EMP pulses are generated by high altitude bursts that send a shitload of charged particles into the ionosphere. That gob of electrons in the upper atmosphere is what generates the EMP pulse.
Well, yeah, sure... just a shame that my RAM is faulty and fails to store things when I need them.
It's kinda like a harddrive - one headcrash and you'd really like a replacement. Trust me on that one...
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As you say, civilisation entails accepting others, but it also involves correcting those who are wrong. Preferably in a loving and caring manner.
"You know Ted; you really shouldn't go around killing women, mmmkay? It's not a polite thing to do, mmmkay?"
Other than that little stab at humour, the only thing I have to point out is this one:
but it also involves correcting those who are wrong
Who decides what's wrong and what's right? You? Me? Do we take a vote on it? Won't somebody please think of the children???
If you think a comment like the one in the parret post (buried deep in the obscure comments) is offensive - sue him! He/she has a freedom of speech that also makes him responsible to a court of law. Let the courts determine what they deem acceptable speech. Me personally, I can probably not be offended by a joke. I can be disgusted by it, certainly, but not offended. Is that wrong as well? So sue me.
If you can't live with it... well, tough noogins on your sweetie. You just have to go out and try try again. mmmkay?
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If you are unable to see why the original post [...] was teen male insecurity then keep reading it
And if it is? It's called stereotyping and it is funny. The reason for this is at least two-fold
1) It makes us recognize at least part of ourselves, even if we're not the ones being stereotyped. 2) It showes that stereotypes are wrong, which in itself is funny, because we all do it.
So I'm an insecure white male (haven't been a teenager for 6 years and counting). Big fucking deal. And you are guilty of the horrible crime of stereotyping yourself, as you just proclaimed as a fact, "that/. is full of spotty teenage white males".
And by the way - being a civilised human being also entails being able to accept that people are different, that people will have different ideas and that some people are just plain stupid. Live with it. The only way not to run into people, you don't like, who say things, you don't want to hear, and do things that offend you, is to either avoid all human contact or just plain kill everyone, who doesn't live up to your standards. But neither would be very civilised, would it?
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Can I have a picture of you? And your phone number? </ironi>
Here's a question, and I'm quite serious about it.
Is it okay to have jokes, where someone is a the receiving end of it? As in, can I make a joke about the occupants of the Titanic ending up as Iceberg dressing? Okay, that wasn't a joke, but still.
How about one, where you comment on the fact that most neo-nazies believe that they are a superior race, but are usually butt-ugly and shave their heads because they don't know how to otherwise avoid lice?
How about one, where you indicate that the difference between bowling balls and babies is that you can't unload a truck full of bowling balls using a pitch fork?
How about one where you mention that men are disgusting pigs who only talk about football, sex and are incredibly homophobic?
Where is the line drawn? Is it drawn at where YOU get offended? Should the rest of the humour-inclined world be at a loss, just because you're a bit squimish?
So you're offended by a joke? Good for you. Tough fucking luck, but good for you. If you don't want freedom of speech - say so. If you don't want to be offended by "unacceptable" speech - don't go outside, don't turn on your radio, don't turn on your TV, don't turn on your computer, and for Gods sake don't turn on your lover either, 'cause he or she just might say something nasty like "fuck me" or something.
Well, ya' know, I've always thought people should give a little more respect to Ted Bundy. He was a pretty good cook, and actually invented THE best sandwich, ya know.
I would have loved to watch a show about average folks in the middle of a really crappy situation having to overcome their own inadequacies before they could even think about dealing with the rest of the universe.
I need a 10t store at "Yahoo" (pick your flavor) for $5 amonth with a data access rate in the 5ms range accessable from any spot on earth
Let's see. Light travels at roughly 300,000 km/second. In.005 seconds it can travel 1,500 km.
The circumfrence of the earth is roughly 40,000 km, so the farthest you can be from a given spot is 20,000 km.
Add to that, that you also need to send the request, you somehow need to think up a transport medium, that can travel at 20,000 km / 0.0025 seconds == 8,000,000 km/second.
We'll get in tuch with you, when we manage to send data at 26 and 2/3rds the speed of light at a distance of 20,000 km.
I know you're being funny, and all things considdered, a book where you have one (1!!!) sentence, that runs across multiple pages is one big sun'bitch.
But - just how much space will War and Peace require, once you compress it?
... but I also have an inflatable mattress with me
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It's not the overall plot that made SW popular, it was the characters and the visuals. That's why 4, 5, and 6 are so much better than 1, 2, and very probably 3.
IV, V and VI are NOT nearly as good from a visual point of view as I, II and very likely III are. Not even close.
The best way to describe them is to describe them like the bible.
I, II and III are like the old testament; pretty stunning visual effects, but rather lame story.
IV, V and VI are like the new testament; pretty stunning story, but rather lame visual effects.
I have to give up my firstborn to pay for heating my appartment, so I don't turn on the heat, and it's a nice and warm 4 C in this room. For you fahrenheit people - your fridge is probably warmer.
Set me up with some ear muffs, and I'll move into that server room in the morning!
Hey - if they install water cooling, do you think they'd mind if I hooked it up to a swimming pool or something? It'd be nice with an indoor 35C swimming pool!
Responstimes are close to a minute right now on the linked proxy. How would it stack up, if you ran a local entanglement proxy? Would response times still be high, due to negotiations with other nodes?
1. Tabbed browsing is inherantly slower with IE because it creates a new browser instance for each tab.
Perhaps, but tabbed browsing in Mozilla (even with the multizilla plug-in) just plain sucks when compared to Opera.
Point in case: <a href='http://google.com' target='_blank'>this window opens in a new browser per default</a>. In Opera it opens in a new window. The only way to avoid issues like that in Mozilla is to use another browser or wait for them to fix that issue. That Opera has issues when you want to use more than one browser-window, is another thing entirely.
And the gestures suck as well (optimoz). Especially in Linux.
Oh, and the "back" and "forward" handling also sucks. Opera is the only browser I've found that DOESN'T load the pages that I can access with back/forward. This is particularly nice when you're replying to something like this, where it it's sometimes needed to go back to the previous page, because the forum puts the comment form on a page all by it self.
101. You just can't argue with that one. The lizard is cool.
No, the lizard is ugly. It's nicer than the e, but it's still ugly. And it's totally uncool when compared to the big O.
Oh yeah, and the plug-in management suck as well in Linux. Why the fuck do I have to su to root, chown the entire mozilla directory to my regular user, JUST to be able to change the fucking skin? WTF? The same goes for plug-ins. And don't give me the "but then you have to be carefull when you install plug-ins!" rutine. Yeah, well, when they're installed as root they have ROOT access to the box. If they're installed as MY user, then they can't fuck up my machine, can they? Put the fucking plug-ins in ~/.mozilla where they belong. We've got plenty of drive space these days, and just because I want a plug-in doesn't mean my coworker wants it. Same goes for skins.
Oh yeah, it's nice that Mozilla can restore the page you were at, when it crashed, but why only one of them? What's the point in having tabbed browsing AND a feature to restore the pages, when you can only restore one page?
I like Mozilla; I've spent 2 months trying to get it to behave the way I want, and at the same time to get used to the way it behaves. Then I threw it out and went back to Opera. Yeah sure, I only spent time with Mozilla 1.1b and 1.1a and 1.01 and 0.99, so I should try it now, right? Nope, sticking to Opera.
There are also dislikes about Opera, but they can be worked around with Internet Explorer (yes) or by buying a licence for Opera.
Why the fuck would I want to be MORE attractive to the opposite gender, and therefore also my own gender? Being a buff 450 pounds, and having an IQ just above freezing, I have enough problems keeping the groupies off my back as it is!
Hi. My name is Steve Ballmer, and I pronounce "sexy" as "fat ass".
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Well, not knowing what's in room 108A, I can think of several types of fires, where sprinklersystems won't help.
Magnisium catching fire.
Na (which I can't remember the English name for) stock in the room would also spell disaster.
They'd sell a hell of a lot more, if it said
"I'm Fucking Jeri Ryan"
Which brings up the next question:
Would William Shatner appreciate a signed T-shirt from Wil Wheaton?
Would Wil Wheaton appreciate a signed T-shirt from William Shatner?
And if they were on Celebrety Boxing - who would win?
This is what I think about when I'm home alone and the TV is broken.
when bare-chested?
Kirk
Pickard
Sisco
Janeway
Archer
Well, yeah, sure ... just a shame that my RAM is faulty and fails to store things when I need them.
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It's kinda like a harddrive - one headcrash and you'd really like a replacement. Trust me on that one
Other than that little stab at humour, the only thing I have to point out is this one:
Who decides what's wrong and what's right? You? Me? Do we take a vote on it? Won't somebody please think of the children???
If you think a comment like the one in the parret post (buried deep in the obscure comments) is offensive - sue him! He/she has a freedom of speech that also makes him responsible to a court of law. Let the courts determine what they deem acceptable speech. Me personally, I can probably not be offended by a joke. I can be disgusted by it, certainly, but not offended. Is that wrong as well? So sue me.
If you can't live with it
1) It makes us recognize at least part of ourselves, even if we're not the ones being stereotyped.
2) It showes that stereotypes are wrong, which in itself is funny, because we all do it.
So I'm an insecure white male (haven't been a teenager for 6 years and counting). Big fucking deal. And you are guilty of the horrible crime of stereotyping yourself, as you just proclaimed as a fact, "that
And by the way - being a civilised human being also entails being able to accept that people are different, that people will have different ideas and that some people are just plain stupid. Live with it. The only way not to run into people, you don't like, who say things, you don't want to hear, and do things that offend you, is to either avoid all human contact or just plain kill everyone, who doesn't live up to your standards. But neither would be very civilised, would it?
Can I have a picture of you? And your phone number?
</ironi>
Here's a question, and I'm quite serious about it.
Is it okay to have jokes, where someone is a the receiving end of it? As in, can I make a joke about the occupants of the Titanic ending up as Iceberg dressing? Okay, that wasn't a joke, but still.
How about one, where you comment on the fact that most neo-nazies believe that they are a superior race, but are usually butt-ugly and shave their heads because they don't know how to otherwise avoid lice?
How about one, where you indicate that the difference between bowling balls and babies is that you can't unload a truck full of bowling balls using a pitch fork?
How about one where you mention that men are disgusting pigs who only talk about football, sex and are incredibly homophobic?
Where is the line drawn? Is it drawn at where YOU get offended? Should the rest of the humour-inclined world be at a loss, just because you're a bit squimish?
So you're offended by a joke? Good for you. Tough fucking luck, but good for you. If you don't want freedom of speech - say so. If you don't want to be offended by "unacceptable" speech - don't go outside, don't turn on your radio, don't turn on your TV, don't turn on your computer, and for Gods sake don't turn on your lover either, 'cause he or she just might say something nasty like "fuck me" or something.
In the immortal words of George Carlin:
BLOW ME!
By any chance did you hear that?
Well, ya' know, I've always thought people should give a little more respect to Ted Bundy. He was a pretty good cook, and actually invented THE best sandwich, ya know.
And for once, do as I say and not as I do!
I'm laughing so hard, I'm actually crying :-D
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This message was brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department, who was happy to bring you this message.
The circumfrence of the earth is roughly 40,000 km, so the farthest you can be from a given spot is 20,000 km.
Add to that, that you also need to send the request, you somehow need to think up a transport medium, that can travel at 20,000 km / 0.0025 seconds == 8,000,000 km/second.
We'll get in tuch with you, when we manage to send data at 26 and 2/3rds the speed of light at a distance of 20,000 km.
I know you're being funny, and all things considdered, a book where you have one (1!!!) sentence, that runs across multiple pages is one big sun'bitch.
But - just how much space will War and Peace require, once you compress it?
Wanna fuck?
IV, V and VI are NOT nearly as good from a visual point of view as I, II and very likely III are. Not even close.
The best way to describe them is to describe them like the bible.
I, II and III are like the old testament; pretty stunning visual effects, but rather lame story.
IV, V and VI are like the new testament; pretty stunning story, but rather lame visual effects.
Hot damn!
I have to give up my firstborn to pay for heating my appartment, so I don't turn on the heat, and it's a nice and warm 4 C in this room. For you fahrenheit people - your fridge is probably warmer.
Set me up with some ear muffs, and I'll move into that server room in the morning!
Hey - if they install water cooling, do you think they'd mind if I hooked it up to a swimming pool or something? It'd be nice with an indoor 35C swimming pool!
Responstimes are close to a minute right now on the linked proxy. How would it stack up, if you ran a local entanglement proxy? Would response times still be high, due to negotiations with other nodes?
I don't know how smart it is, when it takes 45 seconds to turn on and ten seconds to turn off.
Hell, even I can't turn off women that slowly.
Point in case: <a href='http://google.com' target='_blank'>this window opens in a new browser per default</a>. In Opera it opens in a new window. The only way to avoid issues like that in Mozilla is to use another browser or wait for them to fix that issue. That Opera has issues when you want to use more than one browser-window, is another thing entirely.
And the gestures suck as well (optimoz). Especially in Linux.
Oh, and the "back" and "forward" handling also sucks. Opera is the only browser I've found that DOESN'T load the pages that I can access with back/forward. This is particularly nice when you're replying to something like this, where it it's sometimes needed to go back to the previous page, because the forum puts the comment form on a page all by it self.
No, the lizard is ugly. It's nicer than the e, but it's still ugly. And it's totally uncool when compared to the big O.
Oh yeah, and the plug-in management suck as well in Linux. Why the fuck do I have to su to root, chown the entire mozilla directory to my regular user, JUST to be able to change the fucking skin? WTF? The same goes for plug-ins. And don't give me the "but then you have to be carefull when you install plug-ins!" rutine. Yeah, well, when they're installed as root they have ROOT access to the box. If they're installed as MY user, then they can't fuck up my machine, can they? Put the fucking plug-ins in ~/.mozilla where they belong. We've got plenty of drive space these days, and just because I want a plug-in doesn't mean my coworker wants it. Same goes for skins.
Oh yeah, it's nice that Mozilla can restore the page you were at, when it crashed, but why only one of them? What's the point in having tabbed browsing AND a feature to restore the pages, when you can only restore one page?
I like Mozilla; I've spent 2 months trying to get it to behave the way I want, and at the same time to get used to the way it behaves. Then I threw it out and went back to Opera. Yeah sure, I only spent time with Mozilla 1.1b and 1.1a and 1.01 and 0.99, so I should try it now, right? Nope, sticking to Opera.
There are also dislikes about Opera, but they can be worked around with Internet Explorer (yes) or by buying a licence for Opera.
Why the fuck would I want to be MORE attractive to the opposite gender, and therefore also my own gender? Being a buff 450 pounds, and having an IQ just above freezing, I have enough problems keeping the groupies off my back as it is!
Hi. My name is Steve Ballmer, and I pronounce "sexy" as "fat ass".