Yet another article making the most ridiculous claims ever.
Photography was not art until the 1990s? Are you fucking kidding me?
Who's in charge over there, anyway? Jesus H. Fucking Christ, they must be about 20 years old and taking correspondence courses from the University of Phoenix.
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."
Sounds like the perfect fucking soldier to me.
You don't fight wars except for one reason - to win. To win, you have to kill the enemy. To kill the enemy, you need efficient soldiers who are committed to the mission.
There needs to be enough room between the first row of seats and the track to prevent this kind of thing from happening. At 200MPH a chunk of metal can probably skid and jump along the ground for 500-1000 feet before coming to rest, so I would say a 2000 foot buffer zone all the way around the track would probably be appropriate.
After all, we have to remove 100% of all risk from every part of life, and even the smallest risk is unacceptable. Whatever it takes, no matter how much is spent, if just one life is saved, it's worth it.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that anything that has anything to do with the New York Times is a total scam.
Between authors that blatantly plagiarize other works to "journalists" that just make up facts, the NY Times has no credibility as a journalism organization. Why they are still allowed to retain "press" status is beyond me.
In the newer cameras that have 15+MP sensors that are really good at taking pictures of the Sun and nothing else, and save raw images with no compression, and with rapid burst modes for "spray and pray" photography, you absolutely have to have the fastest flash cards you can get.
There is not one square inch where one cannot purchase broadband in the United States. 100% of the US is covered by one broadband provider or another. Every address, every plot of land, every square inch.
Anyone in the US who wants to purchase broadband can do so.
Americans already have universally available Internet access. There is not one square inch of the United States where one cannot purchase Internet access.
Just a few years ago, the budget was 2/3 of what it is now, so how were food inspections paid for then?
Most people don't realize that this big deficit spending problem started when the $787B "one time stimulus" became part of the baseline budget and was re-spent (and then some) year after year after year on the biggest government expansion ever seen on this Earth. That $787B is STILL being spent over and over again.
Bond Bubble Ben is still printing Bernanke Bucks at a rate of about $1T/year as well, because the FED is the only entity willing to buy new US debt anymore.
When are Americans going to wake up and realize that you can't spend money you don't have on things you neither want nor need and expect to come out ahead at the end of the day?
I guess "as long as I'm getting mine" is the new American Dream.
Here are some gross, as in disgusting, numbers for US Government Spending:
If you take the 2001 spending figure and adjust it for inflation, it is 2411B, so in 2011 dollars we're spending 1186B more than we were in 2001.
1.2T in government growth, people. That's 49%. And that's just government growth at the federal level. Government is taking fully 50% more money from us (and our kids, and their kids, and probably also their kids after that) than they were 10 years ago.
The only reason gambling is so tightly regulated, and the only reason playing poker on the Internet is illegal, is because the government hates competition.
The government wants you playing government-run lotteries, like Powerball and Megamillions.
When I sit down at my PC, I want an interface that is designed for use on a PC, using a mouse and keyboard, and a large display.
When I pick up my phone or tablet, I want an interface that is designed for use on a phone or tablet, using finger swipes, taps, and gestures, and a small display.
THESE ARE TWO COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT THINGS.
Had you bothered to go actually look at the countdown timer, you would have seen the words "Tick, tock, tablet time!" in large print right there in front of your face, and you would have known to end the title of your summary with a period instead of a question mark, and avoided the whole "let me go make myself look like an ass on Slashdot" thing.
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... spending billions of dollars on aircraft that are less functional, less effective, and 10 times as costly as their predecessors.
They should just call it the "Vampires and Intense FEELINGS" category. Or maybe "Angsty Confused Female Surrounded by Scary Man-Critters."
Yet another article making the most ridiculous claims ever.
Photography was not art until the 1990s? Are you fucking kidding me?
Who's in charge over there, anyway? Jesus H. Fucking Christ, they must be about 20 years old and taking correspondence courses from the University of Phoenix.
.. Why doesn't the Helena Montana airport just buy their own goddamn scanner?
Oh that's right, the TSA is just another enormous welfare program for airports nobody uses and morons nobody will hire.
... if the "90 day" rover can last this long, maybe it'll be able to send back some good video :)
"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."
Sounds like the perfect fucking soldier to me.
You don't fight wars except for one reason - to win. To win, you have to kill the enemy. To kill the enemy, you need efficient soldiers who are committed to the mission.
Just curious...
Completely irrelevant. You are drawing a conclusion that is not supported by my post.
There needs to be enough room between the first row of seats and the track to prevent this kind of thing from happening. At 200MPH a chunk of metal can probably skid and jump along the ground for 500-1000 feet before coming to rest, so I would say a 2000 foot buffer zone all the way around the track would probably be appropriate.
After all, we have to remove 100% of all risk from every part of life, and even the smallest risk is unacceptable. Whatever it takes, no matter how much is spent, if just one life is saved, it's worth it.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that anything that has anything to do with the New York Times is a total scam.
Between authors that blatantly plagiarize other works to "journalists" that just make up facts, the NY Times has no credibility as a journalism organization. Why they are still allowed to retain "press" status is beyond me.
In the newer cameras that have 15+MP sensors that are really good at taking pictures of the Sun and nothing else, and save raw images with no compression, and with rapid burst modes for "spray and pray" photography, you absolutely have to have the fastest flash cards you can get.
Why would one not include multi-megabit satellite service in the classification of "broadband?"
Okay.
There is not one square inch where one cannot purchase broadband in the United States. 100% of the US is covered by one broadband provider or another. Every address, every plot of land, every square inch.
Anyone in the US who wants to purchase broadband can do so.
Americans already have universally available Internet access. There is not one square inch of the United States where one cannot purchase Internet access.
The numbers I posted DO include war spending. The numbers come from actual CBO tallies of all outlays, not just budgetary outlays.
1) sudo apt-get install gdm gnome-shell synaptic deborphan
2) When prompted, select gdm as default. Then reboot.
3) sudo apt-get remove unity unity-2d unity-2d-common unity-2d-panel unity-2d-shell unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-common unity-lens-applications unity-lens-files unity-lens-music unity-lens-video unity-lens-shopping unity-scope-musicstores unity-scope-video-remote unity-services indicator-messages indicator-status-provider-mc5 appmenu-qt appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 lightdm unity-greeter overlay-scrollbar zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub activity-log-manager-common activity-log-manager-control-center
4) sudo apt-get autoremove
5) sudo apt-get purge `deborphan`
6) sudo dpkg --purge `dpkg -l | egrep "^rc" | cut -d' ' -f3`
Trivial, even if you start with Unity.
"To save face I have decreed that the used-game lockout is to be removed from the product in development."
Just a few years ago, the budget was 2/3 of what it is now, so how were food inspections paid for then?
Most people don't realize that this big deficit spending problem started when the $787B "one time stimulus" became part of the baseline budget and was re-spent (and then some) year after year after year on the biggest government expansion ever seen on this Earth. That $787B is STILL being spent over and over again.
Bond Bubble Ben is still printing Bernanke Bucks at a rate of about $1T/year as well, because the FED is the only entity willing to buy new US debt anymore.
When are Americans going to wake up and realize that you can't spend money you don't have on things you neither want nor need and expect to come out ahead at the end of the day?
I guess "as long as I'm getting mine" is the new American Dream.
Here are some gross, as in disgusting, numbers for US Government Spending:
2006: 2655.1B
2007: 2728.7B
2008: 2982.5B
2009: 3517.7B
2010: 3456.2B
2011: 3598.1B
2001: 1862.8B
If you take the 2001 spending figure and adjust it for inflation, it is 2411B, so in 2011 dollars we're spending 1186B more than we were in 2001.
1.2T in government growth, people. That's 49%. And that's just government growth at the federal level. Government is taking fully 50% more money from us (and our kids, and their kids, and probably also their kids after that) than they were 10 years ago.
Sources:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/HistoricalBudgetData.xls
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt
Mine does. I have service with AT&T for my Nexus 4 and it makes and receives phone calls just fine... no contract whatsoever.
Yeah, I want a "prestigious" award from that guy...
The only reason gambling is so tightly regulated, and the only reason playing poker on the Internet is illegal, is because the government hates competition.
The government wants you playing government-run lotteries, like Powerball and Megamillions.
When I sit down at my PC, I want an interface that is designed for use on a PC, using a mouse and keyboard, and a large display.
When I pick up my phone or tablet, I want an interface that is designed for use on a phone or tablet, using finger swipes, taps, and gestures, and a small display.
THESE ARE TWO COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT THINGS.
Stop trying to make them the same.
Dear submitter,
Had you bothered to go actually look at the countdown timer, you would have seen the words "Tick, tock, tablet time!" in large print right there in front of your face, and you would have known to end the title of your summary with a period instead of a question mark, and avoided the whole "let me go make myself look like an ass on Slashdot" thing.
Thank you for your time.
You know, it is trivial to use something other than Unity on Ubuntu.
There are also kubuntu and xubuntu if you want to start with something else from the get go.
I use xfce myself.
If you don't like Unity on the PC, you don't have to use it.