Rumer has it that if you take two opposately charged electrodes and place them a half inch or so apart in aquious water hydrogen will form. I remember trying this when I was 15 or so with a car battery recharger and getting little bubbles floating up from the electrodes.
Warez. Searously, I live in a college dorm, and for the 300 and some people that live in the dorm, one or two people buy a game, and then anybody who wants it copies it. For those who don't live in a dorm; there's a very very active warez trading community out there, You can regularly download rips of games a couple weeks before they hit store shelves.
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If companies did accept software exchanges or returns every 14 year old that fancies himself a l33t warez hax0r would buy, copy, and return games. It's a nice idea, but it just wouldn't make sense.
It's always a good idea to insert as many grammatical and spelling errors in your comment as possible when you're trying to establish credibility as someone who understands Shakespeare.
True, the plots of some shakespeare plays aren't especially elegant or morally uplifting, and part of why some people think they're intelligent is because of the old english, but there's much more to them than you insinuate. Sheakspeare can be read as poetry, read the boys snnets, read some of his monlogues, read some of the dialogues that deal with moral delemmas, the plots are adiquate, but the diction and rhyescheme that Shakespeare uses is marvelous. Oh, and don't forget his proficiancy for inventing words, (or at least bringing words previously only used as colloquialisms onto the written page.)
Four weeks ago I was in zambia, and met the looseing major presidential canadate in the most recent election. When I asked him what his plans were now, he said that since looseing the election he's been getting in wireless communications. He proceded to gush about the benefits of cell phones and how zambia was deepley in need of a rural cellular network. It was a bit etherial to be hearing this in the midst of a country where starvation is not uncommon.
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(/crotchety voice) I may not have been tradeing warez for 20+ years, but I do remember downloading sim ant as a 0-day (just released) warez from a BBS at 2400 bps, and back in my day we had BBS parties at the park and talking about War-ez not wares. Wares are what Simple Simon asked for from the pie man. War-ez is pirated software. (/end crotchety voice) In reality it dosen't matter, once you subjectively decide which one is right, the other will always sound funny.
They forget that the police drive Crown Victoria's for a reason - a cop friend of mine had his Crown Vic over 130MPH in a pursuit.
My 1977.5 Porsche 924 with 124hp hit 125, dosen't mean it's a burley car with lots of power. Hell, my 1993 Subaru Impreza can get up close to 120. Police drive Crown Victorias because they're american and comfortable to drive. Now the camero's that cops were driving for a while, that's something a bit more exciteing.
This solution is slightly more advanced than other African plans for dealing with tsetse flies. I remember back in the early/mid 80's at some southern African borders, while your car was stopped a man would come out with a sort of duster stick (made from the tail of a zebra/horse/donkey) and brush off your car to remove any tsetse flies that may be wanting to get a ride over the border on your vehicle. I'm sure that plan was terribly effective.
Whoa, wait a minute, you're using the very common assumption that just because something's natural means it's morally sound. If you continue your analogy you're going to come to all sorts of horrible things that animals do. A while ago I saw a group of mallards chase down and rape a female duck. Perfectly Natural, but we can do better.
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If an individual had systematically poisoned a river running through a town we would call it Terrorism and imprison or execute that person. When a corporation like Monsanto does the same thing, we call it business, and most likely we will simply fine the corporation for a minuscule percentage of their wealth, and let them continue these practices.
If I remember correctly, I read something by Tolkien on this subject, and the essence of what he said was that the LOTR books were not meant as an allegory , but they still could have applicability.
But while we're talking about seeing movies for free in one manner or another, I think the point was that this particular movie probably doesn't fit our audience very well. It's a spoof of a special-interest genre (movies for teens 17 and under), and doesn't have the broad-based appeal to a general audience that nearly anything else would.
Oh come on, we all know that 90% of slashdot readers are 14 year old Hax0rs
If you really feel like decreaseing your performance you can put interactive flash/shockwave on your desktop, have things explode and so fourth whenever you drag your mouse over them.
I go to Walla Walla College, where if I am not mistaken we use these hacked airports you mentioned for wireless access around campus, and they don't quite reach 11 miles, more like a few hundred yards.
Please don't listen to this, while there definately is something to be said for hard work, there is nothing to be said for hard pointless work. Get out and live, experience life, join the peace corps, go on a month long excursion to africa, live in a hut with some Masai people, treck across south America, move to a cabin in Alaska, something. If all that's too much at least watch American Beauty, and read some of Robert Herrick, if I may:
"The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best wich is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst,
Times still succeed the former."
Do this before you decide to simply persue a carrear in something because it's convenient.
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And even if it dosen't make people more productive, you can't discount the immense value of seeing Yoda kick some ass with a couple of lightsabers.
Rumer has it that if you take two opposately charged electrodes and place them a half inch or so apart in aquious water hydrogen will form. I remember trying this when I was 15 or so with a car battery recharger and getting little bubbles floating up from the electrodes.
Warez. Searously, I live in a college dorm, and for the 300 and some people that live in the dorm, one or two people buy a game, and then anybody who wants it copies it. For those who don't live in a dorm; there's a very very active warez trading community out there, You can regularly download rips of games a couple weeks before they hit store shelves.
..let davenger@radlight.net know how you feel.
If companies did accept software exchanges or returns every 14 year old that fancies himself a l33t warez hax0r would buy, copy, and return games. It's a nice idea, but it just wouldn't make sense.
It's always a good idea to insert as many grammatical and spelling errors in your comment as possible when you're trying to establish credibility as someone who understands Shakespeare.
True, the plots of some shakespeare plays aren't especially elegant or morally uplifting, and part of why some people think they're intelligent is because of the old english, but there's much more to them than you insinuate. Sheakspeare can be read as poetry, read the boys snnets, read some of his monlogues, read some of the dialogues that deal with moral delemmas, the plots are adiquate, but the diction and rhyescheme that Shakespeare uses is marvelous. Oh, and don't forget his proficiancy for inventing words, (or at least bringing words previously only used as colloquialisms onto the written page.)
Four weeks ago I was in zambia, and met the looseing major presidential canadate in the most recent election. When I asked him what his plans were now, he said that since looseing the election he's been getting in wireless communications. He proceded to gush about the benefits of cell phones and how zambia was deepley in need of a rural cellular network. It was a bit etherial to be hearing this in the midst of a country where starvation is not uncommon.
(/crotchety voice) I may not have been tradeing warez for 20+ years, but I do remember downloading sim ant as a 0-day (just released) warez from a BBS at 2400 bps, and back in my day we had BBS parties at the park and talking about War-ez not wares. Wares are what Simple Simon asked for from the pie man. War-ez is pirated software. (/end crotchety voice) In reality it dosen't matter, once you subjectively decide which one is right, the other will always sound funny.
Compared to a crown vic who wouldn't love them.
They forget that the police drive Crown Victoria's for a reason - a cop friend of mine had his Crown Vic over 130MPH in a pursuit.
My 1977.5 Porsche 924 with 124hp hit 125, dosen't mean it's a burley car with lots of power. Hell, my 1993 Subaru Impreza can get up close to 120. Police drive Crown Victorias because they're american and comfortable to drive. Now the camero's that cops were driving for a while, that's something a bit more exciteing.
Beacuase this site will be soon slashdotted, the google mirror is here.
This solution is slightly more advanced than other African plans for dealing with tsetse flies. I remember back in the early/mid 80's at some southern African borders, while your car was stopped a man would come out with a sort of duster stick (made from the tail of a zebra/horse/donkey) and brush off your car to remove any tsetse flies that may be wanting to get a ride over the border on your vehicle. I'm sure that plan was terribly effective.
Naah, it could easily happen "accidentally", some of us have had credit cards that stopped being magnetically readable.
Which is why you need to swipe your own card on a very strong magnet, and then feign ignorance when the cop looks at you angrily.
This is being done, and promoted with an iPAQ
Whoa, wait a minute, you're using the very common assumption that just because something's natural means it's morally sound. If you continue your analogy you're going to come to all sorts of horrible things that animals do. A while ago I saw a group of mallards chase down and rape a female duck. Perfectly Natural, but we can do better.
Damn, there goes my plan for fleeing to Canada.
If an individual had systematically poisoned a river running through a town we would call it Terrorism and imprison or execute that person. When a corporation like Monsanto does the same thing, we call it business, and most likely we will simply fine the corporation for a minuscule percentage of their wealth, and let them continue these practices.
If I remember correctly, I read something by Tolkien on this subject, and the essence of what he said was that the LOTR books were not meant as an allegory , but they still could have applicability.
Oh come on, we all know that 90% of slashdot readers are 14 year old Hax0rs
If you really feel like decreaseing your performance you can put interactive flash/shockwave on your desktop, have things explode and so fourth whenever you drag your mouse over them.
Not such a bright idea to whine about too much traffic on your website and then get a link to your site from a slashdot article.
I go to Walla Walla College, where if I am not mistaken we use these hacked airports you mentioned for wireless access around campus, and they don't quite reach 11 miles, more like a few hundred yards.
Please don't listen to this, while there definately is something to be said for hard work, there is nothing to be said for hard pointless work. Get out and live, experience life, join the peace corps, go on a month long excursion to africa, live in a hut with some Masai people, treck across south America, move to a cabin in Alaska, something. If all that's too much at least watch American Beauty, and read some of Robert Herrick, if I may:
"The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best wich is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst,
Times still succeed the former."
Do this before you decide to simply persue a carrear in something because it's convenient.