Fine then, go on over to Egypt, Nigeria, or parts of the middle east and tell them that you consider "Allah" profane. I think they will be less kind to you there.
You should be greatful for the fact that religious beliefs can be expressed here, whatever religion you believe in. Fine, you can consider God profane if you wish, but only if you consider any other form of religion profane as well.
You have to wonder what effect all this TV watching has on the children's attention span.
And what about computers? I can launch firefox (or whatever browser you choose) and go to anything I want anytime. No need to RTFA, I can just read the comments. I can google anything I want and have it in front of me in seconds. How is this any better for attention span than a TV?
If you've every installed nVidia drivers for XWindows, you have to edit XF86Config. Ever tried upgrading the kernel in Fedora core 2? X won't work anymore after that, because you have to edit XF86Config to change the mouse to/dev/input/mice (or something like that). I don't know about you, but the REAL distributions aren't entirely caught up with making the whole config process transparent... albeit, they are getting better.
Later today, mission control was shocked as astronauts relayed a new message. What they had once mistaken for a mannequin was actually former vice president Al Gore. Barely affected by the radiation, Mr. Gore said he felt "quite stimulated" from the venture, and that he would like to plan a return flight in the future. At this time there is no comment from NASA administration on Mr. Gore's proposal.
It all reminds me of after the Columbine shootings when all of the schools were implementing new securities. I don't know if they thought it would really help or just to make themselves less liable in the event someone was killed. Suddenly at my high school we could no longer carry backpacks, and anyone who wasn't a student had to sign in at the door, not to mention hall passes. The absurdity of it all was that it would not deter anyone in the least bit to bring a gun to school. I don't think anyone believes they'd get away with it free and alive, anyway.
All the same, if you plan on hijacking a plane, I don't think this would help much. The only chance of any improvement is if the government has "tagged" a person, preventing them from boarding. I, for one, do not welcome our preemptive governmental blacklisting overlords. It's all a matter of not being liable and making people think they are safe, just as my school did.
As a malicious virus writer, I'm quite offended that you would categorize us with evil spammers.
Yes we use toothpaste too, as do spammers I assume, but ummm.. please don't categorized us with spammers .
Disclaimer: I am no virus writer. That was merely for the sake of making a joke, so put down your phone and don't go calling the FBI.;)
The problem is, however, it is difficult flying in such a vehicle when you cannot exceed 88mph. I see this as serious flaw in their business model. You'd think the engineers would have noticed, sheesh.
While I hope that is the case (admittedly I did not RTFA), I still think such a patent is unnecessary. It is such a sad thing for the USPO to be granting such software patents at all. It seems like such a cheap way to cut out competetors, by acquiring such "rights". I can't seem to figure out where the invention part, or even innovation part of this patent comes in. This isn't a codec, a protocol, an algorithm, or a compression, it's another example of "fill-in-the-blank using the [web|computer|internet]" which is nothing more than a software feature like being able to export a document or install a patch.
I feel better now.:)
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Fine then, go on over to Egypt, Nigeria, or parts of the middle east and tell them that you consider "Allah" profane. I think they will be less kind to you there.
You should be greatful for the fact that religious beliefs can be expressed here, whatever religion you believe in. Fine, you can consider God profane if you wish, but only if you consider any other form of religion profane as well.
What's this?
A girl on slashdot?!?
As someone who lives in Nebraska, I can tell you these pictures are far more exciting. I mean, there's HILLS on Mars!!
I heard that in the boxed set, during the battle of Helm's Deep an orc shoots first.
...how lame is that??
You have to wonder what effect all this TV watching has on the children's attention span.
And what about computers? I can launch firefox (or whatever browser you choose) and go to anything I want anytime. No need to RTFA, I can just read the comments. I can google anything I want and have it in front of me in seconds. How is this any better for attention span than a TV?
If you've every installed nVidia drivers for XWindows, you have to edit XF86Config. Ever tried upgrading the kernel in Fedora core 2? X won't work anymore after that, because you have to edit XF86Config to change the mouse to /dev/input/mice (or something like that). I don't know about you, but the REAL distributions aren't entirely caught up with making the whole config process transparent... albeit, they are getting better.
Later today, mission control was shocked as astronauts relayed a new message. What they had once mistaken for a mannequin was actually former vice president Al Gore. Barely affected by the radiation, Mr. Gore said he felt "quite stimulated" from the venture, and that he would like to plan a return flight in the future. At this time there is no comment from NASA administration on Mr. Gore's proposal.
I definitely agree with you.
It all reminds me of after the Columbine shootings when all of the schools were implementing new securities. I don't know if they thought it would really help or just to make themselves less liable in the event someone was killed. Suddenly at my high school we could no longer carry backpacks, and anyone who wasn't a student had to sign in at the door, not to mention hall passes. The absurdity of it all was that it would not deter anyone in the least bit to bring a gun to school. I don't think anyone believes they'd get away with it free and alive, anyway.
All the same, if you plan on hijacking a plane, I don't think this would help much. The only chance of any improvement is if the government has "tagged" a person, preventing them from boarding. I, for one, do not welcome our preemptive governmental blacklisting overlords. It's all a matter of not being liable and making people think they are safe, just as my school did.
Not only do they have an FBI warning, but a similar warning from half a dozen countries, in as many languages. Talk about pissing the customer off...
...makes you just want to rip it to DivX, doesn't it?
Cremate yourself? Don't you think that would be a little painful? And good luck finding anyone willing to let you jump in their furnace...
It's more like, if by 2014 a comet hasn't hit us yet.
As a malicious virus writer, I'm quite offended that you would categorize us with evil spammers. Yes we use toothpaste too, as do spammers I assume, but ummm.. please don't categorized us with spammers .
;)
Disclaimer: I am no virus writer. That was merely for the sake of making a joke, so put down your phone and don't go calling the FBI.
the epitome of cool..
Am I the only one who first pronounced this in their head as ep-i-tome, only to later realize it was ep-i-to-me?
Ah, remember this thing? Does anyone know what it actually did anyway?
In light of this post, I suggest Lindows try changing their name to Windux. If Windex can get away with it, surely we can!
The problem is, however, it is difficult flying in such a vehicle when you cannot exceed 88mph. I see this as serious flaw in their business model. You'd think the engineers would have noticed, sheesh.
I suppose then, that poor kid had a very difficult time watching Ghostbusters.
A reusable digital camera. Who woulda thought!
American congressman!
$154,700 per year
$166,700 for leaders
$192,600 for speaker
Oh, wait, they just voted to increase their salary to $158,000 next year. Wish I could do that.
Also of note, the president makes $400,000 a year.
As long as there are goth clubs with big dancing orgies and lots of guns, it should be alright.
Great... someone DOS'ed my monitor!
While I hope that is the case (admittedly I did not RTFA), I still think such a patent is unnecessary. It is such a sad thing for the USPO to be granting such software patents at all. It seems like such a cheap way to cut out competetors, by acquiring such "rights". I can't seem to figure out where the invention part, or even innovation part of this patent comes in. This isn't a codec, a protocol, an algorithm, or a compression, it's another example of "fill-in-the-blank using the [web|computer|internet]" which is nothing more than a software feature like being able to export a document or install a patch. I feel better now. :)
I knew I should have patented capitalism!
Now all I need is a distro with the 2.6 kernel and I can actually get Linux up and running again. It hasn't been the same since I got that SATA drive.