I don't think I've ever gone more than a couple days without being able to find any weed. Usually there are a half dozen people I can get it from at any given time, although sometimes we'll go a month without having any really good weed around or at least good weed at standard price ($50 an eighth). Speaking of which, I think the fact that weed pretty much has a set street price that's fairly constant throughout the country says a lot about the availability of it and the futility of the war on drugs. Also, being 20 it's generally much harder to find alcohol for a party than weed.
If they detect gunpowder, or someone smells highly of gasoline I don't think you can really blame security for checking you more thoroughly. But after a quick check it should be obvious that it was just a misunderstanding and someone shouldn't get put on a watchlist for that.
Yea, because we all know you magically learn how to make informed decisions once you turn 18 and not a second before.
I'm 17 and it pisses me off to see everyone think that minors have no clue how to do anything or make an informed decision. And it really pisses me off when other people (Government, parents, schools) think they should make decisions for us because we're "too stupid". Now I can see making decisions for little kids like elementary school students, but these are high schoolers. Contrary to whatever you might believe, not all high schoolers are idiots who need to have every aspect of their lives chosen for them.
Clowns are a major fear for lots of kids. We shouldn't ban stuff just because it might scare little children. Lots of things scare little children. And how exactly is banning your kids from buying mature video games going to keep them off the shelf where they can't see them?
All the arguments that open source is more secure because there are more eyes to spot problems and more hands to fix them are starting to ring a bit hollow as I upgrade/patch my Firefox install on what seems like a monthly basis.
The reason there are patches on a monthly basis is because all those eyes are spotting problems which are being patched by the Firefox developers. Firefox's market share has grown a ton since 1.0 was released so there are a lot more people looking for and finding bugs in the 1.0.x code than there were looking at the 1.0 beta code, thats why more bugs are being found now and not before 1.0 was released. Thats my take on it anyway.
Well, It's a good thing Firefox 1.5 will fix that with its auto updating binary diff patches. It Automaticly downloads the update and installs it the next time you start Firefox.
In KDE all you have to do is right click on Klipper in the system tray, go to Configure Klipper, and select "Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection." But personally I find the two separate clipboards very useful.
At my high school there was a teacher named Mr. Petroff. I had him for Chemistry and Integrated Science III (basically geology) and he was one of the coolest teachers I ever had. He could make everything interesting telling jokes related to what were learning and having fun projects. Even some of the less motivated kids would learn in his class and I probably learned more in his class than any other class (other than computer programming). One of the reasons the kids did so well in his class was because they respected him because he wouldn't just give out pointless repetitive homework and he actually knew what he was talking about because he enjoyed teaching.
But because the methods he used were 'unorthodox' and he didn't agree with some of the school's policies, mostly about homework, the administration decided that they should get rid of him with just a couple weeks left in the semester leaving us with substitutes who had no clue what was going on. The administration even lied to us about why he was gone saying he was sick. My point is that my school (maybe most?) doesn't really care about whether or not the kids are actually learning anything, they care about whether the teachers are doing things the way the admins want them to.
"Dell - neither the person nor the company - is interested in acquiring Red Hat"
That kind of looks like its saying "Dell is interested in aquiring Red Hat, but not Dell the person or company." I think it would be better written as "Dell - neither the person nor the company - is not interested in acquiring Red Hat"
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I don't really see this as a bad thing. I mean, people using this program will also use the google search engine so its helping their users. Now if they used it to slow down the time it took to load MSN search or Yahoo, then it would be a bad thing.
I already tired something like that back in computer programming class. I added a message box that would pop up when ever any of my programs started telling people to travel back in time to the last day of class and where the room was located.
It didn't work.
First people saying that the Google guys are trying to avoid taxes by cutting their salary to $1.00 a year, now people are paranoid that providing an option to save your searchs is part of some big consperacy to create a profile on everyone. You don't have to log in when you search. Besides, they'd be able to make a much better profile by reading your Gmail account than by saving your search history in your account. In fact any email provider could do that.
Are some people just pissed that Google can be such a big company and still be (semi) reputable?
By the time Longhorn ships, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, PCs will have 4GHz to 6GHz processors, more than 2GB of memory, at least a terabyte of storage, and graphics accelerators three times more powerful than those offered by ATI and Nvidia today. He says that Longhorn is designed to take advantage of all this muscle, and nowhere is that more evident than in the rich, three-dimensional interface known as Aero.
We'll have much better computers than that by time Longhorn finally ships.
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I don't think I've ever gone more than a couple days without being able to find any weed. Usually there are a half dozen people I can get it from at any given time, although sometimes we'll go a month without having any really good weed around or at least good weed at standard price ($50 an eighth). Speaking of which, I think the fact that weed pretty much has a set street price that's fairly constant throughout the country says a lot about the availability of it and the futility of the war on drugs. Also, being 20 it's generally much harder to find alcohol for a party than weed.
If they detect gunpowder, or someone smells highly of gasoline I don't think you can really blame security for checking you more thoroughly. But after a quick check it should be obvious that it was just a misunderstanding and someone shouldn't get put on a watchlist for that.
How about a new parable that actually fits?
What did you expect from BadAnalogyGuy?
I'm 17 and it pisses me off to see everyone think that minors have no clue how to do anything or make an informed decision. And it really pisses me off when other people (Government, parents, schools) think they should make decisions for us because we're "too stupid". Now I can see making decisions for little kids like elementary school students, but these are high schoolers. Contrary to whatever you might believe, not all high schoolers are idiots who need to have every aspect of their lives chosen for them.
Clowns are a major fear for lots of kids. We shouldn't ban stuff just because it might scare little children. Lots of things scare little children. And how exactly is banning your kids from buying mature video games going to keep them off the shelf where they can't see them?
All the arguments that open source is more secure because there are more eyes to spot problems and more hands to fix them are starting to ring a bit hollow as I upgrade/patch my Firefox install on what seems like a monthly basis.
The reason there are patches on a monthly basis is because all those eyes are spotting problems which are being patched by the Firefox developers. Firefox's market share has grown a ton since 1.0 was released so there are a lot more people looking for and finding bugs in the 1.0.x code than there were looking at the 1.0 beta code, thats why more bugs are being found now and not before 1.0 was released. Thats my take on it anyway.
Well, It's a good thing Firefox 1.5 will fix that with its auto updating binary diff patches. It Automaticly downloads the update and installs it the next time you start Firefox.
In KDE all you have to do is right click on Klipper in the system tray, go to Configure Klipper, and select "Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection." But personally I find the two separate clipboards very useful.
At my high school there was a teacher named Mr. Petroff. I had him for Chemistry and Integrated Science III (basically geology) and he was one of the coolest teachers I ever had. He could make everything interesting telling jokes related to what were learning and having fun projects. Even some of the less motivated kids would learn in his class and I probably learned more in his class than any other class (other than computer programming). One of the reasons the kids did so well in his class was because they respected him because he wouldn't just give out pointless repetitive homework and he actually knew what he was talking about because he enjoyed teaching.
But because the methods he used were 'unorthodox' and he didn't agree with some of the school's policies, mostly about homework, the administration decided that they should get rid of him with just a couple weeks left in the semester leaving us with substitutes who had no clue what was going on. The administration even lied to us about why he was gone saying he was sick. My point is that my school (maybe most?) doesn't really care about whether or not the kids are actually learning anything, they care about whether the teachers are doing things the way the admins want them to.
If IBM took a steaming shit would it get on crapdots frontpage?
You must have IBM confused with Google.I think so.
Except it hasn't been exploited, its only a hole that could be exploited and will most likely be patched in a week or so.
Besides, it only works if you added sites to your whitelist other than the default Mozilla update ones.
"Dell - neither the person nor the company - is interested in acquiring Red Hat"
That kind of looks like its saying "Dell is interested in aquiring Red Hat, but not Dell the person or company." I think it would be better written as "Dell - neither the person nor the company - is not interested in acquiring Red Hat"I don't really see this as a bad thing. I mean, people using this program will also use the google search engine so its helping their users. Now if they used it to slow down the time it took to load MSN search or Yahoo, then it would be a bad thing.
Microsoft is working with Ford Motor Co towards car that can't crash.
May I be the first to point out the irony of that statement.I already tired something like that back in computer programming class. I added a message box that would pop up when ever any of my programs started telling people to travel back in time to the last day of class and where the room was located. It didn't work.
It doesn't count them if you download from the updater in Firefox, only if you download from the website.
First people saying that the Google guys are trying to avoid taxes by cutting their salary to $1.00 a year, now people are paranoid that providing an option to save your searchs is part of some big consperacy to create a profile on everyone. You don't have to log in when you search. Besides, they'd be able to make a much better profile by reading your Gmail account than by saving your search history in your account. In fact any email provider could do that.
Are some people just pissed that Google can be such a big company and still be (semi) reputable?
By the time Longhorn ships, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, PCs will have 4GHz to 6GHz processors, more than 2GB of memory, at least a terabyte of storage, and graphics accelerators three times more powerful than those offered by ATI and Nvidia today. He says that Longhorn is designed to take advantage of all this muscle, and nowhere is that more evident than in the rich, three-dimensional interface known as Aero.
We'll have much better computers than that by time Longhorn finally ships.