Despite the delay, my favorite new app, gnucash-2.0, won't be in Dapper. Here's hoping I can get it in Edgy, so I don't have to do this compiling nonsense...
Porn communities that are good include moviefiles, for RapidShare-hosted movies, kaizersoze125 for a bit of everything (dalibor used to crack site passwords on request, but he's fallen off the edge of the earth of late), user riotclitshave posts a lot of cool stuff, some of which could be considered porn, and the show_your_boobs community is pretty high-traffic, though if you don't like the occasional... larger... woman or man posting, you won't like it. They get all types in there, and I do mean all types.
If you're widening the net to include any blog site, there's a good index of ad-supported amateur porn galleries (which adblock allows you to browse relatively trouble-free) at JazzBabes, with an archive JazzDump.
My basement has in it an old HP LaserJet 4 Plus that came out of a dumpster. One drum kit later, it was working, and has been churning out perfectly acceptable pages for two years now, maybe more. The plastic is yellowed and a bit of trim is snapped off, but who cares? The price was certainly right, and I don't have to by twenty-dollar ink cartridges every two hundred pages.
At least this one got me to click on the link. "Well, if a new exploit was just discovered, they'd tell us, even though it's April Fool's..." I still want to stab Taco with a fork for that stupid AOL-speak shit, though.
The thing wasn't so much that you were stunningly clever; it seems to be that the developer was so, so, so boneheaded. But the sorts of optimizations being talked about aren't about correcting insanely stupid errors so much as they're about making subtle, marginal changes. I doubt there's that much paper-bag optimization to be done in mysql, for instance...
Ah, but for those of us who have hundreds or even thousands of images loaded and categorized in flickr, how easy is it to move to another service? Are we seeing the dawn of a new and exciting kind of vendor lock-in?
I know that flickr has a helpful, open API; I just wonder if it's enough.
Indeed; one wonders if the obsession with honor, respect and machismo among the Islamic nations has something to do with a creeping inferiority complex, given that the largest windfall in history (trillions in oil profits) have been dropped on the Islamic nations, and what have they to show for it? Some expensive vacations to Europe, nations full of oppressed and subjugated women, and laughable attempts to blame the Jews for all of it.
Half of the faculty in the engineering department where I went to school came from Islamic nations. It's clearly nothing wrong with the people there; they just have to flee to the West to get anything useful done. How on earth did they get such bad leadership, and how can we make sure it doesn't happen here?
[...] but to dismiss a whole religion, one of the largest in the world, and all its adherents as evil or stupid, is just bigoted.
I don't think anyone here is dismissing every adherent of Islam as evil or stupid. I can think that Islam is a vile death cult without thinking that all of its adherents are mad bombers. (And how does Islam's size place it beyond criticism? Is it okay to make fun of religions, as long as they're small?)
And why, then, is anything at all beyond criticism? You're not complaining about bigots calling every last Muslim a crazy-ass headchopper, but rather trying to exclude criticism of the religion itself beyond debate. But the nature of Islam itself is very, very relevant to this discussion.
I'm not sure I speak for many of my fellow slashdotters, but I certainly have disdain for Christians who seek to enslave science to religion, or to replace science with religion. This isn't the same as being a Christian dabbling in science.
An enormous fluff piece on the centuries-old accomplishments of a religion now better known for its murderers than anything else, and you take it as evidence of anti-Muslim sentiment? Can I score some of what you're smoking?
But like most things it gets over shadowed by the negative, which is what is normally reported by the media.
Are you sure of what you're asking for here?
"Sure, he may have eaten the flesh of delicious babies, and ground their bones to make his bread, but he gave that bread to soup kitchens, where it fed many hungry people. So, a big hand for this dude, feeder of the hungry."
I think you're confusing atheism with nihilism, or existentialism. It's not the same as either. Just because you interpret atheism as a great yawning pit of despair doesn't mean that it implies that for all its adherents.
The idea that the universe was a big bit of clockwork, ultimately reducible and understandable, dates, in Western thought, from the Age of Enlightenment, which was most certainly not a religious movement.
Unfortunately, atheists have no reason for believing that the laws of physics won't change radically tomorrow. Theists do.
Why's that? If a superhero from outer space can change the rules whenever he feels like it, doesn't that make theism the viewpoint whose axioms sit on shaky ground?
If you goto an abortion clinic here you will be shouted at and harrassed, or have things thrown at you.
Are you saying that the fact that our nuts hassle people at clinics somehow vitiates the legitimacy of our finger-pointing at crazy-ass headchoppers? If not, why did you bring it up?
and you probably won't find "BrokeBack Mountain" in our movie theaters either.
Hmm. Well, it's playing in Oklahoma City, Des Moines, Wichita and the notoriously conservative Colorado Springs. And this, months after the initial release. What were you trying to prove here, again?
Why, yes, every religion has its nuts. But no other religion has nuts quite like Islamic nuts. Can you demonstrate several daily religiously-motivated acts of murderous barbarism from, say, the Catholics?
This is like claiming that Baruch Goldstein's actions make all Israelis morally equivalent to Hamas. Or that a single civilian death makes the American army no better than Saddam's. Or that Matthew Shepard's death makes Americans no better than the Iranian regime which regularly executes homosexuals. It's morally vacuous.
The USA being mostly christian, and the criminal classes even more so (because of the overlap with the undereducated poor, who more frequently resort to crime) the vast majority of crime in the US is committed by Christians.
Ah, but you're committing the very error you're complaining against. The poster wasn't complaining about all crime, but rather crime motivated by fundie craziness. Which, surprise, tends not to motivate the majority of crime in the US.
state-orchestrated rioting over cartoons the rioters had no access to
You're saying that these nuts will riot for no reason other than "Hey, you! Torch shit!"? And you think this helps your point how, exactly?
Am I proud to be "white?" Not at all. It required no effort on my part, thus it can hardly be considered an "accomplishment."
I think the point of specially honoring female or black scientists, for instance, was that they had to work harder to get the same education, supplies and recognition that their white and male peers did. So it's not so much that Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission (it wasn't all her work, but it wouldn't have happened without her), but that she overcame obstacles inherent in being a female scientist in Pre-WWII Germany to do so.
But there haven't historically been extra hoops you have to jump through to be a white, male scientist. So there wouldn't be anything extra to celebrate about that, now would there?
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Despite the delay, my favorite new app, gnucash-2.0, won't be in Dapper. Here's hoping I can get it in Edgy, so I don't have to do this compiling nonsense...
Porn communities that are good include moviefiles, for RapidShare-hosted movies, kaizersoze125 for a bit of everything (dalibor used to crack site passwords on request, but he's fallen off the edge of the earth of late), user riotclitshave posts a lot of cool stuff, some of which could be considered porn, and the show_your_boobs community is pretty high-traffic, though if you don't like the occasional... larger... woman or man posting, you won't like it. They get all types in there, and I do mean all types.
If you're widening the net to include any blog site, there's a good index of ad-supported amateur porn galleries (which adblock allows you to browse relatively trouble-free) at JazzBabes, with an archive JazzDump.
Enjoy!
My basement has in it an old HP LaserJet 4 Plus that came out of a dumpster. One drum kit later, it was working, and has been churning out perfectly acceptable pages for two years now, maybe more. The plastic is yellowed and a bit of trim is snapped off, but who cares? The price was certainly right, and I don't have to by twenty-dollar ink cartridges every two hundred pages.
At least this one got me to click on the link. "Well, if a new exploit was just discovered, they'd tell us, even though it's April Fool's..." I still want to stab Taco with a fork for that stupid AOL-speak shit, though.
I understood a good deal of it; I played WC3 (but not WoW) a few years ago. And y'know what? It's still not funny.
That's a bit broad to consider a theme. You might as well say SF has only one main theme "what if things were different".
The mad scientist from "Back to the Future" was named Emmett Brown, not Doctor Watson.
I'm surprised it took this long down the thread for someone to mention Firefly. Now I want to cry into some beer while re-watching "Out of Gas".
That's a nifty bit of shell/awk-fu. Thanks!
The thing wasn't so much that you were stunningly clever; it seems to be that the developer was so, so, so boneheaded. But the sorts of optimizations being talked about aren't about correcting insanely stupid errors so much as they're about making subtle, marginal changes. I doubt there's that much paper-bag optimization to be done in mysql, for instance...
Ah, but for those of us who have hundreds or even thousands of images loaded and categorized in flickr, how easy is it to move to another service? Are we seeing the dawn of a new and exciting kind of vendor lock-in?
I know that flickr has a helpful, open API; I just wonder if it's enough.
Indeed; one wonders if the obsession with honor, respect and machismo among the Islamic nations has something to do with a creeping inferiority complex, given that the largest windfall in history (trillions in oil profits) have been dropped on the Islamic nations, and what have they to show for it? Some expensive vacations to Europe, nations full of oppressed and subjugated women, and laughable attempts to blame the Jews for all of it.
Half of the faculty in the engineering department where I went to school came from Islamic nations. It's clearly nothing wrong with the people there; they just have to flee to the West to get anything useful done. How on earth did they get such bad leadership, and how can we make sure it doesn't happen here?
[...] but to dismiss a whole religion, one of the largest in the world, and all its adherents as evil or stupid, is just bigoted.
I don't think anyone here is dismissing every adherent of Islam as evil or stupid. I can think that Islam is a vile death cult without thinking that all of its adherents are mad bombers. (And how does Islam's size place it beyond criticism? Is it okay to make fun of religions, as long as they're small?)
And why, then, is anything at all beyond criticism? You're not complaining about bigots calling every last Muslim a crazy-ass headchopper, but rather trying to exclude criticism of the religion itself beyond debate. But the nature of Islam itself is very, very relevant to this discussion.
I'm not sure I speak for many of my fellow slashdotters, but I certainly have disdain for Christians who seek to enslave science to religion, or to replace science with religion. This isn't the same as being a Christian dabbling in science.
An enormous fluff piece on the centuries-old accomplishments of a religion now better known for its murderers than anything else, and you take it as evidence of anti-Muslim sentiment? Can I score some of what you're smoking?
But like most things it gets over shadowed by the negative, which is what is normally reported by the media.
Are you sure of what you're asking for here?
"Sure, he may have eaten the flesh of delicious babies, and ground their bones to make his bread, but he gave that bread to soup kitchens, where it fed many hungry people. So, a big hand for this dude, feeder of the hungry."
I think you're confusing atheism with nihilism, or existentialism. It's not the same as either. Just because you interpret atheism as a great yawning pit of despair doesn't mean that it implies that for all its adherents.
The idea that the universe was a big bit of clockwork, ultimately reducible and understandable, dates, in Western thought, from the Age of Enlightenment, which was most certainly not a religious movement.
Unfortunately, atheists have no reason for believing that the laws of physics won't change radically tomorrow. Theists do.
Why's that? If a superhero from outer space can change the rules whenever he feels like it, doesn't that make theism the viewpoint whose axioms sit on shaky ground?
If you goto an abortion clinic here you will be shouted at and harrassed, or have things thrown at you.
Are you saying that the fact that our nuts hassle people at clinics somehow vitiates the legitimacy of our finger-pointing at crazy-ass headchoppers? If not, why did you bring it up?
and you probably won't find "BrokeBack Mountain" in our movie theaters either.
Hmm. Well, it's playing in Oklahoma City, Des Moines, Wichita and the notoriously conservative Colorado Springs. And this, months after the initial release. What were you trying to prove here, again?
Why, yes, every religion has its nuts. But no other religion has nuts quite like Islamic nuts. Can you demonstrate several daily religiously-motivated acts of murderous barbarism from, say, the Catholics?
This is like claiming that Baruch Goldstein's actions make all Israelis morally equivalent to Hamas. Or that a single civilian death makes the American army no better than Saddam's. Or that Matthew Shepard's death makes Americans no better than the Iranian regime which regularly executes homosexuals. It's morally vacuous.
The USA being mostly christian, and the criminal classes even more so (because of the overlap with the undereducated poor, who more frequently resort to crime) the vast majority of crime in the US is committed by Christians.
Ah, but you're committing the very error you're complaining against. The poster wasn't complaining about all crime, but rather crime motivated by fundie craziness. Which, surprise, tends not to motivate the majority of crime in the US.
state-orchestrated rioting over cartoons the rioters had no access to
You're saying that these nuts will riot for no reason other than "Hey, you! Torch shit!"? And you think this helps your point how, exactly?
Oh, and they missed using Jets to bring down major buildings in New York. Although, to be fair, Tom Clancy came up with that idea earlier.
So did the National Intelligence Council...
Sure, that would be legitimate, if you consider NASA a cultural group. "Yeah, I'm a quarter NASA on my mother's side."
Am I proud to be "white?" Not at all. It required no effort on my part, thus it can hardly be considered an "accomplishment."
I think the point of specially honoring female or black scientists, for instance, was that they had to work harder to get the same education, supplies and recognition that their white and male peers did. So it's not so much that Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission (it wasn't all her work, but it wouldn't have happened without her), but that she overcame obstacles inherent in being a female scientist in Pre-WWII Germany to do so.
But there haven't historically been extra hoops you have to jump through to be a white, male scientist. So there wouldn't be anything extra to celebrate about that, now would there?