Offtopic, wtf? Invid summs it up, how the hell was my post offtopic? Sure, it may not have been deserving of 'Funny', but it damn well isn't deserving of an 'Offtopic' Now with my luck the same bonehead will come back and moderate this post as Offtopic or flamebait or something, jeez.
Read the guidelines, and go find a comment that's worth modding UP, not something you mod down just 'cause it doesn't have you rolling on the floor with hysterics.
I was looking forward to the episode where the Bubble-Boys Bubble-Friends emerge from their bubbles and take revenge on George. I picture them beating him with Trivial Pursuit boards while shouting "Moors! It was the moors! Not moops goddammit, say moors!"
"Don't even get me started on what has happened to the right to own guns down there"
So the Port Phillip massacre was no reason to strengthen gun control laws, was it? Serious man, Australia is one of the most laid back countries in the world. If you want to own high-powered rifles or automatic shotguns, book a ticket to Texas or something.
The world doesn't envy you. Far from it, the world (for the most part), doesn't like you at all. Why?
BECAUSE YOU THINK WE ENVY YOU
So you can outproduce practically any individuall country, so what? How many countries have America's combination of vast amounts of land, population, and infrastructure? None - but just because we don't doesn't mean that we are the slightest bit worse than you. You are not resented because you have a stable goverment, or because you never suffered horrible losses (well, perhaps from countries who saw your involvement in the World War as being to just waltz in at the end and claim all the glory), or for any other reason you've listed. It's because, often, you guys are so damn arrogant.
Bush wants peace in the Middle East. Why? So he can bomb the crap out of Iraq. After that, as long as the oil keeps flowing and there are still markets for American exports, don't believe that he could give a rats arse for what goes on there. The affars of the rest of the world are treated as irritating matters which should be regulated as quickly as possible so that America is inconvinienced in the least possible way and its oligarchies can continue to rake in the money.
I'd like to point out that this comment is not motivated out of jealousy. As an Australian/German, I have memberships in two countries which, when taken together, have a plethora of advantages over the USA. And I don't intend to imply that all Americans are arrogant, self-absorbed, ignorant louts, but many are. For the most part you couldn't give a stuff about news outside of your own backyard. Before the WTC attacks (yes, before), I knew who Osama bin Laden was, and about al Qaeda. I know where most countries in Europe, Africa, South America et al. are located, and I don't hold stereotypical images of the inhabitants of those countries. Can you say the same?
Devices like these are all well and good in individual cicumstances, but the reality is that most families are going to neither *want* nor *need* them. Unfortunately, many more will *want* (at least on the parents side) than *need*. This is just another step in the acclerating move towards technological interference in preference over human ability. When parents start getting afraid for their kids and start foisting all manner of ridiculous gadgets upon them, they are reducing the learning potential of the child. Children will cease to learn that, if they run away from their mothers or go wandering through unknown territory they will get lost, but rather that they can just push a button and immense effort will be made to find them. Personally, if I have kids I'm not going to swathe them in cotton wool and keep them on a leash - what's that going to do for them? Rather send them out, let them climb around on trees and scratch their arms and legs. I broke an arm as a kid trying to jump from my roof to a nearby tree branch, and what did it teach me? Don't jump off trees. If I had been wearing Matel's-Fall-Cushioning-Vest (TM) I probably would have gone right back up and done it again (growing up to become a professional wrestler, but that's a different story)
Anyway, my point is that by replacing the trials of childhood with techno-gadgets we are decreasing the capability of our children to learn about self-reliance, which can have negative effects in the long run if/when these aids are ever lacking.
But hey, if you live in an area where there's lots of churches, buy one of the watches *grin*
How 'bout we ditch Jon Katz and hite this guy? Better yet, hire this guy and get Katz to edit out the "I orgasmed in my seat at this scene" stuff, which shouldn't be too hard as Katz never seems to like anything....
To rid itself completely of the much-maligned 'Blue Screen of Death', and to drastically increase loading and rebooting times, Microsoft has teamed up with known software developers Etch-A-Sketch, to create a lightweight, affordable PDA expected to quickly gain dominance amongst the user groups it's difficulty is catering to: toddlers and AOL users.
Not them, for the most part. As scores of posters have pointed out, we (the people who post) provide the content. Slashdot simply provides a forum for us to do so, and it is hard for some people to accept that they should have to pay for the privelige of contributing and bettering the site.
Now, if we could just charge all the trolls and flamebaiters, that'd be a decent model:-)
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from whirlpool's website:
"Whirlpool has again contacted "Hughes Corporation" asking for details of the company's ABN number. According to "Sandy" who answered the phone, the company does not need an ABN number as it is an American company "selling on services, you know, exporting." When informed that all companies operating in Australia were required by law to have an ABN number for tax purposes, she said, "yeah, well I suppose we'll be looking into that." Sandy also was unable to fax any information about the product or contract, offering only to take details and call back later.""
A viable business model which factors in the fact we have to pay tax? I wasn't aware we were required to have one, we're a subsidiary of Enron. Well, I guess we'll look into that:-P
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I'm wondering about the prospect using Wi-Fi to transmit streaming video or audio, perhaps to a car-mounted computer screen (like the head-rest TVs currently in top-end cars), would that be viable? Of course, the staff at Starbucks might get a bit suspicious if you just keep circling the block around their store until you've finished downloading your favourite espisode of Futurama... but you could email them and ask them to bring coffee out to your car *grin*
IIRC, there's a group in Australia who have been forming their own little wireless network with rooftop antennas. The trouble they have been facing is the amount of space between nodes, but they were well on the way to having a network between Melbourne and Adelaide (though several users in Albury/Wodonga were isolated in their own little network)
Fraid not buddy. Since the costs are being expressed in current day figures, it makes perfect sense to say the dog needs $3650. Sure, the money spent on the food may not be $3650, due to inflation it will actually be more, but unless there is a different rise in the price of dog food, the amount of money spent over the years would equal $3650 (if inflation we removed from it). Indeed, the concept of not assigning future costs to the overall cost of an item over it's lifetime is a fairly silly one, so I'd suggest you might want to look over your Economics textbook sometime, and perhaps also find an accounting one too and read up on that.
Maybe we can bolt the things onto our Collins Class submarines, that way it won't matter if they're louder than CowboyNeal after a night eating Taco Bill.
Suggestion for test pilot of the engine; John Howard, he's about to get shafted anyway:-)
The laws required to prosecute these people can take 18 months to be passed, yet these raids were carried out as early as last december! What gives, how come we only hear about this now?
This is fan-tastic! I bet this guy's gonna have heaps of fans! Okay, now I'm just being in-fan-tile.
I'd better stop before someone blows me away *groan*
While I concur that roleplay games are not zero-sum, I have to disagree with your assesment of Settler of Catan. seeing as there are only a limited number of resource hexagons, and only 3 players at most can access any single one, it can hardly be described as non-zero-sum.
Oh, and the bit where you rob someone doesn't really help either:)
It's always been legal. In germany, it's legal to copy movies etc. to show to friends & family, and because of this there there's a law from about '65 which adds a 'copy' tax to the price of appliances capable of copying. As CD Burners can (obviously) be used to copy stuff, they attract this tax. Nothing new, it's just that it's only been noticed now.
As an aside, that's why in Germany macrovision is illegal, because it stops you from using your right to copy the stuff which you paid a 'copy' tax for.
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Offtopic, wtf? Invid summs it up, how the hell was my post offtopic? Sure, it may not have been deserving of 'Funny', but it damn well isn't deserving of an 'Offtopic'
Now with my luck the same bonehead will come back and moderate this post as Offtopic or flamebait or something, jeez.
Read the guidelines, and go find a comment that's worth modding UP, not something you mod down just 'cause it doesn't have you rolling on the floor with hysterics.
I was looking forward to the episode where the Bubble-Boys Bubble-Friends emerge from their bubbles and take revenge on George.
I picture them beating him with Trivial Pursuit boards while shouting "Moors! It was the moors! Not moops goddammit, say moors!"
If you write checks that large, I want your bank account! :-)
"Don't even get me started on what has happened to the right to own guns down there"
So the Port Phillip massacre was no reason to strengthen gun control laws, was it?
Serious man, Australia is one of the most laid back countries in the world. If you want to own high-powered rifles or automatic shotguns, book a ticket to Texas or something.
Dude, if you plan on copying the soundtrack to 'Crocodile Dundee II' then you must have been drinking some strange water.
Oh wait, the machine is in Adelaide... sorry, go ahead!
Since they're from Adelaide, I doubt they've ever heard of the guy. At least, not unless he built a church.
Now a football team named after Linus, that would be something...
The world doesn't envy you. Far from it, the world (for the most part), doesn't like you at all. Why?
BECAUSE YOU THINK WE ENVY YOU
So you can outproduce practically any individuall country, so what? How many countries have America's combination of vast amounts of land, population, and infrastructure? None - but just because we don't doesn't mean that we are the slightest bit worse than you. You are not resented because you have a stable goverment, or because you never suffered horrible losses (well, perhaps from countries who saw your involvement in the World War as being to just waltz in at the end and claim all the glory), or for any other reason you've listed. It's because, often, you guys are so damn arrogant.
Bush wants peace in the Middle East. Why? So he can bomb the crap out of Iraq. After that, as long as the oil keeps flowing and there are still markets for American exports, don't believe that he could give a rats arse for what goes on there. The affars of the rest of the world are treated as irritating matters which should be regulated as quickly as possible so that America is inconvinienced in the least possible way and its oligarchies can continue to rake in the money.
I'd like to point out that this comment is not motivated out of jealousy. As an Australian/German, I have memberships in two countries which, when taken together, have a plethora of advantages over the USA. And I don't intend to imply that all Americans are arrogant, self-absorbed, ignorant louts, but many are. For the most part you couldn't give a stuff about news outside of your own backyard. Before the WTC attacks (yes, before), I knew who Osama bin Laden was, and about al Qaeda. I know where most countries in Europe, Africa, South America et al. are located, and I don't hold stereotypical images of the inhabitants of those countries.
Can you say the same?
Devices like these are all well and good in individual cicumstances, but the reality is that most families are going to neither *want* nor *need* them. Unfortunately, many more will *want* (at least on the parents side) than *need*. This is just another step in the acclerating move towards technological interference in preference over human ability.
When parents start getting afraid for their kids and start foisting all manner of ridiculous gadgets upon them, they are reducing the learning potential of the child. Children will cease to learn that, if they run away from their mothers or go wandering through unknown territory they will get lost, but rather that they can just push a button and immense effort will be made to find them.
Personally, if I have kids I'm not going to swathe them in cotton wool and keep them on a leash - what's that going to do for them? Rather send them out, let them climb around on trees and scratch their arms and legs.
I broke an arm as a kid trying to jump from my roof to a nearby tree branch, and what did it teach me? Don't jump off trees. If I had been wearing Matel's-Fall-Cushioning-Vest (TM) I probably would have gone right back up and done it again (growing up to become a professional wrestler, but that's a different story)
Anyway, my point is that by replacing the trials of childhood with techno-gadgets we are decreasing the capability of our children to learn about self-reliance, which can have negative effects in the long run if/when these aids are ever lacking.
But hey, if you live in an area where there's lots of churches, buy one of the watches *grin*
How 'bout we ditch Jon Katz and hite this guy? Better yet, hire this guy and get Katz to edit out the "I orgasmed in my seat at this scene" stuff, which shouldn't be too hard as Katz never seems to like anything....
wow, that was original, where have I seen that before?
I'm gonna have heaps of fun with this! Hook it up to a radio reciever, make people think they're going insane:
"Taco... Taco... this is your fridge talking to you... come join us... room for one more..."
Nah mate, any real Aussie would have invented a machine to open 1'000'000 cans of Fosters a minute (just in case the missus got tired).
Barry
(alright, so my name's not Barry, shuddup)
To rid itself completely of the much-maligned 'Blue Screen of Death', and to drastically increase loading and rebooting times, Microsoft has teamed up with known software developers Etch-A-Sketch, to create a lightweight, affordable PDA expected to quickly gain dominance amongst the user groups it's difficulty is catering to: toddlers and AOL users.
Not them, for the most part. As scores of posters have pointed out, we (the people who post) provide the content. Slashdot simply provides a forum for us to do so, and it is hard for some people to accept that they should have to pay for the privelige of contributing and bettering the site.
:-)
Now, if we could just charge all the trolls and flamebaiters, that'd be a decent model
from whirlpool's website:
:-P
"Whirlpool has again contacted "Hughes Corporation" asking for details of the company's ABN number. According to "Sandy" who answered the phone, the company does not need an ABN number as it is an American company "selling on services, you know, exporting." When informed that all companies operating in Australia were required by law to have an ABN number for tax purposes, she said, "yeah, well I suppose we'll be looking into that." Sandy also was unable to fax any information about the product or contract, offering only to take details and call back later.""
A viable business model which factors in the fact we have to pay tax? I wasn't aware we were required to have one, we're a subsidiary of Enron. Well, I guess we'll look into that
I'm wondering about the prospect using Wi-Fi to transmit streaming video or audio, perhaps to a car-mounted computer screen (like the head-rest TVs currently in top-end cars), would that be viable?
Of course, the staff at Starbucks might get a bit suspicious if you just keep circling the block around their store until you've finished downloading your favourite espisode of Futurama... but you could email them and ask them to bring coffee out to your car *grin*
IIRC, there's a group in Australia who have been forming their own little wireless network with rooftop antennas. The trouble they have been facing is the amount of space between nodes, but they were well on the way to having a network between Melbourne and Adelaide (though several users in Albury/Wodonga were isolated in their own little network)
"the system favours people with lots of money and large tracts of land"
my girlfriend has "huge... tracts of land" and the system didn't favour her much - she ended up with me
(apologies to monty python fans for the misuse of their material)
you see the title of this article, and immediately think someone is ripping off Magic: The Gathering Cards
Fraid not buddy. Since the costs are being expressed in current day figures, it makes perfect sense to say the dog needs $3650. Sure, the money spent on the food may not be $3650, due to inflation it will actually be more, but unless there is a different rise in the price of dog food, the amount of money spent over the years would equal $3650 (if inflation we removed from it). Indeed, the concept of not assigning future costs to the overall cost of an item over it's lifetime is a fairly silly one, so I'd suggest you might want to look over your Economics textbook sometime, and perhaps also find an accounting one too and read up on that.
Maybe we can bolt the things onto our Collins Class submarines, that way it won't matter if they're louder than CowboyNeal after a night eating Taco Bill. Suggestion for test pilot of the engine; John Howard, he's about to get shafted anyway :-)
The laws required to prosecute these people can take 18 months to be passed, yet these raids were carried out as early as last december! What gives, how come we only hear about this now?
This is fan-tastic! I bet this guy's gonna have heaps of fans! Okay, now I'm just being in-fan-tile. I'd better stop before someone blows me away *groan*
While I concur that roleplay games are not zero-sum, I have to disagree with your assesment of Settler of Catan. seeing as there are only a limited number of resource hexagons, and only 3 players at most can access any single one, it can hardly be described as non-zero-sum. Oh, and the bit where you rob someone doesn't really help either :)
It's always been legal. In germany, it's legal to copy movies etc. to show to friends & family, and because of this there there's a law from about '65 which adds a 'copy' tax to the price of appliances capable of copying. As CD Burners can (obviously) be used to copy stuff, they attract this tax. Nothing new, it's just that it's only been noticed now. As an aside, that's why in Germany macrovision is illegal, because it stops you from using your right to copy the stuff which you paid a 'copy' tax for.