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I'd be for cutting off the binding of all the books and using a standard duplex scanner - you'll be able to sell the books on to a poor student (or give them away) and you'll be able to sell copies of the format shift to your fellow students; you'll need proof that a) they own the book and b) the publisher doesn't do an electronic public sale already. You could even buy a glued-tape style binding machine if you found that it was cost effective.
Tip: if you find a shotgun and ammunition don't touch it, stand there and call the police.
This sort of thing seems incredibly surreal to me with a shotgun in the next room.
I guess it would, but surely if you came across a sawn-off stuffed in the bottom of a hedge you'd still call the police rather than taking it home and hiding it?
He claims to have found the gun and ammunition whilst preparing his brothers garden for a party. He apparently then says he hid the gun at home "intending to hand it to police later".
The guy was then arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary (which I think is burglary where he acted violently against a person) and the police found the gun.. then this story came out.
If it's a different story you're referring to can you cite a reference.
Tip: if you find a shotgun and ammunition don't touch it, stand there and call the police. If you don't have a phone then get someone to call the police for you or have a trusted person watch the weapon whilst you go to get the police. Moving the item is probably going to disturb evidence.
My guess is, they want broad statistics like the most popular domains visited, maybe even traffic patterns of which domains people tend to go to after which other domains.
They have billions of tuples showing ordered domain accesses. Would they really get additional revelations from IP addresses showing the same thing?
Porch Monkey (admittedly I'm not from the US) to me would mean "a person that 'hangs about' in a porch" - can you explain what's racist about that? People that hang around in the porch may in your experience belong to a particular race but that still doesn't make it a racist term.
Isn't it just as racist that some insults are ok towards whites and off-limits towards blacks?
No, obviously not. Likening Michelle Obama to a monkey is insulting her because she is black, and is therefore racist. Likening Bush to a monkey is not insulting him because he is white, and so is not racist.
Only if you think black (personally I'd say she's coloured, she's not dark skinned enough to be black) people are somehow like monkeys. Were you trying to be sarcastic?
Is it too much to hope that someone is using this attack vector to upgrade corporate computers from IE6 to something that can render web pages correctly?
Irfanview is pretty crazy on the GUI front too though isn't it, I've always found it rather jarring to use. The only reason I've used it is for its abilities top open nearly every image type, kinda like a graphical ImageMagick-convert.
Personally I use digikam, though I might be tempted to use Picasa if I were starting fresh now with a photo-manager. Picasa's quick fixes are, er, very quick! They work well too.
What would be the upside of changing the name? [...] KDE doesn't even really mean anything (at least the K doesn't), so should it change its name so it makes more sense to you?
Exactly KDE doesn't mean anything.
Imagine if you will Linus had called his kernel Fuckwit (that's an extreme, rude, form of idiot in English). Now, do you suppose it would have been adopted in many business settings? Or even introduced to as many friends? "Gimp" is probably not quite as perjorative as "fuckwit" but for some people it's not far off.
I thought "Imp" was a better name, all ready to go with a mascot idea too (an Imp is a mischievous masculine fairy-like creature). You can even call it GNU IMP if you're concerned to enlarge the GNU trademark but just brand the program as Imp.
Yeah, well, we did that in 1997 and elected Labour.
That's the problem right there, we didn't elect Labour but "New Labour" which is like labour but more Conservative so as to be sure the Tories didn't get in again.
You're right it is strange. Most of the BBC programs aren't owned outright they are licensed. The BBC people seem to be on to a scam, none of them work direct for the BBC, even for long running shows like Gardeners Question Time (radio4), but work for their own production companies who are contracted to the BBC. Thus the BBC only have limited license on the work - that's why the back catalogue on iPlayer couldn't possibly include all past shows. It's just like when they show feature films (movies) they don't make it to iPlayer as the extra rights to put it on there would be too costly.
So, simply put... what about the environmental chemicals that are masculinizing girls? Is it really just a matter of plastics feminizing boys? Or does it go both ways? Is it a matter of environmental toxicity in general?
The number of plastics used in modern life has increased at an accelerating rate over the last few decades. The number of naturally occurring chemicals contacted (with increased city dwelling and "sterilised" food production) has been rapidly declining over the same period. The effect of natural volumes of "environmental chemicals" is overall decreasing whilst that of petrochemical derivatives is (or at least has been) increasing at a huge rate.
To pick one, what's your proposed pathway for worldwide chemical feminisation based on nuclear detante?
The links you give discuss Araliaceae (the Ivy Family) and genus of the same, the Google one doesn't mention aromatase (?!). How many of the population contact plastics based aromatase inhibitors vs. those of the araliaceae family of plants? It looks from the ScienceDirect link that the contact needs to be in the presence of hexane- or ethyl-acetance too.
From the Telegraph article:
"Scientists at the University of Rochester in New York discovered that boys born to women exposed to phthalates had smaller penises and other feminisation of the genitals."
Do you know how many of the population have been in contact with phthalates? Everyone who has used a plastic packaged squeezable bottle of some sort in the last 80 years.
"The authors of a 2008 study "observed that reported use of infant lotion, infant powder, and infant shampoo were associated with increased infant urine concentrations of [phthalate metabolites], and this association is strongest in younger infants." (Wikipedia)
But hey, perhaps that ivy everyone is mixing with ethyl-ethanoate and feeding to their babies is doing lots of damage too.
http://www.uberphones.com/2007/05/m500_wristwatch_talks_as_well/ is pretty close to a badge, strip out the touchscreen, bluetooth, etc., and make it single number only and I bet you could put it in a bindi never mind a badge. In Star Trek you just don't see them beaming down the basestation and satellite dish to a nearby highspot... not way out of our league IMO. We probably wouldn't manage the no-delay conversations, not sure when faster than light comms (tachyon beam modulation presumably!) are coming though.
It's not legal in the UK to record TV transmissions except for single use timeshifting. Once you've viewed the material keeping it is strictly speaking a copyright infringement.
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I'd be for cutting off the binding of all the books and using a standard duplex scanner - you'll be able to sell the books on to a poor student (or give them away) and you'll be able to sell copies of the format shift to your fellow students; you'll need proof that a) they own the book and b) the publisher doesn't do an electronic public sale already. You could even buy a glued-tape style binding machine if you found that it was cost effective.
Tip: if you find a shotgun and ammunition don't touch it, stand there and call the police.
This sort of thing seems incredibly surreal to me with a shotgun in the next room.
I guess it would, but surely if you came across a sawn-off stuffed in the bottom of a hedge you'd still call the police rather than taking it home and hiding it?
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Man-hid-39found39-gun-in.5883631.jp (sic) appears to be the story.
He claims to have found the gun and ammunition whilst preparing his brothers garden for a party. He apparently then says he hid the gun at home "intending to hand it to police later".
The guy was then arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary (which I think is burglary where he acted violently against a person) and the police found the gun .. then this story came out.
If it's a different story you're referring to can you cite a reference.
Tip: if you find a shotgun and ammunition don't touch it, stand there and call the police. If you don't have a phone then get someone to call the police for you or have a trusted person watch the weapon whilst you go to get the police. Moving the item is probably going to disturb evidence.
I'm hoping they also take some diarrhoea tablets too ...
My guess is, they want broad statistics like the most popular domains visited, maybe even traffic patterns of which domains people tend to go to after which other domains.
They have billions of tuples showing ordered domain accesses. Would they really get additional revelations from IP addresses showing the same thing?
Porch Monkey (admittedly I'm not from the US) to me would mean "a person that 'hangs about' in a porch" - can you explain what's racist about that? People that hang around in the porch may in your experience belong to a particular race but that still doesn't make it a racist term.
Isn't it just as racist that some insults are ok towards whites and off-limits towards blacks?
No, obviously not. Likening Michelle Obama to a monkey is insulting her because she is black, and is therefore racist. Likening Bush to a monkey is not insulting him because he is white, and so is not racist.
Only if you think black (personally I'd say she's coloured, she's not dark skinned enough to be black) people are somehow like monkeys. Were you trying to be sarcastic?
I agree that as incredibly offensive
How so? Comparing public figures to animals is pretty common. I've seen GWB pictured as an ape several times - how is this different.
Someone should write some code to use this vulnerability to install and run the IE8 update program.
A real white hat would go the whole hog and install Firefox.
With an IE6 theme so they don't notice.
Is it too much to hope that someone is using this attack vector to upgrade corporate computers from IE6 to something that can render web pages correctly?
Who ever they are, they have bigger IT problems than this exploit will ever generate.
Cue stories of COBOL running on mainframes from the '70s underpinning major modern banks.
Irfanview is pretty crazy on the GUI front too though isn't it, I've always found it rather jarring to use. The only reason I've used it is for its abilities top open nearly every image type, kinda like a graphical ImageMagick-convert.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/f-spot
Personally I use digikam, though I might be tempted to use Picasa if I were starting fresh now with a photo-manager. Picasa's quick fixes are, er, very quick! They work well too.
What would be the upside of changing the name? [...] KDE doesn't even really mean anything (at least the K doesn't), so should it change its name so it makes more sense to you?
Exactly KDE doesn't mean anything.
Imagine if you will Linus had called his kernel Fuckwit (that's an extreme, rude, form of idiot in English). Now, do you suppose it would have been adopted in many business settings? Or even introduced to as many friends? "Gimp" is probably not quite as perjorative as "fuckwit" but for some people it's not far off.
I thought "Imp" was a better name, all ready to go with a mascot idea too (an Imp is a mischievous masculine fairy-like creature). You can even call it GNU IMP if you're concerned to enlarge the GNU trademark but just brand the program as Imp.
Yeah, well, we did that in 1997 and elected Labour.
That's the problem right there, we didn't elect Labour but "New Labour" which is like labour but more Conservative so as to be sure the Tories didn't get in again.
You're right it is strange. Most of the BBC programs aren't owned outright they are licensed. The BBC people seem to be on to a scam, none of them work direct for the BBC, even for long running shows like Gardeners Question Time (radio4), but work for their own production companies who are contracted to the BBC. Thus the BBC only have limited license on the work - that's why the back catalogue on iPlayer couldn't possibly include all past shows. It's just like when they show feature films (movies) they don't make it to iPlayer as the extra rights to put it on there would be too costly.
I like the vert text, the "files open" pane closes if you click the "Documents" side-tab again. Simple.
So, simply put... what about the environmental chemicals that are masculinizing girls? Is it really just a matter of plastics feminizing boys? Or does it go both ways? Is it a matter of environmental toxicity in general?
The number of plastics used in modern life has increased at an accelerating rate over the last few decades. The number of naturally occurring chemicals contacted (with increased city dwelling and "sterilised" food production) has been rapidly declining over the same period. The effect of natural volumes of "environmental chemicals" is overall decreasing whilst that of petrochemical derivatives is (or at least has been) increasing at a huge rate.
To pick one, what's your proposed pathway for worldwide chemical feminisation based on nuclear detante?
The links you give discuss Araliaceae (the Ivy Family) and genus of the same, the Google one doesn't mention aromatase (?!). How many of the population contact plastics based aromatase inhibitors vs. those of the araliaceae family of plants? It looks from the ScienceDirect link that the contact needs to be in the presence of hexane- or ethyl-acetance too.
From the Telegraph article:
"Scientists at the University of Rochester in New York discovered that boys born to women exposed to phthalates had smaller penises and other feminisation of the genitals."
Do you know how many of the population have been in contact with phthalates? Everyone who has used a plastic packaged squeezable bottle of some sort in the last 80 years.
"The authors of a 2008 study "observed that reported use of infant lotion, infant powder, and infant shampoo were associated with increased infant urine concentrations of [phthalate metabolites], and this association is strongest in younger infants." (Wikipedia)
But hey, perhaps that ivy everyone is mixing with ethyl-ethanoate and feeding to their babies is doing lots of damage too.
http://www.uberphones.com/2007/05/m500_wristwatch_talks_as_well/ is pretty close to a badge, strip out the touchscreen, bluetooth, etc., and make it single number only and I bet you could put it in a bindi never mind a badge. In Star Trek you just don't see them beaming down the basestation and satellite dish to a nearby highspot ... not way out of our league IMO. We probably wouldn't manage the no-delay conversations, not sure when faster than light comms (tachyon beam modulation presumably!) are coming though.
It's not legal in the UK to record TV transmissions except for single use timeshifting. Once you've viewed the material keeping it is strictly speaking a copyright infringement.
Sounds like a very good experiment with useful results.
James Bond "Die Another Day", the biomes featured in that are those of the Eden Project.
.. and he had 1.5G, that's like 24G in 2009's terms.
Mind you FF3.5 is using 800MB for me at the moment (4 slashdot tabs open).
Links2 is about as stripped down as I'll go for a browser.
You didn't read his comment did you?
Paint.net installs without needing privileged user status IIRC. Win!