And democracy, strictly defined, is a pretty bad idea. Ask anyone who lives in a country where a hostile ethnic majority gets to vote on what happens to minorities it doesn't like.
For once a chair related joke could actually be funny on slashdot. Yet,everyone is screwing it up. Incredible. It should be the opposite. What is the opposite of throwing a chair? Building a chair. Eric Schmidt should be happy someone who thinks microsoft is a better company is leaving his company. He should be so happy, he builds himself a celebration throne. or alternatively Balmer is happy and has a chair built.
Okay the joke still needs a bit of work, but its better than what was. Well, Sort of. I give myself a A for idea, but a C minus for implementation of that joke.
Building a chair is not the opposite of throwing it. You can do a simple Russian reversal test to see if it's truly the opposite.
In Imperialist Microsoft, a chair is thrown by YOU! is reversed to
In Jovial Google, a chair is built by YOU!... No. this feels wrong.
In Jovial Google, a chair is thrown on YOU!... is the correct reversal.
So, ideally the employer should have thrown the chair at Schmidt when he left.
No, 70 degrees is about four-fifths of a right angle. For those of us in the civilized world, 70 degrees is roughly 1.2217 radians. Sheesh, who used degrees these days?! Stupid article.
The frightening truth is that the only reason this sparked an outrage is that they introduced too much too fast. Had they broken this up in three or more minor laws and introduced them with a few months in between, they would have successfully boiled the frog that is Swedish personal integrity and freedom from arbitrary monitoring.
And how exactly do you plan to do that? Do we have any material that won't melt under the intense heat? It isn't that hot. The surface is merely 5800 K. We achieve and contain that sort of temperature on a regular basis here on earth.
The problem isn't to contain such a temperature, but to do it in a way that is compatible with space travel (i.e. not involving heavy and brittle insulation.)
You would have been eaten by a fr0st p1st long before you whipped out your torch. Fortunately, the dire fr0st p1st that used to prowl the MUD dropped it's torch and was eaten by a grue.
> look You see various posts, modded funny, insightful and troll. > examine fp You see the First Post. It is modded 5, Funny. > look in fp It's dark. You see nothing. > equip torch Ok. > look in fp It wasn't that funny. Just got the attention of all moderators since it was first. Poster has a low UID. > attack fp. You try to stab the fp, but miss. The fp stabs you in the face. You die. The post was funnier than you thought. R.I.P.
I was very disappointed that this article had nothing to do with a sequel to Loom, though. Loom was made by LucasFilm Games, not Activision. Altho a Loom/Fallout merger sounds quite interesting...:) Unfortunately, it looks like they're gonna build it in shockwave:-(
"U5 (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France and New-Zealand)": Is this a typo/mistranslation? Because neither I, nor wikipedia knows what this is. G5, however seems to describe the same thing.
It's the actual software they use on CSI. Read more here. I think he refers to the software in which they miraculously rotate a single two dimensional image to see stuff from other angles, or enhance gritty 320x200 CCTV images into uber-high resolution with no artifacts or fuzziness.
(Might have been in some other forensics/cop show they did that, though.)
Considering that the US will be China's bitch in a few years, I suggest you do in fact learn Chinese!
Back in the 80's they told us that the US would be Japan's bitch and we should all learn to speak Japanese. Heck, maybe we'll be Mexico's bitch and we should learn Spanish? With such confusion as to who was going to be our new overlords, no wonder Esperanto was big.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency. And bogus copyright claims. Our four,... no. Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and bogus copyright claims.... I'll come in again.
Exactly, how does extinction / loss of a food supply / mutating desease which have earlier almost killed a whole industry become small news? I would more likely find it the biggest news this day on Slashdot, time will tell.
I guess he just don't eat bananas. It'd make a relatively decent sci-fi channel film. A mutant banana virus taking over the world. Yeah... Sounds about right. Maybe even a HUGE mutant banana virus, the size of a large dog! With slime and goo oozing off it!
I remember visiting a recycling center when I was in elementary school. One particular item that they picked on as being very difficult to recycle was the Pringles can. A bizarre combination of metal, cardboard, and plastic, it is almost impossible for them to get the components apart.
So, no thanks for failing to consider the environmental impact of your design. Dude! It was invented in the 1970s! Thinking of the environment wasn't invented back then!
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And democracy, strictly defined, is a pretty bad idea. Ask anyone who lives in a country where a hostile ethnic majority gets to vote on what happens to minorities it doesn't like.
Because democratically elected people never wipe out ethnic minorities.
In my ignorance, I asked myself "where the hell is Bavaria?". So I wiki'd it. Turns out, it's in Germany.
The more you know...
Although I think direct democracy would have its own problems too - we'd be under the will of the masses.
I do believe that's pretty much the exact definition of democracy.
For once a chair related joke could actually be funny on slashdot. Yet,everyone is screwing it up. Incredible. It should be the opposite. What is the opposite of throwing a chair? Building a chair. Eric Schmidt should be happy someone who thinks microsoft is a better company is leaving his company. He should be so happy, he builds himself a celebration throne. or alternatively Balmer is happy and has a chair built.
Okay the joke still needs a bit of work, but its better than what was. Well, Sort of. I give myself a A for idea, but a C minus for implementation of that joke.
Building a chair is not the opposite of throwing it. You can do a simple Russian reversal test to see if it's truly the opposite.
In Imperialist Microsoft, a chair is thrown by YOU! is reversed to
So, ideally the employer should have thrown the chair at Schmidt when he left.
Hopefully some of the google brass will have the humor to upload a video of themselves throwing a chair on youtube^Hgoogle video.
http://slashdot.dot/
Woohoo!
H t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot dot...?Hm. You could develop this into some sort of morse code.
So, since geek.com is already registered, we can register --. . . -.-, or
http://dotdotdotslash.slash/
Followed by
2. ???
And
3. Profit!
At this pace, in 25 years or so, there might even be a youtube video embedded in a Slashdot post.
" Although copyright issues really have little to do with national security... "
Try telling that to the US Gov't.
You're getting the lawmaker newspeak confused. Smoking pot is terrorism, piracy is the same as child pornography and paedophilia.The frightening truth is that the only reason this sparked an outrage is that they introduced too much too fast. Had they broken this up in three or more minor laws and introduced them with a few months in between, they would have successfully boiled the frog that is Swedish personal integrity and freedom from arbitrary monitoring.
If the Japanese abuse my physics, I'll abuse their meter!
My car is
Propelled by Maxwell's demon
You insensitive clod!
The problem isn't to contain such a temperature, but to do it in a way that is compatible with space travel (i.e. not involving heavy and brittle insulation.)
Welcome to Slashdot MUD
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Login: Eudial
Password: *********
Welcome!
> look
You see various posts, modded funny, insightful and troll.
> examine fp
You see the First Post. It is modded 5, Funny.
> look in fp
It's dark. You see nothing.
> equip torch
Ok.
> look in fp
It wasn't that funny. Just got the attention of all moderators since it was first. Poster has a low UID.
> attack fp.
You try to stab the fp, but miss.
The fp stabs you in the face.
You die. The post was funnier than you thought.
R.I.P.
Connection reset by server.
Hmmm... could work.
"U5 (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France and New-Zealand)": Is this a typo/mistranslation? Because neither I, nor wikipedia knows what this is. G5, however seems to describe the same thing.
(Might have been in some other forensics/cop show they did that, though.)
Back in the 80's they told us that the US would be Japan's bitch and we should all learn to speak Japanese. Heck, maybe we'll be Mexico's bitch and we should learn Spanish? With such confusion as to who was going to be our new overlords, no wonder Esperanto was big.
"Thank you, but we already knew you were going to say that.
Sincerely,
Your new mind-reading computer overlords." You forgot to wear your tin foil hat.
I guess he just don't eat bananas. It'd make a relatively decent sci-fi channel film. A mutant banana virus taking over the world. Yeah... Sounds about right. Maybe even a HUGE mutant banana virus, the size of a large dog! With slime and goo oozing off it!
Because Hackers can turn your computer into a BOMB!
Sure, Australians know about drop bears, but these are Moose! Much heavier.
Not to mention they have sharp antlers!So, no thanks for failing to consider the environmental impact of your design. Dude! It was invented in the 1970s! Thinking of the environment wasn't invented back then!