* Article summaries with typos, mis-leading titles, or errors.
* The presence of articles that many consider to be thinly veiled advertisements. These articles usually receive a large number of trolling comments, including insults towards the editors.
* The posting of articles which report trivial research, long established facts, popular gossip, or blatant pseudo-science. Experts on the topic often criticize such stories with lengthy, insightful tirades.
It's not the ad-free myspace-like site that would be a jaw-dropper.
It's would be a bug free myspace-like site that would be a jaw-dropper... but then I guess it would then cease to be myspace-like.
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While the chances of hearing from alien worlds is depressing small ("Rare Earth")
Keep in mind that the Rare Earth Hypothesis is, on the scale of ET related hypotheses, one of, if not the most pessimistic, and makes the quite bold presumption that the factors for allowing intelligent life to develop are identical to that of Earth.
So The Truth** is bound to lie somewhere between that and Carl Sagan's musings.
**(C) 2006 self-righetous partisans, all wrongs reserved
That's the real kicker in this proposed bill. They want to spend $30 Million over the next 3 years to fight gambling. Great, add that to the DOJ's war on porn, and perhaps sometime in the next 20 or 30 years we can go back to looking for Osama Bin Laden. Once all that porn and gambling is stopped. Priorities, people, prioties.
That conjures the image of a platoon of scientests at the NSA watching a huge wall-sized mainframe spit out a reciept-sized printout reading:
REASONS FOR NOT CATCHING OSAMA: DOMESTIC PORN AND GAMBLING.
Yeah, try talking like that over there in China, huh?
Just because you can complain all you want to doesn't mean you're not oppressed.
But you're not more opressed by a government which on a large scale censors, frequently with murder, any even the root arguments or actual historical occurences for complaint? Sounds like a preference for blissful ignorance.
Not to say that many of your gripes about the US aren't perfectly valid, but let's try and keep our heads screwed relatively securely to our necks here.
The bottom line is that both parties will do anything they can to either get or stay in power. It's shameful on both sides. Anyone claiming that cheating is only occurring on one side or the other is a partisan hack.
(similar to how anyone that claims their party is 100% moral while the other is 0% moral is a partisan hack)
Whaa?! Are you suggesting that the truth is more morally ambiguous than any simple-minded partisan would have me believe?
*cue the sound of partisan hacks trying to wrap their heads around that one... kind of like twisting bubble-wrap*
Like roads, public wireless access enables economic development.
Hmm... well I suppose it would be nice to telecommute from anywhere in the city. But given that most security officers may forbade it (and in due dilligence, rightly so), the corporate use of muni wi-fi may be a bit overstated by your definition. It's certainly a bit more than a bare necessity... but then if some of us get used to it, it could become one;)
It may, however allow a platform for new inventions, maybe... but how big of a market sector could that be?
Anyway, thank god indeed that this bill was dropped. While I'm skeptical of the economic use of muni wi-fi, at least individual cities should have that avenue open to them to decide by their own means.
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And there's like a torrent of those just raining from the sky
Exactly. But we wouldn't want one hemisphere of the Earth to fry because it stopped spinning.
My point is this: Did you see or hear a megaton rocket of sublimely clever hilarity zoom overhead?
From wikipedia's Slashdot article
* Article summaries with typos, mis-leading titles, or errors. * The presence of articles that many consider to be thinly veiled advertisements. These articles usually receive a large number of trolling comments, including insults towards the editors. * The posting of articles which report trivial research, long established facts, popular gossip, or blatant pseudo-science. Experts on the topic often criticize such stories with lengthy, insightful tirades.Hmm ... maybe not necessairly. What OSS licenses besides the GPL would have been prohibitive to it having become as popular as it has become?
I'm just curious, here.
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There's an open source project for somebody.
It's not the ad-free myspace-like site that would be a jaw-dropper. It's would be a bug free myspace-like site that would be a jaw-dropper ... but then I guess it would then cease to be myspace-like.
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Keep in mind that the Rare Earth Hypothesis is, on the scale of ET related hypotheses, one of, if not the most pessimistic, and makes the quite bold presumption that the factors for allowing intelligent life to develop are identical to that of Earth.
So The Truth** is bound to lie somewhere between that and Carl Sagan's musings.
**(C) 2006 self-righetous partisans, all wrongs reserved
That conjures the image of a platoon of scientests at the NSA watching a huge wall-sized mainframe spit out a reciept-sized printout reading:
REASONS FOR NOT CATCHING OSAMA: DOMESTIC PORN AND GAMBLING.
Yeah, try talking like that over there in China, huh?
Just because you can complain all you want to doesn't mean you're not oppressed.
But you're not more opressed by a government which on a large scale censors, frequently with murder, any even the root arguments or actual historical occurences for complaint? Sounds like a preference for blissful ignorance.
Not to say that many of your gripes about the US aren't perfectly valid, but let's try and keep our heads screwed relatively securely to our necks here.
The bottom line is that both parties will do anything they can to either get or stay in power. It's shameful on both sides. Anyone claiming that cheating is only occurring on one side or the other is a partisan hack.
(similar to how anyone that claims their party is 100% moral while the other is 0% moral is a partisan hack)
Whaa?! Are you suggesting that the truth is more morally ambiguous than any simple-minded partisan would have me believe?
*cue the sound of partisan hacks trying to wrap their heads around that one ... kind of like twisting bubble-wrap*
but I don't want to have to worry if my car has the latest patches.
That's why god invented apt-get.
Think that's bad? Try "zionist nazis", which some have used to rationalize the motives of the U.S. of late.
Those Zionist Nazi bastards! *raises fist to the heavens*"Bushevik" is another idealogically contradictory term I've heard thrown around, too.
Gotta wonder about some people sometimes ... and other people, all of the time.
There is a 67% probability that the man standing behind you is Dr. Heywood Floyd.
Actually, it's been time to sell of MSFT for quite awhile now.
Naw, Gonad will be the GNU free implementation.
And yes, I'd searched for 'Gonad' as soon as the comments page loaded1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5
Hmm ... well I suppose it would be nice to telecommute from anywhere in the city. But given that most security officers may forbade it (and in due dilligence, rightly so), the corporate use of muni wi-fi may be a bit overstated by your definition. It's certainly a bit more than a bare necessity ... but then if some of us get used to it, it could become one ;)
It may, however allow a platform for new inventions, maybe ... but how big of a market sector could that be?
Anyway, thank god indeed that this bill was dropped. While I'm skeptical of the economic use of muni wi-fi, at least individual cities should have that avenue open to them to decide by their own means.
The Knights of the Round Table have shows that are formit-able!
Actually with a NES/SNES emulator linux can indeed play Mario :D
What might Freud say about that one ...
Can you imagine a computer virus that literally spreads by touch?
ImagineGames, perhaps?
*cue Thus Spake Zarathustra*
Nothing a steady IV flow of growth hormone and steroids can't fix!