There's evidence to suggest that playing in dirt and mud at an early age helps prevent allergies later in life. Now whether mud is entices kids imaginations better than a PS3, I don't know. I somehow doubt it though.
But do you encourage your children to read/.? If I ever caught either one of my kids reading that degenerative, microsoft bashing, open-source commie loving site I'd give a thrashing they would never forget.
1. You can recover from identity theft. It's not easy, but you can get all the activity from the theft purged from your credit history and it will be restored to what it should be. So a year/two later, (maybe shorter), it would be a non-even credit history-wise.
So, if you are applying for a job in between when your identity was stolen and the year or two later when you've cleared it up you are screwed.
2. You can explain this fact to your employer. I certainly would if they asked to check my credit history.
If potential employers were that trusting, why don't they just ask you what your credit rating is instead of doing the credit check?
It's been a while since I lived in Florida, but I seem to recall a rather large landfill already in the Port St. Lucie area. I think the residents (especially the blue hairs) would want to get rid of that eye sore.
Let's not run that refrence in to the ground like we did the old "I for one welcome our new [insert sucject] overlords" shall we? I'm particularly fond of that movie, and that line, which is why I would like to preserve it for later enjoyment.
If Microsoft abandoned this Sisyphean effort and put the same development effort into building a fast and reliable patching system, the entire internet would benefit. But simple economics says it probably never will.
This leads me to 2 questions: "can patching be regulated?" and "should patching be regulated?". It seems obvious the free market can't keep our computers secure. I've been wrong before though. I guess maybe it could if people didn't already have the expectation that they shouldn't have to pay for patches b/c Microsoft should fix their own faulty software.
I guess it's all pretty moot since open source is going to take over the world anyway.
I wish you could have posted that right when the article came up for discussion. It probably would have altered the tone in a good way.
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You seem to be forgetting the fact that most of the world associates us with Michael Jackson. I wouldn't mind that so much if had just disapeared after "Bad" came out. Back in the '80s nobody was cooler than Michael Jackson, nobody. To quote Dave Chappelle, he made thriller.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by Irwin reminding you of the way you really are? Being from the States I cringe at the idea of David Hasslehoff representing the US to east Germany. But he's a big pop star there because he milked the fall of the Berlin wall by singing songs about freedom, and that's how people for the states are, we'll milk anything for some cash. But I don't know if that's a fair comparison.
>Wild animals can be dangerous and there's no way around that. In combination with his intended message, his death is probably a good lesson to leave nature alone, and that's one of the best environmental messages one can give.
That's a/. jewel right there. It should be at +5 by now. If only I had some mod points.
You should feel more than weepy!! You should feel guilty! You mocked him and now he's dead. You mocked a dead man. Not that I would ever do such a thing.
I use those words all the time with regards to people. I used those exact words to put mother's cancer into perspective. I don't believe in Jesus, so I get no consulation(sp?) from the bible, or any other religious text. Thinking about my mother's genes living on in my offspring helps me.
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If by "someone who is the epitome of everything that geeks are not" you mean he had a tan from actually being out in sunlight, then yeah he was the opposite of a geek. But I define geeks as people who are dedicated to their passions. It maybe an esoteric passion, but a passion nonetheless. Some geeks are passionate about Star Trek and finding security flaws in the Linux kernel, while others are passionate about music and art. Steve Irwin's passion for living creatures makes him a geek in my book.
I think the freak accident was that somehow the barb got lodged in his chest. I've been around stingrays enough to know how easy it is to step on one, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get one to stab you in the chest.
Oh come on! If I had his job I would expect people to crack wise if I died the way he did. Yes, he was a good guy, and I feel bad for his family. But look at it this way: this summer my mom was diagnosed with cancer and underwent chemo. To relieve stress my brother and I would tell yo' mama jokes and they would always end up with "oh yeah? well yo' mama has cancer" which got the biggest laughs. You have to laugh at death, or else you're just going to feel like shit all the time.
They had to be filming when it happened. I wonder if we're going to see this in the next faces of death film.
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I'm not so sure the speed of this news item travelling shows how much people cared for him. I think it's more indicative of how interested we all have been for years about how he was going to meet his end.
Seeing how he has kids I fail to see how this is darwinian. Now if his kids all kill themselves before they reproduce then the final tally will be as you say it is. However, I have a feeling that one of his kids will see this as a reason to pursue accountancy or better yet actuarial science.
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There's evidence to suggest that playing in dirt and mud at an early age helps prevent allergies later in life. Now whether mud is entices kids imaginations better than a PS3, I don't know. I somehow doubt it though.
But do you encourage your children to read /.? If I ever caught either one of my kids reading that degenerative, microsoft bashing, open-source commie loving site I'd give a thrashing they would never forget.
If potential employers were that trusting, why don't they just ask you what your credit rating is instead of doing the credit check?
It's been a while since I lived in Florida, but I seem to recall a rather large landfill already in the Port St. Lucie area. I think the residents (especially the blue hairs) would want to get rid of that eye sore.
Let's not run that refrence in to the ground like we did the old "I for one welcome our new [insert sucject] overlords" shall we? I'm particularly fond of that movie, and that line, which is why I would like to preserve it for later enjoyment.
This leads me to 2 questions: "can patching be regulated?" and "should patching be regulated?". It seems obvious the free market can't keep our computers secure. I've been wrong before though. I guess maybe it could if people didn't already have the expectation that they shouldn't have to pay for patches b/c Microsoft should fix their own faulty software.
I guess it's all pretty moot since open source is going to take over the world anyway.
I'm glad to see someone's read their Chomsky!
I wish you could have posted that right when the article came up for discussion. It probably would have altered the tone in a good way.
You seem to be forgetting the fact that most of the world associates us with Michael Jackson. I wouldn't mind that so much if had just disapeared after "Bad" came out. Back in the '80s nobody was cooler than Michael Jackson, nobody. To quote Dave Chappelle, he made thriller.
I think your passion causing your death effects your interpersonal relationships.
Oh, come on! I fail to see how that was flamebait!!
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by Irwin reminding you of the way you really are? Being from the States I cringe at the idea of David Hasslehoff representing the US to east Germany. But he's a big pop star there because he milked the fall of the Berlin wall by singing songs about freedom, and that's how people for the states are, we'll milk anything for some cash. But I don't know if that's a fair comparison.
>Wild animals can be dangerous and there's no way around that. In combination with his intended message, his death is probably a good lesson to leave nature alone, and that's one of the best environmental messages one can give.
/. jewel right there. It should be at +5 by now. If only I had some mod points.
That's a
I thought it was Michael Jackson that dangled his child over vicious, blood thirsty, ravenous beasts?
I dare someone to mod parent down!
You should feel more than weepy!! You should feel guilty! You mocked him and now he's dead. You mocked a dead man. Not that I would ever do such a thing.
I use those words all the time with regards to people. I used those exact words to put mother's cancer into perspective. I don't believe in Jesus, so I get no consulation(sp?) from the bible, or any other religious text. Thinking about my mother's genes living on in my offspring helps me.
>It's frustrating how we, as a species, can only seem to unite through tragedy...
Yeah, and then some fool goes and ruins it by invading Iraq.
+1 funny
If by "someone who is the epitome of everything that geeks are not" you mean he had a tan from actually being out in sunlight, then yeah he was the opposite of a geek. But I define geeks as people who are dedicated to their passions. It maybe an esoteric passion, but a passion nonetheless. Some geeks are passionate about Star Trek and finding security flaws in the Linux kernel, while others are passionate about music and art. Steve Irwin's passion for living creatures makes him a geek in my book.
I think the freak accident was that somehow the barb got lodged in his chest. I've been around stingrays enough to know how easy it is to step on one, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get one to stab you in the chest.
Oh come on! If I had his job I would expect people to crack wise if I died the way he did. Yes, he was a good guy, and I feel bad for his family. But look at it this way: this summer my mom was diagnosed with cancer and underwent chemo. To relieve stress my brother and I would tell yo' mama jokes and they would always end up with "oh yeah? well yo' mama has cancer" which got the biggest laughs. You have to laugh at death, or else you're just going to feel like shit all the time.
My mother's in remission if anyone cares.
They had to be filming when it happened. I wonder if we're going to see this in the next faces of death film.
I'm not so sure the speed of this news item travelling shows how much people cared for him. I think it's more indicative of how interested we all have been for years about how he was going to meet his end.
Seeing how he has kids I fail to see how this is darwinian. Now if his kids all kill themselves before they reproduce then the final tally will be as you say it is. However, I have a feeling that one of his kids will see this as a reason to pursue accountancy or better yet actuarial science.