The right thing for Drew to do in this case is to sue the government and, specifically, the lead prosecuting attorney. Drew should sue them for mental distress and seek a multi-million dollar award.
The right thing for her to do is to kill herself. The world does not need her brand of subhumanity, and the government finances do not need this parasite sucking at its funds.
Who bought up mass transit systems across the united states and shut them down? Who has been lobbying for the prohibition of natural drugs, and profiting immensely off of the sales of their own derivatives? Who shut down their production electric vehicle
exactly what in the GP's post constituted trolling?
"Democrats are in charge then you must Doublethink; To Question the State is Treason."
From the/.FAQ on "troll" moderation: "comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time."
That exact bit up there is 100% guaranteed to have people remind you about all the doublethink you have to do to say that and forget about all the years of traitor and terrorist being bandied about under the Republicans that were in charge until early this very year: the dixie chicks hoopla, the "freedom fries" childishness, etc.
It would be great if there were a method to 'opt out' certain websites so that they don't come up when searching against history and bookmarks. If people go through the trouble to hid bookmarks deep into sub-sub-directories, I think they'll take the two minutes to unclick those from a long list of what is searched.
Better option: Ignored directories. You make a recursive option clickable on the directory, everything in it is ignored, the peasants rejoice.
The fact is that CO2 levels are at or near historical lows, if you view them on geological time scales. For most of the earths history, CO2 levels were much higher.
And human population levels much more nonexistent. Maybe you should be careful about readjusting those numbers to previous levels.
Once again we see an over simplification. Why are those who don't believe GW is caused by man referred to as not thinking it's real? They're not the same. I can accept that global temperatures are rising without being convinced that a) it's mankind's fault and b) we have to throw money at it.
Rebuttal (of attribution skepticism) John Cook, on his website Skeptical Science, states that "the usual suspects in natural climate change -- solar variations, volcanoes, Milankovitch cycles -- are all conspicuous in their absence over the past three decades of warming. This doesn't mean by itself that carbon dioxide is the main cause of current global warming...but the primary causes of commonly cited climate change in the past have played little part in the current warming trend...Empirical observations show that carbon dioxide has a warming effect as a greenhouse gas, it is increasing in the atmosphere and the expected warming is occurring. Any alternative theory that found a different cause of global warming would also need to explain why the expected (and observed) warming from carbon dioxide has not eventuated."
"Everyone agrees with us" is not a scientific argument.
Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (and often narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review.
lot of smart people in Russia, but if they were top notch, they would be working for the same wage as American workers (because they would be providing the same value)
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
That's true but Cameron's women are wearing boots, whereas Whedon's foot fetish is for unclothed feet (ooo nudity!). I can just imagine the stage direction: [Camera zooms-in on Dawn's feet.] [They glisten with wetness.] [Blood falls on them and runs between the cleavage.] [The toes wiggle.]
All of his shows have these types of scenes. I didn't notice at first but then I started to suspect this is more than just an accident.
I think he mentions something about that on the commentary of "objects in space"... if you have access to the Firefly DVDs.
[Y]ou kinda realize that there's going to be more depth to the story than Starship Troopers (the movie, not the book).
What? So you think that the movie was lacking in depth. Then you just did not get it. The director, Verhoeven, was disgusted with the book. As a dutch liberal he probably felt
Paul Verhoeven was a survivor of Nazi occupation. Heinlein was a veteran of the pacific front in WWII. They have very different views. One tells stories of his friends who sacrificed himself to save many of his comrades, the other tells stories of allied bombs killing his neighbours and spilling glass in his last plate of tulip bulbs (the last edible thing around, because of all the Nazis and the bombs).
Different points of view, though they both got accused of being fascist because of their portrayals of space fascists, and both were being ironic.
For all practicality,. when someone says UFO, there talking about aliens.
Yes, you are technically correct; which is the best kind of correct!
Why would some call 911 to report a terrestrial airplane in the horizon they can't see ID Numbers on?
1- Equating UFO with Flying Saucer is common, but stupid, and not to be excused by it's vulgarity, especially in a haven of technically correct people such as slashdot.
2- Unidentified object!!! If you identify it as an airplane, you don't need to have it's number, you know what kind of object it is.
The tales of alien abductions are eerily similar to the old tales of fairy abductions, with similar short humanoids with weird faces and pale skin.
I once saw a documentary with some neurologist claiming that he could recreate that experience in people by causing a specific kind of neurological event, he said it was a kind of nigh terror, a vivid nightmare.
Or maybe there is a centuries-old hidden culture of nefarious midgets who drug people and rape them. Hey, sometimes it rains fish, this is a weird world:)
As a nit pic, Angels would be aliens for all intents and purposes, as would God.
I am an atheist, so don't construe this as defending someone imaginary man in the sky, or Santa Clause.
I dunno . . . I think it depends on your concept of the universe. I would think beings from another planet within the physical universe would be aliens, while beings from outside of (apart from, however you want to put it) the physical universe would be something else.
Let me teach you about Islam... The Jinn are beings created with free will, living on earth in a world parallel to mankind. The Arabic word Jinn is from the verb 'Janna' which means to hide or conceal.
Gandolf should just have handed the ring over one of the eagles, eagle flies off to Mt. Doom and disposes of the Preciouss while the Nazgul are looking for Frodo, nearly three volumes of tedium no longer need to be read.
All-seeing eye + mutant pterosaurs/dragons = dead eagles, ring in wrong hands.
Dude, haven't you read the Trilogy? It takes half a book just to cross Mordor, plus there's Orcs and shit. That's way more trouble than it's worth. And have you ever tried to find Middle Earth on a map? Sure, lots of people have theories, but what with continental drift and such, it's all pretty obscure. How can you be sure the volcano you use is *really* Mount Doom in this late, degenerate age?
Even if only one technician in the entire world, with a billion-dollar lab, is capable of recovering the data from a zero'd drive, it's too much of a risk. What if that one technician is Chinese?
Oh, that's ok, my data isn't written in Chinese...
To me, the most interesting bit in this article was the fact that the famous experiment with the rat and the pleasure lever connected to its brains WASN'T connected to the pleasure/reward center!
Though this "seeking" explanation to the non-orgasmic state of the subjects with that electrode in their brain is... more complicated, so it's not about to replace the old interpretation.
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My question is: how do you "shut down" a wind farm? The wind blows, the windmills turn.
It's called a brake.
This is what slashdot is for, making you aware of complicated technology which you couldn't possibly have heard of from other sources ;-)
The right thing for Drew to do in this case is to sue the government and, specifically, the lead prosecuting attorney. Drew should sue them for mental distress and seek a multi-million dollar award.
The right thing for her to do is to kill herself. The world does not need her brand of subhumanity, and the government finances do not need this parasite sucking at its funds.
Who bought up mass transit systems across the united states and shut them down? Who has been lobbying for the prohibition of natural drugs, and profiting immensely off of the sales of their own derivatives? Who shut down their production electric vehicle
The stone cutters?
exactly what in the GP's post constituted trolling?
"Democrats are in charge then you must Doublethink; To Question the State is Treason."
From the /.FAQ on "troll" moderation: "comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time."
That exact bit up there is 100% guaranteed to have people remind you about all the doublethink you have to do to say that and forget about all the years of traitor and terrorist being bandied about under the Republicans that were in charge until early this very year: the dixie chicks hoopla, the "freedom fries" childishness, etc.
10 years ago [...] Some said "I accidently
hit this link".
That was before pop-up blockers, IIRC, so I'd give them the benefit of the doubt there :)
It would be great if there were a method to 'opt out' certain websites so that they don't come up when searching against history and bookmarks. If people go through the trouble to hid bookmarks deep into sub-sub-directories, I think they'll take the two minutes to unclick those from a long list of what is searched.
Better option: Ignored directories. You make a recursive option clickable on the directory, everything in it is ignored, the peasants rejoice.
The fact is that CO2 levels are at or near historical lows, if you view them on geological time scales. For most of the earths history, CO2 levels were much higher.
And human population levels much more nonexistent. Maybe you should be careful about readjusting those numbers to previous levels.
Once again we see an over simplification. Why are those who don't believe GW is caused by man referred to as not thinking it's real? They're not the same. I can accept that global temperatures are rising without being convinced that a) it's mankind's fault and b) we have to throw money at it.
We can distinguish trend skeptics (who deny there is global warming), the
attribution sceptics (who accept the global warming trend but see natural causes for this), and the impact sceptics (who think global warming is harmless or even beneficial).
Rebuttal (of attribution skepticism)
John Cook, on his website Skeptical Science, states that "the usual suspects in natural climate change -- solar variations, volcanoes, Milankovitch cycles -- are all conspicuous in their absence over the past three decades of warming. This doesn't mean by itself that carbon dioxide is the main cause of current global warming...but the primary causes of commonly cited climate change in the past have played little part in the current warming trend...Empirical observations show that carbon dioxide has a warming effect as a greenhouse gas, it is increasing in the atmosphere and the expected warming is occurring. Any alternative theory that found a different cause of global warming would also need to explain why the expected (and observed) warming from carbon dioxide has not eventuated."
"Everyone agrees with us" is not a scientific argument.
Peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (and often narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review.
They certainly aren't trying to _actually_ clean up the air, since worse offenders than the USA already exist
Only china, with over 3 times the population of the USA, does worse than the USA. And only since 2006.
lot of smart people in Russia, but if they were top notch, they would be working for the same wage as American workers (because they would be providing the same value)
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
Strictly speaking Avatar is not a sci-fi - this is more of a "post-modern fantasy."
I'm not a purist, yet sometimes I'm annoyed when people confuse fantasy with science fiction.
Avatar is clearly a fantasy. It's not a science fiction per se.
It's a story about aliens in the future, with spaceships: That's science fiction.
Fucking purists. "strickly speaking", "per say".
important to me only because I want to be prepared before watching a movie: if it's a pure sci-fi
Not a purist, huh?
That's true but Cameron's women are wearing boots, whereas Whedon's foot fetish is for unclothed feet (ooo nudity!). I can just imagine the stage direction: [Camera zooms-in on Dawn's feet.] [They glisten with wetness.] [Blood falls on them and runs between the cleavage.] [The toes wiggle.]
All of his shows have these types of scenes. I didn't notice at first but then I started to suspect this is more than just an accident.
I think he mentions something about that on the commentary of "objects in space"... if you have access to the Firefly DVDs.
I have noticed though that Whedon seems to have a foot fetish.
He spends a lot of time focusing his camera on women's feet.
James Cameron's first shot of a woman in a movie is always of her feet, usually her stepping off of something. It's one of his 'things'.
[Y]ou kinda realize that there's going to be more depth to the story than Starship Troopers (the movie, not the book).
What? So you think that the movie was lacking in depth. Then you just did not get it. The director, Verhoeven, was disgusted with the book. As a dutch liberal he probably felt
Paul Verhoeven was a survivor of Nazi occupation. Heinlein was a veteran of the pacific front in WWII. They have very different views. One tells stories of his friends who sacrificed himself to save many of his comrades, the other tells stories of allied bombs killing his neighbours and spilling glass in his last plate of tulip bulbs (the last edible thing around, because of all the Nazis and the bombs).
Different points of view, though they both got accused of being fascist because of their portrayals of space fascists, and both were being ironic.
For all practicality,. when someone says UFO, there talking about aliens.
Yes, you are technically correct; which is the best kind of correct!
Why would some call 911 to report a terrestrial airplane in the horizon they can't see ID Numbers on?
1- Equating UFO with Flying Saucer is common, but stupid, and not to be excused by it's vulgarity, especially in a haven of technically correct people such as slashdot.
2- Unidentified object!!! If you identify it as an airplane, you don't need to have it's number, you know what kind of object it is.
Stop enabling the dumbing down of society.
Note the first abduction didn't happen until it had already been in pulps and film.
The tales of alien abductions are eerily similar to the old tales of fairy abductions, with similar short humanoids with weird faces and pale skin.
I once saw a documentary with some neurologist claiming that he could recreate that experience in people by causing a specific kind of neurological event, he said it was a kind of nigh terror, a vivid nightmare.
Or maybe there is a centuries-old hidden culture of nefarious midgets who drug people and rape them. Hey, sometimes it rains fish, this is a weird world :)
As a nit pic, Angels would be aliens for all intents and purposes, as would God.
I am an atheist, so don't construe this as defending someone imaginary man in the sky, or Santa Clause.
I dunno . . . I think it depends on your concept of the universe. I would think beings from another planet within the physical universe would be aliens, while beings from outside of (apart from, however you want to put it) the physical universe would be something else.
Let me teach you about Islam... The Jinn are beings created with free will, living on earth in a world parallel to mankind. The Arabic word Jinn is from the verb 'Janna' which means to hide or conceal.
'on-planet aliens'. Just curious as to whom you're referring to.
Intraterrestrials (think morlocks, mole people, etc).
Why? You suspect a conspiracy that government pushes TV shows about conspiracy theories to cover up real conspiracies?
Remember that character on X Files that kept dying from unusual drug use? Once from inhaling methane, once after licking a toad...
well... http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/print.html
Gandolf should just have handed the ring over one of the eagles, eagle flies off to Mt. Doom and disposes of the Preciouss while the Nazgul are looking for Frodo, nearly three volumes of tedium no longer need to be read.
All-seeing eye + mutant pterosaurs/dragons = dead eagles, ring in wrong hands.
Dude, haven't you read the Trilogy? It takes half a book just to cross Mordor, plus there's Orcs and shit. That's way more trouble than it's worth. And have you ever tried to find Middle Earth on a map? Sure, lots of people have theories, but what with continental drift and such, it's all pretty obscure. How can you be sure the volcano you use is *really* Mount Doom in this late, degenerate age?
Because of all the Orcs and shit?
Even if only one technician in the entire world, with a billion-dollar lab, is capable of recovering the data from a zero'd drive, it's too much of a risk. What if that one technician is Chinese?
Oh, that's ok, my data isn't written in Chinese...
why is the client penalized for the behavior or mistakes of the attorney?
Why is the client rewarded for the behavior or successes of the attorney?
To me, the most interesting bit in this article was the fact that the famous experiment with the rat and the pleasure lever connected to its brains WASN'T connected to the pleasure/reward center!
Though this "seeking" explanation to the non-orgasmic state of the subjects with that electrode in their brain is... more complicated, so it's not about to replace the old interpretation.