You and the other two people in the country that would actually be happy to sit in a shack in the woods and die a horribly painful death over months or years because you don't want to see a doctor can do so. However, for the rest of us, if we have a serious disease, chances are we're going to want to get some treatment for it.
Or, if you choose to seek treatment, you had better have the money to pay in advance so you don't leave the rest of us with the burden of the cost of your medical care after you die.
With the Wii, you also gain access to the entire GameCube library. Then, you have hundreds of games to choose from, and the vast majority of them cost less than $20. There's also the Virtual Console, but that gets stale after you've finished playing the games you remember nostalgically from your childhood.
They have come up with a new scheme that allows decryption without a key, while still being secure. It builds on one of the earliest encyption techniques on the Internet, and is more than ten times more secure. The new technology is called "ROT-156".
The spaceport is intended to be a complex from which various companies can launch and test spacecraft, not Lockheed Martin specifically. So, it's sort of like taxpayers funding an airport, which is certainly not unprecedented. The difference, of course, is it's funding a location from which to operate an industry that may not take off (pardon the pun) for decades, if ever. So, there is a definite risk.
However, having spent a lot of time in Las Cruces, which is less than an hour south, I can tell you that the spaceport has brought a lot more interest to science education in the area, so it has provided at least some short term benefit.
Unfortunately, the only real things T or C had going for it were Elephant Butte lake and the hot springs. These days, the lake level is constantly being lowered to provide more water to points south, and hardly anyone even knows that the hot springs exist. In addition, much of the tourism related to the lake is now mostly going through the relatively new town of Elephant Butte, so T or C misses out on a lot of that now too.
The T or C names gives the place notoriety from afar, but it makes it harder to draw attention to the hot springs, and very few people will travel out there just because it has a funny name, so in my opinion it actually hurts tourism.
I don't know if you've ever been to T or C, but if you didn't know the hot springs were there, you'd likely turn around and leave as soon as possible. It's very economically depressed and very run-down looking with very little to offer other than the usual chain motels and gas stations clustered around the Interstate.
Hopefully, private space ventures will take off and this spaceport will provide some much-needed economic stimulus to the area and an influx of highly educated people with good salaries. I'd say at this point it's about 50-50 whether this thing turns into a major industry in the area or becomes another taxpayer-funded boondoggle.
Sure, there are NFS implementations for Windows like the one you mention, but I wouldn't say there are any really good ones. All have them have some fairly serious flaws that make them impractical for any sort of serious use.
Man, you're getting a raw deal. Your neighbor is saving at least 20 bucks a month for Internet access, and all you're saving is a one time 30 dollar charge for your own hedge clippers.
You should ask for more, like free access to his wife or something. Really, wife and wifi are only one letter apart, so he should be okay with the arrangement.
I've never had any pages changed either, and I don't see why everyone is so hard on Comcast. They are the best company ever!
Didn't anyone see that headline on cnn.com about the Comcast CEO spending a day handing out food to starving orphans? Or the study on WebMD that shows that cable Internet cures cancer, while DSL can give you herpes? What about that story on Yahoo news that reported on DirecTV's new doomsday device that will incinerate people through their satellite dishes?
Or what about all those passages in the Bible (thank you bible.com) about how only those with Comcast digital phone service will be Raptured into Heaven during the Second Coming? Seriously people, Comcast is awesome!
You'd think so, but actually Stephen Spielburg is Steven Spielberg's non-union equivalent. Sort of like Senor Spielbergo is his Mexican non-union equivalent.
You might think it odd that he would have his own non-union counterpart working at his company Dreamworks, but actually that's a typo in the summary. The actual company that bought the rights is Dreamworks' non-union equivalent, Dreemwerx.
Because of my personal beliefs which stem from an often insulted and bashed faith, constantly mocked here on Slashdot, I do not sell the information I am privy to. I have a very strong sense of ethics too, and don't sell the information I'm privy to either. Since you say these beliefs stem from your faith, then we must be of the same faith. Always nice to meet a fellow atheist.
This site is and pretty much has always been a personal blog with a particularly active comments section. There are many stories that are posted in categories they are at best tangentially related to. Who can forget kdawson's past love affair with putting virtually everything in the Enlightenment category, even though that category was intended for news about the Enlightenment window manager?
The Politics section was originally designed to drive page hits by taking advantage of the hot topic of the day, that being the 2004 elections. It has since morphed into a holding ground for basically any vaguely political story, and serves as a way to get controversial (and therefore high page view generating) stories on Slashdot that aren't necessarily directly tech related. The FAQ itself is so rarely updated that you could hardly expect it to contain up to date information on what individual sections of the site are currently used for, or even provide a good list of what sections currently exist.
In short, take a deep breath, relax, and learn to let these things slide.
How delightfully naive. This administration should have taught you that it just doesn't work that way anymore.
If you give them less money, they won't spend any less, they'll just go further into debt. The national debt is now so large that it is completely incomprehensible even to those in power.
The debt currently stands at almost 9.5 trillion dollars, and is increasing at around 1.67 billion dollars per day. This level of spending would make even a drunken sailor blush, and it's being done despite the fact that we are giving them less money through the various tax cuts that have been implemented over the past 7 years.
The government spends money as if it were monopoly money, and accumulates expenditures with little or no regard to the disparity between revenue coming in and expenditures going out.
These sorts of stories make me so mad. Why can't people spend this money on the starving people of Africa instead of blowing it on this nonsense?
Seriously folks, you could buy decent home theatre systems for lots of poor starving African children for the cost of this one system. Won't somebody think of the children?
While I have no doubt that those whose children are severely autistic are in a totally different world, my son is mildly autistic (high functioning autistic), and I would take that over polio any day of the week.
Your argument is absurd and designed to appeal to raw emotion. Hundreds of kids get killed in traffic accidents every year. I would agree with the assertion that cars should not be banned so long as you sign your kid up to be the first to get nailed by a car. No? Oh, I guess a few hundred kids is ok as long as they're not yours?
Actually, that's not a good analogy, because there's solid evidence that getting creamed by a car will cause death, but there's no evidence at all that vaccines cause autism.
Personally, I think that too much web social interaction is a bad thing. People are forgetting how to interact face to face. Whatever, dude. I met this chick on myspace a couple months back, and ever since then she's been sending me all these great jokes and virus warnings and cool stuff like that. Just the other day, I noticed she had put me as one of her top 8 friends. I'm pretty sure that means we're going steady. If everything keeps going like this, I might even link to her blog on my blog. After that, we're practically married anyway, so it's only a matter of time before she agrees to cyber with me.
It's EXACTLY like telling her that her religion is wrong. Once people invest their whole lives into a cause, it's virtually impossible to get them to give it up, because they don't want to admit that they've invested so much of themselves into something that is totally worthless.
It's even worse than that. The anti-vaccine movement operates much like a cult. It takes people who are in a situation where they feel isolated, helpless, and angry, and they give these people a strong support community that will not only alleviate their feelings of isolation and helplessness, but give them a boogeyman to lash out at. Once someone is in a community like this, they will continue to fight for the cause no matter how much evidence is stacked against them.
It's really sad, because these people are risking allowing some truly horrible and often fatal diseases to come back decades after they were virtually wiped out. I'd much rather have a minuscule and totally unproven chance of a few kids getting autism, which is not fatal, than have a virtual certainty of thousands of kids getting fatal and/or permanently disfiguring diseases like pertussis or polio.
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You and the other two people in the country that would actually be happy to sit in a shack in the woods and die a horribly painful death over months or years because you don't want to see a doctor can do so. However, for the rest of us, if we have a serious disease, chances are we're going to want to get some treatment for it.
Or, if you choose to seek treatment, you had better have the money to pay in advance so you don't leave the rest of us with the burden of the cost of your medical care after you die.
With the Wii, you also gain access to the entire GameCube library. Then, you have hundreds of games to choose from, and the vast majority of them cost less than $20. There's also the Virtual Console, but that gets stale after you've finished playing the games you remember nostalgically from your childhood.
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Even if every other company is evil, it's still not okay to be evil. "Everyone else does it" is not a valid defense.
They have come up with a new scheme that allows decryption without a key, while still being secure. It builds on one of the earliest encyption techniques on the Internet, and is more than ten times more secure. The new technology is called "ROT-156".
Sorry guys, ever since I started putting my homemade porn online, wide screens have become necessary.
If you know what I mean.
From what I hear, T or C's economy these days is mostly based on the meth trade, so I don't blame you.
The spaceport is intended to be a complex from which various companies can launch and test spacecraft, not Lockheed Martin specifically. So, it's sort of like taxpayers funding an airport, which is certainly not unprecedented. The difference, of course, is it's funding a location from which to operate an industry that may not take off (pardon the pun) for decades, if ever. So, there is a definite risk.
However, having spent a lot of time in Las Cruces, which is less than an hour south, I can tell you that the spaceport has brought a lot more interest to science education in the area, so it has provided at least some short term benefit.
Unfortunately, the only real things T or C had going for it were Elephant Butte lake and the hot springs. These days, the lake level is constantly being lowered to provide more water to points south, and hardly anyone even knows that the hot springs exist. In addition, much of the tourism related to the lake is now mostly going through the relatively new town of Elephant Butte, so T or C misses out on a lot of that now too.
The T or C names gives the place notoriety from afar, but it makes it harder to draw attention to the hot springs, and very few people will travel out there just because it has a funny name, so in my opinion it actually hurts tourism.
I don't know if you've ever been to T or C, but if you didn't know the hot springs were there, you'd likely turn around and leave as soon as possible. It's very economically depressed and very run-down looking with very little to offer other than the usual chain motels and gas stations clustered around the Interstate.
Hopefully, private space ventures will take off and this spaceport will provide some much-needed economic stimulus to the area and an influx of highly educated people with good salaries. I'd say at this point it's about 50-50 whether this thing turns into a major industry in the area or becomes another taxpayer-funded boondoggle.
Sure, there are NFS implementations for Windows like the one you mention, but I wouldn't say there are any really good ones. All have them have some fairly serious flaws that make them impractical for any sort of serious use.
Man, you're getting a raw deal. Your neighbor is saving at least 20 bucks a month for Internet access, and all you're saving is a one time 30 dollar charge for your own hedge clippers.
You should ask for more, like free access to his wife or something. Really, wife and wifi are only one letter apart, so he should be okay with the arrangement.
I've never had any pages changed either, and I don't see why everyone is so hard on Comcast. They are the best company ever!
Didn't anyone see that headline on cnn.com about the Comcast CEO spending a day handing out food to starving orphans? Or the study on WebMD that shows that cable Internet cures cancer, while DSL can give you herpes? What about that story on Yahoo news that reported on DirecTV's new doomsday device that will incinerate people through their satellite dishes?
Or what about all those passages in the Bible (thank you bible.com) about how only those with Comcast digital phone service will be Raptured into Heaven during the Second Coming? Seriously people, Comcast is awesome!
You'd think so, but actually Stephen Spielburg is Steven Spielberg's non-union equivalent. Sort of like Senor Spielbergo is his Mexican non-union equivalent.
You might think it odd that he would have his own non-union counterpart working at his company Dreamworks, but actually that's a typo in the summary. The actual company that bought the rights is Dreamworks' non-union equivalent, Dreemwerx.
Only when the letter is accompanied by a big check.
This site is and pretty much has always been a personal blog with a particularly active comments section. There are many stories that are posted in categories they are at best tangentially related to. Who can forget kdawson's past love affair with putting virtually everything in the Enlightenment category, even though that category was intended for news about the Enlightenment window manager?
The Politics section was originally designed to drive page hits by taking advantage of the hot topic of the day, that being the 2004 elections. It has since morphed into a holding ground for basically any vaguely political story, and serves as a way to get controversial (and therefore high page view generating) stories on Slashdot that aren't necessarily directly tech related. The FAQ itself is so rarely updated that you could hardly expect it to contain up to date information on what individual sections of the site are currently used for, or even provide a good list of what sections currently exist.
In short, take a deep breath, relax, and learn to let these things slide.
How delightfully naive. This administration should have taught you that it just doesn't work that way anymore.
If you give them less money, they won't spend any less, they'll just go further into debt. The national debt is now so large that it is completely incomprehensible even to those in power.
The debt currently stands at almost 9.5 trillion dollars, and is increasing at around 1.67 billion dollars per day. This level of spending would make even a drunken sailor blush, and it's being done despite the fact that we are giving them less money through the various tax cuts that have been implemented over the past 7 years.
The government spends money as if it were monopoly money, and accumulates expenditures with little or no regard to the disparity between revenue coming in and expenditures going out.
I would hate to think this many bugs made it past the initial release.
That's not true at all. I'm still on P3P, and I won't upgrade to that P4P mess for anything.
However, I have heard good things about P3.11P for Workgroups, so I might try that one out.
These sorts of stories make me so mad. Why can't people spend this money on the starving people of Africa instead of blowing it on this nonsense?
Seriously folks, you could buy decent home theatre systems for lots of poor starving African children for the cost of this one system. Won't somebody think of the children?
While I have no doubt that those whose children are severely autistic are in a totally different world, my son is mildly autistic (high functioning autistic), and I would take that over polio any day of the week.
Your argument is absurd and designed to appeal to raw emotion. Hundreds of kids get killed in traffic accidents every year. I would agree with the assertion that cars should not be banned so long as you sign your kid up to be the first to get nailed by a car. No? Oh, I guess a few hundred kids is ok as long as they're not yours?
Actually, that's not a good analogy, because there's solid evidence that getting creamed by a car will cause death, but there's no evidence at all that vaccines cause autism.
It's EXACTLY like telling her that her religion is wrong. Once people invest their whole lives into a cause, it's virtually impossible to get them to give it up, because they don't want to admit that they've invested so much of themselves into something that is totally worthless.
It's even worse than that. The anti-vaccine movement operates much like a cult. It takes people who are in a situation where they feel isolated, helpless, and angry, and they give these people a strong support community that will not only alleviate their feelings of isolation and helplessness, but give them a boogeyman to lash out at. Once someone is in a community like this, they will continue to fight for the cause no matter how much evidence is stacked against them.
It's really sad, because these people are risking allowing some truly horrible and often fatal diseases to come back decades after they were virtually wiped out. I'd much rather have a minuscule and totally unproven chance of a few kids getting autism, which is not fatal, than have a virtual certainty of thousands of kids getting fatal and/or permanently disfiguring diseases like pertussis or polio.