Will this study finally show developers of shopping websites the importance of the performance of their websites?
Major Backbone Providers (rubbing their hands together like Scrooge): The two-tiered Internet just found it's core application. Hee hee hee hee hee hee...
> The sunshade could be developed and deployed in 25 years, > would last about 50 years, and would reduce the amount of > sunlight reaching Earth by 2% -- enough to balance heating > due to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere."
I don't want any fuckheads messing with the amount of energy reaching earth. If the wildest of global warming comes true, people have to move inland over the course of a few hundred years.
If these guys goof and initiate another ice age (we are in an ice age cycle the past few hundred thousand years) then billions of people die. And given they think ice ages might be able to start in just a few years, this is definitely the road to hell.
I thought they were already up to like FFXII or something, although I can see why they'd want to restart the Final Fantasy numbering before it grew too large, and include decimals this time to give them more breathing room.
...except that in a Libertarian society, you wouldn't have a government-owned, government-run airport, with it's coercive monopoly on air travel. At best, you might have overflight rules of privately owned land with respect to safety issues to protect those on the ground who didn't ask to be flown over.
Aesthetic standards: "The rule does not prohibit legitimate safety restrictions or restrictions designed to preserve designated or eligible historic or prehistoric properties, provided the restriction is no more burdensome than necessary to accomplish the safety or preservation purpose."
Neither preservation nor safety are an aesthetic standard, though in the long run they may be just as arbitrary.
Perhaps not. If the FTC says this frequency is accessible by all, it might very well be, in that other people cannot add legal restrictions on access to it as a condition for something.
Now if we can just get the federal government to overrule Detroit Metro airport, whose built-in, government-owned-and-run parking lot is, in spite of being right on site, so grotesquely overpriced and incompetent, that many private parking lots for miles around, which had to shuttle you in via bus, were so overwhelmingly popular the government one was losing business.
So they slapped a 30% tax on them.
But wait! So grotesquely expensive and incompetent were they, people were going to stay in local hotels and motels, which would then let them park their cars for a week while they went on a plane trip.
Ohh, gotta make that illegal, too!
Isn't the Left, to say nothing of the Right, supposed to hate monopolies? Expecially coercive ones that use not efficiencies of business activities, but rather the power of government to force the competition out of business, literally, not figuratively, under threats of violence?
> In a controversial study, researchers have resurrected a retrovirus that > infected our ancestors millions of years ago and now sits frozen in the human genome.
I wonder why God put a virus' corpse in our genes. That's some intelligent design, I guess.
I feel even dirtier than I did when either I learned I was a multicellular colony, or when I learned mitochondria were captured bacteria with their own DNA living symbiotically.
It's like we all have an icky parasitic twin inside us. Come on, Yahweh. This is intelligent design?
Mercifully my karma grows faster than negative moderation can attack it. Faster than the negative moderation this post will get for being "offtopic."
Once I got slammed to -50 by an editor (for what I never found out, and nothing I had done seemed severe enough to be suspect to me) and I took it as a challenge to grow out of.
I'll decline to check "No Karma Bonus" just to be irritating.
By the way, it's odd that a post about censorship in Slashdot, in a thread about censorship in general, was just modded "Offtopic". Overrated, perhaps, but not offtopic.
Slashdot Mirror
Democrats take control of the House!
See? I told you people cared about the evils of eating horses!
"The Democrats didn't start this war, but we were meant to think that they did."
Nancy-wan Pelobi: "The welfare state surrounds us...guides us...is part of all life."
Empress Pelopatine: Now you will see the true power of this fully armed and operational battle station!
Darth Pelosius: No, George. I am your daddy.
Major Backbone Providers (rubbing their hands together like Scrooge): The two-tiered Internet just found it's core application. Hee hee hee hee hee hee...
Exactly! Imagine the fun spreading it around.
"But doctor!"
"It's ok, ma'am. This is a medical procedure."
"Oh, ok."
> The sunshade could be developed and deployed in 25 years,
> would last about 50 years, and would reduce the amount of
> sunlight reaching Earth by 2% -- enough to balance heating
> due to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere."
I don't want any fuckheads messing with the amount of energy reaching earth. If the wildest of global warming comes true, people have to move inland over the course of a few hundred years.
If these guys goof and initiate another ice age (we are in an ice age cycle the past few hundred thousand years) then billions of people die. And given they think ice ages might be able to start in just a few years, this is definitely the road to hell.
> FF2 is already outnumbering FF 1.5
I thought they were already up to like FFXII or something, although I can see why they'd want to restart the Final Fantasy numbering before it grew too large, and include decimals this time to give them more breathing room.
...except that in a Libertarian society, you wouldn't have a government-owned, government-run airport, with it's coercive monopoly on air travel. At best, you might have overflight rules of privately owned land with respect to safety issues to protect those on the ground who didn't ask to be flown over.
Neither preservation nor safety are an aesthetic standard, though in the long run they may be just as arbitrary.
Perhaps not. If the FTC says this frequency is accessible by all, it might very well be, in that other people cannot add legal restrictions on access to it as a condition for something.
> RTFB?
Rub the F'in' Boner?
Although I suppose that, technically, it wouldn't be f'in'.
Nah, it's all due to the phenomenal Fans of Charisma Carpenter. Even chubby she's a smokin' POA.
Now if we can just get the federal government to overrule Detroit Metro airport, whose built-in, government-owned-and-run parking lot is, in spite of being right on site, so grotesquely overpriced and incompetent, that many private parking lots for miles around, which had to shuttle you in via bus, were so overwhelmingly popular the government one was losing business.
So they slapped a 30% tax on them.
But wait! So grotesquely expensive and incompetent were they, people were going to stay in local hotels and motels, which would then let them park their cars for a week while they went on a plane trip.
Ohh, gotta make that illegal, too!
Isn't the Left, to say nothing of the Right, supposed to hate monopolies? Expecially coercive ones that use not efficiencies of business activities, but rather the power of government to force the competition out of business, literally, not figuratively, under threats of violence?
Warning. On that site, do NOT click "Full Size" for a picture of the woman in red.
> Krita
Man, I hated Krita!
She told me she would help me regain my strength, but it turns out she was the bitch Darth Trayus -- the Betrayer.
And you "get Jedi powers from the beginning" -- how misleading! It actually takes longer to get your lightsaber in the second game.
I mean Christ, at least give me an extra boob or something to play with!
> In a controversial study, researchers have resurrected a retrovirus that
> infected our ancestors millions of years ago and now sits frozen in the human genome.
I wonder why God put a virus' corpse in our genes. That's some intelligent design, I guess.
I feel even dirtier than I did when either I learned I was a multicellular colony, or when I learned mitochondria were captured bacteria with their own DNA living symbiotically.
It's like we all have an icky parasitic twin inside us. Come on, Yahweh. This is intelligent design?
I think they've invented neutral gods for just this purpose.
Stupid, but there are many stupider developments in D&D in the last 20 years.
Urk, my nerdism is coming through.
Perhaps he's confused it with Glabrezu, a type of demon in D&D.
In which case running away was a fine choice.
> wakefield interactions
When I was 25, I had a wonderful Wakefield, MA, interaction with a 32 year old blonde, big-lipped divorcee. She was even named "Debbie".
[b]Manager:[/b] Ok, Joseph, it's midnight. Open the doors and let them in.
[b]Joseph:[/b] Sure... (click, crowd rushes in)
[b]Joseph:[/b] Ok, sir. What would you like?
[b]Customer #1:[/b] I'd like to buy a wii.
...can it play WoW?
Slashdot: Cranks and crankin' to Natalie
Taco finally got his Beowulf cluster.
Social 'tards feign offense at self-description.
The palm's skin type? Hairy, mostly.
Help! Trapped in a nerd's mind!
Nerdy had never eaten you-know-what before.
Nerd detector glasses perfected, in Japan.
I average 0.213 girlfriends per year. :(
Mercifully my karma grows faster than negative moderation can attack it. Faster than the negative moderation this post will get for being "offtopic."
Once I got slammed to -50 by an editor (for what I never found out, and nothing I had done seemed severe enough to be suspect to me) and I took it as a challenge to grow out of.
I'll decline to check "No Karma Bonus" just to be irritating.
By the way, it's odd that a post about censorship in Slashdot, in a thread about censorship in general, was just modded "Offtopic". Overrated, perhaps, but not offtopic.