I'm sorry, but if continual and frequent layoffs are occuring, you are a) affraid of losing your job, reguardless of how good a worker you are, b) stressed all the time because of this fact, and c) always looking over your shoulder, no matter how good a job you're doing at the time.
That alone is reason to complain. It's comparable to being a slave and always looking over your shoulder for the angry slavemaster with the whip.
Consider that there's a pretty high chance that someone will not be using something as impractical as a -laptop- if they are being bombed, directly shot at, or gassed - at least if they're the laptop operator. They'll be reaching for their radio to call for backup, etc. THe only instance I can think of needing a laptop in such a situation is if you're calling in an air strike or missile launch - but wouldn't a radio be just as/more efficient in such a situation? let the boys at the back fire that baby off, while you use a radio and your free hand to shoot the filthy SOBs...
Chances are that most laptop field use will be during camp time, uploading tac. info, and things like that - where they can be in a tent or away from any immediate biological items that might harm the device.
If your laptop is in this case while not being used, chances are it's just as safe as one of the military ruggedized versions - if not moreso. Granted, you probably won't be able cook it in the oven for as long/as high a temp, but I suspect the rest is just as true.
On the othre hand, the military probably knows what they're doing in this respect - after all, they're designed with use in mind, and I don't know what those uses are:)
Let's hope someone in that situation needs it less than the 4 hours that the battery will last.
I certainly wouldn't want to put my life in such a compromising situation. Give me several pocket-sized, rugged, and battery-efficient devices before you give me a single large laptop that serves the function of the othres. At least that way I can swap out the AA batteries from the devices I don't need, and use them for the ones I do.
I've seen more instances of people tripping over laptop cables, stepping on the machine, or other such things, than I have seen or heard of people dropping a laptop.
Think about it: when you use a laptop you often don't have a desk nearby. You might be sitting on a couch, or at a table. Tables are often away from the wall (at least in the 'kitchen table' sense) and don't have an electric outlet immidiately accessable - which means a cable will need to be draped across an area where someone might easily trip on it.
If you're sitting on a couch, (or a living room chair) there's a chance the furniture reclines. If you're not running on battery, you'r eusing the cable - and that means it can get pulled or even possibly pinched. There's also the chance of you putting it on the floor beside the couch/chair and some pesky kid running by and giving it a thumping.
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This is why I'm surprised the US military (or the Marines) don't use glocks. Tests such as described have been undergone repeatedly - one was to drive over it reapeatedly, one was to soak it in a silty riverbed for an hour (then fire one clip, and repeat 10x or so), one was soaking it in water (and repeating previous example), one was to use a degreaser on it and then fire 10 clips, etc... after each of the tests, the pistol still fired the clips as if it were straight from the factory.
I don't know about anyone else, but in combat, that's the kind of sidearm I'd want to have, not a 1911 or sig, or something that would jam if you got grit in it's action. Especially since your sidearm is your last line of defense: it works or you die.
But the amateur spammers aren't the problem. There was an article not too long ago that said something like 90% of the spam comes from a small category of several hundred spammers.
Given what you said, it's amazing that pilots during WWII or even WWI were able to take off, let alone land their planes. Somehow, they managed to do it, though. I can't imagine how flying/landing a Sesna is anywhere near as difficult as flying/landing a
Do pilots no longer look outside their cockpits? I see no thrill in that. And why else bother flying?
I'm thinking the answer is something like, "Porn, lots of Porn," as passe as that sounds. All media technology eventually leads to or comes from porn. That's the way it's always worked.
As far as what I'd personally like to see is topographical navigation of the web - just like you see in some hacker movies, where a guy is 'flying' down a tunnel in his monitor, and he's passing all these shapes and greek letters.
Let me elaborate. When I open my browser in 2013, I hope to be able to surf normally, like I can today. But that inhibits us a lot, if you think about it - how much data do we miss because of the inefficiency of search engines - even google's? What if the web went from some other protocol (other than HTTP) and used something more intelligent than HTML to write pages in? (or at least some sort of heirchial (like the DNS system) 'this site contains' markup). That would be ideal - a search engine could simply querry the nodes for what each node contains, and depending on whether the author wants the material to be seen or not, it would be sent. Future web servers could even automatically parse such information from a site (as in, what it contains), and then all web servers could report to upstream servers, making the web a much more useful tool.
Then we could truely use something like Yahoo!'s "Categories" to find data, and not simply google for stuff. Finding sufficient research papers to write further research papers (or simply for reading) is pretty difficult now. I'd like to think this would make it at least reasonably easier.
If this is where the meteor hit the earth, where's the meteor? We see all these impact crators, but nobody seems to have found - or at least mention having found - the meteor. It must've been one huge SOB, so why haven't they found it?
Could this (looking for a crater hole) be akin to something like seeing shapes and animals in the clouds? Or along the lines of finding the face of a man on mars? Topography is very diverse and complex, and there are millions of weird variations on the earth. There's a large crater in the Sea of Japan, too - has this one been discredited as causing the great evolutionary distinction of the dinosaurs?
What if - maybe - these "caters" weren't caused by meteorites or comets, or anything like that at all? What if they're something like 'sink holes' (not the right term - what I'm thinking of are the holes that are made by fresh-water springs) that once spewed up large amounts of water to flood the earth? (another extinction theory that's equally plauseable, it's just that people disvow it because it 'supports' creationism) These 'craters' could be the result of water flowing back into the sinkhole after this flood (caused by high-presure volcanic action?), bringing large amounts of soil with them - the water had to go somewhere, right?
If anyone has links or other information on where these craters went, I'd be glad to see them. It's pretty obvious to me that something that big doesn't just disappear.
For liberals, it all comes down to them thinking that humans are basically good, when they refuse to learn from history and see that people are basically bad: at least if you use history as an example of context.
For muslims (or for any militaristic religion), it all comes down to thinking that you are the sole propreitor of truth, unilatarally and unquestionably, and that your views must be enforced upon everone.
What if they can cut costs by 30% by leaving him on Mars and only bringing the rocks back? Seems feasable to me - why not, the tech industry has been doing the basic same thing for a while now.
It not only mentions Christians, it also mentions all Jews and othre infidels - that includes anyone that is by Christian definition a pagan, heathen, or unbeliever.
I'll also note that while Christianity is, according to the Bible, about submission to God in spirit in action, through humility, kindness, love. God is to be the judge of man, and man is to not cast blame on anyone. (Officiating judgement is different, however, such as punishment for crimes against other people.)
The Quran, on the other hand, speaks heavily about claiming what is Allah's for Allah, and fighting the 'holy war' for the cause of Allah. Paramount is conflict and confrontation throughout a large volume of it.
From memory, jihad can be brought against anyone for religious, personal, or political reasons. This includes against faiths that 'oppose' Islam (all faiths oppose Islam except Islam, according to the Quran), political leaders of countries, or religious leaders of your own land or a neighboring land. This can even apply to someone killing their neighbor for a religious reason or for a personal afront, etc.
As an aside, I've heard an expert in the field (his name i don't remember, but he wsa a Muslim from Iran) say that the majority of killing in Iraq, provided the US invades, will not be from US soldier to Iraqi, or from Iraqi to US soldier, but from neighbor to neighbor, Iraqi to Iraqi. (Possibly also escilated by the secular, Sunni and Shia segrigation in the country.)
Here's some references from the Quran (I may have gotten some of the references wrong, but you should be able to discern them):
Sra XLVII SECTION 1. (47:6) This reference talks about striking/killing people that do not believe in Allah. The Cow (2.90, 2.98) Basically says that Allah's enemy is anyone that doesn't believe in him/follow the way of the Quran. The Family of Imran (3.28) Basically says that Muslims should not be friends with non-Muslims, and that Allah will take retribution upon those that do - presumeably through a jihad, since an acceptable form of jihad.... and these are just a small handful of verses from the Quran. To top it off, if you actual go through and read the book, many, many verses directly contradict each other (and not simply due to context). I don't accept "it's because it's a translation" as a valid excuse - many other books have undergone translation after translation, and remain roughly the same.
Not only that, but the Quran and the texts there-in has seen many different (and some conflicting) itinerations.
The Bible shows minor deviances in some historical manuscripts, but none that contradict or even change the meaning of the text; they're simply minor rewordings or ommisions of text from older versions. (Such as, "And Jesus sat," - minor things like that.)
I don't see how pundits can keep saying things like, "Islam is peaceful," or how people who claim to believe in Islam can say that on public broadcast with a straight face. I'm personally convinced that it is their perogative as Islamists to put up a facade, trying to decieve the infidels, so they can get as many clean hits from the back of the head as they possibly can.
Do you have any links about this or further information? I couldn't find anything, and I know of several waste management engineers that would find this quite interesting, if they haven't already read about it.
The Corn Palace in Mitchel, SD, is worthless. It's simply a building covered with corn, and it's widely commercialized for tourism. Crazy Horse is similar - you can't get close to it unless you throw out nearly $100 for a helicopter ride to get closer.
However, if you're going to be driving through the Black Hills, I strongly suggest you take a look at some of the better tourist spots: the natural ones. Devil's Tower in Wyoming is fantastic, as is Needles Highway in the Black Hills. Mount Rushmore is also a nice spot to visit, if you've never been there before, and the trails leading up to it are quite nice.
If you're going through Montana, there's Glacier National Park in the NW, as well as Glacier Lake, which is breathtaking. They're not really tourist places, unless you really like the outdoors. Glacier Lake also has fantastic trout fishing, if you go out for that kind of thing.
As far was Wall Drug, SD, there are signs advertising it all over the world. There are some in Europe, some in S. Africa, etc. My parents saw several signs for Wall Drug when they were younger, growing up in New York. If anything, it'll make a decent spot to stop and take a piss on your way to the other places in the Black Hills. Additionally, there's a large ISP based in Wall called Golden West Companies, which supplies dialup, cable, and (I'm not sure baout this) possibly WiFi service.
Overall, you'll find mostly worthless tourist traps in the MidWest, and all the good tourist spots are still relatively unmolested by man, fairly off the main road. That is, all the good tourist areas are natural.
Why not let your gf see it? I've had 1/3rd of an old-school 32 pin SIMM as my keychain fob for quite a few years now (the ring goes through the hole.) The SIMM only had 3 chips on it, on one side, so it's nice and compact, and still had a nice geek appeal.
It's actually helped me find people with similar interests. I had my keys in my hand one day while getting a sub at subway, and the guy behind the counter (probably about 17) said something along the lines of, "Cool, old school RAM. Haven't seen that for a while." We then had a little talk about back in the day (I'm only 21), since there were no customers in the store.
For those that don't know: this is a quote (it's not direct, unless it's taken from a loose translation) from the Bible's New Testament, where Jesus is talking to the Pharasees that want to stone the woman caught in adultury.
Political correctness (and thus Affirmative Action) is a bane to American rights more than any type of racism or discrimination is directly and on its own.
I'm a 21 y/o white male with blue eyes and brown hair, and I've undergone more direct racial and sexual discrimination than several black people that I know. (as long as you ignore the fact that women get 'harassed' almost daily by guys oogling them, if they're even remotely attractive)
People have a right to live - until they deny such a right from another person. You forfit any rights you have by denying another those rights.
What was done to this girl denied her of her life.
Murder denies people of their life.
Death is the consequence by any reasonable social rule, not revenge or punishment. It's something that murders inflict upon themselves, and necessarily required for society to carry out.
If not having a cell phone is the 'new taboo', what was the old taboo? I'm not aware of any sort of cultural taboo here in the US, unless it's something like sleeping with the ugly whore, or actually caring about something higher than yourself.
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I'd rathre get a Toshiba Lifebook P-series. I'd get better battery life, and I have no doubt the price is lower. Oh yeah, and it's sturdy as hell.
I'm sorry, but if continual and frequent layoffs are occuring, you are a) affraid of losing your job, reguardless of how good a worker you are, b) stressed all the time because of this fact, and c) always looking over your shoulder, no matter how good a job you're doing at the time.
That alone is reason to complain. It's comparable to being a slave and always looking over your shoulder for the angry slavemaster with the whip.
This seems to make a lot of sense to me.
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Consider that there's a pretty high chance that someone will not be using something as impractical as a -laptop- if they are being bombed, directly shot at, or gassed - at least if they're the laptop operator. They'll be reaching for their radio to call for backup, etc. THe only instance I can think of needing a laptop in such a situation is if you're calling in an air strike or missile launch - but wouldn't a radio be just as/more efficient in such a situation? let the boys at the back fire that baby off, while you use a radio and your free hand to shoot the filthy SOBs...
Chances are that most laptop field use will be during camp time, uploading tac. info, and things like that - where they can be in a tent or away from any immediate biological items that might harm the device.
If your laptop is in this case while not being used, chances are it's just as safe as one of the military ruggedized versions - if not moreso. Granted, you probably won't be able cook it in the oven for as long/as high a temp, but I suspect the rest is just as true.
On the othre hand, the military probably knows what they're doing in this respect - after all, they're designed with use in mind, and I don't know what those uses are
Let's hope someone in that situation needs it less than the 4 hours that the battery will last.
I certainly wouldn't want to put my life in such a compromising situation. Give me several pocket-sized, rugged, and battery-efficient devices before you give me a single large laptop that serves the function of the othres. At least that way I can swap out the AA batteries from the devices I don't need, and use them for the ones I do.
You're funny, yes, but...
I've seen more instances of people tripping over laptop cables, stepping on the machine, or other such things, than I have seen or heard of people dropping a laptop.
Think about it: when you use a laptop you often don't have a desk nearby. You might be sitting on a couch, or at a table. Tables are often away from the wall (at least in the 'kitchen table' sense) and don't have an electric outlet immidiately accessable - which means a cable will need to be draped across an area where someone might easily trip on it.
If you're sitting on a couch, (or a living room chair) there's a chance the furniture reclines. If you're not running on battery, you'r eusing the cable - and that means it can get pulled or even possibly pinched. There's also the chance of you putting it on the floor beside the couch/chair and some pesky kid running by and giving it a thumping.
This is why I'm surprised the US military (or the Marines) don't use glocks. Tests such as described have been undergone repeatedly - one was to drive over it reapeatedly, one was to soak it in a silty riverbed for an hour (then fire one clip, and repeat 10x or so), one was soaking it in water (and repeating previous example), one was to use a degreaser on it and then fire 10 clips, etc... after each of the tests, the pistol still fired the clips as if it were straight from the factory.
I don't know about anyone else, but in combat, that's the kind of sidearm I'd want to have, not a 1911 or sig, or something that would jam if you got grit in it's action. Especially since your sidearm is your last line of defense: it works or you die.
How do you manage this? Please let me in on this little secret, I get several a day.
But the amateur spammers aren't the problem. There was an article not too long ago that said something like 90% of the spam comes from a small category of several hundred spammers.
Given what you said, it's amazing that pilots during WWII or even WWI were able to take off, let alone land their planes. Somehow, they managed to do it, though. I can't imagine how flying/landing a Sesna is anywhere near as difficult as flying/landing a
Do pilots no longer look outside their cockpits? I see no thrill in that. And why else bother flying?
Soviet Russia will surf you?
No, that's not right.
I'm thinking the answer is something like, "Porn, lots of Porn," as passe as that sounds. All media technology eventually leads to or comes from porn. That's the way it's always worked.
As far as what I'd personally like to see is topographical navigation of the web - just like you see in some hacker movies, where a guy is 'flying' down a tunnel in his monitor, and he's passing all these shapes and greek letters.
Let me elaborate. When I open my browser in 2013, I hope to be able to surf normally, like I can today. But that inhibits us a lot, if you think about it - how much data do we miss because of the inefficiency of search engines - even google's? What if the web went from some other protocol (other than HTTP) and used something more intelligent than HTML to write pages in? (or at least some sort of heirchial (like the DNS system) 'this site contains' markup). That would be ideal - a search engine could simply querry the nodes for what each node contains, and depending on whether the author wants the material to be seen or not, it would be sent. Future web servers could even automatically parse such information from a site (as in, what it contains), and then all web servers could report to upstream servers, making the web a much more useful tool.
Then we could truely use something like Yahoo!'s "Categories" to find data, and not simply google for stuff. Finding sufficient research papers to write further research papers (or simply for reading) is pretty difficult now. I'd like to think this would make it at least reasonably easier.
This makes much more sense than the foolhardy "it vaporized" replies, thanks.
Something big enough to make a crater isn't going to vaporize. Break up or tunnel, sure. But not 'vaporize'.
If this is where the meteor hit the earth, where's the meteor? We see all these impact crators, but nobody seems to have found - or at least mention having found - the meteor. It must've been one huge SOB, so why haven't they found it?
Could this (looking for a crater hole) be akin to something like seeing shapes and animals in the clouds? Or along the lines of finding the face of a man on mars? Topography is very diverse and complex, and there are millions of weird variations on the earth. There's a large crater in the Sea of Japan, too - has this one been discredited as causing the great evolutionary distinction of the dinosaurs?
What if - maybe - these "caters" weren't caused by meteorites or comets, or anything like that at all? What if they're something like 'sink holes' (not the right term - what I'm thinking of are the holes that are made by fresh-water springs) that once spewed up large amounts of water to flood the earth? (another extinction theory that's equally plauseable, it's just that people disvow it because it 'supports' creationism) These 'craters' could be the result of water flowing back into the sinkhole after this flood (caused by high-presure volcanic action?), bringing large amounts of soil with them - the water had to go somewhere, right?
If anyone has links or other information on where these craters went, I'd be glad to see them. It's pretty obvious to me that something that big doesn't just disappear.
Haha, I can just see BC going at it with RMS about basic philosophy... "Listen up, you primative screwheads. You want a piece of this? Come get some."
(yeah, I realize those aren't sequential quotes, but deal and don't get your sack in a knot.)
For liberals, it all comes down to them thinking that humans are basically good, when they refuse to learn from history and see that people are basically bad: at least if you use history as an example of context.
For muslims (or for any militaristic religion), it all comes down to thinking that you are the sole propreitor of truth, unilatarally and unquestionably, and that your views must be enforced upon everone.
What if they can cut costs by 30% by leaving him on Mars and only bringing the rocks back? Seems feasable to me - why not, the tech industry has been doing the basic same thing for a while now.
It not only mentions Christians, it also mentions all Jews and othre infidels - that includes anyone that is by Christian definition a pagan, heathen, or unbeliever.
... and these are just a small handful of verses from the Quran. To top it off, if you actual go through and read the book, many, many verses directly contradict each other (and not simply due to context). I don't accept "it's because it's a translation" as a valid excuse - many other books have undergone translation after translation, and remain roughly the same.
I'll also note that while Christianity is, according to the Bible, about submission to God in spirit in action, through humility, kindness, love. God is to be the judge of man, and man is to not cast blame on anyone. (Officiating judgement is different, however, such as punishment for crimes against other people.)
The Quran, on the other hand, speaks heavily about claiming what is Allah's for Allah, and fighting the 'holy war' for the cause of Allah. Paramount is conflict and confrontation throughout a large volume of it.
From memory, jihad can be brought against anyone for religious, personal, or political reasons. This includes against faiths that 'oppose' Islam (all faiths oppose Islam except Islam, according to the Quran), political leaders of countries, or religious leaders of your own land or a neighboring land. This can even apply to someone killing their neighbor for a religious reason or for a personal afront, etc.
As an aside, I've heard an expert in the field (his name i don't remember, but he wsa a Muslim from Iran) say that the majority of killing in Iraq, provided the US invades, will not be from US soldier to Iraqi, or from Iraqi to US soldier, but from neighbor to neighbor, Iraqi to Iraqi. (Possibly also escilated by the secular, Sunni and Shia segrigation in the country.)
Here's some references from the Quran (I may have gotten some of the references wrong, but you should be able to discern them):
Sra XLVII SECTION 1. (47:6)
This reference talks about striking/killing people that do not believe in Allah.
The Cow (2.90, 2.98)
Basically says that Allah's enemy is anyone that doesn't believe in him/follow the way of the Quran.
The Family of Imran (3.28)
Basically says that Muslims should not be friends with non-Muslims, and that Allah will take retribution upon those that do - presumeably through a jihad, since an acceptable form of jihad.
Not only that, but the Quran and the texts there-in has seen many different (and some conflicting) itinerations.
The Bible shows minor deviances in some historical manuscripts, but none that contradict or even change the meaning of the text; they're simply minor rewordings or ommisions of text from older versions. (Such as, "And Jesus sat," - minor things like that.)
I don't see how pundits can keep saying things like, "Islam is peaceful," or how people who claim to believe in Islam can say that on public broadcast with a straight face. I'm personally convinced that it is their perogative as Islamists to put up a facade, trying to decieve the infidels, so they can get as many clean hits from the back of the head as they possibly can.
Do you have any links about this or further information? I couldn't find anything, and I know of several waste management engineers that would find this quite interesting, if they haven't already read about it.
The Corn Palace in Mitchel, SD, is worthless. It's simply a building covered with corn, and it's widely commercialized for tourism. Crazy Horse is similar - you can't get close to it unless you throw out nearly $100 for a helicopter ride to get closer.
However, if you're going to be driving through the Black Hills, I strongly suggest you take a look at some of the better tourist spots: the natural ones. Devil's Tower in Wyoming is fantastic, as is Needles Highway in the Black Hills. Mount Rushmore is also a nice spot to visit, if you've never been there before, and the trails leading up to it are quite nice.
If you're going through Montana, there's Glacier National Park in the NW, as well as Glacier Lake, which is breathtaking. They're not really tourist places, unless you really like the outdoors. Glacier Lake also has fantastic trout fishing, if you go out for that kind of thing.
As far was Wall Drug, SD, there are signs advertising it all over the world. There are some in Europe, some in S. Africa, etc. My parents saw several signs for Wall Drug when they were younger, growing up in New York. If anything, it'll make a decent spot to stop and take a piss on your way to the other places in the Black Hills. Additionally, there's a large ISP based in Wall called Golden West Companies, which supplies dialup, cable, and (I'm not sure baout this) possibly WiFi service.
Overall, you'll find mostly worthless tourist traps in the MidWest, and all the good tourist spots are still relatively unmolested by man, fairly off the main road. That is, all the good tourist areas are natural.
Why not let your gf see it?
I've had 1/3rd of an old-school 32 pin SIMM as my keychain fob for quite a few years now (the ring goes through the hole.) The SIMM only had 3 chips on it, on one side, so it's nice and compact, and still had a nice geek appeal.
It's actually helped me find people with similar interests. I had my keys in my hand one day while getting a sub at subway, and the guy behind the counter (probably about 17) said something along the lines of, "Cool, old school RAM. Haven't seen that for a while." We then had a little talk about back in the day (I'm only 21), since there were no customers in the store.
For those that don't know: this is a quote (it's not direct, unless it's taken from a loose translation) from the Bible's New Testament, where Jesus is talking to the Pharasees that want to stone the woman caught in adultury.
Thank you, sir, for your firm grasp on reality.
Political correctness (and thus Affirmative Action) is a bane to American rights more than any type of racism or discrimination is directly and on its own.
I'm a 21 y/o white male with blue eyes and brown hair, and I've undergone more direct racial and sexual discrimination than several black people that I know. (as long as you ignore the fact that women get 'harassed' almost daily by guys oogling them, if they're even remotely attractive)
A correct comparision would be shooting someone in the parking lot for waving a firearm at you. There's no threat in -looking- at someone funny.
Your whole 'nation just an organism' is flawed, too. If that were the case, suceeding from a nation shouldn't be a problem.
People have a right to live - until they deny such a right from another person. You forfit any rights you have by denying another those rights.
What was done to this girl denied her of her life.
Murder denies people of their life.
Death is the consequence by any reasonable social rule, not revenge or punishment. It's something that murders inflict upon themselves, and necessarily required for society to carry out.
If not having a cell phone is the 'new taboo', what was the old taboo? I'm not aware of any sort of cultural taboo here in the US, unless it's something like sleeping with the ugly whore, or actually caring about something higher than yourself.