That stops working the millisecond a mushroom cloud appears over Iran.
Yeah, that's when WWIII begins, with pretty much every other country in the world allied against the U.S. and Israel. Because everyone just loves countries engaging in preemptive unilateral nuclear strikes.
Are you kidding? That monkey just became a lot more famous than any of us are ever going to be. He's probably going to get laid a lot more than any of us too. Shit, put ME in the next rocket, Iran!
I seriously doubt even a solid gold asteroid would justify the costs to go into space, mine it, and return said gold to earth--even if it were a relatively close solid gold asteroid. And since we don't even have the technology to move an asteroid yet (just some "Well it's possible" bullshit speculation), there is no point in even considering that.
In short, anyone investing in these asteroid mining companies is basically either trying to grab some patents or just throwing their money into the equivalent of buying swampland in Florida. You'd probably be better off investing with Bernie Madoff.
You're one of the few enemies we can still put into our video games without any real backlash. If you start exerting the kind of leverage over our console makers and developers that you exert over our movie studios, then all we're going to be left with are North Korea, Iran, and a few of them stan countries. And even the stan countries are starting to bitch.
First, I find out last night that Attack of the Show was just Leo Laporte's bad dream all along, and now this. But I do love the delightful irony* of desktop OS maker Microsoft moving AWAY from the windows, building a more tablet/phone-oriented OS for desktops with Windows 8--at the same time as tablet/phone maker Samsung is moving TOWARDS the windows, building a more desktop-oriented OS for its tablets and phones with this. You can't make this shit up.
* And before any of you grammar Nazi's start soiling your panties, yes, I am damned well familiar with the *classic* definition of "irony." So the first one of you pretentious pedagogues who feels the need to show everyone how big your intellectual dick is by pointing out that classic irony is more akin to what we generally call "sarcasm" today is going to get a visit from me tonight. And I've got diarrhea and a strong desire to leave a double-decker in every toilet in your house.
Their goal isn't to launch an attack. Their goal (the same as Iran's) is to make sure that their leg of the "axis of evil", unlike Iraq's, can never be invaded. Competing directly with the U.S. military, with its insane budget, is pretty much impossible. So about the only way a country can ensure that the U.S. can never treat them like a bitch is to have nukes. It's no accident that both Iran and North Korea stepped up their nuke programs shortly after GW's ill-advised "You're part of an axis of evil and watch us invade one of you" speech.
Mod this offtopic if you like, but this sort of situation always serves as a reminder to me of why the open source movement is at such a disadvantage and never seems to make any real progress. The open nature of OSS has always been cited as a strength of the movement. But it would be more accurate to say that it only encourages division, fracturing, and confusion.
Every time some individual developer or group of developers gets their panties in a bunch about something they disagree with, they take their ball, go home, and start yet another fork of whatever-the-fuck software. In the end, this doesn't result in creativity and innovation so much as a confusing cacophony of competing software and projects which never realize their full potential because half the development team got pissy in the middle of development and left. It's not only hopelessly confusing to consumers (just TRY explaining the concept of "distros" to your grandma sometime), but it make OSS feel like it's in a constant state of half-assed/never-finished/abandoned, as opposed to commercial software--where a central leadership maintains control (and controls people's salaries and the IP).
I know this is not a popular sentiment on/. (to say the least). But, what the fuck. I've got some extra karma to burn.
The rulers of this country (i.e., the corporations) would do well to remember something as they push people into more and more desperate circumstances: Desperate people do desperate things.
...is a U-verse subscriber who's freaking out because he can't let his friends know how shitty the service was at McDonalds this morning. Right now he's thinking "They'll never get to hear me say 'Forget the McMuffin, how about some McPoliteness?'"
Muhammad said young men might use them to look at women's ankles. So their hackers are a little behind the curve compared to the non-Muslim-nutball world.
Companies demand "right to work" laws to protect them from unions, under the pretense that this also gives the worker the right to leave anytime and go work wherever they choose. Exposing crap like this just shows how much a farce that really is. "Right to work" only benefits companies, NEVER employees.
The United States, collectively, has lost its fucking mind.
If you think it's only the United States, you've lost yours. Just look at some of the crazy-ass copyright and monitoring laws that have been popping up all over the first world of late. Shit, I could write a book on the crazy laws that have been popping up just in Australia lately.
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Calm down citizen. It's just part of our new anti-terrorist Tactical Helicopter Offensive Response program. It's for your protection.
AG domain shut down by ICANN.
They should look into that. I've found it to be vastly underrated as a cause.
That stops working the millisecond a mushroom cloud appears over Iran.
Yeah, that's when WWIII begins, with pretty much every other country in the world allied against the U.S. and Israel. Because everyone just loves countries engaging in preemptive unilateral nuclear strikes.
FTFA:
said the monkey returned safely.
I presume that means "alive," unless Iran has a very different take on the word "safely."
Are you kidding? That monkey just became a lot more famous than any of us are ever going to be. He's probably going to get laid a lot more than any of us too. Shit, put ME in the next rocket, Iran!
I seriously doubt even a solid gold asteroid would justify the costs to go into space, mine it, and return said gold to earth--even if it were a relatively close solid gold asteroid. And since we don't even have the technology to move an asteroid yet (just some "Well it's possible" bullshit speculation), there is no point in even considering that.
In short, anyone investing in these asteroid mining companies is basically either trying to grab some patents or just throwing their money into the equivalent of buying swampland in Florida. You'd probably be better off investing with Bernie Madoff.
You're one of the few enemies we can still put into our video games without any real backlash. If you start exerting the kind of leverage over our console makers and developers that you exert over our movie studios, then all we're going to be left with are North Korea, Iran, and a few of them stan countries. And even the stan countries are starting to bitch.
I'm saving up a Triple Decker for you. That's tank, bowl, and the bathtub.
Not when you're aiming for both decks.
Nope, I'm leaving it in top and bottom.
Does hearing voices in my head telling me that Tom Cruise is one day going to cause nuclear armageddon make me delusional or crazy?
First, I find out last night that Attack of the Show was just Leo Laporte's bad dream all along, and now this. But I do love the delightful irony* of desktop OS maker Microsoft moving AWAY from the windows, building a more tablet/phone-oriented OS for desktops with Windows 8--at the same time as tablet/phone maker Samsung is moving TOWARDS the windows, building a more desktop-oriented OS for its tablets and phones with this. You can't make this shit up.
* And before any of you grammar Nazi's start soiling your panties, yes, I am damned well familiar with the *classic* definition of "irony." So the first one of you pretentious pedagogues who feels the need to show everyone how big your intellectual dick is by pointing out that classic irony is more akin to what we generally call "sarcasm" today is going to get a visit from me tonight. And I've got diarrhea and a strong desire to leave a double-decker in every toilet in your house.
Their goal isn't to launch an attack. Their goal (the same as Iran's) is to make sure that their leg of the "axis of evil", unlike Iraq's, can never be invaded. Competing directly with the U.S. military, with its insane budget, is pretty much impossible. So about the only way a country can ensure that the U.S. can never treat them like a bitch is to have nukes. It's no accident that both Iran and North Korea stepped up their nuke programs shortly after GW's ill-advised "You're part of an axis of evil and watch us invade one of you" speech.
Mod this offtopic if you like, but this sort of situation always serves as a reminder to me of why the open source movement is at such a disadvantage and never seems to make any real progress. The open nature of OSS has always been cited as a strength of the movement. But it would be more accurate to say that it only encourages division, fracturing, and confusion.
Every time some individual developer or group of developers gets their panties in a bunch about something they disagree with, they take their ball, go home, and start yet another fork of whatever-the-fuck software. In the end, this doesn't result in creativity and innovation so much as a confusing cacophony of competing software and projects which never realize their full potential because half the development team got pissy in the middle of development and left. It's not only hopelessly confusing to consumers (just TRY explaining the concept of "distros" to your grandma sometime), but it make OSS feel like it's in a constant state of half-assed/never-finished/abandoned, as opposed to commercial software--where a central leadership maintains control (and controls people's salaries and the IP).
I know this is not a popular sentiment on /. (to say the least). But, what the fuck. I've got some extra karma to burn.
So what?
Middle class incomes stagnated, that's what. The rich got a *lot* richer, everyone else got jack shit.
The rulers of this country (i.e., the corporations) would do well to remember something as they push people into more and more desperate circumstances: Desperate people do desperate things.
You would think they would treat their only technician better.
About U-verse subscribers or McDonalds customers?
...is a U-verse subscriber who's freaking out because he can't let his friends know how shitty the service was at McDonalds this morning. Right now he's thinking "They'll never get to hear me say 'Forget the McMuffin, how about some McPoliteness?'"
Muhammad said young men might use them to look at women's ankles. So their hackers are a little behind the curve compared to the non-Muslim-nutball world.
I wish some of this stuff had come out while he was alive.
A lot of it did. His asshole rep was pretty well-known long before he died. It just couldn't penetrate through the mass of fanboy and media adoration.
Companies demand "right to work" laws to protect them from unions, under the pretense that this also gives the worker the right to leave anytime and go work wherever they choose. Exposing crap like this just shows how much a farce that really is. "Right to work" only benefits companies, NEVER employees.
I have a Terminator-like vision of a dark future where everything is a all-in-one, laptop, or tablet--and all are walled gardens.
The United States, collectively, has lost its fucking mind.
If you think it's only the United States, you've lost yours. Just look at some of the crazy-ass copyright and monitoring laws that have been popping up all over the first world of late. Shit, I could write a book on the crazy laws that have been popping up just in Australia lately.