I don't have any clue who Rupert Grint or Peter Capaldi are, but I don't freak out over Dr Who choices, because they have proven themselves to be pretty capable in choosing great actors. I was so delighted by Christopher Eccleston that I didn't want to accept the new guy. Then I was such a fan of him and his personality that I absolutely refused to give any consideration to Matt Smith (the guy looked weird and was too young and too awkward), and now I am already going to miss the hell out of him.
So, whoever these guys are, I have no real reason to be worried. The show hinges very much on affinity for the doctor and his companions and they haven't let us down. It's also great to know that if, for some reason, you *dislike* the doctor or companion at any given time, it's only a couple years or so until we roll the dice again.
That said, I would like to see them go back to (at least for one generation) an elderly man. Or, at least, an over the hill one. Even a female would be okay (though I understand that maybe doctors do not change sexes -- and not for some "it's only fair blah blah blah sexism" reason.. just because it might be interesting to see the doctor as a woman just one time).
As a meat-eater who feels bad eating cows and pigs (I have seen how smart pigs can be) and doesn't eat some things like rabbit and duck simply because of the animal, I have to say that I don't see myself ever eating this. It will take a lot to ever convince me that something synthetic can taste the same as something that was alive and running around with blood pumping through its brains and a nervous system that spent time outdoors.
On the other hand, if they can also alter it so that it has 98% the taste of the real thing and, say, maybe 30% of the fat and calories . . . . then I might be swayed into accepting it.
I mean, as long as we've dispensed with any general health concerns overall.
Also, if I'm allowed to eat test-tube meat, why can't I eat a test-tube baby?
I like how this (above) comment keeps getting modded down as "troll", while there are "organic" Dice/Slashvertisements right now on the front page just a few inches from this article.
The best way to do this in your home is to step outside and close the door behind you, giving the cop no reason to come inside. In a car, it's a little more difficult to do as all you can really do is just not roll your window all the way down (which you may or may not get away with).
Unfortunately, so few people are willing to exercise their rights simply for the sake of it (I believe a wise man said something along the lines of "rights are only meaningful if they are regularly asserted and tested") that the assumption that you are suspicious for asserting your rights is probably not even that absurd. Wrong in principle and law, but probably not wrong in practice.
Unfortunately, schools seem to keep spitting out more and more "if I'm not doing nuthin' wrong, what do I care?!" piglets, so I don't expect to see any sort of rise in regular innocent people doing this.
It is absolutely done all the time. And if that doesn't work, then when they came to your door, they thought they heard someone screaming for help in the back room.
DuckDuckGo doesn't change anything. People seem to keep making the mistake of assuming that the government is spying on people with the collusion of businesses at the other end of our communications who are providing them the data and mechanisms to search and filter it (or even directly reporting it themselves). While much of that is going on, it has also been made pretty clear that what is also happening is that the government is tapping and shunting main connections just on the "outside" of these businesses/data centers. DuckDuckGo can claim to be the best whatever in the world they want, but there is nothing (short of encryption and who even knows, then...?) that they can do when the government is just directly siphoning off data from a shunt just outside of DuckDuckGo's purview.
This is also why, theoretically, a company like Google could say "we are not helping the government in any way whatsoever!". Theoretically, the government could be sucking down all their data as it transmits, but from a source just outside of anything Google "owns" and therefore have no fucking clue it is going on. Even if there is collusion, this would be a sneaky way for everyone to go about achieving the same thing, while still technically claiming plausible deniability.
American journalists are rarely subversive. They're generally even bigger yes-men to the executive branch than the legislative and judicial branches have been the last dozen years.
Huh? I thought we already knew the answer to what is going on here. The reason it is called "prism" is because of the tapping of fiber optic lines (or something along that line of thinking) that lead to big centers of data. It is very possible that Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and all these other companies have no hand in what is being done, because the government is piggybacking on the main pipe outside of their main servers. You don't need facebook's permission or assistance to gather this data. You just need to tap the connections feeding into their data centers and you have unrestricted access to everything that isn't encrypted. (Of course, this doesn't mean that I don't think that all these companies are totally in complete collusion with the government, either -- too many revolving doors and questionable staffings there).
Asserting your rights to remain silent or refuse to be searched are probable cause in and of themselves.
Also, I'm not sure I buy this whole story. There have absolutely been millions of google searches for backpacks and pressure cookers *together* in the last few months, as people searched for the actual news stories or discussions about how in the hell the explosions actually occurred.
Worse, just imagine if you visit any "subversive" sites. Maybe you read a lot of stuff at reason.com, have Three Felonies a Day (or almost any political stuff at all, other than the most recent Rush Limbaugh/Michelle Malkin/Whatever that fat dude's name is who does all the sketchy "documentaries" liberal guy) on your Amazon or library checkout record . . . AND you did a search on "pressure cookers". Now you're really fucked.
I'm really excited for 4k monitors, but it's going to be awhile before really high quality ones that are great for work (color accuracy and reproduction, no weird problems exhausting your eyes like a lot of gaming-specific monitors) as well as great for gaming (responsive, negligible lag/input-delay/ghosting) are available. Even longer before they are around $3,0000 (which is about the price at which I'd pull the trigger on at least one of them).
Hopefully, by the time those exist, GPUs will exist that can fully utilize a 4k display on a single GPU.
As for home theaters? I don't think we'll see much 4k content in a very long time. I bought my first 50" 1080p HDTV in 2001 but it seems like most of the population is only now finally moving to HDTV in 2013 (and most of those are still the people who say things like "I don't know why we need HDTV -- standard television is as good as it needs to get and I can't tell any different!". There will be a huge chicken and egg problem for the next decade. Plus, since most of the content will start to be delivered over the network, there will have to be significant improvements in speeds and data caps in this country. We can't even count on true 1080p digital distribution, yet.
Consoles will not make use of 4k this generation, so that is out of the question for the next decade, too. Yeah, the PS4 and XBOX ONE both support 4k, but I doubt that's going to be true 4k. It'll be upscaled. I just don't see how these dinky little consoles with only a few gigs of memory available will be able to push enough bits around for native 4k.
Of course, that *should* be irrelevant. Last I read, there was no "unless people piss their panties, then fuck all the shit on this piece of lamb skin" clause.
They should have considered the Pinboard.in method. Charge a couple bucks for the first guy and then increase each additional user's price by one penny (I think pinboard is now over $10). Or even just open registrations a chunk at a time and charge users $6/yr. Fifty cents a month is certainly worth it for an avid RSS user and for as many users as they likely got (and would continue to have acquired), it probably would have given them the incentive and resources to continue maintaining the service.
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So would it be acceptable if I -- I mean, some anonymous philanthropist -- commissioned brainless test-tube babies?
I don't have any clue who Rupert Grint or Peter Capaldi are, but I don't freak out over Dr Who choices, because they have proven themselves to be pretty capable in choosing great actors. I was so delighted by Christopher Eccleston that I didn't want to accept the new guy. Then I was such a fan of him and his personality that I absolutely refused to give any consideration to Matt Smith (the guy looked weird and was too young and too awkward), and now I am already going to miss the hell out of him.
So, whoever these guys are, I have no real reason to be worried. The show hinges very much on affinity for the doctor and his companions and they haven't let us down. It's also great to know that if, for some reason, you *dislike* the doctor or companion at any given time, it's only a couple years or so until we roll the dice again.
That said, I would like to see them go back to (at least for one generation) an elderly man. Or, at least, an over the hill one. Even a female would be okay (though I understand that maybe doctors do not change sexes -- and not for some "it's only fair blah blah blah sexism" reason.. just because it might be interesting to see the doctor as a woman just one time).
As a meat-eater who feels bad eating cows and pigs (I have seen how smart pigs can be) and doesn't eat some things like rabbit and duck simply because of the animal, I have to say that I don't see myself ever eating this. It will take a lot to ever convince me that something synthetic can taste the same as something that was alive and running around with blood pumping through its brains and a nervous system that spent time outdoors.
On the other hand, if they can also alter it so that it has 98% the taste of the real thing and, say, maybe 30% of the fat and calories . . . . then I might be swayed into accepting it.
I mean, as long as we've dispensed with any general health concerns overall.
Also, if I'm allowed to eat test-tube meat, why can't I eat a test-tube baby?
If tax-payer subsidization of religion is acceptable, might as well go for this, too.
I like how this (above) comment keeps getting modded down as "troll", while there are "organic" Dice/Slashvertisements right now on the front page just a few inches from this article.
Dice.
The best way to do this in your home is to step outside and close the door behind you, giving the cop no reason to come inside. In a car, it's a little more difficult to do as all you can really do is just not roll your window all the way down (which you may or may not get away with).
Unfortunately, so few people are willing to exercise their rights simply for the sake of it (I believe a wise man said something along the lines of "rights are only meaningful if they are regularly asserted and tested") that the assumption that you are suspicious for asserting your rights is probably not even that absurd. Wrong in principle and law, but probably not wrong in practice.
Unfortunately, schools seem to keep spitting out more and more "if I'm not doing nuthin' wrong, what do I care?!" piglets, so I don't expect to see any sort of rise in regular innocent people doing this.
It is absolutely done all the time. And if that doesn't work, then when they came to your door, they thought they heard someone screaming for help in the back room.
According to Slashdot, 98% of geeks are mind-altering-drug-smoking hackers with aspergers.
Basically, the problem with Santa Cruz is that its Santa Cruz. Ick.
Somehow, "boingboing contributor" suddenly makes me have far less sympathy.
DuckDuckGo doesn't change anything. People seem to keep making the mistake of assuming that the government is spying on people with the collusion of businesses at the other end of our communications who are providing them the data and mechanisms to search and filter it (or even directly reporting it themselves). While much of that is going on, it has also been made pretty clear that what is also happening is that the government is tapping and shunting main connections just on the "outside" of these businesses/data centers. DuckDuckGo can claim to be the best whatever in the world they want, but there is nothing (short of encryption and who even knows, then...?) that they can do when the government is just directly siphoning off data from a shunt just outside of DuckDuckGo's purview.
This is also why, theoretically, a company like Google could say "we are not helping the government in any way whatsoever!". Theoretically, the government could be sucking down all their data as it transmits, but from a source just outside of anything Google "owns" and therefore have no fucking clue it is going on. Even if there is collusion, this would be a sneaky way for everyone to go about achieving the same thing, while still technically claiming plausible deniability.
American journalists are rarely subversive. They're generally even bigger yes-men to the executive branch than the legislative and judicial branches have been the last dozen years.
Huh? I thought we already knew the answer to what is going on here. The reason it is called "prism" is because of the tapping of fiber optic lines (or something along that line of thinking) that lead to big centers of data. It is very possible that Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and all these other companies have no hand in what is being done, because the government is piggybacking on the main pipe outside of their main servers. You don't need facebook's permission or assistance to gather this data. You just need to tap the connections feeding into their data centers and you have unrestricted access to everything that isn't encrypted. (Of course, this doesn't mean that I don't think that all these companies are totally in complete collusion with the government, either -- too many revolving doors and questionable staffings there).
Asserting your rights to remain silent or refuse to be searched are probable cause in and of themselves.
Also, I'm not sure I buy this whole story. There have absolutely been millions of google searches for backpacks and pressure cookers *together* in the last few months, as people searched for the actual news stories or discussions about how in the hell the explosions actually occurred.
Worse, just imagine if you visit any "subversive" sites. Maybe you read a lot of stuff at reason.com, have Three Felonies a Day (or almost any political stuff at all, other than the most recent Rush Limbaugh/Michelle Malkin/Whatever that fat dude's name is who does all the sketchy "documentaries" liberal guy) on your Amazon or library checkout record . . . AND you did a search on "pressure cookers". Now you're really fucked.
Have you guys not been following US news for the last two months?
I'm no mathematologist, but I think half of the population is above the median; not the average. :P
I'm really excited for 4k monitors, but it's going to be awhile before really high quality ones that are great for work (color accuracy and reproduction, no weird problems exhausting your eyes like a lot of gaming-specific monitors) as well as great for gaming (responsive, negligible lag/input-delay/ghosting) are available. Even longer before they are around $3,0000 (which is about the price at which I'd pull the trigger on at least one of them).
Hopefully, by the time those exist, GPUs will exist that can fully utilize a 4k display on a single GPU.
As for home theaters? I don't think we'll see much 4k content in a very long time. I bought my first 50" 1080p HDTV in 2001 but it seems like most of the population is only now finally moving to HDTV in 2013 (and most of those are still the people who say things like "I don't know why we need HDTV -- standard television is as good as it needs to get and I can't tell any different!". There will be a huge chicken and egg problem for the next decade. Plus, since most of the content will start to be delivered over the network, there will have to be significant improvements in speeds and data caps in this country. We can't even count on true 1080p digital distribution, yet.
Consoles will not make use of 4k this generation, so that is out of the question for the next decade, too. Yeah, the PS4 and XBOX ONE both support 4k, but I doubt that's going to be true 4k. It'll be upscaled. I just don't see how these dinky little consoles with only a few gigs of memory available will be able to push enough bits around for native 4k.
Of course, that *should* be irrelevant. Last I read, there was no "unless people piss their panties, then fuck all the shit on this piece of lamb skin" clause.
Gladly... how much am I going to get paid?
This story gives massive erections to huge political(ahem, religious) powers within the US.
Rabbit season!
Duck season!
Rabbit season!
Duck season!
Duck season!
No, RABBIT SEASON!
They should have considered the Pinboard.in method. Charge a couple bucks for the first guy and then increase each additional user's price by one penny (I think pinboard is now over $10). Or even just open registrations a chunk at a time and charge users $6/yr. Fifty cents a month is certainly worth it for an avid RSS user and for as many users as they likely got (and would continue to have acquired), it probably would have given them the incentive and resources to continue maintaining the service.
When I argue mean versus average, I can never tell which half of the IQ population I am on. :)
To be fair, I doubt even five percent of those leaving shitty comments to supporters have ever read Jane Austen.
Actually, I doubt even five percent of those supporting the bank-note thing have ever read Jane Austen.
It does seem weird to have an author on currency, but whatever.