You might actually not like Firefly, but it wasn't Buffy or Angel. I never really got into those shows much. Firefly was much different. One of the reasons I liked it was that most of the time you really couldn't predict where things were going.
When it first came out, they did a lousy job promoting it, and I only saw a few minutes of one episode that didn't make much sense, so I blew it off. The reason everyone gushes about the show is that it is that good, and different than most of the crap out there. And in many ways it much more "realistic" than say, Star Trek.
Hear that "whooshing" sound? That's the sound of you completely missing the reference and thus the joke. Maybe you just don't watch that many movies, eh? I guess that the grandparent thought what with people being on/., they would have seen "The Matrix".
Yes, to please be read the site and noticing that English is their second language. Not justifying anything, but they may look at these things differently. Also, BitComet is not open source, which makes me feel uncomfortable as well. All in all, I don't think I'd trust it, personally.
You can call the credit reporting agencies (Experian, Equifax, TransUnion) and put a hold/fraud-alert on your card for no reason at all. I did. I did not need a police report or speeding ticket or anything. And calling one puts it on each of them. I did not mention to them that I was a "former employee of SAIC" (which I am), but did say I suspect possible identity theft. The hold lasts 90 days, after which, I assume, I can call back and do it again.
Well I hate to say "Me, too!" but, yeah, me too. This book was so bad I couldn't get past the first chapter. It was utter drivel. That some people actually liked that damn thing still amazes me. And Hubbard still seems to be writing stuff, even after being dead for years.
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no taste.
Did anyone really understand this title? I had to read it several times before realizing it wasn't about someone sitting on a desk or something. CTO? TCO? Looks like gobbledy-gook.
Maybe "Ex World Bank CTO discusses Linux TCO Facts". Even then, CTO and TCO aren't all that meaningful. "Linux TCO Facts discussed by Former World Bank exec." At least then I only have to guess at what TCO might mean, and it's not too important because "Linux Facts" explains most of it. Yeesh.
Well, I knew that this would devolve into a discussion about the failure of Social Security, or Medicare or whatever.
However, had anyone bothered to read up on Mr. de Grey, you would know he isn't talking about keeping old feeble people alive forever, but instead, keeping people healthy and youthful for as long as is reasonable by scientific methods. One of the questions he asks is (paraphrased) "What should people die from?" That is, should researchers keep aside some disease and not look into how to cure it, just so people keep dying from it?
I thought that de Grey made some sense here. I'd like to decide how long I want to live, not some virus, bacteria or misfiring gene. Old age is a disease, and can be cured.
I saw on the Simpsons the other night a joke about Family Guy that mentioned the South Park show where the old Koreans were the new overlords interested in profit from implementing a Beowulf cluster.
Mr. de Grey is not talking about "Here take this pill and you'll never die". He's talking about fixing what's wrong with you, all the time.
--Your kidneys fail, so you head to the hospital and they grow you new ones or give you a treatment that fixes your current ones.
--You contract HIV so they give you a treatment and it's gone.
--You get whatever disease and they cure it.
So, no immortality pill. They just fix what's wrong. One of the things that is wrong is, due to ageing, lots of problems crop up in your body. Fix those problems and you live better and as a side effect, longer too.
And all the folks that say they don't want to live a long time are the same ones that won't stop treading water if they fall out of a boat. If you want to die then you are depressed and guess what - that's something else that's fixable as well.
Mr. de Gray is also not talking about a bunch of geezers in nursing homes, draining the resources of us young folk. Old people (as well as young) will be healthy and able to contribute to society.
And no over population, because our population will likely peak and start to decline around 2050. Eventually we'll need the healthy old people.
And the "they" I've been mentioning is the medical/scientific establishment in general.
It's going to happen (barring nuclear armageddon or something), and Mr. de Grey is just trying to orchestrate it and speed it up.
So, do you want to die of cancer? Or with Alzheimer's? Or of AIDS? Or failing kidneys? What is it you do want to die of?
Okay, I get 'WTF' ("Where's the fish") and the 'OMG' part ("On my goose"), but BBQ? Normally I'd guess barbeque, what with all the fish and goose references, but I'm inclinde towards "Big Beefy Quack", even though geese generally honk instead of quack. Am I missing something?
The funny thing about (this particular instance) is that who really gives a crap whether it was 1755 or 1757? Really? Does it make any difference to anything at all? Jeez, just say he was born around 1756 and be done with it. This guy goes and picks this particular nit that doesn't even matter. It's not like it's a difference between feet and meters (thus causing us to crash into the infertile soil of Mars), it's two freaking years of someone born centuries ago. Alexander Hamilton didn't even care.
"Two fricking years, yeah, all of Wikipedia is crap." This guy needs a damn life.
This is why I read/. Really, it is. This is going to become my new slogan. I'm going to tell everyone I know that I like WinAmp because it's bouncy, orgasmic... no wait, silly retro-ish, uh... hey, wait, come back...
One of the cases I'm familiar with because it's a comic book shop I occasionally shop at. Ketih's Comics in Dallas, TX. One of the employee's was convicted of selling an adult comic to an adult. The adult books were kept in a separate section of the store, and children were NOT allowed in that section. Still, a concerned mother (read "fundamentalist wack" -- oops, I mean faithful churchgoer) complained, and an undercover cop (I think he was a sherrif's deputy?) went in and - Gasp! - was allowed to buy and adult book (some Manga title).
It is unfortunate perhaps, that the CBLDF needs to spend too much time defending people that sell or produce pornography. But Freedom of Speech means just that. They have had a case were the artist was forbidden to even draw anything, even for personal use!, and a case where a parody of the Starbucks symbol was attacked by Starbucks.
I believe I have a right to read whatever the heck I want, and that artists and authors have the right to produce whatever the heck they want. That's why I give to the CBLDF every year, and have since they were started.
On a related note, some ABC stations have decided not to air the unedited "Saving Private Ryan", to avoid complaints about obsenity. Even though this has already been on network TV unedited! Just fucking amazing. Damn Janet's boobs, damn them to hell!
Move to Texas, where almost every position was a Republican running unopposed. Cool, huh?
Yeah,I voted Badnarik as well, and for any other Lib or Ind candidate on the ballot. Precious few.
Let's see if the news actually reports the totals tomorrow. Usually I have a hard time finding out how my candidates did.
This engine is not designed (as far as I can tell, I didn't actually read the entire article or anything radical like that) for use in the atmosphere. It would be carted up into NEO and attached to whatever ship is going to Mars. The fuel can be put in containers that would survive an accident on liftoff. All in all it's no worse a problem than any other liftoff. And it's probably one of the only realistic ways to get to Mars.
So, yeah, I'm kind of missing a point here, I guess. Instead of plugging my laptop into the wall socket to recharge, I, what-
Get out my little funnel, pour gas or alcohol or whatever into my laptop's gastank, pull on the cord to start the engine back up?
And does it give a warning when low on fuel, like a flashing yellow light ("Tank is almost empty").
Dunno if this sounds like an improvement to me. I just had this picture of someone yanking and yanking on the cord on the back of their laptop, and someone else coming by telling them they needed a new spark plug. "Nah, it's the clutch!"
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You might actually not like Firefly, but it wasn't Buffy or Angel. I never really got into those shows much. Firefly was much different. One of the reasons I liked it was that most of the time you really couldn't predict where things were going.
When it first came out, they did a lousy job promoting it, and I only saw a few minutes of one episode that didn't make much sense, so I blew it off. The reason everyone gushes about the show is that it is that good, and different than most of the crap out there. And in many ways it much more "realistic" than say, Star Trek.
Sorry, it's cockroaches all the way down...
by turning them into objects for our own gratification
And you have a problem with this because...?
Whooa, deja vu...
Hear that "whooshing" sound? That's the sound of you completely missing the reference and thus the joke. Maybe you just don't watch that many movies, eh? I guess that the grandparent thought what with people being on /., they would have seen "The Matrix".
For me, I've always liked "Dr. Science". Remember, he's not a real doctor. He has a Master's Degree - in Science!
Yes, to please be read the site and noticing that English is their second language. Not justifying anything, but they may look at these things differently. Also, BitComet is not open source, which makes me feel uncomfortable as well. All in all, I don't think I'd trust it, personally.
You can call the credit reporting agencies (Experian, Equifax, TransUnion) and put a hold/fraud-alert on your card for no reason at all. I did. I did not need a police report or speeding ticket or anything. And calling one puts it on each of them. I did not mention to them that I was a "former employee of SAIC" (which I am), but did say I suspect possible identity theft. The hold lasts 90 days, after which, I assume, I can call back and do it again.
Well I hate to say "Me, too!" but, yeah, me too. This book was so bad I couldn't get past the first chapter. It was utter drivel. That some people actually liked that damn thing still amazes me. And Hubbard still seems to be writing stuff, even after being dead for years.
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no taste.
I hear they can simulate an African Veldt really well, and that sounds cool. Wait until I tell the kids!
Ret. World Bank CTO on Desktop Linux TCO Facts
Did anyone really understand this title? I had to read it several times before realizing it wasn't about someone sitting on a desk or something. CTO? TCO? Looks like gobbledy-gook.
Maybe "Ex World Bank CTO discusses Linux TCO Facts". Even then, CTO and TCO aren't all that meaningful. "Linux TCO Facts discussed by Former World Bank exec." At least then I only have to guess at what TCO might mean, and it's not too important because "Linux Facts" explains most of it. Yeesh.
Well, I knew that this would devolve into a discussion about the failure of Social Security, or Medicare or whatever.
However, had anyone bothered to read up on Mr. de Grey, you would know he isn't talking about keeping old feeble people alive forever, but instead, keeping people healthy and youthful for as long as is reasonable by scientific methods. One of the questions he asks is (paraphrased) "What should people die from?" That is, should researchers keep aside some disease and not look into how to cure it, just so people keep dying from it?
Here is the link to SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence): http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/.
I thought that de Grey made some sense here. I'd like to decide how long I want to live, not some virus, bacteria or misfiring gene. Old age is a disease, and can be cured.
I saw on the Simpsons the other night a joke about Family Guy that mentioned the South Park show where the old Koreans were the new overlords interested in profit from implementing a Beowulf cluster.
But then I'm new around here.
LOL. :)
Well, I thought this was funny.
Mr. de Grey is not talking about "Here take this pill and you'll never die". He's talking about fixing what's wrong with you, all the time.
--Your kidneys fail, so you head to the hospital and they grow you new ones or give you a treatment that fixes your current ones.
--You contract HIV so they give you a treatment and it's gone.
--You get whatever disease and they cure it.
So, no immortality pill. They just fix what's wrong. One of the things that is wrong is, due to ageing, lots of problems crop up in your body. Fix those problems and you live better and as a side effect, longer too.
And all the folks that say they don't want to live a long time are the same ones that won't stop treading water if they fall out of a boat. If you want to die then you are depressed and guess what - that's something else that's fixable as well.
Mr. de Gray is also not talking about a bunch of geezers in nursing homes, draining the resources of us young folk. Old people (as well as young) will be healthy and able to contribute to society.
And no over population, because our population will likely peak and start to decline around 2050. Eventually we'll need the healthy old people.
And the "they" I've been mentioning is the medical/scientific establishment in general.
It's going to happen (barring nuclear armageddon or something), and Mr. de Grey is just trying to orchestrate it and speed it up.
So, do you want to die of cancer? Or with Alzheimer's? Or of AIDS? Or failing kidneys? What is it you do want to die of?
Okay, I get 'WTF' ("Where's the fish") and the 'OMG' part ("On my goose"), but BBQ? Normally I'd guess barbeque, what with all the fish and goose references, but I'm inclinde towards "Big Beefy Quack", even though geese generally honk instead of quack. Am I missing something?
Well, not YET anyway...
The funny thing about (this particular instance) is that who really gives a crap whether it was 1755 or 1757? Really? Does it make any difference to anything at all? Jeez, just say he was born around 1756 and be done with it. This guy goes and picks this particular nit that doesn't even matter. It's not like it's a difference between feet and meters (thus causing us to crash into the infertile soil of Mars), it's two freaking years of someone born centuries ago. Alexander Hamilton didn't even care.
"Two fricking years, yeah, all of Wikipedia is crap." This guy needs a damn life.
silly bouncing flying thumping swirly off-the-wall crazy retro tripply twirly blip-bang around-and-around epilepsy-inducing orgasmic smooth gel-glide itchy nifty cool
This is why I read /. Really, it is. This is going to become my new slogan. I'm going to tell everyone I know that I like WinAmp because it's bouncy, orgasmic... no wait, silly retro-ish, uh... hey, wait, come back...
One of the cases I'm familiar with because it's a comic book shop I occasionally shop at. Ketih's Comics in Dallas, TX. One of the employee's was convicted of selling an adult comic to an adult. The adult books were kept in a separate section of the store, and children were NOT allowed in that section. Still, a concerned mother (read "fundamentalist wack" -- oops, I mean faithful churchgoer) complained, and an undercover cop (I think he was a sherrif's deputy?) went in and - Gasp! - was allowed to buy and adult book (some Manga title).
It is unfortunate perhaps, that the CBLDF needs to spend too much time defending people that sell or produce pornography. But Freedom of Speech means just that. They have had a case were the artist was forbidden to even draw anything, even for personal use!, and a case where a parody of the Starbucks symbol was attacked by Starbucks.
I believe I have a right to read whatever the heck I want, and that artists and authors have the right to produce whatever the heck they want. That's why I give to the CBLDF every year, and have since they were started.
On a related note, some ABC stations have decided not to air the unedited "Saving Private Ryan", to avoid complaints about obsenity. Even though this has already been on network TV unedited! Just fucking amazing. Damn Janet's boobs, damn them to hell!
I don't have any walls, you insensitive clod!
Move to Texas, where almost every position was a Republican running unopposed. Cool, huh? Yeah,I voted Badnarik as well, and for any other Lib or Ind candidate on the ballot. Precious few. Let's see if the news actually reports the totals tomorrow. Usually I have a hard time finding out how my candidates did.
This engine is not designed (as far as I can tell, I didn't actually read the entire article or anything radical like that) for use in the atmosphere. It would be carted up into NEO and attached to whatever ship is going to Mars. The fuel can be put in containers that would survive an accident on liftoff. All in all it's no worse a problem than any other liftoff. And it's probably one of the only realistic ways to get to Mars.
From 6:24am this morning
Get out my little funnel, pour gas or alcohol or whatever into my laptop's gastank, pull on the cord to start the engine back up?
And does it give a warning when low on fuel, like a flashing yellow light ("Tank is almost empty").
Dunno if this sounds like an improvement to me. I just had this picture of someone yanking and yanking on the cord on the back of their laptop, and someone else coming by telling them they needed a new spark plug. "Nah, it's the clutch!"