The 'average' seems to get better and better as you move closer to the coasts, I have noticed. In Kansas or Iowa....not so good. California and New York....yes.
It subtley indicates that the sender knows something about Linux and wants other people to as well.
If that's your idea of subtle, I would...oh never mind. Just give a stuffed penguin instead. If you want people to learn something from your gift...that's too much pressure to be putting on a friend for Christmas. It's like handing out copies of The Writings of Malcolm X as stocking stuffers.
"Hey Bob...did ya try out the new CD? Pretty cool desktop, huh?"
"Ummm...no. I, um...uhhhh,...."
"WHY NOT?"
"I don't know....Windows is just so much
easier. I couldn't figure out how to make
Linux recognize my flash drive, and Windows just detects it automatically, and...."
"WINDOWS?!?! Flash drive! That's so EASY! You should have CALLED ME!"
It's funny - because most of the US soldiers in the movie didn't look old enough to see it themselves. And they were actually in the middle of the carnage.
...and that includes the right not to have a film shown if the theatre managers don't want to show it, for whatever reason they choose. It's the same right that allows a newspaper editor not to run a story no matter who wrote it, or allows a newscaster not to air an interview or clip no matter what was said or who said it.
Yes and if the theatre owners happen to receive death threats from concerned citizens, then what of it? It's still there choice not to run it, correct?
Of course people can also choose to boycott the movie - but that doesn't seem to be happening. Quite the opposite, in fact.
It's interesting that you found the second half of the movie to be boring because that is where Moore strikes for the emotional jugular of viewers. The movie attacks on two levels. On the rational level he forges all the links between bin Laden's family, the Saudis, and the Bushies via financial institutions like the Carlyle group. So among the egghead/geek set this part just has them nodding their heads and does not really hurt Bush.
The second half with the crying mothers (Iraqi and American) - the shrieking soldiers who are maimed in battle, and linking the corruption of Bush and his friends to the concerns of everyday people is going to hurt Bush because anyone I think can empathize with some crying mother who lost her son. That is going to hurt Bush A LOT and it's on the emotional level where Moore connects with the working class that his films shine the brightest in my opinion. None of that did anything to you?
What this means is that Alfred Nobels wife may have been getting a little action on the side from a mathematician - so mathematicians had to come up with their own award, because Nobel wasn't about to give his prize to anyone from that group.
Since Kazaa is based on the gnutella protocol and is carried out over a TCP/IP - they can find your IP address and contact your ISP to get your identity (assuming the ISP agrees and doesn't tell them to go to hell). It's easy to find out who is sharing what.
I live in So Cal and I've actually seen these hideous invaders from outer space flopping around on my patio. All I've got to say is thank god for massive exoskeletons....they're really slow and stupid and harmless. But it's awfully hard to get over the visceral fear that runs through me everytime I see one of the bastards.
Eeeeek.....I was not expecting it to be a
computer-generated voice! That was creepy!
On the other hand, it would sound pretty interesting as background to industrial/techno songs or maybe some Pink Floyd (which I'm sure it will be used for in not too long a while).
Right....get your brains knocked out for
9 rounds so you can't even talk
straight (you ever watch those post-fight interviews), and then sit down for a couple of hours for a nice and relaxing game of chess. I'd laugh my ass of;)
But if you focus, any game can become your reality - For a while.
I don't know about that. With almost all other games I've played, including strategy games that are very competitive, there is an element of
randomness within the game that makes defeat a little easier to swallow. There's nothing like that going on with chess. If you screw up in chess, it's not because you rolled a bad die
playing D&D. It's because you didn't guard a piece, or your opponent was looking one level deeper in the game than you were. Basically if you lose, it's all on you and you can't blame the game.
Also, games go through an evolutionary period where they tend to be pretty lame at the beginning (even if the concept is good and it's fun to play - like the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game). People change the rules as they play to make things more fun or challenging, and the game evolves. Chess has been evolving
for a lot longer than almost any other game out there (well maybe Go - I don't know about that though), and so in that sense I think it's one of the purest strategy around.
*sigh* - well see - there's this little thing called 'having a sense of humor' which I think totally passed you by or got knocked out of you when someone brained you with a Unix manual.
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You do. Excellent job =) A dumb asshole at that.
Click here, and then click here to find out how much Afghani women like life under the Taliban.
And don't speak about the Taliban as if they are a legitimate government the people of Afghanistan voted into power. They aren't. They're more like rapists or vultures picking over a corpse the Soviets left behind.
Limewire is GPLed. Ads are pretty much the only way they can get any money coming in. Most investors are scared of investing in P2P networks because they are afraid of the RIAA/MPAA are going to nuke them.
And if the ads are really such a big hastle, you can still download the source and compile it yourself. Sheesh - what's with all the
whining going on?
I'm a mod and I read your posts, because
one of them was at -1 and I figured it was because of your sig, because otherwise it wasn't a bad post. Of course than I started reading your other stuff. You got what you deserved.
Actually doesn't the polarity of the N-S magnetic axis flip every 10,000 years or so? I was reading some article in Nature about how scientists used that fact to carbon date fossils in Antarctica.
Anyway...when that happens, there is no electromagnetic field and nothing to protect the earth from solar radiation so there are lots of birth defects and things getting cancer. But scientists also think that's the reason there is such diversity in life on Earth because during these periods, tons of mutants are created.
When the television was first invented, people would turn it on just to see the snow, if their was no singal to pick up. Just using the technology was a thrill in itself.
That made me remember this movie I saw once about the life of Edward R Murrow, and they had clips from live broadcasts he used to do (everything was live then). For one episode - he had a camera guy and a reporter in San Francisco in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, and another reporter and camera guy in New York in front of the Brooklyn Bridge. And he just bounced back and forth between them, asking stupid questions about how the weather was and what was going on where they were standing. He was just completely amazed by the ability of the technology of the time to do enable him to talk in real time to two different people on opposite sides of the country.
But people get used to things like that really fast. I just finished reading this book by Pat Cadigan - Tea From an Empty Cup - and I became slightly depressed thinking that most of the stuff she was talking about in the book - (large on-line RPGs, on-line communities, the obsessive way in which people go after icons and prizes in RPGs as though they were real), is already happening now even if the 'hotsuits' that interface with a person's neural system haven't arrived yet.
If nanotechnology takes off and it suddenly becomes possible to resuscitate the dead
(like in Terminal Cafe - another really cool book by Ian MacDonald), there would probably be about a couple of years of weirdness in which the religious right freaks out and stages a Holy War and everyone else comes to grips with the fact that eventually rejuvenated dead people will outnumber the living. But people would adjust. They'd enslave the dead and make them work for the living, and society would go on =)
The thing I wonder is why so many people persist in believing that new technologies can provide a utopia for humanity? It should be pretty clear by now that science isn't going to do anything as far as that is concerned. Electricity didn't do it, the atom bomb sure as hell didn't do it, VCRs didn't do it, microwaves didn't do it, cable TV hasn't done it, and I don't think the internet is going to do it.
The author wasn't writing a novel or anything....they had a limited amount of time to get to the DMCA...and as it was I thought they spent a little too long on the Founding Father stuff (although it was pretty interesting history).
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New Zealand sure didn't seem to care about that treaty during the 80s. They still have not been
invaded by crazed Muslims from Indonesia.
If you want to waste time in college - there is always grad school.
My advice is drop all that and switch to 'tribal dance' or 'history of consciousness.' The girls you will meet are hella cuter.
It subtley indicates that the sender knows something about Linux and wants other people to as well. If that's your idea of subtle, I would...oh never mind. Just give a stuffed penguin instead. If you want people to learn something from your gift...that's too much pressure to be putting on a friend for Christmas. It's like handing out copies of The Writings of Malcolm X as stocking stuffers.
"Hey Bob...did ya try out the new CD? Pretty cool desktop, huh?"
"Ummm...no. I, um...uhhhh,...."
"WHY NOT?"
"I don't know....Windows is just so much easier. I couldn't figure out how to make Linux recognize my flash drive, and Windows just detects it automatically, and...."
"WINDOWS?!?! Flash drive! That's so EASY! You should have CALLED ME!"
It's funny - because most of the US soldiers
in the movie didn't look old enough to see it themselves. And they were actually in the middle of the carnage.
And here is a link to a rebuttal of Hitchen's article.
Yes and if the theatre owners happen to
receive death threats from concerned citizens,
then what of it? It's still there choice not to run it, correct?
Of course people can also choose to boycott the movie - but that doesn't seem to be happening. Quite the opposite, in fact.
The movie attacks on two levels. On the rational level he forges all the links between bin Laden's family, the Saudis, and the Bushies via financial institutions like the Carlyle group. So among the egghead/geek set this part just has them nodding their heads and does not really hurt Bush.
The second half with the crying mothers (Iraqi and American) - the shrieking soldiers who are maimed in battle, and linking the corruption of Bush and his friends to the concerns of everyday people is going to hurt Bush because anyone I think can empathize with some crying mother who lost her son. That is going to hurt Bush A LOT and it's on the emotional level where Moore connects with the working class that his films shine the brightest in my opinion. None of that did anything to you?
Wow....you're like smart and stuff. I bet you got an A in physics. Have you sent off a paper to the Physical Review yet?
You seem to be predijuced aginst southerners yourself.
Well there was that small little matter
of you boys tearing the Union asunder
a few years back. It takes awhile for some people to get over that.
What this means is that Alfred Nobels wife
may have been getting a little action on the side from a mathematician - so mathematicians had to come up with their own award, because Nobel wasn't about to give his prize to anyone from that group.
Since Kazaa is based on the gnutella protocol and is carried out over a TCP/IP - they can find your IP address and contact your ISP to get your identity (assuming the ISP agrees and doesn't tell them to go to hell). It's easy to find out who is sharing what.
It's a dummy dll - to fool some routine in the program that checks to see if it's there. It
doesn't do anything.
Oh God how I wish that was true...
I live in So Cal and I've actually seen these hideous invaders from outer space flopping around on my patio. All I've got to say is thank god for massive exoskeletons....they're really slow and stupid and harmless. But it's awfully hard to get over the visceral fear that runs through me everytime I see one of the bastards.
Eeeeek.....I was not expecting it to be a
computer-generated voice! That was creepy!
On the other hand, it would sound pretty interesting as background to industrial/techno songs or maybe some Pink Floyd (which I'm sure it will be used for in not too long a while).
Right....get your brains knocked out for ;)
9 rounds so you can't even talk
straight (you ever watch those post-fight interviews), and then sit down for a couple of hours for a nice and relaxing game of chess. I'd laugh my ass of
But if you focus, any game can become your reality - For a while.
I don't know about that. With almost all other games I've played, including strategy games that are very competitive, there is an element of
randomness within the game that makes defeat a little easier to swallow. There's nothing like that going on with chess. If you screw up in chess, it's not because you rolled a bad die
playing D&D. It's because you didn't guard a piece, or your opponent was looking one level deeper in the game than you were. Basically if you lose, it's all on you and you can't blame the game.
Also, games go through an evolutionary period where they tend to be pretty lame at the beginning (even if the concept is good and it's fun to play - like the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game). People change the rules as they play to make things more fun or challenging, and the game evolves. Chess has been evolving
for a lot longer than almost any other game out there (well maybe Go - I don't know about that though), and so in that sense I think it's one of the purest strategy around.
*sigh* - well see - there's this little thing called 'having a sense of humor' which I think totally passed you by or got knocked out of you when someone brained you with a Unix manual.
You do. Excellent job =) A dumb asshole at that.
Click here, and then click here to find out how much Afghani women like life under the Taliban.
And don't speak about the Taliban as if they are a legitimate government the people of Afghanistan voted into power. They aren't. They're more like rapists or vultures picking over a corpse the Soviets left behind.
Limewire is GPLed. Ads are pretty much the only way they can get any money coming in. Most investors are scared of investing in P2P networks because they are afraid of the RIAA/MPAA are going to nuke them.
And if the ads are really such a big hastle, you can still download the source and compile it yourself. Sheesh - what's with all the whining going on?
I'm a mod and I read your posts, because one of them was at -1 and I figured it was because of your sig, because otherwise it wasn't a bad post. Of course than I started reading your other stuff. You got what you deserved.
Actually doesn't the polarity of the N-S magnetic axis flip every 10,000 years or so? I was reading some article in Nature about how scientists used that fact to carbon date fossils in Antarctica.
Anyway...when that happens, there is no electromagnetic field and nothing to protect the earth from solar radiation so there are lots of birth defects and things getting cancer. But scientists also think that's the reason there is such diversity in life on Earth because during these periods, tons of mutants are created.
When the television was first invented, people would turn it on just to see the snow, if their was no singal to pick up. Just using the technology was a thrill in itself.
That made me remember this movie I saw once about the life of Edward R Murrow, and they had clips from live broadcasts he used to do (everything was live then). For one episode - he had a camera guy and a reporter in San Francisco in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, and another reporter and camera guy in New York in front of the Brooklyn Bridge. And he just bounced back and forth between them, asking stupid questions about how the weather was and what was going on where they were standing. He was just completely amazed by the ability of the technology of the time to do enable him to talk in real time to two different people on opposite sides of the country.
But people get used to things like that really fast. I just finished reading this book by Pat Cadigan - Tea From an Empty Cup - and I became slightly depressed thinking that most of the stuff she was talking about in the book - (large on-line RPGs, on-line communities, the obsessive way in which people go after icons and prizes in RPGs as though they were real), is already happening now even if the 'hotsuits' that interface with a person's neural system haven't arrived yet.
If nanotechnology takes off and it suddenly becomes possible to resuscitate the dead
(like in Terminal Cafe - another really cool book by Ian MacDonald), there would probably be about a couple of years of weirdness in which the religious right freaks out and stages a Holy War and everyone else comes to grips with the fact that eventually rejuvenated dead people will outnumber the living. But people would adjust. They'd enslave the dead and make them work for the living, and society would go on =)
The thing I wonder is why so many people persist in believing that new technologies can provide a utopia for humanity? It should be pretty clear by now that science isn't going to do anything as far as that is concerned. Electricity didn't do it, the atom bomb sure as hell didn't do it, VCRs didn't do it, microwaves didn't do it, cable TV hasn't done it, and I don't think the internet is going to do it.
The author wasn't writing a novel or anything....they had a limited amount of time to get to the DMCA...and as it was I thought they spent a little too long on the Founding Father stuff (although it was pretty interesting history).