What a dumb hippy. "Tear up the roads and plant them with trees"? Even the UK, pretty high population density, has a tiny 0.5 square km of motorway per 1000 sq km, thats 1 part motorway per 2000 parts. This picture doesn't exactly show intercity roads flattening the country does it? If you want to plan trees, a couple of fields worth would be equivelent of getting rid of roads. Read This book instead of beliving the mumbo jumbo spouted by the environmentalists.
Then listen to "uplifting feel-good" music that was actually WRITTEN by the artists.
Why? I don't care who sings it. With most songs I hear, recognise, and can sing along I don't know the title, let alone who sings it. It's nice because it's catchy, doesn't sound like a strangled cat that's just had his mouse stolen, doesn't require me to concentrate on the words and makes me feel happy. Radiohead, for example, is fine in some moods but not for waking me up at 8AM.
No I'm always up for discovering new artists, but "good", as music-facsits insist, seems to be the same warbling depressing music. What independent artists produce stuff like S Club 7 or Abba? (Of course I belive Abba wrote their own songs, not that I care)
Erm, the police don't carry guns in the UK, the only people with guns are a few armed police and criminals. Oh and you never see the police on teh street, they're too busy filling in forms and re-filling speed cameras. I walk 5 miles to and from work every day, quite late at night. There were several thousand football fans drinking cans of beer on the way last night, not a single policeman in sight.
Or 20,000 slashdotters could spend the money they currently spend on internet access, cable TV, DVD's, plasma screen TV's and other frivolous activities and fund the same number of scholorships.
Why do you get toys but he cant? He works long, hard and smart, takes risks, and makes a profit. Instead of blowing $20 million on a fancy yacht he spends it on a holiday, but as a bonus he decides to do a little to help other people.
How does you buying a dvd each week help little Tommy? 50 dvd's is a $1,000 scholarship each year. Put your money where your mouth is.
Family guy is coming back, Stargate is going into season 8 (still one of the funniest, and by far the best, shows on TV), but I agree I rarely watch TV (download it from the states way before its over in the UK, buy the DVD's when they come out). I work in TV too, which I guess is kind of ironic. Only TV I watch now is the news, I don't like schedules.
Ahh, the advantage of a cheap cyberhome dvd player. *79 with no disc in and you can turn off user restrictions. It's as inconvienient as region encoding.
No, only if you use said tuner to receive UK originated broadcasts. A TV with tuner that's not tuned in and doesn't have an ariel plugged in is perfectly fine with no TV License. If you own a TV tuner card then there is no need for a license, unless you use it to receive UK originated TV programs.
TVL can't fine you without evidence, nor do they have any right to enter your property without a search warrent served by the police.
Don't go after the hard-to-trace far east based spammers, instead go after the people that buy stuff from spam, the people that click the links. They are the ones that keep spammers in buisness. Why send 1,000,000 emails unless a couple of them respond? Make it a felony (5 years for first offence) to buy from a spam, and you're sorted.
I'm looking at buying a laptop to replace my thinkpad 166/80MB/3GB. I don't care much about battery life, an hour or two is fine. Trains have power sockets, and I rarely fly for more then 3 hours. What I do care about is being able to have a computer at whatever hotel I go to, or have the ability to lie on my bed and IRC. I'm loking at the G40, 2.6GHz, 40GB, 256MB, DVD/cdrw, 15" screen, for 1000. It weighs about 10lb with the PSU, and claims a 110 minute battery, but it's easy to carry arround, does everything I want, plays the latest games (my desktop's a measly 600MHz/250GB), has usb, firewire, wifi, network, everything I need.
Almost, for the last 4 years Microsoft have been porting the most common features of 32 bit windows to a 64 bit platform. The lastest beta of XP64 can BSOD at twice the speed
Yes, but you're talking about a really weak signal. You are trying to pick up something that originally came from a 250kW transmitter on earth, which only leaks a tiny ammount of its trasmission, then travelled 100 trillion miles, bounced off a planet, got re-radiated at a slightly different frequency in all different directions, then travelled another 100 trillion miles back to earth, gathering interference all the way, and then manage to get a viewable signal? I struggle to get wireless across the street!
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Got a link to Wikipedia Brittanica (2050)?
What a dumb hippy. "Tear up the roads and plant them with trees"? Even the UK, pretty high population density, has a tiny 0.5 square km of motorway per 1000 sq km, thats 1 part motorway per 2000 parts. This picture doesn't exactly show intercity roads flattening the country does it? If you want to plan trees, a couple of fields worth would be equivelent of getting rid of roads. Read This book instead of beliving the mumbo jumbo spouted by the environmentalists.
s/I don't care who sings it./I don't care who writes it./
Then listen to "uplifting feel-good" music that was actually WRITTEN by the artists.
Why? I don't care who sings it. With most songs I hear, recognise, and can sing along I don't know the title, let alone who sings it. It's nice because it's catchy, doesn't sound like a strangled cat that's just had his mouse stolen, doesn't require me to concentrate on the words and makes me feel happy. Radiohead, for example, is fine in some moods but not for waking me up at 8AM.
No I'm always up for discovering new artists, but "good", as music-facsits insist, seems to be the same warbling depressing music. What independent artists produce stuff like S Club 7 or Abba? (Of course I belive Abba wrote their own songs, not that I care)
Erm, the police don't carry guns in the UK, the only people with guns are a few armed police and criminals. Oh and you never see the police on teh street, they're too busy filling in forms and re-filling speed cameras. I walk 5 miles to and from work every day, quite late at night. There were several thousand football fans drinking cans of beer on the way last night, not a single policeman in sight.
You may not understand it but some people actually like uplifting feel-good music
Or 20,000 slashdotters could spend the money they currently spend on internet access, cable TV, DVD's, plasma screen TV's and other frivolous activities and fund the same number of scholorships.
Why do you get toys but he cant? He works long, hard and smart, takes risks, and makes a profit. Instead of blowing $20 million on a fancy yacht he spends it on a holiday, but as a bonus he decides to do a little to help other people.
How does you buying a dvd each week help little Tommy? 50 dvd's is a $1,000 scholarship each year. Put your money where your mouth is.
Do you know if they scrapped the Family Guy sets?
Family guy is coming back, Stargate is going into season 8 (still one of the funniest, and by far the best, shows on TV), but I agree I rarely watch TV (download it from the states way before its over in the UK, buy the DVD's when they come out). I work in TV too, which I guess is kind of ironic. Only TV I watch now is the news, I don't like schedules.
COudln't find my Senator, but I'm guessing if I wend it to "Tony Blair, C/O George Bush, Washington, USA" it will get there
Of course from May you have to buy 25 EU member presidents
Tell Dell that you want the linux option. If they don't listen to their customers perhaps it's time to re-evaluate your supplier
Current exchange rates $256 billion is arround 500,000
Fine, start a company that doesn't advertise. You'll be able to sell your product much cheaper.
Ahh, the advantage of a cheap cyberhome dvd player. *79 with no disc in and you can turn off user restrictions. It's as inconvienient as region encoding.
No, only if you use said tuner to receive UK originated broadcasts. A TV with tuner that's not tuned in and doesn't have an ariel plugged in is perfectly fine with no TV License. If you own a TV tuner card then there is no need for a license, unless you use it to receive UK originated TV programs.
TVL can't fine you without evidence, nor do they have any right to enter your property without a search warrent served by the police.
What kind of mac? And Ibook?
Compare to the completely unbiased and independent American media, who refer to all of those under the collective term, "terrorists".
They call the IRA (you know, that group that blows up little kids) "Freedom fighters" though
Don't go after the hard-to-trace far east based spammers, instead go after the people that buy stuff from spam, the people that click the links. They are the ones that keep spammers in buisness. Why send 1,000,000 emails unless a couple of them respond? Make it a felony (5 years for first offence) to buy from a spam, and you're sorted.
I swore this said "building fuel cells from kids". Finnaly, a use for the little brats...
Dog whistles don't work in space
I'm looking at buying a laptop to replace my thinkpad 166/80MB/3GB. I don't care much about battery life, an hour or two is fine. Trains have power sockets, and I rarely fly for more then 3 hours. What I do care about is being able to have a computer at whatever hotel I go to, or have the ability to lie on my bed and IRC. I'm loking at the G40, 2.6GHz, 40GB, 256MB, DVD/cdrw, 15" screen, for 1000. It weighs about 10lb with the PSU, and claims a 110 minute battery, but it's easy to carry arround, does everything I want, plays the latest games (my desktop's a measly 600MHz/250GB), has usb, firewire, wifi, network, everything I need.
Almost, for the last 4 years Microsoft have been porting the most common features of 32 bit windows to a 64 bit platform. The lastest beta of XP64 can BSOD at twice the speed
Or, maybe it's too late
Yes, I'm afraid Futurama (god rest it's soul) has gone. Strange, since I stopped using Zapp's chat up lines I'm having a lot less luck with women....
Yes, but you're talking about a really weak signal. You are trying to pick up something that originally came from a 250kW transmitter on earth, which only leaks a tiny ammount of its trasmission, then travelled 100 trillion miles, bounced off a planet, got re-radiated at a slightly different frequency in all different directions, then travelled another 100 trillion miles back to earth, gathering interference all the way, and then manage to get a viewable signal? I struggle to get wireless across the street!