Everyone complaining about human overpopulation is so full of crap. A hydrogen based economy, regardles of this fuddy article, would be much better because it's NOT numbers that cause massive pollution. It's NORTH AMERICANS, myself included.
Americans and Canadians are by far the biggest consumers of energy, on a per capita basis, in the world. The vast majority of our industry and economies could be changed, quite easily, to run more efficiently. But instead we're running to waste as much bloody energy and money as we possibly can. Driving down the highway I'm surrounded by people driving by themselves in gigantic SUVs. Toronto is especially bad for this, more than 90% of people on our highways don't carpool.
At least if we had a hydrogen based economy it would be reliant on a more reusable energy source, but we'd still be the biggest wasters.
Any arguments about food shortages are similarly ridiculous. Aside from the 30% obesity we have, there is a massive amount of food wasted in North America, including dumping of grains to keep markets competitive.
North America makes up about 5% of the worlds population, but look how much of the other 95% we hold sway over.
MSPusher: Psst... Hey kid. [opens trench-coat, displaying many install cd's] You want a copy of Microsoft Office?
Innocent Youth: Ummm, I don't know. I hear that stuff can be dangerous.
MSP: All the cool kids are using it. You want to be cool doncha?
IY: Well...
MSP: Tell you what, I'll give you this copy of Office for free. All you have to do is sign this license...
I've been using StarOffice and OpenOfficee for about 2 years and I've had serious problems with OpenOffice since 1.0, the most troublesome being frequent unexplained crashes. Regardless of this, I have continued to use it because I know I can open files in both Windows and Linux without losing formatting and I've got all the same features across platforms.
I like Abiword for the same reason, but OpenOffice is a full suite. Incidentally, most of the problems I've been having are fixed since I started using the OpenOffice1.1 beta.
OpenOffice has a lot of the nice office suite features, and of course it's free! I've had several friends use OpenOffice with reasonable success; but most of them don't see much benefit since they just use copied versions of MS Office... sigh.
Since when was a simple statement of the facts a joke?
Facts? What facts? Just because they shook hands, and then CIA director Bush Sr. approved biological weapons shipments, and the US and other security council countries ripped out thousands of pages of information from Iraq's report which detailed all weapons in the country; that doesn't mean the US actually *gave* Iraq any weapons. Rumsfeld himself said he believed the US didn't give any such weapons in front of a senate committee; he couldn't have been lying could he? Could he?
Hmmm, are you implying that using Windows is addictive? I'd think just the opposite. I dual boot; and after using Windows for one reason or another I'm usually itching to boot into Linux. My computer stays in Linux for days at a time; not so for Windows.
Once people really get used to GNU/Linux, I think they would be far more inclined to use it than Windows. After a few stalls, BSODs, reboots, and all the other Windows features, Linux has some appeal.
The are two big reasons more people don't use Linux yet: it's too hard, they're afraid. That is for personal use, corporate users are different. Being afraid to try something else doesn't isn't really an addiction to what you're using.
It might have prevented the dispute in court over driver's license photos and muslim women wearing veils...with a fingerprint, you dont need picture ID, and its more reliable.
[off-topic]
I was just discussing the issue of this Muslim woman today. As a Muslim I think this woman is doing something kind of dumb. There is nothing in the Quran about covering a women's face. During prayers, in fact, her face must not be covered. So I haven't a clue where they get the idea that they need to wear a veil over their face. And this is specifically for a piece of identification. How the hell are you supposed to identify someone that's covering their face? In fact I've heard suggestions that maybe bin Laden escaped the US in Afghanistan by posing as a veiled woman. It's not beyond comprehension.
But if this woman refuses to be identified, then perhaps she should not be allowed the responsibility of driving. It makes it possible for her to abuse the system and others to abuse her. She could claim some other person wearing a veil caused an accident that she caused, or it's possible someone wears a veil and does something specifically to incriminate her. It's a very unnecessary complication.
[/off-topic]
That being said, fingerprints are a bad idea. As another poster mentioned, you leave fingerprints everywhere. And just having them on file and being in the wrong place can make you suspect in something which you have no idea about. It gives far more opportunity for abuse by authorities, and it's naive to think they won't be more abusive the more opportunity you give them.
That's an interesting essay, but I actually liked Tom Bombadill in the book. I was a little disappointed the whole ancient forest adventure was cut out. It would have interesting to see Peter Jackson's interpretation of his character.
Yeah, I mean what use is there for free television? Poor people are so last year.
I all seriousness, are you guys that excited to buy more gadgets that you would deny the public access to free public television?? This idea is disgusting
While I agree with what you're saying, American tv is considered by lots of non-americans to be just a proganda machine. While there are channels with some actual useful content, like perhaps PBS, the majority of american tv is controlled by, and used for the benefit of, the wealthy elite.
Perhaps a better idea might be restricting corporate access to sattelite or other means and giving the rest of the airways to public access and free media. Greater diversity in accessible media can help promote freedom and democracy; but this idea would still be dismissed. An informed populace can't help (and can only hinder) profits of corporate america, so it can't be allowed.
More to the point, current free access to 'useful' information in US television is minimal. So I do agree that removing what little access there is would hinder real democracy. But the current situation could still use a lot of improvement. And this certainly isn't restricted to US media, it is still far more pronounced and blatant in the US than anywhere else I've seen.
That'll teach those darn Nigerians to steal our money!
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Are they the super secret comment statements that surround the code?
You got it. Secret comments like these:
/* Remember: "Different name, same old buggy as shit hardware." */
/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface like this. Good job guys...
*/
* These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
to work on every motherboard design that uses this screwed chip seems
bloody well impossible. However, we're still trying.
*
he won an award for 'best fight scene.' So him spinning around with a lightsabre was what got him that award in the first place.
Personally I didn't think that lightsabre scene was as sacreligious as people claim it to be.
Well I don't know about anyone else, but I always thought it would have been much more interesting if Yoda fought Tyranus by just kinda standing there and controlling his lightsabre with the force.
Watching Tyranus fight a phantom lightsabre would have been pretty cool, and you'd really know Yoda was a kickass Jedi master....
This isn't really true. IANA physicist but I know black holes suck everything that reaches their event horizon because that is their Schwarzschild radius.
The Schwarzschild radius is the distance from the center of something out to where nothing can escape it's gravitational pull. Everything that has mass should also have a Swarzschild radius. For all things, except black holes, that Schwarzschild radius is deep within the physical volume of space that the object occupies. Even for massive stars, the Schwarzschild radius may be only a few kilometers, putting it deep within the core of the star.
But if you take that same amount of mass and compress the volume of space it occupies down to an atomic scale, then you would have a black hole. So the world's most massive freighter would attract things because of it's gravitational pull, however even it's Schwarzschild radius would be pretty small.
1) All combo pda/phones should use an earpiece rather than holding the thing to your ear. It only makes sense.
2) Well if you're used to charging your cellphone every couple of days, then why can't you just charge your cell/pda every couple of days?
3) The earpiece should be a lot smaller than a cell phone or pda, so the only real weight/size is with the pda. If you can't carry around a little earpiece then where do you plan on carrying your pda?
4) This is something the providers have to workout. But it's not a reason that the technology shouldn't be explored.
5) Everywhere else in the world, GSM is becoming/has become the standard so switching only requires sticking in a new SIM card. So if the US, and now Iraq (stupid Qualcomm), is behind everyone else well too bad.
How are iraqis going to like us when they find out we were funding him during the iran-iraq war?
They already know. They knew a long time ago; and they certainly haven't forgotten.
But just to be fair, the US didn't put Saddam Hussein in power. The US helped the Baath party come to power; Saddam Hussein came a little later. But he quickly became friendly with the US. Saddam Hussein officially took control ~1979, though he was running the show for a few years before that.
1975: Australia - The CIA helps topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister Edward Whitlam. The CIA does this by giving an ultimatum to its Governor-General, John Kerr. Kerr, a longtime CIA collaborator, exercises his constitutional right to dissolve the Whitlam government. The Governor-General is a largely ceremonial position appointed by the Queen; the Prime Minister is democratically elected. The use ofthis archaic and never-used law stuns the nation.
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Everyone complaining about human overpopulation is so full of crap. A hydrogen based economy, regardles of this fuddy article, would be much better because it's NOT numbers that cause massive pollution. It's NORTH AMERICANS, myself included.
Americans and Canadians are by far the biggest consumers of energy, on a per capita basis, in the world. The vast majority of our industry and economies could be changed, quite easily, to run more efficiently. But instead we're running to waste as much bloody energy and money as we possibly can. Driving down the highway I'm surrounded by people driving by themselves in gigantic SUVs. Toronto is especially bad for this, more than 90% of people on our highways don't carpool.
At least if we had a hydrogen based economy it would be reliant on a more reusable energy source, but we'd still be the biggest wasters.
Any arguments about food shortages are similarly ridiculous. Aside from the 30% obesity we have, there is a massive amount of food wasted in North America, including dumping of grains to keep markets competitive.
North America makes up about 5% of the worlds population, but look how much of the other 95% we hold sway over.
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SCO Marketing guys must be saying "10,000 posts mentioning SCO! GREAT!"
MSPusher: Psst... Hey kid. [opens trench-coat, displaying many install cd's] You want a copy of Microsoft Office?
Innocent Youth: Ummm, I don't know. I hear that stuff can be dangerous.
MSP: All the cool kids are using it. You want to be cool doncha?
IY: Well...
MSP: Tell you what, I'll give you this copy of Office for free. All you have to do is sign this license...
I've been using StarOffice and OpenOfficee for about 2 years and I've had serious problems with OpenOffice since 1.0, the most troublesome being frequent unexplained crashes. Regardless of this, I have continued to use it because I know I can open files in both Windows and Linux without losing formatting and I've got all the same features across platforms.
I like Abiword for the same reason, but OpenOffice is a full suite. Incidentally, most of the problems I've been having are fixed since I started using the OpenOffice1.1 beta.
OpenOffice has a lot of the nice office suite features, and of course it's free! I've had several friends use OpenOffice with reasonable success; but most of them don't see much benefit since they just use copied versions of MS Office... sigh.
Since when was a simple statement of the facts a joke?
Facts? What facts? Just because they shook hands, and then CIA director Bush Sr. approved biological weapons shipments, and the US and other security council countries ripped out thousands of pages of information from Iraq's report which detailed all weapons in the country; that doesn't mean the US actually *gave* Iraq any weapons. Rumsfeld himself said he believed the US didn't give any such weapons in front of a senate committee; he couldn't have been lying could he? Could he?
Hmmm, are you implying that using Windows is addictive? I'd think just the opposite. I dual boot; and after using Windows for one reason or another I'm usually itching to boot into Linux. My computer stays in Linux for days at a time; not so for Windows.
Once people really get used to GNU/Linux, I think they would be far more inclined to use it than Windows. After a few stalls, BSODs, reboots, and all the other Windows features, Linux has some appeal.
The are two big reasons more people don't use Linux yet: it's too hard, they're afraid. That is for personal use, corporate users are different. Being afraid to try something else doesn't isn't really an addiction to what you're using.
why IE was required to use their web-based admin tool
IE required? I couldn't even get it to work with IE when I first installed winXP! But Lynx works just fine. Oh, and Mozilla and Phoenix too.
Like the Naval saying: Satellites fail, compasses do not.
Got a magnet?
It might have prevented the dispute in court over driver's license photos and muslim women wearing veils...with a fingerprint, you dont need picture ID, and its more reliable.
[off-topic]
I was just discussing the issue of this Muslim woman today. As a Muslim I think this woman is doing something kind of dumb. There is nothing in the Quran about covering a women's face. During prayers, in fact, her face must not be covered. So I haven't a clue where they get the idea that they need to wear a veil over their face. And this is specifically for a piece of identification. How the hell are you supposed to identify someone that's covering their face? In fact I've heard suggestions that maybe bin Laden escaped the US in Afghanistan by posing as a veiled woman. It's not beyond comprehension.
But if this woman refuses to be identified, then perhaps she should not be allowed the responsibility of driving. It makes it possible for her to abuse the system and others to abuse her. She could claim some other person wearing a veil caused an accident that she caused, or it's possible someone wears a veil and does something specifically to incriminate her. It's a very unnecessary complication.
[/off-topic] That being said, fingerprints are a bad idea. As another poster mentioned, you leave fingerprints everywhere. And just having them on file and being in the wrong place can make you suspect in something which you have no idea about. It gives far more opportunity for abuse by authorities, and it's naive to think they won't be more abusive the more opportunity you give them.
That's an interesting essay, but I actually liked Tom Bombadill in the book. I was a little disappointed the whole ancient forest adventure was cut out. It would have interesting to see Peter Jackson's interpretation of his character.
Yeah, I mean what use is there for free television? Poor people are so last year. I all seriousness, are you guys that excited to buy more gadgets that you would deny the public access to free public television?? This idea is disgusting
While I agree with what you're saying, American tv is considered by lots of non-americans to be just a proganda machine. While there are channels with some actual useful content, like perhaps PBS, the majority of american tv is controlled by, and used for the benefit of, the wealthy elite.
Perhaps a better idea might be restricting corporate access to sattelite or other means and giving the rest of the airways to public access and free media. Greater diversity in accessible media can help promote freedom and democracy; but this idea would still be dismissed. An informed populace can't help (and can only hinder) profits of corporate america, so it can't be allowed.
More to the point, current free access to 'useful' information in US television is minimal. So I do agree that removing what little access there is would hinder real democracy. But the current situation could still use a lot of improvement. And this certainly isn't restricted to US media, it is still far more pronounced and blatant in the US than anywhere else I've seen.
That'll teach those darn Nigerians to steal our money!
You got it. Secret comments like these:
- /* Remember: "Different name, same old buggy as shit hardware." */
- /* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface like this. Good job guys...
*/
- * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
to work on every motherboard design that uses this screwed chip seems
bloody well impossible. However, we're still trying.
*
- The four ACI command types are fucked up. [-:
All taken directly from the kernel source.That is what happened to VA Linux/Research/Systems... the company that owns slashdot
Well THERE's your explanation... duh!
Am I the only one who saw 'RotLA' and thought:
"Rolling on the laugh ass", what the hell?
he won an award for 'best fight scene.' So him spinning around with a lightsabre was what got him that award in the first place. Personally I didn't think that lightsabre scene was as sacreligious as people claim it to be.
Well I don't know about anyone else, but I always thought it would have been much more interesting if Yoda fought Tyranus by just kinda standing there and controlling his lightsabre with the force.
Watching Tyranus fight a phantom lightsabre would have been pretty cool, and you'd really know Yoda was a kickass Jedi master....
this post is off topic...
This isn't really true. IANA physicist but I know black holes suck everything that reaches their event horizon because that is their Schwarzschild radius.
The Schwarzschild radius is the distance from the center of something out to where nothing can escape it's gravitational pull. Everything that has mass should also have a Swarzschild radius. For all things, except black holes, that Schwarzschild radius is deep within the physical volume of space that the object occupies. Even for massive stars, the Schwarzschild radius may be only a few kilometers, putting it deep within the core of the star.
But if you take that same amount of mass and compress the volume of space it occupies down to an atomic scale, then you would have a black hole. So the world's most massive freighter would attract things because of it's gravitational pull, however even it's Schwarzschild radius would be pretty small.
1) All combo pda/phones should use an earpiece rather than holding the thing to your ear. It only makes sense.
2) Well if you're used to charging your cellphone every couple of days, then why can't you just charge your cell/pda every couple of days?
3) The earpiece should be a lot smaller than a cell phone or pda, so the only real weight/size is with the pda. If you can't carry around a little earpiece then where do you plan on carrying your pda?
4) This is something the providers have to workout. But it's not a reason that the technology shouldn't be explored.
5) Everywhere else in the world, GSM is becoming/has become the standard so switching only requires sticking in a new SIM card. So if the US, and now Iraq (stupid Qualcomm), is behind everyone else well too bad.
Why do you think we're so damn good at hockey?
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How are iraqis going to like us when they find out we were funding him during the iran-iraq war? They already know. They knew a long time ago; and they certainly haven't forgotten. But just to be fair, the US didn't put Saddam Hussein in power. The US helped the Baath party come to power; Saddam Hussein came a little later. But he quickly became friendly with the US. Saddam Hussein officially took control ~1979, though he was running the show for a few years before that.
Democracy huh?
1975: Australia - The CIA helps topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister Edward Whitlam. The CIA does this by giving an ultimatum to its Governor-General, John Kerr. Kerr, a longtime CIA collaborator, exercises his constitutional right to dissolve the Whitlam government. The Governor-General is a largely ceremonial position appointed by the Queen; the Prime Minister is democratically elected. The use ofthis archaic and never-used law stuns the nation.
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