Maybe we should cut down all the trees and tear down all the tall buildings, because they are blocking the wind too. There aren't any legitimate questions on the matter...logic would seem to me to say that if other tall objects don't appear to be changing the climate, why would tall wind mills affect the climate? The whole thing is just some "scientists" looking for grant money.
Another farmer who was too far away to hear the turbines but was pissed off that his view will be disturbed
Maybe they can paint the base of the turbines like tree trunks, and the blades green like leaves. Then they'd blend in with rest of the trees...you know, the rest of the ones with spinning foliage.
This guy claims that Google is hosting porn to lure in more users? LoL
I've seen a horsefly, and I've seen a house fly, but I don't ever think we're going to see this lawsuit fly.
If you'd have read my first post, you'd have noticed I was talking about iMac's with run near silently, minus hd noise.
And no, I'm not a zealot. I don't own a mac. I was making an observation.
I am pleased to see that computer help desk is on the same list with tampon squeezing. I used to work for Symantec's consumer tech support call center, and let me tell you, that sucked. For those of you who don't know, Symantec charges 30 bucks per call to their tech support. This made what would normally be a frustrating job into a hellish nightmare of tech support. Every cust who calls is is already pissed off because they KNOW it's your fault that their ancient computer won't get on the net anymore after installing Norton Personal Firewall (they usually click on "block" when it pops up asking if they want to let iexplore.exe or aol.exe access the net)...and it makes them livid when they have to pay to get it to work. I spent countless hours of frustration explaining that if they didn't want to pay for help, they could look at their manual, or the website. And the call time/scripting/fee policies that we techs had to put up with were absurd. There were days I went home feeling physically sick after a day of one pissed cust after another. Given a choice between that job and tampon squeezing...it would be a tossup.
Windows update has fixes for more than just holes in IE. Remember the Sasser worm that came out in March? That bastard propogated through a security hole in windoze...it didn't matter whether you had ie or mozilla or whatever. People who got the patch were fine. Those who didn't suffered.
And before anyone starts knocking ms for having such a "crappy os", you try finding every hole in millions of lines of code. I'm impressed that ms gets updates out as fast as they do.
Speaking is just a mechanisim to communicate. It just so happens that we "evolved" a way of communicating by modulating and receiving gas pressure waves. What's so special about that.
I think there are a few things that make human communication unique and special. First off, humans do not know how to talk when they are born. They must be taught. An animal, on the other hand, will communicate in whatever form it uses whether it is taught or not. For example, my dog was never around other dogs when he was young, but he still howls and barks like every other dog. It's instictive. Humans don't have a communication instinct. In fact, young humans who have little or no contact with other human will have difficulty communicating. It is not instinctual for people.
Another thing I find interesting about human communication is the appeal to reason. You will never see an animal try to convince another animal through reason, like humans do. This reason is often built on a sense of right vs wrong, good vs evil. Animals base their "reasoning" on hunger, play, rest, sex, etc.
This article really isn't talking about creating new critters, it's talking about injecting human cells into other creatures and seeing how they grow. A far cry from humanzees, which gives the idea of a half chimp, half human animal, rather than a chimp with human cells in it. The thing would still have 100 chimp dna in the chimp cells, and 100% human dna in the human cells. It's not a cross over, it's a mix.
Here's what I install on my friends machines who are having trouble with spyware/adware. First, install and update Ad-Aware and show them how to run it. Then I install a nifty little program called Spyware Blaster which, from what I can tell, is supposed to block active x controls with certain strings from running. It works pretty good. You can grab a copy from http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
Thats what I thought to myself when I bought my parents a used original style imac (the second generation ones with the slot loading drives...no tray to break). It's perfect for them. Not only does my mother like the blue color, but it's also fast enough for what they want to do, like surfing the net, email, and typing. The only thing I needed to do was install Mozilla. After that, no adware to worry about, no virus to protect from, no hackers getting in, no complex problems...if the thing craps out, you pop the imac recovery cd in and in 10 min or less your up and running again. And for the low cost of $300 bucks.
Show your parents you love them. Buy them an iMac. (And get it used..they're cheap and reliable and all they need.)
I'll agree that porn is addictive. Just like sex, looking at porn and masturbating releases endorphins (i think those are the right horomones) into a guy's brain. And also, since guys are visually stimulated for sex (you know...it only takes a few glances at some boobies before Mr. Woody is ready to go),looking at porn on the net is like having personal access to limitless different sexual partners. Hard to pass up for many guys who don't have a real life partner.
Where's the problem with this though? What's the big deal about looking at porn? I think one big thing is respect for the opposite sex. It really changes how a man looks at a woman, when he spends a lot of time looking at porn. Look at porn for long enough, and the first thing you look at when you see a woman is NOT her face. This tends to piss them off, as well as make them feel like a piece of meat. It's not even intentional though...it's just what looking at porn trains your eyes to do.
Also, in my experience, I find that after looking at porn for awhile, it makes it harder to connect with women. Serious. It's very difficult for a porn addict not to think of a woman as a sex toy rather than a person. **NOTE - this doesn't apply to everyone, but it does to a majority of guys who are heavily into porn**
Also, porn addiction is progressive. Many porn addicts find themselves wanting harder and harder porn. A kid might start looking at bikini pics, then softcore pics, then he'll move onto hardcore sex, and after that if it goes far enough, he might go onto bondage, incest, beastiality, pissing, etc.
That's my take on it, and I'm sure there are those who will disagree, or who won't see what I've mentioned as a problem. Well, that's your opinion. This is my opinion. There are many like it. But this one is mine.
Wow, and if you violate this UN law or whatever, the UN will probably umm...send you a letter.
No, they don't send letters. They pass resolutions. If you violate the resolution, they pass another resolution that says how pissed off they all were that you violated the first resolution. This process continues until in disgust, the United States pushes the UN aside and kicks your ass for violating the resolutions.
(this would apply if internet 2 goes public sometime in the future)
If these people at the film industries would stop and think for a moment, they might see the potential gold mine of internet 2. A person can download a movie in a matter of minutes. MINUTES! That's much less than the time it takes to go to a store. Shoot, I'd pay $10-15 if I could download a high quality movie from a reliable source in just a few minutes.
This would be much better than p2p, where if you're lucky you'll find what you're looking for, get decent download speeds, and if you're really lucky, it will even be what the filename says.
I think they've seen what P2P has done to the music industry, and they're taking pre-emptive action.
Just what has p2p done to the music industry, other than make the RIAA look like a bunch of tards? Lost profits? I'm a p2p whore, but I still buy cd's of artists I like. If anything, I've bought more cd's because I'm able to listen to more of an artist's songs, as well as listen to other artists that I wouldn't normally hear on the radio.
If these people were smart, they could use p2p to their advantage. I find that p2p progams act kind of like a "top songs" list. I type in an artist's name, and I can find out if he's popular and which songs by which ones have the most results. I'd think that the recording industry and the movie industry could use info like that to make a better product. Find out which songs or episodes are popular and which aren't...for free even.
What we ought to do is computerize the whole system, and have something like a national voter database. And each entry goes by SSN, not name/address. You go to the polling place, show an ID (maybe make voter reg cards more like drivers licenses), and after you vote, the system marks you as having voted, and then you can't vote again anywhere else in the nation. Also, it would keep a record of your vote, so you could go back later and make sure that your vote went for who you thought it did. This would fix a lot of issues.
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Maybe we should cut down all the trees and tear down all the tall buildings, because they are blocking the wind too. There aren't any legitimate questions on the matter...logic would seem to me to say that if other tall objects don't appear to be changing the climate, why would tall wind mills affect the climate? The whole thing is just some "scientists" looking for grant money.
Another farmer who was too far away to hear the turbines but was pissed off that his view will be disturbed Maybe they can paint the base of the turbines like tree trunks, and the blades green like leaves. Then they'd blend in with rest of the trees...you know, the rest of the ones with spinning foliage.
This guy claims that Google is hosting porn to lure in more users? LoL I've seen a horsefly, and I've seen a house fly, but I don't ever think we're going to see this lawsuit fly.
dispose of the printer in a dumpster in a different part of town when done
Or donate it to a Good Will/Salvation Army!
If you'd have read my first post, you'd have noticed I was talking about iMac's with run near silently, minus hd noise. And no, I'm not a zealot. I don't own a mac. I was making an observation.
I am pleased to see that computer help desk is on the same list with tampon squeezing. I used to work for Symantec's consumer tech support call center, and let me tell you, that sucked. For those of you who don't know, Symantec charges 30 bucks per call to their tech support. This made what would normally be a frustrating job into a hellish nightmare of tech support. Every cust who calls is is already pissed off because they KNOW it's your fault that their ancient computer won't get on the net anymore after installing Norton Personal Firewall (they usually click on "block" when it pops up asking if they want to let iexplore.exe or aol.exe access the net)...and it makes them livid when they have to pay to get it to work. I spent countless hours of frustration explaining that if they didn't want to pay for help, they could look at their manual, or the website. And the call time/scripting/fee policies that we techs had to put up with were absurd. There were days I went home feeling physically sick after a day of one pissed cust after another. Given a choice between that job and tampon squeezing...it would be a tossup.
Windows update has fixes for more than just holes in IE. Remember the Sasser worm that came out in March? That bastard propogated through a security hole in windoze...it didn't matter whether you had ie or mozilla or whatever. People who got the patch were fine. Those who didn't suffered.
And before anyone starts knocking ms for having such a "crappy os", you try finding every hole in millions of lines of code. I'm impressed that ms gets updates out as fast as they do.
Speaking is just a mechanisim to communicate. It just so happens that we "evolved" a way of communicating by modulating and receiving gas pressure waves. What's so special about that.
I think there are a few things that make human communication unique and special. First off, humans do not know how to talk when they are born. They must be taught. An animal, on the other hand, will communicate in whatever form it uses whether it is taught or not. For example, my dog was never around other dogs when he was young, but he still howls and barks like every other dog. It's instictive. Humans don't have a communication instinct. In fact, young humans who have little or no contact with other human will have difficulty communicating. It is not instinctual for people.
Another thing I find interesting about human communication is the appeal to reason. You will never see an animal try to convince another animal through reason, like humans do. This reason is often built on a sense of right vs wrong, good vs evil. Animals base their "reasoning" on hunger, play, rest, sex, etc.
This article really isn't talking about creating new critters, it's talking about injecting human cells into other creatures and seeing how they grow. A far cry from humanzees, which gives the idea of a half chimp, half human animal, rather than a chimp with human cells in it. The thing would still have 100 chimp dna in the chimp cells, and 100% human dna in the human cells. It's not a cross over, it's a mix.
I don't know if the moderators realize this, but there's nothing inflamatory about saying that Mac's run quiet.
Does that make the iMac the holy grail?
For myself, yes, I built a Windows box for gaming. However, my parents to not play, or much less understand videogames...thus the iMac.
Here's what I install on my friends machines who are having trouble with spyware/adware. First, install and update Ad-Aware and show them how to run it. Then I install a nifty little program called Spyware Blaster which, from what I can tell, is supposed to block active x controls with certain strings from running. It works pretty good. You can grab a copy from http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
Thats what I thought to myself when I bought my parents a used original style imac (the second generation ones with the slot loading drives...no tray to break). It's perfect for them. Not only does my mother like the blue color, but it's also fast enough for what they want to do, like surfing the net, email, and typing. The only thing I needed to do was install Mozilla. After that, no adware to worry about, no virus to protect from, no hackers getting in, no complex problems...if the thing craps out, you pop the imac recovery cd in and in 10 min or less your up and running again. And for the low cost of $300 bucks.
Show your parents you love them. Buy them an iMac. (And get it used..they're cheap and reliable and all they need.)
I'll agree that porn is addictive. Just like sex, looking at porn and masturbating releases endorphins (i think those are the right horomones) into a guy's brain. And also, since guys are visually stimulated for sex (you know...it only takes a few glances at some boobies before Mr. Woody is ready to go),looking at porn on the net is like having personal access to limitless different sexual partners. Hard to pass up for many guys who don't have a real life partner.
Where's the problem with this though? What's the big deal about looking at porn? I think one big thing is respect for the opposite sex. It really changes how a man looks at a woman, when he spends a lot of time looking at porn. Look at porn for long enough, and the first thing you look at when you see a woman is NOT her face. This tends to piss them off, as well as make them feel like a piece of meat. It's not even intentional though...it's just what looking at porn trains your eyes to do.
Also, in my experience, I find that after looking at porn for awhile, it makes it harder to connect with women. Serious. It's very difficult for a porn addict not to think of a woman as a sex toy rather than a person. **NOTE - this doesn't apply to everyone, but it does to a majority of guys who are heavily into porn**
Also, porn addiction is progressive. Many porn addicts find themselves wanting harder and harder porn. A kid might start looking at bikini pics, then softcore pics, then he'll move onto hardcore sex, and after that if it goes far enough, he might go onto bondage, incest, beastiality, pissing, etc.
That's my take on it, and I'm sure there are those who will disagree, or who won't see what I've mentioned as a problem. Well, that's your opinion. This is my opinion. There are many like it. But this one is mine.
Wow, and if you violate this UN law or whatever, the UN will probably umm...send you a letter.
No, they don't send letters. They pass resolutions. If you violate the resolution, they pass another resolution that says how pissed off they all were that you violated the first resolution. This process continues until in disgust, the United States pushes the UN aside and kicks your ass for violating the resolutions.
(this would apply if internet 2 goes public sometime in the future)
If these people at the film industries would stop and think for a moment, they might see the potential gold mine of internet 2. A person can download a movie in a matter of minutes. MINUTES! That's much less than the time it takes to go to a store. Shoot, I'd pay $10-15 if I could download a high quality movie from a reliable source in just a few minutes.
This would be much better than p2p, where if you're lucky you'll find what you're looking for, get decent download speeds, and if you're really lucky, it will even be what the filename says.
I think they've seen what P2P has done to the music industry, and they're taking pre-emptive action. Just what has p2p done to the music industry, other than make the RIAA look like a bunch of tards? Lost profits? I'm a p2p whore, but I still buy cd's of artists I like. If anything, I've bought more cd's because I'm able to listen to more of an artist's songs, as well as listen to other artists that I wouldn't normally hear on the radio. If these people were smart, they could use p2p to their advantage. I find that p2p progams act kind of like a "top songs" list. I type in an artist's name, and I can find out if he's popular and which songs by which ones have the most results. I'd think that the recording industry and the movie industry could use info like that to make a better product. Find out which songs or episodes are popular and which aren't...for free even.
I don't know, it could have something to do with the fact that there's a Republican congress, and he's a Republican president.
Why exactly do we need a giant elevator into space again? I mean, once you get up there, there isn't a whole lot to see except the view.
To me that is not a punishment at all, and if I were in a similar situation, I would take 6 months in jail
Thats what you say until they send you to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
What we ought to do is computerize the whole system, and have something like a national voter database. And each entry goes by SSN, not name/address. You go to the polling place, show an ID (maybe make voter reg cards more like drivers licenses), and after you vote, the system marks you as having voted, and then you can't vote again anywhere else in the nation. Also, it would keep a record of your vote, so you could go back later and make sure that your vote went for who you thought it did. This would fix a lot of issues.
The European Jews weren't brown.
Yeah, and "640 kilobytes of computer memory ought to be enough for anybody."
Invading Iraq and only paying lip service to the UN
Ironic, because the UN deals mainly in lip service.