If I had a replicator [...] you can bet your ass I would be using it, especially to replicate [...] high-tech gadgets.
Yeah, if you had a replicator you'd have it self-replicate itself in some sort of "gray goo" scenario... I'm on to you! No replicator for you until you watch that TNG ep where Wesley messes with nanites.
Those are not examples of violence. Just because something is violent, does not make it translate into violence. A storm can be violent but no one would say it is impacting violence.
There's always a fucking moron to argue about the meaning of words without bothering to open a dictionary. There needs to be a new captcha, one where you have to prove you understand what you're typing before being allowed to just type ignorant tripe and press "submit". *sigh*
Can you think of a situation where violence is not inherently bad? I can think of many where it is the lesser of two evils, or just punishment, an understandable response, etc., but not any where it's actually something I would consider "good".
CPR is a very violent, lifesaving act. When done correctly it usually breaks ribs.
Also, slicing people open with a knife is usually a bad idea, and yet some very smart people have distinguished careers doing just that.
If he already is in possession of he obviously needed a manual to create it in the first place. Why is the intent more clearly estables when you find that manual?
wtf kind of logic is that?
Maybe he was just trying to make a soufflé, but he's a horrible cook!
You need the recipe to prove he's a competent terrorist and not an incompetent chef.
"Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling?"
For a second I thought you were referring to the TV and Radio broadcast industry as it has existed for the last... oh,70 to 80 years?
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?" Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
Why are you using this argument to support H.264 rather than, say, Theora? Currently, more users have support for Theora than H.264 (in the HTML5 video tag), because Firefox's marketshare is twice that of Chrome and Safari combined.
'cause I've recently had teachers express their desire for everything to be in H.264, and it's pretty much the standard for media CREATION, so it will be the standard for playback as well.
... finding out that the USSR was so careless they had six "petrocalamities" worth trying this trick on?
I'm actually thinking that number seems low. Russians do not give a fuck about the environment, human rights, or anything besides their own aggrandizement.
Seriously...if you have 100s of tabs open, you have ADD or you need to learn to let go of your tabs. Relax. Close them. They'll still be there when you wake up.
First, install the update when I shut down the browser. You're not wasting my time then because I'm done using it.
No, if I shut something off, I want it shut OFF. If I have renders to do, or whatever it is I wanted to do instead of use firefox, I do NOT want firefox to decide to stay open in the background, doing things.
h.264 and HTML5 aren't synonymous - HTML5 just provides a video container, the browser vendor decides what codecs to allow, so it's entirely possible to fully support HTML5 yet still have no h.264 support.
It was also possible to sell fully functional VCRs that weren't VHS. But it wasn't easy finding content for them.
Anybody from an area of the world that has salt applied to their roads in the winter care to share stories about salt corroding their car's undercarriage?
I was in this car once, you see, and the floor had a hole in it, on account of the rust from all that road salt.
Fascinating stuff, right? I don't usually bring it up because it's sure to threadjack and derail any ongoing conversation with the implacably captivating qualities of such an anecdote, but you brought it up.
It's not so much fixed as unreproducible by way of disabling the entire "follow" feature. The twits are in a panic, wondering if they've offended people since their followers have all disappeared.
Best of luck to them. I suggest they continue to work if they're able to (Retirement is an abboration in history; only one generation has been able to do it). I myself plan on working until the end.
if we don't provide what they want AARP is going to come wielding pitchforks on their golf carts?
Pretty much. Social programs keep human misery below the "bloody uprising" threshold, they are as important to social stability as police and fire services.
Let's also look at how he saw the Arizona immigration law: "Now, suddenly, if you don't have your papers, and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're going to get harassed -- that's something that could potentially happen". Well, the immigration law specifically PROHIBITS stopping anyone based on skin color.
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If I had a replicator [...] you can bet your ass I would be using it, especially to replicate [...] high-tech gadgets.
Yeah, if you had a replicator you'd have it self-replicate itself in some sort of "gray goo" scenario... I'm on to you! No replicator for you until you watch that TNG ep where Wesley messes with nanites.
The meme version of your post is :
" you wouldn't download a car
Fuck you
I would if I could."
the California teacher spouting off a few days ago
You really don't understand the difference between one teacher's opinion and a standard textbook distributed nationwide?
Those are not examples of violence. Just because something is violent, does not make it translate into violence. A storm can be violent but no one would say it is impacting violence.
No one except the DICTIONARY:
violence [vahy-uh-luhns]
–noun
1.
swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
There's always a fucking moron to argue about the meaning of words without bothering to open a dictionary. There needs to be a new captcha, one where you have to prove you understand what you're typing before being allowed to just type ignorant tripe and press "submit". *sigh*
Manifest Destiny [...] The White Man's Burden. Well meaning ideas
Those notions were born of rationalizations for exploitation, not good intentions.
to be biased in such an ignorant ham fisted manner is just disgusting.
I find it comforting in its obviousness. It's the subtle, insidious biases that disgusts me the most.
I think the goal is to achieve a middle-ground compromise between most American citizens' opinion
And schoolbooks are just one of the many tools used to shape those opinions.
I love the aping of a plot point from 1984. Unfortunately, being that they're morons, they don't know the extreme irony of what they're doing.
They're not doing it ironically.
How do you argue that violence is inherently bad?
Can you think of a situation where violence is not inherently bad? I can think of many where it is the lesser of two evils, or just punishment, an understandable response, etc., but not any where it's actually something I would consider "good".
CPR is a very violent, lifesaving act. When done correctly it usually breaks ribs.
Also, slicing people open with a knife is usually a bad idea, and yet some very smart people have distinguished careers doing just that.
What? How??
If he already is in possession of he obviously needed a manual to create it in the first place. Why is the intent more clearly estables when you find that manual?
wtf kind of logic is that?
Maybe he was just trying to make a soufflé, but he's a horrible cook!
You need the recipe to prove he's a competent terrorist and not an incompetent chef.
"Our eyes and minds are being sold to advertisers and you don't find that troubling?"
For a second I thought you were referring to the TV and Radio broadcast industry as it has existed for the last... oh,70 to 80 years?
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
Why are you using this argument to support H.264 rather than, say, Theora? Currently, more users have support for Theora than H.264 (in the HTML5 video tag), because Firefox's marketshare is twice that of Chrome and Safari combined.
'cause I've recently had teachers express their desire for everything to be in H.264, and it's pretty much the standard for media CREATION, so it will be the standard for playback as well.
It's an observation, not a ideological position.
* Schoolyard mythology: presidents elected in years ending in 0 always died in office.
George W. Bush didn't die in office. Does that mean we are or are not currently in Bizarro Universe?
He died, killed by a pretzel. He was a clone and they simply replaced him with another clone. No biggie.
... finding out that the USSR was so careless they had six "petrocalamities" worth trying this trick on?
I'm actually thinking that number seems low. Russians do not give a fuck about the environment, human rights, or anything besides their own aggrandizement.
Seriously...if you have 100s of tabs open, you have ADD or you need to learn to let go of your tabs. Relax. Close them. They'll still be there when you wake up.
So will the ADD ;-(
Here's a very simple idea:
First, install the update when I shut down the browser. You're not wasting my time then because I'm done using it.
No, if I shut something off, I want it shut OFF. If I have renders to do, or whatever it is I wanted to do instead of use firefox, I do NOT want firefox to decide to stay open in the background, doing things.
h.264 and HTML5 aren't synonymous - HTML5 just provides a video container, the browser vendor decides what codecs to allow, so it's entirely possible to fully support HTML5 yet still have no h.264 support.
It was also possible to sell fully functional VCRs that weren't VHS. But it wasn't easy finding content for them.
Anybody from an area of the world that has salt applied to their roads in the winter care to share stories about salt corroding their car's undercarriage?
I was in this car once, you see, and the floor had a hole in it, on account of the rust from all that road salt.
Fascinating stuff, right? I don't usually bring it up because it's sure to threadjack and derail any ongoing conversation with the implacably captivating qualities of such an anecdote, but you brought it up.
It's not so much fixed as unreproducible by way of disabling the entire "follow" feature.
Aaaaaaaaand now it looks fixed.
Twitter says they have resolved this bug.
http://status.twitter.com/post/587210796/follow-bug-discovered-remedied
It's not so much fixed as unreproducible by way of disabling the entire "follow" feature. The twits are in a panic, wondering if they've offended people since their followers have all disappeared.
Best of luck to them. I suggest they continue to work if they're able to (Retirement is an abboration in history; only one generation has been able to do it). I myself plan on working until the end.
Live long and prosper :)
if we don't provide what they want AARP is going to come wielding pitchforks on their golf carts?
Pretty much. Social programs keep human misery below the "bloody uprising" threshold, they are as important to social stability as police and fire services.
Eisenhower said "military-industrial complex", not "military-industrial-Congress" complex. Read the speech.
I quoted the speech. I linked to the speech. I added <B> tags around the part you think isn't in the speech... you're not intelligent.
*I* think Social Security and other entitlements are a waste of money
Hungry people don't stay hungry for long.
They get hope from fire and smoke as the weak grow strong.
Let's also look at how he saw the Arizona immigration law: "Now, suddenly, if you don't have your papers, and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're going to get harassed -- that's something that could potentially happen". Well, the immigration law specifically PROHIBITS stopping anyone based on skin color.
You're depressingly naive: http://carlosmiller.com/2010/05/06/another-american-born-citizen-jailed-in-arizona-because-her-skin-was-brown/
Bread and circuses.