As someone who sent his last SMS 3 months ago, you sound like an old fart defending old tech because the new technologies are making people "dumber". Let's all go back to hunting animals and grow plants, then we will be VERY smart [/sarcasm]. Of course a new technology brings convenience.
To be honest, you sound unconfident and desperate in your arguments, I don't think you truly believe them either.
I don't prefer to SMS either, but that doesn't mean I don't see the advantage it brings to people that prefer to use it.
While I completely understand the difference between atheism and agnosticism, I really there is something more to it.
People who used to be proud atheists a couple of decades ago now they entitle themselves as "agnostics". And sometimes the reason is not the true meaning of it, its either fashion or simply because its more "politically correct".
You know something? Screw politically correct! My tag for agnostics? An atheist who is too much of a pussy to admit it openly.
If we all arrive at the conclusion that its ok to make errors, then the learning value of errors disappears.
But seriously now, only ignorants try to make something simple appear complicated, that whole big wall of long worded text can be summarized to 4 small words: To Err Is Human
Just to clarify for those that did not read the article that you linked:
Ejecta happens very seldom. We are not talking about a constant stream of 300 kgs that constantly goes from Earth to Mars every year, its more like spikes of 3000 tons every 10000 years.
And my guess is, there is a good chance that when a big enough meteor hits earth so an ejecta has good chance to reach Mars, that meteor will wipe all life on earth.
But if you are talking about cosmic time measurements like 1 bilion years, yeah, it happens a lot:)
In other news in a study made by me on the spot, a new class of gamers so-called “Avid Gamers” plays 8 hours a day. And "Heavy Gamers" plays 6 hours a day. And while "Extreme Gamers" are 4% population, there is a "Super Heavy Extreme" class of gamers which make only 1% of the population and play 25 hours a day, which for some random reason would make even more newsworthy crap.
But maybe extreme is 3 hours a day. You can draw the line everywhere, why stick with 7 specifically? And why with capital letters "Extreme Gamers"? Is this a new consecrated word/expressions?
If you are constantly preaching doom, it will eventually happen and you will be "right". That’s not a prediction, it's being pessimistic. The real prediction is to predict when exactly will the bubble burst, and surf the bubble at its peak to make a profit out of it.
For me, I had 6 month precision in predicting the last one. I was lazy with job hunting, but eventually I've got a nice job offer 2 months right before the burst, and now I'm sitting safe in a nice position.
Vulgar words will always exist and they have their role and place. Sometimes their role is to insult someone, sometimes to confirm that you are in a relaxed familiar environment with guys that you thrust, sometimes to make a statement more bold and attract attention.
But everything at the right time and place. You won't go running to random people on the street and yell vulgar words at them unless you are looking for trouble. Tell the same word to your best friends while drinking and it may be funny. You will choose to not use some words while speaking to your mother or grandmother out of respect for them, etc, you get the point.
Like the rest of the language, vulgar words evolve. That means what yesterday was a curse word today may be ok or vice versa, and new words (containing letter, numbers or special characters) are rising to wear the brave title of vulgar terms. In the end what matters is the intent of the person using it and how the environment interprets it.
For example, if I start using 'HTRT23' as a vulgar term for a someone that is so desperate for publicity that will do anything, even degrading - and the new term catches on and a very large amount of people in the world starts using it, 'HTRT23' it is a vulgar term. Same story with "$#*!".
Like everything else in life, television needs some language restrictions as well, because of the very large and uncontrolled audience. And the same old story will repeat ad nauseam: someone always tries to probe the limits, like kids, exploring boundaries. CBS had bad intent and you know it.
I don't work for any censorship organization and I'm not looking to apologize for them. For the matter of fact, I’m quite a potty mouth myself. I'm just stating the common sense - and I think you know it already. But it's not as flaming or as funny as other posts, of course, so feel free to mod me the fuck down.
I used FF 3.6.3 as well. After getting tons of crashes, I went to their website to report the problem and I noticed a lot of people are encountering this and they are not doing shit about it. They also have issues with very slow DNS resolve time on proxies for AGES - tons of people have reported it and they are not doing shit about it either.
Perhaps it does not affect everyone (you are one of the lucky ones) but this certainly affects a lot of users.
1. Options->Basics->Default Search->Manage
2. Click Add
3. Fill in some Name/Keyword (doesn't matter, just make it unique/descriptive)
4. Set URL field to: https://www.google.com/search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s
5. Click Ok
6. Optional: Click "Make Default" button
After reading a few dozens posts with people breaking down any innovation into so small pieces and so old history, and completely dishing out any work done since those two "brilliant" and "original" lines of code - I've come to the conclusion that by Slashdot standards there are no innovations. Ever. And I agree.
You know something: you are not living alone. Every fkin idea "you come up with" has some its roots into other people vision or work they have published. And one more thing: everyone and they sister have a "genius" idea every day. Get to work and put the long working hours to transform that idea into something that somebody else can use it. After you wrote those 100,000 lines of code and fixed your first 1000 bugs, you will finally realize that the original idea was bullshit, and all that mattered is that huge effort along the way to make it happen.
The only reason the big leaders are pumping and praising this stupid word is because the populace are mesmerized by the magic of innovation. Because everyone wants to believe that coming up with this great idea will not require you to work another day in your entire life. Stop dreaming about your "Jump to Conclusions" mat and wake up.
Because they choose to attract customers that don't want to see ads for sex services. Yes, we are talking about sex, not love, don't hide behind that euphemism.
But then again, they may be wrong, feel free to open up your own search engine / advertising agency and ban ads to vegetables, just because you don't like them.
Slashdot Mirror
... you should know that , just in case you are in a hurry to disable local storage in flash.
... I thought so.
Are you going to disable it now?
Virtual Reality is finally tangible on mainstream?
So the Chinese record is for real trains, that may exist in the future, but not now. So experimental/trial runs are excluded. Oh wait ...
Let me fix that. The Chinese record is for Chinese records. For China, World = China.
Very old news. Slow news day I guess ....
yesterday's CELLPHONE != todays CELLPHONE
Stop living in the past.
And iPhone flexibility? Are you high? Its the LEAST flexible mobile platform. Dang, even the moronic Windows Mobile is more flexible.
As someone who sent his last SMS 3 months ago, you sound like an old fart defending old tech because the new technologies are making people "dumber". Let's all go back to hunting animals and grow plants, then we will be VERY smart [/sarcasm]. Of course a new technology brings convenience.
To be honest, you sound unconfident and desperate in your arguments, I don't think you truly believe them either.
I don't prefer to SMS either, but that doesn't mean I don't see the advantage it brings to people that prefer to use it.
While I completely understand the difference between atheism and agnosticism, I really there is something more to it.
People who used to be proud atheists a couple of decades ago now they entitle themselves as "agnostics". And sometimes the reason is not the true meaning of it, its either fashion or simply because its more "politically correct".
You know something? Screw politically correct! My tag for agnostics? An atheist who is too much of a pussy to admit it openly.
If we all arrive at the conclusion that its ok to make errors, then the learning value of errors disappears.
But seriously now, only ignorants try to make something simple appear complicated, that whole big wall of long worded text can be summarized to 4 small words: To Err Is Human
So she didn't actually say anything.
Just to clarify for those that did not read the article that you linked:
:)
Ejecta happens very seldom. We are not talking about a constant stream of 300 kgs that constantly goes from Earth to Mars every year, its more like spikes of 3000 tons every 10000 years. And my guess is, there is a good chance that when a big enough meteor hits earth so an ejecta has good chance to reach Mars, that meteor will wipe all life on earth.
But if you are talking about cosmic time measurements like 1 bilion years, yeah, it happens a lot
Maybe some of us get sick at the sight of vegans.
Vegetables are what food eats!
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/moderatesayings.52247492
It's World War III, no wait ... ... ... ... ...
It's Civil War, no wait
It's only in UK, no wait
It's only a society, no wait
It's only some nerds, no wait
It's nothing.
I guess that is what someone does to brag that he is a lawyer. Or karma whoring. Or both.
It's like !ianal, but on ecstasy.
This is the exact type of trouble MJ had to go through before his "skin condition" changed his life forever.
l2bw
It's not an Apple story, it's a AT&T story. And cut the crap with "Try reading", smuggy!
is like trying to decide whether you'd prefer to have cancer or AIDS.
In other news in a study made by me on the spot, a new class of gamers so-called “Avid Gamers” plays 8 hours a day. And "Heavy Gamers" plays 6 hours a day. And while "Extreme Gamers" are 4% population, there is a "Super Heavy Extreme" class of gamers which make only 1% of the population and play 25 hours a day, which for some random reason would make even more newsworthy crap.
But maybe extreme is 3 hours a day. You can draw the line everywhere, why stick with 7 specifically? And why with capital letters "Extreme Gamers"? Is this a new consecrated word/expressions?
If you are constantly preaching doom, it will eventually happen and you will be "right". That’s not a prediction, it's being pessimistic. The real prediction is to predict when exactly will the bubble burst, and surf the bubble at its peak to make a profit out of it.
For me, I had 6 month precision in predicting the last one. I was lazy with job hunting, but eventually I've got a nice job offer 2 months right before the burst, and now I'm sitting safe in a nice position.
Vulgar words will always exist and they have their role and place. Sometimes their role is to insult someone, sometimes to confirm that you are in a relaxed familiar environment with guys that you thrust, sometimes to make a statement more bold and attract attention.
But everything at the right time and place. You won't go running to random people on the street and yell vulgar words at them unless you are looking for trouble. Tell the same word to your best friends while drinking and it may be funny. You will choose to not use some words while speaking to your mother or grandmother out of respect for them, etc, you get the point.
Like the rest of the language, vulgar words evolve. That means what yesterday was a curse word today may be ok or vice versa, and new words (containing letter, numbers or special characters) are rising to wear the brave title of vulgar terms. In the end what matters is the intent of the person using it and how the environment interprets it.
For example, if I start using 'HTRT23' as a vulgar term for a someone that is so desperate for publicity that will do anything, even degrading - and the new term catches on and a very large amount of people in the world starts using it, 'HTRT23' it is a vulgar term. Same story with "$#*!".
Like everything else in life, television needs some language restrictions as well, because of the very large and uncontrolled audience. And the same old story will repeat ad nauseam: someone always tries to probe the limits, like kids, exploring boundaries. CBS had bad intent and you know it.
I don't work for any censorship organization and I'm not looking to apologize for them. For the matter of fact, I’m quite a potty mouth myself. I'm just stating the common sense - and I think you know it already. But it's not as flaming or as funny as other posts, of course, so feel free to mod me the fuck down.
I used FF 3.6.3 as well. After getting tons of crashes, I went to their website to report the problem and I noticed a lot of people are encountering this and they are not doing shit about it. They also have issues with very slow DNS resolve time on proxies for AGES - tons of people have reported it and they are not doing shit about it either.
Perhaps it does not affect everyone (you are one of the lucky ones) but this certainly affects a lot of users.
1. Options->Basics->Default Search->Manage
2. Click Add
3. Fill in some Name/Keyword (doesn't matter, just make it unique/descriptive)
4. Set URL field to: https://www.google.com/search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s
5. Click Ok
6. Optional: Click "Make Default" button
Enjoy!
After reading a few dozens posts with people breaking down any innovation into so small pieces and so old history, and completely dishing out any work done since those two "brilliant" and "original" lines of code - I've come to the conclusion that by Slashdot standards there are no innovations. Ever. And I agree.
You know something: you are not living alone. Every fkin idea "you come up with" has some its roots into other people vision or work they have published. And one more thing: everyone and they sister have a "genius" idea every day. Get to work and put the long working hours to transform that idea into something that somebody else can use it. After you wrote those 100,000 lines of code and fixed your first 1000 bugs, you will finally realize that the original idea was bullshit, and all that mattered is that huge effort along the way to make it happen.
The only reason the big leaders are pumping and praising this stupid word is because the populace are mesmerized by the magic of innovation. Because everyone wants to believe that coming up with this great idea will not require you to work another day in your entire life. Stop dreaming about your "Jump to Conclusions" mat and wake up.
Screw innovation!
Because they choose to attract customers that don't want to see ads for sex services. Yes, we are talking about sex, not love, don't hide behind that euphemism.
But then again, they may be wrong, feel free to open up your own search engine / advertising agency and ban ads to vegetables, just because you don't like them.
Lies! Everyone is a terrorist, you just have to dig deep enough. Someone is not doing his job!
This would be very hard to implemented, and you also have to consider the privacy issues.
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I'm a fucking moron!
Indeed, it is a very good article.