Well, I am not sure I blame the Dr. He figured he was doing the right thing, my brother hated the medication (thorazine btw) because of the side effects. I suppose I could blame my grandfather for keeping a loaded gun around the house. I could blame my parents for not noticing the symptoms earlier and getting him help. I could blame school officials for not noticing, or pot (and who knows what other drugs he took). I don't blame any of those people or things however. My brother was a troubled person with a serious mental illness who became depressed and took his life. There isn't a holiday that goes by, especially the birthdays of my kids, that I don't wish he was there to enjoy it with us. And from now until my kids hit their mid 30s (or more likely, until I die or get alzheimers) I am going to be watching them for symptoms.
You should certainly read more about it (sorry I have no books to recommend). My brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was a kid; he eventually committed suicide when the doctor decided to reduce his medication (a little too quickly apparently). Also since there is a genetic component to schizophrenia, you might want to investigate early symptoms and keep an eye on your kids. This website would probably be worth taking a look at too.
Ahh, but if we actually knew *where* some interesting aliens *are* located, wouldn't that give us a good reason to figure out a way to communicate faster or go visit? I always joked that the best way to get a mars mission would be to send up a probe with a big inflatable "ship" (something that looked like it had big guns would be helpful) and make it look like it had crashed on mars. If we thought there was a crashed alien ship on mars, we would have people stepping on the planet in no time flat.
I literally just got done installing the newest firefox, the fonts look great! You just have to make sure you get the xft version (standard one has horrid fonts).
Anyway, I personally would rather not have my browser and mail program in one binary. Often I want to kill my browser so it forgets about security permissions (or heck every now and then it blows up all by itself). Having to restart my mail program too is annoying. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make firefox speak Java....
..effectively asks for every single document about the GPL and enforcement of the GPL since 1999. They also demand every document and email that we have exchanged with Linus Torvalds, IBM, and other players in the community..
Are they going to subpoena the whole Internet, asking for any paperwork related to enforcing the GPL, and any email from anyone to anyone else? Perhaps they should rephrase their request to, "Please give us anything that will help us look less like total idiots."
By the way, the representitive for thewholeinternet(.com) is apparently R. Wilson of Orange, CA so please contact him regarding any subpoena type stuff.
Somehow Palpatine has all Jedi, but Yoda and Obi-Wan killed off
Should be easy, since most of them bit the dust at the end of the second movie.
Without all Jedi out of power, there can be no balance
The statement that Anakin could be the one who "brings balance to the force" is rather amusing. It looks to me like there were a whole buncha good jedi, and a few evil ones, so what exactly was out of balance? Anakin causes most of the good ones to bite the dust (indirectly) so yeah, I suppose he did bring balance....
Can making your network insecure actually improve your security?
Yes, in the same way that lighting yourself on fire will (eventually) make you impervious to flames! The fact that you will be a smoking pile of ashes would be a drawback however.
I always figured the best way to combat this is to randomly pick a few dozen or so people from the taxpaying pool to run as candidates (think jury duty, only for four years with a huge pay increase, at least for most people) and have a few run off elections to weed out the totally insane. That couldn't be worse than the way candidates are chosen now.
I figure if anyone complains about training rats for this, they should feel free to sign up as a "mine field clearing" expert and help clear minefields personally. I think this is great, since who knows how many people worldwide get maimed or killed each year by landmines.
You could also use the online tax software (i.e. Intuit). You can do your taxes from their website, and if I recall I used mozilla under Linux just fine the last time I did them there. Luckily my credit is so horrible I am not too worried about my personal info on the web:-(
This is all an evil plot to match IP numbers with faces! Don't fall for it! And yes, I am very upset that they said my face most closely matched Paul Reubens.
Other health-related technology on display will include an antibacterial powder developed at the University of Alberta that, when sprinkled on food, can block the harmful effects of bacteria.
Take off those annoying doors. What, you got something to hide?
Actually doors are kind of nice for other reasons:
- They keep (most) people out of my house. - They hide Old People Sex so I won't go blind while driving down the street (and mask the sound of wrinkly liverspotted skin rubbing on wrinkly liverspotted skin). - They provide us exercise by making us get up to let cats/dogs in/out.
So rather than take off all doors, just plan on having a BigBrotherCam(tm) installed for your protection instead (the 1984 kind not the TV show kind).
The first one declared that his function was to push a water sample into a purification chamber. The second one then declared that his function was to shove pollutants out of the water.
So will there only be one per water source, or will they spend all day throwing each other out of the water? (I know I know the article said they were for monitoring only)
Also, for their protection they need to be made to look less fun to take apart (ohhhh big ol' solar panel on top).
Whether you think of cycling as the ultimate open source engineering project, or as a handy metaphor for your computer-of-choice.
Boy, I can't pass that up. If the windows NT server next to me were a bicycle, it would be nice and shiney, have one gear (slow), and the wheels would fly off every now and then for no apparent reason, with the random luckiness that it attracts meteorites(i.e. worms and virii) from the sky. But hey I can upgrade to the new even shiner M$ bicycle, which has pretty much all of the features mentioned above, except it is faster because it would be running on brand new hardware (but mostly just attracts meteorites faster too).
For many the hands-on tinkering of bicycle maintenance....
Or in my case, watching the hands-on tinkering of the guy up the street at the bicycle shop. Seriously, after fiddling with the guts of the insides of various PCs all day, the last thing I want to do is rip the back tire off my bike and fix a flat (which is something I currently need to do).
The best part about this experiment is that if there really are parallel universes, a less lazy version of myself in another universe will do it tonight when he gets home, so I don't have to worry about carrying out the experiment myself. Now if only taxes worked that way....
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Well, I am not sure I blame the Dr. He figured he was doing the right thing, my brother hated the medication (thorazine btw) because of the side effects. I suppose I could blame my grandfather for keeping a loaded gun around the house. I could blame my parents for not noticing the symptoms earlier and getting him help. I could blame school officials for not noticing, or pot (and who knows what other drugs he took). I don't blame any of those people or things however. My brother was a troubled person with a serious mental illness who became depressed and took his life. There isn't a holiday that goes by, especially the birthdays of my kids, that I don't wish he was there to enjoy it with us. And from now until my kids hit their mid 30s (or more likely, until I die or get alzheimers) I am going to be watching them for symptoms.
You should certainly read more about it (sorry I have no books to recommend). My brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was a kid; he eventually committed suicide when the doctor decided to reduce his medication (a little too quickly apparently). Also since there is a genetic component to schizophrenia, you might want to investigate early symptoms and keep an eye on your kids. This website would probably be worth taking a look at too.
Ahh, but if we actually knew *where* some interesting aliens *are* located, wouldn't that give us a good reason to figure out a way to communicate faster or go visit? I always joked that the best way to get a mars mission would be to send up a probe with a big inflatable "ship" (something that looked like it had big guns would be helpful) and make it look like it had crashed on mars. If we thought there was a crashed alien ship on mars, we would have people stepping on the planet in no time flat.
Actually I am installing under Linux, but the instructions on that page worked like a charm!
Anyway, I personally would rather not have my browser and mail program in one binary. Often I want to kill my browser so it forgets about security permissions (or heck every now and then it blows up all by itself). Having to restart my mail program too is annoying. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make firefox speak Java....
In hindsight, it would have been better to design the web with major help from the porn industry, since that is mostly what it is used for anyway.
Are they going to subpoena the whole Internet, asking for any paperwork related to enforcing the GPL, and any email from anyone to anyone else? Perhaps they should rephrase their request to, "Please give us anything that will help us look less like total idiots."
By the way, the representitive for thewholeinternet(.com) is apparently R. Wilson of Orange, CA so please contact him regarding any subpoena type stuff.
Sadly, the scene you just made up would probably be better than what will actually end up on screen :-(
Ahh so they goatse guy moved. Thank you so very much for letting me start my day with that image burned into my memory.
Should be easy, since most of them bit the dust at the end of the second movie.
Without all Jedi out of power, there can be no balance
The statement that Anakin could be the one who "brings balance to the force" is rather amusing. It looks to me like there were a whole buncha good jedi, and a few evil ones, so what exactly was out of balance? Anakin causes most of the good ones to bite the dust (indirectly) so yeah, I suppose he did bring balance....
Just wait until the surf music kicks in, and you have a sudden urge to gouge your eyes out and stab out your eardrums.
Yes, in the same way that lighting yourself on fire will (eventually) make you impervious to flames! The fact that you will be a smoking pile of ashes would be a drawback however.
I always figured the best way to combat this is to randomly pick a few dozen or so people from the taxpaying pool to run as candidates (think jury duty, only for four years with a huge pay increase, at least for most people) and have a few run off elections to weed out the totally insane. That couldn't be worse than the way candidates are chosen now.
I figure if anyone complains about training rats for this, they should feel free to sign up as a "mine field clearing" expert and help clear minefields personally. I think this is great, since who knows how many people worldwide get maimed or killed each year by landmines.
You could also use the online tax software (i.e. Intuit). You can do your taxes from their website, and if I recall I used mozilla under Linux just fine the last time I did them there. Luckily my credit is so horrible I am not too worried about my personal info on the web :-(
This is all an evil plot to match IP numbers with faces! Don't fall for it! And yes, I am very upset that they said my face most closely matched Paul Reubens.
The only game known to mankind that you play better after you die.
Like digestion for example???
Actually doors are kind of nice for other reasons:
- They keep (most) people out of my house.
- They hide Old People Sex so I won't go blind while driving down the street (and mask the sound of wrinkly liverspotted skin rubbing on wrinkly liverspotted skin).
- They provide us exercise by making us get up to let cats/dogs in/out.
So rather than take off all doors, just plan on having a BigBrotherCam(tm) installed for your protection instead (the 1984 kind not the TV show kind).
So will there only be one per water source, or will they spend all day throwing each other out of the water? (I know I know the article said they were for monitoring only)
Also, for their protection they need to be made to look less fun to take apart (ohhhh big ol' solar panel on top).
Boy, I can't pass that up. If the windows NT server next to me were a bicycle, it would be nice and shiney, have one gear (slow), and the wheels would fly off every now and then for no apparent reason, with the random luckiness that it attracts meteorites(i.e. worms and virii) from the sky. But hey I can upgrade to the new even shiner M$ bicycle, which has pretty much all of the features mentioned above, except it is faster because it would be running on brand new hardware (but mostly just attracts meteorites faster too).
Or in my case, watching the hands-on tinkering of the guy up the street at the bicycle shop. Seriously, after fiddling with the guts of the insides of various PCs all day, the last thing I want to do is rip the back tire off my bike and fix a flat (which is something I currently need to do).
Better yet, lets outsource our candidates (heck even the voters) to India, certainly they can't pick a worse lot than we have been picking lately.
The best part about this experiment is that if there really are parallel universes, a less lazy version of myself in another universe will do it tonight when he gets home, so I don't have to worry about carrying out the experiment myself. Now if only taxes worked that way....
Well at least you won't have to worry about getting drafted into the "war on terror" anymore!