You missed my point. Faux News is not a valid news reference unto itself in my eyes. Until I see another valid source confirm it, I want my salt lick.:P
As you stated, it *is* in fact reported elsewhere. I'll accept that.
Nah, that's why I pairwise someone, stay in that lane until the end, but prevent traffic from rushing to the front of the line. Forces them to merge in.
Sadly, the "Troll" is right. I voted for Obama, and either he doesn't know what he's saying (very possible), or he's lost his mind.
This would basically make things like SSH illegal unless you turned over the master keys ahead of time. Or heck, gpg/pgp - even http over port 443 with TLS (better known to the masses as https or ssl).
So this thing will not only drive as stupidly as every other luxury car I see on the road (cutting people off wantanly in traffic, apparently busted turn signals, staying in lanes that end until the very last moment to cut in front of traffic, etc), but now it will also have Super Pursuit Mode? Who's genius idea was this, anyway?
"Relativity is about spacetime, not space and time. The idea that hugely distant events happened in the "past" is like saying there is an absolute time which permeates the universe. That's total nonsense."
Actually, that's precisely what I was saying. So you're saying the concept of "concurrency" is impossible when you pass distance X?
We're splitting hairs. With the exception of the Sun, moon, and some VERY near planet/stars, every time we look up at the sky, we're looking a looooong way back into the past. Just about everything you see in the sky "happened" a long time ago. Part of the reason that SETI isn't likely to succeed. Not that it isn't a valiant effort, but anything we would "hear" would be from so long ago that the civilization we're hearing may not even exist anymore, and inversely, anyone that might "hear" our RF transmissions will not have heard them yet, and won't for a good time to come still, and when they do, they're going to "hear" Howdy Doody. Our society has evolved and advanced quit a bit since that point, and if they were to reply with similar tech hoping to communicate, we won't be receiving that transmission for quite some time past *that*.
In short, our entire existence is so transient that, although it is great hubris to think we're alone, the end result is the same. We probably *are not* alone, but we'll very likely never meet any "others".
This whole discussion always sets me back into depression, realizing how short and pointless our own existence is. We scramble around, trying to be the best amongst our own, and sadly the whole thing is no different that a bunch of ants scurrying around in a pile. The only difference is scale. We arrive, we're lucky to be here more than 60 years or so, and then we're gone. We don't get to keep any of it, we don't get anything. We exist to not exist anymore. The concept of life is really sad - you become cognizant of "self" only to realize that it is so temporary that well - anyway. Religion (in my case, Christianity) winds up speaking to this by saying in essence "you don't have to die". I struggle because believing that is to say that all of what I see above my head that happened so long ago - the one that made all of *that* somehow, someway, some*why*, inserted themselves into our existence to teach us some 2000 years ago (still, long after what we see above our heads happened), then allowed the collective "us" of a very small group of humans to murder him, and then revived three days later to pay for things the collective "we" had done wrong, so that "we" would no longer have to sacrifice the lives of other things in order to live past death.
My analytical brain just about bursts at the conflict. I can only envision God as a creator of either the "multiverse" (string theory), or just "our" universe/reality - which makes us more like rats in a cage, and even then, the compartmentalization of my psyche which wants to have faith and follow my upbringing and "believe and be saved" while all the while learning all that I can while I'm here so it can all just go away anyway.
The "human condition" is a term that gets used when you're young, and then it hits you what precisely it is. Let's not split hairs over time. On the scale of time we're dealing with, you and I are a single "tick" on that clock.
Yup. Owned a total of 4 iPhones between my wife and myself. None have ever had a contract with AT&T, paid cash for all 4 (yeah, I know, rules and such - you just have to be creative). I pay $100/mo for both phones, plenty of minutes, unlimited data, text, and SMS. $100 total.
Going to AT&T isn't an option. Ever. Monthly fee alone is enough to ensure that. I can live with 2G data thank-you-very-much.
My nephew came to visit for the weekend a few weeks back and we were going to pick up a copy of StarCraft 2, spawn out a LAN game, and teach the kid the ropes. (Hadn't really followed the news on the game, shocking, I know.)
No spawning out. No LAN games, everything routes out through Battle.net. So even if I *were* willing to drop $180 to teach a kid (myself, my wife, and my nephew) how to play StarCraft, and even though all three of us are on the same LAN segment (albeit, via wifi) - we would all have to NAT out to Battle.net, and deal with the lag of our DSL line.
As something with idiopathic hypersomnia, I can say without question that it is a stimulant. I take that paired with Nuvigil (recently switched from Provigil - don't even get me onto *that* particular racket!) to stay awake, along with caffeine capsules.
The case of the shakes that I get every once in a while is most DEFINITELY in line with a stimulant.
I'm not defending it, but the premise there was psychological harm paired with physical harm being more than a person's psyche can handle at once and just snapping.
I don't know that every person has it happen, but I know I've been in situations that pushed me to a place where nothing seemed right anymore. I just felt *harmed*. I was defensive against everyone.
I didn't watch a loved one get murdered, and I certainly wasn't injured to that severe extreme. Would that make someone a super-villain? Meh. Would it make them a psychological threat to themselves and everyone around them? Quite possibly.
I said it in the comments there, and I'll say it here:
"Meanwhile what you have listed as piracy isn't piracy. It is a potential infringement of copyright.
Piracy actually *is* theft. The most romanticized version of it is where one boat at sea attacks another boat at sea and steals whatever valuables were aboard.
*THAT* is piracy. Piracy is also theft.
Copying is copying. It may or may not violate someone else's rights."
Here's the thing (gawd help me...), had he done that, he'd have created an alternate reality where Anakin never goes to the dark side. The emperor never gets granted emergency powers, the Jedi have no reason to go arrest Sidious. Not to mention the fact that Anakin's turn to the dark side hinged on this razor-thin guise of going from "he should be tried in court" to cutting off Mace Windu's hand and going all "I'll even murder innocent children!" on us.
Seriously? He has an ethical problem with killing a known sith lord. He has an ethical problem with killing Sidious without a proper trial, but the young ones have to die to save Padme? WTF?:P
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Wait wait wait - what?
The native american women suddenly became in desperate need of an orgasm en-masse upon the arrival of the Europeans?
Why wasn't this in the history books?
They can't already pull someone over for doing the whole "swerving but not quite enough to be drunk" deal?
Seriously, ESPECIALLY while on a bike, you can tell someone is messing with their phone. :(
Trolololololol
Hohohohoho!
There are lots of sources of information in this world I don't trust. Faux News isn't the only one.
It just happens to be the reference for this article. Again, I want my salt lick. :)
You missed my point. Faux News is not a valid news reference unto itself in my eyes. Until I see another valid source confirm it, I want my salt lick. :P
As you stated, it *is* in fact reported elsewhere. I'll accept that.
Yeah, I'm not talking about "zippering". I'm talking about gunning it. Better known to football players as an "indian run".
Nah, that's why I pairwise someone, stay in that lane until the end, but prevent traffic from rushing to the front of the line. Forces them to merge in.
This is what I get for not reading the article first. Faux News. Where's my salt lick?
Sadly, the "Troll" is right. I voted for Obama, and either he doesn't know what he's saying (very possible), or he's lost his mind.
This would basically make things like SSH illegal unless you turned over the master keys ahead of time. Or heck, gpg/pgp - even http over port 443 with TLS (better known to the masses as https or ssl).
This is straight up insanity.
So this thing will not only drive as stupidly as every other luxury car I see on the road (cutting people off wantanly in traffic, apparently busted turn signals, staying in lanes that end until the very last moment to cut in front of traffic, etc), but now it will also have Super Pursuit Mode? Who's genius idea was this, anyway?
You mean even if you *tattoo* lipstick on it, right? :)
Crap.
I'm busted on my own hubris. One tends to forget that *we* are in motion. We're not fixed.
It's the old Back to the Future joke of what would have really happened. Delorian disappears, reappears in space, dog dies. :P
"Relativity is about spacetime, not space and time. The idea that hugely distant events happened in the "past" is like saying there is an absolute time which permeates the universe. That's total nonsense."
Actually, that's precisely what I was saying. So you're saying the concept of "concurrency" is impossible when you pass distance X?
We're splitting hairs. With the exception of the Sun, moon, and some VERY near planet/stars, every time we look up at the sky, we're looking a looooong way back into the past. Just about everything you see in the sky "happened" a long time ago. Part of the reason that SETI isn't likely to succeed. Not that it isn't a valiant effort, but anything we would "hear" would be from so long ago that the civilization we're hearing may not even exist anymore, and inversely, anyone that might "hear" our RF transmissions will not have heard them yet, and won't for a good time to come still, and when they do, they're going to "hear" Howdy Doody. Our society has evolved and advanced quit a bit since that point, and if they were to reply with similar tech hoping to communicate, we won't be receiving that transmission for quite some time past *that*.
In short, our entire existence is so transient that, although it is great hubris to think we're alone, the end result is the same. We probably *are not* alone, but we'll very likely never meet any "others".
This whole discussion always sets me back into depression, realizing how short and pointless our own existence is. We scramble around, trying to be the best amongst our own, and sadly the whole thing is no different that a bunch of ants scurrying around in a pile. The only difference is scale. We arrive, we're lucky to be here more than 60 years or so, and then we're gone. We don't get to keep any of it, we don't get anything. We exist to not exist anymore. The concept of life is really sad - you become cognizant of "self" only to realize that it is so temporary that well - anyway. Religion (in my case, Christianity) winds up speaking to this by saying in essence "you don't have to die". I struggle because believing that is to say that all of what I see above my head that happened so long ago - the one that made all of *that* somehow, someway, some*why*, inserted themselves into our existence to teach us some 2000 years ago (still, long after what we see above our heads happened), then allowed the collective "us" of a very small group of humans to murder him, and then revived three days later to pay for things the collective "we" had done wrong, so that "we" would no longer have to sacrifice the lives of other things in order to live past death.
My analytical brain just about bursts at the conflict. I can only envision God as a creator of either the "multiverse" (string theory), or just "our" universe/reality - which makes us more like rats in a cage, and even then, the compartmentalization of my psyche which wants to have faith and follow my upbringing and "believe and be saved" while all the while learning all that I can while I'm here so it can all just go away anyway.
The "human condition" is a term that gets used when you're young, and then it hits you what precisely it is. Let's not split hairs over time. On the scale of time we're dealing with, you and I are a single "tick" on that clock.
Yup. Owned a total of 4 iPhones between my wife and myself. None have ever had a contract with AT&T, paid cash for all 4 (yeah, I know, rules and such - you just have to be creative). I pay $100/mo for both phones, plenty of minutes, unlimited data, text, and SMS. $100 total.
Going to AT&T isn't an option. Ever. Monthly fee alone is enough to ensure that. I can live with 2G data thank-you-very-much.
Ah, so Windows 6.1^H^H^H7 is all *your* fault!
My nephew came to visit for the weekend a few weeks back and we were going to pick up a copy of StarCraft 2, spawn out a LAN game, and teach the kid the ropes. (Hadn't really followed the news on the game, shocking, I know.)
No spawning out. No LAN games, everything routes out through Battle.net. So even if I *were* willing to drop $180 to teach a kid (myself, my wife, and my nephew) how to play StarCraft, and even though all three of us are on the same LAN segment (albeit, via wifi) - we would all have to NAT out to Battle.net, and deal with the lag of our DSL line.
WTF?
Conceded, but well deserved. :)
I never saw an episode of Dr. Who prior to the new series'.
Where would be a good starting point to watch the older stuff? My understanding is that the first episodes are just "gone".
Personally, I wear my sunglasses at night. So I can see.
As something with idiopathic hypersomnia, I can say without question that it is a stimulant. I take that paired with Nuvigil (recently switched from Provigil - don't even get me onto *that* particular racket!) to stay awake, along with caffeine capsules.
The case of the shakes that I get every once in a while is most DEFINITELY in line with a stimulant.
I'm not defending it, but the premise there was psychological harm paired with physical harm being more than a person's psyche can handle at once and just snapping.
I don't know that every person has it happen, but I know I've been in situations that pushed me to a place where nothing seemed right anymore. I just felt *harmed*. I was defensive against everyone.
I didn't watch a loved one get murdered, and I certainly wasn't injured to that severe extreme. Would that make someone a super-villain? Meh. Would it make them a psychological threat to themselves and everyone around them? Quite possibly.
Lando pilots the millenium falcon inside the death star? Meme quote "That was too close" as a reflector dish is ripped off of the top of the ship?
I said it in the comments there, and I'll say it here:
"Meanwhile what you have listed as piracy isn't piracy. It is a potential infringement of copyright.
Piracy actually *is* theft. The most romanticized version of it is where one boat at sea attacks another boat at sea and steals whatever valuables were aboard.
*THAT* is piracy. Piracy is also theft.
Copying is copying. It may or may not violate someone else's rights."
Here's the thing (gawd help me...), had he done that, he'd have created an alternate reality where Anakin never goes to the dark side. The emperor never gets granted emergency powers, the Jedi have no reason to go arrest Sidious. Not to mention the fact that Anakin's turn to the dark side hinged on this razor-thin guise of going from "he should be tried in court" to cutting off Mace Windu's hand and going all "I'll even murder innocent children!" on us.
Seriously? He has an ethical problem with killing a known sith lord. He has an ethical problem with killing Sidious without a proper trial, but the young ones have to die to save Padme? WTF? :P