Palin and her pals like to ignore the Katie Couric interview, where the world quickly learned what real intelligence is. Anyone who can't answer a simple question like "What do you read on a daily basis?" is either phenomonally incurious or just as stupid, and to lash out with nonsense like "Alaska gets the same papers as the rest of the country" after three tries to get a simple answer to a simple question -- well, they are a whackjob. Those who support said whackjob with ever more ridiculous excuses are worse.
As others have posted, this bug is too inefficient to compete in the wild. It takes so much energy to eat its food (cellulose) that other bacteria would quickly swamp it. Imagine a dog bred to jump instead of walk. All that extra energy would require more hunting to get more food, and the existing wild dogs would quickly knock it out of competition.
Google for "national debt". Compare the Republican years with the Democratic years. (For those who are too lazy, US national debt decreased yearly from WW II until Reagan hit in 1980. He doubled it, Bush I increased it some more, and it leveled off under Clinton. Bush II doubled or tripled it. Obama is going to increase it, but mostly to repair the damage done by Bush II.)
If social contracts level off the national debt and Star Wars and Iraq (twice) increase it, I'm all in favor of social contract spending.
Or alternatively, you could find sights detailing the problems with MySQL. I got bitten by one, where if a table was defined with any timestamp, any row update would automatically update the timestamp whether asked for or not. They thought it a feature; I thought it a disaster that took hours to track down. Then I found that it has no validation, taking dates such as 2005-01-42.
I have no idea whether it still has these particular failings, but by the time I wised up and started looking for web sites detailing these bogosities, I was thoroughly fed up with it and will never touch it again.
... no one will remember their people being oppressed and their country impoverished by capitalist assholes.
Excellent! They will only remember being oppressed by those other assholes, and we capitalists can have free play and even look like the good guys by selling protection!
The OLPC was justified on a purely financial basis. The OLPC replaced heavy physical textbooks which require expensive physical distribution with one time laptop physical distribution and then electronic distribution of textbooks. Furthermore, in addition to the financial win, the textbooks could be updated with no distribution costs, they could be in the native language, and the students no longer had to carry all those heavy textbooks on their miles long walks to school; they had all their textbooks in one container, lightweight, with them at home and at school.
Regardless of how incompetent the OLPC management was, the laptop itself was fully justified on the financial basis alone, and the side benefits were a tremendous side benefit.
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Mod parent "-1 dull as dishwater and half as useful".
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Pretty poor troll. Anyone who knows the existence of words like "dielectric" already knows the answer.
Next time pay more attention to playing dumb. You are out of your depth, troll-wise.
You have got to be kidding. Bush can read a teleprompter?
Palin and her pals like to ignore the Katie Couric interview, where the world quickly learned what real intelligence is. Anyone who can't answer a simple question like "What do you read on a daily basis?" is either phenomonally incurious or just as stupid, and to lash out with nonsense like "Alaska gets the same papers as the rest of the country" after three tries to get a simple answer to a simple question -- well, they are a whackjob. Those who support said whackjob with ever more ridiculous excuses are worse.
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Excellent! I was thinking the same, but couldn't have written it nearly so well.
Nice :-) but I meant jumping for no reason, a fidgety dog. Heck. Like a person who couldn't walk but had to hop everywhere. Oh double heck.
As others have posted, this bug is too inefficient to compete in the wild. It takes so much energy to eat its food (cellulose) that other bacteria would quickly swamp it. Imagine a dog bred to jump instead of walk. All that extra energy would require more hunting to get more food, and the existing wild dogs would quickly knock it out of competition.
i can say with confidence that thiS car will take off.
Or consider DDT in the very same War on (Some) Malaria.
Google for "national debt". Compare the Republican years with the Democratic years. (For those who are too lazy, US national debt decreased yearly from WW II until Reagan hit in 1980. He doubled it, Bush I increased it some more, and it leveled off under Clinton. Bush II doubled or tripled it. Obama is going to increase it, but mostly to repair the damage done by Bush II.)
If social contracts level off the national debt and Star Wars and Iraq (twice) increase it, I'm all in favor of social contract spending.
Or alternatively, you could find sights detailing the problems with MySQL. I got bitten by one, where if a table was defined with any timestamp, any row update would automatically update the timestamp whether asked for or not. They thought it a feature; I thought it a disaster that took hours to track down. Then I found that it has no validation, taking dates such as 2005-01-42.
I have no idea whether it still has these particular failings, but by the time I wised up and started looking for web sites detailing these bogosities, I was thoroughly fed up with it and will never touch it again.
these two people are from Washington state, clear across the country
Nice job of not reading. They are from Washington university in St. Louis, not even halfway across the country from Beantown.
I bet that little truth hurts a bit more, eh?
Well duh! The Germans never invaded.
When the Americans got over there, I suppose the southern variety had a lot of lost grits.
No telling what the Yankees would have done if Natalie Portman had been invented.
... no one will remember their people being oppressed and their country impoverished by capitalist assholes.
Excellent! They will only remember being oppressed by those other assholes, and we capitalists can have free play and even look like the good guys by selling protection!
Ah ... I had "just" in the wrong place. I meant I didn't know any of the history of that usage, nor of alternative meanings (other than the cookies).
What do you know about mouse knuckles, and when did you know it?
Heck, I just thought it was a twisted form of moron. Thanks for all that fascinating history.
So you'd rather have news about ... what? What, exactly, would be news yet have no corporate ties of any sort?
Maroon. Pathetic, whiny maroon.
The OLPC was justified on a purely financial basis. The OLPC replaced heavy physical textbooks which require expensive physical distribution with one time laptop physical distribution and then electronic distribution of textbooks. Furthermore, in addition to the financial win, the textbooks could be updated with no distribution costs, they could be in the native language, and the students no longer had to carry all those heavy textbooks on their miles long walks to school; they had all their textbooks in one container, lightweight, with them at home and at school.
Regardless of how incompetent the OLPC management was, the laptop itself was fully justified on the financial basis alone, and the side benefits were a tremendous side benefit.
It is utterly typical africa==bandits US groupthink that got your "tech in Africa means you get robbed" got modded up.
Utterly typical non-US groupthink that everyone in the US thinks alike. The US is a pretty big country.
Duluth -- 92W
Panama Canal -- 79W
Mexico's east coast -- 97W
Hudson Bay -- 94W
The hell you say.
He hasn't actually ordered anyone BY NAME to appear in court.
Skim the headline and move along ... two seconds.
Post about it being a waste of time, twice ... two minutes.
Thrill other slashdotters with the hypocrisy of it all .... priceless!