Lets joust a bit and so I say to you; try again, it was only a mediocre summarization and satire and I know you can do better than choking on your words like they were chunks in bloody bilious vomit. To the lions with you.
It has been a far more thorough secularization of social mores and customs in the industrialized nations of Europe than it has in the United States but there are some places as you mention where resistance has been building. Spain as well has some problems in the Andalusian regions where Catholic supremacy goes virtually unchecked, England's rural areas are always having one revival or another but none of these comes with the level of virulent disbelief in Evolution and out and out hatred of homosexuals we see in the US. America through its missions in Africa and Asia has begun spreading this ignorance and hatred causing African societies that once begrudgingly accepted gay couples to attack, maim and in some cases kill them. Newly converted couples in SE Asia are burdening the state with children they cannot care for because they have been told to "go forth and multiply" mindlessly by American missionaries who have little understanding of the world or local economic situation.
The same could be said for Theo and OpenBSD but Theo is still at the helm and is becoming a less cantankerous curmudgeon with age, too bad OLPC could of seen such stubborn leadership because at least some kids somewhere would have laptops that could shoot lasers at the junta soldiers or christian missionaries.
OLPC was a noble idea, but one that was fundamentally flawed; this is because the specs did not originate from the areas of the world that would be using it but were spun out of a pie in the sky engineering lab. The scale of the OLPC was immense and impractical and the fact that they attempted it at all they should be given alot of credit for dealing with the political, economic and technical problems.
I can get 768k DSL from Speakeasy for the same price and 90% of the time I wouldn't notice; but, it is those times I need something quickly like a 30-40 MB PDF to read before I jet off for the light rail that I can't get rid of Comcast's almost 8x speed advantage. I miss Charter cable's 16 meg business class cable internet, that was a great connection and a good company. We need to start talking about the cable companies that are better with their TOS so we can encourage the lesser of two evils to not go in whole hog.
The leaders of the American religious right have assembled an engine of ignorance with their attempts at subverting science and reason. These are the people who would make us fear change and progress as corruption and immorality because they know it would be their downfall at the head of the power structure if Americans were to secularize as happened in post WWII Europe. They allow their followers to believe it is immoral to deviate from a "median" or norm that they define as slavishly devout hetero couple with kids. They teach all sorts of crazy things like man should be treated as the superior to women, that priests/preacher should be greater than them and a host of saints, gods and fairy folk that are better than all mankind. This false hierarchy gives people an excuse to not look at their life and the consequences of how they live it pragmatically let alone existentially and gives them an excuse or scapegoat they can always pass the buck to instead of perfecting one's own actions, reactions and mind. These systems that tend to classify people according to supposed inborn traits are the anachronisms of the caste society they originated in 1000's of years ago and were meant to enforce obedience and subjugation to.
Its a problem with product cycles from design to manufacture to landfill becoming shorter and shorter. I have a 3 year old cell phone designed for kids and the elderly that has been partially submerged in dishwater and salt water, dropped out of a moving vehicle and generally banged around more than any personal electronics I own and I fucking love it. Yeah, the screen is tiny but I have never surfed on a cell phone for the internet and pry never will; because I have never found a reason to. Jobs have tried to give me Blackberries and I have broken or lost all the them and I have clearly explained to them why. My new phone arrives today a G'zone Boulder and I have waited a long time for a phone before I chose this one. With some of my engineer friends changing out phones every 6 months I wonder how long they actually took in selecting that phone, how long other engineers took to design it and how quickly clones of it were being made and shipped all over the world so someone like him could throw it away for another cell phone with 10% more screen size, a sleek new shell and whatever whiz bang feature in another 6 months.
So? I was there with the wobblies who were mostly over the age of 50 and the direct action types you mentioned did not even get a chance to do anything before a few dozen masked individuals started property damage. Look up the arrest reports they were not affiliated with anyone and to say anything else is slander. They were "individualist" Anarchist types ala Zubrin.
Get a hint, with good Civil, mechanical and maritime engineers you can adequately manage far greater storms. The problem with New Orleans was that we had been spending money building fancy bridges, stadiums and government buildings down there that could weather a 4+ hurricane all the while ignoring the levees and other flood control systems that protected 90% of the city. Now some of those homes are going to be destroyed when that hurricane rolls over but even that we can build for, what we need to require for residents rebuilding this time is that they build structures that are made to withstand hurricanes, floods and moisture; the last one because if you have ever owned a house anywhere humid the first thing to go is untreated wood and even treated wood goes after 25 years or so outside. They have solutions out there already, and if we mandated that if you live in a hurricane alley you build something like that we would not have to have these mass evacuations. What we really need is a president who is not scared of spending on such a system that would protect New Orleans against hurricanes, expand our research into earthquakes for the west coast and other disasters.
No, the point of teaching math is to give the skill sets needed for analyzing other subjects mathematically. No one should be teaching math in a purely abstract way to anyone but grad students.
Canada in Vancouver has better quality pizza that is delivered to your door with the option of buying some hash. I live in Portland and I can't even get that kind of service.
Physical access still is not going to break some encryption, what worries me is that phone companies are not allowing you to have that level of encryption for your contact list, SMS and other "proprietary" parts of the phone's logic.
Well she just asked "What exactly does a vice president do?", on CNBC. Um, ok that is scary. This is just a female Dan Quayle that instead of golfing hunts, fishes and wrestles bears. Unfortunately she does none of these things naked.
Lol, and he pry can't repair or replace the engine himself. Whatever happened to kids who could work on both? Where they only a mythological creature that died sometime in the 20th century? As a mech engineer student it disgusts me how little aptitude I am seeing from fellow students that comes from real world knowledge. It is all cerebral, virtual or fantastical this or that from the generation Z kids they suffer from a distinct lack of pragmatism.
Who the hell is steaming 1080i movies? No one, because the bandwidth would be insane, the Internet would be crying in a corner asking for its mommy. When they start streaming 1080i movies than we can bitch about the 250gb cap but for much of the world that lives with caps that is like 4-5x as much for the same price.
Thank you, anyone on Slashdot who has not taken at least physics, chemistry and biology at AP level or college please go enter yourself in a science class. Some computer scientists really need to take the broader view in college and realize that they will be working for software that has to specialize in something be it point of sale, economic modeling or QCD simulation so take fucking classes in what you want that specialty to be. If you are an OS, game, UI or Web programmer it is not essential; but it is nice. and for the rest of you programmer freaks out there; remember that you might be dealing with engineering folk, business dudes or creative types who might know more about algorithm design than you, they just don't have an extra 40+ hours a week to deal with programming. I don't even put my programming skills on my resume anymore, I would rather spend my time in the mechanical side of things. We don't need another programming language we need an entirely new way of modeling process into algorithm. I have seen some of the visual stuff and nothing is more nifty to me than a good simulink model that I can break apart and play with to understand new concepts. Why can't we make something open source even better? The CAD side of Linux is dying. Vendors are pulling out of the OS faster than new companies are supporting it. I am sad, time for a porter.
Bring back the asylums. When I went down to Arcata, Ca to visit a few months ago I saw the same mentally ill homeless woman who was down there 5 years ago with less teeth and more fear. People like her should be given a structured place to get well if she can or die in if she can't. All these half way houses and outpatient mental health clinics for schizophrenics are miserable failures.
A good photoshop alteration not only takes more skill than a dark room manipulation it has the ability to be far more realistic. The dark room is dead, long live photoshop.
The way a candidate approaches science and engineering reveals how well he understands the economy, employment and defense. Anyone who thinks something else is a silly nanny.
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Lets joust a bit and so I say to you; try again, it was only a mediocre summarization and satire and I know you can do better than choking on your words like they were chunks in bloody bilious vomit. To the lions with you.
It has been a far more thorough secularization of social mores and customs in the industrialized nations of Europe than it has in the United States but there are some places as you mention where resistance has been building. Spain as well has some problems in the Andalusian regions where Catholic supremacy goes virtually unchecked, England's rural areas are always having one revival or another but none of these comes with the level of virulent disbelief in Evolution and out and out hatred of homosexuals we see in the US. America through its missions in Africa and Asia has begun spreading this ignorance and hatred causing African societies that once begrudgingly accepted gay couples to attack, maim and in some cases kill them. Newly converted couples in SE Asia are burdening the state with children they cannot care for because they have been told to "go forth and multiply" mindlessly by American missionaries who have little understanding of the world or local economic situation.
The same could be said for Theo and OpenBSD but Theo is still at the helm and is becoming a less cantankerous curmudgeon with age, too bad OLPC could of seen such stubborn leadership because at least some kids somewhere would have laptops that could shoot lasers at the junta soldiers or christian missionaries.
OLPC was a noble idea, but one that was fundamentally flawed; this is because the specs did not originate from the areas of the world that would be using it but were spun out of a pie in the sky engineering lab. The scale of the OLPC was immense and impractical and the fact that they attempted it at all they should be given alot of credit for dealing with the political, economic and technical problems.
I can get 768k DSL from Speakeasy for the same price and 90% of the time I wouldn't notice; but, it is those times I need something quickly like a 30-40 MB PDF to read before I jet off for the light rail that I can't get rid of Comcast's almost 8x speed advantage. I miss Charter cable's 16 meg business class cable internet, that was a great connection and a good company. We need to start talking about the cable companies that are better with their TOS so we can encourage the lesser of two evils to not go in whole hog.
Turn down the headset and speakerphone volume, they are set ridiculously high for the ones locked to Verizon.
The leaders of the American religious right have assembled an engine of ignorance with their attempts at subverting science and reason. These are the people who would make us fear change and progress as corruption and immorality because they know it would be their downfall at the head of the power structure if Americans were to secularize as happened in post WWII Europe. They allow their followers to believe it is immoral to deviate from a "median" or norm that they define as slavishly devout hetero couple with kids. They teach all sorts of crazy things like man should be treated as the superior to women, that priests/preacher should be greater than them and a host of saints, gods and fairy folk that are better than all mankind. This false hierarchy gives people an excuse to not look at their life and the consequences of how they live it pragmatically let alone existentially and gives them an excuse or scapegoat they can always pass the buck to instead of perfecting one's own actions, reactions and mind. These systems that tend to classify people according to supposed inborn traits are the anachronisms of the caste society they originated in 1000's of years ago and were meant to enforce obedience and subjugation to.
Its a problem with product cycles from design to manufacture to landfill becoming shorter and shorter. I have a 3 year old cell phone designed for kids and the elderly that has been partially submerged in dishwater and salt water, dropped out of a moving vehicle and generally banged around more than any personal electronics I own and I fucking love it. Yeah, the screen is tiny but I have never surfed on a cell phone for the internet and pry never will; because I have never found a reason to. Jobs have tried to give me Blackberries and I have broken or lost all the them and I have clearly explained to them why. My new phone arrives today a G'zone Boulder and I have waited a long time for a phone before I chose this one. With some of my engineer friends changing out phones every 6 months I wonder how long they actually took in selecting that phone, how long other engineers took to design it and how quickly clones of it were being made and shipped all over the world so someone like him could throw it away for another cell phone with 10% more screen size, a sleek new shell and whatever whiz bang feature in another 6 months.
So? I was there with the wobblies who were mostly over the age of 50 and the direct action types you mentioned did not even get a chance to do anything before a few dozen masked individuals started property damage. Look up the arrest reports they were not affiliated with anyone and to say anything else is slander. They were "individualist" Anarchist types ala Zubrin.
Get a hint, with good Civil, mechanical and maritime engineers you can adequately manage far greater storms. The problem with New Orleans was that we had been spending money building fancy bridges, stadiums and government buildings down there that could weather a 4+ hurricane all the while ignoring the levees and other flood control systems that protected 90% of the city. Now some of those homes are going to be destroyed when that hurricane rolls over but even that we can build for, what we need to require for residents rebuilding this time is that they build structures that are made to withstand hurricanes, floods and moisture; the last one because if you have ever owned a house anywhere humid the first thing to go is untreated wood and even treated wood goes after 25 years or so outside. They have solutions out there already, and if we mandated that if you live in a hurricane alley you build something like that we would not have to have these mass evacuations. What we really need is a president who is not scared of spending on such a system that would protect New Orleans against hurricanes, expand our research into earthquakes for the west coast and other disasters.
No, the point of teaching math is to give the skill sets needed for analyzing other subjects mathematically. No one should be teaching math in a purely abstract way to anyone but grad students.
Canada in Vancouver has better quality pizza that is delivered to your door with the option of buying some hash. I live in Portland and I can't even get that kind of service.
Physical access still is not going to break some encryption, what worries me is that phone companies are not allowing you to have that level of encryption for your contact list, SMS and other "proprietary" parts of the phone's logic.
Well she just asked "What exactly does a vice president do?", on CNBC. Um, ok that is scary. This is just a female Dan Quayle that instead of golfing hunts, fishes and wrestles bears. Unfortunately she does none of these things naked.
Lol, and he pry can't repair or replace the engine himself. Whatever happened to kids who could work on both? Where they only a mythological creature that died sometime in the 20th century? As a mech engineer student it disgusts me how little aptitude I am seeing from fellow students that comes from real world knowledge. It is all cerebral, virtual or fantastical this or that from the generation Z kids they suffer from a distinct lack of pragmatism.
Who the hell is steaming 1080i movies? No one, because the bandwidth would be insane, the Internet would be crying in a corner asking for its mommy. When they start streaming 1080i movies than we can bitch about the 250gb cap but for much of the world that lives with caps that is like 4-5x as much for the same price.
Oh noes. Not my social networking sites. People with real friends don't need MySpace and I would never give my password out to a professional site.
Polygamy in countries is a sign of wealth and I would guess that would increase longevity as well.
Thank you, anyone on Slashdot who has not taken at least physics, chemistry and biology at AP level or college please go enter yourself in a science class. Some computer scientists really need to take the broader view in college and realize that they will be working for software that has to specialize in something be it point of sale, economic modeling or QCD simulation so take fucking classes in what you want that specialty to be. If you are an OS, game, UI or Web programmer it is not essential; but it is nice. and for the rest of you programmer freaks out there; remember that you might be dealing with engineering folk, business dudes or creative types who might know more about algorithm design than you, they just don't have an extra 40+ hours a week to deal with programming. I don't even put my programming skills on my resume anymore, I would rather spend my time in the mechanical side of things. We don't need another programming language we need an entirely new way of modeling process into algorithm. I have seen some of the visual stuff and nothing is more nifty to me than a good simulink model that I can break apart and play with to understand new concepts. Why can't we make something open source even better? The CAD side of Linux is dying. Vendors are pulling out of the OS faster than new companies are supporting it. I am sad, time for a porter.
Bring back the asylums. When I went down to Arcata, Ca to visit a few months ago I saw the same mentally ill homeless woman who was down there 5 years ago with less teeth and more fear. People like her should be given a structured place to get well if she can or die in if she can't. All these half way houses and outpatient mental health clinics for schizophrenics are miserable failures.
A good photoshop alteration not only takes more skill than a dark room manipulation it has the ability to be far more realistic. The dark room is dead, long live photoshop.
Metaphysics has no place in science. Read some Karl Popper for Christ's sake.
The way a candidate approaches science and engineering reveals how well he understands the economy, employment and defense. Anyone who thinks something else is a silly nanny.
Ashland, Bend and the coastal cities are all liberal or better. Klamath Falls inwards gets a little red but it is way better than the deep south.
The red states are getting scary. I am glad I live in the Northwest.