The official cut-off is 1964. I was born in January, 65, so I'm technically an X-er. I've also heard of people born in the early 60's as "cuspers" because the grew up in the not-quite-boomer/not-quite-x-er period.
You have to remember that while the boom began with the return of the guys from WWII, it didn't really end until those guys stopped building families. Personally, I got tired of changing diapers in a lot less than twenty years, but there you go.
Because she was stupid enough to put a cup of hot coffee in between her legs and try to drive.(coffee is made with boiling water, you know. Personally, I like it that way.) It was her own freaking fault.
It's related to the fact that socks come in pairs - the wormholes have symmetry breaking characteristics that cause left/right pairs to be separated - usually by several light years.
Hence, all those single socks that get left behind. Once one sock is sucked, the other sock will remain forever unsucked.
My main problem with this sort of thing (and there are many problems with it) is the question of who decides the fate of the handicapped child?
Well said. What makes one person more qualified than another to judge the nature of suffering?
I regularly work with kids who suffer from severe diseases that will probably kill them before they're grown. They require continuous care. I've also seen the joy that lights up their faces when I pull a quarter out of their ear or make a playing card change from red to black. The other day I watched a little boy and his father playing with their train set. Am I to seriously believe he takes no joy in life because his back bones have been fused so he can sit up right in his wheel chair?
I find that attitude both arrogant and unworthy of a human being.
That's the whole point. They are just that: ideas. It didn't take National Socialism alone to turn Germany into hell on earth, it took a charismatic lunatic, political circumstances, and above all a german population that was perceptive to the ideas.
And the metaphor still holds. A gun lying on a table, unused, doesn't hurt anyone - it takes a person to pick it up and yank on the trigger to cause harm.
So, either (a) guns are not dangerous or (b) ideas are dangerous. You can't have it both ways.
One thing I will never understand is why so many non-commercial sites insist on a ".com" domain name. Most recently, I discovered my township has a web site - www.yourtaxdollarsatwork.COM. Jeez!
When I set up my (since closed) freeware site, I got a.ORG domain just to make clear that it was non-commercial.
While I don't agree that musician guy about removing don-henley.com from the web, I can't see why the other Mr. Henley needed a commercial domain name in the first place....
Ideas can be dangerous, in exactly the same way guns can be dangerous - in the hands of a malicious or misguided person they can cause great harm. In fact, I would argue that ideas are far more dangerous, and have killed far more people, than guns ever have. What are National Socialism and Communism, if not ideas?
I should be able to manage my unborn children on an ROI basis. (Abortion) After all, offsping mainly exist to provide for the continuance of our genetic heritage. Healthy ones have a better chance of achieving that goal.
I realize this is a common attitude, but really have trouble understanding this - what's the difference between a baby 2 seconds after it's born and a fetus 2 seconds before it's born? Especially when we regularly spend millions of dollars each year to preserve the lives of premature infants - infants that, biologically, are young enough to be legally aborted?
People are getting really upset with this professor, but that just begs the question: What, exactly, is the difference between abortion and infanticide?
White noise is certainly random - but background noise in real world situations is hardly going be that random. Rather, it's going to be a chaotic blend of non-random signals - each of which may (or may not) be a valid speech signal in it's own right.
what we need is something the size of like, a car key, that has "enough" storage, and can holographically project a screen about the size of a sheet of paper.
To cite the old joke: Is it DOS compatible?
These days, we would say "Does it play Quake III?"
I don't know if it's real CTS or tendonitis, or what, but my left wrist started aching two or three years ago. Which is a pain in the @#$!, since I'm left handed.
(It's interesting that some people get it in their mouse hand, others in the keyboard hand - I got it in the keyboard hand).
Anyway, first things first - go buy a good keyboard for each machine you use - make the company pay if you can, pay for them yourself if you must.
The good keyboards have two main features: (1) the keyboard is split in half, with each half angled towards that hand. (2) The keyboard is slanted AWAY from your hands instead of towards them. These two features allow your wrists to relax while you type. It will feel odd for the first day or two, then you won't notice it at all - unless you have to use an old fashioned keyboard.
I've used the original MS Natural keyboard - very, very nice - and an Acer keyboard (I'm using right now). I forget the trade name of the Acer, but the model # on the bottom says "ERGO".
The Acer keyboard does have one big problem - it has an integrated touch pad, which I thought would help, but turns out to irritate my wrist. I turned it off.
After you've changed your keyboard, you might want to invest in a wrist splint/wrist brace. Basically, it's a molded metal bar in a glove. You put it on the aching wrist and it braces it. Personally, I discovered that if I'm having an episode of wrist pain, sleeping with the brace on helps tremendously.
He Does have his facts straight. The Rage 128 Pro is the replacement for the Rage 128. And yes the rage 128 is a major disappointment for gamers. It would have been a faboo card if it had been released in 98, in 99 it's mediocre and the PC drivers suck. I wish I'd bought a Voodoo 3500.
There were a number of tests of water-burst nuclear devices. The effect on a fleet of ships was astonishing. (They tested it on captured Japanese war ships after the war). Picture ships rolling through the water like logs.
Presumably that's the level of force that would be required to generate a tsunami - and I know that the USN does posess nuclear mines.
I recently got myself Java certified. One of the cool things about that is that your clients can check Sun's database to see if your really certified. Except, oops, your student ID is your SSN. And, hey, check it out, once you've entered the SSN you can change all my personal data, too.
No, I'm not telling you my student ID so you can test it out.
Even more annoying is that it looks like some are moderating up the gun arguments that they like.
Perhaps you should expend more thought on why those posts (pro or anti, doesn't matter) were moderated up.
Like it or not, guns are a technology that touches all our lives - in America, in Indonesia, in Kosovo or Chechnea (sp?). And the gun debate illustrates both what is good and bad about democracies and political change.
Consider the gun posts here: a small number of posts that attempt to be well thought out and reasonable, coupled with a larger number of posts that resort to name calling, and a similar number of posts expressing exhaustion over the whole thing.
Pretty much illustrates how western societys work, doesn't it? Fanatics shout until reasonable people become tired of the whole thing and move on - resulting in a government driven by shrill minorities rather than sensible majorities.
You can see it everywhere: guns, abortion, Northern Ireland, the Middle East.
Sigh. I can hear geeks all over the country saying "Why should I bother caring about the truth behind pro- or anti- gun arguments when there's a quake III frag fest going on?"
Replace the word "gun" with any other issue you care to name and you've summarized the Western World today.
Only crazy folks like Branch Dividians worry about the 'black helicopters'.
Speaking of the media twisting things... The Davidians were never actually charged with any crimes not related to events that occurred during the stand off. The stand off was triggered by allegations that they possessed illegal firearms (a machine gun, I think) but I don't think formal charges were ever filed.
People should remember that the Davidians were not a 'right wing anti-government militia'. The events at places like Waco and Ruby Ridge triggered the growth of the militia movement - they occurred first.
Yeah, everynow and then I devote a Sunday School class to explaining to kids and/or adults that
Jesus was probably not a tall skinny dude, and was of semetic blood - so he probably looked a lot more like Yasser Arafat than Billy Graham.
The original christian life style looks suspiciously like a commune.
What Would Jesus Do? Sell that BMW, give the money to the first homeless man he saw and preach a gospel of love while living on hand-outs and sleeping in shelters.
While the Columbine thing certainly triggered a lot of geek bashing, I'm really puzzled by the willingness of the online community to "adopt" those killers as poster children for the ostracized.
First, there has never been any evidence that they were geeks, artists or intellectuals - just outcasts.
Second, has it occurred to anyone that they were outcast because they were mean-spirited and violent and not the reverse?
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The official cut-off is 1964. I was born in January, 65, so I'm technically an X-er. I've also heard of people born in the early 60's as "cuspers" because the grew up in the not-quite-boomer/not-quite-x-er period.
You have to remember that while the boom began with the return of the guys from WWII, it didn't really end until those guys stopped building families. Personally, I got tired of changing diapers in a lot less than twenty years, but there you go.
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Wouldn't the decline in sperm counts amoung western men have something to do with this?
Or is that 'fact' still in dispute? I remember people arguing about it, but not the resolution of the controversy.
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How did you connect *those* dots? They didn't require the fire arms license in order to sell paperweights, dolt!
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the government has never shown that the civilians at Waco had full auto weapons, let along grenades.
The only people throwing grenades at Waco were the feds.
Where the heck do you get your information, anyway?
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I'll be polite and assume you're using metric units. 95 degrees F wouldn't do squat to coffee grounds.
And in any case, the manual on my, er, manual, coffee maker specifies that the water should be at a rolling boil before I pour it over the grounds.
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Because she was stupid enough to put a cup of hot coffee in between her legs and try to drive.(coffee is made with boiling water, you know. Personally, I like it that way.) It was her own freaking fault.
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It's related to the fact that socks come in pairs - the wormholes have symmetry breaking characteristics that cause left/right pairs to be separated - usually by several light years.
Hence, all those single socks that get left behind. Once one sock is sucked, the other sock will remain forever unsucked.
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My main problem with this sort of thing (and there are many problems with it) is the question of who decides the fate of the handicapped child?
Well said. What makes one person more qualified than another to judge the nature of suffering?
I regularly work with kids who suffer from severe diseases that will probably kill them before they're grown. They require continuous care. I've also seen the joy that lights up their faces when I pull a quarter out of their ear or make a playing card change from red to black. The other day I watched a little boy and his father playing with their train set. Am I to seriously believe he takes no joy in life because his back bones have been fused so he can sit up right in his wheel chair?
I find that attitude both arrogant and unworthy of a human being.
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That's the whole point. They are just that: ideas. It didn't take National Socialism alone to turn Germany into hell on earth, it took a charismatic lunatic, political circumstances, and above all a german population that was perceptive to the ideas.
And the metaphor still holds. A gun lying on a table, unused, doesn't hurt anyone - it takes a person to pick it up and yank on the trigger to cause harm.
So, either (a) guns are not dangerous or (b) ideas are dangerous. You can't have it both ways.
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One thing I will never understand is why so many non-commercial sites insist on a ".com" domain name. Most recently, I discovered my township has a web site - www.yourtaxdollarsatwork.COM. Jeez!
When I set up my (since closed) freeware site, I got a .ORG domain just to make clear that it was non-commercial.
While I don't agree that musician guy about removing don-henley.com from the web, I can't see why the other Mr. Henley needed a commercial domain name in the first place....
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The metaphor holds.
Ideas can be dangerous, in exactly the same way guns can be dangerous - in the hands of a malicious or misguided person they can cause great harm. In fact, I would argue that ideas are far more dangerous, and have killed far more people, than guns ever have. What are National Socialism and Communism, if not ideas?
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So, you also agree that guns don't kill people?
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I should be able to manage my unborn children on an ROI basis. (Abortion) After all, offsping mainly exist to provide for the continuance of our genetic heritage. Healthy ones have a better chance of achieving that goal.
I realize this is a common attitude, but really have trouble understanding this - what's the difference between a baby 2 seconds after it's born and a fetus 2 seconds before it's born? Especially when we regularly spend millions of dollars each year to preserve the lives of premature infants - infants that, biologically, are young enough to be legally aborted?
People are getting really upset with this professor, but that just begs the question: What, exactly, is the difference between abortion and infanticide?
--
White noise is certainly random - but background noise in real world situations is hardly going be that random. Rather, it's going to be a chaotic blend of non-random signals - each of which may (or may not) be a valid speech signal in it's own right.
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what we need is something the size of like, a car key, that has "enough" storage, and can holographically project a screen about the size of a sheet of paper.
To cite the old joke: Is it DOS compatible?
These days, we would say "Does it play Quake III?"
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I don't know if it's real CTS or tendonitis, or what, but my left wrist started aching two or three years ago. Which is a pain in the @#$!, since I'm left handed.
(It's interesting that some people get it in their mouse hand, others in the keyboard hand - I got it in the keyboard hand).
Anyway, first things first - go buy a good keyboard for each machine you use - make the company pay if you can, pay for them yourself if you must.
The good keyboards have two main features: (1) the keyboard is split in half, with each half angled towards that hand. (2) The keyboard is slanted AWAY from your hands instead of towards them. These two features allow your wrists to relax while you type. It will feel odd for the first day or two, then you won't notice it at all - unless you have to use an old fashioned keyboard.
I've used the original MS Natural keyboard - very, very nice - and an Acer keyboard (I'm using right now). I forget the trade name of the Acer, but the model # on the bottom says "ERGO".
The Acer keyboard does have one big problem - it has an integrated touch pad, which I thought would help, but turns out to irritate my wrist. I turned it off.
After you've changed your keyboard, you might want to invest in a wrist splint/wrist brace. Basically, it's a molded metal bar in a glove. You put it on the aching wrist and it braces it. Personally, I discovered that if I'm having an episode of wrist pain, sleeping with the brace on helps tremendously.
I hope this helps!
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I think the main reason we still use so much paper is that monitors make lousy display devices, compared to a piece of paper.
Hard on the eyes, hard on the neck, hard to lug around and read when you're on the john.
Once we start getting some "ubiquitous computing" style display pads, I suspect paper use will drop off.
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He Does have his facts straight. The Rage 128 Pro is the replacement for the Rage 128. And yes the rage 128 is a major disappointment for gamers. It would have been a faboo card if it had been released in 98, in 99 it's mediocre and the PC drivers suck. I wish I'd bought a Voodoo 3500.
--
There were a number of tests of water-burst nuclear devices. The effect on a fleet of ships was astonishing. (They tested it on captured Japanese war ships after the war). Picture ships rolling through the water like logs.
Presumably that's the level of force that would be required to generate a tsunami - and I know that the USN does posess nuclear mines.
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You can see it on sun's web site.
I recently got myself Java certified. One of the cool things about that is that your clients can check Sun's database to see if your really certified. Except, oops, your student ID is your SSN. And, hey, check it out, once you've entered the SSN you can change all my personal data, too.
No, I'm not telling you my student ID so you can test it out.
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Even more annoying is that it looks like some are moderating up the gun arguments that they like.
Perhaps you should expend more thought on why those posts (pro or anti, doesn't matter) were moderated up.
Like it or not, guns are a technology that touches all our lives - in America, in Indonesia, in Kosovo or Chechnea (sp?). And the gun debate illustrates both what is good and bad about democracies and political change.
Consider the gun posts here: a small number of posts that attempt to be well thought out and reasonable, coupled with a larger number of posts that resort to name calling, and a similar number of posts expressing exhaustion over the whole thing.
Pretty much illustrates how western societys work, doesn't it? Fanatics shout until reasonable people become tired of the whole thing and move on - resulting in a government driven by shrill minorities rather than sensible majorities.
You can see it everywhere: guns, abortion, Northern Ireland, the Middle East.
Sigh. I can hear geeks all over the country saying "Why should I bother caring about the truth behind pro- or anti- gun arguments when there's a quake III frag fest going on?"
Replace the word "gun" with any other issue you care to name and you've summarized the Western World today.
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Didn't George Michaels get arrested for doing that?
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Only crazy folks like Branch Dividians worry about the 'black helicopters'.
Speaking of the media twisting things... The Davidians were never actually charged with any crimes not related to events that occurred during the stand off. The stand off was triggered by allegations that they possessed illegal firearms (a machine gun, I think) but I don't think formal charges were ever filed.
People should remember that the Davidians were not a 'right wing anti-government militia'. The events at places like Waco and Ruby Ridge triggered the growth of the militia movement - they occurred first.
--
Yeah, everynow and then I devote a Sunday School class to explaining to kids and/or adults that
What Would Jesus Do? Sell that BMW, give the money to the first homeless man he saw and preach a gospel of love while living on hand-outs and sleeping in shelters.
--
While the Columbine thing certainly triggered a lot of geek bashing, I'm really puzzled by the willingness of the online community to "adopt" those killers as poster children for the ostracized.
First, there has never been any evidence that they were geeks, artists or intellectuals - just outcasts.
Second, has it occurred to anyone that they were outcast because they were mean-spirited and violent and not the reverse?
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