Hmm.. It seems like you're taking a this metaphor a bit too literally. It's not as if the democrats are actually on one end of a see-saw and the republicans are on the other.
In fact, from my point of view out here on the far-left, the democrats look distinctly centrist. And they're moving rightward all the time. So we end up with this piece of shit bill which so many people call centrist, but which is actually pretty far to the right of center.
Exactly! I may be almost all the way to the left on some issues (e.g. health care and legalizing recreational drugs)-- but having been brought up in a family with a long tradition of military service I actually hold many views espoused on the right end of the political spectrum. One of my favorite activities to share with my dad and my brother is target practice.
The worst part of this situation is that we have more than five hundred elected officials who took oaths to defend the Constitution. By passing this law, a majority of them broke their vow. Any Senator who didn't attempt to filibuster this turd of a bill is guilty of treason in my eyes.
How the hell can people claim that eviscerating the Fourth Amendment is a centrist position?!
I'm seriously getting tired of this canard, that somehow it's a far-left position to want to maintain the freedoms we've enjoyed for more than two-hundred years. Respect for the Rule of Law sure seems more centrist to me than the current strategy of handing unchecked power to the executive.
... As long as there aren't any crazy magnetic anomalies in the area, you should be able to find either a really big open field, an interstate (hope the radio still works), or a body of water in which to crash-land. This is of course assuming your hydraulics still work.
I like to run a screen session on my file server with uTorrent running and attach with screen -x. That way I can leave my seeds up all of the time and take my macbook with me to check on them if necessary. With -x it will share the session between two terminal sessions -- you can even share it with another user on the system if you set up the permissions correctly.
Thanks to Congress' passage of the Military Commissions Act, W can impose martial law whenever he feels like it... I'm waiting for him to trump up some excuse around the middle of October, extra points if it involves Iran.
Uhm.... Read that section again. It's not the courts who make that decision under this bill, it's the executive.
That's why this bill is such a piece of shit. I was hoping that Sen. Obama would pledge to filibuster it if the immunity provision isn't removed. Unfortunately his party seems to be more intent on covering their own asses instead of fulfilling their duty to protect the Constitution.
Man, what I wouldn't give for an actual opposition party in this country.
This is why I run rtorrent on my file server. Just start it up in a screen session and it can run as long as you want, and just ssh in from anywhere to adjust it or add torrents!
Right on, I've had good luck with Audacity but admitedly I haven't really put it through its paces. However, comparing XP x64 to the Debian-based 64Studio, it's much more stable and feature-rich. I couldn't use my Firepod and Mackie at the same time using Sonar 5, but jack lets me do it without complaint. Just had to tweak a couple of buffer settings. The more I work with Ardour the more I'm impressed, though. I just wish the documentation was more in the manual and less on their forums.
Huh... doesn't suck here. I am consistently able to record live-to-multitrack using my Mackie Onyx 1640 firewire and Ardour 2.1 on 64Studio. I've recorded three 4-hour shows that way in the last few months. No problems except out-of-tune guitars;) Seriously, 64Studio has worked out-of-the-box for me on all of my gear -- give it a shot!
The other interesting thing about the sound design was that all of the music (until halfway through the credits) was diegetic. In other words it was caused by sources seen on-screen. The sound designer really did an excellent job on this movie.
I think what the GP was trying to say was: what if alien species have evolved to perceive spectra we can only detect with technology? Of course they wouldn't call it "hearing" or "seeing" since they probably don't speak english.. and if we could wire our brains directly to radio telescopes I bet we'd come up with a whole new word for perceiving those frequencies.
My guess, though, is that the only entities which would evolve those abilities would actually live in deep space -- negating the need to search for M-Class planets.. The whole scenario strikes me as extremely unlikely even on cosmic timescales... But it's fun to think about, anyway.
Exactly, our guys say totally different stuff-- and they don't behead, they just pump out thousands of rounds of depleted-uranium or drop bombs from thousands of feet! And they don't like to do their killing on videotape, either. Oh, and they don't do the killing themselves, they order poor kids to do it!
Yeah, neocons and radical islamists are totally different kinds of killers. You're right.
Hell, I'm a thirty-year-old American and I miss about 10% of the references in any particular Family Guy... I used to go to WP to find these references, but about a year ago I found that a lot of this trivia was disappearing before my eyes. Looking at the discussion page I saw comments a lot like this Slashdot discussion.
I tried to voice my opinion as an end-user in the appropriate places, but was dismissed and referred to something like a dozen policy pages. As a result, I use WP about 25% as much as I used to. It seems that a large subset of the administrators there care more about exercising power by "cleaning up the place" or "pruning the tree" than they do about serving the people who use the site. That's a shame, and it means that they will follow their precious policies until WP becomes irrelevant.
Hmm.. Or maybe you could just, you know, learn how to use a search engine properly. As has been said numerous times in this discussion, by pruning the tree of knowledge WP is reducing usability for its end-users. Maybe you think the tree will be healthier for this, but it doesn't really matter if no one comes by to pick the fruit.
Dissent is not treason. People like you are the reason open democracies turn into dictatorships. I guess you'd better take advantage of the First Amendment while it still exists, as it looks like it will be going the way of the Fourth quite soon.
Hmm... libxine1-ffmpeg is already the newest version. To be clear, wmv will play under kaffeine -- but there's a weird bug on some of them where the frame will quit drawing anything not in motion rendering the video unwatchable. I haven't cared enough to look around to see if there's a fix for kaffeine, since Mplayer doesn't suffer from the same bug (and I check to see what format pr0n is in before I d/l it -- she has to be really hot to bother with the hassle of wmv).
Indeed, I haven't found any formats which won't play on Kubuntu 7.04... WMV will only play under MPlayer, but what are you gonna do? I can even watch flash content in a 32-bit wrapper for my 64-bit box (something which seems to be impossible under the 64-bit iteration of XP) - all it took was reading the right forum post and running a simple little script.
One of the best arguments for growing hemp everywhere is that it would decimate the economics of marijuana agriculture. Yeah, because dammit, a drug on which no one has ever overdosed and which seems to actually prevent cancer should never be allowed for human consumption! Seriously, what is it with these hippies? Can't they just take their alcohol then crash their cars and beat their wives like normal people?!
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm.. It seems like you're taking a this metaphor a bit too literally. It's not as if the democrats are actually on one end of a see-saw and the republicans are on the other.
In fact, from my point of view out here on the far-left, the democrats look distinctly centrist. And they're moving rightward all the time. So we end up with this piece of shit bill which so many people call centrist, but which is actually pretty far to the right of center.
Exactly! I may be almost all the way to the left on some issues (e.g. health care and legalizing recreational drugs)-- but having been brought up in a family with a long tradition of military service I actually hold many views espoused on the right end of the political spectrum. One of my favorite activities to share with my dad and my brother is target practice.
The worst part of this situation is that we have more than five hundred elected officials who took oaths to defend the Constitution. By passing this law, a majority of them broke their vow. Any Senator who didn't attempt to filibuster this turd of a bill is guilty of treason in my eyes.
How the hell can people claim that eviscerating the Fourth Amendment is a centrist position?!
I'm seriously getting tired of this canard, that somehow it's a far-left position to want to maintain the freedoms we've enjoyed for more than two-hundred years. Respect for the Rule of Law sure seems more centrist to me than the current strategy of handing unchecked power to the executive.
... As long as there aren't any crazy magnetic anomalies in the area, you should be able to find either a really big open field, an interstate (hope the radio still works), or a body of water in which to crash-land. This is of course assuming your hydraulics still work.
I like to run a screen session on my file server with uTorrent running and attach with screen -x. That way I can leave my seeds up all of the time and take my macbook with me to check on them if necessary. With -x it will share the session between two terminal sessions -- you can even share it with another user on the system if you set up the permissions correctly.
Thanks to Congress' passage of the Military Commissions Act, W can impose martial law whenever he feels like it... I'm waiting for him to trump up some excuse around the middle of October, extra points if it involves Iran.
Uhm.... Read that section again. It's not the courts who make that decision under this bill, it's the executive. That's why this bill is such a piece of shit. I was hoping that Sen. Obama would pledge to filibuster it if the immunity provision isn't removed. Unfortunately his party seems to be more intent on covering their own asses instead of fulfilling their duty to protect the Constitution. Man, what I wouldn't give for an actual opposition party in this country.
This is why I run rtorrent on my file server. Just start it up in a screen session and it can run as long as you want, and just ssh in from anywhere to adjust it or add torrents!
64Studio
Right on, I've had good luck with Audacity but admitedly I haven't really put it through its paces. However, comparing XP x64 to the Debian-based 64Studio, it's much more stable and feature-rich. I couldn't use my Firepod and Mackie at the same time using Sonar 5, but jack lets me do it without complaint. Just had to tweak a couple of buffer settings. The more I work with Ardour the more I'm impressed, though. I just wish the documentation was more in the manual and less on their forums.
Huh... doesn't suck here. I am consistently able to record live-to-multitrack using my Mackie Onyx 1640 firewire and Ardour 2.1 on 64Studio. I've recorded three 4-hour shows that way in the last few months. No problems except out-of-tune guitars ;) Seriously, 64Studio has worked out-of-the-box for me on all of my gear -- give it a shot!
Is it just me, or does this joke lose something with a 7-digit /. UID?
The other interesting thing about the sound design was that all of the music (until halfway through the credits) was diegetic. In other words it was caused by sources seen on-screen. The sound designer really did an excellent job on this movie.
My guess, though, is that the only entities which would evolve those abilities would actually live in deep space -- negating the need to search for M-Class planets.. The whole scenario strikes me as extremely unlikely even on cosmic timescales... But it's fun to think about, anyway.
You think that's weird?! On my second page of google results I found a post I made to a BBS fifteen years ago!
Exactly, our guys say totally different stuff-- and they don't behead, they just pump out thousands of rounds of depleted-uranium or drop bombs from thousands of feet! And they don't like to do their killing on videotape, either. Oh, and they don't do the killing themselves, they order poor kids to do it! Yeah, neocons and radical islamists are totally different kinds of killers. You're right.
Hell, I'm a thirty-year-old American and I miss about 10% of the references in any particular Family Guy... I used to go to WP to find these references, but about a year ago I found that a lot of this trivia was disappearing before my eyes. Looking at the discussion page I saw comments a lot like this Slashdot discussion.
I tried to voice my opinion as an end-user in the appropriate places, but was dismissed and referred to something like a dozen policy pages. As a result, I use WP about 25% as much as I used to. It seems that a large subset of the administrators there care more about exercising power by "cleaning up the place" or "pruning the tree" than they do about serving the people who use the site. That's a shame, and it means that they will follow their precious policies until WP becomes irrelevant.
Hmm.. Or maybe you could just, you know, learn how to use a search engine properly. As has been said numerous times in this discussion, by pruning the tree of knowledge WP is reducing usability for its end-users. Maybe you think the tree will be healthier for this, but it doesn't really matter if no one comes by to pick the fruit.
Dissent is not treason. People like you are the reason open democracies turn into dictatorships. I guess you'd better take advantage of the First Amendment while it still exists, as it looks like it will be going the way of the Fourth quite soon.
Man, with a slashdot UID that low -- you'd think you'd know the difference between a byte and a bit... ;-D
Hmm... libxine1-ffmpeg is already the newest version. To be clear, wmv will play under kaffeine -- but there's a weird bug on some of them where the frame will quit drawing anything not in motion rendering the video unwatchable. I haven't cared enough to look around to see if there's a fix for kaffeine, since Mplayer doesn't suffer from the same bug (and I check to see what format pr0n is in before I d/l it -- she has to be really hot to bother with the hassle of wmv).
Indeed, I haven't found any formats which won't play on Kubuntu 7.04... WMV will only play under MPlayer, but what are you gonna do? I can even watch flash content in a 32-bit wrapper for my 64-bit box (something which seems to be impossible under the 64-bit iteration of XP) - all it took was reading the right forum post and running a simple little script.
Apparently you aren't a fan of They Might Be Giants... And you call yourself a nerd!