That's no Delorian. The Delorian had panache. That *thing* looks more like a mutant Ford Focus or Honda Insight, another freakish-looking vehicle.
I personally don't think a "flying car" would be worth the effort unless it was a VTOL like the Moller is. Why should one have to get stuck in traffic on the way to the airport when your flying car is supposed to keep you out of traffic?
Yes, it was NASA's tagline as well, for a little while. They've since stopped such nonsense, as sending equipment into harsh environs with no redundancies is more costly than just being prepared.
I wonder if the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" philosophy will work any better here.
...and you can camp almost anywhere, I'm told. And they're close to Sweden, which means I am closer to the dispersal centers for Nightwish and decent chocolate. What a great country. If I weren't addicted to the American economy, I'd live there.
The impossibility of securing a windows system is not so much an indication of MS-ignorance as it is of their lack of initiative to improve their product, i.e., get off their asses and stop compounding the weaknesses that have been in their products for so long.
By analogy:
They've created one hell of a hydra; and instead of burning the stumps they feed it and let it loose on the public, who lack the Promethean equipment to sterilize the beast.
P2P's aren't as vicious to the average internet user as spam is. Sure, a P2P running on a cable modem could eat up a lot of the bandwidth that your area shares (if they do share; I know a few cable users who live in the middle of nowhere and basically have their cable bandwidth to themselves. It really owns:) ).
When your business is hit by a spammer, you lose money. P2P problems with a business can be corrected in house (i.e., fire the idiot who can't wait to get home to listen to Metallica), but spam has to be stopped before it starts to impact your bottom line.
When your personal emailbox is hit by spam, that much more of your space for meaningful conversation with others is gone. And when you're dealing with the volume of spam that flies around the internet like the proverbial shitstorm every day, it's not really an option (or desirable) to let spam say it's piece before you terminate it. No. Abort the little bitches now!
"Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose." They can't interfere with your ability to use the internet by choking you with detrius.
I don't want to sound like a California State Congressman, but we may have to legislate, perhaps heavily, to cut down on spam. It sucks, but the only other alternative to blackhole lists that I see is for a group of internet users to go vigilante and take the spam war to the spammers.
I dunno. I think New Wave was much more shocking and offensive than today's metal and alternative rock.
I'm sure learning to think like a hacker is informative and useful, but I don't think that a training course in how to hack is needed, especially with all the tutorials available for free.
I don't think that teaching moral and responsible use of these kind of skills is appropriate for schools, either. Moral education is a thing for the home, not the classroom. Otherwise you're abdicating parental responsibility to the government yet again.
Of course, you could always just buy her a Browning Automatic Rifle. Y'know, something she could attach conveniently to her car keys.
Personally, I'd teach her how to use pocket sticks, so she could improvise with a fountain pen, to devastating and perhaps lethal effect.
Also, sometimes all a woman has to do is be brutal. There was an elderly girl, somewhere in her 60's, who was attacked from behind by a man. In response, she grabbed him where it counts and did her best to pull his scrotum over his head. That pretty much settled the matter.
Indeed. There should never have been an Outpost 2, nor a Clock Tower 2, or Clock Tower 3, or an E.T., for that matter.
Where is the John Romero we knew? The Doom 2 John Romero whom you could grovel in front of (and then shoot with your rocket launcher)?
I think what motivates these nostalgic people mentioned in the article is that same college-years nostalgia that causes people to watch Xanadu and Dagon.
Or rather, as power is needed, a pair of goggles that could give you UV and IR with the same mechanism. A good way to simplify and hopefully "bombproof" some of our optics technology, 'cause that stuff is a bitch to take care of, sometimes.
Like when you're climbing a sheer rock face, looking for Peregrine Falcons in the dead of night...
*waves hand* you don't need a lightsaber.
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It would make for some really great Darwin Award stories...
This is all the budding Jedi Religion needs; an iconic weapon for every member to go out and get. And where there's Christianity, there's Satanism; what happens when some idiot Jedi decides that he'd rather be a Sith lord?
In breaking news, a lightsaber wielding Jedi, calling himself Darth Mangle, killed several bank customers and then himself. A note found on his person declared "i told u i was hardcore."
We need to develop blaster pistols first. Then we can pull a Raiders of the Lost Ark on these idiots.
Every time I see this kind of thing happening in Europe (which I could probably refer to as if it were one horribly screwed up country), America begins to look more and more like a culturo-political escape pod. We're trying to reach political minimum-safe-distance.
As for Tony Blair, who was mentioned in a few replies that are most likely under your current threshold, I don't think he's lining up to be a Hitler or a Stalin. For all of his lefty leanings, he's got the guts to stand up to his entire party because he holds to Winston Churchill's advice, "Don't ever get separated from the Americans." With courage and conviction like that, maybe there's hope for him.
At the risk of sounding like I'm just another idiot on IRC, LOL.
I don't expect the 'States to be perfect, and anyone who does just doesn't want to acknowledge the country for one reason or another.
"more innocent times" obviously refers to dates = 9/10/01, when the mainland (or homeland, as it is more recently known) was inaccessible to hostiles from without (although we were vulnerable from within, a la Oaklahoma City).
As TIA goes, I think that the American people deserve to know as much as possible about what the program is doing. Supposedly, though, it's a centralization of all intelligence/think-tank. Which may be a good thing (simple) or a bad thing (too complicated and/or bureaucratic). It remains to be seen.
Especially when it would be a helluva lot cheaper to just pass out umbrellas. Imagine:
"Vladimir Putin Designer Umbrellas! The Fashion Statement of the Season!" "What season is it, by the way?" "I dunno. Now that we control the weather, it's kinda hard to tell."
Yeah, I fault the Bush Administration mainly on two things; one, that they haven't tried yet to cut unnecessary programs, like the National Endowment for the Arts, and two, that they have a complete inability to give anything a good name. Couldn't we have had "Operation Get that Commie Bastard!" in Iraq?
Counterfeiting is a problem, and with the right techniques we can cut all but the biggest, most resourceful counterfeiters out of the market. But I don't think that we need to know what transactions the bills were used in. Of course, the EU are just the kind of people I would expect to do this sort of thing. Leftie bastards...
Kinda reminds me of the common theme in cyberpunk science fiction; technology will eventually enslave us. Of course, Wells would say that science and technology can save us from themselves and ourselves as well. So much for using our literary artists as a guide...
As it seems a matter of attitude, I suggest optimism; if it is eventually implemented, it will not be long before some enterprising individual (either a crook or an inspired nerd) will find a way to trump that kind of control.
Which opens a new can of worms; imagine cracking the RFID's in your cash to alter, say, your credit rating. Credit providers would jump at the chance to track the cash-spending habits of their clients if they could, don't you think? I hope that, giving a libertarian enough government, this sort of thing could be prevented in the USA.
Of course, that could all change if you're in direct contact with your CO all the time. We have to be careful not to cull that initiative out of our soldiers by giving them a too-convenient safety net.
Especially since lightsabers that cut with electromagnetic radiations would just pass right through each other, right?
I'd be like fighting with a flashlight. Although, it would promote a certain degree of finesse in swordsmanship; if you couldn't parry, would you just rush up to someone, the way medieval enthusiasts do when they know they can't get their feet chopped off? It would take some serious finesse to win a fight like that...or a longer lightsaber:/.
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That's no Delorian. The Delorian had panache. That *thing* looks more like a mutant Ford Focus or Honda Insight, another freakish-looking vehicle.
I personally don't think a "flying car" would be worth the effort unless it was a VTOL like the Moller is. Why should one have to get stuck in traffic on the way to the airport when your flying car is supposed to keep you out of traffic?
Yes, it was NASA's tagline as well, for a little while. They've since stopped such nonsense, as sending equipment into harsh environs with no redundancies is more costly than just being prepared.
I wonder if the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" philosophy will work any better here.
I've read that if you screw up the sync rates on your monitor it can damage the device, so I guess it's okay....not kosher, but okay.
...and you can camp almost anywhere, I'm told. And they're close to Sweden, which means I am closer to the dispersal centers for Nightwish and decent chocolate. What a great country. If I weren't addicted to the American economy, I'd live there.
Which is why I support the Green Party.
If I'm not mistaken this very joke appeared in the Bible.
That's the evil, mind-ripping beauty of the Free Internet. Be careful where you click.
The impossibility of securing a windows system is not so much an indication of MS-ignorance as it is of their lack of initiative to improve their product, i.e., get off their asses and stop compounding the weaknesses that have been in their products for so long.
By analogy:
They've created one hell of a hydra; and instead of burning the stumps they feed it and let it loose on the public, who lack the Promethean equipment to sterilize the beast.
Anti-spammers have the option of leaving the "battlefield" if this happens; the spammers don't, if they want to keep their hobby/livelihood.
One could have a list of protected domains (user defined) that wouldn't be spidered...
But that's just an idea. I'm frequently wrong.
P2P's aren't as vicious to the average internet user as spam is. Sure, a P2P running on a cable modem could eat up a lot of the bandwidth that your area shares (if they do share; I know a few cable users who live in the middle of nowhere and basically have their cable bandwidth to themselves. It really owns :) ).
When your business is hit by a spammer, you lose money. P2P problems with a business can be corrected in house (i.e., fire the idiot who can't wait to get home to listen to Metallica), but spam has to be stopped before it starts to impact your bottom line.
When your personal emailbox is hit by spam, that much more of your space for meaningful conversation with others is gone. And when you're dealing with the volume of spam that flies around the internet like the proverbial shitstorm every day, it's not really an option (or desirable) to let spam say it's piece before you terminate it. No. Abort the little bitches now!
"Your freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose." They can't interfere with your ability to use the internet by choking you with detrius.
I don't want to sound like a California State Congressman, but we may have to legislate, perhaps heavily, to cut down on spam. It sucks, but the only other alternative to blackhole lists that I see is for a group of internet users to go vigilante and take the spam war to the spammers.
Just a thought for you 1337 }{4>0|;2 out there.
I dunno. I think New Wave was much more shocking and offensive than today's metal and alternative rock.
I'm sure learning to think like a hacker is informative and useful, but I don't think that a training course in how to hack is needed, especially with all the tutorials available for free.
I don't think that teaching moral and responsible use of these kind of skills is appropriate for schools, either. Moral education is a thing for the home, not the classroom. Otherwise you're abdicating parental responsibility to the government yet again.
Sure. It'll probably be about Angel or something stupid like that.
Or inside the car, for that matter.
I think they should only offer this kind of thing on an automatic transmission. Imagine trying to surf pr0n and handle two sticks at one time?
What about SD training AND that jacket?
Of course, you could always just buy her a Browning Automatic Rifle. Y'know, something she could attach conveniently to her car keys.
Personally, I'd teach her how to use pocket sticks, so she could improvise with a fountain pen, to devastating and perhaps lethal effect.
Also, sometimes all a woman has to do is be brutal. There was an elderly girl, somewhere in her 60's, who was attacked from behind by a man. In response, she grabbed him where it counts and did her best to pull his scrotum over his head. That pretty much settled the matter.
In other news, muggers start wearing jockstraps
Sorry, can't resist an opportunity to plagarize.
Indeed. There should never have been an Outpost 2, nor a Clock Tower 2, or Clock Tower 3, or an E.T., for that matter.
Where is the John Romero we knew? The Doom 2 John Romero whom you could grovel in front of (and then shoot with your rocket launcher)?
I think what motivates these nostalgic people mentioned in the article is that same college-years nostalgia that causes people to watch Xanadu and Dagon.
Or rather, "Face It, We Love Crap"
Or rather, as power is needed, a pair of goggles that could give you UV and IR with the same mechanism. A good way to simplify and hopefully "bombproof" some of our optics technology, 'cause that stuff is a bitch to take care of, sometimes.
Like when you're climbing a sheer rock face, looking for Peregrine Falcons in the dead of night...
It would make for some really great Darwin Award stories...
This is all the budding Jedi Religion needs; an iconic weapon for every member to go out and get. And where there's Christianity, there's Satanism; what happens when some idiot Jedi decides that he'd rather be a Sith lord?
In breaking news, a lightsaber wielding Jedi, calling himself Darth Mangle, killed several bank customers and then himself. A note found on his person declared "i told u i was hardcore."
We need to develop blaster pistols first. Then we can pull a Raiders of the Lost Ark on these idiots.
Every time I see this kind of thing happening in Europe (which I could probably refer to as if it were one horribly screwed up country), America begins to look more and more like a culturo-political escape pod. We're trying to reach political minimum-safe-distance.
As for Tony Blair, who was mentioned in a few replies that are most likely under your current threshold, I don't think he's lining up to be a Hitler or a Stalin. For all of his lefty leanings, he's got the guts to stand up to his entire party because he holds to Winston Churchill's advice, "Don't ever get separated from the Americans." With courage and conviction like that, maybe there's hope for him.
At the risk of sounding like I'm just another idiot on IRC, LOL.
I don't expect the 'States to be perfect, and anyone who does just doesn't want to acknowledge the country for one reason or another.
"more innocent times" obviously refers to dates = 9/10/01, when the mainland (or homeland, as it is more recently known) was inaccessible to hostiles from without (although we were vulnerable from within, a la Oaklahoma City).
As TIA goes, I think that the American people deserve to know as much as possible about what the program is doing. Supposedly, though, it's a centralization of all intelligence/think-tank. Which may be a good thing (simple) or a bad thing (too complicated and/or bureaucratic). It remains to be seen.
Especially when it would be a helluva lot cheaper to just pass out umbrellas. Imagine:
"Vladimir Putin Designer Umbrellas! The Fashion Statement of the Season!"
"What season is it, by the way?"
"I dunno. Now that we control the weather, it's kinda hard to tell."
Yeah, I fault the Bush Administration mainly on two things; one, that they haven't tried yet to cut unnecessary programs, like the National Endowment for the Arts, and two, that they have a complete inability to give anything a good name. Couldn't we have had "Operation Get that Commie Bastard!" in Iraq?
Counterfeiting is a problem, and with the right techniques we can cut all but the biggest, most resourceful counterfeiters out of the market. But I don't think that we need to know what transactions the bills were used in. Of course, the EU are just the kind of people I would expect to do this sort of thing. Leftie bastards...
Kinda reminds me of the common theme in cyberpunk science fiction; technology will eventually enslave us. Of course, Wells would say that science and technology can save us from themselves and ourselves as well. So much for using our literary artists as a guide...
As it seems a matter of attitude, I suggest optimism; if it is eventually implemented, it will not be long before some enterprising individual (either a crook or an inspired nerd) will find a way to trump that kind of control.
Which opens a new can of worms; imagine cracking the RFID's in your cash to alter, say, your credit rating. Credit providers would jump at the chance to track the cash-spending habits of their clients if they could, don't you think? I hope that, giving a libertarian enough government, this sort of thing could be prevented in the USA.
Of course, that could all change if you're in direct contact with your CO all the time. We have to be careful not to cull that initiative out of our soldiers by giving them a too-convenient safety net.
hey bill look whle i own this fag.
LOLOLOLZ, awp his ass
The future of warfare. God I hope we develop robots soon.
Especially since lightsabers that cut with electromagnetic radiations would just pass right through each other, right?
:/.
I'd be like fighting with a flashlight. Although, it would promote a certain degree of finesse in swordsmanship; if you couldn't parry, would you just rush up to someone, the way medieval enthusiasts do when they know they can't get their feet chopped off? It would take some serious finesse to win a fight like that...or a longer lightsaber