I don't think anyone willingly uses Windows ME for any useful task anymore.
Were they ever able to?;)
I had a firewall machine with windows ME that had an uptime of over 3 months at one point. I then took it down for fear that breaking the laws of probability like that would cause the universe to fold in on itself.
Yes your absolutely right. Now show me in the Constitution where the Gov can force me to have to pay for something that I don't want.
Until you get pulled over or have a accident I guess it works out ok for lots of folks. I don't pay taxes. I'm 100% disabled via the fine gov-run heath plan called the VA.
Just out of curiosity, where does it say in the constitution that the federal government has the right to force its citizens to pay for the lifelyhood and medical care of disabled veterans?
I'll stick with natural gas for heating, thank you. At 10 times the amount of energy for about 2.4 times the price of electricity over here it's a wee bit more cost effective;-)
Same country, same time period, same experience. And I never was all that good at sports, but somehow still had a blast. Ofcourse we crushed the other class in rugby, so that helped...until we played with mixed teams during summer camp anyway:/
Being piled on by 4 dutch girls when you're a skinny 14 year old guy is....so wrong and so right all at the same time.
As someone who is tall, slim and has relatively long and narrow muscles, I've always profited most from the "lots of reps with light weights" approach. I don't seem to accumulate any more muscle mass, my weight stays pretty much the same but I can squeeze out a lot more performance from the same muscles without the downsides of lots of actual muscle mass(and without the upsides of looking ripped, if there are any).
Actually, I think proper, honest Science should care a lot. A Universe where causality and the laws of Physics can be suspended by praying, or by miracles, is quite different from a Universe where the laws are immutable. Only a God which does not intervene at all in the processes of the Universe would be separate from Science, otherwise, it has to enter one's assumptions at some point if we are really honest about our application of the scientific method, and not simply choosing to "enable scientific mode" for some things.
If someone wants to set up a lab and perform experiments where he tries to split a body of water through praying, then that is his prerogative. Should he actually get reproducible results...I don't see the issue?
This does sound like a cool project and I'll keep an eye on it, but I worry about the consequences of lauding Darwin and his work too much. Creationists, IDers and other crackpots often attack evolution by attacking errors or omissions that Darwin made, ignoring almost two centuries of refinements and advancements since his work. They also love to strawman scientists and other people who accept the evidence for evolution by referring to them as "Darwinists", implying that it's a simple case of "faith in God" vs. "faith in Darwin", rather than a matter of evidence.
Considering this trip is a dutch/english project and the creationist/id crackpots are mainly located in the US of A, I fail to see the problem. I can't speak for the folks across the channel, but over here in the netherlands the kind of people that believe in creationism are generally speaking quietly ignored, right along with the alien abductees, the moon landing hoax proponent and other similar characters;-)
"I have reviewed several of your listings using my computer and had several of my coworkers view your listings as well and we are seeing the complete listings."
TRANSLATION: We have no intention of correcting this problem. My fellow cubicle rats and I are ignoring your problem be cause we just don't feel like taking the time to solve it. We think that you will believe whatever excuse we give you. Not that you have a choice anyway.....
That's one interpretation. Try this one....
ALTERNATIVE TRANSLATION: I need to reply to 15 e-mails per hour, and the only thing my boss looks at is the bloody numbers. I'd love to give your problem the attention it deserves, but I'd also like to eat something else besides ramen for the next 2 weeks. Besides, corporate policy states the problem "does not exist".
Some people can drive safely at over the speed limit, others can't. I'm fine with speed limits and the risk of overrunning them, but don't get all preachy and pretend speeding is some great wrong.
Yup, and some people can judge when it's safe to run a red light and some can't, but the fact that *some* people do run the red light means I have to watch every last fucking one of them to make sure I don't end up crushed in their windshield.
As a society we agree on certain rules, but in the case of something as dangerous as participating in traffic, all it takes is a really small percentage of jackasses who feel they're somehow superior drivers and break those rules for the rest of us that don't happen to have steel bars all around us to have to watch over our shoulders all the time. By breaking those rules, no matter how justified you may feel about doing so, you're also demonstrating to people observing you "that there's really nothing wrong with doing so". Next thing you know, that 18 year old kid in his ricer who *can't* judge distances and velocities properly has a new hood ornament.
As a gay programmer myself, it often amazed the people I worked with that the two parts of my personality weren't in conflict. I very seldom ran into predjudice, though. In fact, often I was recognized as a good teacher and the other employees felt free to come and ask my help when they had a tough coding problem.
What's there to conflict between being gay and being a programmer? Serious question, I honestly can't fathom what might clash between those 2 aspects of who you are. Unless said co-workers are the kind of people that think all gay men are either fashion designers(if they're ugly) or models(if they're not) ofc;-)
I'm typically pretty tame and if you lure me with some food I might even allow you to pet me(provided you're female, attractive and my significant other isn't within sight). If you were to start using my home as a nuclear testing ground and I managed to survive i reckon I'd be pretty damn aggressive too however;-)
At my company add/remove programs is used combined with the applications I have been licensed for. So if I plop down at a workstation that doesn't have application X installed, but I do have the rights to use that app, then I can add it through said interface.
How many of you pro-nuke posters would be willing to have a nuclear plant within 20 miles of were you live? How many would be willing to have the toxic waste stored on-site of the plant? I thought so.
Does it mean I get to to live in a 20 mile area without any knee-jerk fear mongerers like yourself? Because in that case lemme start mixing up the concrete right now.
Actually, I used to live in France and on the route between our house and my gf's job I believe there were at least 4 nuclear plants. And no, so far I still can't manage to glow in the dark. Shame though, would really save on the electricity.
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Whereas the point of '9' seemed to be that the main character was an ordinary, flawed person stuck in an action scenario.
Really? I thought the whole point was to send a clear message that it's a bad idea to allow disgruntled nerdy civil servants to get their hands on a fully operational battlemech.
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30 people with an IQ of 99 won't do the trick?
Likewise, people like this are usually crimes of opportunity.
You see son, when a mommy really dislikes a daddy, but they happen to be in a dark alleyway and daddy happens to have a blunt weapon on him...
I don't think anyone willingly uses Windows ME for any useful task anymore.
Were they ever able to? ;)
I had a firewall machine with windows ME that had an uptime of over 3 months at one point. I then took it down for fear that breaking the laws of probability like that would cause the universe to fold in on itself.
Can't say I have, but I do recall an 11 year old with a dutch-english dictionary trying to play Kings Quest and Police Quest...damn dartboard. :-)
Yes your absolutely right. Now show me in the Constitution where the Gov can force me to have to pay for something that I don't want.
Until you get pulled over or have a accident I guess it works out ok for lots of folks. I don't pay taxes. I'm 100% disabled via the fine gov-run heath plan called the VA.
Just out of curiosity, where does it say in the constitution that the federal government has the right to force its citizens to pay for the lifelyhood and medical care of disabled veterans?
I'll stick with natural gas for heating, thank you. At 10 times the amount of energy for about 2.4 times the price of electricity over here it's a wee bit more cost effective ;-)
Same country, same time period, same experience. And I never was all that good at sports, but somehow still had a blast. Ofcourse we crushed the other class in rugby, so that helped...until we played with mixed teams during summer camp anyway :/
Being piled on by 4 dutch girls when you're a skinny 14 year old guy is....so wrong and so right all at the same time.
As someone who is tall, slim and has relatively long and narrow muscles, I've always profited most from the "lots of reps with light weights" approach. I don't seem to accumulate any more muscle mass, my weight stays pretty much the same but I can squeeze out a lot more performance from the same muscles without the downsides of lots of actual muscle mass(and without the upsides of looking ripped, if there are any).
Like you said, people differ :-)
Actually, I think proper, honest Science should care a lot. A Universe where causality and the laws of Physics can be suspended by praying, or by miracles, is quite different from a Universe where the laws are immutable. Only a God which does not intervene at all in the processes of the Universe would be separate from Science, otherwise, it has to enter one's assumptions at some point if we are really honest about our application of the scientific method, and not simply choosing to "enable scientific mode" for some things.
If someone wants to set up a lab and perform experiments where he tries to split a body of water through praying, then that is his prerogative. Should he actually get reproducible results...I don't see the issue?
This does sound like a cool project and I'll keep an eye on it, but I worry about the consequences of lauding Darwin and his work too much. Creationists, IDers and other crackpots often attack evolution by attacking errors or omissions that Darwin made, ignoring almost two centuries of refinements and advancements since his work. They also love to strawman scientists and other people who accept the evidence for evolution by referring to them as "Darwinists", implying that it's a simple case of "faith in God" vs. "faith in Darwin", rather than a matter of evidence.
Considering this trip is a dutch/english project and the creationist/id crackpots are mainly located in the US of A, I fail to see the problem. I can't speak for the folks across the channel, but over here in the netherlands the kind of people that believe in creationism are generally speaking quietly ignored, right along with the alien abductees, the moon landing hoax proponent and other similar characters ;-)
"I have reviewed several of your listings using my computer and had several of my coworkers view your listings as well and we are seeing the complete listings."
TRANSLATION: We have no intention of correcting this problem. My fellow cubicle rats and I are ignoring your problem be cause we just don't feel like taking the time to solve it. We think that you will believe whatever excuse we give you. Not that you have a choice anyway.....
That's one interpretation. Try this one....
ALTERNATIVE TRANSLATION: I need to reply to 15 e-mails per hour, and the only thing my boss looks at is the bloody numbers. I'd love to give your problem the attention it deserves, but I'd also like to eat something else besides ramen for the next 2 weeks. Besides, corporate policy states the problem "does not exist".
Some people can drive safely at over the speed limit, others can't. I'm fine with speed limits and the risk of overrunning them, but don't get all preachy and pretend speeding is some great wrong.
Yup, and some people can judge when it's safe to run a red light and some can't, but the fact that *some* people do run the red light means I have to watch every last fucking one of them to make sure I don't end up crushed in their windshield.
As a society we agree on certain rules, but in the case of something as dangerous as participating in traffic, all it takes is a really small percentage of jackasses who feel they're somehow superior drivers and break those rules for the rest of us that don't happen to have steel bars all around us to have to watch over our shoulders all the time. By breaking those rules, no matter how justified you may feel about doing so, you're also demonstrating to people observing you "that there's really nothing wrong with doing so". Next thing you know, that 18 year old kid in his ricer who *can't* judge distances and velocities properly has a new hood ornament.
As a gay programmer myself, it often amazed the people I worked with that the two parts of my personality weren't in conflict. I very seldom ran into predjudice, though. In fact, often I was recognized as a good teacher and the other employees felt free to come and ask my help when they had a tough coding problem.
What's there to conflict between being gay and being a programmer? Serious question, I honestly can't fathom what might clash between those 2 aspects of who you are. Unless said co-workers are the kind of people that think all gay men are either fashion designers(if they're ugly) or models(if they're not) ofc ;-)
I'm typically pretty tame and if you lure me with some food I might even allow you to pet me(provided you're female, attractive and my significant other isn't within sight). If you were to start using my home as a nuclear testing ground and I managed to survive i reckon I'd be pretty damn aggressive too however ;-)
One would assume that if he has a job he's no longer 7 years old, is he?
Having those basic skills means you'll actually see something's wrong if you made a typo somewhere in your budget.
Just remember, if you fix stuff for her she cant turn around and say "what have you done for me lately" without getting a damn good response.
Wow...that is...just so wrong.
What kind of a relationship is that anyway, pussy for pc repair?
20million = leet and can fly a titan?
Holy cow, I'm leet * 2.5 \o/
Can't even fly a carrier or a dread though :/
At my company add/remove programs is used combined with the applications I have been licensed for. So if I plop down at a workstation that doesn't have application X installed, but I do have the rights to use that app, then I can add it through said interface.
Works surprisingly well, actually.
*POKE*
Yes, sir!
*POKE*
Sir?
*POKE*
Sir!
*POKE*
Stop poking me!
How many of you pro-nuke posters would be willing to have a nuclear plant within 20 miles of were you live? How many would be willing to have the toxic waste stored on-site of the plant? I thought so.
Does it mean I get to to live in a 20 mile area without any knee-jerk fear mongerers like yourself? Because in that case lemme start mixing up the concrete right now.
Actually, I used to live in France and on the route between our house and my gf's job I believe there were at least 4 nuclear plants. And no, so far I still can't manage to glow in the dark. Shame though, would really save on the electricity.
Whereas the point of '9' seemed to be that the main character was an ordinary, flawed person stuck in an action scenario.
Really? I thought the whole point was to send a clear message that it's a bad idea to allow disgruntled nerdy civil servants to get their hands on a fully operational battlemech.
In other news, in Japan you can now rent exoskeletons.
I wonder what the civil servants in Japan are like...
A satire of Discworld would either be a) reality, or b) make the universe implode.
or c) both.
Yah, hope it makes you feel real good.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to smoke some pot, fuck a hooker, marry someone of the same sex and in 40 years have myself euthanized.
Free parts of the world, my ass.
In other news, stuff out of a microwave always tastes like crap compared to being properly prepared in a toaster/frying pan/oven/whatever.
People using a microwave to prepare meat should be shot :/
why does that number seem incredibly low to me?
Robert Jordan died.