I'm thinking about getting one of these for to use as a "public computer" on my home network... something for the roomates to use to check e-mail and whatnot. They won't be getting my $99 bucks... I'm going to format it's ass and load redhat. I'll play with Lindows for a day or two first, but I really don't see myself using it.
Nope, they're just greedy and keeping their fingers crossed that either A) the public is apathetic and/or B) that anyone who wants to challenge this will run out of money for legal bills before they do.
And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay this jackoff to be able to do so. "I'm not aware" that other bots exist... right. So this guy isn't smart enough to find prior art (or a crook), but his software is better? Someone needs to patent office with a really big clue stick.
A city is no more valuable than it's citizens, the people that live there. If someone nuked New York, and 70% of the population died, what would be the point of trying to recreate the physical structure? The new people coming in wouldn't know the difference anyway. And if most of the population were dead, even if it wasn't contaminated, why even try to rebuild there? On the other hand, knowing where the gas lines and water mains are might help in such a case, but it would seem that there would be more important things to worry about than floor plans should such a thing actually happen. This kind of time would be better spent on making sure that no one knocks out NY or another major city in the first place.
The way this thread went surprised me too... I went from kidding with him to wishing him and his fiance well and somehow it evolved into a "who enslaved who" thing. Go figure... that's what I get for posting early:)
Yeah, the heating and AC do eat you alive. There are gaps around all the doors and windows. Then again, my steps (granite, I think) are so worn that the water collects where people's shoes have worn the stone away. I kind of like that. But claustrophobic??? The overhead light in my kitchen has been out for six months because the only way to change it is to drag the dining room table into the kitchen, stack up 18 inches of books under each leg of it, and then put a stepladder on top. I'm afraid of heights, so it hasn't been fixed... I just stuck a floor lamp in there. Older places, at least here in Savannah, tend to feel much larger and more open then a modern building with the same number of square feet. Plus they were huge to start with. They doorways are usually the same height as the ceiling in a modern house... I guess it just depends on where you are.
Yes, but those are usually things like adding fake ceilings to fit AC ducts and whatnot. The number of sqare feet in a building only tells you how much room you have to walk around; more cubic feet (high ceilings) make the same space much nicer. Plus, engineering back then wasn't what is is today. I live in Savannah, and there are 2" diameter steel bolts running between floors and tieing the roof together. Those are "hurricane bolts"; they didn't know what a building could take so they used foot-thick outside walls, 2 and 3 by twelves everywhere, and those giant bolts. Those were the building codes. Guess what? My house has lived through a couple of hurricanes, and will probably survive the next. When you watch construction crews framing up a house in suburbia it's like watching somebody building a model of of matchsticks with a staple gun. There IS a difference. "Old" in and of itself might not mean anything, but if you live somewhere REALLY old that was built by the old building codes it is still sturdy as hell after a hundred years or more.
I agree... the building I live in (not in NY, I couldn't afford it) was built in the 1890s. Twenty foot ceilings are cool... Yeah, you don't really need them now there's AC, but going back to the standard ceiling height would be like moving into a hamster cage. Plus, the main joists are 3 by 12s... Try finding trees big enough anymore. There is definatly something to be said for old architecture.
Yeah, but since we still have countries, no real sense of "humankind" exept the U.N. occasionally injecting "transgender" and shit into resolutions and in general sitting on their hands, and totalitarian regimes cooking up ways to kill everyone they don't like because *pick your book or manefesto* told them to, your theory won't work. In the real world, anyway. In this world, the real one, people and countries compete for resources and status they same way that people in the real world do. Even Communist countries have to consider the cost/benefit of any large project.
How are India and Pakistan second world states? Pakistan for sure would rate as third-world in my book if I had to live there, and India isn't much different in most places. Ok, they both developed nukes but not much else. And they developed those nukes to nuke each other, and may very well use them for that purpose (what else would they use them for)? That doesn't mean that they aren't squalid, impoverished countries with typical third-world problems. How would YOU define "second world"?
Yes, but they're going to to have to work their way up quite a bit, aren't they? They will have to develop an ICBM first, that's all, if your logic is correct. Developing countries don't need ICBMs. Period. The fewer countries that have them, and the faster those already do get rid of them, the better off we are. Mutually Assured Distruction was just that... let's not have India try to join the club.
I don't think many nations should be selling ICBM technology to either of of them. At the moment they can only nuke each other, maybe a SMALL part of China; extending their reach is asking for trouble. Pakistan especially has given no indication that they can control their extremists, let alone their nukes.
Are you SURE that you're not just trying to weasel out of the ring ?:) While you do have some valid concerns, it is a tradition. Traditions don't have to make sense... that's why they're traditions. Plus, your fiance might wonder if you DON'T give her one. Just cough up the cash and best of luck to you both.
Ok, so large storms are uncommon. What about high winds in the upper atmosphere? Plus, harmonics from ANY wind are going to be a bitch to engineer around as the harmonics are going to change as the load moves (kind of like tuning a guitar string).
My grandmother's dog got epilepsy. I got epilepsy because it chased chipmunks. You see, the chipmunk would go up, and the dog went straight, therefore banging its head into the tree. There is very simple solution to this, just ban chipmunks. This simple action, while not interfering with anyone's personal freedoms, would REALLY HELP the stupid dogs of this world. Write your congress critter. NOW.
Orwellian? Give me a break. You tell me, would you rather have murderers, rapists, and pedophiles loose on the streets, or stoners? Did you have to think about that? And no, I don't smoke. Now, how many of the first three categories have been turned loose onto YOUR streets because they had to make room for more stoners? Google it and weep. You need to get self righteous and tell and your congressmen that, now don't you? Or run for office yourself; that way you could force your misguided viewpoint down other people's throats.
OK... this is bullshit. People seem to be whining that "if a politically correct soccer mom sees this, she might be offended, so change the page". Personally, I agree with the guy. And no, I don't smoke pot. I did, however, get knifed by a mugger who got turned loose. Did he walk because they needed more room for potheads? Yeah, at least in my state. And so, the government has their collective head up thier collective ass. I've never had a stoner come up out of the blue on the street and stick a knife in me. Who gives a shit how it looks to have that banner up? The average citizen IS a moron. Sorry, but that is also how it is. If you want to fight, assuming you already vote, start a NPO and get a PAC. Then whine, once you're playing the game on the level that everyone else is. I'd rather use the cell for the guy that stuck a knife in me than my buddy that enjoys a joint after work... but that doesn't get anyone elected, now does it?
What exactly is your genre? The RIAA doesn't have a workable business model... it doesn't work for you, and it won't work for them. If I like your stuff, I'll buy it. If it sucks, I won't. I don't listen to the radio. I'm going to the store tomorrow to get the new Springsteen album (and no, I haven't heard a single song but I don't think I'll be dissapointed). Artists need exposure more than protection, it would seem.
No, it's not Congress. It's only those members of Congress who are especially well paid by nefarious special interest groups. See, they're about to go on vacation. They don't have time to pass a law, so they try this kind of stupid shit.
Do you work for the RIAA? Do you know anyone in a small-time band? Do you sympathize with that band member, if so? Are you sure that you're talking about the money that the artist makes, and not the money that the recording industry rakes in? There is no way that you can answer either "yes" or "no", if your post is really what you think.
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I'm thinking about getting one of these for to use as a "public computer" on my home network... something for the roomates to use to check e-mail and whatnot. They won't be getting my $99 bucks... I'm going to format it's ass and load redhat. I'll play with Lindows for a day or two first, but I really don't see myself using it.
Yeah, but you still have get up there to get the globe off :) Next time I'll leave it off.
Sounds like fun! (To read, of course :)
Nope, they're just greedy and keeping their fingers crossed that either A) the public is apathetic and/or B) that anyone who wants to challenge this will run out of money for legal bills before they do.
And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay this jackoff to be able to do so. "I'm not aware" that other bots exist... right. So this guy isn't smart enough to find prior art (or a crook), but his software is better? Someone needs to patent office with a really big clue stick.
A city is no more valuable than it's citizens, the people that live there. If someone nuked New York, and 70% of the population died, what would be the point of trying to recreate the physical structure? The new people coming in wouldn't know the difference anyway. And if most of the population were dead, even if it wasn't contaminated, why even try to rebuild there? On the other hand, knowing where the gas lines and water mains are might help in such a case, but it would seem that there would be more important things to worry about than floor plans should such a thing actually happen. This kind of time would be better spent on making sure that no one knocks out NY or another major city in the first place.
The way this thread went surprised me too... I went from kidding with him to wishing him and his fiance well and somehow it evolved into a "who enslaved who" thing. Go figure... that's what I get for posting early :)
Yeah, the heating and AC do eat you alive. There are gaps around all the doors and windows. Then again, my steps (granite, I think) are so worn that the water collects where people's shoes have worn the stone away. I kind of like that. But claustrophobic??? The overhead light in my kitchen has been out for six months because the only way to change it is to drag the dining room table into the kitchen, stack up 18 inches of books under each leg of it, and then put a stepladder on top. I'm afraid of heights, so it hasn't been fixed... I just stuck a floor lamp in there. Older places, at least here in Savannah, tend to feel much larger and more open then a modern building with the same number of square feet. Plus they were huge to start with. They doorways are usually the same height as the ceiling in a modern house... I guess it just depends on where you are.
Yes, but those are usually things like adding fake ceilings to fit AC ducts and whatnot. The number of sqare feet in a building only tells you how much room you have to walk around; more cubic feet (high ceilings) make the same space much nicer. Plus, engineering back then wasn't what is is today. I live in Savannah, and there are 2" diameter steel bolts running between floors and tieing the roof together. Those are "hurricane bolts"; they didn't know what a building could take so they used foot-thick outside walls, 2 and 3 by twelves everywhere, and those giant bolts. Those were the building codes. Guess what? My house has lived through a couple of hurricanes, and will probably survive the next. When you watch construction crews framing up a house in suburbia it's like watching somebody building a model of of matchsticks with a staple gun. There IS a difference. "Old" in and of itself might not mean anything, but if you live somewhere REALLY old that was built by the old building codes it is still sturdy as hell after a hundred years or more.
I agree... the building I live in (not in NY, I couldn't afford it) was built in the 1890s. Twenty foot ceilings are cool... Yeah, you don't really need them now there's AC, but going back to the standard ceiling height would be like moving into a hamster cage. Plus, the main joists are 3 by 12s... Try finding trees big enough anymore. There is definatly something to be said for old architecture.
Yeah, but since we still have countries, no real sense of "humankind" exept the U.N. occasionally injecting "transgender" and shit into resolutions and in general sitting on their hands, and totalitarian regimes cooking up ways to kill everyone they don't like because *pick your book or manefesto* told them to, your theory won't work. In the real world, anyway. In this world, the real one, people and countries compete for resources and status they same way that people in the real world do. Even Communist countries have to consider the cost/benefit of any large project.
How are India and Pakistan second world states? Pakistan for sure would rate as third-world in my book if I had to live there, and India isn't much different in most places. Ok, they both developed nukes but not much else. And they developed those nukes to nuke each other, and may very well use them for that purpose (what else would they use them for)? That doesn't mean that they aren't squalid, impoverished countries with typical third-world problems. How would YOU define "second world"?
Yes, but they're going to to have to work their way up quite a bit, aren't they? They will have to develop an ICBM first, that's all, if your logic is correct. Developing countries don't need ICBMs. Period. The fewer countries that have them, and the faster those already do get rid of them, the better off we are. Mutually Assured Distruction was just that... let's not have India try to join the club.
I don't think many nations should be selling ICBM technology to either of of them. At the moment they can only nuke each other, maybe a SMALL part of China; extending their reach is asking for trouble. Pakistan especially has given no indication that they can control their extremists, let alone their nukes.
Are you SURE that you're not just trying to weasel out of the ring ? :) While you do have some valid concerns, it is a tradition. Traditions don't have to make sense... that's why they're traditions. Plus, your fiance might wonder if you DON'T give her one. Just cough up the cash and best of luck to you both.
Ok, so large storms are uncommon. What about high winds in the upper atmosphere? Plus, harmonics from ANY wind are going to be a bitch to engineer around as the harmonics are going to change as the load moves (kind of like tuning a guitar string).
My grandmother's dog got epilepsy. I got epilepsy because it chased chipmunks. You see, the chipmunk would go up, and the dog went straight, therefore banging its head into the tree. There is very simple solution to this, just ban chipmunks. This simple action, while not interfering with anyone's personal freedoms, would REALLY HELP the stupid dogs of this world. Write your congress critter. NOW.
Orwellian? Give me a break. You tell me, would you rather have murderers, rapists, and pedophiles loose on the streets, or stoners? Did you have to think about that? And no, I don't smoke. Now, how many of the first three categories have been turned loose onto YOUR streets because they had to make room for more stoners? Google it and weep. You need to get self righteous and tell and your congressmen that, now don't you? Or run for office yourself; that way you could force your misguided viewpoint down other people's throats.
OK... this is bullshit. People seem to be whining that "if a politically correct soccer mom sees this, she might be offended, so change the page". Personally, I agree with the guy. And no, I don't smoke pot. I did, however, get knifed by a mugger who got turned loose. Did he walk because they needed more room for potheads? Yeah, at least in my state. And so, the government has their collective head up thier collective ass. I've never had a stoner come up out of the blue on the street and stick a knife in me. Who gives a shit how it looks to have that banner up? The average citizen IS a moron. Sorry, but that is also how it is. If you want to fight, assuming you already vote, start a NPO and get a PAC. Then whine, once you're playing the game on the level that everyone else is. I'd rather use the cell for the guy that stuck a knife in me than my buddy that enjoys a joint after work... but that doesn't get anyone elected, now does it?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Damnit, Hillary, you almost had me going.
Either this person is behind the times and hoping that the RIAA will do some innovative that will make them some money, or we're feeding a troll.
What exactly is your genre? The RIAA doesn't have a workable business model... it doesn't work for you, and it won't work for them. If I like your stuff, I'll buy it. If it sucks, I won't. I don't listen to the radio. I'm going to the store tomorrow to get the new Springsteen album (and no, I haven't heard a single song but I don't think I'll be dissapointed). Artists need exposure more than protection, it would seem.
Yeah, but do we really have time for them?
No, it's not Congress. It's only those members of Congress who are especially well paid by nefarious special interest groups. See, they're about to go on vacation. They don't have time to pass a law, so they try this kind of stupid shit.
Do you work for the RIAA? Do you know anyone in a small-time band? Do you sympathize with that band member, if so? Are you sure that you're talking about the money that the artist makes, and not the money that the recording industry rakes in? There is no way that you can answer either "yes" or "no", if your post is really what you think.