Perhaps they'll use balloons at a higher altitude to shoot down and use features on the ground to provide the same effect. Why not race over stunning land features like the grand canyon, etc?
I think you missed the point. I don't think he's saying that air pollution is causing global warming. Perhaps he's merely suggesting that air pollution more than likely will cause bad things to happen. It's not something that occurs naturally and didn't happen until recently. Perhaps since we don't know what the effects will be and since they have the potential to be harmful, we should try to limit the amount of junk we put in the air.
I think it should be blatantly obvious that there's a difference between saying, "Hmm... this hasn't been in the environment before in these quantities, maybe we shouldn't do that" and "Hmm... there's a light moving in the sky, we better build a huge battery of nuclear weapons so we can shoot it down in case it attacks us."
True. I moved to the Twin Cities from Waterloo/Cedar Falls a year and a half ago. I do recall their being decent Tech jobs available in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Des Moines. Iowa City is the only one of those I'd want to live in and that's not all that great.
There were actually several references to her being elected in Ep I. They never mentioned a term length, so I think a lot of people assumed it was a life-term because of the whole Queen title.
I work with a guy that joined that very unit shortly after the whole Blackhawk Down thing happened and he actually knows some of the real people portrayed in the movie. Basically his feeling is that the tactical action and related events are dead on, but the interpersonal interactions are complete horseshit, especially the way some spoke with COs.
Point taken, but a little devil's advocate here... how many of those fire fighters do you think were hockey/football players or "other meat heads." There is a certain degree of physical acuity required to perform those jobs and learning how to control/condition your body is important as well. Do you want some 300lb flabby sysadmin rushing in to the burning building to save you?
Also, the whole theory of broad based liberal education is that many things are inter-related and the more you know the better. I could elaborate more, but I don't feel like it.
Now I've read the Clifford Stoll. I think he's an idiot too.
Why exactly does he think that people can't/won't read a book because it's on their monitor instead of printed on paper? I've done it before.
Why exactly does he seem to believe that by having computers in the classroom will somehow have school systems hiring high school drop-outs to monitor the classroom instead of teaching teachers simply use the computers as a resource to augment the classroom?
What the hell is with the comment about learning not being fun? Just because something requires work means it's not fun? Because it takes less effort to get information makes it less useful to learn it?
I can't think of a better way to learn to think logically than programming. You have to learn how to define the problem, how to pick the right tools for the job, then assemble in such a way that you solve the problem. There's a lot more to it than stated here, but I think computers have their place in education.
Maybe computers should be extracted from English classes (except for research) the same way calculators are not allowed for basic math classes.
However, it might be more acceptable to dissect a virtual cat than a real one, thus still allowing those who disagree with the practice to gain the same knowledge and experience.
In conclusion, you are a narrow minded, non-creative simpleton.
Now, that Kathleen Fent is in OH, which does neighbor MI, but I doubt it's the right one. It would, however, be hilarious if some random housewife started getting thousands of calls from people congratulating her!
Slashdot is really that bad? I tend to browse in the highest-rated first, grouped by thread mode. That leaves a lot of the cruft below my radar screen... as I get tired of reading the same thing over and over again at about the third time I see it!:)
You might want to check out www.kuro5hin.org if you haven't already. Tends to be a little higher quality discussion there, but as a by-product it takes longer to a little longer to get through a story.
For 'free press' check out www.indymedia.org, again if you haven't already. They certainly offer a contrast to what most see, but they are quite biased as well. Also, by being on a local centers mailing list, you can get cool things like my "Tom Brokaw is full of shit" T-Shirt. I've had a few interesting conversations with people over that shirt.
I wasn't detracting from what you had to say, just making an observation. Don't take things quite so literally. All that quote means is that the person controlling the making and/or distribution of information (news, history, whatever) are able to color the facts any way they want.
The West is in power in the West... that's probably why it's termed "the West". Most of the information that the Western media has to rely on comes directly from the administrations governing the West. It's been deemed by the public at large that anything dissenting from the propganda of the leaders of the West is un-American (at least in America, is their an un-WhateverCountryYouHappenToLiveIn equivalent in other countries?) and evil.
Do I think that it's a novel comment and that I'm brilliant to have espoused it here? Fuck no! Do I think it's a worthwhile summation on the limited viewpoint available in Western media? Fuck yes!
Can anyone explain to me why it's inappropriate for people of any age to see/hear graphic sex/violence/language? Most people act as though the reasons for this are crystal clear. I just don't get it. These things are part of our lives. Chances are these are all things you can and will see/hear in your own household as a child.
How is getting people to write their elected representatives easier than getting them to use crypto? How many people will we have to tell whom their elected representatives are? How many people will we have to tell how to contact them?
How many people will we have to get to understand the issues at hand to write a reasonably intelligent letter? By the time they are able to write the letter, why wouldn't/couldn't they start using crypto anyway? How is their writing the letter more effective?
If we got them to change their votes to a reasonable candidate, who would that candidate be? How would getting 2-5% of the public to vote for them make a difference?
I just don't get how if 10 well-reasoned intelligent letters don't work, 1000 somewhat less intelligent letters will?
It seems we have the technology to become a democracy; the question now becomes whether lawmaking
(well ratifying) is best left to those whose career is to study law, or if the average joe can vote intelligently.
After reading adequacy.org and seeing how many people can't recognise satire when they see it, I have my
doubts.
There is a line of thought out there that if you challenge people and give them responsibility, no matter how unlikely it seems, they will rist to meet the challenge and embrace that responsibility.
Are you serious? Don't you think that maybe those years of the not screwing with us were spent getting more and more pissed and planning bigger and bigger attacks. Like the one we're seeing today?
Yeah, let's just blow the shit out of whatever country these people came from, and then be surprised when in ten years some horrific act 10 times as bad as today's happens.
If I'm corp x, the only reason I care is because I want the apps I write on KDE to work on Gnome and vice versa. I don't care if there are two desktops so long as they have a common API I can code too. They should cooperate at least that much. After that, let them do whatever the hell they want so long as they don't break my apps.
I think this really limits the ways that large entities could migrate to using Linux/etc. As an example, say you're in IT at a corporation that currently uses Windows and IIS as a web server. M$ is going to start charging you rent with the next version of the OS and you know that they'll stop developing new widgets for your version soon. Money is tight in the new market and you want to start moving to something that you'll be able to keep getting new benefits from without all the cost.
Would you want to have your staff switch to a new OS and a new HTTP server at the same time? Or would you rather they learn the new server, then the new OS after they get a grasp on the first? If Apache adopted such a clause they wouldn't be able to migrate as gradually.
Can you make your toaster do arbitrarily many things, or interact with arbitrary components? I don't think so.
I sure as hell can. I can spray it with a fire extinguisher when the damn thing starts on fire. Then I can use a knife to dig out the remnants of my tasty toast. Then, when the fucker zaps me I can make it interact forcefully with the wall...
Remember that story about Open Source hardware awhile ago? Many of the comments said that this would be too expensive because of manufacturing costs. Perhaps this story provides hope that this may eventually be a reality.
I didn't check this in the HTML draft, but in the newest Word draft the following passage appears as a footnote that may address some concerns...
Several comments from industry indicated that the so-called "cracking-devices", to which Article 6 applies, may also be used legitimately to test system security. The explanatory report shall clarify that the conduct defined by Article 6, when undertaken with such legitimate purposes, would be considered to be "with right". Furthermore, the burden of proof of the unlawfulness of conduct under Article 6 would lie with the prosecution. In this context, reference should be made to the footnote under Article 2 concerning the meaning of "without right".
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Perhaps they'll use balloons at a higher altitude to shoot down and use features on the ground to provide the same effect. Why not race over stunning land features like the grand canyon, etc?
Check out MVIS. I believe they had a few prototypes in the fashion show, but they are actually shipping wearable products for mechanics... cool!
I'm pretty sure they'll use the formula to pick which movies they want to buy a scene where the protagnist chugs down a Diet Coke.
I don't care how much money that man has, he will never wipe me.
I think you missed the point. I don't think he's saying that air pollution is causing global warming. Perhaps he's merely suggesting that air pollution more than likely will cause bad things to happen. It's not something that occurs naturally and didn't happen until recently. Perhaps since we don't know what the effects will be and since they have the potential to be harmful, we should try to limit the amount of junk we put in the air.
I think it should be blatantly obvious that there's a difference between saying, "Hmm... this hasn't been in the environment before in these quantities, maybe we shouldn't do that" and "Hmm... there's a light moving in the sky, we better build a huge battery of nuclear weapons so we can shoot it down in case it attacks us."
True. I moved to the Twin Cities from Waterloo/Cedar Falls a year and a half ago. I do recall their being decent Tech jobs available in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Des Moines. Iowa City is the only one of those I'd want to live in and that's not all that great.
There were actually several references to her being elected in Ep I. They never mentioned a term length, so I think a lot of people assumed it was a life-term because of the whole Queen title.
I work with a guy that joined that very unit shortly after the whole Blackhawk Down thing happened and he actually knows some of the real people portrayed in the movie. Basically his feeling is that the tactical action and related events are dead on, but the interpersonal interactions are complete horseshit, especially the way some spoke with COs.
Point taken, but a little devil's advocate here... how many of those fire fighters do you think were hockey/football players or "other meat heads." There is a certain degree of physical acuity required to perform those jobs and learning how to control/condition your body is important as well. Do you want some 300lb flabby sysadmin rushing in to the burning building to save you?
Also, the whole theory of broad based liberal education is that many things are inter-related and the more you know the better. I could elaborate more, but I don't feel like it.
Now I've read the Clifford Stoll. I think he's an idiot too.
Why exactly does he think that people can't/won't read a book because it's on their monitor instead of printed on paper? I've done it before.
Why exactly does he seem to believe that by having computers in the classroom will somehow have school systems hiring high school drop-outs to monitor the classroom instead of teaching teachers simply use the computers as a resource to augment the classroom?
What the hell is with the comment about learning not being fun? Just because something requires work means it's not fun? Because it takes less effort to get information makes it less useful to learn it?
You're both short-sighted idiot trolls.
I can't think of a better way to learn to think logically than programming. You have to learn how to define the problem, how to pick the right tools for the job, then assemble in such a way that you solve the problem. There's a lot more to it than stated here, but I think computers have their place in education.
Maybe computers should be extracted from English classes (except for research) the same way calculators are not allowed for basic math classes.
However, it might be more acceptable to dissect a virtual cat than a real one, thus still allowing those who disagree with the practice to gain the same knowledge and experience.
In conclusion, you are a narrow minded, non-creative simpleton.
Now, that Kathleen Fent is in OH, which does neighbor MI, but I doubt it's the right one. It would, however, be hilarious if some random housewife started getting thousands of calls from people congratulating her!
Slashdot is really that bad? I tend to browse in the highest-rated first, grouped by thread mode. That leaves a lot of the cruft below my radar screen... as I get tired of reading the same thing over and over again at about the third time I see it! :)
You might want to check out www.kuro5hin.org if you haven't already. Tends to be a little higher quality discussion there, but as a by-product it takes longer to a little longer to get through a story.
For 'free press' check out www.indymedia.org, again if you haven't already. They certainly offer a contrast to what most see, but they are quite biased as well. Also, by being on a local centers mailing list, you can get cool things like my "Tom Brokaw is full of shit" T-Shirt. I've had a few interesting conversations with people over that shirt.
I wasn't detracting from what you had to say, just making an observation. Don't take things quite so literally. All that quote means is that the person controlling the making and/or distribution of information (news, history, whatever) are able to color the facts any way they want.
The West is in power in the West... that's probably why it's termed "the West". Most of the information that the Western media has to rely on comes directly from the administrations governing the West. It's been deemed by the public at large that anything dissenting from the propganda of the leaders of the West is un-American (at least in America, is their an un-WhateverCountryYouHappenToLiveIn equivalent in other countries?) and evil.
Do I think that it's a novel comment and that I'm brilliant to have espoused it here? Fuck no! Do I think it's a worthwhile summation on the limited viewpoint available in Western media? Fuck yes!
As my history teachers liked to point out... those that win the war write the history books.
Can anyone explain to me why it's inappropriate for people of any age to see/hear graphic sex/violence/language? Most people act as though the reasons for this are crystal clear. I just don't get it. These things are part of our lives. Chances are these are all things you can and will see/hear in your own household as a child.
How many people will we have to get to understand the issues at hand to write a reasonably intelligent letter? By the time they are able to write the letter, why wouldn't/couldn't they start using crypto anyway? How is their writing the letter more effective?
If we got them to change their votes to a reasonable candidate, who would that candidate be? How would getting 2-5% of the public to vote for them make a difference?
I just don't get how if 10 well-reasoned intelligent letters don't work, 1000 somewhat less intelligent letters will?
It seems we have the technology to become a democracy; the question now becomes whether lawmaking (well ratifying) is best left to those whose career is to study law, or if the average joe can vote intelligently. After reading adequacy.org and seeing how many people can't recognise satire when they see it, I have my doubts.
There is a line of thought out there that if you challenge people and give them responsibility, no matter how unlikely it seems, they will rist to meet the challenge and embrace that responsibility.
Yeah, let's just blow the shit out of whatever country these people came from, and then be surprised when in ten years some horrific act 10 times as bad as today's happens.
Get a fucking clue.
If I'm corp x, the only reason I care is because I want the apps I write on KDE to work on Gnome and vice versa. I don't care if there are two desktops so long as they have a common API I can code too. They should cooperate at least that much. After that, let them do whatever the hell they want so long as they don't break my apps.
I think this really limits the ways that large entities could migrate to using Linux/etc. As an example, say you're in IT at a corporation that currently uses Windows and IIS as a web server. M$ is going to start charging you rent with the next version of the OS and you know that they'll stop developing new widgets for your version soon. Money is tight in the new market and you want to start moving to something that you'll be able to keep getting new benefits from without all the cost.
Would you want to have your staff switch to a new OS and a new HTTP server at the same time? Or would you rather they learn the new server, then the new OS after they get a grasp on the first? If Apache adopted such a clause they wouldn't be able to migrate as gradually.
Can you make your toaster do arbitrarily many things, or interact with arbitrary components? I don't think so.
I sure as hell can. I can spray it with a fire extinguisher when the damn thing starts on fire. Then I can use a knife to dig out the remnants of my tasty toast. Then, when the fucker zaps me I can make it interact forcefully with the wall...
Remember that story about Open Source hardware awhile ago? Many of the comments said that this would be too expensive because of manufacturing costs. Perhaps this story provides hope that this may eventually be a reality.
How about FUCKNIKE?
I didn't check this in the HTML draft, but in the newest Word draft the following passage appears as a footnote that may address some concerns...
Several comments from industry indicated that the so-called "cracking-devices", to which Article 6 applies, may also be used legitimately to test system security. The explanatory report shall clarify that the conduct defined by Article 6, when undertaken with such legitimate purposes, would be considered to be "with right". Furthermore, the burden of proof of the unlawfulness of conduct under Article 6 would lie with the prosecution. In this context, reference should be made to the footnote under Article 2 concerning the meaning of "without right".