We should be working on enabling dogs to fire guns before attempting to solve the more difficult problem of putting lasers on sharks.
I'd even find it acceptable that this technology was primarily abused for drug dealers' pit-bulls as long as occasionally some DEA goon took one in the knee.
Another worthy related project would be to dress coked-up monkeys in pink princess dresses and take them through TSA checkpoints.
What's amazing is the number of libertarian internet toughguys posting in this thread that completely fail to recognize what happened here as a lite version of the common retort "go live in your libertarian paradise of Somalia".
McAfee moves to tax-haven country to avoid paying his fair share to maintain a lawful civil society
McAfee goes cheap and doesn't pay the customary bribes to the right people in his chosen banana republic (one could almost look at it as a tax, horrors)
Armed goons break down his door, shoot his dog, and leave him handcuffed in the hot tropical sun without water for hours
HA HA!/Nelsom Muntz oops, I mean, "oh my, how terrible".
The fact that our country's system is currently so distorted doesn't belie the fact that some things are worth paying for for the common good.
It just needs a little triangular vector ship that shoots apart the links and steals the nodes. Or scary spiders that crawl out of the holes and climb up the web.
Be sure to remember to cut me in when you get $$$$ (that's four dollar signs) for the game.
Do you suppose the steerage class wasn't meant to use the lifeboats?
Given the classism of the era, you almost expect them to have enough spots for the passengers above a certain level but basically exclude the steerage and other lower classes from rescue.
The only thing is that there were plenty of first class men who gave up their spot. Yes, losses were heavier in the steerage class.
For all of the classism of the era, there was also a "women and children first" ethic.
As opposed to our era with its "I fell off the ship" ethic.
Say brother, are you forever vigilant in protecting the purity of your HOST file? All the evils of the world can be defended against simply by keeping a properly configured HOSTS file. But you must be wary to protect the purity of your HOSTS file, for Saitan himself is constantly trying to corrupt it, thereby letting thetans attach themselves to your computer.
In all fairness, big cats are way easier to remember than this messed up geekplay. Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, Panther, Jaguar, Puma, Cheetah...
Why would anyone want a intel-based smartphone? Are idiot games so goddamned bloated that you need all the power you can get? Does India have a big market for $420 hand-warmers? Do people just hate batteries and want to make them suffer ? Why? WHY? WHY?
hmmmm, if only somebody could discover a power source that could be tapped from anywhere in the solar system.
I agree though, it would be easier developing better access to such power sources before the age of cheap oil comes to a complete conclusion. Of course, I expect peoples' views on fission will change rapidly once the oil's gone.
And asteroids aren't scattered in a lot of different orbits, and don't require a lot of energy to reach? Get back to me when the simple Japanese Space Hotel of 1997 puts a single bolt in orbit before we start hallucinating ever bigger delusions.
Yes, much better no one dare dream big. Let's stay here on this rock with the investment bankers and high frequency traders who demonize teachers, firefighters and policemen for wanting a living wage and the pensions they were promised. Let's all industriously engage in bean-counting while neglecting the growing of more beans.
If nothing more, this Planetary Resources gig is at least a jobs bill for aerospace engineers. Hopefully it will inspire some youngsters to study hard and pursue careers in the sciences instead of non-productive market manipulation. Maybe it will engage some engineers in slowly expanding the human biosphere instead of building weapons to oppress and murder their fellow man.
nah, you're right, random jackass bloviating on the intarwebs, this is all just foolish moonbeams and useless spacenuttery. PHAH!
Fix the demand side of the equation, and the supply side will fix itself.
If we just listened to Rush Limbaugh and locked updrug addicts like Rush Limbaugh, we wouldn't have any damn Zeta drug gang problem! errr wait, that would only clear up the big pharma drug gang problem, never mind...
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This.
We should be working on enabling dogs to fire guns before attempting to solve the more difficult problem of putting lasers on sharks.
I'd even find it acceptable that this technology was primarily abused for drug dealers' pit-bulls as long as occasionally some DEA goon took one in the knee.
Another worthy related project would be to dress coked-up monkeys in pink princess dresses and take them through TSA checkpoints.
oops, I mean, "oh my, how terrible".
The fact that our country's system is currently so distorted doesn't belie the fact that some things are worth paying for for the common good.
Obviously a Iron Maiden fan.
It just needs a little triangular vector ship that shoots apart the links and steals the nodes.
Or scary spiders that crawl out of the holes and climb up the web.
Be sure to remember to cut me in when you get $$$$ (that's four dollar signs) for the game.
Nah, street illegal is much more cooler.
Bonus points for Gatling guns to tell the cops to piss off.
Where's my elephant?!
You were right Michael Kristopeit, .
slashdot = stagnated
Hell, I think even he's already left...
One time I was smuggling pr0n into Germany steganographically hidden in some made up terrorist plans.
Unfortunately, I had way more porn than plans.
people seem to have forgotten the old days, which may well be back now that Jobs is gone -- " Apple computer, proudly going out of business since 1977 "
A noted goddamned liberal pinko warned you guys about this kind of shit.
Do you suppose the steerage class wasn't meant to use the lifeboats?
Given the classism of the era, you almost expect them to have enough spots for the passengers above a certain level but basically exclude the steerage and other lower classes from rescue.
The only thing is that there were plenty of first class men who gave up their spot. Yes, losses were heavier in the steerage class.
For all of the classism of the era, there was also a "women and children first" ethic.
As opposed to our era with its "I fell off the ship" ethic.
Motherfucking turtles.... all the way up?
No, more like incompetence, all the way down to Hell.
Say brother, are you forever vigilant in protecting the purity of your HOST file? All the evils of the world can be defended against simply by keeping a properly configured HOSTS file. But you must be wary to protect the purity of your HOSTS file, for Saitan himself is constantly trying to corrupt it, thereby letting thetans attach themselves to your computer.
Isn't the Vatican supposed to be all about " The Truth Shall Set Thee Free "
No, that's the CIA.
Draw what amusing conclusions you will from the above juxtaposition.
made me look!
In all fairness, big cats are way easier to remember than this messed up geekplay. Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, Panther, Jaguar, Puma, Cheetah...
Not sure it that sends quite the right message...
That sounds like a lot of work.
Can't they just claim they have evidence but they can't show it to you because it's secret?
Rugged engineers are weenies!
Why would anyone want a intel-based smartphone? Are idiot games so goddamned bloated that you need all the power you can get? Does India have a big market for $420 hand-warmers? Do people just hate batteries and want to make them suffer ? Why? WHY? WHY?
hmmmm, if only somebody could discover a power source that could be tapped from anywhere in the solar system.
I agree though, it would be easier developing better access to such power sources before the age of cheap oil comes to a complete conclusion.
Of course, I expect peoples' views on fission will change rapidly once the oil's gone.
And asteroids aren't scattered in a lot of different orbits, and don't require a lot of energy to reach? Get back to me when the simple Japanese Space Hotel of 1997 puts a single bolt in orbit before we start hallucinating ever bigger delusions.
Yes, much better no one dare dream big. Let's stay here on this rock with the investment bankers and high frequency traders who demonize teachers, firefighters and policemen for wanting a living wage and the pensions they were promised. Let's all industriously engage in bean-counting while neglecting the growing of more beans.
If nothing more, this Planetary Resources gig is at least a jobs bill for aerospace engineers. Hopefully it will inspire some youngsters to study hard and pursue careers in the sciences instead of non-productive market manipulation. Maybe it will engage some engineers in slowly expanding the human biosphere instead of building weapons to oppress and murder their fellow man.
nah, you're right, random jackass bloviating on the intarwebs, this is all just foolish moonbeams and useless spacenuttery. PHAH!
They had a good reason. See there was this bird on a cactus eating a snake.
Can't argue with that.
peyote's a helluva drug
Fix the demand side of the equation, and the supply side will fix itself.
If we just listened to Rush Limbaugh and locked up drug addicts like Rush Limbaugh, we wouldn't have any damn Zeta drug gang problem!
errr wait, that would only clear up the big pharma drug gang problem, never mind...
This country needs a crash program to train circus lions to eat CEOs and boardmembers.
Man, I remember when everything from Austrailia used to be cool .
Then that movie ruined everything. Forever.