Keep in mind that MADD inflates the numbers with a nutty classification scheme. Sober driver, drunk passenger? That's an alcohol related accident. Drunk pedestrian walks in front of sober driver? Alcohol related accident. Driver with one drink gets into their parked car, gets sideswiped by a sober driver? Alcohol related accident.
Although it's interesting that girls would pick boys dumber than they are to have sex
Just a guess, but what you are seeing on the charts is likely not a result of girls seeking dumber boys, but because of girls seeking older boys. It just looks that way on the chart because the chart shows a single age.
I've seen studies that show girls often act dumb when in the presence of the boys they like, for some reason. I suspect it could be that the small amount of dumbing down leads to a perceived equality in intelligence. So that an IQ of 100 will dumb down just enough to appear to be the same as her suitor.
Indeed, I agree with most everything you said. The side plot just isn't nearly as entertaining as the MST3K setup. It's like methadone for MiSTies. I imagine they will grow into it however. If they continue to make the commentaries, they are bound to come up with extra characters, and I think more importantly running gags and a history. I think some of the best riffs from MST3K were usually references to previous episodes and movies.
Best quote in my opinion?
~"Rue McClanahan is actually better looking as a Golden Girl than here"~
This seems like an excellent place to remind people that they can opt out of much of that "paper spam". In addition to helping the environment, you're also helping to protect yourself from one vector of identity theft.
The ftc.com has a broken link to the online opt-out form for Direct Marketing Association.
It looks like this one is right. Apparently it costs a dollar as it it sold as a 'service.'
All that being said, I personally believe that the Internet is a great equalizer. In the past, if you were bullied, it was often by someone bigger than you (if you were a boy) or someone more popular than you (if you were a girl). "Cyberbullying" on the Internet can allow the victim to fight back if he or she is intelligent, creative and malicious enough...
An interesting side note to this is that in this case (student to student aggression), the cyber bully still retains the meatspace advantages. Either by the ability to beat up the victim the next day, or to continue to assert popularity advantages over the kid. I'd wager that a witty post would still most likely get made fun of by the crowd simply because of its author, not the content.
Here at Slashdot, we take pride in our nerd and geek heritage. A lot of the knowledge and pastimes you demonstrate on your show qualify as pretty nerdy. Would you describe yourselves as geeks?
Actually, he's done more than that. He has contacted a police department claiming that he was the target of an extortion attempt.
I'm not sure that's true.
From PA: Tycho and I remain free men. The fact is that Jack actually sent the fax to everyone but the intended recipient at the Seattle PD. There were a lot of names to remember I don't blame him.
It's still high level nuttery that needs to be addressed, but I don't think he's wandered into criminal land yet.
That's like me saying that my tinfoil hat keeps meteors from hitting my house and my loved ones. No meteors have hit me, so my tinfoil hat must be working!!
Lucky for you then that I came along right as I did. Can I interest you in my anti-bear rock? Notice as we talk you've seen no bears. My rock is proven technology, and at a small cost to you, could be yours TODAY!
Yes, and they also show IE looking at "Linux-Noob" with a dialog window open. The window informs the user that a cookie has been rejected based on user privacy preferences. Damn you linux, and your unsafe web forums! Curse you I say, thank god for my longhorn!
And is someone going to explain -- or even take a guess -- why this is Slashdot news?
My guess is that we often link to the NYT with the "free registration req bla bla" notation. Since a lot of folk are always moaning that they have to register for sites to view information, it is interesting to note that now you even have to *gasp* PAY *gasp* to see their stuff.
Maybe there is something about the way legitimate IDs are made that they don't want to reveal.
...
If that is the case, then they'd have to at least reveal it to those people checking IDs (otherwise, what's the point?). Given the conventional wisdom regarding the intelligence of the average airport security employee, that's not exactly keeping things secret.
Besides that we are entering into security through obscurity land by doing this.
True, but that is for a low impulse projectile launch. We don't do it that way. The rock analogy describes what is needed to catapult an object into orbit. We use force over time to launch a rocket into orbit, since the engine is firing for the duration of the ascent into orbit.
The H2, aka Hummer2, however, is another story entirely. It is, as you say, merely a Tacoma with a different body shell. The original Tacoma wasn't particularly off-road capable and the reshelled version is even less so. But it's only about $60k.
And, if you are sufficiently wealthy, its free. Due to a tax loophole, its status as a light truck lets you claim it against your taxes. You just have to find some obsure rationale that you need it for your livelyhood, and you declare that whole 60K against your taxes. Owe 60K to the government this year because you did good in the market? Grats! Take a H2 instead, good work!
Intel did do something similar to what the parent post described, with an older processor (though the specific processor escapes me at the moment).
I'd always heard it was the Celeron line. I think that early on, chips that didnt meet specs where just outfitted with less cache, and marketed as "econo-chip", i.e. the Celery. Then an actual market for those economy chips came about, and to meet demand they had to start putting good chips out as Celerons as well. So rumor had it if you were lucky, you could try to overclock your Celeron since it was probably a snazzier chip in reality. They of course fixed this in a matter of months by creating a dedicated run of actual Celeron spec'd chips.
Keep in mind, I learned this from a Slashdot post, so it could just be BS.
Why isn't marijuana legal? Because the beer companies and drug companies want to keep it that way. Therefore they pad the wallets of Congress. Same with hemp except its the cotton industry which pretty much keeps hemp from being legal.
I agree with you, but also want to add:
1. Racism. Marijuana/Opium were the intoxicants of the poorest of the poor in the early 20th century. This included Americans of African, Asian, and Mexican descent. The use of these plants became to be seen as a low class, non WASP activity. As such, it was frowned upon.
2. Taxation. While it is possible to brew your own supply of ale, and distill your own liqour, its would be difficult for most of us to do this to satisfy all of our needs. And the sale of that product is easily taxable. Yet any drug we can (gosh) grow in our backyard makes it significantly harder to collect on.
In the real world, few people would pick something that's implanted over an oral pill. How many women you know are on Norplant? Nope, they're all still taking the daily oral pill.
Whoa whoa whoa... let me get this straight. You read Slashdot and know women taking birth control?
Even worse, for me, is that when watching more than one show in a row on a given channel (Sunday night Fox comes to mind... Mmm.... Treehouse of Horror) you will see the SAME seven commercials for the three hours of content you watch. Over and Over and Over....
It was Reagan and he was shot in the head, but survived.
IIRC Reagan was gutshot, which is why he survived.
The Day Reagan Was Shot has a decent account of the wound. Apparently the man was an inch of death, with a bullet lodged in his chest, very close to his heart. But the White House staff told reporters he was fine. Signed a bill from bed even.
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Maybe it is a good thing that it is becoming an uber-crime when you look at this. http://www.madd.org/stats/1298
Keep in mind that MADD inflates the numbers with a nutty classification scheme. Sober driver, drunk passenger? That's an alcohol related accident. Drunk pedestrian walks in front of sober driver? Alcohol related accident. Driver with one drink gets into their parked car, gets sideswiped by a sober driver? Alcohol related accident.
MADD inflates numbers
I've seen studies that show girls often act dumb when in the presence of the boys they like, for some reason. I suspect it could be that the small amount of dumbing down leads to a perceived equality in intelligence. So that an IQ of 100 will dumb down just enough to appear to be the same as her suitor.
So it was YOU that had the copy when I wanted it!
Indeed, I agree with most everything you said. The side plot just isn't nearly as entertaining as the MST3K setup. It's like methadone for MiSTies. I imagine they will grow into it however. If they continue to make the commentaries, they are bound to come up with extra characters, and I think more importantly running gags and a history. I think some of the best riffs from MST3K were usually references to previous episodes and movies.
Best quote in my opinion?
~"Rue McClanahan is actually better looking as a Golden Girl than here"~
This seems like an excellent place to remind people that they can opt out of much of that "paper spam". In addition to helping the environment, you're also helping to protect yourself from one vector of identity theft.
The ftc.com has a broken link to the online opt-out form for Direct Marketing Association. It looks like this one is right. Apparently it costs a dollar as it it sold as a 'service.'
An interesting side note to this is that in this case (student to student aggression), the cyber bully still retains the meatspace advantages. Either by the ability to beat up the victim the next day, or to continue to assert popularity advantages over the kid. I'd wager that a witty post would still most likely get made fun of by the crowd simply because of its author, not the content.
Here at Slashdot, we take pride in our nerd and geek heritage. A lot of the knowledge and pastimes you demonstrate on your show qualify as pretty nerdy. Would you describe yourselves as geeks?
Actually, he's done more than that. He has contacted a police department claiming that he was the target of an extortion attempt.
I'm not sure that's true.
From PA:
Tycho and I remain free men. The fact is that Jack actually sent the fax to everyone but the intended recipient at the Seattle PD. There were a lot of names to remember I don't blame him.
It's still high level nuttery that needs to be addressed, but I don't think he's wandered into criminal land yet.
That's like me saying that my tinfoil hat keeps meteors from hitting my house and my loved ones. No meteors have hit me, so my tinfoil hat must be working!!
Lucky for you then that I came along right as I did. Can I interest you in my anti-bear rock? Notice as we talk you've seen no bears. My rock is proven technology, and at a small cost to you, could be yours TODAY!
I feel so wrong for voting as I did last year. Oh, well, that's why I'm making plans for Canada next year. :)
Oh no, you've got to wait this one out with the rest of us... no running for you!
"Shiny" is used a lot in the series. It would be like linking to Stranger in a Strange Land with the hyperlink of "Grok This!"
That said, the article seemed like a bit of a fluff piece.
And a bit of an advertisement for Cisco, it seemed.
Yes, and they also show IE looking at "Linux-Noob" with a dialog window open. The window informs the user that a cookie has been rejected based on user privacy preferences. Damn you linux, and your unsafe web forums! Curse you I say, thank god for my longhorn!
And is someone going to explain -- or even take a guess -- why this is Slashdot news?
My guess is that we often link to the NYT with the "free registration req bla bla" notation. Since a lot of folk are always moaning that they have to register for sites to view information, it is interesting to note that now you even have to *gasp* PAY *gasp* to see their stuff.
How can they say it isn't a defect?
This is Sony.
And, for those familiar with SOE tactics, this should ring a bell:
"Working as intended."
In theory highways are paid for by gas taxes
I believe a fair amount of tobacco tax/awards go toward the road works as well.
Maybe there is something about the way legitimate IDs are made that they don't want to reveal.
... If that is the case, then they'd have to at least reveal it to those people checking IDs (otherwise, what's the point?). Given the conventional wisdom regarding the intelligence of the average airport security employee, that's not exactly keeping things secret.
Besides that we are entering into security through obscurity land by doing this.
True, but that is for a low impulse projectile launch. We don't do it that way. The rock analogy describes what is needed to catapult an object into orbit. We use force over time to launch a rocket into orbit, since the engine is firing for the duration of the ascent into orbit.
Just picking nits.
The H2, aka Hummer2, however, is another story entirely. It is, as you say, merely a Tacoma with a different body shell. The original Tacoma wasn't particularly off-road capable and the reshelled version is even less so. But it's only about $60k.
And, if you are sufficiently wealthy, its free. Due to a tax loophole, its status as a light truck lets you claim it against your taxes. You just have to find some obsure rationale that you need it for your livelyhood, and you declare that whole 60K against your taxes. Owe 60K to the government this year because you did good in the market? Grats! Take a H2 instead, good work!
Bastards.
Keep in mind, I learned this from a Slashdot post, so it could just be BS.
EQ counts as socializing in the same way hanging out in bars with other alcoholics does. That being said, can I bum a SoW?
Why isn't marijuana legal? Because the beer companies and drug companies want to keep it that way. Therefore they pad the wallets of Congress. Same with hemp except its the cotton industry which pretty much keeps hemp from being legal.
I agree with you, but also want to add:
1. Racism. Marijuana/Opium were the intoxicants of the poorest of the poor in the early 20th century. This included Americans of African, Asian, and Mexican descent. The use of these plants became to be seen as a low class, non WASP activity. As such, it was frowned upon.
2. Taxation. While it is possible to brew your own supply of ale, and distill your own liqour, its would be difficult for most of us to do this to satisfy all of our needs. And the sale of that product is easily taxable. Yet any drug we can (gosh) grow in our backyard makes it significantly harder to collect on.
On the down side, it doesn't come with a cigarette lighter - you have to light your cigars with 100 dollar bills...
But they do give you the nice Condor egg Omelette when you buy one, Mr. Krustofski.
In the real world, few people would pick something that's implanted over an oral pill. How many women you know are on Norplant? Nope, they're all still taking the daily oral pill.
Whoa whoa whoa... let me get this straight. You read Slashdot and know women taking birth control?
Even worse, for me, is that when watching more than one show in a row on a given channel (Sunday night Fox comes to mind... Mmm.... Treehouse of Horror) you will see the SAME seven commercials for the three hours of content you watch. Over and Over and Over....
It was Reagan and he was shot in the head, but survived.
IIRC Reagan was gutshot, which is why he survived.
The Day Reagan Was Shot has a decent account of the wound. Apparently the man was an inch of death, with a bullet lodged in his chest, very close to his heart. But the White House staff told reporters he was fine. Signed a bill from bed even.