It may just be because I've been a bit high strung lately, but right now I feel like if i heard such nonsense directly from the person responsible for it, I'd end up with an assault charge.
What incredible stupidity and disregard for not only the environment but also the citizens wallets. All that wasted gas isn't cheap!
And even if you opted not to work for facebook (or they declined to hire you for whatever reason) this still wouldn't be a bad thing to have on your resume.
(That parents infleuence the actions of they child is well known, simple experiment: put a baby who can crawl on a surface and let it crawl over a gap covered by a glass plate. The baby will have no reaction of its own to the height below it. If the mother shows delight then the baby will show it, and cross happily. If the mother shows horror, the baby will react in fear trying to determine what danger it is in. This is how we learn, how all animals with parents learn. But we can learn wrong if the input is wrong. Over-protective parents cause over-sensitive children. Yes, sometimes kids just need to walk it off and funnily enough, they do. Watch a child playing on its own. It falls, nobody panics, it continues.)
This is absolutely true. Kids are TOUGH. Not fragile little porcelain dolls that need to be coddled and protected at every step. Of course you need to make sure they don't get a hold of anything really hazardous like razor blades, live wires, and cleaning chemicals, but in general they can shrug off whatever happens to them as long as blood isn't flowing.
When my 10 month old falls over and knocks his head, instead of jumping to his aid and scooping him up I normally just look at him and say "Bonk!" He grins, rolls over and continues to play. If he's really hurting, trust me, they'll let you know in short order. The two seconds you wait to let them react instead of leaping over to them in a panic won't be the difference between life and death, because face it, if they are REALLY hurt, you'll be waiting at least 5 or 10 minutes for the ambulance to get there anyways.
I was being sarcastic as I understood the desired outcome of the action while doubting its efficacy, but I feel the need to respond to this anyways.
no, some people go to great lengths to foil some corporations undesciplined use of technology to keep track of you...
And tying a couple of phones to stray dogs or birds is going to do this how exactly? If they're really looking for you it'll be pretty obvious that the phone traveling in straight lines down roads (and not flying across counties or wandering through backyards) is the one you're actually using. Thus my comment about ruining the research data, as I would assume the researchers are looking at the data in aggregate and will probably be more affected by this junk data than the cell company or government trying to track you.
you must not care that the phone company, therefore anyone who's willing to pay, knows just where you are, where you've been, knows how often you go there, etc.
I'm none too happy about the fact that this data is being retained and distributed.
When people finally do wake up there will be a major back lash of personal control that the population will demand.
I sure as hell hope so. It's long overdue.
Who the fuck gave the corporations the right to know all about you just so they can advertise to you.
Congress.
As if "ADVERTISEMET" was the only reason to provide service.
The implicit and explicit rules governing corporations essentially say the only reason to provide service is to make money. Selling advertising is a way to make more money.
When in reality advertising only exists because companies have never been very bright at getting the word out about their products.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Advertising pretty much is "getting the word out about their products."
Advertising is the cocaine of the corporate world. It does more harm than it'll ever do good.
I was under the impression that cocaine was the cocaine of the corporate world.
And being a dickhead is what you are if you are willing to shill for companies. You're even doing work on their behalf by disparaging gothers cause they don't want to be on everybody's paid radar.
No, I'm jokingly disparaging others who propose tactics that do nothing to fix the problem.
But, hey, you never do anything illegal or un-toward, you must be a fucking saint.
I'll have to plead the fifth on this one;-)
It's all about personal control, and you have no idea why that's important.
Look at my sig. I'm working on helping to organize the US Pirate Party. I've got a few idea on privacy and personal liberty.
There's nothing stopping anyone from viewing an HTML document stored locally as long as it has all the content stored locally as well. I'm fairly sure you can design pages that gracefully reflow if they have optional online dynamic content thats temporarily unavailable as well.
I'm not disagreeing with your arguments, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if you ran across an ogre in real life you'd at the very least be searching for a weapon to wield post haste.
The temperature also has a significant effect on the speed of sound. It's my understanding that due to some interesting thermal properties of the earths atmosphere you can get some rather unintuitive changes in the speed of sound as you change altitude.
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If you made the decision to have your drivers do longer routes with less rest breaks against the advisement of experts on driving safety, yes.
I cannot say with certainty that the culture of shortcuts and complacency went all the way to the CEO specifically in the case of BP, but I would certainly expect to see some rather high level executives heads roll as a result of this disaster based upon the reports I've been seeing.
In the case of Massey Energy and the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that killed 29 miners recently in West Virginia evidence has come out that the CEO Don Blankenship was PERSONALLY informed of the unsafe conditions in the mine by workers and their families for months prior to the disaster and chose to continue operations without making any effort at resolving the problems. In that case I certainly hope to see the CEO spend some time in PMITA federal prison.
I can't say for sure that this is their thinking, but using an on screen keyboard allows for all of your localization to be done in software instead of having to make different keys for areas that use different character sets.
You hit on my point precisely. Another poster missed the point but nonetheless provided an altitude of 70,000 ft. before doing a bunch of unnecessary math concerning the earth circumference.
Using this applet we can derive a speed of ~3962mph for Mach 6 at 70,000 ft. as opposed to ~4562mph at sea level. A 600mph difference is important enough to make the distinction in my opinion.:)
It amazes me sometimes when people object like this, especially when their own post refers to it as "Transmission of information!" How the hell is that NOT nerdy?
I've talked about this on slashdot before but I can't seem to find the posts now. Me and my fiancee are both bisexual and will often have relationships with other people (mostly girls so far).
We've talked about maybe in a few years moving to a country where polygamy is legal, unfortunately most such countries are that way for all the wrong reasons.
We believe that human sexuality is a natural beautiful thing and see no reason not to responsibly enjoy sex with other people. We think that love isn't only a binary emotion that you can only have switched on for one person at a time.
As I wrote that post earlier today we had a girlfriend staying with us that we had hooked up with a few days ago. As it turns out the three of our personalities didn't end up working too well together so we've decided she should move on. It's worked out well however as she's now dating my guitarist.
I'm taking this way off topic but I've got karma to burn and I feel like bitching about this somewhere..
One of my girlfriends is in the habit of speaking in acronyms. Not just in text messages but vocally. By far the most annoying one is when she wants to say "By the way" she says "Bee Tee Dubs" which not only saves no syllables but also bastardizes the word for copying an audio recording into an alternative vocalization of the letter W.
I have repeatedly assured her that no sane person speaks in such a manner, and yet she insists "everybody does."
I just got this wonderful image of Copernicus taking a dump in the Pope's big hat while he's making his way to heaven after being trapped in hell for 500 years.
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Of course if you do this more than once the casino will most likely ask you to leave and never come back.
It may just be because I've been a bit high strung lately, but right now I feel like if i heard such nonsense directly from the person responsible for it, I'd end up with an assault charge.
What incredible stupidity and disregard for not only the environment but also the citizens wallets. All that wasted gas isn't cheap!
And even if you opted not to work for facebook (or they declined to hire you for whatever reason) this still wouldn't be a bad thing to have on your resume.
(That parents infleuence the actions of they child is well known, simple experiment: put a baby who can crawl on a surface and let it crawl over a gap covered by a glass plate. The baby will have no reaction of its own to the height below it. If the mother shows delight then the baby will show it, and cross happily. If the mother shows horror, the baby will react in fear trying to determine what danger it is in. This is how we learn, how all animals with parents learn. But we can learn wrong if the input is wrong. Over-protective parents cause over-sensitive children. Yes, sometimes kids just need to walk it off and funnily enough, they do. Watch a child playing on its own. It falls, nobody panics, it continues.)
This is absolutely true. Kids are TOUGH. Not fragile little porcelain dolls that need to be coddled and protected at every step. Of course you need to make sure they don't get a hold of anything really hazardous like razor blades, live wires, and cleaning chemicals, but in general they can shrug off whatever happens to them as long as blood isn't flowing.
When my 10 month old falls over and knocks his head, instead of jumping to his aid and scooping him up I normally just look at him and say "Bonk!" He grins, rolls over and continues to play. If he's really hurting, trust me, they'll let you know in short order. The two seconds you wait to let them react instead of leaping over to them in a panic won't be the difference between life and death, because face it, if they are REALLY hurt, you'll be waiting at least 5 or 10 minutes for the ambulance to get there anyways.
According to this over 50 LBGT's under the age of 30 have been killed in the USA between 1997 and 2007.
Don't think we're all one happy family yet. Prejudice still exists in America.
I was being sarcastic as I understood the desired outcome of the action while doubting its efficacy, but I feel the need to respond to this anyways.
no, some people go to great lengths to foil some corporations undesciplined use of technology to keep track of you...
And tying a couple of phones to stray dogs or birds is going to do this how exactly? If they're really looking for you it'll be pretty obvious that the phone traveling in straight lines down roads (and not flying across counties or wandering through backyards) is the one you're actually using. Thus my comment about ruining the research data, as I would assume the researchers are looking at the data in aggregate and will probably be more affected by this junk data than the cell company or government trying to track you.
you must not care that the phone company, therefore anyone who's willing to pay, knows just where you are, where you've been, knows how often you go there, etc.
I'm none too happy about the fact that this data is being retained and distributed.
When people finally do wake up there will be a major back lash of personal control that the population will demand.
I sure as hell hope so. It's long overdue.
Who the fuck gave the corporations the right to know all about you just so they can advertise to you.
Congress.
As if "ADVERTISEMET" was the only reason to provide service.
The implicit and explicit rules governing corporations essentially say the only reason to provide service is to make money. Selling advertising is a way to make more money.
When in reality advertising only exists because companies have never been very bright at getting the word out about their products.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Advertising pretty much is "getting the word out about their products."
Advertising is the cocaine of the corporate world. It does more harm than it'll ever do good.
I was under the impression that cocaine was the cocaine of the corporate world.
And being a dickhead is what you are if you are willing to shill for companies. You're even doing work on their behalf by disparaging gothers cause they don't want to be on everybody's paid radar.
No, I'm jokingly disparaging others who propose tactics that do nothing to fix the problem.
But, hey, you never do anything illegal or un-toward, you must be a fucking saint.
I'll have to plead the fifth on this one ;-)
It's all about personal control, and you have no idea why that's important.
Look at my sig. I'm working on helping to organize the US Pirate Party. I've got a few idea on privacy and personal liberty.
So shut up and crawl back under your rock.
Dickhead.
(AC for a reason!)
Well that was just rude. :(
All this just to mess with some sociologists research data? Man, people go to great lengths to be dickheads these days.
There's nothing stopping anyone from viewing an HTML document stored locally as long as it has all the content stored locally as well. I'm fairly sure you can design pages that gracefully reflow if they have optional online dynamic content thats temporarily unavailable as well.
I'm not disagreeing with your arguments, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if you ran across an ogre in real life you'd at the very least be searching for a weapon to wield post haste.
One person having their entire life ruined because of having a consenting relationship with somebody 2 years younger than them is one too many.
The temperature also has a significant effect on the speed of sound. It's my understanding that due to some interesting thermal properties of the earths atmosphere you can get some rather unintuitive changes in the speed of sound as you change altitude.
If you made the decision to have your drivers do longer routes with less rest breaks against the advisement of experts on driving safety, yes.
I cannot say with certainty that the culture of shortcuts and complacency went all the way to the CEO specifically in the case of BP, but I would certainly expect to see some rather high level executives heads roll as a result of this disaster based upon the reports I've been seeing.
In the case of Massey Energy and the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that killed 29 miners recently in West Virginia evidence has come out that the CEO Don Blankenship was PERSONALLY informed of the unsafe conditions in the mine by workers and their families for months prior to the disaster and chose to continue operations without making any effort at resolving the problems. In that case I certainly hope to see the CEO spend some time in PMITA federal prison.
I can't say for sure that this is their thinking, but using an on screen keyboard allows for all of your localization to be done in software instead of having to make different keys for areas that use different character sets.
Oops, I just realized my altitude was at 400ft for my "sea level" number, it should be more like ~4569mph. Point still stands however.
You hit on my point precisely. Another poster missed the point but nonetheless provided an altitude of 70,000 ft. before doing a bunch of unnecessary math concerning the earth circumference.
Using this applet we can derive a speed of ~3962mph for Mach 6 at 70,000 ft. as opposed to ~4562mph at sea level. A 600mph difference is important enough to make the distinction in my opinion. :)
Also what altitude was this operating at? "Mach 6" doesn't mean much in terms of speed relative to the earth without an altitude.
Carefully read what you initially posted, and then think about who exactly might be a "stupid idiot."
Oh man, I know what i'm looking for now next time I go to the grocery store!
It amazes me sometimes when people object like this, especially when their own post refers to it as "Transmission of information!" How the hell is that NOT nerdy?
I know they're readily available as far south as where I am in central North Carolina.
I've talked about this on slashdot before but I can't seem to find the posts now. Me and my fiancee are both bisexual and will often have relationships with other people (mostly girls so far).
We've talked about maybe in a few years moving to a country where polygamy is legal, unfortunately most such countries are that way for all the wrong reasons.
We believe that human sexuality is a natural beautiful thing and see no reason not to responsibly enjoy sex with other people. We think that love isn't only a binary emotion that you can only have switched on for one person at a time.
As I wrote that post earlier today we had a girlfriend staying with us that we had hooked up with a few days ago. As it turns out the three of our personalities didn't end up working too well together so we've decided she should move on. It's worked out well however as she's now dating my guitarist.
I'm taking this way off topic but I've got karma to burn and I feel like bitching about this somewhere..
One of my girlfriends is in the habit of speaking in acronyms. Not just in text messages but vocally. By far the most annoying one is when she wants to say "By the way" she says "Bee Tee Dubs" which not only saves no syllables but also bastardizes the word for copying an audio recording into an alternative vocalization of the letter W.
I have repeatedly assured her that no sane person speaks in such a manner, and yet she insists "everybody does."
I fear for the future. :(
That was a great movie until comedy central played it into the ground.
Oh come on, maybe it's not as funny as I thought it was, but troll?
I just got this wonderful image of Copernicus taking a dump in the Pope's big hat while he's making his way to heaven after being trapped in hell for 500 years.