Actually, I credit Slashdot for helping me with my annoying pedantic tendencies. I can see how dick my posts look, and have made real progress towards knowing when to STFU.
A lovely sentiment, to be sure; I take it you weren't in Los Angeles in April of '92. I would be saying that myself if I hadn't personally observed the shmoogs, unleashed. I will likely be helping some of my fellow human beings, to a point. I am not a "Christian" and I feel strongly disinclined to draw that line anywhere near to the risk zone. Refugees are welcome to pass by, (preferably out of range), and try their luck in town, but I imagine they'll be as welcome as the Joads. Too bad,so sad.
Our family farm is just outside the tank-of-gas-plus-how-far-'til-the-blisters-cripple-the-flatlanders range of the major cities. Pop's hoping for the National Guard to secure the pass over the mountains. If not, we are prepared to repel boarders as well. I've seen angry mobs before, and I'm pretty confident they will stop each other pretty much right where they coast to a stop. What did we overlook?
A friend of mine worked at a place that had a machine that did this with a laser and plastic powder, and he had some amazing little prototype bits; Very art-like. [CITATION NEEDED]
The purpose of a king, and his only useful function, was to protect The People. Law and Defence are the manifestations of this. By this measure, our king, in the U.S.A., is a tyrant. In actuality, we are ruled by the people who control the Corporations, and the people who own our television signals, and they are not all very nice. The system we have now allows the kings to remain anonymous and obscure, and not answer to the people. They've gone underground, as it were, in Dubai, or London, or New York.
Exactly! I love how Democracy has allowed manufactured consent, a big part of which is "teaching" us in school that we live in a Lawful Republic, and thereby legitimising the store-bought laws that we get invoiced for. I've given it a lot of thought, and really see a lot of promise in a monarchy, I especially like the defenestration model of checks and balances.
One of the thing I like most about Slashdot is the quality of our trolls. When a troll who belongs at one of the other sites shows up, they tend to get bored and go away in a few weeks. Our worst element seems to be poor moderators, but that's a democratic compromise similar to RL. I use the under/over- mods a fair amount, (unless someone's karma needs a hit, but I might research that first) and was of the impression that it was useful throughout the range, as logged-in users can set their browsing to taste. Some times when I'm posting something trollish, I remember to drop the karma bonus, to conserve someone's points.
If you fill it with something less dense than water, (gasoline, for instance), then it saves a lot of stress on the materials. I'm sure that the art has advanced a bit since 1957, but failure is almost always still a possibility.
It looks like this article is referring to the Tibetan Plateau, more steppe than tundra, and even more sensitive to environmental damage. This stuff does not recover quickly from disturbance. And every bug IS sacred if you think your grandchildren might want to watch birds that migrate. The oceans are quite vast, yet it is distinctly possible we may have already permanently altered the entire system by polluting breeding areas and depleting or extirpating key species. I've not yet been to Alaska, but I got out of the car once in Minnesota to get a better look at a moose. I then managed to fight my way back to the car through the solid masses of mosquitoes before being fatally exsanguinated. I pity anyone who takes a job at this nightmare.
I like to admire the Asian tundra on Google Earth, and think about what a paradise it must be for mosquito predators, birds and such. I guess now we will be trying to discover how much environmental degradation is required to crash that eco-system. Too bad.
I'm not sure how long I've advocated (IIRC I haven't had an original thought in seven or eight years, so...) that bulk mail should be tolled at a higher rate, to subsidize the First Class postage of legitimate mail. Then we adjust the rates up until the flow is choked off, or start adding fees to the bulk rate to pay for stuff like missions to Iraq And definitely jail abusers of our USPS.
There may not be any way to improve the system. My girlfriend works for Contra Costa County. The primary, proprietary {steaming pile} of software that she uses seven [oh, yes, they laid some people off, so some caseload has been redistributed, and you'll be taking some days off, so we won't have to pay you so awfully much; Oh no! You mustn't work at home, or any overtime, and... why no, you WILL need to have all of your work done by the end of each month] days a week randomly deletes completed work rather than saving the file. This has been reported and corroborated by the entire staff, but that fact and the home-brew, IT-policy-violating work-around to incrementally back up that everyone uses are verboten topics with the PHBs. No avenues exist to suggest improvement, and this sort of thing also wears down morale.
Wow. What an amazing Troll. Okay, I'll bite, insofar as to refute that two-footed driving is a feminine trait. (My girlfriend refuses to do it, and we've had several fights as a result.) I, of course, came up with the technique independently, then subsequently learned that the C.H.P. teaches it to the trainees at the Academy. Always drive with your left foot hovering over the brake pedal, and learn to use the brake into and through turns, whilst mashing down the throttle towards the exit to help straighten out the car. I was handcuffed in the back of a C.H.P. cruiser going west on U.S. 50 into Placerville one afternoon, and the Officer gratuitously tried to impress me with his skill. (I could take him.) What impressed me was how closely his method mimicked my own, except I figured he never rode motorcycles because he didn't use his throttle to steer. It's important to maintain throttle pressure during tricky maneuvers, and smooth transitions prevent stunt-driving situations from occurring at all.
I always figured the RFID chips would be implanted in the Legal Residents. I guess the car's occupants (and B.A.C.) will be logged into the black box as well.
Put a kill switch above the throttle pedal. Very intuitive to lift foot off throttle and kick the engine off. It's been done before, it wasn't my idea.
I remember this was an issue in Sprint Car Racing some years ago. The track environment and throttle response of those machines kind of shortens the timespan between throttle malfunction and violent death to a minimum. An elegant and intuitive solution was found by locating a kill-switch above the throttle pedal, allowing the driver to pull back from the throttle in a reflexive manner, and continue direct to the kill. I gave it a lot of thought back in the V-8 days, as a friend had demonstrated the ability of a modified 289 to snap out of its motor mounts and go through the hood of his Mustang, and that sort of thing often does jam one's throttle. What I hate is when the beercan rolls under the brake pedal, but the driver recall program has reduced those incidents some.
Remember, "Silicon Valley" used to be "The Fruit Basket of the World". Probably too toxic for export any more. If it wasn't all paved over anyhow. Here's one site for California, I don't think it's the one you remember, try not to lose sleep. http://geotracker.swrcb.ca.gov/
No, Jim was just a guy I'd drink with, who had an alarming habit of getting out his knife and talking of his ambition to drive the White Man back into the sea. Last I heard he was also "on permanent tour, walking the earth just as his Apache ancestors did." I only met LaVey once, and we talked Tommy-Guns, but I wish I'd asked him his take on the nut-jobs that seem compelled to be his "followers". It reminded me of Brian Cohen- "How shall we fuck off, Master?"; He did sort of ask for it, with that Addams-Family style house and all.
Six and a half hours past my bedtime (1900 PST), I tend to get even more incoherent than usual. I know what I mean, and it's all from some of the classic works, nothing original. The point I attempted was that I don't confuse liberal with collectivist, and find the concepts to be in direct conflict, so my thoughts are confounded by popular misdefinition of a word. I think it's Newspeak- and working very well, as we debate the shape of the conference table.
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Actually, I credit Slashdot for helping me with my annoying pedantic tendencies. I can see how dick my posts look, and have made real progress towards knowing when to STFU.
A lovely sentiment, to be sure; I take it you weren't in Los Angeles in April of '92. I would be saying that myself if I hadn't personally observed the shmoogs, unleashed. I will likely be helping some of my fellow human beings, to a point. I am not a "Christian" and I feel strongly disinclined to draw that line anywhere near to the risk zone. Refugees are welcome to pass by, (preferably out of range), and try their luck in town, but I imagine they'll be as welcome as the Joads. Too bad,so sad.
Our family farm is just outside the tank-of-gas-plus-how-far-'til-the-blisters-cripple-the-flatlanders range of the major cities. Pop's hoping for the National Guard to secure the pass over the mountains. If not, we are prepared to repel boarders as well. I've seen angry mobs before, and I'm pretty confident they will stop each other pretty much right where they coast to a stop. What did we overlook?
LMGTFY
http://laserrepro.com/
A friend of mine worked at a place that had a machine that did this with a laser and plastic powder, and he had some amazing little prototype bits; Very art-like.
[CITATION NEEDED]
The purpose of a king, and his only useful function, was to protect The People. Law and Defence are the manifestations of this. By this measure, our king, in the U.S.A., is a tyrant. In actuality, we are ruled by the people who control the Corporations, and the people who own our television signals, and they are not all very nice. The system we have now allows the kings to remain anonymous and obscure, and not answer to the people. They've gone underground, as it were, in Dubai, or London, or New York.
Exactly!
I love how Democracy has allowed manufactured consent, a big part of which is "teaching" us in school that we live in a Lawful Republic, and thereby legitimising the store-bought laws that we get invoiced for.
I've given it a lot of thought, and really see a lot of promise in a monarchy, I especially like the defenestration model of checks and balances.
One of the thing I like most about Slashdot is the quality of our trolls. When a troll who belongs at one of the other sites shows up, they tend to get bored and go away in a few weeks. Our worst element seems to be poor moderators, but that's a democratic compromise similar to RL. I use the under/over- mods a fair amount, (unless someone's karma needs a hit, but I might research that first) and was of the impression that it was useful throughout the range, as logged-in users can set their browsing to taste. Some times when I'm posting something trollish, I remember to drop the karma bonus, to conserve someone's points.
Democracy has its drawbacks.
If you fill it with something less dense than water, (gasoline, for instance), then it saves a lot of stress on the materials. I'm sure that the art has advanced a bit since 1957, but failure is almost always still a possibility.
Yeah, I reckon "Outa my muhfuckin' cab. I don't give a..." would've been the correct response, but I just love that carpet gag.
It looks like this article is referring to the Tibetan Plateau, more steppe than tundra, and even more sensitive to environmental damage. This stuff does not recover quickly from disturbance. And every bug IS sacred if you think your grandchildren might want to watch birds that migrate. The oceans are quite vast, yet it is distinctly possible we may have already permanently altered the entire system by polluting breeding areas and depleting or extirpating key species.
I've not yet been to Alaska, but I got out of the car once in Minnesota to get a better look at a moose. I then managed to fight my way back to the car through the solid masses of mosquitoes before being fatally exsanguinated. I pity anyone who takes a job at this nightmare.
That rug really tied the room together.
I like to admire the Asian tundra on Google Earth, and think about what a paradise it must be for mosquito predators, birds and such. I guess now we will be trying to discover how much environmental degradation is required to crash that eco-system. Too bad.
You must be new here.
I'm not sure how long I've advocated (IIRC I haven't had an original thought in seven or eight years, so...) that bulk mail should be tolled at a higher rate, to subsidize the First Class postage of legitimate mail. Then we adjust the rates up until the flow is choked off, or start adding fees to the bulk rate to pay for stuff like missions to Iraq And definitely jail abusers of our USPS.
There may not be any way to improve the system. My girlfriend works for Contra Costa County. The primary, proprietary {steaming pile} of software that she uses seven [oh, yes, they laid some people off, so some caseload has been redistributed, and you'll be taking some days off, so we won't have to pay you so awfully much; Oh no! You mustn't work at home, or any overtime, and... why no, you WILL need to have all of your work done by the end of each month] days a week randomly deletes completed work rather than saving the file. This has been reported and corroborated by the entire staff, but that fact and the home-brew, IT-policy-violating work-around to incrementally back up that everyone uses are verboten topics with the PHBs. No avenues exist to suggest improvement, and this sort of thing also wears down morale.
Wow. What an amazing Troll.
Okay, I'll bite, insofar as to refute that two-footed driving is a feminine trait. (My girlfriend refuses to do it, and we've had several fights as a result.) I, of course, came up with the technique independently, then subsequently learned that the C.H.P. teaches it to the trainees at the Academy. Always drive with your left foot hovering over the brake pedal, and learn to use the brake into and through turns, whilst mashing down the throttle towards the exit to help straighten out the car. I was handcuffed in the back of a C.H.P. cruiser going west on U.S. 50 into Placerville one afternoon, and the Officer gratuitously tried to impress me with his skill. (I could take him.) What impressed me was how closely his method mimicked my own, except I figured he never rode motorcycles because he didn't use his throttle to steer. It's important to maintain throttle pressure during tricky maneuvers, and smooth transitions prevent stunt-driving situations from occurring at all.
I always figured the RFID chips would be implanted in the Legal Residents. I guess the car's occupants (and B.A.C.) will be logged into the black box as well.
That's:
http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens
but thedevils has funny pictures.
As Patrick Laffey (RIP) used to say, "You can't MAKE this shit up."
Put a kill switch above the throttle pedal. Very intuitive to lift foot off throttle and kick the engine off. It's been done before, it wasn't my idea.
I remember this was an issue in Sprint Car Racing some years ago. The track environment and throttle response of those machines kind of shortens the timespan between throttle malfunction and violent death to a minimum. An elegant and intuitive solution was found by locating a kill-switch above the throttle pedal, allowing the driver to pull back from the throttle in a reflexive manner, and continue direct to the kill. I gave it a lot of thought back in the V-8 days, as a friend had demonstrated the ability of a modified 289 to snap out of its motor mounts and go through the hood of his Mustang, and that sort of thing often does jam one's throttle. What I hate is when the beercan rolls under the brake pedal, but the driver recall program has reduced those incidents some.
Remember, "Silicon Valley" used to be "The Fruit Basket of the World". Probably too toxic for export any more. If it wasn't all paved over anyhow.
Here's one site for California, I don't think it's the one you remember, try not to lose sleep. http://geotracker.swrcb.ca.gov/
No, Jim was just a guy I'd drink with, who had an alarming habit of getting out his knife and talking of his ambition to drive the White Man back into the sea. Last I heard he was also "on permanent tour, walking the earth just as his Apache ancestors did."
I only met LaVey once, and we talked Tommy-Guns, but I wish I'd asked him his take on the nut-jobs that seem compelled to be his "followers". It reminded me of Brian Cohen- "How shall we fuck off, Master?"; He did sort of ask for it, with that Addams-Family style house and all.
Six and a half hours past my bedtime (1900 PST), I tend to get even more incoherent than usual. I know what I mean, and it's all from some of the classic works, nothing original. The point I attempted was that I don't confuse liberal with collectivist, and find the concepts to be in direct conflict, so my thoughts are confounded by popular misdefinition of a word. I think it's Newspeak- and working very well, as we debate the shape of the conference table.