The simple fact is that men are rate mostly on height (while gay men may rate men on the beauty of their face, we are not talking about that).
Sometimes, upon seeing some movie star heartthrob, I ask myself: "would I want to look like this ?", I guess this is my criterion for male beauty. But most times the answer is no fucking way. I could make a long list, but I'll just ask you: would you want to look like the guy from that recent vampire fad movie who seem to have so many hormonaly imbalanced followers ? Puke !
Instead, the food supply must stabilize and slowly shrink.
In my country, you get a bit of money on the first kid, then more on the 2nd and a lot more for each new one; and only if you are poor. I think it should be: you get quite a bit for one, nothing (at all) on the 2nd one, and you have to pay heavy taxes for each next one; applied to everyone irrespective of resources.
As for the food supply, shouldn't the free market take care of that ? Muahaaa... Sorry, couldn't help it. Any supply like this will fluctuate ever more as you reach a population threshold. After that all bets are off.
Outside of the USA this is quite common -- that national meteorological services (tasked with maintaining a national observing system and archive) treat their data as a commercial product
It could be worse: it could be military ! I worked in climatology in Italy and the weather forecast falls under the responsibility of the italian air force (for historical reasons). It's hilarious to see a weather forecaster on TV wearing some very decorated uniform, but most of the weather archive was 'classified' and difficult to obtain.
Like many here I admin family computers. A month ago I did an experiment. I told my parents I'd upgrade their aging computer (mobo and main HD change) and as such it would look different. I installed kubuntu instead of the previous system (which you can easily guess). Made sure there were desktop links to firefox, kmail, dolphin and a SD card image transfer script. I didn't even show them the result, just as an experiment. And I left. They called only once after a week: "Yeah it works fine, but we don't have skype anymore", which I promptly remotely installed. I consider this experiment a great success.
In France there are now cops dressed in civilian at red lights. They write the license plates of all the people they see talking on cell phones while driving on their notebooks... Must be a hell of a business.
As others will have already said: use truecrypt. In addition, use two account: yours with a password, and another one (visible from the login shell) without password. Put a script in it that wipes the disk if anybody logs in it.
Hasn't the ban on smoking in public places had any effect?
Apparently not in the intended way. When I saw the statistics that smokers now score with the opposite sex a lot more than before*, it left me wondering how many teenagers would pick it up just for this very reason.
(*) The reason is that smokers now have to leave the restaurant table to go outside... where they meet the smokers of the other tables, thus socialize a lot more, thus score better...
One word: COW ! (Cluster Of Workstations). The basic idea is that you run a cluster off the free cycles while people use their workstations normally. You could run Mosix like that a decade ago. The problem was that it was highly unreliable. If you started a job normally, it would stay on your workstation. If you prefaced it with a special command, it would run on the entire cluster (if it was multithreaded) or on the fastest available node (if it was single thread). 'Fastest' being defined as a combination of CPU, I/O and network speeds, reevaluated regularly. It's too bad it didn't gain widespread acceptance.
I know perfectly well about the space before question mark rules (and yes I'm french). I chose to do so because it makes the text more readable. Same for ending a quotation before the "period". I've lived in 4 countries and I like to take what's best of each. Thanks for coming to my defense BTW.
While I agree with what you say, that line worries me. What happens to a software project when its charismatic leader gets run over by a bus / is targeted by MS hitmen / falls in love with a female of the same specie and heads off to a deserted island ? Which of the following projects can survive easily without their leader: Linus ? Theo ? Larry ? RMS ?
Yup, I'm in a lab in France with 300 researchers and today we discussed the possibility that the next purchasing campaign would be Linux (Ubuntu and Scientific Linux) only. People would need an exemption for any other kind of OS. And exemptions need to be _justified_. Made my day.
If you want to know what 365 days in real isolation in a tin can feels like... At least we had: (1) plenty of things to do, (2) the pressure that if we failed bad we'd most likely die. They had: (1) nothing to do, (2) the possibility to open the can if things got bad...
I hope you get modded up, as people complained about Win95/98/2K not getting a wide release until basically the next year, but they ignore the fact that for instance the specification known as C'99 is not even fully available yet, except in bits and pieces on various compilers.
sat-nav isn't vital for travel, but then nor were road signs if you have a map
I live in a part of Europe that still have plenty of crosses at each road/trail crossing. They all have different shapes and makes. I always wondered what indications were like at the time before maps and before most people could read. Probably something like: "Straigth after the old tall wooden cross with a metal base. Walk 2 hours. Then right at the cast iron cross... etc". Maybe even a succession of drawings. Do such 'cross-nav' descriptions still exist ?
Then expect some surprises if you drive in the Alps (or the Rockies) in winter, with a GPS that tells you to go through closed off mountain passes. I hope you have good footwear, warm clothing and a week worth of food as you start to walk back from a stuck car...
My house address doesn't change twice a day like my ADSL IP address does... If there's no timezone information on the takedown/pseudo-warrant/blackmail letter, I'd fight it to the death.
I'm a climber and I can relate this story of a mountain guide I know who used a whistle to navigate on a glacier while in a full whiteout. He knew more or less the topography of the cliffs nearby and would blow short whistles, time the echo and estimate the distance to the various cliffs while continuing to walk with his clients. It was in the time before the GPSes, but those aren't very accurate on mountains anyway.
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"Gee, your hair smells terrific!"
My post was intended to make fun of a specific height ratio, but not by that much !!!
Short people (especially men) got no reason to live.
In my early teens and not very tall, I remember enjoying dancing with older and much taller girls...
The simple fact is that men are rate mostly on height (while gay men may rate men on the beauty of their face, we are not talking about that).
Sometimes, upon seeing some movie star heartthrob, I ask myself: "would I want to look like this ?", I guess this is my criterion for male beauty. But most times the answer is no fucking way. I could make a long list, but I'll just ask you: would you want to look like the guy from that recent vampire fad movie who seem to have so many hormonaly imbalanced followers ? Puke !
more than 3 children should be illegal
Instead, the food supply must stabilize and slowly shrink.
In my country, you get a bit of money on the first kid, then more on the 2nd and a lot more for each new one; and only if you are poor. I think it should be: you get quite a bit for one, nothing (at all) on the 2nd one, and you have to pay heavy taxes for each next one; applied to everyone irrespective of resources.
As for the food supply, shouldn't the free market take care of that ? Muahaaa... Sorry, couldn't help it. Any supply like this will fluctuate ever more as you reach a population threshold. After that all bets are off.
Outside of the USA this is quite common -- that national meteorological services (tasked with maintaining a national observing system and archive) treat their data as a commercial product
It could be worse: it could be military ! I worked in climatology in Italy and the weather forecast falls under the responsibility of the italian air force (for historical reasons). It's hilarious to see a weather forecaster on TV wearing some very decorated uniform, but most of the weather archive was 'classified' and difficult to obtain.
I've actually been complimented on my cursive by people sayings it's pretty
'Pretty' doesn't imply 'readable'... I agree with GP that most forms of handwriting are unreadable. I can't even read my own !
"Operation squirrel": spread peanut butter on your targets...
Like many here I admin family computers. A month ago I did an experiment. I told my parents I'd upgrade their aging computer (mobo and main HD change) and as such it would look different. I installed kubuntu instead of the previous system (which you can easily guess). Made sure there were desktop links to firefox, kmail, dolphin and a SD card image transfer script. I didn't even show them the result, just as an experiment. And I left. They called only once after a week: "Yeah it works fine, but we don't have skype anymore", which I promptly remotely installed. I consider this experiment a great success.
In France there are now cops dressed in civilian at red lights. They write the license plates of all the people they see talking on cell phones while driving on their notebooks... Must be a hell of a business.
As others will have already said: use truecrypt. In addition, use two account: yours with a password, and another one (visible from the login shell) without password. Put a script in it that wipes the disk if anybody logs in it.
Hasn't the ban on smoking in public places had any effect?
Apparently not in the intended way. When I saw the statistics that smokers now score with the opposite sex a lot more than before*, it left me wondering how many teenagers would pick it up just for this very reason.
(*) The reason is that smokers now have to leave the restaurant table to go outside... where they meet the smokers of the other tables, thus socialize a lot more, thus score better...
One word: COW ! (Cluster Of Workstations). The basic idea is that you run a cluster off the free cycles while people use their workstations normally. You could run Mosix like that a decade ago. The problem was that it was highly unreliable. If you started a job normally, it would stay on your workstation. If you prefaced it with a special command, it would run on the entire cluster (if it was multithreaded) or on the fastest available node (if it was single thread). 'Fastest' being defined as a combination of CPU, I/O and network speeds, reevaluated regularly. It's too bad it didn't gain widespread acceptance.
I know perfectly well about the space before question mark rules (and yes I'm french). I chose to do so because it makes the text more readable. Same for ending a quotation before the "period". I've lived in 4 countries and I like to take what's best of each. Thanks for coming to my defense BTW.
What the heck do aliens have against Tokyo anyway?
About the same thing that any catastrophe movie has against NY...
OpenBSD could and would not exist without him
While I agree with what you say, that line worries me. What happens to a software project when its charismatic leader gets run over by a bus / is targeted by MS hitmen / falls in love with a female of the same specie and heads off to a deserted island ? Which of the following projects can survive easily without their leader: Linus ? Theo ? Larry ? RMS ?
Yup, I'm in a lab in France with 300 researchers and today we discussed the possibility that the next purchasing campaign would be Linux (Ubuntu and Scientific Linux) only. People would need an exemption for any other kind of OS. And exemptions need to be _justified_. Made my day.
If you want to know what 365 days in real isolation in a tin can feels like... At least we had: (1) plenty of things to do, (2) the pressure that if we failed bad we'd most likely die. They had: (1) nothing to do, (2) the possibility to open the can if things got bad...
You don't need to kill FF, it's enough to "killall npviewer.bin" and reload the page.
I hope you get modded up, as people complained about Win95/98/2K not getting a wide release until basically the next year, but they ignore the fact that for instance the specification known as C'99 is not even fully available yet, except in bits and pieces on various compilers.
There exists something called the British Thermal Unit
No it doesn't. On the other hand there's something called Joules, which is the official unit of energy. And it measures energy out of Britain too C;-)
What's a pint ? Here we order in terms of 'glass', 'big glass' and 'bucket'. Good enough.
sat-nav isn't vital for travel, but then nor were road signs if you have a map
I live in a part of Europe that still have plenty of crosses at each road/trail crossing. They all have different shapes and makes. I always wondered what indications were like at the time before maps and before most people could read. Probably something like: "Straigth after the old tall wooden cross with a metal base. Walk 2 hours. Then right at the cast iron cross... etc". Maybe even a succession of drawings. Do such 'cross-nav' descriptions still exist ?
I am where my gps told me to be
Then expect some surprises if you drive in the Alps (or the Rockies) in winter, with a GPS that tells you to go through closed off mountain passes. I hope you have good footwear, warm clothing and a week worth of food as you start to walk back from a stuck car...
My house address doesn't change twice a day like my ADSL IP address does... If there's no timezone information on the takedown/pseudo-warrant/blackmail letter, I'd fight it to the death.
I'm a climber and I can relate this story of a mountain guide I know who used a whistle to navigate on a glacier while in a full whiteout. He knew more or less the topography of the cliffs nearby and would blow short whistles, time the echo and estimate the distance to the various cliffs while continuing to walk with his clients. It was in the time before the GPSes, but those aren't very accurate on mountains anyway.