Damn skippy - I still have the internals from every system I've built, all still running and doing useful things on the home network. My firewall is a old (now caseless) Celeron 300a (no longer overclocked since it's not a desktop) system with some surplus 3COM cards in it, I have my old Pentium MMX 200mhz system (again caseless) hooked to my stereo as a networked MP3 player, my file and general purpose server is an old K62 seutp, and I'm currently finalizing the setup on an old PIII/Pro 500mhz system someone gave me for use as a "media station" I'm going to use as a dedicated machine for ripping/burning CD's and talking to my digital camera.
With forwarded X sessions I can run all these apps as though they were local to my desktop or laptop at once without using up valuable system resources better left to interactive processes. Old hardware rocks, I can't get enough of it:)
My sister is exactly the same way. She used to browse from my W2K laptop when she hung out with me (instead of using a linux box), and despite firefox being right there on the desktop and IE being deep down in the start menu, she would always launch IE and use that to browse. When I asked her why she did that it basically came down to "using IE feels better". Then I performed a little experiment to see how loyal she was to IE, and the results were most interesting. I removed IE from the start menu, and told her I had removed IE and she had to use firefox now. After that, she stopped using that computer entirely, and will only surf the web from a windows box using IE, even though the only computer available to her for that is an old pentium, which is horribly slow.
Bingo! This is exactly like my co-workers. If given the choice between using Mozilla on a new, fast computer while sitting in a Herman Miller leather executive chair or using IE on an unpatched 98 machine with 8 megs of RAM while sitting in a broken metal folding chair with a sharp edge poking them in the ass they'd use the IE machine.
It's some weird ass, irrational loyalty to a bad product that they know will cause them harm if they keep using it. It's like smoking, only without the excuse of nicotene addiction...
I've shown them themes. I showed them the ones I have installed, I showed them the themes section of mozilla.org and told them I'd help install any they liked. I even showed my boss the IE theme.
Even if I used the quick load option, disable the dragon head, made it look like IE they'd still know it wasn't IE and would complain. The point I was trying to get across is that they don't have any valid complaints and that they only thing that they don't like about Mozilla et al is that they are different than IE. Period. They are used to running IE and they'd rather use it, warts and all, rather than even see if a different browser will suit their needs better. It's different so they don't like it.
Now what's really strange is that these aren't exactly stupid people. All three of these ladies are brilliant at their jobs and well respected by our clients and the rest of the staff alike. My boss is one of, if not the, best supervisors I've ever had. In fact I left another job, actually left working in IT altogether, when she called with a job offer five months ago. I was so impressed with the way she ran the department I was willing to give this weird client services thing a shot to work for her because I knew she'd be a great boss. It's just that when it comes to technical things she's got blinders on, as do the rest of the non tech staff at the company.
These co-workers of mine are not unique and I think represent the majority of the entrenched IE user base. The really sad part is that I know, I really know, that if they'd take me up on my offer to spend a week learning and using Moz they'd love it and make the switch. It's just beyond my power to get them to do that. *shrug*
The warning against IE went out in our office a few weeks ago and I've been trying my damndest to get my immediate co-workers to switch to Mozilla or Firefox. The majority of the technical people at the company have been using Moz for months or years now but my department, Client Services[1], are all addicted to IE.
Once our IT dept sent out the warning and urged everyone to use Mozilla for regular browsing I installed it on two of my three co-workers PC's (the third is dating our SysAdmin so it's his job to get her to switch) and offered to help them with anything having to do with Moz. The only thing they've asked me to do is uninstall it (which I won't do.) Whenever they use it they gripe about how it looks (well mostly about how they don't like the "godzilla" head) say it loads slowly and they don't have time to learn how to use it. Yet they still whine about pop-up ads, spyware etc... Whenever they start griping I chime in with "Ya know that's not a problem in Mozilla!" Their replies are always the same "We don't like that godzilla thing, it's got an ugly head, har har."
I even made them an offer: For one week use Mozilla exclusivly and I'll always stop whatever I'm doing to help with you any question you have, be it how to install a plugin, how to use tabs, how to block ads etc... and if you still don't like it better than IE I'll remove from your system. But you have to use it and take the time to learn it before I'll take your complaints about how it 'sucks' seriously.
The response I've gotten when the topic comes is that they stop bitching about IE and go back to closing pop-ups. My boss actually said to me "I don't like learning new things"
These are the type of people that will never, ever switch. They know enough to know that Mozilla and IE are different programs and they just refuse to give an alternative to what they already know any serious consideration. I fear these represent the vast majority of IE users.
Oh and the company I work for? We provide online, webbased training and learning management services to corporations, mostly for OSHA type regs and similar subjects that are well suited to the CBT format. About 80% of the company (those with technical or content creation roles) uses Mozilla or Firefox for most of their general browsing but the non-geek staff stubbornly use IE. If we can't convince our holdouts to switch, without forcing the issue by management fiat, I don't know that they ever will. *sigh*
[1] Not to be confused with customer service, we dont' deal with end users, we work at the corporate level.
So the legislation could provide executions for anybody selling v1@gra, and it still wouldn't make any difference. No legislative solution is going to work as long as the executive branch has zero interest in enforcing it.
What about legislation that allowed sysadmins to act as judge, jury and executioner for spammers? Basically legalize vigilate justice and lynch mobs for pursuing spammers. I'd be happy to use up all of my vacation time this year to spend a couple of weeks taking my turn in the anti-spam death squad.
Because if they allowed the Olympians to share their personal stories directly with their fans online like this then NBC woudln't have any fresh material for the fluff pieces they use as filler when non-U.S. athletes are competing.
Think about it, that would deprive NBC of like, half it's Olympic broadcast content.
His style can take a little getting used to, and on a controversial subject I imagine it could be even harder to understand him. It doesn't help that the OP linked to Micheal Moore's reposting instead of the orignal on In These Times
Anyway I also wanted to let you know that I've 'friended' you because of your reply - reasonable discussions are rare enough these days in any medium that it's worthwhile to befriend anyone that demonstrates they are able to carry one out:)
You're not familar with Vonnegut are you? He was, in his own imcomparable way, being sarcastic and satirical in that essay. He didn't compare all christians to Nazis either, he did point out that Bush calls himself a christian just as Hitler did, with the implication that just because one calls himself a good christian person doesn't make it so. Nor did he compare the actions of the US Army to those of the Wehrmacht or the SS, he's comparing the way people in the world today feel about American forces to how people felt about the Nazi's during/before WWII.
And Vonnegut knows a thing or two about Nazis and of war. He's a WWII veteran and was a POW in Dresden during the firebombing raids. His novel, Slaughter House Five is an account of that experience.
Vonnegut's style is to use extreme, often absurd and bizarre examples, as well as satire, to present his theme. Granted it's more effective in novel form than in essay form, unless you're already familar with his work and know what to expect. To the uninitiated this essay, if not read carefully, could come across as the liberal equivilant of an Ann Coulture essay, but trust me there's far more substance there. I would personally suggest picking up a copy of Mother Night or The Sirens of Titan (his first book) as good starting points if you want to read any of his books. Slaughter House Five is very personal and quite painful at times, so I woudln't recomend reading that until you've tackeled a couple of his other novels.
No I don't think it's ethical, nor do I think, as some posters are claiming, that this publicity is good for the organ donor system in general. What it does is it shows millions of people that the organ donor system is broken and that if you are in need of a replacement organ the only way to get one is by bypassing the established organ network in some way, if you can afford it. That is not a good thing.
The rules that the organ networks use to determine who gets a donated organ and what priority are designed to make the best use of a very limited commodity. The idea is to match organs with people in the direst need and who have the best chances of long term survival after transplant. This approach maximizes the amount of additional "life" the donated organs contribute to society. Todd was lower on the list because the nature of his disease made him a poorer candidate for long term survival post transplant.
So now this schmuck gets a healthy liver because some greiving, gullable family read the psalms on his web page and looked at his billboard and thought he was more deserving than the anonymous stranger whom medical science placed on the top of the transplant list. I think it's sad that people would choose to give such a gift to "that nice boy from the billboards" instead of to society at large.
Mild spoiler: It features a giant flying rock head that vomits guns on barbarians. I am not making this up. Giant flying head made of stone, guns are projected from its mouth...
Don't forget the stone head's mantra: "Guns good; Penis bad"
Speaking from first hand experience here. The good IT folks setup all the machines concerned with patient care and treatment planning (radiation oncology & diagnostics in this example) on a seperate network from the general building LAN. This seperate network is secure, has no gateway defined and can't talk to the outside world except via a linux box that serves as a go between (for file transfers of various types)and is physically disconnected from the secure network when it's not needed. This works fine and dandy until one day a DOCTOR realizes that the new treatment planning laptop is faster than his office PC and demmands to be able to surf the intarweb with the better computer.
It might be different in a large corporate hospital but in smaller privately owned clinics the merest whim of a doctor trumps anything the IT manager has to say about the situation. So that's how the secure, private network get's compromised. Bunch of arrogant twits think that they're masters of the fucking universe just because they went to med school.
Where in my post did refer to playing sports? That's right, no where. Everything I said could have easily applied to watching and playing, but it flew past you
By once again applying the magic of reading I am able to produce the answer to your question (emphasis mine):
...anger towards sports and physical activity....don't enjoy competition, teamwork, physicial exertion, or the outdoors...
Physical activity/exertion implies that you actually play the sport, not just watch it. So there ya go, that's where and how you referred to playing sports, rather than sitting on your fat ass watching them. Which means that everything you said did not, in fact, apply to watching as well as playing. Unless of course your critical thinking skills have degraded to the point in which you are unable to distinguish between events you merely observe on TV and those you actually participate in.
Thank you once again for demonstrating the point the parent poster was making.
Hey asshole you might want to check out this new thing called reading. If you were to use the magic of reading on the parent post you'd notice that he said nothing negative about playing sports or engaging in any other physical activity. He was asserting that watching sports and obsessing over the antics of spoiled millionares contributes to making Americans complacent and intellectually lazy. Which is clearly true, as you've so thoughtfully demostrated.
I think most paramedics would be clued in by the external battery and the power cord coming of the patients stomache that something about this patient was special. Also it's not as though people will be getting their hearts replaced with (well assisted by) these things willy-nilly they are only for people who have pretty much no other choice if they want to continue living. Also FTFA it will often be used as a temporary measure for people undergoing other treatment or who are waiting for transplants. The friends and family members of these people, the ones who might call the paramedics, will be well aware of the situation. In fact they'd probably call the cardiologist right after the paramedics in the event of an emergency who could relay special instructions. I also doubt this is a group of people that will be out in the wee hours of the morning bar hopping and getting falling down drunk.
So no this isn't a serious issue. It is, in fact, a non issue.
I'm not much of a gamer, I've never heard of a lot of the newer games that some people here are comparing to Doom3 much less played them, and I doubt I ever will. However I'm planning on buying Doom3 simply because it is Doom3. It's a major release of a title that is important to geek culture and is enough to pull me back into gaming for a couple of months to check it out and enjoy. I've needed to upgrade my MoBo and CPU for a while now anyway so whenever I pickup Doom3 I'll just set aside the whole weekend for a good ole geek-out and do the hardware updates and dive into tweaking and playing all at once.
After a few weeks D3 will start to get boring and I'll go back to use my computer for mundane tasks that will nevertheless benefit from the new hardware. Until Half-Life 2 comes out and then I'll become a gamer again for a few weeks, for the same reasons:)
I dunno quite a few important inventors/scientests/businessmen have had biographies has interesting as what they created. A few examples I can think of off the top of my head include Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Mikial Khaliznokov(sp?; inventor of the AK-47), Werner von Braun, John Garand (famously eccentric, at one point he turned his living room into an ice skating rink) and Alan Turing.
In addition to being brilliant inventors a lot of these guys led very interesting lives as well, especially during the periods when they were making their biggest contributions. Or they were just so unusual/eccentric that their stories are entertaining. Certianly far more interesting than the sordid tales of some celeb-du-jour's wardrobe or designer drug addiction.
Except that hydro isn't really 'green' Sure it doesn't dump noxious fumes into the air but building a dam pretty much wipes out the entire upstream ecosystem. What was once a valley becomes a giant lake. The effects down stream are often just as bad - formerly warm rivers are chilled signifigantly when they cross through a damn which has a devastating affect on native fish populations. Not to mention the tons of fertile silt that never make it down stream to the flood plains. Nothing tops a damn in terms of sheer enviromental destruction.
A couple of quick examples of the un-greeness of dams:
As for Lincon, my handwritten word is much better than my typed word. Main reason? I write much slower than I type, and I can't correct anything
And yet even when you can easily correct your mistakes you choose not to? Interesting.
I don't mean to pick on you since I see a lot of people with a similar attitude regarding internet communications. People often use the fact that electronic documents are fast to create and easy to correct as an excuse for not correcting them! I wonder why exactly that is?
(P.S. GMAIL invites! I woke up this morning and saw that my other gmail account got 2 new invites, so if you reply with a funny joke about sex and befriend me, I'll give em out to my two favorite ones.)
1) funny joke about sex 2) gmail invite from Real Troll Talk 3) ???? 4) Profit!
Oh yea, I went there.
Or...
You're asking Slashdot readers for funny jokes about sex? Not gonna happen, everyone knows that in order to joke about anything you must understand it first!
Ok maybe not funny but it's the best I could do on such short notice with my boss hovering around, plus I befriended you!
Yup it's really nice to have the flexibility such a schedule affords. And even though it's dorky/annoying to have to carry the work phone in addition to my personal phone when I'm on call, it doesn't feel like such a violation when someone actually calls after hours when it's not on my phone.
You mean you already have a cellphone and if your boss calls you on it -- presumably business-related -- you refuse to answer?
A-yup. The last place I worked at was run by some class A asshats (look through my posting history for the past year for some comments) that treated salaried employees like so much chattle. I had all work related numbers (including the bosses home and personal cellphone) in a special caller group and set up a 'weekend' profile on the phone that wouldn't ring or vibrate for that group. I switched to that profile every day the moment I walked out the door. I'd hear a beep when voicemail was left then I could decide whether or not what they called about was worth dealing with. Often it was something stupid and I'd wait to 'get the voicemail' until it was moot. Since I was using an out of state (and still am) cell phone number it cost them per call to reach me on it and even though I didn't get a cut I still liked making them pay to call. I'd often feign connection problems and hang up just to make them initiate more calls to Alaska (from Texas) out of spite.
In my current job we're only expected to be reached 24/7 the one week out of three that we're on call, and for that week we carry a company phone so it's no biggie. My boss didn't even want to know my personal cell number:-)
I like the idea of giving spam hunters the same authority as real life bounty hunters! Armed sysadmins tracking down spammers to their real life office space using Wi-Fi handhelds to monitor their network traffic. Just imagine how immensly satisfying it would be to break down their office doors, catching them mid-spam, forcing them to the ground, cuffing them (with zip ties of course) and hauling them off to be executed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H jail.
I know that's not the sorta of bounty system the article is talking about but it's a pleasant little fantasy that will keep me amused while I delete this mornings viagra and mortage offers.
I'm supposed to get 22/28 in this car but I do far better than the EPA numbers. In the three months I've owned it, I've been averaging 31mpg. I'm driving about an 80/20 highway/city mix [1] which should skew it towards the high end anyway but not above the EPA highway rating for the car. Oh yea and this is with the A/C on pretty much all of the time.
Other user reviews I read about the car prior to buying seemed to indicate that this kind of milage was typical for most people. I have no idea why the EPA numbers suck so bad in comparison.
[1] Living in Houston will do that, this place is dominated by highways. Plus I have a 30 mile (one-way, reverse) commute for work and take every possible opportunity to get the hell out of here which adds up to a lot of highway driving.
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Damn skippy - I still have the internals from every system I've built, all still running and doing useful things on the home network. My firewall is a old (now caseless) Celeron 300a (no longer overclocked since it's not a desktop) system with some surplus 3COM cards in it, I have my old Pentium MMX 200mhz system (again caseless) hooked to my stereo as a networked MP3 player, my file and general purpose server is an old K62 seutp, and I'm currently finalizing the setup on an old PIII/Pro 500mhz system someone gave me for use as a "media station" I'm going to use as a dedicated machine for ripping/burning CD's and talking to my digital camera.
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With forwarded X sessions I can run all these apps as though they were local to my desktop or laptop at once without using up valuable system resources better left to interactive processes. Old hardware rocks, I can't get enough of it
My sister is exactly the same way. She used to browse from my W2K laptop when she hung out with me (instead of using a linux box), and despite firefox being right there on the desktop and IE being deep down in the start menu, she would always launch IE and use that to browse. When I asked her why she did that it basically came down to "using IE feels better". Then I performed a little experiment to see how loyal she was to IE, and the results were most interesting. I removed IE from the start menu, and told her I had removed IE and she had to use firefox now. After that, she stopped using that computer entirely, and will only surf the web from a windows box using IE, even though the only computer available to her for that is an old pentium, which is horribly slow.
Bingo! This is exactly like my co-workers. If given the choice between using Mozilla on a new, fast computer while sitting in a Herman Miller leather executive chair or using IE on an unpatched 98 machine with 8 megs of RAM while sitting in a broken metal folding chair with a sharp edge poking them in the ass they'd use the IE machine.
It's some weird ass, irrational loyalty to a bad product that they know will cause them harm if they keep using it. It's like smoking, only without the excuse of nicotene addiction...
I've shown them themes. I showed them the ones I have installed, I showed them the themes section of mozilla.org and told them I'd help install any they liked. I even showed my boss the IE theme.
Even if I used the quick load option, disable the dragon head, made it look like IE they'd still know it wasn't IE and would complain. The point I was trying to get across is that they don't have any valid complaints and that they only thing that they don't like about Mozilla et al is that they are different than IE. Period. They are used to running IE and they'd rather use it, warts and all, rather than even see if a different browser will suit their needs better. It's different so they don't like it.
Now what's really strange is that these aren't exactly stupid people. All three of these ladies are brilliant at their jobs and well respected by our clients and the rest of the staff alike. My boss is one of, if not the, best supervisors I've ever had. In fact I left another job, actually left working in IT altogether, when she called with a job offer five months ago. I was so impressed with the way she ran the department I was willing to give this weird client services thing a shot to work for her because I knew she'd be a great boss. It's just that when it comes to technical things she's got blinders on, as do the rest of the non tech staff at the company.
These co-workers of mine are not unique and I think represent the majority of the entrenched IE user base. The really sad part is that I know, I really know, that if they'd take me up on my offer to spend a week learning and using Moz they'd love it and make the switch. It's just beyond my power to get them to do that. *shrug*
The warning against IE went out in our office a few weeks ago and I've been trying my damndest to get my immediate co-workers to switch to Mozilla or Firefox. The majority of the technical people at the company have been using Moz for months or years now but my department, Client Services[1], are all addicted to IE.
Once our IT dept sent out the warning and urged everyone to use Mozilla for regular browsing I installed it on two of my three co-workers PC's (the third is dating our SysAdmin so it's his job to get her to switch) and offered to help them with anything having to do with Moz. The only thing they've asked me to do is uninstall it (which I won't do.) Whenever they use it they gripe about how it looks (well mostly about how they don't like the "godzilla" head) say it loads slowly and they don't have time to learn how to use it. Yet they still whine about pop-up ads, spyware etc... Whenever they start griping I chime in with "Ya know that's not a problem in Mozilla!" Their replies are always the same "We don't like that godzilla thing, it's got an ugly head, har har."
I even made them an offer: For one week use Mozilla exclusivly and I'll always stop whatever I'm doing to help with you any question you have, be it how to install a plugin, how to use tabs, how to block ads etc... and if you still don't like it better than IE I'll remove from your system. But you have to use it and take the time to learn it before I'll take your complaints about how it 'sucks' seriously.
The response I've gotten when the topic comes is that they stop bitching about IE and go back to closing pop-ups. My boss actually said to me "I don't like learning new things"
These are the type of people that will never, ever switch. They know enough to know that Mozilla and IE are different programs and they just refuse to give an alternative to what they already know any serious consideration. I fear these represent the vast majority of IE users.
Oh and the company I work for? We provide online, webbased training and learning management services to corporations, mostly for OSHA type regs and similar subjects that are well suited to the CBT format. About 80% of the company (those with technical or content creation roles) uses Mozilla or Firefox for most of their general browsing but the non-geek staff stubbornly use IE. If we can't convince our holdouts to switch, without forcing the issue by management fiat, I don't know that they ever will. *sigh*
[1] Not to be confused with customer service, we dont' deal with end users, we work at the corporate level.
So the legislation could provide executions for anybody selling v1@gra, and it still wouldn't make any difference. No legislative solution is going to work as long as the executive branch has zero interest in enforcing it.
What about legislation that allowed sysadmins to act as judge, jury and executioner for spammers? Basically legalize vigilate justice and lynch mobs for pursuing spammers. I'd be happy to use up all of my vacation time this year to spend a couple of weeks taking my turn in the anti-spam death squad.
Because if they allowed the Olympians to share their personal stories directly with their fans online like this then NBC woudln't have any fresh material for the fluff pieces they use as filler when non-U.S. athletes are competing.
Think about it, that would deprive NBC of like, half it's Olympic broadcast content.
His style can take a little getting used to, and on a controversial subject I imagine it could be even harder to understand him. It doesn't help that the OP linked to Micheal Moore's reposting instead of the orignal on In These Times
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Anyway I also wanted to let you know that I've 'friended' you because of your reply - reasonable discussions are rare enough these days in any medium that it's worthwhile to befriend anyone that demonstrates they are able to carry one out
You're not familar with Vonnegut are you? He was, in his own imcomparable way, being sarcastic and satirical in that essay. He didn't compare all christians to Nazis either, he did point out that Bush calls himself a christian just as Hitler did, with the implication that just because one calls himself a good christian person doesn't make it so. Nor did he compare the actions of the US Army to those of the Wehrmacht or the SS, he's comparing the way people in the world today feel about American forces to how people felt about the Nazi's during/before WWII.
And Vonnegut knows a thing or two about Nazis and of war. He's a WWII veteran and was a POW in Dresden during the firebombing raids. His novel, Slaughter House Five is an account of that experience.
Vonnegut's style is to use extreme, often absurd and bizarre examples, as well as satire, to present his theme. Granted it's more effective in novel form than in essay form, unless you're already familar with his work and know what to expect. To the uninitiated this essay, if not read carefully, could come across as the liberal equivilant of an Ann Coulture essay, but trust me there's far more substance there. I would personally suggest picking up a copy of Mother Night or The Sirens of Titan (his first book) as good starting points if you want to read any of his books. Slaughter House Five is very personal and quite painful at times, so I woudln't recomend reading that until you've tackeled a couple of his other novels.
Micheal Moore is a chump compared to Vonnegut.
No I don't think it's ethical, nor do I think, as some posters are claiming, that this publicity is good for the organ donor system in general. What it does is it shows millions of people that the organ donor system is broken and that if you are in need of a replacement organ the only way to get one is by bypassing the established organ network in some way, if you can afford it. That is not a good thing.
The rules that the organ networks use to determine who gets a donated organ and what priority are designed to make the best use of a very limited commodity. The idea is to match organs with people in the direst need and who have the best chances of long term survival after transplant. This approach maximizes the amount of additional "life" the donated organs contribute to society. Todd was lower on the list because the nature of his disease made him a poorer candidate for long term survival post transplant.
So now this schmuck gets a healthy liver because some greiving, gullable family read the psalms on his web page and looked at his billboard and thought he was more deserving than the anonymous stranger whom medical science placed on the top of the transplant list. I think it's sad that people would choose to give such a gift to "that nice boy from the billboards" instead of to society at large.
Mild spoiler: It features a giant flying rock head that vomits guns on barbarians. I am not making this up. Giant flying head made of stone, guns are projected from its mouth...
Don't forget the stone head's mantra: "Guns good; Penis bad"
It's fun and all but I reached the end already. Is there an upgrade or expansion pack I can buy?
Speaking from first hand experience here. The good IT folks setup all the machines concerned with patient care and treatment planning (radiation oncology & diagnostics in this example) on a seperate network from the general building LAN. This seperate network is secure, has no gateway defined and can't talk to the outside world except via a linux box that serves as a go between (for file transfers of various types)and is physically disconnected from the secure network when it's not needed. This works fine and dandy until one day a DOCTOR realizes that the new treatment planning laptop is faster than his office PC and demmands to be able to surf the intarweb with the better computer.
It might be different in a large corporate hospital but in smaller privately owned clinics the merest whim of a doctor trumps anything the IT manager has to say about the situation. So that's how the secure, private network get's compromised. Bunch of arrogant twits think that they're masters of the fucking universe just because they went to med school.
Where in my post did refer to playing sports? That's right, no where. Everything I said could have easily applied to watching and playing, but it flew past you
...anger towards sports and physical activity ....don't enjoy competition, teamwork, physicial exertion, or the outdoors...
By once again applying the magic of reading I am able to produce the answer to your question (emphasis mine):
Physical activity/exertion implies that you actually play the sport, not just watch it. So there ya go, that's where and how you referred to playing sports, rather than sitting on your fat ass watching them. Which means that everything you said did not, in fact, apply to watching as well as playing. Unless of course your critical thinking skills have degraded to the point in which you are unable to distinguish between events you merely observe on TV and those you actually participate in.
Thank you once again for demonstrating the point the parent poster was making.
Hey asshole you might want to check out this new thing called reading. If you were to use the magic of reading on the parent post you'd notice that he said nothing negative about playing sports or engaging in any other physical activity. He was asserting that watching sports and obsessing over the antics of spoiled millionares contributes to making Americans complacent and intellectually lazy. Which is clearly true, as you've so thoughtfully demostrated.
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I think most paramedics would be clued in by the external battery and the power cord coming of the patients stomache that something about this patient was special. Also it's not as though people will be getting their hearts replaced with (well assisted by) these things willy-nilly they are only for people who have pretty much no other choice if they want to continue living. Also FTFA it will often be used as a temporary measure for people undergoing other treatment or who are waiting for transplants. The friends and family members of these people, the ones who might call the paramedics, will be well aware of the situation. In fact they'd probably call the cardiologist right after the paramedics in the event of an emergency who could relay special instructions. I also doubt this is a group of people that will be out in the wee hours of the morning bar hopping and getting falling down drunk.
So no this isn't a serious issue. It is, in fact, a non issue.
I'm not much of a gamer, I've never heard of a lot of the newer games that some people here are comparing to Doom3 much less played them, and I doubt I ever will. However I'm planning on buying Doom3 simply because it is Doom3. It's a major release of a title that is important to geek culture and is enough to pull me back into gaming for a couple of months to check it out and enjoy. I've needed to upgrade my MoBo and CPU for a while now anyway so whenever I pickup Doom3 I'll just set aside the whole weekend for a good ole geek-out and do the hardware updates and dive into tweaking and playing all at once.
:)
After a few weeks D3 will start to get boring and I'll go back to use my computer for mundane tasks that will nevertheless benefit from the new hardware. Until Half-Life 2 comes out and then I'll become a gamer again for a few weeks, for the same reasons
I dunno quite a few important inventors/scientests/businessmen have had biographies has interesting as what they created. A few examples I can think of off the top of my head include Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Mikial Khaliznokov(sp?; inventor of the AK-47), Werner von Braun, John Garand (famously eccentric, at one point he turned his living room into an ice skating rink) and Alan Turing.
In addition to being brilliant inventors a lot of these guys led very interesting lives as well, especially during the periods when they were making their biggest contributions. Or they were just so unusual/eccentric that their stories are entertaining. Certianly far more interesting than the sordid tales of some celeb-du-jour's wardrobe or designer drug addiction.
Except that hydro isn't really 'green' Sure it doesn't dump noxious fumes into the air but building a dam pretty much wipes out the entire upstream ecosystem. What was once a valley becomes a giant lake. The effects down stream are often just as bad - formerly warm rivers are chilled signifigantly when they cross through a damn which has a devastating affect on native fish populations. Not to mention the tons of fertile silt that never make it down stream to the flood plains. Nothing tops a damn in terms of sheer enviromental destruction.
A couple of quick examples of the un-greeness of dams:
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Three Gorges Dam in China
As for Lincon, my handwritten word is much better than my typed word. Main reason? I write much slower than I type, and I can't correct anything
And yet even when you can easily correct your mistakes you choose not to? Interesting.
I don't mean to pick on you since I see a lot of people with a similar attitude regarding internet communications. People often use the fact that electronic documents are fast to create and easy to correct as an excuse for not correcting them! I wonder why exactly that is?
(P.S. GMAIL invites! I woke up this morning and saw that my other gmail account got 2 new invites, so if you reply with a funny joke about sex and befriend me, I'll give em out to my two favorite ones.)
1) funny joke about sex
2) gmail invite from Real Troll Talk
3) ????
4) Profit!
Oh yea, I went there.
Or...
You're asking Slashdot readers for funny jokes about sex? Not gonna happen, everyone knows that in order to joke about anything you must understand it first!
Ok maybe not funny but it's the best I could do on such short notice with my boss hovering around, plus I befriended you!
Yup it's really nice to have the flexibility such a schedule affords. And even though it's dorky/annoying to have to carry the work phone in addition to my personal phone when I'm on call, it doesn't feel like such a violation when someone actually calls after hours when it's not on my phone.
You mean you already have a cellphone and if your boss calls you on it -- presumably business-related -- you refuse to answer?
:-)
A-yup. The last place I worked at was run by some class A asshats (look through my posting history for the past year for some comments) that treated salaried employees like so much chattle. I had all work related numbers (including the bosses home and personal cellphone) in a special caller group and set up a 'weekend' profile on the phone that wouldn't ring or vibrate for that group. I switched to that profile every day the moment I walked out the door. I'd hear a beep when voicemail was left then I could decide whether or not what they called about was worth dealing with. Often it was something stupid and I'd wait to 'get the voicemail' until it was moot. Since I was using an out of state (and still am) cell phone number it cost them per call to reach me on it and even though I didn't get a cut I still liked making them pay to call. I'd often feign connection problems and hang up just to make them initiate more calls to Alaska (from Texas) out of spite.
In my current job we're only expected to be reached 24/7 the one week out of three that we're on call, and for that week we carry a company phone so it's no biggie. My boss didn't even want to know my personal cell number
I like the idea of giving spam hunters the same authority as real life bounty hunters! Armed sysadmins tracking down spammers to their real life office space using Wi-Fi handhelds to monitor their network traffic. Just imagine how immensly satisfying it would be to break down their office doors, catching them mid-spam, forcing them to the ground, cuffing them (with zip ties of course) and hauling them off to be executed^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H jail.
I know that's not the sorta of bounty system the article is talking about but it's a pleasant little fantasy that will keep me amused while I delete this mornings viagra and mortage offers.
I'm supposed to get 22/28 in this car but I do far better than the EPA numbers. In the three months I've owned it, I've been averaging 31mpg. I'm driving about an 80/20 highway/city mix [1] which should skew it towards the high end anyway but not above the EPA highway rating for the car. Oh yea and this is with the A/C on pretty much all of the time.
Other user reviews I read about the car prior to buying seemed to indicate that this kind of milage was typical for most people. I have no idea why the EPA numbers suck so bad in comparison.
[1] Living in Houston will do that, this place is dominated by highways. Plus I have a 30 mile (one-way, reverse) commute for work and take every possible opportunity to get the hell out of here which adds up to a lot of highway driving.