Some of the stupidest IT support conversations I've ever had have been with people who thought they could "undo" a mistakenly sent email because someone once sold them on an "Undo Send" option that was just a "Delay Send" option for X minutes. Try telling someone "No, you definitely sent that email" when they think, "No, if you'd let me use Outlook, I could summon that email back and it would disappear."
I'm sure this idiotic "feature" will recur again and again as long as we have email and will inspire infinite fresh gems of magical thinking.
Ironic that you can't actually read Mr. Pegoraro's comments. Sometime in the last five years or so it became easier to videorecord something than it is to write the same something down. Which may have something to do with the decline of newspapers.
I wouldn't want Representative Pearce's commute, and his huge district means long travel hours even when back home with his constituents. However, making Congress even less collegial than it's become sounds like a bad idea. There is a world of difference between negotiating on the floor of the House versus a 435-thumbnail Google Hangout. The effectiveness of your political representatives depends on them forming alliances, winning over opponents, remembering the names of their colleagues' kids, and generally treating each other like human beings. These relationships are still stronger when developed face-to-face, and probably always will be.
If I disliked my representative's politics, maybe I'd like her to laze around in the district. But I strongly support her, and I'm glad she spends long days in Washington, DC doing the hard work that being effective requires.
I don't get why we're not planning to dock the shuttles to the ISS and leave them up there, too, with their useful engines, robotic arms, and so forth. The space museums would be sad, but someone would undoubtably think up some cool things that could be accomplished with them up there.
The business world is facing an acute and chronic shortage of English programmers. If you hone your English programming skills (the computer science departments at most universities have subdepartments called "English" and "Comparative Literature"), you will never lack for work. English is the one programming language that is not going to go away during your career.
iMindful is a bargain application (just $19.95) that automates copying data you move it. Just one of those wonderful little apps that keeps Mac users coming back. I cannot recommend it more highly.
What I most regret is the absence of legal cell phone jamming technology in the United States. Someday soon, most Americans will go overseas to visit libraries and movie theaters or to find a quiet place to eat.
. . . consider sending some money Chris Dodd's way. I just did this afternoon (my first political contribution this election cycle) and it felt good. He's still not my first choice for the Democratic nomination, but the other candidates will be interested to see how bravery is rewarded. I would sure the hell like Chris Dodd's voice to be louder in the next days and weeks.
Chances are your congressional Democrats voted against the measure, unlike a single Republican senator and only two Republican representatives.
Democrats currently have 49 votes in the Senate (Senator Johnson from South Dakota is still out sick). That's 11 votes shy of passing legislation -- you need 60 votes to defeat Republican filibusters -- and 18 votes shy of overcoming a Bush veto of any nonevil legislation.
The 41 House Democrats who voted for this measure disgust me -- but 181 Democrats voted no. (Republicans? They rushed to destroy the Fourth Amendment by a vote of 186 to 2.)
In the Senate, the goddamned Republicans were unanimously in favor of this bill. Sixteen goddamned Democrats joined them, and if any one of them represents you I hope you consider it your duty to let them know early, often, and loudly how ashamed you are of them.
But the other 27 Democrats, joined by all zero of their nonevil Republican colleagues, voted against this horrible law.
Am I sick with anger about this? Sicker than you -- but I'm also angry about this "Democrats are totally useless" crap. Don't like how thin and impotent the congressional Democrats are? Don't like how imperfect their leadership is in the face of nearly total Republican evil? Fine, neither do I -- but I think it's a bit less counterproductive to dwell on monolithic Republican evil than the Democrats' failure to achieve omnipotence in the last election, won't you?
I posted five angry letters to congresspeople (and two big thank yous to my good Democratic senator and my good Democratic congressperson) before I came posting to Slashdot. What did you do?
For what possible reasons might Firefox users switch to Safari -- claims that it's "faster" and has "smoother fonts"?? Anyone who switches to Safari will be switching from Internet Explorer, and it may be the gateway drug to Firefox when people realize there are choices and the choices include effective annoyance control via extensions.
The Chief Examiner turned his attention on Carl and Antonë. He pushed his mirror away from his face and confronted them with his sweaty and distorted sneer. Judgement was nigh:
-- Az 2 U 2 -- the harsh Mokni consonents cut like knives through the thickening atmosphere of the forecourt -- U lì, U cheet, U R trayters, U R Fliars. U raze up ve toyist an drag dahn ve dävyn! He drew a scrap of black cloth from a fold of his robe and slapped it on to his bald wig. He parted his robe so that the sign of the Wheel was clearly visible on the sweaty breast of his T-shirt. he drew himself up to his full height and pronounced terrifying anathema on them:
-- U wil B takun bakk 2 ve Towa an brökun on ve Weel. Yaw tungs wil B cú aht. U wil B brandid an ung aht 2 dye inna box! Tayk em dahn! Ware2, guv? he bellowed.
-- 2 Nú Lundun, the forecourt responded in a subdued fashion.
-- Will Self, The Book of Dave (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006), 430.
Six years ago, Bloomberg was a bored billionaire who wanted to run for mayor. The race for the Democratic nomination was crowded with experienced candidates and the Republican race wasn't. Though Bloomberg had identified as a Democrat during most of his career, he switched parties to run for the Republican nomination.
The combination of a brutal Democratic primary, 9/11, and Bloomberg's amazing spending (he self-financed his campaign) got him elected in 2001. That year he only spent $70 per vote received -- that increased to $100 per vote when he ran for reelection last year. His was the most expensive non-presidential campaign in U.S. (therefore world) history.
I'm not sure what Bloomberg wants to do when he leaves office in 2009, but he sure as hell doesn't want to hang out with Republicans. He's been distancing himself ever since he was reelected.
Just installed SeaMonkey and Adblock -- seems to work fine -- but see no compatible Flashblock extension. Does anyone know if that exists yet? These are the two Firefox extensions I can't do without . . .
Yes, it has been our first priority to get off this planet for one hundred million years, so if Bush has a symbolic plan to go visit the moon again, let's all go out and vote for him, because four years from now may be too late.
Are you out of your mind? Bush turned a budget surplus into a half-trillion-dollar deficit. If space exploration is important to you, your first priority is to get rid of the Republicans who want to bankrupt government in order to kill it. If you "grudgingly" intend to vote Bush so you can see Republican billboards on the moon, then go ahead -- he'll give you just the thrill you want. But if you want real space exploration, vote for someone whose party isn't dedicated to weakening the state until it can be drowned in the bathtub. Corpses in bathtubs do not sponsor exciting space programs.
Look, the U.S. needs to go to the moon starting tomorrow the way it needed to go pulverize Iraq on March 19. There's no hurry. In fact, a little bit of deliberation will make the U.S. a better space explorer, just as a little bit of patience might have made Bush a hero in Iraq instead of the biggest goof in world politics since Napoleon.
The United States budget will run almost a half trillion dollars in debt this year. Now, some of my fondest memories are of playing sick to watch moon landings in grade school, but I'd much rather spend money on educating kids and college students today who can do space exploration right ten and twenty years from now -- if we've dug out of the financial mess we're wallowing in now.
So no symbolic Republican missions to reproduce 1969 on the moon, thank you. If you're an American and want nonsymbolic space exploration in your lifetime, work to defeat George W. Bush and elect a president who will restore fiscal sanity to the United States. If we're lucky, the president after that, or the president after that, will have a chance to send human beings somewhere useful.
Fourteen hours after the disaster, Google News returns only one result for "missile defense" + columbia + shuttle -- ominously, Ha'aretz eulogizing Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon as the "first victim on this century's battlefield."
I am awfully sorry about the disaster, and I'd have prevented it if I could have. But I cannot help feeling consoled by the prospect that GW Bush now has one less space shuttle to aid in developing the "Star Wars" missile defense shield. That, plus a grounding delay for the rest of the fleet, could buy precious time for Americans to elect political leadership who will curtail this project.
However, I don't have any idea how dependent these efforts are on NASA's shuttles. How significant is the loss of the Columbia and a grounding period for the remaining shuttles for slowing development of the American military's space warfare programs?
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Some of the stupidest IT support conversations I've ever had have been with people who thought they could "undo" a mistakenly sent email because someone once sold them on an "Undo Send" option that was just a "Delay Send" option for X minutes. Try telling someone "No, you definitely sent that email" when they think, "No, if you'd let me use Outlook, I could summon that email back and it would disappear." I'm sure this idiotic "feature" will recur again and again as long as we have email and will inspire infinite fresh gems of magical thinking.
Why can't we celebrate how the Internet continues to resist freighting information with advertising? That's one of its best attributes.
Ironic that you can't actually read Mr. Pegoraro's comments. Sometime in the last five years or so it became easier to videorecord something than it is to write the same something down. Which may have something to do with the decline of newspapers.
I wouldn't want Representative Pearce's commute, and his huge district means long travel hours even when back home with his constituents. However, making Congress even less collegial than it's become sounds like a bad idea. There is a world of difference between negotiating on the floor of the House versus a 435-thumbnail Google Hangout. The effectiveness of your political representatives depends on them forming alliances, winning over opponents, remembering the names of their colleagues' kids, and generally treating each other like human beings. These relationships are still stronger when developed face-to-face, and probably always will be. If I disliked my representative's politics, maybe I'd like her to laze around in the district. But I strongly support her, and I'm glad she spends long days in Washington, DC doing the hard work that being effective requires.
I don't get why we're not planning to dock the shuttles to the ISS and leave them up there, too, with their useful engines, robotic arms, and so forth. The space museums would be sad, but someone would undoubtably think up some cool things that could be accomplished with them up there.
I have better things to do with my time than use Windows or play computer games.
The business world is facing an acute and chronic shortage of English programmers. If you hone your English programming skills (the computer science departments at most universities have subdepartments called "English" and "Comparative Literature"), you will never lack for work. English is the one programming language that is not going to go away during your career.
iMindful is a bargain application (just $19.95) that automates copying data you move it. Just one of those wonderful little apps that keeps Mac users coming back. I cannot recommend it more highly.
What I most regret is the absence of legal cell phone jamming technology in the United States. Someday soon, most Americans will go overseas to visit libraries and movie theaters or to find a quiet place to eat.
. . . consider sending some money Chris Dodd's way. I just did this afternoon (my first political contribution this election cycle) and it felt good. He's still not my first choice for the Democratic nomination, but the other candidates will be interested to see how bravery is rewarded. I would sure the hell like Chris Dodd's voice to be louder in the next days and weeks.
Chances are your congressional Democrats voted against the measure, unlike a single Republican senator and only two Republican representatives.
Democrats currently have 49 votes in the Senate (Senator Johnson from South Dakota is still out sick). That's 11 votes shy of passing legislation -- you need 60 votes to defeat Republican filibusters -- and 18 votes shy of overcoming a Bush veto of any nonevil legislation.
The 41 House Democrats who voted for this measure disgust me -- but 181 Democrats voted no. (Republicans? They rushed to destroy the Fourth Amendment by a vote of 186 to 2.)
In the Senate, the goddamned Republicans were unanimously in favor of this bill. Sixteen goddamned Democrats joined them, and if any one of them represents you I hope you consider it your duty to let them know early, often, and loudly how ashamed you are of them.
But the other 27 Democrats, joined by all zero of their nonevil Republican colleagues, voted against this horrible law.
Am I sick with anger about this? Sicker than you -- but I'm also angry about this "Democrats are totally useless" crap. Don't like how thin and impotent the congressional Democrats are? Don't like how imperfect their leadership is in the face of nearly total Republican evil? Fine, neither do I -- but I think it's a bit less counterproductive to dwell on monolithic Republican evil than the Democrats' failure to achieve omnipotence in the last election, won't you?
I posted five angry letters to congresspeople (and two big thank yous to my good Democratic senator and my good Democratic congressperson) before I came posting to Slashdot. What did you do?
According to what lazy science fiction writer's unimaginative extraterrestrial biologist friend?
For what possible reasons might Firefox users switch to Safari -- claims that it's "faster" and has "smoother fonts"?? Anyone who switches to Safari will be switching from Internet Explorer, and it may be the gateway drug to Firefox when people realize there are choices and the choices include effective annoyance control via extensions.
And how much will they pay me if my mail doesn't arrive?
This is easily resolved by shipping the Moon units without astronauts.
The Chief Examiner turned his attention on Carl and Antonë. He pushed his mirror away from his face and confronted them with his sweaty and distorted sneer. Judgement was nigh:
-- Az 2 U 2 -- the harsh Mokni consonents cut like knives through the thickening atmosphere of the forecourt -- U lì, U cheet, U R trayters, U R Fliars. U raze up ve toyist an drag dahn ve dävyn! He drew a scrap of black cloth from a fold of his robe and slapped it on to his bald wig. He parted his robe so that the sign of the Wheel was clearly visible on the sweaty breast of his T-shirt. he drew himself up to his full height and pronounced terrifying anathema on them:
-- U wil B takun bakk 2 ve Towa an brökun on ve Weel. Yaw tungs wil B cú aht. U wil B brandid an ung aht 2 dye inna box! Tayk em dahn! Ware2, guv? he bellowed.
-- 2 Nú Lundun, the forecourt responded in a subdued fashion.
-- Will Self, The Book of Dave (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006), 430.
Six years ago, Bloomberg was a bored billionaire who wanted to run for mayor. The race for the Democratic nomination was crowded with experienced candidates and the Republican race wasn't. Though Bloomberg had identified as a Democrat during most of his career, he switched parties to run for the Republican nomination.
The combination of a brutal Democratic primary, 9/11, and Bloomberg's amazing spending (he self-financed his campaign) got him elected in 2001. That year he only spent $70 per vote received -- that increased to $100 per vote when he ran for reelection last year. His was the most expensive non-presidential campaign in U.S. (therefore world) history.
I'm not sure what Bloomberg wants to do when he leaves office in 2009, but he sure as hell doesn't want to hang out with Republicans. He's been distancing himself ever since he was reelected.
Just installed SeaMonkey and Adblock -- seems to work fine -- but see no compatible Flashblock extension. Does anyone know if that exists yet? These are the two Firefox extensions I can't do without . . .
With the ability to push my house to work at over 8 MPH, I rarely worry about this.
Yes, it has been our first priority to get off this planet for one hundred million years, so if Bush has a symbolic plan to go visit the moon again, let's all go out and vote for him, because four years from now may be too late.
Are you out of your mind? Bush turned a budget surplus into a half-trillion-dollar deficit. If space exploration is important to you, your first priority is to get rid of the Republicans who want to bankrupt government in order to kill it. If you "grudgingly" intend to vote Bush so you can see Republican billboards on the moon, then go ahead -- he'll give you just the thrill you want. But if you want real space exploration, vote for someone whose party isn't dedicated to weakening the state until it can be drowned in the bathtub. Corpses in bathtubs do not sponsor exciting space programs.
Look, the U.S. needs to go to the moon starting tomorrow the way it needed to go pulverize Iraq on March 19. There's no hurry. In fact, a little bit of deliberation will make the U.S. a better space explorer, just as a little bit of patience might have made Bush a hero in Iraq instead of the biggest goof in world politics since Napoleon.
The United States budget will run almost a half trillion dollars in debt this year. Now, some of my fondest memories are of playing sick to watch moon landings in grade school, but I'd much rather spend money on educating kids and college students today who can do space exploration right ten and twenty years from now -- if we've dug out of the financial mess we're wallowing in now.
So no symbolic Republican missions to reproduce 1969 on the moon, thank you. If you're an American and want nonsymbolic space exploration in your lifetime, work to defeat George W. Bush and elect a president who will restore fiscal sanity to the United States. If we're lucky, the president after that, or the president after that, will have a chance to send human beings somewhere useful.
Fourteen hours after the disaster, Google News returns only one result for "missile defense" + columbia + shuttle -- ominously, Ha'aretz eulogizing Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon as the "first victim on this century's battlefield."
I am awfully sorry about the disaster, and I'd have prevented it if I could have. But I cannot help feeling consoled by the prospect that GW Bush now has one less space shuttle to aid in developing the "Star Wars" missile defense shield. That, plus a grounding delay for the rest of the fleet, could buy precious time for Americans to elect political leadership who will curtail this project.
However, I don't have any idea how dependent these efforts are on NASA's shuttles. How significant is the loss of the Columbia and a grounding period for the remaining shuttles for slowing development of the American military's space warfare programs?