>>APCP. The chemical is the main ingredient on the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters.... The firearms bureau classifies APCP as an explosive and, amid post-Sept. 11 security concerns, requires that anyone who uses more than two ounces of propellant undergo federal background checks."
Sounds to me like the Feds want to maintain a monopoly on orbital entry. I can see why they might want to. Space junk would pile up pretty fast if every geek launched his own satellite. Unscheduled launches in a world that is becoming nuclear paranoid again might be... misunderstood.
Jo Bob from Lubbock, TX launches his homemade Titan missile to hang his own nude-beach spycam and 24-hour porn satellite...
Somewhere in a bunker in France: "Sheet, Sheet! Texas is nuking us! Fire the le missiles AND SMOKE MANY CIGARETTES!"
>I happen to work in Seoul right now, and I'm actually more afraid of Bush & his friends than North Korea.
If I were you, I think I might pick up a history book. South Korea exists because the US sent massive military assistance to the South. If you think Bush is scary, you had better read up on you freaky neighbor to the north.
>NK will not attack the South unprovoked because even their nutcase of a dictator knows that such an act will certainly end his reign.
That didn't stop them before. That does not stop them from inciting frequent border clases and sending suicide commandoes fo the South
Youth rights have been significantly eroded by a string of supreme court decisions spanning the last 25-30 years.
Before these decisions, teens had almost the same rights as adults. After these decisions, teens can be searched without cause, their speech is significantly stifled and they are subject to arrest on a whim (presumably for their own protection).
Granted- teens aren't adults nor are they able to perform as adults. They are treated differently by the courts- by tradition this has been to protect them. Now there are more and more cases of teens being prosecuted as adults.
Only voters have rights. 15year old children can't vote
The true mark of how enlightened a society is how it treats political nonentities. In the case of teens in the US, teens have no rights for all pratical purposes and I see this as a budding problem.
If you take a look at other countries with active insurgencies and revolutionary movements, this age group is their foot soldiers. It may also be instructive to at the average age of soldiers during the American Civil War.
It is foolish and dangerous to treat this age group in such a manner. Sooner or later they will wake up and when they do they'll bite you.
I can't imagine a PC having a problem that I haven't seen 100 times already.
Of course being a SysAdmin for 20 years, you see the good, the bad and the utterly stoopid (and that is just the users).
I hated having vendors out on my site doing anything. They would usually send a kid in a bad tie and I would have to show them what to do. It was either that or clean up after them. I seriously considered billing some of those companies for my time spent training their cherries.
There really is no substitute for knowing what you are doing. It comes in real handy.
New research is showing that grown-ups are more immature than ever.
Once again, I question who would be doing research, spending money and wasting time on this candy-assed bullshit! This isn't even close to research and to call it that is an insult to the people who are doing real research like physicists, chemist, mathimaticians, biologist, bio-chemists, microbiologists, etc.
This is is a bunch of little old blue-haired ladies gossiping while they are having their hair done.
OK/.ers, here the bar for what we can call ligitimate research: it is research ONLY if it is done using there or more of the following: particle accellerator, electron microscope, supercomputer, advanced mathmatics, radio telescope, remote sensors, data acquisition, orbital observatory, vintage HP calculator (can sub a slide rule here), uses the scientific method.
Furthermore, legitimate research MUST demonstrate a hypothesis using non-antecedotal evidence.
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Microsoft's lawyer goons promise not to bust you up if, and only if, you buy from their bitch Novell.
The Mob only wishes there were smooth enough to pull off crap like this.
If you have watched how Microsoft opertes over the years then you've got every right to be paranoid.
>>APCP. The chemical is the main ingredient on the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters. ... The firearms bureau classifies APCP as an explosive and, amid post-Sept. 11 security concerns, requires that anyone who uses more than two ounces of propellant undergo federal background checks."
Sounds to me like the Feds want to maintain a monopoly on orbital entry. I can see why they might want to. Space junk would pile up pretty fast if every geek launched his own satellite. Unscheduled launches in a world that is becoming nuclear paranoid again might be... misunderstood.
Jo Bob from Lubbock, TX launches his homemade Titan missile to hang his own nude-beach spycam and 24-hour porn satellite...
Somewhere in a bunker in France: "Sheet, Sheet! Texas is nuking us! Fire the le missiles AND SMOKE MANY CIGARETTES!"
>the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with Kim Jong Ill's decision to produce nuclear weapons.
This is correct. North Korea has been working toward developing nuclear weapons as far back as at LEAST the eighties.
While a nuke may be simple in principle, there is nothing simple about growing a weapons program from scratch.
Kim's bomb was tiny. We have conventional bombs with more punch.
>I happen to work in Seoul right now, and I'm actually more afraid of Bush & his friends than North Korea.
If I were you, I think I might pick up a history book. South Korea exists because the US sent massive military assistance to the South. If you think Bush is scary, you had better read up on you freaky neighbor to the north.
>NK will not attack the South unprovoked because even their nutcase of a dictator knows that such an act will certainly end his reign.
That didn't stop them before. That does not stop them from inciting frequent border clases and sending suicide commandoes fo the South
It is always good to see a /.er bust out with a few facts rather than the usual bad puns, stale jokes, half-baked opinions and misconceptions.
Cray making a comeback!? Now if that don't beat all.
What's next? Borland selling a good, cheap Pascal compiler again?
that we SysAdmins be worshiped appropriately for our ways are subtle and your backups are oh so fragile.
I would have my own satellite and launch my own interplanetary probes since NASA is trying to relive the 1960s.
Damned hippies in the White House. Shouldn't they have sobered up by now?
Know why?
Have you looked at the candidates lately?
My ballot looked like the f-ing special olympics only those idiots weren't very special.
Not true.
Youth rights have been significantly eroded by a string of supreme court decisions spanning the last 25-30 years.
Before these decisions, teens had almost the same rights as adults. After these decisions, teens can be searched without cause, their speech is significantly stifled and they are subject to arrest on a whim (presumably for their own protection).
Granted- teens aren't adults nor are they able to perform as adults. They are treated differently by the courts- by tradition this has been to protect them. Now there are more and more cases of teens being prosecuted as adults.
Something has got to give.
I sure hope that they didn't spend $100 million to figure out cell phone yakkers are some of the worst drivers on the road.
I could have told them that for free.
Only voters have rights. 15year old children can't vote
The true mark of how enlightened a society is how it treats political nonentities. In the case of teens in the US, teens have no rights for all pratical purposes and I see this as a budding problem.
If you take a look at other countries with active insurgencies and revolutionary movements, this age group is their foot soldiers. It may also be instructive to at the average age of soldiers during the American Civil War.
It is foolish and dangerous to treat this age group in such a manner. Sooner or later they will wake up and when they do they'll bite you.
You thought that you had freedom of expression while the constution circles the drain!?
You sold that freedom for safety from shadowy boogiemen like terrorist and kiddie porn merchants.
No put on your jackboots and shut the fuck up like a good little fascist, or else.
Don't go away mad. Just go away.
Do the math:
SCO = (SUCK)!
Since when has Microshaft ever failed to ship a bloated and buggy product before it's time.
I remember a Gawd-aweful FORTRAN compiler (c. 1987) for DOS that Microsoft shipped with over 1200 bugs.
It was so bad that I was able to convince my Boss at the time to do let us do PC development in Turbo Pascal and keep the FORTRAN on the Mainframe.
Congress is here.
They are from the gubberment and they R heer 2 help.
Dey'l fix MySpace juz lik dey fixxed edumakation, health kare, socialist insecurity, Osama and Iquak.
Never misunderestimate the Congressional power to take a bad situation and really fuck it up.
I can't imagine a PC having a problem that I haven't seen 100 times already.
Of course being a SysAdmin for 20 years, you see the good, the bad and the utterly stoopid (and that is just the users).
I hated having vendors out on my site doing anything. They would usually send a kid in a bad tie and I would have to show them what to do. It was either that or clean up after them. I seriously considered billing some of those companies for my time spent training their cherries.
There really is no substitute for knowing what you are doing. It comes in real handy.
Why can't I get a job that interesting!?
The biggest challenge I had this month was either a dead network card or a psycotic printer.
I need a new job.
Whenever the keywords terrorists, kiddie porn or patriotism come up, you are about to be sold a bill of goods.
Who is it that said That which you fear controls you.
I fear grandstanding and manipulative politicians with an agenda that has nothing to do with what they are currently lying about.
"I'm sorry Mr. Serial-killer. It's a Microsoft Gun and has to load 105 megabytes of updates via its 36.6k cellular modem before it will fire..."
It doesn't matter how rich you are.
Once you have sold your soul, you can't buy it back.
See you in hell Billy and Warren.
I'll be the guy with a pitchfork with the stunning Penguin logo on it.
Obnoxious Bastard (from Hell)
No one talks about the pictures the Hubble just took, but a man standing on another planet, now that's news!
Ummm... that's just wrong. Do you have any idea how many papers have been written citing Hubble data and how many discoveries it has made!?
There are people talking about Hubble data all the time and will continue to do so long into the future.
New research is showing that grown-ups are more immature than ever.
/.ers, here the bar for what we can call ligitimate research: it is research ONLY if it is done using there or more of the following: particle accellerator, electron microscope, supercomputer, advanced mathmatics, radio telescope, remote sensors, data acquisition, orbital observatory, vintage HP calculator (can sub a slide rule here), uses the scientific method.
Once again, I question who would be doing research, spending money and wasting time on this candy-assed bullshit! This isn't even close to research and to call it that is an insult to the people who are doing real research like physicists, chemist, mathimaticians, biologist, bio-chemists, microbiologists, etc.
This is is a bunch of little old blue-haired ladies gossiping while they are having their hair done.
OK
Furthermore, legitimate research MUST demonstrate a hypothesis using non-antecedotal evidence.
Again we have a troll for a journalist that seeks to blame human behavior on technology!!!
There was no anti-social activity or behavior prior to the internet!? Dumbass!
string theory was a diaster for someone's career.