Can i slam him for going the 'rich son of a government man' route and puttering around in the guard?
or perhaps i can blame him for trying to pass his guard days off as some military service that gives him credibility. the flight suit 'mission accomplished' fiasco? that was ridiculous...
i can slam him for being disingenuous as hell is what i can do.
"CmdrTaco is like that boss we all had that swore he was the best in the world, but in fact he was approaching the worst... but you couldnt fire his incompotent ass because he is the head cheese"
" (which i'd note is a *text* mode installer, not exactly 21st century is it?) "
if a company required me to setup my X server and window manager BEFORE i installed my graphics card drivers, they would be stupid. kind of like your point in this excerpt.
now excuse me while i go start seti@home in my 18th century ssh session.
" Probably the best idea is to get rid of the laws being violated. Or to put it another way, when even a large minority of people do something it is crazy to make that thing illegal. Laws should reflect the whole of society rather than just being a tool for certain well placed minority groups to mould everyone else."
that is stupid reasoning. 'we americans' have checks and balances especially so minorities don't get trampled by 'the majority'. so should racial segregation in the south 50 years ago have been made legal in the states that had a majority of voting racists? should the world at large have condoned germany and its genocide because the majority of germans supported it too?
what we DON'T need is mob rule. because that's what you get when you start passing laws just because the majority of people want them passed.
social issues / law are NEVER made right or wrong strictly because of the number of people supporting it are a majority OR a minority. that is why we have rights as citizens, and laws that were designed to protect those rights of ours from being infringed upon by corrupt government, enemy states, and mobs.
if parent is +5 insightful you mods are +5 dumbasses.
my examples could be slightly better as pertaining to 'whole of society' but neither does that strike down the point that mob rule is not righteous or fair rule because of its majority status.
" I understand that they are irrefutably making people lose money, yet I also think the RIAA and MPAA are lost organizations that support Broken Business Models (TM)."
first, that is not irrefutable. do you think it's the piracy or the 'Broken Business Models' that is causing the problem? because if you think it's the latter i don't see how you understand the regs to be worthwhile. you did make both statements however.
and yes, i would support a ban on guns if it miraculously happened. because they induce DEATH, by design, not copyright infringement through alternate uses.
if p2p killed thousands of people a year i'd want it banned too.
he said: "Natural uranium is only slightly radioactive. It has to by mined in huge quantities and purified to produce weapons grade uranium and reactor fuel."
you said: "If that were true then I doubt that we would be seeing naturally occuring nuclear reactors.:)[/. link]
the article you linked cites this: " The remnants of nuclear reactors nearly two billion years old were found in the 1970s in Africa. These reactors are thought to have occurred naturally. No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction. [and]
At Oklo, as on the rest of the earth and solar system, 2000 million years ago the relative abundance of 235U was 3000 atoms per 100,000 atoms. This is one of the major reasons why nuclear fission started.
There had better be patriot missile batteries or something in that case because a stinger wouldn't do shit to a 747 diving towards a spot on the ground. stingers are tiny, and cause damage through shrapnel, not massive explosions that are large enough to deter a jumbo jet from the path the law of 'skipping a rock against a falling boulder will just frustrate you before you die'.
it is PARC (acronym) and they're responsible for the gui thingy as a concept (mouse too i believe), not microsoft's shitty implementation of one.
oh, and microsoft was xeroxing the Apple Lisa. i think.
"He wasn't sued for "sounding" like, he was sued for plagerization, which is a perfectly valid thing to sue over.
you mean he didn't properly attribute a song he wrote to himself?
a dvd backup is just making a copy of the original dvd (well, sometimes you can/do cut parts out or compress it to fit on one 4GB disc)in an un-encrypted form.
it really shouldn't matter what you're using, as long as it plays dvd's.
linux, xine works just fine as does mplayer.
alas, i use DVD-Shrink in Windows to backup my dvd's because i'm sick of fucking with dvd::rip and it's 40 goddamn dependencies.
well, mainly damn gdm-pixbuf components. goddamn.
does anyone wonder if computers would have taken off so much, and started to appear on every danged desk ever (ever) without having been made affordable by cheap manufacturing labor overseas?
i certainly doubt computers would have ever reached such widespread price appeal if not for outsourcing their construction.
if televisions were manufactured in america, they would be expensive as hell. if this was cathodeslashtube.org and we all programmed tivo funcitonality for tv's and other related service industries i'm sure we'd be glad for our jobs. but of course, we wouldn't have them in any great number if televisions weren't commodotized. well, now computers are a commodity (boy were us mindful people grateful for that 5 years ago!) and so are many computer programming services! oh no!
so yeah, business sucks, lost jobs and all. but honestly, what if we stepped past our bias (we all want to be employed, just like those autoworkers who contributed to a net gain of something when their job loss meant more affordable cars) perhaps we can see a future (an unlikely one) where the benefits of cheaper software development trickle down like many other products that benefited our economy because of their cheap manufacture.
cheap computers begat a huge service industry. is it too farfetched that cheaper software development might trickle down into more feasible implementation of 'smart' products now that you don't have to pay a small towns worth of taxes and benefits to develop some measly software.
where this trickles down to....well...somewhere
autogyro? i think you mean auto-rotate. and if i'm correct in my memory (i suppose i may not be) it's not likely that you'd be able to get enough speed up in 10 feet of vertical height. in the world of real helicopters.
to auto rotate you pitch the rotors back and use your (hopefully enough) forward speed to rotate the rotors. it is however a case of diminishing returns, as auto rotating is only good for getting back to the ground at slightly less than deathly speeds. from 10 feet, well, it wouldn't be deathly any way.
I mean seriously dork, why the dick reply to someones anecdotal story? my niece is the same way. yeah, i could tell her to just deal with it, or i could give a damn and see that she can integrate computers into her play activities and grow comfortable with technology at her own pace and on her own terms.
oh, i guess i could just tell her that 'I'm paying the damn bills and you'll do whatever the hell i tell you!!!' too.
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or perhaps i can blame him for trying to pass his guard days off as some military service that gives him credibility. the flight suit 'mission accomplished' fiasco? that was ridiculous...
i can slam him for being disingenuous as hell is what i can do.
like....Commander David Brent?
the second one down should do ya.
i mean, it's not like i bought a brand new 9000 in 2003 or anything. that's obviously 40 years past where i can expect reasonable support.
now if i can just fit this weird sized hercules into my agp slot i'll be good to go...
seriously people, next year you'll probably expect your athlons to work and stuff just because they still...work...
if a company required me to setup my X server and window manager BEFORE i installed my graphics card drivers, they would be stupid. kind of like your point in this excerpt.
now excuse me while i go start seti@home in my 18th century ssh session.
that is stupid reasoning. 'we americans' have checks and balances especially so minorities don't get trampled by 'the majority'. so should racial segregation in the south 50 years ago have been made legal in the states that had a majority of voting racists? should the world at large have condoned germany and its genocide because the majority of germans supported it too?
what we DON'T need is mob rule. because that's what you get when you start passing laws just because the majority of people want them passed.
social issues / law are NEVER made right or wrong strictly because of the number of people supporting it are a majority OR a minority. that is why we have rights as citizens, and laws that were designed to protect those rights of ours from being infringed upon by corrupt government, enemy states, and mobs.
if parent is +5 insightful you mods are +5 dumbasses.
my examples could be slightly better as pertaining to 'whole of society' but neither does that strike down the point that mob rule is not righteous or fair rule because of its majority status.
first, that is not irrefutable. do you think it's the piracy or the 'Broken Business Models' that is causing the problem? because if you think it's the latter i don't see how you understand the regs to be worthwhile. you did make both statements however.
and yes, i would support a ban on guns if it miraculously happened. because they induce DEATH, by design, not copyright infringement through alternate uses.
if p2p killed thousands of people a year i'd want it banned too.
???!!!%%%### yeah!!!
you said: "If that were true then I doubt that we would be seeing naturally occuring nuclear reactors. :)[/. link]
the article you linked cites this: " The remnants of nuclear reactors nearly two billion years old were found in the 1970s in Africa. These reactors are thought to have occurred naturally. No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction. [and]
At Oklo, as on the rest of the earth and solar system, 2000 million years ago the relative abundance of 235U was 3000 atoms per 100,000 atoms. This is one of the major reasons why nuclear fission started.
did you by any chance not RTFA's you cited?
i said: heh! :)
stingers are tiny, and cause damage through shrapnel, not massive explosions that are large enough to deter a jumbo jet from the path the law of 'skipping a rock against a falling boulder will just frustrate you before you die'.
That would have been cool in 1994."
actually, i was uploading faster than 30kb/s (a little under 3kB/s) in 1994.
:)
it is PARC (acronym) and they're responsible for the gui thingy as a concept (mouse too i believe), not microsoft's shitty implementation of one.
oh, and microsoft was xeroxing the Apple Lisa. i think.
"He wasn't sued for "sounding" like, he was sued for plagerization, which is a perfectly valid thing to sue over.
you mean he didn't properly attribute a song he wrote to himself?
any bands that the RIAA cares about can most likely fit their whole catalog on a frickin 256MB thumb drive.
it really shouldn't matter what you're using, as long as it plays dvd's. linux, xine works just fine as does mplayer.
alas, i use DVD-Shrink in Windows to backup my dvd's because i'm sick of fucking with dvd::rip and it's 40 goddamn dependencies.
well, mainly damn gdm-pixbuf components. goddamn.
now playing: UK Subs, you asshole.
does anyone wonder if computers would have taken off so much, and started to appear on every danged desk ever (ever) without having been made affordable by cheap manufacturing labor overseas?
i certainly doubt computers would have ever reached such widespread price appeal if not for outsourcing their construction.
if televisions were manufactured in america, they would be expensive as hell. if this was cathodeslashtube.org and we all programmed tivo funcitonality for tv's and other related service industries i'm sure we'd be glad for our jobs. but of course, we wouldn't have them in any great number if televisions weren't commodotized. well, now computers are a commodity (boy were us mindful people grateful for that 5 years ago!) and so are many computer programming services! oh no!
so yeah, business sucks, lost jobs and all. but honestly, what if we stepped past our bias (we all want to be employed, just like those autoworkers who contributed to a net gain of something when their job loss meant more affordable cars) perhaps we can see a future (an unlikely one) where the benefits of cheaper software development trickle down like many other products that benefited our economy because of their cheap manufacture.
cheap computers begat a huge service industry. is it too farfetched that cheaper software development might trickle down into more feasible implementation of 'smart' products now that you don't have to pay a small towns worth of taxes and benefits to develop some measly software.
where this trickles down to....well...somewhere
hey, get a FREE IPOD here while you're at it.
yeah, well i have syphillis. get over it.
to auto rotate you pitch the rotors back and use your (hopefully enough) forward speed to rotate the rotors. it is however a case of diminishing returns, as auto rotating is only good for getting back to the ground at slightly less than deathly speeds. from 10 feet, well, it wouldn't be deathly any way.
I mean seriously dork, why the dick reply to someones anecdotal story? my niece is the same way. yeah, i could tell her to just deal with it, or i could give a damn and see that she can integrate computers into her play activities and grow comfortable with technology at her own pace and on her own terms.
oh, i guess i could just tell her that 'I'm paying the damn bills and you'll do whatever the hell i tell you!!!' too.
chump.
That must suck when everyone on the couch has to sit behind your computer and watch you watching a show.
bastard.
bitchin.
what the shit is the new yorker doing with this?
ok, i'm done.
they are both notebooks, of course.
why couldn't a notebook have a recovery partition anyway? it's not magically different.