Since traffic counters and blinkenlights are terrorist tools in Boston, I'm surprised this guy got as far down the street as he did before Homeland Security detained him for our safety.
You're right about "in general," but, at least for me, the music from the water levels in Mario 64 has stuck with me since I played the game. That theme, in my opinion, is just as well-written as the music from the old sidescroller Marios. The rest of the music from Mario 64 is pretty forgettable though.
No, not exactly. The IE redirect is locally done by the browser itself, while what Verisign has done is far, far worse. For once Microsoft isn't being the most evil company out there...
Abominable human rights record compared to what? Iraq? The Sudan? Cambodia? North Korea? China?
When was the last time you heard about torture chambers, mass graves, tens of thousands of people starving, sweatshops, and the like in America?
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot about that "information extraction" facility just outside of Chicago, or all those poor little schoolchildren in San Luis Obispo working 12 hours a day sewing sneakers. Then there's the spot in Tampa where Herr Ashcroft had 10,000 "dissidents" summarily executed and buried, and that time George Bush gassed a bunch of hippies in San Francisco for protesting against the government.
Sound familiar to you? It shouldn't. Because IT HASN'T HAPPENED. We don't brutalize and murder our own citizens, and we tried our damndest to control collateral damage in Iraq.
Name a couple of places we've "seriously fucked up." Fine, I'll give you Guatemala and Vietnam, but just about every other place has come out better after we're through, and unlike every other country in history, we leave when we're done.
It is official, NASA confirms: Pioneer 10 is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Pioneer community when NASA confirmed that Pioneer 10's signal strength had dropped yet again. Coming on the heels of a recent NASA commnications attempt which plainly states that Pioneer 10 has lost all communication with home, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along, Pioneer 10 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by being completely unable to send a receivable signal in the last NASA communications attempt.
IIRC, nibbles and nybbles are the same thing, the latter being used by some people to distinguish the smaller-than-a-byte from the smaller-than-a-bite.
Nope People get pissed off because they're trying to listen in to the PRIVATE conversation and they can't hear the other side of it. The conversation is PRIVATE and so you shouldn't be trying to listen anyways.
The problem with that is that the conversation is usually occurring in a public place.
I attend an International Baccalaureate high school in central Florida. The school is set up on the campus of a regular high school except the IB students have separate classes except for electives, and the IB school has separate administration. All extra-curricular activities are done through the regular high school.
The great thing about being at an IB school (I'm not sure if all IB schools are like this) is that the administration and teachers truly care about the students. Most of the time, the students are committed to getting an education and the teachers are committed to giving the students that education. The administration is also very helpful to any student who has a need. The guidance counselor (who, incidentally is named Katz) is quite knowledgable and certainly knows what she's doing, considering she's got a doctorate in curriculum resources.
The IB school is also quite populated with geeks, as would be expected, which is proving to be a great experience for me. My parents sent me to a private school for elementary and junior high, which was a good thing, considering the crappiness of the public schools in my area, but the school was a "rich-kids" school and I didn't fit in to that group really well. At IB, I'm finally getting to attend school with other people who see the world in much the same way that I do. I also do not feel like the teachers are trying to turn me into a mindless sheep, but that they are truly trying to make me and every other student in IB think independently.
I've read almost all of the commentary to this article, and I'm feeling very lucky that I have the ability to have this experience in high school. I'm not trying to gloat over anyone by saying all of this, even though it may sound that way. It is my sincere hope that "normal" high schools can look at the model IB has set up, not just academically but in their attitude towards the students, and see the kind of quality people that are coming out of it.
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Since traffic counters and blinkenlights are terrorist tools in Boston, I'm surprised this guy got as far down the street as he did before Homeland Security detained him for our safety.
I take it you didn't hear about the Gutsy Gibbon?
You're right about "in general," but, at least for me, the music from the water levels in Mario 64 has stuck with me since I played the game. That theme, in my opinion, is just as well-written as the music from the old sidescroller Marios. The rest of the music from Mario 64 is pretty forgettable though.
The 25th image down sure looks like a higher-graphics game of xbill that someone just lost.
No, not exactly. The IE redirect is locally done by the browser itself, while what Verisign has done is far, far worse. For once Microsoft isn't being the most evil company out there...
/.ed in under 20 comments?
Abominable human rights record compared to what? Iraq? The Sudan? Cambodia? North Korea? China?
When was the last time you heard about torture chambers, mass graves, tens of thousands of people starving, sweatshops, and the like in America?
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot about that "information extraction" facility just outside of Chicago, or all those poor little schoolchildren in San Luis Obispo working 12 hours a day sewing sneakers. Then there's the spot in Tampa where Herr Ashcroft had 10,000 "dissidents" summarily executed and buried, and that time George Bush gassed a bunch of hippies in San Francisco for protesting against the government.
Sound familiar to you? It shouldn't. Because IT HASN'T HAPPENED. We don't brutalize and murder our own citizens, and we tried our damndest to control collateral damage in Iraq.
Name a couple of places we've "seriously fucked up." Fine, I'll give you Guatemala and Vietnam, but just about every other place has come out better after we're through, and unlike every other country in history, we leave when we're done.
...which is the title on the fake book that Neo hides his floppy-diskish things in at the beginning of the movie.
Lots of Steve Martin and Carl Reiner goodness and some amazingly funny one-liners.
"Cleaning woman? CLEANING WOMAN?!?!?!"
Umm, trees grow. They can be planted. And frankly, it'd be bad economics to not replant.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Pioneer community when NASA confirmed that Pioneer 10's signal strength had dropped yet again. Coming on the heels of a recent NASA commnications attempt which plainly states that Pioneer 10 has lost all communication with home, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along, Pioneer 10 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by being completely unable to send a receivable signal in the last NASA communications attempt.
IIRC, nibbles and nybbles are the same thing, the latter being used by some people to distinguish the smaller-than-a-byte from the smaller-than-a-bite.
I first looked at the headline and thought it said Network Solutions acquires Deersoft, Inc...
I remember that there was a lot of spamming on ICQ, especially with offline messages. Is this going to cross over to AIM now?
It's just as bad in Florida. You'd think with the amount it rains here people would know how to drive with water falling from the sky...
$2.2T? With a fine like that, we could start paying down the national debt...
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The problem with that is that the conversation is usually occurring in a public place.
IIRC, the traditional year is used on coins, and probably formal documents and such. Can't remember clearly from when I was over there, though.
She's Jewish, last I checked. Not sure if she actively practices the religion, though.
I wonder if the media will make a huge deal about January 18th, 2038, 22:14:07 EST in the same way they did about Y2K...
(Way, WAY offtopic)
I'm going to get moderated down for this...
That post should be used in the moderator faq as a perfect example of flamebait, because that's what it is.
I attend an International Baccalaureate high school in central Florida. The school is set up on the campus of a regular high school except the IB students have separate classes except for electives, and the IB school has separate administration. All extra-curricular activities are done through the regular high school.
The great thing about being at an IB school (I'm not sure if all IB schools are like this) is that the administration and teachers truly care about the students. Most of the time, the students are committed to getting an education and the teachers are committed to giving the students that education. The administration is also very helpful to any student who has a need. The guidance counselor (who, incidentally is named Katz) is quite knowledgable and certainly knows what she's doing, considering she's got a doctorate in curriculum resources.
The IB school is also quite populated with geeks, as would be expected, which is proving to be a great experience for me. My parents sent me to a private school for elementary and junior high, which was a good thing, considering the crappiness of the public schools in my area, but the school was a "rich-kids" school and I didn't fit in to that group really well. At IB, I'm finally getting to attend school with other people who see the world in much the same way that I do. I also do not feel like the teachers are trying to turn me into a mindless sheep, but that they are truly trying to make me and every other student in IB think independently.
I've read almost all of the commentary to this article, and I'm feeling very lucky that I have the ability to have this experience in high school. I'm not trying to gloat over anyone by saying all of this, even though it may sound that way. It is my sincere hope that "normal" high schools can look at the model IB has set up, not just academically but in their attitude towards the students, and see the kind of quality people that are coming out of it.
This has got to be one of the longest trolls I've seen in a while...
So this is where all the lamers from Segfault have gone after comments and write-ins were removed...
Have at it moderators!