I disagree and think both were mistakes. A non-revolving space station is bad for a variety of reasons. The one that stands out to my mind is the hassle and waste of time for astronauts, having to spend large chunks of their time working out just to be able to survive returning to earth. With artificial gravity even of 1/2 or 2/3 normal this problem would essentially disappear, freeing up maybe an hour a day for each astronaut. And of course at the center of the station you would still have weightless conditions for all the uses that is good for.
And yes, the orbit is awful too.
And the newly-created word for an online journal that is readable by the public is blog!
Reminds me of the time my sister came home from school and started arguing with my dad that weight doesn't exist. That it's really just gravity attracting the mass of an object. She went on about this for 5 minutes explaining it all and concluded by restating that there is no such thing as weight: there is only mass and gravity.
My dad responded "And that's what we call weight."
And, like my sister, you're arguing that we shouldn't use a word to describe a combination of ideas. I argue that that's the whole point of creating words.
The fact that it's an ugly word doesn't mean it's not a useful one. Isn't a euphemism usually used to obfuscate the meaning of another word or phrase? In which case 'blog' isn't a euphemism, because it doesn't obscure the phrase "online journal that is readable by the public", it clearly identifies it.
This was my comment to the asshole in question (oh wait, he thought he was the victim??)
Your response to being hammered from another website was to hammer multiple other sites and throw popups at the visitors, who in all of this are the only innocent participants? Congratulations, you managed to steal defeat from the jaws of victory: You reduced yourself to a lower level than the original offender. You're a helluva guy, and give yourself a big pat on the back.
That's scary! Who would have guess that oxygen and water are also toxins? Remove those, I feel like shit pretty quickly. I think the other reply to your post is right: your definition is wrong.
...and HAHAHAHAH remember when that Enron janitor died of AIDS? oh my god and back in the 80s two engineers at IBM had the whooping cough! they DIED!! HAHAHAH god it's so great and just!! Can't wait to find out another chinese guy died of bird flu! And if we wait a few more seconds we can laugh about some more children starving to death in North Korea! MY GOD THE HILARITY NEVER ENDS!!!??!1111 lol dudez.
Okay back to being serious: can we do a mini-poll on whether the poster and editor are high, drunk, or just natural assholes?
Way to go poster, this is a new low. You're actually gloating because an employee at Microsoft is ill and maybe spread it around. I think you've lost your sense of proportion. When you're laughing at a company because the day-in day-out engineers and accountants and other working folks are ill because you have a grudge against the company, that's fucked up.
Vicissidude, You're a nut. And so is CowboyNeal for posting this crap.
He purchased the scope, so are you arguing that the software needs to be sterile also? Perhaps that why hospitals pay so much for their equipment: not only do they need a sterile endoscope, but sterile cabling, software, computer, and electrical power. This guy is really living dangerously...
Profit margin for retailers, possibly? That's all I can see. I'd be happy for my doors to open and close automatically when I approach, but that's adding just a little motor. Why I would want hundreds of moving parts to do this, I can't imagine.
Naw, you pretty much confirmed the widely-shared opinion that golf isn't a sport, just another game of skill, ranking around the same spectator excitement as solitaire.
"The article mentions meat makers as home appliances. Carne-Matic aside, this sounds like a mixed blessing, and brings about visions of some sterile, Spandex-jumpsuit future where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy."
Yeah, because I know all my home appliances are controlled by the government. I get a Toaster Use Coupon every Tuesday in the mail so I can use the toaster 3 times a week between the hours of 4-6 PM. Thank god for the central authority.
I don't see what the problem is. If the meat tastes like meat and has roughly the same protein and calorie content but costs much less then this can only be a good thing, right? Maybe we won't need to raise millions of cows just for meat production and we can change some of the food crop over to something more useful like grains.
I just don't understand how being able to synthesize food in every home in America means there would suddenly be a shortage of non-synthesized food, strictly controlled by the government.
I know I feel cheated when I buy a product and don't get any free advertising with it. Like the other day I bought a gallon of milk - no ads on it! I get them with the cable TV and my magazines. I'm being cheated when I pay a large monthly fee and don't get advertising to look at.
I love this kind of letter. It is politely contrite and conciliatory while spelling out FUCK YOU in huge flaming letters. I don't get angry enough to send them very often, but I surely enjoy it when I do. It was really good to see one like this publically published, particularly in this whole noxious mess.
has it not occurred to you do search for "ogg itunes" and find the plugin? On Windows you download a single file and copy is to a windows subdirectory. On Mac you do approximately the same thing. It takes exactly 1 minute. It probably takes about as long as typing that whining comment about something "not working with iTunes" when it clearly does.
Like Robert Heinlein said: "government is 3/4 parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling". Just another instance of the really fucked up governments we've created and given power. More and more I think we should line all the politicians up and shoot them. Get me close enough to any of the bastards behind this and I'll spit in his face.
Also, to anyone in Australia who needs GTA I'm sure you can find someone elsewhere who will mail it to you for the cost of the game + shipping. I'd be happy to. Or hit limewire, grab it, and send 40 bucks to Rockstar.
I use to complain quietly, but I'm increasingly willing to be loud and obnoxious about it.
I'm not sure why you bothered to point this out. Were you confused by the word "Savings"? Did you mistake it for something else, so you felt like pointing this out to everyone? It seemed like most everyone else understood what was being discussed.
Why don't you take action yourself? You could associate PDFs with XPDF or other lightweight viewer. You could have firefox run a custom program of your own that converts the PDF into HTML and then opens it up. You could write a Greasemonkey script that annotates PDF links. If you're not a coder, put in a request for it on the Greasemonkey Wiki.
I thought you were being sarcastic until I finally got to see the page. All I could think was "WTF! That is the sorries piece of shit excuse for a shelf I've ever seen!" mrRay, you were completely right!
What's more the REAL improvement would be to put a sturdy hinge on the shelf and a latch on the wall so you could flip the shelf up out of the way when you like. Instead of clearing up desk space he now has 3 sticks of wood permanently poking out across his workspace.
reading webpages is faster for you than clicking a few buttons in a gui? man, I remember the fun I've had with linux editing obscure files trying to get the printer or sound working...YaST in SUSE 9.2 lets me flip stuff around in a minute or two as opposed to hours of guess-and-check, reading webpages, and 8 years-out-of-date manuals.
So I'm not sure how the command line is faster. For some things yes, and certainly an expert user can do amazing things with it, but for the average user there should never be a need to drop into the command line.
And there are so many pre and post-movie stories contained in the various comics and novels that would make excellent television or movies.
Why don't they make a TV series from the book "I, Jedi", the Jedi Academy trilogy, or best of all - the Thrawn Trilogy? They could make one badass mini-series with Thrawn. There are many good story arcs in the Star Wars universe, and most lie outside the existing movies. I'm partial to those after the original trilogy, but there are good stories from before the prequels as well.
I would like it if Lucas would open up the rights to other Star Wars movies and parcel them out to proven science fiction directors - let each one do a movie. Like I said, I'd love to see Corran Horn or Grand Admiral Thrawn brought to life.
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I disagree and think both were mistakes. A non-revolving space station is bad for a variety of reasons. The one that stands out to my mind is the hassle and waste of time for astronauts, having to spend large chunks of their time working out just to be able to survive returning to earth. With artificial gravity even of 1/2 or 2/3 normal this problem would essentially disappear, freeing up maybe an hour a day for each astronaut. And of course at the center of the station you would still have weightless conditions for all the uses that is good for. And yes, the orbit is awful too.
And the newly-created word for an online journal that is readable by the public is blog!
Reminds me of the time my sister came home from school and started arguing with my dad that weight doesn't exist. That it's really just gravity attracting the mass of an object. She went on about this for 5 minutes explaining it all and concluded by restating that there is no such thing as weight: there is only mass and gravity.
My dad responded "And that's what we call weight."
And, like my sister, you're arguing that we shouldn't use a word to describe a combination of ideas. I argue that that's the whole point of creating words.
The fact that it's an ugly word doesn't mean it's not a useful one. Isn't a euphemism usually used to obfuscate the meaning of another word or phrase? In which case 'blog' isn't a euphemism, because it doesn't obscure the phrase "online journal that is readable by the public", it clearly identifies it.
That's a really sweet tool! Thanks for the link
There is a mail search box on most of the pages. It's actually hard to notice because of the nondescript colors and placement, but it's there.
Ever optimistic, eh?
That's scary! Who would have guess that oxygen and water are also toxins? Remove those, I feel like shit pretty quickly. I think the other reply to your post is right: your definition is wrong.
...and HAHAHAHAH remember when that Enron janitor died of AIDS? oh my god and back in the 80s two engineers at IBM had the whooping cough! they DIED!! HAHAHAH god it's so great and just!! Can't wait to find out another chinese guy died of bird flu! And if we wait a few more seconds we can laugh about some more children starving to death in North Korea! MY GOD THE HILARITY NEVER ENDS!!!??!1111 lol dudez. Okay back to being serious: can we do a mini-poll on whether the poster and editor are high, drunk, or just natural assholes?
Way to go poster, this is a new low. You're actually gloating because an employee at Microsoft is ill and maybe spread it around. I think you've lost your sense of proportion. When you're laughing at a company because the day-in day-out engineers and accountants and other working folks are ill because you have a grudge against the company, that's fucked up.
Vicissidude, You're a nut. And so is CowboyNeal for posting this crap.
I'm always relieved they identify the suicide bombers after the fact. Way to go, boys. Thanks.
He purchased the scope, so are you arguing that the software needs to be sterile also? Perhaps that why hospitals pay so much for their equipment: not only do they need a sterile endoscope, but sterile cabling, software, computer, and electrical power. This guy is really living dangerously...
Profit margin for retailers, possibly? That's all I can see. I'd be happy for my doors to open and close automatically when I approach, but that's adding just a little motor. Why I would want hundreds of moving parts to do this, I can't imagine.
Naw, you pretty much confirmed the widely-shared opinion that golf isn't a sport, just another game of skill, ranking around the same spectator excitement as solitaire.
Yes, human contact is a slovenly habit and is best left to the perverted and homosexual.
"The article mentions meat makers as home appliances. Carne-Matic aside, this sounds like a mixed blessing, and brings about visions of some sterile, Spandex-jumpsuit future where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy."
Yeah, because I know all my home appliances are controlled by the government. I get a Toaster Use Coupon every Tuesday in the mail so I can use the toaster 3 times a week between the hours of 4-6 PM. Thank god for the central authority.
I don't see what the problem is. If the meat tastes like meat and has roughly the same protein and calorie content but costs much less then this can only be a good thing, right? Maybe we won't need to raise millions of cows just for meat production and we can change some of the food crop over to something more useful like grains.
I just don't understand how being able to synthesize food in every home in America means there would suddenly be a shortage of non-synthesized food, strictly controlled by the government.
I know I feel cheated when I buy a product and don't get any free advertising with it. Like the other day I bought a gallon of milk - no ads on it! I get them with the cable TV and my magazines. I'm being cheated when I pay a large monthly fee and don't get advertising to look at.
I love this kind of letter. It is politely contrite and conciliatory while spelling out FUCK YOU in huge flaming letters. I don't get angry enough to send them very often, but I surely enjoy it when I do. It was really good to see one like this publically published, particularly in this whole noxious mess.
has it not occurred to you do search for "ogg itunes" and find the plugin? On Windows you download a single file and copy is to a windows subdirectory. On Mac you do approximately the same thing. It takes exactly 1 minute. It probably takes about as long as typing that whining comment about something "not working with iTunes" when it clearly does.
Like Robert Heinlein said: "government is 3/4 parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling". Just another instance of the really fucked up governments we've created and given power. More and more I think we should line all the politicians up and shoot them. Get me close enough to any of the bastards behind this and I'll spit in his face.
Also, to anyone in Australia who needs GTA I'm sure you can find someone elsewhere who will mail it to you for the cost of the game + shipping. I'd be happy to. Or hit limewire, grab it, and send 40 bucks to Rockstar.
I use to complain quietly, but I'm increasingly willing to be loud and obnoxious about it.
I'm not sure why you bothered to point this out. Were you confused by the word "Savings"? Did you mistake it for something else, so you felt like pointing this out to everyone? It seemed like most everyone else understood what was being discussed.
Why don't you take action yourself? You could associate PDFs with XPDF or other lightweight viewer. You could have firefox run a custom program of your own that converts the PDF into HTML and then opens it up. You could write a Greasemonkey script that annotates PDF links. If you're not a coder, put in a request for it on the Greasemonkey Wiki.
You're whining like a child.
The original story is short, to the point, and doesn't drag. I can't imagine it stretched to book length...that would be some serious stretching.
I thought you were being sarcastic until I finally got to see the page. All I could think was "WTF! That is the sorries piece of shit excuse for a shelf I've ever seen!" mrRay, you were completely right!
What's more the REAL improvement would be to put a sturdy hinge on the shelf and a latch on the wall so you could flip the shelf up out of the way when you like. Instead of clearing up desk space he now has 3 sticks of wood permanently poking out across his workspace.
This...thing...is awful.
reading webpages is faster for you than clicking a few buttons in a gui? man, I remember the fun I've had with linux editing obscure files trying to get the printer or sound working...YaST in SUSE 9.2 lets me flip stuff around in a minute or two as opposed to hours of guess-and-check, reading webpages, and 8 years-out-of-date manuals.
So I'm not sure how the command line is faster. For some things yes, and certainly an expert user can do amazing things with it, but for the average user there should never be a need to drop into the command line.
And there are so many pre and post-movie stories contained in the various comics and novels that would make excellent television or movies.
Why don't they make a TV series from the book "I, Jedi", the Jedi Academy trilogy, or best of all - the Thrawn Trilogy? They could make one badass mini-series with Thrawn. There are many good story arcs in the Star Wars universe, and most lie outside the existing movies. I'm partial to those after the original trilogy, but there are good stories from before the prequels as well.
I would like it if Lucas would open up the rights to other Star Wars movies and parcel them out to proven science fiction directors - let each one do a movie. Like I said, I'd love to see Corran Horn or Grand Admiral Thrawn brought to life.