I'm not speaking hypothetically, I'm speaking of actual would-be mass-murderers who have been caught and stopped because of our improved enforcement efforts.
Could you elaborate on that? Do you have any names or other references to back that statement up? I don't mean names of just any terrorists who we've captured, like Abu Zubaida. I mean names of guys who's capture was actually aided by provisions of the Patriot Act.
Bush emphasised his sucess in protecting us by pointing out that "twenty-eight months have passed since September the 11th, 2001--over two years without an attack on American soil." But, the same can be said for the period before 9/11 too, can't it? Aside from that one horrific day, the US was never really under seige by terrorists.
All I see is lots of innocent foreigners and legal immigrants being treated in unacceptable ways with no justification. Maybe american citizens too. I don't really know of any American citizens for sure, and that shouldn't make a difference. However, some people incorrectly believe that what side of the border you were born on should make a difference when we are talking about human rights.
Jupiter's core is under such intense heat and pressure that it is speculated that it consists of metallic hydrogen, in either liquid or solid form.
True, but effectivly the GP is also right. Even though the core of Jupiter may be a big ball of metallic hydrogen, any probe we send will also be a big ball of solid metal long before we are near enough to observe the core.
I'll bet most existing databases got their information originally by copying it from existing databases. As an earlier poster mentioned, Lexis/Nexis was sued by Westlaw in the 80's because it was copying Westlaw's database. Now that they have an established law database, they are backing this law to prevent anyone else from doing exactly what they did to get it.
I'm no lawyer, but to me, that gives the whole law a vial stink.
You missed the fact that they do have the filters on their camera for taking standard RGB photos. However, they chose to use the near infrared filter instead of plain ol' red because it is more usefull to them. I for one would be very upset if I heard NASA was wasting bandwidth on publicity photos. That is not what multi-million dollar scientific missions are for.
I don't know what the.org is. *hangs head in shame*
I've only seen Ben in concert twice (saw the show where Not the Same was recorded for his live album!), but despite the meager numbers I'd still say I'm a big fan. I did order his two new EP's on the day they were released and a bunch of shows I wanted to go to I missed because of my stupid friends ; )
Plus I've liked him since Underground. That's pretty 133t right there!
I'm hoping Darren and Rober's new bands come up to the new england area, I'd love to see them.
Wow, you have pictures of yourself with Darren Jessse on your web page. That makes you the coolest person I've found yet on slashdot! (take that for whatever it's worth;-)
Was he doing a solo show, or with his new band? I haven't heard anything from Darren post BFF, but I really like what Robert Sledge is doing these days. I'm betting you've already heard them, but I linked it just in case.
True. What he should have meant to say is that eventually the earth will be tidally locked with the moon (as the moon is already with the earth) and so the moon will no longer appear to rotate around us from the earth's PoV.
With the moon in geosynchronous orbit around us, we would naturally not experience any more tides from the moon, but we would still have the (lesser) tides caused by the sun.
Quit SCO and go on welfare? Are you out of your mind? For someone who has no option but to work for SCO or go on welfare, going on welfare is not taking the moral high ground. Where do you suppose that welfare money is coming from? Going on welfare essentially means taking money from either the pocket of every working person in America or from the hand of a crippled single mother with three kids who legitimatly needs welfare to feed her family. How is that any better than sticking it out at SCO until something better comes along? (hint: while working at SCO you are not directly responsible for anyone getting screwed out of their money. OTOH someone who chooses to go on welfare is directly responsible, no better than a SCO executive.)
"In Love" is an awesome track. There are a couple tracks on Fear of Pop, like "I Paid My Money", which are fun enough to listen to every once and awhile, but "In Love" I can listen to over and over and over again. Pure brilliance.
An icon in art music? I never even heard of the guy until this article.
Sorry to tell you, but it's true. David Byrne is famous. The Talking Heads are famous too. Really, really famous. Whether you consider his music true Art, or just new wave pop, if you haven't heard if him you probably shouldn't be posting any comments to this article and you most definatly shouldn't be admitting to it in public.
The difference is that LBJ was elected. When you vote for a presidential candidate, you vote for their running mate as well. It's clearly understood by everyone that the vice president takes over for the president when necessary.
Admittedly I don't know jack about the Canadien system, so all I'll say is that while it may be possible to claim that the PM wasn't elected, no one can honestly claim that the VP wasn't elected without having the same complaint about the President he ran with.
My main question, which remains to be seen, is whether or not anyone will remember the LOTR movies a century for now, or even a quarter of a century. They're obviously big, but I'm not yet convinced that they're the massive landmarks that all the fanboys seem to be convinced they are. Time alone will tell how these movies, and Peter Jackson behind them, are remembered.
Granted that it's impossible to say for sure, but Star Wars is 25 years old, and it's still going strong. The Indiana Jones trilogy is about 20 years old, and it's recent DVD release was highly anticipated. I'm sure LotR is at least in the same ballpark as those films so far as popularity goes (or whatever potential longetivity is measured in), I can't even concieve of it being forgotten for at least 60 years (when most of us are dead or senile).
matter. This newly found ring has probably some good mass, however I don't know if it really goes for all the missing matter.
It doesn't. Not even close. The matter we can account for only adds up to about one tenth of what we should have. So, even if this new arm of our galaxy somehow contained as much matter as the rest of the entire known universe, we would still be in the dark about 80% of our universe.
Yeah, it's a real lot of matter that we can't find, which is why it's such a major problem in modern astronomy.
Even now, there's substantial logical and statistical problems with the "proofs" of Evolution.
For all it's problems, the theory of evolution has one important thing going for it, that is a lack of alternative scientific theories. In fact I can't think of a single competing theory. Are there any out there that I haven't heard about?
Hardly. As was pointed out several times already, master and slave are just general terms that don't refer to any particular race or event, just like warden/convict or boss/employee. Certainly if devices were labeled as landowner/black, gestapo/jew, african/british or some other set of words that referred to a specific race being subordinate to another it would be offensive, but throughout history every race has been the master and every race has been the slave at some time. People just need to get a grip on reality. Humans != Hard Drives. Humans as slaves is a bad thing, hard drives as slaves, not a problem.
That all sounds reasonable, though hate sure does sound extreme given the reason you list.
From my experience, Mac OS X really is a pleasure to use compared to Mac OS 9, Windows, and Linux. Unfortunatly my Mac's hardware gave out last year so I'm strictly Linux for the time being. The only thing I really can't do in Linux is program Cocoa apps, but I do miss the whole refined and integrated feel of the interface.
You may give OS X a chance some time and possibly still be at a loss as to why anyone would want one, but without using it you'll definatly never understand.
It may in fact run under BSD with the linux emulation (which every fucking *BSD'er will say is not really emulation, without saying what the difference between emulation and what the *BSD's do!!!)
Emulation is when you imitate one hardware platform on another. BSD's Linux compatibility, like WINE's Windows compatibility, is not emulation because it only runs binaries that have been compiled to run on the host's hardware. All they have to do is imitate the system calls and libraries that exist in the native OS.
The things Hitler is known to have done are truly heinous. Even if he was the greatest guy in the world to hang out with, his actions would still be evil. That is why meeting him is irrelevant and obviously not neccessary for casting judgment on him.
I don't know what you hate so much about Minivan's, but I hate SUV's for their uselessness (to their yuppy owners, I don't mean to construction guys and others of that sort who may actually use them), their gas inefficiency, and their danger to others on the road. These reasons have nothing to do with the experience of driving an SUV so I don't see how driving them should be a necessary prerequisite for disliking them.
Mac's on the other hand, are all about the user experience. I don't know of any reasonable ethical reasons for hating Macintosh's (especially for someone who, like paganizer, has no similar aversion to Windows). It's possible that reasons exist in which case I would really love to know about them. Otherwise it just sounds like paganizer claims to hate something which he knows nothing about aside from probably outdated horror stories and second hand gripes about the OS. If this is the case then by all means, embarresment is fitting.
Yup, their PNG support has been broken forever. At least most basic functionality is there, but the gamma and alpha blending are borked. The gamma bug is probably what's screwing with you.
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I'm not speaking hypothetically, I'm speaking of actual would-be mass-murderers who have been caught and stopped because of our improved enforcement efforts.
Could you elaborate on that? Do you have any names or other references to back that statement up? I don't mean names of just any terrorists who we've captured, like Abu Zubaida. I mean names of guys who's capture was actually aided by provisions of the Patriot Act.
Bush emphasised his sucess in protecting us by pointing out that "twenty-eight months have passed since September the 11th, 2001--over two years without an attack on American soil." But, the same can be said for the period before 9/11 too, can't it? Aside from that one horrific day, the US was never really under seige by terrorists.
All I see is lots of innocent foreigners and legal immigrants being treated in unacceptable ways with no justification. Maybe american citizens too. I don't really know of any American citizens for sure, and that shouldn't make a difference. However, some people incorrectly believe that what side of the border you were born on should make a difference when we are talking about human rights.
Jupiter's core is under such intense heat and pressure that it is speculated that it consists of metallic hydrogen, in either liquid or solid form.
True, but effectivly the GP is also right. Even though the core of Jupiter may be a big ball of metallic hydrogen, any probe we send will also be a big ball of solid metal long before we are near enough to observe the core.
Don't have to worry about moon-quakes, the moon is geologically inert. Though you will need to watch out for the occasional impact from space debris.
I'll bet most existing databases got their information originally by copying it from existing databases. As an earlier poster mentioned, Lexis/Nexis was sued by Westlaw in the 80's because it was copying Westlaw's database. Now that they have an established law database, they are backing this law to prevent anyone else from doing exactly what they did to get it.
I'm no lawyer, but to me, that gives the whole law a vial stink.
You missed the fact that they do have the filters on their camera for taking standard RGB photos. However, they chose to use the near infrared filter instead of plain ol' red because it is more usefull to them. I for one would be very upset if I heard NASA was wasting bandwidth on publicity photos. That is not what multi-million dollar scientific missions are for.
I don't know what the .org is. *hangs head in shame*
I've only seen Ben in concert twice (saw the show where Not the Same was recorded for his live album!), but despite the meager numbers I'd still say I'm a big fan. I did order his two new EP's on the day they were released and a bunch of shows I wanted to go to I missed because of my stupid friends ; )
Plus I've liked him since Underground. That's pretty 133t right there!
I'm hoping Darren and Rober's new bands come up to the new england area, I'd love to see them.
Wow, you have pictures of yourself with Darren Jessse on your web page. That makes you the coolest person I've found yet on slashdot! (take that for whatever it's worth ;-)
Was he doing a solo show, or with his new band? I haven't heard anything from Darren post BFF, but I really like what Robert Sledge is doing these days. I'm betting you've already heard them, but I linked it just in case.
True. What he should have meant to say is that eventually the earth will be tidally locked with the moon (as the moon is already with the earth) and so the moon will no longer appear to rotate around us from the earth's PoV.
With the moon in geosynchronous orbit around us, we would naturally not experience any more tides from the moon, but we would still have the (lesser) tides caused by the sun.
Quit SCO and go on welfare? Are you out of your mind? For someone who has no option but to work for SCO or go on welfare, going on welfare is not taking the moral high ground. Where do you suppose that welfare money is coming from? Going on welfare essentially means taking money from either the pocket of every working person in America or from the hand of a crippled single mother with three kids who legitimatly needs welfare to feed her family. How is that any better than sticking it out at SCO until something better comes along? (hint: while working at SCO you are not directly responsible for anyone getting screwed out of their money. OTOH someone who chooses to go on welfare is directly responsible, no better than a SCO executive.)
"In Love" is an awesome track. There are a couple tracks on Fear of Pop, like "I Paid My Money", which are fun enough to listen to every once and awhile, but "In Love" I can listen to over and over and over again. Pure brilliance.
An icon in art music? I never even heard of the guy until this article.
Sorry to tell you, but it's true. David Byrne is famous. The Talking Heads are famous too. Really, really famous. Whether you consider his music true Art, or just new wave pop, if you haven't heard if him you probably shouldn't be posting any comments to this article and you most definatly shouldn't be admitting to it in public.
The difference is that LBJ was elected. When you vote for a presidential candidate, you vote for their running mate as well. It's clearly understood by everyone that the vice president takes over for the president when necessary.
Admittedly I don't know jack about the Canadien system, so all I'll say is that while it may be possible to claim that the PM wasn't elected, no one can honestly claim that the VP wasn't elected without having the same complaint about the President he ran with.
Not quite, but very similar. That is by far the most stunningly dumb book I came across in my stint working at a bookstore.
My main question, which remains to be seen, is whether or not anyone will remember the LOTR movies a century for now, or even a quarter of a century. They're obviously big, but I'm not yet convinced that they're the massive landmarks that all the fanboys seem to be convinced they are. Time alone will tell how these movies, and Peter Jackson behind them, are remembered.
Granted that it's impossible to say for sure, but Star Wars is 25 years old, and it's still going strong. The Indiana Jones trilogy is about 20 years old, and it's recent DVD release was highly anticipated. I'm sure LotR is at least in the same ballpark as those films so far as popularity goes (or whatever potential longetivity is measured in), I can't even concieve of it being forgotten for at least 60 years (when most of us are dead or senile).
matter. This newly found ring has probably some good mass, however I don't know if it really goes for all the missing matter.
It doesn't. Not even close. The matter we can account for only adds up to about one tenth of what we should have. So, even if this new arm of our galaxy somehow contained as much matter as the rest of the entire known universe, we would still be in the dark about 80% of our universe.
Yeah, it's a real lot of matter that we can't find, which is why it's such a major problem in modern astronomy.
Surely it would be easier to create a huge black hole in the centre of the galaxy, and have the stars come to you.
Like this one? Looks like someone is one step ahead of you.
It's from The Onion, naturally.
Thank god they figured out if they seal the windows shut, we can safely travel at speeds approaching 30 mph.
Even now, there's substantial logical and statistical problems with the "proofs" of Evolution.
For all it's problems, the theory of evolution has one important thing going for it, that is a lack of alternative scientific theories. In fact I can't think of a single competing theory. Are there any out there that I haven't heard about?
Hardly. As was pointed out several times already, master and slave are just general terms that don't refer to any particular race or event, just like warden/convict or boss/employee. Certainly if devices were labeled as landowner/black, gestapo/jew, african/british or some other set of words that referred to a specific race being subordinate to another it would be offensive, but throughout history every race has been the master and every race has been the slave at some time. People just need to get a grip on reality. Humans != Hard Drives. Humans as slaves is a bad thing, hard drives as slaves, not a problem.
How about NPR, and the govt pays for that.
Oh really? Are you sure about that?
That all sounds reasonable, though hate sure does sound extreme given the reason you list.
From my experience, Mac OS X really is a pleasure to use compared to Mac OS 9, Windows, and Linux. Unfortunatly my Mac's hardware gave out last year so I'm strictly Linux for the time being. The only thing I really can't do in Linux is program Cocoa apps, but I do miss the whole refined and integrated feel of the interface.
You may give OS X a chance some time and possibly still be at a loss as to why anyone would want one, but without using it you'll definatly never understand.
It may in fact run under BSD with the linux emulation (which every fucking *BSD'er will say is not really emulation, without saying what the difference between emulation and what the *BSD's do!!!)
Emulation is when you imitate one hardware platform on another. BSD's Linux compatibility, like WINE's Windows compatibility, is not emulation because it only runs binaries that have been compiled to run on the host's hardware. All they have to do is imitate the system calls and libraries that exist in the native OS.
The things Hitler is known to have done are truly heinous. Even if he was the greatest guy in the world to hang out with, his actions would still be evil. That is why meeting him is irrelevant and obviously not neccessary for casting judgment on him.
I don't know what you hate so much about Minivan's, but I hate SUV's for their uselessness (to their yuppy owners, I don't mean to construction guys and others of that sort who may actually use them), their gas inefficiency, and their danger to others on the road. These reasons have nothing to do with the experience of driving an SUV so I don't see how driving them should be a necessary prerequisite for disliking them.
Mac's on the other hand, are all about the user experience. I don't know of any reasonable ethical reasons for hating Macintosh's (especially for someone who, like paganizer, has no similar aversion to Windows). It's possible that reasons exist in which case I would really love to know about them. Otherwise it just sounds like paganizer claims to hate something which he knows nothing about aside from probably outdated horror stories and second hand gripes about the OS. If this is the case then by all means, embarresment is fitting.
Yup, their PNG support has been broken forever. At least most basic functionality is there, but the gamma and alpha blending are borked. The gamma bug is probably what's screwing with you.
Here's a detailed list of IE's PNG support.