well, i wouldn't go that far. the beatles rock band edition, if the damn thing ever happens, is going to be a best seller for a very good reason. i'm not sure where the balance is between "fun on its own" and "fun because i know the songs", but it's not at either end for most people.
the staff at amundsen-scott have the 300-degree club--sit in a sauna, then run outside in only boots
i had my own miniature version in grad school--the school gym had a sauna with a broken thermostat (no upper limit) located in an uninsulated locker room with leaky windows. in the winter, i could get the sauna up to 200 while the room was well below 50 (and possibly below freezing occasionally)
as opposed to a beginning and end located at the average extremes of local climate? fahrenheit is perfect for measuring (temperate zone) weather; celcius is only well-designed for research.
add the ability to usefully branch discussions and complete decentralization of the distribution channel and you're back to usenet. remind me why we ever started using anything else?
yes, the seeds were sown six years ago, or for that matter twenty-six years ago (check the debt-vs-gdp graphs), but it's absurd to date "the meltdown" to anything much earlier than late 2007. (even that's earlier than most people would place it; i'm just picking it b/c of an article i read a while back calling out a citibank dividend cut as the first major sign of trouble.)
slashdot politics have been driving me nuts for years. whatever happened to the libertarian internet i loved in 1995? most of the crap i see around here every time anti-trust or foreign trade come up would fit in perfectly at a pat buchanan rally. i may as well go to the politics subreddit and read 9/11 conspiracy theories for all the insight i can find around here.
two points: first, "six years""the meltdown"--six years ago was 2003, for god's sake, the economy was still roaring along. second, these banks are 100,000+ employee behemoths; they're ruled mostly by inertia. if someone said, in 2005, "hire me 10,000 people from india in 2008", an executive order direct from bush wouldn't have been enough to cancel the process in less than six months.
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well, i wouldn't go that far. the beatles rock band edition, if the damn thing ever happens, is going to be a best seller for a very good reason. i'm not sure where the balance is between "fun on its own" and "fun because i know the songs", but it's not at either end for most people.
"declared a contingency"--is that really NASA-speak for "oops"? i declare jargon fail
i see the 2010 fan is still reading /.
zippy? someone let you out of your cage?
the staff at amundsen-scott have the 300-degree club--sit in a sauna, then run outside in only boots i had my own miniature version in grad school--the school gym had a sauna with a broken thermostat (no upper limit) located in an uninsulated locker room with leaky windows. in the winter, i could get the sauna up to 200 while the room was well below 50 (and possibly below freezing occasionally)
as opposed to a beginning and end located at the average extremes of local climate? fahrenheit is perfect for measuring (temperate zone) weather; celcius is only well-designed for research.
is that more like a "severe weather event" or an "extreme savings event"?
toll booth willy is not happy....
subjunctive is a mood, not a voice!
real slackware users multiplex shells with gnu screen
or sufficiently small values of 5
i want a red button for shutting down brussels....
ablation cascade
we call it the "name that party" game on the blogs i hang out on
be your own tsar
$ perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1234554321'
Sat Feb 14 03:45:21 2009
sortition (aka "election by lot")
not the worst idea in the world, actually
that's the uk we all know an love. sign the official secrets act, did you?
the uk has a FOIA? srsly, when did this happen?
add the ability to usefully branch discussions and complete decentralization of the distribution channel and you're back to usenet. remind me why we ever started using anything else?
yes, the seeds were sown six years ago, or for that matter twenty-six years ago (check the debt-vs-gdp graphs), but it's absurd to date "the meltdown" to anything much earlier than late 2007. (even that's earlier than most people would place it; i'm just picking it b/c of an article i read a while back calling out a citibank dividend cut as the first major sign of trouble.)
slashdot politics have been driving me nuts for years. whatever happened to the libertarian internet i loved in 1995? most of the crap i see around here every time anti-trust or foreign trade come up would fit in perfectly at a pat buchanan rally. i may as well go to the politics subreddit and read 9/11 conspiracy theories for all the insight i can find around here.
where exactly do you think "Vikram Pandit" is from, anyway?
d'oh, there was supposed to be a "<>" between "'six years'" and "'the meltdown'". teach me to read the preview....
two points: first, "six years""the meltdown"--six years ago was 2003, for god's sake, the economy was still roaring along. second, these banks are 100,000+ employee behemoths; they're ruled mostly by inertia. if someone said, in 2005, "hire me 10,000 people from india in 2008", an executive order direct from bush wouldn't have been enough to cancel the process in less than six months.