Watch your child or children. You're the parent, it's your responsibility. If your child or children tends to want to run away, discipline him or her and make sure it doesn't continue to happen. You're the parent, it's what you signed up for. Hopefully you taught them to not run in the street, play with fire or run with scissors already but if you don't know how to discipline or take care of your child or children then get some help from someone who can teach you. Also you might want to learn how to keep them from screaming or acting up in public, most parents have a handle on that and if you are one of those parents who is without a clue then for heavens sakes buy a clue and get some parenting help. I see too many children outside alone, parents all too busy to sit out onside and watch their children play. Too many excuses for lack of attention and proper care. Not many children will actually have harm befall them but why tempt fate. Be a better parent.
Duh, sorry. Was just thinking about Melissa Etheridge when I was writing that. You're right Closer to Fine by Indigo Girls. Both are great as can be. But at least I can play Closer to Fine now.:-)
Course not. I'm talking about the 'culture of cut and paste' in general. Mostly the wire reports are labeled as such. But sometimes they aren't. And sometimes the cut and paste boys aren't too bright. Witness the occasionaly Onion article making it into the main stream media. Well, if you call Iran news part of the media. Of course the Boise Daily Spud should have it's own take on the Potato festival and other spudly news. I would hope.
Japan has it right with this. Their robotic technology is getting better all the time and robo pets are developing among a population which seems to be willing to accept them. If only for the mental health benefits this can only be seen as a plus. Companionship without the moral responsibility at least for those who are otherwise unable to take care of a pet any longer because of age or infirmity. People who are otherwise unable to maintain relationships for other reasons because of mental or development problems are another group this can actually benefit. There is a human need for companionship and interaction and this sort of thing seems to be a good evolution toward fulfilling that need.
Anywhere I go on the web to find information I see the same thing. Whether it's a Doom walkthrough or a guitar tab/chord guide for the latest song it's the same thing. One person did some work and everybody else with a site is there to copy and paste that work to their own site. Melissa Etheridge's 'Closer to Fine' guitar tab for instance. I've found that one tab at a ton of sites, not one site bothering to change one word of the introduction from the one person who tabbed out the song. Go look at Google News and find all the related stories under one header and you'll find 1000 stories, all the same. Same words and sometimes attributed to a wireservice report. Now just let me copy and paste this comment into my Digg comment on the same story. No use fighting against the tide here.
50 milliseconds? Right. stories like this give science a bad name. People decide quickly whether they like a website or not. Probably true, for some people. Probably untrue for other people. 50 milliseconds isn't hardly enough time for the headers to load up so how can you possibly decide if you like a site or not? What if you like image heavy sites? Takes more time than that to load images up. How does this fact mesh with the ridiculous assertion? It doesn't. What statistical models did this 'study' use. Some are more accurate than others, big arguments about that. How big was the study, - not enough people in the study? How the heck did they measure the reaction time? Probes in the head? Ouija board? Crap science.
I'm thinking of that cold knot of fear that fills these @##holes when they read these sorts of stories and I don't bad at all. Everyone who exploits or assists in the exploitation of children deserves all the bad things that will happen to them. Those people should consider that in this world freedoms are constantly being eroded and the rocks they are hiding beneath are getting turned over. In the name of national security right now and as we speak the United States government is grinding away through the internet and flagging anything and everything regardless of whether google provides logs. Other law enforcement agencies are already monitering your favorite child porn website/forum/mailing list/whatever and are already building a case against you. That 14 year old girl you think you've been grooming to meet for sex is really a 40 year old Ohio police officer who has you on the line and is slowly reeling you in. Yup, it's a world of fear and waiting to be caught for child porn creeps. Freedom is no shield against your criminal acts. Enjoy.
I broke my own rule of not even looking sideways at a television show until it has at least two years in the can by watching and enjoying Threshold. I look for it after the Christmas break and find it has been cancelled. Most annoying. Now I'm waiting for Surface to be cancelled and of course the crapfest Invasion will probably be on air for years to come. No justice.
These kind of threads on Slashdot almost always have someone providing links to the discussed materials. Good, non shut down, non popup infested Chinese porn please. For research purposes naturally.
As for the Chinese shutting down Chinese porn sites, it's news in the same way that the sun coming up every day is news. This is the same government that kills it's kids in Tianamen Square, invades and occupies Tibet to this day, ruthlessly puts down any kind of dissent and already has their own 'Great Firewall of China' with the help of Yahoo and other American companies. The good news is that no country has ever been able to keep their people down forever and China won't be the first country to succeed.
Leave it to the government to put their tentacles into something that was only able to grow out of nothing because of the lack of government regulations in the first place. New regulations on space tourism and privately built spacecraft will likely mean no spacecraft can be built without wheelchair access, without headlights and taillights, without flush toilets with the government regulated amount of power and flush, without seperate and secured pilot cabins, without air marshalls, without a whole system of spacecraft licencing and regulation paperwork to be filled out/ security background checks for pilots/passengers/investors and without government approval for every time they run a test all the way to blasting off. Yes indeed, thank goodness for government. At least those pioneers and inventors have been able to get this far because the eye of Sauron was elsewhere. Thank goodness the Wright Brothers didn't have this government on their asses or there wouldn't even be airplanes now. Geez.
I can't begin to tell you how many CD's I've purchased without lyrics or with stylish unreadable excuses for lyrics. (I'm looking at you Pearl Jam Ten) Thank goodness for the internet and for people who've taken the time to transcribe those lyrics so I can have some clue about what song I'm badly singing to myself. Am I going to buy a songbook for 20 or 30 bucks so I can get the lyrics for one or ten songs? Heck no. I'm going online to find those lyrics and so are you.
I'm also playing guitar and sometimes, even though I have do have books of lyrics and guitar tabs as well as magazines each month that provide official music company approved guitar and bass tabs I do get online and find the opening riff for something I want to learn how to play. Guitar tabs are everywhere and they show you approximately how to play the song you're looking to play. There is even a program or three that plays user created guitar tabs (guitar sheet music)I think Guitar Pro 4/5 has 40 thousand user created tabs. All this is illegal and needs to be stopped? Not going to happen, as long as information flows and people still have the freedom to communicate they will busily write out lyrics and guitar tabs and try to transcribe the music they like to play and to sing. All these MPA/RIAA/MPAA people are doing is making people like me really really hate them. Not only hate them but make me go out of my way to not buy their products. I have significantly cut down on the CD's I buy because of all the crap the record companies are pulling and the more they push me the less likely I am to ever come back and buy from those bastards.
I remember the old days when you'd actually get a message from someone who was a human being. Haven't seen this AIM spam bit but there is one in ICQ which is pretty crude. Says hi then sends it's link if you respond. Of course the bots have no info on themselves, have hidden ips and are easy to spot as the bots they are. The people who create and unlease these things belong in the same jail with the email spammers.
Any type of music I want when I want it. When I want to hear some bluegrass music or blues it's right there. An itch for 50's music? Hah, try to find that on the radio. Heck try to find any music on the radio these days. Try driving across the country and not hear the same Clear Channel station playlist all across the country. Sports talk that isn't paid advertising for sports betting which is what I get on the regular radio stations. NPR and public radio without the static and weakness of stations. News when I want it.
John Hogan, CEO of Clear Channel said "Why would you pay for something you get for free?" Well, it's cause you get what you pay for. I'd rather not hear endless commercials broken up by five minutes of content when I can get real music/news/sports/talk when I want it.
My favorite show of all time. Ahead of it's time and gave me a view into reality when I was growing up. I remember when it was on PBS stations and after the show there would be a panel discussion about what it all meant. Classic. And of course, they'll totally screw it up. God, I hate remakes.
Everyone wants credit for the phone. Bell was born and educated in Scotland, moved to Canada in 1870, while working at Boston University and with financing from his American father in law invented the phone and patented it in the US in 1876. In 1882 he became a naturalized American citizen. A true international citizen. You can't have the phone back but can have the phone solicitors. Penicillin came by way of Alexander Fleming, a Scot. Scotland is not in Canada. Variable pitch propellers? Variable pitch propellers? I'm not even going to look that up. And besides, nobody is taking anything away from anyone. The US is more than likely not going to give control up of the internet, even if you take all your propellers home. Really, I'll look in the garage and any variable pitch propellers I find I will definitely send back north. Okay?:-)
It's my analogy and you can't go changing it like that. If everyone else had built their own houses next to our house there wouldn't be a problem. It would be the French surrender monkeys going over to their own internet/house by themselves and doing whatever it is that surrender monkey french people do when they aren't surrendering to the Germans or arrogantly pretending they won World War I or II and then writing psycho books blaming Jewish people for the 9-11 attack. Instead, we've let them have rooms in the massive house and now they noisily natter on about how they wish they were the boss and how unfair the homeowner is. And you know what, nobody is paying any attention to the chittering low level noise of complaints. Really. You know, I just checked and "cheeseeatingsurrendermonkeys.com" is taken. Darn it.
The US built the house. The US painted it, did the landscaping and pays for all the utilities. The US invited the Europeans and everybody else in the house and even let them live in the house and run their businesses out of the house. Now the Europeans want the house since they now get shelter and sustanance in the house. Now they stand there very angry and pronounce that the house is too important to be left to those who built it and started living in the house in the first place. And the US is supposed to take this ankle biting seriously?
You know, I remember the day when I could get a clear picture from my tv. No snow, good sound and no worries. Now it's nearly impossible to watch it because of the jagged cubist style picture quality, the picture freezes as the digital signal buffers or whatever the hell it does, the sound doing the same thing. It is impossible to watch and enjoy a concert on TV now with the annoying sound dropping out but since it's digital it drops out clean! Wow, thank you so very much for that. The picture and sound quality sucks big time especially on those channels pronouncing how modern and up to date they are with their digital signals - good commercials for a crappy product. Oh, and if there is something on tv that I even enjoy a little bit I have to wait for the DVD to come out to actually enjoy it. The bottom third of the screen has the pop up advertisements for the next show, the shows coming in the next month or year and the damn ads move and explode and are just as annoying as hell. Yes indeed, I wish the government would have just stayed with the original date for the 'switch over' so the authors of this crap would be closer to the blowback and outrage that will surely come to them.
This is what this looks like to me. A bunch of inept, european bureaucrats trying to figure out who gets to live in which room of your house even though you built it, you painted it, you furnished it, you paid for it and you own the deed free and clear. You aren't selling, have no intention of selling and are becoming a bit annoyed by these low rent types who you've let in your house and who somehow think that because you've let them use your house it now belongs to them. It's an amazing amount of gall and lack of class. If you don't like the conditions in this house go build your own.
How many European Union bureaucrats does it take to screw in a lightbulb? - No idea, they haven't even agreed on the fact that the previous lightbulb was a lightbulb and that it possibly might need changing and it will require a long study by the department of lightbulbs to determine if in fact there are any lightbulbs and whether or not those lightbulbs meet EU standards as laid out in the Treaty of blah.............
Never ever let any of those CD's or DVD's load their own players on your computer. Disable autoplay (google it) or hold down shiftkey when you put your cd/dvd in the computer. Use CDex(http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos) to rip your cd's. Use Winamp to play your cd's. Use VLC (www.videolan.org/vlc/) player to run your DVD's. They can't take over your computer unless you let them.
That's one of my pet peeves. Best Buy is good for that. Radio Shack used to do that. Makes me a very angry customer - who finds some other place to buy what I want.
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Watch your child or children. You're the parent, it's your responsibility. If your child or children tends to want to run away, discipline him or her and make sure it doesn't continue to happen. You're the parent, it's what you signed up for. Hopefully you taught them to not run in the street, play with fire or run with scissors already but if you don't know how to discipline or take care of your child or children then get some help from someone who can teach you. Also you might want to learn how to keep them from screaming or acting up in public, most parents have a handle on that and if you are one of those parents who is without a clue then for heavens sakes buy a clue and get some parenting help. I see too many children outside alone, parents all too busy to sit out onside and watch their children play. Too many excuses for lack of attention and proper care. Not many children will actually have harm befall them but why tempt fate. Be a better parent.
More content. Less clicking. I like it.
Duh, sorry. Was just thinking about Melissa Etheridge when I was writing that. You're right Closer to Fine by Indigo Girls. Both are great as can be. But at least I can play Closer to Fine now. :-)
Don't forget barf up or the always popular dog with the runs. Or piddle. So that would be rug cleaning to add to the cost.
Course not. I'm talking about the 'culture of cut and paste' in general. Mostly the wire reports are labeled as such. But sometimes they aren't. And sometimes the cut and paste boys aren't too bright. Witness the occasionaly Onion article making it into the main stream media. Well, if you call Iran news part of the media. Of course the Boise Daily Spud should have it's own take on the Potato festival and other spudly news. I would hope.
Japan has it right with this. Their robotic technology is getting better all the time and robo pets are developing among a population which seems to be willing to accept them. If only for the mental health benefits this can only be seen as a plus. Companionship without the moral responsibility at least for those who are otherwise unable to take care of a pet any longer because of age or infirmity. People who are otherwise unable to maintain relationships for other reasons because of mental or development problems are another group this can actually benefit. There is a human need for companionship and interaction and this sort of thing seems to be a good evolution toward fulfilling that need.
Anywhere I go on the web to find information I see the same thing. Whether it's a Doom walkthrough or a guitar tab/chord guide for the latest song it's the same thing. One person did some work and everybody else with a site is there to copy and paste that work to their own site. Melissa Etheridge's 'Closer to Fine' guitar tab for instance. I've found that one tab at a ton of sites, not one site bothering to change one word of the introduction from the one person who tabbed out the song. Go look at Google News and find all the related stories under one header and you'll find 1000 stories, all the same. Same words and sometimes attributed to a wireservice report. Now just let me copy and paste this comment into my Digg comment on the same story. No use fighting against the tide here.
50 milliseconds? Right. stories like this give science a bad name. People decide quickly whether they like a website or not. Probably true, for some people. Probably untrue for other people. 50 milliseconds isn't hardly enough time for the headers to load up so how can you possibly decide if you like a site or not? What if you like image heavy sites? Takes more time than that to load images up. How does this fact mesh with the ridiculous assertion? It doesn't. What statistical models did this 'study' use. Some are more accurate than others, big arguments about that. How big was the study, - not enough people in the study? How the heck did they measure the reaction time? Probes in the head? Ouija board? Crap science.
I'm thinking of that cold knot of fear that fills these @##holes when they read these sorts of stories and I don't bad at all. Everyone who exploits or assists in the exploitation of children deserves all the bad things that will happen to them. Those people should consider that in this world freedoms are constantly being eroded and the rocks they are hiding beneath are getting turned over. In the name of national security right now and as we speak the United States government is grinding away through the internet and flagging anything and everything regardless of whether google provides logs. Other law enforcement agencies are already monitering your favorite child porn website/forum/mailing list/whatever and are already building a case against you. That 14 year old girl you think you've been grooming to meet for sex is really a 40 year old Ohio police officer who has you on the line and is slowly reeling you in. Yup, it's a world of fear and waiting to be caught for child porn creeps. Freedom is no shield against your criminal acts. Enjoy.
I broke my own rule of not even looking sideways at a television show until it has at least two years in the can by watching and enjoying Threshold. I look for it after the Christmas break and find it has been cancelled. Most annoying. Now I'm waiting for Surface to be cancelled and of course the crapfest Invasion will probably be on air for years to come. No justice.
These kind of threads on Slashdot almost always have someone providing links to the discussed materials. Good, non shut down, non popup infested Chinese porn please. For research purposes naturally. As for the Chinese shutting down Chinese porn sites, it's news in the same way that the sun coming up every day is news. This is the same government that kills it's kids in Tianamen Square, invades and occupies Tibet to this day, ruthlessly puts down any kind of dissent and already has their own 'Great Firewall of China' with the help of Yahoo and other American companies. The good news is that no country has ever been able to keep their people down forever and China won't be the first country to succeed.
Leave it to the government to put their tentacles into something that was only able to grow out of nothing because of the lack of government regulations in the first place. New regulations on space tourism and privately built spacecraft will likely mean no spacecraft can be built without wheelchair access, without headlights and taillights, without flush toilets with the government regulated amount of power and flush, without seperate and secured pilot cabins, without air marshalls, without a whole system of spacecraft licencing and regulation paperwork to be filled out/ security background checks for pilots/passengers/investors and without government approval for every time they run a test all the way to blasting off. Yes indeed, thank goodness for government. At least those pioneers and inventors have been able to get this far because the eye of Sauron was elsewhere. Thank goodness the Wright Brothers didn't have this government on their asses or there wouldn't even be airplanes now. Geez.
I can't begin to tell you how many CD's I've purchased without lyrics or with stylish unreadable excuses for lyrics. (I'm looking at you Pearl Jam Ten) Thank goodness for the internet and for people who've taken the time to transcribe those lyrics so I can have some clue about what song I'm badly singing to myself. Am I going to buy a songbook for 20 or 30 bucks so I can get the lyrics for one or ten songs? Heck no. I'm going online to find those lyrics and so are you. I'm also playing guitar and sometimes, even though I have do have books of lyrics and guitar tabs as well as magazines each month that provide official music company approved guitar and bass tabs I do get online and find the opening riff for something I want to learn how to play. Guitar tabs are everywhere and they show you approximately how to play the song you're looking to play. There is even a program or three that plays user created guitar tabs (guitar sheet music)I think Guitar Pro 4/5 has 40 thousand user created tabs. All this is illegal and needs to be stopped? Not going to happen, as long as information flows and people still have the freedom to communicate they will busily write out lyrics and guitar tabs and try to transcribe the music they like to play and to sing. All these MPA/RIAA/MPAA people are doing is making people like me really really hate them. Not only hate them but make me go out of my way to not buy their products. I have significantly cut down on the CD's I buy because of all the crap the record companies are pulling and the more they push me the less likely I am to ever come back and buy from those bastards.
I remember the old days when you'd actually get a message from someone who was a human being. Haven't seen this AIM spam bit but there is one in ICQ which is pretty crude. Says hi then sends it's link if you respond. Of course the bots have no info on themselves, have hidden ips and are easy to spot as the bots they are. The people who create and unlease these things belong in the same jail with the email spammers.
Any type of music I want when I want it. When I want to hear some bluegrass music or blues it's right there. An itch for 50's music? Hah, try to find that on the radio. Heck try to find any music on the radio these days. Try driving across the country and not hear the same Clear Channel station playlist all across the country. Sports talk that isn't paid advertising for sports betting which is what I get on the regular radio stations. NPR and public radio without the static and weakness of stations. News when I want it. John Hogan, CEO of Clear Channel said "Why would you pay for something you get for free?" Well, it's cause you get what you pay for. I'd rather not hear endless commercials broken up by five minutes of content when I can get real music/news/sports/talk when I want it.
My favorite show of all time. Ahead of it's time and gave me a view into reality when I was growing up. I remember when it was on PBS stations and after the show there would be a panel discussion about what it all meant. Classic. And of course, they'll totally screw it up. God, I hate remakes.
The US has already said they aren't giving the internet up to the yipping yapping whiners. Why keep posting their drivel?
Dang it. I hate when that happens. Anyone know where they park the black helicopters? And I apologize to anyone offended by this thread.
Everyone wants credit for the phone. Bell was born and educated in Scotland, moved to Canada in 1870, while working at Boston University and with financing from his American father in law invented the phone and patented it in the US in 1876. In 1882 he became a naturalized American citizen. A true international citizen. You can't have the phone back but can have the phone solicitors. Penicillin came by way of Alexander Fleming, a Scot. Scotland is not in Canada. Variable pitch propellers? Variable pitch propellers? I'm not even going to look that up. And besides, nobody is taking anything away from anyone. The US is more than likely not going to give control up of the internet, even if you take all your propellers home. Really, I'll look in the garage and any variable pitch propellers I find I will definitely send back north. Okay? :-)
It's my analogy and you can't go changing it like that. If everyone else had built their own houses next to our house there wouldn't be a problem. It would be the French surrender monkeys going over to their own internet/house by themselves and doing whatever it is that surrender monkey french people do when they aren't surrendering to the Germans or arrogantly pretending they won World War I or II and then writing psycho books blaming Jewish people for the 9-11 attack. Instead, we've let them have rooms in the massive house and now they noisily natter on about how they wish they were the boss and how unfair the homeowner is. And you know what, nobody is paying any attention to the chittering low level noise of complaints. Really. You know, I just checked and "cheeseeatingsurrendermonkeys.com" is taken. Darn it.
The US built the house. The US painted it, did the landscaping and pays for all the utilities. The US invited the Europeans and everybody else in the house and even let them live in the house and run their businesses out of the house. Now the Europeans want the house since they now get shelter and sustanance in the house. Now they stand there very angry and pronounce that the house is too important to be left to those who built it and started living in the house in the first place. And the US is supposed to take this ankle biting seriously?
You know, I remember the day when I could get a clear picture from my tv. No snow, good sound and no worries. Now it's nearly impossible to watch it because of the jagged cubist style picture quality, the picture freezes as the digital signal buffers or whatever the hell it does, the sound doing the same thing. It is impossible to watch and enjoy a concert on TV now with the annoying sound dropping out but since it's digital it drops out clean! Wow, thank you so very much for that. The picture and sound quality sucks big time especially on those channels pronouncing how modern and up to date they are with their digital signals - good commercials for a crappy product. Oh, and if there is something on tv that I even enjoy a little bit I have to wait for the DVD to come out to actually enjoy it. The bottom third of the screen has the pop up advertisements for the next show, the shows coming in the next month or year and the damn ads move and explode and are just as annoying as hell. Yes indeed, I wish the government would have just stayed with the original date for the 'switch over' so the authors of this crap would be closer to the blowback and outrage that will surely come to them.
This is what this looks like to me. A bunch of inept, european bureaucrats trying to figure out who gets to live in which room of your house even though you built it, you painted it, you furnished it, you paid for it and you own the deed free and clear. You aren't selling, have no intention of selling and are becoming a bit annoyed by these low rent types who you've let in your house and who somehow think that because you've let them use your house it now belongs to them. It's an amazing amount of gall and lack of class. If you don't like the conditions in this house go build your own. How many European Union bureaucrats does it take to screw in a lightbulb? - No idea, they haven't even agreed on the fact that the previous lightbulb was a lightbulb and that it possibly might need changing and it will require a long study by the department of lightbulbs to determine if in fact there are any lightbulbs and whether or not those lightbulbs meet EU standards as laid out in the Treaty of blah.............
Never ever let any of those CD's or DVD's load their own players on your computer. Disable autoplay (google it) or hold down shiftkey when you put your cd/dvd in the computer. Use CDex(http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos) to rip your cd's. Use Winamp to play your cd's. Use VLC (www.videolan.org/vlc/) player to run your DVD's. They can't take over your computer unless you let them.
That's one of my pet peeves. Best Buy is good for that. Radio Shack used to do that. Makes me a very angry customer - who finds some other place to buy what I want.