As a Canadian who was recently forced to move to this god forsaken country (work, girlfriend)... I am very interested in what these carnitas fries are, and where I can get them. The thing I miss the most about my home on a daily basis is the food. McDonalds was once edible, KFC had the world's most awesome gravy, I could get a poutine at most fast food places, I could buy Cheezies, Coffee Crisp, O Henry, Smarties, Liquorice Allsorts, and lots of other things...
I've discovered that In-N-Out burger is a quite acceptable replacement for McDonalds. They serve good burgers for good prices. I do rather like Abba Zabbas, which you can't get in Canada. But generally, I find the food quality down here fairly unacceptable. Wendy's seems to be largely the same as it is in Canada, so I eat there fairly often, but there's a reason I never ate there when I lived in Canada. Walking by the meat rack at Safeway makes me want to gag every time. (It smells rotten). So I've begun shopping at Raileys. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that I am very much looking for American replacements for Canadian foods.
Really, I hate the political situation here in the US, but the food situation is far more troubling on a day-to-day basis. I am not a rich person by any means, so I can't afford sit-down restaurants very often. I do make food at home, but I am not a great cook, and I actually really like fast food, which accounts for about 50% of my diet normally, as it's cheap and tasty.
Count me in. I am just one guy, but no more Sony for me. It was something that I was already semi-doing... but now it's on for real. No more Sony anything.
Quite probably the most intelligent response that I've achieved, and it's from an AC. Bravo. =)
This is exactly the kind of thinking that I was hoping would be presented. I don't really have an answer for it, as it's a REALLY complicated question. My personal thinking is that the press should be free to report on ANYTHING, so long as it doesn't jeopardize national security, and it's factually accurate.
1) Outing a CIA agent jeopardizes national security. Therefore, the reporter should be severely punished.
2) Military practicing torture is illegal. Therefore, the reporter should be protected.
3) The government is not committing any wrongdoings, just (possibly) being incompetent. Revealing the source would be a threat to national security. The responsible thing for the reporter to do would be to talk to the government about it, off the record. Nevertheless, if the reporter did report such a thing, my thought would be that the reporter still should not have to reveal his sources, but should be punished.
I agree with you. Everyone should have that right. But I think it's a right that's especially important for the press, given that their job is often highly political. In theory, it's the press who protects our rights, by reporting the things that aren't right. (Sadly, it doesn't work that way very often in real life. But that's how the theory works).
I highly disagree with you. Sure, there are a lot of reporters who are bottom feeding fucktards, but saying that lessening their freedoms because of a lot of jackholes is a slippery slope. For example, we in most developed countries have freedom of speech. A lot of people use this freedom of speech to call eachother asshats, promote racism, speak lies, misinformation and nonsense... but I feel more comfortable tolerating all that stuff than having it banned.
Reporters are able to tell a lot of the stories that they do because their sources can remain anonymous. For example, let's say that a person in a position of great power was doing something highly illegal. An inside source discovers this, and informs the press anonymously. There's a huge investigation where the officials try to discover the leak, as the source leaked confidential information. Here's where the story branches into three.
1) The reporter is imprisoned for not telling the authorities their source. Future whistleblowers fear being turned in by the reporters, and do nothing when things of this nature occur.
2) The reporter reveals all. Future whistleblowers are even more hesitant about revealing things of this nature.
3) The reporter is protected by the courts, and is not required to divulge the source.
Which of these do you think is optimal? The press is here to tell us stories of importance, nothing more. They are not policemen. They are supposed to operate independently of the government. They are supposed to tell us what they see. They are supposed to go to secret places and talk to secret people to bring us important information. If they are unable to tell us some of these secrets for whatever reason (wartime operations, anonymous sources, fugitives, etc), then they should under no circumstances be forced to reveal this information.
In my books, it's the most important freedom that the press has. Nixon might never have been impeached if reporters had functioned as you say they should.
Actually, talking about stuff like that would be a pretty good technique for convincing straight women to experiment a little. You have to start slow, and talk about mundane, boring, dreadful things at first. But after a few weeks/months, you can get a little more flirty, as women grow more comfortable with eachother. Then you can start experimenting after that.
I highly doubt that they use floating point operations, but I could be wrong. Floating point numbers are inherently inaccurate. If I were the FAH team, I would probably be using fixed point, as it's fairly precise.
I might also think that GPUs can handle doubles as well as floats. But again, could be pure nonsense. I am not familiar enough with the low level operations of a video card.
I was hoping to see Goatse when I clicked on that link, and wasn't disappointed. (I didn't bother to read the url until after I clicked). Never seen such a call for Goatse than this story.;) Kudos.
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Well, you're partly right. Ubuntu was intended to be synched with the Gnome releases... but the versioning system works like this:
I'm sorry, but that's simply a huge pile of crap. No amount of analyzing statistics will "prove" a causal relationship. I did read that paper that you linked me to, but I have to say that it really did not sit right with me. It's like trying to prove Evolution by looking at fossils. It might lead to some very convincing evidence, but it will not prove it in any way, shape, or form. There are some things that need to be proven in a carefully controlled experiment.
I hadn't seen it before a short while ago, as I didn't have the DVD, didn't want to watch the movie without seeing the series, and didn't have cable... Assuming I actually had cable, I might have been interested in this. But I went with the old standby, and copied my roommate's TV-rip.
Well, the problem is that it's VERY difficult to definitively prove things like this. Tobacco contains some very harmful things, and lung cancer is far more frequent in smokers than in non-smokers. But we still have 99% of the population acting like it's a known fact that smoking kills, despite no hard evidence to back it up. evertheless, this is not such a bad thing, as it should be common sense that smoking isn't good for you.
Such is the case of the production of greenhouse gases. Our cars, factories, refineries, etc, etc, all produce mass quantities of gases that we know from lab tests cause the environment to heat up. It's a simple jump to point to the rising levels of greenhouse gases on our planet, and the rising global temperatures to say that it's very likely that the climate change is human produced. We know that humans generate a LOT of greenhouse gases, beginning with the industrial revolution. We know that greenhouse gases trap heat from lab experiments, and a close look at our sister planet (Venus). We know that global temperatures have been rising since the industrial revolution.
But the thing is that we don't really understand what causes cancer. We can't do lab experiments on people, as testing a group of children to see who lives and who dies from cigarette smoke under controlled conditions would be very unethical. Why is cigarettes=death commonly accepted, while air pollution=global warming seems to be hotly debated?
Thanks a lot for your assistance. I will be sure to check out all that stuff when I have some time. =) That was a very well thought out and informative post.
That wasn't much of a rant... I really wish you would do better next time.;-)
I've recently moved to the US (under a special rule, I am getting a Social Security number next week to allow me to look for work (I didn't talk to INS, and I don't have a green card). It concerns me that I live in such a country, but I am interested in making this place a little more palatable. Basically, I am interested in knowing exactly what you need to vote in this country, and where I can go to get information on who to vote for. I don't watch much TV, and I don't own a radio. I would like somewhere to look online.
I honestly have no idea about the availability. I didn't have any problem a year ago. If nothing else, the official Nintendo USB adapter can be used (I think). And as far as your PCI slots? If you buy a new computer over that... then there's something seriously wrong with you. =P I'm sure you can find something you aren't using.
Either you are a troll or an idiot. One or the other.
I never bought a PassMe, and never used one, although I did get one for free with the M3 Adapter that I bought my GF for Christmas last year. It remains unused. I am a homebrew developer, and I lack money, so the only tools I have for myself are my GBA Flash Cart and my PC. My PC is equipped with a RT2500 card.
Both mine and my GF's DSs are version 2s, that were bought at launch. They can be spoofed into loading DS code from the GBA slot by sending a specially crafted program by WMB. (Wireless Multi-boot). This can be sent by an RT2500 wireless card. Nintendo NEVER updates the firmware on a DS, so once flashed to a new firmware, they are flashed forever. (The exception to this was when WFC games came out, and started overwriting areas of the firmware thought to be unused. This corrupted the firmware, but was not actually an upgrade, and did not intentionally destroy homebrew compatibility. This problem was overcome before the game was even released however).
DS homebrew are usually loaded through SD or CF cards, which are MUCH cheaper than Sony's proprietary stuff. As I mentioned earlier, I bought my GF an M3 Adapter for Christmas last year, so she could listen to music, watch movies, or anything else she desired on her DS. I constantly drool over it, as I am too poor to buy one for myself. The device and a SD card plus a DS still cost less than the base price of a PSP.
And for the record, I still do most of my testing over a wireless link. I have no idea what you are on about. My ghetto GBA cart is a pain in the ass to use, as you mentioned... which is why I write my software through WMB testing. (see the link in my profile for more info).
Civ4 reportedly works fine in Cedega. I personally dual boot, and use Windows for Civ 4, as I was never personally satisfied with Cedega, preferring Wine 90% of the time... But Dynomite has a Platinum rating with Wine, which means that it should work perfectly out of the box.
Wow. Thank you. I always used Yahoo when searching for CC content for usage in my projects. That simple note makes things a whole lot easier. (Although I still wish that there was a special google portal for CC)
Umm.... I was talking about the US, not India. I have no issues with India to be honest. The reps are friendly, helpful, and have about the same english ability as Americans in my experience.;)
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As a Canadian who was recently forced to move to this god forsaken country (work, girlfriend)... I am very interested in what these carnitas fries are, and where I can get them. The thing I miss the most about my home on a daily basis is the food. McDonalds was once edible, KFC had the world's most awesome gravy, I could get a poutine at most fast food places, I could buy Cheezies, Coffee Crisp, O Henry, Smarties, Liquorice Allsorts, and lots of other things...
I've discovered that In-N-Out burger is a quite acceptable replacement for McDonalds. They serve good burgers for good prices. I do rather like Abba Zabbas, which you can't get in Canada. But generally, I find the food quality down here fairly unacceptable. Wendy's seems to be largely the same as it is in Canada, so I eat there fairly often, but there's a reason I never ate there when I lived in Canada. Walking by the meat rack at Safeway makes me want to gag every time. (It smells rotten). So I've begun shopping at Raileys. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that I am very much looking for American replacements for Canadian foods.
Really, I hate the political situation here in the US, but the food situation is far more troubling on a day-to-day basis. I am not a rich person by any means, so I can't afford sit-down restaurants very often. I do make food at home, but I am not a great cook, and I actually really like fast food, which accounts for about 50% of my diet normally, as it's cheap and tasty.
Count me in. I am just one guy, but no more Sony for me. It was something that I was already semi-doing... but now it's on for real. No more Sony anything.
Quite probably the most intelligent response that I've achieved, and it's from an AC. Bravo. =)
This is exactly the kind of thinking that I was hoping would be presented. I don't really have an answer for it, as it's a REALLY complicated question. My personal thinking is that the press should be free to report on ANYTHING, so long as it doesn't jeopardize national security, and it's factually accurate.
1) Outing a CIA agent jeopardizes national security. Therefore, the reporter should be severely punished.
2) Military practicing torture is illegal. Therefore, the reporter should be protected.
3) The government is not committing any wrongdoings, just (possibly) being incompetent. Revealing the source would be a threat to national security. The responsible thing for the reporter to do would be to talk to the government about it, off the record. Nevertheless, if the reporter did report such a thing, my thought would be that the reporter still should not have to reveal his sources, but should be punished.
I agree with you. Everyone should have that right. But I think it's a right that's especially important for the press, given that their job is often highly political. In theory, it's the press who protects our rights, by reporting the things that aren't right. (Sadly, it doesn't work that way very often in real life. But that's how the theory works).
I highly disagree with you. Sure, there are a lot of reporters who are bottom feeding fucktards, but saying that lessening their freedoms because of a lot of jackholes is a slippery slope. For example, we in most developed countries have freedom of speech. A lot of people use this freedom of speech to call eachother asshats, promote racism, speak lies, misinformation and nonsense... but I feel more comfortable tolerating all that stuff than having it banned.
Reporters are able to tell a lot of the stories that they do because their sources can remain anonymous. For example, let's say that a person in a position of great power was doing something highly illegal. An inside source discovers this, and informs the press anonymously. There's a huge investigation where the officials try to discover the leak, as the source leaked confidential information. Here's where the story branches into three.
1) The reporter is imprisoned for not telling the authorities their source. Future whistleblowers fear being turned in by the reporters, and do nothing when things of this nature occur.
2) The reporter reveals all. Future whistleblowers are even more hesitant about revealing things of this nature.
3) The reporter is protected by the courts, and is not required to divulge the source.
Which of these do you think is optimal? The press is here to tell us stories of importance, nothing more. They are not policemen. They are supposed to operate independently of the government. They are supposed to tell us what they see. They are supposed to go to secret places and talk to secret people to bring us important information. If they are unable to tell us some of these secrets for whatever reason (wartime operations, anonymous sources, fugitives, etc), then they should under no circumstances be forced to reveal this information.
In my books, it's the most important freedom that the press has. Nixon might never have been impeached if reporters had functioned as you say they should.
Go to about:config
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middlemouse.contentLoadURL = false
general.autoscroll = true
Set those values to gain autoscroll, and disable the bloody feature responsible for the random page views.
I don't normally make first post comments. I just did this time as a joke, as it was relevant to the article.
I don't have an addiction to the Internet... I have an addiction to first posts. =P
Actually, talking about stuff like that would be a pretty good technique for convincing straight women to experiment a little. You have to start slow, and talk about mundane, boring, dreadful things at first. But after a few weeks/months, you can get a little more flirty, as women grow more comfortable with eachother. Then you can start experimenting after that.
;)
Or so I'm told.
I highly doubt that they use floating point operations, but I could be wrong. Floating point numbers are inherently inaccurate. If I were the FAH team, I would probably be using fixed point, as it's fairly precise.
I might also think that GPUs can handle doubles as well as floats. But again, could be pure nonsense. I am not familiar enough with the low level operations of a video card.
I was hoping to see Goatse when I clicked on that link, and wasn't disappointed. (I didn't bother to read the url until after I clicked). Never seen such a call for Goatse than this story. ;) Kudos.
Well, you're partly right. Ubuntu was intended to be synched with the Gnome releases... but the versioning system works like this:
date is in format: yy/mm/dd
Ubuntu yy.mm
I'm sorry, but that's simply a huge pile of crap. No amount of analyzing statistics will "prove" a causal relationship. I did read that paper that you linked me to, but I have to say that it really did not sit right with me. It's like trying to prove Evolution by looking at fossils. It might lead to some very convincing evidence, but it will not prove it in any way, shape, or form. There are some things that need to be proven in a carefully controlled experiment.
I hadn't seen it before a short while ago, as I didn't have the DVD, didn't want to watch the movie without seeing the series, and didn't have cable... Assuming I actually had cable, I might have been interested in this. But I went with the old standby, and copied my roommate's TV-rip.
Well, the problem is that it's VERY difficult to definitively prove things like this. Tobacco contains some very harmful things, and lung cancer is far more frequent in smokers than in non-smokers. But we still have 99% of the population acting like it's a known fact that smoking kills, despite no hard evidence to back it up. evertheless, this is not such a bad thing, as it should be common sense that smoking isn't good for you.
Such is the case of the production of greenhouse gases. Our cars, factories, refineries, etc, etc, all produce mass quantities of gases that we know from lab tests cause the environment to heat up. It's a simple jump to point to the rising levels of greenhouse gases on our planet, and the rising global temperatures to say that it's very likely that the climate change is human produced. We know that humans generate a LOT of greenhouse gases, beginning with the industrial revolution. We know that greenhouse gases trap heat from lab experiments, and a close look at our sister planet (Venus). We know that global temperatures have been rising since the industrial revolution.
But the thing is that we don't really understand what causes cancer. We can't do lab experiments on people, as testing a group of children to see who lives and who dies from cigarette smoke under controlled conditions would be very unethical. Why is cigarettes=death commonly accepted, while air pollution=global warming seems to be hotly debated?
I second that. Ubuntu's forums are absolutely incredible. Even if I didn't use Ubuntu, I would still get my help there.
Thanks a lot for your assistance. I will be sure to check out all that stuff when I have some time. =) That was a very well thought out and informative post.
That wasn't much of a rant... I really wish you would do better next time. ;-)
I've recently moved to the US (under a special rule, I am getting a Social Security number next week to allow me to look for work (I didn't talk to INS, and I don't have a green card). It concerns me that I live in such a country, but I am interested in making this place a little more palatable. Basically, I am interested in knowing exactly what you need to vote in this country, and where I can go to get information on who to vote for. I don't watch much TV, and I don't own a radio. I would like somewhere to look online.
I honestly have no idea about the availability. I didn't have any problem a year ago. If nothing else, the official Nintendo USB adapter can be used (I think). And as far as your PCI slots? If you buy a new computer over that... then there's something seriously wrong with you. =P I'm sure you can find something you aren't using.
Either you are a troll or an idiot. One or the other.
I never bought a PassMe, and never used one, although I did get one for free with the M3 Adapter that I bought my GF for Christmas last year. It remains unused. I am a homebrew developer, and I lack money, so the only tools I have for myself are my GBA Flash Cart and my PC. My PC is equipped with a RT2500 card.
Both mine and my GF's DSs are version 2s, that were bought at launch. They can be spoofed into loading DS code from the GBA slot by sending a specially crafted program by WMB. (Wireless Multi-boot). This can be sent by an RT2500 wireless card. Nintendo NEVER updates the firmware on a DS, so once flashed to a new firmware, they are flashed forever. (The exception to this was when WFC games came out, and started overwriting areas of the firmware thought to be unused. This corrupted the firmware, but was not actually an upgrade, and did not intentionally destroy homebrew compatibility. This problem was overcome before the game was even released however).
DS homebrew are usually loaded through SD or CF cards, which are MUCH cheaper than Sony's proprietary stuff. As I mentioned earlier, I bought my GF an M3 Adapter for Christmas last year, so she could listen to music, watch movies, or anything else she desired on her DS. I constantly drool over it, as I am too poor to buy one for myself. The device and a SD card plus a DS still cost less than the base price of a PSP.
And for the record, I still do most of my testing over a wireless link. I have no idea what you are on about. My ghetto GBA cart is a pain in the ass to use, as you mentioned... which is why I write my software through WMB testing. (see the link in my profile for more info).
Civ4 reportedly works fine in Cedega. I personally dual boot, and use Windows for Civ 4, as I was never personally satisfied with Cedega, preferring Wine 90% of the time... But Dynomite has a Platinum rating with Wine, which means that it should work perfectly out of the box.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060608 Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.4
Probably due to a lack of Flash 8... but all I see is this.
Wow. Thank you. I always used Yahoo when searching for CC content for usage in my projects. That simple note makes things a whole lot easier. (Although I still wish that there was a special google portal for CC)
Umm.... I was talking about the US, not India. I have no issues with India to be honest. The reps are friendly, helpful, and have about the same english ability as Americans in my experience. ;)