which I only now realize is your area of intense interest, which would explain why you have zero empathy for others.
You're so perceptive.
There was no 'Real American Hero G.I. Joe'. It was a comic and later a toy, then a cartoon, and now a movie. Not reality. So I should feel empathy for a fictional creation?
I know when WWII happened. But this discussion is about a cartoon and a toy, and though I'm no expert, I believe it's 60 years since Nazis were part of any GI Joe story. Joe has been fighting aliens and costumed villains since then. So to get apoplectic about the descration of the Nazi-fighting "Greatest Generation" symbol as TFA does is ludicrous.
You think it's wrong to support the current version of the most popular operating system first?
I think it's wrong to use a format that is integrated into the "most popular operating system" and can't easily (and possibly not legally) be used on anything else.
I'm still waiting for the potential hilarity when people start mashing up other movies Weaving has done, like "Transformers".
In an interview I saw Weaving said he based his Agent Smith voice on Walter Cronkite. It's a bit disorienting to hear his normal, Kiwi, accent.
And for REAL hilarity, see his performance as a transvestite in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert". The scene where he tries to be masculine to impress his son is wonderful.
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The two statements are not equivalent, yet you are trying to portray them as such.
Fine, if it makes you feel better, they are not exactly equivalent. I think in the circumstances "supporting al Qaeda" at that time would strongy imply sharing responsibility for 9/11. But feel free to draw a distinction.
Why, and what does it say about you that you'd try to distort the discussion like that?
I just checked back and find you aren't even the guy I was replying to originally. So I feel no obligation to justify myself to someone who jumped into a middle of a discussion and started taking potshots.
Same reason any article referring to any words used in Star Trek is, regardless of the facts that they're real science.
But to be fair, it wasn't just Slashdot pandering to geeks, most of the reports in normal (non-scientifc) media mention Alien in the first paragraph.
But a quick Google for "pharyngeal jaw" finds this is not unique to moray eeels, many species have them, just the moray's is unusually prominent and mobile.
And since we seem doomed to be discussing the movies here, I wonder now if HR Giger, who designed the Aliens, was aware of these? I'd thought he based the Alien on insect models, but he certainly was well-read in biology.
Last time I checked, third party batteries for my current laptop were only 10% cheaper than original ones
Here they're about half the price. I'd only buy them from someone I knew I could harrass if there were any problems. It may be relevant that the factories that make most of these are about 20 miles away.
and the computer is worth much more than the battery).
I bought an old Dell Inspiron. To replace the battery would have doubled the price. So it's a desktop now.
Opera is a browser. FFS, how could their mail client not support HTML?
Actually, the whole horror show of HTML mail was started by Netscape's mailer, not Microsoft as one might have assumed from the incredible stupidity and arrogance of the concept.
There's nothing preventing a battery pack composed of individual smaller batteries, combining to almost any shape you want. As long as you could change the individual cells that'd be fine.
That's the situation now actually. There are shops here (in Hong Kong) that will sell you a third-party laptop battery; or they'll crack open your old one and rebuild it with standard LiOn cells. Similar ro laser toner refillers. Don't they have this elsewhere? Perhaps liability concerns prevent it in the US.
It's not easy to know, once a battery is assembled and sealed, what really is inside. If, theoretically, they shafted you for an extra buck, how would you know? You can put all sorts of checks in place in your own factory, but once you've outsourced it, it's out of your control.
When you contract manufacture, you normally have your own, or an independent, quality control. Especially in China; I've been involved with this. As for "how would you know?", you'd check a random sample. Test and then cut them open and be sure what they're made of.
Isn't that the goal of the vast majority of "successful" Linux applications -- to look just like their Windows counterpart?
In this case, I think a Mac counterpart. At least I was using Mac Eudora 1.4 about 10 years ago. I had the impression the Windows versions (which I still use, btw) was a port of that.
One feature I like is it uses standard Unix mailbox files. When I get a screwy message I can move it to its own mailbox, edit it with a text editor and fix it, then move it back into my normal mailbox. Also I really like that it extracts any attachments from their messages, unlike other apps which keep them in their encoded form, which will soon give you gigabytes of mailboxes. I can back up 10 years of mail in a 20 MB RAR file.
2. The Sun is bigger than Earth, and therefore would probably get hit 1000% (or more) more often. Example: eclipses show this quite easily
WTF does an eclipse show? I hope you're not talking about sunspots, which have nothing to do with asteroids.
4. They predict an impact 160 million years ago, 95 million years off the mark.
RTFA. There was a series of impacts over millenia, Yucatan being the biggest, but not the first. Many of the earth grazers we see now may have originated in the same event.
At least I haven't seen any Global Warming scarey articles in a while. Maybe the Firehose is working afterall?
It's not news when it's a known fact. Seeing as how you willfully misinterpreted this article, I'm not surprsed you remain confused about that too.
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Do you think Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq was directly involved in planning, financing, or carrying out the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001?: Yes, 41%
your comparisons aren't really fair: usually the generic transformers (batteries, ink cartridges, etc) are lower quality than the official ones...
You can find generic crap. But if they're not constrained by patents, you can get third party compatible parts of at least as good quality.
For instance, I personally use laserjet toner "clone" cartridges, half the price of HP's, and the quality is no different, I've printed tens of thousands of pages. Inkjets are similar, read up on comp.periphs.printers for lots of pointers to good ink refills.
As for battery chargers, I can buy an excellent quality brand name charger, for a standard battery, much much cheaper than the ones that fit the unique phone socket. I fail to believe that the funny plug justifies the extra cost.
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Isn't the 'Saddam planned 9/11' myth a bad example. It would seem to me that even among the populace that this is increasingly known to be false. It may not be a large %, but that % is growing.
It's an excellent example, because, it's bveen disproved over and over. Yet Bush has managed to implant the idea in many people's minds, by association, without actually stating it (maybe we should credit Karl Rove). Anyway, see The Harris Poll:
WHAT PUBLIC BELIEVES TO BE TRUE
Saddam Hussein had strong links with Al Qaeda.: 64%
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded.: 50%
When in fact Saddam did his best to suppress al Qaeda, as they were a bigger, more direct, threat to him than to America. He, being a secularist, was the complete opposite to the Taliban-style government they were dedicated to install.
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Of course, it should have been "groping hand".
You're so perceptive.
There was no 'Real American Hero G.I. Joe'. It was a comic and later a toy, then a cartoon, and now a movie. Not reality. So I should feel empathy for a fictional creation?
I know when WWII happened. But this discussion is about a cartoon and a toy, and though I'm no expert, I believe it's 60 years since Nazis were part of any GI Joe story. Joe has been fighting aliens and costumed villains since then. So to get apoplectic about the descration of the Nazi-fighting "Greatest Generation" symbol as TFA does is ludicrous.
Captain America died six months ago.
So Joe grips Ken?
But isn't this a discussion about a plastic toy?
In other words, you can't and you found an easy out, or you know why and are ashamed to admit it.
No, those are NOT EQUIVALENT.
I think it's wrong to use a format that is integrated into the "most popular operating system" and can't easily (and possibly not legally) be used on anything else.
In an interview I saw Weaving said he based his Agent Smith voice on Walter Cronkite. It's a bit disorienting to hear his normal, Kiwi, accent.
And for REAL hilarity, see his performance as a transvestite in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert". The scene where he tries to be masculine to impress his son is wonderful.
Fine, if it makes you feel better, they are not exactly equivalent. I think in the circumstances "supporting al Qaeda" at that time would strongy imply sharing responsibility for 9/11. But feel free to draw a distinction.
Why, and what does it say about you that you'd try to distort the discussion like that?
I just checked back and find you aren't even the guy I was replying to originally. So I feel no obligation to justify myself to someone who jumped into a middle of a discussion and started taking potshots.
But to be fair, it wasn't just Slashdot pandering to geeks, most of the reports in normal (non-scientifc) media mention Alien in the first paragraph.
But a quick Google for "pharyngeal jaw" finds this is not unique to moray eeels, many species have them, just the moray's is unusually prominent and mobile.
And since we seem doomed to be discussing the movies here, I wonder now if HR Giger, who designed the Aliens, was aware of these? I'd thought he based the Alien on insect models, but he certainly was well-read in biology.
Here they're about half the price. I'd only buy them from someone I knew I could harrass if there were any problems. It may be relevant that the factories that make most of these are about 20 miles away.
and the computer is worth much more than the battery).
I bought an old Dell Inspiron. To replace the battery would have doubled the price. So it's a desktop now.
Actually, the whole horror show of HTML mail was started by Netscape's mailer, not Microsoft as one might have assumed from the incredible stupidity and arrogance of the concept.
That's the situation now actually. There are shops here (in Hong Kong) that will sell you a third-party laptop battery; or they'll crack open your old one and rebuild it with standard LiOn cells. Similar ro laser toner refillers. Don't they have this elsewhere? Perhaps liability concerns prevent it in the US.
When you contract manufacture, you normally have your own, or an independent, quality control. Especially in China; I've been involved with this. As for "how would you know?", you'd check a random sample. Test and then cut them open and be sure what they're made of.
You can access just about any mailbox with http://mail2web.com/
Eudora 3, ca. 1997, supported HTML mail.
In this case, I think a Mac counterpart. At least I was using Mac Eudora 1.4 about 10 years ago. I had the impression the Windows versions (which I still use, btw) was a port of that.
One feature I like is it uses standard Unix mailbox files. When I get a screwy message I can move it to its own mailbox, edit it with a text editor and fix it, then move it back into my normal mailbox. Also I really like that it extracts any attachments from their messages, unlike other apps which keep them in their encoded form, which will soon give you gigabytes of mailboxes. I can back up 10 years of mail in a 20 MB RAR file.
As title.
WTF does an eclipse show? I hope you're not talking about sunspots, which have nothing to do with asteroids. 4. They predict an impact 160 million years ago, 95 million years off the mark.
RTFA. There was a series of impacts over millenia, Yucatan being the biggest, but not the first. Many of the earth grazers we see now may have originated in the same event.
At least I haven't seen any Global Warming scarey articles in a while. Maybe the Firehose is working afterall?
It's not news when it's a known fact. Seeing as how you willfully misinterpreted this article, I'm not surprsed you remain confused about that too.
Oh, I'm sorry. Of course it was the Jews who planned 9/11.
That accounts for a few cents. No more. And in any case, if they used a standard connector, they WOULD get the economies of scale.
You can find generic crap. But if they're not constrained by patents, you can get third party compatible parts of at least as good quality.
For instance, I personally use laserjet toner "clone" cartridges, half the price of HP's, and the quality is no different, I've printed tens of thousands of pages. Inkjets are similar, read up on comp.periphs.printers for lots of pointers to good ink refills.
As for battery chargers, I can buy an excellent quality brand name charger, for a standard battery, much much cheaper than the ones that fit the unique phone socket. I fail to believe that the funny plug justifies the extra cost.
It's an excellent example, because, it's bveen disproved over and over. Yet Bush has managed to implant the idea in many people's minds, by association, without actually stating it (maybe we should credit Karl Rove). Anyway, see The Harris Poll:
When in fact Saddam did his best to suppress al Qaeda, as they were a bigger, more direct, threat to him than to America. He, being a secularist, was the complete opposite to the Taliban-style government they were dedicated to install.