[1] Certified Pepsiologists at the Pepsi Foundation determine scientifically that Pepsi is freaking awesome.
Proceedings of the Pepsi Foundation... And to summarize, we've determined that Pepsi is freaking awesome. This conclusion is based on a thoroughly researched article by the New York Times article on how awesome Pepsi is.
NY Times, Febtober 13, Is Pepsi Really Freaking Awesome?
So, we all want to know, is Pepsi awesome? Dear reader, I had the same question, and being the responsible journalist I am, I looked it up on Wikipedia. You can sleep soundly knowing that, in fact, Pepsi is freaking awesome.
Apparently America is not a "civilized" country because its citizens are free to use humor as they see fit. I sincerely doubt the GP would actually shoot this man, but it's Friday morning and many would like to start their morning with humor.
In its haste to bring about world peace, it seems the UN forgot to include humor in its declaration of human rights. We'll have to ask Libya and Sudan at the next meeting of the Human Rights Commission if they'll approve adding it.
Whenever I see family/friends/co-workers using external drives for "backup" I have to repress the urge to launch into a lecture on the absurdity of relying on a local, always mounted backup.
WesternDigital and all the other purveyors of external hard disks should be ashamed of themselves for promoting their products as a reasonable backup solution. The ONLY kind of calamity that such devices protect you from is accidental deletion or hardware failure. An external drive provides absolutely no protection from any kind of malicious attack or catastrophic disaster (flood, fire, theft). The only real backup solution is an off-site backup. Considering how cheap Amazon S3 is, off-site backups are finally a real solution for the average person.
Apple's Time Machine and Fly Back is a step in the right direction, but without a real off-site backup solution kiss your data goodbye, because when it falls into a river of molten rock, man, it's gone.
They're cheap enough to buy several of them and swap them out periodically.
If you have enough crap to justify using public storage, it makes a lot of sense. And, frankly, no amount of encryption can beat simply not transmitting that data.
When the works in question were written, copyright terms were much shorter. They have since been extended several times, denying work that was promised at its time of publication to the public domain from making the transition. If you're concerned about honouring past agreements, maybe reverting all of those extensions would be a good start.
I agree that it was wrong to have extended copyright terms, but on the merits of that particular law, not for the reason I think you're advancing.
Two points: I'm concerned with promoting the rule of law. Not because I particularly like laws or rules, quite the opposite, but we're going to have them in one shape or form regardless, so it's better that they be relatively stable and predictable.
Second point, in trying to turn my argument against me, you're conflating an agreement with a particular person (author Joe, you have been granted copyright for this work) with an inherently nebulous agreement with society (society, this work will pass into the public domain).
3) How many jobs keep paying you money after you've died? Why do authors deserve this special privilege?
They abided by the law of the land of the time, and there was no obvious moral conflict with abiding by those laws. We can certainly change the laws for people in the future, but if we want them to uphold those laws, we will have to make sure we honor past agreements.
Then you're not paying attention. Threats on the president's life have skyrocketed since Obama took office. Right wing politicians fantasize about "second amendment remedies." There was a national day of prayer for his death.
Bullshit.
You're wilfully remaining ignorant if you truly believe that there was more venom directed agains Bush than against Obama.
Bullshit. Show me *anything* like this. And you haven't been in this country where you could actually see the *constant* hatred of Bush. You'd go to a theater or a musical piece and they'd just stop to spend a few minutes bashing the president. I had lecturers who couldn't resist insulting him, even when it was completely irrelevant.
I supported Bush initially assuming that he'd be a one termer who wouldn't do much. Then I was stuck constantly defending against these insane attacks. People were completely out of their gourd over the guy. One guy claimed that I was a chickenhawk for supporting Bush, and this was after I had already signed enlistment papers for the Army. I was accused of being a "torture apologist" because I defended waterboarding, something that our own guys go through in SERE school all the time.
The worst Obama gets are people who claim he didn't file his birth certificate. Bush had a 24 year CBS anchor take his career down in flames, desperately trying to prove that he missed drill at the national guard.
I know that Americans tend not to care what the rest of the world thinks about your country
That we can agree on. Here's the thing: you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. You get a sliver of headlines of American news filtered through editors whose sole incentive is to get you fired up.
So, please, shut the fuck up and take care of the problems in whatever country you're from before subjecting me to your ignorant lectures about the mental faculties of my fellow Americans whom you have never met.
I would be more interested in seeing him squirm when asked more controversial questions, like questions about how it felt to lie in a coffin with a ribbon tied around his penis during the Skull and Bones initiation ritual (not joking, this is exactly what happens and has been confirmed by multiple sources)
What is so controversial about that? And, since the book is about his presidency, how is it even remotely relevant?
Hazing used to be common practice. Then people started reporting it, bring to light the fact that it was at least idiotic, often dangerous. So we stopped hazing people, mostly. When I went through Airborne school, I got my "blood wings" even though there's a regulation specifically prohibiting it. My first jump with my unit was the "cherry jump" so my pockets were full of cherries and cherry pie, which my buddies helpfully mashed up. After I landed, I had to eat it. Thankfully, the cherry stains came out with cold water and detergent.
Since we had hazing for so long, though, there are a ton of people who went through stupid initiation rituals. Most likely, all the Democrats in office were in clubs like Skull and Bones and went through hazing, too.
Or we will be treated to pages of: "So, how DID you blow up the World trade Center?" and "You lied, People Died!" and "What's it like to be like HITLER you babykiller!?!?!?"
Nothing like W. to bring out the loony left.
Yup, apparently he was president for 8 years, attended hundreds of press conferences, had more people carrying signs of him as hitler, burning him in effigy, lunatics setting up camp outside his ranch, etc., but what will *really* make him squirm is asking him something they read on some idiot website.
Can't see this over the Internet, but I assume you've got a teabag tied on your ear and a "LISTEN TO ME" sign in your hand.
Well, I definitely don't; I'm a Buckley conservative. But it's pretty funny to listen to liberals trying to claim the Tea Party is nuts.
The Tea Party was formed out of anger with Bush on a broad but specific issue: excessive government spending, which was then compounded by Obama's actions. And it is far more bipartisan than establishment liberals care to acknowledge.
Bush derangement syndrome started when Bush was a candidate; the NAACP ran an ad in 2000 claiming that electing him would be like dragging James Byrd through the streets of Texas. BDS is most prominent among the truther movements, and of course includes execrable characters like Julian Assange.
There's really nothing to defend about BDS because there aren't really any coherent arguments. It's basically all the things the liberals claim the Tea Party is. I'll take the Tea Partiers, who are merely amiably chaotic, over people the left gets to hang out with any day.
Media server? How about S3. Web server? How about EC2. Seriously, why spend time and $ on procuring, powering, cooling, backing up, and upgrading all that gear? Give everyone a laptop and a gmail account. Put the rest in a public cloud.
Kinda like instead of hiring an IT guy to redesign the infrastructure, you can just post the question to/.
I've been using EagleCash in Iraq in areas where cell transmissions are spotty at best. It's a smartcard, and it can do a transaction without immediate access to a server.
Militarized encryption equipment, TEMPEST-approved electronics, custom cryptographic software, and even cryptographic consulting services still require an export license.
So? The 2A has nothing to do with exporting goods.
Oh, please. The constitution is a set of principles, which laws are then written to implement. I'm no fan of the federal government (I think they have whole agencies that are not allowed under the federal constitution), but your expectation that every last detail - indeed, in anticipation of every last future development - be in the constituion is absurd. Do you really expect the founding fathers to have anticipated computing devices that can encrypt data? And to put that sort of thing in the constitution? Get real.
Encryption has been around since the early days of war and the founders certainly knew about it and (IMHO) explicitly guaranteed it as a right protected by the 2nd amendment. Think about it: for most of human history, encryption was *only* used as a strategic / tactical device. It's always been a means by which you organized the deployment of soldiers. If 2A is intended to enabled a "well regulated militia", it must cover encryption.
Sometimes you just come up against some blatently unfair or extremely hard section of the game and give up.
Dara Ó Briain calls this effect "games deny[ing] you content", and talks about GTA (where he claims never to have seen Manhattan because of the dullness of driving in traffix), and Gears of War (where the bit where you have to dodge through doorways he's never done):
Really, I do enjoy a game more when I play it fairly, and will spend quite a bit of time to get past the hard parts. But I'm willing to balance the sense of achievement vs. my curiosity as to how the plot unfolds.
And sometimes it's just fun to fire up a hex editor and amp up your bow to fire like a machinegun.
I never even considered the notion of a career being with one company; I figured that notion was obsolete in the '90s. But you make a good point because I suppose people still buy into it.
I was looking at the other side of the coin, that if you only have experience working with crap, you're liable to be working with crap for the rest of your life.
I noticed one commenter posted that he (or possibly she, didn't check) absolutely hates MS, but that's all he can find a job in. I suspect the reality is that he started off with MS, and now all his experience and network of contacts are in MS development. While he could move away, he'd have to take a pay cut, and he probably hasn't even considered doing that.
Dear government, we will now use purple wirenuts rather than buttsplices to join wires.
1 minute later: Dear government, we will not use off white butt splices rather than purple wirenuts to join wires
...
You've never worked around government much, I take it.
Most agencies are perpetually behind on their paperwork to begin with, so it's doubtful they'd even notice. If they did, the increased volume would justify hiring more staff, building their little empire.
And if you were obvious enough to where they realized you were screwing with them, they can punish you by conducting audits and investigations, or simply by dragging their feet on paperwork that you need.
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Obama has signed legislation into law! And appointed people to positions! I take back everything I ever said about his utter failure as a president!
Out with "An Army of One" and in with "We're Fabulous!"
We'd just get a C&D letter from Navy JAG.
And now for reality : http://i.current.com/images/asset/904/964/04/44ceT2.jpg. Nukes can't destroy the world. All the nukes in the world can destroy ONE city, one small metropolis (say 1/4th of New York). That's it.
If I were a super-villain, I'd only need enough nukes to contaminate all the arable land.
Pepsi, the Choice of a New Generation[1]
[1] Certified Pepsiologists at the Pepsi Foundation determine scientifically that Pepsi is freaking awesome.
Proceedings of the Pepsi Foundation ... And to summarize, we've determined that Pepsi is freaking awesome. This conclusion is based on a thoroughly researched article by the New York Times article on how awesome Pepsi is.
NY Times, Febtober 13, Is Pepsi Really Freaking Awesome?
So, we all want to know, is Pepsi awesome? Dear reader, I had the same question, and being the responsible journalist I am, I looked it up on Wikipedia. You can sleep soundly knowing that, in fact, Pepsi is freaking awesome.
Apparently America is not a "civilized" country because its citizens are free to use humor as they see fit. I sincerely doubt the GP would actually shoot this man, but it's Friday morning and many would like to start their morning with humor.
In its haste to bring about world peace, it seems the UN forgot to include humor in its declaration of human rights. We'll have to ask Libya and Sudan at the next meeting of the Human Rights Commission if they'll approve adding it.
Whenever I see family/friends/co-workers using external drives for "backup" I have to repress the urge to launch into a lecture on the absurdity of relying on a local, always mounted backup.
WesternDigital and all the other purveyors of external hard disks should be ashamed of themselves for promoting their products as a reasonable backup solution. The ONLY kind of calamity that such devices protect you from is accidental deletion or hardware failure. An external drive provides absolutely no protection from any kind of malicious attack or catastrophic disaster (flood, fire, theft). The only real backup solution is an off-site backup. Considering how cheap Amazon S3 is, off-site backups are finally a real solution for the average person.
Apple's Time Machine and Fly Back is a step in the right direction, but without a real off-site backup solution kiss your data goodbye, because when it falls into a river of molten rock, man, it's gone.
They're cheap enough to buy several of them and swap them out periodically.
If you have enough crap to justify using public storage, it makes a lot of sense. And, frankly, no amount of encryption can beat simply not transmitting that data.
Funny how these crooks can write ransomware but they can't count to three: 1) 2) 2)
You've obviously never interviewed people for a programming position.
When the works in question were written, copyright terms were much shorter. They have since been extended several times, denying work that was promised at its time of publication to the public domain from making the transition. If you're concerned about honouring past agreements, maybe reverting all of those extensions would be a good start.
I agree that it was wrong to have extended copyright terms, but on the merits of that particular law, not for the reason I think you're advancing.
Two points: I'm concerned with promoting the rule of law. Not because I particularly like laws or rules, quite the opposite, but we're going to have them in one shape or form regardless, so it's better that they be relatively stable and predictable.
Second point, in trying to turn my argument against me, you're conflating an agreement with a particular person (author Joe, you have been granted copyright for this work) with an inherently nebulous agreement with society (society, this work will pass into the public domain).
3) How many jobs keep paying you money after you've died? Why do authors deserve this special privilege?
They abided by the law of the land of the time, and there was no obvious moral conflict with abiding by those laws. We can certainly change the laws for people in the future, but if we want them to uphold those laws, we will have to make sure we honor past agreements.
Then you're not paying attention. Threats on the president's life have skyrocketed since Obama took office. Right wing politicians fantasize about "second amendment remedies." There was a national day of prayer for his death.
Bullshit.
You're wilfully remaining ignorant if you truly believe that there was more venom directed agains Bush than against Obama.
Bullshit. Show me *anything* like this. And you haven't been in this country where you could actually see the *constant* hatred of Bush. You'd go to a theater or a musical piece and they'd just stop to spend a few minutes bashing the president. I had lecturers who couldn't resist insulting him, even when it was completely irrelevant.
I supported Bush initially assuming that he'd be a one termer who wouldn't do much. Then I was stuck constantly defending against these insane attacks. People were completely out of their gourd over the guy. One guy claimed that I was a chickenhawk for supporting Bush, and this was after I had already signed enlistment papers for the Army. I was accused of being a "torture apologist" because I defended waterboarding, something that our own guys go through in SERE school all the time.
The worst Obama gets are people who claim he didn't file his birth certificate. Bush had a 24 year CBS anchor take his career down in flames, desperately trying to prove that he missed drill at the national guard.
I know that Americans tend not to care what the rest of the world thinks about your country
That we can agree on. Here's the thing: you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. You get a sliver of headlines of American news filtered through editors whose sole incentive is to get you fired up.
So, please, shut the fuck up and take care of the problems in whatever country you're from before subjecting me to your ignorant lectures about the mental faculties of my fellow Americans whom you have never met.
I would be more interested in seeing him squirm when asked more controversial questions, like questions about how it felt to lie in a coffin with a ribbon tied around his penis during the Skull and Bones initiation ritual (not joking, this is exactly what happens and has been confirmed by multiple sources)
What is so controversial about that? And, since the book is about his presidency, how is it even remotely relevant?
Hazing used to be common practice. Then people started reporting it, bring to light the fact that it was at least idiotic, often dangerous. So we stopped hazing people, mostly. When I went through Airborne school, I got my "blood wings" even though there's a regulation specifically prohibiting it. My first jump with my unit was the "cherry jump" so my pockets were full of cherries and cherry pie, which my buddies helpfully mashed up. After I landed, I had to eat it. Thankfully, the cherry stains came out with cold water and detergent.
Since we had hazing for so long, though, there are a ton of people who went through stupid initiation rituals. Most likely, all the Democrats in office were in clubs like Skull and Bones and went through hazing, too.
Or we will be treated to pages of:
"So, how DID you blow up the World trade Center?" and "You lied, People Died!" and "What's it like to be like HITLER you babykiller!?!?!?"
Nothing like W. to bring out the loony left.
Yup, apparently he was president for 8 years, attended hundreds of press conferences, had more people carrying signs of him as hitler, burning him in effigy, lunatics setting up camp outside his ranch, etc., but what will *really* make him squirm is asking him something they read on some idiot website.
Can't see this over the Internet, but I assume you've got a teabag tied on your ear and a "LISTEN TO ME" sign in your hand.
Well, I definitely don't; I'm a Buckley conservative. But it's pretty funny to listen to liberals trying to claim the Tea Party is nuts.
The Tea Party was formed out of anger with Bush on a broad but specific issue: excessive government spending, which was then compounded by Obama's actions. And it is far more bipartisan than establishment liberals care to acknowledge.
Bush derangement syndrome started when Bush was a candidate; the NAACP ran an ad in 2000 claiming that electing him would be like dragging James Byrd through the streets of Texas. BDS is most prominent among the truther movements, and of course includes execrable characters like Julian Assange.
There's really nothing to defend about BDS because there aren't really any coherent arguments. It's basically all the things the liberals claim the Tea Party is. I'll take the Tea Partiers, who are merely amiably chaotic, over people the left gets to hang out with any day.
If you do that then the soldiers might start asking why they're not outfitted with better armor in the first place.
Not likely. Most guys, if they can, try to avoid wearing the extra bits like DAPS because it's already too heavy and restrictive.
Media server? How about S3. Web server? How about EC2. Seriously, why spend time and $ on procuring, powering, cooling, backing up, and upgrading all that gear? Give everyone a laptop and a gmail account. Put the rest in a public cloud.
Kinda like instead of hiring an IT guy to redesign the infrastructure, you can just post the question to /.
I've been using EagleCash in Iraq in areas where cell transmissions are spotty at best. It's a smartcard, and it can do a transaction without immediate access to a server.
Militarized encryption equipment, TEMPEST-approved electronics, custom cryptographic software, and even cryptographic consulting services still require an export license.
So? The 2A has nothing to do with exporting goods.
also would you be making a reference to this:
http://xkcd.com/504/
Nope. Don't read xkcd; once you get past the self-congratulation, smugness and sanctimony, all that's left is stick figure art.
Oh, please. The constitution is a set of principles, which laws are then written to implement. I'm no fan of the federal government (I think they have whole agencies that are not allowed under the federal constitution), but your expectation that every last detail - indeed, in anticipation of every last future development - be in the constituion is absurd. Do you really expect the founding fathers to have anticipated computing devices that can encrypt data? And to put that sort of thing in the constitution? Get real.
Encryption has been around since the early days of war and the founders certainly knew about it and (IMHO) explicitly guaranteed it as a right protected by the 2nd amendment. Think about it: for most of human history, encryption was *only* used as a strategic / tactical device. It's always been a means by which you organized the deployment of soldiers. If 2A is intended to enabled a "well regulated militia", it must cover encryption.
Sometimes you just come up against some blatently unfair or extremely hard section of the game and give up.
Dara Ó Briain calls this effect "games deny[ing] you content", and talks about GTA (where he claims never to have seen Manhattan because of the dullness of driving in traffix), and Gears of War (where the bit where you have to dodge through doorways he's never done):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG3aHvPG6H8
So... he's never heard of cheat codes?
Really, I do enjoy a game more when I play it fairly, and will spend quite a bit of time to get past the hard parts. But I'm willing to balance the sense of achievement vs. my curiosity as to how the plot unfolds.
And sometimes it's just fun to fire up a hex editor and amp up your bow to fire like a machinegun.
Why surgically? This could easily be worn all the time like a collar.
Because he's an attention whore.
I never even considered the notion of a career being with one company; I figured that notion was obsolete in the '90s. But you make a good point because I suppose people still buy into it.
I was looking at the other side of the coin, that if you only have experience working with crap, you're liable to be working with crap for the rest of your life.
I noticed one commenter posted that he (or possibly she, didn't check) absolutely hates MS, but that's all he can find a job in. I suspect the reality is that he started off with MS, and now all his experience and network of contacts are in MS development. While he could move away, he'd have to take a pay cut, and he probably hasn't even considered doing that.
It won't turn you into Tufte, but even a ten-year course couldn't do that for most of us.
Jesus, get a room already.
I don't want a job, I want a career. There's a difference.
Ever go to a comedy club?
Ever wonder why you're the only one who never laughs?
:-)
I laugh when I'm at a comedy club, because I arrive drunk, and get shitfaced.
Dear government, we will now use purple wirenuts rather than buttsplices to join wires.
1 minute later: Dear government, we will not use off white butt splices rather than purple wirenuts to join wires
You've never worked around government much, I take it.
Most agencies are perpetually behind on their paperwork to begin with, so it's doubtful they'd even notice. If they did, the increased volume would justify hiring more staff, building their little empire.
And if you were obvious enough to where they realized you were screwing with them, they can punish you by conducting audits and investigations, or simply by dragging their feet on paperwork that you need.