I still don't understand how global warming is supposed to make sea levels rise. Ice has a lower density than water. If you put ice cubes in a glass of water and allow the ice cubes to melt, the water level will go down. So as the polar icecaps melt, won't the sea level go down? (I'm assuming that the outlying pack ice overlying the Antarctic Ocean will melt before the pack overlying the continent.)
You forget that one of the inevitable side-effects of a war-financed-by-dept is inflation. This is because the only way that the government can pay off a crushing debt is to devalue money so that the dept is a smaller portion of the budget. Then the debt can be paid off.
I don't think that's quite right. One, the US government does not set the value of its currency. The market does that. Any inflation is caused by market forces (e.g. wages, the market price of oil, etc.). Two, even if it did devalue the dollar, the debt would not get paid any faster. The dollars the government collects would be concomitantly devalued just as much as the dollars it pays out on the debt.
Real life is that the nigerian scammers are criminals, and deserve to be locked up and/or shot. Not looked at as some kind of cultural escapism that is the necessary end result of a boring life. Get them up off their asses and not indulging in criminality, or jail them. No other options should be considered.
Interesting. I wonder if the RIAA thinks the same thing about those who engage in online music piracy^H^H^H^H^H^H copyright infringement.
That is correct during mission operations, but between missions, the empty orbiters are shuttled from place to place piggybacked onto Boeing 747s. That's how they get back to Cape Canaveral after landing at Edwards AFB in California.
It's not as if that's the only one in existence, though. IIRC, there's one standing in the main hall of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, which is relatively safe from hurricanes.
So the space shuttles survived Frances, huh? Good. But now, another hurricane looks to be barrelling down on them. Hurricane Ivan looks like it might be making an appearance in Florida next weekend. Shoot, at this rate, one hurricane per week, the shuttles may have a dozen or so hurricanes by the time hurricane season is over. If they can survive all of that, I'll be really impressed.
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Given the fact that good Muslims should not drink beer, and the vast majority of Iraq's population is Muslim, I don't think that Free-As-In-Beer would be a particularly good slogan from a marketing perspective. Perhaps Free-As-In-Water instead? Free water is probably as rare and desirable an occurrence over there as free beer is over here, and it won't carry the culturally negative connotations.
My first life insurance company didn't cover me while I was flying, took me a while to find a company that would cover me during recreational flying, and soaring, without charging me through the nose.
So do we get to know what the name of that insurance company is? A good testimonial on Slashdot would be invaluable to many.
It should be re-written from the ground up with security in mind from the start.
Maybe that's a good idea, maybe not, but it isn't going to happen. That will take time, and time is money, and MicroSoft has demonstrated time and again that they'd rather do something cheap and quick and then patch ad perpetuum than to get it right the first time. Expect another crappy, buggy, insecure browser, coming live to a computer near you. Followed by more exploits, counter-exploits, bug fixes, and patches than you can shake a stick at.
The reason the general populace has so little regard for intellectuals is that, for the most part, the general populace is peopled with numbskull idiotic moron idiots. If you don't believe me, try driving on an interstate during rush hour.
This kind of people doesn't like to be challenged with the thought-provoking ideas that intellectuals present. They prefer to stay within their little coccoon of idiocy and watch Reality TV reruns, knowing that they will never be inconvenienced even *once* to exercise their brain in any meaningful way. Intelligent shows are about *ideas*. Shows are about personalities and who's zoomin' whom are trite and irrelevant. The smartest people I know don't own a TV.
And yes, in case you were wondering, I hate (almost) everybody. Including you. Good day to you, sir.
What we really need is an act that would BAN malware, etc. altogether.
Not as if it really matters. This bill, if passed, would only drive malware underground, and it'll be much harder to control. Viruses have been illegal for *years* but we all know how much they continue to plague humanity.
Alderwood is a wood that, when burned, produces an aromatic smoke typically used for flavoring food. You can buy sacks of the stuff at Home Despot (so called because the manager of my local one is a tyrant) to put on the grill next time you barbecue.
To me, Alderwood seems an unfortunate name for a chip. I don't think it's a good marketing decision to name a chip for a wood prized for its smoking ability. That seems to evoke images of chips overheating and melting down in a puff of smoke.
Many(most?)people who love music only rarely get out to hear it live.
Baloney. I can go downtown on any given night, pay a small cover at any number of a dozen or more bars, and get in to hear live music from local talent. Some of it is pretty good too. If I really like it, I'll buy the cd right there, and it's always cheaper than retail. These guys are out chasing their dream and making very little money while they're at it. I have no trouble supporting them if they're any good.
For the same reason, I also like baseball, but refuse to go to the major league team. I prefer watching the local single-A affiliate better. These guys are also chasing their dreams, and frequently going broke in the process. The struggle for success gives the effort more of a soul.
Yet another deadline? We've seen this kind of thing before. Let's not get our panties in a bunch just yet, this is not over yet. Not by a long shot.
Call me when the case is dismissed, and the dismissal is upheld on appeal. Guess we'll be waiting for a long time.
Matter of fact, don't call me until SCO goes through Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceases operations, cause it's only then that this monster will be dead and buried.
Arthur Spitzer from the ACLU: He said cameras infringe on privacy rights
I don't think I would go THAT far. What reasonable expectation of privacy do any of us have on a public street?
Call me when they start putting these in places where people *do* have a reasonable expectation of privacy, like toward the front windows of people's houses.
I would guess that this policy was implemented because people were using their personal cell phones for their own personal calls on company time.
I would guess the policy exists because of the possible security threat. Notice that a LOT of the newer cell phone models have cameras on them? Think about how this enables corporate espionage or sabotage. How easy would it be for someone with a cell phone/camera to surreptitiously take a picture of a sensitive document and send it to the company's competitor?
This is one of the many reasons the three-letter government agency headquartered in Langley, Virginia, does not allow cell phones inside the building. (BTW, said building is named the George Bush Center for Intelligence. Makes me crack up every time I see street signs for it.)
Viacom has a market cap a hair over $68 billion, and net income (after taxes, interest payments on their debt, depreciation, and amortization) of $1.44 billion dollars.
EchoStar (Dish Network's parent) has a market cap of $16.61 billion, and net income loss (same basis) of $880 thousand.
Does anyone really think Viacom NEEDS those extra fees?
'CSI' and 'Survivor'??? What about NCAA Men's Basketball?
This has got to be a college basketball fan's worst nightmare. March Madness is about to start, and no hoops on the telly. Well, if they thought up a bit (perhaps this is too much to expect of the average hoops fan), they could get a pair of rabbit ears and just watch March Madness (and CSI and Survivor, for that matter) the old fashioned way -- through the airwaves.
Yes, it is a stopgap solution. But rabbit ears are cheap, and it's important to support Dish Network because they are making a stand which opposes a decrease in consumer choice.
And if you can't get CBS through the airwaves, there's still the NIT carried by ESPN. (National Invitational Tournament, the quest to determine the 66th best team in the nation. This explanation provided free of charge for the convenience of those of you who are not sports fans/degenerate gamblers.)
You'll still miss out on Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, Showtime, et alii, but really, is that so much of a loss? Those channels all suck scabby dog nuts, and there are DVD box sets for those of you who just can't live without your "Queer as Folk" fix.
I thought the whole idea of including Andy Serkis in the live-action flashback scene to Smeagol vs. Deagol was to make him eligible for the Best Supporting Actor oscar. I thought he would have at least deserved consideration for his work in LotR: The Two Towers, but apparently actors cannot receive that oscar if their character is computer animated.
Shoot, he was the best actor in the lot of them, with the possible exception of Ian McKellan.
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I still don't understand how global warming is supposed to make sea levels rise. Ice has a lower density than water. If you put ice cubes in a glass of water and allow the ice cubes to melt, the water level will go down. So as the polar icecaps melt, won't the sea level go down? (I'm assuming that the outlying pack ice overlying the Antarctic Ocean will melt before the pack overlying the continent.)
You forget that one of the inevitable side-effects of a war-financed-by-dept is inflation. This is because the only way that the government can pay off a crushing debt is to devalue money so that the dept is a smaller portion of the budget. Then the debt can be paid off.
I don't think that's quite right. One, the US government does not set the value of its currency. The market does that. Any inflation is caused by market forces (e.g. wages, the market price of oil, etc.). Two, even if it did devalue the dollar, the debt would not get paid any faster. The dollars the government collects would be concomitantly devalued just as much as the dollars it pays out on the debt.
Oh, and one more thing, it's spelled debt.
Real life is that the nigerian scammers are criminals, and deserve to be locked up and/or shot. Not looked at as some kind of cultural escapism that is the necessary end result of a boring life. Get them up off their asses and not indulging in criminality, or jail them. No other options should be considered.
Interesting. I wonder if the RIAA thinks the same thing about those who engage in online music piracy^H^H^H^H^H^H copyright infringement.
Now there's one less reason for your friends to switch to Gentoo!
Reasons are discrete. This should read "one fewer reason."
Sincerely yours,
Your friendly neighborhood grammar Nazi.
Well, episode 1 came out in May 1999. Episode 2 came out in May 2002. If it follows the pattern, it'll come out in May 2005.
Better get in line for tickets now. There are just eight shopping months until Episode 3.
That is correct during mission operations, but between missions, the empty orbiters are shuttled from place to place piggybacked onto Boeing 747s. That's how they get back to Cape Canaveral after landing at Edwards AFB in California.
It's not as if that's the only one in existence, though. IIRC, there's one standing in the main hall of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, which is relatively safe from hurricanes.
So the space shuttles survived Frances, huh? Good. But now, another hurricane looks to be barrelling down on them. Hurricane Ivan looks like it might be making an appearance in Florida next weekend. Shoot, at this rate, one hurricane per week, the shuttles may have a dozen or so hurricanes by the time hurricane season is over. If they can survive all of that, I'll be really impressed.
Given the fact that good Muslims should not drink beer, and the vast majority of Iraq's population is Muslim, I don't think that Free-As-In-Beer would be a particularly good slogan from a marketing perspective. Perhaps Free-As-In-Water instead? Free water is probably as rare and desirable an occurrence over there as free beer is over here, and it won't carry the culturally negative connotations.
This is true, but any information the police gain in this way is absolutely inadmissible in court.
Would you pay $100,000 to get a bj in zero gravity?
Some people on this forum would pay $100,000 to get a bj here on earth. Some people would *have* to.
. . . but not me, of course.
My first life insurance company didn't cover me while I was flying, took me a while to find a company that would cover me during recreational flying, and soaring, without charging me through the nose.
So do we get to know what the name of that insurance company is? A good testimonial on Slashdot would be invaluable to many.
It should be re-written from the ground up with security in mind from the start.
Maybe that's a good idea, maybe not, but it isn't going to happen. That will take time, and time is money, and MicroSoft has demonstrated time and again that they'd rather do something cheap and quick and then patch ad perpetuum than to get it right the first time. Expect another crappy, buggy, insecure browser, coming live to a computer near you. Followed by more exploits, counter-exploits, bug fixes, and patches than you can shake a stick at.
The reason the general populace has so little regard for intellectuals is that, for the most part, the general populace is peopled with numbskull idiotic moron idiots. If you don't believe me, try driving on an interstate during rush hour.
This kind of people doesn't like to be challenged with the thought-provoking ideas that intellectuals present. They prefer to stay within their little coccoon of idiocy and watch Reality TV reruns, knowing that they will never be inconvenienced even *once* to exercise their brain in any meaningful way. Intelligent shows are about *ideas*. Shows are about personalities and who's zoomin' whom are trite and irrelevant. The smartest people I know don't own a TV.
And yes, in case you were wondering, I hate (almost) everybody. Including you. Good day to you, sir.
Plus, you can use the money "Cops" gives you to pay a lawyer, so you don't hafta rely on overworked and underpaid public defenders.
What we really need is an act that would BAN malware, etc. altogether.
Not as if it really matters. This bill, if passed, would only drive malware underground, and it'll be much harder to control. Viruses have been illegal for *years* but we all know how much they continue to plague humanity.
Alderwood is a wood that, when burned, produces an aromatic smoke typically used for flavoring food. You can buy sacks of the stuff at Home Despot (so called because the manager of my local one is a tyrant) to put on the grill next time you barbecue.
To me, Alderwood seems an unfortunate name for a chip. I don't think it's a good marketing decision to name a chip for a wood prized for its smoking ability. That seems to evoke images of chips overheating and melting down in a puff of smoke.
Many(most?)people who love music only rarely get out to hear it live.
Baloney. I can go downtown on any given night, pay a small cover at any number of a dozen or more bars, and get in to hear live music from local talent. Some of it is pretty good too. If I really like it, I'll buy the cd right there, and it's always cheaper than retail. These guys are out chasing their dream and making very little money while they're at it. I have no trouble supporting them if they're any good.
For the same reason, I also like baseball, but refuse to go to the major league team. I prefer watching the local single-A affiliate better. These guys are also chasing their dreams, and frequently going broke in the process. The struggle for success gives the effort more of a soul.
Yet another deadline? We've seen this kind of thing before. Let's not get our panties in a bunch just yet, this is not over yet. Not by a long shot.
Call me when the case is dismissed, and the dismissal is upheld on appeal. Guess we'll be waiting for a long time.
Matter of fact, don't call me until SCO goes through Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceases operations, cause it's only then that this monster will be dead and buried.
Arthur Spitzer from the ACLU: He said cameras infringe on privacy rights
I don't think I would go THAT far. What reasonable expectation of privacy do any of us have on a public street?
Call me when they start putting these in places where people *do* have a reasonable expectation of privacy, like toward the front windows of people's houses.
Wow, talk about laundering money . . .
I would guess that this policy was implemented because people were using their personal cell phones for their own personal calls on company time.
I would guess the policy exists because of the possible security threat. Notice that a LOT of the newer cell phone models have cameras on them? Think about how this enables corporate espionage or sabotage. How easy would it be for someone with a cell phone/camera to surreptitiously take a picture of a sensitive document and send it to the company's competitor?
This is one of the many reasons the three-letter government agency headquartered in Langley, Virginia, does not allow cell phones inside the building. (BTW, said building is named the George Bush Center for Intelligence. Makes me crack up every time I see street signs for it.)
Viacom has a market cap a hair over $68 billion, and net income (after taxes, interest payments on their debt, depreciation, and amortization) of $1.44 billion dollars.
EchoStar (Dish Network's parent) has a market cap of $16.61 billion, and net income loss (same basis) of $880 thousand.
Does anyone really think Viacom NEEDS those extra fees?
'CSI' and 'Survivor'??? What about NCAA Men's Basketball?
This has got to be a college basketball fan's worst nightmare. March Madness is about to start, and no hoops on the telly. Well, if they thought up a bit (perhaps this is too much to expect of the average hoops fan), they could get a pair of rabbit ears and just watch March Madness (and CSI and Survivor, for that matter) the old fashioned way -- through the airwaves.
Yes, it is a stopgap solution. But rabbit ears are cheap, and it's important to support Dish Network because they are making a stand which opposes a decrease in consumer choice.
And if you can't get CBS through the airwaves, there's still the NIT carried by ESPN. (National Invitational Tournament, the quest to determine the 66th best team in the nation. This explanation provided free of charge for the convenience of those of you who are not sports fans/degenerate gamblers.)
You'll still miss out on Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, Showtime, et alii, but really, is that so much of a loss? Those channels all suck scabby dog nuts, and there are DVD box sets for those of you who just can't live without your "Queer as Folk" fix.
I thought the whole idea of including Andy Serkis in the live-action flashback scene to Smeagol vs. Deagol was to make him eligible for the Best Supporting Actor oscar. I thought he would have at least deserved consideration for his work in LotR: The Two Towers, but apparently actors cannot receive that oscar if their character is computer animated.
Shoot, he was the best actor in the lot of them, with the possible exception of Ian McKellan.