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or even worse:
"all dangerous programs were removed. your system is completely safe and secure with Microsoft product updates automatically installed. all is well. we have always been at war with eurasia."
i usually don't reply to ACs. they'll never see it, so what's the point?
especially on a story with almost 2000 comments.
but.
Sure, but since we invaded the golf course with an entire police department, we have ransacked every square inch of the golf course, and still not found that wedding ring.
except if you think that we've gone over every square inch of iraq, you're nuts. besides, the police department was sitting on one side (just one side) of the course for a month flashing their sirens, giving tv interviews, and basically doing everything but waving a "we're coming in" sign. no, wait, they did that too. there was plenty of time and warning to bury, move or destroy the ring and make the cops look like a bunch of idiotic jackbooted thugs.
In fact, we're now claiming that we didn't invade the golf course for any reason except that the owner was a cheap bastard who didn't treat his employees nicely.
well, we've been getting complaints about this guy for a long time; not nice to his neighbors either. but, you know, we haven't had anything we could really nail him on till now.
(remember how the feds finally took down capone. murder, prostitution, extortion, bootlegging and gambling and they charged him with... tax evasion.)
how often does a spike of statistically significant magnitude occur? what magnitude do they require to deem it significant?
similarly, how many "false positives" have they had? how many major (and how do they define major?) events without a spike? how many significant spikes without an event?
was there a spike leading up to predictable events? the world series? the super bowl? the inauguration of king george?
conversely, was there a spike on a day in which nothing much at all happened?
finally, have they ever heard of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy? (although in this case i suppose it should be "pre hoc ergo propter hoc")
> Saddam DIDN'T have WMDs. the inspectors didn't find a single thing.
absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. for an idea of the scale and manpower problems the inspectors faced, imagine searching an entire golf course for a wedding ring.
given three people and four hours.
while there's armed guards and a barbed wire fence around the 8th tee, where you're prevented from going in until a golf cart rolls up and takes away a few boxes.
> if you were surprised that troops didn't find any WMDs then you were watching the wrong news channel before the war.
no reasonable person should be surprised that none were found, just like no reasonable person should be surprised that iraq's official forces got steamrolled but guerilla fighting continues.
think about it this way. the only way saddam could hope to win at all is in the court of public opinion. if he has WMDs, to use them would immediately prove that bush was right; so would leaving them intact and in the country to be found.
we gave him more than enough warning and he knew when invasion was inevitable. at that point, if he had WMDs at all, he moved or destroyed them. it's the same principle where people being pursued by the police throw bags of pot out their windows.
i'm not saying that he did and i'm not saying that he didn't. i'm just saying, either way, the fact that none were around to be found is not surprising.
Hitler turned Germany from a destitute war-torn nation into an world economic power house in ~10 years. That's "success" in a lot of people's eyes. And why what happened afterwards is even more of an abomination.
but he did it with deficit spending - that would have been unmaintainable in the long term - in the process of rearming for war. making what happened afterwards more-or-less inevitable: if hitler hadn't gone into the rhineland then poland then onwards, he'd have run out of raw materials and credit, causing that 'economic powerhouse' to fold like a house of cards.
And what if they claimed they had a patent on "a mechanism for keeping a door closed" and sued other lock companies?
And what if merely hitting the lock with the right tuning fork would pop it open?
And then in reaction, they a) tried to outlaw tuning forks of that frequency, b) arrested anyone who revealed what frequency it is and c) spread news stories about dangerous musicians who are out to rob you.
Let the sheep use Windows and be stupid and pathetic and annoying and let the rest of us use Linux and have a clue and not have to deal with the sheep unless we need some money.
Except when the sheep catch a virus that generates enough network traffic in attemping to spread to bring your connection down.
Or you work for a company that makes your desktop machine Windows. With IE only. Because that's what everyone in the company uses.
Or hell, even when a site you access (your college, your bank, whatever) "upgrades" itself with new features galore, which only work under IE with JavaScript and ActiveX on, and in fact only gives you "You must be using browser version 4.0 or better to access this page. Click here to download a free update." under any other browser.
Then you have to deal with Windows.
And by the way: you can take that elitist attitude of "All Windows users are idiots who like fucking up their systems by downloading random shit." and shove it.
Okay, we've got a little over 24 years warning on this, a bit over 8,850 days by my count. Perhaps we should start assuming this thing is going to hit, and come up with something to do about it. Maybe if we don't turn it away given this much warning, we deserve to get nailed with it.
(Is this rock in Celestia's data files yet? Maybe we should enter it in and run the clock forward...)
> 2) How do you lock the passenger side door from the driver side, unless you hit the automatic door lock button, or reach across? And if you have many doors?
At least in my car (Toyota Camry), double-[un]locking either front door [un]locks all the doors.
> You guys don't seem to understand that John is just the entry in a contest that the Dem's knew they couldn't win.
Funny, I thought Kerry was just their somewhat-good enough candidate to ride the Bush backlash into the white house. After all, Anyone But Bush, right? [35 kb animated gif, sfw]
a) that was a discarded ending - and it makes sense that it was, because it's *such* a cheap play to kill off your main character in the last scene.
b) Dante shows up "later" in J&SBSB, alive and well. So, if he really was shot in the robbery attempt, it was but a scratch, merely a flesh wound, and he's not dead yet.
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or even worse:
"all dangerous programs were removed. your system is completely safe and secure with Microsoft product updates automatically installed. all is well. we have always been at war with eurasia."
> Unless there's some mystical property of the ^H that I'm missing. Does that thing have a name btw?
yes. backspace.
[meanwhile, the op should have just used ^W]
especially on a story with almost 2000 comments.
but.
except if you think that we've gone over every square inch of iraq, you're nuts. besides, the police department was sitting on one side (just one side) of the course for a month flashing their sirens, giving tv interviews, and basically doing everything but waving a "we're coming in" sign. no, wait, they did that too. there was plenty of time and warning to bury, move or destroy the ring and make the cops look like a bunch of idiotic jackbooted thugs.
well, we've been getting complaints about this guy for a long time; not nice to his neighbors either. but, you know, we haven't had anything we could really nail him on till now.
(remember how the feds finally took down capone. murder, prostitution, extortion, bootlegging and gambling and they charged him with... tax evasion.)
i have some questions for these people.
how often does a spike of statistically significant magnitude occur? what magnitude do they require to deem it significant?
similarly, how many "false positives" have they had? how many major (and how do they define major?) events without a spike? how many significant spikes without an event?
was there a spike leading up to predictable events? the world series? the super bowl? the inauguration of king george?
conversely, was there a spike on a day in which nothing much at all happened?
finally, have they ever heard of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy? (although in this case i suppose it should be " pre hoc ergo propter hoc")
> Saddam DIDN'T have WMDs. the inspectors didn't find a single thing.
absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. for an idea of the scale and manpower problems the inspectors faced, imagine searching an entire golf course for a wedding ring.
given three people and four hours.
while there's armed guards and a barbed wire fence around the 8th tee, where you're prevented from going in until a golf cart rolls up and takes away a few boxes.
> if you were surprised that troops didn't find any WMDs then you were watching the wrong news channel before the war.
no reasonable person should be surprised that none were found, just like no reasonable person should be surprised that iraq's official forces got steamrolled but guerilla fighting continues.
think about it this way. the only way saddam could hope to win at all is in the court of public opinion. if he has WMDs, to use them would immediately prove that bush was right; so would leaving them intact and in the country to be found.
we gave him more than enough warning and he knew when invasion was inevitable. at that point, if he had WMDs at all, he moved or destroyed them. it's the same principle where people being pursued by the police throw bags of pot out their windows.
i'm not saying that he did and i'm not saying that he didn't. i'm just saying, either way, the fact that none were around to be found is not surprising.
he was a rock
to the end
solid reminder
couldn't deny a friend
we lived in the noise an
the sweet amber poison
peeking up the skirt of the end...
but he did it with deficit spending - that would have been unmaintainable in the long term - in the process of rearming for war. making what happened afterwards more-or-less inevitable: if hitler hadn't gone into the rhineland then poland then onwards, he'd have run out of raw materials and credit, causing that 'economic powerhouse' to fold like a house of cards.
Only a fool would go after the Singing Sword...
And what if they claimed they had a patent on "a mechanism for keeping a door closed" and sued other lock companies?
And what if merely hitting the lock with the right tuning fork would pop it open?
And then in reaction, they a) tried to outlaw tuning forks of that frequency, b) arrested anyone who revealed what frequency it is and c) spread news stories about dangerous musicians who are out to rob you.
- sg "overextending analogies since 1996" fc
To riff on a Buffy ep, I thought "stolen" was English for "stolen".
I mean, that just would not work.
Okay, we've got a little over 24 years warning on this, a bit over 8,850 days by my count. Perhaps we should start assuming this thing is going to hit, and come up with something to do about it. Maybe if we don't turn it away given this much warning, we deserve to get nailed with it.
(Is this rock in Celestia's data files yet? Maybe we should enter it in and run the clock forward...)
Standing
on a mountaintop in northern Siberia under the rapidly descending bulk
of asteroid McAlmont, with a calculating expression and a baseball bat
I think he meant sweet.
They *are* homophones, after all...
Slow down Cowboy, 5 seconds, yatta yatta...
"'Attempted murder'? What is that? Do they give out Nobel prizes for 'Attempted Chemistry'?!"
no, then instead of your fingerprint, they just write in '404'.
> 2) How do you lock the passenger side door from the driver side, unless you hit the automatic door lock button, or reach across? And if you have many doors?
At least in my car (Toyota Camry), double-[un]locking either front door [un]locks all the doors.
'enabled' is greyed out for firesomething (eh) and textzoom (gah)
> You guys don't seem to understand that John is just the entry in a contest that the Dem's knew they couldn't win.
Funny, I thought Kerry was just their somewhat-good enough candidate to ride the Bush backlash into the white house. After all, Anyone But Bush, right? [35 kb animated gif, sfw]
> we have less of chance of a Bush/Gore fiasco raising its ugly head and saying "I'll be back".
:P
Except it's California. If Kerry doesn't take the state easily, that's a red flag to investigate.
> (and yes, putting memtest86 on a CDR also makes me cringe at the waste of space)
Hey, I have a CD-R with memtest86 on it.
Because it's now a boot option in knoppix.
Hooray Knoppix!
> the RIAA, MPAA, Nintendo, your mom, and the King of Spain don't give a fuck about you making a copy of a CD to put in your car.
the King Of Spain just might.
I'm currently holding a sweet little dagger for a friend of mine because her school's dorm rules don't permit, as she puts it, "pointys".
This is a case of YMMV.
a) that was a discarded ending - and it makes sense that it was, because it's *such* a cheap play to kill off your main character in the last scene.
b) Dante shows up "later" in J&SBSB, alive and well. So, if he really was shot in the robbery attempt, it was but a scratch, merely a flesh wound, and he's not dead yet.