If this happens, Leiss worries that there will be one more genetic tweak: some of these elites will make their offspring genetically incompatible with others. Differences between classes will be transformed into differences between species.
Best news I've heard all day. As much as I loathe Paris Hilton, I'd gladly see her live twice as long if I got a guarantee that the extension treatments sterilized her.
Radical idea, but how about letting them play physical games and other unstructured activities in order to learn the lessons of socializing, sharing, consequence, reward, and impulse-control?
Oh, sorta like the lessons learned when Golding put a bunch of kids on an island? Sorry, but recess was one of the least favorite parts of my day. Socializing meant cliques and consequences were those things visited upon you when you ticked off someone important.
How on Earth (and the seven circles of teh intarwebs, for that matter) do they adequately verify that these "girls" are actually human females?!!!!
This is the internet, after all.
Well, given what the Escapist's article on the site featured, you choice of women featured such examples as:
1) Thin and uneasy-looking woman.
2) Overweight and heavily tattooed woman.
3) Two lipstick lesbians whose pictures all look like they were cribbed from a website, down to the logos in the corners of some of them.
4) A guy.
5) Gabe Newell.
6) A bear.
7) A grill.
So obviously their vetting system is very high quality and never lets any fakes through.
California has half again the population of Texas. Is there no CA state approval for textbooks? Seems that CA and TX should balance each other out, politically.
Like matter and antimatter? So if we move one next to the other, they'll annihilate each other?
That's funny. I thought a coronal mass ejection was what happened after I ate at Chipotle. I've not had a lot of luck getting volunteers to watch that.
Well, you obviously didn't post it on the Internet, then.
DAMN YOU! I had forgotten about tvtropes. Damnit damnit damnit damnit.
If I don't have hours to kill, I'll read a page or two and drop any interesting links into a "tropes" bookmark folder for later perusal instead of opening tabs with them.
My tropes folder is now 50 entries large. It was only 5 large, and then one day I tried cleaning it out....
So what I'm saying is convince yourself to save things for later and then make sure 'later' never, under any circumstances, EVER arrives.
They already have gone through the trouble of making molds for the fake fan and CPU. Why stop now when with all this publicity there will be a market for the fakes as collectibles?
But it's only the original 200 that are 'valuable', due to the circumstances surrounding their purchase.
So what you're saying is there'll be fake fake CPUs?
... does technique really matter? I've had three kinds of experiences as far as typing.
School
Teacher: Here's a typing test.
Me: OK. (Types.)
Teacher: Your technique is absolutely horrible, you'll never be able to progress like that. If you're going to take typing you'll have to start in the beginner class and relearn from scratch.
Me: No, thanks.
Clerical job interview
Interviewer: Here's a typing test.
Me: OK. (Types.)
Interviewer: 90 WPM, only one error. You pass.
Technical job interview
Interviewer: You've been using computers since the Commodore 64 days and remember DOS. Yeah, we're not going to bother with a typing test. I'm sure you're fine.
My uncle was a journalist who typed with two fingers his entire career. His editor didn't care if he typed them by slamming his face on the keys, as long as the reports were on time and well-written.
So, unless you need to do something for ergonomic reasons or just a mad fit of self-improvement, probably not worth it. Your ring finger will get over the neglect.:)
As are command prompts, apparently. I'm still searching for that elusive hacking app with fancy graphics and controls that's portrayed in all hacking movies.
Hell, no. Have you seen the fonts on those things, they're HUGE! You get less characters per screen than a VIC-20. And you have to sit through 20 seconds of animations of lined globes and screen-filling blinking/pulsing OVERRIDE and SYSTEM MALFUNCTION and PASSWORD DENIED every freakin' time you do something. It's like the UI designer made it for an uninformed audience watching the action second-hand on a television set, not for the person using it!
I know things were much more primative then, but there was a certain charm that just isn't present on today's Internet.::sigh::
I didn't mind primitive. I could browse with images off and only use Netscape's "image" button when I needed it. Got the most out of my dialup that way.
What I DID mind was having to try find content by drilling down hierarchical lists or using keyword-based searches and then using half-broken webrings to try go from the on-topic but often lame page that came up to a page that actually had good content.
Really, probably the one thing about the modern Internet I couldn't live without would be Google in specific and improved search engines in general.
How many people own routers from the last few years vs. older routers.
How many people receive their routers from their ISP and never touch the configuration.
A lot. When we switched ISPs (one company was offering a deal for apartments) I was at work when the guy came in. My roommate said he "plugged in some boxes and left". (As per my instructions/orders/threats, my roommate also kept him from touching my stuff. No, I don't need your ISP-branded firewall/wireless assistant/support program/home page on my XP partition, thanks and go to Hell.) So I hooked (wired) to the router and looked. Open wireless.
Once that was fixed I remembered the deal for apartments. So I fired up my laptop and looked. There was fifteen new open wireless points (and three secured), all named almost the same.
Why do you have to preface your opinion with this disclaimer? Are you so afraid that any position that doesn't sound like you are "tough on pedophiles" will get you branded as a pedophile yourself?
An unsurprising fear. Some men these days are terrified to be seen near children not their own (unless accompanied by a woman - women alone and couples are 'safe') because of fears of being accused of something.
And my memory's fuzzy, but some time ago wasn't there a government ad of a man holding a child's hand and the caption "I don't feel right when I see them" or something similar, encouraging people to phone the cops if seeing an adult and child in public makes them feel funny?
I'm not saying it's right, but if you find that there's a bunch of crazy villagers outside looking to burn the first witch they find, it's safer from an individual standpoint to grab a torch yourself and say "Let's go find a witch!" rather than say anything that might make them think they've just found one.
I think that's not quite what's happening here. I think the IOC is afraid that the more the video is watched, the more negative associations people will have with the Olympics, and the fewer viewers they'll get. They're hoping to lose as little as possible after this tragedy.
So rather than hoping to make money off the death of an athlete, they're hoping the death of an athlete doesn't damage their profits? I fail to see that much difference between those two possibilities.
There's no law for that. Uh... how about, dunno, something old fashioned? Like, asking nicely?
Why bother asking when you can just make a law that lets you order it? So much easier, since you can send in police to quell complainers rather than having to do your job of interacting with the rabble that voted you in. And even better, you can use said law for situations beyond what you originally promised they'd be used for. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
I can't wait to try out ArabRoulette and see what I get!
I am more interested in what happens if the Arabs find chatroulette.
I imagine that in the confusion 4chan will wind up trolling itself and the entire Internet will collapse into a massive meme black hole such that after society rebuilds, a new era will dawn in which all art depicts humans fleeing from demonic Ethernet cables.
Plain old looking is _not_ illegal, depending on the expectation of privacy. Many people's homes sit on widely used roads, and if glancing in at someone as you walk or drive past their house is now a crime, I'd guess just about everyone is a criminal.
Indeed. I should have said that looking with obvious intent of trying to catch something going on (especially using some sort of magnification, or deliberately positioning oneself to get a better view through a not-entirely closed curtain) is illegal.
Slashdot Mirror
TFA suggested purchasing two of these $500 cards,
What? Only TWO? Where's my quad SLI? Where's my more-money-than-sense option? Where's my burn-people-to-death-with-my-air-outtake option?
If this happens, Leiss worries that there will be one more genetic tweak: some of these elites will make their offspring genetically incompatible with others. Differences between classes will be transformed into differences between species.
Best news I've heard all day. As much as I loathe Paris Hilton, I'd gladly see her live twice as long if I got a guarantee that the extension treatments sterilized her.
Radical idea, but how about letting them play physical games and other unstructured activities in order to learn the lessons of socializing, sharing, consequence, reward, and impulse-control?
Oh, sorta like the lessons learned when Golding put a bunch of kids on an island? Sorry, but recess was one of the least favorite parts of my day. Socializing meant cliques and consequences were those things visited upon you when you ticked off someone important.
How on Earth (and the seven circles of teh intarwebs, for that matter) do they adequately verify that these "girls" are actually human females?!!!! This is the internet, after all.
Well, given what the Escapist's article on the site featured, you choice of women featured such examples as:
1) Thin and uneasy-looking woman.
2) Overweight and heavily tattooed woman.
3) Two lipstick lesbians whose pictures all look like they were cribbed from a website, down to the logos in the corners of some of them.
4) A guy.
5) Gabe Newell.
6) A bear.
7) A grill.
So obviously their vetting system is very high quality and never lets any fakes through.
I'm finding it hard to believe you put both of those guys in the same sentence.
Why? They're both notable historical figures. Ditto the Marquis de Sade.
California has half again the population of Texas. Is there no CA state approval for textbooks? Seems that CA and TX should balance each other out, politically.
Like matter and antimatter? So if we move one next to the other, they'll annihilate each other?
Oh, please, oh please be true.
That's funny. I thought a coronal mass ejection was what happened after I ate at Chipotle. I've not had a lot of luck getting volunteers to watch that.
Well, you obviously didn't post it on the Internet, then.
DAMN YOU! I had forgotten about tvtropes. Damnit damnit damnit damnit.
If I don't have hours to kill, I'll read a page or two and drop any interesting links into a "tropes" bookmark folder for later perusal instead of opening tabs with them.
My tropes folder is now 50 entries large. It was only 5 large, and then one day I tried cleaning it out....
So what I'm saying is convince yourself to save things for later and then make sure 'later' never, under any circumstances, EVER arrives.
They already have gone through the trouble of making molds for the fake fan and CPU. Why stop now when with all this publicity there will be a market for the fakes as collectibles?
But it's only the original 200 that are 'valuable', due to the circumstances surrounding their purchase.
So what you're saying is there'll be fake fake CPUs?
for as little as $13/mo
My eyes somehow jumped to that part first. At first, looks kinda like an ad, doesn't it?
Monitor Pirate Bay torrents TODAY, for only $13/month!
Unfortunately for them, the Pirate Bay's got a better ad. IPREDator for 5 Euros a month.
School
Teacher: Here's a typing test.
Me: OK. (Types.)
Teacher: Your technique is absolutely horrible, you'll never be able to progress like that. If you're going to take typing you'll have to start in the beginner class and relearn from scratch.
Me: No, thanks.
Clerical job interview
Interviewer: Here's a typing test.
Me: OK. (Types.)
Interviewer: 90 WPM, only one error. You pass.
Technical job interview
Interviewer: You've been using computers since the Commodore 64 days and remember DOS. Yeah, we're not going to bother with a typing test. I'm sure you're fine.
My uncle was a journalist who typed with two fingers his entire career. His editor didn't care if he typed them by slamming his face on the keys, as long as the reports were on time and well-written.
So, unless you need to do something for ergonomic reasons or just a mad fit of self-improvement, probably not worth it. Your ring finger will get over the neglect.:)
Am I the only one who reads "blogosphere" every time he sees biosphere?
Sadly, no. I was expecting the article to be a conspiracy theory on some sort of blogosphere cabal that's been plotting to do something with arsenic.
Didn't that one go: "Kirk gets first dibs on all the babes"?
I thought it was "When in doubt, throw technobabble at it."
Just because it began in science fiction doesn't make it a bad idea. Asimov's three laws of robotics comes to mind.
A capital idea! I approve of forcing other sentient beings to put my commands above their own well-being.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens is gonna be all over you for suggesting we eat them. Then I'll have to hit a Tribble with a shovel.
You're gonna have to wait, I'm using the shovel to hit some Ewoks.
Welcome back to the mid-90s. Do these teenaged whiz-kids do their personal computer hacking on-line?
No, dude, they use.... TERMINAL ENTRY. Hackers AND terrorists! It's two great tastes that taste like Z-movie together!
(For the truly bored, a semi-dramatic reading of box blurb available here, 4:20ish-5:20ish, after annoying commercial message.)
As are command prompts, apparently. I'm still searching for that elusive hacking app with fancy graphics and controls that's portrayed in all hacking movies.
Hell, no. Have you seen the fonts on those things, they're HUGE! You get less characters per screen than a VIC-20. And you have to sit through 20 seconds of animations of lined globes and screen-filling blinking/pulsing OVERRIDE and SYSTEM MALFUNCTION and PASSWORD DENIED every freakin' time you do something. It's like the UI designer made it for an uninformed audience watching the action second-hand on a television set, not for the person using it!
I know things were much more primative then, but there was a certain charm that just isn't present on today's Internet. ::sigh::
I didn't mind primitive. I could browse with images off and only use Netscape's "image" button when I needed it. Got the most out of my dialup that way.
What I DID mind was having to try find content by drilling down hierarchical lists or using keyword-based searches and then using half-broken webrings to try go from the on-topic but often lame page that came up to a page that actually had good content.
Really, probably the one thing about the modern Internet I couldn't live without would be Google in specific and improved search engines in general.
Oh, and no blink tags. Drove me crazy.
How many people own routers from the last few years vs. older routers.
How many people receive their routers from their ISP and never touch the configuration.
A lot. When we switched ISPs (one company was offering a deal for apartments) I was at work when the guy came in. My roommate said he "plugged in some boxes and left". (As per my instructions/orders/threats, my roommate also kept him from touching my stuff. No, I don't need your ISP-branded firewall/wireless assistant/support program/home page on my XP partition, thanks and go to Hell.) So I hooked (wired) to the router and looked. Open wireless.
Once that was fixed I remembered the deal for apartments. So I fired up my laptop and looked. There was fifteen new open wireless points (and three secured), all named almost the same.
Why do you have to preface your opinion with this disclaimer? Are you so afraid that any position that doesn't sound like you are "tough on pedophiles" will get you branded as a pedophile yourself?
An unsurprising fear. Some men these days are terrified to be seen near children not their own (unless accompanied by a woman - women alone and couples are 'safe') because of fears of being accused of something.
And my memory's fuzzy, but some time ago wasn't there a government ad of a man holding a child's hand and the caption "I don't feel right when I see them" or something similar, encouraging people to phone the cops if seeing an adult and child in public makes them feel funny?
I'm not saying it's right, but if you find that there's a bunch of crazy villagers outside looking to burn the first witch they find, it's safer from an individual standpoint to grab a torch yourself and say "Let's go find a witch!" rather than say anything that might make them think they've just found one.
I think that's not quite what's happening here. I think the IOC is afraid that the more the video is watched, the more negative associations people will have with the Olympics, and the fewer viewers they'll get. They're hoping to lose as little as possible after this tragedy.
So rather than hoping to make money off the death of an athlete, they're hoping the death of an athlete doesn't damage their profits? I fail to see that much difference between those two possibilities.
There's no law for that. Uh... how about, dunno, something old fashioned? Like, asking nicely?
Why bother asking when you can just make a law that lets you order it? So much easier, since you can send in police to quell complainers rather than having to do your job of interacting with the rabble that voted you in. And even better, you can use said law for situations beyond what you originally promised they'd be used for. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
I can't wait to try out ArabRoulette and see what I get!
I am more interested in what happens if the Arabs find chatroulette.
I imagine that in the confusion 4chan will wind up trolling itself and the entire Internet will collapse into a massive meme black hole such that after society rebuilds, a new era will dawn in which all art depicts humans fleeing from demonic Ethernet cables.
dgt2bwt23tf5
(Compares post and quote.) Damn, it IS a random comment!
Plain old looking is _not_ illegal, depending on the expectation of privacy. Many people's homes sit on widely used roads, and if glancing in at someone as you walk or drive past their house is now a crime, I'd guess just about everyone is a criminal.
Indeed. I should have said that looking with obvious intent of trying to catch something going on (especially using some sort of magnification, or deliberately positioning oneself to get a better view through a not-entirely closed curtain) is illegal.