Jack Thompson makes me kill people. I'm sorry, your honor, but Mr. Thompson knowingly and directly was responsible for that busload of children I strafed. Had I not seen him file numerous illegal and misleading law suits on violent video games, I would not have taken it upon myself to randomly remove other people like him from the gene pool.
This is so obviously FUD. The administration ordered a stay on all pending regulation and issues from the Bush Administration and this case happens to be one of them. So, what does someone looking to nail Obama do.. "oh well, they aren't immediately disavowing this terrible, terrible injustice, therefore, well they must be complicit!" Shake, stir, and toss to the usual gang of idiots on Slashdot and voila.. A major out of context brouhahah is born! Get a grip, morons.
I understand the need to draw down, but I certainly would hate for PJ to totally throw in the towel. She's accomplished something by harnessing the output of the legal system to an FOSS platform in a way Geeks can understand. That is elegant and original and incredibly, incredibly important. What about net neutrality and invasion of privacy and the next organization that decides, "Who cares about legality, we can get away with it." Groklaw is the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not get away with it. The legal system as it is, is the OS of our society. Groklaw is the repository for documentation of that OS and the ways it can be played with or corrupted, the same way exploits can be carried out in computer operating systems. It's stretching a metaphor naturally.
As everything has become more polarized, at least in America, its not beyond the realm of plausibility that traditional roles become more dug in. When a society, like ours, is under stress from multiple fronts and from a tidal wave of change in rolls and expectations, people grab the familiar straw first. And in a male dominated field, inertia rules anyway. Especially engineering, "this is the way it is son." Emphasis on "son." This is why I'm considering leaving the technical field myself. I'm so tired of not ever getting a fair hearing on my ideas.
Yes, in the very last episode of season 10. Mike and the bots are brought to a fiery crash landing due to a malfunction of Pearl Forrester' joystick. They survive and end up watching the very first bad movie ever riffed by MST3K.
After hearing Al's song, wouldn't it occur to his not so innocent audience that by typing in "file sharing sites" in google, they would then be taken to the current sites like the pirate bay where you can download to your hearts content? Really the only way to keep our youth safe is to blacken the entire screen and remove the sound too, actually. Hence the tremendous stupidity of censorship. The video is kind of a "how to" actually.
Your average heat treater is going to have gears and pieces that get screwed up during nitriding or other operations. Since you are doing sculptures, its quite possible you don't need the case hardening that a regular customer needs. See if you can find a shop that does a lot of pinion and sun gears for example, then offer to buy on the cheap things they can't fix in re-work. Since its a sculpture, you probably don't need to go custom on some of the sizes.
I think I agree with his thinking. I think his next project should be something involving Cutter John. There was a character who was always in support so we never, ever, got a look at what his story was. And it had to be fascinating. Cutter is the warrior we need for the dark time Breathed seems to see us approaching. I think he'd make a deeply wise, but powerful foil for what he does as an artist. Opus does belong to a more simpler, sweeter time.
I don't have anything against the guy, and I surmise that his comic is probably fairly representative of the genre, I'll probably check it out now. But as usual, this is another one off report from NPR trying to show they can be hip. What about Phil and Kaja Foglio and Girl Genius for example? And Penny Arcade, which you can hate all you want, but they are their own community and an example of a blockbuster in this medium. This piece sounded like they called up a few people to hash out a rough idea "Ooh.. webcomics!" and the Achewood guy is the only one who returned their e-mail.
It's very important that we present both sides of these issues, otherwise how will the children know that people of Jewish descent were merely relocated during the period 1939 to 1945 in Germany? Bit of a straw man, you say? Sorry, I'm an Engineer. And I make this particular extreme comparison in defense of my future young colleagues in the great state of Louisiana. My job is to tell the truth because when I don't tell the truth, people die! Sometimes lots of people in certain engineering disasters actually. And I'm afraid you can't give equal time to a lie because the act of giving equal time to that lie gives it a legitimacy that it does not deserve. Teach whatever you want in home school or private school, but teaching this garbage to future Civil Engineer's who I am going to be relying on to build useful infrastructure and follow specifications is a serious problem for me. These are smart kids, if they really have some doubts about evolution I trust them to go take a look at the competing nonsense being propagated.
Your Jedi mind tricks won't work on us, Physics weenie! Embrace the dark side. And yes, the Physics guys do hate us because applied physics isn't as sexy as blasting muons apart in super-colliders.
It's not Transparent Aluminum, it's "Unobtanium!" That mystical substance the mechanical engineer's are always using for their designs and then they get so darn frustrated when we give them the bad news.
Bonus points if you know the story about the big three auto company and the PHB who decided he didn't need heat treat. Any heat treaters out there?
"Prince Glass, Ceramics's son though crystal-clear Is no wise crystal"- John Updike, Dance of the Solids
Read Chapter 9, Fundamentals of Ceramics, Michel Barsoum for a discussion of same. And shout out to all my Material's Science homies who got here first! Mat Sci fo life, boyee!
Their intercept operators pulled up a trace from when my grandmother reminded me I have a "sweet tooth" on the phone and now I can't get them off my doorstep! I've got cases of thin mints in the basement! For the love of God, stop the madness!
I think this touches on a larger problem. It's always easier for people with no stake in a society to steal from that society. The digital divide may be more than just a difference in skill sets between old and young people. Younger people are living with their parents longer, then when they finally get off on their own they are poorer and most will stay poorer. There is also an enormous economic disincentive to have children of their own because of how little they really have. Therefore, piracy becomes highly attractive. The hidden meltdown of the dollar's buying power, poor economic choices for younger people who have tech knowledge and a lack of any real wage increase has more to do with this than morality. Combine that with frustration at having put oneself into debt for a potentially worthless college degree and a subsistence level approach to dealing with money matters (which IMHO is unfortunately what most middle class parents teach their kids now) and you have the current climate.
The government in the U.S. props up otherwise un-competitive businesses like the automotive industry and large agribusiness in a country that no longer wants or needs either, was it really a surprise when the entertainment guys wanted a piece of the pie? Suing customers is a lot more efficient then actually selling something, especially when the product is inferior. In the words of Harold W. Smith, "What about it? There is none! It doesn't exist! This guy figured out the perfect defense contract. Develop something for the military that doesn't exist because its already going to be obsolete in a year!" Unfortunately what we really need is a bipartisan group of Senators to legislate CURE into existence. A government organization with an unstoppable assassin to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of American citizens. There's something the Republicans can redeem themselves with!
As he was known in Afghanistan when he wore that stupid outfit. I'm pleased to see this hasn't become a major issue for Boeing. I think from what we're seeing that the reality of carbon fiber and the general level of the discourse has improved actually. It's easy to talk about how stupid American's have become to believe people like Dan but the piece in Wired I think may signal a light at the end of the tunnel. Our elected leaders and the mainstream media have lost so much credibility at this point that intelligent, rational discourse may be making a comeback. I can hope.
It's a more pervasive problem than that. Ignorance and a lack of learning are corroding the structures we depend upon to both innovate and produce healthy and intelligent children. It's a vicious cycle. If technology as a whole were better understood, we would have less knee jerk regulation and you can't really blame a politician for looking for a quick fix when they will be out of office on average in four to eight years. If a parent is a bad parent then its probably because they didn't learn how to be a good parent from their own father and mother (which is a skill by the way). Furthermore, computer technology inspires a certain elitist perspective from people who likely grew up with inferiority complexes already and build their own faults and imperfections into the machines. I use computers because of what they can do, not because they're way cool anymore. It's easy to blame rather than discuss the underlying problems. People are afraid. They then make poor decisions.
I'm glad the pain is over for him. Death is always a sure fire solution to pain. And he may be one of the last adults we will ever hear say "I didn't commit suicide because I wanted to set a good example for my children." Imagine, setting a good example. What a good thing to do. Thank you for Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt. Thank you for showing us a bunch of apes hiding in a cave full of offal and ordure while other flying apes drop rocks on them. Thank you for burning that image into us again and again. And thanks for being accountable and holding us accountable. I'm going to miss that a lot.
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Jack Thompson makes me kill people. I'm sorry, your honor, but Mr. Thompson knowingly and directly was responsible for that busload of children I strafed. Had I not seen him file numerous illegal and misleading law suits on violent video games, I would not have taken it upon myself to randomly remove other people like him from the gene pool.
This is so obviously FUD. The administration ordered a stay on all pending regulation and issues from the Bush Administration and this case happens to be one of them. So, what does someone looking to nail Obama do.. "oh well, they aren't immediately disavowing this terrible, terrible injustice, therefore, well they must be complicit!" Shake, stir, and toss to the usual gang of idiots on Slashdot and voila.. A major out of context brouhahah is born! Get a grip, morons.
I understand the need to draw down, but I certainly would hate for PJ to totally throw in the towel. She's accomplished something by harnessing the output of the legal system to an FOSS platform in a way Geeks can understand. That is elegant and original and incredibly, incredibly important. What about net neutrality and invasion of privacy and the next organization that decides, "Who cares about legality, we can get away with it." Groklaw is the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not get away with it. The legal system as it is, is the OS of our society. Groklaw is the repository for documentation of that OS and the ways it can be played with or corrupted, the same way exploits can be carried out in computer operating systems. It's stretching a metaphor naturally.
As everything has become more polarized, at least in America, its not beyond the realm of plausibility that traditional roles become more dug in. When a society, like ours, is under stress from multiple fronts and from a tidal wave of change in rolls and expectations, people grab the familiar straw first. And in a male dominated field, inertia rules anyway. Especially engineering, "this is the way it is son." Emphasis on "son." This is why I'm considering leaving the technical field myself. I'm so tired of not ever getting a fair hearing on my ideas.
"Uhuh.. that's nice.. MOOOOMMMMM!"
"Mom.. Dad, tell me you heard that!?
"You better listen to him Buzz!" Or I'll kill you!
"The Sidehackers": "Side hacking is the thing to do, where it doesn't hurt to have a low IQ!"
"Wild Rebels": "Wild Rebels Cereal! Crunchy Oat Rods! Pouring milk on them is like shooting off a gun!"
"Attack of the giant leaches": "They filmed this in Corman's swimming pool, apparently."
"The Killer Shrews, with junior Rodeo daredevils": "So, are the shrews and the dogs friends?"
It's so evil, so insidious, and it all culminates in.. DEEP HURTING! DEEEEEEPPP HURTING!
Yes, in the very last episode of season 10. Mike and the bots are brought to a fiery crash landing due to a malfunction of Pearl Forrester' joystick. They survive and end up watching the very first bad movie ever riffed by MST3K.
"I want to decide who lives and who dies!"
Buff Bigblock!
GYMKATA! I'm huge!
After hearing Al's song, wouldn't it occur to his not so innocent audience that by typing in "file sharing sites" in google, they would then be taken to the current sites like the pirate bay where you can download to your hearts content? Really the only way to keep our youth safe is to blacken the entire screen and remove the sound too, actually. Hence the tremendous stupidity of censorship. The video is kind of a "how to" actually.
Your average heat treater is going to have gears and pieces that get screwed up during nitriding or other operations. Since you are doing sculptures, its quite possible you don't need the case hardening that a regular customer needs. See if you can find a shop that does a lot of pinion and sun gears for example, then offer to buy on the cheap things they can't fix in re-work. Since its a sculpture, you probably don't need to go custom on some of the sizes.
I think I agree with his thinking. I think his next project should be something involving Cutter John. There was a character who was always in support so we never, ever, got a look at what his story was. And it had to be fascinating. Cutter is the warrior we need for the dark time Breathed seems to see us approaching. I think he'd make a deeply wise, but powerful foil for what he does as an artist. Opus does belong to a more simpler, sweeter time.
I don't have anything against the guy, and I surmise that his comic is probably fairly representative of the genre, I'll probably check it out now. But as usual, this is another one off report from NPR trying to show they can be hip. What about Phil and Kaja Foglio and Girl Genius for example? And Penny Arcade, which you can hate all you want, but they are their own community and an example of a blockbuster in this medium. This piece sounded like they called up a few people to hash out a rough idea "Ooh.. webcomics!" and the Achewood guy is the only one who returned their e-mail.
It's very important that we present both sides of these issues, otherwise how will the children know that people of Jewish descent were merely relocated during the period 1939 to 1945 in Germany? Bit of a straw man, you say? Sorry, I'm an Engineer. And I make this particular extreme comparison in defense of my future young colleagues in the great state of Louisiana. My job is to tell the truth because when I don't tell the truth, people die! Sometimes lots of people in certain engineering disasters actually. And I'm afraid you can't give equal time to a lie because the act of giving equal time to that lie gives it a legitimacy that it does not deserve. Teach whatever you want in home school or private school, but teaching this garbage to future Civil Engineer's who I am going to be relying on to build useful infrastructure and follow specifications is a serious problem for me. These are smart kids, if they really have some doubts about evolution I trust them to go take a look at the competing nonsense being propagated.
Your Jedi mind tricks won't work on us, Physics weenie! Embrace the dark side. And yes, the Physics guys do hate us because applied physics isn't as sexy as blasting muons apart in super-colliders.
It's not Transparent Aluminum, it's "Unobtanium!" That mystical substance the mechanical engineer's are always using for their designs and then they get so darn frustrated when we give them the bad news.
Bonus points if you know the story about the big three auto company and the PHB who decided he didn't need heat treat. Any heat treaters out there?
"Prince Glass, Ceramics's son though crystal-clear Is no wise crystal"- John Updike, Dance of the Solids
Read Chapter 9, Fundamentals of Ceramics, Michel Barsoum for a discussion of same. And shout out to all my Material's Science homies who got here first! Mat Sci fo life, boyee!
Their intercept operators pulled up a trace from when my grandmother reminded me I have a "sweet tooth" on the phone and now I can't get them off my doorstep! I've got cases of thin mints in the basement! For the love of God, stop the madness!
I think this touches on a larger problem. It's always easier for people with no stake in a society to steal from that society. The digital divide may be more than just a difference in skill sets between old and young people. Younger people are living with their parents longer, then when they finally get off on their own they are poorer and most will stay poorer. There is also an enormous economic disincentive to have children of their own because of how little they really have. Therefore, piracy becomes highly attractive. The hidden meltdown of the dollar's buying power, poor economic choices for younger people who have tech knowledge and a lack of any real wage increase has more to do with this than morality. Combine that with frustration at having put oneself into debt for a potentially worthless college degree and a subsistence level approach to dealing with money matters (which IMHO is unfortunately what most middle class parents teach their kids now) and you have the current climate.
The government in the U.S. props up otherwise un-competitive businesses like the automotive industry and large agribusiness in a country that no longer wants or needs either, was it really a surprise when the entertainment guys wanted a piece of the pie? Suing customers is a lot more efficient then actually selling something, especially when the product is inferior. In the words of Harold W. Smith, "What about it? There is none! It doesn't exist! This guy figured out the perfect defense contract. Develop something for the military that doesn't exist because its already going to be obsolete in a year!" Unfortunately what we really need is a bipartisan group of Senators to legislate CURE into existence. A government organization with an unstoppable assassin to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of American citizens. There's something the Republicans can redeem themselves with!
As he was known in Afghanistan when he wore that stupid outfit. I'm pleased to see this hasn't become a major issue for Boeing. I think from what we're seeing that the reality of carbon fiber and the general level of the discourse has improved actually. It's easy to talk about how stupid American's have become to believe people like Dan but the piece in Wired I think may signal a light at the end of the tunnel. Our elected leaders and the mainstream media have lost so much credibility at this point that intelligent, rational discourse may be making a comeback. I can hope.
It's a more pervasive problem than that. Ignorance and a lack of learning are corroding the structures we depend upon to both innovate and produce healthy and intelligent children. It's a vicious cycle. If technology as a whole were better understood, we would have less knee jerk regulation and you can't really blame a politician for looking for a quick fix when they will be out of office on average in four to eight years. If a parent is a bad parent then its probably because they didn't learn how to be a good parent from their own father and mother (which is a skill by the way). Furthermore, computer technology inspires a certain elitist perspective from people who likely grew up with inferiority complexes already and build their own faults and imperfections into the machines. I use computers because of what they can do, not because they're way cool anymore. It's easy to blame rather than discuss the underlying problems. People are afraid. They then make poor decisions.
I'm glad the pain is over for him. Death is always a sure fire solution to pain. And he may be one of the last adults we will ever hear say "I didn't commit suicide because I wanted to set a good example for my children." Imagine, setting a good example. What a good thing to do. Thank you for Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt. Thank you for showing us a bunch of apes hiding in a cave full of offal and ordure while other flying apes drop rocks on them. Thank you for burning that image into us again and again. And thanks for being accountable and holding us accountable. I'm going to miss that a lot. [-)