So, the entire census is conducted at exactly the same second? If you take a full day, you're going to have people you already counted who died in that period, people you already counted who have since given birth in that period, etc.
This episode features my new co-host Mary, a relay operator. It also features songs, skits, messages, commentary, commercials and raps all performed by deaf relay operators. It's approximately 17 minutes long and the download is 15,597 kb. Click here to listen to it.
Most of the relay voicemail messages played are more than 10 years old. The message involving the terrorist blowing up a commuter airline, done in 1994, was left on my own voicemail by myself while hanging out in the Portland, Oregon airport. "Mahmoad" was my roommate's name. Other messages were left on my home answering machine by PLA readers that I don't know. Thanks to RTF who made the Shakesphere promo for us a couple years ago.
The people over at the Deaf Relay Message Board aren't too amused with this episode! Be sure to stop by and say hello to the board moderator, Clear-Conscience. There's some great messages there relating to relay prank calls and a lot of the ops think that they're vigilantes and will call back the pranksters.
What's interesting is that the more languages you know, the easier it gets to learn new ones. I know Spanish, Catalan, English and Japanese, and now I'm studying mandarin Chinese. While learning to speak it is a real pain in the ass, the fact is that learning Chinese is improving my Japanese noticeably.
Hey, please tell me where you work. Looks like a very nice place (specially if they pay $600 for EACH extra language that you can speak).
My mother tongues are Spanish and Catalan, and I also speak English and Japanese fluently. It would be cool to get $1800 extra/month just by showing up.;)
When we have intelligent enough robots to give them a feeling of pain and emotion, Pain is just the warning system that our body uses to tell us that there's damage somewhere. It's not pleasant, but it has done quite a good job during the last few million years telling a bunch of semi-intelligent apes that something was wrong.
But, If we ever become able to create robots that are able to feel, why should be make them able to feel pain? Wouldn't that be cruel? Wouldn't some damage-diagnostic system be more "humane" and effective?
Unless, of course, what we want to do is keep these intelligent robots under control...
I want to start a new political movement. Every time someone does something like this, you take their phone and smash it. Violence against the people who do it is also fully justified. Your wish has been granted. And there are videos:
Finally, the same-sex marriage. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behavior contrary to basic biological drives (reproduction) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Finally, fast-food restaurants. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (nutrition) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Finally, the tobacco industry. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (breathing) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Finally, couch-patatoing. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (exercising) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
My point is that people do things that someone could argue "contrary to basic biological drives" all the time. Just for fun, for pleasure, or just because they want to. And you don't have the right to tell other people who they should marry to or what they should do with their lives.
And as a side note, homosexual behaviour in animals has been observed many times in the wild. I'm sure that you know and that you're conveniently ignoring the fact that it is a perfectly normal behaviour, biologically and psychologically speaking, regardless of what current-day society might think.
Even though I don't agree with what you say (I'm an atheist, and I'm pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, etc), I'm glad to see that there are some among you who can answer politely about your beliefs. It's a pity that most religious people aren't like you.
Fascism is a radical authoritarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, totalitarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism.
I think that this describes the current political situation in the USA pretty well.
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So, the entire census is conducted at exactly the same second? If you take a full day, you're going to have people you already counted who died in that period, people you already counted who have since given birth in that period, etc.
Just take a snapshot before the census! Duh!
Wooooooooosh!
It's almost funny how you spam every Slashdot post with useless polls in order to bring traffic to your lame polling site.
Why would Google have to comply with EU regulations? :?
Maybe because they do business in Europe?
From the Phone Losers of America:
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EPISODE #3 - Deaf Relay Operators
This episode features my new co-host Mary, a relay operator. It also features songs, skits, messages, commentary, commercials and raps all performed by deaf relay operators. It's approximately 17 minutes long and the download is 15,597 kb. Click here to listen to it.
Most of the relay voicemail messages played are more than 10 years old. The message involving the terrorist blowing up a commuter airline, done in 1994, was left on my own voicemail by myself while hanging out in the Portland, Oregon airport. "Mahmoad" was my roommate's name. Other messages were left on my home answering machine by PLA readers that I don't know. Thanks to RTF who made the Shakesphere promo for us a couple years ago.
The people over at the Deaf Relay Message Board aren't too amused with this episode! Be sure to stop by and say hello to the board moderator, Clear-Conscience. There's some great messages there relating to relay prank calls and a lot of the ops think that they're vigilantes and will call back the pranksters.
The MP3 file is here: http://www.oldpeoplearefunny.com/sound/plaradio03
What's interesting is that the more languages you know, the easier it gets to learn new ones. I know Spanish, Catalan, English and Japanese, and now I'm studying mandarin Chinese. While learning to speak it is a real pain in the ass, the fact is that learning Chinese is improving my Japanese noticeably.
Hey, please tell me where you work. Looks like a very nice place (specially if they pay $600 for EACH extra language that you can speak).
;)
My mother tongues are Spanish and Catalan, and I also speak English and Japanese fluently. It would be cool to get $1800 extra/month just by showing up.
But, If we ever become able to create robots that are able to feel, why should be make them able to feel pain? Wouldn't that be cruel? Wouldn't some damage-diagnostic system be more "humane" and effective?
Unless, of course, what we want to do is keep these intelligent robots under control...
http://www.phonebashing.com/
You're welcome.
-nB Sorry, but I'm busy today. Remind me about this tomorrow.
That might not be so far off. A friend of mine has been working on something like that implemented with magnets, also based on the gecko's feet.
There's a video showing the system here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rG8j1nFSss
... noticie... mobilised... altho... alther... evactuation... sufface... missles... alquada... certianly... equimpment... evactuation... demorilise... certianly... houndred... certianly... slater... quickely... importently... importent... defencive... dosent... mountians... desprate... Hittler... Defence... civilisation... Man, are you that new ultra-secret US weapon? It certainly hurts reading your message (leaving bad grammar aside).
Whatever it was what you were trying to say, your spelling your spelling made it go down the drain.
I can not imagine NOT taking 2-3 weeks off each quarter for a real vacation. What prevents people from doing that?
Living in Japan, for example. I've got 11 days/year.
Excuse me, but I'm not sure I understand what you wrote. You need to show your ID when shopping at a grocery store? Why?
I don't think it's possible though, otherwise we would probably be getting messages from the future, wouldn't we?
Maybe we're already getting them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Here is a decent source of HAL/S examples:r s/Appendix-II.html
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/compute
There's a bug in the third line of the collision_check procedure ("DELCARE" instead of "DECLARE").
The maker is being completely idiotic not selling them to geeks.
The maker just sold 1.2 million of these. I wouldn't call that "being completely idiotic".
factor 59629: 59629
Need parts without buying full sets?
http://www.bricklink.com/
You're welcome.
Instead of "Ask Slashdot", shouldn't this be under "Ask Your Lawyer"?
Yes, you're right. Bisexuality is more common. But homosexuality isn't exactly unheard of:
They're in love. They're gay. They're penguins.
Finally, the same-sex marriage. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behavior contrary to basic biological drives (reproduction) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Finally, fast-food restaurants. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (nutrition) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Finally, the tobacco industry. Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (breathing) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
Finally, couch-patatoing . Moral issues aside, willfully engaging in behaviour contrary to basic biological drives (exercising) indicates something seriously wrong with an individual.
My point is that people do things that someone could argue "contrary to basic biological drives" all the time. Just for fun, for pleasure, or just because they want to. And you don't have the right to tell other people who they should marry to or what they should do with their lives.
And as a side note, homosexual behaviour in animals has been observed many times in the wild. I'm sure that you know and that you're conveniently ignoring the fact that it is a perfectly normal behaviour, biologically and psychologically speaking, regardless of what current-day society might think.
Even though I don't agree with what you say (I'm an atheist, and I'm pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, etc), I'm glad to see that there are some among you who can answer politely about your beliefs. It's a pity that most religious people aren't like you.
From the Wikipedia article:
Fascism is a radical authoritarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, totalitarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism.
I think that this describes the current political situation in the USA pretty well.