The church is the biggest reason we have laws against suicide. Taking your own life is the only real power we have, to live or to die and the bible says that only God has the right to decide who lives and who dies thus suicide is a sin.
Luckily, in the state I live in, we have dismissed these ignorant notions and we have a choice to die peacefully.
Not to mention that the GP left out Billy Ray as Hannah's understanding, yet firm, dad oozing w/"downhome family" values - you know, ones like having two kids out-of-wedlock (you do know that he wasn't married to little Miley's mother when she got preggers, did you?).
BTW, does that guy have no shame or what, pimping out his kid to revitalize his flagging career (not that it matters a whit to the the mouse, who will downside both when Hannah is no longer the young female singer du jour)?
Dude, if you think that $250-500K is FU money, you really don't have a clue about inflation or risk over time (or else you don't mind living in a shack in Bugfuckville for the rest of your life). Try $10-20M. That will get you one white chip. If you really want FU money, start aiming at $40-100M.
And, BTW, most really smart people will never have that kind of money. They tend to overthink their investments. Warren Buffet was once asked by a college professor what to do to make money. Warren told him, "Lose about fifty IQ points."
Not to mention that the "ability" to make large quantities of money usually starts with either larger quantities of money from ones parents or large quantities of luck, in addition to ones motivation, hard work, etc.
...they think they can buy a new world with their money...
No, but even the ones that believe that this is happening and that it's real also understand that the impacts will fall disproportionately on the poor. As such, they think (a) that a few more dead poor people (especially a few more dead poor people in far-away lands with different colored skins) is okie-dokie with them and (b) they're going to make sure that they have a few more dollars in their pockets to ride out the enviro-storm (need to save up for that second AC unit).
Me, I'm just expecting that we'll ignore it until we hit thermal runaway - Venus II, anyone?
The interesting part of the article is actually in paragraph 3 (i.e., before anything the submitter thought was important):
At a bail hearing three days later, a federal prosecutor asked that Mr. Aleynikov be held without bond because the code could be used to "unfairly manipulate" stock prices.
Of course, it's perfectly fine that Goldman-Sachs management and traders have code that could be used to "unfairly manipulate" stock prices. But when a private citizen gets their hands on something like that, look out! God knows we wouldn't want the hoi-polloi to have the same chance to "unfairly manipulate" stock prices that the big boys have.
What is it about socialized energy generation that makes it safer?
More chance of direct control. In a government, if things start getting too sketchy, you can throw the bums out and get newer bums that are more focused on the issue (no, it doesn't happen often, but it does happen occasionally). Government meetings and plans are much more open than those of private entities (less than they were a few years ago, but still more open).
Because the thirst for power in government isn't as dangerous as the thirst for wealth in the private sector?
No, it's just as dangerous. It's just more likely to be contained when you have a right to vote.
Here's mine: If we must have nuclear plants, either have the government own them or make them (highly) regulated monopolies so that they can't escape government control.
He didn't exactly see the financial meltdown coming in advance
He was pointing out back in September of 2007 (and perhaps earlier - I didn't check any further) that housing prices were far too high with respect to historical price-rent levels and that a reckoning was coming. You're right, he didn't predict the collapse - he just predicted the precursor and had been warning about the deregulation that turned it into a disaster.
And now you're criticizing me for purchasing Chinese products? What the hell does that have to do with this?
Many of these products (and/or their parts/ingredients) are manufactured in prison labor camps where many more than one person has died. Not that I disagree with your rant, in general, but you should know that by buying Chinese products you are supporting a system that has killed many more than the unfortunate individual in this article. As such, your outrage over this death seems somewhat suspect, somewhat like a person's who condemns the death of baby seals, but sees no trouble having cows killed so he can eat.
Yes, but how does it do on my old hardware that struggled with Vista in the first place?
This is a really good question. The USB wireless adapter I'm using doesn't have a Vista-compatible driver. Neither does the PCI audio I/O device I'm using with my DAW, nor does the add-on video card. I still don't see driver support out there for older hardware.
So instead of forcing people to dig through the proverbial hay stack, why not require legislators to file earmarks in an electronic format. This legislation would also void any earmarks that are not in compliance.
You really have no clue about how this stuff works, other than what you think you understand from sound bites, do you? One man's earmark is another's main-line legislation. Tell me what the difference is. If you pass something stupid like this, it will only assure that the earmarks are buried so deep you'll never see them. Retards.
... his two examples were protocols and an aphrodisiac...
Out of touch with reality much? The day a protocol will be an aphrodisiac is the day Hell freezes over, monkeys fly out my butt, and Slashdot readers get laid.
I think most people resent Segway owners because they can _afford_ a multi-thousand dollar replacement...
Not really. I could go out and buy a Segway tomorrow. The money is in my accounts and my family would not be hurt in the least. My objection is on two grounds, waste and aesthetic. A Segway wastes more in raw materials and upkeep than good alternative (read bicycle). You may call me hypocritical with the waste argument because, yes, I own a car (note though, that most Segway riders also own and use cars, though, so this is an additional vehicle), but on the aesthetic grounds, I feel I am on quite sound footing. There is enough dorkiness in the world that no more need be added. And, sadly, that is what the Segway does. And as I said in an earlier Slashdot post that discussed Kamen's two-wheeled riding vehicle, "Is there any vehicle that this guy designs that doesn't make you look dorky riding in/on it?". My question still stands and its answer is still damning.
On the other hand, I guess looking like a dork is its own "reward" - I don't think that anyone who rides one of these things regularly will ever get a date for the rest of his/her (although the later alternative is a vanishing small subset) life. Given that riding Segways is an evolutionary dead end, we probably don't have to live with it for more than a generation or two.
What if they choose not to play all of the songs on the CD? Can a band change the dynamics of a song live? What if the guitar solos are not "note for note" exact when compared to the CD, down to the microsecond? Can they play a song that was electric using acoustic instruments and vice-versa? Can the singer use real-time pitch correction in a live situation? Can they substitute different musicians? Can keyboard samples be used, if they were used on the album (it's not played "live")? What if the timings between songs are different? How different is it allowed to get before you decide that "it's not music"?
Is the "music concrète" from the sixties music? It doesn't use actual instruments, nor were the compositions able to be reproduced exactly live. At a concert featuring his then new band, Utopia, Todd Rundgren sang his song "Hello, It's Me" against tape, because he did that song as a solo act with a different backing band and he consciously wanted the band "Utopia" to be kept separate from the artist with backing band "Todd Rundgren". Even though he sang the song live (as heard from different timings and vocal flourishes at the end of phrases), the music and backing vocals were pre-recorded. Was that "unreal"? If a hip-hop artist in live performance uses samples extensively and raps against it, is this not music even if it matches "note-for-note" whats on a CD?
I guess you listen only to classical, folk, and roots music performances, since they're the only ones left that even approximate what's there on a studio album. I think you haven't thought this through very well.
... the whole peak in 1999 was really an effect of replacing one version of something with another?
Bingo!
The replacement phenomenon is real. The only problem is that the RIAA was late to jump on the new distribution medium which followed the CD (due to bone-headedness and internecine warfare) and they are now paying the price. The fact that this new distribution medium was also substantially "leakier" than the last one is just icing on the cake.
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The sad thing is this guy should NOT have had to go in a closet and blow his head off.
Move to Oregon and you don't have to. This is one of the many things I am proud of my adopted state for pioneering.
The church is the biggest reason we have laws against suicide. Taking your own life is the only real power we have, to live or to die and the bible says that only God has the right to decide who lives and who dies thus suicide is a sin.
Luckily, in the state I live in, we have dismissed these ignorant notions and we have a choice to die peacefully.
Not to mention that the GP left out Billy Ray as Hannah's understanding, yet firm, dad oozing w/"downhome family" values - you know, ones like having two kids out-of-wedlock (you do know that he wasn't married to little Miley's mother when she got preggers, did you?).
BTW, does that guy have no shame or what, pimping out his kid to revitalize his flagging career (not that it matters a whit to the the mouse, who will downside both when Hannah is no longer the young female singer du jour)?
This is why I have a problem with the notion of "Intelligent" Design. If someone/thing did design us, they did a monumentally screwed up job.
...depressed people kill themselves...
Yeah, but before or after breeding? It makes a lot of difference.
On that note, I notice that my kids often do things that add to my stress/increase my depression...
Dude, if you think that $250-500K is FU money, you really don't have a clue about inflation or risk over time (or else you don't mind living in a shack in Bugfuckville for the rest of your life). Try $10-20M. That will get you one white chip. If you really want FU money, start aiming at $40-100M.
And, BTW, most really smart people will never have that kind of money. They tend to overthink their investments. Warren Buffet was once asked by a college professor what to do to make money. Warren told him, "Lose about fifty IQ points."
Not to mention that the "ability" to make large quantities of money usually starts with either larger quantities of money from ones parents or large quantities of luck, in addition to ones motivation, hard work, etc.
...they think they can buy a new world with their money...
No, but even the ones that believe that this is happening and that it's real also understand that the impacts will fall disproportionately on the poor. As such, they think (a) that a few more dead poor people (especially a few more dead poor people in far-away lands with different colored skins) is okie-dokie with them and (b) they're going to make sure that they have a few more dollars in their pockets to ride out the enviro-storm (need to save up for that second AC unit).
Me, I'm just expecting that we'll ignore it until we hit thermal runaway - Venus II, anyone?
there are no real technical reasons
Well, other than for crappy software that assumes that an address is 32 bits...
Or hardware that doesn't have drivers for 64-bit systems...
So, yes, no technical reasons at all...
The interesting part of the article is actually in paragraph 3 (i.e., before anything the submitter thought was important):
Of course, it's perfectly fine that Goldman-Sachs management and traders have code that could be used to "unfairly manipulate" stock prices. But when a private citizen gets their hands on something like that, look out! God knows we wouldn't want the hoi-polloi to have the same chance to "unfairly manipulate" stock prices that the big boys have.
What is it about socialized energy generation that makes it safer?
More chance of direct control. In a government, if things start getting too sketchy, you can throw the bums out and get newer bums that are more focused on the issue (no, it doesn't happen often, but it does happen occasionally). Government meetings and plans are much more open than those of private entities (less than they were a few years ago, but still more open).
Because the thirst for power in government isn't as dangerous as the thirst for wealth in the private sector?
No, it's just as dangerous. It's just more likely to be contained when you have a right to vote.
Here's mine: well-regulated, privately owned nuclear plants.
Here's mine: If we must have nuclear plants, either have the government own them or make them (highly) regulated monopolies so that they can't escape government control.
He didn't exactly see the financial meltdown coming in advance
He was pointing out back in September of 2007 (and perhaps earlier - I didn't check any further) that housing prices were far too high with respect to historical price-rent levels and that a reckoning was coming. You're right, he didn't predict the collapse - he just predicted the precursor and had been warning about the deregulation that turned it into a disaster.
... but it does prove a conviction in the beliefs they held that was stronger then the people who didn't want them believing it.
Mod -1, Irrelevant.
... if you're stupid enough to get your news from Murdoch's websites, you're stupid enough to pay for them.
And now you're criticizing me for purchasing Chinese products? What the hell does that have to do with this?
Many of these products (and/or their parts/ingredients) are manufactured in prison labor camps where many more than one person has died. Not that I disagree with your rant, in general, but you should know that by buying Chinese products you are supporting a system that has killed many more than the unfortunate individual in this article. As such, your outrage over this death seems somewhat suspect, somewhat like a person's who condemns the death of baby seals, but sees no trouble having cows killed so he can eat.
I'd also be interested in hearing suggestions from married geeks with more XP
Well, according to the previous article, you should upgrade. Then you'll have more Win 7.
Yes, but how does it do on my old hardware that struggled with Vista in the first place?
This is a really good question. The USB wireless adapter I'm using doesn't have a Vista-compatible driver. Neither does the PCI audio I/O device I'm using with my DAW, nor does the add-on video card. I still don't see driver support out there for older hardware.
So instead of forcing people to dig through the proverbial hay stack, why not require legislators to file earmarks in an electronic format. This legislation would also void any earmarks that are not in compliance.
You really have no clue about how this stuff works, other than what you think you understand from sound bites, do you? One man's earmark is another's main-line legislation. Tell me what the difference is. If you pass something stupid like this, it will only assure that the earmarks are buried so deep you'll never see them. Retards.
... differences between there, their, and they're and "the air" (yes, I've seen that one).
Don't tell me. You work in the South, right?
... his two examples were protocols and an aphrodisiac...
Out of touch with reality much? The day a protocol will be an aphrodisiac is the day Hell freezes over, monkeys fly out my butt, and Slashdot readers get laid.
Yeah... and if they can't do that, they'll hump your leg. Bastards.
No wonder Americans are so goddamn fat.
F*ck you! We were goddamn fat before the Segway, and we'll be goddamn fat long after it's gone!
I think most people resent Segway owners because they can _afford_ a multi-thousand dollar replacement...
Not really. I could go out and buy a Segway tomorrow. The money is in my accounts and my family would not be hurt in the least. My objection is on two grounds, waste and aesthetic. A Segway wastes more in raw materials and upkeep than good alternative (read bicycle). You may call me hypocritical with the waste argument because, yes, I own a car (note though, that most Segway riders also own and use cars, though, so this is an additional vehicle), but on the aesthetic grounds, I feel I am on quite sound footing. There is enough dorkiness in the world that no more need be added. And, sadly, that is what the Segway does. And as I said in an earlier Slashdot post that discussed Kamen's two-wheeled riding vehicle, "Is there any vehicle that this guy designs that doesn't make you look dorky riding in/on it?". My question still stands and its answer is still damning.
On the other hand, I guess looking like a dork is its own "reward" - I don't think that anyone who rides one of these things regularly will ever get a date for the rest of his/her (although the later alternative is a vanishing small subset) life. Given that riding Segways is an evolutionary dead end, we probably don't have to live with it for more than a generation or two.
What if they choose not to play all of the songs on the CD? Can a band change the dynamics of a song live? What if the guitar solos are not "note for note" exact when compared to the CD, down to the microsecond? Can they play a song that was electric using acoustic instruments and vice-versa? Can the singer use real-time pitch correction in a live situation? Can they substitute different musicians? Can keyboard samples be used, if they were used on the album (it's not played "live")? What if the timings between songs are different? How different is it allowed to get before you decide that "it's not music"?
Is the "music concrète" from the sixties music? It doesn't use actual instruments, nor were the compositions able to be reproduced exactly live. At a concert featuring his then new band, Utopia, Todd Rundgren sang his song "Hello, It's Me" against tape, because he did that song as a solo act with a different backing band and he consciously wanted the band "Utopia" to be kept separate from the artist with backing band "Todd Rundgren". Even though he sang the song live (as heard from different timings and vocal flourishes at the end of phrases), the music and backing vocals were pre-recorded. Was that "unreal"? If a hip-hop artist in live performance uses samples extensively and raps against it, is this not music even if it matches "note-for-note" whats on a CD?
I guess you listen only to classical, folk, and roots music performances, since they're the only ones left that even approximate what's there on a studio album. I think you haven't thought this through very well.
... it cheers me up...
Yeah, right... You just get off on the lesbian frission when she sings "When I Saw Her Standing There".
... the whole peak in 1999 was really an effect of replacing one version of something with another?
Bingo!
The replacement phenomenon is real. The only problem is that the RIAA was late to jump on the new distribution medium which followed the CD (due to bone-headedness and internecine warfare) and they are now paying the price. The fact that this new distribution medium was also substantially "leakier" than the last one is just icing on the cake.