Ok, tell the truth now: From just reading the headline, how many of you had interesting/disturbing/funny/twisted mental images of how one would test HIV with a smart phone?
For a long time I've had the ability to turn off ads for/. I left them on because I didn't mind helping them pay their bills. I could just ignore it if I wanted, or I'd occasionally click on some interesting bit of geekery.
Today an ad started auto-playing a vid, with audio. I've turned off the ads now.
I should probably go back to usenet. Threaded readers that work.
From ABC: "The Republican-controlled Senate acknowledged Wednesday that climate change is real but refused to say humans are to blame."
Votes are in. Most agree to the fact of climate change. Whether it is significantly man-made or not is contentious.
Bill A: "It passed 98-1 and read simply that "Climate change is real and not a hoax."" Bill B: "that said human beings contributed to the problem fell one vote short of the 60 needed for it to be adopted". I believe this one had the poison pill attached to it. Bill C: "The Senate was divided, 50-49, on another measure from Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, that claimed human activities "significantly" altered the climate."
We had one once. I haven't been to it in years, so I dropped by fuckedcompany.com and got this...
Fuckedcompany is... fucked. R.I.P. 2000-2007. If you're just now seeing this website for the first time, ask someone who was in the internet business during "round 1" to tell you all about it.
I had a consultant that would frequently forget his password. I finally set it to "I forgot" and gave it to him. Three weeks later, sure enough, he drops by because he can't get in. I ask him "What's your password?" and he says "I forgot". So I just looked at him. Finally he got it. No issues since then.
Stupid Americans. They didn't realize that they too could have gotten rid of most of their "social problems" by throwing them into the meat-blender. And don't get me started on that whole democracy thing they have to waste so much time on...
What happened when the US decided to not sell oil to Japan?
They invaded countries that had oil. Can China invade a country that has dollars and basically say "gimme your dough?" Would not that act of invasion itself destroy the target's economy (and dollars)?
And what happens to the Chinese economy when US orders suddenly dry up.
China is in a position to do the US significant harm, but in the process utterly devastating its own economy.
And if in the position of securing a political goal the dictators decide that the gain outweighs the damage to their economy, they will--in glowing, happy, joyful terms--tell their population to go ahead and suck it up.
Counting on self-interest to stop bad actors is no guarantee.
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Excellent post, sir and/or ma'am. You've reeled in three and counting...
Ok, tell the truth now: From just reading the headline, how many of you had interesting/disturbing/funny/twisted mental images of how one would test HIV with a smart phone?
For a long time I've had the ability to turn off ads for /. I left them on because I didn't mind helping them pay their bills. I could just ignore it if I wanted, or I'd occasionally click on some interesting bit of geekery.
Today an ad started auto-playing a vid, with audio. I've turned off the ads now.
I should probably go back to usenet. Threaded readers that work.
Interesting thought. It reminds me of quantum mechanics and probabilities. Perhaps teh Big Bang was just another iteration of rnd(God).
The ads this year suck big time. Half the time I can't tell what they're trying to sell, if anything.
We had a drinking game. Whoever figured out the commercial first won. Everyone else had to take a drink. Great fun was had by all.
Sounds like a legal, high-tech Ponzi scheme.
Passed 98-1. I wonder which clown *doesn't* believe that climate changes?
From ABC: "The Republican-controlled Senate acknowledged Wednesday that climate change is real but refused to say humans are to blame."
Votes are in. Most agree to the fact of climate change. Whether it is significantly man-made or not is contentious.
Bill A: "It passed 98-1 and read simply that "Climate change is real and not a hoax.""
Bill B: "that said human beings contributed to the problem fell one vote short of the 60 needed for it to be adopted". I believe this one had the poison pill attached to it.
Bill C: "The Senate was divided, 50-49, on another measure from Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, that claimed human activities "significantly" altered the climate."
I got it.
We had one once. I haven't been to it in years, so I dropped by fuckedcompany.com and got this...
Fuckedcompany is... fucked.
R.I.P. 2000-2007. If you're just now seeing this website for the first time,
ask someone who was in the internet business during "round 1" to tell you all about it.
Good one. Or should I say Gud1?
I had a consultant that would frequently forget his password. I finally set it to "I forgot" and gave it to him. Three weeks later, sure enough, he drops by because he can't get in. I ask him "What's your password?" and he says "I forgot". So I just looked at him. Finally he got it. No issues since then.
Stupid Americans. They didn't realize that they too could have gotten rid of most of their "social problems" by throwing them into the meat-blender. And don't get me started on that whole democracy thing they have to waste so much time on...
...and for all the GN's out there, a protuberance is a special case of a perturbation.
Perhaps because the House controls the purse strings?
Careful. Remember what Mark Twain had to say about arguing with a fool.
Shoot 'em all to Mars, let John Carter sort them out.
And we are in uncharted waters because someone decided to cut taxes while still waging a couple of wars "off the books".
We need a government program to fix that.
Group affiliation has always been more important than...just about everything. Groups. Tribes. Territory. It's what mammals do.
In Soviet Russia, government pilfers you. Seems like a trend.
No, no, I'm sure we're due to slip off in the ocean any time now.
Good joke. As a nerd, of course, you already know that "gop" means "Guardians of Peace" in this context.
I've seen it used in archeology and linguistics.
Ur welcome.
What happened when the US decided to not sell oil to Japan?
They invaded countries that had oil. Can China invade a country that has dollars and basically say "gimme your dough?" Would not that act of invasion itself destroy the target's economy (and dollars)?
And what happens to the Chinese economy when US orders suddenly dry up.
China is in a position to do the US significant harm, but in the process utterly devastating its own economy.
And if in the position of securing a political goal the dictators decide that the gain outweighs the damage to their economy, they will--in glowing, happy, joyful terms--tell their population to go ahead and suck it up.
Counting on self-interest to stop bad actors is no guarantee.
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