Nah. The place that's gonna go to Hell in a handbasket is St. Louis. That city is sitting on top of an 8 point fault that hasn't been heard from in about 150 years... The last time it cut loose, it rang church bells in New England.
In a major earthquake, the best place to be is (obviously) somewhere else. But if you have to be caught in one, the best place to be is L.A. The building code takes quakes into account. The idea is that the building is still standing. It may not be safe, but it's not supposed to pancake on you.
Actually, in L.A., where it really IS UnAmerican to do anything except drive, the busiest freeway in the world (I-10, the Santa Monica Freeway) was shut down after the Northridge quake. We routed around it. Traffic was even slower than usual, but it got through.
Way better than this was the rods-and-slots hockey game, where the "players" were these cardboard things that snapped onto the "stick" bases; you could get different teams in different "uniforms"... On the down side, no magnets were involved.:-)
Yeah, but the puck could get stuck behind the net!
P.S. My daughter's favorite fictional character is Babar!
I've often wondered about IR and UV vision since my days as a D&D'er 20 years ago... If you could see IR and/or UV, how would you perceive them? Would you see "heat trails", or would you simply see extra (undescribable to normal humans) colors?
I think the argument is that since we have only one model for intelligent thinking (N.B. this discounts the dolphins and the white mice:-P), we would attempt to create any AI's to fit that model. That is, we would create them in our image, with all our flaws...
Hence, we get, "Hey hot mama! Wanna kill all humans?"
Clueless fool. Being a monopoly is not illegal.
However, once you have a monopoly (regardless of whether it's Mediterranean/Baltic or Boardwalk/ParkPlace) different rules apply. You can't use your existing monopoly to get another monopoly.
I predict that prop 13 will die when the number of people getting the cheapo locked in low rates decreases (due to them dieing off) below the number of homeowners who don't....
That's when it'll get all the stronger. If you're paying 1% on a $200,000 house, do you really want those idiots in Sacramento raising your rates or reassessing you higher whenever they need money (see Prop39)?
Mind you here in California the LOLs banded together and passed an initiative that froze their tax basis at an early '80s level meaning that the rest of us end up having toshoulder much more than our share of the burden
Ah, yes. You are talking about Prop 13.
Prop 13 was passed in 1978
Prop 13 limited property taxes to 1% of property value
Prop 13 rolled back assesments to 1975 levels
Prop 13 allows a 2% increase in "assessed value" per annum
If a property is sold, the new base valuation of the property is the sale priceIf a property has improvements made to it (generally those requiring a permit), it is reassessed and gets a new base valuation
Now, how many people have actually held onto their houses since 1978? Knowing government (remember Prop 39 this year), they'd have taxed us to the point where taxes are more than the mortgage.
I particularly liked where they discussed the hardware.
"This [CENSORED] has both Zip and Jaz drives."
Now, the only reason they could censor that word is because it is the brand of the machine used. Based on the fact that it takes up about four letters of space, we can guess that the program was probably tested on a Dell PII-300.
New portables (discman clones) are advertised as CD-RW compatible. I just bought a Phillips AZ9113 and it had a big label on the package saying CD-RW compatible.
In fact, physical meetings are the hallmark of poor organizers, of people who don't have better to do with their time.
In general, this may be true, especially for "staff meetings", but there are cases where a face-to-face works and teleconferencing, even with video just won't cut it.
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How about the '88 Internet worm?
Nah. The place that's gonna go to Hell in a handbasket is St. Louis. That city is sitting on top of an 8 point fault that hasn't been heard from in about 150 years... The last time it cut loose, it rang church bells in New England.
In a major earthquake, the best place to be is (obviously) somewhere else. But if you have to be caught in one, the best place to be is L.A. The building code takes quakes into account. The idea is that the building is still standing. It may not be safe, but it's not supposed to pancake on you.
Actually, in L.A., where it really IS UnAmerican to do anything except drive, the busiest freeway in the world (I-10, the Santa Monica Freeway) was shut down after the Northridge quake. We routed around it. Traffic was even slower than usual, but it got through.
Way better than this was the rods-and-slots hockey game, where the "players" were these cardboard things that snapped onto the "stick" bases; you could get different teams in different "uniforms"... On the down side, no magnets were involved. :-)
Yeah, but the puck could get stuck behind the net!
P.S. My daughter's favorite fictional character is Babar!
I've often wondered about IR and UV vision since my days as a D&D'er 20 years ago... If you could see IR and/or UV, how would you perceive them? Would you see "heat trails", or would you simply see extra (undescribable to normal humans) colors?
as the amusing recollection of the "vibrating" footbal field.
Was anyone who had one of these ever able to get the QB to pass or the kicker to kick?
I know I couldn't...
My parents do this. Good group.
The guy who wrote that link is fscking clueless. He shows his ignorance by saying that the guy who LBL and LLNL is named after is "Orlando Lawrence".
Yeah, right. It's Ernest Lawrence. (OK, it was Ernest Orlando Lawrence.
I think the argument is that since we have only one model for intelligent thinking (N.B. this discounts the dolphins and the white mice :-P), we would attempt to create any AI's to fit that model. That is, we would create them in our image, with all our flaws...
Hence, we get, "Hey hot mama! Wanna kill all humans?"
The summary said that ZoneAlarm logs can be posted. What about BlackICE Defender?
Clueless fool. Being a monopoly is not illegal.
However, once you have a monopoly (regardless of whether it's Mediterranean/Baltic or Boardwalk/ParkPlace) different rules apply. You can't use your existing monopoly to get another monopoly.
for the exact same reasons. They want us dumb and in their employ. Also, if they train us, they'd have to pay us more...
16-bit segments. If you wanted more than 64K in a single data item, you had to play games
Segmentation only. There was no demand paging. The smallest swappable item was the segment
No way to get out of protected mode short of a processor reset
How 0x11223344 is stored in memory:
Big Endian (Moto,PPC, etc..): 11 22 33 44
Little Endian (x86, VAX): 44 33 22 11
PDP: 22 11 44 33
Also, at one time, at least, Intel provided MIL-spec and rad-hardened 386SX chips.
I predict that prop 13 will die when the number of people getting the cheapo locked in low rates decreases (due to them dieing off) below the number of homeowners who don't ....
That's when it'll get all the stronger. If you're paying 1% on a $200,000 house, do you really want those idiots in Sacramento raising your rates or reassessing you higher whenever they need money (see Prop39)?
I remember using BSD 4.2 when it came out back in 1983!
Ah, yes. You are talking about Prop 13.
Prop 13 was passed in 1978
Prop 13 limited property taxes to 1% of property value
Prop 13 rolled back assesments to 1975 levels
Prop 13 allows a 2% increase in "assessed value" per annum
If a property is sold, the new base valuation of the property is the sale priceIf a property has improvements made to it (generally those requiring a permit), it is reassessed and gets a new base valuation
Now, how many people have actually held onto their houses since 1978? Knowing government (remember Prop 39 this year), they'd have taxed us to the point where taxes are more than the mortgage.
I think they blocked out the word "Dell", based on the amount of space it took up.
I particularly liked where they discussed the hardware.
"This [CENSORED] has both Zip and Jaz drives."
Now, the only reason they could censor that word is because it is the brand of the machine used. Based on the fact that it takes up about four letters of space, we can guess that the program was probably tested on a Dell PII-300.
It seems to me that both McGuckin and Sellers have a suit against the City of Philadelphia for violations of their constitutional rights. To wit:
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Half a million and a million dollars (respectively) for misdemeanors seems excessive.
New portables (discman clones) are advertised as CD-RW compatible. I just bought a Phillips AZ9113 and it had a big label on the package saying CD-RW compatible.
In fact, physical meetings are the hallmark of poor organizers, of people who don't have better to do with their time.
In general, this may be true, especially for "staff meetings", but there are cases where a face-to-face works and teleconferencing, even with video just won't cut it.
I swear, my grandma actually programmed with punch cards when she was in college.
Damn, but you're a young'un ain'tcha?
I used punch cards on while learning PL/1 for a 370 back at Washington University (home of the FTP-Daemon) back in '80 and '81.
Thank you. But allow me to put it shorter and sweeter by using what I told my daughter when she asked about the Holocaust...
Evil Exists.