This really shouldn't affect local global warming theories. After all, it's only been 23 months, and its the only data we have. We have no real historical record the way we do with earths temperature. (both with ice-cores and with recorded history).
And, earth and mars, obviously, have vastly different atmospheres.
The fact the temperature on mars increased slightly over the past 23 months doesn't actually change anything with regards to mans affect on the earths atmosphere. We already know that earth can change without us, it has in the past.
What we need to find out is how much (if any) effect on our climate we actually cause.
What you seem to be wanting is to not allow children to come into contact with adults, because you never know, that adult might want to molest the child.
That's moronic. There is a difference between illegalizing 'not good things' and illegalizing stuff that lets people do 'not good things' It's bad to rape people, but that doesn't mean we should make laws legally requiring all women to ware armored panties.
There's a scene in the book that talks about a street in the philipines where one car alarm will set off another nearby, ect, untill the whole road is screaching.
I can only imagine what it woudl be like with the screaming woman car alarm...
The sites katz was bitching about included slashdot, directly, allong with CNN and some others. The orgional poster seemed to be saying that FreeRepublic.com was some sort of haven for open thinking or something.
FreeRepublic is the exact thing Katz is bitching about, a community fenced off from any kind of ideological differences. Post something "pro liberal" and you'll get your IP banned.
on Slashdot, CNN, ABCNew and MSNBC -- into hostile electronic cesspools. To have actual conversations online, you're forced to join clubs where membership and speech boundaries are regulated, even to the point of specialized blocking programs that permit people to gauge levels of hostility or agreement.
What did you expect, for all your utopian dreams, you forgot one thing. Most people are fucking stupid. And a great many of them are annoying as well. "giving everyone a voice" (the phrase) might sound good, but actually giving everyone a voice won't. leveling the playing field for everyone and you end up with a world awash in moronic penis bird posts and SPAM promoting porn sites.
The hacker universe has sobered up as well. Who would have thought, a decade back, that one company, Microsoft, would in fact achieve everyone's paranoid fantasy and conquer the global desktop?
What is this supposed to even mean? The "global desktop"? Lots of people run windows on desktops across the globe, but M$ hasn't got central control over much of anything, just lots of revenue streams. And its not like their market share has gone up much since the DOS days anyway.
It's the thought that/. get paid (more) to post articles with unavoidable adverts, and I'm somehow contributing to paying for a new car some sales guy@salon.
What do people who work for salon not deserve to drive or something? If you don't want to contribute to the salon.com employee automotive fund, then don't visit salon. If you don't like the ads you can pay salon to turn them off.
Finaly, slashdot has no control over this, its something salon is doing on there own.
Did anyone else notice the chart on the second page. The 'history of game consoles'?
It was so full of errors as to be amazing. No mention of the supernintendo, marking the Turbo Graphix 16 as a 'success' and marking the orgional playstation as being 64bit?
I mean its not a big deal, but seeing it really calls into question the crediblity of the whole article, IMO
WTF would I do with a anti-artillery laser? Seeing as how I'm not constantly dodging mortar fire, that is. And if you did shoot it at other cars stuck in traffic you'd just be stuck longer, and then stuck in jail.
1) These lasers are huge. They are talking about systems that are deployed on tractor trailers or on modified 747s. Why would you launch this into space?
Why would you NEED to shoot them into space? You fire the laser from the ground and hit the sat like that. I mean you can *see* sats in space with a telescope (sometimes just with your naked eyes) People use lasers to measure the distance to the moon in centimeters.
The whole rest of your post is based on the idea that you'd need to launch the laser into space to fire it, witch is just a ridiculous.
I especially liked the way you didn't ad any new info, because you know, I hadn't heard how the iPod was a revolutionary device and all that, and how it was so much radically better then other mp3 players because you could boot your Mac off of it a bazillion times already.
There's a bit more to it then just har hard drive, you know. For one thing these come with a 2.5'' inch drive rather then a 3.5'' drive. A standard size HD is a bit large for me to carry around.
North, south, and central America are collectively called "The Americas" not "America" The only thing called "America" without a north/south/central modifier is the United States Of America.
Is anyone else confused by this phrase in the post? What is it supposed to mean? Is the poster just issuing general support of the contenent of africa? If so, why?
I never knew 'x fold' was supposed to denote an exponential increase. In my experience when most people say it they mean increase via multiplication. Maybe the word has changed meaning (as words do). Although thinking about it makes sense.
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This really shouldn't affect local global warming theories. After all, it's only been 23 months, and its the only data we have. We have no real historical record the way we do with earths temperature. (both with ice-cores and with recorded history).
And, earth and mars, obviously, have vastly different atmospheres.
The fact the temperature on mars increased slightly over the past 23 months doesn't actually change anything with regards to mans affect on the earths atmosphere. We already know that earth can change without us, it has in the past.
What we need to find out is how much (if any) effect on our climate we actually cause.
Due to anti-polution laws, he wouldn't be able to drive his car unless he spent a shitload of money getting it certified.
What you seem to be wanting is to not allow children to come into contact with adults, because you never know, that adult might want to molest the child.
That's moronic. There is a difference between illegalizing 'not good things' and illegalizing stuff that lets people do 'not good things' It's bad to rape people, but that doesn't mean we should make laws legally requiring all women to ware armored panties.
There's a scene in the book that talks about a street in the philipines where one car alarm will set off another nearby, ect, untill the whole road is screaching.
I can only imagine what it woudl be like with the screaming woman car alarm...
The sites katz was bitching about included slashdot, directly, allong with CNN and some others. The orgional poster seemed to be saying that FreeRepublic.com was some sort of haven for open thinking or something.
FreeRepublic is the exact thing Katz is bitching about, a community fenced off from any kind of ideological differences. Post something "pro liberal" and you'll get your IP banned.
on Slashdot, CNN, ABCNew and MSNBC -- into hostile electronic cesspools. To have actual conversations online, you're forced to join clubs where membership and speech boundaries are regulated, even to the point of specialized blocking programs that permit people to gauge levels of hostility or agreement.
What did you expect, for all your utopian dreams, you forgot one thing. Most people are fucking stupid. And a great many of them are annoying as well. "giving everyone a voice" (the phrase) might sound good, but actually giving everyone a voice won't. leveling the playing field for everyone and you end up with a world awash in moronic penis bird posts and SPAM promoting porn sites.
The hacker universe has sobered up as well. Who would have thought, a decade back, that one company, Microsoft, would in fact achieve everyone's paranoid fantasy and conquer the global desktop?
What is this supposed to even mean? The "global desktop"? Lots of people run windows on desktops across the globe, but M$ hasn't got central control over much of anything, just lots of revenue streams. And its not like their market share has gone up much since the DOS days anyway.
It's the thought that /. get paid (more) to post articles with unavoidable adverts, and I'm somehow contributing to paying for a new car some sales guy@salon.
What do people who work for salon not deserve to drive or something? If you don't want to contribute to the salon.com employee automotive fund, then don't visit salon. If you don't like the ads you can pay salon to turn them off.
Finaly, slashdot has no control over this, its something salon is doing on there own.
Especially useful for those at college who hate how some Mac labs may be locked down with software. Again, just plug in and boot your own setup.
Every locked down mac I've ever seen didn't allow external booting. For good reason.
Did anyone else notice the chart on the second page. The 'history of game consoles'?
It was so full of errors as to be amazing. No mention of the supernintendo, marking the Turbo Graphix 16 as a 'success' and marking the orgional playstation as being 64bit? I mean its not a big deal, but seeing it really calls into question the crediblity of the whole article, IMO
WTF would I do with a anti-artillery laser? Seeing as how I'm not constantly dodging mortar fire, that is. And if you did shoot it at other cars stuck in traffic you'd just be stuck longer, and then stuck in jail.
1) These lasers are huge. They are talking about systems that are deployed on tractor trailers or on modified 747s. Why would you launch this into space?
Why would you NEED to shoot them into space? You fire the laser from the ground and hit the sat like that. I mean you can *see* sats in space with a telescope (sometimes just with your naked eyes) People use lasers to measure the distance to the moon in centimeters.
The whole rest of your post is based on the idea that you'd need to launch the laser into space to fire it, witch is just a ridiculous.
I especially liked the way you didn't ad any new info, because you know, I hadn't heard how the iPod was a revolutionary device and all that, and how it was so much radically better then other mp3 players because you could boot your Mac off of it a bazillion times already.
There's a bit more to it then just har hard drive, you know. For one thing these come with a 2.5'' inch drive rather then a 3.5'' drive. A standard size HD is a bit large for me to carry around.
Who the fuck needs to be able to boot from a god damn MP3 player?!
This is a completely ridiculous feature...
Then they would have a valid excuse for selling a machine with a 15inch display that can't be upgraded...
Well, autopr0n is based in Ames Iowa right now. So,
:)
Go, Ames, Iowa, Go!
North, south, and central America are collectively called "The Americas" not "America" The only thing called "America" without a north/south/central modifier is the United States Of America.
Is anyone else confused by this phrase in the post? What is it supposed to mean? Is the poster just issuing general support of the contenent of africa? If so, why?
Does he talk about it any more?
Howard Stern used to use OS/2 Back in the day (around '95), I heard him talking about it once. I doubt he still does.
Even more strangly, Rush Limbaugh uses MacOS.
Take a look, jerk off, and you'll feel a lot better afterwards.
ISU has their own email system, it has for over a decade.
It might have cost ATT a shitload of money to get everything setup so quick, I wouldn't be surprized if cost them upwards of $300 million.
I never knew 'x fold' was supposed to denote an exponential increase. In my experience when most people say it they mean increase via multiplication. Maybe the word has changed meaning (as words do). Although thinking about it makes sense.