I wouldn't have thought it possible to discover Heroes in season 3...
Well, I wasn't as late as the above poster, but I did nearly miss Season 1. I discovered it when the SciFi channel ran a marathon just before S2 started. I had just gotten a Tivo with enough HD space to record marathons, so I saw the entire season months after it was over.
I agree about the other two seasons, and I'm hoping S4 shapes up.
No, it would be pointless at this time. 3 weeks ago it would ahve made sense.
I'm not so sure about that. A better way of putting it would be "a horse sneezing out the barn". True, the germs from the prior sneezes are already out there. But that damn horse is still sneezing through an open door!
If they put modern (TNG and later) Klingons in the movie, Trekkies would say "WTF! Everyone knows Klingons in the time didn't look like that". OTOH, if they used TOS Klingons, everyone would say "WTF! Everyone knows the TOS Klingons were just humans who need more prune juice".
But as I see it, there should be no problem signing contracts as $AVATAR - for strictly SL (or other virtual world) activity. As soon as RL enters the picture (including RL money), I agree, use your real identity.
(Just to be clear, influeza isn't transmitted through "being dirty", it's transmitted through the air by people coughing and sneezing.)
Often, it's transmitted when someone coughs/sneezes on some surface, some poor loser touches the surface and then feeds his face with his now germy hands. If he'd washed his hands before he ate, he wouldn't have gotten Patient X's bugs.
There are no guarantees. As you say, you can get into trouble even if you don't use facebook. All you can really do is think about the stuff that you DO have control over.
My own Facebook page is pretty bland. Not much that a PHB could hold against me. There is a slight risk from stray posts of some of my "friends", but I could "hide" the biggest "threats" if I had any reason to think it would be a problem. Plus, if a PHB found my page, he couldn't see it without "friending" me anyway.
It could even go beyond the prospective employees information. Maybe Employee X is a model person with no listed religion, inoffensive politics, and no barfing in public. But the first thing HR sees on his page is a wall post from his old HS pal, Weird Eddy. Guess who's not getting hired.
I trust my ATM because I can check it later to see if it really did what I asked it to. I get a paper reciept and even a monthy paper statement for verification. Voting machines can't do that and maintain anonimity for the voter.
Besides extra layers of protection, there are other things political parties have in common with diapers. I like the advice of Mark Twain - change them often.
Agreed. And they need changing for similar reasons.
Remember, if you've checked the "Democrat" box, you must fear Conservatives, Pedophiles, Rednecks, and Terrorists. If you've checked the "Republican" box, you have to fear Liberals, Gays, Foreigners, and Terrorists.
I'm a Libertarian. I have to be afraid of Conservatives, Pedophiles, Rednecks, Liberals, Gays, Foreigners, Terrorists, and the Government! Ugh!
I WAS old enough to work on the Y2K stuff, and it WAS a potentially serious issue. Granted, it was VASTLY overhyped. Planes didn't fall from the sky, cars didn't explode, life didn't end, but there could have been some nasty and costly glitches if we hadn't fixed the problems. And, I'd guess that the reason the countries that ignored Y2K weren't visibly affected is that they were already crappy with their computers & financial systems, so the extra Y2K problems got lost in the existing chaos.
IMO, 911 was a crime and should always have been treated as such. The dirtbags who carried it out are not any entity that the U.S. could be at war with.
That depends. The dirtbags (Al Queda) that carried it out were glorified criminals, but they were being sheltered by a government (the Taliban was the closest thing Afghanistan had to a government at the time), and war with them WAS justified. Our real blunder in this wasn't that we went to war, but that we diverted our resources to an unneccesary war against an unpleasant nation that had no ties to Al Queda or the means to hurt us, WMD claims notwithstanding.
In my day, Pac-Man ruled. Unfortunately, it wasn't free; I had to go to the local arcade and plunk in quarters till I went broke. PCs didn't exist yet.
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How will that differ from the shipping version?
But if we kept on outsourcing like we have been, Buffalo NY would become Bangalore India.
Oddly, I'm more likely to be an asshole when I'm NOT depressed.
Well, I wasn't as late as the above poster, but I did nearly miss Season 1. I discovered it when the SciFi channel ran a marathon just before S2 started. I had just gotten a Tivo with enough HD space to record marathons, so I saw the entire season months after it was over.
I agree about the other two seasons, and I'm hoping S4 shapes up.
Until someone give it a cute nickname from the initials. I'm sure someone will object to "hinny flu".
I'm not so sure about that. A better way of putting it would be "a horse sneezing out the barn". True, the germs from the prior sneezes are already out there. But that damn horse is still sneezing through an open door!
If they put modern (TNG and later) Klingons in the movie, Trekkies would say "WTF! Everyone knows Klingons in the time didn't look like that". OTOH, if they used TOS Klingons, everyone would say "WTF! Everyone knows the TOS Klingons were just humans who need more prune juice".
But as I see it, there should be no problem signing contracts as $AVATAR - for strictly SL (or other virtual world) activity. As soon as RL enters the picture (including RL money), I agree, use your real identity.
Heck, I'm not quite 50, and my memory's as good as it ever was (IIRC), and I STILL forget something half the time.
What about the ones who are filthy rich?
Often, it's transmitted when someone coughs/sneezes on some surface, some poor loser touches the surface and then feeds his face with his now germy hands. If he'd washed his hands before he ate, he wouldn't have gotten Patient X's bugs.
I'm not a C programmer, but I did play with it some in ancient times, and I had similar experiences on my olde DOS/Windows 3X box.
There are no guarantees. As you say, you can get into trouble even if you don't use facebook. All you can really do is think about the stuff that you DO have control over.
My own Facebook page is pretty bland. Not much that a PHB could hold against me. There is a slight risk from stray posts of some of my "friends", but I could "hide" the biggest "threats" if I had any reason to think it would be a problem. Plus, if a PHB found my page, he couldn't see it without "friending" me anyway.
I could see real problems if someone who's into that calls to say he can't make it to work because he's tied up at the moment.
It could even go beyond the prospective employees information. Maybe Employee X is a model person with no listed religion, inoffensive politics, and no barfing in public. But the first thing HR sees on his page is a wall post from his old HS pal, Weird Eddy. Guess who's not getting hired.
I trust my ATM because I can check it later to see if it really did what I asked it to. I get a paper reciept and even a monthy paper statement for verification. Voting machines can't do that and maintain anonimity for the voter.
Agreed. And they need changing for similar reasons.
I've heard enough panic on the mainstream news. At least Twitter is limited to 140 chars of panic at a time.
Yes.
I'm a Libertarian. I have to be afraid of Conservatives, Pedophiles, Rednecks, Liberals, Gays, Foreigners, Terrorists, and the Government! Ugh!
Civilization works best when the people you depend on are civilized. That's not always the case.
Do you want salt? And while Ubuntu's default look isn't great, it's still good to use an OS that only LOOKS like shit.
I WAS old enough to work on the Y2K stuff, and it WAS a potentially serious issue. Granted, it was VASTLY overhyped. Planes didn't fall from the sky, cars didn't explode, life didn't end, but there could have been some nasty and costly glitches if we hadn't fixed the problems. And, I'd guess that the reason the countries that ignored Y2K weren't visibly affected is that they were already crappy with their computers & financial systems, so the extra Y2K problems got lost in the existing chaos.
That depends. The dirtbags (Al Queda) that carried it out were glorified criminals, but they were being sheltered by a government (the Taliban was the closest thing Afghanistan had to a government at the time), and war with them WAS justified. Our real blunder in this wasn't that we went to war, but that we diverted our resources to an unneccesary war against an unpleasant nation that had no ties to Al Queda or the means to hurt us, WMD claims notwithstanding.
In my day, Pac-Man ruled. Unfortunately, it wasn't free; I had to go to the local arcade and plunk in quarters till I went broke. PCs didn't exist yet.