I must concur. WMA, while proprietary, is a great-sounding format. Even 64kb/sec is tolerable--not so with mp3. 128kb/sec on my Creative Muvo sounds fantastic.
Refraining from posting entirely off-topic, inflammatory and arguably inane US political commentary as a response to an article about advances in prosthetics does not equal "glorifying the mess...".
Damn, I get so tired of some of you Americans some times. The rest of the world doesn't really care all that much about your two party bickering and point scoring.
Real wars beget flamewars. Being Americans, and this being a site of American manufacture, any topic that can possibly be tied in the most tertiary way to our war du jour will wind up becoming a forum for the discussion of said war. It occupies our consciousness because it's big, and we disagree vehemently among ourselves as to whether it is or was worthwhile to commence. Personally, I think the Iraq war rates as one of history's all-time dumbest fiascos, and that should have been obvious to everyone from the start, but Christ, do you have any idea what 12 years of American public school does to your higher brain functions? America is Homer Simpson. America is a big, happy Golden Retriever that ambles around insouciantly smashing delicate things with it's madly wagging tail. Sorry.
Whoa. That's rather unfair, I think. The rank-and-file are, by international law, protected from any criminal charges unless implicated in specific criminal acts. While the Iraq war is, like most wars, a grotesque criminal enterprise, soldiers fight out of a sense of self-preservation and loyalty to their friends, regardless of nationality. And rest assured that the people who orchestrated this debacle will never be brought to justice before any earthly court.
Fine, then. Let's tell our (US) government to stop sending money and weapons to friendly dictatorships like the ones in Uzbekistan, Jordan, Yemen, etc. Serious, you research any of these places and you'll find these very same kinds of outrages going on. Uzbek "president" Islam Karimov is especially noteworthy for Saddam-caliber torture, yet there is nary a word of disapproval from the State Department. It's hypocritical in the extreme that the powers that be in this country claim to be seeding liberty throughout the world when they abet the activities of these cruel psychopaths.
That Wilsonian crusader rhetoric they use is just noble-sounding bait to lure brainwashed Americans into paying for and dying in, thier endless wars. After all, it's just so much fun when you have almost unlimited power and you get to move toy soldiers around on the board while consulting your oft-thumbed copy of Hegel on Ethics.
Well, let's try to be fair to the Iranians, even the fundamentalists. The people who hijacked the planes were Sunni radicals from Arab states, not Persian Shiites.
It will look like a McDonalds cash register with lots of pretty buttons(or more likely a touch screen), and will probably only connect to shopping sites.
If that's the case, then I'll have a bacon double cheeseburger and a large fry. Oh, and a large Dr. Pepper with no ice, please.
Actually, modern diesel boats are the reason why the U.S. Navy has been developing the ultra high-powered low-frequency active sonar. Because when running on batteries, the newer diesels are often too quiet to hear until they have you in range, quite to the chagrin of American commanders who learn that they've been "sunk" by a Japanese or Australian submarine during a naval exercise.
I believe the Canadians bought the entire run of Oberon-class diesel subs, which are about as good as any non-nuclear boats in the world. Scarily quiet and perfect for lurking around the littoral environment of the far North.
I highly doubt that making a surrupticious passage in a submarine counts toward making the Northwest Passage freely navigable, from a legal standpoint. Of course, the threat implied by surfacing a warship unnanounced off the coast of another country is pretty obvious.
Guevara personally executed more people in Havana's jail than a Saudi headman. Hardly heroic, I think, though most people who profess to admire this puritanical thug don't know a damn thing about him.
10s of millions of deaths from communism sounds like an exageration.
Unfortunately, it isn't. Dead innocents was the one thing communist regimes delivered in spades. But don't take my word for it, go look it up. Even the "conservative estimates" are quite amazing.
Now, as to the difference between believing someone who says "I'm a Christian" and evaluating the actions of said person & determining what they *really* believe, that's a different matter.
Makes sense to me. Jesus said you'd know them by their deeds and not their words, or something like that. A quote that has never been more relevant than in the present day.
By the way, every single Wehrmacht soldier was issued a belt buckle with "GOTT MIT UNS" stamped on it's surface (right under the eagle and swastika.) Kinda makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Chomsky is one of the sanest men in America, a meticulous researcher, a careful speaker and he acts according to principles much stricter than any the pundits of the far right could ever manage.
Which is why you find people of a very different stripe giving him his due on Lewrockwell.com and other right-leaning sites. I mean, just because you're a socialist doesn't mean you don't abhor wanton distruction and the lies that necessarily accompany it. National Socialism, on the other hand...
Basically, what it comes down to is that whatever economic system you're in favor of should take a back seat to a respect for the truth and a reverence for life. Civilizations rest upon this notion, and disintegrate when it is forgotten. More than any other idea, this is what comes through in Chomsky's writing, which is why I, a non-socialist, think Chomsky is cool.
No, school turns one's brains into a propaganda reciever by making you illiterate and incapable of thinking critically. Television disseminates propaganda that isn't covered in the school curriculum.
I hope they didn't use robosapien as their webserver as well, cuz man, after only ~30 posts it's already gone
No, for that there's Roboserver, which automatically connects wirelessly with other nearby Roboservers in order to handle increased traffic loads. Unfortunately, the prototypes aren't yet Slashdot-capable.
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I must concur. WMA, while proprietary, is a great-sounding format. Even 64kb/sec is tolerable--not so with mp3. 128kb/sec on my Creative Muvo sounds fantastic.
Oh, about the same age you give them thier first shotgun, so 5 or 6 oughta do it. Yee-haw!
Real wars beget flamewars. Being Americans, and this being a site of American manufacture, any topic that can possibly be tied in the most tertiary way to our war du jour will wind up becoming a forum for the discussion of said war. It occupies our consciousness because it's big, and we disagree vehemently among ourselves as to whether it is or was worthwhile to commence. Personally, I think the Iraq war rates as one of history's all-time dumbest fiascos, and that should have been obvious to everyone from the start, but Christ, do you have any idea what 12 years of American public school does to your higher brain functions? America is Homer Simpson. America is a big, happy Golden Retriever that ambles around insouciantly smashing delicate things with it's madly wagging tail. Sorry.
Whoa. That's rather unfair, I think. The rank-and-file are, by international law, protected from any criminal charges unless implicated in specific criminal acts. While the Iraq war is, like most wars, a grotesque criminal enterprise, soldiers fight out of a sense of self-preservation and loyalty to their friends, regardless of nationality. And rest assured that the people who orchestrated this debacle will never be brought to justice before any earthly court.
That Wilsonian crusader rhetoric they use is just noble-sounding bait to lure brainwashed Americans into paying for and dying in, thier endless wars. After all, it's just so much fun when you have almost unlimited power and you get to move toy soldiers around on the board while consulting your oft-thumbed copy of Hegel on Ethics.
Well, let's try to be fair to the Iranians, even the fundamentalists. The people who hijacked the planes were Sunni radicals from Arab states, not Persian Shiites.
If that's the case, then I'll have a bacon double cheeseburger and a large fry. Oh, and a large Dr. Pepper with no ice, please.
Dude, if that happens, we'll pull Wil Smith out of cryostasis so that he can open up a can of whoopass on them.
It depends upon whether it's an African or European glacier.
Actually, modern diesel boats are the reason why the U.S. Navy has been developing the ultra high-powered low-frequency active sonar. Because when running on batteries, the newer diesels are often too quiet to hear until they have you in range, quite to the chagrin of American commanders who learn that they've been "sunk" by a Japanese or Australian submarine during a naval exercise.
I believe the Canadians bought the entire run of Oberon-class diesel subs, which are about as good as any non-nuclear boats in the world. Scarily quiet and perfect for lurking around the littoral environment of the far North.
I highly doubt that making a surrupticious passage in a submarine counts toward making the Northwest Passage freely navigable, from a legal standpoint. Of course, the threat implied by surfacing a warship unnanounced off the coast of another country is pretty obvious.
Spitzbergen! I want Spitzbergen! Gonna build me a little resort, right next to the coalmine and the fish-monger.
I wish I could relax, except the word "asyptotic" isn't in my dictionary and it's FREAKING ME OUT, MAN!!!
Bananas n' cheese, hmmm, now why do I suspect that this is a British innovation?
Guevara personally executed more people in Havana's jail than a Saudi headman. Hardly heroic, I think, though most people who profess to admire this puritanical thug don't know a damn thing about him.
Unfortunately, it isn't. Dead innocents was the one thing communist regimes delivered in spades. But don't take my word for it, go look it up. Even the "conservative estimates" are quite amazing.
Or a paroxysm of laughter.
Makes sense to me. Jesus said you'd know them by their deeds and not their words, or something like that. A quote that has never been more relevant than in the present day.
By the way, every single Wehrmacht soldier was issued a belt buckle with "GOTT MIT UNS" stamped on it's surface (right under the eagle and swastika.) Kinda makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Which is why you find people of a very different stripe giving him his due on Lewrockwell.com and other right-leaning sites. I mean, just because you're a socialist doesn't mean you don't abhor wanton distruction and the lies that necessarily accompany it. National Socialism, on the other hand...
Basically, what it comes down to is that whatever economic system you're in favor of should take a back seat to a respect for the truth and a reverence for life. Civilizations rest upon this notion, and disintegrate when it is forgotten. More than any other idea, this is what comes through in Chomsky's writing, which is why I, a non-socialist, think Chomsky is cool.
No, school turns one's brains into a propaganda reciever by making you illiterate and incapable of thinking critically. Television disseminates propaganda that isn't covered in the school curriculum.
So it's kind of like "PlannedObsolescence(tm)," right?
No, for that there's Roboserver, which automatically connects wirelessly with other nearby Roboservers in order to handle increased traffic loads. Unfortunately, the prototypes aren't yet Slashdot-capable.
In a few years, it will be average.