Moving off Exchange was a little more choppy but we got it done. There was one Gmail gotcha that delayed our roll out for a week but we got past that. Another surprise was after people uploaded their old messages to Gmail was how fast they dumped Outlook. We had planned on supporting Outlook but most everyone switched over to the Gmail interface on their own, a few had already been using Gmail anyway.
GMail? Seriously? In a corporate environment? How's that going to work. Google gets all your data including the highly sensitive stuff, you're now dependant on a net connection for email, and Google can pull the service at any time. How are you mitigating these risks?
And I say this as someone who was never very interested in Star Trek.
When you say this do you mean you've seen every episode of Star Trek 3 times, and all the movies, but don't own a phaser, a genuine Star Trek uniform, and haven't learnt Klingon? Or do you mean you've only seen each episode twice?
How about "A method to horrify employees with the realization that their financial future is tied to your company". The "Dance Monkey Boy" video of Steve Balmer's little motivational "speech" should suffice and heaven knows no one's going to have prior art that covers that. If you can't submit the video, get someone to storyboard it. I think it would make a lovely comic. "Wwwoooooooooooooooooooooooo. Developers, developers, developers. WWWWWWWWWWWOooooooooooooooooooooooooo".
Yes, grammatical errors and the misuse of words will happen when you're tired and posting on an internet forum./. is becoming hilarious. I say something unpopular and as a result a few people mark me troll and 3 people correct my grammar. I've got a son that's one month old. If you've got kids you know why I'm tired. If you don't, you probably will one day.
Turn around the argument. Beyond fingerprinting at the airport, and the chance of having your gadgets and laptop confiscated, what opportunities are there?
Your government has made the world a less pleasant place for citizens of the rest of the world. While you're not personally responsible for this, the fact is there probably aren't as many opportunities as their once were.
Note you both better be very closely sexually matched as well. If you like it a LOT and she does not, you will NOT be happy in a short few months when she stops putting out.
Not true. You can work around such things if you really do want to be with the other person. What's more consider that your wife can get sick or be injured and that can affect your sex life. My wife got hit by a car at 5 months pregnant, which has left her with a bulging disk and some nerve damage. She also delivered by c-section. The baby's one month old and not sleeping well. If our relationship was all about the sex and nothing else, we'd have broken up by now. We jokingly refer to it as the year of no sex. (I call it the international year of no sex, because I can't have sex with anyone from any nation).
On the bright side things should get better soon, but I'm not holding my breath for regular sex marathons while we have an infant child. By the way my sex drive is through the roof - I'd do it 5 times a day if I could. She's less sexually motivated (but certainly not sexless, so injury and pregnancy have taken their toll on her too). I wouldn't trade her for any one or any thing and I'm not stupid enough to ruin my family and break her heart just to get some sex (As far as I'm concerned all cheaters eventually get caught but even if I could "get away" with it I'd never be able to live with myself for betraying someone I love).
If your marriage can't sustain a few months without sex, you're too selfish to be married. Don't get married and if you do don't expect it to work.
As for the other part of your advice - marry your best friend - I agree 100%. I certainly did.
Intelligence is not one-dimensional. It's entirely possible to be brilliant at something like math or logic, but be completely socially inept (even to the point of autism) or sociopathic.
Which is why at the end of the paragraph you quoted the beginning of I said "His intelligence is clearly limited to computers and specifically file systems".
You think rational, intelligent people can't fly into a rage?
Oh of course I think they can. They'd also know when to take a plea bargain that'd land them a lot less jail time when there's a pile of evidence being stacked against them. He may be brilliant with computers, but he's a dunce at crime.
If you pile enough on someone and they get angry enough, that intelligence doesn't mean a whole lot, because enraged people aren't rational.
Rage isn't an emmotion you can sustain continuously for months.
Intelligence also doesn't necessarily keep you from panicking once you realize you've done something that can land you in prison (or the electric chair) for the rest of your life.
Panick too gives way to reason given enough time.
He was an idiot for killing his wife. He was an idiot for doing such a poor job at covering it up. He was an idiot for trying to pass his explanations as plausible. He was an idiot for not taking the plea bargain. Now he's an idiot that will rot in prison for something few can sympathise with. What a waste of a technically sound but socially crippled intellect.
He was offered only 3 years if he plead manslaughter. He refused.
People go on and on about how intelligent he was. Clearly not so much. He killed his wife. He did a piss poor job of trying to cover it up (so bad he would have been convicted without the body). He refused a plea bargain that would have given him most of his life back. These are not the actions of a rational intelligent person. His intelligence is clearly limited to computers and specifically file systems.
I'll be interested to hear if he's allowed access to computers in prison. Not sure how your jail systems work, nor sure how I'd feel about it, but it would be interesting.
So you carry it, and not a phone AND a MP3 player AND a video/DVD player AND a GPS system AND a camera, and so on. Which in turn reinforces my point. Unless you need the advanced capabilities a particular device provides, convergence devices are the wave of the future.
As long as the device performs its primary function well, I have no issue with adding other features. As for it being the way of the future, I'm not so sure. The GPS' in these phones are useless - old tech, slow aquisition requiring clear line of site. I actually do carry around a much more capable GPS and my iPod much of the time. The camera on the phone is actually quite good for what it is, compared to my previous phone anyway, but I wouldn't swap it for my SLR, that's for sure - so if I want to do serious photography, it doesn't come out of my pocket. I will use my phone to photograph a whiteboard at work or for an occassional quick happy snap. I do like having that feature.
If the device doesn't do a passable job at all the things it tries to be, it's almost useless.
(BTW, with a 2.2" screen, no keyboard, no WiFi, and a measly 3 hour rated talk time, I'd probably argue "much more capable"...)
Let's see.
I have a small screen. You have a larger one. It also makes your phone bulkier but I would trade bulk for screen size (though I don't like touch screens). So I'll give that one point to you.
No WIFI is hardly an issue. I have bluetooth which talks to other hardware I own, and some of your WIFI features are crippled. What's more my phone's connection is USB 2 (one reason I didn't touch the N95 8Gb is it's slow USB transfer), so in practice all I have to deal with is the minor inconvenience of plugging in a cable if I want to connect the phone (and that gives me better than WIFI speed anyway)
3 hour talk time is no issue at all. It'd cost me a small fortune to regularly speak for 3 hours on my mobile phone. In practice I can go without charging for 4-5 days and still use the phone as a phone (and to play music to soothe my newborn son).
What can I do that you can't? Let's see:
MMS.
Take a decent picture (5MP and clarity that shows the ridges on my fingers really nicely) vs your 2MP.
I can play more media formats than you.
I can record video and do other mundane things without having to "jailbreak" the phone. Does your phone even allow you to record voice? I can dictate till I go blue on mine.
Can you view your Office documents on the phone? I can. Not a high priority that one I'll admit. I have no interest in viewing movies or editing documents on a small screen (and your screen is only slightly larger and still of no interest to me. My 17" laptop screen is what I use for that)
You had to plug your phone into a PC before you could even make a call. That's just funny.
...Everyone knows you make them sign the agreement *before* making an offer!
I think given the upper limit is a few hundred dollars, and the lower limit might be something like $5, the amount is neither going to come as a surprise, nor entice you to sign the agreement without the offer having been made.
They're wasting their time trying to get him to sign the NDA in the first place.
How could you not highlight the most important implication! It may now be possible to inject different body parts and grow genitals on all sorts of different parts of the body! Double penetration!? Try Quadruple! See that man - he's a dickhead. No really, we injected his head and there is now a penis growing out of his scalp! I propose all politicians be injected in the scalp.
And you know, teenage kids who "just want to drive the damn car" are also responsible for a substantial portion of collisions. Coincidence?
Mum and Grandma want to drive the damn car too. The difference is that they are experienced, past the initial thrill of going fast or turning sharp corners, and through illness, aging and misadventure has learnt that they're not invincible.
So that's a very weak argument. It's not coincidence at all. It's a matter of experience and maturity. You can be an experienced reasonable end user without ever wanting to be a programmer or computer scientist, just as you can be an experienced driver without ever having an interest in being a mechanic.
The fundamental mistake of computer security is assuming that it can be made easy for the lowest common denominator. It can't. Sorry, I've got no clever analogy for this one -- but it's true. There is simply no way that you can design a system that can retain its security in the face of a user that is both ignorant and has no desire to learn how to properly use the tools at his disposal.
I don't need to know the internal workings of a combustion engine to drive a car. I don't really need an understanding of physics either. I just need to be able to predict how the machine will behave based on my actions, so as to avoid unsafe situations. The controls of the car have been greatly simplified. I have an accelerator and brake, and select gears. The details of how those actions are translated to the workings of a car are not something I need to know or understand in all but the most obscure circumstances. You can simplify a motor vehicle, but yes the end user has to be willing to learn how to use the simplified tool correctly.
Warnings will be ignored, errors will be bypassed, and someone who wants to remain ignorant will, no matter how many hoops he has to jump through to do it. Most users aren't just ignorant -- they revel in it: how many times have you heard someone say "Oh, I'm just hopeless with computer stuff", followed by a smirk and a giggle? There ain't enough crypto in the world can protect that user.
Again in a car, you have a very small number of warning lights and gauges. The car doesn't confuse you with technical mechanical jargon. You let an expert do preventive maintenance on a regular basis, and if you have a major problem you call the expert. A similar approach is needed in computing.
Designing a security measure around the lowest common denominator will make everyone less secure, all in the name of making someone who wants to remain ignorant slightly more comfortable. And for the benefit of all of us who want real security, this is a very, very bad idea.
This entire idea that security needs to be complex is just plain silly. The reality is that security interfaces are often designed very badly by people with no people skills who cannot express themselves in language that a layman can understand.
Difficult to say. There's a lot of military motivation for writing to develop. Comms is critical to warfare.
Vaccinations
True enough, but the other side of the coin is biological warfare. Hurling diseased bodies into your enemies fort is a time honoured tradition.
Steam power and Industrial revolution
True. However think about what the motivation was for inventing steam power. Conquest was certainly on the agenda.
Internal combustion engine
Improved significantly through warfare.
Light bulb
True enough.
Aeroplanes
The Wright brothers were involved in designing warplanes. Without war, and the plane's ability to allow dominance over ground via the air, the technology would have taken much longer to mature. We've come so far in just 100 years because people wanted to blow each other up ground and air targets more effectively.
If Richard Feynman himself showed up and told me something crazy about theoretical physics, I'd be like, "you fool, that's crazy."
From what I've studied, everything in theoretical physics is crazy.
Yes but some things are crazier than others. For example a famous dead physicist showing up and telling a geeky kid (as evidenced by the language he used - "I'd be like") something "crazy" about theoretical physics. That's the kind of crazy that usually requires elicit drugs, but there are a few special people for whom it's just the way they are.
Are you saying I should pay people not to stab me? How is this different than getting robbed? It just seems to take longer. You know what really keeps people from stabbing you? Fear of prison and/or getting stabbed themselves.
No, I'm saying you should contribute happily to society so that all of it's members receive the opportunities you seem to take for granted. When you were a child, you benefited from public education and healthcare didn't you? Why do you begrudge putting money back into the system to provide the same for others?
A community is made from individuals that have to take responsibility for themselves. Can't afford kids? Don't have any.
What you're saying is similar to: Can't afford to build roads across the whole country? Don't buy a car.
You really think people take on endevours in total isolation from society? People can only "afford" kids because there's communal infrastructure in place. Unless you're completely self sufficient, as in grow your own food, make your own clothes from animals you hunt down and crops you grow.
It's cliche but no man is an island. You may phrase it so it sounds reasonable: Why should I pay for others? However you've completely ignored the fact that others paid for you too.
Why in blazes should people who don't have kids, or who responsibly make arrangements for them to be cared for (such as *gasp* having Mom stay home and actually raise them), have to pay in the form of a lower salary for yours?
Because the kids that aren't raised properly are the kids that grow up to teenagers who would knife you in the chest for $5.
Why should you pay for roads? Or health care? Or emergency services? Or education? Because without these things society turns to shite. Because you indirectly use them even if you think you don't (Try living in a place without roads)
It's called living as part of a community. Any community that isn't friendly to parenthood by definition will die out.
if you are going to credit someone for work well done, why the fuck does their sex matter.
It doesn't. It was a joke, playing against the slashdot meme of Ug Us Men Women No Use Linux.
You really have to understand that a lot of girls are smarter than you.
That ain't hard. Some days I think my labrador is much smarter than me. Intelligence is a very hard thing to quantify.
Mmmm girls smarter than me are my biggest turn on.
pardon me it's 4:30am and I just left my bar so yes I am drunk. and yes my ex wife was smarter than me but hell she's smarter than anyone else i have ever met.
Explains the post. Hope you sleep it off well, and the ex is an ex for a reason. Move on.
Why not Skype, I use that on my mac to talk with my friend in Hawaii who uses Linux on here laptop
Liar!!! We all know chicks don't run Linux!
(Note: Lest you think I really am a jerk, I assure you the above is a joke only. I actually learnt kernel hacking from these ladies: http://www.linuxchix.org/content/courses/kernel_hacking/ I don't agree with their politics as I find it too separatist, but this was one fantastic tutorial and I have no problem crediting a female for work well done)
Committing crime is ok, if you don't know what your doing?
No but it's a mitigating circumstance. The punishment should be much less if someone is unintentionally breaking the law. Otherwise all you're doing is punishing ignorance and stupidity. Do you really want to put such a large number of people in jail??? I'd much rather see the predatory wankers who perpetrate the scams prosecuted than the victims. Instead we have a man who should be involved in doing just that passing the buck, trying to divert blame onto the hapless backward schmucks that hand over their money on no more than the promise of richers, and a whole legion of rednecks applauding him. Nigerian officials seem to have no incentive to actually try to irradicate this. If it's such a big problem why isn't there any kind of education campaign being run instead of leaving it to an inaccurate and sensationalizing media?
Money laundering is illegal, that is common knowledge.
People scammed aren't smart enough to understand that they are laundering money. People that are smart enough to understand this are also usually smart enough to know not to give money to a crook, especially without security. By handing over their money they are demonstrating their ignorance and/or stupidity.
Ignorance isn't an excuse to do whatever you want.
I'll counter with this. I was looking for a quote tbat went along the lines of "the definition of oppression is having too many laws to have knowledge of" but I can't find it. This will do.
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Moving off Exchange was a little more choppy but we got it done. There was one Gmail gotcha that delayed our roll out for a week but we got past that. Another surprise was after people uploaded their old messages to Gmail was how fast they dumped Outlook. We had planned on supporting Outlook but most everyone switched over to the Gmail interface on their own, a few had already been using Gmail anyway.
GMail? Seriously? In a corporate environment? How's that going to work. Google gets all your data including the highly sensitive stuff, you're now dependant on a net connection for email, and Google can pull the service at any time. How are you mitigating these risks?
And I say this as someone who was never very interested in Star Trek.
When you say this do you mean you've seen every episode of Star Trek 3 times, and all the movies, but don't own a phaser, a genuine Star Trek uniform, and haven't learnt Klingon? Or do you mean you've only seen each episode twice?
How about "A method to horrify employees with the realization that their financial future is tied to your company". The "Dance Monkey Boy" video of Steve Balmer's little motivational "speech" should suffice and heaven knows no one's going to have prior art that covers that. If you can't submit the video, get someone to storyboard it. I think it would make a lovely comic. "Wwwoooooooooooooooooooooooo. Developers, developers, developers. WWWWWWWWWWWOooooooooooooooooooooooooo".
Yes, grammatical errors and the misuse of words will happen when you're tired and posting on an internet forum. /. is becoming hilarious. I say something unpopular and as a result a few people mark me troll and 3 people correct my grammar. I've got a son that's one month old. If you've got kids you know why I'm tired. If you don't, you probably will one day.
Turn around the argument. Beyond fingerprinting at the airport, and the chance of having your gadgets and laptop confiscated, what opportunities are there?
Your government has made the world a less pleasant place for citizens of the rest of the world. While you're not personally responsible for this, the fact is there probably aren't as many opportunities as their once were.
Note you both better be very closely sexually matched as well. If you like it a LOT and she does not, you will NOT be happy in a short few months when she stops putting out.
Not true. You can work around such things if you really do want to be with the other person. What's more consider that your wife can get sick or be injured and that can affect your sex life. My wife got hit by a car at 5 months pregnant, which has left her with a bulging disk and some nerve damage. She also delivered by c-section. The baby's one month old and not sleeping well. If our relationship was all about the sex and nothing else, we'd have broken up by now. We jokingly refer to it as the year of no sex. (I call it the international year of no sex, because I can't have sex with anyone from any nation).
On the bright side things should get better soon, but I'm not holding my breath for regular sex marathons while we have an infant child. By the way my sex drive is through the roof - I'd do it 5 times a day if I could. She's less sexually motivated (but certainly not sexless, so injury and pregnancy have taken their toll on her too). I wouldn't trade her for any one or any thing and I'm not stupid enough to ruin my family and break her heart just to get some sex (As far as I'm concerned all cheaters eventually get caught but even if I could "get away" with it I'd never be able to live with myself for betraying someone I love).
If your marriage can't sustain a few months without sex, you're too selfish to be married. Don't get married and if you do don't expect it to work.
As for the other part of your advice - marry your best friend - I agree 100%. I certainly did.
Intelligence is not one-dimensional. It's entirely possible to be brilliant at something like math or logic, but be completely socially inept (even to the point of autism) or sociopathic.
Which is why at the end of the paragraph you quoted the beginning of I said "His intelligence is clearly limited to computers and specifically file systems".
You think rational, intelligent people can't fly into a rage?
Oh of course I think they can. They'd also know when to take a plea bargain that'd land them a lot less jail time when there's a pile of evidence being stacked against them. He may be brilliant with computers, but he's a dunce at crime.
If you pile enough on someone and they get angry enough, that intelligence doesn't mean a whole lot, because enraged people aren't rational.
Rage isn't an emmotion you can sustain continuously for months.
Intelligence also doesn't necessarily keep you from panicking once you realize you've done something that can land you in prison (or the electric chair) for the rest of your life.
Panick too gives way to reason given enough time.
He was an idiot for killing his wife. He was an idiot for doing such a poor job at covering it up. He was an idiot for trying to pass his explanations as plausible. He was an idiot for not taking the plea bargain. Now he's an idiot that will rot in prison for something few can sympathise with. What a waste of a technically sound but socially crippled intellect.
He was offered only 3 years if he plead manslaughter. He refused.
People go on and on about how intelligent he was. Clearly not so much. He killed his wife. He did a piss poor job of trying to cover it up (so bad he would have been convicted without the body). He refused a plea bargain that would have given him most of his life back. These are not the actions of a rational intelligent person. His intelligence is clearly limited to computers and specifically file systems.
I'll be interested to hear if he's allowed access to computers in prison. Not sure how your jail systems work, nor sure how I'd feel about it, but it would be interesting.
So you carry it, and not a phone AND a MP3 player AND a video/DVD player AND a GPS system AND a camera, and so on. Which in turn reinforces my point. Unless you need the advanced capabilities a particular device provides, convergence devices are the wave of the future.
As long as the device performs its primary function well, I have no issue with adding other features. As for it being the way of the future, I'm not so sure. The GPS' in these phones are useless - old tech, slow aquisition requiring clear line of site. I actually do carry around a much more capable GPS and my iPod much of the time. The camera on the phone is actually quite good for what it is, compared to my previous phone anyway, but I wouldn't swap it for my SLR, that's for sure - so if I want to do serious photography, it doesn't come out of my pocket. I will use my phone to photograph a whiteboard at work or for an occassional quick happy snap. I do like having that feature.
If the device doesn't do a passable job at all the things it tries to be, it's almost useless.
(BTW, with a 2.2" screen, no keyboard, no WiFi, and a measly 3 hour rated talk time, I'd probably argue "much more capable"...)
Let's see.
I have a small screen. You have a larger one. It also makes your phone bulkier but I would trade bulk for screen size (though I don't like touch screens). So I'll give that one point to you.
No WIFI is hardly an issue. I have bluetooth which talks to other hardware I own, and some of your WIFI features are crippled. What's more my phone's connection is USB 2 (one reason I didn't touch the N95 8Gb is it's slow USB transfer), so in practice all I have to deal with is the minor inconvenience of plugging in a cable if I want to connect the phone (and that gives me better than WIFI speed anyway)
3 hour talk time is no issue at all. It'd cost me a small fortune to regularly speak for 3 hours on my mobile phone. In practice I can go without charging for 4-5 days and still use the phone as a phone (and to play music to soothe my newborn son).
What can I do that you can't? Let's see:
MMS.
Take a decent picture (5MP and clarity that shows the ridges on my fingers really nicely) vs your 2MP.
I can play more media formats than you.
I can record video and do other mundane things without having to "jailbreak" the phone. Does your phone even allow you to record voice? I can dictate till I go blue on mine.
Can you view your Office documents on the phone? I can. Not a high priority that one I'll admit. I have no interest in viewing movies or editing documents on a small screen (and your screen is only slightly larger and still of no interest to me. My 17" laptop screen is what I use for that)
You had to plug your phone into a PC before you could even make a call. That's just funny.
And my phone's more compact, and cheaper to boot.
...Everyone knows you make them sign the agreement *before* making an offer!
I think given the upper limit is a few hundred dollars, and the lower limit might be something like $5, the amount is neither going to come as a surprise, nor entice you to sign the agreement without the offer having been made.
They're wasting their time trying to get him to sign the NDA in the first place.
How could you not highlight the most important implication! It may now be possible to inject different body parts and grow genitals on all sorts of different parts of the body! Double penetration!? Try Quadruple! See that man - he's a dickhead. No really, we injected his head and there is now a penis growing out of his scalp! I propose all politicians be injected in the scalp.
Besides, I ALWAYS have my iPhone with me.
I have a Nokia 6220 classic with me all the time. It's much more capable than your iPhone. Give the Apple iGadget fanboi-ism a rest will you?
And you know, teenage kids who "just want to drive the damn car" are also responsible for a substantial portion of collisions. Coincidence?
Mum and Grandma want to drive the damn car too. The difference is that they are experienced, past the initial thrill of going fast or turning sharp corners, and through illness, aging and misadventure has learnt that they're not invincible.
So that's a very weak argument. It's not coincidence at all. It's a matter of experience and maturity. You can be an experienced reasonable end user without ever wanting to be a programmer or computer scientist, just as you can be an experienced driver without ever having an interest in being a mechanic.
The fundamental mistake of computer security is assuming that it can be made easy for the lowest common denominator. It can't. Sorry, I've got no clever analogy for this one -- but it's true. There is simply no way that you can design a system that can retain its security in the face of a user that is both ignorant and has no desire to learn how to properly use the tools at his disposal.
I don't need to know the internal workings of a combustion engine to drive a car. I don't really need an understanding of physics either. I just need to be able to predict how the machine will behave based on my actions, so as to avoid unsafe situations. The controls of the car have been greatly simplified. I have an accelerator and brake, and select gears. The details of how those actions are translated to the workings of a car are not something I need to know or understand in all but the most obscure circumstances. You can simplify a motor vehicle, but yes the end user has to be willing to learn how to use the simplified tool correctly.
Warnings will be ignored, errors will be bypassed, and someone who wants to remain ignorant will, no matter how many hoops he has to jump through to do it. Most users aren't just ignorant -- they revel in it: how many times have you heard someone say "Oh, I'm just hopeless with computer stuff", followed by a smirk and a giggle? There ain't enough crypto in the world can protect that user.
Again in a car, you have a very small number of warning lights and gauges. The car doesn't confuse you with technical mechanical jargon. You let an expert do preventive maintenance on a regular basis, and if you have a major problem you call the expert. A similar approach is needed in computing.
Designing a security measure around the lowest common denominator will make everyone less secure, all in the name of making someone who wants to remain ignorant slightly more comfortable. And for the benefit of all of us who want real security, this is a very, very bad idea.
This entire idea that security needs to be complex is just plain silly. The reality is that security interfaces are often designed very badly by people with no people skills who cannot express themselves in language that a layman can understand.
Dubious list of peacetime inventions
Writing
Difficult to say. There's a lot of military motivation for writing to develop. Comms is critical to warfare.
Vaccinations
True enough, but the other side of the coin is biological warfare. Hurling diseased bodies into your enemies fort is a time honoured tradition.
Steam power and Industrial revolution
True. However think about what the motivation was for inventing steam power. Conquest was certainly on the agenda.
Internal combustion engine
Improved significantly through warfare.
Light bulb
True enough.
Aeroplanes
The Wright brothers were involved in designing warplanes. Without war, and the plane's ability to allow dominance over ground via the air, the technology would have taken much longer to mature. We've come so far in just 100 years because people wanted to blow each other up ground and air targets more effectively.
Transistors
True enough.
World Wide Web
You mean the one built on DARPANet?
As most glider pilots can tell you, cows have their backs against the wind. We use them for wind cues during emergency landings.
So does that mean you can't use the term "bullseye" for a good landing? I've got a mental image of a glider slaming into a bull.
http://www.privoxy.org/
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If Richard Feynman himself showed up and told me something crazy about theoretical physics, I'd be like, "you fool, that's crazy."
From what I've studied, everything in theoretical physics is crazy.
Yes but some things are crazier than others. For example a famous dead physicist showing up and telling a geeky kid (as evidenced by the language he used - "I'd be like") something "crazy" about theoretical physics. That's the kind of crazy that usually requires elicit drugs, but there are a few special people for whom it's just the way they are.
Are you saying I should pay people not to stab me? How is this different than getting robbed? It just seems to take longer. You know what really keeps people from stabbing you? Fear of prison and/or getting stabbed themselves.
No, I'm saying you should contribute happily to society so that all of it's members receive the opportunities you seem to take for granted. When you were a child, you benefited from public education and healthcare didn't you? Why do you begrudge putting money back into the system to provide the same for others?
A community is made from individuals that have to take responsibility for themselves. Can't afford kids? Don't have any.
What you're saying is similar to: Can't afford to build roads across the whole country? Don't buy a car.
You really think people take on endevours in total isolation from society? People can only "afford" kids because there's communal infrastructure in place. Unless you're completely self sufficient, as in grow your own food, make your own clothes from animals you hunt down and crops you grow.
It's cliche but no man is an island. You may phrase it so it sounds reasonable: Why should I pay for others? However you've completely ignored the fact that others paid for you too.
Why in blazes should people who don't have kids, or who responsibly make arrangements for them to be cared for (such as *gasp* having Mom stay home and actually raise them), have to pay in the form of a lower salary for yours?
Because the kids that aren't raised properly are the kids that grow up to teenagers who would knife you in the chest for $5.
Why should you pay for roads? Or health care? Or emergency services? Or education? Because without these things society turns to shite. Because you indirectly use them even if you think you don't (Try living in a place without roads)
It's called living as part of a community. Any community that isn't friendly to parenthood by definition will die out.
Sorry it's on my screen, so it's a 2 dimensional representation of a 4 dimensional idea in 3 dimensional space.
Einstein syas it's a 3 dimensional representation of a 5 dimensional idea in 4 dimensional space. Unless you know how to freeze time?
if you are going to credit someone for work well done, why the fuck does their sex matter.
It doesn't. It was a joke, playing against the slashdot meme of Ug Us Men Women No Use Linux.
You really have to understand that a lot of girls are smarter than you.
That ain't hard. Some days I think my labrador is much smarter than me. Intelligence is a very hard thing to quantify.
Mmmm girls smarter than me are my biggest turn on.
pardon me it's 4:30am and I just left my bar so yes I am drunk. and yes my ex wife was smarter than me but hell she's smarter than anyone else i have ever met.
Explains the post. Hope you sleep it off well, and the ex is an ex for a reason. Move on.
Why not Skype, I use that on my mac to talk with my friend in Hawaii who uses Linux on here laptop
Liar!!! We all know chicks don't run Linux!
(Note: Lest you think I really am a jerk, I assure you the above is a joke only. I actually learnt kernel hacking from these ladies:
http://www.linuxchix.org/content/courses/kernel_hacking/
I don't agree with their politics as I find it too separatist, but this was one fantastic tutorial and I have no problem crediting a female for work well done)
Committing crime is ok, if you don't know what your doing?
No but it's a mitigating circumstance. The punishment should be much less if someone is unintentionally breaking the law. Otherwise all you're doing is punishing ignorance and stupidity. Do you really want to put such a large number of people in jail??? I'd much rather see the predatory wankers who perpetrate the scams prosecuted than the victims. Instead we have a man who should be involved in doing just that passing the buck, trying to divert blame onto the hapless backward schmucks that hand over their money on no more than the promise of richers, and a whole legion of rednecks applauding him. Nigerian officials seem to have no incentive to actually try to irradicate this. If it's such a big problem why isn't there any kind of education campaign being run instead of leaving it to an inaccurate and sensationalizing media?
Money laundering is illegal, that is common knowledge.
People scammed aren't smart enough to understand that they are laundering money. People that are smart enough to understand this are also usually smart enough to know not to give money to a crook, especially without security. By handing over their money they are demonstrating their ignorance and/or stupidity.
Ignorance isn't an excuse to do whatever you want.
You're arguing this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
I'll counter with this. I was looking for a quote tbat went along the lines of "the definition of oppression is having too many laws to have knowledge of" but I can't find it. This will do.
http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/12/17/ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-excuse/