XENU.NET [xenu.net] is in Norway, you frigging idiot.
The guy thinks he's descended from clams and full of thousands of little souls blown up by H-bombs in Hawaii 75 million years ago, and you point out his idiocy for confusing the Netherlands and Norway?;)
Or just revoke whatever religious statute they hold, then send off the IRS to collect all the tax money they've been avoiding for the last twenty years. That would surely keep them from throwing the DMCA around.
The IRS has already caved in to the Co$, what makes you think they would have any more success this time?
There can be no more bizarre sight than that of football teams praying to god at half time. How does god decide who he should favour...
The few times I've been on an organized sporting team (it was soccer - oh wait, that's football too, isn't it), the prayers weren't "O God, let us win" but more like "O God, keep us safe and don't let anyone get hurt."
Incidentally, we had a couple Hindu players on our team, and they didn't seem to mind the prayers at all. They were quite non-denominational, not even "in Jesus' name we pray" at the end.
Mandrake claims they will have KDE 3.0 packages available for 8.2 when it's released. I'd much rather they give us a thoroughly tested and functional 2.2.2 and let us upgrade to 3.0 when we're ready.
They've got the right to believe the way the want to, so do you.
True. However, at least in the U.S. they do not have the right to silence critics, nor to intimidate by threat of lawsuit, or many of the other wonderful things the "church" of $cientology does.
Ever calculate the amount of energy needed to push a large asteroid off course? If we don't see it until it's crossing the moon's orbit, the entire nuclear arsenal of the world is several orders of magnitude too small.
It's also possible that a certain number of disasters are needed to keep evolution going. In other words, without a mass extinction every so often, intelligent life might never develop.
We just don't know, because we have only one data point (Earth) and no clue what it would be like with no moon, or without Jupiter, or if we were 10 million miles further from the sun.
You are correct, faster moving vehicles will also cause more fatalities - as well as burning more fuel, thus increasing pollution as well as dependence on oil. This is why we have speed limits, and a person driving very fast causing accidents can (theoretically) be held liable for deaths he causes.
That said, I'd still prefer to be hit by a sports car than an SUV. An Excursion can go 100+ mph, and I've seen jackasses driving them that fast around here. No offense meant to the folks who own SUV's and drive them responsibly.
Hey, now, don't diss Deborah. She's now an accomplished Broadway actress and is still putting out some great albums, despite the fact that they're getting no radio airplay. Also, she writes her own music and plays many of the instruments - she's no Britney.
BYW, 1/2 of all highway dealths are single car accidents. More victims in lighter cars then heavier.
In how many of these deaths can it be shown that the victim would not have been killed in a larger vehicle? Size does not automatically equal safety. In fact, physics indicates that reducing the average weight of vehicles will reduce the average kinetic energy of accidents, which should increase survivability.
Think - which would you rather collide with, a Geo Metro or a Ford Excursion? Increase the number of Metros on the road, and you improve your chances of surviving the next accident. Unless, of course, you're in the habit of running off the road yourself, in which case you become one of those single-accident statistics regardless of the size of your vehicle.
Damn, how many computers do you have? I've got four computers, and I seriously doubt they are the majority of our energy consumption (given that we have electric heating and cooling). According to my power bill, our consumption this month was 2087kWh over 32 days, which works out to 2.7kW average.
Last year at this time, it was right at 2kW, but this year my wife is at home with our new baby so that's probably the difference.
... that humanity is responsible for the CO2 emissions, that led to the destruction of the ozone layer, that led to increased sunlight melting the Antarctic icecap....
Um, if you're going to argue in a global warming discussion, get your facts straight. CO2 doesn't deplete the ozone layer, CFCs do. The depletion of the ozone layer, on the other hand, has nothing to do with global warming. CO2 contributes to the greenhouse effect which traps heat in the atmosphere. This is what causes global warming.
What the AC says is somewhat true, despite the abusive tone of his argument. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were terrible catastrophes. But, coal-burning power plants result in far more deaths, injuries, toxic and radioactive waste, and pollution in one year than the equivalent power output nuclear plant will over its entire operating lifetime. I support a lot of 'green' causes myself, but I think anti-nuclear paranoia has done nothing but force much of the US to stick to coal which is provably dirtier and more dangerous.
Erm, I'm not saying nuclear weapons are wonderful toys to leave lying around, but there are no 500MT bombs. The largest weapon ever tested was a 50MT Soviet device, that theoretically could have been enhanced to yield appx 100MT. And, there are very few weapons of this size class - there are far more 1MT weapons lying around.
Volcanoes do not have free will, and do not have the ability to know right from wrong. Thus, they are not responsible for their actions. Humans, on the other hand, do know right from wrong, and are responsible for their actions.
Or do you think that because volcanoes sometimes kill people, that makes murder ok? After all, if they have the right to do it, why shouldn't we?
Well, if you were going to use this motherboard in embedded applications you might find serial or parallel i/o quite useful. Depending on the OS used, you might need the ps/2 ports as well. I think the theory behind keeping them is that the number of customers who need them outweighs the nickel or so extra they cost to provide.
Yep, and real ACL's would be nice too. And while I'm waiting for the two minute limit to expire, I'll add that ideally this file system could be made network-transparent and synchronizable to disconnected machines (laptops).
Actually, we have a bad transformer in our neighborhood, and we used to have power failures on almost a biweekly basis. Two Linux boxes with ext2 at my house, and I only once had unrecoverable filesystem corruption. The one time, though, was a doozie. / and/usr were both turned to mush, so when I reinstalled I used ext3.
On the other hand, I've seen some cases of FAT corruption that were every bit as horrible. In terms of incidents per machine hour, FAT and ext2 are fairly comparable. FAT has the advantage of quicker error checking on the next reboot, though.
You think Bush isn't going to try riding the "axis of evil" to a second term? He learned from his daddy (and Clinton) that if the polls are down, bomb the Iraqis.
Well, his Daddy was looking like a shoe-in for re-election during the Gulf War, but he ended up losing in 1992. So there's still a chance we can be rid of Dubya in 2004.
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XENU.NET [xenu.net] is in Norway, you frigging idiot.
;)
The guy thinks he's descended from clams and full of thousands of little souls blown up by H-bombs in Hawaii 75 million years ago, and you point out his idiocy for confusing the Netherlands and Norway?
Or just revoke whatever religious statute they hold, then send off the IRS to collect all the tax money they've been avoiding for the last twenty years. That would surely keep them from throwing the DMCA around.
The IRS has already caved in to the Co$, what makes you think they would have any more success this time?
Oh, I'm sure the clams had their part in it. They're deep in the entertainment industry, and thus deep in the pockets of the Congress.
There can be no more bizarre sight than that of football teams praying to god at half time. How does god decide who he should favour...
The few times I've been on an organized sporting team (it was soccer - oh wait, that's football too, isn't it), the prayers weren't "O God, let us win" but more like "O God, keep us safe and don't let anyone get hurt."
Incidentally, we had a couple Hindu players on our team, and they didn't seem to mind the prayers at all. They were quite non-denominational, not even "in Jesus' name we pray" at the end.
Damn, you beat me to it.
Note: to get a song out of your head, think about the Barney Miller theme. Dummmm, dum dum dummmm, dum dum dummmmmm....
Mandrake claims they will have KDE 3.0 packages available for 8.2 when it's released. I'd much rather they give us a thoroughly tested and functional 2.2.2 and let us upgrade to 3.0 when we're ready.
especially in Germany where tom cruise and travolta's movies are not really welcome...
You mean they are welcome in the US?
They've got the right to believe the way the want to, so do you.
True. However, at least in the U.S. they do not have the right to silence critics, nor to intimidate by threat of lawsuit, or many of the other wonderful things the "church" of $cientology does.
Ever calculate the amount of energy needed to push a large asteroid off course? If we don't see it until it's crossing the moon's orbit, the entire nuclear arsenal of the world is several orders of magnitude too small.
It's also possible that a certain number of disasters are needed to keep evolution going. In other words, without a mass extinction every so often, intelligent life might never develop.
We just don't know, because we have only one data point (Earth) and no clue what it would be like with no moon, or without Jupiter, or if we were 10 million miles further from the sun.
No, Santa's shop is at the geographic north pole, not the magnetic. If it was at the magnetic pole, he would have trouble testing toy compasses.
I was using the line from Airplane,which is "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley".
You are correct, faster moving vehicles will also cause more fatalities - as well as burning more fuel, thus increasing pollution as well as dependence on oil. This is why we have speed limits, and a person driving very fast causing accidents can (theoretically) be held liable for deaths he causes.
That said, I'd still prefer to be hit by a sports car than an SUV. An Excursion can go 100+ mph, and I've seen jackasses driving them that fast around here. No offense meant to the folks who own SUV's and drive them responsibly.
Hey, now, don't diss Deborah. She's now an accomplished Broadway actress and is still putting out some great albums, despite the fact that they're getting no radio airplay. Also, she writes her own music and plays many of the instruments - she's no Britney.
And I'm not even posting this anonymously.
Just use Qtella. Is that so hard?
BYW, 1/2 of all highway dealths are single car accidents. More victims in lighter cars then heavier.
In how many of these deaths can it be shown that the victim would not have been killed in a larger vehicle? Size does not automatically equal safety. In fact, physics indicates that reducing the average weight of vehicles will reduce the average kinetic energy of accidents, which should increase survivability.
Think - which would you rather collide with, a Geo Metro or a Ford Excursion? Increase the number of Metros on the road, and you improve your chances of surviving the next accident. Unless, of course, you're in the habit of running off the road yourself, in which case you become one of those single-accident statistics regardless of the size of your vehicle.
2KW? My computers use that much by themselves!
Damn, how many computers do you have? I've got four computers, and I seriously doubt they are the majority of our energy consumption (given that we have electric heating and cooling). According to my power bill, our consumption this month was 2087kWh over 32 days, which works out to 2.7kW average.
Last year at this time, it was right at 2kW, but this year my wife is at home with our new baby so that's probably the difference.
... that humanity is responsible for the CO2 emissions, that led to the destruction of the ozone layer, that led to increased sunlight melting the Antarctic icecap ....
Um, if you're going to argue in a global warming discussion, get your facts straight. CO2 doesn't deplete the ozone layer, CFCs do. The depletion of the ozone layer, on the other hand, has nothing to do with global warming. CO2 contributes to the greenhouse effect which traps heat in the atmosphere. This is what causes global warming.
What the AC says is somewhat true, despite the abusive tone of his argument. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were terrible catastrophes. But, coal-burning power plants result in far more deaths, injuries, toxic and radioactive waste, and pollution in one year than the equivalent power output nuclear plant will over its entire operating lifetime. I support a lot of 'green' causes myself, but I think anti-nuclear paranoia has done nothing but force much of the US to stick to coal which is provably dirtier and more dangerous.
Erm, I'm not saying nuclear weapons are wonderful toys to leave lying around, but there are no 500MT bombs. The largest weapon ever tested was a 50MT Soviet device, that theoretically could have been enhanced to yield appx 100MT. And, there are very few weapons of this size class - there are far more 1MT weapons lying around.
Volcanoes do not have free will, and do not have the ability to know right from wrong. Thus, they are not responsible for their actions. Humans, on the other hand, do know right from wrong, and are responsible for their actions.
Or do you think that because volcanoes sometimes kill people, that makes murder ok? After all, if they have the right to do it, why shouldn't we?
Well, if you were going to use this motherboard in embedded applications you might find serial or parallel i/o quite useful. Depending on the OS used, you might need the ps/2 ports as well. I think the theory behind keeping them is that the number of customers who need them outweighs the nickel or so extra they cost to provide.
Yep, and real ACL's would be nice too. And while I'm waiting for the two minute limit to expire, I'll add that ideally this file system could be made network-transparent and synchronizable to disconnected machines (laptops).
Actually, we have a bad transformer in our neighborhood, and we used to have power failures on almost a biweekly basis. Two Linux boxes with ext2 at my house, and I only once had unrecoverable filesystem corruption. The one time, though, was a doozie. / and /usr were both turned to mush, so when I reinstalled I used ext3.
On the other hand, I've seen some cases of FAT corruption that were every bit as horrible. In terms of incidents per machine hour, FAT and ext2 are fairly comparable. FAT has the advantage of quicker error checking on the next reboot, though.
You think Bush isn't going to try riding the "axis of evil" to a second term? He learned from his daddy (and Clinton) that if the polls are down, bomb the Iraqis.
Well, his Daddy was looking like a shoe-in for re-election during the Gulf War, but he ended up losing in 1992. So there's still a chance we can be rid of Dubya in 2004.