Here is what George Carlin had to say on euphemisms, and in general the sensitivity of words to certain people:
I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protest themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation. For some reason, it just keeps getting worse. I'll give you an example of that. There's a condition in combat. Most people know about it. It's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum. Can't take anymore input. The nervous system has either (click) snapped or is about to snap. In the first world war, that condition was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables, shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was seventy years ago. Then a whole generation went by and the second world war came along and very same combat condition was called battle fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell shock! Battle fatigue. Then we had the war in Korea, 1950. Madison avenue was riding high by that time, and the very same combat condition was called operational exhaustion. Hey, were up to eight syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase. It's totally sterile now. Operational exhaustion. Sounds like something that might happen to your car. Then of course, came the war in Viet Nam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called post-traumatic stress disorder. Still eight syllables, but we've added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-traumatic stress disorder. I'll bet you if we'd of still been calling it shell shock, some of those Viet Nam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I'll betcha. I'll betcha.
But. But, it didn't happen, and one of the reasons. One of the reasons is because we were using that soft language. That language that takes the life out of life. And it is a function of time. It does keep getting worse. I'll give you another example. Sometime during my life. Sometime during my life, toilet paper became bathroom tissue. I wasn't notified of this. No one asked me if I agreed with it. It just happened. Toilet paper became bathroom tissue. Sneakers became running shoes. False teeth became dental appliances. Medicine became medication. Information became directory assistance. The dump became the landfill. Car crashes became automobile accidents. Partly cloudy bacame partly sunny. Motels became motor lodges. House trailers became mobile homes. Used cars became previously owned transportation. Room service became guest-room dining. And constipation became occasional irregularity. When I was a little kid, if I got sick they wanted me to go to the hospital and see a doctor. Now they want me to go to a health maintenance organization...or a wellness center to consult a healthcare delivery professional. Poor people used to live in slums. Now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. And they're broke! They're broke! They don't have a negative cash-flow position. They're fucking broke! Cause a lot of them were fired. You know, fired. management wanted to curtail redundancies in the human resources area, so many people are no longer viable members of the workforce.
Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people...or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Isr
nudes.google.com could hook into the FAA database, and use the images received from previous discussed sub-clothing scanners, which about to be implemented by the FAA in some airports. That way, you could accurately attach a certain name with a given image. It's almost too easy.
You are certainly not the only one who misread the title. I read it as "North Korea announces Patent Support to Linux Kernel" as if North Korea wished to lure developers there by claiming that it was the first government to be fully "GPL compliant"
Oh, those crazy north koreans. I guess that is what 1 hour of sleep will do to you.
Since when are/. readers and "unwashed masses" not one in the same? I could have swore that being unwashed was part of the conditions you agreed to by reading this site.
1. I did suspend my belief, which is why I did not mention the fact that they were located on a giant spaceship orbiting some planet. That is surely unbelieveable, but its a movie.
2. Sorry about the terminology mistake.
Of course they can do all kinds of wacky telekinetic tricks, but it makes me wonder why they don't do them ALL the time? If he has no qualms about using the force to do something as mundane as flipping over a rail to attempt to show off, why doesn't he just float everywhere?
While I thought the special effects were astounding in Episode III, I felt something was sorely lacking with the physics when applied to humans. It seemed as if he didn't even try to make it seem realistic.
For example, when Obi Wan and Anakin were fighting Dooku near the beginning, Dooku decided to do a flip off of a balcony type thing to get to the lower level. This looked horrible. There was no acceleration invovled in his fall, and his flip randomly sped up slightly while in mid air. Of course, he was a Jedi master, so he can probably do that, but I really doubt they had that in mind when creating that scene. Did anyone else notice examples of this?
I always thought that liquid metal was hotter than, say, water. The article is extremely sparse on details, though I suppose it could be mercury in there.
Is it just me, or is it a violation of your rights(as an American)? I can think of situations where I could be sharing perfectly legal media, and would not want my email address/identity tied to it.
For example, if I produced a documentary about how bad the company I work for is, I should be able to disperse that to those who please. There would most definitely be reprecussions if it was found out who made it, and this bill would just make it all the easier.
It's different for electric companies. Infact, if you did run an extension cord around the neighbor hood, you would probably help them. Less infrastructure they need to support. You are charged for electricity, unlike bandwidth in most American situations, based on the amount you use, not some flat fee. It may make sense to the people providing the bandwidth that NATs are bad because if you have two machines, the possibility that you will max out your bandwidth(thus, cost them more) is greater than if one person is using the bandwidth themselves.
Anyways, if you don't like it, dont sign the contract saying that you agree to it. There are other options where you can have NATS legally - like a T1 or 56k:)
A quick thought popped into my head when you said microcode patch:
If infact it is patchable with an executable which fixes the microcode, isn't it likewise "patchable" by a virus or something of some sort, rendering the processor completely useless? I would assume that the microcode controlled non-trivial things, since they went all the way of releasing a patch for it.
Just a thought - please tell me if its true?
Thanks.
-Uchi
Here is how I think of the internet:
the router somehow discovers which route is the quickest, and if it has data to send, it sends it via the quickest source. if that source becomes too congested, then obviously another method will arise to transfer the data, and that route will be used. so given that there is a set amount of bandwidth trying to be transfered, and a set amount of total bandwidth available for each connection, how is sending data through a slower connection going to help at all?
thanks.
PS: I read the article, its just that I have no clue what game theory is and how it applies to this.
The two people killed on the ride were at Gillian's wonderland pier in ocean city, NJ. I worked about 5 blocks down from that at another amusement park called Castaway Cove last summer. Please, for the love of god, do not attend any of these places. Not only do they price gouge you with the ticket sales, but they are the most unsafe machinery I have ever seen. There were quite a fre times that i was scared that the machinery would just snap in half. There was a near-fatal incident while I was there, where a car shot up approx. 50 f eet as the person was stepping out of it. luckily, she dove back into the car and wasn't injured. ok, sorry for ranting
I wonder why it is that Hollings homepage( http://www.senate.gov/~hollings/ ) has no mention of this act he is trying to pass?
Seriously, that wasn't a rhetorical question or anything, I'm wondering why he doesn't.
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Here is what George Carlin had to say on euphemisms, and in general the sensitivity of words to certain people: I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protest themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation. For some reason, it just keeps getting worse. I'll give you an example of that. There's a condition in combat. Most people know about it. It's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum. Can't take anymore input. The nervous system has either (click) snapped or is about to snap. In the first world war, that condition was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables, shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was seventy years ago. Then a whole generation went by and the second world war came along and very same combat condition was called battle fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell shock! Battle fatigue. Then we had the war in Korea, 1950. Madison avenue was riding high by that time, and the very same combat condition was called operational exhaustion. Hey, were up to eight syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase. It's totally sterile now. Operational exhaustion. Sounds like something that might happen to your car. Then of course, came the war in Viet Nam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called post-traumatic stress disorder. Still eight syllables, but we've added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-traumatic stress disorder. I'll bet you if we'd of still been calling it shell shock, some of those Viet Nam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I'll betcha. I'll betcha. But. But, it didn't happen, and one of the reasons. One of the reasons is because we were using that soft language. That language that takes the life out of life. And it is a function of time. It does keep getting worse. I'll give you another example. Sometime during my life. Sometime during my life, toilet paper became bathroom tissue. I wasn't notified of this. No one asked me if I agreed with it. It just happened. Toilet paper became bathroom tissue. Sneakers became running shoes. False teeth became dental appliances. Medicine became medication. Information became directory assistance. The dump became the landfill. Car crashes became automobile accidents. Partly cloudy bacame partly sunny. Motels became motor lodges. House trailers became mobile homes. Used cars became previously owned transportation. Room service became guest-room dining. And constipation became occasional irregularity. When I was a little kid, if I got sick they wanted me to go to the hospital and see a doctor. Now they want me to go to a health maintenance organization...or a wellness center to consult a healthcare delivery professional. Poor people used to live in slums. Now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. And they're broke! They're broke! They don't have a negative cash-flow position. They're fucking broke! Cause a lot of them were fired. You know, fired. management wanted to curtail redundancies in the human resources area, so many people are no longer viable members of the workforce. Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people...or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Isr
Wow, that is some worthless brainfuck code you entered. It is all about befunge-98 anyways...
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You're right. The title was a typo -- it should have read "Looking at FreeBSD 6 feet under"
Most spammed man in the world? Not for long!! my address is pukeduke@gmail.com ...please, i need everyones help!
nudes.google.com could hook into the FAA database, and use the images received from previous discussed sub-clothing scanners, which about to be implemented by the FAA in some airports. That way, you could accurately attach a certain name with a given image. It's almost too easy.
You had me at "a lot sicker"
Oh god, this should be rated either +5 insightful or funny, I can't decide which. I guess more people need to see the movie :(
I know what I am going to do. I will search for "sith" and then download that torrent from the top 10 results. That has to be a good idea!
You are certainly not the only one who misread the title. I read it as "North Korea announces Patent Support to Linux Kernel" as if North Korea wished to lure developers there by claiming that it was the first government to be fully "GPL compliant"
Oh, those crazy north koreans. I guess that is what 1 hour of sleep will do to you.
You are definitely the only one. I took a poll just before now, and it came up 99.9999%(that is everyone but you) of /. readers know what GST is.
Unfortunately, most of them thought it was General Standard Time -- which makes it quite interesting to "include" this with any ebay auction.
Thank god I'm dirt poor. Please, I am almost begging someone to steal my identity/debts.
Since when are /. readers and "unwashed masses" not one in the same? I could have swore that being unwashed was part of the conditions you agreed to by reading this site.
Dear mr lheal (86013):
1. I did suspend my belief, which is why I did not mention the fact that they were located on a giant spaceship orbiting some planet. That is surely unbelieveable, but its a movie.
2. Sorry about the terminology mistake. Of course they can do all kinds of wacky telekinetic tricks, but it makes me wonder why they don't do them ALL the time? If he has no qualms about using the force to do something as mundane as flipping over a rail to attempt to show off, why doesn't he just float everywhere?
While I thought the special effects were astounding in Episode III, I felt something was sorely lacking with the physics when applied to humans. It seemed as if he didn't even try to make it seem realistic.
For example, when Obi Wan and Anakin were fighting Dooku near the beginning, Dooku decided to do a flip off of a balcony type thing to get to the lower level. This looked horrible. There was no acceleration invovled in his fall, and his flip randomly sped up slightly while in mid air. Of course, he was a Jedi master, so he can probably do that, but I really doubt they had that in mind when creating that scene. Did anyone else notice examples of this?
I always thought that liquid metal was hotter than, say, water. The article is extremely sparse on details, though I suppose it could be mercury in there.
Geez...What is next? Honeybees?
If Linus is the dictator, does that make RMS the court jester? On second thought, do dictators even have jesters? This does not look good for RMS.
That's a Big Fuckin' Gun. Er, I mean, card.
Is it just me, or is it a violation of your rights(as an American)? I can think of situations where I could be sharing perfectly legal media, and would not want my email address/identity tied to it. For example, if I produced a documentary about how bad the company I work for is, I should be able to disperse that to those who please. There would most definitely be reprecussions if it was found out who made it, and this bill would just make it all the easier.
It's different for electric companies. Infact, if you did run an extension cord around the neighbor hood, you would probably help them. Less infrastructure they need to support. You are charged for electricity, unlike bandwidth in most American situations, based on the amount you use, not some flat fee. It may make sense to the people providing the bandwidth that NATs are bad because if you have two machines, the possibility that you will max out your bandwidth(thus, cost them more) is greater than if one person is using the bandwidth themselves. Anyways, if you don't like it, dont sign the contract saying that you agree to it. There are other options where you can have NATS legally - like a T1 or 56k :)
A quick thought popped into my head when you said microcode patch: If infact it is patchable with an executable which fixes the microcode, isn't it likewise "patchable" by a virus or something of some sort, rendering the processor completely useless? I would assume that the microcode controlled non-trivial things, since they went all the way of releasing a patch for it. Just a thought - please tell me if its true? Thanks. -Uchi
Is it just me, or have we slashdotted everything under the nasa domain name. I can't even get the main nasa.gov page to load :(
Here is how I think of the internet: the router somehow discovers which route is the quickest, and if it has data to send, it sends it via the quickest source. if that source becomes too congested, then obviously another method will arise to transfer the data, and that route will be used. so given that there is a set amount of bandwidth trying to be transfered, and a set amount of total bandwidth available for each connection, how is sending data through a slower connection going to help at all? thanks. PS: I read the article, its just that I have no clue what game theory is and how it applies to this.
The two people killed on the ride were at Gillian's wonderland pier in ocean city, NJ. I worked about 5 blocks down from that at another amusement park called Castaway Cove last summer. Please, for the love of god, do not attend any of these places. Not only do they price gouge you with the ticket sales, but they are the most unsafe machinery I have ever seen. There were quite a fre times that i was scared that the machinery would just snap in half. There was a near-fatal incident while I was there, where a car shot up approx. 50 f eet as the person was stepping out of it. luckily, she dove back into the car and wasn't injured. ok, sorry for ranting
I wonder why it is that Hollings homepage( http://www.senate.gov/~hollings/ ) has no mention of this act he is trying to pass? Seriously, that wasn't a rhetorical question or anything, I'm wondering why he doesn't.