It's a hard leap for most people. The hardest things for people are not the things that we have no clue about, but the things we have some idea about, but we may be wrong. When scientists revise theories, it's seen as a sign of weakness, a loss of faith in science, when in reality, the admission that we were wrong is the whole strength of science in the first place.
One of my seemingly intelligent friends at work related to me the interesting fact on how the seasons work, apparently it's because the earth is closer to the sun during parts of the year!
Really, science has fallen flat on its face. We are a nation of ignorants.
devise an experiment where the results would disprove the tenants of Evolutionary Science
Hmmm.
Assuming your tenents mean that life can evolve to adapt to changing physical circumstances, I could think of several examples where one could have experiments that could either refute or support the theories.
You can never prove that something doesn't exist, unless you are omniscient.
However, we can barely prove that anything exists either, so we have to go on something, and that something is logic and perception. Most people that believe in things like God and psychics and other BS are victims to weak or false logic.
You know, a little potting compound will usually prevent your transformer from vibrating, it's usually a good idea to fix them, the constant 60 hz vibration will eventually wear joints and wires out.
Someone still owns your company, and they still want to see a good return on their investment. So while any profit may be good, your owners will still get ansy if you can't beat a money market account.
The SSSCA online comment form that drew pretty much only negative response did have an effect, but they were asking for comment, rather than getting an unsolicited list of online petitioners, so there is a difference.
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You should be able to use the TRAP keyword with egrep and come up with something. FWIW, here's my regex I use with Communigate's content filter and egrep for filtering based on extensions. The lame-ass filters may mangle this, but here goes
Yeah, no shit, I can't believe the number of people here who are so afraid to get their hands dirty that they would call Dell or whoever every time something broke.
Parts are cheap, and universally interchangable these days (At least if you don't buy Dell or Gateway shit). We keep at least two of everything in stock, and just swap something out when it breaks. It sure takes less than 24 hours, and it sure costs a hell of a lot less than a "support contract".
You know for a fact that a solid system from Dell or another giant will most likely have every component working together and all the neccescary drivers functioning right out of the box.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
sniff sniff...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ok, I'm OK now, I think. Just let me wipe these tears from my eyes, I'm laughing so hard.
Of course, you could always stock a couple extras of any parts you could possibly need for the fraction of the cost of support, and have the systems up and running within an hour of failure at most.
We had a power supply fail in the CEOs computer today. It took me 15 minutes to go swap it with one of our in-stock spares.... I'd like to see Dell compete with that.
That's total bullshit. For the price of "support" that you will never use, you can stock a couple spares of each part. When something fails, fuck warantees, just put in a new one.
Now that computers are sub-$1000 on the high end, it's not worth the bother to RMA anything but stillborn hardware to your reseller, and RMA hard disks direct to the manufacturer.
Do you work for Dell or something?
The only exception to this I see is laptops, but it's not like you can build those yourself anyway.
Have you noticed the new sticker versions of the certificates of license of MS that they want you to stick on the front of your case have anti-removal features? You can't get it off in one piece, it's like those foil stickers that they put on warantee seals. This to me really drove the MS licensing issue home. Well, that and their mob-like protection money tactics.
I do the same, but just be careful. If you are working on an ATX system, and there is no "hard kill" switch on the back of it (a rocker switch usually), then the motherboard is still getting the 3.3 volt standby voltage. It's probably a bad idea to be plugging things in with this voltage on. That said, I've done it before, without apparent ill effect, but stil, probably not a good idea.
Another option if the PS doesn't have a hard kill switch is to plug it into a power strip that can be turned off, and just turn off the power strip, ground is NEVER broken in a properly designed electrical system, even when things are turned off. Of course if you broke off your ground priong so you could plug your computer in to your 60 year old house wiring, all bets are off.:)
In the case of the broken ground, watch out, switching power supplies without ground float the chassis around 60 volts at low current, enough to wake you up if you are a better ground than whatever the case is sitting on, but probably not too dangerous, UNLESS there is a malfunction in the power supply, in which case you could become a crispy critter. In any case, good ground is a good idea, lots of things are affected badly by floating grounds.
This same thing applies when you use a UPS and just pull the plug out to test it, without that ground reference, the ground will float, so watch out.
As far as the "to unplug or not to unplug" debate, there is probably a credible argument that even though you don't have a good ground when the case if off and unplugged, things like static electricity will dissipate whenever you touch a large metal object like the chassis, due to leakage effects.
It's ok, just email them and they will set up your domain in their DNS. You will have to point your current domain registration at ns.netmar.com and ns2.netmar.com as your name servers, of course.
Did you even read the law you linked to? It only applies to relationships that involve a "foreign government, foreign person, or international organization".
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Yeah, that way some guy who really needs help will die! Won't that be hilarious!
Idiot.
I don't see what this has to do with Internet Radio anyway.
It's a hard leap for most people. The hardest things for people are not the things that we have no clue about, but the things we have some idea about, but we may be wrong. When scientists revise theories, it's seen as a sign of weakness, a loss of faith in science, when in reality, the admission that we were wrong is the whole strength of science in the first place.
Oh god I just laughed so hard that I thought I was going to hack my lungs up. Thanks.
One of my seemingly intelligent friends at work related to me the interesting fact on how the seasons work, apparently it's because the earth is closer to the sun during parts of the year!
Really, science has fallen flat on its face. We are a nation of ignorants.
devise an experiment where the results would disprove the tenants of Evolutionary Science
Hmmm.
Assuming your tenents mean that life can evolve to adapt to changing physical circumstances, I could think of several examples where one could have experiments that could either refute or support the theories.
You can never prove that something doesn't exist, unless you are omniscient.
However, we can barely prove that anything exists either, so we have to go on something, and that something is logic and perception. Most people that believe in things like God and psychics and other BS are victims to weak or false logic.
You know, a little potting compound will usually prevent your transformer from vibrating, it's usually a good idea to fix them, the constant 60 hz vibration will eventually wear joints and wires out.
I'm glad to see someone sane. On slashdot even. I wonder if I can get an all day lift ticket in hell right now.
Don't accept the paycut! Workers unite!
Yeah! Unionize! That way they will have to pay you your full salary! Even if they go broke in the process! It's all in the name of Communism!
Someone still owns your company, and they still want to see a good return on their investment. So while any profit may be good, your owners will still get ansy if you can't beat a money market account.
Heh, that thread was fucked up, neither of you could spell shareholder. I bet there is some sort of psychological analysis to that. :)
Yeah, it sure makes that last scene anti-climatic when the lawyer plops down a CDR full of emails to the judge to prove Santa exists.
The SSSCA online comment form that drew pretty much only negative response did have an effect, but they were asking for comment, rather than getting an unsolicited list of online petitioners, so there is a difference.
Are you sure your nick shouldn't be "Comic Book Guy"?
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You should be able to use the TRAP keyword with egrep and come up with something. FWIW, here's my regex I use with Communigate's content filter and egrep for filtering based on extensions. The lame-ass filters may mangle this, but here goes
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Such hostility in you...
It's not you per se, the whole story was pissing me off.
Yeah, no shit, I can't believe the number of people here who are so afraid to get their hands dirty that they would call Dell or whoever every time something broke.
Parts are cheap, and universally interchangable these days (At least if you don't buy Dell or Gateway shit). We keep at least two of everything in stock, and just swap something out when it breaks. It sure takes less than 24 hours, and it sure costs a hell of a lot less than a "support contract".
You know for a fact that a solid system from Dell or another giant will most likely have every component working together and all the neccescary drivers functioning right out of the box.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
sniff sniff...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ok, I'm OK now, I think. Just let me wipe these tears from my eyes, I'm laughing so hard.
And an addendum to that, you can get a 4 pin molex to P4 connector from Cyberguys, and I'm sure from many other places.
The only caveat is that you need to use a direct line from the power supply that has nothing else on it, to prevent power noise issues.
Of course, you could always stock a couple extras of any parts you could possibly need for the fraction of the cost of support, and have the systems up and running within an hour of failure at most.
We had a power supply fail in the CEOs computer today. It took me 15 minutes to go swap it with one of our in-stock spares.... I'd like to see Dell compete with that.
That's total bullshit. For the price of "support" that you will never use, you can stock a couple spares of each part. When something fails, fuck warantees, just put in a new one.
Now that computers are sub-$1000 on the high end, it's not worth the bother to RMA anything but stillborn hardware to your reseller, and RMA hard disks direct to the manufacturer.
Do you work for Dell or something?
The only exception to this I see is laptops, but it's not like you can build those yourself anyway.
Have you noticed the new sticker versions of the certificates of license of MS that they want you to stick on the front of your case have anti-removal features? You can't get it off in one piece, it's like those foil stickers that they put on warantee seals.
This to me really drove the MS licensing issue home. Well, that and their mob-like protection money tactics.
I do the same, but just be careful. If you are working on an ATX system, and there is no "hard kill" switch on the back of it (a rocker switch usually), then the motherboard is still getting the 3.3 volt standby voltage. It's probably a bad idea to be plugging things in with this voltage on. That said, I've done it before, without apparent ill effect, but stil, probably not a good idea.
:)
Another option if the PS doesn't have a hard kill switch is to plug it into a power strip that can be turned off, and just turn off the power strip, ground is NEVER broken in a properly designed electrical system, even when things are turned off. Of course if you broke off your ground priong so you could plug your computer in to your 60 year old house wiring, all bets are off.
In the case of the broken ground, watch out, switching power supplies without ground float the chassis around 60 volts at low current, enough to wake you up if you are a better ground than whatever the case is sitting on, but probably not too dangerous, UNLESS there is a malfunction in the power supply, in which case you could become a crispy critter. In any case, good ground is a good idea, lots of things are affected badly by floating grounds.
This same thing applies when you use a UPS and just pull the plug out to test it, without that ground reference, the ground will float, so watch out.
As far as the "to unplug or not to unplug" debate, there is probably a credible argument that even though you don't have a good ground when the case if off and unplugged, things like static electricity will dissipate whenever you touch a large metal object like the chassis, due to leakage effects.
It's ok, just email them and they will set up your domain in their DNS. You will have to point your current domain registration at ns.netmar.com and ns2.netmar.com as your name servers, of course.
Did you even read the law you linked to? It only applies to relationships that involve a "foreign government, foreign person, or international organization".