Whatever happened to paper? I take my iBook to classes, but never bother using it for any kind of notes because it's simply too slow. And I type 75+ wpm. I can take notes faster with a pen and paper, and still I'm able to put technical graphs in my notes.
Invariably is incredibly inaccurate. I will say that most of the girls I know who have worked or are working as strippers (the limited 3 or 4 I know well) have had some sort of fucked up shit in their pasts. But I have met a couple who didn't. I knew one girl who had a middle class life, good relationship with her parents (to this day) and no apparent abuse as a kid (none that she remembered at least) and she went into stripping, and then prostitution (high dollar) for the money and because she loved sex and being watched.
Sure there are plenty of girls (and guys-though less so) who go into it because they have issues, but many of them have already worked through the issues and are genuinely happy to be there. Many are not, but certainly not all of them. Most of the girls I talked to (as friends of my friends) definitely didn't want it to be a career since they recognized the older they got the harder the lifestyle would be, but they were happy to be making the money they were making. Many were wasting it on meth and coke, but a couple had paid cash for houses and were investing in other ways.
So listing two (related) bombings by foreign persons and 3 domestic bombings by US nationals counts as justification for war? Or were you just saying the debatable "domestic" bombings were justification for war? And which war, exactly, are they justification for? The "War on Terror" or the war in Iraq?
I'm just trying to clarify here.
This "attack" on Paypal seems more like an act of vandalism than a terrorist strike.
"When more power is given to anybody, the greed for more power will grow. In my opinion, it is not a question of whether the power will be abused. It is a vicious circle and only a matter of time."
Which is exactly why more and more Americans are counting down the days until the next Presidential election. Get rid of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld and you'll see an awful lot of things change in short order.
That's exactly why I've never owned a Motorola phone. Everyone I know who has one has it replaced within a year, repeatedly. Maybe all my friends are just really rough on their phones, but I've never seen a need to buy one. Even the good ones never seem to have great reception. With the dual antennas, that might be fixed, though.
Honestly, who cares? It's not like the government is doing this, it's a "voluntary" organization maintained by a group of lawyers. This has zero effect on anyone except lawyers and probably won't go through anyway, because there are plenty of lawyers who are capable of showing how blogging isn't advertisement.
Why does every nerd with poor social skills now claim Aspergers? Seriously, accept that you're nerds and get over it! Very few people actually have Aspergers and it takes a lot more than self-diagnosis for validity. God I'm getting sick of this.
Here's an idea. Get up from your computer desk, unplug from your laptop/pda/blackberry/whatever the hell else you carry, and talk to people. hell, don't talk to people, just go outside and enjoy everything. But seriously, please stop telling anyone without social skills that you (or they) have Aspergers. It's embarassing and annoying, not to mention belittling to people who actually have valid issues.
"It's hard to help the kids if you're getting divorced."
I call bullshit. Putting your children first is never the cause of a divorce. If you don't put your children first during the divorce you're going to pay for it a whole lot more down the line. The problem is that people put themselves first in a divorce most of the time, and allow their personal feelings toward their spouse (or ex-spouse, if you will) to show in front of their kids. Therapy costs a lot more than spending some time with your child when it matters does.
If you put your children first, they will never question why you got divorced (assuming they're old enough to understand it to begin with) and will also never question themselves as a result of your divorce.
Your personal example shows precisely that putting your children (or in your case, family) first is never wrong. You didn't make a choice between your spouse and children, you made a choice between family and work. The money might be tight, or business might not grow as you hope, but really, business and money just aren't that important.
Seriously, who can we blame but ourselves? What is with our society and the need to point the finger somewhere else? Please bring back the days of personal responsibility.
There's a big difference between "paying attention" and constant monitoring. You can pay attention to your kid's habits without taking away all the freedoms of being a kid.
It doesn't require much more than the occcasional conversation to let your kids know that they're allowed to make mistakes but some of those mistakes are more costly than others. A simple conversation about the dangers and why you worry about them can go a long way and the kids will trust you more and be more forthcoming about the "dangers" they actually see every day. Everyone wins.
I was actually lucky. I only posted my real name once, and I spammed like mad on Usenet (before I realized what that meant) using my real name. To this day you can't find the actual message (some happy horseshit "the world isn't so bad" thing) but only a couple of posts that quote it and make some hilarious comments about my state of mind.
I've been using my current nick or some incarnation of it since that fated spam occurance which actually got me booted from not 1 but 2 different ISPs before I got the message that it's bad to spam. I learned my lesson...
There are only a handful of other instances of my full name popping up in google and they are public record type things such as marriage and divorce, and a couple of military promotion announcements.
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According to the article: "He has told the papers he would do anything he could to help find a cure."
His first instinct was to sue, and he declines to help by letting researchers do some tests on his blood (presumably) but he "would do anything he could to help." Sounds like he'll do anything he can as long he profits from it. Dick. Plain and simple, he's either a fraud or a dick. Putting his own well-being above that of millions is perhaps the most selfish dick-headed move I've heard about.
Keep in mind I am in the US and consider my price points accordingly:
I would pay the price of a movie ticket or perhaps $10, whichever is cheaper. That, to me, is a reasonable price. Not as much as a DVD (yes I know you can buy some DVDs for under $10) because I would have to provide my own media to use if I wanted to travel with it, but certainly as much as I would pay to see it once in a theater.
Unless this is a temporary use model that I couldn't save and reuse. If this is a temporary use model, I wouldn't pay more than $2, personally. I can rent movies for that price via netflix and other stores so why would I want to pay more?
They have these at lots of Universities. I believe Berkeley has one I know the College Park campus of University of Maryland has one, and I think I've seen them at schools in Boston and San Diego as well. These were used a long time ago as "secret rooms" and such so people could pass messages. I can't remember which society started using them first but there are examples in several, if I remember correctly. Athens or Rome, perhaps? I don't remember for sure...
Only one of which you would feasibly use Word to print using. Seriously, the comment wasn't saying that a plotter should be the same as a 3X5 printer but damn, who uses word to print pictures? That's not what it's for.
Yes there is! Skin changes color constantly, depending upon temperature, sun exposure, health, all kinds of reasons. And it's not one color to begin with, it's a blend of a lot of different shades. Teeth are exposed to the same basic environment all the time. Some minor changes occur, but your teeth don't change color dramatically in short periods of time. It takes years for teeth to actually change color without a helping hand. And then, false teeth are exposed to the same thing and will react the same way, because the acrylics used are similar to the material your teeth are made of. The materials used in hearing aids are nothing remotely like skin.
There are plenty of applications where "on site" means moving the whole time. Researchers often move from location to location collecting data.
Military applications are quite obvious, and they are completely practical.
And why do you automatically assume the batteries are any less efficient than the ones currently being used? This could be a "recharging station" for movement between "on site" situations so that your equipment gets continually charged when not being used, instead of slowly draining all the power throughout the day and only charging at some "base station".
At least in military applications, you could make it part of body armor. Combat boots, for example, could incorporate small versions of this. Why make it one or the other? Why not complete the system and have small generators everywhere. "Future military" concepts show a soldier in lightweight body armor with a wrist computer and monocle computer screen mounted on a helmet that has a battery pack. Why not make the backpack and similar generators just charge the batteries the devices already use?
That makes sense, if you're only going to be away from home for 24 hours or less. The practical applications of this, if it really works, are far more interesting than the geek factor generally allows.
Think of providing power to people in "remote" places, like Mt. Everest or folks who are travelling in the antarctic. Soldiers can use this to power targetting systems or tracking systems as well as communications equipment and the article specifically mentioned night vision goggles. Not to mention, they already carry a lot of weight so it's not something unusual for them. This could go a long way toward making a truly computerized, mechanized military, in the field.
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We call it google. You just have to access it from hardware of your own choosing.
Whatever happened to paper? I take my iBook to classes, but never bother using it for any kind of notes because it's simply too slow. And I type 75+ wpm. I can take notes faster with a pen and paper, and still I'm able to put technical graphs in my notes.
Invariably is incredibly inaccurate. I will say that most of the girls I know who have worked or are working as strippers (the limited 3 or 4 I know well) have had some sort of fucked up shit in their pasts. But I have met a couple who didn't. I knew one girl who had a middle class life, good relationship with her parents (to this day) and no apparent abuse as a kid (none that she remembered at least) and she went into stripping, and then prostitution (high dollar) for the money and because she loved sex and being watched.
Sure there are plenty of girls (and guys-though less so) who go into it because they have issues, but many of them have already worked through the issues and are genuinely happy to be there. Many are not, but certainly not all of them. Most of the girls I talked to (as friends of my friends) definitely didn't want it to be a career since they recognized the older they got the harder the lifestyle would be, but they were happy to be making the money they were making. Many were wasting it on meth and coke, but a couple had paid cash for houses and were investing in other ways.
So listing two (related) bombings by foreign persons and 3 domestic bombings by US nationals counts as justification for war? Or were you just saying the debatable "domestic" bombings were justification for war? And which war, exactly, are they justification for? The "War on Terror" or the war in Iraq?
I'm just trying to clarify here.
This "attack" on Paypal seems more like an act of vandalism than a terrorist strike.
"When more power is given to anybody, the greed for more power will grow. In my opinion, it is not a question of whether the power will be abused. It is a vicious circle and only a matter of time."
Which is exactly why more and more Americans are counting down the days until the next Presidential election. Get rid of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld and you'll see an awful lot of things change in short order.
That's exactly why I've never owned a Motorola phone. Everyone I know who has one has it replaced within a year, repeatedly. Maybe all my friends are just really rough on their phones, but I've never seen a need to buy one. Even the good ones never seem to have great reception. With the dual antennas, that might be fixed, though.
Honestly, who cares? It's not like the government is doing this, it's a "voluntary" organization maintained by a group of lawyers. This has zero effect on anyone except lawyers and probably won't go through anyway, because there are plenty of lawyers who are capable of showing how blogging isn't advertisement.
Why does every nerd with poor social skills now claim Aspergers? Seriously, accept that you're nerds and get over it! Very few people actually have Aspergers and it takes a lot more than self-diagnosis for validity. God I'm getting sick of this.
Here's an idea. Get up from your computer desk, unplug from your laptop/pda/blackberry/whatever the hell else you carry, and talk to people. hell, don't talk to people, just go outside and enjoy everything. But seriously, please stop telling anyone without social skills that you (or they) have Aspergers. It's embarassing and annoying, not to mention belittling to people who actually have valid issues.
"It's hard to help the kids if you're getting divorced."
I call bullshit. Putting your children first is never the cause of a divorce. If you don't put your children first during the divorce you're going to pay for it a whole lot more down the line. The problem is that people put themselves first in a divorce most of the time, and allow their personal feelings toward their spouse (or ex-spouse, if you will) to show in front of their kids. Therapy costs a lot more than spending some time with your child when it matters does.
If you put your children first, they will never question why you got divorced (assuming they're old enough to understand it to begin with) and will also never question themselves as a result of your divorce.
Your personal example shows precisely that putting your children (or in your case, family) first is never wrong. You didn't make a choice between your spouse and children, you made a choice between family and work. The money might be tight, or business might not grow as you hope, but really, business and money just aren't that important.
Seriously, who can we blame but ourselves? What is with our society and the need to point the finger somewhere else? Please bring back the days of personal responsibility.
And here I was hoping first post would be Goofice. Oh well, can't win them all.
There's a big difference between "paying attention" and constant monitoring. You can pay attention to your kid's habits without taking away all the freedoms of being a kid.
It doesn't require much more than the occcasional conversation to let your kids know that they're allowed to make mistakes but some of those mistakes are more costly than others. A simple conversation about the dangers and why you worry about them can go a long way and the kids will trust you more and be more forthcoming about the "dangers" they actually see every day. Everyone wins.
I was actually lucky. I only posted my real name once, and I spammed like mad on Usenet (before I realized what that meant) using my real name. To this day you can't find the actual message (some happy horseshit "the world isn't so bad" thing) but only a couple of posts that quote it and make some hilarious comments about my state of mind.
I've been using my current nick or some incarnation of it since that fated spam occurance which actually got me booted from not 1 but 2 different ISPs before I got the message that it's bad to spam. I learned my lesson...
There are only a handful of other instances of my full name popping up in google and they are public record type things such as marriage and divorce, and a couple of military promotion announcements.
Interesting to whom?
According to the article:
"He has told the papers he would do anything he could to help find a cure."
His first instinct was to sue, and he declines to help by letting researchers do some tests on his blood (presumably) but he "would do anything he could to help." Sounds like he'll do anything he can as long he profits from it. Dick. Plain and simple, he's either a fraud or a dick. Putting his own well-being above that of millions is perhaps the most selfish dick-headed move I've heard about.
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If it is legal and you're paying for the music rightfully, what makes it unethical? Do the artists not receive any of the money or something?
bkr
You, sir, need serious help in the fantasy department. At least add some hot women (or men if you prefer) into the scenario somewhere.
bkr
Keep in mind I am in the US and consider my price points accordingly:
I would pay the price of a movie ticket or perhaps $10, whichever is cheaper. That, to me, is a reasonable price. Not as much as a DVD (yes I know you can buy some DVDs for under $10) because I would have to provide my own media to use if I wanted to travel with it, but certainly as much as I would pay to see it once in a theater.
Unless this is a temporary use model that I couldn't save and reuse. If this is a temporary use model, I wouldn't pay more than $2, personally. I can rent movies for that price via netflix and other stores so why would I want to pay more?
They have these at lots of Universities. I believe Berkeley has one I know the College Park campus of University of Maryland has one, and I think I've seen them at schools in Boston and San Diego as well. These were used a long time ago as "secret rooms" and such so people could pass messages. I can't remember which society started using them first but there are examples in several, if I remember correctly. Athens or Rome, perhaps? I don't remember for sure...
Only one of which you would feasibly use Word to print using. Seriously, the comment wasn't saying that a plotter should be the same as a 3X5 printer but damn, who uses word to print pictures? That's not what it's for.
Yes there is! Skin changes color constantly, depending upon temperature, sun exposure, health, all kinds of reasons. And it's not one color to begin with, it's a blend of a lot of different shades. Teeth are exposed to the same basic environment all the time. Some minor changes occur, but your teeth don't change color dramatically in short periods of time. It takes years for teeth to actually change color without a helping hand. And then, false teeth are exposed to the same thing and will react the same way, because the acrylics used are similar to the material your teeth are made of. The materials used in hearing aids are nothing remotely like skin.
There are plenty of applications where "on site" means moving the whole time. Researchers often move from location to location collecting data.
Military applications are quite obvious, and they are completely practical.
And why do you automatically assume the batteries are any less efficient than the ones currently being used? This could be a "recharging station" for movement between "on site" situations so that your equipment gets continually charged when not being used, instead of slowly draining all the power throughout the day and only charging at some "base station".
At least in military applications, you could make it part of body armor. Combat boots, for example, could incorporate small versions of this. Why make it one or the other? Why not complete the system and have small generators everywhere. "Future military" concepts show a soldier in lightweight body armor with a wrist computer and monocle computer screen mounted on a helmet that has a battery pack. Why not make the backpack and similar generators just charge the batteries the devices already use?
That makes sense, if you're only going to be away from home for 24 hours or less. The practical applications of this, if it really works, are far more interesting than the geek factor generally allows.
Think of providing power to people in "remote" places, like Mt. Everest or folks who are travelling in the antarctic. Soldiers can use this to power targetting systems or tracking systems as well as communications equipment and the article specifically mentioned night vision goggles. Not to mention, they already carry a lot of weight so it's not something unusual for them. This could go a long way toward making a truly computerized, mechanized military, in the field.
That's because you're not carrying one.
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