If you're going to troll the java zealots you need to be a little more... low pressure. Lest they figure out that you're trolling. Instead of saying "tear off our faces with rusty spoons". Try "tear off our faces with clean spoons". Or even better "tear off our faces with spoons". The use of the adjective 'rusty' just pushes to post over the top.
I read the linked article, and I think it misses the point. The chief value of an asteroid is not the mineral wealth that it contains. It's the fact that it's already in space.
If we are going to build anything sizeable in space we are going to need to get the materials up there. By developing the infrastructure for harvesting and constructing materials from asteroids/moons we can eliminate significant portions of the cost of construction.
The people that GIVE A SHIT and HAVE A PASSION make up a TINY portion of a drug comapny. The rest of the company tests, makes, distributes, markets, and jumps regulatory hurdles so that the people that GIVE A SHIT can do what they GIVE A SHIT about. And ya know what? Those support people want to be paid.
Sure that new life saving drug might "eventually get done" on its own, but do you really want to wait the extra YEARS for it?
>The kinds of people who end up dumping broadband >fall into two categories.
>1) "I cant find anything useful to do with it!"
>2) "Oh, help me, my broadband service has been a nightmare!"
Make that three categories
>3) "The latency on this DSL line SUCKS. I thought I'd be a l33t Frag-Masta, but all I'm still a llamma beacuse of this POS ping time."
If you're going to shell out the $$$ for Together you might as well go the extra mile and get Rational Rose. I've used both, and IMHO iRose kicks ass all over Together.
Here's the cliff notes version of the cycle as it was told to me. (bear in mind that I'm rather gullible)
Polar caps melts.
which causes sea levels to rise.
which causes the surface are of the Oceans to increase.
which causes more water evaporate into the atmosphere.
which causes more clouds.
which causes more sunlight to be reflected into space
which causes the earth to cool
which causes more snow to fall.
which causes the glaciers to advance.
which causes sea levels to drop since water is stored in glaciers and since the surface area of oceans is smaller this leads to less moisture in atmosphere.
fewer clouds cause temperatures to warm
which cause glaciers to receed and sea levels rise
>Terrorists are too small and secretive to be defeated by millitary force of any size.
>Diplomacy is the only option that has been proven to work.
Not entirely true. The Abu Nidal Group was entirely wiped out through the use of military force. It took a lot of people working together all over the world and some pretty nasty tactics, but the entire organization was eliminated.
>remind me why the US still deals with the People's Republic?
That's easy.
If we don't deal with them then we don't have any leverage over them. By acting as their trade partners we may be able to improve their attitude towards human rights in the long run.
It would be easy to tell China to screw themselves, but that wouldn't encourage them to change; It would just reinforce their notion that the rest of the world sucks.
Moment of philosophy: Sometime I think human rights are overrated, and that some 'people' just aren't worth the effort. Then I wonder if I'm one of those 'people'. Suddenly human rights seems like a much better idea.
This law may prohibit the death penalty for acts of terror because some countries will not extradite suspects when the it is involved (England and France come to mind, but I'm sure there are more).
Post hoc logic is a great thing. Using post hoc logic I can make statements like: Last year the Tabiban stopped poppy production thus causing a rise in the price of smak. Then Bush Administration didn't like this so they set out to destroy the Taliban so that they could get their fix on the cheap.
Really this is just about as plausible as the oil thing.
For some reason Slashdot gets a lot of submissions of wacko energy concepts - power from nothing, power from sand, power from a black box, engines that get 500 miles to the gallon... I don't think it's so odd the./ gets these submissions. They fit right in with the 'News for Nerds' theme.
Personally I've always associated the term 'Nerd' with all things mathematical and scientific. I think 'Geek' for all things computer and electrical (You can't even spell 'Geek' without EE.)
I'm hardly an expert in middle easten affairs so perhaps you can clear this up for me.
I seem to remember a meeting at Camp David a few years ago between Bill Clinton, Benjamin Barak, and Yasir Arafat (please forgive my spelling). I don't know what was discussed at the meeting, but I remember that Clinton's reaction after it was over.
To say that Clinton was extremly disappointed in Arafat would be to put it mildly. Arafat had flatly denied an proposal from Barak that agreed to damn near every Palastinian demand that had been made up till that point. Clinton even went so far as to wonder aloud if Arafat was serious about the negotaitions at all.
If this is true, doesn't it indicate that the Palestinians won't be satisfied until the Israelies are pushed into the sea? Doesn't that justify US support for Israel?
Bear in mind that my sources of information on this are the evening news and talk radio, so any 'facts' I have are suspect. Make that extreemly suspect. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the Camp David meeting never happened. Anyway back to the point of this post...
D. J. Keenan, you seem like a pretty smart guy, whats your call on this?
I was watching CNN Headline News in the lobby of my clients buidling. I caught it shortly after the second tower had been hit. They were running a story on drinking water. I went upstairs to my cube and tried to get internet coverage of the story. All major sites were down.
After the Pentagon was hit we all headed down to the lobby and started watching again. They cut to commecial. When they came back from commercial. We all sat there looking at the picture trying to figure out what was wrong. It was the oddest thing. I could see in the picture that the tower was not there, but I couldn't believe it till they announced it a few seconds later.
A few minutes later they cut to commericial again. This time when they came back it was obvious that the other tower had fallen.
Shortly thereafter Headline News dropped coverage all together and just showed the regular CNN feed.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
If computers are considered 'arms' by the government(At least for the purposes of export). Couldn't the second ammendment be used to defeat this sort of legislation?
ok it's a stretch...a big stretch...a REALLY big stretch, but stranger things have happend.
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I thought that whole GIF patent thing had already expired. Am I wrong?
If you're going to troll the java zealots you need to be a little more... low pressure. Lest they figure out that you're trolling. Instead of saying "tear off our faces with rusty spoons". Try "tear off our faces with clean spoons". Or even better "tear off our faces with spoons". The use of the adjective 'rusty' just pushes to post over the top.
I read the linked article, and I think it misses the point. The chief value of an asteroid is not the mineral wealth that it contains. It's the fact that it's already in space.
If we are going to build anything sizeable in space we are going to need to get the materials up there. By developing the infrastructure for harvesting and constructing materials from asteroids/moons we can eliminate significant portions of the cost of construction.
Dude, they aren't going to be playing quake on this thing. A 75Mhz Pentium is probably overkill for what they need.
Double Rubbish.
The people that GIVE A SHIT and HAVE A PASSION make up a TINY portion of a drug comapny. The rest of the company tests, makes, distributes, markets, and jumps regulatory hurdles so that the people that GIVE A SHIT can do what they GIVE A SHIT about. And ya know what? Those support people want to be paid.
Sure that new life saving drug might "eventually get done" on its own, but do you really want to wait the extra YEARS for it?
Where are you getting Cable Modem service for $20 a month?
>The kinds of people who end up dumping broadband >fall into two categories.
>1) "I cant find anything useful to do with it!"
>2) "Oh, help me, my broadband service has been a nightmare!"
Make that three categories
>3) "The latency on this DSL line SUCKS. I thought I'd be a l33t Frag-Masta, but all I'm still a llamma beacuse of this POS ping time."
If you're going to shell out the $$$ for Together you might as well go the extra mile and get Rational Rose. I've used both, and IMHO iRose kicks ass all over Together.
- Polar caps melts.
- which causes sea levels to rise.
- which causes the surface are of the Oceans to increase.
- which causes more water evaporate into the atmosphere.
- which causes more clouds.
- which causes more sunlight to be reflected into space
- which causes the earth to cool
- which causes more snow to fall.
- which causes the glaciers to advance.
- which causes sea levels to drop since water is stored in glaciers and since the surface area of oceans is smaller this leads to less moisture in atmosphere.
- fewer clouds cause temperatures to warm
- which cause glaciers to receed and sea levels rise
rinse/repeat>Terrorists are too small and secretive to be defeated by millitary force of any size.
>Diplomacy is the only option that has been proven to work.
Not entirely true. The Abu Nidal Group was entirely wiped out through the use of military force. It took a lot of people working together all over the world and some pretty nasty tactics, but the entire organization was eliminated.
>remind me why the US still deals with the People's Republic?
That's easy.
If we don't deal with them then we don't have any leverage over them. By acting as their trade partners we may be able to improve their attitude towards human rights in the long run.
It would be easy to tell China to screw themselves, but that wouldn't encourage them to change; It would just reinforce their notion that the rest of the world sucks.
Moment of philosophy: Sometime I think human rights are overrated, and that some 'people' just aren't worth the effort. Then I wonder if I'm one of those 'people'. Suddenly human rights seems like a much better idea.
Ummm. Isn't this post a baltent and flagrent violation of copyrights?
I don't mean this post...I mean the post that I'm replying to. This post is entirely and 100% my own.
I'd like to believe that they can be held liable wether or not they had malicious intent. This isnt just a bug, this is gross negligence.
The black hole theory has always confused me. If it was a black hole, why were all the trees pushed away from the center of the impact?
It would have had to have contained one hell of a lot of volatils to flatten 1500 square miles of forrest.
"Only the TRUE Messiah would deny that he is the Messiah"
-- Monty Python - Life of Brian.
This law may prohibit the death penalty for acts of terror because some countries will not extradite suspects when the it is involved (England and France come to mind, but I'm sure there are more).
Post hoc logic is a great thing. Using post hoc logic I can make statements like: Last year the Tabiban stopped poppy production thus causing a rise in the price of smak. Then Bush Administration didn't like this so they set out to destroy the Taliban so that they could get their fix on the cheap.
Really this is just about as plausible as the oil thing.
Dont forget the tentacle pr0n
For some reason Slashdot gets a lot of submissions of wacko energy concepts - power from nothing, power from sand, power from a black box, engines that get 500 miles to the gallon...
./ gets these submissions. They fit right in with the 'News for Nerds' theme.
I don't think it's so odd the
Personally I've always associated the term 'Nerd' with all things mathematical and scientific. I think 'Geek' for all things computer and electrical (You can't even spell 'Geek' without EE.)
I'm hardly an expert in middle easten affairs so perhaps you can clear this up for me.
I seem to remember a meeting at Camp David a few years ago between Bill Clinton, Benjamin Barak, and Yasir Arafat (please forgive my spelling). I don't know what was discussed at the meeting, but I remember that Clinton's reaction after it was over.
To say that Clinton was extremly disappointed in Arafat would be to put it mildly. Arafat had flatly denied an proposal from Barak that agreed to damn near every Palastinian demand that had been made up till that point. Clinton even went so far as to wonder aloud if Arafat was serious about the negotaitions at all.
If this is true, doesn't it indicate that the Palestinians won't be satisfied until the Israelies are pushed into the sea? Doesn't that justify US support for Israel?
Bear in mind that my sources of information on this are the evening news and talk radio, so any 'facts' I have are suspect. Make that extreemly suspect. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the Camp David meeting never happened. Anyway back to the point of this post...
D. J. Keenan, you seem like a pretty smart guy, whats your call on this?
Not every station...
I was watching CNN Headline News in the lobby of my clients buidling. I caught it shortly after the second tower had been hit. They were running a story on drinking water. I went upstairs to my cube and tried to get internet coverage of the story. All major sites were down.
After the Pentagon was hit we all headed down to the lobby and started watching again. They cut to commecial. When they came back from commercial. We all sat there looking at the picture trying to figure out what was wrong. It was the oddest thing. I could see in the picture that the tower was not there, but I couldn't believe it till they announced it a few seconds later.
A few minutes later they cut to commericial again. This time when they came back it was obvious that the other tower had fallen.
Shortly thereafter Headline News dropped coverage all together and just showed the regular CNN feed.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. If computers are considered 'arms' by the government(At least for the purposes of export). Couldn't the second ammendment be used to defeat this sort of legislation? ok it's a stretch...a big stretch...a REALLY big stretch, but stranger things have happend.
Is that plot the best they can come up with? Couldn't they leave Time Travel alone for just a few episodes?
This series sounds wretched.
Sure the guy is wrong about the leading/falling edge thing, but I'd hardly say he's a dumbfuck.
Damn near all of science is putting up your ideas for ridicule by your peers. That's all this guy has done.
At the very least he should be lauded for his courage. He could have put his theory up as an AC. Cause ya' know, logging in is HARD.