Death to Amerika & I$rael!!!
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Little Green Men
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
Someone needs to put an end to this bullshit today.
Yesterday the Israelis killed:
a 12 year old boy walking to the store to buy smokes for his dad
a 25 year old woman standing on her balcony
a 35 year old mentally handicapped man walking down the street
among others.
How many more 9/11's will it take before we realize that Zionism is terrorism? Every day that our tax dollars help Israelis occupy Palestine and kill Palestinians, we rightfully acquire new ememies. How much longer are we going to support the fictitious nation of Israel? How many generations of humans will we imperil through our obstinate support for these evil murderers?
Let's see...this device allows you to watch over 1,000 hours of television programming without viewing the commercials? If Dante Alighieri were president of MPAA, the Tivo people would roam a ring of hell inbetween Mohammed Atta and the deMedici family. Valenti, on the other hand, will probably make some comparison to the Boston Strangler instead.
If the US was to be hit by a nuclear attack, whoever was left would have to be able to communicate in order to effective recover, regroup, and retailiate.
If the U.S. was hit by a nuclear attack your conjecture will be out the window. They didn't bother to tell you this in ROTC, but at some point America will just have to go away. Hell, in an all-out nuclear war, the entire species (or most of it) will just have to go away. The few survivors will probably be interested in a lasting peace.
Fantasize all you want about your "Highest Priority Targets", "Chain of Command", "Rules of Engagement", and other shop expressions, but when the shit goes down our culture and your military culture will only be confusing memories in the minds of the survivors.
If you really want to make it, follow these steps:
Show up at the next N-Stink show disguised as a group of 13-year-old girls who want to go backstage and make out.
Beat up the unsuspecting boy-band members (Note: this should take one or two punches tops)
Steal their clothes. Bind and gag them boys.
Donning the boy-band outfits, hit the stage and perform your tunes
Please don't really do this--every talking head in the nation will be screaming the "Someone must be held accountable!" mantra, your band's potential career will be snuffed, you will all be sent to prison for terrorism, I will be labelled a terrorist ringleader for giving you this idea, and slashdot.org will be closed down under the USA-PATRIOT act.
Do you remember the name of the architect, or at least the country where this took place? Sounds too human to happen in America; my guess would be Scandinavia or Holland.
Yours is probably the most insightful post in this article. This software is the result of a non-schizophrenic's insight into the world of schizophrenia, which he can only surmise from observations of patients as well as their own descriptions. At best it is a toy, just as you said.
This will have absolutely no research value, but will give non-schizophrenics comfort when they believe it allows them to "understand" what is happening in the mind of a schizophrenic patient.
I'm waiting for the anti-drug crowd to buy licenses for this product so they can "demonstrate" the effects of LSD and other drugs to fearful, impressionable parents.
Maybe it was because the American flag icon was adjacent to the headline, but I read "Freeing Americans From Glucose" and thought that it was about time someone did just that. Maybe my health insurance premium would go down then...
For real. Ever notice how only people who have never done LSD make it obvious when they speak about LSD? I'm really surprised he didn't mention flashbacks, jumping from rooftops, and various other myths held by LSD virgins.
Le nouveau mode des prevention-conception
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Newton Won't Die
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· Score: -1, Troll
Early Adopters a/k/a Joe 6-Packs are the bread & butter of the high-end market. I'm sure many/.ers have dealt with this type who only need to run IE and Solitaire yet are buying new systems every six months because "this one gives me more megahertz".
That statistic got me too. I run my boxes (not boxen!) w/o covers, so I just took a moment to go hunting for the lead in mine. No metallic material in any of my boxes seems as soft or as dense as lead. I'm wondering if they are counting monitors, since monitors use lead to protect the user from exposure. Lead is very dense, so it doesn't take "much" to come up with 1.4 kg. Judging from the weight of my monitor, I could grant a few of those pounds to lead.
Of course the statistic could merely be a typo. While we're speculating, it could also be possible that the statistic is an outright lie, part of a liberalistical conspiracy designed to steer the public down the false road of environmentalism as our great nation succumbs to the one-world UN government./me loosens tin foil hat...
Whether that statistic is accurate or not, I am grateful for the photo essay. We live in a complex world, and the consequences of most of our actions are conveniently hidden from our view--especially at our request. The "not-in-my-backyard" mantra repeated for decades in the U.S. has created this reality in which we have no idea how much garbage we produce; how much air, water, and soil we foul; how many people we sicken.
More clearly than a butterly flapping its wings in Isole Canaria can cause the flattening of South Florida, a Typical American watching a commercial for a new CPU family can cause the poisoning of an entire Chinese village.
Maybe instead of rarely suing they are rarely noticed in courtrooms--all this takes is the bullying of several lawyers and strongly-worded cease & desist letters.
Telomeres--how does one rebuild/restore telomeres?
Irreversible Permanent Cellular Metabolic Coma--how does one bring each cell back to life?
Techie Obsession with Cryonics--must we be so afraid of death as to squander our lives at 50+ hours per week on the off chance that our bodies can be cryogenically preserved within the first few minutes of death (before I.P.C.M.C. occurs) and that our bodies can be re-animated at a future date and that the company's electric account won't be disconnected within the next 100 years or so due to massive fraud? If you don't learn how to enjoy life during this life then how can you expect to enjoy it when you awaken in a changed world?
You know what? It's a beautiful sub-scalding day in Florida and I'm leaving the office early to sit under a live oak and do some asanas. Blow your money on cryonics or enjoy this day--it's your choice.
But, what burned me was their note that "copying copyright material" is illegal.
What burns me is their obliteration of the past perfect tense. "Copyright material" means material on copyrights. "Copyrighted material" is material protected by copyright. There's a critical difference between the two expressions--copyright material can be freely copied but copyrighted material has restrictions on copying. English has a multitude of tenses because they allow an idea to be expressed unambiguously.
We've already seen so many problems with ambiguously worded laws being misinterpreted by judicial activists of all three flavors (liberal/conservative/aristocratic). Throw an increasingly misused language into the mix and we'll see much more confusion regarding the rights that people have or don't have.
Back to the topic at hand, I think it should be illegal for a corporation such as Target--which likely has a small army of litigators--to make official statements which are untrue. Their notice should state that "copying copyrighted material without express permission of the copyright owner is illegal" and should also mention the classic exclusion for a single backup copy. Also I think it is quite sad that permission has to be obtained from the copyright owner and not the creator of the copyrighted work.
If you where [sic] getting wasted all throughout college fair odds are you were not learning (or at least retaining.:D ) as much as the next applicant who managed to stay at least a bit more sober. . . .
Doesn't seem to keep anybody from becoming President, right? Ergo, it shouldn't matter in a job interview.
This may be a stretch, but some people affected by this discovery may benefit from the confusion. If you are in this situation and were arrested/convicted by the state that you weren't really in at the time, it is possible--though IANAL & YMMV--to have your conviction overturned due to lack of jurisdiction.
I'm just throwing that out there because a lot of people with DUI, indecent exposure, drug possession, etc... run-ins from their teen & college years will have an unfair disadvantage for the rest of their life because of the fanciful association potential employeers make between a police record and future job performance.
It looks like all the mid-sized cities are in a footrace. The City Commission wants to be an early adopter, and one vocal critic has been making some noise (sorry--no link b/c the local rag doesn't have the story in their web archive) even suggesting to demonstrate its vulnerability. How many repeats of this will we need before people start to pay attention?
Irvu, you just summed up 50+ years of neo-liberalism in a single post. We will continue seeing this happen in all aspects of life, for this is our future--not yet a boot kicking a face forever, not yet...
If it doesn't maximize corporate profits, then it is theft.
What else could you possibly expect, considering what the media companies pay for Premium Legislative Services in the US and the EU. The idea that you do not own what you have bought is absurd, but the bankrolled politicians are turning that hallucination into a scary reality.
Anybody in north central Florida got a Donkey Kong ROM?
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Someone needs to put an end to this bullshit today.
Yesterday the Israelis killed:a 12 year old boy walking to the store to buy smokes for his dad
a 25 year old woman standing on her balcony
a 35 year old mentally handicapped man walking down the street
among others.
How many more 9/11's will it take before we realize that Zionism is terrorism? Every day that our tax dollars help Israelis occupy Palestine and kill Palestinians, we rightfully acquire new ememies. How much longer are we going to support the fictitious nation of Israel? How many generations of humans will we imperil through our obstinate support for these evil murderers?
Let's see...this device allows you to watch over 1,000 hours of television programming without viewing the commercials? If Dante Alighieri were president of MPAA, the Tivo people would roam a ring of hell inbetween Mohammed Atta and the deMedici family. Valenti, on the other hand, will probably make some comparison to the Boston Strangler instead.
If the U.S. was hit by a nuclear attack your conjecture will be out the window. They didn't bother to tell you this in ROTC, but at some point America will just have to go away. Hell, in an all-out nuclear war, the entire species (or most of it) will just have to go away. The few survivors will probably be interested in a lasting peace.
Fantasize all you want about your "Highest Priority Targets", "Chain of Command", "Rules of Engagement", and other shop expressions, but when the shit goes down our culture and your military culture will only be confusing memories in the minds of the survivors.
If you really want to make it, follow these steps:
Please don't really do this--every talking head in the nation will be screaming the "Someone must be held accountable!" mantra, your band's potential career will be snuffed, you will all be sent to prison for terrorism, I will be labelled a terrorist ringleader for giving you this idea, and slashdot.org will be closed down under the USA-PATRIOT act.
Better get used to those college towns.
Do you remember the name of the architect, or at least the country where this took place? Sounds too human to happen in America; my guess would be Scandinavia or Holland.
Yours is probably the most insightful post in this article. This software is the result of a non-schizophrenic's insight into the world of schizophrenia, which he can only surmise from observations of patients as well as their own descriptions. At best it is a toy, just as you said.
This will have absolutely no research value, but will give non-schizophrenics comfort when they believe it allows them to "understand" what is happening in the mind of a schizophrenic patient.
I'm waiting for the anti-drug crowd to buy licenses for this product so they can "demonstrate" the effects of LSD and other drugs to fearful, impressionable parents.
Maybe it was because the American flag icon was adjacent to the headline, but I read "Freeing Americans From Glucose" and thought that it was about time someone did just that. Maybe my health insurance premium would go down then...
For real. Ever notice how only people who have never done LSD make it obvious when they speak about LSD? I'm really surprised he didn't mention flashbacks, jumping from rooftops, and various other myths held by LSD virgins.
Anal!
Early Adopters a/k/a Joe 6-Packs are the bread & butter of the high-end market. I'm sure many /.ers have dealt with this type who only need to run IE and Solitaire yet are buying new systems every six months because "this one gives me more megahertz".
That statistic got me too. I run my boxes (not boxen!) w/o covers, so I just took a moment to go hunting for the lead in mine. No metallic material in any of my boxes seems as soft or as dense as lead. I'm wondering if they are counting monitors, since monitors use lead to protect the user from exposure. Lead is very dense, so it doesn't take "much" to come up with 1.4 kg. Judging from the weight of my monitor, I could grant a few of those pounds to lead.
Of course the statistic could merely be a typo. While we're speculating, it could also be possible that the statistic is an outright lie, part of a liberalistical conspiracy designed to steer the public down the false road of environmentalism as our great nation succumbs to the one-world UN government. /me loosens tin foil hat...
Whether that statistic is accurate or not, I am grateful for the photo essay. We live in a complex world, and the consequences of most of our actions are conveniently hidden from our view--especially at our request. The "not-in-my-backyard" mantra repeated for decades in the U.S. has created this reality in which we have no idea how much garbage we produce; how much air, water, and soil we foul; how many people we sicken.
More clearly than a butterly flapping its wings in Isole Canaria can cause the flattening of South Florida, a Typical American watching a commercial for a new CPU family can cause the poisoning of an entire Chinese village.
They don't hate lawyers; they hire lawyers.
Maybe instead of rarely suing they are rarely noticed in courtrooms--all this takes is the bullying of several lawyers and strongly-worded cease & desist letters.
You know what? It's a beautiful sub-scalding day in Florida and I'm leaving the office early to sit under a live oak and do some asanas. Blow your money on cryonics or enjoy this day--it's your choice.
It should, so it can scream "TALK TO THE HAND!!!"
What burns me is their obliteration of the past perfect tense. "Copyright material" means material on copyrights. "Copyrighted material" is material protected by copyright. There's a critical difference between the two expressions--copyright material can be freely copied but copyrighted material has restrictions on copying. English has a multitude of tenses because they allow an idea to be expressed unambiguously.
We've already seen so many problems with ambiguously worded laws being misinterpreted by judicial activists of all three flavors (liberal/conservative/aristocratic). Throw an increasingly misused language into the mix and we'll see much more confusion regarding the rights that people have or don't have.
Back to the topic at hand, I think it should be illegal for a corporation such as Target--which likely has a small army of litigators--to make official statements which are untrue. Their notice should state that "copying copyrighted material without express permission of the copyright owner is illegal" and should also mention the classic exclusion for a single backup copy. Also I think it is quite sad that permission has to be obtained from the copyright owner and not the creator of the copyrighted work.
Doesn't seem to keep anybody from becoming President, right? Ergo, it shouldn't matter in a job interview.
This may be a stretch, but some people affected by this discovery may benefit from the confusion. If you are in this situation and were arrested/convicted by the state that you weren't really in at the time, it is possible--though IANAL & YMMV--to have your conviction overturned due to lack of jurisdiction.
I'm just throwing that out there because a lot of people with DUI, indecent exposure, drug possession, etc... run-ins from their teen & college years will have an unfair disadvantage for the rest of their life because of the fanciful association potential employeers make between a police record and future job performance.
It looks like all the mid-sized cities are in a footrace. The City Commission wants to be an early adopter, and one vocal critic has been making some noise (sorry--no link b/c the local rag doesn't have the story in their web archive) even suggesting to demonstrate its vulnerability. How many repeats of this will we need before people start to pay attention?
I believe the answer is "the Investor Class".
Irvu, you just summed up 50+ years of neo-liberalism in a single post. We will continue seeing this happen in all aspects of life, for this is our future--not yet a boot kicking a face forever, not yet...
Subject says it all.
That's funny--mine always required a couple of reboots a day.
The lobby that 0wn3d me.
If it doesn't maximize corporate profits, then it is theft.
What else could you possibly expect, considering what the media companies pay for Premium Legislative Services in the US and the EU. The idea that you do not own what you have bought is absurd, but the bankrolled politicians are turning that hallucination into a scary reality.
Anybody in north central Florida got a Donkey Kong ROM?