The British find using the freedom of speech (by the way, they have no First Amendment in the UK) for socially unpopular reasons is a worse crime than child pornography and other truly more terrible crimes.
Visit www.tonguetied.us occasionally and you'll see how free you are in the UK.
The affected "pass" is NOT a synonym for "die".
When told that someone passed, I immediately ask, "What did he pass? The gravy?"
What most people are thinking of when they use "pass" for "die" is the colloquial phrase "pass away". That phrase, indeed, means "die". So use it, dammit.
In addition to Washtenaw County, Hillsdale and Lenawee Counties are also setting up a similar wireless network, although these two counties are concentrating their efforts on the most populated areas and kissing off everyone else. (Did I spell kissing correctly?) And none of it is free.
"CNN reports that Northrop Grumman is under contract to build a new supersonic, shape-shifting bomber by 2020. The main innovation is in its single, rotating wing. From the article: '[It] will cruise with its 200-foot-long wing perpendicular to its engines like a normal airplane. But just before the craft breaks the sound barrier, its single wing will swivel around 60 degrees (hence the name) so that one end points forward and the other back. This oblique configuration redistributes the shock waves that pile up in front of a plane at Mach speeds and cause drag. When the Switchblade returns to subsonic speeds, the wing will rotate back to perpendicular.'"
Let's change that to read: "its 200-foot-long wing at right angles to its fuselage like a normal airplane". Otherwise I get an image of the wing being in a vertical up and down position relative to the fuselage.
And: "the wing will rotate back to the right angle position".
Writing readable English should not be that difficult.
No one in 1986, before, during, or after has given much thought to, not only email, but the web and the internet as a whole. I'm sure many of you mishmash web sites together with the "help" of a dozen different and differing languages, methods, procedures and magic charms.
What a godawful mess it is to get anything to another user's computer in the same shape and form that you intended when you sent it to them. I'm talking either directly or through a server.
In reference to the web, there should be only one language needed. Instead we've got to use three or four crap-filled "languages" that all differ in syntax, keywords and grammar.
Puh-leez.
Programming under QNX has led me to consider writing a utility called "god.exe". It will do anything you want as long as you can remember the parameters to pass to it on the command line.
Max Fomitchev writes "The proposed Two-Tier Internet bill threatens not only to raise prices on goods and services served online, but also to seriously hamper free speech on the Internet by allowing telecom providers to choke user pages and blogs not associated with major content providers. What a perfect way toward censorship..."
ItsIllak writes "Alternate Reality Games [ARGs] has been bubbling under for the past 10 years now. Usually completely homebrew or attached to big budget productions, it has been used to create buzz around a game, product or movie. Perplex City has bucked that trend. Its ARG is completely independent of anything else; it's entirely self contained. With fresh ideas on income generation and a $200,000 top prize to whomever finds the real life buried treasure -- is this the future of an entirely new form of entertainment?"
By many of the posts I just read, I've got to believe that few of you have either read the Koran or have bothered to learn a little about the so-called "Prophet" Mohammed and Mohammedism history.
Is criticizing Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin "hate speech"? I think not.
People, mostly those people of the fringe left, are calling anything that disturbs them as "hate speech". I will not allow them to censor me.
www.SpelledSideways.com
But, of course, today's dictionaries reflect the currently corrupted usage of the word "robot". That's why I object to the corruption of the word "android" into "droid" and "web log" into "blog" (yuck).
And, yes, now we have to append "autonomous" to the word "robot" in order to convey the original meaning of the word alone. "Boy" once meant "girl", "nice" once had a negative connotation. When we mistreat and corrupt the languge we create confusion in our attempts to communicate.
No, I failed to read about the add-on module for the Vex. It appears that the add-on truly makes the Vex a robot.
Where were you Unix/navel centered bitheads in the mid-1970s when Bill and company were doing great things for the infant microcomputer industry.
I've worked with Unix/linux/qnx crap where one utility would do anything from showing a directory listing to scrubbing my back depending upon which of several hundred switches/parameters were included on the command line. All I had to do was memorize all of those switches because the app itself couldn't tell me what they were. (I once sarcastically told an employer that I was going to write a program that would do everything and I would name it god.exe.)
Where the unix/linus/qnx OS would consistently execute an older version of the application which I had just compiled...despite my efforts to get it to execute the just compiled version.
Where were you in 1976?
There were better operating systems back then than Unix/linux. There were better microcomputers (PCs to you younguns) back then other than the ones that became popular with the nutheads.
Only the mediocre operating systems and PCs won the public's eye. And we're still forced to use them...Linux included.
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I don't wish to reconfigure my browser for every web page I want to read. If that's required to browse the web, I'll go back to reading books and watching television where I don't have to spend time increasing or decreasing text and picture size.
I think that many of you don't mind hitting four keys when one could have been sufficient or constantly accessing the browser's menu to adjust something because that's the geek/Unix experience. It is similar to the activity needed to drive a car with a manual shift transmission: "By God, look at me. I'm doing something important."
Whatever happened to the concept of "user friendliness"?
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I didn't take time to read everything here mainly because it's a lot of crap. But I would have liked to have read the article at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/web3point0, which apparently started all of this.
Before the Big Bang ("Let there be light"), there was nothing except for one supreme Intelligence. What would you do if nothing but you existed?
Think about it: what are the odds that when nothing existed God did? At that point in time (time? There was no time then.) I'd put the odds at 50-50. If the flip had turned up tails, we wouldn't now be talking about it.
I am a Christian and my belief in God would mean nothing if I felt that science and religion were two separate philosophies. I believe that God created the universe. How did he create it? That's for science to determine in detail. (The general nature of the creation is told in Genesis. God has left discovering the details to us.)
I too do not believe that Intelligence Design should be taught in place of evolution. Someday, though, the two will merge in our science books.
Trying go keep God out of science and science out of God is a joke. God creates, science studies the creation.
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The British find using the freedom of speech (by the way, they have no First Amendment in the UK) for socially unpopular reasons is a worse crime than child pornography and other truly more terrible crimes. Visit www.tonguetied.us occasionally and you'll see how free you are in the UK.
And, of course, those are the reasons you use the word f*** in public. You have no idea what free speech is all about, dimwit.
That's hardly "incitement to murder". Is suggesting that white people should celebrate Christmas an incitement to become a Christian? Hardly.
The affected "pass" is NOT a synonym for "die".
When told that someone passed, I immediately ask, "What did he pass? The gravy?"
What most people are thinking of when they use "pass" for "die" is the colloquial phrase "pass away". That phrase, indeed, means "die". So use it, dammit.
The people at fiftythree.org need to proofread their site. It's full of spelling and grammar mistakes.
In addition to Washtenaw County, Hillsdale and Lenawee Counties are also setting up a similar wireless network, although these two counties are concentrating their efforts on the most populated areas and kissing off everyone else. (Did I spell kissing correctly?) And none of it is free.
They must have overlooked Ted Kennedy's ass.
"Trys"?
Can someone tie this in with the ultimate ancestors: Adam and Eve? Using the chronology in the Torah, they lived roughly 5 to 6000 years ago.
"CNN reports that Northrop Grumman is under contract to build a new supersonic, shape-shifting bomber by 2020. The main innovation is in its single, rotating wing. From the article: '[It] will cruise with its 200-foot-long wing perpendicular to its engines like a normal airplane. But just before the craft breaks the sound barrier, its single wing will swivel around 60 degrees (hence the name) so that one end points forward and the other back. This oblique configuration redistributes the shock waves that pile up in front of a plane at Mach speeds and cause drag. When the Switchblade returns to subsonic speeds, the wing will rotate back to perpendicular.'"
Let's change that to read: "its 200-foot-long wing at right angles to its fuselage like a normal airplane". Otherwise I get an image of the wing being in a vertical up and down position relative to the fuselage.
And: "the wing will rotate back to the right angle position".
Writing readable English should not be that difficult.
The competition is mislabeled. It has nothing at all to do with robots and much to do about remote-control devices. Big difference.
Why the fuck are all of my postings given a score of 0?
No one in 1986, before, during, or after has given much thought to, not only email, but the web and the internet as a whole. I'm sure many of you mishmash web sites together with the "help" of a dozen different and differing languages, methods, procedures and magic charms.
What a godawful mess it is to get anything to another user's computer in the same shape and form that you intended when you sent it to them. I'm talking either directly or through a server.
In reference to the web, there should be only one language needed. Instead we've got to use three or four crap-filled "languages" that all differ in syntax, keywords and grammar.
Puh-leez.
Programming under QNX has led me to consider writing a utility called "god.exe". It will do anything you want as long as you can remember the parameters to pass to it on the command line.
Max Fomitchev writes "The proposed Two-Tier Internet bill threatens not only to raise prices on goods and services served online, but also to seriously hamper free speech on the Internet by allowing telecom providers to choke user pages and blogs not associated with major content providers. What a perfect way toward censorship..."
There now, that reads better.
ItsIllak writes "Alternate Reality Games [ARGs] has been bubbling under for the past 10 years now. Usually completely homebrew or attached to big budget productions, it has been used to create buzz around a game, product or movie. Perplex City has bucked that trend. Its ARG is completely independent of anything else; it's entirely self contained. With fresh ideas on income generation and a $200,000 top prize to whomever finds the real life buried treasure -- is this the future of an entirely new form of entertainment?"
There now, that reads better.
By many of the posts I just read, I've got to believe that few of you have either read the Koran or have bothered to learn a little about the so-called "Prophet" Mohammed and Mohammedism history. Is criticizing Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin "hate speech"? I think not. People, mostly those people of the fringe left, are calling anything that disturbs them as "hate speech". I will not allow them to censor me. www.SpelledSideways.com
And you are certainly showing your ignorance, kid.
But, of course, today's dictionaries reflect the currently corrupted usage of the word "robot". That's why I object to the corruption of the word "android" into "droid" and "web log" into "blog" (yuck).
And, yes, now we have to append "autonomous" to the word "robot" in order to convey the original meaning of the word alone. "Boy" once meant "girl", "nice" once had a negative connotation. When we mistreat and corrupt the languge we create confusion in our attempts to communicate.
No, I failed to read about the add-on module for the Vex. It appears that the add-on truly makes the Vex a robot.
The Vex System is no more a robot than a remote controlled model airplane or my car is.
A remote controlled device is NOT a robot.
A robot is a mechanical and electronic device that performs a function(s) under its own control. It is capable of making its own decisions.
An android (NOT "droid") is a robot with the appearance of a human or animal.
For further enlightment read "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov.
Where were you Unix/navel centered bitheads in the mid-1970s when Bill and company were doing great things for the infant microcomputer industry.
I've worked with Unix/linux/qnx crap where one utility would do anything from showing a directory listing to scrubbing my back depending upon which of several hundred switches/parameters were included on the command line. All I had to do was memorize all of those switches because the app itself couldn't tell me what they were. (I once sarcastically told an employer that I was going to write a program that would do everything and I would name it god.exe.)
Where the unix/linus/qnx OS would consistently execute an older version of the application which I had just compiled...despite my efforts to get it to execute the just compiled version.
Where were you in 1976?
There were better operating systems back then than Unix/linux. There were better microcomputers (PCs to you younguns) back then other than the ones that became popular with the nutheads.
Only the mediocre operating systems and PCs won the public's eye. And we're still forced to use them...Linux included.
I don't wish to reconfigure my browser for every web page I want to read. If that's required to browse the web, I'll go back to reading books and watching television where I don't have to spend time increasing or decreasing text and picture size.
I think that many of you don't mind hitting four keys when one could have been sufficient or constantly accessing the browser's menu to adjust something because that's the geek/Unix experience. It is similar to the activity needed to drive a car with a manual shift transmission: "By God, look at me. I'm doing something important."
Whatever happened to the concept of "user friendliness"?
I didn't take time to read everything here mainly because it's a lot of crap. But I would have liked to have read the article at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/web3point0, which apparently started all of this.
BUT I CAN'T READ 4-POINT TYPE.
Before the Big Bang ("Let there be light"), there was nothing except for one supreme Intelligence. What would you do if nothing but you existed?
Think about it: what are the odds that when nothing existed God did? At that point in time (time? There was no time then.) I'd put the odds at 50-50. If the flip had turned up tails, we wouldn't now be talking about it.
I am a Christian and my belief in God would mean nothing if I felt that science and religion were two separate philosophies. I believe that God created the universe. How did he create it? That's for science to determine in detail. (The general nature of the creation is told in Genesis. God has left discovering the details to us.)
I too do not believe that Intelligence Design should be taught in place of evolution. Someday, though, the two will merge in our science books.
Trying go keep God out of science and science out of God is a joke. God creates, science studies the creation.