I agree, the children under discussion here should be allowed to sleep 16 hours a day consume nothing but candy and vodka if they want do. It's bullshit that anyone tries to tell them what to do. WHATEVAH! I DO WHAT AH WANT!
And according to distrowatch, Mint is now the #1 distro, ahead of Ubuntu. I applied the "my wife's box" test (fnar fnar), and yup, Mint 11 LXDE satisfied her completely, where Ubuntu 11.04 had left her dry and aching. I guess Shuttleworth's Reality Distortion Field needs a bit of work.
The Fermi paradox though is that it would only take one bug eyed monster with the stubbornness (and longevity) to hop on the slow boat to Proxima Centauri, then it's just a matter of time before the Milky Way gets colonised. Even at sublight speeds, the BEM could do it in under a billion years.
Scott Adams explains it away in The Dilbert Principle though - the holodeck will be our last invention ever. If you can simulate it, why go to the expense and risk of actually doing it?
Quick precis for those who don't know: MEPs are essentially non-entities. All EU legislation is created by the Commission, made up of unelected political appointees from Member States. Since they don't know anything about the issues that they actually legislate, they farm out the task of actually writing laws to expert consultants - read, lobbyists.
After six or seven rounds of rubberstamping, the new Directive is put before the actual "Parliament", where MEPs can vote yea or nea, or just not show up in the hope that it will pass and they can plead ignorant neutrality. If they vote nea, it goes through the committee system a few more times so that some of the more deliberately egregious clauses can be elided. Honour satisfied, the Directive is duly passed in the form that the lobbyist really wanted, and Member States can begin the process of (mis)implementing it, or in the case of anyone South or East of Belgium, shrugging their shoulders and simply ignoring it.
...less any policy excess, then you got raped on all insurance policies on all vehicles because you suffered a theft, the thief was free to steal again, and some chump bought a stolen bike. Insurance is the very last line of defence.
The same whiny hypochondriacal medieval idiots who demand antibiotics to fight a virus.
I often think that 19th century physicians had it figured out. Blue pill (placebo), slime draught (nasty tasting placebo) and let some blood. Treat the root cause, i.e. the hypochondria.
He is angry. I had the, uh, "pleasure" of hearing him speak in person at the University of Glasgow, then do a Q&A session. He had brief jolly (lucid?) periods when he was rambling on by himself, but many of the questions sent him off on a tirade. When he was asked why most systems are GNU/Linux rather than GNU/Hurd he practically became incoherent, raving on about compromised principles (note: his principles, not Linus's), long term damage to Freeeedom, and the Great Patent Threat. I swear he was foaming at the mouth at one point. Of course, he didn't answer the question in any meaningful way.
Also, he stank. I don't mean that in a jocular "Ha ha, smell hippy" sense, I just mean that up close, he really did look filthy and reek of stale sweat. It was physically repugnant to be near him, and if you don't think that does or should matter, well, I do because basic hygiene is common courtesy, and Stallman's lack of it shows contempt for others. It's not the way to make friends or influence people, which is basically Stallman's job.
Like "truly epic coronal mass ejections", lets save the hyperbole for when we can't use it. We'll know that there's a big problem when we can't read about it on Slashdot.
Journalist - specifically columnists - live in a social media bubble, mostly interacting with other columnists, PR bunnies, socialites and assorted wasters and parasites, among whom iProducts are essentially de rigour. Daaaahling, surely you're not still using that palaeolithic iPhone 3, one might as well just bash two rocks against one's head until one is tempted to vote Republican. (snorts of laughter, clink of glasses)
Among their social whirl, I'm sure that iApp iDevelopers are like adorable little nerd godlings, but I don't think we can generalise from that to the real world.
You know your muscles are still going to hurt just as much as if you were making them move by yourself, right? Unless you sever the nerve connections, which given your attitude, I can't entirely rule out.
Their best gambit might be to stand up, name every company and organisation against SOPA, then say "These proceedings are a farce. Go Cheney yourselves." and walk out. We can but hope.
Indeed, I can't wait to hear that they took out one of those "never pay" polices. Very cheap if you don't have to claim on it.
Actually, I imagine that their insurer's response to the demand to cover $50 million that they essentially volunteered to pay will be two words: "Make us."
The part that I like best about the Minecraft story is that the shambling masses of "me too" handout junkies have no answer to it.
"My concept is the next Minecraft, so give me money" doesn't and can't work as a pitch. If your project is the next Minecraft, funders will be chasing you because you already have a game and players, and you'll be laughing at them because you're already making money, directly, without their intervention.
Even the bitcoin true believers on their forums have admitted that the number of nodes is dropping. The total "market value" of all the bitcoins in existence is essentially insignificant and designed to stay that way. You'd (seriously) be better off posting baggies of gold dust around if you want a universal, untraceable currency.
Ah, yes, but our currency has a picture of a real proper God's anointed Queen on it, not a bunch of abstract squiggles and random Godless squinty-eyes like the Monopoly money they use in Japan. There's your difference right there.
The take-away from that discussion is that the number of nodes on the bitcoin network is "dropping and has been for some time". Bitcoin is already dead, we're just waiting for Netcraft to confirm it and a politician to deny it.
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I agree, the children under discussion here should be allowed to sleep 16 hours a day consume nothing but candy and vodka if they want do. It's bullshit that anyone tries to tell them what to do. WHATEVAH! I DO WHAT AH WANT!
Eh, you name a feature after a throwaway name from Firefly, what do you expect? Wave still lasted longer though.
It's spelled "Mario". The indigenous peoples of New Zealand are a proud race with a noble history of cannibalism and plumbing.
And according to distrowatch, Mint is now the #1 distro, ahead of Ubuntu. I applied the "my wife's box" test (fnar fnar), and yup, Mint 11 LXDE satisfied her completely, where Ubuntu 11.04 had left her dry and aching. I guess Shuttleworth's Reality Distortion Field needs a bit of work.
The Fermi paradox though is that it would only take one bug eyed monster with the stubbornness (and longevity) to hop on the slow boat to Proxima Centauri, then it's just a matter of time before the Milky Way gets colonised. Even at sublight speeds, the BEM could do it in under a billion years.
Scott Adams explains it away in The Dilbert Principle though - the holodeck will be our last invention ever. If you can simulate it, why go to the expense and risk of actually doing it?
After six or seven rounds of rubberstamping, the new Directive is put before the actual "Parliament", where MEPs can vote yea or nea, or just not show up in the hope that it will pass and they can plead ignorant neutrality. If they vote nea, it goes through the committee system a few more times so that some of the more deliberately egregious clauses can be elided. Honour satisfied, the Directive is duly passed in the form that the lobbyist really wanted, and Member States can begin the process of (mis)implementing it, or in the case of anyone South or East of Belgium, shrugging their shoulders and simply ignoring it.
And that's how democracy works.
...less any policy excess, then you got raped on all insurance policies on all vehicles because you suffered a theft, the thief was free to steal again, and some chump bought a stolen bike. Insurance is the very last line of defence.
It's OK, the cameras always face away from the people giving the orders.
The same whiny hypochondriacal medieval idiots who demand antibiotics to fight a virus.
I often think that 19th century physicians had it figured out. Blue pill (placebo), slime draught (nasty tasting placebo) and let some blood. Treat the root cause, i.e. the hypochondria.
He is angry. I had the, uh, "pleasure" of hearing him speak in person at the University of Glasgow, then do a Q&A session. He had brief jolly (lucid?) periods when he was rambling on by himself, but many of the questions sent him off on a tirade. When he was asked why most systems are GNU/Linux rather than GNU/Hurd he practically became incoherent, raving on about compromised principles (note: his principles, not Linus's), long term damage to Freeeedom, and the Great Patent Threat. I swear he was foaming at the mouth at one point. Of course, he didn't answer the question in any meaningful way.
Also, he stank. I don't mean that in a jocular "Ha ha, smell hippy" sense, I just mean that up close, he really did look filthy and reek of stale sweat. It was physically repugnant to be near him, and if you don't think that does or should matter, well, I do because basic hygiene is common courtesy, and Stallman's lack of it shows contempt for others. It's not the way to make friends or influence people, which is basically Stallman's job.
Like "truly epic coronal mass ejections", lets save the hyperbole for when we can't use it. We'll know that there's a big problem when we can't read about it on Slashdot.
Journalist - specifically columnists - live in a social media bubble, mostly interacting with other columnists, PR bunnies, socialites and assorted wasters and parasites, among whom iProducts are essentially de rigour. Daaaahling, surely you're not still using that palaeolithic iPhone 3, one might as well just bash two rocks against one's head until one is tempted to vote Republican. (snorts of laughter, clink of glasses)
Among their social whirl, I'm sure that iApp iDevelopers are like adorable little nerd godlings, but I don't think we can generalise from that to the real world.
You know your muscles are still going to hurt just as much as if you were making them move by yourself, right? Unless you sever the nerve connections, which given your attitude, I can't entirely rule out.
Don't confuse power with energy. Oops, too late.
Their best gambit might be to stand up, name every company and organisation against SOPA, then say "These proceedings are a farce. Go Cheney yourselves." and walk out. We can but hope.
Hey, the other 100 threads expounding the same thought are Redundant, I got in first.
Indeed, I can't wait to hear that they took out one of those "never pay" polices. Very cheap if you don't have to claim on it.
Actually, I imagine that their insurer's response to the demand to cover $50 million that they essentially volunteered to pay will be two words: "Make us."
This is more like Furry Farms though. Kill 'em all!
Didn't PETA get busted paying a farms to skin some of those giant rats alive just so they could film it? One handed, I strongly suspect.
The part that I like best about the Minecraft story is that the shambling masses of "me too" handout junkies have no answer to it.
"My concept is the next Minecraft, so give me money" doesn't and can't work as a pitch. If your project is the next Minecraft, funders will be chasing you because you already have a game and players, and you'll be laughing at them because you're already making money, directly, without their intervention.
Die, parasitic middle-men, die.
Even the bitcoin true believers on their forums have admitted that the number of nodes is dropping. The total "market value" of all the bitcoins in existence is essentially insignificant and designed to stay that way. You'd (seriously) be better off posting baggies of gold dust around if you want a universal, untraceable currency.
I'm sure that some early speculators have cashed out and doubled their money. Why, some of them are literally tenionaires now.
Ah, yes, but our currency has a picture of a real proper God's anointed Queen on it, not a bunch of abstract squiggles and random Godless squinty-eyes like the Monopoly money they use in Japan. There's your difference right there.
The take-away from that discussion is that the number of nodes on the bitcoin network is "dropping and has been for some time". Bitcoin is already dead, we're just waiting for Netcraft to confirm it and a politician to deny it.
You fed the trolls, YHL, HAND.
I'd guess that it was a tragic accident where he forgot to arrange a Safety Word.