...nope. You need to desecrate it first. Go into the sanctuary and whack off into the font, then spit a half-chewed communion wafer into it. Puke up some communion wine then dunk your cell phone into it.
I might be a bit too old to qualify for the ADHD generation but...
...I cried when I watched Challenger die in gradeschool....
...I saw the Tiananmen Square massacre as it happened....
...I saw the Berlin Wall fall...
...I saw the dissolution of the USSR...
...I entered the workforce and shortly afterwards I watched 9/11 happen while I was finishing up at the gym...
Why do we need to know? Let me tell you gramps, it's because we've been raised up to it. We know that the next "shot heard 'round the world" will travel so fast....
First, sir, I would like to apologize for my tone in the preceding message. That was uncalled for.
I would say that a closed machine count without voter-verification of the recorded results has no value. I would add that a manual recount with adequate oversight certainly has value (doubly so when the machine count, like in Washington, is of paper ballots. An anecdote: I was a TA, and I was tasked with confirming the results of the ScanTron system. Not too accurate.)
Pick up the goddamned phone. It's only a representative democracy if the representatives know who they're supposed to be representing. If you don't think that's enough call up Senator Clinton to thank her. Let her know you're not one of her constituents but that you support her bill. Then call up any Senator you think might be borderline on the issue. IM some friends about it.
Don't whine about how This country ain't run by the likes of me. unless you're willing to risk a papercut to the tongue when you seal the letter to the Senator.
Paper is certainly not any more immune to idiots than machines.
Of course. And your direct line computation is that a voter-verifiable paper ballot generated by the machine has no value? Can you even see the glaring fallacy?
A programmer demonstrated how to rig votes on machines in Florida. Washington, Indiana and Florida at least had problems with their voting machines. I seem to recall several machines lost a shitload of votes when they were asked to hold more ballots than they could. You see no value in paper receipts?
Pick up the god-damned phone and call your congressman, and both of the senators from your state. Fax them and email them as well. Then write and sign paper letters. Mail them.
Did you miss the stories about the machines that lost votes? If there had been a paper ballot printed by the machine there would have been no data loss.
Never mind the "Do we trust diebold" conspiracy theories however (in)valid they may be, the voter should have a right to see that their ballot was cast as the intended it to be. Unless you've got some cool superman xray vision or mad van Eck phreaking powers you can't tell what the machine is recording as your vote.
Well, care to explain why microbes--let alone certain types of small shrimp--that can live in salt evaporation ponds, where the salt level is many times higher than seawater? Go to the salt evaporation ponds at the south end of San Francisco Bay and see what I mean.
I am well aware that there are creatures on earth with survive in highly-salinated environments. Please note the trailing: for these critters in my post.
My question is: can the adaptations for extreme cold for thousands and thousands of years effectively coexist with those for an ultrasalinated environment. It seems to me that both adaptations would probably require some special structures in the makeup of the cell wall...
Researchers are excited because they're the sort of microbes that might thrive in the ice sea announced on Mars yesterday
Yeah, if the likely problems of salt in the martian see can be solved for these critters, maybe.
And why the expiration dates(well, of course, they're another way to screw people out of $$, but what's the certificate providers excuse/reason for them?)
Take the obvious Fight Club quote...over a long enough time line the survival rate for everyone drops to zero... and apply the same logic to the chances of a certificate being compromised: over a long enough time line the chances of a certificate being compromised approach one....
Good CAs deal with this in two ways: expiration dates and revocation lists. An expiration date protects your customers from getting something which might've been signed three years ago on the sly, and thinking it's a legitimate offering from the company. A revocation list protects your customers by letting them contact the CA's site to see if your certificate is known to have been compromised.
First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs
- Peter Ellis
Actually, if you drop back for a second and think about it, angband is actually pretty keyboard-lite once you have a basic set of keymaps, macros, and inscriptions.
I mean you've got your arrow keys which you're hitting all the time -- call that eight. Then of course you run, make it 16.
Add in a keybinding to fire your launcher, cast your spell, zap your wand, and the other ultra-common actions and you're still floating around 25 buttons.
25 is well within the limits for a virtual keyboard UI that's not too cluttered and can reasonably share the screen with an Angband window. Throw in one extra button to bring up the full keyboard for when it's needed, and it's totally playable with a headmouse and single switch.
Also, as some other posters have pointed out, he's probably got some dictation software as well. That stuff works best when trained for a limited grammar -- like aviation phoenetics. Add in a few extras and you could rattle off some of the periodic commands quite fast: MikeAlphaIndiaStarStarStarStarDot would cast a stinking cloud at the fourth monster in the * search order.
Funny you should mention that. A couple years back I was coming out of my first long term relationship, and our primary contraceptive was the pill, backed up with VCF. Well, being on the open market again for the first time in six years I didn't have any condoms, talking to a friend (who had just knocked up his wife) I complained about a few nights before when I needed to stop and pick up condoms on the way over to my "new friend"'s house (to complain about the clerk, actually) Not needing them any more he proceeds to pull out a huge box of trojans -- 100 count or something.
Which was great of him. Until to underscore the quantity I messed up and called it a "family pack";)
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Cute, but not so. :( The anthrax problem caused most congresional offices to request phone/fax/email over snailmail.
...nope. You need to desecrate it first. Go into the sanctuary and whack off into the font, then spit a half-chewed communion wafer into it. Puke up some communion wine then dunk your cell phone into it.
...I cried when I watched Challenger die in gradeschool....
...I saw the Tiananmen Square massacre as it happened....
...I saw the Berlin Wall fall...
...I saw the dissolution of the USSR...
...I entered the workforce and shortly afterwards I watched 9/11 happen while I was finishing up at the gym...
Why do we need to know? Let me tell you gramps, it's because we've been raised up to it. We know that the next "shot heard 'round the world" will travel so fast....
Yes?
I would say that a closed machine count without voter-verification of the recorded results has no value. I would add that a manual recount with adequate oversight certainly has value (doubly so when the machine count, like in Washington, is of paper ballots. An anecdote: I was a TA, and I was tasked with confirming the results of the ScanTron system. Not too accurate.)
Don't whine about how This country ain't run by the likes of me. unless you're willing to risk a papercut to the tongue when you seal the letter to the Senator.
Of course. And your direct line computation is that a voter-verifiable paper ballot generated by the machine has no value? Can you even see the glaring fallacy?
Damn. What makes you think this stuff is so cheap? You really don't know what a dollar is worth, do you?
A programmer demonstrated how to rig votes on machines in Florida. Washington, Indiana and Florida at least had problems with their voting machines. I seem to recall several machines lost a shitload of votes when they were asked to hold more ballots than they could. You see no value in paper receipts?
Pick up the god-damned phone and call your congressman, and both of the senators from your state. Fax them and email them as well. Then write and sign paper letters. Mail them.
Never mind the "Do we trust diebold" conspiracy theories however (in)valid they may be, the voter should have a right to see that their ballot was cast as the intended it to be. Unless you've got some cool superman xray vision or mad van Eck phreaking powers you can't tell what the machine is recording as your vote.
...why would you lug all of them if you'd flashed them onto a single cart?
Not to mention the time he spent in acid-trip-palette-cycling when he picked up a stopwatch.
I'm sorry, did you just say Link's clothes were "fetching"?
...now do you back up your work?
I am well aware that there are creatures on earth with survive in highly-salinated environments. Please note the trailing: for these critters in my post.
My question is: can the adaptations for extreme cold for thousands and thousands of years effectively coexist with those for an ultrasalinated environment. It seems to me that both adaptations would probably require some special structures in the makeup of the cell wall...
Also factor in that as near as we can tell Mars is a saltier place to begin with.
Researchers are excited because they're the sort of microbes that might thrive in the ice sea announced on Mars yesterday Yeah, if the likely problems of salt in the martian see can be solved for these critters, maybe.
Take the obvious Fight Club quote ...over a long enough time line the survival rate for everyone drops to zero... and apply the same logic to the chances of a certificate being compromised: over a long enough time line the chances of a certificate being compromised approach one....
Good CAs deal with this in two ways: expiration dates and revocation lists. An expiration date protects your customers from getting something which might've been signed three years ago on the sly, and thinking it's a legitimate offering from the company. A revocation list protects your customers by letting them contact the CA's site to see if your certificate is known to have been compromised.
First they came for the verbs,
and I said nothing because verbing weirds language.
Then they arrival for the nouns,
and I speech nothing because I no verbs
- Peter Ellis
I mean you've got your arrow keys which you're hitting all the time -- call that eight. Then of course you run, make it 16.
Add in a keybinding to fire your launcher, cast your spell, zap your wand, and the other ultra-common actions and you're still floating around 25 buttons.
25 is well within the limits for a virtual keyboard UI that's not too cluttered and can reasonably share the screen with an Angband window. Throw in one extra button to bring up the full keyboard for when it's needed, and it's totally playable with a headmouse and single switch.
Also, as some other posters have pointed out, he's probably got some dictation software as well. That stuff works best when trained for a limited grammar -- like aviation phoenetics. Add in a few extras and you could rattle off some of the periodic commands quite fast: MikeAlphaIndiaStarStarStarStarDot would cast a stinking cloud at the fourth monster in the * search order.
Got link? I don't even run linux these days but I'll buy a copy anyways for when I do. SMAC was awesome!
I've got "Operator", "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", and "A long time ago" all going through my head AT THE SAME TIME!
and I still don't know what you're talking about.
Funny you should mention that. A couple years back I was coming out of my first long term relationship, and our primary contraceptive was the pill, backed up with VCF. Well, being on the open market again for the first time in six years I didn't have any condoms, talking to a friend (who had just knocked up his wife) I complained about a few nights before when I needed to stop and pick up condoms on the way over to my "new friend"'s house (to complain about the clerk, actually) Not needing them any more he proceeds to pull out a huge box of trojans -- 100 count or something.
Which was great of him. Until to underscore the quantity I messed up and called it a "family pack" ;)
Hm... Was that a "drunk on rum" or "drunk on vodka" post?