The obvious 1st choice is to offer $100,000 tax free to anyone who gets sterilized. $50,000 if they have 1 kid. World-wide. The poorer the country, the more $100,000 is worth. It'll boost economies better than wars.
I'm currently working in Saudi Arabia. I haven't seen any US citizens here working illegally, but if you'd like to fly us both to India, Korea, London, Tokyo, Paris, Nepal, New Zealand I will gladly point them out to you. Americans are very honest to point out that they're working illegally in other countries at least to non-natives.
I see US citizens doing that all over the world. You should try traveling before you make that statement. From nice expensive cities like London, Tokyo and Paris, to 3rd world nations.
Don't blame Lucas for that. They destroyed their reputation by selling the bean counters who were destroying the British car/bike industry. They demanded the lowest price and Lucas said for a few cents extra, we could build you reliable stuff. Then after the bean counters were finishing off reliability of their products, they cut back on R&D. Then the unions getting involved and the British government. Wait, in fact, just say "Lucas sucks". It's easier. And the Civil War was over slavery.
I'm currently working in Saudi Arabia where everything is subsidized. There's little to no taxes here. I've heard import taxes are 2%. Fuel is 13 cents American a liter. But to mail something is expensive -- $4/letter -- according to the Saudis I've asked. I haven't mailed anything yet.
I love that US mail is cheap. I used to mail things all the time. I'd much rather get an actual hand written letter than email.
Fuck, that'd be great. Decker could have a wacky sidekick played by Gary Busey. They can also solve crimes with a totally hot large breasted actress who knows some kind of space kung-fu. Too bad Sean Young is too old. She's a crackpot as well.
I'm sensing doom for this project. Maybe they can get Joss Whedon on it. Then abandon it after 6 episodes. Then wonder why it sells so well on DVD and bring it back. Then cancel it. Argh.
Dick lived a speed freak lifestyle, but his liver processed speed so it didn't effect him. He didn't know it at the time. Or at least that's what he said in interviews.
I think Saudi will be fine. There's no taxes here and everything is subsidized. The people are well fed. Still, it's the ME so any monetary bet on it wouldn't be make or break.
I'm actually working in Saudi. Just above the Yemen border. It's in my own best interest to pay attention to what's going on. This city was shelled a year ago and in December there was a firefight with al-Qaeda.
Yikes, yes. My mistake. It's hot in Saudi and I'm distracted from watching news of Libya and Bahrain. I'm near Yemen and I'm keeping an eye on that, too. If Yemen goes, I think the school staff will be evacuated.
I've had these arguments with friends but once people have decided Islam is to blame, it's hard changing minds. Right wing/lefties it doesn't matter. It's not science where you can give a composing argument for most people.
I'm in Saudi now. Foreigners get it different but I still don't try to talk to women. They can get in trouble by talking to single men of any religion. Oh, and the veils here pre-date Islam. Still it's a crazy culture and I'm glad I didn't grow up in it.
I was at a Jesuit high school. It's the 80s and all so we sat around waiting for the USSR to nuke us. They got someone (can't remember if it was the principal or a brother) on the speaker and did an announcement about how sometimes men don't understand technology and they go too far. It went on for a few minutes without saying what happened. Me, and a few other people, figured it was nuke time. Then they said the shuttle blew up. I laughed and so did a few of my friends. It sucked, but the death of seven you don't know is much nicer than the death of you and everyone you know. Other students were "fuck you, that's not funny" but no point in explaining why we laughed. Like war movies when a soldier walks past a dead soldier, laughs, and says "poor bastard". It sucks, but better him than you.
I still get a few spams in my gmail inbox and I still get actual email going to the spam box. I'm on a ton of mailing lists and I have it set so everything sent to my domain goes to gmail.
I have my domain registration email set to dead_babies@ which is starred when I get those. Those almost always go to the spam box and they hardly show up but it makes me laugh when I get them.
Part of the false positives are probably my fault to occasionally responding to the "we should swap links" with "sure, would you like to be on the page about necrophilia or the page with the naked girl pinning Marshmallow Peeps (tm) to her vagina?
I wonder how much actual email has stopped to go straight through facebook? That's part of their plan isn't it? That'll slow down once we are all "happily" behind the FB white list. I've got a lot of friends that only use FB for sending email.
People with accounts with password as a password will fuck it up, but not by much. They can stop taking passwords that are easily guessed. I haven't received any spam on FB or LinkedIn, but I do on orkut, friendster and myspace. I have my FB account to receive messages from anyone who wants to send one.
Not that I keep a close eye on anything but friendster. I like walking through graveyards.
My basic point about Diaspora is it's a social network. You have to go out of your way to make it accessible for everyone and even then, odds are very low that 500 million people are going to switch even if you gave them Netflix for a year. How are they going to earn income by fighting for personal privacy and being anti-IE.
In the 90s and early 2000s when I was stuck making sites work on IE, I used to bitch a lot about it. I couldn't stop by every user's place to say "Well, you know, IE goes out of it's way to make it hard for other browsers by not complying with standards". Computers are an appliance like cars or dishwashers. Most users don't care about intricacies.
I had a weird sense of pride that the sites would look good for Netscape, Opera and other browsers that most users didn't use. Just because people shouldn't have to use IE. I would love it if people didn't use it until Microsoft is forced to comply. I've been waiting on that for over a decade.
Diaspora vs Microsoft won't even register on Microsoft. Tilting at windmills.
As an aside, I went to the lynx page and tried to validate its html. It tentatively passed with 2 warnings.
I don't use IE unless I'm on a site that demands it. It's from way back from choosing a browser for the first time. I was a lynx holdout and occasionally I still use lynx because it makes me laugh. Champion of the underdogs. Luckily being forced to use IE hasn't happened for a long time.
If it was up to me, as King of the World, IE would've complied in the early days. It didn't happen then, and it's not happening now.
By not playing along with The Great Evil, you just cut off users, and when you're trying to create a social networking site, that's insane. So, my ass, which is highly tuned for laziness, or "the path of least resistance" says good luck to Diaspora by cutting off potential users in the early beta phase. Might as well make a lynx based social network.
I don't see why people would move to Diaspora. They're snobs who won't design for IE. The "get a real browser" message when you try to use IE is asinine. I used to be a web developing minion and I don't use IE but I sure spent tons of time optimizing sites for IE because that's what the majority of people use. Sure, take the high and mighty route, but let's see how many people are going to move. They aren't even going to be able to compete with friendster. It's taking an Apple computer elitist view that doesn't work on social networks.
Making a social network site that people will go to in mass is a hard thing to do. People don't care about privacy since they don't see it obviously effecting them. If you offered free houses in Chernobyl people would live there. There's over 500 million "complete nutjob"s on facebook and I'd reckon 499 million of them don't know/care about privacy.
I like social network sites. I have the privacy set to where I like it. That's only good for keeping the average human stalker type out of my business. I know that facebook makes money by selling my info. I travel a lot and it's a simple way to keep contact with friends and relatives. Everyone is on facebook and it'll stay that way for a long time. Basically, this is a long winded way of saying if there's another move to a different network, it's not going to be one that doesn't play fair with browsers.
I remember a few years ago, a slashdot article about how Ford developed a radiator that would clean air. I haven't heard about that since and since this dress is an art project, I assume I'll never hear about clothing like this being worn.
You never noticed when I changed the percentage of cents from everyone's salary to go into my secret account. The trick to avoid passwords is typing in "override all security". Works every time. My old mentor Gus Gorman filled me in. He's dead now, so I'm not ratting him out.
I remember that post of yours. You aren't operating on all levels if you find it reasonable to flash a gun at a retail store employee to force a sale at your convenience. I would think that in any state, even Texas, if you tried that you'd end up talking to the cops and you'd lose your permit to carry. Now I'll remember that commodore64_love is a bit kooky and I'm sure there's a few other people who remember that post. It's not just a single AC.
I like the off looking CLU. It reminded me of the special effects of the first Tron. I thought the 2nd movie missed out on what made Tron neat looking. Nothing looked like that before or since. Sort of Metropolis like. I guess that's what people have written off as cheesy, but I enjoyed the style. That's why I liked CLU. It's nice that CGI has gotten boring, but I wish they would've worked on it. Not in the Señor Spielbergo/Lucas way of going way too far to be purposely annoying.
I also wish they would've brought in William Gibson to write it and had Ridley Scott direct it. Not that there's ever a chance in hell Disney would've done that. The story sucked but it could've-should've-would've been better.
The wondergirl sucked but the large breasted spoof of her in Tron: Jeremy was funny.
It would've been more secure for employees to write them down. Then they only have to worry about their spouse, kids, plumber and people who get to see the house office. If they have a real office, it's still limited to employees and finding out who the Evil One is after something like this shouldn't be that hard. Writing down passwords on post-its isn't that big of a problem.
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The obvious 1st choice is to offer $100,000 tax free to anyone who gets sterilized. $50,000 if they have 1 kid. World-wide. The poorer the country, the more $100,000 is worth. It'll boost economies better than wars.
I'm currently working in Saudi Arabia. I haven't seen any US citizens here working illegally, but if you'd like to fly us both to India, Korea, London, Tokyo, Paris, Nepal, New Zealand I will gladly point them out to you. Americans are very honest to point out that they're working illegally in other countries at least to non-natives.
I see US citizens doing that all over the world. You should try traveling before you make that statement. From nice expensive cities like London, Tokyo and Paris, to 3rd world nations.
Don't blame Lucas for that. They destroyed their reputation by selling the bean counters who were destroying the British car/bike industry. They demanded the lowest price and Lucas said for a few cents extra, we could build you reliable stuff. Then after the bean counters were finishing off reliability of their products, they cut back on R&D. Then the unions getting involved and the British government. Wait, in fact, just say "Lucas sucks". It's easier. And the Civil War was over slavery.
I'd like to see citations please.
I'm currently working in Saudi Arabia where everything is subsidized. There's little to no taxes here. I've heard import taxes are 2%. Fuel is 13 cents American a liter. But to mail something is expensive -- $4/letter -- according to the Saudis I've asked. I haven't mailed anything yet.
I love that US mail is cheap. I used to mail things all the time. I'd much rather get an actual hand written letter than email.
Fuck, that'd be great. Decker could have a wacky sidekick played by Gary Busey. They can also solve crimes with a totally hot large breasted actress who knows some kind of space kung-fu. Too bad Sean Young is too old. She's a crackpot as well.
I'm sensing doom for this project. Maybe they can get Joss Whedon on it. Then abandon it after 6 episodes. Then wonder why it sells so well on DVD and bring it back. Then cancel it. Argh.
Dick lived a speed freak lifestyle, but his liver processed speed so it didn't effect him. He didn't know it at the time. Or at least that's what he said in interviews.
I think Saudi will be fine. There's no taxes here and everything is subsidized. The people are well fed. Still, it's the ME so any monetary bet on it wouldn't be make or break.
I'm actually working in Saudi. Just above the Yemen border. It's in my own best interest to pay attention to what's going on. This city was shelled a year ago and in December there was a firefight with al-Qaeda.
Yikes, yes. My mistake. It's hot in Saudi and I'm distracted from watching news of Libya and Bahrain. I'm near Yemen and I'm keeping an eye on that, too. If Yemen goes, I think the school staff will be evacuated.
UPS is your friend, not your mortal enemy. That's universal power supply, not the delivery service. The delivery service IS your mortal enemy.
I've had these arguments with friends but once people have decided Islam is to blame, it's hard changing minds. Right wing/lefties it doesn't matter. It's not science where you can give a composing argument for most people.
I'm in Saudi now. Foreigners get it different but I still don't try to talk to women. They can get in trouble by talking to single men of any religion. Oh, and the veils here pre-date Islam. Still it's a crazy culture and I'm glad I didn't grow up in it.
So, wait, Yoko Ono destroyed wikileaks?
I was at a Jesuit high school. It's the 80s and all so we sat around waiting for the USSR to nuke us. They got someone (can't remember if it was the principal or a brother) on the speaker and did an announcement about how sometimes men don't understand technology and they go too far. It went on for a few minutes without saying what happened. Me, and a few other people, figured it was nuke time. Then they said the shuttle blew up. I laughed and so did a few of my friends. It sucked, but the death of seven you don't know is much nicer than the death of you and everyone you know. Other students were "fuck you, that's not funny" but no point in explaining why we laughed. Like war movies when a soldier walks past a dead soldier, laughs, and says "poor bastard". It sucks, but better him than you.
I still get a few spams in my gmail inbox and I still get actual email going to the spam box. I'm on a ton of mailing lists and I have it set so everything sent to my domain goes to gmail.
I have my domain registration email set to dead_babies@ which is starred when I get those. Those almost always go to the spam box and they hardly show up but it makes me laugh when I get them.
Part of the false positives are probably my fault to occasionally responding to the "we should swap links" with "sure, would you like to be on the page about necrophilia or the page with the naked girl pinning Marshmallow Peeps (tm) to her vagina?
I have too much time on my hands sometimes.
I wonder how much actual email has stopped to go straight through facebook? That's part of their plan isn't it? That'll slow down once we are all "happily" behind the FB white list. I've got a lot of friends that only use FB for sending email.
People with accounts with password as a password will fuck it up, but not by much. They can stop taking passwords that are easily guessed. I haven't received any spam on FB or LinkedIn, but I do on orkut, friendster and myspace. I have my FB account to receive messages from anyone who wants to send one.
Not that I keep a close eye on anything but friendster. I like walking through graveyards.
My basic point about Diaspora is it's a social network. You have to go out of your way to make it accessible for everyone and even then, odds are very low that 500 million people are going to switch even if you gave them Netflix for a year. How are they going to earn income by fighting for personal privacy and being anti-IE.
In the 90s and early 2000s when I was stuck making sites work on IE, I used to bitch a lot about it. I couldn't stop by every user's place to say "Well, you know, IE goes out of it's way to make it hard for other browsers by not complying with standards". Computers are an appliance like cars or dishwashers. Most users don't care about intricacies.
I had a weird sense of pride that the sites would look good for Netscape, Opera and other browsers that most users didn't use. Just because people shouldn't have to use IE. I would love it if people didn't use it until Microsoft is forced to comply. I've been waiting on that for over a decade.
Diaspora vs Microsoft won't even register on Microsoft. Tilting at windmills.
As an aside, I went to the lynx page and tried to validate its html. It tentatively passed with 2 warnings.
I don't use IE unless I'm on a site that demands it. It's from way back from choosing a browser for the first time. I was a lynx holdout and occasionally I still use lynx because it makes me laugh. Champion of the underdogs. Luckily being forced to use IE hasn't happened for a long time.
If it was up to me, as King of the World, IE would've complied in the early days. It didn't happen then, and it's not happening now.
By not playing along with The Great Evil, you just cut off users, and when you're trying to create a social networking site, that's insane. So, my ass, which is highly tuned for laziness, or "the path of least resistance" says good luck to Diaspora by cutting off potential users in the early beta phase. Might as well make a lynx based social network.
I don't see why people would move to Diaspora. They're snobs who won't design for IE. The "get a real browser" message when you try to use IE is asinine. I used to be a web developing minion and I don't use IE but I sure spent tons of time optimizing sites for IE because that's what the majority of people use. Sure, take the high and mighty route, but let's see how many people are going to move. They aren't even going to be able to compete with friendster. It's taking an Apple computer elitist view that doesn't work on social networks.
Making a social network site that people will go to in mass is a hard thing to do. People don't care about privacy since they don't see it obviously effecting them. If you offered free houses in Chernobyl people would live there. There's over 500 million "complete nutjob"s on facebook and I'd reckon 499 million of them don't know/care about privacy.
I like social network sites. I have the privacy set to where I like it. That's only good for keeping the average human stalker type out of my business. I know that facebook makes money by selling my info. I travel a lot and it's a simple way to keep contact with friends and relatives. Everyone is on facebook and it'll stay that way for a long time. Basically, this is a long winded way of saying if there's another move to a different network, it's not going to be one that doesn't play fair with browsers.
I remember a few years ago, a slashdot article about how Ford developed a radiator that would clean air. I haven't heard about that since and since this dress is an art project, I assume I'll never hear about clothing like this being worn.
You never noticed when I changed the percentage of cents from everyone's salary to go into my secret account. The trick to avoid passwords is typing in "override all security". Works every time. My old mentor Gus Gorman filled me in. He's dead now, so I'm not ratting him out.
I remember that post of yours. You aren't operating on all levels if you find it reasonable to flash a gun at a retail store employee to force a sale at your convenience. I would think that in any state, even Texas, if you tried that you'd end up talking to the cops and you'd lose your permit to carry. Now I'll remember that commodore64_love is a bit kooky and I'm sure there's a few other people who remember that post. It's not just a single AC.
Oh, I see. You plan on going back to another 4chan thread.
I like the off looking CLU. It reminded me of the special effects of the first Tron. I thought the 2nd movie missed out on what made Tron neat looking. Nothing looked like that before or since. Sort of Metropolis like. I guess that's what people have written off as cheesy, but I enjoyed the style. That's why I liked CLU. It's nice that CGI has gotten boring, but I wish they would've worked on it. Not in the Señor Spielbergo/Lucas way of going way too far to be purposely annoying.
I also wish they would've brought in William Gibson to write it and had Ridley Scott direct it. Not that there's ever a chance in hell Disney would've done that. The story sucked but it could've-should've-would've been better.
The wondergirl sucked but the large breasted spoof of her in Tron: Jeremy was funny.
It would've been more secure for employees to write them down. Then they only have to worry about their spouse, kids, plumber and people who get to see the house office. If they have a real office, it's still limited to employees and finding out who the Evil One is after something like this shouldn't be that hard. Writing down passwords on post-its isn't that big of a problem.