They rule us because greenies won't let us drill for oil and won't let us build the refineries we need.
Let's see, the Alaskan oil fields would supply, what, 1% of our oil needs, but won't come on line for a decade or so? Gads that will show those oil despots a thing or two!
Or wait, maybe we could drive reasonable cars, double our mileage, and save lots of useful oil within a year or two as the new models come into play, and watch the savings increase long after the Alaskan oil fields have been sucked dry.
Refineries process oil, they don't produce it, and have jack schitt to do with the oil despots and oil supply. New refineries might marginally lower the cost of gasoline in times of consumer panic, but it won't supply new oil.
Translation of your post: I like big government and big business and hate people who don't want to support the status quo and people who actually think things thru.
Thanks for that. I knew most of that, but my original post was mistaken in screaming at Marxists. I meant those loonie lefties who embrace Marxism without knowing what it stands for, the ones who scream about the sanctity of the crappiest jobs, who are so eager to defend keeping the poor in crappy jobs as if that somehow washes their hands of guilt for being raised well-off. Since they are so quick to yap about Marxism, I made the mistake of using their own terminology. Sorry about that, all you true Marxists out there:-)
TFA says the machine collects statistics on milk and production. Since you can't get disks much smaller than 40GB without spending more money for a microdrive or laptop drive, it sounds like they picked the best solution.
Propagate is the correct spelling. Think of it as propping a gate open, which lets the cows and horses and other animals spread, ie.... propagate!
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Parent poster Sir Slikens, please forgive my intrusion into your world. As Andrew Jackson is reputed to have said, it's a poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Cows HAVE to be milked. They produce so much milk that it has to be removed. I am not a farmer, I don't know what makes modern cows produce so much milk, breeding? feed? fake pregancies? but they do produce a lot of milk, I understand they don't cease production once full, and it gets quite painful if they are not milked twice a day.
So that must explain why there are no women who hang out on Slashdot.
He said women who hang out, huh huh huh.
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Apparently the cows actually like this because it is voluntary ("V") and they choose to get milked 6 times a day rather than just twice. I say if the cows didn't like it, they'd stay away as long as possible.
What would you rather do, hire milk maids to sit around waiting for the cows to come home?
And did you ever consider that maybe people would rather not spend all day milking cows? That maybe this frees humans to take up jobs which reward thinking, and maybe those downtrodden humans you despair for don't actually like dead end jobs that require no skill and no thinking?
You remind me so much of all the Marxists I have known who never worked a day in their lives, who came from rich families and felt guilty about it, who decided they had to atone for that by helping the downtrodden masses, whether or not those downtrodden masses wanted their help, indeed in spite of the fact that many of them were told countless times to piss off and mind their own business. I am not saying you are one of them, but the feeling is the same, that is what you remind me of.
Who the heck left you in charge of reviving Lenin and Stalin?
Personally I hope that boring repetitive jobs become less and less available, and relish the day when no one has to do any of them to earn a living. I rejoice in progress eliminating as many of those deadend jobs as possible, so more human brains are freed for thinking work, to increase the rate of progress. I rejoice in progress itself, even tho it gives luddites like yourself more freedom to retreat into socialist realism fantasies.
Imagine for a moment that this was comparing cars, and the Microsoft model had its hood so famously welded shut. With the FLOSS model car, yes, I can fix it myself, but more importantly, I can pay someone else to fix it, revise it, etc. That's the significance of the language plugins and FLOSS in general. How many people actually work on their own cars? Not very many, other than changing oil. But how many people would be happy buying a car that could only be serviced, or enhanced, by taking it to teh dealer, that it was not just illegal to work on it your self, but impossible? Or worse yet, using the FLOSS model, the only way to work on a car / program was to buy an entirely new model and it was illegal to sell or even give away the old model?
So now you don't have the problem of finding 100,000 snail mail addresses. Instead you have to find their ISPs and get them to set up filters for just a few specific customers.
You could send 100,000 pieces of snail mail, but that woudl be pretty expensive, and you'd have the problem of getting the right snail mail addresses to start with.
You could send email, but that would be dropped by white lists, spam filters, and human rejection of email from strangers.
You could pop up an alert, but most people would just close it as more spamming.
Microsoft has had high prices leaked for the 360, and it won't come with a DVD player. So they want Sony to make their PS3 expensive by adding a DVD player so Microsoft can control the PS3 stream and become the cheaper media center.
It's all about the control, baby. All your bases are belong to us.
I had to open a paypal account for some testing, closed it when done, and about an hour later got phishing email. This was spring 2002 I believe. Phishing was still somewhat rare, IIRC. I immediately logged back on to paypal, checked, yes the account was closed, I figured the email was just a typical big corp screwup. It wasn't til later that I realized it was a phisher. About the only reason I didn't get snookered was that I typed in the paypal URL directly rather than clicking on the email link.
Recently I paid a credit card twice; it got buried under other papers after the first payment, and when I uncovered it a couple of weeks later, I paid it again. My checking account was not happy and the overdraft protection kicked in. I got a phishing email the same day I noticed this. The link was to.bl or someplace decidely unbankish, and I forwarded it to the bank.
My point is that I have received tons of phishes and ignored them; I do not have accounts with most of the banks. But these two came just when it was, by coincidence, perfectly plausible to get such an email, and thus much more believable. The first one did not work because I never click links. The second one failed because I always read email in text mode (mutt) and saw the funny URL in the link.
People who are even slightly less paranoid could easily have clicked the link directly in these cases. Your insistence on people being responsible is rather naive. Most people, I am sure, will ignore phishing email which for banks which they do not have accounts with, but if they do have an account, and if it comes at a coincidentally plausible time, it is perfectly understandable for them to believe in phishing email.
I once carpooled with a part time movie critic who got tickets to every preview. His wife did not like movies much at all, so I got to see just about every movie that came out, good bad and ugly. That was quite interesting, never knowing what the movie would be, even its name being a mystery until I got there. I came to like just about every movie in one way or another. Much more fun to enjoy things for what they are rather than hate them for what they aren't.
Sun and Google also said they would jointly promote Sun's Java Desktop operating system and its Open Office productivity software system, a free, open-source productivity software suite. The partnership could mark a shift away from the traditional method of distributing software through the Microsoft Windows system and bring greater visibility to such Java-based programs as OpenOffice.org.
They will promote a Java desktop program. Whoopee! More marketing, that's impressive.
It could mark a shift away from Microsoft. Whoopee! It COULD be something.
It does say Java-based programs, implying something running in the browser, but I wonder how many people will be happy waiting for some huge word processor applet to download to work on a document .
I have around 2000 CDs. Last time I seriously reviewed them, there were only a dozen or so which had only a few tracks I liked, and which I felt were a mistake in retrospect. I don't really understand people who consistently buy so many shoddy CDs.
We all know that a 'Quantum' is the SMALLEST, Tiniest descernable unit of something. So alot of soemthing insignificant is still very little. So PLEASE stop using Quantum Leap to mean something big!
Stop thinking literally. A quantum is the smallest possible change. Anything less is by definition not a change at all. Anyone who refers to a quantum leap means that any lesser change would be so insignificant as to be meaningless, which fits quantum physics perfectly.
No one would call burning oak instead of pine a quantum leap. But learning how to make your own fire from scratch is significant.
Stop being pedantic when you have no idea what you are talking about.
But at least, since you insist on being wrongly pedantic, you don't spell check.
This is from faded memory and no doubt wrong in particulars, but the general drift is more or less correct... I hope!
Way back, 100 years ago, AT&T played very rough. There were hundreds, maybe thousands, of independent telephone systems. They were so independent as to even have different voltages and other vital specs. Yet somehow they managed to work with each other. AT&T began a buying spree, and if some local indepenent telco did not want to sell out to AT&T, they would refuse to connect, citing various bogus technical reasons, and eventually the local telco would be so isolated that they would have to capitulate. Eventually AT&T bought up enough to become the master of the telco universe, by which time the stink finally began to reach the federals and they started making noises. AT&T then offered to become federally regulated in exchange for keeping their ill-gotten monopoly.
This was born the myth that the telephone system is a natural monopoly.
The USPS is feeling the labor cost pinch too. Many (most? all?) new subdivisions have one conglomerated mailbox per block, and you have to walk to get your mail. No more slot in the door or mailbox on the porch. I think they are even gradually retrofitting these mailbox stands in older neighborhoods.
And I say Windows is not and never has been user friendly. I am a UNIX and Linux user, and whenever I have to use Windows,it becomes as intuitive and friendly as a lefthanded bobcat.
You are a narrow minded moron. Just because you know Windows and find it intuitive doesn't make it intuitive tosomeone who has never used a computer.
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Read this comment for a nice description of why that is not ad hominem.
Your slur on his 2 digit ID, however, is completely off topic. Google for "petard, hoist upon".
They rule us because greenies won't let us drill for oil and won't let us build the refineries we need.
Let's see, the Alaskan oil fields would supply, what, 1% of our oil needs, but won't come on line for a decade or so? Gads that will show those oil despots a thing or two!
Or wait, maybe we could drive reasonable cars, double our mileage, and save lots of useful oil within a year or two as the new models come into play, and watch the savings increase long after the Alaskan oil fields have been sucked dry.
Refineries process oil, they don't produce it, and have jack schitt to do with the oil despots and oil supply. New refineries might marginally lower the cost of gasoline in times of consumer panic, but it won't supply new oil.
Translation of your post: I like big government and big business and hate people who don't want to support the status quo and people who actually think things thru.
No, you just wouldn't have to explain the lack of an Australian accent.
Thanks for that. I knew most of that, but my original post was mistaken in screaming at Marxists. I meant those loonie lefties who embrace Marxism without knowing what it stands for, the ones who scream about the sanctity of the crappiest jobs, who are so eager to defend keeping the poor in crappy jobs as if that somehow washes their hands of guilt for being raised well-off. Since they are so quick to yap about Marxism, I made the mistake of using their own terminology. Sorry about that, all you true Marxists out there :-)
TFA says the machine collects statistics on milk and production. Since you can't get disks much smaller than 40GB without spending more money for a microdrive or laptop drive, it sounds like they picked the best solution.
I've considered explaining I've just returned from twenty years in the Australian outback, but I can't do the accent.
Don't. Just say you've come back from a 20 year solitary walkabout in the Australian outback.
Propagate is the correct spelling. Think of it as propping a gate open, which lets the cows and horses and other animals spread, ie .... propagate!
Moderators, throw down your weapons. Drop those mouse clicks. Ignore this comment.
Parent poster Sir Slikens, please forgive my intrusion into your world. As Andrew Jackson is reputed to have said, it's a poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Cows HAVE to be milked. They produce so much milk that it has to be removed. I am not a farmer, I don't know what makes modern cows produce so much milk, breeding? feed? fake pregancies? but they do produce a lot of milk, I understand they don't cease production once full, and it gets quite painful if they are not milked twice a day.
So that must explain why there are no women who hang out on Slashdot.
He said women who hang out, huh huh huh.
Apparently the cows actually like this because it is voluntary ("V") and they choose to get milked 6 times a day rather than just twice. I say if the cows didn't like it, they'd stay away as long as possible.
What would you rather do, hire milk maids to sit around waiting for the cows to come home?
And did you ever consider that maybe people would rather not spend all day milking cows? That maybe this frees humans to take up jobs which reward thinking, and maybe those downtrodden humans you despair for don't actually like dead end jobs that require no skill and no thinking?
You remind me so much of all the Marxists I have known who never worked a day in their lives, who came from rich families and felt guilty about it, who decided they had to atone for that by helping the downtrodden masses, whether or not those downtrodden masses wanted their help, indeed in spite of the fact that many of them were told countless times to piss off and mind their own business. I am not saying you are one of them, but the feeling is the same, that is what you remind me of.
Who the heck left you in charge of reviving Lenin and Stalin?
Personally I hope that boring repetitive jobs become less and less available, and relish the day when no one has to do any of them to earn a living. I rejoice in progress eliminating as many of those deadend jobs as possible, so more human brains are freed for thinking work, to increase the rate of progress. I rejoice in progress itself, even tho it gives luddites like yourself more freedom to retreat into socialist realism fantasies.
just load another secretary image
Can we see some samples?
Imagine for a moment that this was comparing cars, and the Microsoft model had its hood so famously welded shut. With the FLOSS model car, yes, I can fix it myself, but more importantly, I can pay someone else to fix it, revise it, etc. That's the significance of the language plugins and FLOSS in general. How many people actually work on their own cars? Not very many, other than changing oil. But how many people would be happy buying a car that could only be serviced, or enhanced, by taking it to teh dealer, that it was not just illegal to work on it your self, but impossible? Or worse yet, using the FLOSS model, the only way to work on a car / program was to buy an entirely new model and it was illegal to sell or even give away the old model?
Don't be so literal.
All except for perhaps Scientology. They are the most open to honest scientific inquiry.
Where "here" = among the living on planet Earth, if you actually think Scientologists welcome scientists nosing into their racket.
So now you don't have the problem of finding 100,000 snail mail addresses. Instead you have to find their ISPs and get them to set up filters for just a few specific customers.
:-)
Yes, that sounds like a workable solution
You could send 100,000 pieces of snail mail, but that woudl be pretty expensive, and you'd have the problem of getting the right snail mail addresses to start with.
You could send email, but that would be dropped by white lists, spam filters, and human rejection of email from strangers.
You could pop up an alert, but most people would just close it as more spamming.
Microsoft has had high prices leaked for the 360, and it won't come with a DVD player. So they want Sony to make their PS3 expensive by adding a DVD player so Microsoft can control the PS3 stream and become the cheaper media center.
It's all about the control, baby. All your bases are belong to us.
Send someone a phish, get their money and teach them a lesson.
Teach someone to phish, and they may try to get your money!
I had to open a paypal account for some testing, closed it when done, and about an hour later got phishing email. This was spring 2002 I believe. Phishing was still somewhat rare, IIRC. I immediately logged back on to paypal, checked, yes the account was closed, I figured the email was just a typical big corp screwup. It wasn't til later that I realized it was a phisher. About the only reason I didn't get snookered was that I typed in the paypal URL directly rather than clicking on the email link.
.bl or someplace decidely unbankish, and I forwarded it to the bank.
Recently I paid a credit card twice; it got buried under other papers after the first payment, and when I uncovered it a couple of weeks later, I paid it again. My checking account was not happy and the overdraft protection kicked in. I got a phishing email the same day I noticed this. The link was to
My point is that I have received tons of phishes and ignored them; I do not have accounts with most of the banks. But these two came just when it was, by coincidence, perfectly plausible to get such an email, and thus much more believable. The first one did not work because I never click links. The second one failed because I always read email in text mode (mutt) and saw the funny URL in the link.
People who are even slightly less paranoid could easily have clicked the link directly in these cases. Your insistence on people being responsible is rather naive. Most people, I am sure, will ignore phishing email which for banks which they do not have accounts with, but if they do have an account, and if it comes at a coincidentally plausible time, it is perfectly understandable for them to believe in phishing email.
I once carpooled with a part time movie critic who got tickets to every preview. His wife did not like movies much at all, so I got to see just about every movie that came out, good bad and ugly. That was quite interesting, never knowing what the movie would be, even its name being a mystery until I got there. I came to like just about every movie in one way or another. Much more fun to enjoy things for what they are rather than hate them for what they aren't.
Sun and Google also said they would jointly promote Sun's Java Desktop operating system and its Open Office productivity software system, a free, open-source productivity software suite. The partnership could mark a shift away from the traditional method of distributing software through the Microsoft Windows system and bring greater visibility to such Java-based programs as OpenOffice.org.
They will promote a Java desktop program. Whoopee! More marketing, that's impressive.
It could mark a shift away from Microsoft. Whoopee! It COULD be something.
It does say Java-based programs, implying something running in the browser, but I wonder how many people will be happy waiting for some huge word processor applet to download to work on a document .
There sure isn't much substance there.
I have around 2000 CDs. Last time I seriously reviewed them, there were only a dozen or so which had only a few tracks I liked, and which I felt were a mistake in retrospect. I don't really understand people who consistently buy so many shoddy CDs.
We all know that a 'Quantum' is the SMALLEST, Tiniest descernable unit of something. So alot of soemthing insignificant is still very little. So PLEASE stop using Quantum Leap to mean something big!
Stop thinking literally. A quantum is the smallest possible change. Anything less is by definition not a change at all. Anyone who refers to a quantum leap means that any lesser change would be so insignificant as to be meaningless, which fits quantum physics perfectly.
No one would call burning oak instead of pine a quantum leap. But learning how to make your own fire from scratch is significant.
Stop being pedantic when you have no idea what you are talking about.
But at least, since you insist on being wrongly pedantic, you don't spell check.
This is from faded memory and no doubt wrong in particulars, but the general drift is more or less correct ... I hope!
Way back, 100 years ago, AT&T played very rough. There were hundreds, maybe thousands, of independent telephone systems. They were so independent as to even have different voltages and other vital specs. Yet somehow they managed to work with each other. AT&T began a buying spree, and if some local indepenent telco did not want to sell out to AT&T, they would refuse to connect, citing various bogus technical reasons, and eventually the local telco would be so isolated that they would have to capitulate. Eventually AT&T bought up enough to become the master of the telco universe, by which time the stink finally began to reach the federals and they started making noises. AT&T then offered to become federally regulated in exchange for keeping their ill-gotten monopoly.
This was born the myth that the telephone system is a natural monopoly.
The USPS is feeling the labor cost pinch too. Many (most? all?) new subdivisions have one conglomerated mailbox per block, and you have to walk to get your mail. No more slot in the door or mailbox on the porch. I think they are even gradually retrofitting these mailbox stands in older neighborhoods.
And I say Windows is not and never has been user friendly. I am a UNIX and Linux user, and whenever I have to use Windows,it becomes as intuitive and friendly as a lefthanded bobcat.
You are a narrow minded moron. Just because you know Windows and find it intuitive doesn't make it intuitive tosomeone who has never used a computer.