I got rid of my car, moved closer to work and my kid's school, fix and reuse, recycle more, and spend more of my time now with my family than working harder to be a good consumer.
*Leans over podium* Brethern, it is the time of the Apocalypse! Stand up and be saved! *Thumps loudly on "Linux in a Nutshell"* Who is ready to receive saaaaalvation?!
Checked tsa.gov's handy PDF on the issue: Prohibited as carry-on: Axes and Hatchets Cattle Prods Crowbars Hammers Drills (including cordless portable power drills) Saws (including cordless portable power saws) Screwdrivers (except those in eyeglass repair kits) Tools (including but not limited to wrenches and pliers) Wrenches and Pliers
The Tools, Wrenches, and Pliers entries just about kill the idea of taking anything useful on a flight.
The non-murdering uses of a gun: Warning Shots Target Practice Long-Term Loans from Financial Institutions Track & Field Happiness (if warm) Cracking Walnuts at 100 yards Network Administration (see LART, definition of)
Calling Linus an engineer is like calling Gandhi a politician... you need to look up just a little to judge how badly you underestimated the impact of the man and his followers. Gandhi had his moments of pettiness and just plain tom-foolishness, but the sum of his efforts changed the way people gain power back from those who would usurp it for their own. In a different, yet no less trivial way, so did Linus (although I would not call him Mahatma).
Pierre Boulle, the chap who wrote "Planet of The Apes," wrote a novel called "The Garden On The Moon," in which the Japanese competed against the other "powers" to land on the moon.
>Now people can drive, talk on the phone, type something on their laptop, eat, and read the newspaper at the same time.
Or, considering the "averaging" in the algorithm, imagine them typing on the newspaper, turning their laptop to the right, talking to the steering wheel, shoving the cellphone in their mouth, and careening off the road.
Maybe with a "lossy" algorithm like this that wouldn't be as big a factor... then again, maybe the answer is making the elctrode/brain/skull part more durable.
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I got rid of my car, moved closer to work and my kid's school, fix and reuse, recycle more, and spend more of my time now with my family than working harder to be a good consumer.
I'm also now completely out of debt.
That's funny!
Now I'm going to drink some ratsnapple tea, put on my Nikes, lay down on my cot, and wait for Hale-Bopp!
Thanks!
In my next postings I will include encoded voice messages as a series of ASCII tokens.
Better not mod them down, or you'll be fined for impeding competition...
(and yes, this is not meant seriously)
Knock, knock, neo...
They know where you are.
Get out while you still can.
We are the Church Of :wq!
*Leans over podium*
Brethern, it is the time of the Apocalypse!
Stand up and be saved!
*Thumps loudly on "Linux in a Nutshell"*
Who is ready to receive saaaaalvation?!
Hmm. No wonder I liked it.
...and fishies)
(You should see the Hawaiian shirt I'm wearing right now... blue palm trees, yellow bamboo
From the article:
"It's the plan," den Hartog said. "I know he [Swainson] has worked on the preliminary work to get that done."
Not much accomplished on this yet. This seems like a feeler.
That said, it's only a pledge, when done.
A promise, only.
It would be nice to see something binding on this, or to see the end of software patents altogether.
Checked tsa.gov's handy PDF on the issue:
Prohibited as carry-on:
Axes and Hatchets
Cattle Prods
Crowbars
Hammers
Drills (including cordless portable power drills)
Saws (including cordless portable power saws)
Screwdrivers (except those in eyeglass repair kits)
Tools (including but not limited to wrenches and pliers)
Wrenches and Pliers
The Tools, Wrenches, and Pliers entries just about kill the idea of taking anything useful on a flight.
The non-murdering uses of a gun:
Warning Shots
Target Practice
Long-Term Loans from Financial Institutions
Track & Field
Happiness (if warm)
Cracking Walnuts at 100 yards
Network Administration (see LART, definition of)
Calling Linus an engineer is like calling Gandhi a politician... you need to look up just a little to judge how badly you underestimated the impact of the man and his followers.
Gandhi had his moments of pettiness and just plain tom-foolishness, but the sum of his efforts changed the way people gain power back from those who would usurp it for their own.
In a different, yet no less trivial way, so did Linus (although I would not call him Mahatma).
Pierre Boulle, the chap who wrote "Planet of The Apes," wrote a novel called "The Garden On The Moon," in which the Japanese competed against the other "powers" to land on the moon.
It was a poignant read.
let me see if I can reduce this to a human-readable folk saying:
If the only tool you have is a machine gun, everything starts to look like enemy soldiers.
>as per the suggestion of a M... ...uppet
Fozzie Bear is a Lobbyist!
Bork Bork Bork
Perhaps you should get a jar of Flarp... and make that sound your special ringtone.
I just whistle and hum my tunes anyhow... who cares what "downloads" cost...
Menos mal que hay papas fritas...
...or buy some lotto tickets ...or ammo.
Just enough money to eat at Mickey D's...
Perhaps China (or at least as personified by these officials) has forgotten where a lot of electronic equipment is manufactured.
Why not just take the new standard and profit on our willingness to buy their stuff, as usual?
Perhaps our dollars don't have the shine they used to?
In other news, 3M stock up four points...
Do you think we're experiencing a mini-bubble?
What's the proper nomenclature...
iBubble?
dot-bam?
dot-pop?
dot-pup?
gumball rally?
Actually I read your posts and your journal.
It's just that I don't take Slashdot that seriously either.
>Now people can drive, talk on the phone, type something on their laptop, eat, and read the newspaper at the same time.
Or, considering the "averaging" in the algorithm, imagine them typing on the newspaper, turning their laptop to the right, talking to the steering wheel, shoving the cellphone in their mouth, and careening off the road.
Maybe with a "lossy" algorithm like this that wouldn't be as big a factor... then again, maybe the answer is making the elctrode/brain/skull part more durable.
>Buyer Beware (or what ever the legal Latin term is)
That would be "Cum Grano Salis"