For the people who were only shaken up, they probably get earthquakes all the time, so it wouldn't be news. The people "on the ground" would have been busy saving people. It takes a while for a big event to filter through, for the news publishers to know it's worth publishing about.
If you're concerned about it, there was another post above which suggested disabling the firewire interface when you're not using it. An applescript that ran a shell command to enable, disable or toggle the firewire interface could just sit on your desktop. Alas, I'm not Unix-literate enough to write the shell script bit though.
It wouldn't let me see the forms because I was using Firefox (your browser is not what I want to see sort of dialog box). Thanks to slashdotters I know I can change the user agent if I want to but that might be beyond less technical people. And I pointed to that site because it's the only site in recent memory that's told me I have the wrong browser.
Maybe the US government is sponsoring them. You need IE or Netscape to get a US visa. So if, say, you have a Mac or run Linux, then Netscape has a monopoly.
As much as it pains me to say it, yes "we" did. We had the consolation of knowing that though he could scaremonger and lie as much as he liked, he couldn't directly fiddle with the vote count.
When he got rid of the period where recently eligible people (ie. youth who might not vote for him) could enrol after the election is called, the AEC were very irritated and ran a big campaign encouraging young people to vote. I'm a fanboy of the AEC.
My wife travelled an hour to go to a professional development class where the course notes corresponded exactly with the Powerpoint slides, which the lecturer read word for word. Sounds like fun.
Putting Monsanto in charge of the last remaining anything is like putting Kirstie Alley in charge of the last remaining cookies. Except that Kirstie Alley isn't pure evil.
Yes, their ads are pretty straightforwardly keyword based- I keep getting the same "Sing confidently" ads sitting next to emails about my professional choir gigs. If I saw an ad like "We show you exactly how to write a Mac application mostly in Lua", I'd be a little worried.
Yes, I wouldn't even know about Tiny URLs except for a columnist in the local newspaper TV/technology section. It probably doesn't matter whether the tiny links or the actual pages go offline first. Of course in electronic media, there's no excuse for not having an hyperlink.
Yes, I shudder to think what Iraq must be costing the US. If you have to have a war, do it well, or lose it relatively quickly, develop an anti-war stance, and become an economic superpower like Germany & Japan.
If mechanical calulators and computers interest you I highly recommend the Arathmeum in Bonn, Germany. There are machines from the 17th-20th centuries and you're allowed to try some of them yourself. Even my wife enjoyed it.
Yes, with focus blur, you have the same number of pixels as you would otherwise have, just mixed in a way that isn't immediately obvious. Though I suppose if the Hubble Space Telescope required corrective lenses, it mustn't be all that easy.
...it seems more like "Neurotic" in this case is meant to signify a lack of caution.
Maybe it is a mistranslation. Though in that case, as an Austrian invented neurosis, it pretty much messes up psychiatry in the English speaking world.
Yes, unless I actually want to listen to it, it's more akin to pollution. If I could link to the Canadian farmer being sued by Monsanto because his crops were contaminated by their GM varieties (against his will), I would.
No one is "killing" these languages. But in Australia, the paternalistic government isn't doing anything whatsoever that recognizes any value in Aboriginal languages.
On the other hand, learning a language is a huge time investment, and even if there was infinite money, there wouldn't be enough linguists to give each language the study it deserves. I do think that children should grow up with competence in their mother tongue though. They'll go an learn a world language anyway.
Any universe in which particles appear at random and with a lot of time on its hands will eventually produce large numbers of Boltzmann Brains (randomly appearing objects capable of observation). The observations that the universe's expansion is accelerating and that there may be no end of time allows this. This article states that if we (ie. evolved sentience) are typical observers then the universe is more likely than not to end within 19 billion years. This is a bit like the theory that if I am a typical human, then the human race doesn't have much of a future, because if there are many more billions of humans in the future it makes me special, not typical.
But it doesn't take a cosmologist to look at me and fear for the human race.
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For the people who were only shaken up, they probably get earthquakes all the time, so it wouldn't be news. The people "on the ground" would have been busy saving people. It takes a while for a big event to filter through, for the news publishers to know it's worth publishing about.
If that's what it takes to get their customers' friggin' internet to work properly, so be it.
If you're concerned about it, there was another post above which suggested disabling the firewire interface when you're not using it. An applescript that ran a shell command to enable, disable or toggle the firewire interface could just sit on your desktop. Alas, I'm not Unix-literate enough to write the shell script bit though.
It wouldn't let me see the forms because I was using Firefox (your browser is not what I want to see sort of dialog box). Thanks to slashdotters I know I can change the user agent if I want to but that might be beyond less technical people. And I pointed to that site because it's the only site in recent memory that's told me I have the wrong browser.
Maybe the US government is sponsoring them. You need IE or Netscape to get a US visa. So if, say, you have a Mac or run Linux, then Netscape has a monopoly.
It seems there are no rules governing what one might happen to learn on Slashdot...
As much as it pains me to say it, yes "we" did. We had the consolation of knowing that though he could scaremonger and lie as much as he liked, he couldn't directly fiddle with the vote count.
When he got rid of the period where recently eligible people (ie. youth who might not vote for him) could enrol after the election is called, the AEC were very irritated and ran a big campaign encouraging young people to vote. I'm a fanboy of the AEC.
My wife travelled an hour to go to a professional development class where the course notes corresponded exactly with the Powerpoint slides, which the lecturer read word for word. Sounds like fun.
...and it's funny how a "you have a reply" email from Slashdot has an ad for a "Free Server Monitor Tool".
$3000+ could get you a cool customized sticker of your own toon. Or your toon in T6.
...but it's quite easy to speed hack.
Putting Monsanto in charge of the last remaining anything is like putting Kirstie Alley in charge of the last remaining cookies. Except that Kirstie Alley isn't pure evil.
Yes, their ads are pretty straightforwardly keyword based- I keep getting the same "Sing confidently" ads sitting next to emails about my professional choir gigs. If I saw an ad like "We show you exactly how to write a Mac application mostly in Lua", I'd be a little worried.
I'd still click on it though.
Yes, I wouldn't even know about Tiny URLs except for a columnist in the local newspaper TV/technology section. It probably doesn't matter whether the tiny links or the actual pages go offline first. Of course in electronic media, there's no excuse for not having an hyperlink.
Yes, I shudder to think what Iraq must be costing the US. If you have to have a war, do it well, or lose it relatively quickly, develop an anti-war stance, and become an economic superpower like Germany & Japan.
You can only have one of these I'm afraid. You have a difficult choice ahead.
If mechanical calulators and computers interest you I highly recommend the Arathmeum in Bonn, Germany. There are machines from the 17th-20th centuries and you're allowed to try some of them yourself. Even my wife enjoyed it.
A joke modded Offtopic... oh, the indignity!
For George Bush it's "nuculi", though "nuculei" sounds cooler.
Yes, with focus blur, you have the same number of pixels as you would otherwise have, just mixed in a way that isn't immediately obvious. Though I suppose if the Hubble Space Telescope required corrective lenses, it mustn't be all that easy.
Maybe it is a mistranslation. Though in that case, as an Austrian invented neurosis, it pretty much messes up psychiatry in the English speaking world.
Yes, unless I actually want to listen to it, it's more akin to pollution. If I could link to the Canadian farmer being sued by Monsanto because his crops were contaminated by their GM varieties (against his will), I would.
No one is "killing" these languages. But in Australia, the paternalistic government isn't doing anything whatsoever that recognizes any value in Aboriginal languages.
On the other hand, learning a language is a huge time investment, and even if there was infinite money, there wouldn't be enough linguists to give each language the study it deserves. I do think that children should grow up with competence in their mother tongue though. They'll go an learn a world language anyway.
Fine as long as it's not a RetNub pally. Human only according to Blizzard.
Any universe in which particles appear at random and with a lot of time on its hands will eventually produce large numbers of Boltzmann Brains (randomly appearing objects capable of observation). The observations that the universe's expansion is accelerating and that there may be no end of time allows this. This article states that if we (ie. evolved sentience) are typical observers then the universe is more likely than not to end within 19 billion years. This is a bit like the theory that if I am a typical human, then the human race doesn't have much of a future, because if there are many more billions of humans in the future it makes me special, not typical.
But it doesn't take a cosmologist to look at me and fear for the human race.