Where I once had hope and positivity for the future because technology was going to empower us, I now have emptiness and see nothing but bleakness for the future because we let technology enslave us.
Whoa, dude, that's pretty heavy. We're talking about that site where all the pre-teens make homemade music videos for Katy Perry songs, right?
Actually, never mind, I just looked it up and it seems that its 24 to 36 protective layers will actually be as hard as concrete and provide better ballistic protection than the rest of the ISS.
please STFU about your pathetic metal penis extensions... It's time for political correctness to be thrown into the trash can and for the mass deportations of Muslims from Europe... or a Final Solution in 20 years time.
Wow. I've got to hand it to you: A lot of posts on the internet start with "guns are bad", but not a lot of them end with "but Nazis are good".
Please STFU about your pathetic mental penis extensions.
They called themselves "Boom"? So they named themselves after the most annoying part of their product. They must have the same marketing team as "They're Disgusting on the Inside, and You Will Have to Look Inside, Sooner or Later" brand diapers.
Let's assume that somebody involved has done some sums, looked at previous comparable attempts, and deduced that it's at theoretically possible, shall we? Airbus and Windward Performance do actually know a thing or two about the subject, and it wouldn't have got this far if it was pointless, so I think I'll take their opinion over some random guy on the internet.
I'm inclined to agree. But just try substituting in "subprime mortgages" for "high-altitude glider", and substituting "the entire U.S. banking industry" in place of "Airbus and Windward Performance", and you'll start to see why appeals to authority aren't quite as reassuring as they used to be.
That's like selling someone a flat paddle of wood and calling it a hairbrush.
"It's actually a Scandinavian-style artisan 'nullen-broosh'. This found-art sculptor/DJ I know down at the raw vegan co-op turned me onto it. It's so much better for your hair, and it never develops unsightly tangles like old-fashioned brushes."
The FCC is getting close to approving Charter's $79 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
If Charter's acquisitions of TWC and Bright House are approved, Charter would become the nation's second largest Internet service provider after Comcast, with the two companies controlling the majority of high-speed Internet subscriptions.
The government sure seems to have a hard time recognizing when a massive corporate merger seriously endangers competition, so I've compiled this handy form for the auditors:
Line 1. Does the word "billion" appear anywhere in the proposal? [ ]
Line 2. Does the phrase "two companies controlling the majority" appear anywhere in the proposal? [ ]
If you wrote down "yes" on line 1 or 2, STOP. You cannot use this form, or any other, to approve the merger, as it poses a clear existential threat to competition in this market segment. You need to instead use form 8686, entitled "Kicking Uncle Richie-Rich in the Pennybags: Monopoly Busting and You"
I understand that a lot of people want to be on the cutting edge all the time, but aren't all those people already pretty firmly in the native code camp? This seems like a compromise solution that will satisfy no one. Speaking for myself, in general I prefer to just wait for the computers to get fast enough to run the inefficient-but-maintainable code over dealing with some uber-optimized smegma.
The home theater is great but for the kind of movies . . . I think the giant screen and the crowd add something to the experience.
Yeah, it just isn't the same watching at home. Just getting my living room floor authentically sticky is already bankrupting me. When the new Star Wars came out I dropped a couple hundred dollars on a 55-gallon drum of corn syrup, but it still wasn't quite enough to replicate the experience.
Roundabouts whar I come frum, Pi day is just the third day of every year, that is, January 3. It's writ down in the Bible that way, and that's good enuff fer us. No fancy-froo dessimul points or fractions for us, city slicker!
Now, down the road a piece there's some idjuts who celebrate it on January 4. But they's just ignerant.
Dang it, Slashdot cut off my subject line two characters early. I guess you can't type slashes in there? I'd assume this was a Unicode-escaping thing, except everyone's always complaining about how there's no Unicode support on Slashdot. Anyway:
All towels are $6.28. All washcloths are 62 cents apiece. Limit 6.28 per customer.
What I want to know is how US law views various other robot-like devices. For instance, is a giant robot that's piloted by a human considered a robot? What about a tele-operated robot, or a waldo? Likewise, is a drone considered a robot? At what degree of autonomy does it become considered one?
The real problem is that very few law schools in this country offer a Mecha Law program worth the name. I mean, it's gotten so bad that even the University of Phoenix had to discontinue their pre-Gundamology degree track for lack of interest. At the same time, the law profession's nativist/protectionist culture combined with our insane immigration policies (specifically Japanese immigration) have combined to create a severe shortage of qualified robotech lawyers in the United States.
Everyone on the internet laughed when I started Tinfoil University, where every lecture hall and, indeed, every room is a Faraday cage. But who's laughing now?
Seriously, I'm asking. For some reason, my smartphone doesn't get a very good signal anymore, which severely limits my ability to keep track of who's laughing about what on the internet these days.
What is this "training" of which you speak? I have never seen any.
There are many employers out there who make a certain amount of training per year mandatory. But the training never seems to have anything to do with anyone's actual job. So for two weeks a year, you go downstairs or drive across town or squat in a conference room, sit way too close to your classmates, and learn something completely irrelevant. It's like taking an extra vacation, only you have to spend it in a hot crowded box watching Powerpoints, and neither you nor your employer derives any benefit or enjoyment from it.
We could ask the Chinese. They likely designed and built the thing.
Great idea. In fact, I think you've hit upon a workable solution for this whole issue:
"Thanks, Mr. Chin, you're a lifesaver. That thing was shining in my eyes all night and keeping me cold all winter. Hey, while I've got you on the phone, can you help us a little with our space program? It's like, all "polly-nomials" and stuff. It's so stupid, I don't see why we have to learn this shit. I'm like, I just want to go to Mars--I don't need to hear about, like, Pythagoras or Edison or whatever. I mean, I've got plenty of street-smarts. And I've got people skills. That's what's really important."
Australian scientists and engineers face 10 years imprisonment for communicating without a government permit on biotech, robotics or manufacturing.
Biotech? It's about time. Sooner or later that newfangled witchery is going to give us all cancer, and then give that cancer AIDS. Lock it down, I say, the tighter the better.
Robotics? Crazy future murder machines, you mean. Gonna turn us all into batteries--I saw it in a movie. Lock it down, lock it down, lock it down.
Manufacturing? Uh... yeah. Can't have dangerous information about... um... manufacturing.... leaking out. It's a... menace?
No, never mind, forget it. I only support Orwellian repression of scary new technologies, not methods of mass production that're literally hundreds of years old at this point and that absolutely everyone has at least a basic understanding of.
What am I going to do now that I can't be a Luddite? I guess I'll have to switch to some other ridiculous type of bigotry.
This year is notable because it will see the first new nuclear plant brought online in 20 years, contributing 1.1 GigaWatts to the grid.
That's a missed marketing opportunity. They could probably have doubled support for nuclear power in this country overnight if they could have made it to 1.21 gigawatts instead.
Yeah, this is kind of like claiming you've invented a functional FTL engine and then, instead of patenting the engine, you try to patent the idea of going faster than light. It's ridiculous. But that doesn't mean that they're not going to be granted a patent for it. It happens all the time.
"Scraping" refers to "copying the content off of some website". It is adapted from the older term "screen scraping", which is copying the data from someone else's visual presentation of this data. This usually implies that you don't have access to the underlying data in a more convenient form (such as files or a database or an API), so you have to reconstruct it from some source that either wasn't intended to promote the efficient transfer of the data or was actually designed to make that transfer as difficult as possible, for IP reasons.
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Where I once had hope and positivity for the future because technology was going to empower us, I now have emptiness and see nothing but bleakness for the future because we let technology enslave us.
Whoa, dude, that's pretty heavy. We're talking about that site where all the pre-teens make homemade music videos for Katy Perry songs, right?
Did you mean Barter Town?
If we're proposing switching the world economy to a Barter Town system, I think it's germane to ask:
Who runs Barter Town?
Actually, never mind, I just looked it up and it seems that its 24 to 36 protective layers will actually be as hard as concrete and provide better ballistic protection than the rest of the ISS.
Concrete balloon, huh? That should go over well.
please STFU about your pathetic metal penis extensions... It's time for political correctness to be thrown into the trash can and for the mass deportations of Muslims from Europe... or a Final Solution in 20 years time.
Wow. I've got to hand it to you: A lot of posts on the internet start with "guns are bad", but not a lot of them end with "but Nazis are good".
Please STFU about your pathetic mental penis extensions.
They called themselves "Boom"? So they named themselves after the most annoying part of their product. They must have the same marketing team as "They're Disgusting on the Inside, and You Will Have to Look Inside, Sooner or Later" brand diapers.
Let's assume that somebody involved has done some sums, looked at previous comparable attempts, and deduced that it's at theoretically possible, shall we? Airbus and Windward Performance do actually know a thing or two about the subject, and it wouldn't have got this far if it was pointless, so I think I'll take their opinion over some random guy on the internet.
I'm inclined to agree. But just try substituting in "subprime mortgages" for "high-altitude glider", and substituting "the entire U.S. banking industry" in place of "Airbus and Windward Performance", and you'll start to see why appeals to authority aren't quite as reassuring as they used to be.
That's like selling someone a flat paddle of wood and calling it a hairbrush.
"It's actually a Scandinavian-style artisan 'nullen-broosh'. This found-art sculptor/DJ I know down at the raw vegan co-op turned me onto it. It's so much better for your hair, and it never develops unsightly tangles like old-fashioned brushes."
"Don't mention the documentary! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it!"
The FCC is getting close to approving Charter's $79 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
If Charter's acquisitions of TWC and Bright House are approved, Charter would become the nation's second largest Internet service provider after Comcast, with the two companies controlling the majority of high-speed Internet subscriptions.
The government sure seems to have a hard time recognizing when a massive corporate merger seriously endangers competition, so I've compiled this handy form for the auditors:
Line 1. Does the word "billion" appear anywhere in the proposal? [ ]
Line 2. Does the phrase "two companies controlling the majority" appear anywhere in the proposal? [ ]
If you wrote down "yes" on line 1 or 2, STOP. You cannot use this form, or any other, to approve the merger, as it poses a clear existential threat to competition in this market segment. You need to instead use form 8686, entitled "Kicking Uncle Richie-Rich in the Pennybags: Monopoly Busting and You"
Ugh. Performance hacks.
I understand that a lot of people want to be on the cutting edge all the time, but aren't all those people already pretty firmly in the native code camp? This seems like a compromise solution that will satisfy no one. Speaking for myself, in general I prefer to just wait for the computers to get fast enough to run the inefficient-but-maintainable code over dealing with some uber-optimized smegma.
The home theater is great but for the kind of movies . . . I think the giant screen and the crowd add something to the experience.
Yeah, it just isn't the same watching at home. Just getting my living room floor authentically sticky is already bankrupting me. When the new Star Wars came out I dropped a couple hundred dollars on a 55-gallon drum of corn syrup, but it still wasn't quite enough to replicate the experience.
wait no that didn't happen that way AAAAAGGGGHH
Dude's a hack. Admit it.
I agree. I boycotted those movies when I found out the dialogue was going to be in English, instead of in the original Westron with subtitles.
Found the virgin!
Playing "Find the Virgin" on Slashdot is a lot holding an Easter-egg hunt on a 100-acre intensive factory-style chicken hatchery.
Roundabouts whar I come frum, Pi day is just the third day of every year, that is, January 3. It's writ down in the Bible that way, and that's good enuff fer us. No fancy-froo dessimul points or fractions for us, city slicker!
Now, down the road a piece there's some idjuts who celebrate it on January 4. But they's just ignerant.
Dang it, Slashdot cut off my subject line two characters early. I guess you can't type slashes in there? I'd assume this was a Unicode-escaping thing, except everyone's always complaining about how there's no Unicode support on Slashdot. Anyway: All towels are $6.28. All washcloths are 62 cents apiece. Limit 6.28 per customer.
The 314GB drive, released on Pi Day (3/14), costs $31.42
Stuff like this makes me wonder exactly what percentage of the U.S. GDP comes from pun-based purchases.
What I want to know is how US law views various other robot-like devices. For instance, is a giant robot that's piloted by a human considered a robot? What about a tele-operated robot, or a waldo? Likewise, is a drone considered a robot? At what degree of autonomy does it become considered one?
The real problem is that very few law schools in this country offer a Mecha Law program worth the name. I mean, it's gotten so bad that even the University of Phoenix had to discontinue their pre-Gundamology degree track for lack of interest. At the same time, the law profession's nativist/protectionist culture combined with our insane immigration policies (specifically Japanese immigration) have combined to create a severe shortage of qualified robotech lawyers in the United States.
Linux is a cancer.
Rhythm is a dancer.
Everyone on the internet laughed when I started Tinfoil University, where every lecture hall and, indeed, every room is a Faraday cage. But who's laughing now?
Seriously, I'm asking. For some reason, my smartphone doesn't get a very good signal anymore, which severely limits my ability to keep track of who's laughing about what on the internet these days.
What is this "training" of which you speak? I have never seen any.
There are many employers out there who make a certain amount of training per year mandatory. But the training never seems to have anything to do with anyone's actual job. So for two weeks a year, you go downstairs or drive across town or squat in a conference room, sit way too close to your classmates, and learn something completely irrelevant. It's like taking an extra vacation, only you have to spend it in a hot crowded box watching Powerpoints, and neither you nor your employer derives any benefit or enjoyment from it.
We could ask the Chinese. They likely designed and built the thing.
Great idea. In fact, I think you've hit upon a workable solution for this whole issue:
"Thanks, Mr. Chin, you're a lifesaver. That thing was shining in my eyes all night and keeping me cold all winter. Hey, while I've got you on the phone, can you help us a little with our space program? It's like, all "polly-nomials" and stuff. It's so stupid, I don't see why we have to learn this shit. I'm like, I just want to go to Mars--I don't need to hear about, like, Pythagoras or Edison or whatever. I mean, I've got plenty of street-smarts. And I've got people skills. That's what's really important."
Australian scientists and engineers face 10 years imprisonment for communicating without a government permit on biotech, robotics or manufacturing.
Biotech? It's about time. Sooner or later that newfangled witchery is going to give us all cancer, and then give that cancer AIDS. Lock it down, I say, the tighter the better.
Robotics? Crazy future murder machines, you mean. Gonna turn us all into batteries--I saw it in a movie. Lock it down, lock it down, lock it down.
Manufacturing? Uh... yeah. Can't have dangerous information about... um... manufacturing.... leaking out. It's a... menace?
No, never mind, forget it. I only support Orwellian repression of scary new technologies, not methods of mass production that're literally hundreds of years old at this point and that absolutely everyone has at least a basic understanding of.
What am I going to do now that I can't be a Luddite? I guess I'll have to switch to some other ridiculous type of bigotry.
This year is notable because it will see the first new nuclear plant brought online in 20 years, contributing 1.1 GigaWatts to the grid.
That's a missed marketing opportunity. They could probably have doubled support for nuclear power in this country overnight if they could have made it to 1.21 gigawatts instead.
Yeah, this is kind of like claiming you've invented a functional FTL engine and then, instead of patenting the engine, you try to patent the idea of going faster than light. It's ridiculous. But that doesn't mean that they're not going to be granted a patent for it. It happens all the time.
"Scraping" refers to "copying the content off of some website". It is adapted from the older term "screen scraping", which is copying the data from someone else's visual presentation of this data. This usually implies that you don't have access to the underlying data in a more convenient form (such as files or a database or an API), so you have to reconstruct it from some source that either wasn't intended to promote the efficient transfer of the data or was actually designed to make that transfer as difficult as possible, for IP reasons.