Will I still be able to drill opps through walls in Half-life with the bug gun? If not then, it is a step backward.
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My friend and I have been kicking around an idea to use Eliza to reply to all e-mail. You could give it an AI that looks at a real response to a similar question, keep a database of those replies and then only forward messages to you that require a reply because the algorithm doesn't have a context to reply from.
I already have a script that ssh's into machines that I maintain and do sudos and greps and such. My boss thinks that you have to constantly futz with things and be logged in all the time. He is the last log \/var/log/messages king. He'd probably can me if he knew that I wasn't at the switch constantly, but then again it took me a week to explain how to even check logs.
Naji's Holistic Auto Repair. A commercial for Midas, I think.
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Putin has said that he would rather not have the damn things because his poor ass country has to maintain them. But as long as Bush and Cheney keeping fingering their Doctor Strangelove Decoder rings and wringing hands over Russia, which can't keep the friggin' lights on (I been there, I know) and China, is not escalating their military preparedness in any great degree (they are not building huge stockpiles of nuke; Shit, they don't even have a credible sub force or, golly, an aircraft carrier). Do you blame China for teaming up with Russia? If the US weren't rattling the saber all the damn time, for no reason, then they might just get down to business rather than making alliances against us. Most Americans would be shocked to find out that many of our close allies consider us a bigger threat to world peace because of the rampant militarism in America (See the History Channel's never ending homage to guns, tanks and bombs) and incompetent (Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield), dicredited (Condeleeza Rice) and evil (Kissinger, who has reared his war criminal head lately) leadership. We're going to hell in a handbasket, walking down a road paved with Republicans.
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Nothing like Pascal's Wager to boost innocent victims of nuclear war's confidence in American know-how. They have to cheat to make the friggin' thing work. One test has worked and might not that be attributed to dumb luck? What the world needs is the absence of nuclear weapons, not fear of boogeymen dreamed up to line the pockets of the American Military Industrial Complex. Europe is right to be pissed that America insists on building an unnecessary defensive shield. Where is the threat? China is not scaling up to meet us on the battlefield and North Korea is such a horrible mess economically that the only way you can say that they are a military threat is that they might be spoiling for a fight to eliminate some mouths to feed. The mere fact that you consider CNN (the War News Network) a place to get news makes your commentary suspect.
Of course, this mothballing comes at the behest of the same political party (of the US of A) that thinks those crack US rocket scientists should be a-cipherin' on how to make a bullet hit a bullet everytime. In this case, we really could have Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clowns. The Triana project is no more asinine than protecting a country (that probably could use a mass death event to clean up all the stupid people) with a cockamamie missile shield that the developers have to cheat to make work. I would rather live in a country that comes up with a kooky but probably beneficial project like Triana than one than thinks all you commie European fags are trying to invade with your little cars and techno music. Get out, you say? I have.
I run a web server that offers the dial-up software for the university where I work. No big deal. Recently, anytime you go to the site a pop-up advertisement comes up. Http is being filtered and and site on the "second level" is redirected from the main server after this pop-up occurs. Even my lowly server for my master's project does this. Argggh. With a bit of hacking I bet you can make perl eradicate the Microsoft nuisance.
This is a Unisys-style attempt to squeeze what ever they can out of a dry rock. They are cash strapped. despite finding some VC dumbass to invest in a barely useful technology. Anybody ever run strings on one of their binaries? That is the kind of direct actiont that could be taken to see if they have GPL code in their product. I live 15 miles from Oak Ridge and know a few people who work there. Lots of crickets chirping and surfing of head-hunter web sites.
International Drinking Rule of Thumb:
Americans, Italians and French pass out at midnight.
British at 2.
Canadians at 3.
Germans at 3:30
Belgians at 4
Australians at 6:30 the next evening after refreeing a football match between the Russians and Slovenes
Seriously, I am glad other people are getting into the space thing. Geographically, Australia is situated well for shots and Russia needs a solid partner that won't break their balls for having fiscal problems. I am a USAian and I really would hesitate to enter a partnership with us if I were actually wanting to accomplish something at any level. The big bully on the block shtick is getting old.
greed
Pronunciation: 'grEd
Function: noun
Etymology: back-formation from greedy
Date: 1609
: excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness : AVARICE
profit
Pronunciation: 'prä-f&t
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin profectus advance, profit, from proficere
Date: 14th century
1 : a valuable return : GAIN
2 : the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions; especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost
3 : net income usually for a given period of time
4 : the ratio of profit for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales
5 : the compensation accruing to entrepreneurs for the assumption of risk in business enterprise as distinguished from wages or rent
You are practicing equivocation which is illogical.
Greed isn't exclusive to capitalism (hence your caveman reference makes no sense), but it's certainly an integral part.
You are making my point; see above.
No, it is based on the control of the means of production. Cavemen probably acted greedily, but you would never accuse on of being a Rockefeller.
If you can get your workers to do more for less, you do it
Then you are oppressing them by not paying them for the value of their labor.
It's only an opinion anyway. Many people don't understand that.
If you make an assertion as a matter of fact, then it is an argument subject to scrutiny and further inquisition. Any first-year philosophy student can tell you that.
Naivete and outright stupidity notwithstanding, porn stars *do* have a choice.
You've committed a bit of an error here. One doesn't choose to be stupid (ignorant, yes) nor does one choose to be naive. In the first case, it is deteriministic; in the second, it is causal. You can choose to stop being ignorant but if you don't have the tools to change then... One does not choose to stop being naive. In the case of the porn industry, these people (men and women) prey on naivete. "I'll make you a star" is what is called "undue influence." You stop being naive by learning a lesson. Realizing you are only a star in the eyes of people who like porn is quite different from realizing that you just won the Oscar. Realizing that you are getting cornholed by Herschel Savage is quite different from a love scene with Brad Pitt. That my friend is a lesson.
If the job *wasn't* worth the money, there wouldn't be "plenty more [actresses] waiting in the wings." That's supply and demand.
I think what you are talking about here is called trafficking in humans, which, correct me if I am wrong, is by its very nature, immoral. A lot of those actresses see the porn industry as a misguided "break" into Hollywood. It is nothing of the sort. There is no accounting for naivete and outright stupidity.
I dunno about the subjugation thing - a gender-based 500% pay differential doesn't sound like subjugation to me.
$800 a day? So what, the fact of the matter is you get to say "Ok, I'll do the ass ream scene" but you don't get to choose who with. Someoneelse does. If you say "No, not with him" then you are out the door, cuz there are plenty more waiting in the wings. Survival in the porn industry may require that you do things that are dangerous and unjust against your particular will. That is subjugation...
Don't bother with the "What about the guys?" line. Plenty of dudes would do that work for a ham sandwich.
Some kid will crack that drive open, get a big whiff and then have all of LA chasing him down the Ventura freeway, shooting sparks off the rims and mowing down concrete barricades.
We don't need a war on drugs, we need a war on dumbasses.
The Tick live version will be disappointing, but I think that it is neat that someone is giving a nod to a really funny cartoon. The whole Civically Minded Five is worth every moment. Fledermaus hittin' on American Maid and busting the Tick's balls for being "a bit too brave."
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I'm glad to see a decision for freedome can still happen in this country.
Well, at least he used the apostrophe correctly.
Was that his main home, or his secondary home? At least you understand the English possessive. You could teach CmdrTaco at thing or two.
Will I still be able to drill opps through walls in Half-life with the bug gun? If not then, it is a step backward.
My friend and I have been kicking around an idea to use Eliza to reply to all e-mail. You could give it an AI that looks at a real response to a similar question, keep a database of those replies and then only forward messages to you that require a reply because the algorithm doesn't have a context to reply from. I already have a script that ssh's into machines that I maintain and do sudos and greps and such. My boss thinks that you have to constantly futz with things and be logged in all the time. He is the last log \ /var/log/messages king. He'd probably can me if he knew that I wasn't at the switch constantly, but then again it took me a week to explain how to even check logs.
Naji's Holistic Auto Repair. A commercial for Midas, I think.
Putin has said that he would rather not have the damn things because his poor ass country has to maintain them. But as long as Bush and Cheney keeping fingering their Doctor Strangelove Decoder rings and wringing hands over Russia, which can't keep the friggin' lights on (I been there, I know) and China, is not escalating their military preparedness in any great degree (they are not building huge stockpiles of nuke; Shit, they don't even have a credible sub force or, golly, an aircraft carrier). Do you blame China for teaming up with Russia? If the US weren't rattling the saber all the damn time, for no reason, then they might just get down to business rather than making alliances against us. Most Americans would be shocked to find out that many of our close allies consider us a bigger threat to world peace because of the rampant militarism in America (See the History Channel's never ending homage to guns, tanks and bombs) and incompetent (Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield), dicredited (Condeleeza Rice) and evil (Kissinger, who has reared his war criminal head lately) leadership. We're going to hell in a handbasket, walking down a road paved with Republicans.
I guess it is not Real Soon Now(tm)....
Nothing like Pascal's Wager to boost innocent victims of nuclear war's confidence in American know-how. They have to cheat to make the friggin' thing work. One test has worked and might not that be attributed to dumb luck? What the world needs is the absence of nuclear weapons, not fear of boogeymen dreamed up to line the pockets of the American Military Industrial Complex. Europe is right to be pissed that America insists on building an unnecessary defensive shield. Where is the threat? China is not scaling up to meet us on the battlefield and North Korea is such a horrible mess economically that the only way you can say that they are a military threat is that they might be spoiling for a fight to eliminate some mouths to feed. The mere fact that you consider CNN (the War News Network) a place to get news makes your commentary suspect.
Of course, this mothballing comes at the behest of the same political party (of the US of A) that thinks those crack US rocket scientists should be a-cipherin' on how to make a bullet hit a bullet everytime. In this case, we really could have Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clowns. The Triana project is no more asinine than protecting a country (that probably could use a mass death event to clean up all the stupid people) with a cockamamie missile shield that the developers have to cheat to make work. I would rather live in a country that comes up with a kooky but probably beneficial project like Triana than one than thinks all you commie European fags are trying to invade with your little cars and techno music. Get out, you say? I have.
Do you like children?
If the candidate answers with anything other than some smartass reply like "Yes, with lemon butter and capers" then reject.
What is it, Leftenant?
It's the rebels, sir. They're here.
What?
Yes and they are carrying a flag.
Cor. That's dashed cunning, isn't Cyril?
I run a web server that offers the dial-up software for the university where I work. No big deal. Recently, anytime you go to the site a pop-up advertisement comes up. Http is being filtered and and site on the "second level" is redirected from the main server after this pop-up occurs. Even my lowly server for my master's project does this. Argggh. With a bit of hacking I bet you can make perl eradicate the Microsoft nuisance.
This is a Unisys-style attempt to squeeze what ever they can out of a dry rock. They are cash strapped. despite finding some VC dumbass to invest in a barely useful technology. Anybody ever run strings on one of their binaries? That is the kind of direct actiont that could be taken to see if they have GPL code in their product. I live 15 miles from Oak Ridge and know a few people who work there. Lots of crickets chirping and surfing of head-hunter web sites.
I think that might be a general Northern European affliction.
Americans, Italians and French pass out at midnight.
British at 2.
Canadians at 3.
Germans at 3:30
Belgians at 4
Australians at 6:30 the next evening after refreeing a football match between the Russians and Slovenes
Seriously, I am glad other people are getting into the space thing. Geographically, Australia is situated well for shots and Russia needs a solid partner that won't break their balls for having fiscal problems. I am a USAian and I really would hesitate to enter a partnership with us if I were actually wanting to accomplish something at any level. The big bully on the block shtick is getting old.
profit Pronunciation: 'prä-f&t Function: noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin profectus advance, profit, from proficere Date: 14th century 1 : a valuable return : GAIN 2 : the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions; especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost 3 : net income usually for a given period of time 4 : the ratio of profit for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales 5 : the compensation accruing to entrepreneurs for the assumption of risk in business enterprise as distinguished from wages or rent
You are practicing equivocation which is illogical.
Greed isn't exclusive to capitalism (hence your caveman reference makes no sense), but it's certainly an integral part. You are making my point; see above.
One word (or acronym): Perl.
No, it is based on the control of the means of production. Cavemen probably acted greedily, but you would never accuse on of being a Rockefeller.
If you can get your workers to do more for less, you do it
Then you are oppressing them by not paying them for the value of their labor.
It's only an opinion anyway. Many people don't understand that.
If you make an assertion as a matter of fact, then it is an argument subject to scrutiny and further inquisition. Any first-year philosophy student can tell you that.
You've committed a bit of an error here. One doesn't choose to be stupid (ignorant, yes) nor does one choose to be naive. In the first case, it is deteriministic; in the second, it is causal. You can choose to stop being ignorant but if you don't have the tools to change then... One does not choose to stop being naive. In the case of the porn industry, these people (men and women) prey on naivete. "I'll make you a star" is what is called "undue influence." You stop being naive by learning a lesson. Realizing you are only a star in the eyes of people who like porn is quite different from realizing that you just won the Oscar. Realizing that you are getting cornholed by Herschel Savage is quite different from a love scene with Brad Pitt. That my friend is a lesson.
I think what you are talking about here is called trafficking in humans, which, correct me if I am wrong, is by its very nature, immoral. A lot of those actresses see the porn industry as a misguided "break" into Hollywood. It is nothing of the sort. There is no accounting for naivete and outright stupidity.
$800 a day? So what, the fact of the matter is you get to say "Ok, I'll do the ass ream scene" but you don't get to choose who with. Someoneelse does. If you say "No, not with him" then you are out the door, cuz there are plenty more waiting in the wings. Survival in the porn industry may require that you do things that are dangerous and unjust against your particular will. That is subjugation...
Don't bother with the "What about the guys?" line. Plenty of dudes would do that work for a ham sandwich.
Some figures:
Now if we could just get past the general subjugation of women thing....
We don't need a war on drugs, we need a war on dumbasses.
Stewie rules -- Rex Harrison on acid.
There you go making your blue monkey troubles again!