That is actually a common misconception in the open source community. All dildos work well in an anus as well as they do in a vagina.
This is misleading. Ideally all butt tools have a FLARE (getting wider on the outside part). That's because objects are, ummmm, how do you say this, more likely to be sucked up and LOST back there.
That's the most important design difference with such equipment.
Stay safe and out of the emergency rooms, everyone!
Speaking of which, C now stands for Citigroup according to Google.
Huh? Your search shows "C programming language" as the first hit. "C is for cookie" comes before the citigroup hits.
Google returns different results for different people.
In fairness to the original poster, when I go to that link, the FIRST THREE links in the google results are in fact for Citigroup for me, as well as link #6. Seriously.
And none of the links are on the first page even mention "C is for cookie", despite my appreciation for tasty cookies of the edible variety.
How long until this is used as a defense in court?
At the very least, for the folks on the TV show "Lost" we could explain away their crazy behavior -- the magnetism is outrageous there and messed with their minds!
"THE SMOKE MONSTER TOLD ME TO DO IT AND IT JUST SEEMED *RIGHT*!"
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I don't understand how someone could say that tort reform is a red herring.
In terms of the direct financial impact of malpractice insurance and litigation costs, tort reform doesn't help more than a few percent or so. But in terms of the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on unnecessary treatment because doctors are paralyzed to do anything besides order the extra tests and procedures, tort reform would make a HUGE difference.
Also, the Congressional Budget Office says in their analysis that "Those estimates take into account the fact that because many states have already implemented some of the changes in the package, a significant fraction of the potential cost savings [of the federal bill] has already been realized."
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I don't understand how someone could say that tort reform is a red herring.
In terms of the direct financial impact of malpractice insurance and litigation costs, tort reform doesn't help more than a few percent or so. But in terms of the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on unnecessary treatment because doctors are paralyzed to do anything besides order the extra tests and procedures, tort reform would make a HUGE difference.
I also was more dismissive when I first saw the iPad, to the point where I wondered why it didn't have an add-on keyboard like always innovating's netbook (which this IBM slate seems to have copied in a way), but now I went through Apple's presentation days ago - I have to say this product might have a chance.
What you, and the rest of the people who can't get past this point forget is that to the user changes of applications without changing application state are equivalent to unlimited multitasking. Background processing? You see, we have these things called "servers" these days...
Surely you must know there are many cases this just doesn't work for.
I'd love to be able to use Pandora and NewNewsWire more effectively on iPhone.
On Mac OS X desktop:
# Launch the Pandora app/service.
# switch to Mail app on my Mac to read mail for a long time
# I hear music!
On iPhone:
# Launch the Pandora app/service.
# switch to Mail on my iPhone.
# No music! (Pandora was forced closed)
"having these things called servers" doesn't fix this.
And although I love NetNewsWire on Mac, it's poorly performant on iPhone because it can't do it's "catching up on the news feeds and fetching articles and pictures" in the background like it does on my mac.
Yeah, a couple other legislators including pelosi want it, but let's be clear that even Fox News claims that the Obama Administration definitively opposes it.
The Illinois Governor who won the peace prize is in prison for selling CDLs to people who couldn't drive or speak English and who ultimately killed a fmaily in a fiery death on the highway.
That one wasn't a joke, it was just pathetic.
Mod parent down, as it's main claim is false. The dude did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and your link to wikipedia is misleading, and even that wikipedia page does not even claim that he won.
You can also find out on that site that the nominations are the result of their requests to thousands of people...."send individual invitations to thousands of members of academies, university professors, scientists from numerous countries, previous Nobel Laureates, members of parliamentary assemblies and others, asking them to submit candidates for the Nobel Prizes for the coming year". So, seriously, as News For Nerds, we need to honest about distinguishing between "nomination" (one of thousands of people said yeah him) versus "winning" the Peace Prize. Which he didn't do.
Yeah, surprising to me to that this happened at this early phase, but it's their right to acknowledge someone who moves in the right direction as far as they are concerned.
For those who haven't seen it, he deserves the Nobel Prize just from his speech reaching out the Muslim World. Most Americans have not seen the whole thing beginning to end. But the world saw it, and you bet your bippy that lots of the Muslim world saw it. It was amazingly awesome.
Absolutely brilliant, strong, and a genuine attempt to promote real peace. I'm proud that we have a leader like that.
Yes, a big change from the bullying, belligerence, and ignorance, from the last 8 years, and probably him winning had some relationship with their dissapproval of his predecessor in terms of a powerful nation doing so much to devalue international cooperation, the UN, and international mutual respect.
At inaugeration he said that the USA... "we are ready to lead once more"...and he seems to be selling it to the world. he's not selling domination and war ***as an end to themselves*** like leaders seemed to do before. Instead he's selling leadership and trying to get along with each other, and then cooperating on zapping the violent extremists of every type. And he even tried to address the rifts between Israel and Palestine, promoting a 2state solution, and explicitly calling out BOTH sides to stuff they did wrong (condemning both sides), and explaining in straightforward language how both side's recent strategies are losing strategies, and laying out a plan for peace.
So, yeah, people who want vocal powerful advocates of peace probably respond well to his speech reaching out the Muslim World and his comments about hoping (eventually) for a world without nuclear weapons.
And btw, the Nobel group has also expanded its role over the years to include promotion of causes that relate to poverty and health, so his domestic healthcare work probably is something they approve of also.
And that's why he got the award. And that's why he deserved it. They want more of that, even if you don't agree with him or think he hasn't delivered yet. They want to make it easier for him to get stuff done by giving him some public kudos at a time he needs it because he's under attack and they want to give him some cred to help him do so.
You ignore the content of that PowerPoint presentation. The software app chosen was a little dicey, but the message was clear.
According to this article, it was Keynote, not PowerPoint.
Don't know if it's skipping over some older rev or whatever, but I'd heard that it was in Keynote...
The sad fact of the matter is that I don't believe the iPhone offers any way to have "map packs" like a traditional GPS so it's an all-or-nothing type deal.
if they want to, developers of iPhone 3.0 OS apps can offer "add-ons" within their applications, with publicly supported APIs and integration with the iTunes store. See:
I dunno if the size of the downloads would in practice thwart this plan to use those APIs. i guess it depends on the granularity
But either way, it seems like app developer could sell GPS data for each US state (for large states or region (in regions with smaller states) as a separate app in the itunes store.
Not available in the Canadian app-store (or in Europe).
I really am saddened by this aspect of 'progress', you can order physical CDs, DVDs, kindles, anything from all over the world and nobody has an issue with that, but the second anything becomes distributed electronically boom, we're transported to this strange super-protectionistic world where things do not move freely anymore.
DVDs bought anywhere in the world and "nobody has an issue with that"?
Mourning seems to be a time when hallucinations are particularly common, to the point where feeling the presence of the deceased is the norm rather than the exception.
Dammit.
Next thing you know those awful secularists will be claiming that anecdotal stories of "I saw Jesus three days after He died" represent something fundamentally normal about the human experience.
so are shoes analogy to Windows... it doesn't quite fit but if you bend it up long enough you can squeeze your feet into it?
Their next Windows campaign: The Procrustean Bed of Operating Systems
"he had an iron bed into which he invited every passerby to lie down. If the guest proved too tall, he would amputate the excess length; victims who were too short were stretched on the rack until they were long enough."
and the kicker?.... "Nobody ever fit in the bed because it was secretly adjustable: Procrustes would stretch or shrink it upon sizing his victims from afar."
Is advertising that powerful? I'll admit I haven't used Vista a lot, but there doesn't seem to be any improvement over XP.
You comments only provide invoking Seinfeld's show is the PERFECT thing to represent Microsoft, especially when you add their business ethics into it.:-)
If this is Intel hinting at future products, this would explain Apple's new "Grand Central"...Apple knows about the upcoming super-ultra-parallel chips?
Grand Central is a Snow Leopard feature to make it "much easier for developers to create programs that squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems."
It's an interesting strategic move to bring VBA back despite it being a complete re-write from what I've heard. They must reeeeeeeally need it to stay competitive with OO and similar apps.
Wouldn't it be easier to have blind people use a device that can TELL them which bill it is?
Plus, that device can genuinely authenticate it being valid currency using some of the high-tech methods that change machines use.
Surely that has to be better than changing the size or texture.
If we *merely* changed the size and texture, people could trick blind people all the time with their FALSE sense of confidence that they have a $100 bill because it's fuzzy and rounder, but they really just got handed some felt.
Thank goodness they've updated The Day the Earth Stood Still to preach about environmentalism, since a commentary on mankind's violent, destructive nature is no longer relevant in these modern times.
Exactly right! The subtext about the value of multi-party cooperation and united peacekeeping forces is so Old School. It's no longer relevant now that Bush has made the world safer thanks to his unilateral efforts in the Middle East and his whole-hearted support of the United Nations and his support for peacekeeping forces and international criminal tribunals that Keep Us Honest and Good Actors on the international scene.
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That is actually a common misconception in the open source community. All dildos work well in an anus as well as they do in a vagina.
This is misleading. Ideally all butt tools have a FLARE (getting wider on the outside part). That's because objects are, ummmm, how do you say this, more likely to be sucked up and LOST back there.
That's the most important design difference with such equipment.
Stay safe and out of the emergency rooms, everyone!
Speaking of which, C now stands for Citigroup according to Google.
Huh? Your search shows "C programming language" as the first hit. "C is for cookie" comes before the citigroup hits.
Google returns different results for different people.
In fairness to the original poster, when I go to that link, the FIRST THREE links in the google results are in fact for Citigroup for me, as well as link #6. Seriously.
And none of the links are on the first page even mention "C is for cookie", despite my appreciation for tasty cookies of the edible variety.
How long until this is used as a defense in court?
At the very least, for the folks on the TV show "Lost" we could explain away their crazy behavior -- the magnetism is outrageous there and messed with their minds!
"THE SMOKE MONSTER TOLD ME TO DO IT AND IT JUST SEEMED *RIGHT*!"
I don't understand how someone could say that tort reform is a red herring.
In terms of the direct financial impact of malpractice insurance and litigation costs, tort reform doesn't help more than a few percent or so. But in terms of the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on unnecessary treatment because doctors are paralyzed to do anything besides order the extra tests and procedures, tort reform would make a HUGE difference.
The Congressional Budget Office studied this and agrees with you that the savings for "less utilitization of health services" due to tort reform is important... 150% bigger than the direct financial impact. But it disagrees with you about the amount... and says that even combined, it's less than 1 percent of the total cost of health, all things considered.
Also, the Congressional Budget Office says in their analysis that "Those estimates take into account the fact that because many states have already implemented some of the changes in the package, a significant fraction of the potential cost savings [of the federal bill] has already been realized."
I don't understand how someone could say that tort reform is a red herring.
In terms of the direct financial impact of malpractice insurance and litigation costs, tort reform doesn't help more than a few percent or so. But in terms of the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on unnecessary treatment because doctors are paralyzed to do anything besides order the extra tests and procedures, tort reform would make a HUGE difference.
The Congressional Budget Office studied this and agrees with you that the savings for "less utilitization of health services" due to tort reform is important... 150% bigger than the direct financial impact. But it disagrees with you about the amount... and says that even combined, it's less than 1 percent of the total cost of health, all things considered.
But what's wrong with giving people options?
See the book "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less" by Barry Schwartz (Author)
I also was more dismissive when I first saw the iPad, to the point where I wondered why it didn't have an add-on keyboard like always innovating's netbook (which this IBM slate seems to have copied in a way), but now I went through Apple's presentation days ago - I have to say this product might have a chance.
People can see the official iPad keyboard dock at the bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
What you, and the rest of the people who can't get past this point forget is that to the user changes of applications without changing application state are equivalent to unlimited multitasking. Background processing? You see, we have these things called "servers" these days...
Surely you must know there are many cases this just doesn't work for. I'd love to be able to use Pandora and NewNewsWire more effectively on iPhone.
On Mac OS X desktop:
# Launch the Pandora app/service.
# switch to Mail app on my Mac to read mail for a long time
# I hear music!
On iPhone:
# Launch the Pandora app/service.
# switch to Mail on my iPhone.
# No music! (Pandora was forced closed)
"having these things called servers" doesn't fix this.
And although I love NetNewsWire on Mac, it's poorly performant on iPhone because it can't do it's "catching up on the news feeds and fetching articles and pictures" in the background like it does on my mac.
What the current government want so far [...] Increased government regulation of aired political opinion through the Fairness Doctrine.
Even Fox News says that President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine and even clarified that their stance was "definitive".
Yeah, a couple other legislators including pelosi want it, but let's be clear that even Fox News claims that the Obama Administration definitively opposes it.
The Illinois Governor who won the peace prize is in prison for selling CDLs to people who couldn't drive or speak English and who ultimately killed a fmaily in a fiery death on the highway.
That one wasn't a joke, it was just pathetic.
Mod parent down, as it's main claim is false. The dude did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and your link to wikipedia is misleading, and even that wikipedia page does not even claim that he won.
He merely was nominated in 2005. You can trivially confirm that in 2005 the Peace Prize went to Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency shared the price in 2005. That's this guy, btw.
You can also find out on that site that the nominations are the result of their requests to thousands of people...."send individual invitations to thousands of members of academies, university professors, scientists from numerous countries, previous Nobel Laureates, members of parliamentary assemblies and others, asking them to submit candidates for the Nobel Prizes for the coming year". So, seriously, as News For Nerds, we need to honest about distinguishing between "nomination" (one of thousands of people said yeah him) versus "winning" the Peace Prize. Which he didn't do.
A basic google search would find you this page that lists all the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. And obviously George Ryan is demonstrably not on the list.
Mod parent down.
Yeah, surprising to me to that this happened at this early phase, but it's their right to acknowledge someone who moves in the right direction as far as they are concerned.
For those who haven't seen it, he deserves the Nobel Prize just from his speech reaching out the Muslim World. Most Americans have not seen the whole thing beginning to end. But the world saw it, and you bet your bippy that lots of the Muslim world saw it. It was amazingly awesome.
Absolutely brilliant, strong, and a genuine attempt to promote real peace. I'm proud that we have a leader like that.
Yes, a big change from the bullying, belligerence, and ignorance, from the last 8 years, and probably him winning had some relationship with their dissapproval of his predecessor in terms of a powerful nation doing so much to devalue international cooperation, the UN, and international mutual respect.
At inaugeration he said that the USA... "we are ready to lead once more"...and he seems to be selling it to the world. he's not selling domination and war ***as an end to themselves*** like leaders seemed to do before. Instead he's selling leadership and trying to get along with each other, and then cooperating on zapping the violent extremists of every type. And he even tried to address the rifts between Israel and Palestine, promoting a 2state solution, and explicitly calling out BOTH sides to stuff they did wrong (condemning both sides), and explaining in straightforward language how both side's recent strategies are losing strategies, and laying out a plan for peace.
So, yeah, people who want vocal powerful advocates of peace probably respond well to his speech reaching out the Muslim World and his comments about hoping (eventually) for a world without nuclear weapons.
And btw, the Nobel group has also expanded its role over the years to include promotion of causes that relate to poverty and health, so his domestic healthcare work probably is something they approve of also.
And that's why he got the award. And that's why he deserved it. They want more of that, even if you don't agree with him or think he hasn't delivered yet. They want to make it easier for him to get stuff done by giving him some public kudos at a time he needs it because he's under attack and they want to give him some cred to help him do so.
You ignore the content of that PowerPoint presentation. The software app chosen was a little dicey, but the message was clear.
According to this article, it was Keynote, not PowerPoint. Don't know if it's skipping over some older rev or whatever, but I'd heard that it was in Keynote...
The sad fact of the matter is that I don't believe the iPhone offers any way to have "map packs" like a traditional GPS so it's an all-or-nothing type deal.
if they want to, developers of iPhone 3.0 OS apps can offer "add-ons" within their applications, with publicly supported APIs and integration with the iTunes store. See:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/sdk/inapppurchase.html
I dunno if the size of the downloads would in practice thwart this plan to use those APIs. i guess it depends on the granularity
But either way, it seems like app developer could sell GPS data for each US state (for large states or region (in regions with smaller states) as a separate app in the itunes store.
Not available in the Canadian app-store (or in Europe).
I really am saddened by this aspect of 'progress', you can order physical CDs, DVDs, kindles, anything from all over the world and nobody has an issue with that, but the second anything becomes distributed electronically boom, we're transported to this strange super-protectionistic world where things do not move freely anymore.
DVDs bought anywhere in the world and "nobody has an issue with that"?
Actually, DVD region codes thwart many cases of doing just that and that's built into the DVD standard (unfortunately).
Here are the specifications in English, directly from Sony's site.
Mourning seems to be a time when hallucinations are particularly common, to the point where feeling the presence of the deceased is the norm rather than the exception.
Dammit.
Next thing you know those awful secularists will be claiming that anecdotal stories of "I saw Jesus three days after He died" represent something fundamentally normal about the human experience.
Those damn secularists might suggest that such anecdotes may say more about the grief and mourning of people for a really nice peaceful human guy, than about the magic powers of the dead really really nice peaceful human guy. It's a good thing that no one ever made claims that differed from the early Christian church that ended up dominating the orthodoxy.
And don't even get me started about Elvis. I saw the King with my own eyes the week after he faked his own death, I tell you what.
I don't know how popular it will be, but The Yes Men are 1 step closer to predicting the future.
Only a few weeks ago they predicted in the "special edition" of the NY Times (the huge NYTimes hoax) that...
The Department of Defense announced yesterday the cancellation of its highly successful and popular 'Americaâ(TM)s Army' online game and recruitment tool. The program has already been converted into a new game, operated by the State Department, entitled 'Americaâ(TM)s Diplomat'. State Department spokesperson Donald Demsfold called this âoea pretty good step towards nurturing a generation committed to the principles of diplomacy and peaceful negotiation.â
Welcome Squid Overlords!
so are shoes analogy to Windows... it doesn't quite fit but if you bend it up long enough you can squeeze your feet into it?
Their next Windows campaign: The Procrustean Bed of Operating Systems
"he had an iron bed into which he invited every passerby to lie down. If the guest proved too tall, he would amputate the excess length; victims who were too short were stretched on the rack until they were long enough."
and the kicker? .... "Nobody ever fit in the bed because it was secretly adjustable: Procrustes would stretch or shrink it upon sizing his victims from afar."
Is advertising that powerful? I'll admit I haven't used Vista a lot, but there doesn't seem to be any improvement over XP.
You comments only provide invoking Seinfeld's show is the PERFECT thing to represent Microsoft, especially when you add their business ethics into it. :-)
After all, the philosophy of the show was notable "... for not placing a shred of importance on the characters learning moral lessons. In effect, the characters are often morally indifferent or callous. It was often said that the mantra of the show's producers was: "No hugging, no learning."
:-)
If this is Intel hinting at future products, this would explain Apple's new "Grand Central"...Apple knows about the upcoming super-ultra-parallel chips?
Grand Central is a Snow Leopard feature to make it "much easier for developers to create programs that squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems."
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
Link to video of Obama's bubblesort comment at Google...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8
Office 2008 for Mac exists now, and yes it doesn't have VBA. However, VBA will return to Office in the next release.
See http://www.macworld.com/article/133393/2008/05/vba.html?t=201 for details.
It's an interesting strategic move to bring VBA back despite it being a complete re-write from what I've heard. They must reeeeeeeally need it to stay competitive with OO and similar apps.
Huh?
Wouldn't it be easier to have blind people use a device that can TELL them which bill it is?
Plus, that device can genuinely authenticate it being valid currency using some of the high-tech methods that change machines use.
Surely that has to be better than changing the size or texture.
If we *merely* changed the size and texture, people could trick blind people all the time with their FALSE sense of confidence that they have a $100 bill because it's fuzzy and rounder, but they really just got handed some felt.
Thank goodness they've updated The Day the Earth Stood Still to preach about environmentalism, since a commentary on mankind's violent, destructive nature is no longer relevant in these modern times.
Exactly right! The subtext about the value of multi-party cooperation and united peacekeeping forces is so Old School. It's no longer relevant now that Bush has made the world safer thanks to his unilateral efforts in the Middle East and his whole-hearted support of the United Nations and his support for peacekeeping forces and international criminal tribunals that Keep Us Honest and Good Actors on the international scene.