You knew the deal when you signed up for service, it's only whiners who want to stop competition who suggest that renting your princess phone is too expensive. Exactly. So don't rent one. Problem solved. It's not like you have some natural right to possess an iPhone. Apple (and whoever else is involved in this) does not owe you anything. What was that sound, up above? Oh my, that was the point missing your head! http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,267757,00.html
DST is set by local governments. This is an entirely different thing, an international standards body messing around with time, instead.
BTW: I'm of the opinion that it's not DST that should be abolished, but non-DST. Non-DST time is a good mathematical division of the day, centred equally around 12:00 (+- 30mins). Unfortunately, as a society, we seem to have decided to centre our actual lives around 13:00 instead. Switching permanently to DST would fix this. Yes, instead of getting to work an hour later, we'll just fuck up the entire time-keeping system by shifting THAT one hour!
Because the arbitrary time at which people must be at work is sacred! It is of the utmost importance that this be preserved, and coherent solar-cycle inspired chronological systems be damned!
I think removing the leap second is just silly I think it's sinister, not silly: The upcoming leap second might be the last. The United States has proposed to a working group of the International Telecommunication Union that leap seconds be abolished. The justification for the proposal is that leap seconds are cumbersome and their incorrect use could lead to problems with electronic navigation systems such as GPS. Furthermore, they would argue that the only reason UTC is being kept close to UT1 is for the sake of navigators making traditional astronomical observations with sextants. And with GPS so widely available, there are fewer and fewer navigators who even know how to use a sextant. But the debate on the abolition of leap seconds is far from over. Stay tuned. Richard B. Langley 14 September 2005
They want to increase global dependence on GPS. A system that can be turned off or scrambled by one nation should not be used for critical operations by the rest of the world.
A leap minute every 10 years (or so)? That would still be within the lifetime of the people proposing that we shift this problem unto future generations. That's the problem with that idea.
Of course, the real problem is that the rotation of the Earth is not constant (the leap seconds are mostly driven by fluid motions in the core). This! This is exactly the kind of stuff I come to slashdot for, first thing in the morning. Now I have something geeky and obscure to investigate today: the effects of fluid motion in the core on the length of a day! Sweet.
Just use your ten fingers to represent a binary number. Make sure you order the bits properly! We'd certainly end up a more dexterous population...
That would be an interesting transition period as people got used to indicating or recognizing the numbers 4 or 128...
Just another way the chinese will get ahead of us, the #4 is already unlucky there;-)
But joking aside, when I count in binary on my fingers, I keep the folded fingers half-extended (I fold on the first joint away from the away) precisely to avoid this little imbroglio.
That weed is a magic cure for "X". A while back they where offering it for glaucoma then M.S. and now cancer. In the end it's still used mostly for getting high. I don't care what you do, but until there is a viable way to get all the positive herbal healing from it, don't sound the "smoke weed to cure [blah]" horns. It was listed by Hypocrates as a cure-all. It was prescribed by Queen Victoria's doctor.
It was then made illegal under false pretenses, kept illegal "pending review", and kept illegal under new false pretenses once the scientific review proved it shouldn't be illegal. No honest, free-thinking, educated person wants this to be illegal.
THC selectively decreases the proliferation of malignant cells and induces cell death in human GBM cell lines. Healthy cells in the study were unaffected by THC administration.
Separate preclinical studies indicate that cannabinoids and endocannabinoids can stave off tumor progression and trigger cell death in other cancer cell lines, including breast carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, colectoral carcinoma, skin carcinoma, and pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
"Trolling" is a way to share the pain. In other words, when folks say crap to get a rise out of others, I think they want to cause others pain - pain that they're feeling. It's a way of striking back. Which is really sad. Misery loves company.
Commenting online is a why to vent anger at at shit you can't normally vent at. I've seen many comment here about how "stupid" their management or users are/is. And that has absolutely nothing to do with trolling, which are attempts at generating anger in others.
he wasn't the reason that Tesla died broke... Tesla did that to himself. And I suppose it was Tesla who denied himself the radio patent until after his death? He burned down his own lab? He killed an elephant on film to FUD people away from his invention? Etc?
wireless power transmission is possible but not at efficiancies that makes it usefull for anything more than extremely low power items (like your crystal radio). Teslas ideas of large scale wireless power distribution were a pipe dream. Heavier than air flying machines are also a pipe dream, until someone figures out the trick to it. And according to the math used for airplanes, bumblebees cannot fly.
+, How do you know he wanted to transmit power solely through the air? Ground transmission is also wireless...
Just like most of us here on Slashdot don't know (without the assistance of a search engine) who won the 1982 Super Bowl. Different things matter to different people But Tesla actually mattered, in the grand scheme of things. It's not "who threw the ball the most that day", it's who made humanity progress by leaps and bounds, and how.
I don't have a problem with HushMail sharing information about customers engaging in illegal behavior with the authorities. Those people don't deserve their activities to be protected - they're illegal. Things can be made illegal at a whim or your masters. Be wary of allowing them to dictate what is and is not right.
In the guise? Look around, stores full of valuables are protected by no more than a mere sheet of very breakable glass, foreigners walk the streets, people come and go peacefully and in good health busying themselves to their various affairs.
I think you miss the point, sir. I believe the original poster is specifically referring to the 50+% of the budget than goes to such federal programs as Welfare, Medicare/Medicaid, and Social Security, all of which meet the definition of "guise of improving the standard of living" quite perfectly. Nope, you missed the point. Those programs don't stop people from being poor, they stop them from being poor enough that they'll revolt and take the food their hungry bellies demand from the stores by force, at night.
YouTube was terrible from the very beginning. The only reason anyone puts up with the site is because it is so popular, and the only reason that it is popular is because of the media coverage of the Lazy Sunday removal. No: http://www.google.com/trends?q=youTube That was in early 2006, and there's a bummp, barely visible, that corresponds to it on the google trends, but that was by no means a significant event overall.
Youtube is popular because it has anything and everything. Low-quality beats not-available any day of the week.
Dude, all your goodies cost less than 5% of your taxes, the rest 35%+ goes direct to the suits that run the banks! Well, corruption is always a problem.
If you look at your paycheck, you're already giving up an excessive amount of your money under the guise of improving the standard of living in your nation. In the guise? Look around, stores full of valuables are protected by no more than a mere sheet of very breakable glass, foreigners walk the streets, people come and go peacefully and in good health busying themselves to their various affairs.
Paved roads to every house! Electricity lighting every street! Clean water, hot or cold, at my whim! Garbage picked up twice a week! Streets swept! The city bus rolls around predictably for out convenience...
My nation's standards of living are pretty fucking awesome, I just walked to the fridge to get some frikkin' milk and honey for my coffee, my feet warm on a cold autumn day: It's like I'm living in the promised land of legends!
It's a rare movie or game that gets played more than 2 or 3 times for me I only buy movies I know I'll want to see again.
But movies and games are a more immersive experience, I rarely just sit and listen to music, it's something I have on while I do other things. Movies and games, however, get my full attention for the time they are on.
I can't find myself fearing fearless mice. Why? Because there was most likely a very good reason for the mice that they are afraid of cats and large things that can eat them... I just can't seem to worry about these things getting loose and breeding in the wild. It's sort of like the fear of spiders, snakes, bears, and large cats. There are very valid reasons for humans to be naturally afraid of things that can kill/harm and maybe eat us. It's not the mice I'm afraid of, it's the supersoldier program to which this could be applied.
Of course, I'm not entirely sure they took out the mice's fear as much as their ability to detect the smell... maybe that's in TFA, I'll go see.
It's ironic that Firefox (and the rest of Mozilla) is supported primarily by dollars derived from advertising-supported content, while most of the discussions of the features Firefox has revolve around it's functionality for depriving dollars from much of the other advertising-supported content their users want to look at. Not too ironic. Whenever there is a conversation about annoying ads, the one exception mentioned is google's text ads.
They're excluding the competition, why wouldn't they like that? And they're proving you don't have to be annoying to make ads, why wouldn't we like that?
Well, it needn't. See this traceroute from the UK:
...
8 core1-pos3-2.kingston.ukcore.bt.net (62.6.40.113) 31.909 ms 31.529 ms 30.066 ms
9 core1-pos0-1-5-0.ilford.ukcore.bt.net (62.6.201.117) 31.982 ms 32.626 ms 31.995 ms 10 core1-pos9-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (62.6.201.118) 30.093 ms 32.397 ms 31.681 ms 11 lon31-british-telecom-2-uk.lon.seabone.net (195.22.209.45) 31.850 ms 32.295 ms 31.933 ms 12 customer-side-saudi-telecom-kacst-4-sa-pal6.pal.seabone.net (195.22.197.190) 137.921 ms 139.951 ms 138.016 ms 13 vlan1.ruh-acc4.isu.net.sa (212.138.112.23) 137.782 ms 144.315 ms 138.121 ms 14 citc.ruh-cust.isu.net.sa (212.26.19.230) 207.780 ms 188.280 ms 210.144 ms
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,267757,00.html
BTW: I'm of the opinion that it's not DST that should be abolished, but non-DST. Non-DST time is a good mathematical division of the day, centred equally around 12:00 (+- 30mins). Unfortunately, as a society, we seem to have decided to centre our actual lives around 13:00 instead. Switching permanently to DST would fix this. Yes, instead of getting to work an hour later, we'll just fuck up the entire time-keeping system by shifting THAT one hour!
Because the arbitrary time at which people must be at work is sacred! It is of the utmost importance that this be preserved, and coherent solar-cycle inspired chronological systems be damned!
Richard B. Langley
14 September 2005
They want to increase global dependence on GPS. A system that can be turned off or scrambled by one nation should not be used for critical operations by the rest of the world.
That's the problem with that idea.
Now I have something geeky and obscure to investigate today: the effects of fluid motion in the core on the length of a day! Sweet.
That would be an interesting transition period as people got used to indicating or recognizing the numbers 4 or 128...
Just another way the chinese will get ahead of us, the #4 is already unlucky thereBut joking aside, when I count in binary on my fingers, I keep the folded fingers half-extended (I fold on the first joint away from the away) precisely to avoid this little imbroglio.
I don't care what you do, but until there is a viable way to get all the positive herbal healing from it, don't sound the "smoke weed to cure [blah]" horns. It was listed by Hypocrates as a cure-all.
It was prescribed by Queen Victoria's doctor.
It was then made illegal under false pretenses, kept illegal "pending review", and kept illegal under new false pretenses once the scientific review proved it shouldn't be illegal. No honest, free-thinking, educated person wants this to be illegal.
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6947
THC selectively decreases the proliferation of malignant cells and induces cell death in human GBM cell lines. Healthy cells in the study were unaffected by THC administration.
Separate preclinical studies indicate that cannabinoids and endocannabinoids can stave off tumor progression and trigger cell death in other cancer cell lines, including breast carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, colectoral carcinoma, skin carcinoma, and pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
And according to the math used for airplanes, bumblebees cannot fly.
+, How do you know he wanted to transmit power solely through the air? Ground transmission is also wireless...
It's not "who threw the ball the most that day", it's who made humanity progress by leaps and bounds, and how.
I think you miss the point, sir.
I believe the original poster is specifically referring to the 50+% of the budget than goes to such federal programs as Welfare, Medicare/Medicaid, and Social Security, all of which meet the definition of "guise of improving the standard of living" quite perfectly. Nope, you missed the point.
Those programs don't stop people from being poor, they stop them from being poor enough that they'll revolt and take the food their hungry bellies demand from the stores by force, at night.
It's bread and games, and it works as intended.
That was in early 2006, and there's a bummp, barely visible, that corresponds to it on the google trends, but that was by no means a significant event overall.
Youtube is popular because it has anything and everything. Low-quality beats not-available any day of the week.
Look around, stores full of valuables are protected by no more than a mere sheet of very breakable glass, foreigners walk the streets, people come and go peacefully and in good health busying themselves to their various affairs.
Paved roads to every house!
Electricity lighting every street!
Clean water, hot or cold, at my whim!
Garbage picked up twice a week! Streets swept!
The city bus rolls around predictably for out convenience...
My nation's standards of living are pretty fucking awesome, I just walked to the fridge to get some frikkin' milk and honey for my coffee, my feet warm on a cold autumn day: It's like I'm living in the promised land of legends!
But movies and games are a more immersive experience, I rarely just sit and listen to music, it's something I have on while I do other things.
Movies and games, however, get my full attention for the time they are on.
It's sort of like the fear of spiders, snakes, bears, and large cats. There are very valid reasons for humans to be naturally afraid of things that can kill/harm and maybe eat us. It's not the mice I'm afraid of, it's the supersoldier program to which this could be applied.
Of course, I'm not entirely sure they took out the mice's fear as much as their ability to detect the smell... maybe that's in TFA, I'll go see.
They're excluding the competition, why wouldn't they like that?
And they're proving you don't have to be annoying to make ads, why wouldn't we like that?
Sometimes they're "news" stories.