I would like my grandmother to sit on the couch between me and my date, just to make sure that nothing bad happens, like touching hands or getting pregnant.
Oooh,Icky! I just read on the intanet that girls get pregnant from touching your hands!
Does this help? I'm engaged to a geek girl I met on a C Programming channel on IRC.:) And she cooks too!
Oh, sweet jesus this guy is springer fodder.
Ummmm...yeah, if 'she' asks you to meet 'her' for the first time late at night at some sleazy motel off the turnpike, for the LOVE OF GOD, man, don't go.
Before I file a claim, i just want to know how much money my data is worth. I mean, 200gb drives full of she-male pr0n dosen't grow on trees you know...
Except that China isn't really Communist any more, and hasn't been Communist since Mao's death.
One might even go so far as to say China has never been communists according to the doctrine laid out by Marx, but some form of Socialist Dictatorship. Even when Mao was in charge, they had constant battles with Moscow over the fact that China's communisim didn't match up with Russia's communisim. And neither was what Marx had envisioned.
The seller has to pay a fee to get an item listed, the seller has to pay another fee when money is sent via PayPal. That is the real price gouging.
They are two seperate services. This isn't price gouging any more than a service station charging you seperately for a filling up your gas tank, and then getting oil change.
Price gouging would be if they charged you for posting your auction on their servers, and then again for displaying the data to people surfing ebay.
Yeah, but you should know about the subliminal messages that were backward-masked in the recordings. I think that my friend's sister's ex-boyfriend saw Ferris Buler kill himslef at 31 flavors last nigh while listening to it.
D. Reed Freeman, the "Chief Privacy Officer" of Claria Networks (formerly Gator), the creators of the pervasive spyware package GAIN, has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's "Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee"
Only on Slashdot will you see calculations for accelerating a Dyson sphere with starlight so you can go visit your girlfriend in another part of the galaxy.
People on Slashdot who can calculate the acceleration effects of starlight on Dyson spheres do not have girlfriends. Sorry.
If it was a black hole, it would be detected by the movement of visible objects around it, or x-ray and gamma-ray bursts from acceleration jets and from energy emitted by the accretion disk.
You can only detect black holes by this method if there is an a accretion disk. If there is no local matter, there won't be much of a show.
Now it seems pretty unlikely that a central galactic black hole wouldn't be collecting matter, but nature does some pretty odd things.
Just the fact that we are discussing a 'dark galaxy' is proof.
Only if there were something that was bright enough to be seen behind it. There has to be something for a massive object to lense before it can be observed.
Yeah, you'd have to be stupid to be a maroon. Either that or mix red and purple and splash it on him.
Your quip was quite funny, but I think it might have been a cultural refrence, and not a typo. In old Warner-brothers cartoons, Bugs Bunny would say things like, 'What a iggit, what a maroon!' to insult people. I think the joke was that he didn't say 'idiot' and 'moron', but 'iggit' and 'maroon', words that only an iggit maroon would mispronounce. Either that, or I'm an iggit maroon who is missing the real joke. I'd lay odds at fifty-fifty either way.
(Dry, boring joke analysis over, you can wake up now.)
there is a point to be made here about the state of the internet in general. nearly half of the world's population are indian or chinese. they have cultures and histories longer and deeper than that of western europe and certainly north america. yet, on the web those cultures are all but invisible.
And I'm sure if they want to fund scanning their entire culture into databases, that Google will be willing to index them. However, since the half of the world that is shelling out cash for internet services isn't Chinese or Indian, can you really blame Google?
History is written by those with a sensable businuess plan.
Can't you just by cards made offshore that will not honor the broadcast flag? If there is a market someone will build them.
And this is why any attempt to controll how an end user uses media will fail. The whole system will work as long as everyone plays ball. As soon as you have somebody that realizes they can make a better product by simply ignoring DMR/Broadcast flages/whatever, they will have 'built a better mousetrap'. And since implimenting copy protection takes extra effort, the product without it will cost the manufacturer/consumer less than other products.
And the best part is, if all the companies get together and conspire to squeeze out anyone who doesn't play ball, we just start filing anti-trust suits, and let the government dismantle them.
Your laptop is downloading pr0n and warez from the internet, and is unresponsive when you try to get it to do something useful. I'd put it's age at about 14.
I just want to say that the case mentioned by the parent posting will probably be the first time in legal history that anyone pleads innoncen on the grounds that, 'The monkey made me do it'.
However, that isn't to say that there might be some use for them in the future. Lots of stuff in math gets discovered and later proves very useful.
I believe that Eulier was the guy who developed higher dimensional geometry. Nobody did much with until this guy named Einstein came along and faund a marvelous application.
(I am a math nerd. Hyper math nerds, feel free to correct or expound.)
Dude, you have a low enough ID number that you should know better.
Slashdot is where nerds come to whine and bitch to similar minded nerds about how everything isn't happening the way we would like it to. I for one, would be appaled that you would suggest that the content of slashdot is in any way subpar, but that would take effort.
"Slashdot - We had some great discussions in 1997..."
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You know, I can't blame the Vogons for bulldozing the planet if they are trying to stop SPAM. I mean, they're just these guys, you know?
the communications channel is filled ads for v|@gr4 and old 'Friends' re-runs and Hitler kicking off the '36 Olympics.
In space, nobody can hear you scream...
Damn, grandparent beat me to the joke, and parent beat me to complaining about being beaten to ):
I however, will simply beat you.
I would like my grandmother to sit on the couch between me and my date, just to make sure that nothing bad happens, like touching hands or getting pregnant.
Oooh,Icky! I just read on the intanet that girls get pregnant from touching your hands!
...Martha fucking Stewart is posting stories to slashdot!
Does this help? I'm engaged to a geek girl I met on a C Programming channel on IRC. :) And she cooks too!
Oh, sweet jesus this guy is springer fodder.
Ummmm...yeah, if 'she' asks you to meet 'her' for the first time late at night at some sleazy motel off the turnpike, for the LOVE OF GOD, man, don't go.
Before I file a claim, i just want to know how much money my data is worth. I mean, 200gb drives full of she-male pr0n dosen't grow on trees you know...
Except that China isn't really Communist any more, and hasn't been Communist since Mao's death.
One might even go so far as to say China has never been communists according to the doctrine laid out by Marx, but some form of Socialist Dictatorship. Even when Mao was in charge, they had constant battles with Moscow over the fact that China's communisim didn't match up with Russia's communisim. And neither was what Marx had envisioned.
They make good fortune cookies, though.
The seller has to pay a fee to get an item listed, the seller has to pay another fee when money is sent via PayPal. That is the real price gouging.
They are two seperate services. This isn't price gouging any more than a service station charging you seperately for a filling up your gas tank, and then getting oil change.
Price gouging would be if they charged you for posting your auction on their servers, and then again for displaying the data to people surfing ebay.
Yeah, but you should know about the subliminal messages that were backward-masked in the recordings. I think that my friend's sister's ex-boyfriend saw Ferris Buler kill himslef at 31 flavors last nigh while listening to it.
...Are you taking about Lokitorrent or the RIAA?
D. Reed Freeman, the "Chief Privacy Officer" of Claria Networks (formerly Gator), the creators of the pervasive spyware package GAIN, has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's "Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee"
I IIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
*thud*
Only on Slashdot will you see calculations for accelerating a Dyson sphere with starlight so you can go visit your girlfriend in another part of the galaxy.
People on Slashdot who can calculate the acceleration effects of starlight on Dyson spheres do not have girlfriends. Sorry.
...You should just be glad he didn't post pictures of the the Tubgirl supernova.
*shiver*
If it was a black hole, it would be detected by the movement of visible objects around it, or x-ray and gamma-ray bursts from acceleration jets and from energy emitted by the accretion disk.
You can only detect black holes by this method if there is an a accretion disk. If there is no local matter, there won't be much of a show.
Now it seems pretty unlikely that a central galactic black hole wouldn't be collecting matter, but nature does some pretty odd things. Just the fact that we are discussing a 'dark galaxy' is proof.
Only if there were something that was bright enough to be seen behind it. There has to be something for a massive object to lense before it can be observed.
Yeah, you'd have to be stupid to be a maroon. Either that or mix red and purple and splash it on him.
Your quip was quite funny, but I think it might have been a cultural refrence, and not a typo. In old Warner-brothers cartoons, Bugs Bunny would say things like, 'What a iggit, what a maroon!' to insult people. I think the joke was that he didn't say 'idiot' and 'moron', but 'iggit' and 'maroon', words that only an iggit maroon would mispronounce. Either that, or I'm an iggit maroon who is missing the real joke. I'd lay odds at fifty-fifty either way.
(Dry, boring joke analysis over, you can wake up now.)
there is a point to be made here about the state of the internet in general. nearly half of the world's population are indian or chinese. they have cultures and histories longer and deeper than that of western europe and certainly north america. yet, on the web those cultures are all but invisible.
And I'm sure if they want to fund scanning their entire culture into databases, that Google will be willing to index them. However, since the half of the world that is shelling out cash for internet services isn't Chinese or Indian, can you really blame Google?
History is written by those with a sensable businuess plan.
Can't you just by cards made offshore that will not honor the broadcast flag? If there is a market someone will build them.
And this is why any attempt to controll how an end user uses media will fail. The whole system will work as long as everyone plays ball. As soon as you have somebody that realizes they can make a better product by simply ignoring DMR/Broadcast flages/whatever, they will have 'built a better mousetrap'. And since implimenting copy protection takes extra effort, the product without it will cost the manufacturer/consumer less than other products.
And the best part is, if all the companies get together and conspire to squeeze out anyone who doesn't play ball, we just start filing anti-trust suits, and let the government dismantle them.
I think that is cruel and inhumane. Trees were not made to be cooped up in little farms, just waiting to die!
I for one, only use paper from free-range rainforests.
Wow, judging from the fact that you disregarded a funny joke to nitpick a typo, I'd put your relationship status as 'single'.
Your laptop is downloading pr0n and warez from the internet, and is unresponsive when you try to get it to do something useful. I'd put it's age at about 14.
You beat me to posting that link.
I just want to say that the case mentioned by the parent posting will probably be the first time in legal history that anyone pleads innoncen on the grounds that, 'The monkey made me do it'.
However, that isn't to say that there might be some use for them in the future. Lots of stuff in math gets discovered and later proves very useful.
I believe that Eulier was the guy who developed higher dimensional geometry. Nobody did much with until this guy named Einstein came along and faund a marvelous application. (I am a math nerd. Hyper math nerds, feel free to correct or expound.)
Dude, you have a low enough ID number that you should know better.
Slashdot is where nerds come to whine and bitch to similar minded nerds about how everything isn't happening the way we would like it to. I for one, would be appaled that you would suggest that the content of slashdot is in any way subpar, but that would take effort.
"Slashdot - We had some great discussions in 1997..."