iff thier iss sumone whoo reeds slashdor thet cann spel, they could produce a specialist "offensive word" dictionary.
I'd get a copy. I need all the help I can get with my spelling, and I don't want to be constrained only to use those few offensive words I can spell. I wnat to be certain that if I call Gates and his thought police pernicious fuckwits and blithering idiots I don't make a fooll of myself.
there were 48 people at the sun site in New york on floors 25 and 26 of WTC. All of these are accounted for.
I believe 2 Sun employees were elsewhere in WTC, and are assumed lossed.
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And the quaterback is a pretty decent person really. Certainly a very nice person measured by his own scale. But that doesn't mean that the little, outsider kids see him that way. The snivelling brat that puts the fire cracker in the locker is not a nice guy. The point is that overbearing behavior can result in irrational responses from those who feel trodden on.
And America can be overbearing and arrogant, as can any powerful country. Britain, Germany and France are up there too, but not to the same extent: they don't have the power. And in the last 6 months or so the US has been more overbearing and dismissive than usual.
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I want to make an analogy to help people try to get inside the heads of the terrorists who perpetrated yesterday's atrocities. It is inevitably an uncomfortable analogy, perhaps especially for the slashdot community.
Think of a typical all-American high school. Think of the football team. Think of the big powerful swaggering star quarterback.
Perhaps he is a good guy. But he is the hero, and he throws his weight a bit. Perhaps he's a nice guy and is an alterboy on Sundays, it doesn't matter.
Perhaps there are some lesser kids at the school. Not necessarily geeks. Maybe goths. Anyway in persuit of the all-American way the quaterback is somewhat down on such people. They resent him. The probably don't resent his athletic ability ("Who'd want to be a jock?"). They resent his attitude that he is God's chosen student. They resent being belittled. They resent being told that football is everything.
One of these put-upon kids puts a fire-cracker in the quaterback's locker and as it happens sets fire to his year book etc.
The Quaterback is hopping mad and goes around saying "when I catch that F***er, I'm going to rip him apart! If anyone knows who he is and isn't telling me I'll rip them apart too!"
Now destroying the WTC is not the same as a firecracker, but the analogy stands. Be aware, America, that much of the world does see you as an overbearing and self satisfied and opinionated, just like the quaterback in the story.
If you want to automate only the "simple" highway driving you still have the problem of handing control back. The simple solution is to have the robot pull over and stop before the human takes over. Anything else is hard.
One aspect on which the site was silent was how much noise these things make. Ultralights are noisy beasts, and with four high revving unsilenced 2 stroke engines this one will be evil. I would guess that one ot the main risks in flying one of these things is being shot out of the sky just to stop the noise
I remember (being old) that at the end of "Mutual of Omaha's wild Kingom" there was a statement of the form "All scenes, whther real or constructed, represent authenicated facts". Perhaps news programs now need to make similar statements... or at least when such statements would be true.
I see no harm in advertising pizzas on flying saucers, but rockets are the wrong shape! Now what can I think of that is compatible with the shape of a rocket: big, long, thusting... Nope. can't thing of anything like that.
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iff thier iss sumone whoo reeds slashdor thet cann spel, they could produce a specialist "offensive word" dictionary.
I'd get a copy. I need all the help I can get with my spelling, and I don't want to be constrained only to use those few offensive words I can spell. I wnat to be certain that if I call Gates and his thought police pernicious fuckwits and blithering idiots I don't make a fooll of myself.
there were 48 people at the sun site in New york on floors 25 and 26 of WTC. All of these are accounted for.
I believe 2 Sun employees were elsewhere in WTC, and are assumed lossed.
And the quaterback is a pretty decent person really. Certainly a very nice person measured by his own scale. But that doesn't mean that the little, outsider kids see him that way. The snivelling brat that puts the fire cracker in the locker is not a nice guy. The point is that overbearing behavior can result in irrational responses from those who feel trodden on.
And America can be overbearing and arrogant, as can any powerful country. Britain, Germany and France are up there too, but not to the same extent: they don't have the power. And in the last 6 months or so the US has been more overbearing and dismissive than usual.
I want to make an analogy to help people try to get inside the heads of the terrorists who perpetrated yesterday's atrocities. It is inevitably an uncomfortable analogy, perhaps especially for the slashdot community.
Think of a typical all-American high school. Think of the football team. Think of the big powerful swaggering star quarterback.
Perhaps he is a good guy. But he is the hero, and he throws his weight a bit. Perhaps he's a nice guy and is an alterboy on Sundays, it doesn't matter.
Perhaps there are some lesser kids at the school. Not necessarily geeks. Maybe goths. Anyway in persuit of the all-American way the quaterback is somewhat down on such people. They resent him. The probably don't resent his athletic ability ("Who'd want to be a jock?"). They resent his attitude that he is God's chosen student. They resent being belittled. They resent being told that football is everything.
One of these put-upon kids puts a fire-cracker in the quaterback's locker and as it happens sets fire to his year book etc.
The Quaterback is hopping mad and goes around saying "when I catch that F***er, I'm going to rip him apart! If anyone knows who he is and isn't telling me I'll rip them apart too!"
Now destroying the WTC is not the same as a firecracker, but the analogy stands. Be aware, America, that much of the world does see you as an overbearing and self satisfied and opinionated, just like the quaterback in the story.
If you want to automate only the "simple" highway driving you still have the problem of handing control back.
The simple solution is to have the robot pull over and stop before the human takes over. Anything else is hard.
One aspect on which the site was silent was how much noise these things make. Ultralights are noisy beasts, and with four high revving unsilenced 2 stroke engines this one will be evil.
I would guess that one ot the main risks in flying one of these things is being shot out of the sky just to stop the noise
I remember (being old) that at the end of "Mutual of Omaha's wild Kingom" there was a statement of the form "All scenes, whther real or constructed, represent authenicated facts".
Perhaps news programs now need to make similar statements... or at least when such statements would be true.
I see no harm in advertising pizzas on flying saucers, but rockets are the wrong shape!
Now what can I think of that is compatible with the shape of a rocket: big, long, thusting... Nope. can't thing of anything like that.