That's easy. Either say something positive about MS, Bush, and capitalism or something negative about Linux, whoever-is-against-Bush, and socialism and you will be -1 before you know it.
An intriguing theory...
Bill Gates is a great philanthropist and makes great products that, quite frankly, simply work.
I am endeared to President Bush, not because I necessarily agree with 100% of his decisions, but that those who don't agree with him believe that they are correct 100% of the time.
Isn't it ironic that the same spirit of Colonial Imperialism, once manifest by historic powers like Britain, America, Germany, Japan, or France, has been supplanted by competitive Capitalism? For in financial war against either, the outcome is lost wages but not lost populace.
Linux needs a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs to reach the masses.
Oh, and in socialism, would you rest your fate in the hands of other men, the State, or yourself?
I think moderating you "flamebait" was a tad bit harsh for just sharing your opinion. However, the process of donating is quite simple. I'm no Bill Gates philanthropist, but how is this any different than sponsoring a child through World Vision or Christian Children's Fund? The only change I would like to see from OLPC is to receive some sort of contact information with the child I already sponsored, much like CCF offers. The real question you have to ask yourself is
Are you down with OLPC? Yeah, you know me. Who's down with OLPC? Every slashdotie.
I just wish I could buy one for myself, even at twice the price would be nice. They could use the spare $200 for another donation or roll the "profit" back into lowering costs or something. There's something novel about the XO which is alluring to me as a gadget monkey. I'd gladly donate my ownership of it to some inner city kids locally after I built up my Popeye arm for a bit. I want to look like Reggie from "Lady in the Water". You down with OLPC?
i.e.: "oh crap, I'm going to die" i am a firm believer in the supernatural. and it is entirely possible that DMT acts as (perhaps) an internal neurotransmitter antenna/conduit for our consciousness/soul..
I love it.
DMT - the handle bar in your car just before a wreck.
I don't know, but maybe they don't have one of those screens in every single operating room yet.
Heh. Or triage on the battlefield, or nursing homes, or...
I don't know of what tests he speaks, but as your true self (spirit), truly, the veil is lifted. Your spatial awareness is non dimensional. I do remember vivid perception of all my surroundings instantaneously (behind, besides, in front), including my own body below. Strangely enough, my body was no more intriguing to me than the curtains on the window, or the desk, or the other people. It was in very short order I was pushed back by some presence, "You do not belong here." So, I doubt I would have had much time to watch TV anyways.
I guess these tests involve drugs of some sort? To induce some pharmaceutical enhanced biological mirage? I think it's disingenuous to draw such comparisons by some here, and trivialize or relate those drug induced or sleep deprived "experiences" as categorical equivalence to near death or post death experiences. But, it happens inevitably, for personal gain or motive it always seems. It's hard to gauge honesty, reliability, or intent from written dialogue on such matters (myself not to be excluded in that disclaimer). At least for me, people I have swapped experiences with all share a common memory - two separate and distinct entities, both body and soul, and the physical separations and sensations from it. Sure, these same people also had varying testimonies unique to each, like a tangible yet unreachable visible light, an angelic presence, or similar. None have cited emptiness, darkness, or a void however. Personally, I find that hard to believe, but as I initially replied, my evidence is my own, and I surely would not dismiss another's evidence so quickly. Even lack of evidence is evidence. You need only seek an explanation, much like physicists filling the void with dark matter.
In the big picture, you need only count the billions of generations past before us who have believed by faith, by personal recount, or by witness to the supernatural and the life thereafter. They can't all be wrong. Can they? A select few at one time along the way might have wished it so, but quite simply, much like sand slipping through one's fingertips, comprehension for the non corporeal has the real potential for frustration and disbelief from the many fruitless repetitions to grasp it. Ironically, even from my own experience, that's why it's just best to believe. Everything else supportive in faith along the way, a nice bonus.
Maybe not universally shared by all at all times. However, I have personal intimate evidence of the supernatural. Ask anyone with "near death" experiences - on the operating table or similar. Something hard to explain to others, but very real nonetheless. I'll never forget my spirit trying to resync with my body as my chest pumped up and down. Two very distinct and separate entities. Surreal to say the least.
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw.py forever. We begin google bombing in five minutes."
a world in which the most advanced technological power can produce people who don't seem to have the least idea of the basis on which that power rests[...]It may be that if GWB had had a proper scientific education[...]I'd be almost equally happy if future politicians got a really good grounding in history
Kupfernigk, you sure do speak in a lot in generalisms and random biased assumptions about other people. Is this the profound "scientific education" of which you speak?
I tend to agree with Dvorak here. The last 10 years has pretty much been a fizzle of redesign but no real revolution. iPhone? Pfft. Google? Pfft. Doom3? Possibly. Hybrids? Pfft. VoIP? Hmmm. Ad Infinitum. Of course, I actually watched the moon landing (like him), so I'm probably jaded at this point. Where are my damn flying cars?!
Inclination. Opportunity. One in absence of the other simply reflects your potential. However, both set together in locomotion speak to the man. Dahmer, Manson, Hitler. All had inclination. Opportunity just presented itself.
Wait. What? Which pot, err, kettle. Does it matter if my pots are all aluminum? Pots. Kettles. Name calling. Spatulas. Only half a page down and I'm already terribly confused. I'm not quite sure, but at this point, I think I need an oven mitten if I scroll down any further with my mouse.
Never really planned on clicking this minicity doohickie. But all this hoopla and curiosity finally got the better of me. I can't figure out how to build stuff like in SC3U from Loki. The damn map thing just keeps scrolling around and such. Must be a flash x64 problem. Don't waste your time clicking fellas. I've seen better flash games on hotwheels.com with my nephews.
The total trip -- measured from its December 31, 2007 flyby of Earth to its closest encounter with the comet on October 11, 2010 -- will be roughly 1.6 billion miles or some 18 times the distance from the Earth to the sun. It will take the spacecraft three trips around the sun before it can intercept the comet, which at that time will be at a distance of some 12.4 million miles from Earth.
3 slingshot trips. Ok.
At the nearest point of its flyby of Hartley 2, the spacecraft will be some 550 miles from the comet.
Sweet. A close shave.
What I couldn't decipher is how long will the probe be in close proximity to the comet? On opposing vectors? Or will the slingshot put it alongside the same trajectory as the comet coming up from behind? If the latter, now that's a pretty cool set of calculations, and should make for a nice long study of the comet.
A car analogy is automatically redundant nowadays?
spun, you are the unlucky recipient of your early post (5:08) being pushed down by later replies above yours. Mods really need to ease up a bit or take care with the "redundant" hammer. My post here, however, IS deserving of redundant, since this careless application of moderation is pretty obvious and has been alluded to many times in the past.
You see, mods are a lot like cars. They have break downs from time to time. Well, ok, more like Fords I suppose.
Who the hell buys ANY cable from a retailer like Best Buy or Circuit City?
Dummies like me. Spent $20 on a USB connector last night to see if I could transfer video from my DishTV to computer after I switched to Uverse.
I guess guys like Best Buy figure there's a handful of lazy people like myself who eventually get tired of digging around in boxes for hours hunting down an old cable you swore you had at one point in time, getting distracted even further as you scrounge up and discover old 5-1/4 floppies and a Hayes baud modem with rubber ear muffles in mystery box number 23. I don't know why I cling on to this crap, but Best Buy knows me better than myself I guess.
By the way, as I left store last night, some guy in tattered clothing with a grizzled beard was lurking in the parking lot and approached me, "Pssst. Hey, buddy. could you spare a DB9 to DB25 connector for a friend?"
Hal, for what it's worth, I'm in your corner. Eugenics, no mater how one might justify it, is a slippery slope. To equate or apply birth rate or race to any discussion on intelligence is wholesale elitist detachment from reality. Someone above you even "lessened" eugenic justification by saying "well, we would pay them for the sterilization." Oh, my...
From antiquity to contemporary, mankind has achieved and flourished by his diversity and resilience. That dilution of humanity, in all of our failings, is that catalyst which sets those drops of creativity into motion. Eugenics is a narrow and unidirectional focus on your own achievements, void of unselfish introspection. That wikipedia article on Shockley seems to illustrate his beliefs in relation to his disdain for lack of patent credit to managerial style. I give credit to Mr. Shockley for his accomplishments, and willfully ignore the rest. As we all normally do at eulogies.
Thanks for the cache. To all others wanting a sneak peek, well worth it.
It looks like he's running grub, and powers off the laptop unconventionally with a... wouldn't be very sporting of me if I finished that sentence, now would it?
You make a few good points in there, but lose me towards the end. I don't think it's impossible, nor a higher set of standards (necessarily), but just maybe, that others adhere to the same set of standards (which GPL requires) as any other commercial license does. In truth, to what degree are commercial license non compliant companies granted this same levity provided here by the GPL community? A shout here or there? Ok. Would a few mil in court be better? I guess that leads me to the latter - if such action were taken, how would financial compensation (and to whom) be granted? Any precedent on a prior GPL court award?
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Actually, the answer was 6. Deep Thought was just a 3-bit ripple carry adder, but even the Magratheans didn't know how to interpret punch cards.
Bill Gates is a great philanthropist and makes great products that, quite frankly, simply work.
I am endeared to President Bush, not because I necessarily agree with 100% of his decisions, but that those who don't agree with him believe that they are correct 100% of the time.
Isn't it ironic that the same spirit of Colonial Imperialism, once manifest by historic powers like Britain, America, Germany, Japan, or France, has been supplanted by competitive Capitalism? For in financial war against either, the outcome is lost wages but not lost populace.
Linux needs a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs to reach the masses.
Oh, and in socialism, would you rest your fate in the hands of other men, the State, or yourself?
I think moderating you "flamebait" was a tad bit harsh for just sharing your opinion. However, the process of donating is quite simple. I'm no Bill Gates philanthropist, but how is this any different than sponsoring a child through World Vision or Christian Children's Fund? The only change I would like to see from OLPC is to receive some sort of contact information with the child I already sponsored, much like CCF offers. The real question you have to ask yourself is
Are you down with OLPC? Yeah, you know me.
Who's down with OLPC? Every slashdotie.
I just wish I could buy one for myself, even at twice the price would be nice. They could use the spare $200 for another donation or roll the "profit" back into lowering costs or something. There's something novel about the XO which is alluring to me as a gadget monkey. I'd gladly donate my ownership of it to some inner city kids locally after I built up my Popeye arm for a bit. I want to look like Reggie from "Lady in the Water". You down with OLPC?
Um, did the mod read parent's post in it's entirety?
DMT - the handle bar in your car just before a wreck.
I don't know of what tests he speaks, but as your true self (spirit), truly, the veil is lifted. Your spatial awareness is non dimensional. I do remember vivid perception of all my surroundings instantaneously (behind, besides, in front), including my own body below. Strangely enough, my body was no more intriguing to me than the curtains on the window, or the desk, or the other people. It was in very short order I was pushed back by some presence, "You do not belong here." So, I doubt I would have had much time to watch TV anyways.
I guess these tests involve drugs of some sort? To induce some pharmaceutical enhanced biological mirage? I think it's disingenuous to draw such comparisons by some here, and trivialize or relate those drug induced or sleep deprived "experiences" as categorical equivalence to near death or post death experiences. But, it happens inevitably, for personal gain or motive it always seems. It's hard to gauge honesty, reliability, or intent from written dialogue on such matters (myself not to be excluded in that disclaimer). At least for me, people I have swapped experiences with all share a common memory - two separate and distinct entities, both body and soul, and the physical separations and sensations from it. Sure, these same people also had varying testimonies unique to each, like a tangible yet unreachable visible light, an angelic presence, or similar. None have cited emptiness, darkness, or a void however. Personally, I find that hard to believe, but as I initially replied, my evidence is my own, and I surely would not dismiss another's evidence so quickly. Even lack of evidence is evidence. You need only seek an explanation, much like physicists filling the void with dark matter.
In the big picture, you need only count the billions of generations past before us who have believed by faith, by personal recount, or by witness to the supernatural and the life thereafter. They can't all be wrong. Can they? A select few at one time along the way might have wished it so, but quite simply, much like sand slipping through one's fingertips, comprehension for the non corporeal has the real potential for frustration and disbelief from the many fruitless repetitions to grasp it. Ironically, even from my own experience, that's why it's just best to believe. Everything else supportive in faith along the way, a nice bonus.
"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw .py forever. We begin google bombing in five minutes."
Figure out how to keep Hector from a murderous rampage on Saturn 3. Run, Farrah, run!
I tend to agree with Dvorak here. The last 10 years has pretty much been a fizzle of redesign but no real revolution. iPhone? Pfft. Google? Pfft. Doom3? Possibly. Hybrids? Pfft. VoIP? Hmmm. Ad Infinitum. Of course, I actually watched the moon landing (like him), so I'm probably jaded at this point. Where are my damn flying cars?!
Inclination. Opportunity. One in absence of the other simply reflects your potential. However, both set together in locomotion speak to the man. Dahmer, Manson, Hitler. All had inclination. Opportunity just presented itself.
Wait. What? Which pot, err, kettle. Does it matter if my pots are all aluminum? Pots. Kettles. Name calling. Spatulas. Only half a page down and I'm already terribly confused. I'm not quite sure, but at this point, I think I need an oven mitten if I scroll down any further with my mouse.
Never really planned on clicking this minicity doohickie. But all this hoopla and curiosity finally got the better of me. I can't figure out how to build stuff like in SC3U from Loki. The damn map thing just keeps scrolling around and such. Must be a flash x64 problem. Don't waste your time clicking fellas. I've seen better flash games on hotwheels.com with my nephews.
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What I couldn't decipher is how long will the probe be in close proximity to the comet? On opposing vectors? Or will the slingshot put it alongside the same trajectory as the comet coming up from behind? If the latter, now that's a pretty cool set of calculations, and should make for a nice long study of the comet.
You see, mods are a lot like cars. They have break downs from time to time. Well, ok, more like Fords I suppose.
I guess guys like Best Buy figure there's a handful of lazy people like myself who eventually get tired of digging around in boxes for hours hunting down an old cable you swore you had at one point in time, getting distracted even further as you scrounge up and discover old 5-1/4 floppies and a Hayes baud modem with rubber ear muffles in mystery box number 23. I don't know why I cling on to this crap, but Best Buy knows me better than myself I guess.
By the way, as I left store last night, some guy in tattered clothing with a grizzled beard was lurking in the parking lot and approached me, "Pssst. Hey, buddy. could you spare a DB9 to DB25 connector for a friend?"
Hal, for what it's worth, I'm in your corner. Eugenics, no mater how one might justify it, is a slippery slope. To equate or apply birth rate or race to any discussion on intelligence is wholesale elitist detachment from reality. Someone above you even "lessened" eugenic justification by saying "well, we would pay them for the sterilization." Oh, my...
From antiquity to contemporary, mankind has achieved and flourished by his diversity and resilience. That dilution of humanity, in all of our failings, is that catalyst which sets those drops of creativity into motion. Eugenics is a narrow and unidirectional focus on your own achievements, void of unselfish introspection. That wikipedia article on Shockley seems to illustrate his beliefs in relation to his disdain for lack of patent credit to managerial style. I give credit to Mr. Shockley for his accomplishments, and willfully ignore the rest. As we all normally do at eulogies.
Thanks for the cache. To all others wanting a sneak peek, well worth it.
... wouldn't be very sporting of me if I finished that sentence, now would it?
It looks like he's running grub, and powers off the laptop unconventionally with a
All I have to say is w03! We owned the English! Language, that is...
Why in my day we called that a hanging chad in a group of punchcards.
You make a few good points in there, but lose me towards the end. I don't think it's impossible, nor a higher set of standards (necessarily), but just maybe, that others adhere to the same set of standards (which GPL requires) as any other commercial license does. In truth, to what degree are commercial license non compliant companies granted this same levity provided here by the GPL community? A shout here or there? Ok. Would a few mil in court be better? I guess that leads me to the latter - if such action were taken, how would financial compensation (and to whom) be granted? Any precedent on a prior GPL court award?