as i mentioned elsewhere, i dont think americans would accept pink bills that are 10% larger than our purple bills as being real money.
your country thinks our money is silly, and we think the same of yours when someone comes back from a vacation with money that looks like it came out of our childrens board games. We associate bright colors with fake money because for years and years thats been the case here. People didnt like the mild use of color on the new $20 that came out last year, it doesnt look like american money, its not all green...and after years upon years of having just green money, you get used to it.
weve used green currency for years upon years...i dont think anyone hear would suddenly accept a pink, orange, or yellow $10 bill as real money. Hell, you dont know how many looks you get when you use our new 20's that have some color on them besides green. Were not used to it, so money that isnt green is usually associated with being play-money here.
Which is fine by me, i find alot of brightly colored bills to be hideous.
whenever my aunts father-in-law visits her and her husband, he leaves them a roll of fresh $2 bills. she gives them out as birthday presents during the year.
ive still got the last 3 or 4 she gave me, people keep looking at you weird or hassling you....its really annoying to get hassled over perfectly legal currency. however, most places would take a $2 bill faster then they would that ridiculous $1 coin...i often wonder if people really arent familiar with the $1 coin, or if they just hate it.
my parents have a microsoft wireless router, which allows you to enter ascii characters as your WEP key...and another program my mother used to use on her laptop with her wireless card allowed the same.
the thing was, i could never get WEP to work on any of it, as soon as i turned it on and set all the keys on everything...nobody could connect. theres not exacly alot of people in this small town that would use wireless, and certainly none of their neighbors, so i ended up just using MAC filtering so only my family could get on...but how secure is that? my guess is "not very"
your credit isnt bestbuys problem. did you bounce an insane number of checks? ive never even heard of someone doing a credit check to give you a checking account...banks are usually more than happy to hold onto your money without giving you any interest on it whatsoever...which is the norm for a checking account.
enjoyed them eh? one in a million. most arent funny, itd be different if they were funny, or clever...most arent.
thats part of the thing with april fools: its all predictable. that means that a really really really good april fools joke has to be very well done, or its the same crap all day long...which is what we got today. The same crap...the same, unbelievable, lousy, unimaginative crap that isnt worth half a chuckle.
Personally i've found vibrating controllers to be annoying as hell. It's bad enough to have a brother or friend smacking your controller to distract me while I play, it's worse when the controller does it by itself. I've never once enjoyed it in a game.
but practicing to use VOIP... THEN the cell phone.... THEN run to another house in a mock accident could have reminded the child not to skip the important step of "call from the scene of the accident immediately with whatever you can call from" which didnt happen.
whats really creepy is that legislators don't take into account that what theyre doing may not be...or just, sometimes, certainly isn't constitutional. shouldn't there be a lawyer tucked away in every legislature to say "yeah...thats unconstitutional, ditch the idea" so things dont have to go *through* the courts in the first place?
nevermind, its too much to hope for that our elected officials know and understand the constitutiont they are bound by. kind of a shame that theyd even bother proposing such a ridiculous law.
i agree, id pay a reasonable price for reaspnable quality...i think a better way to put things are "you can't sell something overpriced and overly restricted to someone who can get it free and with no strings attached".
of course, again, ive known kids to spend a grand on a new pc for the sole purpose of downloading movies and music for free...yes, $1000US on a pc so they can jump on usenet or IRC or whatever they use and get low quality dvds *cough* get NETFLIX *cough* games (many of which they never even bother playing, they just use it to help their share ratio) and crappy music that, again, they use to up their ratio....so they can download more stuff, watch 15% of it, and up their ratio.
he makes a good point....i dont send letters to the patent office telling them theyre doing a lousy job, and i dont send letters to my congressmen telling them the patent office needs revamping....or destruction or whatever you call it;)
How many of us do something other than discuss it on slashdot, and dont bother communicating with the people who can actually change it? It's not as though many people (if any) here are running for office that could change things like this: so who is?
I won't....at least the entire text. I will, however, take advantage of this should i wish to find certain quotes or passages.
When it comes to reading a full book i'm not comfortable sitting in front of the pc and scrolling through the pages; I read to get away from the computer. I like to take a book on a car ride, or outside or to lay on my couch and relax while i read.
In fact...i recently bought "The Origin of Species" because I didn't want to sit in front of a screen and read it; even though i could easily go to project gutenberg and do so. I can take a book to the kitchen with me and read it as im cooking, or browse over a text as i watch the kids or just before i go to sleep.
Another thing i like about solid texts is that i can write in them...highlight things of interest that i would like to look up further, or things that stand out to me as interesting in some way. If I want to show part of a book to someone i can just...grab the book, without having to bother to print it, or get them to check their email, or i can lend a book to people who arent comfortable reading the whole thing on a pc screen over a period of several hours.
In summary: i prefer books, not screens, when it comes to lengthy reading. I'll take a book any day over most any e-reader someone may come up with (unless its damn durable, damn cheap, and damn easy to get any book ill ever want onto it for a fair price).
i was raised christian, fundy style, but have since gotten away from it. science proves too many things fundies reject. my parents gave me a book called "the Collaps of Evolution" that was riddled with inaccuracies and bull that tried to disprove evolution.
Ive also read "the science of god" where the author believes god said creation took 7 24 days for God because of time dilation (based on his belief that god looks at things from the POV of the *entire* universe) but was ~14 billion years as we see time from earth; citing the cambrian explosion as being parallel to the passage in genesis of "and the earth brought forth life". More and more christians are believing something like this could be the cae: a 14 billion year old earth.
There is sceince now to show us things we couldnt see 2000 and 3000 years ago....some people will just never accept that "7 days" may not be literal; which is interesting, considering they take things out of the bible to be literal or allegorical etc etc at will.
As for me...i dont know what to believe except that noboy will probably ever prove or disprove god, and that pancakes are better than communion bread;)
I was raised fundamentalist christian...7 dyas of creation, 6000 year old earth...etc etc.
It's a brainwashing. People believe it because it's all that they are exposed to. Once i started reading things (even the bible, which, if you havent read it, isn't entirely wholesome) I realized that they could very well be wrong, and that I certainly didnt believe what they had been telling me all along.
Thing is, i was getting on the internet and looking things up; learning, trying to accept (or at least listen to) points of view other than my own. Alot of people don't look though....don't listen....aren't interested. It's not just christians, it's people of many religions im sure. Christians (protestant and catholic and mormon and whatever), muslims, buddhists, everyone who is taught all their life to believe on set of things....keeps believing it.
yeah but the thing is, if you get a release 3 years ago and you're happy with it...you dont *have* to update every new release, unless theres security fixes you need to apply. nobody from debian is going to go to your office and make you upgrade.
but if they did a release ever 12, 18, or even 24 months, some people would be more likely to use debian as opposed to another distro that keeps up to date. And since theyre working on debian, I would assume they want more and more people to use it....
otherwise its just a hobby, and they wont care, and they'll just do it however they like.
real law enforcement cant follow up on everything they have to follow up on as it is, never mind following up by trying to find "that guy with blonde hair and green eyes who kept asking for my password last night".
this is almost something people should learn in high school in this age, but definitely at your first day on the job it should be made clear: i dont need your password, nobody needs your password, if you give out your password, even to you grandmother, you'll be fired as a security risk.
if the discipline is just "you gave out your password! idiot!" then....well then appearently only half of those people are going to stop giving it out; and while that's an improvement it's not good enough.
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because people didnt like them...and on rare occassions when the people of the united states complain the government actually listens.
your country thinks our money is silly, and we think the same of yours when someone comes back from a vacation with money that looks like it came out of our childrens board games. We associate bright colors with fake money because for years and years thats been the case here. People didnt like the mild use of color on the new $20 that came out last year, it doesnt look like american money, its not all green...and after years upon years of having just green money, you get used to it.
Which is fine by me, i find alot of brightly colored bills to be hideous.
whenever my aunts father-in-law visits her and her husband, he leaves them a roll of fresh $2 bills. she gives them out as birthday presents during the year. ive still got the last 3 or 4 she gave me, people keep looking at you weird or hassling you....its really annoying to get hassled over perfectly legal currency. however, most places would take a $2 bill faster then they would that ridiculous $1 coin...i often wonder if people really arent familiar with the $1 coin, or if they just hate it.
the thing was, i could never get WEP to work on any of it, as soon as i turned it on and set all the keys on everything...nobody could connect. theres not exacly alot of people in this small town that would use wireless, and certainly none of their neighbors, so i ended up just using MAC filtering so only my family could get on...but how secure is that? my guess is "not very"
your credit isnt bestbuys problem. did you bounce an insane number of checks? ive never even heard of someone doing a credit check to give you a checking account...banks are usually more than happy to hold onto your money without giving you any interest on it whatsoever...which is the norm for a checking account.
thats part of the thing with april fools: its all predictable. that means that a really really really good april fools joke has to be very well done, or its the same crap all day long...which is what we got today. The same crap...the same, unbelievable, lousy, unimaginative crap that isnt worth half a chuckle.
Personally i've found vibrating controllers to be annoying as hell. It's bad enough to have a brother or friend smacking your controller to distract me while I play, it's worse when the controller does it by itself. I've never once enjoyed it in a game.
frickin laser beams on their heads
but practicing to use VOIP ... THEN the cell phone.... THEN run to another house in a mock accident could have reminded the child not to skip the important step of "call from the scene of the accident immediately with whatever you can call from" which didnt happen.
nevermind, its too much to hope for that our elected officials know and understand the constitutiont they are bound by. kind of a shame that theyd even bother proposing such a ridiculous law.
im 22 and remember watching mr wizard, loved the show. i never watched bill nye much, cant recall why though.
of course, again, ive known kids to spend a grand on a new pc for the sole purpose of downloading movies and music for free...yes, $1000US on a pc so they can jump on usenet or IRC or whatever they use and get low quality dvds *cough* get NETFLIX *cough* games (many of which they never even bother playing, they just use it to help their share ratio) and crappy music that, again, they use to up their ratio....so they can download more stuff, watch 15% of it, and up their ratio.
stupid kids.
interesting, this reminds me that my mother has an ipaq she doesnt use anymore; ill have to ask her about it now :)
How many of us do something other than discuss it on slashdot, and dont bother communicating with the people who can actually change it? It's not as though many people (if any) here are running for office that could change things like this: so who is?
When it comes to reading a full book i'm not comfortable sitting in front of the pc and scrolling through the pages; I read to get away from the computer. I like to take a book on a car ride, or outside or to lay on my couch and relax while i read.
In fact...i recently bought "The Origin of Species" because I didn't want to sit in front of a screen and read it; even though i could easily go to project gutenberg and do so. I can take a book to the kitchen with me and read it as im cooking, or browse over a text as i watch the kids or just before i go to sleep.
Another thing i like about solid texts is that i can write in them...highlight things of interest that i would like to look up further, or things that stand out to me as interesting in some way. If I want to show part of a book to someone i can just...grab the book, without having to bother to print it, or get them to check their email, or i can lend a book to people who arent comfortable reading the whole thing on a pc screen over a period of several hours.
In summary: i prefer books, not screens, when it comes to lengthy reading. I'll take a book any day over most any e-reader someone may come up with (unless its damn durable, damn cheap, and damn easy to get any book ill ever want onto it for a fair price).
Ive also read "the science of god" where the author believes god said creation took 7 24 days for God because of time dilation (based on his belief that god looks at things from the POV of the *entire* universe) but was ~14 billion years as we see time from earth; citing the cambrian explosion as being parallel to the passage in genesis of "and the earth brought forth life". More and more christians are believing something like this could be the cae: a 14 billion year old earth.
There is sceince now to show us things we couldnt see 2000 and 3000 years ago....some people will just never accept that "7 days" may not be literal; which is interesting, considering they take things out of the bible to be literal or allegorical etc etc at will.
As for me...i dont know what to believe except that noboy will probably ever prove or disprove god, and that pancakes are better than communion bread ;)
It's a brainwashing. People believe it because it's all that they are exposed to. Once i started reading things (even the bible, which, if you havent read it, isn't entirely wholesome) I realized that they could very well be wrong, and that I certainly didnt believe what they had been telling me all along.
Thing is, i was getting on the internet and looking things up; learning, trying to accept (or at least listen to) points of view other than my own. Alot of people don't look though....don't listen....aren't interested. It's not just christians, it's people of many religions im sure. Christians (protestant and catholic and mormon and whatever), muslims, buddhists, everyone who is taught all their life to believe on set of things....keeps believing it.
ok i lied....there wont be new material when they dupe it.
------------ bad exaggeration of a joke here
------------ your head here
thats just a problem ;)
i wonder if anyone will be able to *afford* to try that defense if the RIAA sues them.
but if they did a release ever 12, 18, or even 24 months, some people would be more likely to use debian as opposed to another distro that keeps up to date. And since theyre working on debian, I would assume they want more and more people to use it....
otherwise its just a hobby, and they wont care, and they'll just do it however they like.
then when you turn the bike on you just make your own noise, and have the volume level adjusted to the speed of the bike.
this is almost something people should learn in high school in this age, but definitely at your first day on the job it should be made clear: i dont need your password, nobody needs your password, if you give out your password, even to you grandmother, you'll be fired as a security risk.
if the discipline is just "you gave out your password! idiot!" then....well then appearently only half of those people are going to stop giving it out; and while that's an improvement it's not good enough.