Just because you CAN get high-quality beer at reasonable prices in this country doesn't mean that the majority of beer sold/consumed in this country is cheap crap.
You have it exactly backwards. I can get a wide selection of good beer at several places in my neighborhood, including one brewery. As long as the good stuff's available, why should I care what the majority drinks?
North Carolina banned state officials from taking global warming into account for the purpose of predicting shoreline erosion. (NC has a flat, sandy shore with a lot of barrier islands, so they need to pay attention to that stuff.) So they're not outlawing global warming, just pretending that it doesn't exist - which is equally stupid, but not quite the same thing.
A very long time ago, O'Rourke was a sharp, witty guy. Then he quit doing drugs, started hanging out with old Republicans, and his writing went to shit. It's pretty sad.
preventing legacy regulation from interfering with new technologies such as mobile delivery of voice and video data as they become crucial components of the Internet ecosystem.
What government regulations do we have right now that interfere with mobile delivery of voice and video data?
Exactly. Thanks for the summary. I'd tell people to read the damn article, but most of them can't read Polish, and the translation is gibberish.
The issue here is that the admins were keeping backups of the data, and the owner of the data wasn't aware of it. (We don't really know whose fault that is; maybe the guy just didn't read the memo from IT.) Are they encrypting the data so that only the owner can decode it? Is the backup process opt-in or opt-out? The article doesn't say.
Yeah, and sometimes it's pretty obvious that a guy had mental problems before he blew up. There was one like that in my neighborhood. He was getting some sporadic psychiatric help from a free clinic, which is only open part-time and doesn't really have the staff to take care of everyone that comes in. One day, he ran up to a cop sitting in a parked car, and tried to take the cop's gun. The cop shot him dead.
It had nothing to do with me. In fact, I was the one who thought it was really corny. We had Sharon Osbourne's dad, Don Arden, managing us. He came up with the idea of having the stage set be Stonehenge. He wrote the dimensions down and gave it to our tour manager. He wrote it down in meters but he meant to write it down in feet. The people who made it saw fifteen meters in stead of fifteen feet. It was 45 feet high and it wouldn't fit on any stage anywhere so we just had to leave it the storage area. It cost a fortune to make but there was not a building on earth that you could fit it into.
Not many people know this, but the Stonehenge scene in "This is Spinal Tap" was based on something that really happened to Black Sabbath. The band wanted a life-sized replica of Stonehenge for their stage show, just like in the movie. They drew up the plans, but at some point (nobody's sure where) 14 feet became 14 meters... So they wound up with this giant thing that cost way more than they planned, and worst of all, it wouldn't even fit on any of the stages they were playing. After this, and a series of similar mishaps, NASA stopped hiring members of Black Sabbath.
It matters if the site's surroundings change. Say you have a station that used to be in the woods 40 years ago, and now is surrounded by parking lots and office buildings. It would show a temperature rise, even if the rise was localized to a small area.
But I have a hard time believing that nobody in the field has thought of this yet.
just like Torvalds did when he wrote git and replaced subversion
Git was never intended as a replacement for Subversion. From the way that Torvalds talked about Subversion, I doubt he ever even used it. Git was a replacement for BitKeeper - which worked on a distributed-repository model, just like Git.
Many years ago, I was at The Tasty in Cambridge, MA. A guy sat at the counter and ordered french fries with some soft-serve vanilla to dip them into. The cook said "That's disgusting. You can't have it." I miss the Tasty.
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And funny pictures of cats.
Just because you CAN get high-quality beer at reasonable prices in this country doesn't mean that the majority of beer sold/consumed in this country is cheap crap.
You have it exactly backwards. I can get a wide selection of good beer at several places in my neighborhood, including one brewery. As long as the good stuff's available, why should I care what the majority drinks?
North Carolina banned state officials from taking global warming into account for the purpose of predicting shoreline erosion. (NC has a flat, sandy shore with a lot of barrier islands, so they need to pay attention to that stuff.) So they're not outlawing global warming, just pretending that it doesn't exist - which is equally stupid, but not quite the same thing.
I'm wondering what the fishing boats in the Gulf are seeing, if there was a corresponding explosion of growth in populations of shrimp or such.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#Fisheries
You know, reading the summary would have taken you less time than typing that.
A very long time ago, O'Rourke was a sharp, witty guy. Then he quit doing drugs, started hanging out with old Republicans, and his writing went to shit. It's pretty sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQdzDQqJ_U
Mommy, what did they do in Sodom that was sinful?
They taxed the job creators.
preventing legacy regulation from interfering with new technologies such as mobile delivery of voice and video data as they become crucial components of the Internet ecosystem.
What government regulations do we have right now that interfere with mobile delivery of voice and video data?
Exactly. Thanks for the summary. I'd tell people to read the damn article, but most of them can't read Polish, and the translation is gibberish.
The issue here is that the admins were keeping backups of the data, and the owner of the data wasn't aware of it. (We don't really know whose fault that is; maybe the guy just didn't read the memo from IT.) Are they encrypting the data so that only the owner can decode it? Is the backup process opt-in or opt-out? The article doesn't say.
Does anyone see the irony of him posting that message to facebook?
Not really. He intended the message to be public. For things like that, Facefuck is actually a legitimate choice.
Yeah, and sometimes it's pretty obvious that a guy had mental problems before he blew up. There was one like that in my neighborhood. He was getting some sporadic psychiatric help from a free clinic, which is only open part-time and doesn't really have the staff to take care of everyone that comes in. One day, he ran up to a cop sitting in a parked car, and tried to take the cop's gun. The cop shot him dead.
If a .mac TLD was created, would the Saudis block that too?
Not to mention Albert Hoffman.
Excuse me? At the end of the page you linked to, there is in fact a color panorama.
Because in the US, we've decided that the only people that get health care are those with jobs.
This is a misleading statement. I know plenty of people who have jobs but no health care.
Geezer Butler tells a completely different story.
It had nothing to do with me. In fact, I was the one who thought it was really corny. We had Sharon Osbourne's dad, Don Arden, managing us. He came up with the idea of having the stage set be Stonehenge. He wrote the dimensions down and gave it to our tour manager. He wrote it down in meters but he meant to write it down in feet. The people who made it saw fifteen meters in stead of fifteen feet. It was 45 feet high and it wouldn't fit on any stage anywhere so we just had to leave it the storage area. It cost a fortune to make but there was not a building on earth that you could fit it into.
Not many people know this, but the Stonehenge scene in "This is Spinal Tap" was based on something that really happened to Black Sabbath. The band wanted a life-sized replica of Stonehenge for their stage show, just like in the movie. They drew up the plans, but at some point (nobody's sure where) 14 feet became 14 meters... So they wound up with this giant thing that cost way more than they planned, and worst of all, it wouldn't even fit on any of the stages they were playing. After this, and a series of similar mishaps, NASA stopped hiring members of Black Sabbath.
Good damn thing there is a 2nd Amendment.
The 2nd Amendment has failed to prevent any of the things that you listed. What was your point again?
It matters if the site's surroundings change. Say you have a station that used to be in the woods 40 years ago, and now is surrounded by parking lots and office buildings. It would show a temperature rise, even if the rise was localized to a small area.
But I have a hard time believing that nobody in the field has thought of this yet.
just like Torvalds did when he wrote git and replaced subversion
Git was never intended as a replacement for Subversion. From the way that Torvalds talked about Subversion, I doubt he ever even used it. Git was a replacement for BitKeeper - which worked on a distributed-repository model, just like Git.
A few years ago, we saw northern lights in central New York state. Which is about the same latitude as Romania. So I guess it's possible.
"The data inside"? This is AOL. They can't give their data away.
Wrong. C++ == C always evaluates to true.
Many years ago, I was at The Tasty in Cambridge, MA. A guy sat at the counter and ordered french fries with some soft-serve vanilla to dip them into. The cook said "That's disgusting. You can't have it." I miss the Tasty.