"The Ministry of Defence needs to explain how it is possible for a submarine carrying weapons of mass destruction to collide with another submarine carrying weapons of mass destruction in the middle of the world's second-largest ocean," he said.
See the statement above...
Nuclear engineer John Large (braggart) told the BBC that navies often used the same "nesting grounds".
"Both navies want quiet areas, deep areas, roughly the same distance from their home ports. So you find these station grounds have got quite a few submarines, not only French and Royal Navy but also from Russia and the United States."
It doesn't matter if the parking lot is large, but if the situation is as if Sony is giving away flatscreen televisions, maybe the respective Defense Departments need to find other parking lots.
"Show Thumbnails -- If you have images in a directory, selecting this option will show you tiny representations of them. This view is useful if you keep family photos or artwork."
Hey uh, unlike patent and trademark trolls, apparently Psion are still using the trademark, which they did come up with on their own before anyone else.
"Is CS such a basic subject, at the level of science or math, that it makes sense to (try to) teach its principles to every elementary school child?"
What do you mean "try to?" And what do you mean by elementary school child when it clearly says k-12?
Let me put it this way: we had high school CS classes in the early 1980's and those classes weren't failures in the least. Even if you teach children just Logo (we learned assembly, BASIC, and pascal back then) it removes the "computer is a black box that I can't understand" syndrome in about a couple of hours. It transforms peoples' attitudes.
The only fly in the ACM's ointment is the the adults that implement gradeschool CS classes and school committees that think computers are magical and teaching "Office" is somehow teaching "computers" and thusly construct the curricula around that - removing all sorts of creativity and excitement.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." --James D. Nicoll
Really, what support from the vendor? Have you/read/ your EULA for any software you've used? Ever?
YOYO.
You're On Your Own.
Every EULA should have "YOYO" printed at the top of the first page (typically of dozens) or just say "You're On Your Own" in 28 point type in the middle of a blank page. It would greatly simplify things.
That support myth is so old. I don't know which myth is older, that one or the "someone to sue" myth.
I'm commenting on the Britannica article that I clicked through to. It wasn't written by Doc. It's written by some guy called Anthony Craine, who I have never heard of.
Britannica is supposed to be "high quality" (because it was when I was a wee tyke when it was only available in dead-tree edition).
"Is it a continuation of their battle on software piracy?"
No. Microsoft presumes that they are evil enough to wrest away part of the money that the audio and visual recording industry rakes in. They tried this with their drm encumbered music store and drm encumbered OS. They think they can eventually get their fingers in the pie.
Microsoft, in this case, is delusional. Delusions of grandeur.
The recording industry has had a hundred years to perfect evil. Microsoft is not old enough to have learned that much evil. They won't see a penny.
"Profits are divided between the individual and the state. Losses are almost always suffered by the individual"
Right, keep on living in your freeper fantasy land.
Did you happen across the news today? We're going to spend $700 *billion* (on top of what we've already spent) on bailing out the big dogs *and* we're going to raise the debt ceiling another couple of trillion bucks.
"Somehow, I suppose the occupation of Iraq must be profitable after all, otherwise it would only be logical to withdraw troops from there. Same for Afghanistan."
We need a -1 Naive tag.
You need to read up on the Project for a New American Century.
"It is to try to help avoid a financial market crash and the economy from plunging farther and more quickly into the shitter."
Oh, I know. I know too well. We had no choice.
Read my previous message.
This is the result of out-and-out fraud. However, while I live in a country where we have the highest per capita rate of imprisonment, the people responsible will never see the inside of a cell. Not even for a second. Trust me on this. We jail potsmokers instead.
"Why do it now? Why not let the next administration decide?"
Because the problem is so large, and such an emergency, that it/must/ be dealt with right now. Word is that that without the bailout, we had two weeks before the shit hit the fan.
It's true what's been said, that Fannie and Freddie were "too big to fail." Failure without a buyout would have caused...utter chaos - literally runs on the banks not seen since 1929.
And I'm not kidding about criminal lack of oversight. We already know the books were cooked over there to make things look rosier than they were.
The CEOs of Fannie and Freddie lost their jobs because of that. BFD. They probably deserve jail time, but I won't hold my breath.
I lived through the RISDIC crisis, and this is the same stuff, just writ REALLY LARGE. 9 percent of all home loans, nationally, in arrears or in default? What? Here in Rhode Island, it's 32 percent. Apparently that's for real, and this stuff has just started. Trust me, this has just started.
This administration has fucked us all for sure. Forget the Shuttle. Forget the ISS. Forget the Moon. Forget Mars. Forget space exploration. Forget inspiring kids to become engineers and scientists.
Forget dreaming at all, for we can no longer afford it. Our future has been pissed away in 8 years.
Welcome to total, complete, utter incompetent management by the Shrub and his apparatchiks.
The first words spoken by the next President after being sworn in this January and looking at the real numbers: "What the fuck is this shit?"
Just because something is in a contract doesn't mean it's enforceable. AT&T got hosed a year ago by a court because the contracts they were giving people said that you couldn't sue them and had to go to binding arbitration as a sole remedy, and you couldn't group disputes as a class action.
This is just more of the same. If I put it in a contract, buried on page 205, in small print, that you owe me your firstborn as part of the deal, no "reasonable person" would sign the contract if it was stated plainly on the first page.
Have you/read/ a cellphone contract lately? I could find an argument that most cell companies use unconscionable terms as a matter of course.
At&T can put in their contract "If you travel, we'll empty your wallet without telling you" but if a court finds that such a clause is unconscionable, it's void.
"Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. (snort) We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [snatches plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make. We don't care. Watch this [bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano] just lost Peoria. (snort) You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it ? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string. We don't care. We don't have to. (snort) We're the Phone Company!" -- Lily Tomlin
"It looks like they want to wrap-up this investigation and blame [the collapse] on normal office fires," said Gage during counter-conference.
Normal office fires? What the fuck is that guy smoking? This was not "normal office fires"
Oh, I get it, he's got an/agenda/. It's a crackpot agenda though.
Crackpots are the most annoying of all, because not only are they wrong, but their untested gedankenexperiments are so wrong you don't know where to start pointing out the wrongness.
"No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified."
But then this is some reason for Gage to think that the sulfur was part of the mystical "thermite" which contains no sulfur in its composition.
And he calls himself an engineer.
I'll tell ya what the source was. The sulfur was in the steel when it was manufactured. Please go look up AISI steel grades.
OMG! STEEL HAS SULFUR IN IT! AND PHOSPHOROUS! AND MANGANESE! AND MOLYBDENUM! AND COBALT!
Fucking retards
Making steel is like making brownies. There are recipes for all the grades and they have different elements.
"400 architectural and engineering professionals"
Just because it says PE next to your name it doesn't mean you're smart. It means you passed a test. I know of one engineer that totally bought into the bullshit over on Stormfront.org. Seriously.
Richard Gage is to architects and engineers as Jack Thompson is to attorneys.
Someone should seriously look into taking away his stamp.
Slashdot Mirror
Oxygen free "magnetically aligned" copper, hand twisted, and manually rubbed between the breasts of virgins for extra "lustre."
They just won't tell you that the virgins look like Rush Limbaugh.
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FTFA
"The Ministry of Defence needs to explain how it is possible for a submarine carrying weapons of mass destruction to collide with another submarine carrying weapons of mass destruction in the middle of the world's second-largest ocean," he said.
See the statement above...
Nuclear engineer John Large (braggart) told the BBC that navies often used the same "nesting grounds".
"Both navies want quiet areas, deep areas, roughly the same distance from their home ports. So you find these station grounds have got quite a few submarines, not only French and Royal Navy but also from Russia and the United States."
It doesn't matter if the parking lot is large, but if the situation is as if Sony is giving away flatscreen televisions, maybe the respective Defense Departments need to find other parking lots.
Ya think?
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/index.html
Copyright © 2000 by Red Hat, Inc.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-managers-kfm.html
"Show Thumbnails -- If you have images in a directory, selecting this option will show you tiny representations of them. This view is useful if you keep family photos or artwork."
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Hey uh, unlike patent and trademark trolls, apparently Psion are still using the trademark, which they did come up with on their own before anyone else.
The only jerks here are you and your knee.
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"Is CS such a basic subject, at the level of science or math, that it makes sense to (try to) teach its principles to every elementary school child?"
What do you mean "try to?" And what do you mean by elementary school child when it clearly says k-12?
Let me put it this way: we had high school CS classes in the early 1980's and those classes weren't failures in the least. Even if you teach children just Logo (we learned assembly, BASIC, and pascal back then) it removes the "computer is a black box that I can't understand" syndrome in about a couple of hours. It transforms peoples' attitudes.
The only fly in the ACM's ointment is the the adults that implement gradeschool CS classes and school committees that think computers are magical and teaching "Office" is somehow teaching "computers" and thusly construct the curricula around that - removing all sorts of creativity and excitement.
...and they arrested me for crimes against nature.
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It's been a valid use of the word for 400 years.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll
No kidding.
I don't know what's up with the fundament haberdashery lately, but this is inexcusable.
Calling the slashdot editors "editors" is like calling the janitor "sanitary engineer"
No, wait, I'm being unfair to the janitors. At least they do their jobs.
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Is /this/ why I keep getting AARP spam?
Eh?
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What support?
Really, what support from the vendor? Have you /read/ your EULA for any software you've used? Ever?
YOYO.
You're On Your Own.
Every EULA should have "YOYO" printed at the top of the first page (typically of dozens) or just say "You're On Your Own" in 28 point type in the middle of a blank page. It would greatly simplify things.
That support myth is so old. I don't know which myth is older, that one or the "someone to sue" myth.
Seriously, stop repeating this bullshit.
Install a cache server. Like Squid.
http://www.squid-cache.org/ /thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_cache
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I'm commenting on the Britannica article that I clicked through to. It wasn't written by Doc. It's written by some guy called Anthony Craine, who I have never heard of.
Britannica is supposed to be "high quality" (because it was when I was a wee tyke when it was only available in dead-tree edition).
I guess I should have been more clear.
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That article was a POS. It's pretty much content-free.
Poorly researched. No explanation of what Linux really is. No real explanation of why it's come as far as it has.
Wikipedia looks comprehensive and accurate in contrast.
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"Is it a continuation of their battle on software piracy?"
No. Microsoft presumes that they are evil enough to wrest away part of the money that the audio and visual recording industry rakes in. They tried this with their drm encumbered music store and drm encumbered OS. They think they can eventually get their fingers in the pie.
Microsoft, in this case, is delusional. Delusions of grandeur.
The recording industry has had a hundred years to perfect evil. Microsoft is not old enough to have learned that much evil. They won't see a penny.
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"Profits are divided between the individual and the state. Losses are almost always suffered by the individual"
Right, keep on living in your freeper fantasy land.
Did you happen across the news today? We're going to spend $700 *billion* (on top of what we've already spent) on bailing out the big dogs *and* we're going to raise the debt ceiling another couple of trillion bucks.
Wake the fuck up.
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"He can more than claim he has permission, he can actually claim title to the land he's been using. It's called "adverse possession"."
Adverse posession is more complicated than your one sentence summary. The article you linked to lists the details.
It's also pretty difficult to prove all the things you need to steal land that way, too.
If you lose property to adverse posession, you have a shitty lawyer.
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"if a group of lions is coming there's a huge benefit to not being around."
JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR!
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Jesus_Christ_it's_a_lion_Get_In_The_Car!.jpg
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"Somehow, I suppose the occupation of Iraq must be profitable after all, otherwise it would only be logical to withdraw troops from there. Same for Afghanistan."
We need a -1 Naive tag.
You need to read up on the Project for a New American Century.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqletter1998.htm
Please note the date.
Please note who the members of PNAC are and who signed the Mission Statement.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
Let me know when you finish screaming.
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"It is to try to help avoid a financial market crash and the economy from plunging farther and more quickly into the shitter."
Oh, I know. I know too well. We had no choice.
Read my previous message.
This is the result of out-and-out fraud. However, while I live in a country where we have the highest per capita rate of imprisonment, the people responsible will never see the inside of a cell. Not even for a second. Trust me on this. We jail potsmokers instead.
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"Why do it now? Why not let the next administration decide?"
Because the problem is so large, and such an emergency, that it /must/ be dealt with right now. Word is that that without the bailout, we had two weeks before the shit hit the fan.
It's true what's been said, that Fannie and Freddie were "too big to fail." Failure without a buyout would have caused...utter chaos - literally runs on the banks not seen since 1929.
And I'm not kidding about criminal lack of oversight. We already know the books were cooked over there to make things look rosier than they were.
The CEOs of Fannie and Freddie lost their jobs because of that. BFD. They probably deserve jail time, but I won't hold my breath.
I lived through the RISDIC crisis, and this is the same stuff, just writ REALLY LARGE. 9 percent of all home loans, nationally, in arrears or in default? What? Here in Rhode Island, it's 32 percent. Apparently that's for real, and this stuff has just started. Trust me, this has just started.
And we still want to go to Mars. Har. Unlikely.
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"And get something new and awesomer in the skies to replace it.
Something that could get people going wow again would be nice."
Not going to happen. Not now. Not for another 30 years or more.
Afghanistan
Iraq.
Do I dare look at the expenses incurred for the latter? No. There is nothing I can do about it, and all it will do is fill me with rage.
And now, due to criminal lack of oversight (because regulation is BAD, Right?!),
THIS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7602992.stm
This administration has fucked us all for sure. Forget the Shuttle. Forget the ISS. Forget the Moon. Forget Mars. Forget space exploration. Forget inspiring kids to become engineers and scientists.
Forget dreaming at all, for we can no longer afford it. Our future has been pissed away in 8 years.
Welcome to total, complete, utter incompetent management by the Shrub and his apparatchiks.
The first words spoken by the next President after being sworn in this January and looking at the real numbers: "What the fuck is this shit?"
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"damn .. you're a young one .. some of us started using 300 baud accoustic copplers."
Damn, you're a young one. I used a Trash80 paper term that had a 110 "normal speed" and 300 "high" speed.
The TRS-80 actually resides in a computer museum now.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/08/20/att-contract-is-ruled-unconscionable
Maybe Comcast also got hosed. Likely.
Oh look, we're both right.
First hit from google.
http://consumerist.com/consumer/class-action/comcasts-class-action-waiver-ruled-unconscionable-297653.php :-D
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is unconscionable.
Just because something is in a contract doesn't mean it's enforceable. AT&T got hosed a year ago by a court because the contracts they were giving people said that you couldn't sue them and had to go to binding arbitration as a sole remedy, and you couldn't group disputes as a class action.
This is just more of the same. If I put it in a contract, buried on page 205, in small print, that you owe me your firstborn as part of the deal, no "reasonable person" would sign the contract if it was stated plainly on the first page.
Have you /read/ a cellphone contract lately? I could find an argument that most cell companies use unconscionable terms as a matter of course.
At&T can put in their contract "If you travel, we'll empty your wallet without telling you" but if a court finds that such a clause is unconscionable, it's void.
"Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. (snort) We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [snatches plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make. We don't care. Watch this [bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano] just lost Peoria. (snort) You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it ? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string. We don't care. We don't have to. (snort) We're the Phone Company!" -- Lily Tomlin
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"It looks like they want to wrap-up this investigation and blame [the collapse] on normal office fires," said Gage during counter-conference.
Normal office fires? What the fuck is that guy smoking? This was not "normal office fires"
Oh, I get it, he's got an /agenda/. It's a crackpot agenda though.
Crackpots are the most annoying of all, because not only are they wrong, but their untested gedankenexperiments are so wrong you don't know where to start pointing out the wrongness.
"No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified."
But then this is some reason for Gage to think that the sulfur was part of the mystical "thermite" which contains no sulfur in its composition.
And he calls himself an engineer.
I'll tell ya what the source was. The sulfur was in the steel when it was manufactured. Please go look up AISI steel grades.
http://www.answers.com/topic/aisi-steel-grades
OMG! STEEL HAS SULFUR IN IT! AND PHOSPHOROUS! AND MANGANESE! AND MOLYBDENUM! AND COBALT!
Fucking retards
Making steel is like making brownies. There are recipes for all the grades and they have different elements.
"400 architectural and engineering professionals"
Just because it says PE next to your name it doesn't mean you're smart. It means you passed a test. I know of one engineer that totally bought into the bullshit over on Stormfront.org. Seriously.
Richard Gage is to architects and engineers as Jack Thompson is to attorneys.
Someone should seriously look into taking away his stamp.
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