Ah, I forgot all about the fact that the letters were actually letters containing "allah is great" and whatnot. I thought the link to islamic terrorism was being assumed purely due to the timing.
I think any sensible person can see what you stated those things to imply. And I disagree that "the attacks were designed to be linked with Islamic terrorism" is a "fact" unless the persons or person that did it tell us that's why they did it. I am the first to decry annoying conspiracy theorists, but I think you do bring up an interesting possibility many might not have considered. Claiming you weren't implying government involvement is a bit disingenuous, though. I think you are feeding your personal troll here a bit too much.:)
There are also several parts of the federal government that fund themselves through various other charges and taxes. For example, U.S. Customs and the U.S. Post Office. If you included the money those departments take in and spend to maintain themselves the total percent of military spending is even less. Also, the U.S. pays our volunteer military a decent salary; some of the countries people are comparing to that spend a smaller part of their gdp on military only get room and board.
Searches on your name are not something they need to worry about. I'm pretty impressed by the way they categorize results and provide links to related categories of subjects. Many of the complaints I see such as yours are basically that it doesn't work the same way google does. I think it is a good idea to provide a different type of functionality.
People that are more detail-oriented like we programmer types want comprehensive results (and wish google let us use regexes), but the overwhelming majority of people don't need that. When they type in "smg", they are either looking up sarah michelle gellar or super mario galaxies or sub machine gun, and those are the categories of results they want and those are what Cuil gives. Again, it seems a pretty good approach to give something that mostly works for most people; it worked for microsoft.:)
I'm just impressed that you used the right amount of 9s.;) 6.684e9-(.9999999999*6.684e9)=0.6684 6.684 billion is July 2008 estimate.:) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into
the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the
kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage
Some of us make commercial linux distros we like to have working on the most hardware possible. That being said, when a significant percentage of systems we had deployed to run a very large digital signage network started mysteriously dying, the problem - after much hair-pulling and testing of bizarre theories like electrical interference - turned out to be a bug in the bios of foxconn motherboards. So, yes, we do steer clients away from foxconn nowadays.:)
I would almost guarantee that somewhere inside the next computer you build will be Foxconn logo.
A couple weeks ago we received an HP machine and upon opening it to install some components we discovered a Foxconn employee identification card complete with logo.:) (It also had several cards attached elucidating gobs of rules about codes of conduct and whatnot written in spanish. I'd hate to have to carry around that stack of cards, too.)
You seriously expect me to believe you've been persecuted for trying to start a bible study at your college? Is your definition of persecution someone telling you, "ur dumb"? In my experience the number of religious groups proselytizing at public universities in Florida was quite high.
"Ooh, you're getting this look on your face like, 'Amy just said something so stupid it caused me physical pain.'... --Amy "My point is that precision, and getting things right, in the mathematical sense, is the one thing we have going for us.... We make our way in the world by knowing that two plus two equals four, and sticking to our guns in the way that is kind of nerdy and that maybe hurts people's feelings sometimes. I'm sorry." -- Randy "Hurts whose feelings? People who think that two plus two equals five?" --Amy "People who put a higher priority on social graces than on having every statement uttered in a conversation be literally true."--Randy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
It's a well-known factor at technical companies. Some barely competent guys work for a very low salary compared to the knowledgeable, experienced works so the managers like to hire them and keep them around.:)
My experience was the exact opposite of yours. I went to private catholic school from kindergarten to 7th grade. They showed us film of fetuses/abortions to convince us it was wrong which I barely remember except being quite disgusted by it. Some of the teachers were nuns-in training and had quite the vicious streak - doing things like stepping on shoelaces to trip kids if they left them untied, the smacking with rulers, etc. My mom also likes to tell the story of how they called her in because I protested at the way they were teaching us all to hate each other or specific kids by doing things like punishing an entire class for something one kid did.
When I moved to public school - partly prompted by the poor excuses for teachers they had - I was shocked because I was quite quickly 2 grades *ahead* of those left behind at the private school. Because the public school was so much larger they had the resources and ability to have separate classes for LD, regular, honors, A.P. whereas the private school only had enough kids for two class of each grade and wasted a lot of class time with things like learning parables and filling out reports on monday to prove we went to church sunday, etc.
This whole, "we're being persecuted" thing from the overwhelming majority religion in the country cracks me up.
Perhaps this concept goes back to the times when jews/christians actually were persecuted by the Romans and this helped them bind together as a group and prosper with the whole "the world is out to get us" attitude?
I saw an interview with a (I forget the term, "spotter?") soldier that was involved in an engagement in a mountain pass in southern Afghanistan near the border of Pakistan. He said they weren't sure if a group they saw in the distance were bad guys or not so they fired "warning shots". When some of the group returned fire, he said this meant he knew they were bad guys so he called in the airstrikes and killed most of them - and then went on about how they had struck a blow in payment for 9/11 by killing these random people. I wonder if those guys were just normal guys like you taking the entirely justifiable approach of returning fire when fired upon.
Surely the real news is that Roland actually added correct content to an article rather than simply copied some pieces and made an inflammatory, catchy/. submission to get more hits on his "make money fast by blogging" blog? I think it will take more than one or two decent submission to redeem himself of all the crap submissions that caused all the agitation for the ability to filter posts by submitter and the creation of firefox add-ons specifically for filtering him.
When they started playing advertising commercials mixed in with the previews (and doing this after the time the movie was supposed to start) is when I stopped going.
Yeah, I had similar problems with WoW even though I started after it had been out a few months. Always crashing and disconnecting. Assertion errors in live code, etc. I should have learned my lesson to give the game a longer time to become release quality before starting to play. But I had several real life friends that wanted to play together, so here I am.:)
Apparently you missed last week's patch that modified the fast travel points(wagon/boat) in the major cities to take you to the middle and furthest zones beyond - not just the nearest zone.;)
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Ah, I forgot all about the fact that the letters were actually letters containing "allah is great" and whatnot. I thought the link to islamic terrorism was being assumed purely due to the timing.
I think any sensible person can see what you stated those things to imply. And I disagree that "the attacks were designed to be linked with Islamic terrorism" is a "fact" unless the persons or person that did it tell us that's why they did it. I am the first to decry annoying conspiracy theorists, but I think you do bring up an interesting possibility many might not have considered. Claiming you weren't implying government involvement is a bit disingenuous, though. I think you are feeding your personal troll here a bit too much. :)
There are also several parts of the federal government that fund themselves through various other charges and taxes. For example, U.S. Customs and the U.S. Post Office. If you included the money those departments take in and spend to maintain themselves the total percent of military spending is even less. Also, the U.S. pays our volunteer military a decent salary; some of the countries people are comparing to that spend a smaller part of their gdp on military only get room and board.
Searches on your name are not something they need to worry about. I'm pretty impressed by the way they categorize results and provide links to related categories of subjects. Many of the complaints I see such as yours are basically that it doesn't work the same way google does. I think it is a good idea to provide a different type of functionality.
:)
People that are more detail-oriented like we programmer types want comprehensive results (and wish google let us use regexes), but the overwhelming majority of people don't need that. When they type in "smg", they are either looking up sarah michelle gellar or super mario galaxies or sub machine gun, and those are the categories of results they want and those are what Cuil gives. Again, it seems a pretty good approach to give something that mostly works for most people; it worked for microsoft.
That's why this story is in the entertainment section of /. :)
I'm just impressed that you used the right amount of 9s. ;) :)
6.684e9-(.9999999999*6.684e9)=0.6684
6.684 billion is July 2008 estimate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage
Yah, we could call the category, "boingboing". :)
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." -- Sally Kempton
I think he is being sarcastic about not making jokes. Unless there is some other reference to the "the special hell" than Firefly I am unaware of.
Some of us make commercial linux distros we like to have working on the most hardware possible. :)
That being said, when a significant percentage of systems we had deployed to run a very large digital signage network started mysteriously dying, the problem - after much hair-pulling and testing of bizarre theories like electrical interference - turned out to be a bug in the bios of foxconn motherboards. So, yes, we do steer clients away from foxconn nowadays.
I would almost guarantee that somewhere inside the next computer you build will be Foxconn logo.
:) (It also had several cards attached elucidating gobs of rules about codes of conduct and whatnot written in spanish. I'd hate to have to carry around that stack of cards, too.)
A couple weeks ago we received an HP machine and upon opening it to install some components we discovered a Foxconn employee identification card complete with logo.
You seriously expect me to believe you've been persecuted for trying to start a bible study at your college? Is your definition of persecution someone telling you, "ur dumb"? In my experience the number of religious groups proselytizing at public universities in Florida was quite high.
"Ooh, you're getting this look on your face like, 'Amy just said something ... We make our way in the world
so stupid it caused me physical pain.'... --Amy
"My point is that precision, and getting things right, in the mathematical
sense, is the one thing we have going for us.
by knowing that two plus two equals four, and sticking to our guns in the way
that is kind of nerdy and that maybe hurts people's feelings sometimes.
I'm sorry." -- Randy
"Hurts whose feelings? People who think that two plus two equals five?" --Amy
"People who put a higher priority on social graces than on having every
statement uttered in a conversation be literally true."--Randy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
It's a well-known factor at technical companies. Some barely competent guys work for a very low salary compared to the knowledgeable, experienced works so the managers like to hire them and keep them around. :)
My experience was the exact opposite of yours. I went to private catholic school from kindergarten to 7th grade. They showed us film of fetuses/abortions to convince us it was wrong which I barely remember except being quite disgusted by it. Some of the teachers were nuns-in training and had quite the vicious streak - doing things like stepping on shoelaces to trip kids if they left them untied, the smacking with rulers, etc. My mom also likes to tell the story of how they called her in because I protested at the way they were teaching us all to hate each other or specific kids by doing things like punishing an entire class for something one kid did.
When I moved to public school - partly prompted by the poor excuses for teachers they had - I was shocked because I was quite quickly 2 grades *ahead* of those left behind at the private school. Because the public school was so much larger they had the resources and ability to have separate classes for LD, regular, honors, A.P. whereas the private school only had enough kids for two class of each grade and wasted a lot of class time with things like learning parables and filling out reports on monday to prove we went to church sunday, etc.
This whole, "we're being persecuted" thing from the overwhelming majority religion in the country cracks me up.
Perhaps this concept goes back to the times when jews/christians actually were persecuted by the Romans and this helped them bind together as a group and prosper with the whole "the world is out to get us" attitude?
Or the targets of the PR operation names are the soldiers involved? To boost morale?
I saw an interview with a (I forget the term, "spotter?") soldier that was involved in an engagement in a mountain pass in southern Afghanistan near the border of Pakistan. He said they weren't sure if a group they saw in the distance were bad guys or not so they fired "warning shots". When some of the group returned fire, he said this meant he knew they were bad guys so he called in the airstrikes and killed most of them - and then went on about how they had struck a blow in payment for 9/11 by killing these random people. I wonder if those guys were just normal guys like you taking the entirely justifiable approach of returning fire when fired upon.
Surely the real news is that Roland actually added correct content to an article rather than simply copied some pieces and made an inflammatory, catchy /. submission to get more hits on his "make money fast by blogging" blog?
I think it will take more than one or two decent submission to redeem himself of all the crap submissions that caused all the agitation for the ability to filter posts by submitter and the creation of firefox add-ons specifically for filtering him.
When they started playing advertising commercials mixed in with the previews (and doing this after the time the movie was supposed to start) is when I stopped going.
Yeah, I had similar problems with WoW even though I started after it had been out a few months. Always crashing and disconnecting. Assertion errors in live code, etc. I should have learned my lesson to give the game a longer time to become release quality before starting to play. But I had several real life friends that wanted to play together, so here I am. :)
Apparently you missed last week's patch that modified the fast travel points(wagon/boat) in the major cities to take you to the middle and furthest zones beyond - not just the nearest zone. ;)
Perhaps you just confused it with the Superconducting Super Collider which was planned to be built in Texas, but was canceled.
Do you know why 2 is odd?
It's the only even prime number.