""- Has more poverty than any other 1st world country
That's also complete crap. Again, check out France. Those rioters aren't pissed off because they have jobs, bub.""
they're rioting because the french government is one big ol' source of institutionalized racism, actually.
can't argue the rest of what you said, but only because you didn't back up any of your claims with any evidence to attack. they still suck.
they're fundamentalists. people who believe their view is right, and anyone who would dare question it must die. funny thing, though. it doesn't really matter what their views are, the 'must die' thing is what's important and scary.
Family Guy quote: Stewie (to Jeremy, the babysitter's boyfriend): Ha! I got your hat! Take that, hatless! Now go back to the quad and resume your hackey sac tourney! I'm not gonna lay down for some frat boy bastard with his damn Teva sandals and his Skoal Bandits and his Abercrombie and Fitch long sleeved, open stitched, crew neck Henley smoking his sticky buds out of a soda can while watching his favorite downloaded Simpsons episodes every night! Yes, we all love "Mr. Plow"! Oh, you've got the song memorized, do you? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE! That is exactly the kind of idiot you see at Taco Bell at 1 in the morning! The guy who just whiffed his way down the bar skank ladder!
I Love Lucy quote: Lucy Ricardo: I want the names to be unique and euphonious. Ricky Ricardo: Okay. Unique if it's a boy, and Euphonious if it's a girl.
yeah, that's a somewhat higher degree of sophistication, I'd say. no matter which joke you like more.
both quotes taken from less than 15 seconds searching on google, and I doubt I love lucy was the high of comedy, it's just all that came to the top of my mind first, as old comedy shows go.
p.s. if you didn't understand the second joke, you might be old, but it doesn't make you sophisticated to not understand the references.
I agree with your first point. your second one doesn't seem right, though.
design parameters? if we were designed along any particular parameteres (I'm not touching that arguement), we certainly can all agree that we don't know what those paramaters are. unless you think we were designed to live till 30, as was the style in ancient times, in which case a bit of insanity might not be so bad.
as to the time scale, I think we can adapt. it might take a generation or two, but we'd adapt to it. humans have gotten used to a doubled life expectancy, ridiculous ammounts of new technology, and the elimination of many of the jobs they grew up expecting. and that's all within living memory (my grandparents lifespan).
I think it's easy to underestimate just how much we as a species can get used to.
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take a look at the first season or two. that's some seriously crappy animation. all the recent (last, what, 6 years?) is really nice though. still, I think grandparent's point is that Simpsons isn't pushing the box any, as far as drawing goes. it's clean, simple, and gets the jokes accross.
they're not saying this is a worrying precedent, that people might act like this in the real world some day. they have history books. this is exactly what happens during major plagues. I guess if you know you're going to die really soon, at least a few people will feel alright aboutn infecting others.
see AIDS for a more common everyday example of this in real life.
As some other poster said, the only reason this virus was approved for recreation was that we are all thought to still have the immunity to it passed down from our 'ancestors' from 1918.
Furthermore, I'm glad wild poorly thought out conspiracies are alive and well on slashdot. It's one of the few stable things in this world, really.
nobody seems to know the difference between lossy and lossless filesystems. neither do I, and neither does whoever wrote the article, it seems.
but hey, that's never slowed me down.
This new filesystem is like old ones, with a big difference and a few small ones.
It has something called 'snapshots', which seems to mean that you can work off of a partition, but seperately load up the version of that partition you had before you last had a power failure, or whatever went wrong.
it also claims to:
* Fast write and recovery times
* Minimal damage to file data and system consistency on hardware failure
* Correctly ordered data and meta-data writes
* File and inode blocks are managed by a B-tree structure
o Can create and store huge files
* Internal data are processed in 64 bit wide word size
that no doubt means something, to somebody. lucky them!
and yes, this is actually more informative than the article.
remember kids, never, NEVER RTFA. it will only confuse and scare you.
y'know, I'm almost 20, and now that I think about it, I have a general idea of how all those things work. does that make me really smart? sadly not. but those are all really really simple compared to a pocket calculator, and most people still don't understand them in any detail.
you've got the cause and effect backwards. it's not that we know people don't understand technology, so they're stupid.
it's just that, lets face it, we all know people are basically stupid. look deep inside your soul, to your inner sarcastic bitter pessimist. don't worry, it's in there. he knows what we're talking about.
as such, how could they possibly understand cell phones?
Is the government corrupt because it's evil, or because it's stupid?
Either way, it's corrupt, and either way, it's wasted the constitution, and either way, they're locking protesters up in fenced off 'freedom of speech zones' and tear-gassing them.
I don't care what their reasons are, they need to be stopped.
visualize this. the big bang happens, everything goes randomly everywhere, then gravity starts bringing it together, making the universe 'chunky' as it currently is. try breaking apart a watch, shaking it in a bag, and having none of the bits stick together. and there's not even a force making watch-bits fall together in that analogy.
and the whole 'god created us' thing only works if you believe in god. I'm sure that works for you, but the majority of people aren't christian, so searching for other explanations is kinda neccesary.
p.s. - the pope believes in evolution. he has said so, in official papal newsletters. doesn't matter for you unless you're catholic, but just saying, believing in god doesn't mean you believe in intelligent design.
link the first link google provided me with on the pope subject.
it's simple. the ice melts in summer, exposing the previous years layer of dead moss. on top of that, a new layer grows. in the winter, that moss dies, and becomes the dead layer the next years layer grows on, and so on. this has been happening for thousands of years straight. sometimes much much longer.
the bottom layers of moss (pete, decomposed moss) haven't defrosted in millenia, and they now are. and staying that way. I think that's the news.
I haven't read the article, mind you, and this explanation is from memory of biology 10. so I may be waaaaay off. someone, feel free to confirm or deny this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat hey, guess what. I didn't read the wikipedia article either, but I glanced at it, and I think it agrees. w00t!
funny... I've done that. I got lost driving to the ferry terminal in vancouver once, ended up on the wrong side of the peace arch (ie other side of the border). no one stopped me, no one searched me, they just saw my license plate (canadian) and let me through both ways with a wave.
ever lived in your own apartment? potted plants are most of the companionship many people get. and it's good for your mental health to be nurturing something. no sarcasm here, btw.
I don't think anyone disputes that evolution occurs.
The dispute is whether or not life came into being from primordial soup and evolved, or if life was intelligently designed..
This is a bit of a contradiction. Evolution doesn't speak of where exactly life began, only that it EVOLVED from something simpler.
ID, on the other hand, says that all life was created in its current form, as is, and doesn't evolve.
If ID allowed for evolution, than the two ideas wouldn't conflict in any way.
Although for that matter, I've never really understood why they are supposed to. If ID-fans believe life was initially created by god, and Science-fans believe that they don't know how to was created, and they both believe that life has evolved since then, where is the conflict? Sadly, I don't think this is the case. I think ID specifically excludes evolution.
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on behalf of the other commentor. myself, I think it's too hilarious to not see at work.
""- Has more poverty than any other 1st world country That's also complete crap. Again, check out France. Those rioters aren't pissed off because they have jobs, bub."" they're rioting because the french government is one big ol' source of institutionalized racism, actually. can't argue the rest of what you said, but only because you didn't back up any of your claims with any evidence to attack. they still suck.
my hometown got a datacenter a few years ago, and it's all overhead cabling. of course, it's also a converted departement store, so that's natural.
they're fundamentalists. people who believe their view is right, and anyone who would dare question it must die. funny thing, though. it doesn't really matter what their views are, the 'must die' thing is what's important and scary.
Family Guy quote:
Stewie (to Jeremy, the babysitter's boyfriend):
Ha! I got your hat! Take that, hatless! Now go back to the quad and resume your hackey sac tourney! I'm not gonna lay down for some frat boy bastard with his damn Teva sandals and his Skoal Bandits and his Abercrombie and Fitch long sleeved, open stitched, crew neck Henley smoking his sticky buds out of a soda can while watching his favorite downloaded Simpsons episodes every night! Yes, we all love "Mr. Plow"! Oh, you've got the song memorized, do you? SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE! That is exactly the kind of idiot you see at Taco Bell at 1 in the morning! The guy who just whiffed his way down the bar skank ladder!
I Love Lucy quote:
Lucy Ricardo: I want the names to be unique and euphonious.
Ricky Ricardo: Okay. Unique if it's a boy, and Euphonious if it's a girl.
yeah, that's a somewhat higher degree of sophistication, I'd say. no matter which joke you like more.
both quotes taken from less than 15 seconds searching on google, and I doubt I love lucy was the high of comedy, it's just all that came to the top of my mind first, as old comedy shows go.
p.s. if you didn't understand the second joke, you might be old, but it doesn't make you sophisticated to not understand the references.
I agree with your first point. your second one doesn't seem right, though.
design parameters? if we were designed along any particular parameteres (I'm not touching that arguement), we certainly can all agree that we don't know what those paramaters are. unless you think we were designed to live till 30, as was the style in ancient times, in which case a bit of insanity might not be so bad.
as to the time scale, I think we can adapt. it might take a generation or two, but we'd adapt to it. humans have gotten used to a doubled life expectancy, ridiculous ammounts of new technology, and the elimination of many of the jobs they grew up expecting. and that's all within living memory (my grandparents lifespan).
I think it's easy to underestimate just how much we as a species can get used to.
take a look at the first season or two. that's some seriously crappy animation. all the recent (last, what, 6 years?) is really nice though. still, I think grandparent's point is that Simpsons isn't pushing the box any, as far as drawing goes. it's clean, simple, and gets the jokes accross.
they're not saying this is a worrying precedent, that people might act like this in the real world some day. they have history books. this is exactly what happens during major plagues. I guess if you know you're going to die really soon, at least a few people will feel alright aboutn infecting others.
see AIDS for a more common everyday example of this in real life.
the same reason americans think the EU and the UN suck, duh.
because 10 idiots screaming bloody murder in the middle of a crowd of 9990 silent people sounds a lot like 10000 loud whiners.
I hope that wasn't some kind of mixed metaphor.
This one is going to change the world, mind by mind.
Maybe, just maybe...
the US is a bunch of hos.
the EU is a bunch of hos.
people in general, are a bunch of hos.
I assume your world has been rocked.
(people aren't really that different. stop pretending your nationstate is unique! it's not!)
As some other poster said, the only reason this virus was approved for recreation was that we are all thought to still have the immunity to it passed down from our 'ancestors' from 1918.
Furthermore, I'm glad wild poorly thought out conspiracies are alive and well on slashdot. It's one of the few stable things in this world, really.
nobody seems to know the difference between lossy and lossless filesystems. neither do I, and neither does whoever wrote the article, it seems.
but hey, that's never slowed me down.
This new filesystem is like old ones, with a big difference and a few small ones.
It has something called 'snapshots', which seems to mean that you can work off of a partition, but seperately load up the version of that partition you had before you last had a power failure, or whatever went wrong.
it also claims to:
* Fast write and recovery times
* Minimal damage to file data and system consistency on hardware failure
* Correctly ordered data and meta-data writes
* File and inode blocks are managed by a B-tree structure
o Can create and store huge files
* Internal data are processed in 64 bit wide word size
that no doubt means something, to somebody. lucky them!
and yes, this is actually more informative than the article.
remember kids, never, NEVER RTFA. it will only confuse and scare you.
y'know, I'm almost 20, and now that I think about it, I have a general idea of how all those things work. does that make me really smart? sadly not. but those are all really really simple compared to a pocket calculator, and most people still don't understand them in any detail.
this is an article made specifically for grumpy young men, you young whippersnapper.
skateboards are the devils monkeybars! or something equally insane!
you've got the cause and effect backwards. it's not that we know people don't understand technology, so they're stupid.
it's just that, lets face it, we all know people are basically stupid. look deep inside your soul, to your inner sarcastic bitter pessimist. don't worry, it's in there. he knows what we're talking about.
as such, how could they possibly understand cell phones?
Is the government corrupt because it's evil, or because it's stupid?
Either way, it's corrupt, and either way, it's wasted the constitution, and either way, they're locking protesters up in fenced off 'freedom of speech zones' and tear-gassing them.
I don't care what their reasons are, they need to be stopped.
well, I guess we'll just have to cancel the whole movie, after millions of dollars and after we've finished production
-Square
(ain't happening. did they cancel star wars, shrek, or any other movie that came out in the last year? because they've all come out early online.)
visualize this. the big bang happens, everything goes randomly everywhere, then gravity starts bringing it together, making the universe 'chunky' as it currently is. try breaking apart a watch, shaking it in a bag, and having none of the bits stick together. and there's not even a force making watch-bits fall together in that analogy.
and the whole 'god created us' thing only works if you believe in god. I'm sure that works for you, but the majority of people aren't christian, so searching for other explanations is kinda neccesary.
p.s. - the pope believes in evolution. he has said so, in official papal newsletters. doesn't matter for you unless you're catholic, but just saying, believing in god doesn't mean you believe in intelligent design.
link the first link google provided me with on the pope subject.
it's simple. the ice melts in summer, exposing the previous years layer of dead moss. on top of that, a new layer grows. in the winter, that moss dies, and becomes the dead layer the next years layer grows on, and so on. this has been happening for thousands of years straight. sometimes much much longer.
the bottom layers of moss (pete, decomposed moss) haven't defrosted in millenia, and they now are. and staying that way. I think that's the news.
I haven't read the article, mind you, and this explanation is from memory of biology 10. so I may be waaaaay off. someone, feel free to confirm or deny this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat
hey, guess what. I didn't read the wikipedia article either, but I glanced at it, and I think it agrees. w00t!
funny... I've done that. I got lost driving to the ferry terminal in vancouver once, ended up on the wrong side of the peace arch (ie other side of the border). no one stopped me, no one searched me, they just saw my license plate (canadian) and let me through both ways with a wave.
ever lived in your own apartment? potted plants are most of the companionship many people get. and it's good for your mental health to be nurturing something. no sarcasm here, btw.
not that I know of. But he definetly wasn't a normal person. A great person, and definetly not the slightest bit normal.
You think that's amazing? I'm in no way associated with the gaming industry, and I want more money too!
I don't see a story here.
as others have said, this is brilliant
ID, on the other hand, says that all life was created in its current form, as is, and doesn't evolve.
If ID allowed for evolution, than the two ideas wouldn't conflict in any way.
Although for that matter, I've never really understood why they are supposed to. If ID-fans believe life was initially created by god, and Science-fans believe that they don't know how to was created, and they both believe that life has evolved since then, where is the conflict? Sadly, I don't think this is the case. I think ID specifically excludes evolution.