Not sure what planet you were on on 9/11, but we had future-neocons driving around town in the back of pickup trucks, American flags waving in the breeze, yelling "Fuck sandniggers" with a banner on the side of the truck (they must have made it pretty quick, this was 9/12) that said "Go Home Towelheads".
I don't put ANYTHING past xenophobes like these. I've been wrong about human nature too many times to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Which is worse? Something not supposed to be classified NOT being leaked, or something SUPPOSED to be classified being leaked? I, and most people, would say the latter.
I disagree. That's like saying:
"Which is worse? Someone NOT guilty of a crime being convicted, or someone guilty of a crime NOT being convicted? I, and most people, would say the latter."
I would assume (not trying to build a strawman) that this would be your general line of thinking. I'd rather have the occasional "oops, we should have classified that" than "we're being safe and classifying everything (including stuff that's classified and shouldn't be).
An occasional blunder to not classify something that should have been secret is less dangerous to a free society than having everything locked up (probably embarrassing things too). I have a friend who works for the DoD in an intelligence role. He once said, and I quote, "No one ever got fired for over-classifying information". That is a mindset we need to change.
On June 3, 2008, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama fist-bumped during a televised presidential campaign speech in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fox News host E.D. Hill, in a "tease" for an unrelated story, paraphrased an anonymous internet comment characterizing the gesture[4] as a "terrorist fist jab", and the gesture became known as "The Fist Bump heard 'Round the World".[5] A reporter on one local Fox affiliate also mistakenly called the gesture fisting.[6]
They're reliable read-only long term storage media for losslessly encoded music.
"Losslessly" doesn't mean what you think it means.
All music is composed of analog waveforms. Waveforms cannot be perfectly represented in a digital sample of said waveform. As you increase your digital sample rate toward infinitely small samples (in time), the accuracy of your digital model of the waveform will increase, but it will never be lossless.
In an ideal world, we would tackle the problem properly by decoupling health insurance from employment.
I heard an NPR report about this about 2 months ago.
Gist: That was exactly how it worked before World War II. However, wage freezes went into effect in America as a result of the war. To attract workers (worker shortages), employers introduced the only incentives they could with a wage freeze in effect: fringe benefits! And thus the health insurance - workplace relationship was born.
Please correct me if I'm off base, but I think that was the gist of it.
Essentially: Scar tissue gets you back on your feet faster. Warm-blooded animals need to eat all the time. Sitting helpless while regenerating tissue takes too long, even though it's better for the long-.
But then again, what long run? You could have plenty of scar tissue and still mate successfully. If you're not built to last, who cares, you passed on your genes and that's what matters.
Why not teach him how to properly handle a gun instead of running and hiding?
That comes later, maybe when they're 10 or so. To a smallish child, you have to condition them that guns = dangerous, and that they need to tell an adult. No questions whatsoever.
A gun isn't intended to do anything but push a projectile out of a barrel.
Yes, and that projectile isn't intended do do anything that strike another object with enough force to damage or destroy it. When was the last time you pointed a gun at an object you didn't intend to obliterate? When was the last time a gun was used for any other purpose that to violently penetrate a target?
Its default (hell, only) mode of operation is lethal. Can you say that about a car, a stove, an iron, a knife? I can't slide a tomato with a gun.
With airplanes, if only as a matter of control (and law), you can never drop below several hundred feet. But if, with a jetpack, you could... you could be in both worlds at once--seeing the land below, as you did from the ground, and then the roofs and patterns and skies from above.
Basically skydiving in reverse.
Floating down (alone) from about 4000ft is one of the coolest things I've ever experienced.
FYI - Clouds in central IL don't smell very good. I went through one.:)
left hand: index, middle, ring right hand: index, thumb (only for spacebar)
My typing style is very much word and letter-combination based. I have muscle-memory for about a zillion different letter combinations (the same key can be pressed by different fingers depending on letter combos), so typing unfamiliar words is an order of magnitude slower than normal.
And yes, believe it or not I can type without looking at the keyboard. Even though my fingers have no reference point before they land on the correct key (not sliding over from a known reference point, like the home row of keys), I know the distances between keys and it "just works".
Just took an online test where I had to copy an awkward block of text: 72wpm. I'm sure I go multiple times faster than that when I'm composing an email and now having to refer to a source doc to copy.
I don't know....I don't have a lot of sympathy for folks who got burned. It's called being an "informed consumer". If I have to buy something that I don't know a lot about (a new car, a gas-powered garden tiller, anything not computer-related) I do a shitton of research and learn up on the product.
And really, what about the (non-zero number of) people who bought this game to play on their PC and legitimately have no internet connection. They can't play AT ALL. Should have done the research...
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Not sure what planet you were on on 9/11, but we had future-neocons driving around town in the back of pickup trucks, American flags waving in the breeze, yelling "Fuck sandniggers" with a banner on the side of the truck (they must have made it pretty quick, this was 9/12) that said "Go Home Towelheads".
I don't put ANYTHING past xenophobes like these. I've been wrong about human nature too many times to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Wait wait, you're a neocon that supports the 4th amendment?
Sure, and the Pope is a Hindu. *eye roll*
if those kinds of platforms catch on, all software development is in deep trouble.
Yeah, I heard that video game thing might not be a flash in the pan after all...
Just kidding. Point well taken. :)
Which is worse? Something not supposed to be classified NOT being leaked, or something SUPPOSED to be classified being leaked? I, and most people, would say the latter.
I disagree. That's like saying:
"Which is worse? Someone NOT guilty of a crime being convicted, or someone guilty of a crime NOT being convicted? I, and most people, would say the latter."
I would assume (not trying to build a strawman) that this would be your general line of thinking. I'd rather have the occasional "oops, we should have classified that" than "we're being safe and classifying everything (including stuff that's classified and shouldn't be).
An occasional blunder to not classify something that should have been secret is less dangerous to a free society than having everything locked up (probably embarrassing things too). I have a friend who works for the DoD in an intelligence role. He once said, and I quote, "No one ever got fired for over-classifying information". That is a mindset we need to change.
But would you be surprised? I sure as hell wouldn't....
Block Mania! East-Meg 1!
Oh wait, what were we talking about?
Bias != blatant untruth
"Terrorist Fist Jab?" Need I say more?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_bump
On June 3, 2008, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama fist-bumped during a televised presidential campaign speech in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fox News host E.D. Hill, in a "tease" for an unrelated story, paraphrased an anonymous internet comment characterizing the gesture[4] as a "terrorist fist jab", and the gesture became known as "The Fist Bump heard 'Round the World".[5] A reporter on one local Fox affiliate also mistakenly called the gesture fisting.[6]
They're reliable read-only long term storage media for losslessly encoded music.
"Losslessly" doesn't mean what you think it means.
All music is composed of analog waveforms. Waveforms cannot be perfectly represented in a digital sample of said waveform. As you increase your digital sample rate toward infinitely small samples (in time), the accuracy of your digital model of the waveform will increase, but it will never be lossless.
In an ideal world, we would tackle the problem properly by decoupling health insurance from employment.
I heard an NPR report about this about 2 months ago.
Gist: That was exactly how it worked before World War II. However, wage freezes went into effect in America as a result of the war. To attract workers (worker shortages), employers introduced the only incentives they could with a wage freeze in effect: fringe benefits! And thus the health insurance - workplace relationship was born.
Please correct me if I'm off base, but I think that was the gist of it.
Remember, you are not a newt.
I got better...
*warning! meme mixing ahead* ...mostly.
Check this post above you: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1586036&cid=31510392
Essentially: Scar tissue gets you back on your feet faster. Warm-blooded animals need to eat all the time. Sitting helpless while regenerating tissue takes too long, even though it's better for the long-.
But then again, what long run? You could have plenty of scar tissue and still mate successfully. If you're not built to last, who cares, you passed on your genes and that's what matters.
It costs $20 to wire money at my credit union. I'm sure regular banks are even more expensive.
How about international ACH?
The amount of revenue is around 300 million dollar.
I believe you misspelled "darra".
Why not teach him how to properly handle a gun instead of running and hiding?
That comes later, maybe when they're 10 or so. To a smallish child, you have to condition them that guns = dangerous, and that they need to tell an adult. No questions whatsoever.
*slice, not slide.
A gun isn't intended to do anything but push a projectile out of a barrel.
Yes, and that projectile isn't intended do do anything that strike another object with enough force to damage or destroy it. When was the last time you pointed a gun at an object you didn't intend to obliterate? When was the last time a gun was used for any other purpose that to violently penetrate a target?
Its default (hell, only) mode of operation is lethal. Can you say that about a car, a stove, an iron, a knife? I can't slide a tomato with a gun.
With airplanes, if only as a matter of control (and law), you can never drop below several hundred feet. But if, with a jetpack, you could... you could be in both worlds at once--seeing the land below, as you did from the ground, and then the roofs and patterns and skies from above.
Basically skydiving in reverse.
Floating down (alone) from about 4000ft is one of the coolest things I've ever experienced.
FYI - Clouds in central IL don't smell very good. I went through one. :)
Unless "pain" is slang for money in French too. Anyone?
I still think that fetal stem cells shouldn't be used.
They don't do anyone any good sitting in a biohazard disposal bag. What the issue? Fetus is already dead.
I can 100% guarantee there will be no PPC support. It's been 4 years since Apple made a PPC machine.
Perhaps you should buy a tower. The iMac is a specialty product, and is NOT geared toward gamers in the slightest.
My Mac Pro has a 1GB ATI 4870. Has for a year now.
My wife really wanted a pet tarantula, but her Doctor advised against it due to the fact that she's a severe asthmatic.
Those little spiky hairs get everywhere apparently.
I'm a right-handed self-taught typist that uses:
left hand: index, middle, ring
right hand: index, thumb (only for spacebar)
My typing style is very much word and letter-combination based. I have muscle-memory for about a zillion different letter combinations (the same key can be pressed by different fingers depending on letter combos), so typing unfamiliar words is an order of magnitude slower than normal.
And yes, believe it or not I can type without looking at the keyboard. Even though my fingers have no reference point before they land on the correct key (not sliding over from a known reference point, like the home row of keys), I know the distances between keys and it "just works".
Just took an online test where I had to copy an awkward block of text: 72wpm. I'm sure I go multiple times faster than that when I'm composing an email and now having to refer to a source doc to copy.
hyperelectrosensitivity or whatever the buzzword is nowadays is a very real psychological condition.
/fixed
I don't know....I don't have a lot of sympathy for folks who got burned. It's called being an "informed consumer". If I have to buy something that I don't know a lot about (a new car, a gas-powered garden tiller, anything not computer-related) I do a shitton of research and learn up on the product.
And really, what about the (non-zero number of) people who bought this game to play on their PC and legitimately have no internet connection. They can't play AT ALL. Should have done the research...