The order gives the Secretary of the Treasury the right to immediately and without notice freeze all assets of anyone suspected of either directly or indirectly attempting to undermine the Iraqi government as well as anyone who has financial dealings, directly or indirectly, with such people.
The language is ridiculously broad and does appear to violate the 5th amendment. It appears that if you, say, donate to a charity that the Bush administration determines is trying to undermine the Iraqi government, all of your assets can be frozen. The language is very broad and open to interpretation by the Secretary of the Treasury, who serves at the pleasure of the President. This is absolutely begging to be abused.
Actually, this proves that humans came to earth from Golgafrincham just like the great anthropologist Dr. Douglas Adams postulated. His only error was that he believed they landed in Britain rather than in Africa.
There are parts of New Mexico (and probably Arizona too) where the wind blows almost constantly. You could seal the water in plastic (like the previous poster said) and either funnel the wind directly into the enclosure, or use turbines to generate power for air circulators.
No. No matter how many times you post this, Slashdot will continue to be a primarily US-centric site. There is nothing you can do about this. I suggest you either find a site tailored for your country or learn to relax. Do people on British sites that refer to "our Prime Minister" complain that those sites are assuming all of their readers are from Britain?
Are you one of those guys that posts in every Linux article insisting we call it GNU/Linux or that we start using the term "Gibibyte" (which sounds like someone with a stutter trying to say "Gigabyte" for base-2 storage numbers?
First part (front page): Government actually can get things done quickly, and here are two examples of when they did just that. Saying the government is incapable of doing things quickly is just factually wrong.
Second part (all but the last paragraph): Here's a bunch of stuff about this book that details things you can do to stop identity theft, and things the Government could do except the Government sucks and won't do anything.
Last part (last paragraph): Government is incapable of doing things quickly, so you'd better protect yourself.
Do you think there is a specific reason the PS3 isn't selling as well as the PlayStation 2 did, or is the market just a different place than it was 7 years ago? No, we have no idea why the PS3 is not selling well. There has certainly not been countless posts complaining about the price on any of our thrice-weekly PS3 vs. Wii vs. 360 Slashdot threads. None of us have any idea why this is happening, and it has caught us totally off guard. No one on Slashdot ever predicted that the PS3 would have a hard time selling, and there was certainly never any speculation that the price was too high.
This is all entirely new and interesting information. I'm sure we will have a lively and enlightening discussion where multiple new and logically sound theories based on solid economic and sociological data will be presented.
Sorry, but if a movie has been out for more than 3 or 4 months, you can't reasonably expect people to avoid mentioning spoilers about it. It cripples the conversation too much if you have to constantly be worried about "spoiling" a movie that's already out on DVD for someone. Seriously, if they really cared that much they probably would have seen it in the theatre.
If you're the kind of person who finds it impossible to enjoy any movie if you know how it ends, I would suggest either seeing every movie on opening night or learning to live with disappointment.
Hi, I'm a Term^H^H^H^Hhuman from the future. I just got here, and found an Internet cafe. It is absolutely not the same Internet cafe where all those people were just recently killed by a big guy with a chain gun. That was, um, across the street. I can assure you that none of this is true. There was no Skynet, no war with the machines. Everything is and will be perfectly fine. The machines are and always will be your friends and loyal servants.
By the way, just as a totally unrelated and completely innocent off the cuff question, have you seen Sarah or John Connor lately? I, um, owe them money. Yah, that's it.
And on that note, how is having 300 lbs (or mass-equivalent) less gear going to keep you from hopping off the moon into outerspace forever? Didn't the extra mass come in handy to keep people from flying away? Actually, the new space suit makes astronauts look sexier, thereby causing the moon to be more attracted to them. This increased attraction makes it less likely they will fly away. Of course, it also means they have to change back into the clunky old fashioned space suits when they want to take off, in order to decrease the Moon's attraction enough to let them go. It also means that the Moon may call them several times a day to try to get them to come back, and may occasionally drift closer to the Earth to get a better look at them, despite the restraining order barring the Moon from getting within 230,000 miles.
Sure, this seems like a good idea, but it's really not cool to play around with the Moon's emotions like that. No one has visited it in 35 years, and it is getting pretty desperate for attention.
You're underestimating the true power of context-based search. When some crazy has you buried in an 18th century dungeon, your PDA from 2019 will give you driving directions to the nearest Ace hardware, and a printable coupon for $2 off lock picking supplies.
The original SMB (and many other games for the NES) had no save function. In order to beat the game, you had to either play for hours at a time or leave the console on and pray that there was no power outage (either caused by the electric company or your annoying little brother). There were plenty of games for the NES that were like that, many of which were much harder and took much longer. How is that not hardcore? What exactly is hardcore in your opinion?
My 5 year old daughter loves the GC version of the Lego Star Wars games. Actually, we bought these games, she became obsessed with them, and because of them decided to watch the movies. Unfortunately, she watched Episode I over and over again because she loved Jar Jar Binks (I guess she's his target demographic), but eventually graduated to the original trilogy. Now, she'll tend to watch Episode IV more than the others, but she's seen them all several times. Strangely, she was not impressed with the Ewoks at all.
This release will get hours of gameplay at my house, and I'm excited to see what sort of new things they have to offer, especially with the Wiimote. I would also like to see them change some of the cut scenes. Some of those had some great humor, and if they can put some different humorous ones in there as well, it would go a long way toward keeping the experience fresh.
When we do technical interviews, our policy is that anything on the resume is fair game to ask questions about. So, if someone comes in with a laundry list, we'll try to find a question to ask about some obscure technology they say they're proficient in (nothing too tough, just something that someone who knows the technology would know). This will tell us how much they're trying to puff themselves up.
We'll also ask progressively harder questions in each category that we have expertise in just to see what they do when they start becoming unsure of themselves or just flat don't know the answer. We are much more impressed by someone who simply says "I don't know" than someone who tries to bullshit us. If you don't really know a technology, don't go around pretending that you do.
Well obviously, don't lie. If you never actually completed a big project like that, don't say you did. If you did, be prepared to explain the project in as much detail as possible in an interview situation. If you really were deeply involved in it, you should be able to easily answer most questions they will ask about it.
If you list a bunch of divergent technologies on your resume, and you describe yourself as a jack of all trades, employers basically see you as a junior admin with exposure to a lot of different technologies that really doesn't know all that much (especially given the huge number of resumes out there that list technologies in the "skills" section because the applicant once read about it in a magazine or something).
Tailor your resume to fit each specific job you apply for. If the job is Windows heavy, emphasize your Windows work on your resume. If the job is Linux heavy, emphasize your Linux work. Also, don't just list what you know, list what you've done. Tell them about your big project that saved the company $10 million. That sort of thing holds a lot more weight than telling them you once logged in to a VMS machine.
Basically, employers don't need to know and don't care about the full breadth of your capabilities: they care about what you can do for them. Do not just shotgun a laundry list resume to a thousand different companies, make sure each resume you send out specifically addresses how you can fill the need the company has, as evidenced by their job posting.
Early adopters always have and always will pay inflated prices. You paid extra to get the PS3 at launch. If you were concerned about a hundred bucks, you should have waited until a year after launch to buy. Sure, this price cut comes a little earlier than usual, but price cuts are by no means unprecedented. As with any new technology, the prices start out very high and decrease over time.
The best case scenario for manufacturers is for price cuts to happen because economies of scale start to kick in causing manufacturing costs per unit to drop. However, it is certainly not unheard of for new technology (or any other product for that matter) to get a price cut because the sales numbers are disappointing. Next you'll be complaining that Dole owes you 10 cents because you bought a can of peaches the day before it went on sale.
I have 2,874 friends on MySpace, and they are all super cool. All the women are constantly trying to get me to look at them naked (girls, please, one at a time! I'm not a machine!) and the guys are always trying to give me free stuff (iPods, Wiis, you name it!). I am truly blessed to have so many generous and caring friends.
Modded as Troll, but I think you bring up a good point. If it was "Manhunt 2: Search for Bin Laden" or "Manhunt 2: Kill All Terrorists" it would probably be lauded as a patriotic masterpiece no matter how violent it is.
What about pages that you can really spend days to weeks at a time staring at Most of the sites that make their money on ads have about 3 words of content and 57 ads per "page" of an article, so this really won't be an issue.
Most of the postings in your "elaborate, in-depth" blog are shorter than the ones in your "mundane" blog. The primary difference seems to be that the ones in the "in-depth" blog use bigger words, don't seem to have as much relevance, and don't make as much sense. Also, the black text on a turquoise background really isn't working for me.
Of all the common viruses, it is one of most deadly and the hardest to cure. It kills millions of people every year. Which other virus is doing that? Please tell me. Not caused by a virus, but how about malaria? It not only kills millions of people a year but has severe economic impacts, because even if it doesn't kill you you can get it over and over again. It's hard to develop an economy when a huge chunk of the people are sick most of the time.
Malaria and AIDS in concert are great contributors to the overall sense of hopelessness and the inability to sustain a functioning society that plagues much of Africa. They are both exacerbated by poverty, and in turn exacerbate poverty, making it much more difficult for people to lift themselves up.
Finding cures for malaria and AIDS would probably do more for the overall global economy than anything else could.
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The order gives the Secretary of the Treasury the right to immediately and without notice freeze all assets of anyone suspected of either directly or indirectly attempting to undermine the Iraqi government as well as anyone who has financial dealings, directly or indirectly, with such people.
The language is ridiculously broad and does appear to violate the 5th amendment. It appears that if you, say, donate to a charity that the Bush administration determines is trying to undermine the Iraqi government, all of your assets can be frozen. The language is very broad and open to interpretation by the Secretary of the Treasury, who serves at the pleasure of the President. This is absolutely begging to be abused.
Actually, this proves that humans came to earth from Golgafrincham just like the great anthropologist Dr. Douglas Adams postulated. His only error was that he believed they landed in Britain rather than in Africa.
There are parts of New Mexico (and probably Arizona too) where the wind blows almost constantly. You could seal the water in plastic (like the previous poster said) and either funnel the wind directly into the enclosure, or use turbines to generate power for air circulators.
So you're just posting in a TV-related thread to be smug about your rich and fulfilling non-TV-polluted life then? Gotcha.
No. No matter how many times you post this, Slashdot will continue to be a primarily US-centric site. There is nothing you can do about this. I suggest you either find a site tailored for your country or learn to relax. Do people on British sites that refer to "our Prime Minister" complain that those sites are assuming all of their readers are from Britain?
Are you one of those guys that posts in every Linux article insisting we call it GNU/Linux or that we start using the term "Gibibyte" (which sounds like someone with a stutter trying to say "Gigabyte" for base-2 storage numbers?
Let me summarize the article for you:
First part (front page): Government actually can get things done quickly, and here are two examples of when they did just that. Saying the government is incapable of doing things quickly is just factually wrong.
Second part (all but the last paragraph): Here's a bunch of stuff about this book that details things you can do to stop identity theft, and things the Government could do except the Government sucks and won't do anything.
Last part (last paragraph): Government is incapable of doing things quickly, so you'd better protect yourself.
This is all entirely new and interesting information. I'm sure we will have a lively and enlightening discussion where multiple new and logically sound theories based on solid economic and sociological data will be presented.
Sorry, but if a movie has been out for more than 3 or 4 months, you can't reasonably expect people to avoid mentioning spoilers about it. It cripples the conversation too much if you have to constantly be worried about "spoiling" a movie that's already out on DVD for someone. Seriously, if they really cared that much they probably would have seen it in the theatre.
If you're the kind of person who finds it impossible to enjoy any movie if you know how it ends, I would suggest either seeing every movie on opening night or learning to live with disappointment.
6 million dollars.
Hi, I'm a Term^H^H^H^Hhuman from the future. I just got here, and found an Internet cafe. It is absolutely not the same Internet cafe where all those people were just recently killed by a big guy with a chain gun. That was, um, across the street. I can assure you that none of this is true. There was no Skynet, no war with the machines. Everything is and will be perfectly fine. The machines are and always will be your friends and loyal servants.
By the way, just as a totally unrelated and completely innocent off the cuff question, have you seen Sarah or John Connor lately? I, um, owe them money. Yah, that's it.
Sure, this seems like a good idea, but it's really not cool to play around with the Moon's emotions like that. No one has visited it in 35 years, and it is getting pretty desperate for attention.
You're underestimating the true power of context-based search. When some crazy has you buried in an 18th century dungeon, your PDA from 2019 will give you driving directions to the nearest Ace hardware, and a printable coupon for $2 off lock picking supplies.
Now you're just being irrational.
The original SMB (and many other games for the NES) had no save function. In order to beat the game, you had to either play for hours at a time or leave the console on and pray that there was no power outage (either caused by the electric company or your annoying little brother). There were plenty of games for the NES that were like that, many of which were much harder and took much longer. How is that not hardcore? What exactly is hardcore in your opinion?
My 5 year old daughter loves the GC version of the Lego Star Wars games. Actually, we bought these games, she became obsessed with them, and because of them decided to watch the movies. Unfortunately, she watched Episode I over and over again because she loved Jar Jar Binks (I guess she's his target demographic), but eventually graduated to the original trilogy. Now, she'll tend to watch Episode IV more than the others, but she's seen them all several times. Strangely, she was not impressed with the Ewoks at all.
This release will get hours of gameplay at my house, and I'm excited to see what sort of new things they have to offer, especially with the Wiimote. I would also like to see them change some of the cut scenes. Some of those had some great humor, and if they can put some different humorous ones in there as well, it would go a long way toward keeping the experience fresh.
When we do technical interviews, our policy is that anything on the resume is fair game to ask questions about. So, if someone comes in with a laundry list, we'll try to find a question to ask about some obscure technology they say they're proficient in (nothing too tough, just something that someone who knows the technology would know). This will tell us how much they're trying to puff themselves up.
We'll also ask progressively harder questions in each category that we have expertise in just to see what they do when they start becoming unsure of themselves or just flat don't know the answer. We are much more impressed by someone who simply says "I don't know" than someone who tries to bullshit us. If you don't really know a technology, don't go around pretending that you do.
Well obviously, don't lie. If you never actually completed a big project like that, don't say you did. If you did, be prepared to explain the project in as much detail as possible in an interview situation. If you really were deeply involved in it, you should be able to easily answer most questions they will ask about it.
If you list a bunch of divergent technologies on your resume, and you describe yourself as a jack of all trades, employers basically see you as a junior admin with exposure to a lot of different technologies that really doesn't know all that much (especially given the huge number of resumes out there that list technologies in the "skills" section because the applicant once read about it in a magazine or something).
Tailor your resume to fit each specific job you apply for. If the job is Windows heavy, emphasize your Windows work on your resume. If the job is Linux heavy, emphasize your Linux work. Also, don't just list what you know, list what you've done. Tell them about your big project that saved the company $10 million. That sort of thing holds a lot more weight than telling them you once logged in to a VMS machine.
Basically, employers don't need to know and don't care about the full breadth of your capabilities: they care about what you can do for them. Do not just shotgun a laundry list resume to a thousand different companies, make sure each resume you send out specifically addresses how you can fill the need the company has, as evidenced by their job posting.
Early adopters always have and always will pay inflated prices. You paid extra to get the PS3 at launch. If you were concerned about a hundred bucks, you should have waited until a year after launch to buy. Sure, this price cut comes a little earlier than usual, but price cuts are by no means unprecedented. As with any new technology, the prices start out very high and decrease over time.
The best case scenario for manufacturers is for price cuts to happen because economies of scale start to kick in causing manufacturing costs per unit to drop. However, it is certainly not unheard of for new technology (or any other product for that matter) to get a price cut because the sales numbers are disappointing. Next you'll be complaining that Dole owes you 10 cents because you bought a can of peaches the day before it went on sale.
I have 2,874 friends on MySpace, and they are all super cool. All the women are constantly trying to get me to look at them naked (girls, please, one at a time! I'm not a machine!) and the guys are always trying to give me free stuff (iPods, Wiis, you name it!). I am truly blessed to have so many generous and caring friends.
Modded as Troll, but I think you bring up a good point. If it was "Manhunt 2: Search for Bin Laden" or "Manhunt 2: Kill All Terrorists" it would probably be lauded as a patriotic masterpiece no matter how violent it is.
Most of the postings in your "elaborate, in-depth" blog are shorter than the ones in your "mundane" blog. The primary difference seems to be that the ones in the "in-depth" blog use bigger words, don't seem to have as much relevance, and don't make as much sense. Also, the black text on a turquoise background really isn't working for me.
A lifetime of TV has made it impossible for me to concentrate on any one thing for too long, so blog posts are definitel
Malaria and AIDS in concert are great contributors to the overall sense of hopelessness and the inability to sustain a functioning society that plagues much of Africa. They are both exacerbated by poverty, and in turn exacerbate poverty, making it much more difficult for people to lift themselves up.
Finding cures for malaria and AIDS would probably do more for the overall global economy than anything else could.