No prob. I used to use it the same way, until a rat-bastard English grad pointed out the error of my ways. In front of a lot of people... That's why it sticks out to me now.
In short, I have very little desire to give my credit card information to a Russian outfit that is violating both international and local Russian laws.
Then just get a disposable debit card at your bank. Mine offers them with no fee. A $10 debit card costs $10 (not $11.00 like a gift-cheque would). I can get one as low as $5 and up to $500.
There are also credit card companies that offer disposable one-use CC numbers for on-line use. Just tell them how much of your available credit you want, and they make a CC number with that limit attched. After it's used, it's no longer valid.
I just did that for real last week. Some guy came over and wanted to know how to tweak/dev/ethX settings (ethtool). Well, I was showing him (he's just getting into administering Linux stuff) and then I said if you ever need to bring an interface down you do this...and then I did it. On a box I was ssh'd into. Had to go down 6 floors into the test-lab to connect my laptop to the console port and bring the interface back up... Thank God it was only a lab box.
This is the reason that auto racing is a sport, even though it requires little physical movement of the driver.
Actually it requires short, jerky movements.. and a whole lot of them. If you think that auto racing doesn't require athletic strength and endurance, you'd be wrong. Try driving a stock car with no power steering and a manual transmission at a fraction of the speed (125-140 mph) for only 5 laps (if you have a speedway near you most offer this kind of thing). I think you'll find that you are exhausted after after finishing. Now, imagine haveing to do 200-500 laps (depending on the lap length) at 200+ mph. And add to that the sheer level of concentration that needs to be maintained for hours on end. Autoracing is a sport because it is physically demanding... not because you can't drink alcohol while doing it.
While you're dreaming of "chemtrails" the republocrats are stealing your country out from under your nose.
You aim too low. Get the Reptoids (most reputable crypto-zoologists know they exist). That will take care of most of what ails us. Their reptoid-terraforming project (global warming!), the Republicans, chemtrails, Planet X, the 8 hotdog/10 bun paradox... The list goes on and on.
Who was it that finally, conclusively, proved this?
Probably the same guy that modded him informative...
Seriously, everytime I see a study that "proves" one thing, someone else comes out and "proves" the opposite. And then that gets rebutted. And so on until it resembles an old Breck commercial except with uglier people in white lab coats. As far as I can tell, everyone is still bickering at about the same level as they were 10 yrs ago.
This is a great idea. I, too, donate books that I can bear to part with. At one time I had a little over 3,000 books. I had completely filled the "extra" room in my apt with bookshelves. I finally bit the bullet and donated about 2500 of them (of course I'm up to 1500 again...). I didn't just go the library route (they are a small library - they would have been overwhelmed). I also sent some to the armed services, Salvation Army, a couple hundred to some hospices and long-term care facilities in the area.
Of course, I give some to friends. I'd also entertain used book stores, but I don't have a lot of used bookstores around, nor the time to go to them when they're open. And throwing books away? - too sacreligious for me:)
Also what is your basis for the assertion that most artists make their money perfoming live. This point of view is popular on slashdot but I have never seen anyone back it up evidence.
To back you up, it was never my understanding that artists made any money touring. Now I'm not talking about some garage band playing at the local pub that has a demo out. They are probably making enough to keep them in beer money and/or decent equipment. What I'm talking about is the major label acts. "Mega"-groups like U2, Rolling Stones, etc.. probably do make money but they're the exception. Artists tour to promote the new album. On top of that, most of their contracts state that the cost of the tour comes out the artists pocket (the roadies, sound crew, etc...).
I remember seeing a "Behind the Music" once on TLC. After a very good year, the grossed just under $1 million. Well, after contractual financial obligations (recording time, support costs, tour expenses, etc...), they only had $120,000 left to split among the three of them for a year's salary. They had to declare bankruptcy (this was big news at the time). Some people will say "shame on them for letting it into the contract". But this stuff is standard boiler-plate, and you will *not* get a deal if you do not agree to it. And most of these are iron-clad so re-negotiation after hitting it big is next to impossible.
*Imposter based on the story Imposter (I love one of the user comments in IMDB "Phillip K. Dick would've loved this movie" - duh!)
*Screamers based on the story Second Variety
When you look at it, a LOT of Philip K. Dick stories have been adapted to movies (usually losing the tone or even the plot of the original)
really, how does/. know I am blocking the ads?
They can't, it's block on my machine.
It depends.
I used to think that Abblock worked by just redirecting anything filtered to the bit bucket. Then, I hit a site that gave me a redirect and told me to turn off Adblock. Now, they were actually serving up the ads locally so I don't know if the same detection can work with 3rd party ads. Maybe it has to do with Adblock blocking HTTP GET for filtered content or something... I don't know. But somehow they knew that their ads were not getting rendered (received?) by my browser.
But the point is that, yes, sometimes they can tell if you are blocking.
Wow, great thought! You know, you don't even need to physically travel to the past to violate their theory. Even as an observer (like using a wormhole or somesuch to "view" the past) you would scatter and absorb photons, there violating the collapsed-state they proclaim... So either they are wrong, or the past is truly a collapsed wave and time travel is impossible.
The fact that IANAPhysicist (which is probably painfully obvious:) ) means I have overlooked something and hopefully someone will come along and explain why this doesn't matter...
the instant that you travel back in time, you would create a fork in the past
That's called the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Machanics(CIQM) by Bohr and Heisenberg - or the Many Worlds Theory. It's been around since the 1930s. CIQM holds that the past is an uncollapsed wave form - I'm extropolating here - they weren't really concerned with time travel. These scientists as described in the article hold that the past is in a collapsed state and cannot be changed.
Or at least I think so. The article was poorly written. It makes several assumptions that seem false to me. Namely the statement of "fading into the ether". If the past was altered (killed someone's father before he sired his child) there'd be no fading, the person would have never existed. Also, some of the statements can be ammended to fit the CIQM.
For example:
"...the laws of the quantum universe state that there is no possibility of him being killed in the past"
Just append the sentence so it read like this:
"...the laws of the quantum universe state that there is no possibility of him being killed in the past [of this particular timeline]."
Now we're back to a Many Worlds approach. If you went back (call it timeline A) and killed someone, the reality you are experiencing would collapse into timeline B. Timeline B does not exist until you actively or passively (that pesky observation thing) alter something that contradicts timeline A. In fact just travelling to the past at all would cause a collapse into a secondary timeline. CIQM shows space-time not as a spreading cone, but more of a binary tree made of many, many spreading cones all branching from one primary (call it Timeline Prime). And none of these "cones" interact.
All the Google hits seem to bring up far left fringe sites. In fact one of them, godlike productions, has a link to Austin American Statesman, but that site returns a "Not Found" for the link. A CNN "link" returns a "Not Found". A search on CNN (burning bush joke and burning bush comment) find nothing related to this. It purports to be a copy of an AP article. Some of them have no attribution and are just blog entries.
So... I wandered over to AP and searched their archive with burning bush comment (right from the "headline"). The only thing it turned up was from about a month ago and it was a story about Fidel Castro.
Update! I did find one article (getting tired of reading loony reactionary sites so I'm done...) in Wilmette Week Online. It's a local paper and it's a story about a local man. I think the only reason they ran it is because he's a cabbie from Portland. I still have yet to find it in any national news orgs. It paints a far different picture of Humphreys. He believes himself as a prophet of God. He refused to return a cab to the cab company he worked for. He threatened the general manager: "You would do wise to leave me alone and listen well to me if you value your skin and your soul". He was arrested 14 times in the 10 months leading up to this incident.
Here's another choice quote from the article:"In presenting his case, Humphreys read long biblical passages and described the past nine years of his life in detail. After his narrative exceeded 45 minutes, Ridgeway and Judge Lawrence Piersol coaxed him into resting his case."
So I hardly think he was convicted just because he told a joke.
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Oh and let's not forget about OS/2! No really, please don't forget about OS/2...
Why not? IBM did.
Well, actually they bitch-slapped it a few times, threw it on the ground, and ground their heels into its lifeless carcass.
Ha! Good one!
You know, I was going to fire up Google and get into a "MAC" war with you, but it's late. So, I must regretfully surrender. You can have France.
There is MAC . And there is Mac . Not the same thing.
You forgot one.
There's also MAC
No prob. I used to use it the same way, until a rat-bastard English grad pointed out the error of my ways. In front of a lot of people... That's why it sticks out to me now.
[...]its worth a perusal to a skim
:)
GAH! Someone needs to look at the definition for "perusal"
Perusal - To read or examine, typically with great care.
And don't get me started on your use of "its" (its=possesive it's=contraction of "it is")
I know, I know... Mod me +5 Pedantic. I've had a long day, and that felt good.
Well, there went any chance of me finishing this thread...
But did he have place to plug in the microwave when they were done?
Well done! The first out-right laugh I had. I even snorted Diet Pepsi through my nose (ouch!)
In short, I have very little desire to give my credit card information to a Russian outfit that is violating both international and local Russian laws.
Then just get a disposable debit card at your bank. Mine offers them with no fee. A $10 debit card costs $10 (not $11.00 like a gift-cheque would). I can get one as low as $5 and up to $500.
There are also credit card companies that offer disposable one-use CC numbers for on-line use. Just tell them how much of your available credit you want, and they make a CC number with that limit attched. After it's used, it's no longer valid.
That's freaking hilarious!
/dev/ethX settings (ethtool). Well, I was showing him (he's just getting into administering Linux stuff) and then I said if you ever need to bring an interface down you do this...and then I did it. On a box I was ssh'd into. Had to go down 6 floors into the test-lab to connect my laptop to the console port and bring the interface back up... Thank God it was only a lab box.
I just did that for real last week. Some guy came over and wanted to know how to tweak
Yeah, I'd definitely go for a group whose members have set up enforced prostition rings.
And let's not forget what they do for the children.
" The effect that the UN has had is not necessarily directly measurable"
Which means it had no effect. If I can't measure it, I can't use to support my arguments.
This is the reason that auto racing is a sport, even though it requires little physical movement of the driver.
Actually it requires short, jerky movements.. and a whole lot of them. If you think that auto racing doesn't require athletic strength and endurance, you'd be wrong. Try driving a stock car with no power steering and a manual transmission at a fraction of the speed (125-140 mph) for only 5 laps (if you have a speedway near you most offer this kind of thing). I think you'll find that you are exhausted after after finishing. Now, imagine haveing to do 200-500 laps (depending on the lap length) at 200+ mph. And add to that the sheer level of concentration that needs to be maintained for hours on end. Autoracing is a sport because it is physically demanding... not because you can't drink alcohol while doing it.
While you're dreaming of "chemtrails" the republocrats are stealing your country out from under your nose.
You aim too low. Get the Reptoids (most reputable crypto-zoologists know they exist). That will take care of most of what ails us. Their reptoid-terraforming project (global warming!), the Republicans, chemtrails, Planet X, the 8 hotdog/10 bun paradox... The list goes on and on.
Down with the Reptoids!
Who was it that finally, conclusively, proved this?
Probably the same guy that modded him informative...
Seriously, everytime I see a study that "proves" one thing, someone else comes out and "proves" the opposite. And then that gets rebutted. And so on until it resembles an old Breck commercial except with uglier people in white lab coats. As far as I can tell, everyone is still bickering at about the same level as they were 10 yrs ago.
This is a great idea. I, too, donate books that I can bear to part with. At one time I had a little over 3,000 books. I had completely filled the "extra" room in my apt with bookshelves. I finally bit the bullet and donated about 2500 of them (of course I'm up to 1500 again...). I didn't just go the library route (they are a small library - they would have been overwhelmed). I also sent some to the armed services, Salvation Army, a couple hundred to some hospices and long-term care facilities in the area.
:)
Of course, I give some to friends. I'd also entertain used book stores, but I don't have a lot of used bookstores around, nor the time to go to them when they're open. And throwing books away? - too sacreligious for me
Also what is your basis for the assertion that most artists make their money perfoming live. This point of view is popular on slashdot but I have never seen anyone back it up evidence.
To back you up, it was never my understanding that artists made any money touring. Now I'm not talking about some garage band playing at the local pub that has a demo out. They are probably making enough to keep them in beer money and/or decent equipment. What I'm talking about is the major label acts. "Mega"-groups like U2, Rolling Stones, etc.. probably do make money but they're the exception. Artists tour to promote the new album. On top of that, most of their contracts state that the cost of the tour comes out the artists pocket (the roadies, sound crew, etc...).
I remember seeing a "Behind the Music" once on TLC. After a very good year, the grossed just under $1 million. Well, after contractual financial obligations (recording time, support costs, tour expenses, etc...), they only had $120,000 left to split among the three of them for a year's salary. They had to declare bankruptcy (this was big news at the time). Some people will say "shame on them for letting it into the contract". But this stuff is standard boiler-plate, and you will *not* get a deal if you do not agree to it. And most of these are iron-clad so re-negotiation after hitting it big is next to impossible.
No, I think AI was Aldiss.
And you forgot two:
*Imposter based on the story Imposter (I love one of the user comments in IMDB "Phillip K. Dick would've loved this movie" - duh!)
*Screamers based on the story Second Variety
When you look at it, a LOT of Philip K. Dick stories have been adapted to movies (usually losing the tone or even the plot of the original)
...and then we all black-list your domain.
really, how does /. know I am blocking the ads?
They can't, it's block on my machine.
It depends.
I used to think that Abblock worked by just redirecting anything filtered to the bit bucket. Then, I hit a site that gave me a redirect and told me to turn off Adblock. Now, they were actually serving up the ads locally so I don't know if the same detection can work with 3rd party ads. Maybe it has to do with Adblock blocking HTTP GET for filtered content or something... I don't know. But somehow they knew that their ads were not getting rendered (received?) by my browser.
But the point is that, yes, sometimes they can tell if you are blocking.
I... I... Wha?
Found a good FAQ on Many Worlds.
Ah, you are correct. I actually re-read the link the I provided. I did mix up the two..
:)
Sorry for the confusion
...moving atoms everywhere when I walk.
Wow, great thought! You know, you don't even need to physically travel to the past to violate their theory. Even as an observer (like using a wormhole or somesuch to "view" the past) you would scatter and absorb photons, there violating the collapsed-state they proclaim... So either they are wrong, or the past is truly a collapsed wave and time travel is impossible.
The fact that IANAPhysicist (which is probably painfully obvious:) ) means I have overlooked something and hopefully someone will come along and explain why this doesn't matter...
the instant that you travel back in time, you would create a fork in the past
:)
That's called the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Machanics(CIQM) by Bohr and Heisenberg - or the Many Worlds Theory. It's been around since the 1930s. CIQM holds that the past is an uncollapsed wave form - I'm extropolating here - they weren't really concerned with time travel. These scientists as described in the article hold that the past is in a collapsed state and cannot be changed.
Or at least I think so. The article was poorly written. It makes several assumptions that seem false to me. Namely the statement of "fading into the ether". If the past was altered (killed someone's father before he sired his child) there'd be no fading, the person would have never existed. Also, some of the statements can be ammended to fit the CIQM.
For example: "...the laws of the quantum universe state that there is no possibility of him being killed in the past"
Just append the sentence so it read like this: "...the laws of the quantum universe state that there is no possibility of him being killed in the past [of this particular timeline]."
Now we're back to a Many Worlds approach. If you went back (call it timeline A) and killed someone, the reality you are experiencing would collapse into timeline B. Timeline B does not exist until you actively or passively (that pesky observation thing) alter something that contradicts timeline A. In fact just travelling to the past at all would cause a collapse into a secondary timeline. CIQM shows space-time not as a spreading cone, but more of a binary tree made of many, many spreading cones all branching from one primary (call it Timeline Prime). And none of these "cones" interact.
Ok, I have a headache now
All the Google hits seem to bring up far left fringe sites. In fact one of them, godlike productions, has a link to Austin American Statesman, but that site returns a "Not Found" for the link. A CNN "link" returns a "Not Found". A search on CNN (burning bush joke and burning bush comment) find nothing related to this. It purports to be a copy of an AP article. Some of them have no attribution and are just blog entries.
So... I wandered over to AP and searched their archive with burning bush comment (right from the "headline"). The only thing it turned up was from about a month ago and it was a story about Fidel Castro.
Update! I did find one article (getting tired of reading loony reactionary sites so I'm done...) in Wilmette Week Online. It's a local paper and it's a story about a local man. I think the only reason they ran it is because he's a cabbie from Portland. I still have yet to find it in any national news orgs. It paints a far different picture of Humphreys. He believes himself as a prophet of God. He refused to return a cab to the cab company he worked for. He threatened the general manager: "You would do wise to leave me alone and listen well to me if you value your skin and your soul". He was arrested 14 times in the 10 months leading up to this incident.
Here's another choice quote from the article:"In presenting his case, Humphreys read long biblical passages and described the past nine years of his life in detail. After his narrative exceeded 45 minutes, Ridgeway and Judge Lawrence Piersol coaxed him into resting his case."
So I hardly think he was convicted just because he told a joke.
Nice try, though.