Can somebody explain why I have never seen anyone enraged by this word's existance? Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, but I have never seen anyone proclaim that "warfighter" is a blatant example of Newspeak or a shameless parody of L. Ron Hubbard's knack for descriptive writing.
Has this word been around for a while? I can't recall hearing it before the advent of warblogging. If anything, it seems like a step in the wrong direction, for being a euphemism, and all (if at all).
The nigerian scam artists have have updated their mailings - I just received one from a person claiming to need help distributing $32m to relief organizations in return for a 10% cut.
Are they ever gonna give up?
I have just had the misfortune of having several Nigerians move into my dorm. It has given me an interesting perspective on the 419 scam. In Nigeria, these people are well-known--and heroes. According to a source, they are mainly from the Ibo (Igbo, Igloo, whatever) ethnic group. I was told in glowing terms how it is known to be the most clever race of men. (I diplomatically did not share my thoughts about what that must say of the other people in their country) They even have primitive racial destiny notions.
However, 419ers are not the most revered of Nigeria's scumbags. That honor is bestowed upon the gangs who kidnap foreign oil workers and blow up their pipelines. In the West, we understand that these kidnappers are not much more organized than an average street gang and that pipe line explosions are usually caused by people trying to steal oil. In Nigeria, the kidnappers are freedom fighters who don't hurt the oil workers, just show them around the beauties of their country while they wait for payment, like tour guides.
(Now that Cray is dead, according to the supercomputing FAQ, "The CCC intellectual property was purchased for a mere $250 thousand by Dasu, LLC - a corporation set up and (AFAIK) wholly owned by Mr. Hub Finkelstein, a Texas oilman. He's owned this stuff for five years and hasn't done anything with it.")
That has to be the worst Bond villain name I have ever heard.
Why bother following the law.. It didnt seem to bother His holiness Ronald Reagan when he sold aircraft and missile parts to Iran to finance an illegal war in Nicaragua. Sure the Democrats squeaked a little, but in the end they did nothing about it.
Then why not sell F-14 parts to Israeli companies who route them to Iran while sending the profits to the Russian space agencies in questions?
"In cities across China, women hustle porn on pedestrian overpasses and at tunnel entrances. Many are pregnant; others carry 1-year-olds, often rented for as little as a dollar a day. The babies are both props and shields: They enable buyers to immediately identify the sellers, and the women exploit a loophole in Chinese criminal law that allows for only a brief detainment of pregnant women or those with infants."
As for porn videos... no, you can't see them in the stores, for the same reason you can't see the prostitution going on in many of the "meirongyuan" (beauty parlors). You need to ask what you want!
I knew about the barber shops, but I had no idea that DVD had even shadier outlets.
BTW, xingfu.se? Which country's expat are you? asked the American taking a degree in Sweden
Two is aerodynamic design. The SR22 is very sleek. The way it is designed, it is damn near impossible to open the doors in flight (not that I've tried - I've done this plenty of times with cessnas and so forth), but since the SR22 is designed for speed and (considernig the speed) economy, making jump-outable doors would be neigh-on impossible.
A few years ago, I was taking lessons in a Cessna 152. On my third flight, when we were to be doing stalls, the door opened at about 100-200ft and didn't want to shut. The instructor just says, "Yeah, it does that sometimes."
I have been an avid reader of the English and Swedish versions of Wikipedia. Now, I haven't followed any of the other additions in the least, but, at least in the Swedish version, I have noticed an enormous mass of stubs. Personally, I think it looks like a conscious effort to raise the total number of articles. Regardless of the fact that anyone can contribute, this massive crapflood lowers the opinion of anyone I try to introduce to the project. (Granted, I have made three very successful conversions)
That said, I have begun submitting translations of the English articles to replace these--despite woefully inadaquate Swedish. They get cleaned up in short order, of course, but it would be nice if the threshhold was a little higher.
On that note, I recommend that all of you Slashdotters who can speak more than one language, even if not that well, try the same. It is a massive influx of a whole other type of crap which even the most casual native reader would quickly fix.
With pornography and sex related items being some of the most popular queries for search engines, why do they never seem to make it in to Google Zeitgeist?
The answer is quite simple: divergence
As we know, by 2001, everybody had an internet connection. "Sex," "porno," "boobies": common enough search terms for green-horns. But now, after two full years of ravenous pornography consumption, your average internaut has found his dream girl... ...be it a hot, cling-wrapped asian chick or a mature bored housewife covered in whipped cream. A hairy Byelorussian farmgirl or a boodylicious urban Black woman.
If Mr. Joe Internaut still hasn't found his kink, then he isn't using the right parameters.
I've heard people talk about extensions for browsing on Slashdot without the constant rendering errors. Does anybody know of an extension which helps Wikipedia (I edit the English and Swedish versions, to make things worse) render better? All I can find is a Wikipedia toolkit extension.
If you're a native Israeli who just can't speak English, I apologize, but all evidence from your post shows you can, in fact, speak English.
Ah. I see by the expression on your face that you are confused by my statement. Perhaps you doubt its veracity, but let me assure you, I speak not a word of English.
Does the map start showing little car icons when the traffic reaches 35 cars/minute? I think Chicago should start building more Bus Depots--they can absorb up to half of the total traffic.
Slashdot Mirror
When I'm browsing thumbnails, I expect...no I demand...my search engine to return the appropriate photos!
You know, it's a wonder nobody has started spoofing image thumbnails by returning a different image when a Googlebot comes by.
Surfer: Mmmmm... Hot, nude bored housewives...
*click*
Website: Hello.jpg!
Can somebody explain why I have never seen anyone enraged by this word's existance? Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, but I have never seen anyone proclaim that "warfighter" is a blatant example of Newspeak or a shameless parody of L. Ron Hubbard's knack for descriptive writing.
Has this word been around for a while? I can't recall hearing it before the advent of warblogging. If anything, it seems like a step in the wrong direction, for being a euphemism, and all (if at all).
Just give him a job with a thinktank... ...cleaning it.
The nigerian scam artists have have updated their mailings - I just received one from a person claiming to need help distributing $32m to relief organizations in return for a 10% cut.
Are they ever gonna give up?
I have just had the misfortune of having several Nigerians move into my dorm. It has given me an interesting perspective on the 419 scam. In Nigeria, these people are well-known--and heroes. According to a source, they are mainly from the Ibo (Igbo, Igloo, whatever) ethnic group. I was told in glowing terms how it is known to be the most clever race of men. (I diplomatically did not share my thoughts about what that must say of the other people in their country) They even have primitive racial destiny notions.
However, 419ers are not the most revered of Nigeria's scumbags. That honor is bestowed upon the gangs who kidnap foreign oil workers and blow up their pipelines. In the West, we understand that these kidnappers are not much more organized than an average street gang and that pipe line explosions are usually caused by people trying to steal oil. In Nigeria, the kidnappers are freedom fighters who don't hurt the oil workers, just show them around the beauties of their country while they wait for payment, like tour guides.
(Now that Cray is dead, according to the supercomputing FAQ, "The CCC intellectual property was purchased for a mere $250 thousand by Dasu, LLC - a corporation set up and (AFAIK) wholly owned by Mr. Hub Finkelstein, a Texas oilman. He's owned this stuff for five years and hasn't done anything with it.")
That has to be the worst Bond villain name I have ever heard.
So your saying they put heaters....on a fuel tank?
As someone who has turned a blowtorn down real low and warmed up a propane tank...
Mine did. Two words: Projectile vomiting. Had pretty good aim, too.
Nuff said, I guess.
Can somebody explain what attributes vomit must have to earn the title "projectile"?
Don't give Bush any ideas ;)
GODWIN'S LAW!!!
oh, wait...
Why bother following the law..
It didnt seem to bother His holiness Ronald Reagan
when he sold aircraft and missile parts to Iran
to finance an illegal war in Nicaragua.
Sure the Democrats squeaked a little, but in the end
they did nothing about it.
Then why not sell F-14 parts to Israeli companies who route them to Iran while sending the profits to the Russian space agencies in questions?
"In cities across China, women hustle porn on pedestrian overpasses and at tunnel entrances. Many are pregnant; others carry 1-year-olds, often rented for as little as a dollar a day. The babies are both props and shields: They enable buyers to immediately identify the sellers, and the women exploit a loophole in Chinese criminal law that allows for only a brief detainment of pregnant women or those with infants."
As for porn videos... no, you can't see them in the stores, for the same reason you can't see the prostitution going on in many of the "meirongyuan" (beauty parlors). You need to ask what you want!
I knew about the barber shops, but I had no idea that DVD had even shadier outlets.
BTW, xingfu.se? Which country's expat are you? asked the American taking a degree in Sweden
Does anybody have any more information on the MicroFlame? I'd appreciate some gory details on just how hot it ran.
Pregnant women above the law? Do you have anymore details about this? Is it a law that includes all petty crime or is this just a matter of practice?
For the record, I spent a good portion of my month in Shanghai in the markets looking for CD's and DVD's and didn't see any such booth operators.
Eek.. what the hell were you doing stalls for at 100AGL?
I always climbed up to at least 1500AGL before trying any departure stalls, 7000 for a spin.
Well, you see, in going from 0AGL to 1800AGL, you have to pass through 100AGL. If you do not, you are doing something terribly wrong.
Two is aerodynamic design. The SR22 is very sleek. The way it is designed, it is damn near impossible to open the doors in flight (not that I've tried - I've done this plenty of times with cessnas and so forth), but since the SR22 is designed for speed and (considernig the speed) economy, making jump-outable doors would be neigh-on impossible.
A few years ago, I was taking lessons in a Cessna 152. On my third flight, when we were to be doing stalls, the door opened at about 100-200ft and didn't want to shut. The instructor just says, "Yeah, it does that sometimes."
I have been an avid reader of the English and Swedish versions of Wikipedia. Now, I haven't followed any of the other additions in the least, but, at least in the Swedish version, I have noticed an enormous mass of stubs. Personally, I think it looks like a conscious effort to raise the total number of articles. Regardless of the fact that anyone can contribute, this massive crapflood lowers the opinion of anyone I try to introduce to the project. (Granted, I have made three very successful conversions)
That said, I have begun submitting translations of the English articles to replace these--despite woefully inadaquate Swedish. They get cleaned up in short order, of course, but it would be nice if the threshhold was a little higher.
On that note, I recommend that all of you Slashdotters who can speak more than one language, even if not that well, try the same. It is a massive influx of a whole other type of crap which even the most casual native reader would quickly fix.
The answer is quite simple: divergence
As we know, by 2001, everybody had an internet connection. "Sex," "porno," "boobies": common enough search terms for green-horns. But now, after two full years of ravenous pornography consumption, your average internaut has found his dream girl...
...be it a hot, cling-wrapped asian chick or a mature bored housewife covered in whipped cream. A hairy Byelorussian farmgirl or a boodylicious urban Black woman.
If Mr. Joe Internaut still hasn't found his kink, then he isn't using the right parameters.
God bless the Internet,
Dr. Cody
Man, you have a wierd phallic fetish going on there.
Sometimes a heavy-lift booster is just a heavy-lift booster.
The clip might be 157 seconds long, but 130 of those are the musical numbers.
This technology reminds me of the greatest example of well-aimed technical documentation... EVAR!
Presenting...
The MRE "Rock or something" manual.
I've heard people talk about extensions for browsing on Slashdot without the constant rendering errors. Does anybody know of an extension which helps Wikipedia (I edit the English and Swedish versions, to make things worse) render better? All I can find is a Wikipedia toolkit extension.
BTW, I've got v1.0 right now.
If you're a native Israeli who just can't speak English, I apologize, but all evidence from your post shows you can, in fact, speak English.
Ah. I see by the expression on your face that you are confused by my statement. Perhaps you doubt its veracity, but let me assure you, I speak not a word of English.
Does the map start showing little car icons when the traffic reaches 35 cars/minute? I think Chicago should start building more Bus Depots--they can absorb up to half of the total traffic.
For the Bitboys card I pre-ordered.
They could have been so successful if they hadn't optimised their instruction set for rendering hello.jpg.
Salo is supposed to be eaten with onions/pickles and vodka. Non-fried potatoes are horrible too :)
When you talk about something being horrible to eat named "salo," only one thing comes to mind...
I believe the question is *what* they'd be a-milking. ;)
Cats, Fokker.