- recycling reduces VOLUMES of trash. Glass is not a raw material problem, but a landfill one.
- burning paper in incinerators (Europe style) effectively releases into the atmosphere all the CO2 that the trees absorbed.
When I were a lad, we used to have to cut down our OWN redwoods, using only a herring. Then file them to pencil shape with nothing but a nail file and inject lead rods with our own, naked, bleeding hands.
'an we considered ourselves lucky the days we had paper to write on!
Just let me get this straight... you actually think that anything thrown back at advertisers is dishonest. Sheesh, how do you qualify what they're doing to us????;)
Maybe another, better, version of AdBlock would load the ad into/dev/null and even click on it, again into/dev/null. That way, revenue created and surf's clean.
(does Slashdot post submission hold as a legal patent?)
In my time we didn't have no auto-completion, noooo! We considered ourselves lucky when we were given a keyboard with a "return" key. And those were the 'appiest days of my life!
Metal, Punk, Goth, hippie... these scenes often provide a place to be accepted for misfits, be they physically or intellectually different. And contrarily to what most grannies think (and here I admit to gross generalisation) these groups are very open to other people, very much less image-oriented than top-of-the-poppers.
Yeah, my nick gives a pretty good indication to which I adhered. Helped me grow out of my pure nerdy style, a place to put on a mask and be someone new while being out of the dank D'n'D cellar.
Slashdot Mirror
Except the good ol' US of A of course...
Russia's not bad either.
I'm safe; I'm Swedish
Work while the boss is draining the main vein.
Good points well made.
Two issues issue you are missing however:
- recycling reduces VOLUMES of trash. Glass is not a raw material problem, but a landfill one.
- burning paper in incinerators (Europe style) effectively releases into the atmosphere all the CO2 that the trees absorbed.
We'll send it off for research at Virginia Tech.
oooH!
When I were a lad, we used to have to cut down our OWN redwoods, using only a herring. Then file them to pencil shape with nothing but a nail file and inject lead rods with our own, naked, bleeding hands.
'an we considered ourselves lucky the days we had paper to write on!
Just let me get this straight... you actually think that anything thrown back at advertisers is dishonest . ;)
Sheesh, how do you qualify what they're doing to us????
I mean, there are only so many companies interested...
schwab.safe
proway.safe
phoenix.safe
fireking.safe
sentry.safe
Maybe a two dozen max?
Maybe another, better, version of AdBlock would load the ad into
That way, revenue created and surf's clean.
(does Slashdot post submission hold as a legal patent?)
In my time we didn't have no auto-completion, noooo!
We considered ourselves lucky when we were given a keyboard with a "return" key.
And those were the 'appiest days of my life!
When I were young, we 'ad a DL/I and a beating a day we considered ourselves LUCKY.
Metal, Punk, Goth, hippie
Yeah, my nick gives a pretty good indication to which I adhered. Helped me grow out of my pure nerdy style, a place to put on a mask and be someone new while being out of the dank D'n'D cellar.
Wooosh!
Thar blows another joke cap'n!
I can see the two states; photon=1, photoff=0.
Ehm.. port forwarding?
Goriest thing I've heard this week.
+1 Interesting, +1 Funny
Like they were scared away from MS when Fidel bought licences?
I think not.
How did this get +5 Funny ? Al Gore didn't have mod points, I take it.
Jokes aside here guys, but what's the point?
Because WE CAN! That's what nerds do.
I don't even think this is a joke...
I was going to rate this a -1 Troll, but then I realised trolls were another character class altogether.
Yeah, or Richard Dean Anderson
....
...
..
.
No?
*cough* *cough*
Would that be gullible as in ready to believe anything, or gullable as in "able to gull," i.e. in reference to the bird?
Which will breed more blind.. who will hunt.. who will pepper.. more blind.. hunt.. pepper
M$ are going to tell my company (70,000 emplyees, Linux 3rd server platform): we can sue you now unless you switch over.
And
I guess most male CS students will have coded something similar at least once to D/L pr0n.
I did one in shell and one in TCL/TK.