Doesn't this all seem a bit like Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Hu Jintao, Kim Jong-Il, and Hugo Chavez had a meeting and thought about what ways they could best stifle communication, expression, and freedom?
simple solution. Computer targeting controlled, infrared engine tracking 50 caliber rifle assemblies mounted on either side of a runway which will pop two jacketed hollow point.50 bullets into a jet's engines before they can spool up. those will effectively destroy a jet engine's ability to produce thrust. A jet engine is a huge target for a rifle 100 yards away.
No engines, no flying.
That's quite a simple and effective solution.
Though, not quite recommended for turbo prop engines as you don't want to send prop fragments hurling into the fuselage.
or, you could just fire a giant harpoon into its tail. Though, that's not quite elegant.
Though, you have to ask yourself, why would they want to stop an aircraft from taking off?
Children these days are bombarded with violence. It is presented in many forms some of which are glorified.
The majority of these forms are presented on simple broadcast television.
I certainly don't want the government to start regulating. I also don't want some "reverend" to start preaching about it.
I've read enough studies to know that a steady diet of violence does breed aggressive behavior. It certainly doesn't promote peaceful problem solving skills.
That being said, I want my fucking games. I am 32 years old and I enjoy playing violent video games. I am a father and there's no way in hell my kid is going to play these games.
What we really need, though draconian it may seem, is full enforcement of game ratings. Make it a crime to sell violent media to children or to parents for consumption by their children. 90% of this is just bad parenting.
When Holly Homemaker gets locked up for letting little Johnny play GTA IV, some heads will turn. I certainly don't believe this is the sort of thing we really should have, but if it protects my rights to play violent video games, I'm all for it. Especially since I'm not the one getting locked up.
I wish parents would wake up and realize that most games these days aren't for kids.
There's always the "don't tell me how to raise my kids" people, but their kids are usually spoiled rotten and get away with murder.
Large publishers seem somewhat obsolete these days. These publishers are hard-wired for physical distribution. They spend probably half the whole budget on marketing.
With publishers like steam, I'm not quite sure these old school publishers are even necessary.
A small development house can now sell on steam and provide their own marketing in the form of a website and advertising on web television networks like revision3.
That way, they can provide most of their budget to the actual game instead of 9 television commercials and booth babes. Though we'd miss the booth babes.
sound off, are these bloated draconian publishers really still necessary?
doesn't the constitution grant free passage between states? I think this is pushing a bit far. We all know the TSA is nothing more than those same minimum wage flunkies as before, now with a shirt and four times the power.
the problem is that 99% of users that have had their accounts for more than a year were signed up to "unlimited" accounts.
Now ISPs and comcast want to alter the deal. They want to offer us less for the same price. This is not acceptable. I signed up for unlimited usage.
I don't think it's fair, ethical, or legal for them to just change the terms without notification or consideration. I'm not paying the same price for such limited usage. Everyone needs high bandwidth, high throughput service now. The ISPs clearly didn't think things through and now they are taking a hit. While they were lining their pockets, they should have been building out new infrastructure.
Sure AT&T got federal funding to implement a new fiber network. They also had to agree to full Air Force/NSA monitoring of the entire network in exchange. There's no free lunch apparently. So we will have 100Mbit lines from AT&T for umpteen hundreds of dollars per month. However, when they let Joe Sheriff and Johnny Officer have full access to the monitoring, they will start putting file sharers in jail because the MPAA and RIAA have the money from their profitable litigation venture to buy new laws from congress that make it illegal.
Thus file sharing will become a thing of the past and people will again have 100Mbit lines but only use 5 or 6 percent of them. Then we will see unlimited contracts again. Then the cycle will repeat.
The issue here is one of greed. The issue is also because of unethical congressmen passing laws written by industry lobbyists.
AT&T is again a monopoly and they have made their deals with the government for monopoly power in exchange for full network access without pesky rules or laws or courts. Yep, you'll have your bandwidth and you'll have to exchange that for privacy. No more tentacle porn, no more mp3s, no more xvid movies or blu-ray rips.
The government has sold its citizens for cash. When we finally get some congress people with integrity, they might possibly undo these bad laws.
As far as I'm concerned, most congresspeople are nothing more than petty whores. They have their price, but instead of giving handjobs, they're selling America.
This is one of the most (potentially abused) systems I can forsee. I really don't think losing our privacy where medical records are concerned is going to help society. this just stinks. google should be ashamed.
I always knew that sort of cultural ignorance went on with black people. I could never understand it. Maybe it's just frustration and jealousy. I wouldn't call it racism though. Success for the black man doesn't mean becoming white. Though I think many blacks equate learning proper English with white people. They prefer to speak their dialect. Though I'm sure many would argue ebonics isn't a dialiect or a pidgin.
I've met many black Cubans who think they aren't black. They are really racist against the American black man. A Cuban could be darker than you, but he still wouldn't treat you like a peer. To most Cubans, black Americans are lower than them. I'm just going on what I'm told. I know more than 100 Cubans living in Miami. Most, though clearly hispanic and darker skinned than me, consider themselves white. Even my own brother-in-law kept telling me he was white. I had to remind him, that with a Cuban mother(who clearly had an African ancestor), and a Lebanese father, he's not even close to white. Some might even argue this is racism. I married his sister, so I wouldn't call it that racist.
Cuban people, no matter how dark skinned they are, just don't like Black Americans. And there you have it.
I know more than 100 Cuban people. about 15 of them were born here in Miami. The rest were born in Cuba and grew up there.
Today about half of Cuba is black. It wasn't that way 20 years ago. The Cubans living in Cuba aren't even Cuban anymore. That culture is lost to most anyone under 30 living in Cuba or even here in Miami. I've learned about real Cuban culture from old Cubans; Those who lived in Cuba before castro and left legally in the 1960's. They'll tell you they're descended from Spaniards. They'll tell you how their ancestors drove the indians out of Cuba. They'll tell you how they don't trust anyone with dark skin.
You must know black Cubans who are under 30. Ask any of them over thirty and they'll tell you how racist Cuban people are. The Cuba that exists today has lost most of the culture. The Cubans that live in Miami have lost a great deal of their culture. There are plenty who haven't. And they, my ignorant friend, are racist. Being racist is part of traditional Cuban culture. Being republican is just part of their new world ignorance. There is a great culture gap between American television and Spanish language tv here in Miami. Many Cubans in Miami are just naive enough to think that all republicans are Ronald Reagan. Most of them are racist enough not to vote for a black man.
Haha, I live in Miami too. But, I live with Cubans and married one. Most everyone in my neighborhood is Cuban. I'm a white guy and I'm voting for Obama.
Here's the real issue: Cubans are somewhat dumb when it comes to politics. They think republicans are all Ronald Reagan.
They most always vote republican, despite it being against their own interests.
And finally the clincher? It has nothing to do with being Muslim or not. It has nothing to do with religion at all. They're racist. I know it's a shocking claim. Cubans are probably the most racist people I've ever met and that's including my grandmother who was wicked racist. I know a lot of Cubans and they're all racist. Though I doubt all Cubans are racist, the majority really are. It's their dirty little secret.
They won't vote for Obama because he's black. That's the truth. Granted, I don't know your girlfriend's family, but if they're really Cuban, they're racist.
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Here in Miami where 80% of the drivers are immigrants, there's only one thing which is linked road rage.
You can predict it like clock work regardless of what sort of junk he has on his car or not.
There are a lot of idiot drivers in Miami. They do stupid things. They cut you off. They pull in front of you and stop short on purpose.
They run red lights. They wait till the last 20 feet to get over.
This is what links road rage here.
Yeah, I have to totally agree with that. I'm a Linux admin and I advocate Linux over windows every chance I get.
I still use XP for my desktop because I'm a die-hard gamer and I prefer the simplicity of a native platform.
The way in which MS is treating XP is just counter-intuitive. I have to agree it's the best windows OS they've ever produced.
They finally got it right after all of that crap they've been selling.
of course they're subjective.
But there are a great many of us who can translate benchmark scores into real world performance.
all it takes is a comparison of those scores to your own scores to know what type of performance to expect.
I was considering upgrading to a 9800GX2, but given these scores, I think I will wait. My 8800GTS 640MB is performing fairly well.
agreed, what good is perfect water and glass if the textures are from 2002?
These "lawyers" not mentioning related claims is grounds for disciplinary action. This is called abuse of process. It is against the law.
Doesn't this all seem a bit like Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro, Hu Jintao, Kim Jong-Il, and Hugo Chavez had a meeting and thought about what ways they could best stifle communication, expression, and freedom?
What does Lt. Col. John Bircher know about cyber warfare concepts?
we know that he knows how to "point and click".
2007-12-11 05:20:04 what is the perfect coder's chair? (Ask Slashdot,Programming) (rejected)
simple solution. Computer targeting controlled, infrared engine tracking 50 caliber rifle assemblies mounted on either side of a runway which will pop two jacketed hollow point .50 bullets into a jet's engines before they can spool up. those will effectively destroy a jet engine's ability to produce thrust. A jet engine is a huge target for a rifle 100 yards away.
No engines, no flying.
That's quite a simple and effective solution.
Though, not quite recommended for turbo prop engines as you don't want to send prop fragments hurling into the fuselage.
or, you could just fire a giant harpoon into its tail. Though, that's not quite elegant.
Though, you have to ask yourself, why would they want to stop an aircraft from taking off?
Children these days are bombarded with violence. It is presented in many forms some of which are glorified.
The majority of these forms are presented on simple broadcast television.
I certainly don't want the government to start regulating. I also don't want some "reverend" to start preaching about it.
I've read enough studies to know that a steady diet of violence does breed aggressive behavior. It certainly doesn't promote peaceful problem solving skills.
That being said, I want my fucking games. I am 32 years old and I enjoy playing violent video games. I am a father and there's no way in hell my kid is going to play these games.
What we really need, though draconian it may seem, is full enforcement of game ratings. Make it a crime to sell violent media to children or to parents for consumption by their children. 90% of this is just bad parenting.
When Holly Homemaker gets locked up for letting little Johnny play GTA IV, some heads will turn. I certainly don't believe this is the sort of thing we really should have, but if it protects my rights to play violent video games, I'm all for it. Especially since I'm not the one getting locked up.
I wish parents would wake up and realize that most games these days aren't for kids.
There's always the "don't tell me how to raise my kids" people, but their kids are usually spoiled rotten and get away with murder.
Large publishers seem somewhat obsolete these days. These publishers are hard-wired for physical distribution. They spend probably half the whole budget on marketing.
With publishers like steam, I'm not quite sure these old school publishers are even necessary.
A small development house can now sell on steam and provide their own marketing in the form of a website and advertising on web television networks like revision3.
That way, they can provide most of their budget to the actual game instead of 9 television commercials and booth babes. Though we'd miss the booth babes.
sound off, are these bloated draconian publishers really still necessary?
doesn't the constitution grant free passage between states? I think this is pushing a bit far. We all know the TSA is nothing more than those same minimum wage flunkies as before, now with a shirt and four times the power.
people who are idly surfing today are using way more bandwidth than you think.
most people who are idly surfing are watching web video and they're using more than 3Mbits most of the time.
Get with the program my Indian friend.
the problem is that 99% of users that have had their accounts for more than a year were signed up to "unlimited" accounts.
Now ISPs and comcast want to alter the deal. They want to offer us less for the same price. This is not acceptable. I signed up for unlimited usage.
I don't think it's fair, ethical, or legal for them to just change the terms without notification or consideration. I'm not paying the same price for such limited usage. Everyone needs high bandwidth, high throughput service now. The ISPs clearly didn't think things through and now they are taking a hit. While they were lining their pockets, they should have been building out new infrastructure.
Sure AT&T got federal funding to implement a new fiber network. They also had to agree to full Air Force/NSA monitoring of the entire network in exchange. There's no free lunch apparently. So we will have 100Mbit lines from AT&T for umpteen hundreds of dollars per month. However, when they let Joe Sheriff and Johnny Officer have full access to the monitoring, they will start putting file sharers in jail because the MPAA and RIAA have the money from their profitable litigation venture to buy new laws from congress that make it illegal.
Thus file sharing will become a thing of the past and people will again have 100Mbit lines but only use 5 or 6 percent of them. Then we will see unlimited contracts again. Then the cycle will repeat.
The issue here is one of greed. The issue is also because of unethical congressmen passing laws written by industry lobbyists.
AT&T is again a monopoly and they have made their deals with the government for monopoly power in exchange for full network access without pesky rules or laws or courts. Yep, you'll have your bandwidth and you'll have to exchange that for privacy. No more tentacle porn, no more mp3s, no more xvid movies or blu-ray rips.
The government has sold its citizens for cash. When we finally get some congress people with integrity, they might possibly undo these bad laws.
As far as I'm concerned, most congresspeople are nothing more than petty whores. They have their price, but instead of giving handjobs, they're selling America.
This is one of the most (potentially abused) systems I can forsee. I really don't think losing our privacy where medical records are concerned is going to help society. this just stinks. google should be ashamed.
Winning this stuff would go a long way towards apologizing for the state of pizza hut pizza.
The RIAA is the recording industry ass. of America.
maybe they should form an RIAPRC. oh wait, china's laws don't permit that sort of group.
too bad RIAA, you fail.
He prefers his his mail like he prefers his victories.
So slow they seemingly never arrive.
Most people, given a choice, would rather choose a black man than a mormon.
I always knew that sort of cultural ignorance went on with black people. I could never understand it. Maybe it's just frustration and jealousy. I wouldn't call it racism though. Success for the black man doesn't mean becoming white. Though I think many blacks equate learning proper English with white people. They prefer to speak their dialect. Though I'm sure many would argue ebonics isn't a dialiect or a pidgin.
I've met many black Cubans who think they aren't black. They are really racist against the American black man. A Cuban could be darker than you, but he still wouldn't treat you like a peer. To most Cubans, black Americans are lower than them. I'm just going on what I'm told. I know more than 100 Cubans living in Miami. Most, though clearly hispanic and darker skinned than me, consider themselves white. Even my own brother-in-law kept telling me he was white. I had to remind him, that with a Cuban mother(who clearly had an African ancestor), and a Lebanese father, he's not even close to white. Some might even argue this is racism. I married his sister, so I wouldn't call it that racist.
Cuban people, no matter how dark skinned they are, just don't like Black Americans. And there you have it.
wow, you're assuming a lot eh?
I know more than 100 Cuban people. about 15 of them were born here in Miami. The rest were born in Cuba and grew up there.
Today about half of Cuba is black. It wasn't that way 20 years ago. The Cubans living in Cuba aren't even Cuban anymore. That culture is lost to most anyone under 30 living in Cuba or even here in Miami. I've learned about real Cuban culture from old Cubans; Those who lived in Cuba before castro and left legally in the 1960's. They'll tell you they're descended from Spaniards. They'll tell you how their ancestors drove the indians out of Cuba. They'll tell you how they don't trust anyone with dark skin.
You must know black Cubans who are under 30. Ask any of them over thirty and they'll tell you how racist Cuban people are. The Cuba that exists today has lost most of the culture. The Cubans that live in Miami have lost a great deal of their culture. There are plenty who haven't. And they, my ignorant friend, are racist. Being racist is part of traditional Cuban culture. Being republican is just part of their new world ignorance. There is a great culture gap between American television and Spanish language tv here in Miami. Many Cubans in Miami are just naive enough to think that all republicans are Ronald Reagan. Most of them are racist enough not to vote for a black man.
We're really all tired of the plumber's crack.
Try something new. This is for fanboys and little kids.
Haha, I live in Miami too. But, I live with Cubans and married one. Most everyone in my neighborhood is Cuban. I'm a white guy and I'm voting for Obama.
Here's the real issue: Cubans are somewhat dumb when it comes to politics. They think republicans are all Ronald Reagan.
They most always vote republican, despite it being against their own interests.
And finally the clincher? It has nothing to do with being Muslim or not. It has nothing to do with religion at all. They're racist. I know it's a shocking claim. Cubans are probably the most racist people I've ever met and that's including my grandmother who was wicked racist. I know a lot of Cubans and they're all racist. Though I doubt all Cubans are racist, the majority really are. It's their dirty little secret.
They won't vote for Obama because he's black. That's the truth. Granted, I don't know your girlfriend's family, but if they're really Cuban, they're racist.
I really hope someone sues the company responsible for putting all of these toxic chemicals into landfills.
and yes, discs are made with toxic chemicals.
This is just a horrible waste of resources. Especially when the content could be distributed in harmless electron format.
If this bacteria can pass through microbiological filters, wtf is keeping it in the lab?
wtf is keeping it from eating our flesh?