It's his fault for leaving it plugged in to the mains while he was not present. Or does common safety not apply in the US ? How do we know that the power cord wasn't damaged or some other self inflicted problem ? How many 5A devices were plugged into the same 10A rated adapter+4 way extension ?
Sorry if this is too much truthiness, but when I have to pick sides in the Middle East I'll take the only one with a representitive government and basic liberties over the 7th century rejects.
Who says it's up to you to pick sides at all ? Maybe if you keep your nose out, it will sort itself out, or is there some other secret agenda here ?
They elected a terrorist government when they could have had peace and a real country of their own, let em live with the consequences of their stupidity.
a)They democratically elected a government, so that is their right (or is it only democracy when your friends win ?). b)They HAD a real country of their own, right up until the UK gave it away to Israel behind their backs, thus breaking the agreement they had made. And then the US compounded that treachery by recognising Israel as a sovereign state, basically at gunpoint (metaphorically speaking). And what did Israel do next ? They immediately started attacking neighbouring countries to increase their land area. So who was stupid ? Palestinians for agreeing to offer land to the beleaguered Israelis (then being cheated), or the Israelis for taking the land then attacking all their neighbours once they had a foothold (ungrateful bastards)?
Oh yeah, that's right, it says in the Bible that Israel belongs to the Jews - How much else do you take as being real in the Bible ? Or is this another case of "pick and mix" ?
Plus you don't plant wholly grown trees so you've got to wait however many years for them to mature before getting the real benefit - time we don't have.
Insightful ?!?
The real benefit of trees is the fact that they use carbon from the atmosphere to grow, that is to say, they form their structural tissues with carbon captured from the air around them. New trees are therefore going to be doing the most growing and capturing more carbon than a mature tree that is as big as it's ever going to get. Plus, you do realise that trees breathe oxygen ? At night, when the sun goes down, photosynthesis ceases and the trees start emitting CO2 and taking in oxygen. So by only having fully developed trees, you are losing the benefits of maximal carbon take-up, and instead just using more oxygen for no real gain.
Forest farming provides timber for many products, and basically keeps the process at it's highest efficiency. When the trees get to a certain maturity they get cut down and used for lumber, thereby trapping the carbon into whatever form you make the wood into. The replacement trees then repeat the process, capturing more carbon from the atmosphere. Basically the process is a quick method of achieving the same results as nature did when making coal in the first place. As long as you don't then burn the lumber that is produced, it has a net effect of reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
You could even burn the wood as long as you plant the equivalent in new trees, as it would end up being carbon neutral over time. And of course there is the other positive effect of growing trees, we get oxygen out of the process, which I think you'll find is pretty much essential to most of life on the planet.
The main argument against using wood in manufacturing industry, comes from, surprise surprise, the manufacturing industry ! What profit is there in making something from a durable substance that lasts hundreds of years, when you can make it from cheap crap and force the consumer to re-buy the same product every few years. Instead we get the ludicrous situation of it being in everybodys interest to consume as much as possible, in order to give the manufacturers something to do, which in turn pays the wages that people need to buy the stuff from the very same manufacturers ! Welcome to the machine. When you add in the fact that extracting materials from the earth, is not a sustainable method because there is not an infinite source available, you come to realise that, if we keep going in this direction, we're pretty much screwed.
You'll notice that none of this is related to power generation, which is an entirely separate issue. But as for locking carbon out of the atmosphere, then trees definitely have a big part to play. After all, they did it all by themselves the first time around !
Of course, you can send groups of people on long journeys. Just take a look at the classic journeys of exploration, where people were at sea, out of site of land, often for many months at a time.
And I would say virtually none of those journeys had women on board ship.
"we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence."
In a country that follows the principle of "in dubito pro reo" I shouldn't have to prove anything to be regarded as innocent. In the contrary, in such a country the governments ignorance is my bliss.
Also, why, if they are NOT GOING TO commit a crime, would they need to prove innocence ? Until a crime HAS BEEN committed the police just carry on eating donuts, same as always. You remain innocent because there is nothing to be guilty of. Is there any logic left on this planet ? It sounds like this guy has nothing between the ears.
I thought this was MY laptop? This sounds more like a loan than a gift.
Can you point me to where they say that these laptops are given *in perpetuity* to the children ? They are learning aids, bought by governments, to help children of school age. I fully expect these devices to be used in the same way as school books are now - ie. when you leave school, you leave the book/laptop behind for the next generation. These are not designed for use in "it's mine, it's all mine, US of A" !
While I realise you spent a good deal of time and effort composing your thoughts there, I must just say, I am unable to accept your comments without a valid stamp from the Ministry of Acceptable Criticism. If you would like to come back and post later, when you have such a valid stamp, then I will be glad to ignore your comments correctly, and within the law.
And due to this being the standard practice (or so it seems) I have taken it upon myself to collect as much media as possible by fair means or foul, merely as a means to save it for future generations to access. What choice do I have ? Pay the Microsoft tax, or... Pay the Microsoft tax. So much for freedom of speech and Fair Use. It's interesting how, on open source operating systems there is no DRM angle. Maybe because we realise that "open" means just that. Back to you, fuckers !
... he doesn't necessarily want to re-encode (and certainly doesn't want to transcode, as the resulting file would sound worse because the previous encoding to MP3 would have thrown away information that Vorbis would need).
Unless he's using iTunes and believes he can be DRM free by burning a cd then re-ripping it. Yes, you can be free of iTunes DRM, but it comes at the price of quality.
Fedora has no plans to officially release a 2.0 for FC6
Back when FC4 was current, I got fed up with waiting for updates for FF from fedora, and even more fed up with broken updates for FF. So I uninstalled the FC release of Firefox, and downloaded a copy direct from the FF homepage. It has worked well, and been auto-updating without incident ever since. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1
On a tangent, why does the headline not say "Vulnerability in Win32 Firefox Popup Blocker" ? Should it be taken for granted that any exploit will be windows based from now on ?
Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.
You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name.
These people seem to forget, or they never knew, that if France hadn't helped us during the Revolutionary War, we'd likely have lost, and, had we lost, you can bet that the British Crown would have punished us severely.
*Sigh*
The British kicked the French out of North America, which the colonists were *very* grateful for at the time. Then when the British asked for some money to help cover the expenses incurred in kicking the French out, the colonists got shitty and started acting all ungrateful. Nothing much has changed since.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, JRR Tolkien was the worst offender !
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/89 258382/article.pl 9 294729/article.pl
This RSS feed directs to the home page, as does
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8
All previous RSS links are fine.
This is on FC4, Firefox 2.0.0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1
I am accessing the RSS feed through the Firefox Live Bookmark
I am not prepared to create an account at Sourceforge just to tell you of this error.
It's his fault for leaving it plugged in to the mains while he was not present. Or does common safety not apply in the US ? How do we know that the power cord wasn't damaged or some other self inflicted problem ? How many 5A devices were plugged into the same 10A rated adapter+4 way extension ?
Thanks for that. It's nice to see someone with a brain on /. these days. If I only had mod points ...
b)They HAD a real country of their own, right up until the UK gave it away to Israel behind their backs, thus breaking the agreement they had made.
And then the US compounded that treachery by recognising Israel as a sovereign state, basically at gunpoint (metaphorically speaking). And what did Israel do next ? They immediately started attacking neighbouring countries to increase their land area.
So who was stupid ? Palestinians for agreeing to offer land to the beleaguered Israelis (then being cheated), or the Israelis for taking the land then attacking all their neighbours once they had a foothold (ungrateful bastards)?
Oh yeah, that's right, it says in the Bible that Israel belongs to the Jews - How much else do you take as being real in the Bible ? Or is this another case of "pick and mix" ?
Do not place yourself in the Rangers stands, when thy believe in Celtic.
Doesn't sound much like freedom to me.
Pandering
Pandering
Maybe you meant panhandling ?
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
Even on different stories ?It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment
On a different story !0 degrees C is 0 degrees C. The rest of your statement doesn't make any sense.
Insightful ?!?
The real benefit of trees is the fact that they use carbon from the atmosphere to grow, that is to say, they form their structural tissues with carbon captured from the air around them. New trees are therefore going to be doing the most growing and capturing more carbon than a mature tree that is as big as it's ever going to get.
Plus, you do realise that trees breathe oxygen ?
At night, when the sun goes down, photosynthesis ceases and the trees start emitting CO2 and taking in oxygen. So by only having fully developed trees, you are losing the benefits of maximal carbon take-up, and instead just using more oxygen for no real gain.
Forest farming provides timber for many products, and basically keeps the process at it's highest efficiency. When the trees get to a certain maturity they get cut down and used for lumber, thereby trapping the carbon into whatever form you make the wood into. The replacement trees then repeat the process, capturing more carbon from the atmosphere. Basically the process is a quick method of achieving the same results as nature did when making coal in the first place. As long as you don't then burn the lumber that is produced, it has a net effect of reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
You could even burn the wood as long as you plant the equivalent in new trees, as it would end up being carbon neutral over time. And of course there is the other positive effect of growing trees, we get oxygen out of the process, which I think you'll find is pretty much essential to most of life on the planet.
The main argument against using wood in manufacturing industry, comes from, surprise surprise, the manufacturing industry ! What profit is there in making something from a durable substance that lasts hundreds of years, when you can make it from cheap crap and force the consumer to re-buy the same product every few years. Instead we get the ludicrous situation of it being in everybodys interest to consume as much as possible, in order to give the manufacturers something to do, which in turn pays the wages that people need to buy the stuff from the very same manufacturers !
Welcome to the machine.
When you add in the fact that extracting materials from the earth, is not a sustainable method because there is not an infinite source available, you come to realise that, if we keep going in this direction, we're pretty much screwed.
You'll notice that none of this is related to power generation, which is an entirely separate issue. But as for locking carbon out of the atmosphere, then trees definitely have a big part to play. After all, they did it all by themselves the first time around !
It sounds like this guy has nothing between the ears.
While I realise you spent a good deal of time and effort composing your thoughts there, I must just say, I am unable to accept your comments without a valid stamp from the Ministry of Acceptable Criticism. If you would like to come back and post later, when you have such a valid stamp, then I will be glad to ignore your comments correctly, and within the law.
And due to this being the standard practice (or so it seems) I have taken it upon myself to collect as much media as possible by fair means or foul, merely as a means to save it for future generations to access. ... Pay the Microsoft tax. So much for freedom of speech and Fair Use.
What choice do I have ? Pay the Microsoft tax, or
It's interesting how, on open source operating systems there is no DRM angle. Maybe because we realise that "open" means just that.
Back to you, fuckers !
so much for global warming ...
Back when FC4 was current, I got fed up with waiting for updates for FF from fedora, and even more fed up with broken updates for FF. So I uninstalled the FC release of Firefox, and downloaded a copy direct from the FF homepage. It has worked well, and been auto-updating without incident ever since.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1
On a tangent, why does the headline not say "Vulnerability in Win32 Firefox Popup Blocker" ? Should it be taken for granted that any exploit will be windows based from now on ?
Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.
You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name.
*Sigh*
The British kicked the French out of North America, which the colonists were *very* grateful for at the time. Then when the British asked for some money to help cover the expenses incurred in kicking the French out, the colonists got shitty and started acting all ungrateful. Nothing much has changed since.
Thank you.