The court: "We will hang you within 7 days, but the day on which we come to hang you, it will be a surprise."
Saddam thinks: "Well, since it has to be a surprise, it won't be on the 7th day, because that's the last day, so it wouldn't be a surprise.
That means that the last day the can hang me is the 6th day... but since they can't hang me on the 7th day, if I make it to day 6, it won't be a surprise, so day 6 is out too...
but... if they come for me on day 5, it won't be a surprise, because they can't hang me on days 6 or 7...
... but...
(repeat)
Saddam: "You cannot hang me!"
Court: "Take him outside and hang him. Surprised?"
The article summary gets a few things wrong, one being that "should he appeal." The appeal is automatic. Also, he's not the only one sentenced to death.
40 years after the Saturn 5, they're looking at a projected payload capacity for the Aries 5 to LEO of only 10% more. Why not just upgrade the un-mothball and upgrade the Saturn series? No more SRBs with joint segments to fail and engines that, once lit, can't be shut down.
His box came with win9x+fat32 installed, and a "promised upgrade" to xp home+ntfx, which we all know just doesn't work.
I remember people replacing their motherboards, their cpus, their video cards, their power supplies, thinking it must have been some sort of hardware problem when they couldn't get both a fat32 and an ntfs partition to co-exist without BSODs every 5 minutes.
I suppose a Linux + Wii would make a good gift pair. But the family that afford that is not going to worry about the price of Microsoft anyway.
No, they're getting a Mac, and someone "inherits" their latest-and-greatest pc, which after only 1 year of use, is so slow that they don't even want to hear about re-installing, malware, antiviruses, etc. And no, they don't want to hear about linx, because they were stupid enough to ignore my initial advice - again!!! and they paid extra for name-brand, instead of buying generic stuff that "just works."
Remove beagle (the stupid excuse for a search utility that frequently pegs the cpu at 100%) and anything else that uses mono (hint - any files ending in.exe), and your box will probably just hum along fine except for the once-a-day running of slocate.
The "security reason" is Microsoft's financial security. Firefox is showing people that IE is one more piece of the Microsoft software stack they can do without.
Once they discover openoffice, most of them won't need Windows except as a gaming box - and the Wii looks more interesting to a lot of people.
That's probably what will happen. I wouldn't be surprised to see 100,000 americans lining up at the border a month after a draft is instituted. And unlike the previous draft, it'll be a much more even mix of both sexes.
You forgot that for many slashdotters, its irrelevant - they still need permission to leave their parents' basement or install any browser but internet exploder.
Actually, the psychological theories of gender identity disorders of the last 60 years have pretty much fallen by the wayside when it comes to practical applications, because they produced no better results than placebos.
We now know that gender identity is 100% governed by nature, not nuture. The seminal research by John Money at Johns Hopkins, that claimed to prove the opposite in humans, was finally exposed as 20 years of falsified data and fraud. The actual test subjects proved the exact opposite - that nuture had NO effect on gender identity in humans.
Try to keep up with the times. You're obviously looking at outdated material. The nature/nuture theory of gender identity is settled - its nature, and only nature.
So I guess you didn't catch the news that even the Olympics no longer uses tests for whether a person is XX or XY as the determinant for sex... they had one case where a woman was found to have XY chromosomes, and STILL ended up having a child.
I think the lack of strong male role models, both as parents and in culture causes some people to face gender identity problems or to desire to crossdress.
Two points:
gender identity has nothing to do with "how you were brought up" - its governed by one small area of the hypothalamus, which is either masculinized during the first trimester or not, depending on the functioning of the gonads. You can start by reading here for more info.
Crossdressing is a totally unrelated activity, and most male cross-dressers are aggressively attached to their penises. Whether there is a biological underpinning is unknown.
If the patent is truly inventive - not one of the "it should never have been granted to the patent troll in the first place" patents, its not a removal of technology from the public domain, since it did involve unique creation that never existed before and wasn't obvious.
But literature or music or art - give me a million monkeys and enough time and I'll recreate ALL literature. As for art, a lot of it could be improved by an attack of killer monkeys - on the fawning art critics who glorify drek.
The same million-monkeys will eventually result in the downfall of software patents, once the software can generate and test its own code.
I see a different problem - why didn't they seriously consider REDUCING the term of copyright to, say, 20 years. If its good enough for patents, it should be good enough for literature.
Strange, because I upgraded (SuSE 10.0, Firefox 1.5.whatever_the_latest_was just by unarchiving to my/home/my_user_name/bin directory and it works fine. It is definitely faster, and hasn't crash.....
Seriously, it hasn't crashed yet, so I'm sticking with it, to the point of upgrading the office boxes Monday.
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The cappeal court's verdict:
The court: "We will hang you within 7 days, but the day on which we come to hang you, it will be a surprise."
Saddam thinks: "Well, since it has to be a surprise, it won't be on the 7th day, because that's the last day, so it wouldn't be a surprise.
That means that the last day the can hang me is the 6th day ... but since they can't hang me on the 7th day, if I make it to day 6, it won't be a surprise, so day 6 is out too ...
but ... if they come for me on day 5, it won't be a surprise, because they can't hang me on days 6 or 7 ...
(repeat)
Saddam: "You cannot hang me!"
Court: "Take him outside and hang him. Surprised?"
The article summary gets a few things wrong, one being that "should he appeal." The appeal is automatic. Also, he's not the only one sentenced to death.
Its a rocket ship, and a piss-poor one.
40 years after the Saturn 5, they're looking at a projected payload capacity for the Aries 5 to LEO of only 10% more. Why not just upgrade the un-mothball and upgrade the Saturn series? No more SRBs with joint segments to fail and engines that, once lit, can't be shut down.
His box came with win9x+fat32 installed, and a "promised upgrade" to xp home+ntfx, which we all know just doesn't work.
I remember people replacing their motherboards, their cpus, their video cards, their power supplies, thinking it must have been some sort of hardware problem when they couldn't get both a fat32 and an ntfs partition to co-exist without BSODs every 5 minutes.
No, they're getting a Mac, and someone "inherits" their latest-and-greatest pc, which after only 1 year of use, is so slow that they don't even want to hear about re-installing, malware, antiviruses, etc. And no, they don't want to hear about linx, because they were stupid enough to ignore my initial advice - again!!! and they paid extra for name-brand, instead of buying generic stuff that "just works."
Remove beagle (the stupid excuse for a search utility that frequently pegs the cpu at 100%) and anything else that uses mono (hint - any files ending in .exe), and your box will probably just hum along fine except for the once-a-day running of slocate.
The "security reason" is Microsoft's financial security. Firefox is showing people that IE is one more piece of the Microsoft software stack they can do without.
Once they discover openoffice, most of them won't need Windows except as a gaming box - and the Wii looks more interesting to a lot of people.
That's probably what will happen. I wouldn't be surprised to see 100,000 americans lining up at the border a month after a draft is instituted. And unlike the previous draft, it'll be a much more even mix of both sexes.
We'll take them. We always do.
You forgot that for many slashdotters, its irrelevant - they still need permission to leave their parents' basement or install any browser but internet exploder.
Ironically, you'll probably have a lot of buyers, since the only way to leave without a passport will be by walking.
They will, by way of a 2-year military service in Iraq, because you're obviously a draft-dodger :-)
Feel that chill
Its the draft.
Don't believe it?
Don't be daft.
Leave this country?
You're our bitch.
You just got a
2-year hitch.
Better learn the words to Alice's Restaurant or start wearing a dress.
Shakespeare could be done with a simple perl script. Bad literature is easy to do.
Actually, the psychological theories of gender identity disorders of the last 60 years have pretty much fallen by the wayside when it comes to practical applications, because they produced no better results than placebos.
We now know that gender identity is 100% governed by nature, not nuture. The seminal research by John Money at Johns Hopkins, that claimed to prove the opposite in humans, was finally exposed as 20 years of falsified data and fraud. The actual test subjects proved the exact opposite - that nuture had NO effect on gender identity in humans.
Try to keep up with the times. You're obviously looking at outdated material. The nature/nuture theory of gender identity is settled - its nature, and only nature.
Rumour has it that Michael Jackson was going to star in Face/Off 2 - but he sneezed and nobody can find his nose.
You left off #7 - "Hall sex" - where you pass each other in the hallway and go "F*ck you". "Yeah? Well f*ck you too!"
So I guess you didn't catch the news that even the Olympics no longer uses tests for whether a person is XX or XY as the determinant for sex ... they had one case where a woman was found to have XY chromosomes, and STILL ended up having a child.
Sex != Gender. Get over it.
Two points:
If the patent is truly inventive - not one of the "it should never have been granted to the patent troll in the first place" patents, its not a removal of technology from the public domain, since it did involve unique creation that never existed before and wasn't obvious.
But literature or music or art - give me a million monkeys and enough time and I'll recreate ALL literature. As for art, a lot of it could be improved by an attack of killer monkeys - on the fawning art critics who glorify drek.
The same million-monkeys will eventually result in the downfall of software patents, once the software can generate and test its own code.
I see a different problem - why didn't they seriously consider REDUCING the term of copyright to, say, 20 years. If its good enough for patents, it should be good enough for literature.
Strange, because I upgraded (SuSE 10.0, Firefox 1.5.whatever_the_latest_was just by unarchiving to my /home/my_user_name/bin directory and it works fine. It is definitely faster, and hasn't crash.....
Seriously, it hasn't crashed yet, so I'm sticking with it, to the point of upgrading the office boxes Monday.
Probably because the editors forgot to do the Hallowe'en Poll - AGAIN! This is the third year in a row they've done that.
BTW - You can still vote in the old Hallowe'en polls - they're not closed - so why not post them in your journal and let people vote?
Sorry, but the one-worder has already been done. It's "42." :-)
Someone set us up the bomb.
Netcraft comfirms it - BSD is dead.
Nathalie Portman naked with hot grits
Imagaine a Beowolf cluster of ______
In soviet russia ____ _____ you!
Two here.