Your prejudices are about the Netherlands, where the dutch lives. Danes live in Denmark. Also don't confuse Sweden (swedes) and Switzerland (swiss). And Slovakia, Slovenia and Slavonia.
Dude, who is this "we" you speak of? If you voted for Obama thinking he was FDR, what was it you were smoking in 2008, 'cause I'd like to partake in some of that now. Obama was an obvious tool in 2008. Were you reading his campaign material instead of following his votes in the Senate around Iraq, Afghanistan, FISA?
I'm old enough to remember what living in "FREE AMERICA" was like.
Uh, just how old is that? I'm old enough to remember Kent State, being kicked by a middle-aged stranger because I didn't stand for the national anthem at a 4th of July fireworks display, and discussions with the school principal about my right to refuse swearing fealty to the US flag. I'm old enough to remember Eugene McCarthy and the Chicago police riot. Are you old enough to remember Joe McCarthy? HUAC? The Palmer Raids? When exactly were you living in "FREE AMERICA"? What was it like?
sad really, that this article doesn't even mention the inventor of the sensory isolation tank, the mad genius Dr. John C. Lilly
Funny, my first thought on reading the post was The Center of the Cyclone, and I have been surprised that yours is the first comment I've seen referencing Lilly.
Does anybody have dollars to bet against my donuts that they will require the use of proprietary keywords and extensions?
Doing anything else would be so bizarre for Microsoft.
I think you've got this backwards. If you are sure that Microsoft will require the use of proprietary keywords and extensions then it is you who will be willing to wager dollars, and you will only require doughnuts to back the opposing position.
When was the last time you actually counted as high as 507? I'm not talking about counting to 100 five times and then another seven, but actually counting each number from 1 to 507?
I too would like this clarified, because while it is quite common to count to 100 five times and then another seven, it is much harder to actually count each number. I know that for years I used to take the well-known cowardly shortcut when counting to 507, but through diligent practice broke myself of the habit and now habitually do the actual counting.
The default policy on most distros the "Targeted" policy is pretty light weight. Its the horror movie equivalent of scream. Fully locked down SELinux is more like....faces of death.
Just like all the old misassembled dino skeletons, but this one's an animated 3D model you can port over to Team Fortres.
Yeah, that was kind of my reaction - the summary is written as if this model is a marvel of accuracy, but any claims about the dinosaur's movements will necessarily remain conjecture. Precision != accuracy.
Yours is a more lengthy and more thoughtful response than usually found on Slashdot. Unfortunately many American Slashdot readers, as Americans everywhere, have very little context from which to view our government's activities, hence the automatic and unfounded reaction that "everybody does it." There's a hubris here that is hard to communicate - an assumption of the US being first among bullies.
I flew back to the US from Berlin in August and before getting through customs was already being harangued by officials who treated passengers as if we were prisoners, or cattle, a contrast to the politeness I'd been treated with in Germany. My impression is that many Americans don't see the NSA and other "public servants" as civil servants at all, but rather as hired guns of a sort, who for the best reasons "step outside the law" like innumerable rogue television cops.
Sure, rich flounders have the right to waste money. But I think it is the responsibility of the public to shame them when they do. In a capitalist society, it is the excess money that should be devoted to improving society.
In a capitalist society it is my responsibility to shame someone for not spending money in a way I approve?
Wasting money is literally pissing away potential to make the world a better place.
I'm not sure literally means what you think it does here.
It's hard to know where best to direct criticism of this arrant, political nonsense. Obamacare, at least for the specious reasons given above, will have zero net effect on people in their late 30s deciding whether or no to begin a startup. MANY startups operate with no health insurance right now,
I'm not sure I understand your argument here. Are you saying because there are many startups with no health insurance the number of startups will not increase if people have access to health insurance?
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows that we weren't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
Should be...
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when I was so focused on what I had to do around Windows that I wasn't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
Absolutely. Years ago I was working for Microsoft at the Mountain View campus when Ballmer interrupted his address to a cafeteria full of employees to chastise a guy who had an iPhone, belligerently telling the crowd that we should all practice brand loyalty the way his family did. At the time I was still holding out hope for Windows Mobile, and had a Blackjack in my pocket, but I remember thinking Ballmer was a royal asshole, without a shred of humility and unable to have the common sense to recognize an engineer's choice of superior technology. At the time there were a number of MS employees in the audience with iPhones in their pockets. Ballmer could have made points by admitting the worth of the competition, and trying to rally opposition. Instead he just looked like a chair-throwing lunkhead.
You're paying for a space to park your car, the space isn't going to be cheaper because your car is only 1.65m long, so it's pretty much irrelevant.
In San Francisco there are any number of parking spaces, between driveways for instance, which will accommodate a Smart car but not my Prius. The length of the car very much does matter when looking for urban parking.
These tools are instituted with the goal of preventing children from seeing pornography but they end up being used to squelch anything out of the ordinary.
Several years ago I would have thought this was hyperbole, and then found AT&T's parental control filter blocked my son's smartphone from accessing lego.com. The prohibition might have been based on the violence shown by the Dragon Knights to the Castle Knights, but my guess was it was because of the "leg" in "lego".
So I put it to you, what is the correct course of action when we citizens of these United States of America are now all criminals in the eyes of the government?
You mean when we are all outlaws in the eyes of America? In order to survive we steal, cheat, lie, forge, fuck, hide, and deal...
I've had name brand Bluerays fail within a couple years and there was not a scratch on them. I've a library of Maxell, Verbatim, and TDK DVDs and Blueray disks that I burnt over the years and stored in paper sleeves in storage boxes, and every once in a while one will play with glitches or skips despite the surface being pristine. The problem seems to be with the lack of longevity of dyes used, rather than the surface getting scratched.
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No that's the other Zimmerman... I think this one is the guy who sells you a black suit and says "You're gonna like the way you look"
I guarantee it.
Your prejudices are about the Netherlands, where the dutch lives. Danes live in Denmark. Also don't confuse Sweden (swedes) and Switzerland (swiss). And Slovakia, Slovenia and Slavonia.
Where does Swaziland fit in?
We THOUGHT we were voting for a new FDR in 2008.
Dude, who is this "we" you speak of? If you voted for Obama thinking he was FDR, what was it you were smoking in 2008, 'cause I'd like to partake in some of that now. Obama was an obvious tool in 2008. Were you reading his campaign material instead of following his votes in the Senate around Iraq, Afghanistan, FISA?
I'm old enough to remember what living in "FREE AMERICA" was like.
Uh, just how old is that? I'm old enough to remember Kent State, being kicked by a middle-aged stranger because I didn't stand for the national anthem at a 4th of July fireworks display, and discussions with the school principal about my right to refuse swearing fealty to the US flag. I'm old enough to remember Eugene McCarthy and the Chicago police riot. Are you old enough to remember Joe McCarthy? HUAC? The Palmer Raids? When exactly were you living in "FREE AMERICA"? What was it like?
Frau Blücher!
sad really, that this article doesn't even mention the inventor of the sensory isolation tank, the mad genius Dr. John C. Lilly
Funny, my first thought on reading the post was The Center of the Cyclone, and I have been surprised that yours is the first comment I've seen referencing Lilly.
Does anybody have dollars to bet against my donuts that they will require the use of proprietary keywords and extensions?
Doing anything else would be so bizarre for Microsoft.
I think you've got this backwards. If you are sure that Microsoft will require the use of proprietary keywords and extensions then it is you who will be willing to wager dollars, and you will only require doughnuts to back the opposing position.
Most non-STEM education beyond associate-level courses is bullshit.
Troll much, bro?
When was the last time you actually counted as high as 507? I'm not talking about counting to 100 five times and then another seven, but actually counting each number from 1 to 507?
I too would like this clarified, because while it is quite common to count to 100 five times and then another seven, it is much harder to actually count each number. I know that for years I used to take the well-known cowardly shortcut when counting to 507, but through diligent practice broke myself of the habit and now habitually do the actual counting.
Say brother, can you spare a pointer?
Should have a heap of them around here somewhere. Let me peek in the register. Ah yes, here's a stack!
Engineers at Duke University say they've constructed a device that can collect stray wireless signals
WTF is a "stray wireless signal"? This is a signal without an owner? Slipped out of its collar?
The default policy on most distros the "Targeted" policy is pretty light weight. Its the horror movie equivalent of scream. Fully locked down SELinux is more like....faces of death.
Could I get this in a car analogy please?
Just like all the old misassembled dino skeletons, but this one's an animated 3D model you can port over to Team Fortres.
Yeah, that was kind of my reaction - the summary is written as if this model is a marvel of accuracy, but any claims about the dinosaur's movements will necessarily remain conjecture. Precision != accuracy.
Yours is a more lengthy and more thoughtful response than usually found on Slashdot. Unfortunately many American Slashdot readers, as Americans everywhere, have very little context from which to view our government's activities, hence the automatic and unfounded reaction that "everybody does it." There's a hubris here that is hard to communicate - an assumption of the US being first among bullies. I flew back to the US from Berlin in August and before getting through customs was already being harangued by officials who treated passengers as if we were prisoners, or cattle, a contrast to the politeness I'd been treated with in Germany. My impression is that many Americans don't see the NSA and other "public servants" as civil servants at all, but rather as hired guns of a sort, who for the best reasons "step outside the law" like innumerable rogue television cops.
Sure, rich flounders have the right to waste money. But I think it is the responsibility of the public to shame them when they do. In a capitalist society, it is the excess money that should be devoted to improving society.
In a capitalist society it is my responsibility to shame someone for not spending money in a way I approve?
Wasting money is literally pissing away potential to make the world a better place.
I'm not sure literally means what you think it does here.
precisely what assembly lines effect, even if
AFFECT, damned
(grammar nazis ftw)
Well, no, actually. In this case the poster really does mean effect, as in bring into being, rather than affect, or alter.
It's hard to know where best to direct criticism of this arrant, political nonsense. Obamacare, at least for the specious reasons given above, will have zero net effect on people in their late 30s deciding whether or no to begin a startup. MANY startups operate with no health insurance right now,
I'm not sure I understand your argument here. Are you saying because there are many startups with no health insurance the number of startups will not increase if people have access to health insurance?
So, if photons have no mass, how do black holes keep the photons from escaping?
Oh my god, my brain hurts.
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows that we weren't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
Should be...
I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when I was so focused on what I had to do around Windows that I wasn't able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone,' Ballmer told the audience of Wall Street analysts and investors. 'That is the thing I regret the most.'
Absolutely. Years ago I was working for Microsoft at the Mountain View campus when Ballmer interrupted his address to a cafeteria full of employees to chastise a guy who had an iPhone, belligerently telling the crowd that we should all practice brand loyalty the way his family did. At the time I was still holding out hope for Windows Mobile, and had a Blackjack in my pocket, but I remember thinking Ballmer was a royal asshole, without a shred of humility and unable to have the common sense to recognize an engineer's choice of superior technology. At the time there were a number of MS employees in the audience with iPhones in their pockets. Ballmer could have made points by admitting the worth of the competition, and trying to rally opposition. Instead he just looked like a chair-throwing lunkhead.
Me too, man. Big question: Altair or IMSAI?
You're paying for a space to park your car, the space isn't going to be cheaper because your car is only 1.65m long, so it's pretty much irrelevant.
In San Francisco there are any number of parking spaces, between driveways for instance, which will accommodate a Smart car but not my Prius. The length of the car very much does matter when looking for urban parking.
I pent cars for a living, you insensitive clod.
You and I are in similar lines of work - I pent houses.
These tools are instituted with the goal of preventing children from seeing pornography but they end up being used to squelch anything out of the ordinary.
Several years ago I would have thought this was hyperbole, and then found AT&T's parental control filter blocked my son's smartphone from accessing lego.com. The prohibition might have been based on the violence shown by the Dragon Knights to the Castle Knights, but my guess was it was because of the "leg" in "lego".
So I put it to you, what is the correct course of action when we citizens of these United States of America are now all criminals in the eyes of the government?
You mean when we are all outlaws in the eyes of America? In order to survive we steal, cheat, lie, forge, fuck, hide, and deal...
I've had name brand Bluerays fail within a couple years and there was not a scratch on them. I've a library of Maxell, Verbatim, and TDK DVDs and Blueray disks that I burnt over the years and stored in paper sleeves in storage boxes, and every once in a while one will play with glitches or skips despite the surface being pristine. The problem seems to be with the lack of longevity of dyes used, rather than the surface getting scratched.