No those kooks^H^Halternative medicine experts reversed the decision on magnets about 5 years ago when they realized they could make more mone^H^H^Hthat magnets were actually helpful and can be built into magnetic bracelets and such.
I dare say that Africa is the most ignored continent. I must admit that I know very little about it, but what I do know is both interesting (armchair history) and really fscked up (Muslim fundies, civil war, extreme poverty).
So by adding one wildcard, Cameroon suddenly manages to get a good portion of the geek internet and maybe a few blurbs on the normal internet paying attention to it. Brilliant.
Though it is important to note that AMERICA Online doesn't sell very well in EUROPE.
On the upshot, after 14 years of AOL, my parents have made the transition to DSL and real IMAP email access. Days before they cancel, they find out that all the hassle of making sure people had the new email addresses they get to keep them. Thats good customer service, being good to customers even after they stop paying you.
Even between the US and EU there is still a lot of risk/trust.
I'm currently working on a project that could turn a small company into an IPO or a buyout. I'm a US student and I'm going home in a few weeks. I have to trust that my boss will pay me, and he has to trust that when I do my last CVS checkin that I delete the company source from my laptop and my backup drive and the backup I keep on my SD cards.
What it comes down to is trust. I'm sure that by percentage, there are just as many Indians who would screw their employer for the right price as there are red-blooded 'Mericuns.
I think the real crux of the conflict between the police and the populace is that they only really see each other when something bad happens.
I only ever talk to police when I'm about to get in trouble (usually a speeding ticket). The police don't always see the greatest members of society. The see the drunks, the druggies, the traffic offenders, the murders, and so on. So we have two groups that only ever see each other in a negative manner.
The story would be different if it were talking about Mr. Cruz were taking a photo of the policeman and his neighbor sharing a joke. Wishy washy I know, but would you rather talk to a cop when you're a suspect or would you like to wave hello to a friendly officer as he patrols your neigborhood?
I think both sides need to realize that no every person who made a minor traffic infraction is carrying 10kg of hashish in the boot and that people understand that not every cop is some neo-Nazi violent psycho working for Big Brother then maybe the serious situations like this article won't happen or if they do, they get settled more respectably.
I would pay a slight premium for a special checkout lane.
I tend to go grocery shopping once every other day, sometimes daily. It's a habt I got into last year and living in Germany has only reinforced it. I buy a few fresh items, a drink or two, and some essentials (razors, soap, lube etc.). I very rarely have any more than a shopping basket full, I usually can carry what I bought in my hands.
When I get to the register I already have my cash or my credit card out. I've been paying for things at stores since I was 5, I don't see how people can act surprised (watch them, they do) when the cashier gets done zapping things and asks for some form of payment.
Let me through. It isn't a personal ego thing, I'm simply going to zip right through the line and be on my way. Its common courtesy.
On a related note, Wal-Mart shoppers in Northeast Ohio. If you see a man walking to the register and he is carrying a pack of razorblades, 2 boxes of roundnose.45, and a pack of paper targets with his credit card ready, it is exceedingly rude and possibly unwise for you and your troupe of loud running children to cut him off. I had plans this afternoon, relaxing enjoyable plans, that are now delayed for 15 minutes while you sort out what candy your kids threw in the cart and what candy your fat ass bought.
It isn't that science isn't making progress, the issue is that science doesn't make progress suitable for todays media.
Modern scientific advancement is very incremental. In this case (hypothetical for the sake of discussion) someone had to find out that amyloid had something to do with Alzheimers, then maybe a chemical workup on what amyloid is, what causes the body to make/not make amyloid, then some lab tests to find out what chemicals would supress amyloid, and then maybe a few drug samples to test with. Oh and lets not forget that the researchers are answerable to universities, financiers, bosses, and the FDA along the way.
Think back to your science classes in high school. Even the basic experiments you did there still took 30-45 minutes and then again to write. When you consider the amount of data that professional science has to gather, process, and summarize to do the work correctly, I'm amazed that things move as fast as they do.
The media, and most casual readers, want to hear "new fantastic drug cure thingy on shelves now". Unfortunately you simply don't have that kind of whiz bang scientific advancement very often. Small, incremental possibilities don't make for good news, and to the unaware can lead to a distrust of science.
Holy hell, look at the required fields. They're worried about people getting EMAIL addresses of minors?
* First Name * Last Name * Email * DOB * Password * Retype Password * Address * City * State * Zip Code
* Phone Number *Gender: Male Female * Security Question * Security Answer * I agree to the Contest Rules and Talent Release * Parent or Guardian's Email * Parent or Guardian's Consent
What is going to grab anyone's attention more? "We ship quadraphexametaline to your door for a flat rate of $9.99 - click here to order" or "18 year old Mariana Gottemoff does immoral things with a bearclaw - click here to view"
Depends what you mean by bearclaw. Do you mean the donut or the toenail of a large mammal?
The university is doing this so it does not have to enforce behavioral clauses in its athletic agreement. I estimate KSU would lose at least two atheletes a year from each sport if it was reported to the university that there was evidence of a breach of contract on Facebook/MySpace.
Many of these photos and entries are timestamped and certain events in Kent only happen once a year Thus it would be easy enough to demonstrate that the breach occured within the time specified in the contract.
According to university policy if a breach is reported they have to investigate it and if the reporting person is agitated enough the university then faces another legal issue. A large enough wager/bribe on an important game and a few well placed free-beers and digital cameras would make a good payday for someone.
If it matters, I'm a KSU student. Graduating (escaping) in August. I suspect this might have something to do with Kents new president, but don't give a shit so long as they give me my diploma.
" Coke is reknowned for having a terrible human-rights record (assassinating union leaders, distributing radioactive and toxic sludge to Indian farmers as 'fertilizer', etc)."
Why in the high holy fuck would CocafuckingCola have anything to do with nuclear/toxic waste. They make a soft drink for christsakes.
Yes, they'd be shelling out 10 BILLION for a $4 set of blueprints, a $2000 r/c airplane, and the remainder into special projects in the home districts of the senators where the aircraft is made.
They keep voting for him because a lot of that pork is for Alaska. Would you vote against someone that is helping your state get more money to spend (ie handouts or jobs) on you?
"I didn't know Myspace was a pre-requisite for the exchange of emails and phone calls, nor that the going rate for "facilitating" rape was thirty fucking million dollars."
Most appropriate use of 'fucking' as an adjective EVER.
Also, I'd wager that there are some rich perverts that would happily pay thirty fucking million dollars for a go with a 14 year old.
Spending money on the ISS is a good thing. If it has to get the funding and upgrades it needs as 'plan B' so be it, it's still funding.
Time and time again NASA illustrates the things that can go perfectly right and horribly wrong when engineers and pioneers are held accountable to politicians via managers/beauracrats.
Sometimes it works. Kennedy told them to put a man on the moon, and they did it. They were tasked in the 70's with making a reusable spacecraft, they did pretty good for a first project, especially getting it to last damn near 30 years. Then in the 80's they were tasked with long term space visits, had some help with that, but got it done still.
Now the managers are no longer managing but worrying about political decisions. Without good management the actual work stalls as the geeks don't know what to work and jump ship.
I'm torn as to how to resolve this. I don't want public money going to private companies, nor do I want to see it squandered in a dinosaur of an organization.
At the very least acknowledge that NASA has some issues and see what we can do to ease any restrictions against private companies moving into orbit and sharing with them research that was done with public money at NASA.
If you do buisness with any American company, YOU ARE.
I don't just mean the $5 million a year (a drop of piss in the bucket of American government spending), but the entire patent issue at large.
For 'targeted' products, like the iPod, eBay, or Amazon, you're paying some money up front that the producer is setting aside to pay for lawsuits. After a ruling, the cost of that payout is being passed on to the consumer.
I'm not speaking against it, thats how capitalism works and I love it. It just seems that so often people cheer on a lawsuit without realizing what it does to all of us. There is a time and a place for severe financial punishment, but it is abused and I'm certain it affects all of us.
Some humour to start: " Sources generally cite estimates in the 2050-2060 range for when we'll be actually using fusion power.", SimCity 2000 is NOT a source!
I think the slow investment in fusion, bio-diesel, eco-friendly widget X, or sciencey cool widget Z is because it is just that, INVESTMENT. Investing, even from the government, is a matter of getting something back from that investment in a reasonable time.
I am inclined to agree with your guesstimate of 2050 for viable energy from fusion. So we would have to wait 44 years from today to get something back for our money. For private investors, my generation (mid 20s) is at present the only group who might have money to invest and will be alive long enough to get something out of it. Those of us who are actually saving for the future see mutual funds as being a bit safer and more profitable than a science investment.
Corporate investors realize that 50 years is far to long term for even the most solid of companies. More importantly, other energy markets have steadily increasing prices. They can invest in oil now, and make money now, or invest in this and make money later.
Governments (US-centric: ON) face similar issues as corporations. There is a political payoff for doing something with oil now, more of a payout than doing something sensible that will payoff in the future.
Thats my take on the matter. It sucks, but I think thats how it is. Any thoughts on how we can change it?
Slashdot Mirror
No those kooks^H^Halternative medicine experts reversed the decision on magnets about 5 years ago when they realized they could make more mone^H^H^Hthat magnets were actually helpful and can be built into magnetic bracelets and such.
An effective strategy unless your neighbor is a pedophile.
Left leaning with disposable income? You bet your ass they do. :D
I dare say that Africa is the most ignored continent. I must admit that I know very little about it, but what I do know is both interesting (armchair history) and really fscked up (Muslim fundies, civil war, extreme poverty).
So by adding one wildcard, Cameroon suddenly manages to get a good portion of the geek internet and maybe a few blurbs on the normal internet paying attention to it. Brilliant.
...in Europe, so Slashdot doesn't care.
Though it is important to note that AMERICA Online doesn't sell very well in EUROPE.
On the upshot, after 14 years of AOL, my parents have made the transition to DSL and real IMAP email access. Days before they cancel, they find out that all the hassle of making sure people had the new email addresses they get to keep them. Thats good customer service, being good to customers even after they stop paying you.
Even between the US and EU there is still a lot of risk/trust.
I'm currently working on a project that could turn a small company into an IPO or a buyout. I'm a US student and I'm going home in a few weeks. I have to trust that my boss will pay me, and he has to trust that when I do my last CVS checkin that I delete the company source from my laptop and my backup drive and the backup I keep on my SD cards.
What it comes down to is trust. I'm sure that by percentage, there are just as many Indians who would screw their employer for the right price as there are red-blooded 'Mericuns.
1) The 'injured stormtrooper' fan film.
2) What if he shot you in the face?
I think the real crux of the conflict between the police and the populace is that they only really see each other when something bad happens.
I only ever talk to police when I'm about to get in trouble (usually a speeding ticket). The police don't always see the greatest members of society. The see the drunks, the druggies, the traffic offenders, the murders, and so on. So we have two groups that only ever see each other in a negative manner.
The story would be different if it were talking about Mr. Cruz were taking a photo of the policeman and his neighbor sharing a joke. Wishy washy I know, but would you rather talk to a cop when you're a suspect or would you like to wave hello to a friendly officer as he patrols your neigborhood?
I think both sides need to realize that no every person who made a minor traffic infraction is carrying 10kg of hashish in the boot and that people understand that not every cop is some neo-Nazi violent psycho working for Big Brother then maybe the serious situations like this article won't happen or if they do, they get settled more respectably.
I would pay a slight premium for a special checkout lane.
.45, and a pack of paper targets with his credit card ready, it is exceedingly rude and possibly unwise for you and your troupe of loud running children to cut him off. I had plans this afternoon, relaxing enjoyable plans, that are now delayed for 15 minutes while you sort out what candy your kids threw in the cart and what candy your fat ass bought.
I tend to go grocery shopping once every other day, sometimes daily. It's a habt I got into last year and living in Germany has only reinforced it. I buy a few fresh items, a drink or two, and some essentials (razors, soap, lube etc.). I very rarely have any more than a shopping basket full, I usually can carry what I bought in my hands.
When I get to the register I already have my cash or my credit card out. I've been paying for things at stores since I was 5, I don't see how people can act surprised (watch them, they do) when the cashier gets done zapping things and asks for some form of payment.
Let me through. It isn't a personal ego thing, I'm simply going to zip right through the line and be on my way. Its common courtesy.
On a related note, Wal-Mart shoppers in Northeast Ohio. If you see a man walking to the register and he is carrying a pack of razorblades, 2 boxes of roundnose
It isn't that science isn't making progress, the issue is that science doesn't make progress suitable for todays media.
Modern scientific advancement is very incremental. In this case (hypothetical for the sake of discussion) someone had to find out that amyloid had something to do with Alzheimers, then maybe a chemical workup on what amyloid is, what causes the body to make/not make amyloid, then some lab tests to find out what chemicals would supress amyloid, and then maybe a few drug samples to test with. Oh and lets not forget that the researchers are answerable to universities, financiers, bosses, and the FDA along the way.
Think back to your science classes in high school. Even the basic experiments you did there still took 30-45 minutes and then again to write. When you consider the amount of data that professional science has to gather, process, and summarize to do the work correctly, I'm amazed that things move as fast as they do.
The media, and most casual readers, want to hear "new fantastic drug cure thingy on shelves now". Unfortunately you simply don't have that kind of whiz bang scientific advancement very often. Small, incremental possibilities don't make for good news, and to the unaware can lead to a distrust of science.
http://schoolyourway.walmart.com/index.php/registe r
Holy hell, look at the required fields. They're worried about people getting EMAIL addresses of minors?
* First Name
* Last Name
* Email
* DOB
* Password
* Retype Password
* Address
* City
* State
* Zip Code
* Phone Number
*Gender: Male Female
* Security Question
* Security Answer
* I agree to the Contest Rules and Talent Release
* Parent or Guardian's Email
* Parent or Guardian's Consent
Well, I've been out of the country and away from my friends for a few months.
I can't go egging houses, but tonight, yeeeess tonight we see what we can get past the censors at WalMart.
Will post updates here.
I should probably shave first.
What is going to grab anyone's attention more? "We ship quadraphexametaline to your door for a flat rate of $9.99 - click here to order" or "18 year old Mariana Gottemoff does immoral things with a bearclaw - click here to view" Depends what you mean by bearclaw. Do you mean the donut or the toenail of a large mammal?
Its on the web, java based maybe?
Shows just dandy in a browser window.
I saw his head on a pike somewhere in the mid 90's.
The university is doing this so it does not have to enforce behavioral clauses in its athletic agreement. I estimate KSU would lose at least two atheletes a year from each sport if it was reported to the university that there was evidence of a breach of contract on Facebook/MySpace.
Many of these photos and entries are timestamped and certain events in Kent only happen once a year Thus it would be easy enough to demonstrate that the breach occured within the time specified in the contract.
According to university policy if a breach is reported they have to investigate it and if the reporting person is agitated enough the university then faces another legal issue. A large enough wager/bribe on an important game and a few well placed free-beers and digital cameras would make a good payday for someone.
If it matters, I'm a KSU student. Graduating (escaping) in August. I suspect this might have something to do with Kents new president, but don't give a shit so long as they give me my diploma.
" Coke is reknowned for having a terrible human-rights record (assassinating union leaders, distributing radioactive and toxic sludge to Indian farmers as 'fertilizer', etc)."
Why in the high holy fuck would CocafuckingCola have anything to do with nuclear/toxic waste. They make a soft drink for christsakes.
The site the OP linked to is really neat.
Theres quite a bit of good PC computing history from a custom builder perspective. Translates well to the small shop or the lone self-service geek.
More importantly there is some good commentary on how a buisness and its customers should work together.
If I was in AU I'd be buying from RedHill.
Yes, they'd be shelling out 10 BILLION for a $4 set of blueprints, a $2000 r/c airplane, and the remainder into special projects in the home districts of the senators where the aircraft is made.
They keep voting for him because a lot of that pork is for Alaska. Would you vote against someone that is helping your state get more money to spend (ie handouts or jobs) on you?
"I didn't know Myspace was a pre-requisite for the exchange of emails and phone calls, nor that the going rate for "facilitating" rape was thirty fucking million dollars."
Most appropriate use of 'fucking' as an adjective EVER.
Also, I'd wager that there are some rich perverts that would happily pay thirty fucking million dollars for a go with a 14 year old.
Spending money on the ISS is a good thing. If it has to get the funding and upgrades it needs as 'plan B' so be it, it's still funding.
Time and time again NASA illustrates the things that can go perfectly right and horribly wrong when engineers and pioneers are held accountable to politicians via managers/beauracrats.
Sometimes it works. Kennedy told them to put a man on the moon, and they did it. They were tasked in the 70's with making a reusable spacecraft, they did pretty good for a first project, especially getting it to last damn near 30 years. Then in the 80's they were tasked with long term space visits, had some help with that, but got it done still.
Now the managers are no longer managing but worrying about political decisions. Without good management the actual work stalls as the geeks don't know what to work and jump ship.
I'm torn as to how to resolve this. I don't want public money going to private companies, nor do I want to see it squandered in a dinosaur of an organization.
At the very least acknowledge that NASA has some issues and see what we can do to ease any restrictions against private companies moving into orbit and sharing with them research that was done with public money at NASA.
Its. PEBKAC.
Turn your badge in at the door, sir/ma'am.
If you do buisness with any American company, YOU ARE.
I don't just mean the $5 million a year (a drop of piss in the bucket of American government spending), but the entire patent issue at large.
For 'targeted' products, like the iPod, eBay, or Amazon, you're paying some money up front that the producer is setting aside to pay for lawsuits. After a ruling, the cost of that payout is being passed on to the consumer.
I'm not speaking against it, thats how capitalism works and I love it. It just seems that so often people cheer on a lawsuit without realizing what it does to all of us. There is a time and a place for severe financial punishment, but it is abused and I'm certain it affects all of us.
Some humour to start: " Sources generally cite estimates in the 2050-2060 range for when we'll be actually using fusion power.", SimCity 2000 is NOT a source!
I think the slow investment in fusion, bio-diesel, eco-friendly widget X, or sciencey cool widget Z is because it is just that, INVESTMENT. Investing, even from the government, is a matter of getting something back from that investment in a reasonable time.
I am inclined to agree with your guesstimate of 2050 for viable energy from fusion. So we would have to wait 44 years from today to get something back for our money. For private investors, my generation (mid 20s) is at present the only group who might have money to invest and will be alive long enough to get something out of it. Those of us who are actually saving for the future see mutual funds as being a bit safer and more profitable than a science investment.
Corporate investors realize that 50 years is far to long term for even the most solid of companies. More importantly, other energy markets have steadily increasing prices. They can invest in oil now, and make money now, or invest in this and make money later.
Governments (US-centric: ON) face similar issues as corporations. There is a political payoff for doing something with oil now, more of a payout than doing something sensible that will payoff in the future.
Thats my take on the matter. It sucks, but I think thats how it is. Any thoughts on how we can change it?