I'm not sure why people insist on keeping this farce alive. I think the parents are duped even more than the kids are, based on my own experience...long before anyone stopped pretending that Santa existed around me, I knew what was up. I got a bittersweet kick out of watching grown men and women tell bald-faced lies to my face. And I played them like marionettes, inventing new devious questions about Santa; just enough to make them visibly scramble for an answer, but not enough to make them think I knew the truth. Yet it was pretty disgusting to see adults try to pull one over on kids, depending on their innocence and lack of experience to bully children into nonsense for their own amusement.
Seriously...at what point does someone think it's a good idea to lie to their children like this? Don't give me that shit about it being a good life experience for children to realize not everything is true. You can find a million other examples to show them, without perpetrating a huge falsehood on your own. It's wrong, you know it's wrong, and you will still try to justify it. Because you enjoy, in a sadistic way, the total power you exert over your children. You love playing the propaganda machine and dictator, and threatening them with retribution from a farce you concocted, and watching them squirm. Yet ten years later, you'll be so fucking ignorant as to why your children never listen to you, or trust that what you have to say might be good advice. Well...they may be right.
Lying is wrong, and will have repercussions. Don't buy into this "magical experience" bullshit. You're setting the kids, and yourself, up for a totally unnecessary disappointment. Don't give in to your sick little urge to play god with the helpless, innocent natives.
I don't really buy that argument. It seems that a VERY slow regeneration would not be a huge energy drain, but would be advantageous assuming the animal could survive for months or even longer during regeneration. It would be better than no regeneration at all.
Maybe the ability to have consequences for being stupid enough to get your leg taken off is a net positive for a species, though it's an obvious negative for an individual? I have no idea. That would be like a meta-evolution there, and kind of anthropomorphises the theory.
Actually, if you haven't bothered to learn anything about the candidates and propositions on the ballot, I'd rather you don't vote. Only intelligent voting gives our system any hope of repair.
Plagiarizing on Wikipedia has to be one of the more victimless "crimes" I can think of, especially since entries are essentially anonymous and no one else is really getting quantifiable credit for using someone else's text in a wiki article.
Wow. Only 142 articles in which average Joe Wiki forgot the proper way to attribute a source. I'm actually amazed there were so few occurrences. This article has the effect of heightening my opinion of Wikipedia's quality.
Yes, it actually can. If you install Beryl, you can enable the Blur plugin in the Beryl Settings Manager. You probably won't wan't reflections or motion blurring. I have "Blur windows" "Blur decoration" "Blur transformed window" "gaussian 9x9" and "Use blur cache" enabled under the Blur plugin. This makes everything behind a transparent window nice and frosty-looking.
Microsoft doesn't have only Mac OS X to worry about. Vista has been delayed so long, Linux developers have had enough time to craft some very slick OpenGL UI enhancements. Not all are eye candy, I've been using XGL/Compiz/Beryl for a few months and it makes the desktop experience more fluid and natural. Here's an example video, this is pretty much where Beryl is now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELwnG9f7lDM&mode=re lated&search=
Maybe people would start to get a little fucking common sense when they discover a fat spam bill in their mailbox after they've ignored security warnings one too many times.
There is no alternative. As soon as any method becomes popular enough to be useful, spammers will move in. Sure, you could use IM, but spammers are there already. You could set your IM client to only accept messages from known users, but you might as well go back to email and set up a whitelist.
Let's get to the very root of this problem: spammers can send as much email as they want, with very little penalty in cost. This problem could be solved if some kind of postage system was applied to email. It's been said before, and it's always beaten down in this community because it appears to fly in the face of Free ideals. Well, everyone here is already paying for their internet connection, for their computer, for the power to run it. I'm sure some method for postage could be devised that still maintains a level of privacy.
And to be honest, I'd be interested to see what effect this would have on supposedly valid emails. Perhaps that weekly newsletter would have a little more thought put into it. Maybe Aunt Patty wouldn't forward the same joke that's been going around since 1997. Corporate internal email would be unaffected, unfortunately.
I don't work for Google or Microsoft, but I do live in the SF Bay area. I moved there after over 20 years in the Midwest. The first shock was paying three times the rent for a worse quality apartment. The second shock was the absolutely fantastic weather, and the variety of places and activities within easy reach. The weather alone, for me, is almost worth the high cost of living. I like cooler weather and daytime temperatures hover between 68 and 74 F most of the year, dropping to mid-50's at night.
Then there's the tech aspect of the whole area. We've got ALL the cool stuff...Maker Faire, RoboGames, and a new startup called TechShop where for a reasonable fee you can access many types of machinery and take skill classes (+5 Experience Gained, CNC Milling!). If you've got a little experience and some enthusiasm, it's also a good place to be if you end up looking for work.
Yet if I were raising a family, I'd probably head for cheaper areas.
The base account is free, and that includes a weekly stipend of $L (inworld money) and the ability to go to a sandbox and build/script anything your heart desires. You are also able to go anywhere in the world that paid residents can go. The only advantage of a paid resident is a larger stipend, and the ability to own a permanent land location.
However there are some not-so-hidden cost barriers to entry. You need a good cable or DSL connection, and the SL client is able to bring even the most modern gaming machine to its knees at high settings and certain locations. If your setup is already able to play Counterstrike:Source nicely, then Second Life should work OK.
It takes a long time in the shower to remove any trace of crap-funk in my ass, even using an unlimited supply of water and soap. Why would a tiny dribble of water be remotely effective?
Cops basically are dickheads with guns, many of them were on the other side of the law until they decided to jump to a more stable occupation but still have a testosterone outlet and easy access to drugs. Oh, there are exceptions, cops who really believe they are helping everyone and fight FOR GREAT JUSTICE! I've had to work with many cops related to some issues with very unstable neighbors who were practicing arsonists. I never met a cop who worried about protecting citizens more than where the next donut was coming from.
Also, the war on drugs? Take this example, gleaned right from COPS (an overwhelmingly pro-cop show): they were doing a day of drug stings. Guys in cars hitting a neighborhood asking for drug deals and catching the dealers. Know what the guy in charge said at the end of the show, tossing a bag of evidence up and down in his hands? "Yeah we are probably going to move on from here, after a couple days you're likely to 'burn out' a neighborhood and not get any more results." OH FUCK, we might scare the dealers so bad we STOP ALL DRUG DEALING in the neighborhood, BETTER QUIT WHILE WE'RE AHEAD or we won't have jobs in a few months! So the idea is to keep the drug dealing going, so you can come back to that neighborhood over and over again, but not crush the market there? This shit makes me want to start a revolution.
Google offer business several localized, private versions of their more popular tools. Google searching of corporate intranets, for example. It is not impossible that when these office tools have matured, Google will offer a standalone server option at a cost businesses can afford.
If this were the case, the privacy issue you mention would suddenly become the greatest feature of the application. Documents are kept on the corporate server and can be controlled, searched, and backed up easily, collaboration is built in from the start rather than tacked on as a last thought.
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I'm not sure why people insist on keeping this farce alive. I think the parents are duped even more than the kids are, based on my own experience...long before anyone stopped pretending that Santa existed around me, I knew what was up. I got a bittersweet kick out of watching grown men and women tell bald-faced lies to my face. And I played them like marionettes, inventing new devious questions about Santa; just enough to make them visibly scramble for an answer, but not enough to make them think I knew the truth. Yet it was pretty disgusting to see adults try to pull one over on kids, depending on their innocence and lack of experience to bully children into nonsense for their own amusement.
Seriously...at what point does someone think it's a good idea to lie to their children like this? Don't give me that shit about it being a good life experience for children to realize not everything is true. You can find a million other examples to show them, without perpetrating a huge falsehood on your own. It's wrong, you know it's wrong, and you will still try to justify it. Because you enjoy, in a sadistic way, the total power you exert over your children. You love playing the propaganda machine and dictator, and threatening them with retribution from a farce you concocted, and watching them squirm. Yet ten years later, you'll be so fucking ignorant as to why your children never listen to you, or trust that what you have to say might be good advice. Well...they may be right.
Lying is wrong, and will have repercussions. Don't buy into this "magical experience" bullshit. You're setting the kids, and yourself, up for a totally unnecessary disappointment. Don't give in to your sick little urge to play god with the helpless, innocent natives.
Very few weapon systems can fire just after being under water.
Nuclear submarines are pretty advanced, can fire under water, and carry a wide array of missiles and fusion bombs...
The UK should just buy the airplanes, and then download a cracked version of the software on Kazaa.
Elo Touchsystems / Tyco already has a product out there that works exactly this way...and a myriad of patents. Acoustic Pulse Recognition: http://media.elotouch.com/pdfs/marcom/apr_wp.pdf
It's a relatively new product but it's already way past the research stage and well into production.
I don't really buy that argument. It seems that a VERY slow regeneration would not be a huge energy drain, but would be advantageous assuming the animal could survive for months or even longer during regeneration. It would be better than no regeneration at all.
Maybe the ability to have consequences for being stupid enough to get your leg taken off is a net positive for a species, though it's an obvious negative for an individual? I have no idea. That would be like a meta-evolution there, and kind of anthropomorphises the theory.
Actually, if you haven't bothered to learn anything about the candidates and propositions on the ballot, I'd rather you don't vote. Only intelligent voting gives our system any hope of repair.
Did I say "only 142 articles in all of Wikipedia"? No. Please read more carefully.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...are you coming on to me?
Plagiarizing on Wikipedia has to be one of the more victimless "crimes" I can think of, especially since entries are essentially anonymous and no one else is really getting quantifiable credit for using someone else's text in a wiki article.
Wow. Only 142 articles in which average Joe Wiki forgot the proper way to attribute a source. I'm actually amazed there were so few occurrences. This article has the effect of heightening my opinion of Wikipedia's quality.
Yes, it actually can. If you install Beryl, you can enable the Blur plugin in the Beryl Settings Manager. You probably won't wan't reflections or motion blurring. I have "Blur windows" "Blur decoration" "Blur transformed window" "gaussian 9x9" and "Use blur cache" enabled under the Blur plugin. This makes everything behind a transparent window nice and frosty-looking.
Microsoft doesn't have only Mac OS X to worry about. Vista has been delayed so long, Linux developers have had enough time to craft some very slick OpenGL UI enhancements. Not all are eye candy, I've been using XGL/Compiz/Beryl for a few months and it makes the desktop experience more fluid and natural. Here's an example video, this is pretty much where Beryl is now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELwnG9f7lDM&mode=re lated&search=
It's because you have no friends.
Maybe people would start to get a little fucking common sense when they discover a fat spam bill in their mailbox after they've ignored security warnings one too many times.
There is no alternative. As soon as any method becomes popular enough to be useful, spammers will move in. Sure, you could use IM, but spammers are there already. You could set your IM client to only accept messages from known users, but you might as well go back to email and set up a whitelist.
Let's get to the very root of this problem: spammers can send as much email as they want, with very little penalty in cost. This problem could be solved if some kind of postage system was applied to email. It's been said before, and it's always beaten down in this community because it appears to fly in the face of Free ideals. Well, everyone here is already paying for their internet connection, for their computer, for the power to run it. I'm sure some method for postage could be devised that still maintains a level of privacy.
And to be honest, I'd be interested to see what effect this would have on supposedly valid emails. Perhaps that weekly newsletter would have a little more thought put into it. Maybe Aunt Patty wouldn't forward the same joke that's been going around since 1997. Corporate internal email would be unaffected, unfortunately.
Sorry, that's TechShop. Argh, .ws domains!
I don't work for Google or Microsoft, but I do live in the SF Bay area. I moved there after over 20 years in the Midwest. The first shock was paying three times the rent for a worse quality apartment. The second shock was the absolutely fantastic weather, and the variety of places and activities within easy reach. The weather alone, for me, is almost worth the high cost of living. I like cooler weather and daytime temperatures hover between 68 and 74 F most of the year, dropping to mid-50's at night.
Then there's the tech aspect of the whole area. We've got ALL the cool stuff...Maker Faire, RoboGames, and a new startup called TechShop where for a reasonable fee you can access many types of machinery and take skill classes (+5 Experience Gained, CNC Milling!). If you've got a little experience and some enthusiasm, it's also a good place to be if you end up looking for work.
Yet if I were raising a family, I'd probably head for cheaper areas.
The base account is free, and that includes a weekly stipend of $L (inworld money) and the ability to go to a sandbox and build/script anything your heart desires. You are also able to go anywhere in the world that paid residents can go. The only advantage of a paid resident is a larger stipend, and the ability to own a permanent land location.
However there are some not-so-hidden cost barriers to entry. You need a good cable or DSL connection, and the SL client is able to bring even the most modern gaming machine to its knees at high settings and certain locations. If your setup is already able to play Counterstrike:Source nicely, then Second Life should work OK.
You are SO channeling seven or eight of my bosses right now.
My brown-eye has been opened!
It takes a long time in the shower to remove any trace of crap-funk in my ass, even using an unlimited supply of water and soap. Why would a tiny dribble of water be remotely effective?
Cops basically are dickheads with guns, many of them were on the other side of the law until they decided to jump to a more stable occupation but still have a testosterone outlet and easy access to drugs. Oh, there are exceptions, cops who really believe they are helping everyone and fight FOR GREAT JUSTICE! I've had to work with many cops related to some issues with very unstable neighbors who were practicing arsonists. I never met a cop who worried about protecting citizens more than where the next donut was coming from.
Also, the war on drugs? Take this example, gleaned right from COPS (an overwhelmingly pro-cop show): they were doing a day of drug stings. Guys in cars hitting a neighborhood asking for drug deals and catching the dealers. Know what the guy in charge said at the end of the show, tossing a bag of evidence up and down in his hands? "Yeah we are probably going to move on from here, after a couple days you're likely to 'burn out' a neighborhood and not get any more results." OH FUCK, we might scare the dealers so bad we STOP ALL DRUG DEALING in the neighborhood, BETTER QUIT WHILE WE'RE AHEAD or we won't have jobs in a few months! So the idea is to keep the drug dealing going, so you can come back to that neighborhood over and over again, but not crush the market there? This shit makes me want to start a revolution.
Google offer business several localized, private versions of their more popular tools. Google searching of corporate intranets, for example. It is not impossible that when these office tools have matured, Google will offer a standalone server option at a cost businesses can afford.
If this were the case, the privacy issue you mention would suddenly become the greatest feature of the application. Documents are kept on the corporate server and can be controlled, searched, and backed up easily, collaboration is built in from the start rather than tacked on as a last thought.
Doesn't Thansgiving and Halloween come before that?
Do you live in Fucked-Up Land where people exchange gifts on those holidays?