This is something the queers and geeks can agree on! But make sure it is Tiesto not Oakey. Hello, 1998 just called and wants you to go back to Ibiza! It's all about Hvar now, brave^H^H^H^H^Hdear heart.
Because they are visioneering not engineering. Of course, if you really look at things like the Space Shuttle, they are quite ugly but they get the job done. In the case of this car, it is nothing more than what the creator seems to "think" a electric sports car looks like. Look at the Honda Insight. What an ugly fucker that was. But the Prius, well it it certainly isn't a Pininfarina design but it doesn't look like some Logan's Run bullshit. I think Honda is going to roll out some hybrid Civics that will be look like a normal civic. I wonder if, other than the decaling, we will be able to tell?
A better analogy is that p2p is more like having a person shout "who has a copy of the latest White Stripes cd" on the sidewalk, and having some stranger hand him that cdr. It's not a private transaction.
That person better watch out as the stranger might give him/her a punch in the junk instead for listening to such unadulterated shite.
the very off-hand remark of "indoctrination" indicates your personal prejudices and misconceptions, and your ignorance of the core situtaions behind many events shaping our nation.
Actually it was an "on-hand" remark. There is more than one way to this about things. Interesting, huh? Sitting and reading the Drudge Report and listening to talk radio does not a political mind make, but unfortunately it is what seems to be what is "shaping" things in America. I give Karl Rove as an example. That freak is practically channelling Goebbels.
it's a sad commentary on your generation
Wha? You have no idea how old or young I am. I think you might be surprised.
but I suppose that when people give up their personal interests (and live under government programs & media slants), they give up their individualism and drive to learn what is going on for themselves.
Since I have never accepted government assistance directly (I guess there are some built-in assitance programs even for personally paid private college educations) I don't understand that line. As for media slants, read this: GWB lied about WMD. He admitted yesterday that Hussein had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. CNN, FoxNews, NYTimes, et al are complicit in perpetuating the lies in that they NEVER questioned the claims until it was too late.
As for personal interests, I am a cultural geographer by training. I have seen shit on my fieldwork in places you've never been that will rip your heart out. I went into it with a rather closed mind thinking that most problems in the world could be solved with this bullshit Max Weberian hard work ethic stuff we are indoctrinated with in the States. Observe people and then teach them "the way." That is until you see, no, experience the structural violence inherent in neoliberalism and globalization. Guess what, buddy. In places like Cote d'Ivoire or Guatemala, the average person's life is influenced more by decisions made in Washington, DC than someone living in Schnectady, NY or Walla Walla, WA. Why? Because, often, those decisions affect daily subsistence, not whether or not you get to buy a new SUV this year. I tell you what: why don't you practice some of that mighty American individualism, cowboy, and pick up smoking as a habit. No. Wait. Don't! Because when you die from it, it will cost me in increased health and insurance costs. You are welcome.
Also, one question: So which group of individuals do you belong to? The people who see themselves as individuals? Nice. See you in hell, big groups of individuals hanging out there....
Of course, the advent of Chinese involvement is, I hope a sign of things to come. Kyoto and others have shown that disaster doesn't necessarily follow when the US says 'no', and that the best attitude the world can have may well be "fuck 'em, and carry on regardless".
As a USAian who lives, works and studies overseas, I am someone who knows that 1. "furriners" are actually reflective caring people and 2. esp. Europeans, they are sick of war and, gosh almighty, have learned from mistakes. I can tell you that it is my sincere hope that a second way develops, but don't give up hope on us. The US is an extremely polarized country right now. There are people in my office (I am back living in the States) that are downright primed to kill everything they see, willingly, simply because the refuse to say "Wait a minute."
The 'left' in America (I don't think there really has ever been such a thing) is, it appears, getting its shit together and finally realizing that ideology must give way to pragmatism. Otherwise, you get totalitarian monsters like Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz at the helm. Anyone with half-an-unindoctrinated brain knew the fix was in when Bush was elected.....
Still, Galileo is going to be a cool alternative if only for comparative purposes. I understand that the designer got the bands on either side of GPS from ICU and that DOD can't scramble Galileo with out stomping its own encrypted channels. Heh.
Well, anti-M$ rants tend to be about their shitty OS. OpenSSH is one program among many and is not an OS. Your analogy is a bit faulty.
Notice the patch is there instantly and easily available (even for Newbies) unlike Windows patches which are announced and not integrated into their updating service until you are already fucked.
I don't have a hybrid. But I am the proud co-owner of a 2000 Renault Twingo. It is a gutless wonder that gets 100km/5.5l. (You do the math). No you could never drive it in the states, but in Slovenia, it does just fine. It is a mindset (and possibly an ecologically destructive mindset) that says that a car MUST body shake and have a torque step like a Funny Car in order for it to be viable transportation.
My advice to you (I have received several grants and fellowships) is to really be tight on the proposal. If the grant application asks you to write it in blood, write it in blood. I have also been on committees that review grant proposals. We would kick proposals, unread, for not having the correct format on the TITLE PAGE! When I complained that this was a minor thing, the committee chair looked over her glasses and said, "If it isn't perfect, then it doesn't deserve our consideration or our money." Be tight. That is my advice.
The article was specifically aimed at Americans too, so the income level of the rest of the world is irrelevant here. Besides, people in Africa aren't poor because machines are taking their jobs, they're poor because they have corrupt governments, disease, short or nonexistant coastlines, poor soil, etc.
Corrupt governments installed and supported with the tools of structural violence by US foreign policy. Disease because NGOs and private philanthropies are hamstrung by antiquated human rights accords that often do more to hurt than harm by bolstering neoliberal arguments that helping Africa is not "cost-effective." Africa has ample natural resources most of which are controlled by transnational entities using client power structures to steal the wealth of the area. Switzerland is a land-locked country with poor agricultural prospects, BTW. Environmental determinism is a VERY outdated economic geography concept.
OK. It is not that the poor are getting richer (which is nonsensical), it is that the wealth gap is getting larger. Also, the US census covers the US. The poorest people in America are middle-class (or better) in most nations in the world. The average Appalachian American lives at nearly two times the Human Development Index as a person in Russia (you can find the HDI at the http://www.un.int, but, remember, the UN is a conspiracy of the International Jewish Bankers and crypto-commies, right?). Try again.
Was that patch easy enough for my mom to install? No. Therefore the patch was posted, but rendered irrelevant by obscurity. I don't expect my mom to sit and read Bugtraq. I expect her to send me not-very-funny jokes and ask me every day if I think I will ever get married when she signs on to instant messenger. She is not a sysadmin. She is a user.
Because it is in the dictionary does not mean it is a working way of describing the world. For one thing, notice that is a transitive verb. Another, the origins of political correctness (a non-starter. please try harder) are more easily found in military jargon than the usual suspects of the academic left. I cite "Sweep and clear" the post '68 term in Vietnam that substituted for "Search and destroy" as an example.
Etymology: Balkan Peninsula Yes. A strong linguistic history. BTW, exactly where is the Balkan peninsula?
I get out plenty. I just came back from the coast. Hvar is gorgeous, 'cept for a few brush fires. You should go.
"The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us."
So we are going to split up an arbitrarily formed body into several pieces based on some imagined construct of difference, which masks the true rejection of totalitarianism and structual violence?
How is disciplining the Internet the same as the tragedy of Southeastern Europe? Did you know that the Balkans are actually a small mountain range in Bulgarian. Most places in the "Balkans" are far from what you think are the "Balkans", physically, mentally, culturally, emotionally. Even those places Christiane Amanpour and dumb books (by a smart person who knows better) like "Balkan Ghosts" told you about during the war are nothing like what we think they are like. Making a verb out of that foreign policy mess is sickening.
Do not conflate human suffering with this foolish little thing called the Internet. This is akin to people, sitting meters from a fully stocked fridge, saying "I am starving." Think about it, but remember thinking is hard...
Yes. NT is SUCH SECURE OS! They have SUCH a culture of security built into their coding practices. What has happened to the trolls on Slashdot? Don't they even try anymore?
I have to disagree. The environment that a Windows programmer works in is not secure by design or by evolution, while a programmer working in a *nix-like environment has been thinking about security for a long time. Remember us Unix people woke up to worms and shite back in 1988 or so... Vigilant? Sure. But it is a hell of a lot easier when theo de raadt squeezes your nuts publicly for not checking a buffer.
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This is something the queers and geeks can agree on! But make sure it is Tiesto not Oakey. Hello, 1998 just called and wants you to go back to Ibiza! It's all about Hvar now, brave^H^H^H^H^Hdear heart.
Heh. If you had modded me down, i would have had more respect, because it was a bit of a troll.
Why are electric cars always so damned ugly?
Because they are visioneering not engineering. Of course, if you really look at things like the Space Shuttle, they are quite ugly but they get the job done. In the case of this car, it is nothing more than what the creator seems to "think" a electric sports car looks like. Look at the Honda Insight. What an ugly fucker that was. But the Prius, well it it certainly isn't a Pininfarina design but it doesn't look like some Logan's Run bullshit. I think Honda is going to roll out some hybrid Civics that will be look like a normal civic. I wonder if, other than the decaling, we will be able to tell?
A better analogy is that p2p is more like having a person shout "who has a copy of the latest White Stripes cd" on the sidewalk, and having some stranger hand him that cdr. It's not a private transaction.
That person better watch out as the stranger might give him/her a punch in the junk instead for listening to such unadulterated shite.
the very off-hand remark of "indoctrination" indicates your personal prejudices and misconceptions, and your ignorance of the core situtaions behind many events shaping our nation.
Actually it was an "on-hand" remark. There is more than one way to this about things. Interesting, huh? Sitting and reading the Drudge Report and listening to talk radio does not a political mind make, but unfortunately it is what seems to be what is "shaping" things in America. I give Karl Rove as an example. That freak is practically channelling Goebbels.
it's a sad commentary on your generation
Wha? You have no idea how old or young I am. I think you might be surprised.
but I suppose that when people give up their personal interests (and live under government programs & media slants), they give up their individualism and drive to learn what is going on for themselves.
Since I have never accepted government assistance directly (I guess there are some built-in assitance programs even for personally paid private college educations) I don't understand that line. As for media slants, read this: GWB lied about WMD. He admitted yesterday that Hussein had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. CNN, FoxNews, NYTimes, et al are complicit in perpetuating the lies in that they NEVER questioned the claims until it was too late.
As for personal interests, I am a cultural geographer by training. I have seen shit on my fieldwork in places you've never been that will rip your heart out. I went into it with a rather closed mind thinking that most problems in the world could be solved with this bullshit Max Weberian hard work ethic stuff we are indoctrinated with in the States. Observe people and then teach them "the way." That is until you see, no, experience the structural violence inherent in neoliberalism and globalization. Guess what, buddy. In places like Cote d'Ivoire or Guatemala, the average person's life is influenced more by decisions made in Washington, DC than someone living in Schnectady, NY or Walla Walla, WA. Why? Because, often, those decisions affect daily subsistence, not whether or not you get to buy a new SUV this year. I tell you what: why don't you practice some of that mighty American individualism, cowboy, and pick up smoking as a habit. No. Wait. Don't! Because when you die from it, it will cost me in increased health and insurance costs. You are welcome.
Also, one question: So which group of individuals do you belong to? The people who see themselves as individuals? Nice. See you in hell, big groups of individuals hanging out there....
Of course, the advent of Chinese involvement is, I hope a sign of things to come. Kyoto and others have shown that disaster doesn't necessarily follow when the US says 'no', and that the best attitude the world can have may well be "fuck 'em, and carry on regardless".
As a USAian who lives, works and studies overseas, I am someone who knows that 1. "furriners" are actually reflective caring people and 2. esp. Europeans, they are sick of war and, gosh almighty, have learned from mistakes. I can tell you that it is my sincere hope that a second way develops, but don't give up hope on us. The US is an extremely polarized country right now. There are people in my office (I am back living in the States) that are downright primed to kill everything they see, willingly, simply because the refuse to say "Wait a minute."
The 'left' in America (I don't think there really has ever been such a thing) is, it appears, getting its shit together and finally realizing that ideology must give way to pragmatism. Otherwise, you get totalitarian monsters like Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz at the helm. Anyone with half-an-unindoctrinated brain knew the fix was in when Bush was elected.....
Still, Galileo is going to be a cool alternative if only for comparative purposes. I understand that the designer got the bands on either side of GPS from ICU and that DOD can't scramble Galileo with out stomping its own encrypted channels. Heh.
Well, anti-M$ rants tend to be about their shitty OS. OpenSSH is one program among many and is not an OS. Your analogy is a bit faulty.
Notice the patch is there instantly and easily available (even for Newbies) unlike Windows patches which are announced and not integrated into their updating service until you are already fucked.
Andre the Giant has a posse and they are serving on the panel!
I don't have a hybrid. But I am the proud co-owner of a 2000 Renault Twingo. It is a gutless wonder that gets 100km/5.5l. (You do the math). No you could never drive it in the states, but in Slovenia, it does just fine. It is a mindset (and possibly an ecologically destructive mindset) that says that a car MUST body shake and have a torque step like a Funny Car in order for it to be viable transportation.
My advice to you (I have received several grants and fellowships) is to really be tight on the proposal. If the grant application asks you to write it in blood, write it in blood. I have also been on committees that review grant proposals. We would kick proposals, unread, for not having the correct format on the TITLE PAGE! When I complained that this was a minor thing, the committee chair looked over her glasses and said, "If it isn't perfect, then it doesn't deserve our consideration or our money." Be tight. That is my advice.
...has a posse.
It may be true that all dirts roads lead the VPI, but all white lines lead to UVa...
But what about the system installed in London, England?
That one doesn't track faces per se. It indexes along bad teeth.
The article was specifically aimed at Americans too, so the income level of the rest of the world is irrelevant here. Besides, people in Africa aren't poor because machines are taking their jobs, they're poor because they have corrupt governments, disease, short or nonexistant coastlines, poor soil, etc.
Corrupt governments installed and supported with the tools of structural violence by US foreign policy. Disease because NGOs and private philanthropies are hamstrung by antiquated human rights accords that often do more to hurt than harm by bolstering neoliberal arguments that helping Africa is not "cost-effective." Africa has ample natural resources most of which are controlled by transnational entities using client power structures to steal the wealth of the area. Switzerland is a land-locked country with poor agricultural prospects, BTW. Environmental determinism is a VERY outdated economic geography concept.
How long before libraries can't index books? Or own them?
Right after this stops being illogical.
Most people with wealth, earned it.
So, my friend just inheirited a cool 55 million bucks from his grandfather. How did he earn that?
OK. It is not that the poor are getting richer (which is nonsensical), it is that the wealth gap is getting larger. Also, the US census covers the US. The poorest people in America are middle-class (or better) in most nations in the world. The average Appalachian American lives at nearly two times the Human Development Index as a person in Russia (you can find the HDI at the http://www.un.int, but, remember, the UN is a conspiracy of the International Jewish Bankers and crypto-commies, right?). Try again.
Was that patch easy enough for my mom to install? No. Therefore the patch was posted, but rendered irrelevant by obscurity. I don't expect my mom to sit and read Bugtraq. I expect her to send me not-very-funny jokes and ask me every day if I think I will ever get married when she signs on to instant messenger. She is not a sysadmin. She is a user.
Federal. Ass-pounding. Facility.
It's not just insensitive. It is meaningless. Why say meaningless things? Do you like to waste your time? I must... :-)
Because it is in the dictionary does not mean it is a working way of describing the world. For one thing, notice that is a transitive verb. Another, the origins of political correctness (a non-starter. please try harder) are more easily found in military jargon than the usual suspects of the academic left. I cite "Sweep and clear" the post '68 term in Vietnam that substituted for "Search and destroy" as an example.
Etymology: Balkan Peninsula
Yes. A strong linguistic history. BTW, exactly where is the Balkan peninsula?
I get out plenty. I just came back from the coast. Hvar is gorgeous, 'cept for a few brush fires. You should go.
Adijo!
"The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us."
So we are going to split up an arbitrarily formed body into several pieces based on some imagined construct of difference, which masks the true rejection of totalitarianism and structual violence?
How is disciplining the Internet the same as the tragedy of Southeastern Europe? Did you know that the Balkans are actually a small mountain range in Bulgarian. Most places in the "Balkans" are far from what you think are the "Balkans", physically, mentally, culturally, emotionally. Even those places Christiane Amanpour and dumb books (by a smart person who knows better) like "Balkan Ghosts" told you about during the war are nothing like what we think they are like. Making a verb out of that foreign policy mess is sickening.
Do not conflate human suffering with this foolish little thing called the Internet. This is akin to people, sitting meters from a fully stocked fridge, saying "I am starving." Think about it, but remember thinking is hard...
I, for one, welcome our new Nanny State overlords.
Yes. NT is SUCH SECURE OS! They have SUCH a culture of security built into their coding practices. What has happened to the trolls on Slashdot? Don't they even try anymore?
I have to disagree. The environment that a Windows programmer works in is not secure by design or by evolution, while a programmer working in a *nix-like environment has been thinking about security for a long time. Remember us Unix people woke up to worms and shite back in 1988 or so... Vigilant? Sure. But it is a hell of a lot easier when theo de raadt squeezes your nuts publicly for not checking a buffer.