While the story takes place in parts of the US, the US is on the list of countries that doesn't mandate military service of it's citizens, in contrast to Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Turkey, South Korea, Brazil, etc.. (note that the draft is not quite the same thing and the US doesn't even have that anymore). Not to mention, when it was released, (1997), Clinton had reduced the military.
But then the movie also takes place in the future.
It was definitely a tongue-in-cheek campfest, I thought everyone would've picked up on the sarcasm.
I dunno, an awful lot of immoral, unethical stuff has been done in the name of "morality" throughout history.. it kind of depends on one's point of view.
I hope it never does. I agree that all over-the-top niceties like "Good morning, I disrepectfully must disagree.." tend to beat around the bush and are a bit stiff. But the "Fuck you" and "You're a moron" type crap is just plain anti-social, angry, hating, and really uncalled for in almost all cases, except for obvious trolls which should be ignored anyway...or if you're justifiably provoked by someone who responds that way when unprovoked. If that's the direction society moves towards in the future, where that becomes the norm for for real life conversations, we're heading for a dsytopia I want no part of.
My pet peeve is overuse of the term "download".. like years ago, when my FIL says he "downloaded" the file off the CD he put in his CD drive to his Desktop. I guess "copied" doesn't sound contemporary enough; I didn't have the heart to tell him a download/upload only applies to files moved across a network at the time, he was so happy he just figured out how to do it.
I wouldn't say I was over my head but when I tried to root my phone on more then one occasion, it didn't work. The biggest problem is that the forum posts are not organized with what is current in most cases and you find out after reading post 205 that the particular how to or way to root had been fubar'd by a provider update.
(*note, I've been to numerous forums and they all suffer the disorganization issues which may be unavoidable when things change so rapidly.).
This, so much. On one hand, I don't want to complain about the forums and the developers because I could never have rooted my phone without the info, and I appreciate having the help and info, but OTOH it sure isn't a very straightforward process to find the right information for your particular model of phone, as even the carriers make changes to the base mfg models, then the specific version of Android on top of that.
Example: At one point I messed my rooted Fascinate up pretty badly trying to upgrade the kernel.. but then, I still had the stock Touch Whiz ROM on it, lol. Even though I'd spent hours and hours reading posts and how to's, it was only afterward I realized I had to install a custom ROM before trying to mod the kernel.. D'oh I thought it was the other way around. I never bricked it though, that seems like it would be hard to do. I got everything back.
To date, I haven't attempted any other modifications other than rooting it, as that was enough to rid me of the bloatware, but I'm getting itchier and itchier to try cyanogenmod or maybe even just Gee-whiz, for the heck of it.
"...there has been a 361% increase in 'pen register' and 'trap-and-trace' orders between 2009 and 2011.
That's a hell of an increase. But still somehow it's all Bush's fault...?
FWIW, I have no idea how to do it on mine either. Frankly, it doesn't look possible; though I suppose it's also possible that different models may work just a little differently. As has been mentioned already in this thread though, it shouldn't have been difficult to get the logs from the carrier, that'd definitely prove whether he's lying or telling the truth.
I've got a similar "low end" system, Core i3, 6 GB ram, (and of course HD2000 graphics); it's not the greatest currently but it gets you by. Compared to what I've been using for the past 8 years though (P4 2.8GHz 2GB ram), it totally screams. I've been revisiting Quake 3, Portal 2, Half Life2, Left for Dead, and (heh) Return to Castle Wolfenstein with that setup. Yep, mostly older games, but those are from when I gamed a lot. It's definitely impressive for an integrated solution, but I really don't game all that much anymore normally.. it's only because I have a new computer.
That said though, if I really get back into gaming again, I'll want a separate nvidia card, definitely. Even the cheap ones rock. I doubt the HD2000 could handle a game like Rage very well (admittedly a bit of an educated guess here)
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That could be beneficial, cars with a hive mindet, I suppose. If it's implemented right, it'd be like a large flock of birds in flight, suddenly changing direction or speed all at once, in unison, with never a collision. (It still amazes me sometimes that they can do that and not knock some of themselves out of the sky.) I guess schools of fish do that too.
No, you read it a little too literally, what I gave was the gist of the situation: first, she blew by me, then couldn't proceed any further because she quickly came up to the back bumper of a car in her lane that was going slower than everyone else, so she had to slow down; then she decided my lane was better..so she cut me off as she squeezed over between me and the car in front of me, when there definitely wasn't a safe amount of space to do that. Jesus, did you want a second by second account with video too?
My first gut instinct is, this is bad, bad, bad.. but then I think of the stupid beatch in the Hyundai that blew by me at 85mph, then cut into my lane, making me slam my brakes on while driving to work this morning.. so maybe it's not so bad.
Not wanting to ban incandescents is not the same as being against efficient light bulbs. That's a false dichotomy. But then your post is full of strange logic. CFLs are full of mercury, and most generally are harsh, to many people. Personally, I'd love to go with LEDs, but they're just too pricey to replace all the bulbs in the house. Most people, including the evil conservatives you mention, would probably flock to the more efficient LED bulbs if they were just more immediately affordable.
Pbbthsstt! I just spit my coffee out..! Fuck my mod points, I had to respond.
Seriously, did you just type rot in a bank? Do you even have any idea how an economy functions? Money doesn't sit stagnate in a bank, locked up on a shelf for it's owner; it's used: loaned out, invested, recirculated... Where do you think the money that banks use to give people loans and mortgages comes from? It's the money it's account holders have deposited. They don't lock it all away just in case overnight, everyone suddenly decides to withdrawal their accounts in fulll..actually, that would be devastating to the economy. The only real difference is, the money is circulating at a higher level than the general retail sector, but it's plenty dynamic, and doing the economy good. It's when people decide to hoard it by stuffing it in a mattress, like they did during the depression, that's when it rots.
Small minded? No, that would be you and the GP. His point is, if stereotyping and pigeonholing are so evil, why does someone on the Left engage in the very thing the democrats supposedly rail against? Caricaturization of human beings is the first desensitizing step away from reality, . Moot point though, the mods took care of it.
Even the most sham-elected de facto dictatorship on the planet blows the doors off any theocracy ever, when it comes to "closer to a true democracy".
At some point, the people can appeal to a (human) tyrant, and he might respond to their concerns.
Whether or not it exists, god never responds.
We need to get out of the Middle East/North Africa, until the savages either settle their differences or kill each other off. Screw this "democracy" crap, we've now plunged three "questionable" but relatively secular democracies into borderline (or even outright) sharia over the past decade. We need to quit while only that far behind.
I agree with the first statement, there's bound to be a little more reason there..
but anyway, in regards to "getting out now", how much time do you think that will buy us? Does anyone really believe that these religious nutjobs, violent members of a proselytizing religion, are going to be forever content in their sandy, barren corner of the world? Is that what the Hindu's in India during Ghandi's time thought? It would be swell if they killed themselves off or settled down, but that's not what's happening: instead, one faction manages to subjugate the other (i.e. the Taliban) and then imposes it's iron grip on the region.
We can get out of there now, and leave a total nightmare for our children and granddhildren to have to deal with when these savages come to enforce the word of Mohammad over the whole of the earth, or deal with this now, before the militant islamists get any more powerful.
Point taken. I've been out of the game for a while. Light pollution in my neighborhood is so bad I've taken a hiatus from stargazing.
BTW, I forgot to mention some ballpark prices, but I would venture that a worthwhile beginner's scope could run anywhere from between maybe $200 or $300 to $600 or more, but even that's highly subjective. Then of course, there are the accessories, like add'l eyepieces, which can raise expenditures significantly. Like any good hobby, you can sink more money into it than you ever dreamed you would at the onset.;)
There's no simple answer to that question. What constitutes a "decent" scope? Weeelll..
A couple of things to know:
* Aperture (thus ability to gather light) is more important than magnification.
* There are essentially 3 kinds of scopes:
1) Refractor (classic design)
2) Newtonian reflector (more affordable). Newtonians are generally less money and give you more bang for the buck, and Dobsonian Newtonians are even better bargains, though a dob can't track objects as they can't use an equatorial mount. I have an 8" dob, and a small 80mm refractor, but what I'd really like is a
3) Cassegrain: , which is like an optically "folded" newtonian - they're small, light, and powerful, but not as cheap as newtonians.
You can look here for starters: http://www.telescope.com/ (Orion)
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Don't forget to factor in stone per rood and quid cubed.
You don't read much, do you?
While the story takes place in parts of the US, the US is on the list of countries that doesn't mandate military service of it's citizens, in contrast to Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Turkey, South Korea, Brazil, etc.. (note that the draft is not quite the same thing and the US doesn't even have that anymore). Not to mention, when it was released, (1997), Clinton had reduced the military.
But then the movie also takes place in the future.
It was definitely a tongue-in-cheek campfest, I thought everyone would've picked up on the sarcasm.
I dunno, an awful lot of immoral, unethical stuff has been done in the name of "morality" throughout history.. it kind of depends on one's point of view.
I hope it never does. I agree that all over-the-top niceties like "Good morning, I disrepectfully must disagree.." tend to beat around the bush and are a bit stiff. But the "Fuck you" and "You're a moron" type crap is just plain anti-social, angry, hating, and really uncalled for in almost all cases, except for obvious trolls which should be ignored anyway. ..or if you're justifiably provoked by someone who responds that way when unprovoked. If that's the direction society moves towards in the future, where that becomes the norm for for real life conversations, we're heading for a dsytopia I want no part of.
My pet peeve is overuse of the term "download".. like years ago, when my FIL says he "downloaded" the file off the CD he put in his CD drive to his Desktop. I guess "copied" doesn't sound contemporary enough; I didn't have the heart to tell him a download/upload only applies to files moved across a network at the time, he was so happy he just figured out how to do it.
I wouldn't say I was over my head but when I tried to root my phone on more then one occasion, it didn't work. The biggest problem is that the forum posts are not organized with what is current in most cases and you find out after reading post 205 that the particular how to or way to root had been fubar'd by a provider update.
(*note, I've been to numerous forums and they all suffer the disorganization issues which may be unavoidable when things change so rapidly.).
This, so much. On one hand, I don't want to complain about the forums and the developers because I could never have rooted my phone without the info, and I appreciate having the help and info, but OTOH it sure isn't a very straightforward process to find the right information for your particular model of phone, as even the carriers make changes to the base mfg models, then the specific version of Android on top of that.
Example: At one point I messed my rooted Fascinate up pretty badly trying to upgrade the kernel.. but then, I still had the stock Touch Whiz ROM on it, lol. Even though I'd spent hours and hours reading posts and how to's, it was only afterward I realized I had to install a custom ROM before trying to mod the kernel.. D'oh I thought it was the other way around. I never bricked it though, that seems like it would be hard to do. I got everything back.
To date, I haven't attempted any other modifications other than rooting it, as that was enough to rid me of the bloatware, but I'm getting itchier and itchier to try cyanogenmod or maybe even just Gee-whiz, for the heck of it.
Perhaps you missed this part of the summary then:
"...there has been a 361% increase in 'pen register' and 'trap-and-trace' orders between 2009 and 2011.
That's a hell of an increase. But still somehow it's all Bush's fault...?
FWIW, I have no idea how to do it on mine either. Frankly, it doesn't look possible; though I suppose it's also possible that different models may work just a little differently. As has been mentioned already in this thread though, it shouldn't have been difficult to get the logs from the carrier, that'd definitely prove whether he's lying or telling the truth.
Bach in the day?
I've got a similar "low end" system, Core i3, 6 GB ram, (and of course HD2000 graphics); it's not the greatest currently but it gets you by. Compared to what I've been using for the past 8 years though (P4 2.8GHz 2GB ram), it totally screams. I've been revisiting Quake 3, Portal 2, Half Life2, Left for Dead, and (heh) Return to Castle Wolfenstein with that setup. Yep, mostly older games, but those are from when I gamed a lot. It's definitely impressive for an integrated solution, but I really don't game all that much anymore normally.. it's only because I have a new computer.
That said though, if I really get back into gaming again, I'll want a separate nvidia card, definitely. Even the cheap ones rock. I doubt the HD2000 could handle a game like Rage very well (admittedly a bit of an educated guess here)
Wrong, asshole, I was doing 75
:-)
That could be beneficial, cars with a hive mindet, I suppose. If it's implemented right, it'd be like a large flock of birds in flight, suddenly changing direction or speed all at once, in unison, with never a collision. (It still amazes me sometimes that they can do that and not knock some of themselves out of the sky.) I guess schools of fish do that too.
No, you read it a little too literally, what I gave was the gist of the situation: first, she blew by me, then couldn't proceed any further because she quickly came up to the back bumper of a car in her lane that was going slower than everyone else, so she had to slow down; then she decided my lane was better..so she cut me off as she squeezed over between me and the car in front of me, when there definitely wasn't a safe amount of space to do that. Jesus, did you want a second by second account with video too?
My first gut instinct is, this is bad, bad, bad.. but then I think of the stupid beatch in the Hyundai that blew by me at 85mph, then cut into my lane, making me slam my brakes on while driving to work this morning.. so maybe it's not so bad.
Not to mention, the original submission didn't mention terrorism either. Slashdot is going down the drain...
-or deliberately trying to stir up shit.
Not wanting to ban incandescents is not the same as being against efficient light bulbs. That's a false dichotomy. But then your post is full of strange logic. CFLs are full of mercury, and most generally are harsh, to many people. Personally, I'd love to go with LEDs, but they're just too pricey to replace all the bulbs in the house. Most people, including the evil conservatives you mention, would probably flock to the more efficient LED bulbs if they were just more immediately affordable.
Pbbthsstt! I just spit my coffee out..! Fuck my mod points, I had to respond.
Seriously, did you just type rot in a bank? Do you even have any idea how an economy functions? Money doesn't sit stagnate in a bank, locked up on a shelf for it's owner; it's used: loaned out, invested, recirculated... Where do you think the money that banks use to give people loans and mortgages comes from? It's the money it's account holders have deposited. They don't lock it all away just in case overnight, everyone suddenly decides to withdrawal their accounts in fulll..actually, that would be devastating to the economy. The only real difference is, the money is circulating at a higher level than the general retail sector, but it's plenty dynamic, and doing the economy good. It's when people decide to hoard it by stuffing it in a mattress, like they did during the depression, that's when it rots.
Small minded? No, that would be you and the GP. His point is, if stereotyping and pigeonholing are so evil, why does someone on the Left engage in the very thing the democrats supposedly rail against? Caricaturization of human beings is the first desensitizing step away from reality, . Moot point though, the mods took care of it.
You have to vibrate really rapidly when your picture is being snapped - short exposure time and all that ;p
Actually, yes. Lincoln had Habeas Corpus suspended during the Civil War. It was reinstated afterward.
Even the most sham-elected de facto dictatorship on the planet blows the doors off any theocracy ever, when it comes to "closer to a true democracy". At some point, the people can appeal to a (human) tyrant, and he might respond to their concerns. Whether or not it exists, god never responds. We need to get out of the Middle East/North Africa, until the savages either settle their differences or kill each other off. Screw this "democracy" crap, we've now plunged three "questionable" but relatively secular democracies into borderline (or even outright) sharia over the past decade. We need to quit while only that far behind.
I agree with the first statement, there's bound to be a little more reason there..
but anyway, in regards to "getting out now", how much time do you think that will buy us? Does anyone really believe that these religious nutjobs, violent members of a proselytizing religion, are going to be forever content in their sandy, barren corner of the world? Is that what the Hindu's in India during Ghandi's time thought? It would be swell if they killed themselves off or settled down, but that's not what's happening: instead, one faction manages to subjugate the other (i.e. the Taliban) and then imposes it's iron grip on the region.
We can get out of there now, and leave a total nightmare for our children and granddhildren to have to deal with when these savages come to enforce the word of Mohammad over the whole of the earth, or deal with this now, before the militant islamists get any more powerful.
Point taken. I've been out of the game for a while. Light pollution in my neighborhood is so bad I've taken a hiatus from stargazing. ;)
BTW, I forgot to mention some ballpark prices, but I would venture that a worthwhile beginner's scope could run anywhere from between maybe $200 or $300 to $600 or more, but even that's highly subjective. Then of course, there are the accessories, like add'l eyepieces, which can raise expenditures significantly. Like any good hobby, you can sink more money into it than you ever dreamed you would at the onset.
A couple of things to know:
* Aperture (thus ability to gather light) is more important than magnification.
* There are essentially 3 kinds of scopes:
1) Refractor (classic design)
2) Newtonian reflector (more affordable). Newtonians are generally less money and give you more bang for the buck, and Dobsonian Newtonians are even better bargains, though a dob can't track objects as they can't use an equatorial mount. I have an 8" dob, and a small 80mm refractor, but what I'd really like is a
3) Cassegrain: , which is like an optically "folded" newtonian - they're small, light, and powerful, but not as cheap as newtonians.
You can look here for starters: http://www.telescope.com/ (Orion)
Expect strange cylinders to start landing all over Earth in the next 24 to 48 hours. Wells almost got it right.