Just for the concept, I still regret not being able to say I got a new car for $3999.99 in 1989 when a local dealership was dumping Yugos. Same thing for some of the stuff on ebay. How could a piece of that resort timeshare outside Kwa Zulu Natal not be worth $1500?
Remember that assault is a threat. Battery is landing the blow. Hate speech that threatens clearly seems like assault upon an ethnic group. Doesn't seem so unreasonable that it should be banned in a civilized society.
Sure, a few blackboards for a few mathematicians and physicists might seem like a cheap way for NASA to look like it is doing something today but stabilizing the wormhole is going to be a bitch in 24th century dollars.
Every time I've been to Canada the Mounties have been like, "Welcome to Canada! Party on Dude!" Sneaking back might be a good option though. At least it was a nice summer day for my wife and I to sit on a ledge and watch them do the hour long "one step short of dismantling the car" inspection on us.
Oddly, as a middle school kid a church camp I was exiled to made its keystone activity a day-long 10+ mile forced march to sneak into Canada via a dirt road to a tourist store and back. I'm not sure what the life lesson was there.
the PRIVACY of a citizen is being violated without warrant, because the government thinks an honest person MIGHT now be a criminal.
I think law enforcement went crazy with the decoy programs which started with the "war" on drugs if I'm not mistaken. We pay government to act as Satan testing our moral character with hookers, kiddie porn sites, drugs and stolen property. In comparison these checks on our transactions are more like genteel little chidings.
Bad example, George. Movies about big monkeys and fish are precisely what drove me to the foreign art houses in the 70s. It helps if a big movie actually _says_ something, you know?
Is it written in Hegel's eternal cycles that every generation must have a King Kong?
Same thing with office suites. Some historical perspective.
After a year of DisplayWrite 2 in the amber screen dark ages, virtually all my office work has been with WordPerfect. Over 10 years ago I was creating quick-and-dirty laser printed trifolds with WordPerfect containing stuff like complex, rotated clip-off forms. Virtually everything was a frame. Essentially DTP. And maintaining merges for mailing lists and formatted committee listings and the like via macros. 20 years ago, we were using delimited dbase output to WordPerfect template merges to run a summer school of over 2000 students.
To me, Word has _always_ been crap. It shows it roots as a text editor. You can say "doh" but my conception, spoiled as I was with WordPerfect, was that the program should be a swiss army knife capable of everything from DTP to a rich macro programming language.
As a clone of crap, I didn't expect much from OpenOffice.org -- and 1.0.0 would crash out fairly regularly on my linux so it fit my prejudices. But now I see my attitude was shaped by WordPerfect. Since Scribus is coming along nicely, I can use that for anything cool. Text is text. They are all good now. And Abiword usually does most of what I want if I know I'm just putting some text/columns/tables/graphics on paper.
In a sense it is karma coming back on Microsoft. I once had a guy argue with me that having fewer features was Word's strength. However, by defining word processing as something simple and distinct from DTP they lowered the bar to where open source projects could reasonably hope to compete.
Yeah, which is to say simply that it is largely a matter of perception. When 51% of households have "media" PCs that "also" do PC stuff "on the site", I'm sure Time and Newsweek will have cover stories on the fascinating new "death of the PC".
Probably a good thing, actually, because it will mark the point where PCs are an integrated and accepted appliance in the home of "Joe Average".
The older and more cynical I get, the more I think this level of "discourse" is more effective than trying to reason with people about issues like rampant RFID usage.
Conservatives push these low-level buttons all the time. It's people like Al Franken who profess that they are too good to do the same who thereby limit their available sophistic tools.
Yes, he is demonstrating _such_ a sad naivete of the typical historical course of societies. Rather than how easily things can be restored, this vote more likely demonstrates the momentum with which things can be destroyed.
I believe the two stock jokes are:
George W. Bush loves exporting freedom so much, he has depleted the supply at home.
and
We'll destroy our freedoms ourselves before we let Ossama do it to us.
What is historically most likely in the current course is that things will continue to get worse until they snap in a nasty way in two or three decades. As a middle-aged person I resent the hell out of it. I didn't expect to be living in Dr. Zhivago-land in my old age.
Like the stem cell researchers who made news the other week for packing off to China, it looks like this budget would give China an opportunity to buy a planetary exploration team or two if they were interested.
Are you referring to the 24 year old presidential appointee in the NASA press room (the one who "claimed" to have a degree) who recemtly told a NASA web developer to make sure to call the Big Bang a "theory"?
Big time. It's not your grandfather's Farmer/Labor Minnesota.
Our governor and one senator take their marching orders from Rove or Cheney. Literally. The governor was told to quit running for senator and run for governor to let their other chosen dude run for senator instead. There are some voting issues with the Secretary of State but not on a level of Florida or Ohio. The state legislature is big on trying to pass things like conceal and carry that the people don't want and they won't pass things like mass transit innovations with a gun pressed to their head so we have some of the worst metro traffic in the nation. I could be mistaken but I believe the state's biology education goals are more intelligent design friendly than some.
From being a progressive gem that the coasts were largely oblivious to, Minnesota is trying really hard today to close the regression gap.
Not to mention a teeny-tad of brand disharmony? Apple is nothing without style and Disney is a symbol of what's weird and tasteless about America. Will the primary colored blue, red, yellow and black ipod shaped like Mickey have the same appeal?
Email all your Muslim friends to say "hi". Make one sentence somewhat obscure.
Not such a bad spirit! But you have to think of the consequences to your recipient. In fact, I worked for a college that prided itself on its internationalism and stay in personal contact with some "ferriners" and people who travel out of country now and then. I think it's probably best not to talk politics in email these days with vulnerable individuals. Let them make their own decisions.
I hear you. Stupidity is one of the pillars of humanity. And you could be right.
But they showed purpose and did take your neighbor's blankets? If you are a punk kid breaking into storage like that, can you really expect much? So if you had spent what could have been "hours" of heavy lifting and riffling presumably trying to be semi-quiet, wouldn't you have settled for SOMETHING of mine like a window air conditioner? And if you were too lazy to lug that, presumably being a punk kid, wouldn't you have destroyed something out of frustration and spite?
Just seems like a very incongruous event. But maybe a young punk who prides himself on professionalism:) It could happen.
What the heck. Ridicule or not, I'll take/. as the forum to say that I'm an outspoken person against the current government on blogs and reveal that I have had the "Philip K. Dick experience".
As a large percentage of/.ers probably know, PKD wasn't in a good state when he died. He said that his house was ransacked and, although he said he didn't know who did it, he suspected the FBI or local sheriff. Some people think he might have done it himself at that point in his life.
You have to visualize my apartment storage. Since I hoard books and some amateur radio equipment, it is much like a solid 8x8x6 cube of heavy boxes. One night I got broken into and _every_ box inspected. Other building occupants were coming down over the HOURS I was repacking and marveling how my stuff had exploded into the aisles of the space.
Yet, here's the thing. As far as I can tell, NOTHING and I emphasize NOTHING was taken. Screw the amateur radio equipment -- where are you going to hock an old HF transceiver quietly? But it seems to me if I were some young punk(s) who went to that much trouble I would have either taken something like the window air conditioner, the few 1950s comic books, or the like for slight compensation of the night or maybe just destroyed some stuff out of anger and frustration.
The local police station told me, "Nothing stolen or destroyed, no crime." So who has that discipline? Maybe info thieves looking for cancelled checks and credit cards (_old_ ones in my storage space?) or someone else who wanted to know who I was and what I was holding. You give me your guess who you think that would be.
If nothing else, when a government demonstrates that it thinks it can make and break the law and work in the dark, paranoia is going to rise. That's not necessarily a bad attitude for a citizen either but, then, when is enough enough? The first casualty of a lawless government is peace of mind.
3) I used to buy used movies from blockbuster for under $10. Haven't in awhile tho.
Unfortunately, I doubt that supports the artist either.
But we do much the same. We have a Half-Price Books (regional chain. Ours is about 1/3 the size of a Barnes and Noble.) within walking distance that we drop a hundred or so on about five times a year. And walk out with a grocery bag filled to the top with various media.
I suppose the RIAA will want to go after them next.
Nah. You and I are the only people who still remember that the word "fewer" exists.
It bugs me too -- and I don't know what they've been teaching the kids in school these days (blah, blah, blah) -- but I recommend just giving up and not saying anything. "Less" has become the all-purpose colloquialism.
I think Rumsfeld's point is more that, Fox news aside, every other media outlet in this country seems dedicated to 'taking down' the president in any way that they possibly can.
Preposterous. I quit listening to public radio in 2003 during the march to war when my local station ran an interview with a Naval Academy professor on the topic of "Socrates, the Soldiering Years". Monty Python couldn't have come up with a better skit on domestic propaganda.
Are you actually _listening_ to "every other media outlet" or have you heard FOX News _tell_you_ "every other media outlet in this country seems dedicated to 'taking down' the president"? There's a big difference.
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Just for the concept, I still regret not being able to say I got a new car for $3999.99 in 1989 when a local dealership was dumping Yugos. Same thing for some of the stuff on ebay. How could a piece of that resort timeshare outside Kwa Zulu Natal not be worth $1500?
Well, let us count the ways, right?
Remember that assault is a threat. Battery is landing the blow. Hate speech that threatens clearly seems like assault upon an ethnic group. Doesn't seem so unreasonable that it should be banned in a civilized society.
Sure, a few blackboards for a few mathematicians and physicists might seem like a cheap way for NASA to look like it is doing something today but stabilizing the wormhole is going to be a bitch in 24th century dollars.
I thought glofish would be a natural with techno-nerds:
http://www.glofish.com/pictures.asp
But about the closest store near me that stocks them is in the far exurbs near the nuke plant -- which I guess is poetic.
Every time I've been to Canada the Mounties have been like, "Welcome to Canada! Party on Dude!" Sneaking back might be a good option though. At least it was a nice summer day for my wife and I to sit on a ledge and watch them do the hour long "one step short of dismantling the car" inspection on us.
Oddly, as a middle school kid a church camp I was exiled to made its keystone activity a day-long 10+ mile forced march to sneak into Canada via a dirt road to a tourist store and back. I'm not sure what the life lesson was there.
the PRIVACY of a citizen is being violated without warrant, because the government thinks an honest person MIGHT now be a criminal.
I think law enforcement went crazy with the decoy programs which started with the "war" on drugs if I'm not mistaken. We pay government to act as Satan testing our moral character with hookers, kiddie porn sites, drugs and stolen property. In comparison these checks on our transactions are more like genteel little chidings.
Bad example, George. Movies about big monkeys and fish are precisely what drove me to the foreign art houses in the 70s. It helps if a big movie actually _says_ something, you know?
Is it written in Hegel's eternal cycles that every generation must have a King Kong?
Same thing with office suites. Some historical perspective.
After a year of DisplayWrite 2 in the amber screen dark ages, virtually all my office work has been with WordPerfect. Over 10 years ago I was creating quick-and-dirty laser printed trifolds with WordPerfect containing stuff like complex, rotated clip-off forms. Virtually everything was a frame. Essentially DTP. And maintaining merges for mailing lists and formatted committee listings and the like via macros. 20 years ago, we were using delimited dbase output to WordPerfect template merges to run a summer school of over 2000 students.
To me, Word has _always_ been crap. It shows it roots as a text editor. You can say "doh" but my conception, spoiled as I was with WordPerfect, was that the program should be a swiss army knife capable of everything from DTP to a rich macro programming language.
As a clone of crap, I didn't expect much from OpenOffice.org -- and 1.0.0 would crash out fairly regularly on my linux so it fit my prejudices. But now I see my attitude was shaped by WordPerfect. Since Scribus is coming along nicely, I can use that for anything cool. Text is text. They are all good now. And Abiword usually does most of what I want if I know I'm just putting some text/columns/tables/graphics on paper.
In a sense it is karma coming back on Microsoft. I once had a guy argue with me that having fewer features was Word's strength. However, by defining word processing as something simple and distinct from DTP they lowered the bar to where open source projects could reasonably hope to compete.
Yeah, which is to say simply that it is largely a matter of perception. When 51% of households have "media" PCs that "also" do PC stuff "on the site", I'm sure Time and Newsweek will have cover stories on the fascinating new "death of the PC".
Probably a good thing, actually, because it will mark the point where PCs are an integrated and accepted appliance in the home of "Joe Average".
The older and more cynical I get, the more I think this level of "discourse" is more effective than trying to reason with people about issues like rampant RFID usage.
Conservatives push these low-level buttons all the time. It's people like Al Franken who profess that they are too good to do the same who thereby limit their available sophistic tools.
Yes, he is demonstrating _such_ a sad naivete of the typical historical course of societies. Rather than how easily things can be restored, this vote more likely demonstrates the momentum with which things can be destroyed.
I believe the two stock jokes are:
George W. Bush loves exporting freedom so much, he has depleted the supply at home.
and
We'll destroy our freedoms ourselves before we let Ossama do it to us.
What is historically most likely in the current course is that things will continue to get worse until they snap in a nasty way in two or three decades. As a middle-aged person I resent the hell out of it. I didn't expect to be living in Dr. Zhivago-land in my old age.
Or is the main point that it's refillable/reusable?
Apparently not:
Neither Antig nor AVC stated what the fuel-cell module would cost, nor offered any plan for consumers to refill them
If they're publicly traded companies, I know which way I'd place options.
Like the stem cell researchers who made news the other week for packing off to China, it looks like this budget would give China an opportunity to buy a planetary exploration team or two if they were interested.
Are you referring to the 24 year old presidential appointee in the NASA press room (the one who "claimed" to have a degree) who recemtly told a NASA web developer to make sure to call the Big Bang a "theory"?
Big time. It's not your grandfather's Farmer/Labor Minnesota.
Our governor and one senator take their marching orders from Rove or Cheney. Literally. The governor was told to quit running for senator and run for governor to let their other chosen dude run for senator instead. There are some voting issues with the Secretary of State but not on a level of Florida or Ohio. The state legislature is big on trying to pass things like conceal and carry that the people don't want and they won't pass things like mass transit innovations with a gun pressed to their head so we have some of the worst metro traffic in the nation. I could be mistaken but I believe the state's biology education goals are more intelligent design friendly than some.
From being a progressive gem that the coasts were largely oblivious to, Minnesota is trying really hard today to close the regression gap.
Not to mention a teeny-tad of brand disharmony? Apple is nothing without style and Disney is a symbol of what's weird and tasteless about America. Will the primary colored blue, red, yellow and black ipod shaped like Mickey have the same appeal?
Email all your Muslim friends to say "hi". Make one sentence somewhat obscure.
Not such a bad spirit! But you have to think of the consequences to your recipient. In fact, I worked for a college that prided itself on its internationalism and stay in personal contact with some "ferriners" and people who travel out of country now and then. I think it's probably best not to talk politics in email these days with vulnerable individuals. Let them make their own decisions.
I hear you. Stupidity is one of the pillars of humanity. And you could be right.
:) It could happen.
But they showed purpose and did take your neighbor's blankets? If you are a punk kid breaking into storage like that, can you really expect much? So if you had spent what could have been "hours" of heavy lifting and riffling presumably trying to be semi-quiet, wouldn't you have settled for SOMETHING of mine like a window air conditioner? And if you were too lazy to lug that, presumably being a punk kid, wouldn't you have destroyed something out of frustration and spite?
Just seems like a very incongruous event. But maybe a young punk who prides himself on professionalism
What the heck. Ridicule or not, I'll take /. as the forum to say that I'm an outspoken person against the current government on blogs and reveal that I have had the "Philip K. Dick experience".
/.ers probably know, PKD wasn't in a good state when he died. He said that his house was ransacked and, although he said he didn't know who did it, he suspected the FBI or local sheriff. Some people think he might have done it himself at that point in his life.
As a large percentage of
You have to visualize my apartment storage. Since I hoard books and some amateur radio equipment, it is much like a solid 8x8x6 cube of heavy boxes. One night I got broken into and _every_ box inspected. Other building occupants were coming down over the HOURS I was repacking and marveling how my stuff had exploded into the aisles of the space.
Yet, here's the thing. As far as I can tell, NOTHING and I emphasize NOTHING was taken. Screw the amateur radio equipment -- where are you going to hock an old HF transceiver quietly? But it seems to me if I were some young punk(s) who went to that much trouble I would have either taken something like the window air conditioner, the few 1950s comic books, or the like for slight compensation of the night or maybe just destroyed some stuff out of anger and frustration.
The local police station told me, "Nothing stolen or destroyed, no crime." So who has that discipline? Maybe info thieves looking for cancelled checks and credit cards (_old_ ones in my storage space?) or someone else who wanted to know who I was and what I was holding. You give me your guess who you think that would be.
If nothing else, when a government demonstrates that it thinks it can make and break the law and work in the dark, paranoia is going to rise. That's not necessarily a bad attitude for a citizen either but, then, when is enough enough? The first casualty of a lawless government is peace of mind.
3) I used to buy used movies from blockbuster for under $10. Haven't in awhile tho.
Unfortunately, I doubt that supports the artist either.
But we do much the same. We have a Half-Price Books (regional chain. Ours is about 1/3 the size of a Barnes and Noble.) within walking distance that we drop a hundred or so on about five times a year. And walk out with a grocery bag filled to the top with various media.
I suppose the RIAA will want to go after them next.
Search engines are not illegal in the USA. You can use a search engine to search for anything.
MS and Yahoo not so much these days. Google maybe -- but I expect Homeland Security will be watching you there too.
And we've seen what happens to the terrorists
They die of old age because their dad is best buds with a couple Commanders-in-Chief?
Nah. You and I are the only people who still remember that the word "fewer" exists.
It bugs me too -- and I don't know what they've been teaching the kids in school these days (blah, blah, blah) -- but I recommend just giving up and not saying anything. "Less" has become the all-purpose colloquialism.
But many girls in Fertile and Climax, Minnesota do.
I think Rumsfeld's point is more that, Fox news aside, every other media outlet in this country seems dedicated to 'taking down' the president in any way that they possibly can.
Preposterous. I quit listening to public radio in 2003 during the march to war when my local station ran an interview with a Naval Academy professor on the topic of "Socrates, the Soldiering Years". Monty Python couldn't have come up with a better skit on domestic propaganda.
Are you actually _listening_ to "every other media outlet" or have you heard FOX News _tell_you_ "every other media outlet in this country seems dedicated to 'taking down' the president"? There's a big difference.