When you say "match the natural radioactivity of the seas" do you mean that if we dumped 50% of the slugs into the oceans and it all got distributed evenly it'd double the radiation of the Earth's water, or do you mean something else?
I suppose if we can trust our nuclear waste storage to not radiate the deserts/mountains/Indian reservations of our own country, then the bottom of the ocean would seem plenty safe (and it would seem to my squishy mind that the odds of 50% of the slugs being pulverized down there wouldn't be too high). Perhaps we feel safer with the waste where we know clearly where it is, and where we'd be able to detect and hopefully respond to any kind of disaster.
And we might also be better off putting it where we know about the local plant and animal life. There's still a lot we don't know about the ecosystem on the bottom of the ocean. If those organisms could somehow eat away at the containment vessels, we could have a big problem.
1. Your sig looks like people. And reminds me of the "Soylent Green" cheat in Command+Conquer Red Alert for PS1 (possibly in other versions of the game too, don't really know).
2. I might have a hard time sleeping tonight thinking of that.
I think the main way that FF is superior to Opera is its freeness/Freeness. Opera is quick and seems very well put-together, in a similar way to OS X. Look and feel is excellent (for example, Opera's autoscroll is the best of any program I've ever used). I mostly run FF on my two-year old machine, but Opera runs much faster on the ol' Pentium Pro. (Actually on that one I use Dillo for most browsing, Opera is slower than that but works with many more sites.)
That's really not scary at all, because it would be completely in the open and could be figured out pretty quickly. If 20 electoral college members were literally bribed to vote Kerry, I'd imagine Kerry would find some way to give the Presidency to Bush. Bush would do the same were the opposite to happen, because a illegitimate victory that obvious would be a major problem for the whole country.
I'm constantly amazed by jackass comments like this.
There is not room for as many people to become wealthy as would like. If everyone "pulls themselves to a better standard of living", then there's nobody left to do the crappy jobs that make the world go 'round.
There's also a lot more to life than trying to make lots of money. When people get a college education and get good jobs, and can't afford to save and invest for their future, I think it's at least reasonable to question why that is. If it appears to be because (and I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth here) all advantages go to people that are already very rich, that's something worth complaining about.
Well it is a big stick, but it wouldn't exactly be great news to the Chinese if that stick came down. China selling the US bonds and exchanging them for their currency (forget the name of it) would drive up its value and thus the cost of producing Chinese goods and hurt China's position to sell to the US.
In fact, as long as the US does lots of importing, countries that rely on importing to the US are dependant on the US having a strong economy. It's not in the best interest of China to hurt the US economy so it doesn't have the money to import. For that reason, some people say that the US is actually in the stronger position. I disagree; I think the position is just about even (the stick dropping would hurt both countries) but China has a slight advantage because they control when/if it happens.
Then where's the room for/. talking about BitTorrent, pornography and spam? Seems to me that the 1% of slashdot can be broken down just about the same way as the rest of the internet....35%/. talking about BT.5%/. talking about porn.1%/. talking about spam.04%/. talking about actual content.01%/. talking about itself.
Of that.01%, there can be a similar breakdown:.0035%/. talking about/. talking about BT.005%/. talking about/. talking about porn.001%/. talking about/. talking about spam.0004%/. talking about/. talking about actual content.0001%/. talking about/. talking about...
Although I'd be willing to be/. spends more than 1% of it's time talking about itself, such as this post, and about 30% of the previous.
(furthermore, I left out the proportion of/. traffic created by its ugly and stupid layout scheme, that could be less ugly and break less browsers AND use less bandwidth with the miracle of CSS. But I digress.)
Yeah, German and Russian are both awful languages. Possibly even uglier than English. I would gladly submit to French, Spanish or Italian-speaking overlords, though...
American action against the Axis didn't come until after the Axis had actively begun invading other countries with obvious intent to invade more. Not nearly the same situation as with Saddam. If our case to remove Saddam was put before our own court system, it woulda just been a mess of circumstantial evidence. A case against Hitler would have been an easy conviction.
To remove dictators from power means paying lots of money and losing lots of lives to scortch earth. To blow money on destruction. To expend energy to create entropy. There's plenty of governments doing bad things to people, but perpetually fighting them doesn't seem like a realistic proposal to me.
(And so maybe, then, I'm biased against war, but I frankly think that's the proper position to take as a human being. War itself is a bad thing, and its use should be reserved for cases where it's the only option.)
That, in theory, is a pretty good idea. One problem I see is that for a while people running older and alternate clies would have problems (for example, when I'm in Windows I still run AIM 4.something because I don't want to upgrade to 5 which has flash-based ads with sound, and on Linux I run Gaim. I'd be shut out of AIM, at least for a while... though I guess if I wanted IMing on whatever platform I want without obnoxious ads I shouldn't be within a mile of AIM anyway...)
Perhaps one can measure the worth of the Linux kernel in its current state, but it would never have been worth anything without being both free and Free.
Exactly. It would still allow the holder to license it however it wants, but would concretely explain just what it is that the patent is supposed to cover. It would eliminate the ability to create broad patents and ensure that the patent holder actually has the ability to make something useful with the patent and not just hold a submarine/defensive/offensive patent portfolio.
As an undergrad student, I'll say that I'm very annoyed by cell phones going off in class. It's the same as the people in the back of the room talking to eachother about the blood-oaths they had to take to join their frat. While I do think that generally in class it's best to ask students to turn off cell phones, in exams I think a penalty is absolutely appropriate. Phones with screens could be used to cheat on exams when students reach to turn them off.
Allowing your phone to go off in class is disrespectful, just as is in-class chatter, and most students go to class to hear the professor and not phone noise.
There have been less than 50 US presidents, and I believe that a President has been elected while not having a plurality of the popular vote before 2000. So I do think it's a big deal. There have been a few more than 50 Presidential elections, but many of them weren't close enough for the system of voting to matter. Even if it's never happened before 2000, 1 out of 50 Presidential elections going against the popular vote seems like too many to me.
However each individual election goes, the fact is that we no longer view ourselves as a collection of states, but as one nation. The number of electoral votes per state is based on number of congressional seats per state which is based on state population. Determination of state population can be politically influenced in the same way that redistricting is (in the most recent census there were disputes about which regions and types of ares were undercounted and overcounted, and ways to make the data accurate; these disputes were at the Congressional level and in one case consisted of Republicans arguing that urban areas were overcounted and Democrats arguing that they were undercounted). A party or group of parties in power can and will try to perpetuate their position in power.
Only by counting the vote of each person who chooses to vote equally can the politics of perpetuation of power be removed from the selection of the President. Whether we continue to vote using some kind of plurality-based system or move to a ranking or approval system of determining a winner, the electoral college must go.
Maybe 90% would say that, but I don't think it's truth. 90% of slashdotters aren't completely invulnerable, they just think they are because they're running an OS that's supposed to be secure. Just like a third of the 493 people questioned thought they were invulnerable because they bought a new PC with SP2 and Norton Anti-Virus.
If the government doesn't have the right libraries it won't be able to make any sense out of what the Colonel says anyway. It'll have to go ask the community for help.
Because then you get all that damn confusion between American-style dates (January 5, 2004 = 01/05/2004) and European-style dates (5 January, 2004 = 05/01/2004). Of course, for naming a software release, you would want to put the year first and month second, so that a sort by name would put the releases in chronological order, like so: java.jre-20040105 for January 5, 2004.
"Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation." - John Keynes (1936)
(although he meant that in a macroeconomic sense and this is the case of one company, I think it's still apt.)
The Matlock expressway was conceived in some episode (don't remember exactly what was going on) and was planned to go through the Simpsons' property to force the demolition of their house. It may have been the episode where Sideshow Bob is dating one of Marge's sisters, and the thing was proposed by Bob. Don't remember exactly. Going to have to call in a bigger dork.
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When you say "match the natural radioactivity of the seas" do you mean that if we dumped 50% of the slugs into the oceans and it all got distributed evenly it'd double the radiation of the Earth's water, or do you mean something else?
I suppose if we can trust our nuclear waste storage to not radiate the deserts/mountains/Indian reservations of our own country, then the bottom of the ocean would seem plenty safe (and it would seem to my squishy mind that the odds of 50% of the slugs being pulverized down there wouldn't be too high). Perhaps we feel safer with the waste where we know clearly where it is, and where we'd be able to detect and hopefully respond to any kind of disaster.
And we might also be better off putting it where we know about the local plant and animal life. There's still a lot we don't know about the ecosystem on the bottom of the ocean. If those organisms could somehow eat away at the containment vessels, we could have a big problem.
How about RingTFA *and* leaving NPR on? The more perspectives, and the more sources of information, the better.
1. Your sig looks like people. And reminds me of the "Soylent Green" cheat in Command+Conquer Red Alert for PS1 (possibly in other versions of the game too, don't really know).
2. I might have a hard time sleeping tonight thinking of that.
I think the main way that FF is superior to Opera is its freeness/Freeness. Opera is quick and seems very well put-together, in a similar way to OS X. Look and feel is excellent (for example, Opera's autoscroll is the best of any program I've ever used). I mostly run FF on my two-year old machine, but Opera runs much faster on the ol' Pentium Pro. (Actually on that one I use Dillo for most browsing, Opera is slower than that but works with many more sites.)
16 bits ought to be enough for anyone, and if it's not, it's clearly time to eliminate some voters.
That's really not scary at all, because it would be completely in the open and could be figured out pretty quickly. If 20 electoral college members were literally bribed to vote Kerry, I'd imagine Kerry would find some way to give the Presidency to Bush. Bush would do the same were the opposite to happen, because a illegitimate victory that obvious would be a major problem for the whole country.
I'm constantly amazed by jackass comments like this.
There is not room for as many people to become wealthy as would like. If everyone "pulls themselves to a better standard of living", then there's nobody left to do the crappy jobs that make the world go 'round.
There's also a lot more to life than trying to make lots of money. When people get a college education and get good jobs, and can't afford to save and invest for their future, I think it's at least reasonable to question why that is. If it appears to be because (and I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth here) all advantages go to people that are already very rich, that's something worth complaining about.
Well it is a big stick, but it wouldn't exactly be great news to the Chinese if that stick came down. China selling the US bonds and exchanging them for their currency (forget the name of it) would drive up its value and thus the cost of producing Chinese goods and hurt China's position to sell to the US.
In fact, as long as the US does lots of importing, countries that rely on importing to the US are dependant on the US having a strong economy. It's not in the best interest of China to hurt the US economy so it doesn't have the money to import. For that reason, some people say that the US is actually in the stronger position. I disagree; I think the position is just about even (the stick dropping would hurt both countries) but China has a slight advantage because they control when/if it happens.
Then where's the room for /. talking about BitTorrent, pornography and spam? Seems to me that the 1% of slashdot can be broken down just about the same way as the rest of the internet... .35% /. talking about BT .5% /. talking about porn .1% /. talking about spam .04% /. talking about actual content .01% /. talking about itself.
.01%, there can be a similar breakdown: .0035% /. talking about /. talking about BT .005% /. talking about /. talking about porn .001% /. talking about /. talking about spam .0004% /. talking about /. talking about actual content .0001% /. talking about /. talking about...
/. spends more than 1% of it's time talking about itself, such as this post, and about 30% of the previous.
/. traffic created by its ugly and stupid layout scheme, that could be less ugly and break less browsers AND use less bandwidth with the miracle of CSS. But I digress.)
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Although I'd be willing to be
(furthermore, I left out the proportion of
Yeah, German and Russian are both awful languages. Possibly even uglier than English. I would gladly submit to French, Spanish or Italian-speaking overlords, though...
American action against the Axis didn't come until after the Axis had actively begun invading other countries with obvious intent to invade more. Not nearly the same situation as with Saddam. If our case to remove Saddam was put before our own court system, it woulda just been a mess of circumstantial evidence. A case against Hitler would have been an easy conviction.
To remove dictators from power means paying lots of money and losing lots of lives to scortch earth. To blow money on destruction. To expend energy to create entropy. There's plenty of governments doing bad things to people, but perpetually fighting them doesn't seem like a realistic proposal to me.
(And so maybe, then, I'm biased against war, but I frankly think that's the proper position to take as a human being. War itself is a bad thing, and its use should be reserved for cases where it's the only option.)
That, in theory, is a pretty good idea. One problem I see is that for a while people running older and alternate clies would have problems (for example, when I'm in Windows I still run AIM 4.something because I don't want to upgrade to 5 which has flash-based ads with sound, and on Linux I run Gaim. I'd be shut out of AIM, at least for a while... though I guess if I wanted IMing on whatever platform I want without obnoxious ads I shouldn't be within a mile of AIM anyway...)
Perhaps one can measure the worth of the Linux kernel in its current state, but it would never have been worth anything without being both free and Free.
Exactly. It would still allow the holder to license it however it wants, but would concretely explain just what it is that the patent is supposed to cover. It would eliminate the ability to create broad patents and ensure that the patent holder actually has the ability to make something useful with the patent and not just hold a submarine/defensive/offensive patent portfolio.
As an undergrad student, I'll say that I'm very annoyed by cell phones going off in class. It's the same as the people in the back of the room talking to eachother about the blood-oaths they had to take to join their frat. While I do think that generally in class it's best to ask students to turn off cell phones, in exams I think a penalty is absolutely appropriate. Phones with screens could be used to cheat on exams when students reach to turn them off.
Allowing your phone to go off in class is disrespectful, just as is in-class chatter, and most students go to class to hear the professor and not phone noise.
I've read that it's possible to get Dells with FreeDOS instead of Windows, although that might only be true if you're a company ordering in bulk.
What your parent means is that Slashdotters aren't as fucking brilliant as they think they are, and the general population isn't a bunch of morons.
There have been less than 50 US presidents, and I believe that a President has been elected while not having a plurality of the popular vote before 2000. So I do think it's a big deal. There have been a few more than 50 Presidential elections, but many of them weren't close enough for the system of voting to matter. Even if it's never happened before 2000, 1 out of 50 Presidential elections going against the popular vote seems like too many to me.
However each individual election goes, the fact is that we no longer view ourselves as a collection of states, but as one nation. The number of electoral votes per state is based on number of congressional seats per state which is based on state population. Determination of state population can be politically influenced in the same way that redistricting is (in the most recent census there were disputes about which regions and types of ares were undercounted and overcounted, and ways to make the data accurate; these disputes were at the Congressional level and in one case consisted of Republicans arguing that urban areas were overcounted and Democrats arguing that they were undercounted). A party or group of parties in power can and will try to perpetuate their position in power.
Only by counting the vote of each person who chooses to vote equally can the politics of perpetuation of power be removed from the selection of the President. Whether we continue to vote using some kind of plurality-based system or move to a ranking or approval system of determining a winner, the electoral college must go.
Maybe 90% would say that, but I don't think it's truth. 90% of slashdotters aren't completely invulnerable, they just think they are because they're running an OS that's supposed to be secure. Just like a third of the 493 people questioned thought they were invulnerable because they bought a new PC with SP2 and Norton Anti-Virus.
If the government doesn't have the right libraries it won't be able to make any sense out of what the Colonel says anyway. It'll have to go ask the community for help.
Because then you get all that damn confusion between American-style dates (January 5, 2004 = 01/05/2004) and European-style dates (5 January, 2004 = 05/01/2004). Of course, for naming a software release, you would want to put the year first and month second, so that a sort by name would put the releases in chronological order, like so: java.jre-20040105 for January 5, 2004.
"Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation." - John Keynes (1936)
(although he meant that in a macroeconomic sense and this is the case of one company, I think it's still apt.)
Because people's home PCs are exactly the kind of secure platforms from which any good democracy should determine its future leaders.
And if it's not good for mankind, what do we do, ban it?
yes, because people browsing porn are really going to want to have to pull something else out of their pants.
let alone send their credit card number to a porn site.
The Matlock expressway was conceived in some episode (don't remember exactly what was going on) and was planned to go through the Simpsons' property to force the demolition of their house. It may have been the episode where Sideshow Bob is dating one of Marge's sisters, and the thing was proposed by Bob. Don't remember exactly. Going to have to call in a bigger dork.