Maybe there should be a page called "Healthy"
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It just contains pictures and information about what your body would look like and act like if it was normal. This means it has gross pictures of things that people would get alarmed at if they didn't know it was normal.
Today's editorial: "That's not a wart."
cellphone jammer would be part of a crime kit
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1)spot your victim & activate cellphone jammer. 2)?? 3)Profit.
Except for the fact that microsoft's contention is the exact opposite of the truh.
Although we'd have to be living in utopia if all of a sudden sourceforge projects sprang up to patch all the security holes in the Win platform.
Nope. I bet the people who stole the source will just sit on it, or sell it to somebody who wil use it to make their nation's technology that little bit less flexible and more insecure.
The Canada of America is Canada. The Canada of Germany is Austria. The Canada of Australia is New Zeland. The Canada of Britain is France. The Canada of Spain is Portugal. The Canada of Singapore is... Sorry, I guess you Singaporians are screwed.
I'll get to the point at the end of this post.
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An ac wrote I know an awful lot of athiests and agnostics who are opposed to unrestricted abortion in America.
The abolition of slavery was considered the work of religious radicals too, who had this wild notion that all those slaves were human beings and their book said it was wrong to keep human beings in bondage, but not every abolitionist was religious. The right to live, like the right to not be a slave, is something that plenty of people can grasp without the guidance of Holy texts.
So, at the end of the day, like most things, the problem can be blamed directly on religious people. In this case, American Christians.
At the end of the day, I find that most problems can be blamed on the intollerent. You know, like some American Christians... also, exactly like you.
Good points.
The thing thing with political debates that you have to remember is that there are real consequences for the ideas that we kick around like so many political footballs.
Slavery in england was ended relatively peacefully. That is good.
Slavery in america (same idea, different people kicking it in a different direction) was ended with a civil war. (ok so that's the kindergarten version) Which is also good, except for the people who got killed.
The thing is that if you're male, you will never have to have an abortion. I'm male and so I can easly say "Abortion this, Abortion that. I could have been one of those foetuses." But on the other hand I'll never be a single teenaged mother. Which is different from being a single teenaged father because my body will never attempt to turn itself inside out to deliver a baby and then make me want to lactate thus making it harder for me to run away.
With the right to privacy, personal consequences become a lot more subtle - David Brin said in the "Transparent Society" that the consequence of the eventual death of privacy due to the power of electronic media would simply be a return to the village, where everybody knows everybody elses business.
I think that's another play of political football because of what happens if the village you return to is This village, where knowing is not enough. If people do something terrible, and everybody knows it but nobody acts it is in some ways worse than if they had their privacy to begin with.
Also you have to consider that majorities are fickle. What if 20 years from now an activity that you consider perfectly acceptable like say, knowing how to program becomes unacceptable by the general community.
Want an example? Think about it: If you can program in C, you can write viruses! that's scary for the non-programmers out there that think that software magically appears shrinkwrapped at the store.
It starts when you first have to register all your compilers. Then you have a crackdown against free unregistered compilers and "Kitchen table linux dealers". 60 minutes runs a special about how computer shows allow unknown people to aquire software - including unregistered compilers (a compiler being an incredibily powerful piece of software that allows you to create any other piece of software... Including VIRUSES).
Mandataory "Compiler licences" are required by the government where the person applying for one has to submit three photos, a blood sample, a retinal image and fingerprints. At least two of these are checked by biometric scanning every time the compiler is invoked (following the tradition of "smart guns" or "safe firearms").
The compiler must be stored on an EPROM in a dedicated piece of hardware and the source brought to it on some kind of storage media. The output is removed on another storage media to prevent people hacking in and compiling software from their terminals. The compiler's hardware must be kept in a safe that weighs at least 150kg or is b
well you can draw out your entire income, (after tax if they tax at the source). the trick is to spend very little, and break every large bill. Keep the massive fistfulls of small denomination bills you get as change somewhere safe (like a wading pool). At the end of the pay period, just before you get the next cheque, throw the change from this pay period into the safe place and shuffle it (maybe by swimming in it once you've accumulated enough.)
then take out of the "pool" an amount of small denomination bills exactly equal to your next paycheque, and bank it. This is money you want to use for interest bearing savings accounts and investments and such. Then cash your pay cheque, and repeat the cycle until you catch some strange disease from all that money.
Voila! Scrooge McDuck on a budget. You don't think he got all that money by spending money do you?
No the secret is to play with lots of cash and spend verry little if you want to enter the cash economy.
it's almost as good as having a bookie for a friend who always has you break even and pays you with old soggy untracable bills.
OTOH, you could just move to canada. Have you noticed that Canada seems to be defending civil liberties when america stripps them away? Just like New Zeland is being everything that Australia is not. It's almost like there are pairs of countries that are like, married or something.
2) australian labor party (center left greatest chance of winning)
3) healthcare first
4) some other random make my life better party
in counting it looks like this
1) didn't win 1st round counts -> preferences go to center right party
2) still a contender till 3rd round then preferences went to the greens who subsequently lost.
3) didn't win 1st round counts -> preferences go to the center right party
4) didn't win 1st round counts -> preferences go to the center right party.
so you have to map all the preference deals to work out which way your vote will go after you don't get what you want.
most aussie voters (under compulsary voting I might add) don't bother to work it out and then don't care about the result because they reckon that all pollies are the same, really.
Not that I have any idea what the solution is. Possibly approval voting would fix this (where you can vote for more than one candidate).
we have that in Australia. It leads to the profound uglyness called preference deals where the Pro-life/anti-union/aspirational voter people walk up to the black/gay/dredlocked/pro-healthcare/greenie/anti-w ar people and say "I'll put you as number two on my 'how to vote guide' if you put me as number two on yours, but if you say no deal I'll put the White Supremecist/Ultra Nationalists as number two on mine instead. Oh, and they bought lunch at my meeting with them. So what's it to be? Me in your no 2 slot?"
If it works often enough, the vote that was split between the minor parties all flows back to the center-right conservatives, even though the majority thought they were voting left.
Of course the left does the same trick... but they don't have any stormtroopers to scare people with after the communist party became illegal.
Well, if you've been accused of a crime, proving that you were at home watching legitimate content would get you off.
"So, as you can clearly see, my client was watching American Psycho and turning the voume down during the ads and turning it back up again when the movie came back on, the whole time the brutal axe murders that occured on the far side of town took place."
So maybe it wouldn't be the cops but your own lawyers who would subpeona the tivio logs.
from the website "Unlike ordinary driving games where the player controls the car with a game pad or steering wheel, BSD-players use voice command to control the car. With Logitech, EA has developed a new controller for the game: a headrest with force-feedback and a built-in microphone."
I propose connecting your cpu and beer to a huge cooling tower that radiates to space from the dark side of the planet... wherever that may be at the moment.
A more slashdot-style story will come out when they declassify how the 4th captured saddam. The 4th is known as the wired division as they are using more experimental warfighting techniques and information technology than the 3rd (who are more traditional).
the press confrence had the general state that it was a "great piece of analytical work" to process the intel and get the third to move out in less than an hour and a half.
I like BPL as an interim solution before we get fiber to our houses, but in the end I *want* three cables going into my home - power, data and voice. Note that data and voice are separate. I also like having a landline and a cell phone.
Whenever I hear about multiple utilities becoming reliant on one system of infrastructure I always think of that telco parody which starts with:
"Hello? AT&T? I seem to be having problems with my phone..."
Slashdot Mirror
One more explanation:
Superman would duck the thrown gun because just standing there like a doofus while a pistol bounces off your forehead looks stupid.
Even superheros who pretend to be mild mannered reporters have their pride, ya know?
OSX: Kosciusko *MS* USA
now that's ironic
not if you're using it as gambling collateral
It just contains pictures and information about what your body would look like and act like if it was normal. This means it has gross pictures of things that people would get alarmed at if they didn't know it was normal.
Today's editorial: "That's not a wart."
1)spot your victim & activate cellphone jammer.
2)??
3)Profit.
Except for the fact that microsoft's contention is the exact opposite of the truh.
Although we'd have to be living in utopia if all of a sudden sourceforge projects sprang up to patch all the security holes in the Win platform.
Nope. I bet the people who stole the source will just sit on it, or sell it to somebody who wil use it to make their nation's technology that little bit less flexible and more insecure.
Good point! My bad.
what happens if you were in a bad fire and lost your right hand and forehead? like the skin was all pink and scarry so it wouldn't take the tatoo?
Hot damn! we ought to make a list.
The Canada of America is Canada.
The Canada of Germany is Austria.
The Canada of Australia is New Zeland.
The Canada of Britain is France.
The Canada of Spain is Portugal.
The Canada of Singapore is... Sorry, I guess you Singaporians are screwed.
An ac wrote I know an awful lot of athiests and agnostics who are opposed to unrestricted abortion in America.
The abolition of slavery was considered the work of religious radicals too, who had this wild notion that all those slaves were human beings and their book said it was wrong to keep human beings in bondage, but not every abolitionist was religious. The right to live, like the right to not be a slave, is something that plenty of people can grasp without the guidance of Holy texts.
So, at the end of the day, like most things, the problem can be blamed directly on religious people. In this case, American Christians.
At the end of the day, I find that most problems can be blamed on the intollerent. You know, like some American Christians... also, exactly like you.
Good points.
The thing thing with political debates that you have to remember is that there are real consequences for the ideas that we kick around like so many political footballs.
Slavery in england was ended relatively peacefully. That is good.
Slavery in america (same idea, different people kicking it in a different direction) was ended with a civil war. (ok so that's the kindergarten version) Which is also good, except for the people who got killed.
The thing is that if you're male, you will never have to have an abortion. I'm male and so I can easly say "Abortion this, Abortion that. I could have been one of those foetuses." But on the other hand I'll never be a single teenaged mother. Which is different from being a single teenaged father because my body will never attempt to turn itself inside out to deliver a baby and then make me want to lactate thus making it harder for me to run away.
With the right to privacy, personal consequences become a lot more subtle - David Brin said in the "Transparent Society" that the consequence of the eventual death of privacy due to the power of electronic media would simply be a return to the village, where everybody knows everybody elses business.
I think that's another play of political football because of what happens if the village you return to is This village, where knowing is not enough. If people do something terrible, and everybody knows it but nobody acts it is in some ways worse than if they had their privacy to begin with.
Also you have to consider that majorities are fickle. What if 20 years from now an activity that you consider perfectly acceptable like say, knowing how to program becomes unacceptable by the general community.
Want an example? Think about it: If you can program in C, you can write viruses! that's scary for the non-programmers out there that think that software magically appears shrinkwrapped at the store.
It starts when you first have to register all your compilers. Then you have a crackdown against free unregistered compilers and "Kitchen table linux dealers". 60 minutes runs a special about how computer shows allow unknown people to aquire software - including unregistered compilers (a compiler being an incredibily powerful piece of software that allows you to create any other piece of software... Including VIRUSES).
Mandataory "Compiler licences" are required by the government where the person applying for one has to submit three photos, a blood sample, a retinal image and fingerprints. At least two of these are checked by biometric scanning every time the compiler is invoked (following the tradition of "smart guns" or "safe firearms").
The compiler must be stored on an EPROM in a dedicated piece of hardware and the source brought to it on some kind of storage media. The output is removed on another storage media to prevent people hacking in and compiling software from their terminals. The compiler's hardware must be kept in a safe that weighs at least 150kg or is b
well you can draw out your entire income, (after tax if they tax at the source). the trick is to spend very little, and break every large bill. Keep the massive fistfulls of small denomination bills you get as change somewhere safe (like a wading pool). At the end of the pay period, just before you get the next cheque, throw the change from this pay period into the safe place and shuffle it (maybe by swimming in it once you've accumulated enough.)
then take out of the "pool" an amount of small denomination bills exactly equal to your next paycheque, and bank it. This is money you want to use for interest bearing savings accounts and investments and such. Then cash your pay cheque, and repeat the cycle until you catch some strange disease from all that money.
Voila! Scrooge McDuck on a budget. You don't think he got all that money by spending money do you?
No the secret is to play with lots of cash and spend verry little if you want to enter the cash economy.
it's almost as good as having a bookie for a friend who always has you break even and pays you with old soggy untracable bills.
OTOH, you could just move to canada. Have you noticed that Canada seems to be defending civil liberties when america stripps them away? Just like New Zeland is being everything that Australia is not. It's almost like there are pairs of countries that are like, married or something.
bizarre.
the actual ballot you cast could look like this
1) education for all party
2) australian labor party (center left greatest chance of winning)
3) healthcare first
4) some other random make my life better party
in counting it looks like this
1) didn't win 1st round counts -> preferences go to center right party
2) still a contender till 3rd round then preferences went to the greens who subsequently lost.
3) didn't win 1st round counts -> preferences go to the center right party
4) didn't win 1st round counts -> preferences go to the center right party.
so you have to map all the preference deals to work out which way your vote will go after you don't get what you want.
most aussie voters (under compulsary voting I might add) don't bother to work it out and then don't care about the result because they reckon that all pollies are the same, really.
Not that I have any idea what the solution is. Possibly approval voting would fix this (where you can vote for more than one candidate).
w ar people and say "I'll put you as number two on my 'how to vote guide' if you put me as number two on yours, but if you say no deal I'll put the White Supremecist/Ultra Nationalists as number two on mine instead. Oh, and they bought lunch at my meeting with them. So what's it to be? Me in your no 2 slot?"
we have that in Australia. It leads to the profound uglyness called preference deals where the Pro-life/anti-union/aspirational voter people walk up to the black/gay/dredlocked/pro-healthcare/greenie/anti-
If it works often enough, the vote that was split between the minor parties all flows back to the center-right conservatives, even though the majority thought they were voting left.
Of course the left does the same trick... but they don't have any stormtroopers to scare people with after the communist party became illegal.
Well, if you've been accused of a crime, proving that you were at home watching legitimate content would get you off.
"So, as you can clearly see, my client was watching American Psycho and turning the voume down during the ads and turning it back up again when the movie came back on, the whole time the brutal axe murders that occured on the far side of town took place."
So maybe it wouldn't be the cops but your own lawyers who would subpeona the tivio logs.
Need For Speed: Backseat Driver
from the website
"Unlike ordinary driving games where the player controls the car with a game pad or steering wheel, BSD-players use voice command to control the car. With Logitech, EA has developed a new controller for the game: a headrest with force-feedback and a built-in microphone."
I love bbspot.
ranger was the probe that went to the moon in 1965. Humans followed.
It was never the other way around.
What if the question is "Want a new son?"
What would an OS govt be like? Everybody (Every community) can edit the constitution and laws, try them out and then upload them to the CVS?
"This just in from Amsterdam, the Weed feature is nearing beta! Everybody download it, and hit the wiki."
These guys are trying, but they don't have enforcement powers tied to a wiki page.
I propose connecting your cpu and beer to a huge cooling tower that radiates to space from the dark side of the planet... wherever that may be at the moment.
hmm. so to be absolutely safe, you either wear a parka while working with liquid N2 or go buck naked. That sounds like a reality tv show right there.
A more slashdot-style story will come out when they declassify how the 4th captured saddam. The 4th is known as the wired division as they are using more experimental warfighting techniques and information technology than the 3rd (who are more traditional).
the press confrence had the general state that it was a "great piece of analytical work" to process the intel and get the third to move out in less than an hour and a half.
Oh how I wish they'd tell us the details.
the secret "gravity drive" device developed by Nergal Defense Industries
heh. Nergal the Unyielding One develops a drive/bomb based on gravity. I like it
good point. I wish we could build a city from scratch and do it right - just the best technology and no politics.
I like BPL as an interim solution before we get fiber to our houses, but in the end I *want* three cables going into my home - power, data and voice. Note that data and voice are separate. I also like having a landline and a cell phone.
Whenever I hear about multiple utilities becoming reliant on one system of infrastructure I always think of that telco parody which starts with:
"Hello? AT&T? I seem to be having problems with my phone..."
Well, maybe not a car, but if you know the weak point is on the top and rear armour of a tank...