One amateur bomb did kill someone (one immediately, one later from a heart attack). It was an extraordinarily large amateur bomb, but still, unless "hardly kill anyone" actually means "won't kill hundreds", yeah, an amateur bomb can kill.
HUH? That's EXACTLY what patent examiners do. When someone files a patent, they fill out an IDS form. This basically tells the patent examiner, "Hey, I already know that you might consider these prior art. I don't think they qualify, but you might want to look at them."
And when the patent applicant LIES on the IDS, because they know they have perfectly applicable prior art in the form of their own prior expired patent, but they know the patent examiner won't be able to find his own ass with both hands without clear directions on the IDS.... the patent examiner is doing exactly what he's supposed to do in this situation. Fail.
Oh, c'mon. Anyone who's read Slashdot in the last year understands that the equation is "News for Nerds" AND NOT "Stuff that Matters". Which is why slashvertising is so prominent.
YMMV. My anecdotal evidence is that exercise is the only thing that helps me reduce weight, and acts as an appetite suppressant for at least 3 hours afterward. So, in my case, daily moderately-strenuous aerobic exercise (45-60 continuous minutes in aerobic pulse rate) is the easiest way for me to lose weight, whereas calorie reduction seems to drive my body into anti-starvation survival mode and makes my metabolism more efficient and less likely to convert body mass to energy.
Nicholas Merrill ran a New York based ISP and got tired of federal 'information requests'....maximum technical and legal resistance to information requests.
He's tired of fighting The Man, so he's going to set up a new ISP which will let him fight The Man even more? That doesn't even begin to approach making sense. Is this like Fight Club or something?
You're right. Instead of the upsized all-you-can-choke-down soda and the swimming-in-trans-fat popcorn, I'll just step up to the salad bar at the movie theater.
Wait. What?
OTOH, you might appreciate the opportunity to segue into a screed about junk movies as well as junk food. You're welcome.
Problems? As far as I can tell, Canonical was Kubuntu's primary problem, and finding an independent sponsor is an awesome solution.
I hope this works out. I vastly prefer KDE over that Unity abortion Canonical is trying to foist on us. I'd use Kubuntu over Ubuntu even if Kubuntu stagnated completely, but this makes avoiding Canonical's silly marketing games practical.
Go ahead. Align yourself with the awesome French nuclear umbrella.
NATO was an American alliance with Europe. England hung in there because aligning with anyone else was basically going it alone. And the mindset and habits of an entire generation of politics was shaped by that.
Yeah. The U.S. was not very generous to its WWII allies. At some point, it became a critical objective to break down all the old colonial empires and reduce them to second fiddles. U.S. hegemony couldn't tolerate competition. In exchange, you got Pax Americana and 50 years of thermonuclear brinkmanship.
I guess it could have been worse. WWI segued into WWII largely because European empires were allowed to persist and continue their competition for power, prestige, and colonial holdings.
And that's symptomatic: Anything not EU or in the shadow of EU isn't really Europe, according to that mindset. It's just a slightly broader "us" with plenty of "thems" still left to bomb, and some of them are technically Europeans.
Humanity is tribal. Pan-Europism is simply the formation of a bigger tribe. Even if we get trans-continental mega-states, there will still be "us" and "them", and we will always have been at war with Eastasia.
Really? Do you really work at a building where you'd be allowed to power your rechargable? Even if you have to pay for it, not all facilities have the wherewithal to provide power, or even the rent-collecting bureaucracy to charge for it.
Sure, I can postulate the spherical cow as well as the next nerd, but in reality, it's not there yet. Not universally, not in the majority of the cases, not even in a reasonable minority of the cases. Maybe in the near future, as new commercial real estate gets built, or older commercial real estate gets renovated, such that (for instance) paid-for parking garage stalls can include power outlets and the charge for power can be billed along with the stall rental. But with the squishy economy and current glut of commercial real estate, no one's gonna be building anything new for a while without some significant non-business driver (like a deliberate intent to create a "green building"). And then your employer would have to buy or rent space in this new building. And then you'd have to sign up to rent one of these "green e-car parking spots". AND THEN, you'd be able to "run a power cord out to my car", as you put it.
Ahhh... but what if you use a Wordpress blog? It's got the word "press" right in it.
Ok, so it's buggier than the entire state of Arizona, and your blog will be pwnd by malware and SEO blackhats in minutes, but at least it's a PRESS. It qualifies for the 1st Amendment. HAH!
Most crims are not criminals because they're too smart for a regular job, so that would work. But there's always the rare possibility that the bad guys are smart enough to find a way to drop the network leading out of the house (cut phone wires, cut cable, maybe cut power) to disable an alarm system. If that happens, even if the security system is still powered and operating, it's not getting anything out, and the only real hope is that the hard drive the server is writing to is hidden someplace secure.
But that's really unlikely, in the final analysis. Since most burglaries are grab-n-go, just hiding stuff a little out of sight and making sure the surveillance is off-sited as close to real-time as possible should be enough.
Well, they have the gun and the dog. That way, when the crims steal the gun, they can shoot the dog on the way out.
Seriously. For simple unattended-property burglary, a gun is just an attractive target. And most dogs will just wag their tails all friendly-like at the burglar as they come and go.
Honestly, though, after that it was a fucking blast. Nobody gave a shit about anything anymore, so everybody was chill in a way I'd never experienced in that place (after all the ranting about TAP and Sirius and XM and Tech Labor and all that shit they were constantly on our ass to push), and it was like a carnival for a couple months. Got a ton of shit pretty damn cheap, too, our liquidator representative was pretty fucking cool. Cleaning up fixtures netted all sorts of buried treasure, AOL disks, ancient computer parts, sales brochures for Windows 98...it was kinda fun for a computer enthusiast.
Interesting. Kind of like trolling the countryside looking for estate sales, with the upsides that you're not obligated to look a little sad at the passing of a life, and the stuff on sale is highly concentrated computer stuff, not old Tupperware and worn-out furniture. Fun.
If anyone had a Brooklyn accent, it would be a Dwarf. Tolkien explicitly equated the Dwarves with the Jews, and based Khuzdul on Hebrew... so a Brooklyn accent would be extremely appropriate for working-class Dwarves like Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur. Dwarvish nobility like Gimli and Thorin would have a milder, upper-class Jewish accent.
So, for real authenticity, Dwarvish should be Yiddish? The only problem with that is that Yiddish has been a comic language in Western pop language for so long (thanks to decades of awesome Jewish-American comedians) that it would reduce the Dwarves to comic relief.
Oh, wait, we're talking about the LOTR movies, where the dwarves WERE reduced to comic relief. Right. Carry on.
Adverse possession is the legal core of "squatters' rights". And adverse possession is completely preventable by strenuously contesting property trespass.
So, if you want to invoke the spectre of squatters' rights in intellectual property, CBS did one of the the only two things they could: fairly and quickly eject trespassers, to make it clear that there would be no squatting on their property.
Alas, as far as I can tell, they could have done one thing other than close down the fan production: give explicit license which would also make clear that the copyrights on the original materials (characters, scripts, etc.) remains with CBS, and only performance rights are with the performing group.
But I guess the latter would have been too much work or not enough money or something. You have to wonder about motivations, some times.
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One amateur bomb did kill someone (one immediately, one later from a heart attack). It was an extraordinarily large amateur bomb, but still, unless "hardly kill anyone" actually means "won't kill hundreds", yeah, an amateur bomb can kill.
Hurry up and make up to the guy that makes the coffee. You need your fix. Badly.
HUH? That's EXACTLY what patent examiners do. When someone files a patent, they fill out an IDS form. This basically tells the patent examiner, "Hey, I already know that you might consider these prior art. I don't think they qualify, but you might want to look at them."
And when the patent applicant LIES on the IDS, because they know they have perfectly applicable prior art in the form of their own prior expired patent, but they know the patent examiner won't be able to find his own ass with both hands without clear directions on the IDS.... the patent examiner is doing exactly what he's supposed to do in this situation. Fail.
Oh, c'mon. Anyone who's read Slashdot in the last year understands that the equation is "News for Nerds" AND NOT "Stuff that Matters". Which is why slashvertising is so prominent.
YMMV. My anecdotal evidence is that exercise is the only thing that helps me reduce weight, and acts as an appetite suppressant for at least 3 hours afterward. So, in my case, daily moderately-strenuous aerobic exercise (45-60 continuous minutes in aerobic pulse rate) is the easiest way for me to lose weight, whereas calorie reduction seems to drive my body into anti-starvation survival mode and makes my metabolism more efficient and less likely to convert body mass to energy.
He's tired of fighting The Man, so he's going to set up a new ISP which will let him fight The Man even more? That doesn't even begin to approach making sense. Is this like Fight Club or something?
You're right. Instead of the upsized all-you-can-choke-down soda and the swimming-in-trans-fat popcorn, I'll just step up to the salad bar at the movie theater.
Wait. What?
OTOH, you might appreciate the opportunity to segue into a screed about junk movies as well as junk food. You're welcome.
Good point. I bet Apple's response to this trojan is "You're holding it wrong."
Problems? As far as I can tell, Canonical was Kubuntu's primary problem, and finding an independent sponsor is an awesome solution.
I hope this works out. I vastly prefer KDE over that Unity abortion Canonical is trying to foist on us. I'd use Kubuntu over Ubuntu even if Kubuntu stagnated completely, but this makes avoiding Canonical's silly marketing games practical.
How much of it was simple Cold-War realism?
Go ahead. Align yourself with the awesome French nuclear umbrella.
NATO was an American alliance with Europe. England hung in there because aligning with anyone else was basically going it alone. And the mindset and habits of an entire generation of politics was shaped by that.
Yeah. The U.S. was not very generous to its WWII allies. At some point, it became a critical objective to break down all the old colonial empires and reduce them to second fiddles. U.S. hegemony couldn't tolerate competition. In exchange, you got Pax Americana and 50 years of thermonuclear brinkmanship.
I guess it could have been worse. WWI segued into WWII largely because European empires were allowed to persist and continue their competition for power, prestige, and colonial holdings.
And that's symptomatic: Anything not EU or in the shadow of EU isn't really Europe, according to that mindset. It's just a slightly broader "us" with plenty of "thems" still left to bomb, and some of them are technically Europeans.
Humanity is tribal. Pan-Europism is simply the formation of a bigger tribe. Even if we get trans-continental mega-states, there will still be "us" and "them", and we will always have been at war with Eastasia.
support hyperspeed school buses!
I think we've seen how this ends.
None.*
According to the Nixon Principle
And since the VP and the White House CoS are operating entirely on delegated Presidential authority, it applies to them too.
*It is left as an exercise for the Reader to discern if I am being serious or merely trolling.
Good point.
Really? Do you really work at a building where you'd be allowed to power your rechargable? Even if you have to pay for it, not all facilities have the wherewithal to provide power, or even the rent-collecting bureaucracy to charge for it.
Sure, I can postulate the spherical cow as well as the next nerd, but in reality, it's not there yet. Not universally, not in the majority of the cases, not even in a reasonable minority of the cases. Maybe in the near future, as new commercial real estate gets built, or older commercial real estate gets renovated, such that (for instance) paid-for parking garage stalls can include power outlets and the charge for power can be billed along with the stall rental. But with the squishy economy and current glut of commercial real estate, no one's gonna be building anything new for a while without some significant non-business driver (like a deliberate intent to create a "green building"). And then your employer would have to buy or rent space in this new building. And then you'd have to sign up to rent one of these "green e-car parking spots". AND THEN, you'd be able to "run a power cord out to my car", as you put it.
This "slashdottv" thing is pretty much turning out to be "yourdailyinfomercial".
Anyone got a good suggestion on how to filter this spam out?
Tautological tautology is tautological.
Problem, Wittgenstein?
Ahhh... but what if you use a Wordpress blog? It's got the word "press" right in it.
Ok, so it's buggier than the entire state of Arizona, and your blog will be pwnd by malware and SEO blackhats in minutes, but at least it's a PRESS. It qualifies for the 1st Amendment. HAH!
For sure, any mention of "mudkipz" would be a red flag.
Most crims are not criminals because they're too smart for a regular job, so that would work. But there's always the rare possibility that the bad guys are smart enough to find a way to drop the network leading out of the house (cut phone wires, cut cable, maybe cut power) to disable an alarm system. If that happens, even if the security system is still powered and operating, it's not getting anything out, and the only real hope is that the hard drive the server is writing to is hidden someplace secure.
But that's really unlikely, in the final analysis. Since most burglaries are grab-n-go, just hiding stuff a little out of sight and making sure the surveillance is off-sited as close to real-time as possible should be enough.
Steal someones 'secured by' signs from their front yard
Maybe you can tack the sign up on your wrought-irony porch railing.
Well, they have the gun and the dog. That way, when the crims steal the gun, they can shoot the dog on the way out.
Seriously. For simple unattended-property burglary, a gun is just an attractive target. And most dogs will just wag their tails all friendly-like at the burglar as they come and go.
Honestly, though, after that it was a fucking blast. Nobody gave a shit about anything anymore, so everybody was chill in a way I'd never experienced in that place (after all the ranting about TAP and Sirius and XM and Tech Labor and all that shit they were constantly on our ass to push), and it was like a carnival for a couple months. Got a ton of shit pretty damn cheap, too, our liquidator representative was pretty fucking cool. Cleaning up fixtures netted all sorts of buried treasure, AOL disks, ancient computer parts, sales brochures for Windows 98...it was kinda fun for a computer enthusiast.
Interesting. Kind of like trolling the countryside looking for estate sales, with the upsides that you're not obligated to look a little sad at the passing of a life, and the stuff on sale is highly concentrated computer stuff, not old Tupperware and worn-out furniture. Fun.
If anyone had a Brooklyn accent, it would be a Dwarf. Tolkien explicitly equated the Dwarves with the Jews, and based Khuzdul on Hebrew... so a Brooklyn accent would be extremely appropriate for working-class Dwarves like Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur. Dwarvish nobility like Gimli and Thorin would have a milder, upper-class Jewish accent.
So, for real authenticity, Dwarvish should be Yiddish? The only problem with that is that Yiddish has been a comic language in Western pop language for so long (thanks to decades of awesome Jewish-American comedians) that it would reduce the Dwarves to comic relief.
Oh, wait, we're talking about the LOTR movies, where the dwarves WERE reduced to comic relief. Right. Carry on.
Adverse possession is the legal core of "squatters' rights". And adverse possession is completely preventable by strenuously contesting property trespass.
So, if you want to invoke the spectre of squatters' rights in intellectual property, CBS did one of the the only two things they could: fairly and quickly eject trespassers, to make it clear that there would be no squatting on their property.
Alas, as far as I can tell, they could have done one thing other than close down the fan production: give explicit license which would also make clear that the copyrights on the original materials (characters, scripts, etc.) remains with CBS, and only performance rights are with the performing group.
But I guess the latter would have been too much work or not enough money or something. You have to wonder about motivations, some times.