking people would flood him with 100 dollar checks is just ridiculous--he stated that the challenge was impossible, and how many people are dying to beat an impossible compression challenge? Not many.
Maybe technically Michael should pay 5000 dollars... but technicalities aren't the best way to win everything.
I'm so incredibly sick of hearing every review of what I call "movies with a message" being taken as preaching. Do you people have a guilty conscience or something? ESPECIALY for someone who didn't even see the movie, who are you to say that the producers and writers are trying to preach to us? They feel a certain way about an issue, they produce a movie that shows that issue in a bad light to illustrate their point. In the case of "15 minutes", which I just recently saw, this issue was essentially media corruption and sensationalism mixed in with a little "no one takes responsibility for their actions".
So, unless you're a reporter peddling sensationalized news or a pansy who won't take responsibility for themselves, how is this preaching? God forbid someone express their fucking opinion without it being aimed directly at you. Maybe I should make a friggin movie about how everyone who sees a movie thinks that movie is aimed directly at them and changing their views on the world.
Know something, if you think people are trying to preach to you through the movie industry, stay the fuck out of the theatres. Otherwise just sit back and enjoy a good movie. That's what it's there for.
I work in a company now as a coop through school. I'm 20, a junior in college, and when I first got here I had just finished my freshman year. I had NO skills that pertained to my job, but I learn fast, and by the end of my 3-month internship I was already heading a few small projects. When I came back 3 months later (with improved programming chops thanks to a couple of C++ classes), people were actually looking forward to my return so I could tackle a couple of interesting tasks. Two years later, I'm head diagnostics engineer for the company (despite the fact that six m onths out of the year I'm only working 2 days a week.)
The point of all this is not that I did anything impressive, but merely that by seeing your youth, people will immediately (and most likely inaccurately) mis-judge your skill level, but that doesn't mean you can't get past it and make something of your time with a company. You'll get responsibility and respect when you earn it.
I'm all for home theatre, but causing avalanches all around the country seems a big much to me. Wow.
1) Local businesses that just want to use their website to advertise a storefront rather than be an e-business. Assuming some sort of directory was set up to list websites starting with (555)555- or something, you'd know what was local. Or if you searched for a certain type of store you'd know by the URL where the store was located.
2) Personal homepages would certainly be a plus, although you'd run into lots of privacy issues--you don't necessarily want everyone who knows your URL to know your home phone number.
Companies that are named with their phone number, like 1-800-CONTACTS certainly wouldn't have a problem anyways... not that CONTACTS is a number... crap
Just spend some f*cking time with your kids, don't lock them in a room and expect them to come out 18 years later and be normal. Teach them, don't blind them.
Compromise is great, but once in a while things have to just be changed, one way or the other.
As for the "delete" key, anyone who works in sensitive information knows how to fully delete something. A lot of times (in fact most of the times) a normal Windows or whatever user would prefer that their data isn't permanantly lost when they accidentally hit the delete key. There's a reason that stupid "recycle bin" (or the original Trash Can from Mac) ever became popular-- people screw up.