It's just like everywhere else. If you get into legal trouble, you just bribe your way out of it.
Oh, lucky you. Over here, that only works for teddy kennedy.
Seriously, though, bribery only works in the 3ed world and black africa. Trying a bribe in north africa will get your hand cut off. It might work in china if you have enough money for them to be intersted.
Sound like you are one of the rich and privliged classes who can buy your way out of trouble.
I guess you don't care about the poor people who don't have the money to buy their way out of trouble.
OSS encourages individuals to trade directly with each other. VS Communism makes person to person trade a crime against the state, and labels it economic sabotage.
OSS actually works, and the technically best software gets the most users. VS Communism gives you products like the Trabant and makes you wait 12 years for delivery.
OSS is a choice, you are free to reject it without penalty. VS Communism is enforced by the barrel of a gun, dissidents get killed.
OSS has not caused the death of anyone. VS 100 million people have been killed by Communist regimes.
Some will argue that this is not "real, genuine" communism. Bullshit. Every case of communism in practice has been a poverty-laden murder-fest. Whining about how this is not "real" communism is astroturfing of the most foul sort.
Did communism get the first dog into space? Yes!
Did the dog ever make it back alive? You Capitalist pig dog traitor! How dare you even ask the question! (Actual answer is no. They didn't care about the life of the dog, they cared about the glory of Communism.)
If anything represents the output of Communism in the real software world, it is Windows. Poor quality, trade in it between individuals is forbiden, product is forced on the user by the OEM.
...and write a movie that will appeal to adults. The kids will get it, really. They're a lot smarter than most people in Hollywood give them credit for.
Actually, the kids are a lot smarter than most people in Hollywood, period.
What next, a remake of Casablanca where Bogart decides that Claude Raines has the moral right to stop Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid from getting on the plane to Lisbon? Or maybe the new version will show the common-sense benefits of gun control: Bogart won't have a gun to shoot Conrad Veidt with at the end, and the "heros" of the movie get sent back to the camps.
Who wouldn't agree? If I'd shelled out $10,000,000.00 for something, I'd be a little testy with someone expecting to get it for free.
This may come as a shock to you, but the 10,000,000.00 the gubmint spent on that data came from TAXPAYERS!!
I realize that the lifetime you have
spent in your mom's basement makes it hard for you to comprehend that people who actually work for a living have a huge chunk of their money taken by the gubmint "for their own good". But even with that handicap, you should be able to understand that since this data is collected AT THE PEOPLES EXPENSE, any of the people have a right to it.
In short I question the motives of the person requesting the data, but more on grounds of economic exploitation that on grounds that he may be any sort of security risk.
I question the motives of your possible future desire to breed, but more on the grounds of a possible descent into the Dark Ages, rather than on the basis of overpopulation.
Note to mods: yes, I am opening the valve wider on the IV drip of chlordiazepoxide now. Thank you for your concern.
You can write a fact only news story and keep your own personal bias out of it.
Here is a sample of a fact only news article that I just made up:
Police responded to a 911 emergency call at 123 Maple Ave last night at 3:22 AM. Mr Raymond Maynard called police to report that several persons were trying to break down his door, and asked for help. The police dispatcher could hear the sound of banging and hammering, and then Mr Maynard stated that the door was giving in, and that he had to put the phone down.
When Police arrived on the scene, they found Mr Dumbo Mcnutt, Mr Metoo Imdumb, and Mr Gang Banger on the floor of the house in the hallway leading to the master bedroom. Handguns were found by the bodies, and Mcnut had $6400 on his person. Mcnut, Imdumb, and Banger were pronounced dead at the scene from multiple shotgun wounds. The intruders all had previous records for assault, robbery,
rape, and stampeding cattle thru the Vatican.
Police do not expect to file any charges against Mr Maynard.
Last month, the Governor signed into law the bill that bars lawsuits on the behalf of persons injured or killed while commiting a crime. Instances of home invasion have dropped 62% since the city mandated that each homeowner be armed last year.
### Now here is another story about the event, with a particular bias:
Another tragedy occured in the city tonight, and its cause was, as always, an armed citizen. A vigilante viciously gunned down 3 young men of color, innocent victims of Bush's oppression of the poor, the homeless, those who never had a chance in society. Police responded to a complaint by Mr Maynard that someone was knocking loudly at his door, and that it was past his bedtime. When officers arrived at the scene, they found a scene of bloody carnage. Mr Maynard had killed these three young men, claiming self defense. These sorts of senseless and unneccesary
killings must be stopped now!. If only guns were outlawed, then citizens like Mr Maynard would be unable to act as judge, jury and executioner.
In an added tragedy, The Republican Governor last month signed a bill, over the objections of the UN , Cuba, and the ACLU, which prohibits the relatives of the victims of these attacks from having their day in court. Fatal shootings of persons accused of entering peoples homes without permission have risen sharply following the citys bloodthirsty mandate that all homeowners be armed to the teeth.####
I could do a 3ed version which puts the bias of the second version the other way, but I've spend too long on this already. In any case, you can see the first version reports only facts. The second version uses emotional language to press the readers buttons.
Most of what gets put into the mainstream media should be marked as troll or flamebait.
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At some point engine manufacturers realized that increasing the cubic centimeters of displacement in an engine was not the best way to make it faster or more powerful. Now most car reviews include horsepower. Clock speed is analogous to CCs.
If by "at some point" you mean after about (waves hands) 1935, you are incorrect.
The big development was the discovery that overlapping the camshaft lift duration for the intake and exhaust valves would improve power dramatically. After that, there was no substitute for cubic inches, unless you were willing to increase the engine RPM. (Horsepower=Torque * RPM)
Since the internal stresses in the engine rise as the square of the RPM, that created problems with engine lifespans.
Horsepower was a big selling feature in the 50s and 60s and early 70s, and it was heavily advertised.
From my 1975 Motor databook, in 1970 Chevrolet made a 454 cubic inch (7.44 litre) V8 advertised at 460 HP (343KW) @5600 RPM. 11.25:1 compression ratio, bore of 4.251 inch, stroke 4 inch.
The push to smaller engine displacements was only due to Federal mileage standards, and the concern with gas prices and fuel economy around 1975.
Then we were screwed with the horrible,horrible cars in the 1980s, performance was out, plush velour interiours were in, and the speedometers used to have the "55" in big orange digits to remind you that your life was over and fun was forbidden....
Sorry, I just had a flashback there and kind of freaked out. 8^(
Anyway, in a feeble attempt to keep on topic, engine displacement is not a good analogy for chip clock frequency.
I think this is really good, now we never again need to encounter one of those akward moments wherein we must occupy time with our own thoughts.
Absolutely!
I don't know about anyone else, but my very existance is validated by regular {Take Metamucil!} dosages {Viagra Tonight!} of the essential {This is your brain on Drugs!} messages {The BMW 760Li: Making you more of a man then men themselves!} that make life {DeBeers: What every whore wants for Xmas!} worthwhile.
I can truly say that my superiority {The Simpsons! They make you more hip than other people!} over those poor {No money down! No interest for one full year!} slobs {Bud Light! now with more Frogs!} who choose {Ruffles! Now in Vinegar Flavour!} to avoid TV is self {Prozac Now!} evident.
Of course it's overkill. The point of it is to spend tax money, the justification is "think of the
children!"
Follow the trail of $ to the subcontractor, and then see where their political contributions went.. maybe you will find some correlation?;)
And as you say, the drinking age should be much lower than the driving age. Like many pre-teens, I developed a dislike for liquor from the liquor cabinets of adults when they were out.
By the time I got a drivers license, I had no need or desire to experiment with getting fall down drunk and puking my guts out.
Alcohol was no longer a "forbidden treat" that your peers would temp you to try: It was just something that made you feel good for that short time before you felt very, very bad.
The laws that prohibit drinking of kids too young to drive have directly contributed to the deaths of those same teens when they start driving.
How the HELL are teens supposed to handle drinking when they have never been given a chance to do so in a safe environment?
Where I live in Victoria BC Canada there are many many cross walks that stop traffic for the lone pedestrian. Victoria is a very pedestrian friendly city and the ability move around using ones own two feet is cherished and rightly so. It is truly sad that cars trump pedestrains in your culuture. Pherhaps this is why so many americans are fat asses?
While we are all happy that you can feel smug and superior, the fact is that your system needlessly harms the environment.
A 3000 lb car loses all its kinetic energy when it comes to a stop for that [cue violin] lone pedestrian. When the car starts up again, gasoline is WASTED to bring the car back up to speed. Multiply this effect by the number of cars that have to stop for that smug and superior pedestrian, and it starts to add up to real pollution and real waste.
As a RESPONSIBLE pedestrian, I NEVER press those stupid walk buttons. I time my crossing of the street so that I don't needlessly stop packs of 3000 lb cars.
What sort of self-esteem problem makes a lone pedestrian feel that they are "better" than car drivers?
Oh, and I've been thru BC on vacation. You have your share of tubbies, so come down off that pedestal, there's more oxygen down here at ground level.
You do realize it COSTS MONEY for broadcasters to provide you with that service, right?
The companys business plan is not the consumers problem.
And that all that is asked in return is that you take a break every once in a while from the show, and rot your brain with a commercial instead?
Commercial time is moving toward 30 minutes per hour of "content". That's a lot more than "once in a while".
Furthermore, the purpose of commercials is to get you to buy products, and any and every forms of manipulation, including:
attacks on the viewers self-esteem
the suggestion that product will make the viewer sexually desireble
the suggestion that
people who own the product are "better" than those who don't
targeting pre-teen children, who are unable to differentiate the fantasy of the toy commercial from the reality of a shoddy plastic toy costing 25 cents to build
are used to push worthless baubles to the masses.
Just how do you propose broadcast TV be paid for?
See my first point.
Watching tv while circumventing the commercials *is* theft - you're breaking the obvious social contract. No one is wronging you, you are wronging *them*.
Best troll I've read all week.
You, sir, are a Genius, and I salute you.
That being said, Tivo is being very counter-productive. If someone is fastforwarding through an ad, that means they don't want to see them... I would be terrified to advertise to such a hostile audience, if I were a company.
You answer your own question here. Maybe, if you were a company, you could use the new information you have learned to be more effective in selling your product
--- Get rid of the TV. I don't see this one as very realistic, since the kids would completely freak out.
So, you recognize that the kids are addicted to watching a piece of furniture, and that if this piece of furniture were "gotten rid of" they would complain.
And your solution is to let this continue?
With the studies showing links between
toddler TV watching and ADD
More aggressive behavior
The stated intent of Corps to "BRAND" young people for life by the use of ads
Obesity problem that spending hours sitting on the couch causes
I would say that having the kids "freak out" will be the least of their problems.
If you look at old DEC systems, you'll see they already had the cooling thing down to an art. 3 thermal zones, with very slow, quiet, thermo-controlled 80mm fans. They weren't ATX systems, however, and nobody adapted those ideas to PCs.
Yes, but that's because there were 250 person teams working on just the mechanical design of the "case" alone. And each of the competing! business groups in DEC (low end systems, midrange, highend, plus others) had their own engineers reinvent the wheel for every project, and that wheel had to be documented, tested for temperature and noise issues, run on the shaker stand to withstand 10G shock and vibration sweeps, ad nauseum.
There is not enough money in a $50 atx case to allow for any thermal design or testing.
Oh Canada! might be the only thing you are singing.
The following is from Volokh:
The Rapid Decline of Free Speech in Canada:
Quebec's Human Rights Commission has ordered a man to pay a $1,000 fine because he referred to another man as a "fifi," the French equivalent of "fag." Worse yet, the comment wasn't made to the complainant (which would at least raise red flags about an implicit threat or true harassment of the individual), but to his "traveling companion." According to the CBC, the "Rights Commission ruled that the term was an inappropriate way of referring to homosexuals and adds to the disgrace and lack of respect of human dignity people are entitled to."
Now, it's obviously not nice to call someone a "fifi." But when the State can punish individuals for "inappropriate" comments they make in private, noncommercial contexts, the slippery slope towards authoritarianism is steep indeed. This, of course, is not the first example of the growing Canadian intolerance of freedom of speech.
Thanks to Professor Moin Yahya for the tip.
Any Canadians offended by most post should read this before emailing.
End of post from Volokh
So as long as your speech is politically correct, you are fine. Otherwise, the State will fine you big bucks for speaking out.
Windows really is quite good. I just want to use my computer, rather than pissing around with KDE and X and kernels and other wank (this from an ex-Gentoo user).
Well, I'm glad windows works for you.
However, when I installed fedora core 2, all I had to do was click all the defaults, and every little bit of my hardware was correctly identified. Maybe things have gotten better since you tried gentoo?
This is all very true, and I won't try to defend it. But, and this is a big but, does it really matter if some guy on a remote website gets my password?
So what you are saying is, It's ok that my condom has a hole in it, because I am not going to get laid anyway?
What the State *should* be doing is
make safe nicotine available for those who are addicted, so that society can save the wasted health care $ that are expended on those who have become addicted, and who have only tabacco to satisfy the addiction. Not to mention the household fires, bed fires, etc.
Citizens spend a huge amount of money, like 5 or 7 $ a pack.
As the State allows, yet controls, the sale of tobacco and alcohol, and collects tax off the same, the State should be responsible for the consequences, and has a duty to provide less harmful alternatives.
That's why Microsoft's LM hashing algorithm is so cool -- it uppercases your password before hashing. With this algorithm, multicase passwords do nothing to the statistics.
Please, please tell me you are joking.
I am no fan of MicroSoft, but come on, no one would really do something like this.
I figured that my passwords are safe because they are normally the tunes of music..
A sealed chamber with only water and water vapor in it (all air and other non-condensible gasses have been removed) will boil water at the hot end and recondense it at the cold end, at any temp above freezing for the water.
If the chamber is a vertical tube with the water and the heat source at the bottom, and fins and cooling air at the top end, the vapor from the hot end will recondense at the top cold end and run back down. (It's really a heat pipe without the porous media to move the condesed fluid back to the hot side.)
And you'll need a sealed chamber for the computer, the chilling system for the flourinert, (that heat still has to be gotten rid of) the pump system to circulate the fluid, (to the chiller) the sealed bulkheads for the wires to go in and out, and a few hundred thousand $ for all the odds and ends I forgot..
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The EER rating on air conditioners (a common heat pump) tell you the ratio of heat moved to power expended to move it. The units of EER are messed up though, it is BTU/HOUR divided by Watts, multiplied by some factor of 10.
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Oh, lucky you. Over here, that only works for teddy kennedy.
Seriously, though, bribery only works in the 3ed world and black africa. Trying a bribe in north africa will get your hand cut off. It might work in china if you have enough money for them to be intersted.
Sound like you are one of the rich and privliged classes who can buy your way out of trouble.
I guess you don't care about the poor people who don't have the money to buy their way out of trouble.
OSS encourages individuals to trade directly with each other. VS Communism makes person to person trade a crime against the state, and labels it economic sabotage.
OSS actually works, and the technically best software gets the most users. VS Communism gives you products like the Trabant and makes you wait 12 years for delivery.
OSS is a choice, you are free to reject it without penalty. VS Communism is enforced by the barrel of a gun, dissidents get killed.
OSS has not caused the death of anyone. VS 100 million people have been killed by Communist regimes.
Some will argue that this is not "real, genuine" communism. Bullshit. Every case of communism in practice has been a poverty-laden murder-fest. Whining about how this is not "real" communism is astroturfing of the most foul sort.
Did communism get the first dog into space? Yes!
Did the dog ever make it back alive? You Capitalist pig dog traitor! How dare you even ask the question! (Actual answer is no. They didn't care about the life of the dog, they cared about the glory of Communism.)
If anything represents the output of Communism in the real software world, it is Windows. Poor quality, trade in it between individuals is forbiden, product is forced on the user by the OEM.
Actually, the kids are a lot smarter than most people in Hollywood, period.
What next, a remake of Casablanca where Bogart decides that Claude Raines has the moral right to stop Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid from getting on the plane to Lisbon? Or maybe the new version will show the common-sense benefits of gun control: Bogart won't have a gun to shoot Conrad Veidt with at the end, and the "heros" of the movie get sent back to the camps.
Bleh.
This may come as a shock to you, but the 10,000,000.00 the gubmint spent on that data came from TAXPAYERS!!
I realize that the lifetime you have spent in your mom's basement makes it hard for you to comprehend that people who actually work for a living have a huge chunk of their money taken by the gubmint "for their own good". But even with that handicap, you should be able to understand that since this data is collected AT THE PEOPLES EXPENSE, any of the people have a right to it.
In short I question the motives of the person requesting the data, but more on grounds of economic exploitation that on grounds that he may be any sort of security risk.
I question the motives of your possible future desire to breed, but more on the grounds of a possible descent into the Dark Ages, rather than on the basis of overpopulation.
Note to mods: yes, I am opening the valve wider on the IV drip of chlordiazepoxide now. Thank you for your concern.
Here is a sample of a fact only news article that I just made up:
Police responded to a 911 emergency call at 123 Maple Ave last night at 3:22 AM. Mr Raymond Maynard called police to report that several persons were trying to break down his door, and asked for help. The police dispatcher could hear the sound of banging and hammering, and then Mr Maynard stated that the door was giving in, and that he had to put the phone down.
When Police arrived on the scene, they found Mr Dumbo Mcnutt, Mr Metoo Imdumb, and Mr Gang Banger on the floor of the house in the hallway leading to the master bedroom. Handguns were found by the bodies, and Mcnut had $6400 on his person. Mcnut, Imdumb, and Banger were pronounced dead at the scene from multiple shotgun wounds. The intruders all had previous records for assault, robbery, rape, and stampeding cattle thru the Vatican.
Police do not expect to file any charges against Mr Maynard.
Last month, the Governor signed into law the bill that bars lawsuits on the behalf of persons injured or killed while commiting a crime. Instances of home invasion have dropped 62% since the city mandated that each homeowner be armed last year.
### Now here is another story about the event, with a particular bias:
Another tragedy occured in the city tonight, and its cause was, as always, an armed citizen. A vigilante viciously gunned down 3 young men of color, innocent victims of Bush's oppression of the poor, the homeless, those who never had a chance in society. Police responded to a complaint by Mr Maynard that someone was knocking loudly at his door, and that it was past his bedtime. When officers arrived at the scene, they found a scene of bloody carnage. Mr Maynard had killed these three young men, claiming self defense. These sorts of senseless and unneccesary killings must be stopped now!. If only guns were outlawed, then citizens like Mr Maynard would be unable to act as judge, jury and executioner.
In an added tragedy, The Republican Governor last month signed a bill, over the objections of the UN , Cuba, and the ACLU, which prohibits the relatives of the victims of these attacks from having their day in court. Fatal shootings of persons accused of entering peoples homes without permission have risen sharply following the citys bloodthirsty mandate that all homeowners be armed to the teeth.####
I could do a 3ed version which puts the bias of the second version the other way, but I've spend too long on this already. In any case, you can see the first version reports only facts. The second version uses emotional language to press the readers buttons.
Most of what gets put into the mainstream media should be marked as troll or flamebait.
If by "at some point" you mean after about (waves hands) 1935, you are incorrect.
The big development was the discovery that overlapping the camshaft lift duration for the intake and exhaust valves would improve power dramatically. After that, there was no substitute for cubic inches, unless you were willing to increase the engine RPM. (Horsepower=Torque * RPM)
Since the internal stresses in the engine rise as the square of the RPM, that created problems with engine lifespans.
Horsepower was a big selling feature in the 50s and 60s and early 70s, and it was heavily advertised.
From my 1975 Motor databook, in 1970 Chevrolet made a 454 cubic inch (7.44 litre) V8 advertised at 460 HP (343KW) @5600 RPM. 11.25:1 compression ratio, bore of 4.251 inch, stroke 4 inch.
The push to smaller engine displacements was only due to Federal mileage standards, and the concern with gas prices and fuel economy around 1975.
Then we were screwed with the horrible,horrible cars in the 1980s, performance was out, plush velour interiours were in, and the speedometers used to have the "55" in big orange digits to remind you that your life was over and fun was forbidden....
Sorry, I just had a flashback there and kind of freaked out. 8^(
Anyway, in a feeble attempt to keep on topic, engine displacement is not a good analogy for chip clock frequency.
Absolutely!
I don't know about anyone else, but my very existance is validated by regular {Take Metamucil!} dosages {Viagra Tonight!} of the essential {This is your brain on Drugs!} messages {The BMW 760Li: Making you more of a man then men themselves!} that make life {DeBeers: What every whore wants for Xmas!} worthwhile.
I can truly say that my superiority {The Simpsons! They make you more hip than other people!} over those poor {No money down! No interest for one full year!} slobs {Bud Light! now with more Frogs!} who choose {Ruffles! Now in Vinegar Flavour!} to avoid TV is self {Prozac Now!} evident.
Follow the trail of $ to the subcontractor, and then see where their political contributions went.. maybe you will find some correlation? ;)
And as you say, the drinking age should be much lower than the driving age. Like many pre-teens, I developed a dislike for liquor from the liquor cabinets of adults when they were out.
By the time I got a drivers license, I had no need or desire to experiment with getting fall down drunk and puking my guts out.
Alcohol was no longer a "forbidden treat" that your peers would temp you to try: It was just something that made you feel good for that short time before you felt very, very bad.
The laws that prohibit drinking of kids too young to drive have directly contributed to the deaths of those same teens when they start driving.
How the HELL are teens supposed to handle drinking when they have never been given a chance to do so in a safe environment?
Bah.
While we are all happy that you can feel smug and superior, the fact is that your system needlessly harms the environment.
A 3000 lb car loses all its kinetic energy when it comes to a stop for that [cue violin] lone pedestrian. When the car starts up again, gasoline is WASTED to bring the car back up to speed. Multiply this effect by the number of cars that have to stop for that smug and superior pedestrian, and it starts to add up to real pollution and real waste.
As a RESPONSIBLE pedestrian, I NEVER press those stupid walk buttons. I time my crossing of the street so that I don't needlessly stop packs of 3000 lb cars.
What sort of self-esteem problem makes a lone pedestrian feel that they are "better" than car drivers?
Oh, and I've been thru BC on vacation. You have your share of tubbies, so come down off that pedestal, there's more oxygen down here at ground level.
You: The same way FedEx and UPS compete with the USPS.
You mean the way Fedex and UPS can take and deliver regular mail?
Oh, they can't. They can only move packages. The USPS has a monopoly on moving and delivering regular mail.
Maybe you mean the way that Fedex and UPS can deliver to Post Office Boxes?
Ooopsy Daisy, NO, they cannot, only the USPS can deliver to PO boxes.
So what was your point again?
The companys business plan is not the consumers problem.
And that all that is asked in return is that you take a break every once in a while from the show, and rot your brain with a commercial instead?
Commercial time is moving toward 30 minutes per hour of "content". That's a lot more than "once in a while".
Furthermore, the purpose of commercials is to get you to buy products, and any and every forms of manipulation, including:
attacks on the viewers self-esteem
the suggestion that product will make the viewer sexually desireble
the suggestion that people who own the product are "better" than those who don't
targeting pre-teen children, who are unable to differentiate the fantasy of the toy commercial from the reality of a shoddy plastic toy costing 25 cents to build
are used to push worthless baubles to the masses.
Just how do you propose broadcast TV be paid for?
See my first point.
Watching tv while circumventing the commercials *is* theft - you're breaking the obvious social contract. No one is wronging you, you are wronging *them*.
Best troll I've read all week.
You, sir, are a Genius, and I salute you.
That being said, Tivo is being very counter-productive. If someone is fastforwarding through an ad, that means they don't want to see them... I would be terrified to advertise to such a hostile audience, if I were a company.
You answer your own question here. Maybe, if you were a company, you could use the new information you have learned to be more effective in selling your product
So, you recognize that the kids are addicted to watching a piece of furniture, and that if this piece of furniture were "gotten rid of" they would complain.
And your solution is to let this continue?
With the studies showing links between
toddler TV watching and ADD
More aggressive behavior
The stated intent of Corps to "BRAND" young people for life by the use of ads
Obesity problem that spending hours sitting on the couch causes
I would say that having the kids "freak out" will be the least of their problems.
Yes, but that's because there were 250 person teams working on just the mechanical design of the "case" alone. And each of the competing! business groups in DEC (low end systems, midrange, highend, plus others) had their own engineers reinvent the wheel for every project, and that wheel had to be documented, tested for temperature and noise issues, run on the shaker stand to withstand 10G shock and vibration sweeps, ad nauseum.
There is not enough money in a $50 atx case to allow for any thermal design or testing.
http://mail.rochester.edu/~dr002j/pics/contraband_ comic.jpg
Strawberry Shortcake?
Perhaps the best artwork ever on PA, and the best supressed non-porn artwork anywhere.
The following is from Volokh:
The Rapid Decline of Free Speech in Canada:Quebec's Human Rights Commission has ordered a man to pay a $1,000 fine because he referred to another man as a "fifi," the French equivalent of "fag." Worse yet, the comment wasn't made to the complainant (which would at least raise red flags about an implicit threat or true harassment of the individual), but to his "traveling companion." According to the CBC, the "Rights Commission ruled that the term was an inappropriate way of referring to homosexuals and adds to the disgrace and lack of respect of human dignity people are entitled to."
Now, it's obviously not nice to call someone a "fifi." But when the State can punish individuals for "inappropriate" comments they make in private, noncommercial contexts, the slippery slope towards authoritarianism is steep indeed. This, of course, is not the first example of the growing Canadian intolerance of freedom of speech.
Thanks to Professor Moin Yahya for the tip.
Any Canadians offended by most post should read this before emailing.
End of post from Volokh
So as long as your speech is politically correct, you are fine. Otherwise, the State will fine you big bucks for speaking out.
Well, I'm glad windows works for you.
However, when I installed fedora core 2, all I had to do was click all the defaults, and every little bit of my hardware was correctly identified. Maybe things have gotten better since you tried gentoo?
Well, I really have a VAX mentality, so Linux is a reasonable substitute for me.
My tiny brain just boggles at the fact that things were done this way...
I don't understand how someone could decide that the least secure path was the right one. What was being saved/conserved?
Time? Money? What!
So what you are saying is, It's ok that my condom has a hole in it, because I am not going to get laid anyway?
What the State *should* be doing is make safe nicotine available for those who are addicted, so that society can save the wasted health care $ that are expended on those who have become addicted, and who have only tabacco to satisfy the addiction. Not to mention the household fires, bed fires, etc.
Citizens spend a huge amount of money, like 5 or 7 $ a pack.
As the State allows, yet controls, the sale of tobacco and alcohol, and collects tax off the same, the State should be responsible for the consequences, and has a duty to provide less harmful alternatives.
I renember when Regan was elected, and the hate and vitreol was even worse than it is today.
Come on, neo-socialist mods, make my day.
8^)
Yah, I voted for Bush today.
So sue me.
If democrats want my vote, give me JFK or FDR.
I am not going to vote for a self-absorbed Munster.
Please, please tell me you are joking.
I am no fan of MicroSoft, but come on, no one would really do something like this.
I figured that my passwords are safe because they are normally the tunes of music..
For example
Taaaah-dum+dum*dum#dum#taaaaah|dum!tum^du m$tum%rumtittytum.
And since I am tone deaf, It's not very likey that someone will hit upon the combination soon.
The usage of the +-@# characters is based on a matrix written in pencil on the side of the monitor.
8^)
A sealed chamber with only water and water vapor in it (all air and other non-condensible gasses have been removed) will boil water at the hot end and recondense it at the cold end, at any temp above freezing for the water.
If the chamber is a vertical tube with the water and the heat source at the bottom, and fins and cooling air at the top end, the vapor from the hot end will recondense at the top cold end and run back down. (It's really a heat pipe without the porous media to move the condesed fluid back to the hot side.)
Everyone has to start somewhere, and if bolting on parts that you buy gets you started or interested in engineering, thats great!
If people get interested at an easy level, hopefully they will progress, and get involved in the things you are talking about.
With the decline in wood shop/ metal shop/ small engine repair courses in schools, any progress or interest in technical things should be encouraged.
*Deacon chides another poster for being "harsh". A flock of pigs executes a hammerhead roll.
If you have the budget for a Cray, go for it!
And you'll need a sealed chamber for the computer, the chilling system for the flourinert, (that heat still has to be gotten rid of) the pump system to circulate the fluid, (to the chiller) the sealed bulkheads for the wires to go in and out, and a few hundred thousand $ for all the odds and ends I forgot..
The EER rating on air conditioners (a common heat pump) tell you the ratio of heat moved to power expended to move it. The units of EER are messed up though, it is BTU/HOUR divided by Watts, multiplied by some factor of 10.