This just in: EU stock is on the rise as analysts raise their fourth quarter earnings predictions. The European Union's main income generating machine, Microsoft, is widely expected to hand over another large chunk of cash on top of the 750+ million euros already deposited in the coffers...
How dare you suggest that we slashdotters do our own thinking! You ought to sell your uid for such blasphemy against the groupthink. We have some excellent rhetoric and overdramatization going on here, and you have the gall to suggest that we approach something critically? For shame Kohath, for shame...
Actually, wired.com had a short little piece about the law written up by Godwin himself. In it he states
"But the Nazi-comparison meme popped up elsewhere as well - in general discussions of law in misc.legal, for example, or in the EFF conference on the Well. Stone libertarians were ready to label any government regulation as incipient Nazism. And, invariably, the comparisons trivialized the horror of the Holocaust and the social pathology of the Nazis. It was a trivialization I found both illogical (Michael Dukakis as a Nazi? Please!) and offensive (the millions of concentration-camp victims did not die to give some net.blowhard a handy trope)."
Obviously, he is not talking strictly about labeling one's opponents as nazis, although that probably falls under Godwin's law as well.
the specific heat capacity of water may be higher, but it does not transfer heat well at all. put your water bottle upside down buried in snow, bottom will freeze, top will stay melted. you'll also note that metal heats up a lot faster than water. why? because it transfers heat a lot faster. that's the property you want for cooling. quickly picks up heat from the cpu, and quickly gets rid of it at the radiator or fan.
In my poli sci 101 class, one of the things that we dealt with was the possibility that torture may not only be justifiable, but that it may even be moral in some (albeit extreme...) cases. The idea was put forward that if many lives could be saved by torturing a single person, perhaps torture was the "right" thing to do. This in a liberal canadian university.... Just an idea.
in your little war, but it seems like a little common sense is missing here. Any religion can be made to look bad by only looking at certain parts of it. It seems to me like your missing the big picture. You quoted all of two laws of the old testament. now, one would assume that you used the two laws that best supported your argument, right? so you have two. now, take a look through all of the laws in the old and the new testament, and look at how many of them are designed to protect people. also remember that you have to take into context the culture that it was all written to. I'm not entirely sure, but something tells me that a few thousand years BC, if you raped someone, there were no repurcussions. and if a woman in any way harmed a man, she'd be killed. by comparison, these laws begin to look a little more fair. you can't judge everything in the context of the 21st century.
OH, btw, if you read the story of the tower of babel, God wasn't afraid, he was ticked at the peoples' pride.
No no, they're gonna make Star Wars 3 1/2 a la Lion King...
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That's cause they changed their website (I believe within the last month - 6 weeks?). Everyone complained about how stupid it was that you had to be a UN weapons inspector to find the free version, so they fixed it. Several sites stopped using the Real format because of all the complaints (ie: Cartalk) Ideally, they would fix everything else that everyone is complaining about, but they seem to be slow learners. Maybe they'll learn after they file for bankruptcy protection.
Well, shoot, here's what we gotta do. We take British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and we threaten to take off. Then the government pays a bunch of our companies a few billion dollars to convince us to stay. After they pay us off, we take the money and run. We use said money to bribe Washington, Oregon, and the northern part of California (down until just under Silicon Valley) to join our new country. Heh heh. It's perfect. We'd have tons of natural resources (BC), a nice big breadbasket (Sask / Man), and a technology sector (cali). Come on! What'dya all say? huh? It'd be fun!
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Not only that, but caffiene can also act as a hallucinogenic. I didn't know this till I had to work graveyard shift for a couple weeks and brilliantly decided that two (8 cupper) pots beforehand would keep me awake for the night. Boy oh boy, it sure did, but I was freaked out of my pants the entire time. Kept thinking someone was following me around. (wasn't my boss, he wasn't there.) And the next morning, it's a hangover. Not fun at all. Trippy though.
Well, you know, something in me says that faced with the immenent destruction of our entire race, we could get pretty resourceful. Besides, we don't need to get *people* to the rock, we just need to get a few H-Bombs up there. If the military can hit a tiny little bunker on the other side of the planet, surely they can put their skills to good use and nail a few hundred foot asteroid.
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Actually, Europa does have an atmosphere, at least according to the JPL. This site also has some good quick facts about Europa.
Here in Canada, however, we already pay a tax on just about everything that could be used as a medium to store copyrighted material. This tax supposedly reimburses the artists the money they lose to piracy. Now, I don't really mind paying the tax, but if I'm paying it, then I don't think that the RIAA (canadian version) should be allowed to come after me. After all, not everyone who buys these mediums are going to be pirating, but they all have to pay. Therefore, one would imagine that the recording industry is making some dough on this deal. The tax is fair (by canadian standards, we're all about subsidization lol) but then I should be able to download freely. Right now, we can. But the RIAA is trying to change that. They need to get it through their skulls that if they get a tax implemented, then they can't go after people for downloading stuff afterwards. And I don't think they understand that.
It's not quite like that. Everything is "bad" when overdone. Am I going to get cancer if I have a maraschino cherry once in a while? No, of course not. Everything in moderation, my mother used to say. A couple of beers in a week doesn't mean that you are binge drinking, it doesn't mean that you are drunk driving, and it doesn't mean that you are drunken maniac. In the same way, a couple of coffees aren't going to kill you. They might not be especially healthy, but I'm not about to give up a perfectly enjoyable drink when it really isn't going to kill me.
As for journalism, it should be common knowledge to every slashdot reader that one should *always* check sources and backgrounds on their own. Don't count on the journalist to do it for you, if they've published it, they generally have some sort of vested interest in the story. Everyone is going to be baised at least a little.
You think you're gonna see him in hell? I'm sorry, I was under the impression that there was a special SCO hell made just for him and his lawyers. You know, a place where suing and lying to investors is not allowed...
Ad-Aware is great, especially when run along with Spybot Search and Destroy. (Also Here - Spybot's site is a little slow already...) Run both, and they cover for each other's misses.
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"It requires nothing more than minimal changes to mail readers, and mild diligence"
Would this be the same mild diligence that is required to keep people from opening unknown email attachments?
Hmmm... supposedly, they *were* getting 3.5 million hits a month. Their new site, however, is only at 18000 hits, even though it has been listed on slashdot. Now, obviously it will take a little time before everyone that usually went to the sheriff's site figures out that it has changed. Still, if it was such a busy site before, you'd think that *most* of the former visitors would find it -- especially considering that a Google search has the new site listed at the very top. Something seems a little fishy about 3.5 million per month...
Yeah, great idea... except for the fact that when the citizenry had enough and banded together, they didn't pay taxes and hired police. No sir, they got themselves banded together, went and found themselves a length of rope, and put all of them trees they had out there to good use... Now, I'm all for vigilante justice and all, but there are these city slickers runnin around now in them nice fancy black suits, and they don't take kindly to ordinary fellas like us takin the law into our own hands. Course, don't let me discourage you. No sir! I sure won't be the one to send no telegram to them fancy suit boys if ya'll string a few of them virus writers / spammers up. And rest assured, the rest of the folks here at/. are quite reasonable... Most of us, anyways...
Hi honey... Look, I know you said it would take something impossible for us to get back together, so I plucked a star from the sky and put it in this here jar, just for you... No, I'm serious, it really is... Dang it.
So true. Which spawns a new idea in my head....
Now, we all know that our dear friend Darl will never have to answer for his dirty little deeds because of the way corporate leaders are protected in the US. So what are we going to do? We're going to launch a class action lawsuit against the one and only Darl Mcbride for defamation...
You can't get a date? It's not cause you're a geek, it's not cause you're a nerd, it's all because you use linux and she heard Darl say linux users are jerks.
You're wife/gf left you? It's not cause you spent too much time on slashdot, or spent the grocery money on that FX-51, it's cause you're a linux user and she heard Darl say slashdot readers are part of the Evil Empire...
Getting the idea here? Everything wrong that happens from here on out in your life is Darl's fault... And he will pay, PAY i tell you! There. that'll get him.
Not only is it a brilliant business model, it's been proven (mostly) succesful. Look at Rambus. Granted, they're headed down the drain now that DDR is mainstream and DDR2 is on the way, but they survived without actually supporting or distributing a product.
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I hear that ex-cons can work miracles with inefficient postal systems.
This just in: EU stock is on the rise as analysts raise their fourth quarter earnings predictions. The European Union's main income generating machine, Microsoft, is widely expected to hand over another large chunk of cash on top of the 750+ million euros already deposited in the coffers...
How dare you suggest that we slashdotters do our own thinking! You ought to sell your uid for such blasphemy against the groupthink. We have some excellent rhetoric and overdramatization going on here, and you have the gall to suggest that we approach something critically? For shame Kohath, for shame...
It's called Firefox, paired with the adblock extension and the filterset.g updater...
the specific heat capacity of water may be higher, but it does not transfer heat well at all. put your water bottle upside down buried in snow, bottom will freeze, top will stay melted. you'll also note that metal heats up a lot faster than water. why? because it transfers heat a lot faster. that's the property you want for cooling. quickly picks up heat from the cpu, and quickly gets rid of it at the radiator or fan.
In my poli sci 101 class, one of the things that we dealt with was the possibility that torture may not only be justifiable, but that it may even be moral in some (albeit extreme...) cases. The idea was put forward that if many lives could be saved by torturing a single person, perhaps torture was the "right" thing to do. This in a liberal canadian university.... Just an idea.
in your little war, but it seems like a little common sense is missing here. Any religion can be made to look bad by only looking at certain parts of it. It seems to me like your missing the big picture. You quoted all of two laws of the old testament. now, one would assume that you used the two laws that best supported your argument, right? so you have two. now, take a look through all of the laws in the old and the new testament, and look at how many of them are designed to protect people. also remember that you have to take into context the culture that it was all written to. I'm not entirely sure, but something tells me that a few thousand years BC, if you raped someone, there were no repurcussions. and if a woman in any way harmed a man, she'd be killed. by comparison, these laws begin to look a little more fair. you can't judge everything in the context of the 21st century. OH, btw, if you read the story of the tower of babel, God wasn't afraid, he was ticked at the peoples' pride.
No no, they're gonna make Star Wars 3 1/2 a la Lion King...
That's cause they changed their website (I believe within the last month - 6 weeks?). Everyone complained about how stupid it was that you had to be a UN weapons inspector to find the free version, so they fixed it. Several sites stopped using the Real format because of all the complaints (ie: Cartalk) Ideally, they would fix everything else that everyone is complaining about, but they seem to be slow learners. Maybe they'll learn after they file for bankruptcy protection.
Well, shoot, here's what we gotta do. We take British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and we threaten to take off. Then the government pays a bunch of our companies a few billion dollars to convince us to stay. After they pay us off, we take the money and run. We use said money to bribe Washington, Oregon, and the northern part of California (down until just under Silicon Valley) to join our new country. Heh heh. It's perfect. We'd have tons of natural resources (BC), a nice big breadbasket (Sask / Man), and a technology sector (cali). Come on! What'dya all say? huh? It'd be fun!
Not only that, but caffiene can also act as a hallucinogenic. I didn't know this till I had to work graveyard shift for a couple weeks and brilliantly decided that two (8 cupper) pots beforehand would keep me awake for the night. Boy oh boy, it sure did, but I was freaked out of my pants the entire time. Kept thinking someone was following me around. (wasn't my boss, he wasn't there.) And the next morning, it's a hangover. Not fun at all. Trippy though.
Well, you know, something in me says that faced with the immenent destruction of our entire race, we could get pretty resourceful. Besides, we don't need to get *people* to the rock, we just need to get a few H-Bombs up there. If the military can hit a tiny little bunker on the other side of the planet, surely they can put their skills to good use and nail a few hundred foot asteroid.
Actually, Europa does have an atmosphere, at least according to the JPL. This site also has some good quick facts about Europa.
Here in Canada, however, we already pay a tax on just about everything that could be used as a medium to store copyrighted material. This tax supposedly reimburses the artists the money they lose to piracy. Now, I don't really mind paying the tax, but if I'm paying it, then I don't think that the RIAA (canadian version) should be allowed to come after me. After all, not everyone who buys these mediums are going to be pirating, but they all have to pay. Therefore, one would imagine that the recording industry is making some dough on this deal. The tax is fair (by canadian standards, we're all about subsidization lol) but then I should be able to download freely. Right now, we can. But the RIAA is trying to change that. They need to get it through their skulls that if they get a tax implemented, then they can't go after people for downloading stuff afterwards. And I don't think they understand that.
It's not quite like that. Everything is "bad" when overdone. Am I going to get cancer if I have a maraschino cherry once in a while? No, of course not. Everything in moderation, my mother used to say. A couple of beers in a week doesn't mean that you are binge drinking, it doesn't mean that you are drunk driving, and it doesn't mean that you are drunken maniac. In the same way, a couple of coffees aren't going to kill you. They might not be especially healthy, but I'm not about to give up a perfectly enjoyable drink when it really isn't going to kill me.
As for journalism, it should be common knowledge to every slashdot reader that one should *always* check sources and backgrounds on their own. Don't count on the journalist to do it for you, if they've published it, they generally have some sort of vested interest in the story. Everyone is going to be baised at least a little.
You think you're gonna see him in hell? I'm sorry, I was under the impression that there was a special SCO hell made just for him and his lawyers. You know, a place where suing and lying to investors is not allowed...
Ad-Aware is great, especially when run along with Spybot Search and Destroy. (Also Here - Spybot's site is a little slow already...) Run both, and they cover for each other's misses.
"It requires nothing more than minimal changes to mail readers, and mild diligence"
Would this be the same mild diligence that is required to keep people from opening unknown email attachments?
Hmmm... supposedly, they *were* getting 3.5 million hits a month. Their new site, however, is only at 18000 hits, even though it has been listed on slashdot. Now, obviously it will take a little time before everyone that usually went to the sheriff's site figures out that it has changed. Still, if it was such a busy site before, you'd think that *most* of the former visitors would find it -- especially considering that a Google search has the new site listed at the very top. Something seems a little fishy about 3.5 million per month...
Yeah, great idea... except for the fact that when the citizenry had enough and banded together, they didn't pay taxes and hired police. No sir, they got themselves banded together, went and found themselves a length of rope, and put all of them trees they had out there to good use... Now, I'm all for vigilante justice and all, but there are these city slickers runnin around now in them nice fancy black suits, and they don't take kindly to ordinary fellas like us takin the law into our own hands. Course, don't let me discourage you. No sir! I sure won't be the one to send no telegram to them fancy suit boys if ya'll string a few of them virus writers / spammers up. And rest assured, the rest of the folks here at /. are quite reasonable... Most of us, anyways...
Hi honey... Look, I know you said it would take something impossible for us to get back together, so I plucked a star from the sky and put it in this here jar, just for you... No, I'm serious, it really is... Dang it.
So true. Which spawns a new idea in my head.... Now, we all know that our dear friend Darl will never have to answer for his dirty little deeds because of the way corporate leaders are protected in the US. So what are we going to do? We're going to launch a class action lawsuit against the one and only Darl Mcbride for defamation... You can't get a date? It's not cause you're a geek, it's not cause you're a nerd, it's all because you use linux and she heard Darl say linux users are jerks. You're wife/gf left you? It's not cause you spent too much time on slashdot, or spent the grocery money on that FX-51, it's cause you're a linux user and she heard Darl say slashdot readers are part of the Evil Empire... Getting the idea here? Everything wrong that happens from here on out in your life is Darl's fault... And he will pay, PAY i tell you! There. that'll get him.
Not only is it a brilliant business model, it's been proven (mostly) succesful. Look at Rambus. Granted, they're headed down the drain now that DDR is mainstream and DDR2 is on the way, but they survived without actually supporting or distributing a product.