The levee that broke was known to be defective by all parties involved and was the subject of a 1993 lawsuit against the now bankrupt Pittman Construction. It was not just known, but part of the public record, that this levee was defective more than 12 years prior to Katrina. The COE may bear some portion of liablity but changes and upgrades have been ignored by the city, state, and citizens. Local levee boards spent their funding on parks and casinos. I might add that nearly all of those levee boards have now been disbanded. All parties involved bear a portion of responsibilty and the COE owns the smallest portion. Let's put the city and state on trial for what they knew and when they knew it.
I know personally that body odor differs by race, diet, and culture. Is that to say that if I eat at my local Pakstani resturant the night before trying to use the BO biometric, I may be identified as a Pashtun tribal warlord? Does this take into account that prescription medication could cause a change? Just by taking an antibiotic
could I cause a false positive? I hate to think loading up on ginger or curry or treating an infection could mean I end up on the waterboard. This seems as useful as gait recognition. http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/GAIT.htm.... That really went nowhere and I seem to remember a massively huge database - like 2PB. But who am I to judge apparently nows the time to push for funding on crap projects.
rarely do i feel the need to post...since it always cost me karma. Premeditated murder is wrong. I have scanned the comments and am appalled that the majority of posters are not only sympathetic to sex offenders they sound almost like proponents of sexual offenses. A culture of hate? Disenfranchised felons? You guys sound like the slashdot man-boy love forum. Is slashdot populated by pedophiles and sundry felons? America has 80% recidivism. Most of these guys - no matter how much you want to believe they've changed- have not changed. You could argue that it's because we treat them so poorly they're forced to return to a life of crime. BULLSHIT. Why would they return to being a sexual offender? Would you really like to err on the side that gets your child raped? I don't think we should live in a society where the rights of the guilty outweigh the rights of the innocent. It sounds cool to be so bleeding edge liberal, but the harsh reality is if a child molester moved next door to you, you would want that information to protect your kids.
no advanced civilization would want to talk to a bunch of ape-men who still use radio and believe that we can get the answers to all our problems from some mystery transmission - did you just rent Contact or something? The sheer distances involved are insurmountable. We may have already made contact and it'll take another 20 years for us to know. Given the amount of radio noise we give off, i think it's safe to say that if an advanced civilization wanted to make contact they would have already done so. Surely, there's something better to spend the money on.
it's all fun and games until somebody tears a hole in the time-space continuum.
So he has to build the device and then send a message to himself in the past....but he's the only one with the machine and you just wait and then a message pops out at random --- IT MUST BE FROM THE FUTURE--- And how would the future sender verify that the message was received given that every message changes/destroys the future - possibly to the extent the sender no longer exist or that he never sent the message? or that it forks? so that you -in this plane, in this time- could never benefit from any change made in the past. The whole part where the me in another time stream is living it up sux ass. And given the many worlds theory, wouldn't you just ignore messages from other times? It actually seems more plausible to just violate the speed of light. And if it works I'll go back in time and kiss my own ass.
I'm concerned that this could tip the scales in favor of Robots and give them an unfair advantage over the pirates, ninjas, and monkeys. To date, robots have remained reasonably lame - Asimo is hardly a cylon. And that lameness has held electric dreams of robot world domination at bay. This could lead to escalation, and I think we can all say that the world would be better off without hordes of robotic killer monkeys. Pirates, already endangered, may reach extinction. Ninjas, who to the best of my knowledge are already extinct, could face elimination from the question entirely. Maybe an army of clones could be put in place as peacekeepers or maybe we could piece some people together from corpses and use them as a franken-peacekeepers.
everytime you build a robot assassin, God kills a kitten. Think of the kittens.
blatant flamebait. I thought that was the point of having editorial control... to control trolls- right, cmdrtaco or are we just going to be lord to the flies and shit. If you'd used any of those platforms you'd know why their development starved and anyway why don't you develop on them, dipshit.... having windows and linux is not a monoculture you, asshat... I just quit smoking sorry, I'm not previewing it, and you can go shove your karma up some developer ass who ignores systems that have no users and no apps and no fucking reason to live.. so there....
I'm not even going to RFA because this is blindly ignorant and it sounds like the kind of amateur science that comes from former tv repairmen(no offense to former tv repairmen). If you could launch a damn window shade of that enormity why not just launch a giant solar panel (google it - we have the technology) and fix the whole issue of global warming, climate change, fossil fuels, blah blah, feed the children,blah blah world peace. Instead of building a band-aid the size of our planet and hurling it into space further highlighting our colossal stupidity. A solar panel array of that size could provide all our power needs and remove the relevance of the oil economy. I guess sometimes people become so entangled with treating the symptoms that they forget the original problem.
I can answer that question rather quickly. Dead. what you term "massive collective social fraud" -while colorful- is what has provided the basis for all civilization. The vast majority of the human race is well below the average slashdotter or digger in average intelligence. Not that slashdotters or diggers are smart, but quite the contrary, a large portion of the world is just that stupid. Since the dawn of time, the stupid have out numbered the smart and it is through that mechanism or "massive collective social fraud",as you like to say, that we have managed to advance to this point - otherwise, godless, souless, cannibals would have eaten all the smart people. Academics are so tender. Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
no so fast. It's not like this is a monolithic documentation issue. quick! how many distros exist and how many open source apps are there? and how many of either are lacking documentation? Now add those together and divide by the number of overly critical people and number crap studies from puppet organizations and you will get 42. Don't bother to check my math -Numbers don't lie. Windows provides you with the clicky interface and whatever you are willing to pay for. Linux is "free" you are only limited by the time and energy you are willing to "spend" to learn to run it. My time and energy are very expensive - so it's not really free. The misconception that needs to be corrected is right there. The "Linux" community has never purported to provide that level of support - that there is any support or any open source apps is a testament to strength of the community. The expectation has become that the open source community should carry all these sorry asses and in exchange for what? a bunch of zombies? This idea needs to be re-evaluted.
Documentation?
I don't need no stinkin' Documentation!
RTFM... that's what I did.
Impersonating an officer in the Mexican Army is probably a federal crime. Maybe the taco part was offensive to the enthnicity of the GM? I know CmdrWatermelon might equally offensive to some people. How about CmdrRaghead? That's probably just as bad. CmdrNonDancingWhiteGuy may also be taken as an insult in some quarters. And the new name - Violated- sounds kinda feminine. Are you making fun of women? or are just making light of people who are genuinely violated? It would almost appear that you are assuming some sort of victimhood - in spite of your unsavory choice in names. You've got issues. I suggest therapy to help with this unhealthy attachment to this unhealthy name. Pick a good name that's not sexist or racist, that exudes maculinity and rugged individualism... like CowboyNeal
I use it just the way I would use the Britainica and it's fine for general knowledge. It does, in fact, rock. Would you use the article on Wikipedia for preforming instruction on an appendectomy? only if you're a dumbass. For your doctoral thesis? again -dumbass.
Any one who has looked at a high school history book will tell you that they too have been vandalized. They are sanitized to promote or demote an agenda and do it without offending anybody. As I remember it, the history of the world has been very offensive -especially to librarians, at the moment. Do you think that because a book is in print it cannot be a lie? Does a library of congress number or it's place in the Dewey Decimal system attest to it's veracity? Do Librarians somehow protect us from the untruths lurking in every book? I've noticed the untruths are off the scale in the fiction section, they should devote some special attention to that area.
I am an insensitive clod -that's a given- but the librarians sound like every other group that critized an innovation... like those monks who copied the entire Bible by hand complete with the fancy lettering and illustrations. The irony of this situation is ironic...
Poor planning prevents proper performance. You didn't know you'd need a database? or an ISP? Just admit you're too lazy to support it. Some people should click and drool.
I submit that realplayer has been real crap for a real long time. How could they ignore this for so long? Maybe there should have been a slashdot poll to give NPR some real feedback- since they seldom make contact with the real world.
If he was cast as vogon, would he be able to reproduce the vogonic poetry?
I wonder if I can actually sit through vogonic poetry on screen without chewing my arm off??
consider the reason for you're late hours. I don't think the clock is the issue. As a child, did you have problems getting up for school but on Saturday get up with sun to watch cartoons? consider your priorities and adjust them accordingly
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it's a cookbook!!!!!!
The levee that broke was known to be defective by all parties involved and was the subject of a 1993 lawsuit against the now bankrupt Pittman Construction. It was not just known, but part of the public record, that this levee was defective more than 12 years prior to Katrina. The COE may bear some portion of liablity but changes and upgrades have been ignored by the city, state, and citizens. Local levee boards spent their funding on parks and casinos. I might add that nearly all of those levee boards have now been disbanded. All parties involved bear a portion of responsibilty and the COE owns the smallest portion. Let's put the city and state on trial for what they knew and when they knew it.
I know personally that body odor differs by race, diet, and culture. Is that to say that if I eat at my local Pakstani resturant the night before trying to use the BO biometric, I may be identified as a Pashtun tribal warlord? Does this take into account that prescription medication could cause a change? Just by taking an antibiotic could I cause a false positive? I hate to think loading up on ginger or curry or treating an infection could mean I end up on the waterboard. This seems as useful as gait recognition. http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/GAIT.htm .... That really went nowhere and I seem to remember a massively huge database - like 2PB. But who am I to judge apparently nows the time to push for funding on crap projects.
rarely do i feel the need to post...since it always cost me karma. Premeditated murder is wrong. I have scanned the comments and am appalled that the majority of posters are not only sympathetic to sex offenders they sound almost like proponents of sexual offenses. A culture of hate? Disenfranchised felons? You guys sound like the slashdot man-boy love forum. Is slashdot populated by pedophiles and sundry felons? America has 80% recidivism. Most of these guys - no matter how much you want to believe they've changed- have not changed. You could argue that it's because we treat them so poorly they're forced to return to a life of crime. BULLSHIT. Why would they return to being a sexual offender? Would you really like to err on the side that gets your child raped? I don't think we should live in a society where the rights of the guilty outweigh the rights of the innocent. It sounds cool to be so bleeding edge liberal, but the harsh reality is if a child molester moved next door to you, you would want that information to protect your kids.
no advanced civilization would want to talk to a bunch of ape-men who still use radio and believe that we can get the answers to all our problems from some mystery transmission - did you just rent Contact or something? The sheer distances involved are insurmountable. We may have already made contact and it'll take another 20 years for us to know. Given the amount of radio noise we give off, i think it's safe to say that if an advanced civilization wanted to make contact they would have already done so. Surely, there's something better to spend the money on.
it's all fun and games until somebody tears a hole in the time-space continuum.
So he has to build the device and then send a message to himself in the past....but he's the only one with the machine and you just wait and then a message pops out at random --- IT MUST BE FROM THE FUTURE--- And how would the future sender verify that the message was received given that every message changes/destroys the future - possibly to the extent the sender no longer exist or that he never sent the message? or that it forks? so that you -in this plane, in this time- could never benefit from any change made in the past. The whole part where the me in another time stream is living it up sux ass.
And given the many worlds theory, wouldn't you just ignore messages from other times?
It actually seems more plausible to just violate the speed of light.
And if it works I'll go back in time and kiss my own ass.
I'm concerned that this could tip the scales in favor of Robots and give them an unfair advantage over the pirates, ninjas, and monkeys. To date, robots have remained reasonably lame - Asimo is hardly a cylon. And that lameness has held electric dreams of robot world domination at bay. This could lead to escalation, and I think we can all say that the world would be better off without hordes of robotic killer monkeys. Pirates, already endangered, may reach extinction. Ninjas, who to the best of my knowledge are already extinct, could face elimination from the question entirely. Maybe an army of clones could be put in place as peacekeepers or maybe we could piece some people together from corpses and use them as a franken-peacekeepers.
everytime you build a robot assassin, God kills a kitten. Think of the kittens.
blatant flamebait. I thought that was the point of having editorial control ... to control trolls- right, cmdrtaco or are we just going to be lord to the flies and shit. If you'd used any of those platforms you'd know why their development starved and anyway why don't you develop on them, dipshit.... having windows and linux is not a monoculture you, asshat... I just quit smoking sorry, I'm not previewing it, and you can go shove your karma up some developer ass who ignores systems that have no users and no apps and no fucking reason to live .. so there ....
I'm not even going to RFA because this is blindly ignorant and it sounds like the kind of amateur science that comes from former tv repairmen(no offense to former tv repairmen). If you could launch a damn window shade of that enormity why not just launch a giant solar panel (google it - we have the technology) and fix the whole issue of global warming, climate change, fossil fuels, blah blah, feed the children,blah blah world peace. Instead of building a band-aid the size of our planet and hurling it into space further highlighting our colossal stupidity. A solar panel array of that size could provide all our power needs and remove the relevance of the oil economy. I guess sometimes people become so entangled with treating the symptoms that they forget the original problem.
I can answer that question rather quickly. Dead. what you term "massive collective social fraud" -while colorful- is what has provided the basis for all civilization. The vast majority of the human race is well below the average slashdotter or digger in average intelligence. Not that slashdotters or diggers are smart, but quite the contrary, a large portion of the world is just that stupid. Since the dawn of time, the stupid have out numbered the smart and it is through that mechanism or "massive collective social fraud" ,as you like to say, that we have managed to advance to this point - otherwise, godless, souless, cannibals would have eaten all the smart people. Academics are so tender. Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
no so fast. It's not like this is a monolithic documentation issue. quick! how many distros exist and how many open source apps are there? and how many of either are lacking documentation? Now add those together and divide by the number of overly critical people and number crap studies from puppet organizations and you will get 42. Don't bother to check my math -Numbers don't lie. Windows provides you with the clicky interface and whatever you are willing to pay for. Linux is "free" you are only limited by the time and energy you are willing to "spend" to learn to run it. My time and energy are very expensive - so it's not really free. The misconception that needs to be corrected is right there. The "Linux" community has never purported to provide that level of support - that there is any support or any open source apps is a testament to strength of the community. The expectation has become that the open source community should carry all these sorry asses and in exchange for what? a bunch of zombies? This idea needs to be re-evaluted. Documentation? I don't need no stinkin' Documentation! RTFM... that's what I did.
Impersonating an officer in the Mexican Army is probably a federal crime. Maybe the taco part was offensive to the enthnicity of the GM? I know CmdrWatermelon might equally offensive to some people. How about CmdrRaghead? That's probably just as bad. CmdrNonDancingWhiteGuy may also be taken as an insult in some quarters. And the new name - Violated- sounds kinda feminine. Are you making fun of women? or are just making light of people who are genuinely violated? It would almost appear that you are assuming some sort of victimhood - in spite of your unsavory choice in names. You've got issues. I suggest therapy to help with this unhealthy attachment to this unhealthy name. Pick a good name that's not sexist or racist, that exudes maculinity and rugged individualism... like CowboyNeal
I use it just the way I would use the Britainica and it's fine for general knowledge. It does, in fact, rock. Would you use the article on Wikipedia for preforming instruction on an appendectomy? only if you're a dumbass. For your doctoral thesis? again -dumbass. Any one who has looked at a high school history book will tell you that they too have been vandalized. They are sanitized to promote or demote an agenda and do it without offending anybody. As I remember it, the history of the world has been very offensive -especially to librarians, at the moment. Do you think that because a book is in print it cannot be a lie? Does a library of congress number or it's place in the Dewey Decimal system attest to it's veracity? Do Librarians somehow protect us from the untruths lurking in every book? I've noticed the untruths are off the scale in the fiction section, they should devote some special attention to that area. I am an insensitive clod -that's a given- but the librarians sound like every other group that critized an innovation... like those monks who copied the entire Bible by hand complete with the fancy lettering and illustrations. The irony of this situation is ironic...
Poor planning prevents proper performance. You didn't know you'd need a database? or an ISP? Just admit you're too lazy to support it. Some people should click and drool.
I submit that realplayer has been real crap for a real long time. How could they ignore this for so long? Maybe there should have been a slashdot poll to give NPR some real feedback- since they seldom make contact with the real world.
If he was cast as vogon, would he be able to reproduce the vogonic poetry? I wonder if I can actually sit through vogonic poetry on screen without chewing my arm off??
consider the reason for you're late hours. I don't think the clock is the issue. As a child, did you have problems getting up for school but on Saturday get up with sun to watch cartoons? consider your priorities and adjust them accordingly
I will assume that is sarcasm and compliment your cutting wit.
i thought that it was a common knowledge that powered flight came from Texas. http://www.lifeadventures.com/ezekial.htm