I decided I was unwilling to moderate following the post of death, and FK being told he had no life. Mod points are bullshit when an editor can mass mod someone/something, just because he doesn't like what has been said.
Shut your mouth, take your soma, and click through some fucking ads, you deadbeat. Nobody at VA, and nobody on the/. crew gives a shit about anyone or anything except ad hits. Witness Taco's flippant 'ohwellweeventuallyfigureditout' journal on the recent 503 crap. Why no meta stories on Slashdot? It's not because 'they aren't appropriate', it's because Malda and the rest would be pilloried by the readership.
Because, after all, the readers who aren't posters are 95% of the page hits or some such nonsense. Well, how many of those people would be hitting pages if it weren't for the Funny, Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Troll, Flamebait to be found?
Are the 503's and stupid modbans the only way to combat the GNAA and others? Hardly. But nobody gives a fuck. Nobody.
but i suppose this is minimum requirements...recommended will be much more.
Also: People with strange combinations will less than minimum that get 493 frames per second. People with 64 bit processors, $500 video cards, and a terabyte of ram that call the game 'unplayable'. People who have those crappy GeForce4 value cards that are actually worse than a GF3 bitching and moaning (while those of us with the GF3 Ti500 laugh at their stupidity)
It's this fucking English language, I tell you. Why oh why couldn't we have picked German? Oh well, I guess the US would have had a whole different set of neuroses (and what would a common language with Prussia/Germany have done WRT our involvement in WWI and II?)
I believe the oft accepted reason for early maturity onset today is better diet. Allows a female's fiddly bits to develop quicker, and menses and other things to start earlier.
There's already far too many people in college in the US. The reason for the expense is a supply demand issue. Too many idiots think that a degree in Fine Arts is a worthwhile investment.
Hawaii better for wife. I had to stay at home and put in extra hours to pay for her trip. Ain't love grand?
I'm actually too old to enlist in the US army now (31).
I regularly use a t-shirt (or whatever I'm wearing) to clean my lenses. For about a month, I even kept them in the case at night and used the special cleaning cloth and all that crap. But I gave up. Chuck 'em around, and they still keep going.
First, hold one lens at the top and bottom. Rub. Repeat for other lens. The trick is to clean the lens you are holding. If you tried to clean the one you aren't holding, you'd crease the metal bridge (it bends pretty far, but it's not as good as some of those spring metal frames or whatever they are called that were my second choice this last go round.) If you squeeze too hard, the pads of your fingers will mark the lens, so don't do that. The mounts over the nose snap out, so you can easily clean out the gunk. Oh, I should also mention that my optometrist convinced me to spring for the anti-scratch coating (and the polarization coating really cut down on the glare) which has worked pretty darned well. By this time, I've usually got dozens of teeny tiny nicks in my lenses. None after ~nine months. Given that the particular coating came with a two year warranty against ANY damage, I guess they had to make good on it.
When stuff really gets into the corners (which happens rarely for me, and I sweat profusely) I take a large cup (about 32 oz.) and drop in two tablets of denture cleaner. It works pretty well getting into the nooks and crannies. Learned this by seeing how many people do the same thing with jewelry.
If you followed my last two notes, you might be wondering why the heck I spent so damned much on the glasses, and got so much stuff. Well, I was gonna do a cheapo Four Eyes type pair of glasses, and get laser corrective surgery later this year, but then my wife got information about a deaf blind tour group trip to Hawaii that sucked up most of that money:)
Cameras in public are not the issue. You are in public, what you do can be watched. It's when the cameras are installed in the bedrooms that it's time to worry.
No, the important stomping of civil rights and liberties goes back a couple of years. Those 'free speech zones'. Areas where you are allowed to protest. Guess what, there's a real big damned free speech zone; it's called the United States of America. Shame that most of the sheep in this country don't get too pissed off about that, yet tin foil beanie types get all worked up over cameras.
Yup, Steveo probably has some ultra expensive frames, but go to your local eyeglass shop with a picture of them, and they'll have certainly seen them. Even if they don't sell the name brand, there are plenty of knock offs available. I have a pair that I got last fall. Cost around $300, but I have those modern auto-darkening lenses, some extra anti-glare coating, and other stuff like that. Also, I've been in glasses since six, like you. Glasses are an every minute of every day thing for me. Since glasses should about two years or so, what's fifty cents per day? Nothing. Foregoing the special lens coatings and infusions, I think it would have been about $150 or so for a pair.
The greatest benefit of the frames is that they are incredibly light. No, they aren't going to stop a hammer blow like some glasses I've had before, but that's what safety goggles are for:)
Another poster mentioned how they might be fake. Maybe. But these are also very thin lenses, even with high strength prescriptions. Toss in the anti-glare, and there is little refraction. Throw in some good camera work, and you should have results like that magazine cover.
Finally, there is one problem: the legs are not super stiff, so it is hard to put them on while wearing a full face helmet on a motorcycle. The legs want to bend around instead of going straight into place. A little practice though, and I figured out the technique.
First, damned few, if any true pros are going to hand over the RAW files or the negatives. My sister found one photographer AFTER her wedding who would do it for baby photos.
What we did is found a photographer who has been in business for twenty years already. Same place, same phone number, same business name. That's one indicator that I'll be able to find them. Second, I checked how the negatives are stored, etc. Offsite, big processing house.
There's one little thing you haven't mentioned: when you get your album, you are going to get the best prints of photos that were taken. First step is take care of those photos. Second step is that if for some reason you want another photo in twenty years, you'll be able to make a copy. Seriously, those goons at Kinko's don't want to deal with you while you are doing your thing.
Been married almost five years. We've looked at the photos like 2-3 times. Big fucking deal. Talk to your parents, and it'll be the same thing. Oh, yeah, I guess the chicks look at 'em more, but if she is looking at them more than once a year, you really don't want to be married to you.
The other questions: depends on the terms of the author's sale of the photos to the publication. In some cases he'll keep them, in others, it goes to the client.
Alot of this is due to the malpractice suits, where the prosecutor will press the point 'If only they had run this test, it would have been detected!'.
Definately. In my Grand Unified Vision of US Healthcare, the first thing we do is shoot the lawyers. Starting in the White House, working down Pennsylvania Ave, and taking a sidetrip to SCOTUS.
Either that, or nuke the site from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.
Seriously though, when I have thought about the situation, tort reform, at least for medical malpractice, is a must to get costs down.
AMA and various regional orgs have studied their use, and find they are often not used to differentiate between more than one diagnosis.
I have no problem if they are paid for out of pocket. What I resent is the increased insurance premiums due to insurance companies paying for useless tests.
Besides, a simple "Adult Language" rating should be enough for you to realize it might not be on par with Barney.
It's easier to piss and moan and vote for jack booted thugs than it is to get your head out of your ass and properly care for your child. Either preview stuff, as you suggest, or explain to the kid "don't use that sort of language. The person on TV did because blah, blah, blah"
IIRC, Schindler's List had full frontal nudity as well. But showing the pubic area of an inmate at a concentration camp isn't meant to titilate (although I'm sure someone, somewhere masturbates to that sort of image), so it gets a pass.
What I don't understand -- and what nobody is talking about -- is why is there such an uproar over a few consonants and vowels strung together? Why is 'copulate' or 'intercourse' or 'doing-the-nasty' acceptable and 'fuck' isn't? Why can you say 'poop' or 'feces' or 'crap' but saying 'shit' makes you a bad person? What is so wrong with people that they get in a tizzy over simple words?
The legalistic reasoning is that 'fuck' and 'shit' are meant to titillate (heh, he said 'tit'). The others are not. To anyone who believes this, they need to see a five year old when they learn 'feces' or 'poop'. Scatalogical is scatalogical to a five year old. Huh. Imagine that. A five year old with more sense than most adults, particularly lawyers.
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I decided I was unwilling to moderate following the post of death, and FK being told he had no life. Mod points are bullshit when an editor can mass mod someone/something, just because he doesn't like what has been said.
Shut your mouth, take your soma, and click through some fucking ads, you deadbeat. Nobody at VA, and nobody on the /. crew gives a shit about anyone or anything except ad hits. Witness Taco's flippant 'ohwellweeventuallyfigureditout' journal on the recent 503 crap. Why no meta stories on Slashdot? It's not because 'they aren't appropriate', it's because Malda and the rest would be pilloried by the readership.
Because, after all, the readers who aren't posters are 95% of the page hits or some such nonsense. Well, how many of those people would be hitting pages if it weren't for the Funny, Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Troll, Flamebait to be found?
Are the 503's and stupid modbans the only way to combat the GNAA and others? Hardly. But nobody gives a fuck. Nobody.
this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard!
Read his journal, and you'll find depths of stupidty you never believed could even exist.
WTF ARE YOU DOING? GET BACK TO WORK ON YOUR JOURNAL SCRIPT!!
Don't make me get out of the white van and pay you a visit.
(You're damned straight it's like yelling, you estupido lameness filter)
but i suppose this is minimum requirements...recommended will be much more.
Also:
People with strange combinations will less than minimum that get 493 frames per second.
People with 64 bit processors, $500 video cards, and a terabyte of ram that call the game 'unplayable'.
People who have those crappy GeForce4 value cards that are actually worse than a GF3 bitching and moaning (while those of us with the GF3 Ti500 laugh at their stupidity)
It's this fucking English language, I tell you. Why oh why couldn't we have picked German? Oh well, I guess the US would have had a whole different set of neuroses (and what would a common language with Prussia/Germany have done WRT our involvement in WWI and II?)
I believe the oft accepted reason for early maturity onset today is better diet. Allows a female's fiddly bits to develop quicker, and menses and other things to start earlier.
There's already far too many people in college in the US. The reason for the expense is a supply demand issue. Too many idiots think that a degree in Fine Arts is a worthwhile investment.
Step One: invent time machine
Step Two: travel into the past
Step Three: shoot yourself before you adopt the testing mentality demonstrated by a certain branch of VA Systems. Err, VA Linux. Uh... whatever the fuck they are today.
If you don't get the joke, try to use features late Wednesday evenings (or, for the bonus special, almost all day today).
Hawaii better for wife. I had to stay at home and put in extra hours to pay for her trip. Ain't love grand?
I'm actually too old to enlist in the US army now (31).
I regularly use a t-shirt (or whatever I'm wearing) to clean my lenses. For about a month, I even kept them in the case at night and used the special cleaning cloth and all that crap. But I gave up. Chuck 'em around, and they still keep going.
Two methods.
First, hold one lens at the top and bottom. Rub. Repeat for other lens. The trick is to clean the lens you are holding. If you tried to clean the one you aren't holding, you'd crease the metal bridge (it bends pretty far, but it's not as good as some of those spring metal frames or whatever they are called that were my second choice this last go round.) If you squeeze too hard, the pads of your fingers will mark the lens, so don't do that. The mounts over the nose snap out, so you can easily clean out the gunk. Oh, I should also mention that my optometrist convinced me to spring for the anti-scratch coating (and the polarization coating really cut down on the glare) which has worked pretty darned well. By this time, I've usually got dozens of teeny tiny nicks in my lenses. None after ~nine months. Given that the particular coating came with a two year warranty against ANY damage, I guess they had to make good on it.
When stuff really gets into the corners (which happens rarely for me, and I sweat profusely) I take a large cup (about 32 oz.) and drop in two tablets of denture cleaner. It works pretty well getting into the nooks and crannies. Learned this by seeing how many people do the same thing with jewelry.
If you followed my last two notes, you might be wondering why the heck I spent so damned much on the glasses, and got so much stuff. Well, I was gonna do a cheapo Four Eyes type pair of glasses, and get laser corrective surgery later this year, but then my wife got information about a deaf blind tour group trip to Hawaii that sucked up most of that money:)
That's not a beard. The only beard in Steve's life is the woman he lives with.
You mean the laws that the US passed to get in line with their interpretation of the Berne convention on copyrights? Where is Berne...
Cameras in public are not the issue. You are in public, what you do can be watched. It's when the cameras are installed in the bedrooms that it's time to worry.
No, the important stomping of civil rights and liberties goes back a couple of years. Those 'free speech zones'. Areas where you are allowed to protest. Guess what, there's a real big damned free speech zone; it's called the United States of America. Shame that most of the sheep in this country don't get too pissed off about that, yet tin foil beanie types get all worked up over cameras.
Yup, Steveo probably has some ultra expensive frames, but go to your local eyeglass shop with a picture of them, and they'll have certainly seen them. Even if they don't sell the name brand, there are plenty of knock offs available. I have a pair that I got last fall. Cost around $300, but I have those modern auto-darkening lenses, some extra anti-glare coating, and other stuff like that. Also, I've been in glasses since six, like you. Glasses are an every minute of every day thing for me. Since glasses should about two years or so, what's fifty cents per day? Nothing. Foregoing the special lens coatings and infusions, I think it would have been about $150 or so for a pair.
The greatest benefit of the frames is that they are incredibly light. No, they aren't going to stop a hammer blow like some glasses I've had before, but that's what safety goggles are for:)
Another poster mentioned how they might be fake. Maybe. But these are also very thin lenses, even with high strength prescriptions. Toss in the anti-glare, and there is little refraction. Throw in some good camera work, and you should have results like that magazine cover.
Finally, there is one problem: the legs are not super stiff, so it is hard to put them on while wearing a full face helmet on a motorcycle. The legs want to bend around instead of going straight into place. A little practice though, and I figured out the technique.
First, damned few, if any true pros are going to hand over the RAW files or the negatives. My sister found one photographer AFTER her wedding who would do it for baby photos.
What we did is found a photographer who has been in business for twenty years already. Same place, same phone number, same business name. That's one indicator that I'll be able to find them. Second, I checked how the negatives are stored, etc. Offsite, big processing house.
There's one little thing you haven't mentioned: when you get your album, you are going to get the best prints of photos that were taken. First step is take care of those photos. Second step is that if for some reason you want another photo in twenty years, you'll be able to make a copy. Seriously, those goons at Kinko's don't want to deal with you while you are doing your thing.
Been married almost five years. We've looked at the photos like 2-3 times. Big fucking deal. Talk to your parents, and it'll be the same thing. Oh, yeah, I guess the chicks look at 'em more, but if she is looking at them more than once a year, you really don't want to be married to you.
The other questions: depends on the terms of the author's sale of the photos to the publication. In some cases he'll keep them, in others, it goes to the client.
Alot of this is due to the malpractice suits, where the prosecutor will press the point 'If only they had run this test, it would have been detected!'.
Definately. In my Grand Unified Vision of US Healthcare, the first thing we do is shoot the lawyers. Starting in the White House, working down Pennsylvania Ave, and taking a sidetrip to SCOTUS.
Either that, or nuke the site from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.
Seriously though, when I have thought about the situation, tort reform, at least for medical malpractice, is a must to get costs down.
In the future, just give the obligatory apostrophe link.
AMA and various regional orgs have studied their use, and find they are often not used to differentiate between more than one diagnosis.
I have no problem if they are paid for out of pocket. What I resent is the increased insurance premiums due to insurance companies paying for useless tests.
Besides, a simple "Adult Language" rating should be enough for you to realize it might not be on par with Barney.
It's easier to piss and moan and vote for jack booted thugs than it is to get your head out of your ass and properly care for your child. Either preview stuff, as you suggest, or explain to the kid "don't use that sort of language. The person on TV did because blah, blah, blah"
It is important to realize that she was talking about her cat.
I'm sure any confusion was completely unintentional.
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IIRC, Schindler's List had full frontal nudity as well. But showing the pubic area of an inmate at a concentration camp isn't meant to titilate (although I'm sure someone, somewhere masturbates to that sort of image), so it gets a pass.
What I don't understand -- and what nobody is talking about -- is why is there such an uproar over a few consonants and vowels strung together? Why is 'copulate' or 'intercourse' or 'doing-the-nasty' acceptable and 'fuck' isn't? Why can you say 'poop' or 'feces' or 'crap' but saying 'shit' makes you a bad person? What is so wrong with people that they get in a tizzy over simple words?
The legalistic reasoning is that 'fuck' and 'shit' are meant to titillate (heh, he said 'tit'). The others are not. To anyone who believes this, they need to see a five year old when they learn 'feces' or 'poop'. Scatalogical is scatalogical to a five year old. Huh. Imagine that. A five year old with more sense than most adults, particularly lawyers.
Who is the more trollish? The troll, or the troll who reads the trolls?
Washington Post had it in their print version. The ombudsman received much grief from lamers on the subject.
The fact of the matter is that socializing health care increases the time to treatment
Well of course it does. Econ 101. Set a price ceiling, and watch supply drop, and demand rise. You wind up with black markets in this situation.
OTOH, the US does have too many MRIs, which are used for spurious reasons, with no diagnostic purpose.