That being said, the water and soil pollution, horrible animal farming techniques, and a lack of any new antibiotics or other non-deathbed "wellness" medicine over the past 50 years probably argues in the grandparent-poster's favor.
Except for the fact that the air and water are cleaner than they were 50 years ago, and keep getting cleaner. Older, less "horrible" animal farming techniques required cooking meat nearly crunchy just to make sure you didn't get trichinosis and other diseases that more "humanely" treated animals always got.
One of the things I do sometimes when I get these "enter your credit card for verification" phishers, I deliberately go to their "paypal" site, then enter as much bogus info as I can: "First Name: Yougotta." Last Name: Beshittinme", and so on and so on. CC #s are all 0, of course. I figure if they went to the trouble to try to piss me off, I should go to as much trouble to amuse myself with their failures.
Whatever, dude. I just want some Manglish Porn. I can hardly wait to see some thick mantacle penetrating some young school girl's mangina after skillfully removing her manssiere.
You managed to mangle something magical into something maniacal.
Isn't if funny that no one is mentioning that a French company, Archos, manufactures a line of media players, which hasn't been doing so well competing with Apple? I'm sure the French government has absolutely no vested interest in supporting efforts to hurt foreign competitors.
Yeah, really, that 10 tons of ammonium nitrate and 500 barrels of fuel oil I wanted to buy is really none of the government's business! I mean, I have a lot of "stumps" to clear off my "farmland" you know!
...the government is trying to help out the air travel industry (airlines, airports, etc.), which suffered extremely difficult times financially after 9/11.
Or to put it another way, it's a public relations campaign conducted for free by the US government on behalf of the airlines.
Not just PR, it also allows airlines to avoid some liablility by taking some burden of responsibility for security off of them.
I wish I had mod points, you make more sense than most I've read on this subject. I absolutely refuse to fly unless there are compelling reasons to get to a destination quickly. I'm a bit more than a day's drive from most of my relatives, and the activities I participate in are reasonably close by train or car.
Plus, the idea that by confiscating anything that looks sharp will prevent the next hijacking is completely bizarre. Any reasonably intelligent human can make a weapon out of just about anything handy. Personally I feel safer if there are more people around me with potential weapons, that means more of us are likely to take down the next hijacker.
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Well, if you patent nuclear holocaust beforehand, you can vaporize knowing that they all owe you royalties...
just because the guy writes a letter and tells everyone that he didn't have an agreement / etc. with these lawyers, doesn't make it true, right? this is just his account. it's not proof of anything.
All the lawyers have to do is present the signed agreement and his case is dismissed. If they don't allow anyone to look for such an agreement, or they refuse to produce one, it makes his case harder to dismiss. It sounds like they want to prevent his team from looking for such an agreement, which they likely would do if it didn't exist.
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Which is exactly why you shouldn't be in any kind of support role. You aren't a problem solver, which is what a support person needs to be. Someone who likes to solve puzzles, mysteries, and who understands the intricacies of hardware and software. Think of a programmer as a writer, and software support as an editor (the human kind, who fixes up the manuscript that the writer submits).
Ideally, at least in places where I worked that succeeded, the programmers turn in code, and software support/engineering finds and fixes (or returns code to be fixed by the original programmer) the code before it goes out the door. I've been pretty good at both ends of this process, but I find the puzzle-solving and analysis to be far more interesting. That's why I make my living getting software maintenance contracts. I've seen OSS that I wouldn't have released, unless I was illustrating "how not to do it."
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The main problem I see with OSS is that the paradigm presumes that all users of OSS are also software developers. This may be true for users of glib, for instance, but is it really true for users of OpenOffice, or even KDE? The only way I see for OSS to really take off is for a break between open source software development and open source software support. Combining the two the way it's been done doesn't seem to be working all that well. They really are two orthogonal tasks, and the skill sets required really don't overlap much.
AMEN! I've been able to avoid major surgery my whole life, and I can just picture all the things that can go wrong during a live operation, much less during a "teleoperation." And think of the liability issues. You think it's hard getting service for your computer ("It's the software!" "No, it's the hardware!" etc. etc) just imagine having to sue the hospitals at both ends, the doctor(s), the hardware manufacturers, the network admins, the ISPs, etc., none of whom admit to any error on their part.
Unless it's the only way to save my life, then I'll think about it. Until then, I'm on the parent poster's side...
From the NatGeo article, sounds like "they" got to the preacher and his wife, who claims she saw it and was trapped by debris. I wonder how many "planted commuters" were driving by that morning, and how many witnesses were "disappeared" with no one being the wiser or complaining. Gee, maybe the "passenger list" they released was actually the names of the commuters that witnessed the alien, I mean, missile attack!
It's possible, it's definitely off the main road, and likely on Federal land, given the exit directions.
And from the Geographic article, it sounds like the FBI got the tapes before the attendant thought to look at them, or possibly he didn't have access to the equipment. If you managed a gas station, you wouldn't want your employees to turn off cameras when "asked" to do so.
We'll have to wait and see if Judicial Watch is satisfied they got all the tapes they asked for, or if they'll ask for more.
I'm still holding onto the "757 hijacked by terrorists" theory, though, unpopular as it is.
Where was this alleged gas station? Give us an address, or a Google Maps link. I live in Alexandria about two miles from the Pentagon, and during 2001 I regularly commuted along Washington Blvd, right where the plane hit. I know of no gas station anywhere near nor along the flight path that would have shown anything. If I hadn't procrastinated that morning, I would have been right there when it happened. ZOMG! I must be PART OF THE CONSPIRACY!!!!!11!11
Yes, it is believable, after all, we were on a footing to prepare for incoming ICBMs, not truck bombers or rogue planes. Hell, I used to drive past there on Washington Blvd every day, and often saw the helicopters taking off and landing on the helipad there, within easy range of any drive-by with a grudge. There used to be at least a half-dozen entrances to the Pentagon's various parking lots, with little more than a guard shack and a simple barrier to block them. The Cold War was over, we could live on the Peace Dividend, no need for "paranoia" anymore. The Clinton Govt. had brought us peace, remember?
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Paraphrasing "WKRP in Cincinnati":
"As God is my witness, I thought geeks could fly!"
I thought MECO was a really lousy (if way too successful) 70's disco band (Disco version of the Star Wars theme, anyone?)
"Actually, it's a 'buck and a quarter' quarterstaff, but I'm not telling *him* that.
- Daffy Duck, "Robin Hood Duck"
Not if I patent it first...
hee hee hee...
One of the things I do sometimes when I get these "enter your credit card for verification" phishers, I deliberately go to their "paypal" site, then enter as much bogus info as I can: "First Name: Yougotta." Last Name: Beshittinme", and so on and so on. CC #s are all 0, of course. I figure if they went to the trouble to try to piss me off, I should go to as much trouble to amuse myself with their failures.
You managed to mangle something magical into something maniacal.
No, it'll be restored when the article is duplicated in a week...
Isn't if funny that no one is mentioning that a French company, Archos, manufactures a line of media players, which hasn't been doing so well competing with Apple? I'm sure the French government has absolutely no vested interest in supporting efforts to hurt foreign competitors.
Yeah, really, that 10 tons of ammonium nitrate and 500 barrels of fuel oil I wanted to buy is really none of the government's business! I mean, I have a lot of "stumps" to clear off my "farmland" you know!
Al K. Aida
Sounds like someone's been reading their James Blish, lately
I wish I had mod points, you make more sense than most I've read on this subject. I absolutely refuse to fly unless there are compelling reasons to get to a destination quickly. I'm a bit more than a day's drive from most of my relatives, and the activities I participate in are reasonably close by train or car.
Plus, the idea that by confiscating anything that looks sharp will prevent the next hijacking is completely bizarre. Any reasonably intelligent human can make a weapon out of just about anything handy. Personally I feel safer if there are more people around me with potential weapons, that means more of us are likely to take down the next hijacker.
Well, if you patent nuclear holocaust beforehand, you can vaporize knowing that they all owe you royalties...
Who cares who John Smith is, I want to know "Who is John Galt?"
just because the guy writes a letter and tells everyone that he didn't have an agreement / etc. with these lawyers, doesn't make it true, right? this is just his account. it's not proof of anything.
All the lawyers have to do is present the signed agreement and his case is dismissed. If they don't allow anyone to look for such an agreement, or they refuse to produce one, it makes his case harder to dismiss. It sounds like they want to prevent his team from looking for such an agreement, which they likely would do if it didn't exist.
Which is exactly why you shouldn't be in any kind of support role. You aren't a problem solver, which is what a support person needs to be. Someone who likes to solve puzzles, mysteries, and who understands the intricacies of hardware and software. Think of a programmer as a writer, and software support as an editor (the human kind, who fixes up the manuscript that the writer submits).
Ideally, at least in places where I worked that succeeded, the programmers turn in code, and software support/engineering finds and fixes (or returns code to be fixed by the original programmer) the code before it goes out the door. I've been pretty good at both ends of this process, but I find the puzzle-solving and analysis to be far more interesting. That's why I make my living getting software maintenance contracts. I've seen OSS that I wouldn't have released, unless I was illustrating "how not to do it."
The main problem I see with OSS is that the paradigm presumes that all users of OSS are also software developers. This may be true for users of glib, for instance, but is it really true for users of OpenOffice, or even KDE? The only way I see for OSS to really take off is for a break between open source software development and open source software support. Combining the two the way it's been done doesn't seem to be working all that well. They really are two orthogonal tasks, and the skill sets required really don't overlap much.
AMEN! I've been able to avoid major surgery my whole life, and I can just picture all the things that can go wrong during a live operation, much less during a "teleoperation." And think of the liability issues. You think it's hard getting service for your computer ("It's the software!" "No, it's the hardware!" etc. etc) just imagine having to sue the hospitals at both ends, the doctor(s), the hardware manufacturers, the network admins, the ISPs, etc., none of whom admit to any error on their part.
Unless it's the only way to save my life, then I'll think about it. Until then, I'm on the parent poster's side...
From the NatGeo article, sounds like "they" got to the preacher and his wife, who claims she saw it and was trapped by debris. I wonder how many "planted commuters" were driving by that morning, and how many witnesses were "disappeared" with no one being the wiser or complaining. Gee, maybe the "passenger list" they released was actually the names of the commuters that witnessed the alien, I mean, missile attack!
It's possible, it's definitely off the main road, and likely on Federal land, given the exit directions.
And from the Geographic article, it sounds like the FBI got the tapes before the attendant thought to look at them, or possibly he didn't have access to the equipment. If you managed a gas station, you wouldn't want your employees to turn off cameras when "asked" to do so.
We'll have to wait and see if Judicial Watch is satisfied they got all the tapes they asked for, or if they'll ask for more.
I'm still holding onto the "757 hijacked by terrorists" theory, though, unpopular as it is.
It was a secret gas station, sculptured as an entrance to Pentagon parking lot
Oh, that secret gas station...
Where was this alleged gas station? Give us an address, or a Google Maps link. I live in Alexandria about two miles from the Pentagon, and during 2001 I regularly commuted along Washington Blvd, right where the plane hit. I know of no gas station anywhere near nor along the flight path that would have shown anything. If I hadn't procrastinated that morning, I would have been right there when it happened. ZOMG! I must be PART OF THE CONSPIRACY!!!!!11!11
Yes, it is believable, after all, we were on a footing to prepare for incoming ICBMs, not truck bombers or rogue planes. Hell, I used to drive past there on Washington Blvd every day, and often saw the helicopters taking off and landing on the helipad there, within easy range of any drive-by with a grudge. There used to be at least a half-dozen entrances to the Pentagon's various parking lots, with little more than a guard shack and a simple barrier to block them. The Cold War was over, we could live on the Peace Dividend, no need for "paranoia" anymore. The Clinton Govt. had brought us peace, remember?
It's called "you stand there naming it, I'm running thataway..."