As a geek husband to a nerd wife - I can personally say that traditional marriage advice isn't as much help as some might suggest. However, I've also found that it's really quite easy and very rewarding if you can quickly work out the following details...
1) Fight well. I can't stress this enough, while arguing well with normal people is certainly important - arguing well with a fellow geek is imperative. Whether you are arguing about who the better Star Trek captain is, or who should do the dishes that night - geeks have strong opinions on all things that are generally based on well thought out logic. Chances are, in most situations you are both right according to your viewpoints. Learning to fight in a way that acknowledges that the fight is about a difference in opinion rather than a right/wrong dichotomy is the best way to maintain a good relationship. Keeping your cool and fighting on a logical basis will enable both of you to demonstrate respect for the other person's knowledge and experience. Of course, many fights are based on emotions that you don't fully understand but need to express - and understanding when this is occurring and to not take offense to these moments is also important. On the occasions that I yell at my wife - she almost immediately closes up and stops talking. She has confided to me that during these moments she simply thinks "wow, that is one angry monkey" and stops talking to give the "monkey brain" time to express itself.
2) Work together. Not necessarily at a job, but working together really builds a collective "us vs. them" attitude - even when "them" is the grass or laundry. Traditional sex roles don't really apply in a geek marriage (except of course, where they do) - so division of labor either doesn't exist or is negotiated explicitly. While division of labor is important the times that you work together are the moments that you really appreciate the contributions of the other (and geeks love to feel appreciated).
3) Unless otherwise stated, the ideas you read in books about how to make your wife feel special are full of crap (for a geek marriage). Yes, my wife likes flowers - but she'd return jewelry or any of the other varied objects of affection. The bad thing about this is that the traditional gifts are pretty worthless to her, so books don't help you. The good news is, she recognizes that time spent together is the best gift - since we both have hobbies that we might be doing otherwise. Stepping aside from a match of L4D and having a nice home cooked dinner together carries the same weight as other less practical gift giving might carry for other people.
4) You may find that some of the things that "normal" (boring?) wives do, simply don't happen. My wife hates to shop. I hate to shop. We rarely actually have new things like clothes because of it. While it's occasionally annoying to shop for my own underwear, it also means we never have to have a discussion about wasting money. It doesn't happen - except maybe for Transformers.
5) I asked my wife this question over lunch to see if she had any particular advice. He answer was rather poignant I think. "Two geeks getting married? They won't have any problems at all" I have to thank her for such unbridled optimism. She then followed it up with "He does know that actual emotion being expressed by either side is rare though, right? I hate emotional people." Quite right honey, quite right:-)
6) Almost forgot! give them time alone when they want/need it. They have their own projects they want to do - give them the independence to accomplish them and she'll give your yours.
My analysis seems to be a bit different from yours... Strengthen our democracy: This is obviously an important issue for a number of American citizens, one that it being ignored by our elected representatives due to it's perceived negative political consequences. When we focus on problems that are politically expedient, we dismiss the problems for which genuine debate would be the most helpful. Promote efficiency: Given the choice between pot being managed by the IRS or the judicial system - I have to give the efficiency card to the IRS. While comparing the relative efficiencies of teenage stoners is a clever image - it has no bearing on the efficiency of government or the efficiency of the people to interact with the government. Making government more transparent: It would certainly help to show that the government will address issues that the common people find important. Currently, it has the reputation of being run in closed door meetings over issues that corporate sponsors find important. Certainly marijuana isn't an end-all-be-all issue that would prove anything, but it would show that politicians are willing to at least consider ideas that come from the people - and debate them openly. Collaborative: The marijuana question is actually quite collaborative, as it's one of the few issues that not only brings to debate the problem - but actively proposes various solutions. Unlike other important issues like transportation (traffic sucks, fix it!), health care (we need insurance!), or foreign policy (rabble, rabble, rabble!) - marijuana legalization actually proposes methods of taxing, earmarking tax revenue, continued regulation, possible international consequences, etc. all based on concrete historical data.
I fully understand and respect that marijuana legalization is not important to you. To many people however, legalization is important to them - and perhaps more importantly represents the low-hanging fruit of governmental reform. For people who see it as a problem, the solution seems to obvious that they can't help but insist that it be debated rationally long before complex reorganization reaches the halls of congress - who seems more interested in talking about useless matters like gay marriage.
Finally, your recollections of childhood stoners has little bearing on pot smokers in general - just like your recollections of childhood drinkers has little bearing on adult drinkers. Responsibility is required in both instances, and is the genuine problem that you friends had. Sir Richard Branson smokes pot, and what a lazy asshole he is! Yeah, anecdotal evidence is practically useless.
As it currently stands Taiwan doesn't have UN representation (China's few vetos tend to be used on their membership requests) so it wouldn't have a TLD right now at all. Nor would any other country that currently has a beef with one of the big 5 countries.
As far as foreign countries go - it may make other countries upset, but it's still in the best interest of the US Government to use it as a tool of diplomacy.
I not only wrote my senators, I wrote my idiot representative and told him where he could stick it. (not literally - that would get a poor response - but I did indicate just how upset with him I was)
There was an episode of Mythbusters which, while not directly related, did show that diesel and jet fuel would not ignite even under a plumbers blowtorch.
As always, it's the air/fuel mixture that's the important part. This does not hold for gasoline, which gives off vapors quite nicely, thank you.
I replied to your post with Slashdot's CSS turned off. The new commenting bar really screws up the naked layout - I would think the blind would have a lot of trouble with this site.
Thank you. I've already posted this idea twice, but you're the first person I've seen so far who agrees - and used the same mental image of an old Mosaic site:-)
Can we also agree that this problem is exacerbated by web "designers" who use tools like Dreamweaver and Frontpage? It's the information that is important, how it looks has nothing to do with HTML anymore.
It's easy to swap an href to an image using CSS, leaving pure 90's era html if the CSS isn't available. This applies to all sorts of things - from using lists for navigation, to ordering your page vertically, etc. All of these things can be changed using CSS.
A well designed site with content and formatting separate should look like the first site you ever saw in Mosaic - before they added background colors and "design".
Rather than having html that uses an image link, use an href and swap the link out for an image using CSS. It's easy to do, and makes navigation MUCH simpler to implement and use.
If you open your page in Lynx (or disable CSS) and cannot decipher it, then it will not work for the blind. Frankly, it also makes me hate the designer. I will refrain from making comments about what Slashdot looks like with CSS turned off:-)
"Always popular - ask any American of Asian heritage how many times strangers have asked where they are from, and still don't clue-in when the answer is "Chicago" or "Oakland"."
I know, right! It's like when people ask my wife (who has red hair) if she's from Ireland or Scotland and she's all like, "I'm from Georgia".
I love how people get all huffy when questions like that are asked. If they weren't interested in you, they wouldn't have asked the question to begin with. A simple answer like, "I'm from Chicago, my family came from Siam" would satisfy both individuals in the conversation. Or, you can borrow my wife's answer "I'm from Georgia, but I don't know where we're from originally, I guess I'm a mutt."
Most people who are aren't satisfied by the answer "I'm from Chicago" aren't being racist assholes - they were simply hoping for a novel conversation. If it makes you feel any better, I also ask white people where they're from (ancestrally speaking) all the time. It makes for fun conversation - loads better than mindless discussion about the weather.
But if it makes you feel good to be pissed off - then go for it! It's the American way!
"IF MS were to change the way pages rendered with existing doctypes, millions of pages could/would render differently requiring businesses and individuals across the world to either re-vamp their websites or at least change the existing doctype to a new name that referred to the old rendering style."
As a programmer who missed out on the lucrative Y2K bug, I for one welcome the millions of people who might have broken pages and need 1 new line of code. I'm pretty sure I could handle it:-)
Seriously guys, if you're getting paid for it, it's awesome. If you aren't getting paid for it, it's still not a big deal. We're talking about 3 lines of PERL to change over an entire site...
Hey now... I'd bet those commentators cost quite a bit of money.
Let's not forget the high quality reporting that you find on the local news stations too. I suppose that I cannot talk about other areas, but my local news sucks worse than any of the 24 hour services. They recently did - I'm not making this up - an in depth report titled "Do you need toothpaste" [spoiler]yes[/spoiler]
I absolutely hate the way their spots ads run. "Find out who Atlanta police are looking for at 11" As if this little tidbit of information is supposed to entice me any more than a simple "police are looking for a suspect in a robbery in midtown, more at 11". I've seen the guys on the scene doing live reports - I know it has to suck being out there in the winter. 9 times out of 10, I don't need him to be out there in the cold telling me what happened 5 hours ago - he can come inside.
The problem for all of this is that the people running the news agencies have become another entertainment industry, rather that what it should be, dissemination of information. I know that you win prizes for crap like the toothpaste piece - but I'd be better of learning about road closures, active court cases, or - gosh - operation updates of my local government. Hell, if you want to give me entertainment reports, tell me who is playing in my city.
I suppose it's better than when they were all owned by a few rich guys who used them as instruments of social propaganda - wait, no, it's still that way.
How do you really make a good news show that uses the internet properly? Give me the headline, the executive summary, and a link to the full article. If you want to be extra awesome, cross-index the stories with the source information - you know that research a reporter is supposed to do. Then, maybe if you have time, cross-index it with commentary articles. Actually tag articles with an event so I can follow along with the different reports coming in that all relate the the same thing. It's not hard! The news agencies do it for their internal systems already!
I was in England the other day and I was watching the news there. It still sucked, but they did have a really nice segment called no commentary that shows raw video footage without voice over narration. It was awesome. Also they had news about these things called other countries - all commonwealth countries - but other countries nonetheless. They still had commentaries though, with American commentators no less. [sigh] If you need to fill time CNN, I'm sure that Al Jazeera, Hindustan News, etc (other foreign television news) would have plenty to fill the lineup.
Also, remember after 9/11 how all the news agencies swore they were going to talk about important news again? Yeah, I didn't remember that happening either. The 4th Establishment is getting as lazy as the first 3. Bah.
I had read this article and then went to lunch - which happened to be next to a WalMart. So I ran in and bought the last two they have in stock (sorry Midtown Atl...). I assume that Joe-Six-Pack (does anyone else find that term as funny as I do?) isn't getting the box to host a CVS server and SSH gateway - but it'll run that just fine, and save on electricity too.
The funny thing? A couple weeks ago I bought one of the low-power Intel ITX boards for the same reason, but I never found an ITX case in stock anywhere (and was too lazy to order one online). Now I've got my CVS server, a spare one to see if it'll run satisfactorily as a low load file server, and an spare ITX board that'll fit in a broken NES enclosure for my media pc. Awesome!
Actually looked into getting one for my grandmother, but apparently another family member beat me to it - with an old windows box. Oh well, at least I don't have to support that one... I was really interested to see if she could use it though.
Surely you've been here long enough to realize that actual definitions don't matter in a political debate on slashdot. Or, you know, America for that matter.
If we actually understood the definitions of things, we couldn't call Bush Adolf Hitler. We couldn't call Al Gore Jerry Garcia, and you couldn't call Hillary a well trained irish setter. Really, where would the fun be in that?
Oh yeah, reasoned debate about the issues at hand... only losers do that.
Until then, I'm just going to be sad that a congressmen that I don't support financially, that I've never written or spoken to about my feelings on the issues, and whose name I hardly know - supports the people that do. It's exactly like a monarchy... apparently.
You are aware that an MRI machine is more complicated than that clock right? Cause my bicycle is less complicated than a Jaguar too...:-)
Silliness aside, this really speaks of a failure of imagination on the part of equipment suppliers. How dare they not design a piece of equipment with shielding for a signal that wasn't in use 20 years ago when it was designed and rated? If you've got new equipment coming out with the same problem, then we have a failure of a FCC and FDA testing. Otherwise, yes you should work to fix it, but no it's not a problem to turn off my phone.
But put some pay phones out so I can call family.
Also, I agree with the actual point of the article. Standby is ok - and expected - but I really want an OFF button too. Assuming dude wasn't too stupid to turn it off properly himself.
Because it's News For Nerds. A large percentage of American geeks grew up watching GI Joe and therefore have an emotional attachment to it. It's just nostalgia that put the link on the page, not conspiracy.
Why in the world would you think that? The more rich people who buy fillet mignon, the more rump roasts are available for the poor. Should we discover that all of the indoor grown food ends up at Whole Foods, that would free up a large portion of outdoor crops to be shipped to the local Food Depot (yep, we have a store called that).
For every dumb ass who buys a $3 tomato, that frees up a $0.10 tomato for everyone else, while providing funds to increase the efficiency of the indoor process until eventually even the indoor tomatoes are cheap too. Economic incentives being what they are, how many old-buildings-turned-farms would need to be successful before purpose built engineered farm buildings make sense? Then economies of scale start to kick in and everyone is happy.
Yes, f*ck you corporations! Now I can go and buy my solar cells from my blacksmith grandfather. He makes them out of love.
I've never really understood people who are against corporations. It's kinda like being against [insert race] people. Sure, there are bad [insert corporation], but there are also good [insert corporation]. Don't be against corporations, be against assholes...
You should check to see if your credit card company offers limited accounts. All of mine will let me setup a temporary account number with a withdrawal cap applied to it. Get one of those, change your card info, don't forget that you have to update that account's limit if you choose to buy something else.
This is a good story, but why in the hell are we talking about this?
This just in, you shouldn't look into the sun. Also, don't fire guns at your head or pour gasoline on yourself while you're smoking. Have we gotten so used to the disclaimer that we demand one even when we already know the danger?
Seriously, we know this already. If you post that this story scared you, or really taught you something - you are a moron. Or perhaps a man sent into the future. Yep, bright lights hurt your eyes.. thanks for the news flash.
there's no way they could have such muscles by eating a normal diet, I think to myself, you know, maybe humans aren't meant to have such muscles.
I can't help but notice that that the difference between the average weightlifter (not Arnold, circa 1978 - but Bob next door, circa before he got fat) and old Greek and Roman male statues isn't much. I can think of a million different body types I wouldn't want to have, but the statue of David isn't one of them. Working out for 6 hours a day and having a protein shake - or working in the field for 12 hours a day still requires a person to consume at least 5000 Calories. Perhaps the only unnatural thing is how quickly we can get that level of fitness today.
Of course, the closest we could go to finding the "natural" human physique would be to check out some of the remaining tribal cultures. Old photos of Zulu warriors may not look like Lou Ferrigno, but they definitely are stronger than Tyler Durden. It's an interesting balance between speed and strength; hence Zulus being more slender than - oh let's say - Vikings.
Also, for those of you who like weird assertions that don't really mean anything - monkeys are really strong...
If you're talking about the Mark McGuires of the world, you may be right though.
Time, being so odd at intergalactic distances, is difficult to determine. Since we are seeing them about to collide, chances are, they already have. We just won't see it for a few hundred million years. Give or take and eon or so...
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As a geek husband to a nerd wife - I can personally say that traditional marriage advice isn't as much help as some might suggest. However, I've also found that it's really quite easy and very rewarding if you can quickly work out the following details...
:-)
1) Fight well. I can't stress this enough, while arguing well with normal people is certainly important - arguing well with a fellow geek is imperative. Whether you are arguing about who the better Star Trek captain is, or who should do the dishes that night - geeks have strong opinions on all things that are generally based on well thought out logic. Chances are, in most situations you are both right according to your viewpoints. Learning to fight in a way that acknowledges that the fight is about a difference in opinion rather than a right/wrong dichotomy is the best way to maintain a good relationship. Keeping your cool and fighting on a logical basis will enable both of you to demonstrate respect for the other person's knowledge and experience. Of course, many fights are based on emotions that you don't fully understand but need to express - and understanding when this is occurring and to not take offense to these moments is also important. On the occasions that I yell at my wife - she almost immediately closes up and stops talking. She has confided to me that during these moments she simply thinks "wow, that is one angry monkey" and stops talking to give the "monkey brain" time to express itself.
2) Work together. Not necessarily at a job, but working together really builds a collective "us vs. them" attitude - even when "them" is the grass or laundry. Traditional sex roles don't really apply in a geek marriage (except of course, where they do) - so division of labor either doesn't exist or is negotiated explicitly. While division of labor is important the times that you work together are the moments that you really appreciate the contributions of the other (and geeks love to feel appreciated).
3) Unless otherwise stated, the ideas you read in books about how to make your wife feel special are full of crap (for a geek marriage). Yes, my wife likes flowers - but she'd return jewelry or any of the other varied objects of affection. The bad thing about this is that the traditional gifts are pretty worthless to her, so books don't help you. The good news is, she recognizes that time spent together is the best gift - since we both have hobbies that we might be doing otherwise. Stepping aside from a match of L4D and having a nice home cooked dinner together carries the same weight as other less practical gift giving might carry for other people.
4) You may find that some of the things that "normal" (boring?) wives do, simply don't happen. My wife hates to shop. I hate to shop. We rarely actually have new things like clothes because of it. While it's occasionally annoying to shop for my own underwear, it also means we never have to have a discussion about wasting money. It doesn't happen - except maybe for Transformers.
5) I asked my wife this question over lunch to see if she had any particular advice. He answer was rather poignant I think. "Two geeks getting married? They won't have any problems at all" I have to thank her for such unbridled optimism. She then followed it up with "He does know that actual emotion being expressed by either side is rare though, right? I hate emotional people." Quite right honey, quite right
6) Almost forgot! give them time alone when they want/need it. They have their own projects they want to do - give them the independence to accomplish them and she'll give your yours.
Eventually you reach a saturation point where the store can't make enough money from the resale to pay for their costs of doing business.
My analysis seems to be a bit different from yours...
Strengthen our democracy: This is obviously an important issue for a number of American citizens, one that it being ignored by our elected representatives due to it's perceived negative political consequences. When we focus on problems that are politically expedient, we dismiss the problems for which genuine debate would be the most helpful.
Promote efficiency: Given the choice between pot being managed by the IRS or the judicial system - I have to give the efficiency card to the IRS. While comparing the relative efficiencies of teenage stoners is a clever image - it has no bearing on the efficiency of government or the efficiency of the people to interact with the government.
Making government more transparent: It would certainly help to show that the government will address issues that the common people find important. Currently, it has the reputation of being run in closed door meetings over issues that corporate sponsors find important. Certainly marijuana isn't an end-all-be-all issue that would prove anything, but it would show that politicians are willing to at least consider ideas that come from the people - and debate them openly.
Collaborative: The marijuana question is actually quite collaborative, as it's one of the few issues that not only brings to debate the problem - but actively proposes various solutions. Unlike other important issues like transportation (traffic sucks, fix it!), health care (we need insurance!), or foreign policy (rabble, rabble, rabble!) - marijuana legalization actually proposes methods of taxing, earmarking tax revenue, continued regulation, possible international consequences, etc. all based on concrete historical data.
I fully understand and respect that marijuana legalization is not important to you. To many people however, legalization is important to them - and perhaps more importantly represents the low-hanging fruit of governmental reform. For people who see it as a problem, the solution seems to obvious that they can't help but insist that it be debated rationally long before complex reorganization reaches the halls of congress - who seems more interested in talking about useless matters like gay marriage.
Finally, your recollections of childhood stoners has little bearing on pot smokers in general - just like your recollections of childhood drinkers has little bearing on adult drinkers. Responsibility is required in both instances, and is the genuine problem that you friends had. Sir Richard Branson smokes pot, and what a lazy asshole he is! Yeah, anecdotal evidence is practically useless.
As it currently stands Taiwan doesn't have UN representation (China's few vetos tend to be used on their membership requests) so it wouldn't have a TLD right now at all. Nor would any other country that currently has a beef with one of the big 5 countries.
As far as foreign countries go - it may make other countries upset, but it's still in the best interest of the US Government to use it as a tool of diplomacy.
I not only wrote my senators, I wrote my idiot representative and told him where he could stick it. (not literally - that would get a poor response - but I did indicate just how upset with him I was)
Get your representative here...
https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml
There was an episode of Mythbusters which, while not directly related, did show that diesel and jet fuel would not ignite even under a plumbers blowtorch.
As always, it's the air/fuel mixture that's the important part. This does not hold for gasoline, which gives off vapors quite nicely, thank you.
I replied to your post with Slashdot's CSS turned off. The new commenting bar really screws up the naked layout - I would think the blind would have a lot of trouble with this site.
Maybe they also turn off javascript?
Thank you. I've already posted this idea twice, but you're the first person I've seen so far who agrees - and used the same mental image of an old Mosaic site :-)
Can we also agree that this problem is exacerbated by web "designers" who use tools like Dreamweaver and Frontpage? It's the information that is important, how it looks has nothing to do with HTML anymore.
How about Don't Use Images As Links At All?
It's easy to swap an href to an image using CSS, leaving pure 90's era html if the CSS isn't available. This applies to all sorts of things - from using lists for navigation, to ordering your page vertically, etc. All of these things can be changed using CSS.
A well designed site with content and formatting separate should look like the first site you ever saw in Mosaic - before they added background colors and "design".
Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
:-)
Rather than having html that uses an image link, use an href and swap the link out for an image using CSS. It's easy to do, and makes navigation MUCH simpler to implement and use.
If you open your page in Lynx (or disable CSS) and cannot decipher it, then it will not work for the blind. Frankly, it also makes me hate the designer. I will refrain from making comments about what Slashdot looks like with CSS turned off
Technically, it wasn't an asteroid, but the protoplanet Theia. I'm splitting hairs, but this is Slashdot :)
Shoot 'em Up was the only good movie in the last year.
"Always popular - ask any American of Asian heritage how many times strangers have asked where they are from, and still don't clue-in when the answer is "Chicago" or "Oakland"."
I know, right! It's like when people ask my wife (who has red hair) if she's from Ireland or Scotland and she's all like, "I'm from Georgia".
I love how people get all huffy when questions like that are asked. If they weren't interested in you, they wouldn't have asked the question to begin with. A simple answer like, "I'm from Chicago, my family came from Siam" would satisfy both individuals in the conversation. Or, you can borrow my wife's answer "I'm from Georgia, but I don't know where we're from originally, I guess I'm a mutt."
Most people who are aren't satisfied by the answer "I'm from Chicago" aren't being racist assholes - they were simply hoping for a novel conversation. If it makes you feel any better, I also ask white people where they're from (ancestrally speaking) all the time. It makes for fun conversation - loads better than mindless discussion about the weather.
But if it makes you feel good to be pissed off - then go for it! It's the American way!
"IF MS were to change the way pages rendered with existing doctypes, millions of pages could/would render differently requiring businesses and individuals across the world to either re-vamp their websites or at least change the existing doctype to a new name that referred to the old rendering style."
:-)
As a programmer who missed out on the lucrative Y2K bug, I for one welcome the millions of people who might have broken pages and need 1 new line of code. I'm pretty sure I could handle it
Seriously guys, if you're getting paid for it, it's awesome. If you aren't getting paid for it, it's still not a big deal. We're talking about 3 lines of PERL to change over an entire site...
Hey now... I'd bet those commentators cost quite a bit of money.
Let's not forget the high quality reporting that you find on the local news stations too. I suppose that I cannot talk about other areas, but my local news sucks worse than any of the 24 hour services. They recently did - I'm not making this up - an in depth report titled "Do you need toothpaste" [spoiler]yes[/spoiler]
I absolutely hate the way their spots ads run. "Find out who Atlanta police are looking for at 11" As if this little tidbit of information is supposed to entice me any more than a simple "police are looking for a suspect in a robbery in midtown, more at 11". I've seen the guys on the scene doing live reports - I know it has to suck being out there in the winter. 9 times out of 10, I don't need him to be out there in the cold telling me what happened 5 hours ago - he can come inside.
The problem for all of this is that the people running the news agencies have become another entertainment industry, rather that what it should be, dissemination of information. I know that you win prizes for crap like the toothpaste piece - but I'd be better of learning about road closures, active court cases, or - gosh - operation updates of my local government. Hell, if you want to give me entertainment reports, tell me who is playing in my city.
I suppose it's better than when they were all owned by a few rich guys who used them as instruments of social propaganda - wait, no, it's still that way.
How do you really make a good news show that uses the internet properly? Give me the headline, the executive summary, and a link to the full article. If you want to be extra awesome, cross-index the stories with the source information - you know that research a reporter is supposed to do. Then, maybe if you have time, cross-index it with commentary articles. Actually tag articles with an event so I can follow along with the different reports coming in that all relate the the same thing. It's not hard! The news agencies do it for their internal systems already!
I was in England the other day and I was watching the news there. It still sucked, but they did have a really nice segment called no commentary that shows raw video footage without voice over narration. It was awesome. Also they had news about these things called other countries - all commonwealth countries - but other countries nonetheless. They still had commentaries though, with American commentators no less. [sigh] If you need to fill time CNN, I'm sure that Al Jazeera, Hindustan News, etc (other foreign television news) would have plenty to fill the lineup.
Also, remember after 9/11 how all the news agencies swore they were going to talk about important news again? Yeah, I didn't remember that happening either. The 4th Establishment is getting as lazy as the first 3. Bah.
I had read this article and then went to lunch - which happened to be next to a WalMart. So I ran in and bought the last two they have in stock (sorry Midtown Atl...). I assume that Joe-Six-Pack (does anyone else find that term as funny as I do?) isn't getting the box to host a CVS server and SSH gateway - but it'll run that just fine, and save on electricity too.
The funny thing? A couple weeks ago I bought one of the low-power Intel ITX boards for the same reason, but I never found an ITX case in stock anywhere (and was too lazy to order one online). Now I've got my CVS server, a spare one to see if it'll run satisfactorily as a low load file server, and an spare ITX board that'll fit in a broken NES enclosure for my media pc. Awesome!
Actually looked into getting one for my grandmother, but apparently another family member beat me to it - with an old windows box. Oh well, at least I don't have to support that one... I was really interested to see if she could use it though.
Surely you've been here long enough to realize that actual definitions don't matter in a political debate on slashdot. Or, you know, America for that matter.
If we actually understood the definitions of things, we couldn't call Bush Adolf Hitler. We couldn't call Al Gore Jerry Garcia, and you couldn't call Hillary a well trained irish setter. Really, where would the fun be in that?
Oh yeah, reasoned debate about the issues at hand... only losers do that.
Until then, I'm just going to be sad that a congressmen that I don't support financially, that I've never written or spoken to about my feelings on the issues, and whose name I hardly know - supports the people that do. It's exactly like a monarchy... apparently.
You are aware that an MRI machine is more complicated than that clock right? Cause my bicycle is less complicated than a Jaguar too... :-)
Silliness aside, this really speaks of a failure of imagination on the part of equipment suppliers. How dare they not design a piece of equipment with shielding for a signal that wasn't in use 20 years ago when it was designed and rated? If you've got new equipment coming out with the same problem, then we have a failure of a FCC and FDA testing. Otherwise, yes you should work to fix it, but no it's not a problem to turn off my phone.
But put some pay phones out so I can call family.
Also, I agree with the actual point of the article. Standby is ok - and expected - but I really want an OFF button too. Assuming dude wasn't too stupid to turn it off properly himself.
Because it's News For Nerds. A large percentage of American geeks grew up watching GI Joe and therefore have an emotional attachment to it. It's just nostalgia that put the link on the page, not conspiracy.
Why in the world would you think that? The more rich people who buy fillet mignon, the more rump roasts are available for the poor. Should we discover that all of the indoor grown food ends up at Whole Foods, that would free up a large portion of outdoor crops to be shipped to the local Food Depot (yep, we have a store called that).
For every dumb ass who buys a $3 tomato, that frees up a $0.10 tomato for everyone else, while providing funds to increase the efficiency of the indoor process until eventually even the indoor tomatoes are cheap too. Economic incentives being what they are, how many old-buildings-turned-farms would need to be successful before purpose built engineered farm buildings make sense? Then economies of scale start to kick in and everyone is happy.
Yes, f*ck you corporations! Now I can go and buy my solar cells from my blacksmith grandfather. He makes them out of love.
I've never really understood people who are against corporations. It's kinda like being against [insert race] people. Sure, there are bad [insert corporation], but there are also good [insert corporation]. Don't be against corporations, be against assholes...
You should check to see if your credit card company offers limited accounts. All of mine will let me setup a temporary account number with a withdrawal cap applied to it. Get one of those, change your card info, don't forget that you have to update that account's limit if you choose to buy something else.
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Clears that problem right up
This is a good story, but why in the hell are we talking about this?
This just in, you shouldn't look into the sun. Also, don't fire guns at your head or pour gasoline on yourself while you're smoking. Have we gotten so used to the disclaimer that we demand one even when we already know the danger?
Seriously, we know this already. If you post that this story scared you, or really taught you something - you are a moron. Or perhaps a man sent into the future. Yep, bright lights hurt your eyes.. thanks for the news flash.
I can't help but notice that that the difference between the average weightlifter (not Arnold, circa 1978 - but Bob next door, circa before he got fat) and old Greek and Roman male statues isn't much. I can think of a million different body types I wouldn't want to have, but the statue of David isn't one of them. Working out for 6 hours a day and having a protein shake - or working in the field for 12 hours a day still requires a person to consume at least 5000 Calories. Perhaps the only unnatural thing is how quickly we can get that level of fitness today.
Of course, the closest we could go to finding the "natural" human physique would be to check out some of the remaining tribal cultures. Old photos of Zulu warriors may not look like Lou Ferrigno, but they definitely are stronger than Tyler Durden. It's an interesting balance between speed and strength; hence Zulus being more slender than - oh let's say - Vikings.
Also, for those of you who like weird assertions that don't really mean anything - monkeys are really strong...
If you're talking about the Mark McGuires of the world, you may be right though.
Time, being so odd at intergalactic distances, is difficult to determine. Since we are seeing them about to collide, chances are, they already have. We just won't see it for a few hundred million years. Give or take and eon or so...