Personally this is the kind of thing that I am beginning to suspect of Chairman Rudd, leader of the Labour party of the Peoples Republic of Australia (don't laugh, I swear it is happening...)
Not a week goes by when we don't see a story about censorship, bans, etc in Australia. There have even been a number of reporters whose houses and places of work have been raided by the federal police to find the sources of embarrassing leaks. Not information that is vital to the security of the country, no. Merely information which when it was released into the public via our newspapers, was embarrassing to the government.
But this will all be "for the best," because our government is here to treat us like lost little children and protect us from the big bad world.
There's an old saying, oft quoted during the S&L scandal (Hello Senator McCaine!) that goes something like this: When you owe the bank ten thousand dollars, you have a problem. When you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, the bank has a problem.
In this case, China is the bank.
Oh yeah, so just because you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you think the bank will just keep on lending you more?!? Eventually the bank will decide to just cut its losses. I mean lets face it, is there any chance of the debt EVER being paid off?
No.
So the $100,000,000 is soon to increase to $200,000,000. Personally if I were the bank I'd just cut my losses... better to lose $100M than $200M
I think you have things a bit messed up there, AC.
Hundreds of billions of dollars to dodgy bankers - Financial news Suicide bombers returning to Baghdad - War correspondence Vice-Presidents going toe-to-toe - Political news
Whereas the RFID protected passports being essentially cracked is technology news.
One of these types of news belongs inherently on "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters" the other 3, whilst they may have a place, are not obvious inclusions
The whole idea is just silly. Everyone knows the only way you can save your island from the spiteful anger of the sky gods is through fasting and prayer.
But this is the ocean gods, they demand a virgin sacrifice!
Ok, so reading this extremely fanciful story, I have one slight question in regards to the project.
I am not going to go into the conspiracy theory junk, nor am I going to say out and out that it is all a load of crap, but here is the question:
If they had a link from 1943 to 1983, why did they need Nazi gold to fund the project? Surely having all sporting results, lotteries, etc for 40 years, PLUS all of the patents for that period of time (because lets face it, you can get in first) would give unlimited funding, and yet they went broke... nuff said really
Spending millions to billions of dollars to put in place a system that people don't want, spending hundreds of dollars per camera when they are totally vulnerable to being disabled at any time for mere pennies, is a BAD IDEA!!!
Oh wait, lets see here... Australian governments wasting money on things that either a) no one wants b) don't work, or c) are unneeded.
I can actually see it being introduced... Slowly but surely our freedoms are being reduced "for our own good" by a government that wishes to micromanage our lives, yet is unable to manage our country.
Limiting our freedom to travel is only another step in the road to total tyrannical dictatorship "for our own good."
"hi, can I get the password reset for username joeblogs?" "your name?" "Fred Flinstone" (seriously, it doesn't matter what you tell them) "Password has been reset to abcd1234"
Ok, I didn't RTFA, but from the summary it seems that N'Gai's main complaint is that video games do not attack "the weightier issues." This is the same bullcrap that the "literature" world spews out over and over again, to justify the reasons why their products (art house movies, literature, etc) do not sell.
What the literati need to do, is to wake up and look at the world. Books, CD's, Movies, Games, they are all about ENTERTAINMENT and the sooner they realize this, the sooner they may be able to sell their own boring ideas. It doesn't need to have an explosion to be entertaining, nor does it need to be gross or vulgar. These obviously do help, but it is not a necessity. I am sure that everyone in here has been subjected to literature whilst in high school, college, and university. Please, anyone who managed to finish an entire chapter without either a) falling asleep, b) stopping for a break, or c) getting the cliff notes, please make a comment to that effect.
I am sure that there won't be many replies.
I never managed to finish any of the texts that were set out during my final year of high school. The only one that I remember was "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt. This book was exceedingly dull. I think that I managed to read 2-3 chapters and then did my entire assignment based upon those chapters and what I managed to get a friend of mine to do for me (thanks Mel) and I like to read books. I have got hundreds of them at home, and they are all entertaining. It is the adventure, the struggle, the hope, the failure and the successes. No book of literature has ever been able to capture my imagination in this way.
So before N'Gai relegates us to a "Comic Ghetto" maybe he should look towards his own writings, his own contributions to the arts and entertainment, and ask himself, "why is my stuff crap?"
And don't worry about his ghetto jibe, after all the comic ghetto is much larger, and a much more exciting place to be, than the cold ivory tower of righteousness of the literati
We don't effect change within the system because the system shuts non-voters out
the system doesn't SHUT non-voters out, non-voters have decided that they do not want to be a part of the system. If you are unwilling to tell someone, who has the authority to affect change, what you want, guess what? YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FUCKING GET IT!!! It is as simple as that.
Thank you all for listening, now can we please just continue to ignore Brian Gordon, after all that is really all he wants.
Mathematician: Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Engineer: Pi is about 22/7. Physicist: Pi is 3.14159 plus or minus 0.000005 Computer Programmer: Pi is 3.141592653589 in double precision.
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Personally this is the kind of thing that I am beginning to suspect of Chairman Rudd, leader of the Labour party of the Peoples Republic of Australia (don't laugh, I swear it is happening...)
Not a week goes by when we don't see a story about censorship, bans, etc in Australia. There have even been a number of reporters whose houses and places of work have been raided by the federal police to find the sources of embarrassing leaks. Not information that is vital to the security of the country, no. Merely information which when it was released into the public via our newspapers, was embarrassing to the government.
But this will all be "for the best," because our government is here to treat us like lost little children and protect us from the big bad world.
WHO THE F*** VOTED FOR THESE D**KHEADS!!!!
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Don't blame me - I voted Liberal
There's an old saying, oft quoted during the S&L scandal (Hello Senator McCaine!) that goes something like this: When you owe the bank ten thousand dollars, you have a problem. When you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, the bank has a problem.
In this case, China is the bank.
Oh yeah, so just because you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you think the bank will just keep on lending you more?!? Eventually the bank will decide to just cut its losses. I mean lets face it, is there any chance of the debt EVER being paid off?
No.
So the $100,000,000 is soon to increase to $200,000,000. Personally if I were the bank I'd just cut my losses... better to lose $100M than $200M
I think you have things a bit messed up there, AC.
Hundreds of billions of dollars to dodgy bankers - Financial news
Suicide bombers returning to Baghdad - War correspondence
Vice-Presidents going toe-to-toe - Political news
Whereas the RFID protected passports being essentially cracked is technology news.
One of these types of news belongs inherently on "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters" the other 3, whilst they may have a place, are not obvious inclusions
Elvis has left the building
The whole idea is just silly. Everyone knows the only way you can save your island from the spiteful anger of the sky gods is through fasting and prayer.
But this is the ocean gods, they demand a virgin sacrifice!
Poor Slashdotters ;)
I sure hope no one respawns inside a wall like they did in the 40s.
http://www.think-aboutit.com/Misc/philadelphia_experiment.htm
Ok, so reading this extremely fanciful story, I have one slight question in regards to the project.
I am not going to go into the conspiracy theory junk, nor am I going to say out and out that it is all a load of crap, but here is the question:
If they had a link from 1943 to 1983, why did they need Nazi gold to fund the project? Surely having all sporting results, lotteries, etc for 40 years, PLUS all of the patents for that period of time (because lets face it, you can get in first) would give unlimited funding, and yet they went broke... nuff said really
Spending millions to billions of dollars to put in place a system that people don't want, spending hundreds of dollars per camera when they are totally vulnerable to being disabled at any time for mere pennies, is a BAD IDEA!!!
Oh wait, lets see here... Australian governments wasting money on things that either a) no one wants b) don't work, or c) are unneeded.
Hmm
http://www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/programs/water-grid/sugarloaf Building a $750M pipeline from the Goulburn river system to a dam near Melbourne to boost Melbourne's water supply, even though the Goulburn HAS very little to no water in it
http://www.myki.com.au/ The Myki transport ticketing system. Already it is way over budget and almost 2 years late http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myki
nah, cling film.
If it is stretched out tight, with no air bubbles, you can't even see that it has been tampered with but it will be unable to read anything
Now kiddies, don't go out and tamper with those cameras
I can actually see it being introduced... Slowly but surely our freedoms are being reduced "for our own good" by a government that wishes to micromanage our lives, yet is unable to manage our country.
Limiting our freedom to travel is only another step in the road to total tyrannical dictatorship "for our own good."
Except in California, where EULAs are on some very shaky legal ground.
EVERYTHING is on shaky ground in California http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs
cats write in scent. haven't you ever read a cat book? (Red Dwarf TV Series for anyone not up to speed, season 1 "Waiting for God")
yes, I know this is redundant... and so is this
Or
Guys:
No shirt, no service
Girls:
No shirt, no charge
Yeah, my company's help desk does just that.
"hi, can I get the password reset for username joeblogs?"
"your name?"
"Fred Flinstone" (seriously, it doesn't matter what you tell them)
"Password has been reset to abcd1234"
I'm watching you!!
I wish I had mod points :)
So Comcast aren't limiting their "unlimited" broadband service - they are fighting terrorism
nah, there's not more extroverts than introverts - they just get out more often
coulda been worse, he could have said "650 man-whores" :)
Ok, I didn't RTFA, but from the summary it seems that N'Gai's main complaint is that video games do not attack "the weightier issues." This is the same bullcrap that the "literature" world spews out over and over again, to justify the reasons why their products (art house movies, literature, etc) do not sell.
What the literati need to do, is to wake up and look at the world. Books, CD's, Movies, Games, they are all about ENTERTAINMENT and the sooner they realize this, the sooner they may be able to sell their own boring ideas. It doesn't need to have an explosion to be entertaining, nor does it need to be gross or vulgar. These obviously do help, but it is not a necessity. I am sure that everyone in here has been subjected to literature whilst in high school, college, and university. Please, anyone who managed to finish an entire chapter without either a) falling asleep, b) stopping for a break, or c) getting the cliff notes, please make a comment to that effect.
I am sure that there won't be many replies.
I never managed to finish any of the texts that were set out during my final year of high school. The only one that I remember was "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt. This book was exceedingly dull. I think that I managed to read 2-3 chapters and then did my entire assignment based upon those chapters and what I managed to get a friend of mine to do for me (thanks Mel) and I like to read books. I have got hundreds of them at home, and they are all entertaining. It is the adventure, the struggle, the hope, the failure and the successes. No book of literature has ever been able to capture my imagination in this way.
So before N'Gai relegates us to a "Comic Ghetto" maybe he should look towards his own writings, his own contributions to the arts and entertainment, and ask himself, "why is my stuff crap?"
And don't worry about his ghetto jibe, after all the comic ghetto is much larger, and a much more exciting place to be, than the cold ivory tower of righteousness of the literati
We don't effect change within the system because the system shuts non-voters out
the system doesn't SHUT non-voters out, non-voters have decided that they do not want to be a part of the system. If you are unwilling to tell someone, who has the authority to affect change, what you want, guess what? YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FUCKING GET IT!!! It is as simple as that.
Thank you all for listening, now can we please just continue to ignore Brian Gordon, after all that is really all he wants.
the screen just goes black/
Dude, turn the monitor on
"Cowboy Neal"
terrorists are Cowards
Said the Anonymous Coward
Mathematician: Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Engineer: Pi is about 22/7.
Physicist: Pi is 3.14159 plus or minus 0.000005
Computer Programmer: Pi is 3.141592653589 in double precision.
I believe that Bloody Stupid Johnson managed to get pi equal to 3 (Going Postal - Terry Pratchett)