You'll find the OLPC is basically just a financial subsidy to the poor in the developing world...
And why is that a bad thing? I love this offering on eBay. Some bunch of tools bid this guy's XO laptop, which he doesn't even have yet, up to $660. What a bunch of fucking retards.
I also love the title "XO, $100 laptop, One Laptop Per Child, OLPC, laptop.org" Firstly because it's not a $100 laptop. It is a $199 laptop if you go through the give one get one program and if you buy it on eBay it is at least a $660 laptop. I just want to find the top bidder and grab him and say "Dude! You're paying $660 for an $100 laptop. Do you see something wrong with this picture?"
whiny parasitic little assholes! "Waaaaah! Waaaaaaah! They're making people who purchase my services pay tax. Boo hoo! I'm moving to SeaLand. Fuck the man. Goddamn welfare parasites. I hate them. The whole state is going to freeze do death in the dark just like at the end of Atlas Shrugged." I live in Washington State, if I have my car washed I pay sales tax on it. If I take my car into the shop and have a mechanic work on it I pay sales tax on that. If I have a lawn service mow my lawn I pay sales tax on that. These people are providing services to me. Now, if we're going to tax the people who buy services from car washes, mechanics or lawn services then it seems entirely fair and reasonable to me that we should tax people who buy services from programmers.
Vista = New Coke
Just admit the mistake and bring back XP.
No shit! I installed Vista Ultimate 64 bit edition, or maybe it's the double secret probation edition, I'm not sure, on a machine that is less than a year old and it's awful. It thrashes the hard drives, loses my display settings (and whoever put the display settings under the misleadingly named "personalization" control panel should be shot) and occasionally pegs both cores of my dual core Pentium. The interface is speedy enough, it ought to be with 4Gb of RAM and 512Mb on the video card (16 times as much RAM as the first UNIX system I administered, a Sun 4/490 that supported a lab of 300 people), so much so that I'm looking forward to putting Linux onto this system to see how fast it will run without all of the Vista bloat.
As other posters have pointed out Uncle Sam has been doing this kind of thing for years. My experience with it was with the Army's tank gunnery simulator for the M60A3 and M1 tanks, the Conduct of Fire Trainer or COFT. There was a mobile version of the COFT called the M-COFT which was basically a 43 foot trailer with a simulated turret that contained a gunner's and tank commander's station, the evaluator's console and a whole bunch of VAXen in the back to handle the image processing. The Army would haul these things around, park them on a pad, run some power to them for the servers and the airco (God I loved doing COFT training in Yakima in the summer), put a set of stairs up so you could get to the door and off you went. Even the COFTs were mobile. They were shipping containers that would be hauled to a site and installed on a concrete pad with the appropriate power feeds.
Hell, I want to patent stuff in shipping containers now. I'm going to patent the Starbucks in a shipping container, a McDonald's (or generic fast food franchise) in a shipping container, a branch bank in a shipping container and a whorehouse in a shipping container. This is going to be the new thing in business model patents now that the courts have ruled that taking something obvious and computerizing it is not automatically patentable.
Put your activity in a shipping container.
Patent
?
Profit*
*I was going to use the three phase business model but those unspeakable bastards Matt Stone and Trey Parker have patented it.
I honestly think that they're talking about BR discs and that the article wasn't written clearly. 18 hours of HD on a 9 GB disc? That sounds too good to be true.
No, it can be done. 18 hours of HD on a 9Gb disk, it's just that you're only getting eighteen hours of footage of a uniformly lit white wall, but it is in hi-def!
Sept. 28, 2007 - Security officials at Los Angeles International Airport now have a new weapon in their fight against terrorism: complete, baffling randomness.
Well it's about time that the complete, baffling randomness of security and screening procedures was used against the terrorists instead of against the air-travellers.
The way that they are developing rockets is the direct antithesis of the way that NASA does it and unlike NASA they get things done. Remember the X-33 Project? NASA spent $912 million dollars and never did a single flight test. It was basically nothing more than a jobs program for NASA bureaucrats and Lockheed-Martin. For that price they could have built 14 test replacements for the DC-X that they crashed. Of course that wouldn't have employed as many bureaucrats, so it couldn't be done. Jerry Pournelle has a great article on how to get back into space and one of the things he talks about is X projects, projects that are designed to test a specific technology, with limited goals, in a short time frame. Of course programs like this don't make Lockheed or Boeing or General Dynamics lots of money and they don't employ lots of NASA bureaucrats, so they really aren't that popular. Pournelle's article can be read here.
So your mom sucked at parenting and left you, at the age of two, and your baby sister, in the car with the keys. Your mom is a lousy parent. Also I doubt that seeing a 30 second ad spot is going to make as much of an impression as seeing mommy and daddy driving the car every single day.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! It seems like ever since Cryptonomicon was published that it's been de rigueur among geeks to claim that they have Asperger's, just like Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse did in the novel. I sometimes want to grab these people and say "You're not antisocial because you're autistic. You're antisocial because you're an asshole!"
Your post is utter shit. Really, it is. You write:
I'm overstating it. Sometimes the generic works fine, sometimes it doesn't. A Z-pack (prescription 3-day antibiotic) always wiped out my wife's sinus infections... The generic one she got when pregnant... didn't do anything. It could be the pregnancy, but I've had bad luck with many generics... One of the advantages of being the son of a Doctor, you know when a generic is just as good and when it's crap.
So basically we have a bunch of anecdotal evidence from you that generics don't work. A sort of anti-placebo affect. Unfortunately your experiences mean nothing. Really, they don't. Can you show me double-blind tests of generics v. brand names that prove that generics aren't as good as brand name drugs? No, you can't, because they don't exist, if a generic doesn't match the brand it doesn't get approved. If you had bothered to read the webpage you cite, you would have noticed this FDA requirement "Generic drug manufacturers must show that a generic drug is bioequivalent to the brand-name drug, which means the generic version delivers the same amount of active ingredients into a patient's bloodstream in the same amount of time as the brand-name drug."
There are no special carve-outs or gimmes in the FDA's regulations for manufacturers of generic drugs, nothing in . So why do doctors recommend brand name drugs? Well let's see, a lot of doctors are really fucking ignorant and a lot of doctors are being paid off by the drug industry with special junkets, trips, gifts, et al. If some guy comes down to your dad's office and hands him 5,000 samples of drug X and pays for a round of golf and a nice lunch at a local club I'm willing to bet that your dad is going to hand out those samples and I'm willing to bet that he writes more scripts for drug X. This problem has gotten so bad that major hospitals are banning drug salesmen from meeting with individual staff members and have banned free samples.
I have savings to cover expenses such as a broken foot, car accident, etc. Not a real worry for me.
I can't wait for reality to bitch slap the Jesus out of your self-righteous, Randroid ass, really I can't. I was in a motorcycle accident four years ago. I had COBRA insurance, stock options that were worth real money and a house. I spent 55 days at a level 1 trauma center and ran up $450,000 in bills and left missing my left leg below the knee. If I hadn't had good insurance I would have been fucked. The driver who hit me had $100K in coverage, that's it. A year later I had to go in for more surgery, another $50k in costs, which fortunately were covered by my insurance. That's $500k out of pocket. If I hadn't had insurance I would have had to declare bankruptcy and would have been financially destroyed.
If you think you have enough savings to cover a car accident or major broken bone you're delusional, you have no idea of what the costs are, you'll be wiped out in no time. Of course since you're such a good and self-sufficient little Randroid I expect you to leave the hospital as soon as your savings run out and go out and die quietly in the gutter without asking for any handouts.
As far as the $1,000 a year for health coverage I refuse to believe that you have any, not for that price Even back in the 1990s, when I was in my 20s, my health insurance ran about $150 a month. Where are you getting this miracle $1,000 a year coverage? And what does it actually "cover". You can no more get insurance for $1,000 a year than you can buy a brand new Porsche for $67 dollars.
Cretins like you are why we need a military draft, so you can learn first hand what the military is like instead of living in ignorance and spreading bullshit on/. Firstly your comment about only protecting him if you're deployed in a foreign country is stupid and insulting. Yeah, all of those guys back in CONUS, they aren't doing shit, sure they go on intense multi-week exercises, exercises that would probably kill your candy-ass, at such garden spots as the NTC, Yakima Firing Center, or Fort Bliss, Texas, but since they're not actually deployed in a foreign country what they do doesn't really count, it's just a big charade. Newsflash, dickhead! Not all of our troops are deployed in foreign countries, some are, some aren't, all of them are protecting you. Not just the guys on the front lines in Korea, Iraq or Afghanistan.
As far as your comment about "deployed" pay goes where did you get this from? Did you pull it out of your ass? Was it hard? What excuse is there for such ignorance? Did you ever, before you posted this shit, think of going online to find out the facts about military pay? Or is your keyboard too encrusted with dried semen and orange Chee-tos residue for you to go to Google and do the research.
As far as living expenses go yeah, the military throws some coin your way for that. On the other hand the military expects you to work 80 hours a week or more if you're out in the field and you get to work with lots of dangerous heavy equipment and ammunition. Even if you added a very generous dollar amount for the "three hots and a cot", which aren't all that great, to the salary of the average soldier, marine, sailor or airman it wouldn't be that much. Remember, this isn't like whatever low-level shit job you hold, it's really hard and there are real consequences for fucking up such as death (your own or someone else's) and jail.
As far as the "$15k in profit is more than I make after rent + food" comment you should be taken out and beaten for saying something this fucking stupid. Seriously, you should be put under a scratchy wool GI blanket and beaten by a bunch of guys wielding tube socks loaded with bars of soap and master locks. Congratulations, you are one of the most ignorant cunts that has ever posted on/. Good job! Now kill yourself.
than fuck around with this. Auto-negotiation still doesn't work properly, and I still see problems with it on good Sun gear connected to good Foundry Network switches, not just on cheap, consumer grade crap. I had enough problems with it screwing things up that I finally disabled it, well I didn't disable it. I just set all of my backup clients up so that they could auto-negotiate all they wanted to. Just so long as they autonegotiated GigE, full duplex.
I guess you haven't been to 3rd/4th world countries till now. I have been, it does (at least in my eyes) make it Ok. See, if that company doesn't pollute, some other company will.
I see your point, that's why I'm going to grab a couple of guns, head over to your house, pistol whip you senseless, tie you up, cut your eyelids off, rape your mom and girlfriend while you watch and then kill them both by jamming the guns up their cunts and pulling the triggers and then kill you by ramming a gun up your ass and pulling the trigger, take your stuff and burn your house to the ground. See, if I don't do it someone else will, so there's really no reason for me not to do it and there's no reason for you, or society, to ask me not to do it because well, if I don't someone else will.
Oh, and this is cute, the captcha for this post is "bastard", I think that's an adequate description of what you and the rest of the "well we can't ask anyone to invest responsibly" crowd are.
Look me in the eye and tell me that George W. Bush never used family connections to get out of trouble, get into college, avoid being drafted, evade drunk driving convictions, rescue his failed businesses, get elected governor of Texas and become President of the United States. Look me in the eye and tell me that. The fact is that the rich protect the rich, they take care of themselves and they do everything they can to make sure that they stay on top. This has little or nothing to do with merit and everything to do with gaming the system to make sure that no one ever threatens their economic hegemony. Don't believe me. Don't think that rich folks do this sort of thing? Then pray tell me why rich folks and rich corporations spend so much money lobbying politicians. Could it be because they want to make sure that certain unfair advantages they have (such as having a lower tax rate on interest and capital gains) stay in place? The idea that rich folks are all noble, hard working, self-made Horatio Alger types is utter crap, only a pathetic tool, someone who jacks off to a semen encrusted copy of Atlas Shrugged could believe such arrant nonsense.
...Higher energy taxes, more renewables, more nuclear plants, higher CAFE standards would be a start. The climate deniers will whine that this might cost the economy $$$...
Yeah, and the anti-nuclear cunts at groups such as Greenpeace and all of the other eco-wankstain groups will shit themselves blind in a self-righteous shitstorm of eco-bullshit if anyone so much as mentions ever building a nuclear plant again. Want to do something about global warming? Take everyone who is against nuclear power out and shoot them in the fucking head, then those of us who want a real solution to the problem of anthropogenic C02 emissions and who aren't using global warming as a stick in which to force everyone to adopt some idealized bullshit anti-technology eco-puritan lifestyle could actually get something done.
No shit. I'd rather suck a mile of dick than go back to Cingular as a provider. They've got the worst coverage of any cell provider where I live (Seattle) and their customer support sucks ass. Also 600 bucks and a two year lock in? Not yet Steve, tell me when I can have it through another provider and when I can have the 8Gb model for 400 bucks without a lock in. I was an early adopter on the iPod, but no way in Hell am I bending over for Cingular to get an iPhone.
A typical retarded Windows user's view. Windows is still lacking posix libraries and a decent shell and thus it lacks the applications _I_ use. Now, last I checked I breathe air, produce sperm which contain human genetic codes, and am also in an intimate relationship with a human so I'm pretty sure I'm a person.
Nice fucking try, but you gave yourself away with that "...am also in an intimate relationship with a human" remark, not if you're on/. you're not.
Crystal Fire and they had an interesting anecdote about the beginnings of semi-conductor research. In the late 1930's early 1940s the scientists at Bell labs were experimenting with silicon to see if they could build rectifiers and other electronic components out of it. At the time there really wasn't any theory about how these things might have worked. Some silicon rods showed semi-conductive behavior, some didn't. Finally they found one rod that showed strong semi-conductive behavior. They couldn't figure out what it was that made this rod special until the scientists and machinist who worked on it said that when it was cut or ground it gave off the same smell as one of the old carbide lamps that were used on many automobiles until the late 1920s. One of the chemists realized that what they were smelling was trace amounts of phospine gas, which meant that the rod has phosphorous in it. This was a surprise as the levels of phosphorous in the sample were so small that they didn't show up in a spectrographic analysis, it was the noses of the scientists and machinist that gave them the clue that the proper trace impurities in silicon would enhance the semi-conductive behavior.
that this either (or all) requires a tank of liquid helium, a roomful of sophisticated atomic scanning microscopes, or a highly radioactive source???
Fuck! Are you kidding? I want all three, radioactive materials glowing Cerenkov blue in a tank of liquid helium and the atomic scanning microscopes. That would be way cooler to look at than my SAN RAIDs are, all I've got on those is a bunch of blinky LEDs, booooooooorring. Imagine how much cooler it would be to have to say "I have to replace the radioactive source in the quantum vortex core storage" instead of merely saying "Hmmmm, got a bad drive on the RAID".
But you can make pretty much anything superconductive if you get it down below.5 Kelvin. I mean really, go much lower and you can make Twinkies superconductive much less boron doped silicon.
Well, not really, the first thing I can remember from the day after my left leg was amputated (motorcycle v. pickup truck, pickup truck wins even if motorcycle has right of way) was an intense itching, like the worst case of athlete's foot ever, in the toes of my then newly up the chimney of a medical incinerator left foot. Over the next few months the phantom limb pains decreased in severity and frequency, although I still get them sometimes and they can leave me gasping for breath.
Neurologically this is kind of interesting and even somewhat cool. About 9 months after my leg was amputated I was out working in my yard clearing a drain during a rainstorm. I was standing in water up to mid calf and my right foot started to get cold because it was soaking wet. I kept mucking out the drain and then I noticed that my left foot, which is actually a cunningly crafted bit of carbon fiber from the folks at Otto Bock felt cold and wet too. It was the damnedest thing and it made me stop for a moment, it felt as if I had a left foot that was in a cold, thoroughly soaking wet sock inside of a thoroughly soaking wet boot. I finished mucking out the drain, went inside, changed into dry clothes and stuck my right foot into a tub of warm water. As my right foot warmed the sensation in my left foot gradually decreased. If I am wearing my prosthesis phantom limb pains feel as if they are coming from the ankle and/or foot of my left leg, if I'm not wearing the prosthesis they feel as if they are coming from the stump. Amputation, the gift that keeps on giving.
I'm willing to give up some of my freedoms and rights for a while
Newsflash fuckhead, I'm not willing to give up my freedom and rights for a while, not one little bit. Anyone who has studied history or has a grain of common sense or who isn't some inbred Fox news watching fucktard such as yourself would know and understand that once you give up your freedom and rights, even when you're told it's for a 'little while', it's hard to get them back. People such as yourself have no right to live in a free country. I'd be perfectly happy to take away some of your freedoms and rights for 'a while' and deport your dumb Republican ass to North Korea, oh, did I mention that my definition of 'for a while' is the rest of your life?
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And why is that a bad thing? I love this offering on eBay. Some bunch of tools bid this guy's XO laptop, which he doesn't even have yet, up to $660. What a bunch of fucking retards.
http://cgi.ebay.com/XO-100-laptop-One-Laptop-Per-Child-OLPC-laptop-org_W0QQitemZ130176734336
I also love the title "XO, $100 laptop, One Laptop Per Child, OLPC, laptop.org" Firstly because it's not a $100 laptop. It is a $199 laptop if you go through the give one get one program and if you buy it on eBay it is at least a $660 laptop. I just want to find the top bidder and grab him and say "Dude! You're paying $660 for an $100 laptop. Do you see something wrong with this picture?"
Hell, I want to patent stuff in shipping containers now. I'm going to patent the Starbucks in a shipping container, a McDonald's (or generic fast food franchise) in a shipping container, a branch bank in a shipping container and a whorehouse in a shipping container. This is going to be the new thing in business model patents now that the courts have ruled that taking something obvious and computerizing it is not automatically patentable.
*I was going to use the three phase business model but those unspeakable bastards Matt Stone and Trey Parker have patented it.
No, it can be done. 18 hours of HD on a 9Gb disk, it's just that you're only getting eighteen hours of footage of a uniformly lit white wall, but it is in hi-def!
Well it's about time that the complete, baffling randomness of security and screening procedures was used against the terrorists instead of against the air-travellers.
The way that they are developing rockets is the direct antithesis of the way that NASA does it and unlike NASA they get things done. Remember the X-33 Project? NASA spent $912 million dollars and never did a single flight test. It was basically nothing more than a jobs program for NASA bureaucrats and Lockheed-Martin. For that price they could have built 14 test replacements for the DC-X that they crashed. Of course that wouldn't have employed as many bureaucrats, so it couldn't be done. Jerry Pournelle has a great article on how to get back into space and one of the things he talks about is X projects, projects that are designed to test a specific technology, with limited goals, in a short time frame. Of course programs like this don't make Lockheed or Boeing or General Dynamics lots of money and they don't employ lots of NASA bureaucrats, so they really aren't that popular. Pournelle's article can be read here.
Yes, the sacrificial virgins have to be female, and attractive, otherwise you could just round them up at any science fiction or comics convention.
So your mom sucked at parenting and left you, at the age of two, and your baby sister, in the car with the keys. Your mom is a lousy parent. Also I doubt that seeing a 30 second ad spot is going to make as much of an impression as seeing mommy and daddy driving the car every single day.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! It seems like ever since Cryptonomicon was published that it's been de rigueur among geeks to claim that they have Asperger's, just like Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse did in the novel. I sometimes want to grab these people and say "You're not antisocial because you're autistic. You're antisocial because you're an asshole!"
Your post is utter shit. Really, it is. You write:
I'm overstating it. Sometimes the generic works fine, sometimes it doesn't. A Z-pack (prescription 3-day antibiotic) always wiped out my wife's sinus infections... The generic one she got when pregnant... didn't do anything. It could be the pregnancy, but I've had bad luck with many generics... One of the advantages of being the son of a Doctor, you know when a generic is just as good and when it's crap.
So basically we have a bunch of anecdotal evidence from you that generics don't work. A sort of anti-placebo affect. Unfortunately your experiences mean nothing. Really, they don't. Can you show me double-blind tests of generics v. brand names that prove that generics aren't as good as brand name drugs? No, you can't, because they don't exist, if a generic doesn't match the brand it doesn't get approved. If you had bothered to read the webpage you cite, you would have noticed this FDA requirement "Generic drug manufacturers must show that a generic drug is bioequivalent to the brand-name drug, which means the generic version delivers the same amount of active ingredients into a patient's bloodstream in the same amount of time as the brand-name drug."
There are no special carve-outs or gimmes in the FDA's regulations for manufacturers of generic drugs, nothing in . So why do doctors recommend brand name drugs? Well let's see, a lot of doctors are really fucking ignorant and a lot of doctors are being paid off by the drug industry with special junkets, trips, gifts, et al. If some guy comes down to your dad's office and hands him 5,000 samples of drug X and pays for a round of golf and a nice lunch at a local club I'm willing to bet that your dad is going to hand out those samples and I'm willing to bet that he writes more scripts for drug X. This problem has gotten so bad that major hospitals are banning drug salesmen from meeting with individual staff members and have banned free samples.
Drug companies have a huge incentive to confuse this issue as much as possible to preserve their profits just as they have an incentive to get people to use . Or in pushing drugs that are no more effective than existing drugs, such as the COX-2 inhibitors, and which have deadly side effects that far outweigh their benefits, or come up with minor reformulations of existing drugs which are patentable but which are no more effective than the existing drug or a generic version (Serafem anyone).
I can't wait for reality to bitch slap the Jesus out of your self-righteous, Randroid ass, really I can't. I was in a motorcycle accident four years ago. I had COBRA insurance, stock options that were worth real money and a house. I spent 55 days at a level 1 trauma center and ran up $450,000 in bills and left missing my left leg below the knee. If I hadn't had good insurance I would have been fucked. The driver who hit me had $100K in coverage, that's it. A year later I had to go in for more surgery, another $50k in costs, which fortunately were covered by my insurance. That's $500k out of pocket. If I hadn't had insurance I would have had to declare bankruptcy and would have been financially destroyed.
If you think you have enough savings to cover a car accident or major broken bone you're delusional, you have no idea of what the costs are, you'll be wiped out in no time. Of course since you're such a good and self-sufficient little Randroid I expect you to leave the hospital as soon as your savings run out and go out and die quietly in the gutter without asking for any handouts.
As far as the $1,000 a year for health coverage I refuse to believe that you have any, not for that price Even back in the 1990s, when I was in my 20s, my health insurance ran about $150 a month. Where are you getting this miracle $1,000 a year coverage? And what does it actually "cover". You can no more get insurance for $1,000 a year than you can buy a brand new Porsche for $67 dollars.
Cretins like you are why we need a military draft, so you can learn first hand what the military is like instead of living in ignorance and spreading bullshit on /. Firstly your comment about only protecting him if you're deployed in a foreign country is stupid and insulting. Yeah, all of those guys back in CONUS, they aren't doing shit, sure they go on intense multi-week exercises, exercises that would probably kill your candy-ass, at such garden spots as the NTC, Yakima Firing Center, or Fort Bliss, Texas, but since they're not actually deployed in a foreign country what they do doesn't really count, it's just a big charade. Newsflash, dickhead! Not all of our troops are deployed in foreign countries, some are, some aren't, all of them are protecting you. Not just the guys on the front lines in Korea, Iraq or Afghanistan.
As far as your comment about "deployed" pay goes where did you get this from? Did you pull it out of your ass? Was it hard? What excuse is there for such ignorance? Did you ever, before you posted this shit, think of going online to find out the facts about military pay? Or is your keyboard too encrusted with dried semen and orange Chee-tos residue for you to go to Google and do the research.
As far as living expenses go yeah, the military throws some coin your way for that. On the other hand the military expects you to work 80 hours a week or more if you're out in the field and you get to work with lots of dangerous heavy equipment and ammunition. Even if you added a very generous dollar amount for the "three hots and a cot", which aren't all that great, to the salary of the average soldier, marine, sailor or airman it wouldn't be that much. Remember, this isn't like whatever low-level shit job you hold, it's really hard and there are real consequences for fucking up such as death (your own or someone else's) and jail.
As far as the "$15k in profit is more than I make after rent + food" comment you should be taken out and beaten for saying something this fucking stupid. Seriously, you should be put under a scratchy wool GI blanket and beaten by a bunch of guys wielding tube socks loaded with bars of soap and master locks. Congratulations, you are one of the most ignorant cunts that has ever posted on /. Good job! Now kill yourself.
than fuck around with this. Auto-negotiation still doesn't work properly, and I still see problems with it on good Sun gear connected to good Foundry Network switches, not just on cheap, consumer grade crap. I had enough problems with it screwing things up that I finally disabled it, well I didn't disable it. I just set all of my backup clients up so that they could auto-negotiate all they wanted to. Just so long as they autonegotiated GigE, full duplex.
I guess you haven't been to 3rd/4th world countries till now. I have been, it does (at least in my eyes) make it Ok. See, if that company doesn't pollute, some other company will.
I see your point, that's why I'm going to grab a couple of guns, head over to your house, pistol whip you senseless, tie you up, cut your eyelids off, rape your mom and girlfriend while you watch and then kill them both by jamming the guns up their cunts and pulling the triggers and then kill you by ramming a gun up your ass and pulling the trigger, take your stuff and burn your house to the ground. See, if I don't do it someone else will, so there's really no reason for me not to do it and there's no reason for you, or society, to ask me not to do it because well, if I don't someone else will.
Oh, and this is cute, the captcha for this post is "bastard", I think that's an adequate description of what you and the rest of the "well we can't ask anyone to invest responsibly" crowd are.
Look me in the eye and tell me that George W. Bush never used family connections to get out of trouble, get into college, avoid being drafted, evade drunk driving convictions, rescue his failed businesses, get elected governor of Texas and become President of the United States. Look me in the eye and tell me that. The fact is that the rich protect the rich, they take care of themselves and they do everything they can to make sure that they stay on top. This has little or nothing to do with merit and everything to do with gaming the system to make sure that no one ever threatens their economic hegemony. Don't believe me. Don't think that rich folks do this sort of thing? Then pray tell me why rich folks and rich corporations spend so much money lobbying politicians. Could it be because they want to make sure that certain unfair advantages they have (such as having a lower tax rate on interest and capital gains) stay in place? The idea that rich folks are all noble, hard working, self-made Horatio Alger types is utter crap, only a pathetic tool, someone who jacks off to a semen encrusted copy of Atlas Shrugged could believe such arrant nonsense.
Yeah, and the anti-nuclear cunts at groups such as Greenpeace and all of the other eco-wankstain groups will shit themselves blind in a self-righteous shitstorm of eco-bullshit if anyone so much as mentions ever building a nuclear plant again. Want to do something about global warming? Take everyone who is against nuclear power out and shoot them in the fucking head, then those of us who want a real solution to the problem of anthropogenic C02 emissions and who aren't using global warming as a stick in which to force everyone to adopt some idealized bullshit anti-technology eco-puritan lifestyle could actually get something done.
No shit. I'd rather suck a mile of dick than go back to Cingular as a provider. They've got the worst coverage of any cell provider where I live (Seattle) and their customer support sucks ass. Also 600 bucks and a two year lock in? Not yet Steve, tell me when I can have it through another provider and when I can have the 8Gb model for 400 bucks without a lock in. I was an early adopter on the iPod, but no way in Hell am I bending over for Cingular to get an iPhone.
A typical retarded Windows user's view. Windows is still lacking posix libraries and a decent shell and thus it lacks the applications _I_ use. Now, last I checked I breathe air, produce sperm which contain human genetic codes, and am also in an intimate relationship with a human so I'm pretty sure I'm a person.
Nice fucking try, but you gave yourself away with that "...am also in an intimate relationship with a human" remark, not if you're on /. you're not.
Well, if you can't get the nerds out to watch Han freakin Solo do Network Security...
The problem is that the nerds won't see it since they recut the movie and used digital SFX so that the Cisco sales rep shot first.
Crystal Fire and they had an interesting anecdote about the beginnings of semi-conductor research. In the late 1930's early 1940s the scientists at Bell labs were experimenting with silicon to see if they could build rectifiers and other electronic components out of it. At the time there really wasn't any theory about how these things might have worked. Some silicon rods showed semi-conductive behavior, some didn't. Finally they found one rod that showed strong semi-conductive behavior. They couldn't figure out what it was that made this rod special until the scientists and machinist who worked on it said that when it was cut or ground it gave off the same smell as one of the old carbide lamps that were used on many automobiles until the late 1920s. One of the chemists realized that what they were smelling was trace amounts of phospine gas, which meant that the rod has phosphorous in it. This was a surprise as the levels of phosphorous in the sample were so small that they didn't show up in a spectrographic analysis, it was the noses of the scientists and machinist that gave them the clue that the proper trace impurities in silicon would enhance the semi-conductive behavior.
that this either (or all) requires a tank of liquid helium, a roomful of sophisticated atomic scanning microscopes, or a highly radioactive source???
Fuck! Are you kidding? I want all three, radioactive materials glowing Cerenkov blue in a tank of liquid helium and the atomic scanning microscopes. That would be way cooler to look at than my SAN RAIDs are, all I've got on those is a bunch of blinky LEDs, booooooooorring. Imagine how much cooler it would be to have to say "I have to replace the radioactive source in the quantum vortex core storage" instead of merely saying "Hmmmm, got a bad drive on the RAID".
But you can make pretty much anything superconductive if you get it down below .5 Kelvin. I mean really, go much lower and you can make Twinkies superconductive much less boron doped silicon.
Neurologically this is kind of interesting and even somewhat cool. About 9 months after my leg was amputated I was out working in my yard clearing a drain during a rainstorm. I was standing in water up to mid calf and my right foot started to get cold because it was soaking wet. I kept mucking out the drain and then I noticed that my left foot, which is actually a cunningly crafted bit of carbon fiber from the folks at Otto Bock felt cold and wet too. It was the damnedest thing and it made me stop for a moment, it felt as if I had a left foot that was in a cold, thoroughly soaking wet sock inside of a thoroughly soaking wet boot. I finished mucking out the drain, went inside, changed into dry clothes and stuck my right foot into a tub of warm water. As my right foot warmed the sensation in my left foot gradually decreased. If I am wearing my prosthesis phantom limb pains feel as if they are coming from the ankle and/or foot of my left leg, if I'm not wearing the prosthesis they feel as if they are coming from the stump. Amputation, the gift that keeps on giving.
Newsflash fuckhead, I'm not willing to give up my freedom and rights for a while, not one little bit. Anyone who has studied history or has a grain of common sense or who isn't some inbred Fox news watching fucktard such as yourself would know and understand that once you give up your freedom and rights, even when you're told it's for a 'little while', it's hard to get them back. People such as yourself have no right to live in a free country. I'd be perfectly happy to take away some of your freedoms and rights for 'a while' and deport your dumb Republican ass to North Korea, oh, did I mention that my definition of 'for a while' is the rest of your life?