It would be nice if these samples had been collected in the correct manner
You see people, this is why I've set up a petition to fund an army of scientists which will be deployed at one-meter intervals to cover the entire earth! In case anything interresting ever happens, we'll have qualified people with the right equipment right there to take samples and measurments.
And they said I was being unrealistic... the FOOLS!
Hasn't the Earth been warming up since the last iceage?
and
Hasn't the polar ice caps been receeding since the last ice age?
No.
and
No.
There's been cycles, there were freak occurences, such as the Year Without Summer in the 19th century (volcanic ash), but there has not been a steady warm up. That's a lie told to help ignore evidence such as this, in order to maintain the status quo, so that the currently rich will keep getting steadily richer. Don't believe it; don't spread it.
How can the rate of an observation be "alarming" if it has only recorded 3 of 6,000,000,000 years of existense?
The polar ice caps have not been there for billions of years.
If there's ice there now, it's because it ACCUMULATED in the past, now it's retreating.
Plaeoclimatologists have been digging up ice layers to study the aformentioned accumulations, which is a record of its very existance. Like rings in a tree, except vertical, and cold.
If Microsoft can figure out a way to separate informational sites, commerce sites, and opinion sites - and allow you to get what class you want
They can't even allow me to select the words I want in a paragraph! It's the whole thing or none at all. If they can't resist telling me what I want to select, they will not make it easy for me to visit the sites I want.
whats the big deal... why is it looked down upon if someone simply is trying to get ad revenue
Because it's a scam to divert people from the REAL content. They just reword the content from someone else to try and fool people into visiting their site. Once the user gets there, he'll realise that it's all fluff and go, but he's been had, the ad company's been had, the search engine's been had, and the only winner is the scammer who made a buck by polluting the net with useless reworded copies of information he ripped from someone that would have deserved that ad revenue.
It's quite common for young teens and late preteens to play "taunt the pedophile" with naughty, often slutty, pictures.
Indeed. I'm often amazed that so many people seem to refuse to accept the existance of exhibitionists.
Sluts and teases often are exhibitionists. They enjoy having people drool at them. Some use "mooning" as a socially aceptable outlet for their desire to show their ass to people, and now there's the joy of webcams, where they can, from the security of their own room, show their nubile bodies to countless strangers.
Off course, there are laws against exhibitionism (especially for those under an arbitrary age), as there are laws against oral sex (in some places), but when has it ever been enough to tell teenagers not to do something they want to do? That usually makes them want to do it more just for the joy of rebelling.
I've seen Cory talk at a few forums/conference and while espousing the virtues of free software and damning DRM he never seems to be able to answer a question from the floor about how he can justify giving money to Apple, a pro DRM company in a ready position to radically monopolise our rights to the music we buy and listen to. He will however suggest economic boycott of any other company that does support and invest in restricting the rights of users. He just doesn't seem prepared to see that every time he gets up on stage with his Powerbook and in casual chat, espousing the joys of iTunes, he's contradicting his own ethics.
I buy a new Powerbook every ten months, and because I always order the new models the day they're announced, I get a lot of lemons from Apple. That means that I hit Apple's three-iTunes-authorized-computers limit pretty early on and found myself unable to play the hundreds of dollars' worth of iTunes songs I'd bought because one of my authorized machines was a lemon that Apple had broken up for parts, one was in the shop getting fixed by Apple, and one was my mom's computer, 3,000 miles away in Toronto.
If I had been a less good customer for Apple's hardware, I would have been fine. If I had been a less enthusiastic evangelist for Apple's products -- if I hadn't shown my mom how iTunes Music Store worked -- I would have been fine. If I hadn't bought so much iTunes music that burning it to CD and re-ripping it and re-keying all my metadata was too daunting a task to consider, I would have been fine.
As it was Apple rewarded my trust, evangelism and out-of-control spending by treating me like a crook and locking me out of my own music, at a time when my Powerbook was in the shop -- i.e., at a time when I was hardly disposed to feel charitable to Apple.
He appeared to be talking to Microserfs, so I guess he was preaching to the choir a bit there.
I don't think Apple is pro-DRM though, I think Apple had to, and would do away with it as soon as they could.
Become as big as Microsoft, then you can do things like this. $1.1B, even over ten years, is a lot of money that could be reinvested in the company to provide more jobs and grow the company.
Yes, oh what an odd thing to do, to give some of your riches to a charity, when you could use these monies to amass yet more capital! Truly, these are fools!
Almost every time an African country manages a decent election, the opposition goes onto the warpath to try and take power. If they want to really shake things up, teach them the values that made America be able to unify and work together to become an industrial power.
Those values would be... being a colony of the empire that comes up with the industrial revolution, using superior armament and biological weapons to nearly wipe out the indeginous population and then using a well thought-out propaganda machine to make sure your citizens never think about all that stuff and see their own history through a rose-tinted glass?
Not, obviously, to use disposable income to give back to those let fortunate. That's not a value you want.
Sigh. I'm sorry about the sarcasm, but I find your attitude appaling. Someone says they want to help other people with their fortune, and you say "No! Be more like Microsoft!". I think I'm actually offended. Hell, I'm surprised you can get modded up around here, making statements like that... I guess the nati-Gates brigade was distracted by a shiny new distro or something.
If a nut did something violent in the name of Christianity, the vast, vast majority of Christianity would denounce the act and the practitioner. That doesn't seem to be the case with Islam. I'm not sure of the reason. Maybe they agree with the sentiment. Maybe they're scared of being targeted themselves. I'd like to think it's the latter rather than the former.
1- No, they don't. Bush invaded Iraq because Jesus told him too (dig up the relevant quotes yourself), I don't see the majority of U.S. Christians denouncing him, quite the contrary.
2- They do denounce the extremists, you're just not around to hear it when they do. Turn off CNN, go look for less one-sided news sources.
Doesn't sound very secret to me. Isn't secret when nobody knows about it?
It's secret like the Freemasons are a secret society, I guess.
Anyway, RTFBlurb, the secret is out because historians are getting told to fork over their documents, and aren't happy about it. Getting between an historian and his documents is like getting between a mama bear and her cubs, you know.
The government is not rewriting history, just denying access to it. [...] This here is not some Orwellian nightmare.
Ok, read this: "John Doe died in 1942 after being shot in the face by the president of the united states for looking at him funny. The president attended his funeral and pissed on his grave."
Now, I won't rewrite history, I will simply deny access to a part of it: "John Doe died in 1942. The president attended his funeral."
P.S. Any ressemblance between my example and real persons or events is purely coincidental. Use of "president" is made to give the anecdote a sense of historical relevance. No animals were hurt in the making of this comment.
I worked on the retail side during the 360 launch, and the demand was there. I don't know if it was a large demand, in terms of other launches, but it certainly exceeded the units we received (which only happened twice while I worked there, and both times they were small shipments.) As most know, the story was similar just about everywhere. I think Microsoft is mainly to blame for this:
They did it on purpose, for the free publicity of every news outlet running a story titled "Xbox 360 Sells out on first day". Making people think "hmmm... this thing's popular... it must be good!".
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Somewhere inside of Apple, engineers are shaking their heads at this guy and the damage he's done to the Mac's reputation.
And somewhere in Redmond, someone is writing him a cheque.
It would be nice if these samples had been collected in the correct manner
You see people, this is why I've set up a petition to fund an army of scientists which will be deployed at one-meter intervals to cover the entire earth! In case anything interresting ever happens, we'll have qualified people with the right equipment right there to take samples and measurments.
And they said I was being unrealistic... the FOOLS!
He also happens to own The Sun.
Rupert Murdoch owns the Sky AND the Sun?!?
But the moon is still free, right? Right?
Yeah, but boys are often shorter than girls around that age.
That would apply if they were the same age.
So to me it sounds more like a forced obsolescence plan to get people to upgrade to higher end PCs.
You mean like Vista's window management?
Hasn't the Earth been warming up since the last iceage?
and
Hasn't the polar ice caps been receeding since the last ice age?
No.
and
No.
There's been cycles, there were freak occurences, such as the Year Without Summer in the 19th century (volcanic ash), but there has not been a steady warm up. That's a lie told to help ignore evidence such as this, in order to maintain the status quo, so that the currently rich will keep getting steadily richer. Don't believe it; don't spread it.
Therefore, if you live farther away than, what was it? 20 miles? TURN OFF ALL YOUR POWER! DC current can't go that far.
However, if you enjoy distributed power, no, no he certainly was not.
Click the cursor where you want the selection to begin, hold down shift, and use the arrow or PageUp/Dn keys.
I know, I know, but I meant with the mouse.
Those autoselection things are like clippy to me: a HUGE nuisance that never once was usefull.
But what exactly is Apple going to do? What would they do for stereo equipment?
Oh, I dunno, they could do... this?
If Microsoft can figure out a way to separate informational sites, commerce sites, and opinion sites - and allow you to get what class you want
They can't even allow me to select the words I want in a paragraph!
It's the whole thing or none at all. If they can't resist telling me what I want to select, they will not make it easy for me to visit the sites I want.
Microsoft has been showing the signs of being able to build a search engine to rival Google for some time now.
How much did they pay you to write that?
whats the big deal... why is it looked down upon if someone simply is trying to get ad revenue
Because it's a scam to divert people from the REAL content.
They just reword the content from someone else to try and fool people into visiting their site. Once the user gets there, he'll realise that it's all fluff and go, but he's been had, the ad company's been had, the search engine's been had, and the only winner is the scammer who made a buck by polluting the net with useless reworded copies of information he ripped from someone that would have deserved that ad revenue.
Lindsey says Lara will mark the comeback for Eidos, a company which has, in recent years, lost its reputation for innovation.
I'm sure that releasing the nth sequel of a tired franchise will bring back their reputation for innovation.
It's quite common for young teens and late preteens to play "taunt the pedophile" with naughty, often slutty, pictures.
Indeed. I'm often amazed that so many people seem to refuse to accept the existance of exhibitionists.
Sluts and teases often are exhibitionists. They enjoy having people drool at them. Some use "mooning" as a socially aceptable outlet for their desire to show their ass to people, and now there's the joy of webcams, where they can, from the security of their own room, show their nubile bodies to countless strangers.
Off course, there are laws against exhibitionism (especially for those under an arbitrary age), as there are laws against oral sex (in some places), but when has it ever been enough to tell teenagers not to do something they want to do? That usually makes them want to do it more just for the joy of rebelling.
I couldn't give a stuff if Japanese have to wait a whole 9 days
But 9 japanese days is like 42 American days!
He will however suggest economic boycott of any other company that does support and invest in restricting the rights of users. He just doesn't seem prepared to see that every time he gets up on stage with his Powerbook and in casual chat, espousing the joys of iTunes, he's contradicting his own ethics.
From a link I found higher up this thread:
He appeared to be talking to Microserfs, so I guess he was preaching to the choir a bit there.
I don't think Apple is pro-DRM though, I think Apple had to, and would do away with it as soon as they could.
Become as big as Microsoft, then you can do things like this. $1.1B, even over ten years, is a lot of money that could be reinvested in the company to provide more jobs and grow the company.
Yes, oh what an odd thing to do, to give some of your riches to a charity, when you could use these monies to amass yet more capital! Truly, these are fools!
Almost every time an African country manages a decent election, the opposition goes onto the warpath to try and take power. If they want to really shake things up, teach them the values that made America be able to unify and work together to become an industrial power.
Those values would be... being a colony of the empire that comes up with the industrial revolution, using superior armament and biological weapons to nearly wipe out the indeginous population and then using a well thought-out propaganda machine to make sure your citizens never think about all that stuff and see their own history through a rose-tinted glass?
Not, obviously, to use disposable income to give back to those let fortunate. That's not a value you want.
Sigh. I'm sorry about the sarcasm, but I find your attitude appaling.
Someone says they want to help other people with their fortune, and you say "No! Be more like Microsoft!". I think I'm actually offended.
Hell, I'm surprised you can get modded up around here, making statements like that... I guess the nati-Gates brigade was distracted by a shiny new distro or something.
If a nut did something violent in the name of Christianity, the vast, vast majority of Christianity would denounce the act and the practitioner. That doesn't seem to be the case with Islam. I'm not sure of the reason. Maybe they agree with the sentiment. Maybe they're scared of being targeted themselves. I'd like to think it's the latter rather than the former.
1- No, they don't. Bush invaded Iraq because Jesus told him too (dig up the relevant quotes yourself), I don't see the majority of U.S. Christians denouncing him, quite the contrary.
2- They do denounce the extremists, you're just not around to hear it when they do. Turn off CNN, go look for less one-sided news sources.
Doesn't sound very secret to me. Isn't secret when nobody knows about it?
It's secret like the Freemasons are a secret society, I guess.
Anyway, RTFBlurb, the secret is out because historians are getting told to fork over their documents, and aren't happy about it. Getting between an historian and his documents is like getting between a mama bear and her cubs, you know.
The government is not rewriting history, just denying access to it. [...] This here is not some Orwellian nightmare.
Ok, read this:
"John Doe died in 1942 after being shot in the face by the president of the united states for looking at him funny. The president attended his funeral and pissed on his grave."
Now, I won't rewrite history, I will simply deny access to a part of it:
"John Doe died in 1942. The president attended his funeral."
P.S. Any ressemblance between my example and real persons or events is purely coincidental. Use of "president" is made to give the anecdote a sense of historical relevance. No animals were hurt in the making of this comment.
the whole idea of "Homeland Security Departments" was hatched by liberals
Explain.
How is a step towards a police state a "liberal" idea, exactly?
I worked on the retail side during the 360 launch, and the demand was there. I don't know if it was a large demand, in terms of other launches, but it certainly exceeded the units we received (which only happened twice while I worked there, and both times they were small shipments.) As most know, the story was similar just about everywhere.
I think Microsoft is mainly to blame for this:
They did it on purpose, for the free publicity of every news outlet running a story titled "Xbox 360 Sells out on first day". Making people think "hmmm... this thing's popular... it must be good!".
Wellcome to marketing: The friendly face of evil.
The Sims might most accurately be called a
Virtual doll house.
I'm more worried about who owns the pool hall...