Best movie line I've heard in years. Had me rolling in my seat.
Also, the only good thing about these guys, as near as I can tell (yes, based on more than The Social Network). They fed meat to a shark and then complained when they had no dinner. Better luck next time.
The surface of the earth could very well feed everyone, if it wasn't for profit hungry empires trying to prop up their inefficient business models along with their inefficient farming methods.
And I hope your troll mod wasn't for pointing out that the ethanol regulations drove up food prices, because you're right, it did. The problem with ethanol is it's based on corn, which is just about the most inefficient source of it. But a profit hungry empire is trying to prop up their inefficient business model, so here we are, suddenly having rising food prices because all the corn is going into ethanol. Base it on something better (hemp/algae/prairie grass), all of which can be grown on less desirable land, and watch prices fall while still maintaining the biofuel component.
Oh, wait, can't have that, those products don't have an empire yet...
Bah, humbug. Does this mean we can PLEASE break up/ditch/ignore the Corn Cartel... sorry, lobbying group... which is probably the single biggest reason that biofuel is expensive and inefficient and such a bad idea? Although I'm unhappy to see Shells move, I can't blame them... they aren't really a R&D outfit, and other startups are taking over the role of expanding wind/hydro/solar and making it profitable. Now, if they would just dump all that money into deciding that algae (or, gasp, hemp!) is a much more efficient biofuel, and help get rid of Big Corn, then everyone could win...
I thought I'd seen it all. OMGPonies... a front page filled with nothing but XP bashing... etc etc etc...
But, seriously. A front page story complaining that you could/download/ something? Sweet zombie jesus on a stick, WTF is wrong with you guys??? "I could download this thing... I think I'll write to/. about it!".
Articles like this make me firmly believe that we should start allowing natural selection again.
On a similar and yet much cooler note, I encourage everyone to visit www.Expedition360.com , a most awesome site about a brits attempt to circumnavigate the globe only via unsuplemented human power. Read through the entire diary and you'll feel like you've read a great and fufilling book. Highly, highly recommended.
I know the point you're trying to make, I just think it's a load of shit. For many reasons, the foremost of which being that software is a different beast than other normal products for which one could validly consider bundling to be an antitrust action. The bottom line of an OS is that you NEED a browser in order to get online to get your choice of browser. Simply not bundling a browser is not the answer, because 50% of the populace is too dumb, or somehow not easily able, to get a browser loaded onto their system on their own. And it creates a ridiculous overhead too. You think the Mozilla Foundation can afford to print and send CDs all over the globe? Or are you just going to trust the guy at the Quik-E-Mart who burned you a copy of Firefox when he says he didn't put a trojan in there?
Yes, IE may suck, but a new computer needs a starting point, and IE is it. And as long as MS doesn't do something to stop you from loading any browser of your choice, there's really no reason to bitch.
And if you want Firefox/Safari/every other browser in existance loaded on to Windows, does that mean you're in favour of the same thing being done to *nix? I wonder how big those distro downloads will be with 50 browsers preloaded. And I wonder how confused all the noobs and old folks will be when they go to open the internet and there's 50 different icons there staring at them, and every one behaves differently.
Forced browser bundling is a retarded idea. Everyone has choice now, and that's what counts.
I'd like to live in your fictional universe. That would be great.
MS in NO WAY stops Mozilla, or Apple, or anyone else, from loading their browser onto Windows. Anyone can go and load up any browser they damn well feel like. Ergo, MS is not using their position to harm anyones ability to sell (or give away) browsers.
Seriously... should we next force Coke to include a can of Pepsi in every 6-pack?
I know, let's just remove IE from Windows entirely... oh, wait, how would people go download Firefox or Safari or Chrome then?
This crap just drives me nuts... an OS needs to have a browser included. The fact that so many people stay with IE isn't a result of evil dominance, it's a result of people being to lazy to install something new. MS is in no way stopping people from using FF or GC or AS or anything else, and until they are, I really wish people would STFU and stop this pointless whining.
I really hope MS does start shipping a EU version of Windows, sans browser, and with a little note coming up to say "thank you for trying to access the internet. The EU has prohibited us from helping you with this. Please go find a CD of Firefox and then install it. Hope you don't live in a rural area!"
Remember when HP used to be about quality equipment and scientific research and innovation? HP Labs? Yeah, I miss those days. What's next, buying their way into the lucrative "Tickle me Elmo" market?
You'll have to forgive me if this sounds like a dumb question, I'm not an american, but... if you bought something out of state, say in New Jersey, wouldn't the retailer automatically charge you tax at the time of purchase? And then you're supposed to claim it and pay New York tax when you go back home?
Nobody is suing lumber manufacturers because 2x4s aren't 2 inches by 4 inches. Everyone in the trade understands the real dimensions. If you want to get involved in construction you have to learn things like that. +1 I couldn't have said it better myself.
" I felt a great disturbance in the internet, as if 65535 ip addresses suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. "
iptables -A spam -s 134.17.0.0/16 -j DROP I'm a Windows user, can you tell me where I can get an EXE that will do that? Preferably from some site that shows up on Google, so I know they're legit. Also, I need a new virus scanner thingy, the old one was popping up some stupid message box all the time so I just shut it down.
Sadly the US probably won't - It looks like Obama will be the next president, and his is planning to gut NASA's manned space program: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/obamas_nasa_plan_gets_little_p.php Yes, clearly, delaying Bush's ill-advised Moon-to-Mars program by 5 years is equal to "gutting NASAs funding".
The petition has exploded to over 65,000 signatures. Good work, geeks! Here's a sampling of some of my favourites:
Aaaaabk Wheaton: Your movies make my eyes bleed. Aaaaabl Wheaton: Every time you make a movie, God kills a kitten. Aaaaabm Wheaton: It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue. Aaaaabn Wheaton: Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelled of elderberries. Aaaaabo Wheaton: Don't be a dick.
Lightning is cool, researchers said. It goes zappy zap all around, researchers said. Sometimes it goes up, and sometimes it goes down, researchers said. Occasionally, it goes sideways, which is cool, researchers said. They have a new tool with which to look into the cloud to see lightning, researchers said, but when it came to actually describing the cool tool, researchers didn't say.
Also, researchers said other stuff, researchers said.
Seriously, people... I know English is an elective when you're taking a science degree, but for the love of our dear and fluffy lord, TAKE IT!!!
Seriously, think about it. This recording was made before computers, planes, cars, conquering the west and subduing the native hordes, NATO, the UN, electricity, The Church of FSM (blessed be his noodly appendage), and just about everything we take for granted today. Someone long forgotten spent a few seconds singing into a weird contraption, and went on to be completely forgotten by history. And now, so very, very long after the fact, we get to hear those few words singing to us across time.
Really, ignore the debate over Edison, the scratchiness, the French jokes, and everything else, and just realize how very haunting it is to hear this forgotten person, on this forgotten recording, from so very, very long ago.
There's an easy way to get everyone working on cleaning all this up. Just announce that tests have found trace amounts of peanuts in the water supply. Guaranteed, every whiner and do-gooder around will get up in arms and demand that water be 100% pure. Because, you know, 1 PPT of peanut could kill someone, somewhere...
That'd be nice if it was the case that he's referring to, but he's not.
In regards to the section you quoted, that's how local police take your property without you having been convicted... they can just say you used your house/car/lawnmower to make drugs, and seize it. And if you want it back, you've got to post a huge bond of something like 50% of the value, and then slog through a few years of court to eventually get it back. Which usually isn't an option when they've seized your bank account...
The GP was referring to something else that is not Civil Asset Forfeiture, and the exact name escapes me right now. But, here's the jist of it. If the gov't (at any level) decides that your land would be put to better use doing something else, they can just take it. The trend started a few years ago, when a block of houses were wanted for a mall development, and the homeowners were holding out for a large amount of money from the developers (or just didn't want to sell, I can't recall). The developers went to the city, and the city decided that it was better for the town if they forced the homeowners out, because they'd get more taxes from the mall than they did from the homeowners. So they gave them appraised value for their houses, evicted them, and gave it to the developers. This set off a new trend in seizing property, where all the gov't has to do is decide it's better to do X than let you keep your home, and they kick you out. This has had a secondary effect too. Before, you could hold out for a large amount of money, and the developers would have to pay up if they needed your land. Now, they can just run to the city, and you get only the appraised value.
Yet more ways your government is working for you...
He's willing to say that if (his words) Al Queda were to show up in Iraq, he'd consider air strikes, and then occupying that country to deal with the problem. Way to keep a falsehood going. Obama was talking about 10 or 20 years down the line, if Al Queda showed up again in Iraq. He wasn't talking about now. Only a complete idiot would believe Al Queda wasn't in Iraq now. Heck, even Bush believes Al Queda is in Iraq.
That said... don't you think the best people to deal with the problems in Iraq, are Iraqis? A huge part of the problem is that you're occupying their country. Pull out lots of troops, pump economic incentives into the gov't to encourage them to deal with Al Queda themselves, to the point where they become dependent on them and you have leverage to ensure they behave themselves. That'd probably work a lot better than pumping money into Western companies hired to go in there and fix things (but actually don't, they just keep taking more money and leaving basic services un-repaired). All Americans do over there right now is make everyone very, very angry.
And also.... since when is it bad to talk to other leaders? What are you so afraid of? So you go have a conversation with Kim Jong Il, or Raul Castro, and they show it all over their country. What does that show their people? That you're not afraid of their leaders anymore. It gives you a chance to open real dialogue. Unless part of their local customs involves the President bending over and grabbing their ankles, there's not much bad that can happen. And lets say the worst happens, they somehow spin it to be "haha, look at me, Glorious Leader, and the silly USA President!", what's the worst that happens? Some country you don't like or have relations with, does....what?
Seriously. Stop being so afraid of everything. Sometimes, to do what's right, you have to open up to the possibility of something going wrong. Deal with it.
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Best movie line I've heard in years. Had me rolling in my seat.
Also, the only good thing about these guys, as near as I can tell (yes, based on more than The Social Network). They fed meat to a shark and then complained when they had no dinner. Better luck next time.
The surface of the earth could very well feed everyone, if it wasn't for profit hungry empires trying to prop up their inefficient business models along with their inefficient farming methods.
And I hope your troll mod wasn't for pointing out that the ethanol regulations drove up food prices, because you're right, it did. The problem with ethanol is it's based on corn, which is just about the most inefficient source of it. But a profit hungry empire is trying to prop up their inefficient business model, so here we are, suddenly having rising food prices because all the corn is going into ethanol. Base it on something better (hemp/algae/prairie grass), all of which can be grown on less desirable land, and watch prices fall while still maintaining the biofuel component.
Oh, wait, can't have that, those products don't have an empire yet...
Bah, humbug.
Does this mean we can PLEASE break up/ditch/ignore the Corn Cartel... sorry, lobbying group... which is probably the single biggest reason that biofuel is expensive and inefficient and such a bad idea?
Although I'm unhappy to see Shells move, I can't blame them... they aren't really a R&D outfit, and other startups are taking over the role of expanding wind/hydro/solar and making it profitable. Now, if they would just dump all that money into deciding that algae (or, gasp, hemp!) is a much more efficient biofuel, and help get rid of Big Corn, then everyone could win...
If you have effectively free and infinite energy, practically any other resource problem can be solved with today's technology.
We do. It's called the sun. We're just too impatient to wait for the energy to collect, and too impractical to put serious effort into collecting it.
I thought I'd seen it all. OMGPonies... a front page filled with nothing but XP bashing... etc etc etc...
But, seriously. A front page story complaining that you could /download/ something? Sweet zombie jesus on a stick, WTF is wrong with you guys??? "I could download this thing... I think I'll write to /. about it!".
Articles like this make me firmly believe that we should start allowing natural selection again.
On a similar and yet much cooler note, I encourage everyone to visit www.Expedition360.com , a most awesome site about a brits attempt to circumnavigate the globe only via unsuplemented human power. Read through the entire diary and you'll feel like you've read a great and fufilling book. Highly, highly recommended.
I know the point you're trying to make, I just think it's a load of shit. For many reasons, the foremost of which being that software is a different beast than other normal products for which one could validly consider bundling to be an antitrust action. The bottom line of an OS is that you NEED a browser in order to get online to get your choice of browser. Simply not bundling a browser is not the answer, because 50% of the populace is too dumb, or somehow not easily able, to get a browser loaded onto their system on their own. And it creates a ridiculous overhead too. You think the Mozilla Foundation can afford to print and send CDs all over the globe? Or are you just going to trust the guy at the Quik-E-Mart who burned you a copy of Firefox when he says he didn't put a trojan in there?
Yes, IE may suck, but a new computer needs a starting point, and IE is it. And as long as MS doesn't do something to stop you from loading any browser of your choice, there's really no reason to bitch.
And if you want Firefox/Safari/every other browser in existance loaded on to Windows, does that mean you're in favour of the same thing being done to *nix? I wonder how big those distro downloads will be with 50 browsers preloaded. And I wonder how confused all the noobs and old folks will be when they go to open the internet and there's 50 different icons there staring at them, and every one behaves differently.
Forced browser bundling is a retarded idea. Everyone has choice now, and that's what counts.
I'd like to live in your fictional universe. That would be great.
MS in NO WAY stops Mozilla, or Apple, or anyone else, from loading their browser onto Windows. Anyone can go and load up any browser they damn well feel like. Ergo, MS is not using their position to harm anyones ability to sell (or give away) browsers.
Seriously... should we next force Coke to include a can of Pepsi in every 6-pack?
I know, let's just remove IE from Windows entirely... oh, wait, how would people go download Firefox or Safari or Chrome then?
This crap just drives me nuts... an OS needs to have a browser included. The fact that so many people stay with IE isn't a result of evil dominance, it's a result of people being to lazy to install something new. MS is in no way stopping people from using FF or GC or AS or anything else, and until they are, I really wish people would STFU and stop this pointless whining.
I really hope MS does start shipping a EU version of Windows, sans browser, and with a little note coming up to say "thank you for trying to access the internet. The EU has prohibited us from helping you with this. Please go find a CD of Firefox and then install it. Hope you don't live in a rural area!"
Remember when HP used to be about quality equipment and scientific research and innovation? HP Labs?
Yeah, I miss those days. What's next, buying their way into the lucrative "Tickle me Elmo" market?
But, if they blow then suck, you get electricity.
Man, this post could sure be taken out of context. That would presume that any Slashdotters have experience with either blowing or sucking.
I think you're safe.
You'll have to forgive me if this sounds like a dumb question, I'm not an american, but... if you bought something out of state, say in New Jersey, wouldn't the retailer automatically charge you tax at the time of purchase? And then you're supposed to claim it and pay New York tax when you go back home?
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Nice. Buy a computer, a car, a washer/dryer, or a Bic pen outside of NY, and if you bring it home, you still have to pay state tax on it.
Pathetic, or dumb? I can't decide which.
iptables -A spam -s 134.17.0.0/16 -j DROP I'm a Windows user, can you tell me where I can get an EXE that will do that? Preferably from some site that shows up on Google, so I know they're legit. Also, I need a new virus scanner thingy, the old one was popping up some stupid message box all the time so I just shut it down.
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/obamas_nasa_plan_gets_little_p.php Yes, clearly, delaying Bush's ill-advised Moon-to-Mars program by 5 years is equal to "gutting NASAs funding".
Try to be a little less melodramatic, will you?
The petition has exploded to over 65,000 signatures. Good work, geeks!
Here's a sampling of some of my favourites:
Aaaaabk Wheaton: Your movies make my eyes bleed.
Aaaaabl Wheaton: Every time you make a movie, God kills a kitten.
Aaaaabm Wheaton: It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Aaaaabn Wheaton: Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelled of elderberries.
Aaaaabo Wheaton: Don't be a dick.
Lightning is cool, researchers said. It goes zappy zap all around, researchers said. Sometimes it goes up, and sometimes it goes down, researchers said. Occasionally, it goes sideways, which is cool, researchers said. They have a new tool with which to look into the cloud to see lightning, researchers said, but when it came to actually describing the cool tool, researchers didn't say.
Also, researchers said other stuff, researchers said.
Seriously, people... I know English is an elective when you're taking a science degree, but for the love of our dear and fluffy lord, TAKE IT!!!
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/1860v2.mp3
Seriously, think about it. This recording was made before computers, planes, cars, conquering the west and subduing the native hordes, NATO, the UN, electricity, The Church of FSM (blessed be his noodly appendage), and just about everything we take for granted today. Someone long forgotten spent a few seconds singing into a weird contraption, and went on to be completely forgotten by history. And now, so very, very long after the fact, we get to hear those few words singing to us across time.
Really, ignore the debate over Edison, the scratchiness, the French jokes, and everything else, and just realize how very haunting it is to hear this forgotten person, on this forgotten recording, from so very, very long ago.
We need a new law that replaces Nazi analogies with Soviet analogies. "Godwin's Law 2: This time it's Commies"
I prefer "Godwin 2: Hitler Boogaloo"There's an easy way to get everyone working on cleaning all this up. Just announce that tests have found trace amounts of peanuts in the water supply. Guaranteed, every whiner and do-gooder around will get up in arms and demand that water be 100% pure. Because, you know, 1 PPT of peanut could kill someone, somewhere...
Yup, that's it. :)
That'd be nice if it was the case that he's referring to, but he's not.
In regards to the section you quoted, that's how local police take your property without you having been convicted... they can just say you used your house/car/lawnmower to make drugs, and seize it. And if you want it back, you've got to post a huge bond of something like 50% of the value, and then slog through a few years of court to eventually get it back. Which usually isn't an option when they've seized your bank account...
The GP was referring to something else that is not Civil Asset Forfeiture, and the exact name escapes me right now. But, here's the jist of it. If the gov't (at any level) decides that your land would be put to better use doing something else, they can just take it. The trend started a few years ago, when a block of houses were wanted for a mall development, and the homeowners were holding out for a large amount of money from the developers (or just didn't want to sell, I can't recall). The developers went to the city, and the city decided that it was better for the town if they forced the homeowners out, because they'd get more taxes from the mall than they did from the homeowners. So they gave them appraised value for their houses, evicted them, and gave it to the developers. This set off a new trend in seizing property, where all the gov't has to do is decide it's better to do X than let you keep your home, and they kick you out. This has had a secondary effect too. Before, you could hold out for a large amount of money, and the developers would have to pay up if they needed your land. Now, they can just run to the city, and you get only the appraised value.
Yet more ways your government is working for you...
That said... don't you think the best people to deal with the problems in Iraq, are Iraqis? A huge part of the problem is that you're occupying their country. Pull out lots of troops, pump economic incentives into the gov't to encourage them to deal with Al Queda themselves, to the point where they become dependent on them and you have leverage to ensure they behave themselves. That'd probably work a lot better than pumping money into Western companies hired to go in there and fix things (but actually don't, they just keep taking more money and leaving basic services un-repaired). All Americans do over there right now is make everyone very, very angry.
And also.... since when is it bad to talk to other leaders? What are you so afraid of? So you go have a conversation with Kim Jong Il, or Raul Castro, and they show it all over their country. What does that show their people? That you're not afraid of their leaders anymore. It gives you a chance to open real dialogue. Unless part of their local customs involves the President bending over and grabbing their ankles, there's not much bad that can happen. And lets say the worst happens, they somehow spin it to be "haha, look at me, Glorious Leader, and the silly USA President!", what's the worst that happens? Some country you don't like or have relations with, does....what?
Seriously. Stop being so afraid of everything. Sometimes, to do what's right, you have to open up to the possibility of something going wrong. Deal with it.