(UK folks - vote Liberal Democrat in the next elections!)
I for one shall surely do so. The day I vote for a Tory is the day Beelzebub buys a toboggan, but I don't think I could bring myself to vote for Blair, not after all the fun of last year.
I can't help but wonder - why is the leader of a nominally socialist party tied into this destructive alliance with the most frightening right-wing rabble seen in a Western democracy for half a century?
With optical mice why would anyone need a mouse pad?
Dude. This mouse pad has LEDs. It changes colour. Do I need to draw you a picture here?
When there's an optical mouse where I can change the colour of the glow on the underside to suit my mood that day, then I'll want one more than I want this cool thing.
(What is it that makes me want to spend all my money on completely useless yet cool things?)
"I came to vote because wasting one's ballot in a democracy is a sin," he told the BBC.
This guy faced the threat of actual violence at the polls. He turned up to vote nonetheless. It's great to see that some people still believe in democracy.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in the homelands of democracy, the turnout at elections is what exactly, these days? And the danger we face on our way to the polls is... the prospect of injury caused by getting our fat arses off the sofa once every five years?
Sometimes I think we deserve the George and Tony show, I really do.
But Americans are not eager to have their fates decided by foreign voters
Neither is anyone else, but hey, we all got used to it. Then we had to start getting used to having our fates decided by foreign judges, which was even worse...
Could it have been a planet located at the position where the current asteroid belt is?
Probably not... current thinking on the asteroid belt is that it consists of material that was never able to coalesce into a planet in the first place because of the gravitational influence of Jupiter.
The days of geeks being beaten up would finally be over >:-)
Nah. You'd go out in your exoskeleton and kick ass, but you'd stomp half of Tokyo in the process. Then the next day at school you'd get thumped by someone whose friends and/or relations you just hospitalised. Of course you could then take them on in another exoskeleton battle, but that would probably end really, really badly...
... Stop me if I'm wrong here, but... er... they suck. Really.
I bought one because I needed a new card to play Neverwinter Nights - my faithful old Voodoo4 finally having become obsolete. It's slow enough running that, yet it claims DirectX 9 capability; I shudder to think what it would do if I tried to play Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 on it in a few months' time.
We are a tech school, and you can just imagine what it's like when hundreds of tech students try to use the wireless network at the same time......Maybe it's a conspiracy to cut down on filesharing by making it nearly impossible to even access the internet.
Hundreds of tech students. Tech means large hard disks. Student means hard disk is full of audio and video files of dubious legality.
Wireless network. Meaning damn near untraceable if you go direct from one computer to another, rather than through the internet gateway.
And you need to get onto the internet to share files why exactly?
Don't know about the NSA, but GCHQ are. Plenty of career opportunities for patriotic young hackers ready to sniff terrorist packets for Queen and country...
They said there was a very small chance that it's companion rock could be behind or in front of it, what kind of percantage are we talking about?
Not that much of a chance. If Sedna has been slowed by the presence of a moon, that moon ought to be a goodly distance away - as the planet slows, the moon drifts away, to conserve angular momentum. So the planet would spend the great majority of its time well away from its moon in the sky.
The other issue is that the planet can only occult the moon if the moon's orbit is edge-on to the Earth. That's true of many moons - consider the Galilean satellites of Jupiter, which eclipse and are eclipsed by their primary on a regular basis - but is very unlikely to be true of such an eccentric object as Sedna. Objects that far out don't adhere well to the ecliptic - they tend to go their own way:-)
There's lots of science fiction around the problems or opportunities for doing it in different environments.
And if I've learned anything from anime, all you need to do is get a giant Marshmallow Man type of thing, nail it to the wall and chop off its legs, then harvest the blood. Instant breathable liquid. You can also clone it off a few times to provide the basic organisms for a series of mecha, with which you can do all sorts of nifty things that can only end well.
Q, though: if it's breathable (as we see every time someone pilots an Eva), why was Ritsuko using a snorkel to swim in the lake of LCL in ep. 1?
... Cue 'Hollow Sedna' theories. Oh, and a swarm of bad 'no moon, it's a space station' jokes.
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The longterm result of the spam war: netsplit.
There will be two internets. One where spammer money is gratefully received and pink contracts abound, and one where spammers are despised and utterly rejected. The light side will have the dark side totally firewalled.
So, no problem, then? Sign up for an account on the light side, don't spam, and you're all set? Well, maybe not. Problems:
the Dark Side will probably include whole countries. Brazil, China and the South Korean school system, I'm looking at you...
the Light Side is unlikely to tolerate some of our own misdemeanours. P2P apps, fair use technologies, dubious binaries newsgroups, unlicensed Hungarian DVD players...
So everyone will need to have an account on both internets. Damn.
200 rounds of ammo: $70 Two ski masks: $24 Two black trench coats: $260 Seeing the expression on your classmates' faces right before you blow their heads off -- priceless. There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's MasterCard.
I remember that! It was on trenchcoatmafia.org the day after the shooting; turned out rotten.com had set the site up to cash in on some easy notoriety. Millions of people were looking for the legendary Eric Harris Website with all the murder plans on it, so I imagine it seemed like a great idea:-) I remember reading through their collection of hatemail a couple of days later - ah, gallows humour, don't you just love it?
There must be something like a hundred thousand chimpanzees in the world, but I'm not ashamed to admit to being a distant relative of theirs. There's just one of them I have a problem with...
Does a banner ad masquerading as a system error message constitute threatening somebody? I think it does. Grandma sees it, is frightened that the computer is broken, and will then click OK to anything that might save the situation. I'd call this 'extraction of computational resources with menaces'.
No late fees. I like that.
No hassle of going back to the rental place to return it. I like that.
I can easily pira^H^H^H^Hbackup a DVD within 72 hours. Yay!
Down points:
No late fees. The rental place hates that.
No hassle of going back to the rental place to return it. The rental place hates that - they want me to come back and rent again.
I can easily back^H^H^H^Hpirate a DVD within 72 hours. AAAAAACCCCKKKKK!
But it still embarrasses me to know that I'm a distant relative of George W. Bush, even though everybody else is too.
There must be something like a hundred thousand chimpanzees in the world, but I'm not ashamed to admit to being a distant relative of theirs. There's just one of them I have a problem with...
Is the US mail a government agency, or a private company? If they're a government agency, then they shouldn't censor - constitutional protections come in here. If they're not, then the only question is do you have a contract with them whereby they agree not to filter what they deliver to you?
Look at your agreement with your ISP sometime. They're almost certainly covered so that they can deliver or not deliver emails pretty much as they please.
I must concur here. Freedom of the press does not mean that the owner of the press has to let every loony print on it who wants to. Freedom of speech does not mean that we should issue street preachers with PA systems.
It's a principle I firmly believe in as a follower of the spam wars that the owner of a mail server may choose to deliver, or not deliver an email for any reason whatever - the sender is on a spam blacklist, the sender has a beard, it's a Friday, the stars aren't right, anything - so I fear I must apply the same standards to those who own radio stations also.
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Democracy: not relevant?
I for one shall surely do so. The day I vote for a Tory is the day Beelzebub buys a toboggan, but I don't think I could bring myself to vote for Blair, not after all the fun of last year.
I can't help but wonder - why is the leader of a nominally socialist party tied into this destructive alliance with the most frightening right-wing rabble seen in a Western democracy for half a century?
Dude. This mouse pad has LEDs. It changes colour. Do I need to draw you a picture here?
When there's an optical mouse where I can change the colour of the glow on the underside to suit my mood that day, then I'll want one more than I want this cool thing.
(What is it that makes me want to spend all my money on completely useless yet cool things?)
This guy faced the threat of actual violence at the polls. He turned up to vote nonetheless. It's great to see that some people still believe in democracy.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in the homelands of democracy, the turnout at elections is what exactly, these days? And the danger we face on our way to the polls is... the prospect of injury caused by getting our fat arses off the sofa once every five years?
Sometimes I think we deserve the George and Tony show, I really do.
Neither is anyone else, but hey, we all got used to it. Then we had to start getting used to having our fates decided by foreign judges, which was even worse...
Probably not... current thinking on the asteroid belt is that it consists of material that was never able to coalesce into a planet in the first place because of the gravitational influence of Jupiter.
Nah. You'd go out in your exoskeleton and kick ass, but you'd stomp half of Tokyo in the process. Then the next day at school you'd get thumped by someone whose friends and/or relations you just hospitalised. Of course you could then take them on in another exoskeleton battle, but that would probably end really, really badly...
I bought one because I needed a new card to play Neverwinter Nights - my faithful old Voodoo4 finally having become obsolete. It's slow enough running that, yet it claims DirectX 9 capability; I shudder to think what it would do if I tried to play Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 on it in a few months' time.
Is there something I'm missing, maybe?
On Linux, Qt is in the unique position of being seen as one of the native APIs.
Hundreds of tech students. Tech means large hard disks. Student means hard disk is full of audio and video files of dubious legality.
Wireless network. Meaning damn near untraceable if you go direct from one computer to another, rather than through the internet gateway.
And you need to get onto the internet to share files why exactly?
Don't know about the NSA, but GCHQ are. Plenty of career opportunities for patriotic young hackers ready to sniff terrorist packets for Queen and country...
Until the stars are right... Somewhere out there is Yuggoth.
The other issue is that the planet can only occult the moon if the moon's orbit is edge-on to the Earth. That's true of many moons - consider the Galilean satellites of Jupiter, which eclipse and are eclipsed by their primary on a regular basis - but is very unlikely to be true of such an eccentric object as Sedna. Objects that far out don't adhere well to the ecliptic - they tend to go their own way :-)
There's lots of science fiction around the problems or opportunities for doing it in different environments.
And if I've learned anything from anime, all you need to do is get a giant Marshmallow Man type of thing, nail it to the wall and chop off its legs, then harvest the blood. Instant breathable liquid. You can also clone it off a few times to provide the basic organisms for a series of mecha, with which you can do all sorts of nifty things that can only end well.
Q, though: if it's breathable (as we see every time someone pilots an Eva), why was Ritsuko using a snorkel to swim in the lake of LCL in ep. 1?
... Cue 'Hollow Sedna' theories. Oh, and a swarm of bad 'no moon, it's a space station' jokes.
There will be two internets. One where spammer money is gratefully received and pink contracts abound, and one where spammers are despised and utterly rejected. The light side will have the dark side totally firewalled.
So, no problem, then? Sign up for an account on the light side, don't spam, and you're all set? Well, maybe not. Problems:
the Dark Side will probably include whole countries. Brazil, China and the South Korean school system, I'm looking at you...
the Light Side is unlikely to tolerate some of our own misdemeanours. P2P apps, fair use technologies, dubious binaries newsgroups, unlicensed Hungarian DVD players...
So everyone will need to have an account on both internets. Damn.
I remember that! It was on trenchcoatmafia.org the day after the shooting; turned out rotten.com had set the site up to cash in on some easy notoriety. Millions of people were looking for the legendary Eric Harris Website with all the murder plans on it, so I imagine it seemed like a great idea :-) I remember reading through their collection of hatemail a couple of days later - ah, gallows humour, don't you just love it?
And that would be your mom?
Are you comparing my mother to George W. Bush?
Did I say terrorise? I meant liberate. How silly of me.
Does a banner ad masquerading as a system error message constitute threatening somebody? I think it does. Grandma sees it, is frightened that the computer is broken, and will then click OK to anything that might save the situation. I'd call this 'extraction of computational resources with menaces'.
No late fees. I like that.
No hassle of going back to the rental place to return it. I like that.
I can easily pira^H^H^H^Hbackup a DVD within 72 hours. Yay!
Down points:
No late fees. The rental place hates that.
No hassle of going back to the rental place to return it. The rental place hates that - they want me to come back and rent again.
I can easily back^H^H^H^Hpirate a DVD within 72 hours. AAAAAACCCCKKKKK!
There must be something like a hundred thousand chimpanzees in the world, but I'm not ashamed to admit to being a distant relative of theirs. There's just one of them I have a problem with...
Look at your agreement with your ISP sometime. They're almost certainly covered so that they can deliver or not deliver emails pretty much as they please.
It's a principle I firmly believe in as a follower of the spam wars that the owner of a mail server may choose to deliver, or not deliver an email for any reason whatever - the sender is on a spam blacklist, the sender has a beard, it's a Friday, the stars aren't right, anything - so I fear I must apply the same standards to those who own radio stations also.
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