Your point is valid. But I can imagine a day, if it isn't already here, where the FBI can "request" database information from Google without a warrant, and make it against the law for Google to reveal that the FBI made a request.
But I'm getting sick and tired of listening to the "NASA sucks, Scaled rules!" choir of fanboys.
Then why not give Bob Dylan a chance:
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin', Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world, Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin', Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin', Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin', Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter, Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley, And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
We are willingly making our jobs more dangerous because our own morals do not allow us to be ruthless.
I'm not agreeing with GP either, but I must point out that the U.S. is ostensibly there to "convert the people to Democracy". The logic that "we're in Iraq to rid the world of terrorists" is completely crazy. The seasoned terrorists all arrived AFTER the U.S. invaded Iraq. Some violence comes from them, but more violence comes from Sunnis fighting against Shiite control. Plus there's young, impressionable Iraqi men with no good job prospects want to kick the foreign invaders out, just like many in the U.S. would if some other country liberated us from a "hypothetical" fascist government.
The problem is that to the people living there, forced conversion is not a new phenomenon. They have lived with tribal, not secular, government for hundreds if not thousands of years. The notion of "converting the heathen" has a familiar ring to the people there; I don't have to actually get on a plane to know this, either. I listen to internationally recognized reporters who know Arabic and talk to the people who live there, and I read history books. The British tried it after they received Iraq from the Ottoman Empire and failed miserably at "converting" the locals; the Crusades were horribly bloody, and of course there's the incessant tribal warfare that has been going on for centuries.
The horrible truth is that Bush has stirred up a hornet's nest, and strangely enough, he and his Oil Friends are pulling in enormous sums of money from the inflated price of oil. Plus he's got a great way to scare everyone into keeping his party in power.
It's really all so predictable. This is not a new story; Orwell's notion of "perpetual warfare" rings so true.
This is my conclusion after four years of mulling it all over.
Here is a graph showing CO2 levels and global temperatures over the past 600 million years. The peak is at 7000 ppm, at which time the earth's average temperate was 22 deg. C (71.6 degr. F)
The way I see it, at times the Earth has been a lot hotter on average in the past than it is now. We look to be heading into a warming period. That may be great news for North Dakotans who want mild winters, but not so great for people who already live in hot and humid climates, especially if they are Caucasian. Right now, I live in Florida and there are days where the sun feels like it's burning through my skin when I'm outside for just a few minutes.
Oh, and then there's the small mater of Hurricanes. Who knows how strong they were 100 million years ago.
I hear you about ignoring history. Humans have a knack for it.
With energy prices going up, I feel lucky my home was built in the 50's because so many newer homes are hermetically sealed. If you don't run the AC nearly constantly year-round in these newer homes, your house begins to mold. Who knows whether year-round AC will remain affordable in the future.
First rule of any evolutionarily successful virus: do not kill your own host.
IIRC, there is historical evidence for human viruses becoming less deadly over the years precisely because the virus has a better chance to remain alive if its host does not die.
These are the main reasons I can think of, besides the features that are probably common to Opera and Firefox, such as being very fast (I didn't use FF long enough to tell if it was as fast as Opera), having community-built themes, etc.
How good is it, hypothetically, for opening a whole host of local photos at once, say, a tab for all files in a specific directory? I have friend who's interested in knowing...
Will you be adding your photos to the BM site, or is that not open to everyone? Some are quite good.
I'm also wondering how you managed to keep the camera free of dust. It was very hard to keep this up all week as I remember, and my disposable camera quickly approached useless over about a day.
Sounds like you have an axe to grind, and you're not going to be happy unless Burning Man is a Utopian Paradise. A "Glass is Half Full" kind of guy. Too bad. I had fun there, even though it's not perfect.
What a very liberal viewpoint: "The government taxes you and gives the money to me."
Please tell us what's wrong with the goal of improving society through taxation. Roads, police, fire fighters, etc. are all infrastructure improvments that most people pay for willingly. We are likewise talking about a potential infrastructure improvement in this thread. The question appears to be whether enough people in the society agree that it's a worthwhile infrastructure improvement to fund.
I would argue that having more uniformly educated people would mean, among many possible benefiits, that people would elect better leaders. This would presumably benefit everyone living in the society, except perhaps those who prey on ignorance.
I have a confession to make: my USB keychain storage device has gone through the wash about 3 times, including three intensely hot dryer cycles. The case finally broke open, but unbelievably, the device still works.
Would anyone care to comment on whether their iPod shuffle has survived a trip to the cleaners?
In Oregon, we have very few shield volcanos. Most of ours are composite volcanos (made from lava pusing up a dome, plus layers of flowing ash) and cinder cones (made from piles of ejected cinders). Our magmas are rhyolitic, meaning they contain little iron, it is at relatively cooler temperatures, and tend to explode violently
But eastern Oregon is full of basalt, and the Malhuer Basin is one giant, flat basalt flow. And if you've seen the lava fields around Bend, the boulders are dark red, very sharp, and contain occasional pockets of obsidian. This doesn't seem to fit with your statements.
The slashdot population has a large percentage of IT administrators; people who administer software for some wealth-producing collective. They are "forced" to use Microsoft because in order for the members of their collective to collaborate, they all must use the same software.
In the case where it's INTERNAL collaboration (i.e. members of the admin's collective collaborate together), there is some flexibility. But for EXTERNAL collaboration (the admin's boss sends data to another collective's boss), there is less flexibility.
Basically until a large majority of corporations all move away from Microsoft simultaneously, IT admins will be forced to administer Microsoft software. Corporations cannot afford to lose their ability to communicate information across multiple machines effectively.
As one reply to your post already pointed out, computer-aided displays of the action would make it much more interesting to watch.
And it wouldn't be impossible (IMUO) to implement: imagine a weak electrical field produced by the tips of the rapiers; one positively charged, one negatively charged. Then imagine the suits are covered with lightweight electrical sensors, each sensing its distance from the opponent's rapier tip.
Now, below the video image of people fighting, create a color-coded facsimile of each person's protective suit, where colors represent electrical sensor distances (bright red means the enemy's rapier is REALLY CLOSE!) That might make the action a little easier to see. It would be coolest if the facsimile images moved as the fighters moved, but it would still be cool if the suits were simply static shapes with the colors changing over time.
Like how about a game of medieval football where you have to slit the guy's tendons with your sock-knife, like they used to do back in the day?
That reminds me of Pigskin 621 A.D., a coin-operated video game produced in 1990. See the link for screenshots. At certain times, you could use a dagger to "disable" an opponent's player.
I'm a confessed geek and used to have a ponytail, although people seemed to assume that I smoked pot because I had it, and that kind of pissed me off. I was a CS professor at the time. It was kind of a pain for me to take care of; I was too lazy to use good shampoo!:)
But now I live where it's hot and humid, and I'm SOOO glad I don't have long hair. It would probably itch bad.
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What rights are you referring to?
Your point is valid. But I can imagine a day, if it isn't already here, where the FBI can "request" database information from Google without a warrant, and make it against the law for Google to reveal that the FBI made a request.
Somewhat like this situation.
That would seem like a violation of individual rights to me.
...Poppa Bush...
I like it! If Haiti can have "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc", then why not us??
ALL HAIL OUR LEADER, BABY BUSH!
But I'm getting sick and tired of listening to the "NASA sucks, Scaled rules!" choir of fanboys.
Then why not give Bob Dylan a chance:
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
We are willingly making our jobs more dangerous because our own morals do not allow us to be ruthless.
I'm not agreeing with GP either, but I must point out that the U.S. is ostensibly there to "convert the people to Democracy". The logic that "we're in Iraq to rid the world of terrorists" is completely crazy. The seasoned terrorists all arrived AFTER the U.S. invaded Iraq. Some violence comes from them, but more violence comes from Sunnis fighting against Shiite control. Plus there's young, impressionable Iraqi men with no good job prospects want to kick the foreign invaders out, just like many in the U.S. would if some other country liberated us from a "hypothetical" fascist government.
The problem is that to the people living there, forced conversion is not a new phenomenon. They have lived with tribal, not secular, government for hundreds if not thousands of years. The notion of "converting the heathen" has a familiar ring to the people there; I don't have to actually get on a plane to know this, either. I listen to internationally recognized reporters who know Arabic and talk to the people who live there, and I read history books. The British tried it after they received Iraq from the Ottoman Empire and failed miserably at "converting" the locals; the Crusades were horribly bloody, and of course there's the incessant tribal warfare that has been going on for centuries.
The horrible truth is that Bush has stirred up a hornet's nest, and strangely enough, he and his Oil Friends are pulling in enormous sums of money from the inflated price of oil. Plus he's got a great way to scare everyone into keeping his party in power.
It's really all so predictable. This is not a new story; Orwell's notion of "perpetual warfare" rings so true.
This is my conclusion after four years of mulling it all over.
the stars so rarely pass actually close to each other that they never meat
That's good. Seeing two meating stars is not for the faint of heart.
Where did you pull that figure out of?
Here is a graph showing CO2 levels and global temperatures over the past 600 million years. The peak is at 7000 ppm, at which time the earth's average temperate was 22 deg. C (71.6 degr. F)
Todays's CO2 concentration is 379 ppm, and todays average global temperature is about 15 deg. C (53 deg. F).
The way I see it, at times the Earth has been a lot hotter on average in the past than it is now. We look to be heading into a warming period. That may be great news for North Dakotans who want mild winters, but not so great for people who already live in hot and humid climates, especially if they are Caucasian. Right now, I live in Florida and there are days where the sun feels like it's burning through my skin when I'm outside for just a few minutes.
Oh, and then there's the small mater of Hurricanes. Who knows how strong they were 100 million years ago.
I hear you about ignoring history. Humans have a knack for it.
With energy prices going up, I feel lucky my home was built in the 50's because so many newer homes are hermetically sealed. If you don't run the AC nearly constantly year-round in these newer homes, your house begins to mold. Who knows whether year-round AC will remain affordable in the future.
For the love, what a bunch of fear-mongering horse shit.
Good for you. I'm hoping I can still sell my Florida home for high value, and it's people like you that will help that happen. Keep up the good fight.
First rule of any evolutionarily successful virus: do not kill your own host.
IIRC, there is historical evidence for human viruses becoming less deadly over the years precisely because the virus has a better chance to remain alive if its host does not die.
These are the main reasons I can think of, besides the features that are probably common to Opera and Firefox, such as being very fast (I didn't use FF long enough to tell if it was as fast as Opera), having community-built themes, etc.
How good is it, hypothetically, for opening a whole host of local photos at once, say, a tab for all files in a specific directory? I have friend who's interested in knowing...
Will you be adding your photos to the BM site, or is that not open to everyone? Some are quite good.
I'm also wondering how you managed to keep the camera free of dust. It was very hard to keep this up all week as I remember, and my disposable camera quickly approached useless over about a day.
Thanks for the great photos. I was there last year but missed this year. I felt like I was right back there while looking at the pics.
Sounds like you have an axe to grind, and you're not going to be happy unless Burning Man is a Utopian Paradise. A "Glass is Half Full" kind of guy. Too bad. I had fun there, even though it's not perfect.
What a very liberal viewpoint: "The government taxes you and gives the money to me."
Please tell us what's wrong with the goal of improving society through taxation. Roads, police, fire fighters, etc. are all infrastructure improvments that most people pay for willingly. We are likewise talking about a potential infrastructure improvement in this thread. The question appears to be whether enough people in the society agree that it's a worthwhile infrastructure improvement to fund.
I would argue that having more uniformly educated people would mean, among many possible benefiits, that people would elect better leaders. This would presumably benefit everyone living in the society, except perhaps those who prey on ignorance.
I have a confession to make: my USB keychain storage device has gone through the wash about 3 times, including three intensely hot dryer cycles. The case finally broke open, but unbelievably, the device still works.
Would anyone care to comment on whether their iPod shuffle has survived a trip to the cleaners?
I would probably kill someone for a Model M.
I got one through ebay for $12.50 about 2 years ago.
And I had almost banished that image from my mind. Please, next time think of the vanishing group of innocents who have not seen this photo yet.
In Oregon, we have very few shield volcanos. Most of ours are composite volcanos (made from lava pusing up a dome, plus layers of flowing ash) and cinder cones (made from piles of ejected cinders). Our magmas are rhyolitic, meaning they contain little iron, it is at relatively cooler temperatures, and tend to explode violently
But eastern Oregon is full of basalt, and the Malhuer Basin is one giant, flat basalt flow. And if you've seen the lava fields around Bend, the boulders are dark red, very sharp, and contain occasional pockets of obsidian. This doesn't seem to fit with your statements.
The slashdot population has a large percentage of IT administrators; people who administer software for some wealth-producing collective. They are "forced" to use Microsoft because in order for the members of their collective to collaborate, they all must use the same software.
In the case where it's INTERNAL collaboration (i.e. members of the admin's collective collaborate together), there is some flexibility. But for EXTERNAL collaboration (the admin's boss sends data to another collective's boss), there is less flexibility.
Basically until a large majority of corporations all move away from Microsoft simultaneously, IT admins will be forced to administer Microsoft software. Corporations cannot afford to lose their ability to communicate information across multiple machines effectively.
Any thoughts on whether a thick smokescreen can protect against a laser?
The military has stated that they still do not have a machine that goes "Ping", so it seems logical that this is the sound they would aim for.
Perhaps he was a cow-orker (http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1598 31&cid=13380619), and he just didn't want to admit it...
As one reply to your post already pointed out, computer-aided displays of the action would make it much more interesting to watch.
And it wouldn't be impossible (IMUO) to implement: imagine a weak electrical field produced by the tips of the rapiers; one positively charged, one negatively charged. Then imagine the suits are covered with lightweight electrical sensors, each sensing its distance from the opponent's rapier tip.
Now, below the video image of people fighting, create a color-coded facsimile of each person's protective suit, where colors represent electrical sensor distances (bright red means the enemy's rapier is REALLY CLOSE!) That might make the action a little easier to see. It would be coolest if the facsimile images moved as the fighters moved, but it would still be cool if the suits were simply static shapes with the colors changing over time.
Like how about a game of medieval football where you have to slit the guy's tendons with your sock-knife, like they used to do back in the day?
That reminds me of Pigskin 621 A.D., a coin-operated video game produced in 1990. See the link for screenshots. At certain times, you could use a dagger to "disable" an opponent's player.
I'm a confessed geek and used to have a ponytail, although people seemed to assume that I smoked pot because I had it, and that kind of pissed me off. I was a CS professor at the time. It was kind of a pain for me to take care of; I was too lazy to use good shampoo!
But now I live where it's hot and humid, and I'm SOOO glad I don't have long hair. It would probably itch bad.
Now people don't think I burn. Which is better.