Ummm.... yeah! Cause clean head just doesn't get the job done.
In all seriousness though, you can hardly fault a guy for character flaws which don't affect his job. Does cheating on his wife make Bill a bad person? Well, yes... but "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone..." Did it affect his job? Only because the Republicans tried to lambaste him for it.
I'm not going to compare past and present Presidents. If you want to attack Clinton, do it for good reasons (which can be fairly easily found.) If you want to defend Bush, don't try to do so by saying "Yeah, well, Clinton wasn't perfect either."
Are you telling me that the ESRB doesn't understand the difference between included content and a 3rd party addition? There are nude patches for the Sims too. Let's see that go Mature. Ooh! And you can modify the art for Civilization games. Stamp those mature too!
This is one thing mac users have been bitching about for awhile now. No upgrade pricing!
OS X: $129 every 18 months, regardless of whether you paid for an old version iWork: $79 yearly, regardless of whether you paid for an old version iLife: $79 yearly, regardless of whether you paid for an old version
They're doing us a disservice and almost training their customers to wait a year for more features before updating.
You know, another guy once related art to computer science. I bet you'd think he's a "blowhard" too, so you probably don't want to take a look at his stuff.
Oh, by the way... His name is Donald Knuth.
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A comparable MacBook Pro (upgraded to 2GB RAM and 120 GB HD) runs at about $2900 from the Apple Store.
Let's see, that's a $400 difference. Hmm...
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When you buy a mac, you buy the right to run the software on the computer you purchased, not on any computer you see fit. Just like, if you buy a copy of Windows, you can't go and install it on 40 different machines.
Arguably, if you could purchase OSX86 from the Apple store it would make sense that you should be able to hack it to get it to run on your Dell. But, you can't.
Posted logged in, cause AC's are generally trolling.
Isn't the author kind of assuming it's because of the whole gold farming issue? I don't know about you, but when I play WoW I generally like the other people I'm playing with to understand, "Don't run ahead or we'll all die" and "those mobs are linked, don't try to pull"
I've grouped with non-english speakers before and it's really annoying. Especially since they generally just don't tell you "I'm working on this quest," they just run around randomly and expect you to follow or something.
The whole "If the sentence contains errors" thing is a bit much, I'll agree. Especially since even on a good day we all make typso.
It's a rant on a stupid blog. Slashdot refers to it as an "Editorial"
The guy's simply a moron. At least half of his "points" are opinions. Others are just not really points at all. "4. Multiple representation of the file system.... See point six." And what's with 8 having no title? Point 8 isn't a point. It's a use case.
Finally...
We wish to rotate an image, shrink it 50%, attach it to an e-mail and send it to a deaf musician. Say Tip a quarter to the right, crop by half and e-mail to Stevie Wonder.
You sir, have failed. You just sent it to a blind musician, not a deaf one.
"After more than 20 years of research, development and competition in the field of HCI, not one single leading operating system developing company has come up with an OS that utilizes the four corners of the screen."
"One student who has had prior dealings with the juvenile probation office was not offered a deal. That case is expected to proceed."
That's incredibly stupid. "People A-L get off light, but M did something completely unrelated before, so we have to make sure he learns his lesson." I don't know, I guess my assumption is that it's not computer related, but in my mind if you kill someone, serve your time and then get arrested for robbery, your punishment shouldn't take into account that you killed someone in the past.
Psi uses server transports to do the same thing, therefore creating a single sign-on. If the server your using (and there are pleanty of open servers out there that support it) has transports for IM services, you can get all of your traffic going through one connection.
Like the grandparent said, "Jabber clients don't fuck around wiht a bajillion different protocols."
Who said anything about pornography sites switching over to strictly.xxx? It's not like.com,.us,.net,.tv, and.org are all being used for their intended purpose. I'd like www.yyy.xxx just cause it looks cool. Wouldn't put any porn on it.
As far as your "money making opportunity," courts have awarded site licenses to people for far lesser reasons. I think it'd be a pretty swift legal victory for barelylegal.com to get rights to barelylegal.xxx
Also, this does nothing but help strengthen the porn industry. Forget about the idea of limiting sex sites to.xxx domains. It'll never happen. First of all, not all websites are served within the US, so I'd find it hard to believe that the US Government could go pound on somebody's door in Thailand for providing content illegal in the US.
Besides, now I can just go to donkeys.xxx to find what I'm looking for, cause http://www.donkeys.com/ just wasn't what I expected.
I understand where you're coming from, and 5.1 music does have it's place, but where it doesn't have it's place is in my car or in my headphones when I'm working out. There's so much other noise around you when you're driving, working out at the gym, or going on a bike ride that 5.1 just isn't worth it.
Besides, I still don't buy all of this sound quality crap. Sure, SOME people can tell the difference between a 128 kbps Ogg and a 128 kbps mp3. Even fewer can tell the difference at 192 kbps. Assuming that you're one of these people blessed with such a golden ear, I'd like to give you the same listening test, this time while driving your car on the highway, working out at the gym (yeah, I understand you're a/.er so that concept is prolly foreign to you) or doing outdoor activities. Point being, a good 90% of the time music is background. If you want to go with whatever gives you the best quality all of the time, you're going to end up re-encoding your library on a weekly basis as these things improve.
So she wasn't currently, but now she never can be again.
Look at it this way, the administration that you appear to be trying to support said that they would personally fire someone who was involved in revealing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. That shows that at the time, they felt that it was classified information. After they find out it's one of their good ol' boys, they try to change the story and say nothing illegal had been committed.
I guess I just don't understand the thought process of, "Well, we know this kid is going to do the wrong thing, so let's make sure they don't get hurt doing it." I mean, if your kid is taking cocaine, are you going to start buying them clean needles because you're afraid that they'll get some disease?
I feel the same way about teens having sex. We can't say, "Wow, you did something stupid, but here's a way to dumb down the consequences of your actions." Don't ask me how to "punish" someone for that. I'm not a parent. But I can imagine that's the hardest part of parenting. You just have to do your best and hope the kids turn out alright after some point. But I know I'd never say, "Well, that was stupid, but next time you're stupid, be a bit smarter."
Actually, you're dead wrong. Statistics on the condom study show that accuracy was 70% not because of inconsistent use, but because most people don't use condoms correctly. The average condom user doesn't treat condoms like they should. Storing a condom in your wallet or in your purse will reduce it's effectiveness. Many people use condoms that have passed the expiration date. The 70% number shows that in real instances, condom usage isn't as accurate.
You bash the study I quoted on premarital sex because it's 15 years old? If the opinions on pre-marital sex have changed, that just shows that something (be it the media or lax American values) is changing children's values for the worse. Could it be maybe the sex education I got in high school wasn't the right thing to hear? When I was in high school, the teachers DID teach about birth control usage. I asked, "What about abstinence?" The teacher actually responded, "That's just not realistic." They were pretty much teaching, "Listen, we know you're going to have sex, just do it safely."
You also say, "Obvioulsy you were happy waiting until marriage..." That's not the case. I did have sex before marriage, and that's part of the reason I'm so against it.
I recognize that sex is a hard thing to let go of. In my experience, losing my virginity was hard. I held on to it for a long time because it was important to me. I ended up losing my virginity because I rationalized to myself, "I dont' really know a lot of non-virgins. Why am I waiting?" After I lost my virginity, there was really nothing holding me back from having sex right away with the next girl. Sex became casual. But I always ended up regretting it. It's hard to have a sexual relationship and not bring that baggage into future relationships.
I agree that kids should be taught information about birth control, but when you start handing out condoms and saying "It's not realistic to wait until marriage," you're just pushing them to have sex. You mention that we have to "Accept that we have different experiences and ideals." I agree with that. However, when your ideals are "This is right" and mine are "This is wrong" and one has to be taught in school and throughout society, I don't see us ever seeing eye-to-eye.
1. 1 in 4 Americans has a sexually transmitted disease.
2. Studies have shown that the use of condoms decrease the likliehood of getting sexually transmitted diseases by 70%.
Combine these two numbers.25 *.30
You still have a.075 (7.5% chance) of getting an STD from a new partner, and that's only if you always use condoms.
Also, in your post you stated "some people are happy waiting for marriage, but obviously the vast majority in our culture are not." There's a problem with your logic there. You assume that just because people are having sex before marriage then they are happy to do so. Another study showed that among those that have engaged in premarital sex, 40% of them regretted the decision.
I'm scared shitless that a moron like you is out there as a parent. Pregnancy is not the only worry you should have about sex. Many STD's can't be stopped by a condom. (and some, like AIDS, can kill you.) Sex also affects people mentally. It brings emotional baggage into future relationships. It can also lead to depression.
You seem to think that it's okay for people to have sex, as long as they're "being safe about it." When I was in High School (graduated in 1999), it was uncommon for people to have sex. There were a few girls who got pregnant while in high school, but not a large number. Now, we're seeing teen pregnancy rates rise, people losing their virginity at an even younger age, and even girls in middle school starting to get pregnant.
I'd hope everyone can agree that at some age children shouldn't be having sex. As far as I'm concerned, it's when I can still consider them children. If they aren't supporting themselves, they shouldn't be getting pregnant, and if they're not in a situation to handle the pregnancy, you shouldn't be having sex.
Abstinence is still around. There are pleanty of people who actually wait until they're married to have sex. Preaching "safe sex" just leads to more sex and more "accidents." Until you learn to be a proactive parent instead of a reactive parent, please keep your children away from the rest of the world.
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Ummm.... yeah! Cause clean head just doesn't get the job done.
In all seriousness though, you can hardly fault a guy for character flaws which don't affect his job. Does cheating on his wife make Bill a bad person? Well, yes... but "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone..." Did it affect his job? Only because the Republicans tried to lambaste him for it.
I'm not going to compare past and present Presidents. If you want to attack Clinton, do it for good reasons (which can be fairly easily found.) If you want to defend Bush, don't try to do so by saying "Yeah, well, Clinton wasn't perfect either."
I mean, when has EA ever made a mistake that was regrettable? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaq_Fu
Are you telling me that the ESRB doesn't understand the difference between included content and a 3rd party addition? There are nude patches for the Sims too. Let's see that go Mature. Ooh! And you can modify the art for Civilization games. Stamp those mature too!
Got you beat. Folk Life festival in Seattle every Memorial Day weekend. 4 DAYS! Cost: FREE!
This is one thing mac users have been bitching about for awhile now. No upgrade pricing!
OS X: $129 every 18 months, regardless of whether you paid for an old version
iWork: $79 yearly, regardless of whether you paid for an old version
iLife: $79 yearly, regardless of whether you paid for an old version
They're doing us a disservice and almost training their customers to wait a year for more features before updating.
You know, another guy once related art to computer science. I bet you'd think he's a "blowhard" too, so you probably don't want to take a look at his stuff.
Oh, by the way... His name is Donald Knuth.
Where the hell do you get the $1000 number?
A X06_034_Mainstream_Notebook_with_Intel/q/loc/212/2 02166276.html
The Acer Core Duo runs for $2500 at http://www.buy.com/prod/Acer_TravelMate_8200_LX_T
A comparable MacBook Pro (upgraded to 2GB RAM and 120 GB HD) runs at about $2900 from the Apple Store.
Let's see, that's a $400 difference. Hmm...
When you buy a mac, you buy the right to run the software on the computer you purchased, not on any computer you see fit. Just like, if you buy a copy of Windows, you can't go and install it on 40 different machines.
Arguably, if you could purchase OSX86 from the Apple store it would make sense that you should be able to hack it to get it to run on your Dell. But, you can't.
Posted logged in, cause AC's are generally trolling.
golf is good because it's long walk long walk. It's not like people can make business contacts when people are screaming "OMFG! HEALZ!"
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Isn't the author kind of assuming it's because of the whole gold farming issue? I don't know about you, but when I play WoW I generally like the other people I'm playing with to understand, "Don't run ahead or we'll all die" and "those mobs are linked, don't try to pull"
I've grouped with non-english speakers before and it's really annoying. Especially since they generally just don't tell you "I'm working on this quest," they just run around randomly and expect you to follow or something.
The whole "If the sentence contains errors" thing is a bit much, I'll agree. Especially since even on a good day we all make typso.
Actually, I think it's just the opposite.
"It couldn't possibly be him. He was in jail at the time of the second attack."
It's a rant on a stupid blog. Slashdot refers to it as an "Editorial"
... See point six." And what's with 8 having no title? Point 8 isn't a point. It's a use case.
The guy's simply a moron. At least half of his "points" are opinions. Others are just not really points at all. "4. Multiple representation of the file system.
Finally...
We wish to rotate an image, shrink it 50%, attach it to an e-mail and send it to a deaf musician. Say Tip a quarter to the right, crop by half and e-mail to Stevie Wonder.
You sir, have failed. You just sent it to a blind musician, not a deaf one.
"After more than 20 years of research, development and competition in the field of HCI, not one single leading operating system developing company has come up with an OS that utilizes the four corners of the screen."
What about OS X? Expose uses screen corners.
Well, you'll get your wish...
"One student who has had prior dealings with the juvenile probation office was not offered a deal. That case is expected to proceed."
That's incredibly stupid. "People A-L get off light, but M did something completely unrelated before, so we have to make sure he learns his lesson." I don't know, I guess my assumption is that it's not computer related, but in my mind if you kill someone, serve your time and then get arrested for robbery, your punishment shouldn't take into account that you killed someone in the past.
Pshaw! But you guys get concerts! You see twice as many bands in CT, NY, PA then we do here in WA.
Psi uses server transports to do the same thing, therefore creating a single sign-on. If the server your using (and there are pleanty of open servers out there that support it) has transports for IM services, you can get all of your traffic going through one connection.
Like the grandparent said, "Jabber clients don't fuck around wiht a bajillion different protocols."
Who said anything about pornography sites switching over to strictly .xxx? It's not like .com, .us, .net, .tv, and .org are all being used for their intended purpose. I'd like www.yyy.xxx just cause it looks cool. Wouldn't put any porn on it.
.xxx domains. It'll never happen. First of all, not all websites are served within the US, so I'd find it hard to believe that the US Government could go pound on somebody's door in Thailand for providing content illegal in the US.
As far as your "money making opportunity," courts have awarded site licenses to people for far lesser reasons. I think it'd be a pretty swift legal victory for barelylegal.com to get rights to barelylegal.xxx
Also, this does nothing but help strengthen the porn industry. Forget about the idea of limiting sex sites to
Besides, now I can just go to donkeys.xxx to find what I'm looking for, cause http://www.donkeys.com/ just wasn't what I expected.
I understand where you're coming from, and 5.1 music does have it's place, but where it doesn't have it's place is in my car or in my headphones when I'm working out. There's so much other noise around you when you're driving, working out at the gym, or going on a bike ride that 5.1 just isn't worth it.
/.er so that concept is prolly foreign to you) or doing outdoor activities. Point being, a good 90% of the time music is background. If you want to go with whatever gives you the best quality all of the time, you're going to end up re-encoding your library on a weekly basis as these things improve.
Besides, I still don't buy all of this sound quality crap. Sure, SOME people can tell the difference between a 128 kbps Ogg and a 128 kbps mp3. Even fewer can tell the difference at 192 kbps. Assuming that you're one of these people blessed with such a golden ear, I'd like to give you the same listening test, this time while driving your car on the highway, working out at the gym (yeah, I understand you're a
LOL... "a flame war"
I get it!
From the article that you linked...
"Mrs. Plame hadn't been out as an NOC since 1997"
So she wasn't currently, but now she never can be again.
Look at it this way, the administration that you appear to be trying to support said that they would personally fire someone who was involved in revealing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. That shows that at the time, they felt that it was classified information. After they find out it's one of their good ol' boys, they try to change the story and say nothing illegal had been committed.
I guess I just don't understand the thought process of, "Well, we know this kid is going to do the wrong thing, so let's make sure they don't get hurt doing it." I mean, if your kid is taking cocaine, are you going to start buying them clean needles because you're afraid that they'll get some disease?
I feel the same way about teens having sex. We can't say, "Wow, you did something stupid, but here's a way to dumb down the consequences of your actions." Don't ask me how to "punish" someone for that. I'm not a parent. But I can imagine that's the hardest part of parenting. You just have to do your best and hope the kids turn out alright after some point. But I know I'd never say, "Well, that was stupid, but next time you're stupid, be a bit smarter."
Actually, you're dead wrong. Statistics on the condom study show that accuracy was 70% not because of inconsistent use, but because most people don't use condoms correctly. The average condom user doesn't treat condoms like they should. Storing a condom in your wallet or in your purse will reduce it's effectiveness. Many people use condoms that have passed the expiration date. The 70% number shows that in real instances, condom usage isn't as accurate.
You bash the study I quoted on premarital sex because it's 15 years old? If the opinions on pre-marital sex have changed, that just shows that something (be it the media or lax American values) is changing children's values for the worse. Could it be maybe the sex education I got in high school wasn't the right thing to hear? When I was in high school, the teachers DID teach about birth control usage. I asked, "What about abstinence?" The teacher actually responded, "That's just not realistic." They were pretty much teaching, "Listen, we know you're going to have sex, just do it safely."
You also say, "Obvioulsy you were happy waiting until marriage..." That's not the case. I did have sex before marriage, and that's part of the reason I'm so against it.
I recognize that sex is a hard thing to let go of. In my experience, losing my virginity was hard. I held on to it for a long time because it was important to me. I ended up losing my virginity because I rationalized to myself, "I dont' really know a lot of non-virgins. Why am I waiting?" After I lost my virginity, there was really nothing holding me back from having sex right away with the next girl. Sex became casual. But I always ended up regretting it. It's hard to have a sexual relationship and not bring that baggage into future relationships.
I agree that kids should be taught information about birth control, but when you start handing out condoms and saying "It's not realistic to wait until marriage," you're just pushing them to have sex. You mention that we have to "Accept that we have different experiences and ideals." I agree with that. However, when your ideals are "This is right" and mine are "This is wrong" and one has to be taught in school and throughout society, I don't see us ever seeing eye-to-eye.
You want facts?
.25 * .30
.075 (7.5% chance) of getting an STD from a new partner, and that's only if you always use condoms.
1. 1 in 4 Americans has a sexually transmitted disease.
2. Studies have shown that the use of condoms decrease the likliehood of getting sexually transmitted diseases by 70%.
Combine these two numbers
You still have a
Also, in your post you stated "some people are happy waiting for marriage, but obviously the vast majority in our culture are not." There's a problem with your logic there. You assume that just because people are having sex before marriage then they are happy to do so. Another study showed that among those that have engaged in premarital sex, 40% of them regretted the decision.
I'm scared shitless that a moron like you is out there as a parent. Pregnancy is not the only worry you should have about sex. Many STD's can't be stopped by a condom. (and some, like AIDS, can kill you.) Sex also affects people mentally. It brings emotional baggage into future relationships. It can also lead to depression.
You seem to think that it's okay for people to have sex, as long as they're "being safe about it." When I was in High School (graduated in 1999), it was uncommon for people to have sex. There were a few girls who got pregnant while in high school, but not a large number. Now, we're seeing teen pregnancy rates rise, people losing their virginity at an even younger age, and even girls in middle school starting to get pregnant.
I'd hope everyone can agree that at some age children shouldn't be having sex. As far as I'm concerned, it's when I can still consider them children. If they aren't supporting themselves, they shouldn't be getting pregnant, and if they're not in a situation to handle the pregnancy, you shouldn't be having sex.
Abstinence is still around. There are pleanty of people who actually wait until they're married to have sex. Preaching "safe sex" just leads to more sex and more "accidents." Until you learn to be a proactive parent instead of a reactive parent, please keep your children away from the rest of the world.
I noticed that the second I submitted. :)
[12:52:51 PM] of course, I spelled grammar wrong