It's getting a bit late to ratify it in any case. IIRC its recommendations were supposed to have been put in place by 2012. Now everybody has denied the existence of the problem for so long, the problem has got that much bigger, and Kyoto is not enough, and maybe never was.
While rational, your point does not coincide with the values of our society.
That depends entirely on which aspect of society you care to select. Fortunately, there are still some enclaves where individual choice counts for something.
Definitely the latter. We have become so accustomed to the fact that "opt-out == spam-me-to-hell-now-i've-confirmed-that-i-exist", nobody trusts the option any more. Which is why people take steps with appropriate hosts-file blocking or firefox extensions.
...and everyone is equally dead. That's maybe the lowest form of justice, making everyone the same, but it's at least some.
The lowest? one could equally argue that it is the highest form. Dead is dead, regardless of whether one is a cockroach or a monarch among men, and that's just fine by me.
Back in the days when I worked on a Burroughs B3700, no amount of venting to the outside world worked. If the air-conditioning failed, we had a bit over 40 minutes to shut everything down before the temperature in the machine-room hit 50 dec. C and the core started to fry. Not much fun to work in. Ah, them were the days...;-)
What I don't understand is why these so-called "tweets" have a limit 20 characters shorter than an SMS. The impression it leaves to me is that they must be intentionally meaningless. In which case your own meaningless blather is awash in a sea of meaningless drivel. If I were in the prophecy business, I would predict a short existence for Twitter, since sooner or later people will get bored with that.
I think all the telcos here (Australia) lock the phone if you buy it through them.
I bought a Motorola Razr2 V9 outright through Telstra not so long ago, and that was unlocked. I am with Vodafone (for now) and was able to just plug the SIM in and get going.
I have (right here, under my fingers) a Microsoft Natural Elite keyboard from 1998 that says "made in Mexico" underneath. It has never needed any cannibasism - the only maintenance it has had is the occasional scrub in soapy water, and it has performed flawlessly since day one. Although I'm no fan of Microsoft, I can't fault them on this product. Maybe you just had a knockoff.
Only in the USA do they lock/tailor the phones to some sort of "plan".
Not quite. there's at least one telco here in Australia that locks their phones. Or they did before I acrimoniously parted ways with them a couple of years ago.
"genius" mode made me want to kill the guy who designed it.
No need to do that - just take his computer away from him, since he isn't doing anything useful with it anyway. And as for the name... well, Village Idiot comes to mind.
First of all, the poster was brave enough to go against the obvious groupthink.
And on another day, we might see a larger contingent of Slashdot rednecks debating this. However, you're right about the "interesting" points.
"Abortion debaters mark themselves as "pro-choice" or "pro-life" because that tars their opponents as "anti-choice" or "anti-life" by implication.
Well, to the limited extent that they are meaningful, the opposites are true.
"Anti-life" is loaded in the sense that it takes no account of the life of the mother, regardless of whether or not the accretion of organic molecules in her uterus has attained the consciousness of a cockroach. And "anti-choice" is clearly that. It is futile to deny that proponents of this definitely are trying to take the choice away from the individual.
The notion of a conspiracy for protected status for gays is just silly, as it is just another form of discrimination. Most gay people I know just want the same basic rights as the rest of us.
Time machine is awesome. So are the multiple desktop. Leopard is pretty good, although the folders look terrible.
Time machine, when all the hype and shiny bits are stripped off, is essentially rsync. And the multiple desktops are old hat to those of us used to *nix environments since the '90s.
I'm not knocking Apple, (this is typed on a MacBook) but they do still have some things to learn from the FOSS world.
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It's getting a bit late to ratify it in any case. IIRC its recommendations were supposed to have been put in place by 2012. Now everybody has denied the existence of the problem for so long, the problem has got that much bigger, and Kyoto is not enough, and maybe never was.
Pour in the nutrient media...
As always, fiction is way ahead of us. Check out Max Headroom: Baby Grobags...
...is indicative you're probably one of these dysfunctional types that wasn't breastfed...
Keep your psychological issues to yourself. You have absolutely no business projecting them on anyone else, anonymously or otherwise.
True, but in that case he will not be able to easily pass his genes to the next generation, and as such, it is not a viable evolutionary choice.
Well, look where evolution has got us so far, and that might not be such a bad thing.
Now what's with this obsession with birth? Even after birth a human baby is still worthless tissue.
Exactly. It doesn't become a human being until at least 32 years of age, and sometimes not even then.
While rational, your point does not coincide with the values of our society.
That depends entirely on which aspect of society you care to select. Fortunately, there are still some enclaves where individual choice counts for something.
Definitely the latter. We have become so accustomed to the fact that "opt-out == spam-me-to-hell-now-i've-confirmed-that-i-exist", nobody trusts the option any more. Which is why people take steps with appropriate hosts-file blocking or firefox extensions.
Where does it say that? And in any case, such a restrospective law is itself grossly unjust. Better no law at all.
...and everyone is equally dead. That's maybe the lowest form of justice, making everyone the same, but it's at least some.
The lowest? one could equally argue that it is the highest form. Dead is dead, regardless of whether one is a cockroach or a monarch among men, and that's just fine by me.
The hot chicks in the psych department are more concerned with the political statement made by their current hairstyle.
The money (ha! if any) would be more likely found in the molecular biology faculties. Or if no money, at least some intelligible conversation...
I've had my share of tech support. What does the non-savvy person usually do?
I think you forgot something:
0) Percussive maintenance.
But personally, I wouldn't want to have edible genitals.
;-P
They're probably fine just as they are, very slowly cooked in a reduction of red wine vinegar, with shallots, allspice and maybe a hint of cinnamon.
Just a suggestion.
Or maybe that reflects something about the second most common element on this planet (after hydrogen): Stupidity.
Or, then again, maybe it's got something to do with Finagle's 7th law:
The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum.
Apologies for the solecism of replying to myself, but I have just noticed the irony of Slashdot's fortune cookie at the bottom of this page:
;-)
A word to the wise is enough. - Miguel de Cervantes
Not that that applies here, of course...
Back in the days when I worked on a Burroughs B3700, no amount of venting to the outside world worked. If the air-conditioning failed, we had a bit over 40 minutes to shut everything down before the temperature in the machine-room hit 50 dec. C and the core started to fry. Not much fun to work in. Ah, them were the days... ;-)
What I don't understand is why these so-called "tweets" have a limit 20 characters shorter than an SMS. The impression it leaves to me is that they must be intentionally meaningless. In which case your own meaningless blather is awash in a sea of meaningless drivel. If I were in the prophecy business, I would predict a short existence for Twitter, since sooner or later people will get bored with that.
I think all the telcos here (Australia) lock the phone if you buy it through them.
I bought a Motorola Razr2 V9 outright through Telstra not so long ago, and that was unlocked. I am with Vodafone (for now) and was able to just plug the SIM in and get going.
I have (right here, under my fingers) a Microsoft Natural Elite keyboard from 1998 that says "made in Mexico" underneath. It has never needed any cannibasism - the only maintenance it has had is the occasional scrub in soapy water, and it has performed flawlessly since day one. Although I'm no fan of Microsoft, I can't fault them on this product. Maybe you just had a knockoff.
Maybe Kevin Turner has had his head up his ass so long, he's started to enjoy the view in there.
I used to give the address of the local Police HQ.... :-)
Only in the USA do they lock/tailor the phones to some sort of "plan".
Not quite. there's at least one telco here in Australia that locks their phones. Or they did before I acrimoniously parted ways with them a couple of years ago.
Yeah, just like workspaces, man, totally rip off of Mac OS X's Spaces feature...
Err, what? That was insightful?
The Unix world has had this feature since at least the mid-90s, maybe earlier.
"genius" mode made me want to kill the guy who designed it.
No need to do that - just take his computer away from him, since he isn't doing anything useful with it anyway. And as for the name... well, Village Idiot comes to mind.
First of all, the poster was brave enough to go against the obvious groupthink.
And on another day, we might see a larger contingent of Slashdot rednecks debating this. However, you're right about the "interesting" points.
"Abortion debaters mark themselves as "pro-choice" or "pro-life" because that tars their opponents as "anti-choice" or "anti-life" by implication.
Well, to the limited extent that they are meaningful, the opposites are true.
"Anti-life" is loaded in the sense that it takes no account of the life of the mother, regardless of whether or not the accretion of organic molecules in her uterus has attained the consciousness of a cockroach. And "anti-choice" is clearly that. It is futile to deny that proponents of this definitely are trying to take the choice away from the individual.
The notion of a conspiracy for protected status for gays is just silly, as it is just another form of discrimination. Most gay people I know just want the same basic rights as the rest of us.
Time machine is awesome. So are the multiple desktop. Leopard is pretty good, although the folders look terrible.
Time machine, when all the hype and shiny bits are stripped off, is essentially rsync. And the multiple desktops are old hat to those of us used to *nix environments since the '90s.
I'm not knocking Apple, (this is typed on a MacBook) but they do still have some things to learn from the FOSS world.