Asking a question isn't the same thing as spouting off and pontificating, which is what you're doing. Shut the fuck up and let the person ask a question. Or if you were trying to be funny, use a little smiley or something.
Adamant is a poetic term for something pure and imperishable, often implying diamond, but it isn't a denotation, it's a poetic term. Adamantine is another fictional variant on the poetic term. Adamantine is only fictional, and though someone may have made up some pseudo science to explain some stuff, it's just a made up term. A thin blade of diamond/carbon would be brittle as hell, and would break in the first real fight. True diamonds can be shattered with a hammer, as well as being flammable.
If the parent is talking about natives of that star system, they're either fled or dead from the big flareup in february. On a related note, Mars is going to be closer in August than any time for thousands of years past/future. Maybe the natives of Mars will flee their dry rocky planet and swarm over here. Welcome Red Men!
Religion is an evolutionary construct. No one came up with it, it evolved. No 'religion' will ever work for very long as a unifying construct, as every religion there is undergoes schisms. They also syncretically mix with other religions. The Muslims and Hindus in India are prime examples of how the religions affected each other. Hindus (pagans, once very libertinish) became much more conservative, and the wild-eyed muslims (once they'd gotten done killing all the buddhists in northern india) sycretically rubbed up against the hindus and they started getting along.
This is the entire problem with the world today. Everybody (or most people anyway) think EVERYTHING works by magic. And not even halfway real magic where you'd have to actually put thought into doing it and raising energy, gathering herbs or crystals or carving runes or whatever, just "Bewitched" shit where people wiggle their noses and it happens. Miracles. After all, every problem on TV is solved within thirty seconds. That's a commercial. Or at most with an hour or two. That's episodic TV. And instead of putting two whole seconds of thought into how something might work, why bother using those nerdy ol' brains when you can just call someone? Was it here on slashdot where I read that a crowd of italians' response to "How does TV work?" was "God's Will!"
These anecdotes are NOT bullshit. Fucking prig. "I've never had it happen to me so it never happens to anyone." There are far too many idiots in the world for these stories to be all bullshit, and personally I believe most of them. Some have been embellished, sure, but they're mostly true. I work in repair for the phone company; we get the same things, people who think the battery in the cordless will run it when their power is out, "But I've never had trouble with it before!" or "but it was fine this morning!" etc etc.
My personal favorite of all time was when I worked at the waterbed store. I personally heard half the conversation, and the guy involved in it, Reggie, faithfully reproduced the other half:
Caller: "My waterbed mattress is a foot too short on the bottom and a foot too long on the side."
Reggie: "It is? Hmmm...What size is it?"
"Queen size."
"Do you have a tape measure? Measure it; how long is it?"
"Five feet."
"And how wide is it?"
"Seven feet."
"Well, you've got it in their sideways. Turn it."
"What that valve doesn't go on the side?"
"No, it goes at the bottom. Turn it."
"Oh, I feel so stupid.."
Yet another true story others will foolishly scoff at.
Karma, the real kind as discussed in eastern philosophy is based on a person's ACTIONS. Not emotions. Feeling an emotion is not an act of karma. Besides >adding to the pain of that persons passing how does feeling happy that this scumbag died cause pain to anyone else? Crowing about it in the face of his relatives might be bad karma, but considering they were the chief secondary beneficiaries of his rapacious greed, the chances of his relatives being surprised about this reaction would be extremely low. And if they had a lot of feelings to get hurt, maybe they'd feel compassion for the victims of Lay's evil, and feel relief that some people would feel a bit of vindication at his death. Personally, I think him dying now is getting off easy. Piece of shit.
I'd like to see a study done with a referent based on the IQ of the driver. I'd bet heavily on people with IQs over 125 being way better at driving while talking on their cell than people 110 or less.
IIRC this is in the arctic, which would have no land masses holding up the ice. So it's strictly analagous to the ice cubes in a glass of water taking up less volume than the same amount of water unfrozen.
I like how this guy says the most important societal change due to technology is how people take pictures. Is this supposed to be some sort of self-lampoon? What kind of idiot would make such an absurd statement? As if the ability to make telephone calls from basically anywhere in the country was merely a footnote? Or the ability to access almost any information instantly via some vast network like a phone network only with pictures, text, sound and video? Nah, holding the camera away from your face to snap a shot.
Jeez the shite you hear on slashdot. Force equals energy OVER TIME. If you smack a cinder block hard but not quickly the energy delivered by the blow propogates through the material in a wave, and can come back and hurt your hand. If you do it quickly enough the amount of energy is the same, but delivered in a smaller amount of time, therefore is effectively a sharper blow. Bam. Exactly what every other poster in the thread needs.
Everybody go read http://www.youaredumb.net Yesterday and today's columns (May 30&31) are part of the Be A Better Nerd series and are all about how to tell when it's time to euthanize.
It totally IS a fluff piece. The findings may be perfectly valid, but did you see those sample sizes? TFA doesn't talk about their methods hardly at all, but this appeared on the front of YESTERDAY's St Paul Pioneer Press, and there were less than 50 of each gender of test subjects, and all the females were college age. I'd like to see a study done on women 35-46, the category I date in.
It's this way because the corporations have taken over our country. The technology is there to let people get broadband from anybody they want, but the large corporations whine about the money the money the money. And there's a small degree of truth to their point; why should they spend the millions of dollars to build out broadband to these different areas if someone else can then waltz in and start selling that broadband? But, at least with Qwest DSL I can have any ISP I want, I just pay them for the broadband itself.
The parent poster is exactly right. These freaking scumbags all go to same clubs, the same expensive vacation spots, they belong to the same organizations and they DO compete for no reason other than establishing dominance in the their own primate group. "Hey Ted, my company pulled down a new record in profits last year! Whoo-hoo! What can YOU tell me? Catch up, buddy!" "Hey, buzz off Bill, we'll get there; I've got our Best People working on that right now."
Throttling has NO Effect on one particular movie, it's about throughput. I work 'til nine at night; I come home, make supper and want to watch a movie. Well, guess what dumbass? I'm fucking throttled, and the movie that should have been mailed yesterday and arrived today didn't get mailed 'til today, so I won't have it 'til tomorrow, so I have nothing to do tonight but sit in front of the damn computer again, which makes my back ache and I become Very Crabby. So what was ADVERTISED AS UNLIMITED is in fact, limited by almost half. I personally perceived this happening to me. I know you don't care, Lord Apathy, but hopefully others will see this and call Netflix's 800 # or send terse emails to their CEO and maybe they'll eventually decide to change their minds. As much as I hate Blockbuster, I'll go to them if they'll send me the same movies (uncensored) that I have in my Netflix queue.
Dilholes! Throttling is no fucking 'rumor' the #2 above is part of the definition of throttling: lying about what's available. And maybe you joined after the throttling was in place, so you were unable to notice the difference, who knows? Who cares?
IF YOU THINK THROTTLING ISN'T HAPPENING, GO HERE: www.netflix.com/Settlement?mqso=60178549
Ahem.. ah, there we go. Throttling DOES still exist. I'm sure getting screwed anyway. Having replaced cable with Netflix, I'm definitely feeling the suckage. Pay attention to your emails; they say "X movie received" at something like 9:45 in the morning but the next movie in the queue isn't mailed until 24 hours later. Maybe it has something to do with how far away you are from their distribution center. I'm in the Twin Cities so I'd get one-day turnaround (a fresh movie every other night or so) if it wasn't for the throttling.
If it's so fucking nice, why did they have to use a secret place where no one can have any oversight? Why not use a prison on US soil? You fucking anonymous coward tightasses have no fucking clue, you're just knee-jerk dickwads who are so stupid you can't even tell when we're ALL getting our freedoms taken away. Fucking cocksucker. Liberal media? That's because the inevitable result of DOING THE FUCKING RESEARCH IS TO BECOME LIBERAL. Remember how we slashdotters say to RTFA? Well, these reporters are the ones doing the investigating and know what's going on. But they have editors and other higher ups who are beholden to the corporate power structure. The reporters might be liberal (good for them) but the media in general isn't, unless you're listening to Air America radio. The media are owned by the same forces taking over our country - business interests who have manipulated crazy fundamentalists into being on their side. Mussolini himself defined fascism as the merger of state and corporate power. In an open and free country, EVERYONE should be outraged a place like Gitmo exists.
>I take it that the vast majority of Slashdotters are still in school living of student loans, mom and dads money, or both. An unfounded assumption you wish to be true. Any statistics you know of about the ages & incomes of slashdotters?
>It's called capatilism you stupid idiots. No, it's called Capitalism. Your puerile arguments will hold slightly more water if you would just learn how to spell. But as an ignorant troll, how could you?
>These yahoo's who bitch and moan about the price of gas as the same idiots who scream "Not in my back yard" when an oil company wants to build a new refinery or drill off shore for oil. Complete and utter tools. No, everyone bitches about the price of gas except the bicycle riding hippies your kind always bitch about. And no oil company wants to build refineries, they haven't in decades. It's part of their evil plan to keep prices high (by limiting supply, you know the concept?) and to maintain RECORD profits. I say we tax the fuckers into the stone age. It's our money after all, we might as well use it to pay off the national debt. Since half the taxes we pay just goes to pay the interest on the national debt, we'd just be moving our own money around and cutting the interest payments off. Too bad congress doesn't work for us any more.
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Bad man! Both off topic and putting a spoiler in a headline. May the fleas who crawl across shit bite your ass, then bury their eggs in your nostrils.
Asking a question isn't the same thing as spouting off and pontificating, which is what you're doing. Shut the fuck up and let the person ask a question. Or if you were trying to be funny, use a little smiley or something.
Adamant is a poetic term for something pure and imperishable, often implying diamond, but it isn't a denotation, it's a poetic term. Adamantine is another fictional variant on the poetic term. Adamantine is only fictional, and though someone may have made up some pseudo science to explain some stuff, it's just a made up term. A thin blade of diamond/carbon would be brittle as hell, and would break in the first real fight. True diamonds can be shattered with a hammer, as well as being flammable.
If the parent is talking about natives of that star system, they're either fled or dead from the big flareup in february. On a related note, Mars is going to be closer in August than any time for thousands of years past /future. Maybe the natives of Mars will flee their dry rocky planet and swarm over here. Welcome Red Men!
Religion is an evolutionary construct. No one came up with it, it evolved. No 'religion' will ever work for very long as a unifying construct, as every religion there is undergoes schisms. They also syncretically mix with other religions. The Muslims and Hindus in India are prime examples of how the religions affected each other. Hindus (pagans, once very libertinish) became much more conservative, and the wild-eyed muslims (once they'd gotten done killing all the buddhists in northern india) sycretically rubbed up against the hindus and they started getting along.
This is the entire problem with the world today. Everybody (or most people anyway) think EVERYTHING works by magic. And not even halfway real magic where you'd have to actually put thought into doing it and raising energy, gathering herbs or crystals or carving runes or whatever, just "Bewitched" shit where people wiggle their noses and it happens. Miracles.
After all, every problem on TV is solved within thirty seconds. That's a commercial. Or at most with an hour or two. That's episodic TV. And instead of putting two whole seconds of thought into how something might work, why bother using those nerdy ol' brains when you can just call someone?
Was it here on slashdot where I read that a crowd of italians' response to "How does TV work?" was "God's Will!"
These anecdotes are NOT bullshit. Fucking prig. "I've never had it happen to me so it never happens to anyone." There are far too many idiots in the world for these stories to be all bullshit, and personally I believe most of them. Some have been embellished, sure, but they're mostly true. I work in repair for the phone company; we get the same things, people who think the battery in the cordless will run it when their power is out, "But I've never had trouble with it before!" or "but it was fine this morning!" etc etc.
My personal favorite of all time was when I worked at the waterbed store. I personally heard half the conversation, and the guy involved in it, Reggie, faithfully reproduced the other half:
Caller: "My waterbed mattress is a foot too short on the bottom and a foot too long on the side."
Reggie: "It is? Hmmm...What size is it?"
"Queen size."
"Do you have a tape measure? Measure it; how long is it?"
"Five feet."
"And how wide is it?"
"Seven feet."
"Well, you've got it in their sideways. Turn it."
"What that valve doesn't go on the side?"
"No, it goes at the bottom. Turn it."
"Oh, I feel so stupid.."
Yet another true story others will foolishly scoff at.
Karma, the real kind as discussed in eastern philosophy is based on a person's ACTIONS. Not emotions. Feeling an emotion is not an act of karma. Besides
>adding to the pain of that persons passing
how does feeling happy that this scumbag died cause pain to anyone else? Crowing about it in the face of his relatives might be bad karma, but considering they were the chief secondary beneficiaries of his rapacious greed, the chances of his relatives being surprised about this reaction would be extremely low. And if they had a lot of feelings to get hurt, maybe they'd feel compassion for the victims of Lay's evil, and feel relief that some people would feel a bit of vindication at his death. Personally, I think him dying now is getting off easy. Piece of shit.
I'd like to see a study done with a referent based on the IQ of the driver. I'd bet heavily on people with IQs over 125 being way better at driving while talking on their cell than people 110 or less.
IIRC this is in the arctic, which would have no land masses holding up the ice. So it's strictly analagous to the ice cubes in a glass of water taking up less volume than the same amount of water unfrozen.
I like how this guy says the most important societal change due to technology is how people take pictures. Is this supposed to be some sort of self-lampoon? What kind of idiot would make such an absurd statement? As if the ability to make telephone calls from basically anywhere in the country was merely a footnote? Or the ability to access almost any information instantly via some vast network like a phone network only with pictures, text, sound and video? Nah, holding the camera away from your face to snap a shot.
Great Cthulhu has awakened once again! Soon His undersea minions will spawn all across the surface of the globe.
Jeez the shite you hear on slashdot. Force equals energy OVER TIME. If you smack a cinder block hard but not quickly the energy delivered by the blow propogates through the material in a wave, and can come back and hurt your hand. If you do it quickly enough the amount of energy is the same, but delivered in a smaller amount of time, therefore is effectively a sharper blow. Bam. Exactly what every other poster in the thread needs.
"Uh, no. Stealing from any number of sources is plagerism.'
Uh, no. It's plagiarism. If you're going to be pedantic, you should be careful to spell everything correctly. Now go stalk your hobby.
Everybody go read http://www.youaredumb.net
Yesterday and today's columns (May 30&31) are part of the Be A Better Nerd series and are all about how to tell when it's time to euthanize.
Wow, Apple & vendocom, making pick pocketing profitable again. Thanks Steve Jobs! Hey, is this your wallet?
Are there more linux users than OS X? I mean, that's good and everything, but will we get our version soon? anybody know?
It totally IS a fluff piece. The findings may be perfectly valid, but did you see those sample sizes? TFA doesn't talk about their methods hardly at all, but this appeared on the front of YESTERDAY's St Paul Pioneer Press, and there were less than 50 of each gender of test subjects, and all the females were college age. I'd like to see a study done on women 35-46, the category I date in.
It's this way because the corporations have taken over our country. The technology is there to let people get broadband from anybody they want, but the large corporations whine about the money the money the money. And there's a small degree of truth to their point; why should they spend the millions of dollars to build out broadband to these different areas if someone else can then waltz in and start selling that broadband? But, at least with Qwest DSL I can have any ISP I want, I just pay them for the broadband itself.
The parent poster is exactly right. These freaking scumbags all go to same clubs, the same expensive vacation spots, they belong to the same organizations and they DO compete for no reason other than establishing dominance in the their own primate group.
"Hey Ted, my company pulled down a new record in profits last year! Whoo-hoo! What can YOU tell me? Catch up, buddy!"
"Hey, buzz off Bill, we'll get there; I've got our Best People working on that right now."
Throttling has NO Effect on one particular movie, it's about throughput. I work 'til nine at night; I come home, make supper and want to watch a movie. Well, guess what dumbass? I'm fucking throttled, and the movie that should have been mailed yesterday and arrived today didn't get mailed 'til today, so I won't have it 'til tomorrow, so I have nothing to do tonight but sit in front of the damn computer again, which makes my back ache and I become Very Crabby. So what was ADVERTISED AS UNLIMITED is in fact, limited by almost half. I personally perceived this happening to me. I know you don't care, Lord Apathy, but hopefully others will see this and call Netflix's 800 # or send terse emails to their CEO and maybe they'll eventually decide to change their minds. As much as I hate Blockbuster, I'll go to them if they'll send me the same movies (uncensored) that I have in my Netflix queue.
Dilholes! Throttling is no fucking 'rumor' the #2 above is part of the definition of throttling: lying about what's available. And maybe you joined after the throttling was in place, so you were unable to notice the difference, who knows? Who cares?
IF YOU THINK THROTTLING ISN'T HAPPENING, GO HERE:
www.netflix.com/Settlement?mqso=60178549
Ahem.. ah, there we go. Throttling DOES still exist. I'm sure getting screwed anyway. Having replaced cable with Netflix, I'm definitely feeling the suckage. Pay attention to your emails; they say "X movie received" at something like 9:45 in the morning but the next movie in the queue isn't mailed until 24 hours later. Maybe it has something to do with how far away you are from their distribution center. I'm in the Twin Cities so I'd get one-day turnaround (a fresh movie every other night or so) if it wasn't for the throttling.
Really? You been there?
If it's so fucking nice, why did they have to use a secret place where no one can have any oversight? Why not use a prison on US soil? You fucking anonymous coward tightasses have no fucking clue, you're just knee-jerk dickwads who are so stupid you can't even tell when we're ALL getting our freedoms taken away. Fucking cocksucker.
Liberal media? That's because the inevitable result of DOING THE FUCKING RESEARCH IS TO BECOME LIBERAL. Remember how we slashdotters say to RTFA? Well, these reporters are the ones doing the investigating and know what's going on. But they have editors and other higher ups who are beholden to the corporate power structure. The reporters might be liberal (good for them) but the media in general isn't, unless you're listening to Air America radio. The media are owned by the same forces taking over our country - business interests who have manipulated crazy fundamentalists into being on their side. Mussolini himself defined fascism as the merger of state and corporate power. In an open and free country, EVERYONE should be outraged a place like Gitmo exists.
>I take it that the vast majority of Slashdotters are still in school living of student loans, mom and dads money, or both.
An unfounded assumption you wish to be true. Any statistics you know of about the ages & incomes of slashdotters?
>It's called capatilism you stupid idiots.
No, it's called Capitalism. Your puerile arguments will hold slightly more water if you would just learn how to spell. But as an ignorant troll, how could you?
>These yahoo's who bitch and moan about the price of gas as the same idiots who scream "Not in my back yard" when an oil company wants to build a new refinery or drill off shore for oil. Complete and utter tools.
No, everyone bitches about the price of gas except the bicycle riding hippies your kind always bitch about. And no oil company wants to build refineries, they haven't in decades. It's part of their evil plan to keep prices high (by limiting supply, you know the concept?) and to maintain RECORD profits. I say we tax the fuckers into the stone age. It's our money after all, we might as well use it to pay off the national debt. Since half the taxes we pay just goes to pay the interest on the national debt, we'd just be moving our own money around and cutting the interest payments off.
Too bad congress doesn't work for us any more.