Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Don't know much about cars, huh? People do that all the time. A mate of mine's got an old Gemmie with no engine awaiting a silly little 12A instead of a real motor.
Oh bollocks. Just like not *every* motorcyclist is a suicidal cockhead who breaks all the traffic laws and thinks he's allowed to go anywhere he'll physically fit at any speed, not every car driver is a blind idiot with no ears who doesn't pay attention to the world around him and merges without looking over his shoulder etc.
More likely the moderator wishes to bitch-slap the poster for whatever reason, and overrated can't be meta-modded. Slashdot is full of dicks. I think it's worse than meatspace due to Gabe's Internet Fuckwad Theory combined with many scrawny nerds who got picked on in high school.
So hire a cook. It's seriously not that much money. Frankly I'll murder the first person who tries to take away my cooking time. Cleaning though... I do wish Australia had half the cheap immigrant labour the US does.
Simply untrue. All Apple needs to do is bring out a "Mac" A mac-pro without the Xeon adding $1k to the price of the computer and they'd be sweet. I already have a MBP and besides the atrocious treatment of Java recently, I totally love it. Nobody else makes a laptop this good looking, only Sony come close. Dells are horrible. However I'd like a machine with average CPU and awesome video for a home workstation, and you can't get that from Apple unfortunately. It's either low-end laptop hardware (mini) or high end laptop hardware (iMac), or well-priced but huge overkill (Mac Pro).
We may as well make jokes. This "supercomputers will fit in your hand in 15 years" idea is patently absurd. Think about 18 years ago. 1989. The 386 was king, the 486 the bleeding edge, and the Pentium hadn't been invented yet. If a PSP wouldn't have been a supercomputer, it sure as hell would be close to it. Of course we'll have handheld "supercomputers" in 15 years. But it'll still be a silly little toy, and supercomputers will still take up a whole room.
Speeding is not dangerous. Driving too fast for your abilities / your car / the road is dangerous, but saying speeding is dangerous is disengenious. That implies that the speed limit has anything to do with safety, which is rediculous. If I drive 80km/hr down a certain patch of road, and one day the speed limit is lowered, I'm not driving any less safely than I was beforehand.
Speed limits are arbitrary, and (specifically on the highways between Brisbane and Melbourne) designed to make money, not save lives.
There are two types of fool in this world. He who says "this is new, therefore best" and he who says "this is old, therefore best".
Tradition is meaningless, as is faith. The knowledge of my chances of winning the lottery may not bring me comfort, joy or peace, but that doesn't make it any less fact.
Duh. That's the whole point of Kyoto. Move pollution (and money) to second-world countries where it's out of sight out of mind. That and they're "doing something for the planet" when it's sound-byte time.
First of all, I'm not a gambler. I don't have the skill for the games you can win, and I'm not stupid enough to waste money on the games that are chance unless I'm out drinking and have too many gold coins in my wallet.
But what you fail to realise is most people can be explained the simple statistical facts over and over, and they'll understand, but not give a toss. They don't play the "me vs the house" games like slots or the lottery because they're gambling as an investment with a lousy payout. They're simply paying a tax for the dream that one day they'll be rescued from their miserable lives.
Bread and circuses and all that.
But, there are a lot of games (mainly card games) where you don't worry about beating the house, you just need to beat the other players. It's a perfectly viable option to play a game where the house is always winnning en masse, but you simply win more from other players to make up your losses to the house. Also many places will simply charge by the hour for the privilege of fleecing lesser players at their tables. Not to mention things like horse racing and other sporting matchups where the odds are set by popularity and bookie profits and not the likelyhood of a win.
Everything about that movie was awful. I don't know if it's available in the US, but if not bittorrent is your friend, and watch Chopper. You'd barely know it was Bana. Besides, the guy *is* Mad Max. He's well known for driving his badass XB Falcon around the post-apocalyptic wasteland that is Tasmania:D
Of course that's exactly the point. If people who disagree with you can't organize, can't rally, and can't get on TV, you can get away with an awful lot while in power:(
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Man that's cool =D
Science rocks.
Are we burning fossil fuels from a few hundred million years ago, or is multicelluar life only 200 million years old?
Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
And of all slashdot stories, *this* doesn't have "whatcouldgowrong"....
Works for me. Everybody would be awfully polite. If we deserve to live as a species, we will.
Yay! People forcing their religion on us!
Don't know much about cars, huh? People do that all the time. A mate of mine's got an old Gemmie with no engine awaiting a silly little 12A instead of a real motor.
Oh bollocks. Just like not *every* motorcyclist is a suicidal cockhead who breaks all the traffic laws and thinks he's allowed to go anywhere he'll physically fit at any speed, not every car driver is a blind idiot with no ears who doesn't pay attention to the world around him and merges without looking over his shoulder etc.
More likely the moderator wishes to bitch-slap the poster for whatever reason, and overrated can't be meta-modded. Slashdot is full of dicks. I think it's worse than meatspace due to Gabe's Internet Fuckwad Theory combined with many scrawny nerds who got picked on in high school.
In short, this is going to work out fine for everybody. You know, except for the whole region codes thing.
Sssh! Is not! It's all our fault!
Or,
It's not our fault at all! The sun is getting hotter!
Earth goes through cycles, nothing we can do will change it!
etc etc
So hire a cook. It's seriously not that much money. Frankly I'll murder the first person who tries to take away my cooking time. Cleaning though... I do wish Australia had half the cheap immigrant labour the US does.
Targeted ads are better than the usual wide-angle shotgun spamming we see now.
Simply untrue. All Apple needs to do is bring out a "Mac" A mac-pro without the Xeon adding $1k to the price of the computer and they'd be sweet. I already have a MBP and besides the atrocious treatment of Java recently, I totally love it. Nobody else makes a laptop this good looking, only Sony come close. Dells are horrible. However I'd like a machine with average CPU and awesome video for a home workstation, and you can't get that from Apple unfortunately. It's either low-end laptop hardware (mini) or high end laptop hardware (iMac), or well-priced but huge overkill (Mac Pro).
We may as well make jokes. This "supercomputers will fit in your hand in 15 years" idea is patently absurd. Think about 18 years ago. 1989. The 386 was king, the 486 the bleeding edge, and the Pentium hadn't been invented yet. If a PSP wouldn't have been a supercomputer, it sure as hell would be close to it. Of course we'll have handheld "supercomputers" in 15 years. But it'll still be a silly little toy, and supercomputers will still take up a whole room.
Because you're a sucker and keep giving money to companies that are fucking you.
Speeding is not dangerous. Driving too fast for your abilities / your car / the road is dangerous, but saying speeding is dangerous is disengenious. That implies that the speed limit has anything to do with safety, which is rediculous. If I drive 80km/hr down a certain patch of road, and one day the speed limit is lowered, I'm not driving any less safely than I was beforehand.
Speed limits are arbitrary, and (specifically on the highways between Brisbane and Melbourne) designed to make money, not save lives.
ZFS is already (read-only iirc) in Leopard, so I imagine it'll be fully supported very soon, and probably the default for XServes in a year or two.
There are two types of fool in this world. He who says "this is new, therefore best" and he who says "this is old, therefore best".
Tradition is meaningless, as is faith. The knowledge of my chances of winning the lottery may not bring me comfort, joy or peace, but that doesn't make it any less fact.
Duh. That's the whole point of Kyoto. Move pollution (and money) to second-world countries where it's out of sight out of mind. That and they're "doing something for the planet" when it's sound-byte time.
Yes, *accidently* burn down down a city. Does anybody think this is anything but an orbital maser program?
First of all, I'm not a gambler. I don't have the skill for the games you can win, and I'm not stupid enough to waste money on the games that are chance unless I'm out drinking and have too many gold coins in my wallet.
But what you fail to realise is most people can be explained the simple statistical facts over and over, and they'll understand, but not give a toss. They don't play the "me vs the house" games like slots or the lottery because they're gambling as an investment with a lousy payout. They're simply paying a tax for the dream that one day they'll be rescued from their miserable lives.
Bread and circuses and all that.
But, there are a lot of games (mainly card games) where you don't worry about beating the house, you just need to beat the other players. It's a perfectly viable option to play a game where the house is always winnning en masse, but you simply win more from other players to make up your losses to the house. Also many places will simply charge by the hour for the privilege of fleecing lesser players at their tables. Not to mention things like horse racing and other sporting matchups where the odds are set by popularity and bookie profits and not the likelyhood of a win.
Everything about that movie was awful. I don't know if it's available in the US, but if not bittorrent is your friend, and watch Chopper. You'd barely know it was Bana. Besides, the guy *is* Mad Max. He's well known for driving his badass XB Falcon around the post-apocalyptic wasteland that is Tasmania :D
+10 Insightful
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Of course that's exactly the point. If people who disagree with you can't organize, can't rally, and can't get on TV, you can get away with an awful lot while in power
The land may have been settled by religious nuts, but the nation was founded by a mixed bunch of which many were atheists or at best deists.