I don't suppose you read that last statement. I never said all cops are corrupt. I'm just saying that people in power are more easily corrupted and it's getting to the point where the cops are above the law. It's not there yet, but it's getting there.
"... the Library's own Board of Directors (for some unaccountable reason) are not only not supporting her but are in the process of determining what punishment should be given..."
Perhaps the Board of Directors are the New Age Patriots* and they want to show the police that they don't condone the actions of their employee. Sort of demonstrating they are still on their side and they don't want any trouble because of the librarian. Sort of like dealing with the mob or a gang.
*New Age Patriots being people who spit in the face of everything that is truly American while claiming to be patriots of the American way.
Oh please. It's a huge difference, enough with the slippery slopes.
And enough with calling everything a slipper slope. It's not a slippery slope if past data suggests otherwise. A slippery slope is where you're saying one event will cause a chain reaction ultimately leading to some seemingly unwanted situation. This only really works when there's an exception to a rule which is the basis for the argument. We're past the exception and we're in the "chain reaction". Now it's just a matter of interpolating where we will end.
Sorry, when did I mention the timeframe at which it discolored? I just said he owned it for a year. The discoloration happened within the first month. The keys also faded after about 6 months.
The article is somewhat vague as to the extent of the problem. I mean is absolutely everyone experiencing this or just a small few? If it's just a small few then it could be a lot of things, from cleanliness, body chemistry, possibly heat, or even how and how frequently they use their macbooks. Somehow I doubt everyone is experiencing this problem but I could be wrong. If it is just a small subset of the owners then I don't think blaming apple is all that intelligent.
As a side note my friend's laptop discolored within the first month. My Logitech MX700 mouse also discolored within the first month but I played a lot of games on it. I don't blame either company.
My friend has had a Dell laptop for a little over a year now and the hand rests have gone from a dark grey to a light grey. Why aren't we complaining to Dell about that?
News flash, when you use something there's this phenomena that we call "wear and tear". Nothing will stay new forever, get over it.
I looked at the "presentation" and no, it doesn't do a very good job of explaining anything. Maybe combined with an extensive lecture to explain what the hell he's talking about would make it a bit more clear. From what I saw it was basically just enumerating the different components. Then I noticed the second to last slide. It's basically an ad for a book coming out.
Maybe it's just me though. Did anyone else find it extremely enlightening?
To put 41 light years in perspective let's see how long it would take to reach this solar system. We'll assume the spacecraft will be traveling at the same speed as the Hellos 1 spacecraft, 252,800 km/h (158,000 mph). 41 light years is about 3.9 × 10^14 kilometers. That would take roughly 175,000 years to reach. As far as I know Hellos 1 and 2 were the fastest space crafts ever made, though I could be wrong. Suddenly 41 light years doesn't seem to close.
In the scale of the universe 41 light years is pretty insignificant, but just because it's insignificant in a cosmic sense doesn't mean it's insignificant to a species stuck on a backwater planet on the fringe of one of many galaxies.
And 50 years ago when my father was a young boy you could walk into a store and buy a.22 rifle with nothing more than your mother's consent. As I see it violent crimes have gone up since more restrictions have been put in place... I guess I'm just drawing faulty conclusions though, guns are inherently evil objects that will turn kids into Hitler etc... etc...
So send your DVDs through the USPS then. That is a government agency and unless the government bends over backwards to help the MPAA (or RIAA) they won't be able to search packages there.
You know it's pretty sad when Microsoft is more innovative than you. What's original about the PlayStation 3? Controller? Nope, still the basic PS1 controller with features from the N64 and the new Wii controller. Console? Nope, the functionality looks pretty damn similar to the Xbox 360's dashboard (at least from what I saw). So good job Sony, way to bring something new to the table.
On the plus side at least their final controller design wasn't that banana shaped dildo thing they were showing off earlier.
The Constitution doesn't mean anything anymore though. I mean what haven't they obliterated? And I don't just mean recently it goes back way before the current administration. State rights have been demolished, personal liberties are on their way out, Federal power is nearing absolution and the American citizenship is perfectly okay with it - or oblivious to the fact - just so long as they can watch their sports and entertainment. So many citizens don't even know what the Constitution says and public education barely even teaches it. Or if they do teach it they usually flat out lie about it. For instance when I was in 2nd grade we had these "amazing" teachers who stated the Second Amendment only applied to the military! Needless to say my father had a conniption about the entire ordeal. We're heading for some rough times there's no doubt about that.
I completely agree with you. In fact if anyone were to create the next myspace it might be something like this (I wrote and sent this to a friend a while back to illustrate in a funny way why I hate myspace):
I have co-designed a plan that will make us millions! We will create the next evolution of myspace. To pull this off our new social network needs to satisfy basic requirements to attract our key demographic - Emos, Hipsters, Fatties, and Douchebags. There requirements are...
The site must lack any sensible form of navigation from within the site.
All profiles should be as gaudy by default as possible. Even better they should be flash based rather than HTML and CSS based so a user who wishes to view the web page must download an inane amount of data to view a poorly designed and incredibly slow profile.
Rather than only being able to play one song on a profile a user will be able to blaze multiple songs either concurrently or sequentially.
Everything will have an opacity of 50% or less. Text should blend in with everything in the background making it difficult to read.
Furthermore, all text shall be of size 9 and use the least legible font known to man - Comic Sans MS - and under no circumstance shall the text be white or black, to do so would defeat the purpose of making it unreadable.
Several new feature shall also be introduced. One of which is dubbed "the knife" courtesy of RotoSequence. It is named as such to attract the Emo demographic in general. This feature will aid the non-navigability feature. There shall be no links to go to a paticular area of the website. All links shall bring you deeper and deeper into the bowels of the website forcing you to use the browser's "Back" button to navigate to a different part of the site.
Another new feature fabricated by RotoSequence to attract the Emo demographic is the "Suicide Mood Selector". This will allow users to select their current suicidal mood, e.g. "You feel extreme angst, it's best to go the painless route and shoot yourself."
If we follow these guidelines I'm sure we can create the next myspace and make millions. As always suggestions are welcome to help improve our vision of the future!
Go ahead and mod me down if you think I'm a troll, but I had fun writing the above;).
Notepad is simple and effective, vi(m) is complex and effective. Not everything Microsoft does is bad and not everything the *nix community does is good you know.
Do you even know what parenting is? After the age of 8 or so you're supposed to stop trying to protect them and start teaching them how to protect themselves. You, as a parent, are responsible for bringing them into society as a good person. By sheltering them so much you are doing your children and society a huge disfavor. They won't make the transition into the real world smoothly and it won't be pretty.
Tell me something, when they turn 18 and they go off to college will you or your spouse accompany them? Or maybe they will join the military and you'll go with them there. Or perhaps they'll go straight to industry. Whatever the case I highly doubt you or your spouse will be around to think for them and keep tabs. So what will they say when a coworker hands him some cannabis? Or maybe some heroin? They don't know how to say no, you never taught them. The only thing you taught your children was how to be dependent on you. Now I'm not saying that this will happen, but it is a possibility and a grim one at that.
As a parent you need to know that they will make mistakes, they will do bad things, and they will get into trouble. The key is to teach them how to learn from their mistakes. You also need to teach them self-control and self-reliance as well as other much needed social skills. I do agree with you on punishing them when they screw up. But from the sounds of it they can't screw up, you don't even give them the chance!
As far as the sex bit, I'm not sure I follow your logic. I never said you should let them go out and have an orgy. Abstinence is a personal preference and I support it if you choose to go that route. But sex is surely a natural thing to do, be it before or after marriage. Safe sex is still something you need to teach them though. And for the record I don't think the schools should teach this because the parents won't, it's not their job.
I don't want to come off as telling you how to raise your children even though I know that's what it sounds like and I apologize for that. I'm just trying to give you some advice that you might take into consideration.
And why is this? Do you think they may become social deviants if they watch porn or have sex? Or perhaps criminals? Murderers? Sex is healthy not only for the individual but for the species. I'm sorry you think sex is such a horrible act that no one under 18 can comprehend it without becoming corrupt.
And as the other person who replied to you stated, you won't stop them. They'll have sex, look at porn, probably try smoking, maybe a bit of drugs, and I'm sure alcohol is in there somewhere. But hey, what's the worst that can happen by just keeping them sheltered in your warm arms? I mean aside from getting pregnant, getting an STD, becomming a smoker, drug addict, or alcoholic.
It's called incrementalism. They see what they can get away with. If the public gets mad they'll back away and take a few more baby steps. Before you know it you're wonderful "Democracy" is dead and gone. Actually I'm pretty sure we're there already...
On a separate note I have absolutely no clue why the the United States is so against nudity of any kind and how sex is such a hush-hush topic that parents can't even openly talk to their children about. I mean it's not as if nudity and propagation by means of sexual intercourse are natural or anything. Maybe the United States just wants to do away with sex all together and all offspring will be test tube babies. Think "Demolition Man" type society. Hmm... Have sex? Go to Jail! Comming in 2025!
This reminds me of one of the ending scenes for "Thank You for Smoking" where Nick Naylor is consulting the cell phone lobbyists on how to sway the industry into thinking cell phones aren't harmful. I can't quote the scene from memory and I won't be able to do it justice if I wing it, so I just won't. Those who have seen it know what I'm talking about though and if you haven't seen it... Well why the hell not?
This is an honest question and I'm not trying to troll or anything but why has it taken so long to analyze the samples that Neil Armstrong came back with? That seems like quite a while for dirt.
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Or at least that's how it's getting to be.
I don't suppose you read that last statement. I never said all cops are corrupt. I'm just saying that people in power are more easily corrupted and it's getting to the point where the cops are above the law. It's not there yet, but it's getting there.
"... the Library's own Board of Directors (for some unaccountable reason) are not only not supporting her but are in the process of determining what punishment should be given..."
Perhaps the Board of Directors are the New Age Patriots* and they want to show the police that they don't condone the actions of their employee. Sort of demonstrating they are still on their side and they don't want any trouble because of the librarian. Sort of like dealing with the mob or a gang.
*New Age Patriots being people who spit in the face of everything that is truly American while claiming to be patriots of the American way.
You forget, the police are above the law. They enforce it only on the people they choose to enforce it on. Or at least that's how it's getting to be.
Oh please. It's a huge difference, enough with the slippery slopes.
And enough with calling everything a slipper slope. It's not a slippery slope if past data suggests otherwise. A slippery slope is where you're saying one event will cause a chain reaction ultimately leading to some seemingly unwanted situation. This only really works when there's an exception to a rule which is the basis for the argument. We're past the exception and we're in the "chain reaction". Now it's just a matter of interpolating where we will end.
Sorry, when did I mention the timeframe at which it discolored? I just said he owned it for a year. The discoloration happened within the first month. The keys also faded after about 6 months.
The article is somewhat vague as to the extent of the problem. I mean is absolutely everyone experiencing this or just a small few? If it's just a small few then it could be a lot of things, from cleanliness, body chemistry, possibly heat, or even how and how frequently they use their macbooks. Somehow I doubt everyone is experiencing this problem but I could be wrong. If it is just a small subset of the owners then I don't think blaming apple is all that intelligent.
As a side note my friend's laptop discolored within the first month. My Logitech MX700 mouse also discolored within the first month but I played a lot of games on it. I don't blame either company.
My friend has had a Dell laptop for a little over a year now and the hand rests have gone from a dark grey to a light grey. Why aren't we complaining to Dell about that?
News flash, when you use something there's this phenomena that we call "wear and tear". Nothing will stay new forever, get over it.
According to newegg the Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz CPU is $118.99 (free shipping). That's about $3 less than the article states.
They have a different clinic for that joystick problem.
I looked at the "presentation" and no, it doesn't do a very good job of explaining anything. Maybe combined with an extensive lecture to explain what the hell he's talking about would make it a bit more clear. From what I saw it was basically just enumerating the different components. Then I noticed the second to last slide. It's basically an ad for a book coming out.
Maybe it's just me though. Did anyone else find it extremely enlightening?
To put 41 light years in perspective let's see how long it would take to reach this solar system. We'll assume the spacecraft will be traveling at the same speed as the Hellos 1 spacecraft, 252,800 km/h (158,000 mph). 41 light years is about 3.9 × 10^14 kilometers. That would take roughly 175,000 years to reach. As far as I know Hellos 1 and 2 were the fastest space crafts ever made, though I could be wrong. Suddenly 41 light years doesn't seem to close.
In the scale of the universe 41 light years is pretty insignificant, but just because it's insignificant in a cosmic sense doesn't mean it's insignificant to a species stuck on a backwater planet on the fringe of one of many galaxies.
And 50 years ago when my father was a young boy you could walk into a store and buy a .22 rifle with nothing more than your mother's consent. As I see it violent crimes have gone up since more restrictions have been put in place... I guess I'm just drawing faulty conclusions though, guns are inherently evil objects that will turn kids into Hitler etc... etc...
So send your DVDs through the USPS then. That is a government agency and unless the government bends over backwards to help the MPAA (or RIAA) they won't be able to search packages there.
I completely agree with you.
You know it's pretty sad when Microsoft is more innovative than you. What's original about the PlayStation 3? Controller? Nope, still the basic PS1 controller with features from the N64 and the new Wii controller. Console? Nope, the functionality looks pretty damn similar to the Xbox 360's dashboard (at least from what I saw). So good job Sony, way to bring something new to the table.
On the plus side at least their final controller design wasn't that banana shaped dildo thing they were showing off earlier.
The Constitution doesn't mean anything anymore though. I mean what haven't they obliterated? And I don't just mean recently it goes back way before the current administration. State rights have been demolished, personal liberties are on their way out, Federal power is nearing absolution and the American citizenship is perfectly okay with it - or oblivious to the fact - just so long as they can watch their sports and entertainment. So many citizens don't even know what the Constitution says and public education barely even teaches it. Or if they do teach it they usually flat out lie about it. For instance when I was in 2nd grade we had these "amazing" teachers who stated the Second Amendment only applied to the military! Needless to say my father had a conniption about the entire ordeal. We're heading for some rough times there's no doubt about that.
Go ahead and mod me down if you think I'm a troll, but I had fun writing the above
Notepad is simple and effective, vi(m) is complex and effective. Not everything Microsoft does is bad and not everything the *nix community does is good you know.
Very interesting post. I've never read the book which you mentioned but you've piqued my interest, I might pick it up this weekend, thanks =).
I fail to see how my high ID makes any difference in this matter. However, I do see your point, although I think you missed part of mine.
Do you even know what parenting is? After the age of 8 or so you're supposed to stop trying to protect them and start teaching them how to protect themselves. You, as a parent, are responsible for bringing them into society as a good person. By sheltering them so much you are doing your children and society a huge disfavor. They won't make the transition into the real world smoothly and it won't be pretty.
Tell me something, when they turn 18 and they go off to college will you or your spouse accompany them? Or maybe they will join the military and you'll go with them there. Or perhaps they'll go straight to industry. Whatever the case I highly doubt you or your spouse will be around to think for them and keep tabs. So what will they say when a coworker hands him some cannabis? Or maybe some heroin? They don't know how to say no, you never taught them. The only thing you taught your children was how to be dependent on you. Now I'm not saying that this will happen, but it is a possibility and a grim one at that.
As a parent you need to know that they will make mistakes, they will do bad things, and they will get into trouble. The key is to teach them how to learn from their mistakes. You also need to teach them self-control and self-reliance as well as other much needed social skills. I do agree with you on punishing them when they screw up. But from the sounds of it they can't screw up, you don't even give them the chance!
As far as the sex bit, I'm not sure I follow your logic. I never said you should let them go out and have an orgy. Abstinence is a personal preference and I support it if you choose to go that route. But sex is surely a natural thing to do, be it before or after marriage. Safe sex is still something you need to teach them though. And for the record I don't think the schools should teach this because the parents won't, it's not their job.
I don't want to come off as telling you how to raise your children even though I know that's what it sounds like and I apologize for that. I'm just trying to give you some advice that you might take into consideration.
And why is this? Do you think they may become social deviants if they watch porn or have sex? Or perhaps criminals? Murderers? Sex is healthy not only for the individual but for the species. I'm sorry you think sex is such a horrible act that no one under 18 can comprehend it without becoming corrupt.
And as the other person who replied to you stated, you won't stop them. They'll have sex, look at porn, probably try smoking, maybe a bit of drugs, and I'm sure alcohol is in there somewhere. But hey, what's the worst that can happen by just keeping them sheltered in your warm arms? I mean aside from getting pregnant, getting an STD, becomming a smoker, drug addict, or alcoholic.
At least use rational thought as a parent.
It's called incrementalism. They see what they can get away with. If the public gets mad they'll back away and take a few more baby steps. Before you know it you're wonderful "Democracy" is dead and gone. Actually I'm pretty sure we're there already...
On a separate note I have absolutely no clue why the the United States is so against nudity of any kind and how sex is such a hush-hush topic that parents can't even openly talk to their children about. I mean it's not as if nudity and propagation by means of sexual intercourse are natural or anything. Maybe the United States just wants to do away with sex all together and all offspring will be test tube babies. Think "Demolition Man" type society. Hmm... Have sex? Go to Jail! Comming in 2025!
Ah, maybe we have better things to do? That's just my guess. I can't watch every film out there.
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Like press refresh on slashdot ever five minutes?
This reminds me of one of the ending scenes for "Thank You for Smoking" where Nick Naylor is consulting the cell phone lobbyists on how to sway the industry into thinking cell phones aren't harmful. I can't quote the scene from memory and I won't be able to do it justice if I wing it, so I just won't. Those who have seen it know what I'm talking about though and if you haven't seen it... Well why the hell not?
This is an honest question and I'm not trying to troll or anything but why has it taken so long to analyze the samples that Neil Armstrong came back with? That seems like quite a while for dirt.