I can only imagine what the reaction must have been when the team accidentally broke that T. rex femur -- probably going from "oh, shit" when it first broke, and then to a very different sort of "oh, shit!" when they realized it still had the marrow in it.
The only people that pay attention to that rag is PHB's or really really dumb executives.
... and that's precisely why it's dangerous.
You and I might know enough to find TFA's assertions ridiculous, possibly even amusing in how wrong they are. But you and I don't control corporate policy (assuming that the reader of this is not a PHB). Any media spouting non-news raises the risk that someone will take that non-news for reality and begin making decisions based on that view. Even obvious parody like the Onion has caused its share of kerfuffling among the confused and less-informed, and let's not forget War of the Worlds. The danger is even greater with media like PC Pro that has at least some semblance of being real news (including in this category the opinion statements of apparent experts, as Honeyball here is presented by PC Pro).
I dunno, $20 for a book seems a bit steep to me. Maybe if he'd priced it so the whole thing came to around $5 or so (if memory serves, about the price of a paperback in 1999)?
While I mostly agree with you, I think you lay the blame at the wrong feet.
While I understand the point of things like the UN (to prevent something like WWII from happening again) it, along with all the other international organizations have defrauded the American people of their constitutionally guaranteed rights.
The UN itself has done no such thing. The ones defrauding the US public of their constitutionally guaranteed rights are the elected representatives in the US government, and by extension their financial masters (a.k.a. "donors"), using the UN and other international groups as cover to get what they want. Though given the state of voting in the US (black-box hackable e-voting machines, gerrymandering, overly large constituencies, etc. etc.), the term "elected" might not hold much meaning here.
It bears noting that various flavors of OpenGL are used on other hardware, such as Sony's various consoles or the Wii, and it is apparently part of the underlying codebase for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS system. So it looks unlikely to die in the near term, at least.
I dunno, the indie game scene seems to have at least some interesting stuff floating around these past few years, like World of Goo, And Yet It Moves, and Fluidity. (The latter two are European, not USian, but hey.)
Our office had all kinds of fun dealing with the migration from MSO 2003 to 2007. Some of the biggest annoyances had to do with how the two file formats and apps handle color very differently. Things that were blue in 03 were suddenly pink or orange or something else in 07. Plus, most of the simple colors everyone was used to in the 03 dialogs (like "red" as #FF0000 or "blue" as #0000FF) are hidden away in "advanced" subdialogs in 07. And why? No one can figure out why, unless it's simply change for change's sake, or some further attempt by MS to justify making people upgrade.
And I'm not even going to go into how 07 (mis)manages bullet and numbering formats...
I can only assume that the AC parent here has either never had sex, or usually engages in some unusual funkiness. I really cannot imagine how a man would go about removing a condom without their partner(s) noticing.
Then again, maybe that's just evidence that my own love life has been more vanilla. So long as I can keep getting my two scoops on a regular basis, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and other condiments optional, vanilla's fine by me.:)
So much for all that "reduce, reuse, recycle" business -- every time I've tried to make multiple omelets, reusing the same eggs, it never quite comes out right.
To be clear, these groups and the others I posted earlier are not PsyChill, being described instead as shoegazing or ambient, but most tend towards similar mindspaces.
Ah, yes, but now the Supremes have made it all the clearer that corporations are people (enshrining in law the principle that "money talks"), so really, the government is just doing it's job here. </cynicism>
Public education, I'll grant you, is a bit of a dog's breakfast in the US -- school quality can go from stellar to fecal. I was one of the lucky bastards, and went to a public school that was actually pretty damned good, but I know hellholes exist.
Meanwhile, private schools are not necessarily much better. There are certain structural issues when it comes to the education marketplace that can get in the way of free market ideals -- two of the most obvious are simple geography, and capital expense. I've seen and worked in, and my wife has seen and worked in, private schools of varying quality. Just because it's private doesn't guarantee that it's good.
Many of the entrenched issues I've seen in any particular school seem to have much more to do with the local community -- be it the municipality for public schools, or simply the community of employees, parents, and other involved parties for private schools. Public schools in big cities seem the most likely to be bad, as education policy gets caught in the crossfire of city politicking, and any sense of "community" on a more human and personal scale gets lost.
But the USPS seems to do a pretty good job -- YMMV and all that aside, I've had FedEx and UPS both lose packages on the one hand and fail to deliver in the stated time on the other, whereas anything I've sent or had sent to me via the good ol' Post Office has made it to its destination in a timely fashion. And the regular mail tends to be cheaper for most purposes to boot.
And as an aside about utilities in general, I was living in California during the whole Enron debacle and saw my electricity bill more than double for unchanged usage, with rolling black/brownouts included. The one place in CA that rode through the whole mess with equanimity was Los Angeles -- largely because the city had never privatized its power plant.
Listening to the start of Lotwotl (and now downloading in a separate tab), I wonder if you've heard of Surrent / Banco de Gaia / Tomas Dvorak (damn/. for not allowing proper Unicode...) / Tortoise / Aerial M / Hobby (full disclosure -- Hobby is my brother) / etc...
Thanks to your link, I'm poking around the LastFM site, and am happily surprised to find almost all these groups listed.
In quite a different direction musically, there's the harder-to-find Swedish group Nordic. I've usually heard the term "power trio" used to refer to a bass and two guitars, or a bass, guitar, and drums; these guys have a nyckelharpa, cello, and mandolin.
From day one when we could be classed as "human", there has been corruption.
Some might reasonably argue that there has been corruption since before anything "human" arrived on the scene, for varying definitions of "corruption":
As I read it, mangu is saying that any rational, logical take on an intelligent design theory of the universe would likely conclude that any design involved the stipulation and balancing of the underlying rules by which this universe functions, as a very elegantly balanced system that is then allowed to operate independently from the point of the Big Bang (or perhaps earlier if we posit a yo-yo universe), rather than as a hamfisted make-everything-manually, brute-force approach that is not allowed (or perhaps able) to operate independently for even 6,000-odd years.
Anyone who's spent much time coding will no doubt appreciate the idea of a perfectly designed, bug-free system arising from a few lines of simple code that runs forever without the slightest glitch, much more than the image of a bloated behemoth that explicitly instantiates every type of object and codes for every conceivable corner case, and still needs lots of manual bug-fixing while running.
I'm not much of one for religion myself, but if God is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent, an elegant, ultimately simple, and perfectly balanced universe is much more beautiful and compelling to me. A lot of fundamentalist insistence on things like "God made fossils to test our faith" just sounds far too clumsy for a deity that is supposed to be perfect. Anyway, that's my 2p.
"Objective" means sticking to facts, not taking the average of every politician's [and pundit's and person-on-the-street's and random-nutjob's] opinions and pretending that's reality.
Hawaii elected to be a part of the US. It wasn't some "Let's go take them over" decision.
Effectively wrong on many levels -- for starters, the ones "electing" weren't local Hawaiians, but rather the rich oligarchs from the mainland US and Europe.
There were no American "settlers" that went there to conquer the native people.
Oh, dear. Have you ever heard the term banana republic? That mostly applied to Central America and the tactics of fruit companies there, but the basic mechanics were very much at work in Hawaii as well, only for pineapples instead of bananas. (Hint -- Dole Fruit started in Hawaii, and the founder's cousin appointed himself head of the forcibly instated "Republic of Hawaii".) Rich white businessmen forcibly stripped the Hawaiian monarchy of power and relegated locals to an undercaste position.
Read up on Hawaiian history next time before posting stuff like this. Hawaii was very much overrun by capitalist white folks bent on enforcing their will, locals be damned -- or better yet, de facto enslaved to work the fruit plantations.
Mods, wtf? stonewallred answered my question. How is that possibly worth a Troll mod? Or is it just that someone out there doesn't like him (her?) in general, and happened to have mod points last night?
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Well, that's different -- what are you putting in your bra? Most girls just use tissue paper...
Cheers,
I can only imagine what the reaction must have been when the team accidentally broke that T. rex femur -- probably going from "oh, shit" when it first broke, and then to a very different sort of "oh, shit!" when they realized it still had the marrow in it.
Cheers,
... and that's precisely why it's dangerous.
You and I might know enough to find TFA's assertions ridiculous, possibly even amusing in how wrong they are. But you and I don't control corporate policy (assuming that the reader of this is not a PHB). Any media spouting non-news raises the risk that someone will take that non-news for reality and begin making decisions based on that view. Even obvious parody like the Onion has caused its share of kerfuffling among the confused and less-informed, and let's not forget War of the Worlds. The danger is even greater with media like PC Pro that has at least some semblance of being real news (including in this category the opinion statements of apparent experts, as Honeyball here is presented by PC Pro).
Cheers,
I dunno, $20 for a book seems a bit steep to me. Maybe if he'd priced it so the whole thing came to around $5 or so (if memory serves, about the price of a paperback in 1999)?
Cheers,
While I mostly agree with you, I think you lay the blame at the wrong feet.
The UN itself has done no such thing. The ones defrauding the US public of their constitutionally guaranteed rights are the elected representatives in the US government, and by extension their financial masters (a.k.a. "donors"), using the UN and other international groups as cover to get what they want. Though given the state of voting in the US (black-box hackable e-voting machines, gerrymandering, overly large constituencies, etc. etc.), the term "elected" might not hold much meaning here.
Cheers,
It bears noting that various flavors of OpenGL are used on other hardware, such as Sony's various consoles or the Wii, and it is apparently part of the underlying codebase for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS system. So it looks unlikely to die in the near term, at least.
Cheers,
I dunno, the indie game scene seems to have at least some interesting stuff floating around these past few years, like World of Goo, And Yet It Moves, and Fluidity. (The latter two are European, not USian, but hey.)
Cheers,
Our office had all kinds of fun dealing with the migration from MSO 2003 to 2007. Some of the biggest annoyances had to do with how the two file formats and apps handle color very differently. Things that were blue in 03 were suddenly pink or orange or something else in 07. Plus, most of the simple colors everyone was used to in the 03 dialogs (like "red" as #FF0000 or "blue" as #0000FF) are hidden away in "advanced" subdialogs in 07. And why? No one can figure out why, unless it's simply change for change's sake, or some further attempt by MS to justify making people upgrade.
And I'm not even going to go into how 07 (mis)manages bullet and numbering formats...
Cheers,
Satan, is that you?
Cheers,
Hur, de hur de hur, dee dee boom -- Tort! Tort! Tort!
If only.
Cheers,
I can only assume that the AC parent here has either never had sex, or usually engages in some unusual funkiness. I really cannot imagine how a man would go about removing a condom without their partner(s) noticing.
Then again, maybe that's just evidence that my own love life has been more vanilla. So long as I can keep getting my two scoops on a regular basis, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and other condiments optional, vanilla's fine by me. :)
Cheers,
Sounds like a movie ad lead-in. I found myself waiting for some gravelly-voiced sound overlay to come in, saying,
... Meet the cure!
Cheers,
So much for all that "reduce, reuse, recycle" business -- every time I've tried to make multiple omelets, reusing the same eggs, it never quite comes out right.
Cheers,
I think I've got a couple Zer0 0ne tracks somewhere; I'll definitely give a listen.
Also, just in case you've missed them, try the older groups Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and Medicine.
To be clear, these groups and the others I posted earlier are not PsyChill, being described instead as shoegazing or ambient, but most tend towards similar mindspaces.
Cheers,
Ah, yes, but now the Supremes have made it all the clearer that corporations are people (enshrining in law the principle that "money talks"), so really, the government is just doing it's job here. </cynicism>
Cheers,
Public education, I'll grant you, is a bit of a dog's breakfast in the US -- school quality can go from stellar to fecal. I was one of the lucky bastards, and went to a public school that was actually pretty damned good, but I know hellholes exist.
Meanwhile, private schools are not necessarily much better. There are certain structural issues when it comes to the education marketplace that can get in the way of free market ideals -- two of the most obvious are simple geography, and capital expense. I've seen and worked in, and my wife has seen and worked in, private schools of varying quality. Just because it's private doesn't guarantee that it's good.
Many of the entrenched issues I've seen in any particular school seem to have much more to do with the local community -- be it the municipality for public schools, or simply the community of employees, parents, and other involved parties for private schools. Public schools in big cities seem the most likely to be bad, as education policy gets caught in the crossfire of city politicking, and any sense of "community" on a more human and personal scale gets lost.
But the USPS seems to do a pretty good job -- YMMV and all that aside, I've had FedEx and UPS both lose packages on the one hand and fail to deliver in the stated time on the other, whereas anything I've sent or had sent to me via the good ol' Post Office has made it to its destination in a timely fashion. And the regular mail tends to be cheaper for most purposes to boot.
And as an aside about utilities in general, I was living in California during the whole Enron debacle and saw my electricity bill more than double for unchanged usage, with rolling black/brownouts included. The one place in CA that rode through the whole mess with equanimity was Los Angeles -- largely because the city had never privatized its power plant.
Cheers,
Listening to the start of Lotwotl (and now downloading in a separate tab), I wonder if you've heard of Surrent / Banco de Gaia / Tomas Dvorak (damn /. for not allowing proper Unicode...) / Tortoise / Aerial M / Hobby (full disclosure -- Hobby is my brother) / etc...
Thanks to your link, I'm poking around the LastFM site, and am happily surprised to find almost all these groups listed.
In quite a different direction musically, there's the harder-to-find Swedish group Nordic. I've usually heard the term "power trio" used to refer to a bass and two guitars, or a bass, guitar, and drums; these guys have a nyckelharpa, cello, and mandolin.
Anyway, have fun!
Cheers,
Blagojevich FTC
(for the conviction)
Cheers,
Some might reasonably argue that there has been corruption since before anything "human" arrived on the scene, for varying definitions of "corruption":
http://www.google.com/search?q=chimpanzee+prostitution
Cheers,
I think that was mangu's entire point.
As I read it, mangu is saying that any rational, logical take on an intelligent design theory of the universe would likely conclude that any design involved the stipulation and balancing of the underlying rules by which this universe functions, as a very elegantly balanced system that is then allowed to operate independently from the point of the Big Bang (or perhaps earlier if we posit a yo-yo universe), rather than as a hamfisted make-everything-manually, brute-force approach that is not allowed (or perhaps able) to operate independently for even 6,000-odd years.
Anyone who's spent much time coding will no doubt appreciate the idea of a perfectly designed, bug-free system arising from a few lines of simple code that runs forever without the slightest glitch, much more than the image of a bloated behemoth that explicitly instantiates every type of object and codes for every conceivable corner case, and still needs lots of manual bug-fixing while running.
I'm not much of one for religion myself, but if God is supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent, an elegant, ultimately simple, and perfectly balanced universe is much more beautiful and compelling to me. A lot of fundamentalist insistence on things like "God made fossils to test our faith" just sounds far too clumsy for a deity that is supposed to be perfect. Anyway, that's my 2p.
Cheers,
Moving.
Cheers,
If only I had mod points.
If only reporters actually hewed to this ideal.
Cheers,
Effectively wrong on many levels -- for starters, the ones "electing" weren't local Hawaiians, but rather the rich oligarchs from the mainland US and Europe.
Oh, dear. Have you ever heard the term banana republic? That mostly applied to Central America and the tactics of fruit companies there, but the basic mechanics were very much at work in Hawaii as well, only for pineapples instead of bananas. (Hint -- Dole Fruit started in Hawaii, and the founder's cousin appointed himself head of the forcibly instated "Republic of Hawaii".) Rich white businessmen forcibly stripped the Hawaiian monarchy of power and relegated locals to an undercaste position.
Read up on Hawaiian history next time before posting stuff like this. Hawaii was very much overrun by capitalist white folks bent on enforcing their will, locals be damned -- or better yet, de facto enslaved to work the fruit plantations.
Try this and this for starters.
Cheers,
Mods, wtf? stonewallred answered my question. How is that possibly worth a Troll mod? Or is it just that someone out there doesn't like him (her?) in general, and happened to have mod points last night?
Sheesh.
I never claimed to be much of a drinker. :)
On a more sobering note, it's partly that my mom drank herself to death, and I'd rather not follow in her footsteps.
And as a side benefit, having a wuss tolerance is definitely cheaper!
Sláinte,