to compare Bible with Dianetics is a bit of a joke.
I agree with what you didn't mean to say.
All religions are pathetic and insane. Believers are willfully delusional, ignorant, and/or stupid. All of their books are jokes. All of their beliefs are jokes.
If it wasn't for election cheating in Florida (and later in the Supreme Court), we wouldn't have had the slow-motion disaster that is the Bush II "administration".
In light of this I say that Florida (and the Supreme Court) from now on never be allowed to participate in the election of the office of President, not at all, ever again.
Second, conservatives in America are opposed to illegal immigration and want to build a big wall, while liberals want open borders and no screening.
Incorrect-amundo.
Conservatives pretend that they plan to build a wall, paying worthless lip-service on the topic. Meanwhile they deliberately do nothing to stop illegals from entering the US, therefore maintaining the status quo of cheap immigrant labor and the nonstop invasion from the south.
With regards to weaponry... well, many Scottish youths have access to knives and carry them on a regular basis.
Ah, so just because Scottish youths don't put their knives to good use, nobody else should be allowed to have weapons either. That's good politician doublethought if I ever saw it. Is there a way you can rephrase that to include the words "what about the children?"
It's not like gun ownership has any effect on US politics except for a desire to keep ownership legal.
Not true. Have you ever considered that factions within the US government who would have liked to have a Chrystallnacht of their own could not because our citizens are well armed?
Microsoft, if nothing else, still has the power it needs in order to take another (smaller) companies ideas and launch them themselves, creating a hit and effectively driving their competition out of business.
Thank you. I don't want several powered-USB devices sucking 6 amps each through my PC power supply. I use those things up regularly enough with just my CPU/GPU etc, and I use decent Antec's. How long would the Magic Smoke stay in the 250W El-Crappo power supply found in your average Dell with that sort of load? Not long, methinks.
Powered USB is a non-solution to a non-problem. Get a powerstrip, plug stuff in, stick with USB.
the RIAA (which, let's face it, was a pretty benign organization until fairly recently)
Have to disagree! The companies that make up the RIAA have been viciously screwing artists in the ass since day one, while ripping off consumers in the process.
Crucifixion is too good for them.
Gun control is stupid. What we need is bullet control.
As a citizen of Montana, I can assure you that in this state we have an unusual level of bullet control. A large proportion of the citizens here are well-armed and highly experienced, often with sniper-grade rifles with excellent optics, and as any local deer or elk can tell you, these guys are capable of one-shot-one-kill from many hundreds of yards away. I would far rather go up against a Kalashnikov-wielding fanatic than one of the locals with his.50 cal.
An old handgunning joke goes "gun control means using both hands", in this state that joke doesn't garner any laughs, just additional advice on handgunning technique. Just look at my sig if you doubt.
Yeah, what chance would a few guys with guns and improvised munitions stand against a modern, well-trained, professional army...
My sarcasm detector must be on the fritz, but if you truly do want the answer to that question, just ask all the US troops patrolling Iraq today.
What on *earth* does this have to do with "news for nerds"?
While it's true that most of us "nerds" were initially drawn to slashdot by things like linux, hardware comparo's, and science, we're not limited to the abovementioned topics.
Slashdot is frequented a population by some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I've ever encountered (with some bozo's too), and politics affects all of us, even those of you not contained within the borders of America.
I live in Missoula too, and it's seems clear that our Commisioners have learned the lessons of the Bush administration well, that is, if you don't feel like obeying the will of the voters (or the constitution), don't, and throw out some paternal language describing in conciliatory-sounding soundbites ("what about the children!").
The war on drugs is a total fiasco, but the war on the Bill of Rights that it masked has been a raging success.
Like many Missoulians (and Americans) right about now I'm thinking that it's well past overdue for some serious change in the way our city (and country) is run. What I don't know is how that change is going to come about. Our "leaders" have are so entrenched and corrupt, and the voting process so subverted (2000 election, 2004 election, both stolen), that I fear the only change will come by revolution. A frightening prospect, I can only hope that my fellow Americans have the guts to eventually stand up for what's right and against what's wrong, and that they have the stomach to do something about it.
Several boxes in my office closet contain a pretty good history of desktop PC hard drive technology from about 1988-2005. Much like archaeological sediments, on the bottom you will find the oldest, 10Mb and 20Mb drives, capacities increasing as you move up through the layers, and at the top the most recent addition, a 30Gb retired from a Dell retired last Xmas. All of these HD's were retired in good working order, and as far as I know they all still work. Every one of them succumbed to the REAL nemesis of hard drives, that is they were swallowed up by new drives with 10x their capacity.
Sure, I've seen a couple drives fail, but they've been few and very far between. I've seen a lot more drives run long beyond their usefulness whilst packed solid in dust-bunnies, running scorchingly hot, on questionable power, some even sticky with spilled Mountain Dew.
Just be sure to get good backups, and enjoy the cheap storage.
Yes, the total amount of runoff yearly will be the same, but if the glacier disappears, and there is no winter snow accumulation, there will be reduced runoff during warm dry months of summer, just like here in Montana. Winter snowpack accumulation/meltoff is crucial for year-round water supply in some climates.
I admire your confidence, considering the incompleteness of our species understanding of physics. But I think a lot of us would appreciate it if these experiments were conducted on SOME OTHER FREAKING PLANET considering that, if you're mistaken, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE INFINITELY STRETCHED ALONG THE SCHWARZCHILD RADIUS OF A GODDAMNED SINGULARITY THAT WE CREATED.
Dan Simmons called this "The Big Mistake" (although later it was revealed that the AI's stole the Earth...)
Probably every single person on Slashdot has received all the "boilerplate" emails that circulate the web eternally it seems. The rocket-powered-impala, the no-headlights-gangsters, the endless new-virus-gonna-format-your-HD warning mails forwarded again and again Aunty Marcia, etc ad nauseum.
But what if WE did the same thing? What if the most articulate amongst us came up with a DRM warning letter, and we forwarded it to all the Joe Sixpacs of our worlds with the a title like "WARNING: DRM THREATENING YOUR PC" and "FORWARD THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS!!" message?
Maybe I'm just idealistically dreaming, maybe I'm being a little rtarded, but how else will Joe Sixpack ever find out otherwise? Broadcast media? Nope. Blogs? Not the ones he's reading. And you know Joe HAS read about the rocket impala.
I din't mean to imply this would happen tomorrow but a decade or two from now when certainly things could be watermarked (and recognized) appropriately and furthermore most vehicles of media would be connected one way or another. Given IPv6 it's not impossible.
And what would be wrong with being able to revoke/retrive an embarassing video or soundbite? what about someone as a teen who does some misdeeds as a teen? In this system that trangression would not come back to bite him/her (except for those who have that knowledge in memory (what are friends for but to know our secrets anyway?)
To answer someone's question posed before: Politicians and anyone working for the govermnet would be exempt from this "purging" aspect. That is, they would not be able to retrieve/revoke things said or performed as an agent of government as that would automatically be for public domain.
Were you kidding? Politicians (and the hyper rich) would be the only ones who could have their comments revoked. Revising history and tightening the legal noose around the little guy are their favorite pastimes (we're doing it for the children) and are becoming crucial to getting elected and perpetuating (perpetrating?) their party's existence!
The utopia you describe sounds wonderful, but unfortunately most of us are stuck here on sadly corrupt Earth.
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Is it just me or does the JWST look kind of like Barbie's Imperial Star Destroyer?
I agree with what you didn't mean to say.
All religions are pathetic and insane. Believers are willfully delusional, ignorant, and/or stupid. All of their books are jokes. All of their beliefs are jokes.
Sarcasm not intended.
If it wasn't for election cheating in Florida (and later in the Supreme Court), we wouldn't have had the slow-motion disaster that is the Bush II "administration".
In light of this I say that Florida (and the Supreme Court) from now on never be allowed to participate in the election of the office of President, not at all, ever again.
Incorrect-amundo. Conservatives pretend that they plan to build a wall, paying worthless lip-service on the topic. Meanwhile they deliberately do nothing to stop illegals from entering the US, therefore maintaining the status quo of cheap immigrant labor and the nonstop invasion from the south.
Mallrats didn't come up with this. Larry Niven did, in the short story "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" in the compilation "All the Myriad Ways."
Ah, so just because Scottish youths don't put their knives to good use, nobody else should be allowed to have weapons either. That's good politician doublethought if I ever saw it. Is there a way you can rephrase that to include the words "what about the children?" It's not like gun ownership has any effect on US politics except for a desire to keep ownership legal.
Not true. Have you ever considered that factions within the US government who would have liked to have a Chrystallnacht of their own could not because our citizens are well armed?
Cho was Korean-bred, moron.
If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.
Thank you. I don't want several powered-USB devices sucking 6 amps each through my PC power supply. I use those things up regularly enough with just my CPU/GPU etc, and I use decent Antec's. How long would the Magic Smoke stay in the 250W El-Crappo power supply found in your average Dell with that sort of load? Not long, methinks.
Powered USB is a non-solution to a non-problem. Get a powerstrip, plug stuff in, stick with USB.
Have to disagree! The companies that make up the RIAA have been viciously screwing artists in the ass since day one, while ripping off consumers in the process.
Crucifixion is too good for them.
Don't be a hater. Ban religion.
As a citizen of Montana, I can assure you that in this state we have an unusual level of bullet control. A large proportion of the citizens here are well-armed and highly experienced, often with sniper-grade rifles with excellent optics, and as any local deer or elk can tell you, these guys are capable of one-shot-one-kill from many hundreds of yards away. I would far rather go up against a Kalashnikov-wielding fanatic than one of the locals with his
An old handgunning joke goes "gun control means using both hands", in this state that joke doesn't garner any laughs, just additional advice on handgunning technique. Just look at my sig if you doubt.
My sarcasm detector must be on the fritz, but if you truly do want the answer to that question, just ask all the US troops patrolling Iraq today.
While it's true that most of us "nerds" were initially drawn to slashdot by things like linux, hardware comparo's, and science, we're not limited to the abovementioned topics.
Slashdot is frequented a population by some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I've ever encountered (with some bozo's too), and politics affects all of us, even those of you not contained within the borders of America.
I live in Missoula too, and it's seems clear that our Commisioners have learned the lessons of the Bush administration well, that is, if you don't feel like obeying the will of the voters (or the constitution), don't, and throw out some paternal language describing in conciliatory-sounding soundbites ("what about the children!").
The war on drugs is a total fiasco, but the war on the Bill of Rights that it masked has been a raging success.
Like many Missoulians (and Americans) right about now I'm thinking that it's well past overdue for some serious change in the way our city (and country) is run. What I don't know is how that change is going to come about. Our "leaders" have are so entrenched and corrupt, and the voting process so subverted (2000 election, 2004 election, both stolen), that I fear the only change will come by revolution. A frightening prospect, I can only hope that my fellow Americans have the guts to eventually stand up for what's right and against what's wrong, and that they have the stomach to do something about it.
displays for sure!
I saw one of those thirty years ago, only this one was wearing an Abraham Lincoln costume.
Well, it doesn't walk like I do, but it walks a hell of a lot like my dad does!
Several boxes in my office closet contain a pretty good history of desktop PC hard drive technology from about 1988-2005. Much like archaeological sediments, on the bottom you will find the oldest, 10Mb and 20Mb drives, capacities increasing as you move up through the layers, and at the top the most recent addition, a 30Gb retired from a Dell retired last Xmas. All of these HD's were retired in good working order, and as far as I know they all still work. Every one of them succumbed to the REAL nemesis of hard drives, that is they were swallowed up by new drives with 10x their capacity.
Sure, I've seen a couple drives fail, but they've been few and very far between. I've seen a lot more drives run long beyond their usefulness whilst packed solid in dust-bunnies, running scorchingly hot, on questionable power, some even sticky with spilled Mountain Dew.
Just be sure to get good backups, and enjoy the cheap storage.
Unless things have changed lately, Antarctica is still unclaimed, but you'll need to bring extra long undies.
Yes, the total amount of runoff yearly will be the same, but if the glacier disappears, and there is no winter snow accumulation, there will be reduced runoff during warm dry months of summer, just like here in Montana. Winter snowpack accumulation/meltoff is crucial for year-round water supply in some climates.
I admire your confidence, considering the incompleteness of our species understanding of physics. But I think a lot of us would appreciate it if these experiments were conducted on SOME OTHER FREAKING PLANET considering that, if you're mistaken, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE INFINITELY STRETCHED ALONG THE SCHWARZCHILD RADIUS OF A GODDAMNED SINGULARITY THAT WE CREATED.
Dan Simmons called this "The Big Mistake" (although later it was revealed that the AI's stole the Earth...)
Thanks a lot, Boston. America as we knew and loved it is gone. The terrorists have officially won thanks to you.
beaten to the punch!
Probably every single person on Slashdot has received all the "boilerplate" emails that circulate the web eternally it seems. The rocket-powered-impala, the no-headlights-gangsters, the endless new-virus-gonna-format-your-HD warning mails forwarded again and again Aunty Marcia, etc ad nauseum.
But what if WE did the same thing? What if the most articulate amongst us came up with a DRM warning letter, and we forwarded it to all the Joe Sixpacs of our worlds with the a title like "WARNING: DRM THREATENING YOUR PC" and "FORWARD THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS!!" message?
Maybe I'm just idealistically dreaming, maybe I'm being a little rtarded, but how else will Joe Sixpack ever find out otherwise? Broadcast media? Nope. Blogs? Not the ones he's reading. And you know Joe HAS read about the rocket impala.
To answer someone's question posed before: Politicians and anyone working for the govermnet would be exempt from this "purging" aspect. That is, they would not be able to retrieve/revoke things said or performed as an agent of government as that would automatically be for public domain.
Were you kidding? Politicians (and the hyper rich) would be the only ones who could have their comments revoked. Revising history and tightening the legal noose around the little guy are their favorite pastimes (we're doing it for the children) and are becoming crucial to getting elected and perpetuating (perpetrating?) their party's existence!
The utopia you describe sounds wonderful, but unfortunately most of us are stuck here on sadly corrupt Earth.