It's funny because the submitter is trolling Slashdot to help him with his homework (writing a report on, er, something, probably more about Slashdot flamewars than people hating Microsoft). In comp.arch they actually go the trouble of making up elaborate nonsensical answers to posted homework questions.
Amazing.... Dozens of responses to the question, and only one even comes close to answering it.
According to the American political philosophy, which inspired the Declaration of Independence and Constitution: Yes, we have that right, and so do you and everyone else in the world, and governments that abridge that right are illegitimate.
Whether you can get away with carrying a sword in America or anywhere else is a different question, which was answered over and over again above.
The problem with people on the road today is that they always ascribe the worst possible attitude to others' actions. I interpret others' actions in the politest way possible.
That's an excellent point, and useful for more than just driving. I subscribe to a sort of modified Hanlon's Razor that goes something like this: "Never ascribe to malice or stupidity that which you don't understand." It's pretty hard to make a complete assessment of a stranger's motiviations in one second at 60 miles per hour.
Gawkers? Do such people even exist in non-negligible quantities?
You should slow down when you see emergency lights or stopped vehicles up ahead, especially if you were already speeding, because there's likely some kind of emergency or other hazard. I'm guessing that applet (which doesn't work for me) demonstrates that when the road is saturated with traffic just one vehicle slowing down a little bit can send a growing slowdown wave backward eventually resulting in a traffic jam. Thus, in heavy (but otherwise moving) traffic, normal and reasonable caution causes a traffic jam which clears up right after the road hazard, even without anybody gawking.
After creeping for 15 minutes through a traffic jam you finally see open road ahead and a non-event on the side of the road, and swear at all the "idiots" who "stopped" to "gawk" at it, when in reality nobody did any such thing. And how do you know it's only a stupid fender bender anyway? You peeked as you went by, didn't you? Gawker!
If you just want to watch TV get a Tivo. If you're a hacker, and need to tinker with everything complicated and electronic, skip the Tivo and go straight to MythTV -- you will eventually try to hack your Tivo, and it's a waste of time.
I've spent many many hours tinkering with (and occasionally swearing at) my elaborate MythTV setup, but it's been very rewarding -- more so, I'd say, than sitting around watching TV all those hours -- and my system is far better than any Tivo. Besides, without all the MythTV troubleshooting I never would have bothered to learn SQL; now I hardly use the setup menus at all. "update settings set data='foo' where value='bar' and hostname='moo';":)
He didn't say he'd punish his son for refusing to believe; he said he'd punish him for refusing to go to church. It sounds like he wants his family to do this thing together even if they don't necessarily believe in the religion behind it. There's more to church than bible stories, right?
Seriously, this -is- an effort to fight global warming, and if you weren't so dogmatically opposed to anything involving OMG ATOMS!! you'd see that.
The hastily-written article vaguely mentions some nebulous group of "environmental activists" without actually naming or quoting anybody. Even if there really are some people opposed to this particular project (not just synthetic controversy invented by journalists to try to give the impression of balance) do you really expect a brief and superficial newspaper article to present their reasons fully and accurately in half a sentence? Haven't you ever noticed that the news media always get every technical detail wrong and misquote everybody? Before you start berating "hippies" (or whoever you're yelling at) you should at least figure out who they are and what they're actually saying.
1) In high school, be "politically" active....
2) Become an Eagle Scout....
3) In college, repeat:...
5) Get a degree in political science with a minor in communications....
10) Wait 10 years. By the time you're 30, you'll be in a Congressional office,...
Wow, and I thought I'd wasted my life sitting around playing Quake all day. Suddenly I feel much more successful.
Why is plagiarism per se (of public domain material) a problem in Wikipedia? Plagiarism is claiming someone else's work as your own -- who is making the claim in a Wikipedia article, when all its content is effectively anonymous?
Ingres, that sounds kinda familiar. In fact my very first paying job was a contract back in 1985 to get Ingres compiled and running on a Vax. Somehow I've never managed to cross paths with CA directly, though I think a relative might work for a company that got pwned by them.
Thanks for the heads-up; I'll make a note to grind my teeth and hate CA occasionally in order to maintain my nerd cred.
I've been a pretty hard-core computer nerd since 1980 and I have no idea who CA are or what they do. None of the products listed on their website look familiar. Perhaps they were once known by another name?
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Stealing from organized criminals is a pretty serious crime and usually punished way out of proportion, whether its money from the Mafia or elections from the Republicans. I for one do not volunteer for the job! I think you'll have a hard time finding someone smart enough to do it and dumb enough to think they can get away with it, pragmatic enough to think the end justifies the means and idealistic enough to think it's worth the self-sacrifice.
I also suspect the political spin machine would give the hoi polloi a different impression of such shenanigans than you're hoping for. Can you say, "domestic terrorism"? They'd probably use the resultant frenzy to push through a whole new super-HEVA that would replace all remaining paper-based machines with *New*Improved* all-electronic machines with armed guards, and mandatory blood tests for all voters.
Wow, you really need to get someone who knows English to write or at least proofread your public materials. E.g.:
Campaign promises are a literal joke that repeats every political season.
So when politicians make promises they have no intention to keep, they're not lying, they're just kidding? I think you don't really want the word "literal" in there.
In differentiating my candidacy from the others, making campaign pledges are important.
That sentence is so messed up it should be scrapped and rewritten from scratch. I think you mean to say that something about your campaign pledges differentiates your candidacy from others.
If you don't have anyone else to do your proofreading, I volunteer. I'm not a Democrat but I am a big fan of correct syntax.
The Wikipedia articles on Ayn Rand and Objectivism look pretty neutral and objective to me (neither a Rand fan nor an objectivist). What specifically is wrong with them?
If not +5 Insightful, at least +1 Interesting. It's certainly something to think about. Looks to me like...
America will have to re-industrialize
... domestic manufacturing might be an excellent long-term investment right about now. Basically any kind of factory that makes, or can be converted to make, the kind of stuff we'll need but won't be able to keep importing from China.
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That's really fucking unlikely. If they got anything right, it was only by accident.
It's funny because the submitter is trolling Slashdot to help him with his homework (writing a report on, er, something, probably more about Slashdot flamewars than people hating Microsoft). In comp.arch they actually go the trouble of making up elaborate nonsensical answers to posted homework questions.
"Get the cheese to sickbay. The doctor should look at it as soon as possible."
Click on Mister Cheesey.
Amazing.... Dozens of responses to the question, and only one even comes close to answering it.
According to the American political philosophy, which inspired the Declaration of Independence and Constitution: Yes, we have that right, and so do you and everyone else in the world, and governments that abridge that right are illegitimate.
Whether you can get away with carrying a sword in America or anywhere else is a different question, which was answered over and over again above.
Furthermore, if you're actually using that electricity for anything it ultimately turns into heat anyway.
Gawkers? Do such people even exist in non-negligible quantities?
You should slow down when you see emergency lights or stopped vehicles up ahead, especially if you were already speeding, because there's likely some kind of emergency or other hazard. I'm guessing that applet (which doesn't work for me) demonstrates that when the road is saturated with traffic just one vehicle slowing down a little bit can send a growing slowdown wave backward eventually resulting in a traffic jam. Thus, in heavy (but otherwise moving) traffic, normal and reasonable caution causes a traffic jam which clears up right after the road hazard, even without anybody gawking.
After creeping for 15 minutes through a traffic jam you finally see open road ahead and a non-event on the side of the road, and swear at all the "idiots" who "stopped" to "gawk" at it, when in reality nobody did any such thing. And how do you know it's only a stupid fender bender anyway? You peeked as you went by, didn't you? Gawker!
If you just want to watch TV get a Tivo. If you're a hacker, and need to tinker with everything complicated and electronic, skip the Tivo and go straight to MythTV -- you will eventually try to hack your Tivo, and it's a waste of time.
I've spent many many hours tinkering with (and occasionally swearing at) my elaborate MythTV setup, but it's been very rewarding -- more so, I'd say, than sitting around watching TV all those hours -- and my system is far better than any Tivo. Besides, without all the MythTV troubleshooting I never would have bothered to learn SQL; now I hardly use the setup menus at all. "update settings set data='foo' where value='bar' and hostname='moo';" :)
The hacker puts it back together after taking it apart to see what's inside.
The cracker takes any valuable parts and leaves a mess for someone else to clean up.
He didn't say he'd punish his son for refusing to believe; he said he'd punish him for refusing to go to church. It sounds like he wants his family to do this thing together even if they don't necessarily believe in the religion behind it. There's more to church than bible stories, right?
1 GJ is about a quarter of a ton of TNT. At least, that's what Wikipedia says.
The hastily-written article vaguely mentions some nebulous group of "environmental activists" without actually naming or quoting anybody. Even if there really are some people opposed to this particular project (not just synthetic controversy invented by journalists to try to give the impression of balance) do you really expect a brief and superficial newspaper article to present their reasons fully and accurately in half a sentence? Haven't you ever noticed that the news media always get every technical detail wrong and misquote everybody? Before you start berating "hippies" (or whoever you're yelling at) you should at least figure out who they are and what they're actually saying.
Why is plagiarism per se (of public domain material) a problem in Wikipedia? Plagiarism is claiming someone else's work as your own -- who is making the claim in a Wikipedia article, when all its content is effectively anonymous?
Ingres, that sounds kinda familiar. In fact my very first paying job was a contract back in 1985 to get Ingres compiled and running on a Vax. Somehow I've never managed to cross paths with CA directly, though I think a relative might work for a company that got pwned by them.
Thanks for the heads-up; I'll make a note to grind my teeth and hate CA occasionally in order to maintain my nerd cred.
I've been a pretty hard-core computer nerd since 1980 and I have no idea who CA are or what they do. None of the products listed on their website look familiar. Perhaps they were once known by another name?
Stealing from organized criminals is a pretty serious crime and usually punished way out of proportion, whether its money from the Mafia or elections from the Republicans. I for one do not volunteer for the job! I think you'll have a hard time finding someone smart enough to do it and dumb enough to think they can get away with it, pragmatic enough to think the end justifies the means and idealistic enough to think it's worth the self-sacrifice.
I also suspect the political spin machine would give the hoi polloi a different impression of such shenanigans than you're hoping for. Can you say, "domestic terrorism"? They'd probably use the resultant frenzy to push through a whole new super-HEVA that would replace all remaining paper-based machines with *New*Improved* all-electronic machines with armed guards, and mandatory blood tests for all voters.
Wow, you really need to get someone who knows English to write or at least proofread your public materials. E.g.:
So when politicians make promises they have no intention to keep, they're not lying, they're just kidding? I think you don't really want the word "literal" in there.
That sentence is so messed up it should be scrapped and rewritten from scratch. I think you mean to say that something about your campaign pledges differentiates your candidacy from others.
If you don't have anyone else to do your proofreading, I volunteer. I'm not a Democrat but I am a big fan of correct syntax.
The Wikipedia articles on Ayn Rand and Objectivism look pretty neutral and objective to me (neither a Rand fan nor an objectivist). What specifically is wrong with them?
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll145.xml
Only 32 nays... depressing.
Whoa there, pardner. Lots of us gun-totin' conservatives opposed Bush from the start, and our numbers have grown a lot in the last few years.
If not +5 Insightful, at least +1 Interesting. It's certainly something to think about. Looks to me like ...
... domestic manufacturing might be an excellent long-term investment right about now. Basically any kind of factory that makes, or can be converted to make, the kind of stuff we'll need but won't be able to keep importing from China.
Olbermann rocks.