I know Slashdot has developed a cultural sense of anything Bitcoin-related as being utter shit, but does anyone follow the development of Namecoin, or think they could help? It's in an alpha stage right now, but as i understand it, the intention is to incorporate dns services in addition to the current simple name registering scheme.
That lie probably originated with whatever idiot told you it. It lacks the curious plausibility required for a story to have enough legs to get retold. It's like if a 7 year old tried to start a rumor. We're all stupider now. Thanks. =)
If someone is slandering your name anonymously on the internet, there is probably something seriously wrong with the way you're living your life. I can't imagine someone coming after me for something i did because i treat people well personally and professionally. Most people skip the second one. I don't abuse the modicum of power i have and i turn the other cheek when others come at me. What's the basic explanation for this theoretical anonymous retribution if it's not someone that you've been callous to? Random crazy? If you live your life thinking that random crazy is a common occurrence in society, trust me, it's not them who are crazy... YOU drive people crazy.
Also, if you think you're name is worth anything there is a 99.9% chance you are insanely deluded.
"A promising alternative gas for hunting down radioactive neutrons and gamma particles for example is boron, but for medical purposes nothing beats helium-3."
It's Dolomite Baby!
You don't expect all the people involved in the case to get all dressed up so many times and have it result in a pocket change judgement, do you? Cognitive dissonance and the tendency to think one's position is more important that it really is prevents this judge from making a sane damage award. Judges have a stupidity precedence for having not thrown every goddamn last one of these cases out of any courtroom.
Nice summary. I can tell you've actually read about this issue. I've noticed nobody can seem to refute these items without changing the subject to a talking point. Overall, i'm pretty impressed with Slashdot right now, normally the geeks here seem to be a lot more conservative and understandably ignorant about political issues (because, of course, people who don't take a major interest in a subject should STFU instead of parroting propaganda). Similarly impressed i haven't seen the word socialism 50 times right off the bat.
I came back to comment, just for you my friend. It's funny, on Fark you would be called a Fark Independent® because you probably would be a Republican if it wasn't so hard to get behind the party these days. I was speaking in generalities about the huge number of uneducated Republican or Conservative people who have miraculously been cured recently of their problem with spending government money. I actually suspected you were a self-described independent, but I also doubt you were in 2000.
But then, we're not getting anywhere assuming anything about each other. I am not 'one of those people' anymore than it's fair for me to call you 'one of those people who x,y,z'. I do not consider myself a Democrat, or if I am, it's only a temporary condition. You might call me an Obama Democrat, and that's because I agree with his vision and when he speaks I don't hear a moron who is ironically trying to talk down to me, like so many others. I hear the voice of someone who understands what the hell is going on.
What this was about was you commenting on someone who effectively said 'these ad hominem attacks are meaningless in regards to the policy change'. I agreed with him. If you want to claim I'm wrong, please say something on-topic. It is not important who is involved with the administration. This is not a soap opera or a lucas film. Timmy or anyone else's personal matters are irrelavent to discussion of closing tax loopholes, which, I might add, was a big talking point for the only other viable candidate in the presidential election.
What I hate is a strawman argument. OP was making the point that this is irrelavent. Which it is. In no way does anyone's personal tax history have anything to do with corporate tax loopholes.
Nice threadjack BTW republicans.
Obama does something almost everyone can get behind: "But OBAMA did it, it MUST BE BAD!!!! Let's attack his nominees again, that will work!"
You fools have nothing left to argue. Every (R) talking point is pathetic, that's why you lost. "PARTY OF NO" will become increasingly ineffective. You must have real ideas in there somewhere.
The system demonstrated at the TI conference can recognise only a limited set of about 150 words and phrases, says Callahan, who likens this to the early days of speech recognition software. Oh, i see. So it will take a hundred years to perfect? Can't wait. Really.
...Typically something ironic that is hard to detect due to arcane facts or special knowledge required or in the calm, measured, "dry" way that it is delivered. If you don't understand the article... just be quiet please.
I know you (as in, you know who you are) are trying to be funny because you think that others will agree the article was boring, but in reality you are just creating overly-critical static that hurts the discussion.
I got through the article, understanding it perfectly as if i had written it myself it-was-so-clear. Thinking highly of the guy, i scrolled down to the comments...
My Thoughts: funny joke, funny joke, funny joke, lame joke, lame joke, critical comment, wtf? jerk, jerk, another jerk. wtf? Why is slashdot suddenly a bunch of newbs? Well, i guess i'll put my 2 cents in at the end...
I agree with fractoid as well as the fellow who made the comment about sand/gravel sometimes causing ABS to make the car seem like it doesn't have any brakes at all (below somewhere).
The long and short of it is that if you feel like ABS has helped you/does help you, then it certainly does. This is because you don't have a natural driving ability or you drive a bloated cargo hauler/people mover like an H2.
However, if you are a person that has detected several occasions in cars with ABS that something was !@#ked up when you needed the car to perform and it wouldn't do it, then you are probably more like me. If you think that's B.S., then please relate to us your story of how you had to make a high speed slolam maneuver and the car didn't do the weight transfer you were expecting because you punched the brakes for a second to check your speed just before the first turn in and it stumbled on one or two pumps of the ABS. Oh, that never happened? Oh, then shut up.
Also if you don't realize what limit braking means or could even mean, then you need to back off people that say they don't like ABS. They are not wrong about their opinion of ABS, they are just a better driver than you. And yes, there are situations where ABS might help ANYONE, but i feel that for me the odds of that happening are somewhere in the realm of possibility as it would be for me to NOT wear my seatbelt on the off-the-wall f'ing chance that i'm flung from a vehicle to SAFETY! (always a riotous idea for me) Okay, i guess that's a bit much. But it's better than 50/50. =)
Just felt like i had to stand up for some of the people that clearly KNOW in the face of attack from a dozen brilliant-yet-ignorant-about-cars loudmouths.
Puh-leeez buddy. You think a cabbie is going to waste his time running in circles? They don't want the GPS because it interferes substantially with them moving drugs around town, working with organized prostitution, taking tourists to black market shops and all sorts of other things that Don Giuliani has going in the Met. If real cabbies do crime, they do real crime. Most overcharging is done by 'car service' guys who don't have medallions swooping in and poaching people off the street illegally. And these guys don't drive circuitously around either, they drive straight to where you want and demand 5 times the going rate.
Slashdot Mirror
I know Slashdot has developed a cultural sense of anything Bitcoin-related as being utter shit, but does anyone follow the development of Namecoin, or think they could help? It's in an alpha stage right now, but as i understand it, the intention is to incorporate dns services in addition to the current simple name registering scheme.
Once again, the conservative, sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor.
That lie probably originated with whatever idiot told you it. It lacks the curious plausibility required for a story to have enough legs to get retold. It's like if a 7 year old tried to start a rumor. We're all stupider now. Thanks. =)
All above-board porn sites migrated to the tld for legitimacy and it was incredibly easy to block the lot from any computer. No pun intended.
name
If someone is slandering your name anonymously on the internet, there is probably something seriously wrong with the way you're living your life. I can't imagine someone coming after me for something i did because i treat people well personally and professionally. Most people skip the second one. I don't abuse the modicum of power i have and i turn the other cheek when others come at me. What's the basic explanation for this theoretical anonymous retribution if it's not someone that you've been callous to? Random crazy? If you live your life thinking that random crazy is a common occurrence in society, trust me, it's not them who are crazy... YOU drive people crazy.
/this comment not directed at you of course
Also, if you think you're name is worth anything there is a 99.9% chance you are insanely deluded.
"A promising alternative gas for hunting down radioactive neutrons and gamma particles for example is boron, but for medical purposes nothing beats helium-3."
It's Dolomite Baby!
You don't expect all the people involved in the case to get all dressed up so many times and have it result in a pocket change judgement, do you? Cognitive dissonance and the tendency to think one's position is more important that it really is prevents this judge from making a sane damage award. Judges have a stupidity precedence for having not thrown every goddamn last one of these cases out of any courtroom.
It doesn't cost much to invent a secret, but it can cost a lot to keep it.
Nice summary. I can tell you've actually read about this issue. I've noticed nobody can seem to refute these items without changing the subject to a talking point. Overall, i'm pretty impressed with Slashdot right now, normally the geeks here seem to be a lot more conservative and understandably ignorant about political issues (because, of course, people who don't take a major interest in a subject should STFU instead of parroting propaganda). Similarly impressed i haven't seen the word socialism 50 times right off the bat.
I came back to comment, just for you my friend. It's funny, on Fark you would be called a Fark Independent® because you probably would be a Republican if it wasn't so hard to get behind the party these days. I was speaking in generalities about the huge number of uneducated Republican or Conservative people who have miraculously been cured recently of their problem with spending government money. I actually suspected you were a self-described independent, but I also doubt you were in 2000.
But then, we're not getting anywhere assuming anything about each other. I am not 'one of those people' anymore than it's fair for me to call you 'one of those people who x,y,z'. I do not consider myself a Democrat, or if I am, it's only a temporary condition. You might call me an Obama Democrat, and that's because I agree with his vision and when he speaks I don't hear a moron who is ironically trying to talk down to me, like so many others. I hear the voice of someone who understands what the hell is going on.
What this was about was you commenting on someone who effectively said 'these ad hominem attacks are meaningless in regards to the policy change'. I agreed with him. If you want to claim I'm wrong, please say something on-topic. It is not important who is involved with the administration. This is not a soap opera or a lucas film. Timmy or anyone else's personal matters are irrelavent to discussion of closing tax loopholes, which, I might add, was a big talking point for the only other viable candidate in the presidential election.
What I hate is a strawman argument. OP was making the point that this is irrelavent. Which it is. In no way does anyone's personal tax history have anything to do with corporate tax loopholes.
Nice threadjack BTW republicans.
Obama does something almost everyone can get behind: "But OBAMA did it, it MUST BE BAD!!!! Let's attack his nominees again, that will work!"
You fools have nothing left to argue. Every (R) talking point is pathetic, that's why you lost. "PARTY OF NO" will become increasingly ineffective. You must have real ideas in there somewhere.
...Typically something ironic that is hard to detect due to arcane facts or special knowledge required or in the calm, measured, "dry" way that it is delivered. If you don't understand the article... just be quiet please.
I know you (as in, you know who you are) are trying to be funny because you think that others will agree the article was boring, but in reality you are just creating overly-critical static that hurts the discussion.
I got through the article, understanding it perfectly as if i had written it myself it-was-so-clear. Thinking highly of the guy, i scrolled down to the comments...
My Thoughts: funny joke, funny joke, funny joke, lame joke, lame joke, critical comment, wtf? jerk, jerk, another jerk. wtf? Why is slashdot suddenly a bunch of newbs? Well, i guess i'll put my 2 cents in at the end...
I agree with fractoid as well as the fellow who made the comment about sand/gravel sometimes causing ABS to make the car seem like it doesn't have any brakes at all (below somewhere).
The long and short of it is that if you feel like ABS has helped you/does help you, then it certainly does. This is because you don't have a natural driving ability or you drive a bloated cargo hauler/people mover like an H2.
However, if you are a person that has detected several occasions in cars with ABS that something was !@#ked up when you needed the car to perform and it wouldn't do it, then you are probably more like me. If you think that's B.S., then please relate to us your story of how you had to make a high speed slolam maneuver and the car didn't do the weight transfer you were expecting because you punched the brakes for a second to check your speed just before the first turn in and it stumbled on one or two pumps of the ABS. Oh, that never happened? Oh, then shut up.
Also if you don't realize what limit braking means or could even mean, then you need to back off people that say they don't like ABS. They are not wrong about their opinion of ABS, they are just a better driver than you. And yes, there are situations where ABS might help ANYONE, but i feel that for me the odds of that happening are somewhere in the realm of possibility as it would be for me to NOT wear my seatbelt on the off-the-wall f'ing chance that i'm flung from a vehicle to SAFETY! (always a riotous idea for me) Okay, i guess that's a bit much. But it's better than 50/50. =)
Just felt like i had to stand up for some of the people that clearly KNOW in the face of attack from a dozen brilliant-yet-ignorant-about-cars loudmouths.
Puh-leeez buddy. You think a cabbie is going to waste his time running in circles? They don't want the GPS because it interferes substantially with them moving drugs around town, working with organized prostitution, taking tourists to black market shops and all sorts of other things that Don Giuliani has going in the Met. If real cabbies do crime, they do real crime. Most overcharging is done by 'car service' guys who don't have medallions swooping in and poaching people off the street illegally. And these guys don't drive circuitously around either, they drive straight to where you want and demand 5 times the going rate.