We should not 'call' it anything, and just get the fuck on with our lives.
Let who ever, wherever, and whenever label it as they see fit. Let 'Demographics' determine what is relevant, maybe?
P.S. you 'epic failed' on your 'funny' attempt.
..the other white flu?
That should have been: 'the other, other white flu'.
Turn in your geek card on the way out. Don't let the door hit you on the ass. (yeah, I noticed your 3 digit UID)
The drift from pigs to humans (and therefore no vaccine in production) caused the initial concern.
You can't be serious...can you???
I am safe in my bunker. Fsck the 2nd and 3rd waves that your hypothetical scenarios proscribe due to your limited imagination.
I anticipated this airborne vector unlike any other entity could do. You are doomed. I will counter attack from my vault when your stupidity evaporates.
Drift from pigs to humans? Duke Nukem Forever has not been released yet, so....WTF?
It was not the 'drift from pigs to humans' that was the concern, it was the ease that it was transmitted from human to human that was/is the big deal.
Go ahead and keep knee-jerking shit, and deny what is actually happening...don't want to upset your agenda.
According to Sunde's lawyers, one of the issues still under discussion is whether the evidence collected by the Swedish authorities is legal or not. Thus far, the only binding jurisdiction with regard to The Pirate Bay is that the Italian blocking order was absolutely unlawful under criminal law.
Nevertheless, the entertainment industry is one step ahead and already thinking about how they will divide the booty. Simona Lavagnini, one of the lawyers representing the Italian music industry said that it is not very realistic to expect the defendants to be extradited to Italy, but she believes that fines and a seizure of assets belong to the possibilities.
Are the Italians going to invade other countries to seize these assets? Does TPB even have any assets in Italyto be seized?
This sounds like another 'me too' bullshit stunt to me.
Actually, it seems that I hear it more from the Bush-did-it conspiracy camp. If anything, Bush saying that a bunch of fundies hiding in a backassword nation needed high end technology and planning to pull this off would have hurt his cause.
Maybe it's a regional difference then. I won't try and tell you what your experiences and observations were/are.
Mine happened to be the opposite here in central Oklahoma. Many people around here were all up in arms over 'OMGZ Arabs are buying a US port, and will overrun the country with terrorists!!!' when we were contemplating selling the port space to the Saudi bunch.(don't remember exactly who they were)
Hell, I had these same people in tears when Obama won. We were all going to become Islamic slaves with him as the POTUS!(seriously!)
I also remember the justifications for the PATRIOT Act, TSA, DHS, the color coded "Terrorist Threat Level' system, why we couldn't find Bin Laden, etc...
Put us both together, and I guess there are more than enough idiots to go around!
Sorry I am coming across as harsh. I just get frustrated with these discussions because everyone always seems to look at the surface, and miss most of what is really happening.
There is a predominant groupthink displayed here that the Government is one big 'all knowing, all seeing' coordinated, single entity...and the opposite is the reality. The Gov't. is no more coordinated and all knowing/seeing than the/. community is.
All of these agencies and departments are not really any different than/. is....all of us geeks sitting around in our isolated basements with our narrow views. The big difference is at least we are on a common forum talking to each other, whereas thes different departments and agencies are not talking to each other much.
Collectively our Gov't. has more info and data of what is occuring here and abroad than any other US administration has ever had, but it is so divided that no one really gets to see the big picture with any clarity.
Maybe this is a good thing though, as I would be more fearful of a truly 'all knowing-all seeing' and coordinated Government. YMMV....
Because it is essentially stealing from the website. As other posters have mentioned, many users don't bother to wait for the page to load and just go directly for the full size image.
No, that is not 'stealing', and if I go to search for an image on Google Images, then I'm not wanting to go to some random website to dig around for the image. That would be an Epic Fail for an image search. Of course I'm going to click on the image link before the rest of the shite that I was not searching for, nor interested in seeing takes time to show up. I would rather go straight to the image that I was searching for and be done with it.
"If Habbib leaves Boston at 7:20 AM and Mohammad leaves Washington D.C. at 7:35 AM what time will they get to The World Trade Center?"
Now wonder you had trouble with 'sophisticated' junior high math problems. You apparently are still missing out on some key concepts.
If Habbib is traveling by taxi, while Mohammad rides his camel....it could take a while, or not, who could know?
What are their velocities? What was your point? Hopefully you do not teach junior high mathematics!
You're proposing a nonsensical 'word problem' as 'sophisticated junior high' mathematics.
I don't know where this concept came from that this crime had to be high tech.
The 'News Media' and the Bush Administration's FUD campaign, remember? Unfortunately, many idiots bought into it.
Thus concludes today's SlashMath, and DotHistory lessons. We now return you to your inane ranting already in progress, after a word from our sponsor...
This is just the boogey man du jour. Got to sell those newspapers and that ad space!
TFA is a prime example of this. The summary first links to a blog[ad space] that links to the real article[more ad space]. The real article is also written by the author of said blog.
I will give credit for the real article being an interesting read, but why not go straight to the real article in the first place?
To top that off, the second link(also a blog) in the 'fine' article is an astroturf piece for some data mining company that's whining that WHO, CDC, and one other organization are not buying his company's services and software, and pushing an international tracking system that his company 'deserves' to be part of.[his word]
The whole point of this story was to increase adviews on two websites by the same guy, and push an astroturf on another blog.
We used to blast Roland P. for this until he finally stopped. Then shortly died...Hmmm....
There are a small handful of web sites I whitelist in Adblock+, but this crap is one of the main reasons I don't feel bad about using it in the first place.
You are a far more forgiving people than US[pun intended]. We can trade you one 'Sheryl Crow' for...what?
Okay, throw in Brian Adams, but we are still out producing the crap shit^Hpped out compared to y'all. Get with the times dude! 'Pump up the Volume'/Shite, man!! *apply sarcasm filter heavily above*
BTW, I am not anti-Canadian, I was just unduly influenced by the 'Fallout' series, and 'Strange Brew'.
This is why I broke/. protocol to reply to my own post.
What's all of this 'reboot' shite? Do I need a kernel upgrade to watch this? Re-compile, or 'emerge'? Log-out, log-in? make && make install? 'Kill -9' my brain, then start it back up? WTF?
You marketdroids and your inane, warped, and twisted lexicon are getting to be too much. Where's the 'synergy'?, the 'leveraging', and shouldn't this be 'value-added' or 'feature-rich'?
You don't 'reboot' a movie, only the computer it was running on. Fscking kids, can't see any 'generational accomplishments' except to rename everything...'What Would John Wayne Do?'...*makes bumper sticker:WWJDD?'*... *mumble*
Now 'get off my lawn!', and 'turn that crap down!'. And yes, I am older and more crotchety than usually found here!
If you did not experience that part of history, then you cannot grasp the nuances. Star Trek: TOS==1966
Can you remember what the mid-latter 1960's were like? If not, you are just speculating and gathering navel lint. If you were 'experienced'(thanks, Jimi H.), 'then you know I am', and so is 'hey!(33014)'. I will vouch for that...WORD!(translate that as 'Right On, Man!)
I think both of you are 'right', but limited. We would have to ask Gene Roddenberry to be sure, though.
At the time(1966) of ST: TOS, tensions in world politics were high.(saying that looking at today sounds silly, but...) The Cold War was simmering nicely with the USSR, while China was isolationist, but probing Western markets, we(USA) were looking at Vietnam(with both Soviet and Chinese support), etc...
The 'Space Mongol' scenario just played on this to avoid political/diplomatic finger-pointing. (Buck Rogers vs. Ming the Merciless, etc.) We indemnify that we don't understand or accept(usually related), so we 'needed' a common cause to rally around for the 'betterment' of mankind.(read: become more like US[A] to be non-threatening) Something else we are neglecting in this specific discussion are the Romulans. Who did they represent? And their 'cousins', the Vulcans? For this discussion we should bring them both into the picture, IMHO.
I think that was Gene's intention. In hi own way, he was trying to get us used to the idea that 'National Borders/Politics' were less important than mankind as a whole. It may have been naive, but at least understandable by reasonable people that were fed up with the whole 'Cold War' thing impinging on space exploration.
Take all of that with a grain of salt, but having seen/read interviews featuring G.R., I will stand by my speculations. I have mentioned this years ago(and thus cannot track down the post), but the 'launching' of Star Trek was treated as a big deal in NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center community. The Premier was greeted with dinner parties galore. My family attended one of these hosted by a senior director of NTTF**/Goddard at his home. It was treated as a 'Big Deal' in the Goddard community...a way to tie-in what NASA was doing for us as a species...helping the ST:TOS world become a reality.
**NTTF==Network Test and Training Facility. I worked there as a High school senior, in the Logistics Dept. on the 'graveyard shift' in 1976-77, playing 'baseball'(text-based), and blackjack on NASA's mainframes! ten years after Star Trek was aired.
Looking at your/. UID, I'll resist the 'get off my lawn' speech here, and just get the fsck off of yours!...:-)
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We should not 'call' it anything, and just get the fuck on with our lives.
Let who ever, wherever, and whenever label it as they see fit.
Let 'Demographics' determine what is relevant, maybe?
P.S. you 'epic failed' on your 'funny' attempt.
..the other white flu?
That should have been: 'the other, other white flu'.
Turn in your geek card on the way out.
Don't let the door hit you on the ass. (yeah, I noticed your 3 digit UID)
The drift from pigs to humans (and therefore no vaccine in production) caused the initial concern.
You can't be serious...can you???
I am safe in my bunker. Fsck the 2nd and 3rd waves that your hypothetical scenarios proscribe due to your limited imagination.
I anticipated this airborne vector unlike any other entity could do. You are doomed. I will counter attack from my vault when your stupidity evaporates.
Drift from pigs to humans? ....WTF?
Duke Nukem Forever has not been released yet, so
It was not the 'drift from pigs to humans' that was the concern, it was the ease that it was transmitted from human to human that was/is the big deal.
Go ahead and keep knee-jerking shit, and deny what is actually happening...don't want to upset your agenda.
Now that's a bold statement from someone that has this as his sig!
Please learn the difference: à la = "in the style or manner of" ; aka = "also known as"
Fsckin' moron! LOL!!!
FTFA:
Are the Italians going to invade other countries to seize these assets? Does TPB even have any assets in Italyto be seized?
This sounds like another 'me too' bullshit stunt to me.
I was so looking forward to trying the 'Stalinux' distro, comrade.
Actually, it seems that I hear it more from the Bush-did-it conspiracy camp. If anything, Bush saying that a bunch of fundies hiding in a backassword nation needed high end technology and planning to pull this off would have hurt his cause.
Maybe it's a regional difference then. I won't try and tell you what your experiences and observations were/are.
Mine happened to be the opposite here in central Oklahoma.
Many people around here were all up in arms over 'OMGZ Arabs are buying a US port, and will overrun the country with terrorists!!!' when we were contemplating selling the port space to the Saudi bunch.(don't remember exactly who they were)
Hell, I had these same people in tears when Obama won. We were all going to become Islamic slaves with him as the POTUS!(seriously!)
I also remember the justifications for the PATRIOT Act, TSA, DHS, the color coded "Terrorist Threat Level' system, why we couldn't find Bin Laden, etc...
Put us both together, and I guess there are more than enough idiots to go around!
Sorry I am coming across as harsh. I just get frustrated with these discussions because everyone always seems to look at the surface, and miss most of what is really happening.
There is a predominant groupthink displayed here that the Government is one big 'all knowing, all seeing' coordinated, single entity...and the opposite is the reality. /. community is.
The Gov't. is no more coordinated and all knowing/seeing than the
All of these agencies and departments are not really any different than /. is....all of us geeks sitting around in our isolated basements with our narrow views. The big difference is at least we are on a common forum talking to each other, whereas thes different departments and agencies are not talking to each other much.
Collectively our Gov't. has more info and data of what is occuring here and abroad than any other US administration has ever had, but it is so divided that no one really gets to see the big picture with any clarity.
Maybe this is a good thing though, as I would be more fearful of a truly 'all knowing-all seeing' and coordinated Government. YMMV....
Because it is essentially stealing from the website. As other posters have mentioned, many users don't bother to wait for the page to load and just go directly for the full size image.
No, that is not 'stealing', and if I go to search for an image on Google Images, then I'm not wanting to go to some random website to dig around for the image. That would be an Epic Fail for an image search.
Of course I'm going to click on the image link before the rest of the shite that I was not searching for, nor interested in seeing takes time to show up. I would rather go straight to the image that I was searching for and be done with it.
"If Habbib leaves Boston at 7:20 AM and Mohammad leaves Washington D.C. at 7:35 AM what time will they get to The World Trade Center?"
Now wonder you had trouble with 'sophisticated' junior high math problems. You apparently are still missing out on some key concepts.
If Habbib is traveling by taxi, while Mohammad rides his camel....it could take a while, or not, who could know?
What are their velocities? What was your point? Hopefully you do not teach junior high mathematics!
You're proposing a nonsensical 'word problem' as 'sophisticated junior high' mathematics.
I don't know where this concept came from that this crime had to be high tech.
The 'News Media' and the Bush Administration's FUD campaign, remember?
Unfortunately, many idiots bought into it.
Thus concludes today's SlashMath, and DotHistory lessons. We now return you to your inane ranting already in progress, after a word from our sponsor...
I've looked for it unsuccessfully also. I haven't had any tonight, so I don't think that is your problem.
I say we were lied to!
I think that invoking 'Goddard's Law' he was saying 'Whoosh!' in a geek fashion.
Now we can finally put an end to all of the squabbling going on in the ISS.
With the NASA Nose, we will finally be able to prove once and for all whose farts smell the worse, and by how much!
This is just the boogey man du jour. Got to sell those newspapers and that ad space!
TFA is a prime example of this.
The summary first links to a blog[ad space] that links to the real article[more ad space]. The real article is also written by the author of said blog.
I will give credit for the real article being an interesting read, but why not go straight to the real article in the first place?
To top that off, the second link(also a blog) in the 'fine' article is an astroturf piece for some data mining company that's whining that WHO, CDC, and one other organization are not buying his company's services and software, and pushing an international tracking system that his company 'deserves' to be part of.[his word]
The whole point of this story was to increase adviews on two websites by the same guy, and push an astroturf on another blog.
We used to blast Roland P. for this until he finally stopped. Then shortly died...Hmmm....
There are a small handful of web sites I whitelist in Adblock+, but this crap is one of the main reasons I don't feel bad about using it in the first place.
Exactly what I was thinking as I read the summary.
If some other country tried something like that in the USA, it would be labeled as a terrorist threat/plot.
Hah! Hah!!
Try Wubi.exe'
You are a far more forgiving people than US[pun intended]. ...what?
We can trade you one 'Sheryl Crow' for
Okay, throw in Brian Adams, but we are still out producing the crap shit^Hpped out compared to y'all.
Get with the times dude! 'Pump up the Volume'/Shite, man!!
*apply sarcasm filter heavily above*
BTW, I am not anti-Canadian, I was just unduly influenced by the 'Fallout' series, and 'Strange Brew'.
This is why I broke /. protocol to reply to my own post.
I hereby denounce all of my posts detrimental to Canada and us annexing them ala Fallout....Really.
I bow down to my Northern Hockey Stick Wielding Overlords!
Go Canada! Maple leaves and 'eh! You Hoser!' forever!
What's all of this 'reboot' shite?
Do I need a kernel upgrade to watch this? Re-compile, or 'emerge'?
Log-out, log-in? make && make install?
'Kill -9' my brain, then start it back up?
WTF?
You marketdroids and your inane, warped, and twisted lexicon are getting to be too much.
Where's the 'synergy'?, the 'leveraging', and shouldn't this be 'value-added' or 'feature-rich'?
You don't 'reboot' a movie, only the computer it was running on.
Fscking kids, can't see any 'generational accomplishments' except to rename everything...'What Would John Wayne Do?'...*makes bumper sticker:WWJDD?'*... *mumble*
Now 'get off my lawn!', and 'turn that crap down!'.
And yes, I am older and more crotchety than usually found here!
I have prior art on being a grumpy old man!
P.S. I'm only semiserious, some of my tongue is 'in-cheek', but not all of it...YMMV.
...I am always up for some sex and violence!
So that's where you've gotten to, droogie? :-)
How 'bout some 'ultraviolence' to go with that?
Kirk broke that directive damn near every week!
Or, as my wife likes to say: "Captain Kirk 'tap-danced' through the 'Prime Directive' in Stiletto Heels, with a smile.
(yes, I am married, and my wife* is a 'Trekkie'. Life is good!)
*Yes, she is a female of my own species! But I will not claim understanding of said females of my species...
My estimation of you as a 'manly man' just jumped dramatically!
Okay, all sarcasm aside, I do respect that admission a lot...either two LOC's, or at least 3 parsecs in a hogshead per kilometer worth of respect.
Okay, really, really all sarcasm aside, You did just gain some respect with me, for whatever that may be worth[less] to you. :-)
P.S. Don't sweat it...the dumbfsck's will be bemused, contest it, pedantify it, and the rest of us will laugh it off, and move on like you did!
Hear! Hear!
I repeat:
Hear! Hear!
If you did not experience that part of history, then you cannot grasp the nuances.
Star Trek: TOS==1966
Can you remember what the mid-latter 1960's were like?
If not, you are just speculating and gathering navel lint. If you were 'experienced'(thanks, Jimi H.), 'then you know I am', and so is 'hey!(33014)'.
I will vouch for that...WORD!(translate that as 'Right On, Man!)
I think both of you are 'right', but limited. We would have to ask Gene Roddenberry to be sure, though.
At the time(1966) of ST: TOS, tensions in world politics were high.(saying that looking at today sounds silly, but...)
The Cold War was simmering nicely with the USSR, while China was isolationist, but probing Western markets, we(USA) were looking at Vietnam(with both Soviet and Chinese support), etc...
The 'Space Mongol' scenario just played on this to avoid political/diplomatic finger-pointing. (Buck Rogers vs. Ming the Merciless, etc.)
We indemnify that we don't understand or accept(usually related), so we 'needed' a common cause to rally around for the 'betterment' of mankind.(read: become more like US[A] to be non-threatening)
Something else we are neglecting in this specific discussion are the Romulans. Who did they represent? And their 'cousins', the Vulcans?
For this discussion we should bring them both into the picture, IMHO.
I think that was Gene's intention. In hi own way, he was trying to get us used to the idea that 'National Borders/Politics' were less important than mankind as a whole. It may have been naive, but at least understandable by reasonable people that were fed up with the whole 'Cold War' thing impinging on space exploration.
Take all of that with a grain of salt, but having seen/read interviews featuring G.R., I will stand by my speculations.
I have mentioned this years ago(and thus cannot track down the post), but the 'launching' of Star Trek was treated as a big deal in NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center community.
The Premier was greeted with dinner parties galore. My family attended one of these hosted by a senior director of NTTF**/Goddard at his home. It was treated as a 'Big Deal' in the Goddard community...a way to tie-in what NASA was doing for us as a species...helping the ST:TOS world become a reality.
**NTTF==Network Test and Training Facility. I worked there as a High school senior, in the Logistics Dept. on the 'graveyard shift' in 1976-77, playing 'baseball'(text-based), and blackjack on NASA's mainframes! ten years after Star Trek was aired.
Looking at your /. UID, I'll resist the 'get off my lawn' speech here, and just get the fsck off of yours!...:-)
The actual cannon is, I believe, that the growths...
[my emphasis]
I don't think that word means what you seem to think it means....
Maybe you were looking for canon, instead of looking for a single artillery piece.
Some days it just does not pay to be a pedant on /.
Yes, that's what I said.
Did you miss the 'No info in the article.' bit?
Won't someone please think of Linus and RMS? *ducks*
No info in the article. It is an advert for some Windows only software.
Repeat, this is an advert, not an article.