We're so stupid, it's almost amazing the we lead the world in technological innovation and our military stands unchallenged as the greatest ever. Go figure.
Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, worries that the public will stop taking the asteroid threat seriously if false alarms continue. He says altering the scale is not enough: "It's time we got rid of it."
Good. The public can't do shit about approaching death from the heavens anyway; except for possibly burning and looting everything for some false alarm. What we really need here is a huge, "laser" to blast em outta the sky; that is, if our crack team of off-shore oil-riggers miners can't nuke it first.
interesting post, but i'd just add that the "big picture", ie. *context, also is at work here. Looking at a scrambled word by itself can be hard to decipher, but within a sentence, your brain is anticipating what it *should be according to the context it's in.
great, cd's are down to 13 bucks. That's funny cuz i remember when Best Buy came out about 10 years ago they were selling cd's for 11 dollars. I'm sure manufacturing techniques for CD's have declined since then, so 15 bucks for a CD is perfectly fair, right?
And what, it's 4 years after Napster went down now? And they've given us.........nothing. Nothing online at all that is worth a damn that I've heard of, anyway. ITunes? A buck for a freakin mp3!? Lol. That comes out after some advanced math to average more per CD than if you just buy it.
From where i'm sitting the RIAA is a bunch of antiquated, lazy, greedy, litigous old men who'd rather reap the profits of the status quo than get with modern times. And they can fsck themselves and die, as far as I'm concerned. If it takes some piracy on my part to get that done, well, I'll sacrifice for the cause:))
they aren't the same logic: the first, "A implies B" means that A is a sufficient condition for B to occur. The second, "B only if A" means A is a necessary condition for B to occur. A could be true but B still might not happen in the latter case.
I can't wait till they die. Or at least sell off their "non-core assets" as they split apart.
AOL took a look at the Braves (which they now own, along with the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers), and decided that what the Series contender needed was: A) to trade Kevin Millwood, best pitcher in the NL last year, to the Phillies for basically nothing in return. B) let Cy Young winner Tom Glavine go to the Mets (both divison rivals, to boot) and of course C) raise ticket prices.
We here in Atlanta are glad to reap the benefits of AOL's committment to quality. Paging Ted Turner.......
why should/. stop putting in NYTimes articles? That newspaper is the most intellectual one that i've read, with actual decent *analysis, not just the usual parroting bullshit.
what a sad world we live in, when someone like me, someone who is generally anti-political, someone who despises the self-serving two choice system we have today, can say right now that he'll vote for whoever the crappy Democrat candidate will be in the next election. George Bush is that repugnant.
The fools who voted for Dubya can consider themselves responsible for this steady erosion of our rights, and the steady consolidation of power by Big Brother. But hey, at least the economy is humming right along! Oh, wait.....
All Tommorrow's Parties was recent and pretty cool, it had organic buildings and the Golden Gate bridge was a big ramshackle city unto itself. It's been awhile since i read it, but every one of his books has good (technological) ideas in it (many of which have now become rather prophetic) I think that's plenty good enough to make him relevant. Plus, his descriptions of food are original and always make me really hungry, heh.
I agree his prose is poetic; it is also complicated, terse, and often infuriatingly ambiguous. This is why these AC's are trashing Gibson: they aren't advanced enough to read him.
My, what a sweeping generalization you make. For a so-called moderate, this sounds like the generic Republican attitude I hear echoed time and time again. It is true, in some cases, that ppl are poor from lack of motivation/hard work. But the real cause of poverty isn't so simple. Perhaps capitalism itself propagates a lower class? (i like capitalism, btw)
I don't know all the answers, but I try not to blame and insult whole classes of people before I've truly endeavored to understand the situation.
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Last year, Verizon laid down 20,500 miles of optical fiber in West Virginia alone. This fact doesn't make the Korean information infrastructure any less impressive. But the country does have an easier job on its hands than say, Indonesia, or the Philippines, or Mexico.
This is a bit off-topic, but this quote got me to thinking: surely the cost is prohibitive for laying down cable over such great distances......and they traverse public lands, too......do we, as taxpayers, help foot the bill for this infrastructure? And if not, WHY not? This is vital infrastructure just as highways and power lines are, and really shouldn't be completely controlled by the "evil" mega-companies. And if we do, then I guess the gov't gets to regulate these physical networks, and the public can likewise make certain demands on it, since it would be "our" property?
Yes, we see your.sig, so of course you are an American........and most likely a religious zealout with an agenda
But then, people pushing political agendas on/., or in your case, pushing their religion on others when it was neither solicited nor germane to the discussion at hand, tend to be pretty ignorant, so I guess I'm not surprised.
You are free to jack off to your Bible all ya want buddy, but can you please keep it the fuck outta my face?
Secondly, and back on-topic for a sec, your little analogy about the gun-toting maniac was stupid. Whoever modded that tripe up is on crack (as usual)
Thirdly - what's the point of bragging that you are a UT player? No one asked, and no one cares.
You need to get your head out of your Bible and read up on what very important people like Jefferson, Paine, G.Washington, and A. Lincoln had to say about religion and government. Then maybe you could check out what Eisenhower said when he signed the "under God" part of the pledge into law........that's correct, it wasn't always there..........it was put in as part of some paranoid response to the evil Communists.
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." -- Thomas Jefferson (this ain't my.sig, btw)
Sony's PlayStation business currently generates around 60% of the firm's profits. That figure has exceeded 100% at times.
Wtf? This is a surprise to me. So Sony is basically dependent on their video game console? If the number "exceeds" 100%, then all of Sony's electronic hardware and music properties are (or were), losing money. And Sony has only been in the 'console' business for 8 years or so.....
This is probably false info, considering all the other inaccuracies in this bad article.
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lol. so, you employ the "green left" moniker to describe me. How utterly predictable.
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ok, then, shithead, think about this: even if the hundreds of millions of cars and factories out there belching carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere aren't causing global warming (of course you need that "proof" still right?), they most certainly ARE, or at the very least WILL at some point have some sort of the bad effects that autopr0n mentioned in the parent post. You can't just pollute indefinitely with no consequence. And all I needed to come to this epiphany was some objective common sense.
Can you deny this? You will try, being so obviously dim-witted and close-minded, but, like all the other idiots screaming "left-wing freak!!", you will just sound even more scientifically illiterate. Bah, why bother, you cannot be reasoned with.
Certainly I don't masturbate that often, the amount really isn't much compared to the times I have actual sex.
Not only is your little analogy logically flawed (because the correlation between global warming and pollution IS backed by scientific evidence), but it is also an obvious lie. Unless you count the farm animals?
The Camel book does have humor, but it isn't as funny, or as engagingly written, as the "Llama", Learning Perl. That is one of the best written technical books I've ever read. (Compare this to the ultra-dry and boring Running Linux, also by O'Reilly)
Larry Wall isn't a gifted writer, and isn't a gifted teacher for that matter - Programming Perl can be too terse and obtuse at times. It is a still a good book worth the money, though.
And while we are talking Perl and O'Reilly -- stay far away from Perl In A Nutshell, first edition - it is not concise, contains no examples, and is written in a flat and boring style. The 2nd edition, coming out right now, might be better, but I'll only believe that when I see it.
USA: not the perfect Democracy CHINA: not the perfect Communist state.
-Which citizens are more fairly treated: USA -Military might: USA -Level of Technology: USA -Country who has your entire fucking continent under its sphere of influence: USA
You could attempt to argue these points (and I don't doubt you would, since you seem so naive and immature), but don't bother, you'll just look more ignorant than you already do. I really hope though, that it is due to youthful bliss and not simple stupidity.
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We're so stupid, it's almost amazing the we lead the world in technological innovation and our military stands unchallenged as the greatest ever. Go figure.
Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, worries that the public will stop taking the asteroid threat seriously if false alarms continue. He says altering the scale is not enough: "It's time we got rid of it."
Good. The public can't do shit about approaching death from the heavens anyway; except for possibly burning and looting everything for some false alarm. What we really need here is a huge, "laser" to blast em outta the sky; that is, if our crack team of off-shore oil-riggers miners can't nuke it first.
interesting post, but i'd just add that the "big picture", ie. *context, also is at work here. Looking at a scrambled word by itself can be hard to decipher, but within a sentence, your brain is anticipating what it *should be according to the context it's in.
--mantis
great, cd's are down to 13 bucks. That's funny cuz i remember when Best Buy came out about 10 years ago they were selling cd's for 11 dollars. I'm sure manufacturing techniques for CD's have declined since then, so 15 bucks for a CD is perfectly fair, right?
:))
And what, it's 4 years after Napster went down now? And they've given us.........nothing. Nothing online at all that is worth a damn that I've heard of, anyway. ITunes? A buck for a freakin mp3!? Lol. That comes out after some advanced math to average more per CD than if you just buy it.
From where i'm sitting the RIAA is a bunch of antiquated, lazy, greedy, litigous old men who'd rather reap the profits of the status quo than get with modern times. And they can fsck themselves and die, as far as I'm concerned. If it takes some piracy on my part to get that done, well, I'll sacrifice for the cause
they aren't the same logic: the first, "A implies B" means that A is a sufficient condition for B to occur. The second, "B only if A" means A is a necessary condition for B to occur. A could be true but B still might not happen in the latter case.
-mantis
Rocket Propelled Grenade?
i've fragged my fair share in Goldeneye with it, but maybe they mean something else......
and should be summarily beaten up. It isn't entirely his fault Spiderman was so mediocre, though.
"lay" is something that you DO to someone/something else.
correct would've been "you made your bed now lie in it"
i'm an expert, as you can see from my nick.
~mantis
btw, do you have that video? I'd be interested in maybe a trade.................
I can't wait till they die. Or at least sell off their "non-core assets" as they split apart.
AOL took a look at the Braves (which they now own, along with the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers), and decided that what the Series contender needed was:
A) to trade Kevin Millwood, best pitcher in the NL last year, to the Phillies for basically nothing in return.
B) let Cy Young winner Tom Glavine go to the Mets (both divison rivals, to boot)
and of course C) raise ticket prices.
We here in Atlanta are glad to reap the benefits of AOL's committment to quality. Paging Ted Turner.......
why should /. stop putting in NYTimes articles? That newspaper is the most intellectual one that i've read, with actual decent *analysis, not just the usual parroting bullshit.
just wondering,
-mantis
what a sad world we live in, when someone like me, someone who is generally anti-political, someone who despises the self-serving two choice system we have today, can say right now that he'll vote for whoever the crappy Democrat candidate will be in the next election. George Bush is that repugnant.
The fools who voted for Dubya can consider themselves responsible for this steady erosion of our rights, and the steady consolidation of power by Big Brother. But hey, at least the economy is humming right along! Oh, wait.....
every man and woman can travel.........by horseless carriage!!
I agree his prose is poetic; it is also complicated, terse, and often infuriatingly ambiguous. This is why these AC's are trashing Gibson: they aren't advanced enough to read him.
My, what a sweeping generalization you make. For a so-called moderate, this sounds like the generic Republican attitude I hear echoed time and time again. It is true, in some cases, that ppl are poor from lack of motivation/hard work. But the real cause of poverty isn't so simple. Perhaps capitalism itself propagates a lower class? (i like capitalism, btw)
I don't know all the answers, but I try not to blame and insult whole classes of people before I've truly endeavored to understand the situation.
Last year, Verizon laid down 20,500 miles of optical fiber in West Virginia alone. This fact doesn't make the Korean information infrastructure any less impressive. But the country does have an easier job on its hands than say, Indonesia, or the Philippines, or Mexico.
This is a bit off-topic, but this quote got me to thinking: surely the cost is prohibitive for laying down cable over such great distances......and they traverse public lands, too......do we, as taxpayers, help foot the bill for this infrastructure? And if not, WHY not? This is vital infrastructure just as highways and power lines are, and really shouldn't be completely controlled by the "evil" mega-companies. And if we do, then I guess the gov't gets to regulate these physical networks, and the public can likewise make certain demands on it, since it would be "our" property?
But then, people pushing political agendas on /., or in your case, pushing their religion on others when it was neither solicited nor germane to the discussion at hand, tend to be pretty ignorant, so I guess I'm not surprised.
You are free to jack off to your Bible all ya want buddy, but can you please keep it the fuck outta my face?
Secondly, and back on-topic for a sec, your little analogy about the gun-toting maniac was stupid. Whoever modded that tripe up is on crack (as usual)
Thirdly - what's the point of bragging that you are a UT player? No one asked, and no one cares.
You need to get your head out of your Bible and read up on what very important people like Jefferson, Paine, G.Washington, and A. Lincoln had to say about religion and government. Then maybe you could check out what Eisenhower said when he signed the "under God" part of the pledge into law........that's correct, it wasn't always there..........it was put in as part of some paranoid response to the evil Communists.
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." -- Thomas Jefferson .sig, btw)
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Wtf? This is a surprise to me. So Sony is basically dependent on their video game console? If the number "exceeds" 100%, then all of Sony's electronic hardware and music properties are (or were), losing money. And Sony has only been in the 'console' business for 8 years or so.....
This is probably false info, considering all the other inaccuracies in this bad article.
lol. so, you employ the "green left" moniker to describe me. How utterly predictable.
Can you deny this?
You will try, being so obviously dim-witted and close-minded, but, like all the other idiots screaming "left-wing freak!!", you will just sound even more scientifically illiterate. Bah, why bother, you cannot be reasoned with.
Certainly I don't masturbate that often, the amount really isn't much compared to the times I have actual sex.
Not only is your little analogy logically flawed (because the correlation between global warming and pollution IS backed by scientific evidence), but it is also an obvious lie. Unless you count the farm animals?
wow, what a long and incoherent sentence with big words. You must be incredibly smart.
...........Martina Hingis got hurt and isn't out there.
I think I'll retch if I have to see, and hear, freakin' Monica Seles anymore. Bleh.
The Camel book does have humor, but it isn't as funny, or as engagingly written, as the "Llama", Learning Perl. That is one of the best written technical books I've ever read. (Compare this to the ultra-dry and boring Running Linux, also by O'Reilly)
Larry Wall isn't a gifted writer, and isn't a gifted teacher for that matter - Programming Perl can be too terse and obtuse at times. It is a still a good book worth the money, though.
And while we are talking Perl and O'Reilly -- stay far away from Perl In A Nutshell, first edition - it is not concise, contains no examples, and is written in a flat and boring style. The 2nd edition, coming out right now, might be better, but I'll only believe that when I see it.
~mantis
ok fabio, listen up:
USA: not the perfect Democracy
CHINA: not the perfect Communist state.
-Which citizens are more fairly treated: USA
-Military might: USA
-Level of Technology: USA
-Country who has your entire fucking continent under its sphere of influence: USA
You could attempt to argue these points (and I don't doubt you would, since you seem so naive and immature), but don't bother, you'll just look more ignorant than you already do. I really hope though, that it is due to youthful bliss and not simple stupidity.
cheers....