The problem is, at 18, they're no longer innocent, but they're still stupid. They'll be stupid for another 4-6 years yet. When I graduated high school, I knew everything. Now, 10 years on, I know nothing. Oh well...
The odds of being killed by a terrorist act is approximately 1 in 600,000. The odds of dying from falling off a ladder are approximately 1 in 10,000. You are correct in saying that the odds of you meeting your demise from a terrorist act are slim, but the nightly news doesn't keep a running count of ladder falling victims.
Terrorism may not kill very many people compared to, say, ladders, but those that it does kill are high profile, and strike fear into the hearts of innocent people everywhere. So your odds of being killed by a terrorist may be low, but your odds of being affected by a terrorist act are decidedly high. The 9/11 terrorists didn't kill every American, but they affected us all in some way -- a way we don't want to be affected again. The terrorists killing our soldiers in Iraq are affecting us as well. They're succeeding in swaying American popular support away from winning the war in Iraq -- not that I'm saying we should have gone there in the first place.
Lack of left wing bias != right wing bias. As an American, I prefer the BBC for precisely this reason -- they're left of Fox News, and right of Michael Moore. With the polarization of the news media recently, the BBC has been the one outlet I can (mostly) depend on to give me a balanced view of world events. Perhaps you'd prefer MoveOn.org or rawstory.com for all your news, if all you want to hear is opinions you agree with?
The greatest asset Linux has for adoption is its percieved stability. If substandard, buggy drivers crash computers, users are going to blame "Linux" for crashing, not the driver whose development was outsourced to Tajikistan. IMHO, a driver API such as this would hurt Linux adoption, not help it.
Be careful what you wish for. The larger the marketshare that Apple has, the bigger the target their platform becomes. You'll not only see ports of your favorite apps, but crapware as well.
Sorry, I'm at work. If I 'bare with you', they'll probably fire me before they have me arrested for indecent exposure and sue me for sexual harassment:)
That just means they'll keep you for 50 years without a trial (or however long it takes them to crack your encryption). Interesting that those that use encryption are automatically considered criminals.
Sorry to disappoint you valley boy, but much of the rest of the country isn't quite as hospitable as the area you live in. Testing these cars in environments like SoCal is silly if you want to see what weather extremes will do to a car. Of course, SoCal would be perfect if you wanted to rule the weather out as the cause of the problem. Here in Chicago we have:
summer peaks at over 100 degrees F
winter troughs at under 20 below zero F
about 3 feet of snow annually
salt out the wazoo in the winter
Call me when you have your first storm like this one:
...CHICAGO... January 2, 1999. NORTHERN ILLINOIS WAS IN THE GRIPS OF A SEVERE WINTER SNOWSTORM...BRINGING MUCH OF THE AREA TO A STOP. HEAVY SNOWS AND HIGH WINDS CAUSED DRIFTS OF MORE THAN FOUR FEET IN MANY AREAS. ON THIS DATE...18.6 INCHES OF SNOW FELL IN CHICAGO...THE GREATEST SINGLE-DAY SNOWFALL TOTAL EVER RECORDED IN THE CITY. THIS THREE-DAY STORM...RUNNING FROM THE 1ST THROUGH THE 3RD...PRODUCED A TOTAL OF 21.6 INCHES OF SNOW. THIS IS THE 2ND LARGEST SNOWSTORM TO HIT THE CHICAGO AREA.
Or this one:
January 10, 1982. BITTERLY COLD WEATHER GRIPPED MUCH OF THE STATE AS MOST REPORTING STATIONS RECORDED LOW TEMPERATURES OF 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO OR COLDER. SOME OF THE COLDEST AIR SETTLED IN OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS THAT NIGHT CAUSING TEMPERATURES TO PLUMMET TO 26 BELOW IN CHICAGO AND 27 BELOW IN ROCKFORD. THIS SET AN ALL TIME RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE FOR ROCKFORD.
Yeah, I know those in Minnesota and Arizona could each beat me on low or high temps, snowfall, etc, but is there anyone that can top all three? Detroit maybe? DC? Let the pissing contest begin!
No, I and all of my friends owned actual licenses for Starcraft -- why not when the Starcraft Battle Chest goes for less than $20? Every last one of us was legal. The problem was, you couldn't play in the same game in battle.net when you're behind the same NAT router, and when broadcast traffic doesn't traverse the router, those on other subnets can't join a LAN game. So what are you to do if your friends in another dorm want to join into your Starcraft game? Our solution was to set up a server on your local network to serve up the game. It worked like a charm. Then Blizzard broke out the lawyers, and the rest was history.
After the bnetd garbage, I've refused to purchase any new Blizzard titles. In my eyes, Blizzard has gone from one of the best video game makers in the world to pure evil, deserving nothing but derision. Perhaps you, armed with this fresh experience, will now agree?
Keeping health care in the private sector keeps our income taxes low, the size of government bureaucracy in check, and the quality of health care high, despite the lack of universal coverage. Fortunately, the gaps in coverage are beginning to be filled in by the individual states. Most Americans seem to feel that the quality of our health care should not be sacrificed on the altar of universal coverage, as they percieve has happened in many socialized systems.
I'm sure you are paying the DSL bill, but if it's subsidized (and I'm not sure if it is or not), your DSL bill will be artificially lower. The US does this for POTS service in rural areas -- if the subsidies weren't there, farmers and others in BFE couldn't afford telephones or power, due to the high cost of the infrastructure per customer. The rural telco subsidy is taken from taxes on urban telco customers, and is actually listed on our telephone bills.
Consider not what you're currently doing with your broadband, but what you could be doing with your broadband at 4 times the bandwidth. How about streaming real-time video on demand? Crystal clear VOIP? Replace your cable company and/or your telephone company with whichever is cheaper? Allow greater competition in the ISP area by providing multiple services over the same wires? With greater bandwidth, all these things become possible.
And by the way, the reason those servers are too slow to respond can be because the admins can't afford a fatter pipe. A rising tide raises all boats, and as your bandwidth gets cheaper per Mb/s, so does theirs...
I hope nobody here gets the bright idea to take you up on this, unless they really want to be thrown in jail for delivering a biological weapon. Human excrement is biohazardous, and requires special handling.
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He should open up a tavern at the university. He can call it the "foo bar"
The problem is, at 18, they're no longer innocent, but they're still stupid. They'll be stupid for another 4-6 years yet. When I graduated high school, I knew everything. Now, 10 years on, I know nothing. Oh well...
Why not Gaim on Windows?
Only when playing this...
There are, but we just don't make the news.
No problem. Just make sterilization a prerequisite for immortality.
Google knows all
The odds of being killed by a terrorist act is approximately 1 in 600,000. The odds of dying from falling off a ladder are approximately 1 in 10,000. You are correct in saying that the odds of you meeting your demise from a terrorist act are slim, but the nightly news doesn't keep a running count of ladder falling victims.
Terrorism may not kill very many people compared to, say, ladders, but those that it does kill are high profile, and strike fear into the hearts of innocent people everywhere. So your odds of being killed by a terrorist may be low, but your odds of being affected by a terrorist act are decidedly high. The 9/11 terrorists didn't kill every American, but they affected us all in some way -- a way we don't want to be affected again. The terrorists killing our soldiers in Iraq are affecting us as well. They're succeeding in swaying American popular support away from winning the war in Iraq -- not that I'm saying we should have gone there in the first place.
Please clarify: Georgia, or Georgia?
Closet monsters don't fly airplanes into skyscrapers.
Lack of left wing bias != right wing bias. As an American, I prefer the BBC for precisely this reason -- they're left of Fox News, and right of Michael Moore. With the polarization of the news media recently, the BBC has been the one outlet I can (mostly) depend on to give me a balanced view of world events. Perhaps you'd prefer MoveOn.org or rawstory.com for all your news, if all you want to hear is opinions you agree with?
The greatest asset Linux has for adoption is its percieved stability. If substandard, buggy drivers crash computers, users are going to blame "Linux" for crashing, not the driver whose development was outsourced to Tajikistan. IMHO, a driver API such as this would hurt Linux adoption, not help it.
Be careful what you wish for. The larger the marketshare that Apple has, the bigger the target their platform becomes. You'll not only see ports of your favorite apps, but crapware as well.
Sorry, I'm at work. If I 'bare with you', they'll probably fire me before they have me arrested for indecent exposure and sue me for sexual harassment
That just means they'll keep you for 50 years without a trial (or however long it takes them to crack your encryption). Interesting that those that use encryption are automatically considered criminals.
Reliability, eh? Obviously, their web server isn't based on this OS.
Call me when you have your first storm like this one:
Or this one:Yeah, I know those in Minnesota and Arizona could each beat me on low or high temps, snowfall, etc, but is there anyone that can top all three? Detroit maybe? DC? Let the pissing contest begin!
No, I and all of my friends owned actual licenses for Starcraft -- why not when the Starcraft Battle Chest goes for less than $20? Every last one of us was legal. The problem was, you couldn't play in the same game in battle.net when you're behind the same NAT router, and when broadcast traffic doesn't traverse the router, those on other subnets can't join a LAN game. So what are you to do if your friends in another dorm want to join into your Starcraft game? Our solution was to set up a server on your local network to serve up the game. It worked like a charm. Then Blizzard broke out the lawyers, and the rest was history.
After the bnetd garbage, I've refused to purchase any new Blizzard titles. In my eyes, Blizzard has gone from one of the best video game makers in the world to pure evil, deserving nothing but derision. Perhaps you, armed with this fresh experience, will now agree?
Keeping health care in the private sector keeps our income taxes low, the size of government bureaucracy in check, and the quality of health care high, despite the lack of universal coverage. Fortunately, the gaps in coverage are beginning to be filled in by the individual states. Most Americans seem to feel that the quality of our health care should not be sacrificed on the altar of universal coverage, as they percieve has happened in many socialized systems.
I'm sure you are paying the DSL bill, but if it's subsidized (and I'm not sure if it is or not), your DSL bill will be artificially lower. The US does this for POTS service in rural areas -- if the subsidies weren't there, farmers and others in BFE couldn't afford telephones or power, due to the high cost of the infrastructure per customer. The rural telco subsidy is taken from taxes on urban telco customers, and is actually listed on our telephone bills.
Consider not what you're currently doing with your broadband, but what you could be doing with your broadband at 4 times the bandwidth. How about streaming real-time video on demand? Crystal clear VOIP? Replace your cable company and/or your telephone company with whichever is cheaper? Allow greater competition in the ISP area by providing multiple services over the same wires? With greater bandwidth, all these things become possible.
And by the way, the reason those servers are too slow to respond can be because the admins can't afford a fatter pipe. A rising tide raises all boats, and as your bandwidth gets cheaper per Mb/s, so does theirs...
Vigor
I hope nobody here gets the bright idea to take you up on this, unless they really want to be thrown in jail for delivering a biological weapon. Human excrement is biohazardous, and requires special handling.
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