there was even a case where some zoo had a snake species that kept dying. they replaced it with a rubber replica and wasnt caught until some guy with too much time on his hands went back over and over and noticed the snake never moved over a period of several months.
unfortuunately, google doesnt seem to reveal a link after 30 seconds of searching.
Movies are way too valuable a way to kill time during business travel to waste seeing in a movie theatre. Airports, planes, trains, and ferries are full of people watching DVDs on their laptops or personal DVD players to fill all that 'wasted time'.
>Apparently, though, Italy views that population decline as a real problem - Italy and France are both examining re-upping an old WWII policy of giving medals and other recognition to new mothers. = )
Wow a medal! If that isn't incentive for 9 months of pregnancy, labor, sleepless nights for 18 years... I don't know what is.
By analog watches, do you mean they have hands rather than numerals (LEDs/LCDs)? Most watches that have hands have a quartz crystal and are digital, that's why they tick. Real analog watches have gears that are wound (rather than take a battery) and cost a pretty penny. Their hands 'sweep' rather than tick.
And people were upset when it was 'discovered' that GMail was going to programatically 'read' your email to provide contextual advertising (and spam filtering) as an invasion of privacy? Here we will have actual _people_ reading your private correspondences. No thanks.
> but yet this gets little to no coverage in the mainstream media?
actually, it is covered by mainstream media. this has been covered on all of the main news outlets. news, talking head pundit shows, etc. however, perhaps they are not covering it with the fervor that you and others might like. there are 2 reasons i can think of for this....
1) it's not news that'll get the ratings up. when Pat Buchanan 'spoiled' the Clinton/Bush election, it was news then as well, but people just didn't care that much. so they report on it out of what little sense of duty they have left and perhaps to hedge their bets that this becomes a hot story. since the US has undergone massive media consolidation (nearly a la Italy), ratings are a major driving force. thats why almost anything but the biggest political stories are still overshadowed by the Peterson murder trial and the Jackson molestation trial. (at least the latter involves someone famous, the first obsession completely escapes me).
2) it's too much work to write a real story and do 'investigation'. news is much more of a competetive business for the same reason noted above. a huge number of stories are written in part or in full by interest groups and then shopped around to outlets to be placed. the only thing that doesnt seem to be happening is outright payola to place stories. but the net effect is that newspapers can become more efficient by accepting these articles and start firing journalists. it's alot more profitable to have a a few guys sit around and read prewritten stories from interest groups that are willing to provide content free of charge.
(btw once the tv news industry started firing journalists as anchorpeople and started filling those positions with pseudo models/actors we pretty much shoulda known we were in trouble. they are starting to do it with field reporters now as well.)
>How is voting my conscience throwing away my vote?
it isn't, the quote is from the Simpsons which is commonly cited on/. the episode where the 2 major candidates are subsumed by space aliens Kang and Kodos. when someone says they will vote for a 3rd party candidate to avoid world domination via the rigged election, Kand makes that quote.
ie, it is a commentary about how stupid it is to think voting for a 3rd party candidate is stupid.
they had one on display at WWDC SF. also there was one at Steve Jobs' house when i was over there playing fooseball. ok, so i made that last part up.;-)
anyway, i suspect they were on display in Paris as well and i'm pretty sure i remember seeing a pic of one at the Boston show. thousands of (non-Apple) people probably have had a chance to see one live by this point.
>I would kill to have a legit way of downloading b-sides that are normally only available on import cd-singles.
Oh great, Apple provides a solution to illegal downloading only to encourage murder. On the plus side, perhaps this trade-off would make the RIAA happy.
i was worried about the stability of the apple flat screen monitors myself when they first came out. i went to look at them and pushed them around quite hard. even the 30" was extremely stable. since the imacs have a plastic case rather than aluminum and only come in 17" and 20" models, i have to assume its more than adequately stable.
>"if Whedon wanted to do a Western, why did he set it in space"
perhaps the same reason he set 2 vampire shows near/in LA? and cast them with Valley girls? because it's funny? unexpected? opens the situation to odd juxtapositions? makes a comment about how even in unusual situations, people still have the same odd concerns about the fit of their clothing and whether or not their hair's flat?
i'm not a huge Joss fan but i do see the humor in checking for broken nails after killing a Vampire or hiding out on an astroid after a train robbery.
toss in an assortment of hotties of various flavors/genders/orientations to hook different people and you have a Whedon show.
i dont know about norway but in the US it would be illegal to block using jamming devices pretty much for the same reason (that and the spectrum is licenced to someone else). however, i dont see any problems with installing this wallpaper here. after all, they cant keep someone from building a building with materials that would block RF 'normally'. can they really keep someone from building a lead house in norway? or at least lead lined rooms?
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> Man, I so hoped this was a news story about Babylon 5. :P
;-)
> Did anyone else read the headline and think the same thing?
does anyone need further proof that the war on drugs is a failure?
there was even a case where some zoo had a snake species that kept dying. they replaced it with a rubber replica and wasnt caught until some guy with too much time on his hands went back over and over and noticed the snake never moved over a period of several months.
unfortuunately, google doesnt seem to reveal a link after 30 seconds of searching.
Movies are way too valuable a way to kill time during business travel to waste seeing in a movie theatre. Airports, planes, trains, and ferries are full of people watching DVDs on their laptops or personal DVD players to fill all that 'wasted time'.
No questions in the article to Kerry about the Hubble Telescope? At least we know where Bush stands on that issue.
>Apparently, though, Italy views that population decline as a real problem - Italy and France are both examining re-upping an old WWII policy of giving medals and other recognition to new mothers. = )
Wow a medal! If that isn't incentive for 9 months of pregnancy, labor, sleepless nights for 18 years... I don't know what is.
By analog watches, do you mean they have hands rather than numerals (LEDs/LCDs)? Most watches that have hands have a quartz crystal and are digital, that's why they tick. Real analog watches have gears that are wound (rather than take a battery) and cost a pretty penny. Their hands 'sweep' rather than tick.
And people were upset when it was 'discovered' that GMail was going to programatically 'read' your email to provide contextual advertising (and spam filtering) as an invasion of privacy? Here we will have actual _people_ reading your private correspondences. No thanks.
> but yet this gets little to no coverage in the mainstream media?
actually, it is covered by mainstream media. this has been covered on all of the main news outlets. news, talking head pundit shows, etc. however, perhaps they are not covering it with the fervor that you and others might like. there are 2 reasons i can think of for this....
1) it's not news that'll get the ratings up. when Pat Buchanan 'spoiled' the Clinton/Bush election, it was news then as well, but people just didn't care that much. so they report on it out of what little sense of duty they have left and perhaps to hedge their bets that this becomes a hot story. since the US has undergone massive media consolidation (nearly a la Italy), ratings are a major driving force. thats why almost anything but the biggest political stories are still overshadowed by the Peterson murder trial and the Jackson molestation trial. (at least the latter involves someone famous, the first obsession completely escapes me).
2) it's too much work to write a real story and do 'investigation'. news is much more of a competetive business for the same reason noted above. a huge number of stories are written in part or in full by interest groups and then shopped around to outlets to be placed. the only thing that doesnt seem to be happening is outright payola to place stories. but the net effect is that newspapers can become more efficient by accepting these articles and start firing journalists. it's alot more profitable to have a a few guys sit around and read prewritten stories from interest groups that are willing to provide content free of charge.
(btw once the tv news industry started firing journalists as anchorpeople and started filling those positions with pseudo models/actors we pretty much shoulda known we were in trouble. they are starting to do it with field reporters now as well.)
GPG support would still be nice to allow for digital signatures. not just encryption of transmissions. at least allow for a plugin.
>How is voting my conscience throwing away my vote?
/. the episode where the 2 major candidates are subsumed by space aliens Kang and Kodos. when someone says they will vote for a 3rd party candidate to avoid world domination via the rigged election, Kand makes that quote.
it isn't, the quote is from the Simpsons which is commonly cited on
ie, it is a commentary about how stupid it is to think voting for a 3rd party candidate is stupid.
> What would happen if an independant candidate won a state?
Go ahead! Throw your vote away!
- Kang
>How exactly does a question get modded 'Insightful'?
man! i soooo want to mod this 'Insightful'.
>Where'd you see one at?
;-)
they had one on display at WWDC SF. also there was one at Steve Jobs' house when i was over there playing fooseball. ok, so i made that last part up.
anyway, i suspect they were on display in Paris as well and i'm pretty sure i remember seeing a pic of one at the Boston show. thousands of (non-Apple) people probably have had a chance to see one live by this point.
>I would kill to have a legit way of downloading b-sides that are normally only available on import cd-singles.
Oh great, Apple provides a solution to illegal downloading only to encourage murder. On the plus side, perhaps this trade-off would make the RIAA happy.
i was worried about the stability of the apple flat screen monitors myself when they first came out. i went to look at them and pushed them around quite hard. even the 30" was extremely stable. since the imacs have a plastic case rather than aluminum and only come in 17" and 20" models, i have to assume its more than adequately stable.
Is this at all related to the Visix Looking Glass desktop manager for UNIX?
>"if Whedon wanted to do a Western, why did he set it in space"
perhaps the same reason he set 2 vampire shows near/in LA? and cast them with Valley girls? because it's funny? unexpected? opens the situation to odd juxtapositions? makes a comment about how even in unusual situations, people still have the same odd concerns about the fit of their clothing and whether or not their hair's flat?
i'm not a huge Joss fan but i do see the humor in checking for broken nails after killing a Vampire or hiding out on an astroid after a train robbery.
toss in an assortment of hotties of various flavors/genders/orientations to hook different people and you have a Whedon show.
> I have 5 gmail invites, with no one to send them to. If anybody wants one, send me a note.
;-)
Ah, the modern way to harvest email addresses.
Just dangle gmail invites and they come running.
>Unfortunately it's not allowed [in Norway].
i dont know about norway but in the US it would be illegal to block using jamming devices pretty much for the same reason (that and the spectrum is licenced to someone else). however, i dont see any problems with installing this wallpaper here. after all, they cant keep someone from building a building with materials that would block RF 'normally'. can they really keep someone from building a lead house in norway? or at least lead lined rooms?
>Suing and threatening to sue ARE NOT equal!
;-)
Just like announcing a product and actually releasing one.
It's just a vaporware lawsuit.
>it might make sense to have the antivirus scanner as a part of the OS
Odd that they got the idea to build DRM into the OS before they got the idea to build AV into the OS.
>FYI, One Tree Hill is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. And apparently a couple of the code names are based on other suburbs nearby.
;-)
You mean the Firefox team members aren't major fans of WB teen dramas?
What I wonder is how long before MS changes the way Services work (or something) so that iTunes doesn't work anymore. And/or iTMS.
>cool hack that enables your iPod to listen to some E.T. radio station or something
.ogg files? ;-)
perhaps they only wanted to emphasize that these were not
when they get of large enough capacity. iPod Nanos for Everyone!