Here's another misdirected by GPS story. The gus's lucky to be alive, nobody familar with the area would think of taking that road except in the summer, even then it is a rough road.
Last summer we were on a road trip and my buddy brought along his GPS and laptop. We plugged the laptop into the car sound to hear the directions. After dinner in a part of the state we had never been before, he punched in where we wanted to go and we got these directions:
Female Computer Voice Drive NorthWest for 23 miles and then make a U-Turn.
I didn't make the U-Turn, but did almost go off road while laughing. We got way lost on that trip a couple times.
The man lived a very interesting life that went far beyond the narrow focused, knee jerk scope of most Slashdoters. An appraisal of that life can be found at:
the Philippines we conquered and "Christianized" at the turn of the last century (and, Puerto Rico, too). The Spanish took care of that long, as in centuries, before the US arrived. Their methods were very thorough.
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I, for one, had gotten fed up with the fanatic ramblings of this RSS guy and thought most others had also. And now you tell me he has won and M$ and Google are buying into it!
evil, Evil, EVIL. There are many times when I see my CPU pegged when I not doing much of anything. Typically it turns out to be a minimized browser window on a Yahoo page with some crap flash banner.
No! Every praise heaped upon OSX is right on the money. However parts of Mac ethos don't sit well with me: less configurability, apps that do the specific thing you want tend to be shareware and, above all, the default image library seems pale in comparision to imlib2. Yes there are ways around those things using fink and whatnot, but I prefer to run them on the platform for which they were designed.
If the ad blinks or flashs, I block them. If the ad has a shitty server that causes the page to hang, I block them. And I don't care what site has them, because they are giving me a crap experience. doubleclick has been blocked for a long time now. If enough folks did this, the more astute sites will use a less intrusive ad provider.
The question you pose can be taken at a different level. Many developments in China become much more clear if you take the long view. The Chinese have viewed the rest of the world as inferior for milleinia. Then the west came along in the last couple centuries and poked a few holes in that in a big way, yet it remains entwined in their mindset, perhaps with a vengence. Despite numerous faults, Richard Nixon was an astute obsever of the international playing field, he felt that the 21rst Century would be the Chinese century. This is but an early step along the road to getting things to where the Chinese feel they are supposed to be.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
Having spent a couple years delving into arcane, yet often often fascinating, Alexander scholarship, that's the one that got a hearty laugh out of me. Good work on the whole thing!
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http://www.jhnews.com/article.php?art_id=2473/
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Last summer we were on a road trip and my buddy brought along his GPS and laptop. We plugged the laptop into the car sound to hear the directions. After dinner in a part of the state we had never been before, he punched in where we wanted to go and we got these directions:
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Drive NorthWest for 23 miles and then make a U-Turn.
I didn't make the U-Turn, but did almost go off road while laughing. We got way lost on that trip a couple times.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/movies/27valenti .html?hp/
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Having spent a couple years delving into arcane, yet often often fascinating, Alexander scholarship, that's the one that got a hearty laugh out of me. Good work on the whole thing!
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