If we'd have done it right, he'd have committed to exile. Its bush's cowboy diplomacy style in which you back someone into a corner and give no terms for surrender other than the ones that make said someone look like a coward to his country which set the stage for this conflict. which of course, was his intention all along....
The Cylons can travel faster than light, launch completely covert attacks on an advanced civilization, but they can only think of twelve different models for themselves?
my theory would be that 12 were all that were needed to infiltrate the colonials. you could use the same model in different places (different battlestars, for instance) and make a safe assumption that their paths would not cross naturally--and given the cylons apparent ability for wireless long-range communication with each other one would think they'd be able to coordinate their movements away from each other.
my guess is that if they had no intention of infiltrating colonial possessions that there would be no humanoid models at all.
There is this one question in my mind: given that they have some fairly advance level of artificial intelligence, do they have emotional awareness as well? is there some randomness in them that makes them want things irrationally? and what kind of body do they find beautiful, if any?
your point, while funny, begs an interesting question of why big tobacco doesn't invest heavily in cancer research; finding a reliable cure would render the biggest argument against smoking moot.
actually, i defy you to find a service with a wide catalog (ie, not emusic) using mp3. no major record company will allow its catalog of music to be downloaded without drm, which mp3 doesn't support. apple uses something called m4p or aac (mine defaulted to m4p), and while napster uses wma which i'm not crazy about, i can at least play it in media player or realone, which is a step up interface-wise from napsters play interface.
the same hitches that itunes have resolved have been similarly resolved by napster, with more flexibility. most of the comments i've seen regarding napster have been from grossly underinformed individuals or from people who just want free music, period. if you're one of those people who always said you'd pay for it if an attractive service came on the market, time to pony up--between napster, rhapsody, and itunes (the first two standing head-and-shoulders above the last, in my opinion) you've got your pick of legitimatacy and usability.
actually, the tracks you buy you can keep indefinitely. the difference between those tracks and the ones you lose when you stop subscribing is that you have access while subscribed to napsters entire catalog of music--you can download as many albums as you want, listen as often as you want, while online or off (which is the major advantage over rhapsody's service--i've used it extensively and have been switched almost exclusively to napster for a week now). think of it like cached streaming.
you still get to keep the tracks you buy for 99 cents, burn them to a cd, whatever you want. napsters only real drawback from my pov is the fact that its windows only--i'm hoping it will run under codeweavers or winex though.
I agree with this guy... having registration information on a domain is akin to being registered at the county courthouse as the owner of real estate property. nobody considers that a privacy violation, despite the fact that the records are publicly available.
they started using a key scheme that gets checked every so often against their server; when a key starts having a couple thousand users checking in, they disable it.
Do you even know how blacklists work? You dont have to use an ISP or host that "harbors spammers", just make the mistake of having an IP address somewhere in the class A or B subnet that spews has decided is entirely composed of spamhausen. Its the kind of blind logic you present here that's part of the problem. Instead of exercising a bit of initiative in using something like spamassassin or even bayesian filtering along with spam headers, these jackasses, and their idiot subscribers, nuke an entire class of addresses to kill a couple hundred. This is the online equivalent of dropping the Bomb on afghanistan just to be sure we get bin Laden and the remaining taliban. sure, we get those fuckers, but manage to kill a couple million innocents in the process. thank god the morons running spews aren't in charge of our foreign policy (not that bushites are much better, but at least they're a little more selective).
what makes you think its spammers? there a plenty of legitimate email users with a beef against these fascists--me, for one. i had a domain on a subnet that's entirely blocked despite the fact that i don't have open relays nor have i ever done any kind of spamming. several of my clients within larger corporate structures couldn't receive email from me because some PHB read in DildoCTO Quarterly that these lists can stop spam--never mind the fact that they can stop any kind of legitimate email use as well. There were a LOT of times i'd wished i had had the wherewithal to undertake something like this; spammers or not, i applaud the culprits.
I would... i'm a member of The Beer of the Month Club. Good beers available, although I'm probably going to discontinue my membership now that i'm in a city where you can get a wide selection of microbrews at the grocery store. Its great if you live in places where the alcohol nazis or a lack of taste in the general populace keep the selection trim though.
The poster is largely correct, although Torvalds' would be correct if used to describe his family, ie The Torvalds' vacation to finland ended badly when the Microsoft Word grammar checker failed at customs reentry.
The settlement terms have several interesting clauses; for instance, by accepting, you would be agreeing to "settle and release all claims, demands, actions, suits, and causes of action against Microsoft and/or its directors, officers, employees, attorneys, insurers or [snip...]
how is that interesting? that's what a settlement IS--they give you something and you release them from any further liability. This whole reading-comic-books-between-the-lines editorializing is really getting old.
The scene I remember most clearly in this context from the book was when Phaedrus was working with a student who had a writing assignment but was completely blocked, and kept coming to him in tears. The assignment was to write about something in the city or something like that--it might have been to write about something historical--and he kept telling her that she was writing over too broad a topic. He first told her to go write about something on main street, but she couldn't do it, so he told her to write about a particular theater on main street, and again she returned in tears. finally in exasperation he told her to write about a single brick in the top left corner of the front facade, and when she returned she had pages upon pages of material.
breaking a task down into small enough chunks is imperative to progress.
I actually have the same problem, and i've found my biggest distraction to be the computer itself--instant messages, emails that need responding to, web pages that need to be checked every few minutes for updates (thanks slashdot and fark!), and just general screwing around all conspire to keep me from my appointed task.
My breakthrough came when i went to a coffeeshop to work with a laptop on an empty battery and no free outlets to be found. I started working on a notepad, and before i knew it i had the entire design for what i wanted to do laid out, and most of the code hand-written. It was amazing, and surprising. Obviously there's some things you HAVE to have a computer for, such as debugging, but i've found the more i limit my computer usage to only the most necessary tasks the more likely i am to accomplish more than 15 minutes of work a day. Incidentally, in that one eight-hour stint at the coffee shop i got more work done than in the three weeks previous, which is more a testament to how badly i was blocked working at home than how productive pen and paper made me.
also this guy has some good articles on personal productivity you may find useful.
if you're in the US, then the employer is bound by the ADA (americans with disabilities act) to make reasonable accomodations for your disability if you can still perform your job. Keeping an extra CRT around is totally reasonable, so if you just ask your employer to keep your old monitor b/c of your eyes, I'm sure they'd be willing to accomodate you on that. if not maybe they'll accomodate your lawyer:)
I used to play meridian when it was in its first beta--I had no idea you guys were still around! Fantastic to see the game is still doing well with its core audience, and i'm looking forward to having some time to check out the new stuff when i get a few minutes.
samsonite makes a really big-ass suitcase for about 125 that fits a computer with associated parts that i used to use for technology demos cross-country when i didn't trust fedex to get it there on time. you have to check it, but the suitcase has a sturdy lock built into it. you'll also need to buy some extra foam padding for safety.
This is one of the most overused and thoughtless arguments for tax cuts out there. Let's play a thought game for a minute.
Taxes get cut. hey, fine and dandy, so the rich get a bigger cut than everyone else. they pay more in the first place, right?
so we've got less revenue coming into the government. This quickly leads to deficit spending--another item the wealthiest 1% point to as "good for the economy". Why, i wonder? The presumption is that because like consumer credit spending it puts more out into the economy. But like consumers, the government has to pay interest on that deficit spending. So who do they pay it to? Bond holders, of course. And who buys bonds? The rich--or at least people who are well enough off to invest significant percentages of their personal wealth in bonds. So far the rich seem be the primary beneficiary of this whole deficit spending thing. But who is paying for the interest? well fuck me running, it looks like the taxpayers are! but we're already spending on a deficit, so now we have to RAISE TAXES, which fucks the middle class once again.
So don't talk to me about how democrats are all about massive transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor--Republicans do the same thing, just in the opposite direction. At least with the democrats we see the wealth going in a direction that benefits 90% of the country instead of 2%.
If you really think a tax cut will help the economy, fine--increase the standard deduction. Everyone benefits equally from it, and unlike tax breaks on the top 200,000 of your salary (a sum most people never see), everyone will realize some personal gain from it, and most people will realize SIGNIFICANT increase in their disposable income from it.
i have the twc box. it sucks. the only real advantage is not having to buy it in the first place--its monthly service charge is cheaper than tivo's IF you already have digital cable. if not, you have to upgrade and the effective price difference ups to 20 bucks or so.
there are all kinds of technical problems with the twc box--it crashes on me regularly, usually in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter of a close football game. it takes at least three or four minutes to come back up once it does that. For some reason it won't record iterations of shows right now--only one-shot recordings work. in general its just screwed up.
not to be knocking your comment or anything, but how the hell is this modded "Funny"? I mean, its pretty straightforward to me, i use MSMoney the same way. I imagine a health percentage of its users do the same.
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If we'd have done it right, he'd have committed to exile. Its bush's cowboy diplomacy style in which you back someone into a corner and give no terms for surrender other than the ones that make said someone look like a coward to his country which set the stage for this conflict. which of course, was his intention all along....
The Cylons can travel faster than light, launch completely covert attacks on an advanced civilization, but they can only think of twelve different models for themselves?
my theory would be that 12 were all that were needed to infiltrate the colonials. you could use the same model in different places (different battlestars, for instance) and make a safe assumption that their paths would not cross naturally--and given the cylons apparent ability for wireless long-range communication with each other one would think they'd be able to coordinate their movements away from each other.
my guess is that if they had no intention of infiltrating colonial possessions that there would be no humanoid models at all.
There is this one question in my mind: given that they have some fairly advance level of artificial intelligence, do they have emotional awareness as well? is there some randomness in them that makes them want things irrationally? and what kind of body do they find beautiful, if any?
your point, while funny, begs an interesting question of why big tobacco doesn't invest heavily in cancer research; finding a reliable cure would render the biggest argument against smoking moot.
actually, i defy you to find a service with a wide catalog (ie, not emusic) using mp3. no major record company will allow its catalog of music to be downloaded without drm, which mp3 doesn't support. apple uses something called m4p or aac (mine defaulted to m4p), and while napster uses wma which i'm not crazy about, i can at least play it in media player or realone, which is a step up interface-wise from napsters play interface.
the same hitches that itunes have resolved have been similarly resolved by napster, with more flexibility. most of the comments i've seen regarding napster have been from grossly underinformed individuals or from people who just want free music, period. if you're one of those people who always said you'd pay for it if an attractive service came on the market, time to pony up--between napster, rhapsody, and itunes (the first two standing head-and-shoulders above the last, in my opinion) you've got your pick of legitimatacy and usability.
actually, the tracks you buy you can keep indefinitely. the difference between those tracks and the ones you lose when you stop subscribing is that you have access while subscribed to napsters entire catalog of music--you can download as many albums as you want, listen as often as you want, while online or off (which is the major advantage over rhapsody's service--i've used it extensively and have been switched almost exclusively to napster for a week now). think of it like cached streaming.
you still get to keep the tracks you buy for 99 cents, burn them to a cd, whatever you want. napsters only real drawback from my pov is the fact that its windows only--i'm hoping it will run under codeweavers or winex though.
I agree with this guy... having registration information on a domain is akin to being registered at the county courthouse as the owner of real estate property. nobody considers that a privacy violation, despite the fact that the records are publicly available.
they started using a key scheme that gets checked every so often against their server; when a key starts having a couple thousand users checking in, they disable it.
Do you even know how blacklists work? You dont have to use an ISP or host that "harbors spammers", just make the mistake of having an IP address somewhere in the class A or B subnet that spews has decided is entirely composed of spamhausen. Its the kind of blind logic you present here that's part of the problem. Instead of exercising a bit of initiative in using something like spamassassin or even bayesian filtering along with spam headers, these jackasses, and their idiot subscribers, nuke an entire class of addresses to kill a couple hundred. This is the online equivalent of dropping the Bomb on afghanistan just to be sure we get bin Laden and the remaining taliban. sure, we get those fuckers, but manage to kill a couple million innocents in the process. thank god the morons running spews aren't in charge of our foreign policy (not that bushites are much better, but at least they're a little more selective).
what makes you think its spammers? there a plenty of legitimate email users with a beef against these fascists--me, for one. i had a domain on a subnet that's entirely blocked despite the fact that i don't have open relays nor have i ever done any kind of spamming. several of my clients within larger corporate structures couldn't receive email from me because some PHB read in DildoCTO Quarterly that these lists can stop spam--never mind the fact that they can stop any kind of legitimate email use as well. There were a LOT of times i'd wished i had had the wherewithal to undertake something like this; spammers or not, i applaud the culprits.
I would... i'm a member of The Beer of the Month Club. Good beers available, although I'm probably going to discontinue my membership now that i'm in a city where you can get a wide selection of microbrews at the grocery store. Its great if you live in places where the alcohol nazis or a lack of taste in the general populace keep the selection trim though.
The poster is largely correct, although Torvalds' would be correct if used to describe his family, ie The Torvalds' vacation to finland ended badly when the Microsoft Word grammar checker failed at customs reentry.
The settlement terms have several interesting clauses; for instance, by accepting, you would be agreeing to "settle and release all claims, demands, actions, suits, and causes of action against Microsoft and/or its directors, officers, employees, attorneys, insurers or [snip...]
how is that interesting? that's what a settlement IS--they give you something and you release them from any further liability. This whole reading-comic-books-between-the-lines editorializing is really getting old.
The scene I remember most clearly in this context from the book was when Phaedrus was working with a student who had a writing assignment but was completely blocked, and kept coming to him in tears. The assignment was to write about something in the city or something like that--it might have been to write about something historical--and he kept telling her that she was writing over too broad a topic. He first told her to go write about something on main street, but she couldn't do it, so he told her to write about a particular theater on main street, and again she returned in tears. finally in exasperation he told her to write about a single brick in the top left corner of the front facade, and when she returned she had pages upon pages of material.
breaking a task down into small enough chunks is imperative to progress.
I actually have the same problem, and i've found my biggest distraction to be the computer itself--instant messages, emails that need responding to, web pages that need to be checked every few minutes for updates (thanks slashdot and fark!), and just general screwing around all conspire to keep me from my appointed task.
My breakthrough came when i went to a coffeeshop to work with a laptop on an empty battery and no free outlets to be found. I started working on a notepad, and before i knew it i had the entire design for what i wanted to do laid out, and most of the code hand-written. It was amazing, and surprising. Obviously there's some things you HAVE to have a computer for, such as debugging, but i've found the more i limit my computer usage to only the most necessary tasks the more likely i am to accomplish more than 15 minutes of work a day. Incidentally, in that one eight-hour stint at the coffee shop i got more work done than in the three weeks previous, which is more a testament to how badly i was blocked working at home than how productive pen and paper made me.
also this guy has some good articles on personal productivity you may find useful.
if you're in the US, then the employer is bound by the ADA (americans with disabilities act) to make reasonable accomodations for your disability if you can still perform your job. Keeping an extra CRT around is totally reasonable, so if you just ask your employer to keep your old monitor b/c of your eyes, I'm sure they'd be willing to accomodate you on that. if not maybe they'll accomodate your lawyer :)
I used to play meridian when it was in its first beta--I had no idea you guys were still around! Fantastic to see the game is still doing well with its core audience, and i'm looking forward to having some time to check out the new stuff when i get a few minutes.
samsonite makes a really big-ass suitcase for about 125 that fits a computer with associated parts that i used to use for technology demos cross-country when i didn't trust fedex to get it there on time. you have to check it, but the suitcase has a sturdy lock built into it. you'll also need to buy some extra foam padding for safety.
This is one of the most overused and thoughtless arguments for tax cuts out there. Let's play a thought game for a minute.
Taxes get cut. hey, fine and dandy, so the rich get a bigger cut than everyone else. they pay more in the first place, right?
so we've got less revenue coming into the government. This quickly leads to deficit spending--another item the wealthiest 1% point to as "good for the economy". Why, i wonder? The presumption is that because like consumer credit spending it puts more out into the economy. But like consumers, the government has to pay interest on that deficit spending. So who do they pay it to? Bond holders, of course. And who buys bonds? The rich--or at least people who are well enough off to invest significant percentages of their personal wealth in bonds. So far the rich seem be the primary beneficiary of this whole deficit spending thing. But who is paying for the interest? well fuck me running, it looks like the taxpayers are! but we're already spending on a deficit, so now we have to RAISE TAXES, which fucks the middle class once again.
So don't talk to me about how democrats are all about massive transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor--Republicans do the same thing, just in the opposite direction. At least with the democrats we see the wealth going in a direction that benefits 90% of the country instead of 2%.
If you really think a tax cut will help the economy, fine--increase the standard deduction. Everyone benefits equally from it, and unlike tax breaks on the top 200,000 of your salary (a sum most people never see), everyone will realize some personal gain from it, and most people will realize SIGNIFICANT increase in their disposable income from it.
really it all just means you're gay.
Actually, i think he meant republicans... another 50 million taxpayers means they can cut taxes on the rich some more.
non-compete clause...
I haven't seen once since I started using mozilla...
i have the twc box. it sucks. the only real advantage is not having to buy it in the first place--its monthly service charge is cheaper than tivo's IF you already have digital cable. if not, you have to upgrade and the effective price difference ups to 20 bucks or so.
there are all kinds of technical problems with the twc box--it crashes on me regularly, usually in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter of a close football game. it takes at least three or four minutes to come back up once it does that. For some reason it won't record iterations of shows right now--only one-shot recordings work. in general its just screwed up.
not to be knocking your comment or anything, but how the hell is this modded "Funny"? I mean, its pretty straightforward to me, i use MSMoney the same way. I imagine a health percentage of its users do the same.
MODERATORS, GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR ASSES! MENTIONING MS DOESN'T MAKE SOMETHING FUNNY!