> There are a few boogiemen that never seem to fail those that would > take our freedoms. Terrorists, Kiddie Porn, Welfare Moms, Liberals > and Bill Clinton are some of the most reliable. A few decades ago > it was "Satan Worshippers" "Communists" and "Castro" that were the standbys.
There are a few boogiemen that never seem to fail those that would take our freedoms. Environmentalism, evil corporations, the unconscionable drug companies, and Bushcheneyhaliburton are some of the most reliable. A few decades ago it was "anti-unionism" "anti-Communists" and "Japanese imports" that were the standbys.
I sit back and await my flamebait with passive resignation.
> The teenager has been charged with the possession and distribution of > child pornography as well as the sexual abuse of children.
Spoken in a heavy burgermeister accent from, say, that Rankin/Bass Kris Kringle thingie they show every Christmas: You are being held accountable for things you have been deemed too young to be accountable for!
After all, these are the same guys who brought you "marijuana residue on the walls is technically marijuana, so you are technically in posession of it since you own the walls".
These are also the same guys who say "Our spying is only for terrorism", then, the moment the law is passed start using it for other things, saying, "What? What? The law doesn't specify what crimes, so it can be used for any!"
> In other words, I might log in to see The Big List and see that my ex-coal-miner grandad voted for
By allowing people to see other people's votes, you've already queered the election in ways the powerful can manipulate. Hence this election design is already completely bogus.
You think you are clever when you don't really realize what you're dealing with here. [b]These people have every precinct analyzed[/b] with polls and what-not, and know with good statistics how every location will vote. Then they'd either bus in special voters during the election, or make sure they had workers placed there, or after, they'd just alter the ballots in the box which they switched "en route" to the counting station thanks to confederate workers.
Your system, poorly designed for obvious reasons, simply replaces some things with others.
> Your average college kid is thinking of two things on a > Thursday night: how to get drunk and how to get laid. That > hasn't changed in forty years.
Exactly. Google maps takes months if not years to re-scan the surface at a high resolution. Even if it were high enough to make out license plates, which nothing but the CIA (if even that) has, it would still not be live since the live feed would have to zoom in on a particular area, and there aren't hundreds of thousands of satellites you can commandeer at your whim, sorry.
And I guarantee you, kids will find places they can secretly copulate, don't worry. Like, oh, I don't know, any room that WWoW-playing mom wasn't in at the moment? Nobody's gonna have cameras in every room of their house, recording, recording.
And even so, just drive a car under some trees, or behind the north side of a 10' wall. "Come here and I'll poke two leads through your skin and fry your tracker for you..."
Nah, this story is completely off-base.
Much more prescient was another short story I read where crooks, low level street thugs, were lamenting the Big Brother-like omnipresence of cameras -- as worn by little old ladies wandering around, fearlessly, because the cameras they wore were live-fed back to whatever they called cyberspace in that story. They had swapped positions in the street life -- they were the "thugs", and the poor little crooks couldn't get a fair shake.
> Mom's way too busy building herself up to 146th-level SuperMasonic Tolkien-Fantasy Ultra-Elf Queen.
With Hootie slider to max, I hope.
In any case, this is obviously a case of the mother not properly educating the son on the delights of leaving meatspace behind. As we look back on the year 2026 and examing the blogs thereof, we see that some people were just scared of the future. Now that our meatspace bodies are kept alive and healthy by automated systems, we can live the lives we've always wanted, safe and healthy. It is sad to look back on those times and see that the people were so backwards, and didn't even realize how backwards they were.
> Why would I need someone to confirm that I have a feeling? > If I feel something, I know that I feel something, thank you very much! > -- > In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce.
> That's not quite true, there could be a non-linear effect. "99.95% right" is a > very stupid way to represent this result, but it is slashdot... for mainstream nerds.:P
Or, as we computer "scientists" might say, there could be a "horizon effect" (nothing to do with black holes) wherein severe differences don't show up until you measure closely enough. This includes your non-linear effects, and others as well, like the precession of Mercury's orbit, which is as far from a non-linear "tail end" effect as you can get.
RIANARSIHABBBBBBB--IS -- Remember, I am not a real scientist. I have a Bbbbbbbbachelor's degree -- in computer science!".
> If the ruler were falling into a black hole while you watched from a safe > distance, it would look VERY long. So the answer to your question is, possibly yes
Yes, but anything that was next to it would be stretched identically, and hence the gradients would still read true, even if it looked odd to the distant observer.
Except for Superman, The Hulk, The Juggernaut, and The Silver Surfer, who can hold black holes in their hand.
It occurs to me the comic book writers might not have fully considered the ramifications of Einstein's theories when writing those stories.
Uhhh, I thought it was a reference to the concept that you're moving through the 4-dimensional space/time continuum at the speed of light, always at the speed of light, and hence when you move pitifully slowly in the spacial dimensions, you must therefore slow down somewhat in the time dimension.
And I can personally confirm that heavy balls stretch pieces of fabric.
> The one that really got me going was the Amy Smart kidnapping though.
I used to use that as a.sig quote:
"Has being [a 14 year old girl, kidnapped and raped repeatedly for months by an obese, sweaty, unbathed middle aged man] affected you?" -- Katie Couric to Elizabeth Smart
Oh, wait, is that the same girl?
As for OJ, if he didn't do it, then the police must have planted the evidence. But why would the police start planting evidence on him long before they had any DNA evidence from the bloody crime scene? Wouldn't they have been taking a huge chance at looking stupid if the "real killer" wasn't OJ?
Vs. the accuracy of our clocks + the mechanism they use to time the orbits? Most certainly. Plus 7mm/day is 14mm/2 days, 28mm/4 days, etc. Let it lag for a few months or years or decades first.
> Perhaps you should know that it's "gigawatts", and the pronunciation in the movie is the correct one.:)
Speaking of which, why does everybody quote 1.21 gigawatts? I distinctly remember, having seen the movie several times, that it's 19.21 gigawatts.
Or did that get retconned the same way Vger ('s cloud) got wimpified from 82 AU to 2 AU in diameter? I wish as many people got as outraged over this as they did over "Han shot first!" (with which I also agree.)
This one time, playing D&D, my buddy's elf ranger, "Beowulf" (how original!) was about to be killed by some idiotic cat people (Oh, right, like they're not gonna get sliced by a sword!) when, just at that moment, came on the old-school Trek theme song. "Da da daaaaaaaaa da da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa...Captain's log, stardate mumbledee mumble"
What a pristine moment! He had a Kirk moment and rolled the D20, but didn't crit, but rolled a 2 and died.
Yes, hidden behind every if/then/else and switch statement are actually instructions from the JMP family, true. However, that's because that's how the hardware operates. if/then/else, switch, etc. are all wonderful, advanced mnemonics for JMP -- indeed, they supersede simple mnemonics because they encode more logic into it, and wrap it all up into a bundle that handles multiple JMPs in one graceful, easy-to-understand syntax. An if/then/else might use 4 JMPs, a switch, as many as you have cases AND breaks. But because of the syntax, you don't have to track all these de facto GOTOs and make sure they all work together.
The problem with GOTOs isn't their behind-the-scenes necessity; it's their ability to leap around the logical structures and syntax built into a language, thus defeating the purpose. If I can GOTO something halfway through a case statement, bypassing the switch and any logic in-between, then my logical design is arguably flawed since it doesn't account for the case (so to speak) that the GOTO is used for.
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> There are a few boogiemen that never seem to fail those that would
> take our freedoms. Terrorists, Kiddie Porn, Welfare Moms, Liberals
> and Bill Clinton are some of the most reliable. A few decades ago
> it was "Satan Worshippers" "Communists" and "Castro" that were the standbys.
There are a few boogiemen that never seem to fail those that would take our freedoms. Environmentalism, evil corporations, the unconscionable drug companies, and Bushcheneyhaliburton are some of the most reliable. A few decades ago it was "anti-unionism" "anti-Communists" and "Japanese imports" that were the standbys.
I sit back and await my flamebait with passive resignation.
> The teenager has been charged with the possession and distribution of
> child pornography as well as the sexual abuse of children.
Spoken in a heavy burgermeister accent from, say, that Rankin/Bass Kris Kringle thingie they show every Christmas: You are being held accountable for things you have been deemed too young to be accountable for!
After all, these are the same guys who brought you "marijuana residue on the walls is technically marijuana, so you are technically in posession of it since you own the walls".
These are also the same guys who say "Our spying is only for terrorism", then, the moment the law is passed start using it for other things, saying, "What? What? The law doesn't specify what crimes, so it can be used for any!"
> (A) took reasonable steps to destroy each such visual depiction; or
"Hey, it was on the hard drive. True, it was in deleted space, but it was still there, so technically he was 'in posession'!"
It would be funny if that wasn't how law enforcement actually operated.
In summary: My generation: awesome-o! Previous generation: fuddy-duddies. Next generation: Uneducated, lazy, disrespectful punks.
The wisdom of the ages...
> In other words, I might log in to see The Big List and see that my ex-coal-miner grandad voted for
By allowing people to see other people's votes, you've already queered the election in ways the powerful can manipulate. Hence this election design is already completely bogus.
You think you are clever when you don't really realize what you're dealing with here. [b]These people have every precinct analyzed[/b] with polls and what-not, and know with good statistics how every location will vote. Then they'd either bus in special voters during the election, or make sure they had workers placed there, or after, they'd just alter the ballots in the box which they switched "en route" to the counting station thanks to confederate workers.
Your system, poorly designed for obvious reasons, simply replaces some things with others.
> Your average college kid is thinking of two things on a
> Thursday night: how to get drunk and how to get laid. That
> hasn't changed in forty years.
You misspelled "four thousand".
Exactly. Google maps takes months if not years to re-scan the surface at a high resolution. Even if it were high enough to make out license plates, which nothing but the CIA (if even that) has, it would still not be live since the live feed would have to zoom in on a particular area, and there aren't hundreds of thousands of satellites you can commandeer at your whim, sorry.
And I guarantee you, kids will find places they can secretly copulate, don't worry. Like, oh, I don't know, any room that WWoW-playing mom wasn't in at the moment? Nobody's gonna have cameras in every room of their house, recording, recording.
And even so, just drive a car under some trees, or behind the north side of a 10' wall. "Come here and I'll poke two leads through your skin and fry your tracker for you..."
Nah, this story is completely off-base.
Much more prescient was another short story I read where crooks, low level street thugs, were lamenting the Big Brother-like omnipresence of cameras -- as worn by little old ladies wandering around, fearlessly, because the cameras they wore were live-fed back to whatever they called cyberspace in that story. They had swapped positions in the street life -- they were the "thugs", and the poor little crooks couldn't get a fair shake.
> Mom's way too busy building herself up to 146th-level SuperMasonic Tolkien-Fantasy Ultra-Elf Queen.
With Hootie slider to max, I hope.
In any case, this is obviously a case of the mother not properly educating the son on the delights of leaving meatspace behind. As we look back on the year 2026 and examing the blogs thereof, we see that some people were just scared of the future. Now that our meatspace bodies are kept alive and healthy by automated systems, we can live the lives we've always wanted, safe and healthy. It is sad to look back on those times and see that the people were so backwards, and didn't even realize how backwards they were.
> I wonder how many people got the Morrissey reference at the end.
Evidently not this guy:
> Paraphrasing Morrissey, Mr Sterling? Suedehead [man.ac.uk]
> One was just a fat person fetishist who wanted nothing more than to anally fuck her
Are there no chubby chasers who are capable of true love anymore? What's this world coming to?!?!?
> Why would I need someone to confirm that I have a feeling?
> If I feel something, I know that I feel something, thank you very much!
> --
> In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce.
In Soviet Russia, government feels YOU!
In related news, tin can phones remain popular against all logic.
> How long is your ten foot pole?
Umm, it depends if it's "packed for storage" or not. What what? Oh, what now!
> That's not quite true, there could be a non-linear effect. "99.95% right" is a :P
> very stupid way to represent this result, but it is slashdot... for mainstream nerds.
Or, as we computer "scientists" might say, there could be a "horizon effect" (nothing to do with black holes) wherein severe differences don't show up until you measure closely enough. This includes your non-linear effects, and others as well, like the precession of Mercury's orbit, which is as far from a non-linear "tail end" effect as you can get.
RIANARSIHABBBBBBB--IS -- Remember, I am not a real scientist. I have a Bbbbbbbbachelor's degree -- in computer science!".
> If the ruler were falling into a black hole while you watched from a safe
> distance, it would look VERY long. So the answer to your question is, possibly yes
Yes, but anything that was next to it would be stretched identically, and hence the gradients would still read true, even if it looked odd to the distant observer.
Except for Superman, The Hulk, The Juggernaut, and The Silver Surfer, who can hold black holes in their hand.
It occurs to me the comic book writers might not have fully considered the ramifications of Einstein's theories when writing those stories.
> but somewhat primitive and rudimentary in our understanding of the universe.
Any one of those guys could sit down with everything you've ever done in your life and learn it in, to quote Napoleon Dynamite, "like 5 seconds."
Newton would probably be up to speed on the latest QM in a few months.
Uhhh, I thought it was a reference to the concept that you're moving through the 4-dimensional space/time continuum at the speed of light, always at the speed of light, and hence when you move pitifully slowly in the spacial dimensions, you must therefore slow down somewhat in the time dimension.
And I can personally confirm that heavy balls stretch pieces of fabric.
> The one that really got me going was the Amy Smart kidnapping though.
.sig quote:
I used to use that as a
"Has being [a 14 year old girl, kidnapped and raped repeatedly for months by an obese, sweaty, unbathed middle aged man] affected you?" -- Katie Couric to Elizabeth Smart
Oh, wait, is that the same girl?
As for OJ, if he didn't do it, then the police must have planted the evidence. But why would the police start planting evidence on him long before they had any DNA evidence from the bloody crime scene? Wouldn't they have been taking a huge chance at looking stupid if the "real killer" wasn't OJ?
Vs. the accuracy of our clocks + the mechanism they use to time the orbits? Most certainly. Plus 7mm/day is 14mm/2 days, 28mm/4 days, etc. Let it lag for a few months or years or decades first.
General and Special Relativity. When you absolutely, positively, have to limit the speed of every last mother-f'er in the room, accept no substitutes!
> Perhaps you should know that it's "gigawatts", and the pronunciation in the movie is the correct one. :)
Speaking of which, why does everybody quote 1.21 gigawatts? I distinctly remember, having seen the movie several times, that it's 19.21 gigawatts.
Or did that get retconned the same way Vger ('s cloud) got wimpified from 82 AU to 2 AU in diameter? I wish as many people got as outraged over this as they did over "Han shot first!" (with which I also agree.)
This one time, playing D&D, my buddy's elf ranger, "Beowulf" (how original!) was about to be killed by some idiotic cat people (Oh, right, like they're not gonna get sliced by a sword!) when, just at that moment, came on the old-school Trek theme song. "Da da daaaaaaaaa da da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa...Captain's log, stardate mumbledee mumble"
What a pristine moment! He had a Kirk moment and rolled the D20, but didn't crit, but rolled a 2 and died.
Ok, so Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have been beating the crap out of each other for 80 years, with no end in sight. We get it, we get it!
Yes, hidden behind every if/then/else and switch statement are actually instructions from the JMP family, true. However, that's because that's how the hardware operates. if/then/else, switch, etc. are all wonderful, advanced mnemonics for JMP -- indeed, they supersede simple mnemonics because they encode more logic into it, and wrap it all up into a bundle that handles multiple JMPs in one graceful, easy-to-understand syntax. An if/then/else might use 4 JMPs, a switch, as many as you have cases AND breaks. But because of the syntax, you don't have to track all these de facto GOTOs and make sure they all work together.
The problem with GOTOs isn't their behind-the-scenes necessity; it's their ability to leap around the logical structures and syntax built into a language, thus defeating the purpose. If I can GOTO something halfway through a case statement, bypassing the switch and any logic in-between, then my logical design is arguably flawed since it doesn't account for the case (so to speak) that the GOTO is used for.
> I can't find a worthy successor to HyperCard
Lord, you give them eyes, but they cannot see.
It's called "The Internet". Graphical, clickable pages, i.e. cards, with hyperlinks taking you to other "cards"? Hello, Bishop?