Holy shit, thank you for posting that and saving me the trouble of writing it up myself. I live in Michigan and drive to Detroit every day from the suburbs, and I can say for a certainty that I encounter assholes driving just above the speed limit in the passing lane on a daily basis. Most of them never move over to let me pass, so I'm forced to pass them on the right. Speed limit is 70mph for a good portion of my commute, yet in light traffic I still find people going 60-65mph in the left lane while people pass them on the right going 80. It's stupid, arrogant, and unsafe, yet perfectly legal. Worst of all though are the holier-than-thou drivers like the parent above that feel as if they need to police the traffic by trying to "slow everyone down" - driving the speed limit in the left lane. I used to work with a woman who did this all the time and talked about it like she was doing everyone a favor. She didn't think anyone needed to go over 70mph, so she'd drive 70 in the left lane and prevent people from passing her by matching speed with the cars next to her. Just hearing her stories was enough to make me want to gouge her eyes out with a hot poker.
That video was, on one hand, interesting in the sense that most people do indeed drive at least slightly faster than the speed limit. On the other hand, it infuriated me seeing them create that rolling roadblock and force all of the people behind them to drive at whatever speed they decided the group should go. Trident to the heart may have not have been a bad idea.
Oh, and for the record, whoever did the editing on that video should have their fingers removed with a bolt cutter so they may never edit another video, ever.
Not only will it be for the children, it will be done while we are children. If you grow up with a government-implanted tracking microchip in your body it will seem perfectly normal and natural. And of course, it will be illegal to tamper with these as well.
"Even when the WBC crowd protested military funerals, the worst anyone did was slash their tires."
That's because the WBC is full of lawyers that love to sue everyone they can. If the WBC was full of non-legal types, they would probably have all been beaten to a retarded pulp by now.
I've never heard of a bloodthirsty mob holding themselves in check due to the possible legal ramifications of their actions. And I'm pretty sure there's a clause in the law somewhere that make it not only legal, but beneficial, to beat lawyers. I might be wrong though.
"AIM was the first time that it felt like we had presences online"
Ah, no, I'd have to say it was IRC for anyone with any amount of computer savvy that grew up in the 90's. And if you wanted a "fancy" dockable IM client that supported offline message sending, then it was ICQ from about 1996 onwards. In fact, the "send to offline contact" feature of ICQ was great and AIM didn't support it for years afterwards. Not to mention that the first AIM clients were poorly written, buggy, and were vulnerable to all manner of exploits. ICQ was, at first, superior to AIM in every way.
"Are you trying to say that this multi-billion-dollar industry and these billions of people are all engaged in some mass group hypnosis, hysteria, or hallucination?"
yes
Ugh. Well you win I guess. Billions of people vs a single individual who knows what is going on in the heads of those billions of people. I don't deny that there's a lot of sense in what you say regarding bitter compounds being poisonous, avoidance of those bitter flavors, etc... Children are also repulsed by the taste of dark green vegetables - spinach, broccoli, brussel sprouts, asparagus, artichokes - because they are full of bitter compounds as well. Those aren't the least bit poisonous to humans; in fact millions of people love these vegetables and eat them every day despite the fact that there is no 1) socially-driven pressure to eat these foods or 2) caffeine to create a psychological addiction.
Just because you can't taste anything besides bitterness, it doesn't mean it's not there. It just means you're not able to taste it. Let's not be bitter about it.
Coffee is the second-most traded commodity in the world, second only to oil. (source) Billions of people around the world drink coffee every day (myself included) and many of them really enjoy the taste (again, myself included). Are you trying to say that this multi-billion-dollar industry and these billions of people are all engaged in some mass group hypnosis, hysteria, or hallucination? I find that unlikely. Are you trying to say that, universally, coffee really tastes horrible to everyone but they pretend to like it for social reasons or are addicted to caffeine?
Or maybe you just have some overly sensitive "bitter" taste buds and coffee does nothing for you. I, for one, love the taste of coffee more than I love the caffeine rush. I usually do a half-caffeine blend because caffeine makes me far too jittery. Some mornings I get a full decaf. But I drink coffee every day because when it's well made, it tastes incredible. End of story.
So let's see. It's only 20 light years away, but wait...the speed record for a space craft is 157,078 m/hr...hmmm...that works out to only 4,272 *years* to get to Gliese 581d. On second thought, maybe I'll stay here a while longer!
Keep in mind that you can't go from stationary to 157,078mi/hr instantly without killing every living thing on board. So you need to gradually accelerate to your cruising speed at a constant acceleration of about 1g to keep it comfortable for your colonists. 9.8m/sec^2 is 1G acceleration, so that's about the limit at which you could accelerate and still keep it comfortable. At that rate it would only take two hours to reach 157,000 mi/hr (or 70.19km/sec), assuming you had sufficient thrust to accelerate a gigantic spacecraft at this rate. Real acceleration in space would probably only be a small fraction of this number.
Also keep in mind that you can only accelerate for half of your trip. Everyone seems to forget this. The second half of your trip is spent slowing down, which increases travel time. I don't have the energy to work out the curves right now, but if you're accelerating for the first half of the trip and decelerating for the second half of the trip, there's only a brief time in the middle where you're actually traveling at your peak velocity, whatever that turns out to be.
That's fantastic news to those fellow slashdotters who are working diligently away in a dark basement to devolve back into a single-celled amoeba-like parasitic mass firmly attached to its progenitors. But, speaking for the multicellular life forms, the sooner we have an escape plan, the better.
Once again a lumbering corporation proves it's never too late to jump on the bandwagon. You'd think Microsoft was run by actual politicians instead of rich old white men.
Interesting. I have (had) a T-Mobile G1. The first thing I did was root the thing by downgrading the firmware, rooting, upgrading the firmware and the recovery partition and kept it up with the latest Cyanogenmod until the day it went kaput. I happened to be traveling in Pittsburgh when it happened. Went to the kiosk in the mall told them my phone broke, they switched it out for a new one. Lather, rinse, repeat on the Cyanogenmod.
Similar experience here. Running an HTC Evo 4G on Sprint, rooted. Had some display problems so I took it into the store and walked out with a new phone without a problem. I didn't even bother flashing it back to the factory ROM. Same thing for my wife's phone...it stopped accepting a charge when plugged into a wall and the data cord no longer worked either, so I couldn't plug it in to re-flash. Exchanged without a problem.
I'd like to see a poll of people who were actually denied support because their phone had been rooted. In my experience, the "experts" at the phone store don't know or care. They tinker with the phone for 10 minutes and if they can't figure it out, you get a new phone. Ditto phone support - you try the basic steps resetting the phone, re-provision, etc... still doesn't work? We'll ship you a new one. Maybe I've just been lucky, but so far there have been many benefits and exactly zero drawbacks from rooting my phones.
I do think even harder drugs should be legal, like marijuana, just sold in very small doses.
At first I thought you were being sarcastic. Alas, no.
To support your argument, you actually can easily overdose on vitamins and tylenol and it can be quite deadly.
You can easily overdose on water too, and die from it. However, nobody in recorded history has ever died from an overdose of cannabis. The lethal dose for cannabis is so outrageous that, even with billions of active users, no moron yet has figured out a way to kill himself with it.
I would say that removes marijuana from the hard drugs list.
Some of the most incompetent people I've ever worked with have had carefully crafted email signatures that meticulously listed all of their certifications and qualifications. I'm talking 10-15 lines of MCSE this and A+ that, Novell CNA and Linux+. There seems to be a correlation there - the more you need to hype your certifications, the less you actually know about getting your job done. Meanwhile, the most brilliant people I know care rarely be bothered to use punctuation in an email, let alone brag via sig about wasting dozens of hours working through some BS cert.
That would involve data from his mobile carrier, which would involve the hassle of going to court and getting a warrant. You know, that whole pesky "due process of law" thing that they used to use for suspected criminals. Much easier to just slap this on someone's car, gather data, and *then* get a warrant. Or use the information for more sinister means. Or whatever you want, really. That's the beauty of warrantless police activities. It's limitless and they're accountable to nobody.
Agreed. Desert Combat was the most fun shooter ever designed. I spent, oh I dunno, hundreds of hours playing on the "Apache Wars" servers learning how to fly vs planes and other choppers. Some people had supernatural levels of skill in an Apache. A few dozen hours there and I would get kicked from normal servers for "cheating" while in a chopper just because I shot down a few jets. There was nothing about that game that wasn't awesome. If you get bored flying, you could be infantry, or armor, or just camp an AA gun and grief fellow pilots.
It's a bummer that EA owns the franchise now, but to be honest, I'm willing to sacrifice that little part of my soul in order to play the new ones. BFBC2 on a PC is probably the best all-around shooter I've ever played. The destructible environments added a whole new dimension to the game. You don't need doors anymore when you have your "master key", aka 40mm grenade launcher. Pesky sniper in a building? Just open up a few holes in the walls and let your squadmates chuck a half dozen grenades in there. Awesome. You can buy it used from EA Store for $19.99 now. Give it a reconsider.
I guess if you want to play a multiplayer shooter, go grab CoD#12 or whatever they are up to now.. shudder..
Meh. If you're looking for a shooter with good maps, weapons, and teamwork that requires some strategy to play, check out Battlefield: Bad Company or Battlefield 3 when it ships later this year. I don't know why everyone has a colossal hard-on for CoD series. I've played them all and they can be entertaining, but extremely one-dimensional. Maybe that's what the kids like these days - fast-paced arcade shooters - but give me something from the Battlefield series any day.
I grew up playing shooters, starting with Wolfenstein, then Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, various Unreals, Tribes, Tribes 2, Half-Life, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat. Eventually got kind of burned out on the fast-paced deathmatch style. Battlefield 1942 was an underrated rebirth of the genre, only made better by the DesertCombat mod released a bit later, then BF2 and BF2142. Teamwork and strategy. Get in a good clan with voice chat and dominate a server or two and you'll see what I mean. Great stuff. Keeps you playing for years.
I'm sure that anyone posting AC about buying a Cadillac Escalade EXT and house in cash is full of crap. Or they really are a drug dealer and have something to hide. But I don't buy that for a second.
Indeed, let's not forget that 1% of the population controls around 42% of the the wealth in the US. (source here and various other sites, just google it.) A savings account with half a billion dollars in it makes up for a whole lot of people with $1.23 in savings, to help push that average up to $20,000.
I wonder what the average bank account would look like if you removed, say, the top 10% and the bottom 10% of the income curve. I'd like to see a source on that $20,000 figure. Also keep in mind that total savings (stocks, bonds, retirement accounts, etc...) does NOT equal savings account.
Look at her teeth. If she has all of her teeth, they're in good working order, and it looks like she's been to a dentist sometime within the last year, then she's probably a cop. The absence of cold sores could be a giveaway as well.
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Holy shit, thank you for posting that and saving me the trouble of writing it up myself. I live in Michigan and drive to Detroit every day from the suburbs, and I can say for a certainty that I encounter assholes driving just above the speed limit in the passing lane on a daily basis. Most of them never move over to let me pass, so I'm forced to pass them on the right. Speed limit is 70mph for a good portion of my commute, yet in light traffic I still find people going 60-65mph in the left lane while people pass them on the right going 80. It's stupid, arrogant, and unsafe, yet perfectly legal. Worst of all though are the holier-than-thou drivers like the parent above that feel as if they need to police the traffic by trying to "slow everyone down" - driving the speed limit in the left lane. I used to work with a woman who did this all the time and talked about it like she was doing everyone a favor. She didn't think anyone needed to go over 70mph, so she'd drive 70 in the left lane and prevent people from passing her by matching speed with the cars next to her. Just hearing her stories was enough to make me want to gouge her eyes out with a hot poker.
That video was, on one hand, interesting in the sense that most people do indeed drive at least slightly faster than the speed limit. On the other hand, it infuriated me seeing them create that rolling roadblock and force all of the people behind them to drive at whatever speed they decided the group should go. Trident to the heart may have not have been a bad idea.
Oh, and for the record, whoever did the editing on that video should have their fingers removed with a bolt cutter so they may never edit another video, ever.
it's for the children.
Not only will it be for the children, it will be done while we are children. If you grow up with a government-implanted tracking microchip in your body it will seem perfectly normal and natural. And of course, it will be illegal to tamper with these as well.
"Even when the WBC crowd protested military funerals, the worst anyone did was slash their tires."
That's because the WBC is full of lawyers that love to sue everyone they can. If the WBC was full of non-legal types, they would probably have all been beaten to a retarded pulp by now.
I've never heard of a bloodthirsty mob holding themselves in check due to the possible legal ramifications of their actions. And I'm pretty sure there's a clause in the law somewhere that make it not only legal, but beneficial, to beat lawyers. I might be wrong though.
"AIM was the first time that it felt like we had presences online"
Ah, no, I'd have to say it was IRC for anyone with any amount of computer savvy that grew up in the 90's. And if you wanted a "fancy" dockable IM client that supported offline message sending, then it was ICQ from about 1996 onwards. In fact, the "send to offline contact" feature of ICQ was great and AIM didn't support it for years afterwards. Not to mention that the first AIM clients were poorly written, buggy, and were vulnerable to all manner of exploits. ICQ was, at first, superior to AIM in every way.
"Are you trying to say that this multi-billion-dollar industry and these billions of people are all engaged in some mass group hypnosis, hysteria, or hallucination?"
yes
Ugh. Well you win I guess. Billions of people vs a single individual who knows what is going on in the heads of those billions of people. I don't deny that there's a lot of sense in what you say regarding bitter compounds being poisonous, avoidance of those bitter flavors, etc... Children are also repulsed by the taste of dark green vegetables - spinach, broccoli, brussel sprouts, asparagus, artichokes - because they are full of bitter compounds as well. Those aren't the least bit poisonous to humans; in fact millions of people love these vegetables and eat them every day despite the fact that there is no 1) socially-driven pressure to eat these foods or 2) caffeine to create a psychological addiction.
Just because you can't taste anything besides bitterness, it doesn't mean it's not there. It just means you're not able to taste it. Let's not be bitter about it.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Coffee is the second-most traded commodity in the world, second only to oil. (source) Billions of people around the world drink coffee every day (myself included) and many of them really enjoy the taste (again, myself included). Are you trying to say that this multi-billion-dollar industry and these billions of people are all engaged in some mass group hypnosis, hysteria, or hallucination? I find that unlikely. Are you trying to say that, universally, coffee really tastes horrible to everyone but they pretend to like it for social reasons or are addicted to caffeine?
Or maybe you just have some overly sensitive "bitter" taste buds and coffee does nothing for you. I, for one, love the taste of coffee more than I love the caffeine rush. I usually do a half-caffeine blend because caffeine makes me far too jittery. Some mornings I get a full decaf. But I drink coffee every day because when it's well made, it tastes incredible. End of story.
So let's see. It's only 20 light years away, but wait...the speed record for a space craft is 157,078 m/hr...hmmm...that works out to only 4,272 *years* to get to Gliese 581d. On second thought, maybe I'll stay here a while longer!
Keep in mind that you can't go from stationary to 157,078mi/hr instantly without killing every living thing on board. So you need to gradually accelerate to your cruising speed at a constant acceleration of about 1g to keep it comfortable for your colonists. 9.8m/sec^2 is 1G acceleration, so that's about the limit at which you could accelerate and still keep it comfortable. At that rate it would only take two hours to reach 157,000 mi/hr (or 70.19km/sec), assuming you had sufficient thrust to accelerate a gigantic spacecraft at this rate. Real acceleration in space would probably only be a small fraction of this number.
Also keep in mind that you can only accelerate for half of your trip. Everyone seems to forget this. The second half of your trip is spent slowing down, which increases travel time. I don't have the energy to work out the curves right now, but if you're accelerating for the first half of the trip and decelerating for the second half of the trip, there's only a brief time in the middle where you're actually traveling at your peak velocity, whatever that turns out to be.
That's fantastic news to those fellow slashdotters who are working diligently away in a dark basement to devolve back into a single-celled amoeba-like parasitic mass firmly attached to its progenitors. But, speaking for the multicellular life forms, the sooner we have an escape plan, the better.
"Because none of us is as dumb as all of us."
Once again a lumbering corporation proves it's never too late to jump on the bandwagon. You'd think Microsoft was run by actual politicians instead of rich old white men.
Rooting the phone (often) voids the warranty.
Interesting. I have (had) a T-Mobile G1. The first thing I did was root the thing by downgrading the firmware, rooting, upgrading the firmware and the recovery partition and kept it up with the latest Cyanogenmod until the day it went kaput. I happened to be traveling in Pittsburgh when it happened. Went to the kiosk in the mall told them my phone broke, they switched it out for a new one. Lather, rinse, repeat on the Cyanogenmod.
Similar experience here. Running an HTC Evo 4G on Sprint, rooted. Had some display problems so I took it into the store and walked out with a new phone without a problem. I didn't even bother flashing it back to the factory ROM. Same thing for my wife's phone...it stopped accepting a charge when plugged into a wall and the data cord no longer worked either, so I couldn't plug it in to re-flash. Exchanged without a problem.
I'd like to see a poll of people who were actually denied support because their phone had been rooted. In my experience, the "experts" at the phone store don't know or care. They tinker with the phone for 10 minutes and if they can't figure it out, you get a new phone. Ditto phone support - you try the basic steps resetting the phone, re-provision, etc... still doesn't work? We'll ship you a new one. Maybe I've just been lucky, but so far there have been many benefits and exactly zero drawbacks from rooting my phones.
Welcome to /. where the motto is "Badly written sensationalist stories, like something from the Daily Mail."
I do think even harder drugs should be legal, like marijuana, just sold in very small doses.
At first I thought you were being sarcastic. Alas, no.
To support your argument, you actually can easily overdose on vitamins and tylenol and it can be quite deadly.
You can easily overdose on water too, and die from it. However, nobody in recorded history has ever died from an overdose of cannabis. The lethal dose for cannabis is so outrageous that, even with billions of active users, no moron yet has figured out a way to kill himself with it.
I would say that removes marijuana from the hard drugs list.
I second the seppuku idea. Mod parent up, and pass me that tanto!
...we nuke the whole thing from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Let's start stockpiling the fat from dead people and turn it into biodiesel. All those Western world lardasses must be good for something.
Soylent Benzene?
Some of the most incompetent people I've ever worked with have had carefully crafted email signatures that meticulously listed all of their certifications and qualifications. I'm talking 10-15 lines of MCSE this and A+ that, Novell CNA and Linux+. There seems to be a correlation there - the more you need to hype your certifications, the less you actually know about getting your job done. Meanwhile, the most brilliant people I know care rarely be bothered to use punctuation in an email, let alone brag via sig about wasting dozens of hours working through some BS cert.
That would involve data from his mobile carrier, which would involve the hassle of going to court and getting a warrant. You know, that whole pesky "due process of law" thing that they used to use for suspected criminals. Much easier to just slap this on someone's car, gather data, and *then* get a warrant. Or use the information for more sinister means. Or whatever you want, really. That's the beauty of warrantless police activities. It's limitless and they're accountable to nobody.
Agreed. Desert Combat was the most fun shooter ever designed. I spent, oh I dunno, hundreds of hours playing on the "Apache Wars" servers learning how to fly vs planes and other choppers. Some people had supernatural levels of skill in an Apache. A few dozen hours there and I would get kicked from normal servers for "cheating" while in a chopper just because I shot down a few jets. There was nothing about that game that wasn't awesome. If you get bored flying, you could be infantry, or armor, or just camp an AA gun and grief fellow pilots.
It's a bummer that EA owns the franchise now, but to be honest, I'm willing to sacrifice that little part of my soul in order to play the new ones. BFBC2 on a PC is probably the best all-around shooter I've ever played. The destructible environments added a whole new dimension to the game. You don't need doors anymore when you have your "master key", aka 40mm grenade launcher. Pesky sniper in a building? Just open up a few holes in the walls and let your squadmates chuck a half dozen grenades in there. Awesome. You can buy it used from EA Store for $19.99 now. Give it a reconsider.
I guess if you want to play a multiplayer shooter, go grab CoD#12 or whatever they are up to now.. shudder..
Meh. If you're looking for a shooter with good maps, weapons, and teamwork that requires some strategy to play, check out Battlefield: Bad Company or Battlefield 3 when it ships later this year. I don't know why everyone has a colossal hard-on for CoD series. I've played them all and they can be entertaining, but extremely one-dimensional. Maybe that's what the kids like these days - fast-paced arcade shooters - but give me something from the Battlefield series any day.
I grew up playing shooters, starting with Wolfenstein, then Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, various Unreals, Tribes, Tribes 2, Half-Life, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat. Eventually got kind of burned out on the fast-paced deathmatch style. Battlefield 1942 was an underrated rebirth of the genre, only made better by the DesertCombat mod released a bit later, then BF2 and BF2142. Teamwork and strategy. Get in a good clan with voice chat and dominate a server or two and you'll see what I mean. Great stuff. Keeps you playing for years.
I'm sure that anyone posting AC about buying a Cadillac Escalade EXT and house in cash is full of crap. Or they really are a drug dealer and have something to hide. But I don't buy that for a second.
Indeed, let's not forget that 1% of the population controls around 42% of the the wealth in the US. (source here and various other sites, just google it.) A savings account with half a billion dollars in it makes up for a whole lot of people with $1.23 in savings, to help push that average up to $20,000.
I wonder what the average bank account would look like if you removed, say, the top 10% and the bottom 10% of the income curve. I'd like to see a source on that $20,000 figure. Also keep in mind that total savings (stocks, bonds, retirement accounts, etc...) does NOT equal savings account.
Look at her teeth. If she has all of her teeth, they're in good working order, and it looks like she's been to a dentist sometime within the last year, then she's probably a cop. The absence of cold sores could be a giveaway as well.
What does that number "do"?
Pi is famous, and the more well known number to crunch. Why crunch Pi Squared? Can't you just square Pi?
The beauty of pi is that it's round. If you square it, well, that's more of a cake, no? Or maybe a cobbler.
Well, pi just has an infinitely long period. :-)
So did my ex-girlfriend...