The governing parties say paintball trivialises violence and risks lowering the threshold for committing violent acts.
Obviously Germans would be committing fewer violent acts if they didn't have paintball. I mean, just look at the first half of the twentieth century. Paintball was more popular than air when the Germans tried to take over the continent (twice!) and wiped out six million people. Now that paintball is waning in popularity, and played by maybe 1% of the population, the country has maybe 200 murders per year. It's good to see that the German government is familiar with history and is willing to be proactive about the salient issues.
Linux is a fantastic OS but many of the applications that run on it are just not mature enough to be used by laymen.
Many would argue that Linux is too mature to be used by laymen, and that the developers realize people sometimes need access to these options. Windows usually just locks people out of these options altogether, and the user is just SOL if something might require tinkering.
Oh, yeah. Forcing someone to watch a poorly-animated cartoon is so much worse than sticking them in a gas chamber, or waterboarding them. Shame on our soldiers. They should look to our intelligence agencies and Saddam's soldiers for inspiration as to how to be true patriots, and how to respect the Geneva Convention.
It's the conceit of the hard science fiction fan, the sort of chubby white male who worships Niven and Pournelle and Heinlein and believes that girls don't talk to him because they're man-hating feminists.
I consider myself a hard science fiction fan, I worship Niven and Heinlein (Pournelle is okay), and I know girls don't talk to me simply because I wear Dragonball Z shirts and can't make eye-contact with them, not because they're feminists.
Definitely. I read the first sentence, and thought, "Who is this Rands guy, and why should I care?" Then the next two sentences didn't tell me who he was or why I should care. So guess what?
There is a copious amount of software that I currently use as a graduate student, and also used when conducting undergrad research, back in my younger, simpler days:
And that is nowhere near an exhaustive list. Yes, some of those do have free or common (MS Excel) alternatives. But when you have 15 years of group research data that you are using, it's not an alternative.
And we can't SSH in - the most access they give us is VPN.
If labs die at my university, it will be because our IT department is a joke - the boxes suck so much that no one can stand to use them. When it takes 90 seconds to open Firefox, it's time to reimage them. Except then they sit for another semester. . .
. . . Good for the managers. Personal problems shouldn't affect their decisions. What, the managers should instead lay off a better employee because they're feeling sorry for this woman?
I yanked my photos off and I won't be putting up any more.
Unfortunately. ..
"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website. . .
Too bad that Facebook claims it already owns your photos, now. You yanked them too late, and they're gonna sell them to the Weekly World News, and we'll all learn about how you met Bat Boy at some tranny bar in Hoboken while plotting your time-travel assassination of JFK.
I thought that "Darwinism" was a term thought up by the religious anti-evolution side.
I agree with you there. In all of the biology classes I've taken (several, but not a mind-boggling amount - I've a B.S. in biochemistry), I cannot recall a single professor mentioning "Darwinism." It's only in the non-scientific classes, the media as a whole, and in one case, when we had a "Darwinism vs. Creationism" mock trial held by the law school, which, of course, was run by the law students. Of course, that title does sound better to me than "Evolution vs. Creationism," which my brain just hears as "Rhino vs. Baby."
But at my university, the chemistry department does take on high-schoolers with an interest (and some background) for chemical research, part-time unpaid during the academic year, and $10/hr for 10 weeks during the summer (the standard research period). Just start emailing everyone you can find who's doing work that sounds interesting - you're bound to find something.
Don't forget about the basic rule of scientific research - triple the amount of time you think it will take. So, when this researcher says that he'll be growing teeth in one year, he really means three. So we'll really see this on the (free) market in 20-25 years.
Fortunately, my dentist has a drug habit to support:)
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The governing parties say paintball trivialises violence and risks lowering the threshold for committing violent acts.
Obviously Germans would be committing fewer violent acts if they didn't have paintball. I mean, just look at the first half of the twentieth century. Paintball was more popular than air when the Germans tried to take over the continent (twice!) and wiped out six million people. Now that paintball is waning in popularity, and played by maybe 1% of the population, the country has maybe 200 murders per year. It's good to see that the German government is familiar with history and is willing to be proactive about the salient issues.
. . .is like the difference between GQ/Esquire and Maxim.
There's a difference?
I was wondering what baseball players were doing taking the subway.
That instantly ruled out doing a big expansion because those things just take so damn long to do.
Isn't that what Valve said about the Half-Life 2 episodes?
A weird weapon, it only works if you don't use it... shades of WarGames.
Tell that to the Japanese.
Linux is a fantastic OS but many of the applications that run on it are just not mature enough to be used by laymen.
Many would argue that Linux is too mature to be used by laymen, and that the developers realize people sometimes need access to these options. Windows usually just locks people out of these options altogether, and the user is just SOL if something might require tinkering.
Oh, yeah. Forcing someone to watch a poorly-animated cartoon is so much worse than sticking them in a gas chamber, or waterboarding them. Shame on our soldiers. They should look to our intelligence agencies and Saddam's soldiers for inspiration as to how to be true patriots, and how to respect the Geneva Convention.
It's the conceit of the hard science fiction fan, the sort of chubby white male who worships Niven and Pournelle and Heinlein and believes that girls don't talk to him because they're man-hating feminists.
I consider myself a hard science fiction fan, I worship Niven and Heinlein (Pournelle is okay), and I know girls don't talk to me simply because I wear Dragonball Z shirts and can't make eye-contact with them, not because they're feminists.
The only sure-fire way to protect yourselves is to do a 'search' on your PC for any file with the .JPG extension and delete it.
Parent post lies! I did this, and now my collection of scantily-clad Mickey Rourke photos is gone! This obviously did not remove the virus!
Definitely. I read the first sentence, and thought, "Who is this Rands guy, and why should I care?" Then the next two sentences didn't tell me who he was or why I should care. So guess what?
I don't care.
I am waiting for the **IA to sue Facebook for "aiding piracy." That will be a fun one to watch.
There is a copious amount of software that I currently use as a graduate student, and also used when conducting undergrad research, back in my younger, simpler days:
Jeol's Delta NMR software
Spartan Modeling program
SciFinder Scholar
Graphical Analysis
SPSS
ChemDraw
And that is nowhere near an exhaustive list. Yes, some of those do have free or common (MS Excel) alternatives. But when you have 15 years of group research data that you are using, it's not an alternative.
And we can't SSH in - the most access they give us is VPN.
If labs die at my university, it will be because our IT department is a joke - the boxes suck so much that no one can stand to use them. When it takes 90 seconds to open Firefox, it's time to reimage them. Except then they sit for another semester. . .
I'm sure he's looking at it from the view of, "Every computer in the world should be running Windows!"
STOP GOING BACK IN TIME.
Then how are we going to work our gratuitous Huey Lewis references in?
. . . Good for the managers. Personal problems shouldn't affect their decisions. What, the managers should instead lay off a better employee because they're feeling sorry for this woman?
I yanked my photos off and I won't be putting up any more.
Unfortunately. . .
"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website. . .
Too bad that Facebook claims it already owns your photos, now. You yanked them too late, and they're gonna sell them to the Weekly World News, and we'll all learn about how you met Bat Boy at some tranny bar in Hoboken while plotting your time-travel assassination of JFK.
So this means I can expect Super Sonic Ball!?
How about Commix?
I thought that "Darwinism" was a term thought up by the religious anti-evolution side.
I agree with you there. In all of the biology classes I've taken (several, but not a mind-boggling amount - I've a B.S. in biochemistry), I cannot recall a single professor mentioning "Darwinism." It's only in the non-scientific classes, the media as a whole, and in one case, when we had a "Darwinism vs. Creationism" mock trial held by the law school, which, of course, was run by the law students. Of course, that title does sound better to me than "Evolution vs. Creationism," which my brain just hears as "Rhino vs. Baby."
. . . that half of the US population doesn't even want broadband?
But at my university, the chemistry department does take on high-schoolers with an interest (and some background) for chemical research, part-time unpaid during the academic year, and $10/hr for 10 weeks during the summer (the standard research period). Just start emailing everyone you can find who's doing work that sounds interesting - you're bound to find something.
. . . pics or it didn't happen.
Now, I'm not one to RTFA, but wouldn't that be table tennis?
God - I totally read your title as "Yeah. . . bout that IUD." It's been a long day. . .
Don't forget about the basic rule of scientific research - triple the amount of time you think it will take. So, when this researcher says that he'll be growing teeth in one year, he really means three. So we'll really see this on the (free) market in 20-25 years.
:)
Fortunately, my dentist has a drug habit to support