Thats the problem, resources are not dwindling, nor will they. If one looks at all the oil, for one example, and looks at ALL the know oil shale, rock oil, tar sands, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of years of petroleum avaliable.
Even if it was true, which it isn't (that's just oil companies propaganda, inform yourself in scientific publications), that doesn't mean it will be possible to pump CO2 into the atmosphere for very much longer without dire consequences. It's no use having 100 years of petrol available if it renders half the planet inhabitable in 50.
The bomb was bad. But there are darker items in America's past to rightfully be ashamed of.
Well yes, I know that, but the topic was the Hiroshima bomb, so I chose that:-)
The dropping of the bombs ended war as the World had known it until then. It's been 60 years, and the world has not been thrown into conflict.
Surely you must be joking. The world hasn't known a full-scale world war since 1945, but it has seen plenty of horrible, country-wide conflicts with hundreds of thousands of victims. Many of which started and/or fueled by the US and the Soviet Union to further their own interests in the regions concerned, I might add.
The only difference to us westerners is we haven't seen any of it as normal citizens so far, but for a Vietnamese who basically lived in a war-torn country between 1946 and 1975, it mustn't have felt very different from WWII.
Last I checked, most of the Americans being pillored as evil for dropping the bomb weren't even alive at the time.
Yes, but those people, you and I, also bear the responsability for one simple reason: we choose to identify ourselves with our country (patriotism) and take pride in whatever great the country has done in the past, so we can't disassociate ourselves with the wrongs it did too.
Young Germans should feel ashamed about what Nazis did, as much as they feel pride about their culture, young Americans should feel bad about the bombs on Japan, as much as they should be proud of their constitution, young Frenchs should be ashamed of the Algeria war as much as they're proud of the universal declaration of human rights, etc... They should all feel bad about bad things, and good about good things, not as individual but collectively, as a people. They can't cherry-pick what they want to remember about their countries, that's too easy.
and the contribution of people who died on both sides to bringing the world to the way it is today. We can't change the past, but we can try to avoid the same situations and circumstances.
Hmm, I don't know what world you live in, but the lessons of the past have not been learned, and your "world the way it is today" is on the brink of war. And no, I'm not talking about the "war on terrorism", I'm talking about a constant, low-level, diffuse state of warfare as predicted by Georges Orwell, and as desired by neocons in order to maintain themselves in a position of power.
As for the future, when energy resources start to dwindle (and some expert say they already are right now), you can bet your money on a full-scale war over control of what's left. If you think Hiroshima taught anything to today's world leaders, you're sadly mistaken.
gummed up tape heads (especially prevalent when you spend more than fifteen minutes at a time on pause),
Let's see: what kind of movie would you pause for 15 minutes? not a football match (you usually re-run an action over and over, not pause), not a regular movie (same thing)... Obviously a movie that you want to freeze a certain scene to marvel at it at length... hmmm, I wonder...
Say I buy something (the last item I "returned" that way was a router): it works for a while, then quit working. When it happens before the usual 15 days return-without-questions-asked period, I usually go get another of the same item, swap with the bad one and return it the same day.
Why do I do that? you might think I'm a crook or something. Well, I'm tired of being shafted with some store's "10% restocking fee" (which is utter bullshit), or the incredibly ingenious ways of selling me stuff that never works right in the first place, then refusing to admit it's shit, or waiting for-bloody-ever for the thing to be fixed under warranty.
Some stores shaft me, I shaft them back. It's only fair. I don't do that with all stores, but CompUSA, Fry's and others, I have no qualms. Screw them.
I keep hearing about these things on slashdot. This must be a US only product. I cannot find anywhere in Canada that sells these things. Perhaps someone can buy a bunch and sell them on ebay with a slight markup? I'd buy one.
Hurry up to get one, because being a US product hacked by US hackers, the sequence is as follow
CVS camera --> hack --> DMCA lawsuit + new "improved" camera (ooh, the hack doesn't work with that one!)
this is really the 11th planet, not the 10th. Another large body, now named Sedna, was discovered last year. It is slightly smaller than Pluto.
Or, more sensibly, they could just declassify Pluto as a planet and reclassify it as just some Kuiper belt object (which is what it is) with an classification number and a cute, historical name.
That would leave us with 9 planets, big asteroids, some of which are named Pluto, Sedna or Bernard for historical or affectionate reasons, and all the others being called XYZ-some-number. That would make much more sense, and kill the slightly silly debate over how many numbers of planet there are in the solar system once and for all.
NASA has flown the shuttle well over 100 times, I believe (can't be bothered to check the exact number right now). So, how comes issues with falling pieces of foam and bits sticking out of the tiles are only cropping up now? I realize the STS fleet is aging, but still, it almost sounds like they've been incredibly lucky 100 times and haven't spotted the flaws until now, which sounds quite incredible.
Do you realize that "boxen" is a made-up plural first as a joke by comedian Brian Regan to make fun of his grasp of english grammar as a child, and that it is never used but as a (now overused) feeble joke amongst Unix and clustering professionals?
Do you realize then, as a result, that your using "boxen" instead of "boxes" makes you look either like (1) you blindly follow a meme to computer-educated folks, and (2) an ill-educated person to everybody else?
I don't mean to be rude, or be a grammar Nazi, but that word really gets on my nerves, because everybody seems to use it without even knowing where it comes from, and how it makes those who use it come across...
I filled a gap on my rusting car's fender about 6 months ago, and not long ago I could pull everything off by hand as well. That'll teach NASA not to use bondo...
FYI though, I used to get mod points every week, for many months, until one day it stopped. Maybe a week later, I was advised that some metamoderator had disagreed with one of my moderation and that said moderation had been cancelled. I haven't received mod points since then.
So I suspect the moderation system hands mod points over to those who make as few mistakes as possible (which sounds like a good thing to do), and one way to never make mistakes in moderation is to always mod obvious trolls and offtopics down, and never mod interesting, argumented or more complex posts up:-)
Standing on a overpass speaking to a passing car, "Hey you! Look out for that tree" or "Kent, This is God, Stop Touching That !"
You know, that joke isn't new: I remember reading about a bunch of kids in Europe who went on an overpass with a small FM transmitter, tuned it to the local "highway traffic info" channel (above 107.0 FM or something) and started reporting a "major accident, extreme caution advised at mile marker such-and-such, you're required to slow down immediately" etc etc... in order to cause a traffic jam.
Trouble is, they caused a big accident because some guy slammed on the brake and all the others behind rear-ended him, and the kids got caught. Perhaps your idea of a joke isn't such a good idea after all then:-)
I remember GCC getting an anti-SCO clause. This said, nothing prevents SCO from grabbing the previous version (the anti-SCO clause isn't retroactive) and fork it off. They of course probably haven't done that though...
we should all open up public aps, log the connections and send law enforcement large lists of mac addresses of 1337 h4x0rs...
Because as we all know, it's impossible to change MAC addresses in wireless cards, right? And also, because each and every citizen who purchases a wireless card is required to register his name and address in association with said wireless card...
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He couldn't find space for an Mac mini? It's only 6.5 inches wide and 2 inches tall.
Two things:
1- there's more to space-taking than just the size of an object: put a 6.5 wide object in the middle of a desk, and you may well find it cumbersome, either because you work with large objects on the desk anymore, or because it gets in your way, or whatever. There's also the clutter of cables going to/from it that, in my experience, is much much more anoying than the space taken by the computer.
2 - the guy may have wanted a neat, out-of-sight installation. Sticking your computer into the wall is the definite way of hiding your computer:-)
Just so you know, my computer is hidden in a cupboard, and I have extra-long VGA, keyboard, mouse... cables going to my desk. It really is much cleaner visually, not to mention the lack of noise.
The day they quit making calculators is the day everybody knew HP's strategy was going to become utterly wrong. Whatever venture they decided to pursue after that can be safely regarded as not-very-sensible. The wording of their PR statement after the iPod settlement simply confirms that they still don't have a clue what to do next.
I've been writing letters to my Congressman and Senators about the DMCA for some time, but they're not listening.
One day people in this country will realize that congresscritters and senators don't listen to their constituents anymore, and they haven't done so for a very long time. Mostly they listen to corporations and their lobbies.
I'm glad you still have the proper democratic reflex a citizen should have when confronted with issues, but really you should realize "writing to your congressman" nowadays amounts to pushing a button that's been disconnected.
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Thats the problem, resources are not dwindling, nor will they. If one looks at all the oil, for one example, and looks at ALL the know oil shale, rock oil, tar sands, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of years of petroleum avaliable.
Even if it was true, which it isn't (that's just oil companies propaganda, inform yourself in scientific publications), that doesn't mean it will be possible to pump CO2 into the atmosphere for very much longer without dire consequences. It's no use having 100 years of petrol available if it renders half the planet inhabitable in 50.
The bomb was bad. But there are darker items in America's past to rightfully be ashamed of.
:-)
Well yes, I know that, but the topic was the Hiroshima bomb, so I chose that
The dropping of the bombs ended war as the World had known it until then. It's been 60 years, and the world has not been thrown into conflict.
Surely you must be joking. The world hasn't known a full-scale world war since 1945, but it has seen plenty of horrible, country-wide conflicts with hundreds of thousands of victims. Many of which started and/or fueled by the US and the Soviet Union to further their own interests in the regions concerned, I might add.
The only difference to us westerners is we haven't seen any of it as normal citizens so far, but for a Vietnamese who basically lived in a war-torn country between 1946 and 1975, it mustn't have felt very different from WWII.
Last I checked, most of the Americans being pillored as evil for dropping the bomb weren't even alive at the time.
Yes, but those people, you and I, also bear the responsability for one simple reason: we choose to identify ourselves with our country (patriotism) and take pride in whatever great the country has done in the past, so we can't disassociate ourselves with the wrongs it did too.
Young Germans should feel ashamed about what Nazis did, as much as they feel pride about their culture, young Americans should feel bad about the bombs on Japan, as much as they should be proud of their constitution, young Frenchs should be ashamed of the Algeria war as much as they're proud of the universal declaration of human rights, etc... They should all feel bad about bad things, and good about good things, not as individual but collectively, as a people. They can't cherry-pick what they want to remember about their countries, that's too easy.
and the contribution of people who died on both sides to bringing the world to the way it is today. We can't change the past, but we can try to avoid the same situations and circumstances.
Hmm, I don't know what world you live in, but the lessons of the past have not been learned, and your "world the way it is today" is on the brink of war. And no, I'm not talking about the "war on terrorism", I'm talking about a constant, low-level, diffuse state of warfare as predicted by Georges Orwell, and as desired by neocons in order to maintain themselves in a position of power.
As for the future, when energy resources start to dwindle (and some expert say they already are right now), you can bet your money on a full-scale war over control of what's left. If you think Hiroshima taught anything to today's world leaders, you're sadly mistaken.
gummed up tape heads (especially prevalent when you spend more than fifteen minutes at a time on pause),
Let's see: what kind of movie would you pause for 15 minutes? not a football match (you usually re-run an action over and over, not pause), not a regular movie (same thing)... Obviously a movie that you want to freeze a certain scene to marvel at it at length... hmmm, I wonder...
just stick your arm in the microwave for a minute.
No wait...
Welcome to the world of datawarehousing which has been going on for more than a decade. How is this news?
It's news because it's turning into a giant datawhorehousing these days...
Say I buy something (the last item I "returned" that way was a router): it works for a while, then quit working. When it happens before the usual 15 days return-without-questions-asked period, I usually go get another of the same item, swap with the bad one and return it the same day.
Why do I do that? you might think I'm a crook or something. Well, I'm tired of being shafted with some store's "10% restocking fee" (which is utter bullshit), or the incredibly ingenious ways of selling me stuff that never works right in the first place, then refusing to admit it's shit, or waiting for-bloody-ever for the thing to be fixed under warranty.
Some stores shaft me, I shaft them back. It's only fair. I don't do that with all stores, but CompUSA, Fry's and others, I have no qualms. Screw them.
I keep hearing about these things on slashdot. This must be a US only product. I cannot find anywhere in Canada that sells these things. Perhaps someone can buy a bunch and sell them on ebay with a slight markup? I'd buy one.
Hurry up to get one, because being a US product hacked by US hackers, the sequence is as follow
CVS camera --> hack --> DMCA lawsuit + new "improved" camera (ooh, the hack doesn't work with that one!)
CVS one time use camcorder has now been hacked so that videos can be downloaded over USB
Last I checked, cvs co works well enough.
That would leave us with 9 planets, big asteroids
I meant 8 planets of course.
this is really the 11th planet, not the 10th. Another large body, now named Sedna, was discovered last year. It is slightly smaller than Pluto.
Or, more sensibly, they could just declassify Pluto as a planet and reclassify it as just some Kuiper belt object (which is what it is) with an classification number and a cute, historical name.
That would leave us with 9 planets, big asteroids, some of which are named Pluto, Sedna or Bernard for historical or affectionate reasons, and all the others being called XYZ-some-number. That would make much more sense, and kill the slightly silly debate over how many numbers of planet there are in the solar system once and for all.
NASA has flown the shuttle well over 100 times, I believe (can't be bothered to check the exact number right now). So, how comes issues with falling pieces of foam and bits sticking out of the tiles are only cropping up now? I realize the STS fleet is aging, but still, it almost sounds like they've been incredibly lucky 100 times and haven't spotted the flaws until now, which sounds quite incredible.
Anybody in the know here could explain this?
without the need for external boxen
Do you realize that "boxen" is a made-up plural first as a joke by comedian Brian Regan to make fun of his grasp of english grammar as a child, and that it is never used but as a (now overused) feeble joke amongst Unix and clustering professionals?
Do you realize then, as a result, that your using "boxen" instead of "boxes" makes you look either like (1) you blindly follow a meme to computer-educated folks, and (2) an ill-educated person to everybody else?
I don't mean to be rude, or be a grammar Nazi, but that word really gets on my nerves, because everybody seems to use it without even knowing where it comes from, and how it makes those who use it come across...
That'd be VistaSingles.com now, thank you.
I filled a gap on my rusting car's fender about 6 months ago, and not long ago I could pull everything off by hand as well. That'll teach NASA not to use bondo...
Ah ok, I didn't get that.
:-)
FYI though, I used to get mod points every week, for many months, until one day it stopped. Maybe a week later, I was advised that some metamoderator had disagreed with one of my moderation and that said moderation had been cancelled. I haven't received mod points since then.
So I suspect the moderation system hands mod points over to those who make as few mistakes as possible (which sounds like a good thing to do), and one way to never make mistakes in moderation is to always mod obvious trolls and offtopics down, and never mod interesting, argumented or more complex posts up
What are you talking about? you got mod points in your post of yesterday - mostly negative mod points, but mod points nonetheless :-)
Standing on a overpass speaking to a passing car, "Hey you! Look out for that tree" or "Kent, This is God, Stop Touching That !"
:-)
You know, that joke isn't new: I remember reading about a bunch of kids in Europe who went on an overpass with a small FM transmitter, tuned it to the local "highway traffic info" channel (above 107.0 FM or something) and started reporting a "major accident, extreme caution advised at mile marker such-and-such, you're required to slow down immediately" etc etc... in order to cause a traffic jam.
Trouble is, they caused a big accident because some guy slammed on the brake and all the others behind rear-ended him, and the kids got caught. Perhaps your idea of a joke isn't such a good idea after all then
how newspapers are looking for new ways to hide the identities of anonymous sources from prosecutors.
Coming from the NYT that requires the identities of online readers, that's ironic...
I remember GCC getting an anti-SCO clause. This said, nothing prevents SCO from grabbing the previous version (the anti-SCO clause isn't retroactive) and fork it off. They of course probably haven't done that though...
we should all open up public aps, log the connections and send law enforcement large lists of mac addresses of 1337 h4x0rs...
Because as we all know, it's impossible to change MAC addresses in wireless cards, right? And also, because each and every citizen who purchases a wireless card is required to register his name and address in association with said wireless card...
He couldn't find space for an Mac mini? It's only 6.5 inches wide and 2 inches tall.
:-)
Two things:
1- there's more to space-taking than just the size of an object: put a 6.5 wide object in the middle of a desk, and you may well find it cumbersome, either because you work with large objects on the desk anymore, or because it gets in your way, or whatever. There's also the clutter of cables going to/from it that, in my experience, is much much more anoying than the space taken by the computer.
2 - the guy may have wanted a neat, out-of-sight installation. Sticking your computer into the wall is the definite way of hiding your computer
Just so you know, my computer is hidden in a cupboard, and I have extra-long VGA, keyboard, mouse... cables going to my desk. It really is much cleaner visually, not to mention the lack of noise.
The day they quit making calculators is the day everybody knew HP's strategy was going to become utterly wrong. Whatever venture they decided to pursue after that can be safely regarded as not-very-sensible. The wording of their PR statement after the iPod settlement simply confirms that they still don't have a clue what to do next.
I've been writing letters to my Congressman and Senators about the DMCA for some time, but they're not listening.
One day people in this country will realize that congresscritters and senators don't listen to their constituents anymore, and they haven't done so for a very long time. Mostly they listen to corporations and their lobbies.
I'm glad you still have the proper democratic reflex a citizen should have when confronted with issues, but really you should realize "writing to your congressman" nowadays amounts to pushing a button that's been disconnected.