What about EU funds for my city - it's a bit chilly in winter. Has been for the last 5000 years. Everyone there knew it was chilly in winter and it hasn't blown up or fallen off the edge of the world because of this winter chill. I think the EU should pay for some weird underground heating to recompense us for this winter horror.
Let me guess, you live in Helsinki?:)
Well, the EU made Finland lower their taxes on alcohol... and since Estonia has joined the EU, the import tariffs on cheap Estonian vodka have fallen, too. ("Viru Valge" at 80%, anyone?) So the EU is actually doing something for the Finns and their cold winter nights;)
What better way to learn where Uzbekistan is, than to invade Iran from it?
I guess you haven't played enough, then:)
Uzbekistan doesn't have a land border with Iran. Not that that's an absolute necessity for invasion, but it's usually considered a good idea. Afghanistan would be a better choice.
I mean you may not be able to hear sub 20hz (most people can't hear below 30, especially as the age group gets older), but you can definitely feel it. The feeling of the lower frequencies can add a lot to the music, because it can add the real "boom" to certain things like cannon fire (used in on some classical concerts before you ask).
How do you record these vibrations in the first place? Microphones have a lower frequency threshold, too.
I work for a top company - tens of thousands of employees, an instantly recognisable name, multi-billion turnover, a top-choice destination for graduates, recognised in lists of the best places to work, constantly in the top three of our industry. A lot of our people work in cubicles, including some of the smartest and best developers and technology people on the planet. [...] Upstairs here at my firm, we have some of the smartest Comp Sci grads in the world.
And they delegate interviewing and candidate selection to employees who manage to put two instances of "Bullshit" and five instances of "fuck" into a random flame at someone else's job-related post on a weblog. And as if that wasn't enough, their interviewer publicly makes statements like "Oh, and while you're there, pick up a application form for a burger-flipping job."
Care to elaborate what "top company" you work for, so that I don't apply there, given what the colleagues and the employee selection process appear to be like? Are you one of their "smartest Comp Sci" grads? Does your job require computer science skills, but not manners?
Hypochondria is a problem thanks to the Internet. There was that article a while ago on Slashdot about how doctors and hospitals don't see people thinking they have cramps or the flu, they get people who think they have appendicitis, cancer, and fatal familial insomnia and other insanely rare disorders. I know I have a bit of this (watch special about rare/deadly disease, start interpreting little things as "do I have this?").
"It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch--hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into--some fearful, devastating scourge, I know--and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever--read the symptoms--discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it--wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance--found, as I expected, that I had that too,--began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically--read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back. But I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye, and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was
The Mozilla foundation needs to pursue strong, immediate public action against NKing.com, holders of the mozilla.co.kr domain. Using the Mozilla name connotes official status, and they are trashing it badly.
I suggest that the Mozilla foundation registers mozilla.co.kp instead and continues to release official binaries only there. I knew these two Koreas had to be good for something;)
we use as much oil as you can pump out of the ground
Not true, Saudi Arabia could pump rather more (a big percentage, but I can't recall) more than it usually does, but it limits its output to stabilise prices.
Yes, but at present Saudi Arabia the only oil-producing country that can actually do this. The others are at their limit, and any disruption to Saudi oil production (for example, through terrorist attacks) could have a significant impact on the oil price. The article I quoted expects oil prices around $100 - it's always bad to have a single point of failure. In addition, the Saudis can only produce more crude oil, not refined gasoline and heating oil, so even their production increases won't help all that much in the short run.
Also, it's doubted whether the Saudis can actually keep their promises.
I once saw a discussion on a German forum that went just like this, but just a little further. All of a sudden the guy that gave all the data complained about someone buying a lot of computers off his credit card. After that one of the moderators removed the data from the website.
Severodvinsk on the White Sea is a major nuclear disaster area. There are a number of nuclear submarine repair sites there. This power plant is probably either a former submarine reactor or built from one.
My wife's uncle used to serve as chief engineer on Soviet and later Russian nuclear submarines. He still lives near Severodvinsk and says that the overall radiation level at those sites is higher than in Chernobyl. He managed to have two healthy children and asked both of them to study and work somewhere else.
In the private lab in Canada, you wouldn't either, assumnig you had insurance. If you have no insurance, at least in Canada you'd have the option of having your mammogram taken at all.
Even it Sanskrit is a RTL language, it should still be written LTR when using latin letters.
Firstly, there are no RTL languages, just RTL scripts. Secondly, Sanskrit is usually written in Devanagari script, which is LTR. Your post is complete nonsense.
What conservatives forget is that killing all the terrorists and invading country after country in the Middle East won't magically make the problem go away.
Hmm, that's why WWII ended because folks sat around tables discussing ways to solve the problems, right? [...] History, you know, kinda has a habit of repeating itself.
In WW2, it was clear who exactly the enemy was, where they were and why they were enemy; it was a war between clearly defined parties where it was possible to defeat one of them militarily by carpet bombing their cities and eventually either occupying or nuking them.
Here, it's an entirely different kind of war:
It's not clear who's involved at all; the US, that's obvious, but who is the enemy? Bin Laden? Al-Qaida, where we can't even clearly deliminate the membership? All terrorists, whoever they are? Islam? All Muslims? All militant Muslims, however they are defined? All evil people in the world? All evil leaders in the world? Evil in general? Satan?
it's not clear where the enemy is. The Middle East in general? Afghanistan? Iraq? Everywhere?
it's not clear why both parties are fighting each other. Defend freedom? Defeat evil, well, both sides are probably claiming this, aren't they? Secure oil? Take revenge for actual support of Israel? Take revenge for perceived general anti-Islamic stance of "the West"? Take revenge in general? Convert all the world to Islam?
History may repeat itself, but if you only see repeating patterns all over without looking at the actual events in detail, you're guaranteed to miss an important thing or two.
What bugs me is that the G8 might have actually talked about African aid, farm subsidies, and global warming. At least that was the agenda by Blair. Now, well the terrorists are playing right into the hands of George Bush!
This is not surprising at all. Terrorists aren't interested in world peace. You can observe the same thing in Palestine. As soon as there is even a remote hope for peace, a bomb goes off somewhere. As soon as everybody is happy, peaceful and content, the terrorist lose both their legitimacy and their recruitment environment.
In WWII, Stalin deliberately had German commanders assassinated if they were too easy on the native population. If a commander committed atrocities, Stalin reckoned that it would only let people rally against the Germans. So he let the atrocious commanders live, just to keep the atmosphere of conflict going. It's the same thing here, and it's been going in the Middle East for years.
I've graduated from university with an M.A. in Islamic Studies, CS and communication theory a couple of months ago. It's really sad to see that this actually creates job opportunities for us. Makes you wish you could afford to stay unemployed.
ICMP is in the kernel because it's part of TCP/IP, which wouldn't be hard to remove from a Linux kernel.
Haiku OS, formerly known as OpenBeOS, has an interesting BSD-derived network stack that is capable of running in as a normal userland program as well as in the kernel, and so are all the modules for various protocols etc. In userland, it's much slower, but (somewhat) more secure and way easier to debug.
Really, are you suggesting that British beers are, in general, inferior to their American counterparts? That American beer is good and British beer is bad?
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Well, the EU made Finland lower their taxes on alcohol... and since Estonia has joined the EU, the import tariffs on cheap Estonian vodka have fallen, too. ("Viru Valge" at 80%, anyone?) So the EU is actually doing something for the Finns and their cold winter nights ;)
Care to elaborate what "top company" you work for, so that I don't apply there, given what the colleagues and the employee selection process appear to be like? Are you one of their "smartest Comp Sci" grads? Does your job require computer science skills, but not manners?
"It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch--hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into--some fearful, devastating scourge, I know--and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever--read the symptoms--discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it--wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance--found, as I expected, that I had that too,--began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically--read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back. But I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye, and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was
Also, it's doubted whether the Saudis can actually keep their promises.
...free Windows CDs for everyone?
Severodvinsk on the White Sea is a major nuclear disaster area. There are a number of nuclear submarine repair sites there. This power plant is probably either a former submarine reactor or built from one.
My wife's uncle used to serve as chief engineer on Soviet and later Russian nuclear submarines. He still lives near Severodvinsk and says that the overall radiation level at those sites is higher than in Chernobyl. He managed to have two healthy children and asked both of them to study and work somewhere else.
In the private lab in Canada, you wouldn't either, assumnig you had insurance. If you have no insurance, at least in Canada you'd have the option of having your mammogram taken at all.
What? No codes for the BeOS version? *ducks for cover*
Here, it's an entirely different kind of war:
- It's not clear who's involved at all; the US, that's obvious, but who is the enemy? Bin Laden? Al-Qaida, where we can't even clearly deliminate the membership? All terrorists, whoever they are? Islam? All Muslims? All militant Muslims, however they are defined? All evil people in the world? All evil leaders in the world? Evil in general? Satan?
- it's not clear where the enemy is. The Middle East in general? Afghanistan? Iraq? Everywhere?
- it's not clear why both parties are fighting each other. Defend freedom? Defeat evil, well, both sides are probably claiming this, aren't they? Secure oil? Take revenge for actual support of Israel? Take revenge for perceived general anti-Islamic stance of "the West"? Take revenge in general? Convert all the world to Islam?
History may repeat itself, but if you only see repeating patterns all over without looking at the actual events in detail, you're guaranteed to miss an important thing or two.In WWII, Stalin deliberately had German commanders assassinated if they were too easy on the native population. If a commander committed atrocities, Stalin reckoned that it would only let people rally against the Germans. So he let the atrocious commanders live, just to keep the atmosphere of conflict going. It's the same thing here, and it's been going in the Middle East for years.
I've graduated from university with an M.A. in Islamic Studies, CS and communication theory a couple of months ago. It's really sad to see that this actually creates job opportunities for us. Makes you wish you could afford to stay unemployed.