I just looked at the Budget for 1999 and 2005. 1998's actual spending on everything education-like was ~ 46,700,000,000. 2004's actual spending on everything education-like was ~ 52,542,000,000. That's not an increase of 86%. 46.7b is around 86% of 52.5b, true. But that isn't an 86% increase. Sorry.
Conceptually, pretty much right on. Implementation-wise, however, some Unixes could be (and probably are) different. So you may protect yourselves from flaws inherent in the concept, but not flaws in the code implementation.
If finding an alarm clock is like trying to find a missing - but ringing - cell phone, then chances are I'd bypass looking entirely and go straight for the breaker box.
Then again, even when they are allowed to, there is no question of judgement. You bring a butter knife to school to spread your jelly on your sandwich, you get expelled.
Letting schools use their own system of justice has as much appeal as letting monkeys do it. Or Canton's local justice system.
Really, I don't see any good solution aside from killing the lot of them.
I would contend that "being able to say whatever you want" is directly contradicted by an Act passed mere years after the ratification of the Constitution prohibiting publishing "scandalous" or "malicious" material about a government official.
It was also illegal to "write, print, utter, or publish" anything critical of the president or Congress.
Admittedly the veracity of Wikipedia may be in question, but if we can believe this entry, the Sedition Act, passed in 1798, was hardly the act pased by a country founded on "say[ing] whatever you want to say".
Since his intent was to crash the school server, even as a joke, then his intent was to crash the school server. It doesn't look very good for him.
Of course, they would have been better off letting him slide than making a few hundred thousand / million geeks curious all at once. That server probably unhooked its own ethernet cable, packed up its keyboard and mouse, and walked out the front door by now. Or it melted and dripped all over the carpet.
He's right. Fat Wreck Chords may not be thrilled if you copy every CD they have without buying it, and I'm sure Fat Mike would call you a dick and spit on you or something, but that's pretty much as far as it would go. What does suing someone do for you? Not a whole lot but make you look like a money hungry bastard. Spitting on someone makes you look unclean and unprofessional, and let's face it, that's what "punk" is supposed to be about.
Well, if you ever move to rural America for any reason, you might find the fact that there is no public transportation a huge reason to own your own car and have a driver's license...
I've never been on a bus before (sans a school bus). Or a taxi. Or a train. Or a ferry.
In the "city" I live in now, we have a few busses, but they don't go anywhere near where I work, so that idea is right out. The only trains we have are freight trains that blow through - there is a train station for Amtrak, but the nearest other stop is about an hour car drive away, so that's hardly fucking effective, is it?
So, in conclusion; if you live in a city and can get by without a car, rock on! ( Serious question, though, as the idea of public transportation is foreign to me: how do you do your grocery shopping? What if you want to buy something large from a store, like a bookshelf or something? Do you just carry everything everywhere? How does that work? )
But if you live in the middle of fucking nowhere, it's what you require to survive. And, when you can hit the highway and do 65 (legal) to 85 (not so much) the entire way to work with your music blasting and see maybe... 5 other cars on the highway, you'd actually come to love your car.
I don't like Mozilla's FTP capabilities (and wish they were gone), and since downloading takes place over HTTP, I don't see why it needs to be de-integrated.
I'm not assuming others don't like the integration. I never once made that statement, or inference. But it infuriates me when people assume that everyone in the world wants an application that does everything. We don't. Don't assume. You guys use your Opera, I'll use my Firefox. You guys have your browser that does what you want, and I have my browser that does what I want. I do not WANT Firefox to turn into Opera's competitor. They both browse web, yes, but they're shooting for different audiences. I'm sorry I just won't lay down and let you steal my browser just because you want a choice between two all-in-one browsing-downloading-emailing-ftping-newsreading-m onkeyloving browsers.
Not that my "standing up to save 'my' browser" is going to make much difference in the end, but I'll do it anyway.
This isn't Firefox doing this? The Mozilla organization hasn't done this at all. It's the users.
I'm perfectly content with a fully featured dedicated BT client. I'm perfectly happy with a stand alone Email client. I'm more than thrilled with a separate IM client.
Not only do I rarely use all 3 at the same time, but I also have never seen a single application (including Opera) that can do 50 major tasks as well as 50 stand alone applications specifically designed for those tasks. Combining shit ends up giving you just that - shit.
I'd do it. Think of the stories you could tell later in life!
Everyone bones a fat girl at least once. Why? Most of it is because they're having a bit of a dry run and they're getting desperate, but a lot of it is for the stories they tell their buddies afterwards. "My hand slid between her rolls, and I was all 'fuckin' 'ell, give me that back!, but she didn't, and it just kept going in further and further until I was elbow deep, standing on her stomach and yanking, hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to gnaw my arm off at the shoulder-bicep region before her flab consumed my very soul", followed up with "So, she starts going crazy, screaming '01111001 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01111001 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01100101 01110010 00100001 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100010 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 00100001', but at this point, her sata cable had fallen off her cd drive and was just flapping around everywhere and really freaked me the fuck out, so I stopped, gathered my things, and ran for it.".
I never said they'd be good stories, exactly. But still worth noting!
Aside from Arrested Development, I'd have to greatly disagree with your choice of TV shows.
Not that it really matters, as it's all a non-operational matter of opinion (it's not like my liking BSG has ANY direct, tangible effect on your liking Lost, or vice versa). Haven't seen many of those shows, I'd have to disagree that any of them are really any good, and those that may be good are not quite as good as BSG. Family Guy is one of my favorites, of course, but BSG has to win out (in my book). End result? Doesn't really matter.
The foundation would change only if those who have the most to lose will let it change. Look at the RIAA or MPAA, for instance. Things have changed with their economic model. But they do their best to pass laws to make it safe for themselves. Replicators come along and you'll see something similar, but on a much larger scale.
In the end, you'd be right. But what about at that first moment when replicators became possible? There would be a struggle, and I'm just curious who would tell Ford "alright, sure. we'll not put your escort in the system."
The basics are still there; a potentially changing system, a company who put forth so much money in invention/creation having their ability to make a profit undercut (or completely obliterated), and the interesting question of what is better: free* duplication (sans energy, replicator (whether futuristic or modern), and communication) at the possible expense of no future innovation, or the "old" system.
I lean more towards free duplication - however, the possibility of no more innovation or content creation (or, more likely, slowing down the innovation or new creation) is a concern that must be addressed.
First, I don't disagree with anything you said. However, I have a hypothetical situation.
Let's say we somehow manage to produce replicators, a la Star Trek. Now we suddnely CAN create duplicates of sugar or duplicates of cars.
Should we be stopped from doing that? Should it be illegal?
I'm just curious. The probability of ever being able to replicate something like that is probably right around the probability of me becoming Emperor of the Universe. But, if it were possible, what are the legal ramifications? Would Ford be right in saying "you can't put the [quantum representation schematics] (or whatever they'd be) into your replication device"? Or would you say "you know what? fuck you. i bought the car, it's mine, and i'm doing with it as i wish."
Yeah, I'm sure they're chomping at the bit to host my porn.
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Merry Christmas = "I hope things rock for you!"
Merry/Happy Yule = "I hope things rock for you!"
Happy Hannukah = "I hope things rock for you!"
Happy Kwanzaa = "I hope things rock for you!" (I have a hard time not typing "Krazy Kwanzaaa". Curse you, Krusty!)
Merry/Happy/Solemn Ramadan = "I hope things rock for you!"
All different phrases, but they all mean essentially the same thing!
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Really, the point is that it doesn't matter what you call it. If you came up to me first and wished me a Merry Christmas, I'd thank you and return it back to you. If I had been the first to approach you, I'd probably wish you a fantastic winter solstice or happy holiday. If some Jewish guy came up and wished me a happy Hannukah (about a week or two ago), I'd wish him the same in return. Not that I know almost anything about Kwanzaa, but if someone wished me a Happy/Merry/Whatever Kwanzaa, I'd thank them and do it in reverse.
See the trend here? If someone wishes you a $HAPPY_HOLIDAY, regardless of what it is, you thank them and do the same in return, regardless of how fucking stupid you may or may not think their religion or holiday is. All the same, though, demanding a business or person adhere to one particular holiday greeting is pretty pathetic, no? Let the people do whatever they want and take it as it is meant: happy whatever holiday you feel like celebrating, whether that is Christmas, Kwanzaa, Yule (as in the winter solstice), or Hannukah. Or, when it so happens to fall here, Ramadan (insert other holidays as applicable - I have no idea what Hindu, Buddhist, etc, etc follows). If someone wishes you Merry Christmas and you're Jewish, accept the well-wishing as it was meant! If someone wishes you a Happy/Merry/Solemn Ramadan, accept that as well! It's someone being polite! Stop being fascists about your season's greetings and go with the spirit in which it was meant!
Happy Holidays = "I hope things rock for you!"
That is why this whole thing is fucking hilarious. My hatred for Christianity runs high, but when someone tells me Merry Christmas, I don't get upset! Why? Because they're wishing me well! Regardless of the religious trappings or cultural overtones, it's the thought that counts, and it's the meaning that should be accepted, not the manner in which it is said!
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Exactly! It's the winter fucking festival. Who cares if you're celebrating that Jesus guy's birthday or not. It's the middle of winter, we're getting bored - enjoy another day of feasting and merriment! Who cares whether you call ir Christmas or not? It doesn't fucking matter! If you really want to make your stance on Christianity known, wear a "I <3 Jesus!" shirt or a "Fuck Jesus!" shirt! Regardless of your attire, though - shut up and have fun! Drinking brews and eating food during the winter festival is no time to discuss theological or political philosophies. In fact, the only philosophy you should be discussing is whether or not you can use burnt toast and quantum physics in an attempt to achieve immortality. And you should only be discussing THAT philosophy after you've had 8 or 9 pints and probably aren't in the condition to talk about anything more coherent.
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Bah! Have you never been drunken sled riding? It's fucking great!
Cold? Fuck worrying about the cold. Remember how you were when you were a kid? You'd run around outside all day long without a coat on if your mom didn't make you put one on. Why could you stand it then and not now? Because it's all a state of mind! Stop being a crotchety old man and enjoy yourself!!
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I just looked at the Budget for 1999 and 2005. 1998's actual spending on everything education-like was ~ 46,700,000,000. 2004's actual spending on everything education-like was ~ 52,542,000,000. That's not an increase of 86%. 46.7b is around 86% of 52.5b, true. But that isn't an 86% increase. Sorry.
Source: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy06/browse.htm
Conceptually, pretty much right on. Implementation-wise, however, some Unixes could be (and probably are) different. So you may protect yourselves from flaws inherent in the concept, but not flaws in the code implementation.
If finding an alarm clock is like trying to find a missing - but ringing - cell phone, then chances are I'd bypass looking entirely and go straight for the breaker box.
Then again, even when they are allowed to, there is no question of judgement. You bring a butter knife to school to spread your jelly on your sandwich, you get expelled.
Letting schools use their own system of justice has as much appeal as letting monkeys do it. Or Canton's local justice system.
Really, I don't see any good solution aside from killing the lot of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_A
I would contend that "being able to say whatever you want" is directly contradicted by an Act passed mere years after the ratification of the Constitution prohibiting publishing "scandalous" or "malicious" material about a government official.
Admittedly the veracity of Wikipedia may be in question, but if we can believe this entry, the Sedition Act, passed in 1798, was hardly the act pased by a country founded on "say[ing] whatever you want to say".
Since his intent was to crash the school server, even as a joke, then his intent was to crash the school server. It doesn't look very good for him.
Of course, they would have been better off letting him slide than making a few hundred thousand / million geeks curious all at once. That server probably unhooked its own ethernet cable, packed up its keyboard and mouse, and walked out the front door by now. Or it melted and dripped all over the carpet.
Not to mention the de-glamorization by the game itself... http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20021 121
He's right. Fat Wreck Chords may not be thrilled if you copy every CD they have without buying it, and I'm sure Fat Mike would call you a dick and spit on you or something, but that's pretty much as far as it would go. What does suing someone do for you? Not a whole lot but make you look like a money hungry bastard. Spitting on someone makes you look unclean and unprofessional, and let's face it, that's what "punk" is supposed to be about.
Well, if you ever move to rural America for any reason, you might find the fact that there is no public transportation a huge reason to own your own car and have a driver's license...
I've never been on a bus before (sans a school bus). Or a taxi. Or a train. Or a ferry.
In the "city" I live in now, we have a few busses, but they don't go anywhere near where I work, so that idea is right out. The only trains we have are freight trains that blow through - there is a train station for Amtrak, but the nearest other stop is about an hour car drive away, so that's hardly fucking effective, is it?
So, in conclusion; if you live in a city and can get by without a car, rock on! ( Serious question, though, as the idea of public transportation is foreign to me: how do you do your grocery shopping? What if you want to buy something large from a store, like a bookshelf or something? Do you just carry everything everywhere? How does that work? )
But if you live in the middle of fucking nowhere, it's what you require to survive. And, when you can hit the highway and do 65 (legal) to 85 (not so much) the entire way to work with your music blasting and see maybe... 5 other cars on the highway, you'd actually come to love your car.
I don't like Mozilla's FTP capabilities (and wish they were gone), and since downloading takes place over HTTP, I don't see why it needs to be de-integrated.
m onkeyloving browsers.
I'm not assuming others don't like the integration. I never once made that statement, or inference. But it infuriates me when people assume that everyone in the world wants an application that does everything. We don't. Don't assume. You guys use your Opera, I'll use my Firefox. You guys have your browser that does what you want, and I have my browser that does what I want. I do not WANT Firefox to turn into Opera's competitor. They both browse web, yes, but they're shooting for different audiences. I'm sorry I just won't lay down and let you steal my browser just because you want a choice between two all-in-one browsing-downloading-emailing-ftping-newsreading-
Not that my "standing up to save 'my' browser" is going to make much difference in the end, but I'll do it anyway.
I do!
Oh wait, fuck! You tricked me!
I think God is more into the turning-people-into-salt business than shooting them. Who knows, though, maybe he'll find the exercise quaint.
I feel sleepy.
This isn't Firefox doing this? The Mozilla organization hasn't done this at all. It's the users.
I'm perfectly content with a fully featured dedicated BT client. I'm perfectly happy with a stand alone Email client. I'm more than thrilled with a separate IM client.
Not only do I rarely use all 3 at the same time, but I also have never seen a single application (including Opera) that can do 50 major tasks as well as 50 stand alone applications specifically designed for those tasks. Combining shit ends up giving you just that - shit.
I'd do it. Think of the stories you could tell later in life!
Everyone bones a fat girl at least once. Why? Most of it is because they're having a bit of a dry run and they're getting desperate, but a lot of it is for the stories they tell their buddies afterwards. "My hand slid between her rolls, and I was all 'fuckin' 'ell, give me that back!, but she didn't, and it just kept going in further and further until I was elbow deep, standing on her stomach and yanking, hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to gnaw my arm off at the shoulder-bicep region before her flab consumed my very soul", followed up with "So, she starts going crazy, screaming '01111001 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01111001 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01100101 01110010 00100001 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100010 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110010 01110100 00100001', but at this point, her sata cable had fallen off her cd drive and was just flapping around everywhere and really freaked me the fuck out, so I stopped, gathered my things, and ran for it.".
I never said they'd be good stories, exactly. But still worth noting!
Aside from Arrested Development, I'd have to greatly disagree with your choice of TV shows.
Not that it really matters, as it's all a non-operational matter of opinion (it's not like my liking BSG has ANY direct, tangible effect on your liking Lost, or vice versa). Haven't seen many of those shows, I'd have to disagree that any of them are really any good, and those that may be good are not quite as good as BSG. Family Guy is one of my favorites, of course, but BSG has to win out (in my book). End result? Doesn't really matter.
The foundation would change only if those who have the most to lose will let it change. Look at the RIAA or MPAA, for instance. Things have changed with their economic model. But they do their best to pass laws to make it safe for themselves. Replicators come along and you'll see something similar, but on a much larger scale.
In the end, you'd be right. But what about at that first moment when replicators became possible? There would be a struggle, and I'm just curious who would tell Ford "alright, sure. we'll not put your escort in the system."
The basics are still there; a potentially changing system, a company who put forth so much money in invention/creation having their ability to make a profit undercut (or completely obliterated), and the interesting question of what is better: free* duplication (sans energy, replicator (whether futuristic or modern), and communication) at the possible expense of no future innovation, or the "old" system.
I lean more towards free duplication - however, the possibility of no more innovation or content creation (or, more likely, slowing down the innovation or new creation) is a concern that must be addressed.
First, I don't disagree with anything you said. However, I have a hypothetical situation.
Let's say we somehow manage to produce replicators, a la Star Trek. Now we suddnely CAN create duplicates of sugar or duplicates of cars.
Should we be stopped from doing that? Should it be illegal?
I'm just curious. The probability of ever being able to replicate something like that is probably right around the probability of me becoming Emperor of the Universe. But, if it were possible, what are the legal ramifications? Would Ford be right in saying "you can't put the [quantum representation schematics] (or whatever they'd be) into your replication device"? Or would you say "you know what? fuck you. i bought the car, it's mine, and i'm doing with it as i wish."
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I donno that I'd trust Opportunity or Spirit to do much of anything. Have you seen the tracks they've left in the dust? Drunk drivers, obviously!
Yeah, I'm sure they're chomping at the bit to host my porn.
Whoops, forgot the rest.
Merry Christmas = "I hope things rock for you!"
Merry/Happy Yule = "I hope things rock for you!"
Happy Hannukah = "I hope things rock for you!"
Happy Kwanzaa = "I hope things rock for you!" (I have a hard time not typing "Krazy Kwanzaaa". Curse you, Krusty!)
Merry/Happy/Solemn Ramadan = "I hope things rock for you!"
All different phrases, but they all mean essentially the same thing!
Really, the point is that it doesn't matter what you call it. If you came up to me first and wished me a Merry Christmas, I'd thank you and return it back to you. If I had been the first to approach you, I'd probably wish you a fantastic winter solstice or happy holiday. If some Jewish guy came up and wished me a happy Hannukah (about a week or two ago), I'd wish him the same in return. Not that I know almost anything about Kwanzaa, but if someone wished me a Happy/Merry/Whatever Kwanzaa, I'd thank them and do it in reverse.
See the trend here? If someone wishes you a $HAPPY_HOLIDAY, regardless of what it is, you thank them and do the same in return, regardless of how fucking stupid you may or may not think their religion or holiday is. All the same, though, demanding a business or person adhere to one particular holiday greeting is pretty pathetic, no? Let the people do whatever they want and take it as it is meant: happy whatever holiday you feel like celebrating, whether that is Christmas, Kwanzaa, Yule (as in the winter solstice), or Hannukah. Or, when it so happens to fall here, Ramadan (insert other holidays as applicable - I have no idea what Hindu, Buddhist, etc, etc follows). If someone wishes you Merry Christmas and you're Jewish, accept the well-wishing as it was meant! If someone wishes you a Happy/Merry/Solemn Ramadan, accept that as well! It's someone being polite! Stop being fascists about your season's greetings and go with the spirit in which it was meant!
Happy Holidays = "I hope things rock for you!"
That is why this whole thing is fucking hilarious. My hatred for Christianity runs high, but when someone tells me Merry Christmas, I don't get upset! Why? Because they're wishing me well! Regardless of the religious trappings or cultural overtones, it's the thought that counts, and it's the meaning that should be accepted, not the manner in which it is said!
Exactly! It's the winter fucking festival. Who cares if you're celebrating that Jesus guy's birthday or not. It's the middle of winter, we're getting bored - enjoy another day of feasting and merriment! Who cares whether you call ir Christmas or not? It doesn't fucking matter! If you really want to make your stance on Christianity known, wear a "I <3 Jesus!" shirt or a "Fuck Jesus!" shirt! Regardless of your attire, though - shut up and have fun! Drinking brews and eating food during the winter festival is no time to discuss theological or political philosophies. In fact, the only philosophy you should be discussing is whether or not you can use burnt toast and quantum physics in an attempt to achieve immortality. And you should only be discussing THAT philosophy after you've had 8 or 9 pints and probably aren't in the condition to talk about anything more coherent.
Bah! Have you never been drunken sled riding? It's fucking great!
Cold? Fuck worrying about the cold. Remember how you were when you were a kid? You'd run around outside all day long without a coat on if your mom didn't make you put one on. Why could you stand it then and not now? Because it's all a state of mind! Stop being a crotchety old man and enjoy yourself!!