er kid before you give me a lecture on the best way to suck eggs you might want to go back to school for a few years and see if you can brush up your understanding of how the internet works, and then maybe try and brush up some of your social skills.
the tubes meme is a meme because it is a convenient shorthand for getting across the instance of a manbadly explaining something he clearly doesn't understand, to a bunch of people who's job it is to make informed decisions about that subjects future.
his whole performance is so critically flawed that it is pointless to address your "deserving points of criticism", because the whole thing is a joke.
the internet in fact is just as much like a dump truck as it is a series of tubes because both are rubbish analogies that don't give the listener any greater sense of what the internet is or how it works than they started with.
the reason i would make fun of the senator for alaska is not for the tubes analogy, but for the whole bloody speech.
to quote Wittgenstein "Of that which we cannot speak thereof we must remain silent" or as Mark Twain put it "Tis better keep your mouth shut and be thought of as an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".
I could very well be wrong, but I'd guess the beer industry lobbyists have a lot to do with this.
the most convincing argument i've seen for why it was made illegal in the first place is actually the plastics and paper industry lobbyists, who may well have been responsible for the reefer madness hysteria of the 30's that led to the The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 Hemp being a major competitor to plastic and artifical fibre as well as timber required for paper.
it's a great shame because hemp is really really useful stuff, hard to make it not grow and its fibres can be used for manufacturing all sorts of stuff we use forests and fossil fuels for
of course your standard strain is not that good to smoke as the THC levels are quite mild. (much less buzz than raw tobacco for example, 17th century dutch used to cut valuable tobacco with cheap cannabis sativa)
I think the Carter adminstration was planning on decrminalising it in the 70's, but a potential scandal involving a staff member and cocaine, meant they could afford to be seen to be soft on drugs and the idea was postponed. Then came reagan and just say No... and its been politicaly impossible for any adminstration to stop the war on drugs since.
afterall that would involving admitting the war was lost, something america is a little touchy about
So now instead of hunting down terrorists, their protecting the country against drugs? All this money spent on high tech gadgets could have gone towards anti-terrorism, or *gasp* schools, and instead is being used to further a futile "war on drugs,"
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actually it's worse than that. Due to the laws of supply and demand, By failing to reduce the market for drugs, all the war on drugs has done is increase the financial incentives to be a drug dealer.
it is no suprise therefore that many of your local terrorist organisations.. already very criminal by nature have moved into the drugs trade, because of the vast amount of money to be made
so the war on drugs is in direct conflict the war on terror due to economics
the farce of the taliban and heroin in afghanistan is particularly depressing.
prohibition leads to vast wealth going to criminals... choose the lesser of two evils legalise it and make that wealth go to the state.
mind you from my limited knowledge of american history, i seem to recall that many of your blue blooded super rich political families made money bootlegging whisky during prohibition, the kennedy's in particular.
anyone know what the bushes were doing in prohibition?
baby bottles are allowed as long as the mother will drink from the bottle to prove that it is safe.
this puzzled me when i saw the bbc reporting this too. Surely if the plot is to blow up a plane, drinking 'unsafe' milk is the least of your suicide parents/bombers problems or indeed worries.
Google was created by Hoover back when the interent was just a couple of tubes. Intelligence gathering by vacuum suction. The cleaner was just a comercial spin off Gmail... G Male... G Men.
Not believing that we went to the moon doesn't give me a membership in a tinfoil-hat brigade.
BZZZZZZZT! Wrong. I'm afraid it does. But thanks for playing.
Actually he's right, just not believing in the moon landings doesn't get you membership in the tinfoil-hat brigade.
it makes you ELIGIBLE to join, but you still have to pay membership fees like everyone else
I use coins issued before 1974 to pay for my THB membership card (to avoid the RFID tags placed in banknotes obviously) remember The empire never ended!
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I'd say that the french are going to ask you to install some software on your PC giving them (the French Government) the fattest, biggest zombie net in the world.
with 2.5gb pipes I'd say that's gone beyoned a zombie net... ghoul net? mummy net? no that would have to be at least a lich net!
I feel allow duel boot is a good house guest option
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
mind you...
After a long boot sequence...
XP: You are wonderful!
Distro in black: Thank you -- I've worked hard to become so.
XP: I admit it you are better than i am...
Distro in black: Then why are you smiling?
XP: because i know something you don't know.
Distro in black: And what is that?
XP: I am not left-handed....
Booting another OS from the NT boot loader is significantly more difficult than using a Linux boot loader GUI setup tool.
Why would you expect any different, not just from microsoft but from ANY company out to make money? Why make it easier to use your competitors' products?
Does your Ford come with an instructon book to tell you how to fit a Nissan engine? No it doesn't because there's no good business case for them to do that.
Conversely the kit car you built from parts probably can be adapted to take ford or nissan engines.Why? because the reason you get a kit car is the joy of building it, not which company sold it to you
Comparing Microsoft OS and Linux and saying who's is like asking who would win in fight between Darth Vader and Capt Picard. Essentially pointless because they live in different universes.
Really, who gives a f*ck about your 1.25 TB of crap? Or mine? We're just two ants in the anthill.
actually judging by what modern archeologists find really interesting, it is exactly what future archeologists will be interested in.
The little bits of detritus that make up individuals lives are far more interesting than the "big picture" history which is usually heavily loaded with spin, and therefore a bit of chore working out what actually was happening as opposed to what people wanted you to believe was happening.
the fact that people ARE musing on shit like Paris Hilton IS going to be interesting to future historians, because it gives an insight into how people were living their lives and what was important to them at the begining of the 21st Century.
all of those pictures from our camera phones, and whining live journals may not be a terribly flattering picture of our lives, but for an archeological point of view, it's exactly the sort of evidence you want.
The fourth dr was good for a variety of reasons, great script writers like douglas adams for example, but it think the main one for me is the characterisation of the dr as played by tom baker.
tom has described is as basically playing himself, only with the advantage of knowing whats going on because he's read the script.
Slashdot Mirror
you forgot my favourite...
have children ripped apart by bears for laughing at your bald head
remember nobody is to stone anyone until I say so - even if someone does say Jehova!
er kid before you give me a lecture on the best way to suck eggs you might want to go back to school for a few years and see if you can brush up your understanding of how the internet works, and then maybe try and brush up some of your social skills.
the tubes meme is a meme because it is a convenient shorthand for getting across the instance of a manbadly explaining something he clearly doesn't understand, to a bunch of people who's job it is to make informed decisions about that subjects future.
his whole performance is so critically flawed that it is pointless to address your "deserving points of criticism", because the whole thing is a joke.
the internet in fact is just as much like a dump truck as it is a series of tubes because both are rubbish analogies that don't give the listener any greater sense of what the internet is or how it works than they started with.
the reason i would make fun of the senator for alaska is not for the tubes analogy, but for the whole bloody speech.
to quote Wittgenstein "Of that which we cannot speak thereof we must remain silent"
or as Mark Twain put it "Tis better keep your mouth shut and be thought of as an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".
the most convincing argument i've seen for why it was made illegal in the first place is actually the plastics and paper industry lobbyists, who may well have been responsible for the reefer madness hysteria of the 30's that led to the The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 Hemp being a major competitor to plastic and artifical fibre as well as timber required for paper.
it's a great shame because hemp is really really useful stuff, hard to make it not grow and its fibres can be used for manufacturing all sorts of stuff we use forests and fossil fuels for
of course your standard strain is not that good to smoke as the THC levels are quite mild. (much less buzz than raw tobacco for example, 17th century dutch used to cut valuable tobacco with cheap cannabis sativa)
I think the Carter adminstration was planning on decrminalising it in the 70's, but a potential scandal involving a staff member and cocaine, meant they could afford to be seen to be soft on drugs and the idea was postponed. Then came reagan and just say No... and its been politicaly impossible for any adminstration to stop the war on drugs since.
afterall that would involving admitting the war was lost, something america is a little touchy about
actually it's worse than that. Due to the laws of supply and demand, By failing to reduce the market for drugs, all the war on drugs has done is increase the financial incentives to be a drug dealer.
it is no suprise therefore that many of your local terrorist organisations.. already very criminal by nature have moved into the drugs trade, because of the vast amount of money to be made
so the war on drugs is in direct conflict the war on terror due to economics
the farce of the taliban and heroin in afghanistan is particularly depressing.
prohibition leads to vast wealth going to criminals... choose the lesser of two evils legalise it and make that wealth go to the state.
mind you from my limited knowledge of american history, i seem to recall that many of your blue blooded super rich political families made money bootlegging whisky during prohibition, the kennedy's in particular.
anyone know what the bushes were doing in prohibition?
this puzzled me when i saw the bbc reporting this too. Surely if the plot is to blow up a plane, drinking 'unsafe' milk is the least of your suicide parents/bombers problems or indeed worries.
the links to the CIA are there for all to see
... G Male... G Men.
Google was created by Hoover back when the interent was just a couple of tubes. Intelligence gathering by vacuum suction.
The cleaner was just a comercial spin off
Gmail
how much more obvious can they be people?
wait i'm confused...
is the imaginary girlfriend's cat alive or dead at this point, and why is it in a box?
Actually he's right, just not believing in the moon landings doesn't get you membership in the tinfoil-hat brigade.
it makes you ELIGIBLE to join, but you still have to pay membership fees like everyone else
I use coins issued before 1974 to pay for my THB membership card (to avoid the RFID tags placed in banknotes obviously)
remember The empire never ended!
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I'd say that the french are going to ask you to install some software on your PC giving them (the French Government) the fattest, biggest zombie net in the world.
... ghoul net? mummy net? no that would have to be at least a lich net!
with 2.5gb pipes I'd say that's gone beyoned a zombie net
Luckily he's survived by his brothers Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, and Zathras.
I think you're mistaken his surviving brothers are Zathras, Zathras, Zathras and Zathras.
"Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry."
Ah but apple Do have a business reason for enabling dual boot. They aren't the no1 OS Microsoft is.
Potential mac users may be put off that they can't play their pc games... hey no problem! now you can.
potential pc users aren't really going to be put off by those mac apps they can't run. so no need for Microsoft to make dual boot an easy option.
as for the penguins... well 1st rule of marketing is don't talk about the penguins
I feel allow duel boot is a good house guest option
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
mind you...
After a long boot sequence...
XP: You are wonderful!
Distro in black: Thank you -- I've worked hard to become so.
XP: I admit it you are better than i am...
Distro in black: Then why are you smiling?
XP: because i know something you don't know.
Distro in black: And what is that?
XP: I am not left-handed....
Booting another OS from the NT boot loader is significantly more difficult than using a Linux boot loader GUI setup tool.
Why would you expect any different, not just from microsoft but from ANY company out to make money? Why make it easier to use your competitors' products?
Does your Ford come with an instructon book to tell you how to fit a Nissan engine? No it doesn't because there's no good business case for them to do that.
Conversely the kit car you built from parts probably can be adapted to take ford or nissan engines.Why? because the reason you get a kit car is the joy of building it, not which company sold it to you
Comparing Microsoft OS and Linux and saying who's is like asking who would win in fight between Darth Vader and Capt Picard.
Essentially pointless because they live in different universes.
If every man, woman, and child could carry around their own personal nuclear warhead,
Now timmy I know johnny took your toy truck, but that's no reason to go pressing the button? is it timmy? timmy?
Do you mean: "Whoever didn't create the creator created us"?
No what he means is that the whatever that didn't create the whoever, who didn't create the creator created the creatures that created us!
I once had a user attempt to attach two swallows to a cocoanut, with a bit of creeper.
were they african or european swallows?
Really, who gives a f*ck about your 1.25 TB of crap? Or mine? We're just two ants in the anthill.
actually judging by what modern archeologists find really interesting, it is exactly what future archeologists will be interested in.
The little bits of detritus that make up individuals lives are far more interesting than the "big picture" history which is usually heavily loaded with spin, and therefore a bit of chore working out what actually was happening as opposed to what people wanted you to believe was happening.
the fact that people ARE musing on shit like Paris Hilton IS going to be interesting to future historians, because it gives an insight into how people were living their lives and what was important to them at the begining of the 21st Century.
all of those pictures from our camera phones, and whining live journals may not be a terribly flattering picture of our lives, but for an archeological point of view, it's exactly the sort of evidence you want.
Only people who have mastered the current ruleset should be given a free pass to break the rules.
well said sir , well said.
... Yes,yes, for the pedantics out there that ...
I think you'll find that's "for the pedants out there..."
ah so you saw hyperdrive last night too then :)
$14, million!
is that the most money paid for sex ever?
The fourth dr was good for a variety of reasons, great script writers like douglas adams for example, but it think the main one for me is the characterisation of the dr as played by tom baker.
tom has described is as basically playing himself, only with the advantage of knowing whats going on because he's read the script.
That's expensive arousal! I usually get the horn for much much less than that!