One of the most famous google bombs was against microsoft.:)
In November 1999 Google users typing in the search string 'more evil than Satan himself' were given Microsoft as the top result. http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2126159/msn-search-brands-google-evil-satan
What a nice backhanded way of saying you think most people are racist pigs. Voters (especially) are better than that. Racism may be on the decline, but a lot of Americans from the bad old days have not died yet; and older folks are more likely to vote.
it took South Carolina until 1998 and Alabama until 2000 to officially remove defunct anti-miscegenation laws from their law books. In the respective referendums, 62% of voters in South Carolina and 59% of voters in Alabama voted to remove these laws.
"It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity & theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follow[s] from the advance of science. It has, therefore, been always my object to avoid writing on religion, & I have confined myself to science." -- Charles Darwin
I think that has to do with torsion(twisted pairs of wires unwinding?) and the multi-material composition of wires as opposed to ropes made of a single woven material(I've never seen braids twist, just loosen).
There is a flaw in your idea that evolution only ends up keeping that which is absolutely necessary for survival. Sometimes evolution ends up keeping features that are detrimental to creature's survival or reproductive ability in the short run for some indirect "purpose". Consider the huge and awkward tail of the peacock or the vulnerable external genitalia we male humans have.
Perhaps needing to be unconscious for hours at a time is one of the reasons many animals have to join together in groups, and those groups are where the benefit is. If that, or something like it, were the case, then we might not need to sleep anymore if we can avoid the physiological mechanisms that cause it.
I should probably add that this is a machine that was installed about a year ago, but I feel that that should not matter, it performs well enough and I really don't see the point in fixing that which isn't broken.
Ah, that explains your problem. You simply have not kept your machine up to date. Packages like tzdata aren't a dependency for that application. It's an update because governments of the world(including the USA this year) change their daylight savings times. You don't *have* to install system updates, but then you have problems like your clock not springing forward and falling back at the right time and people having a better chance to crack your system through an unpatched security hole.:)
Rather than give advice on what needs urgent fixing, you should take some advice from those of us that do read the manuals: you want to keep your systems up to date.
"average" doesn't mean what you seem to be using it for. Do you mean the majority of adults on welfare are white single moms? It seems like a difficult area to aggregate statistics for since welfare comes in so many varieties. I get the feeling you are simply trying to counter one stereotype with its opposite. It sounds plausible, but I am wondering where you get your information? (My attempts so far have led me into a morasse of temporary programs, major programs that changed in '97, separate programs involving dependents,etc. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/acf_policy_planning.html#stats)
...after the senate votes and possibly grants them retroactive immunity. Might be a good idea to contact your representatives and remind them that it's not in the best interests of remaining a functional country to encourage people or corporations to break the law.:) The EFF has this nifty form to submit e-mails to your senators, but I think phoning or faxing might be more effective at the last minute.
Yeah. There were already issues with slimy people getting stuff into the linux documentation project just to try to make money by redirecting people their way. Throwing in direct monetary compensation seems an invitation to all the scam artists of the world. Plus this will even draw away legitimate contributors to things like tldp.org, which is the source of the HOWTOs many of us have relied upon in the past.
nor has their president denied the Holocaust. I think people make a bigger deal about this than they should. I don't think they realize that the Iranian president is nowhere near as powerful in Iran as the US President is in the USA. His power is more like the Vice President because he is secondary to the Ayatollah, a.k.a. Supreme Leader. The most important factor is that the Iranian president is not the head of Iranian armed forces the way our president is. The Ayatollah is. The Ayatollah also has the sole authority to declare war and other powers like appointing judges and the heads of the media and police.
The "robot" spreads its weight out using the whole length of its legs in contact with the water. That is nothing like a water strider. The real strider does a quite similar thing with a length of its leg horizontal to the water. I can't fathom how you think this is nothing like that. It just has a higher percent of the leg horizontal in contact with the water because the body of the robot weighs more and the legs need to support more weight.
This even works with one or two people. I noticed this long ago when I watched a somewhat amusing commercial I did not laugh. But then I saw it again a couple days later while watching tv with my parents and I laughed out loud as they did. I think being with others flips a state in your brain that turns on verbalization and other outward expressions.
A slightly related phenomenon is that when one of the cleaning crew comes in to take the trash from my office I noticed that I occasionally start to verbalize my internal monologue of, "hrm", "that's not right", etc. but I usually don't make a sound while working.
OPN(open projects network) which became freenode doesn't have those problems, at least if you are in the channels for linux apache mysql perl or various other open software projects, then it is mostly sensible people, many of which are professional programmers and sysadmins, so the ops hardly need to use their powers to ban people all that much. I considered IRC to be the dregs of the internet 15 years ago and avoided it.
OPN/freenode(and oftc also) is what made it useful again. I've learned quite a bit through IRC over the years since OPN was created(which I learned about through/.); tips and tricks to do things a little bit better or learn about new techniques and helping solve others problems helps you learn too. I've gotten help working on a linux usb driver from the usb maintainer himself, spoken with authors of some of the books I use for development, get to speak with people around the world workings on all sorts of interesting projects, etc. Avoiding the troll hangouts(e.g. #politics;) is easy. The only downside I see is the amount of time it can take up.:)
He knows it's not likely to happen at his company because they are already monetizing this type of data mining research themselves in house and don't want to let anyone else do it.:)
Yeah. Not just that, but also people are probably more motivated to actually vote for a movie they liked. Why bother to go look at the imdb entry at all for a movie you didn't like? (Unless it's something that just *needs* to be voted low to warn others. e.g. Highlander II):)
As far as I know in IMDB you are rating the overall quality of the movie, not I agree with it OR I want to see more like this.
No. You give people way too much credit if you think their ratings on public sites are that nuanced or objective. I think most people just rate things on how well they like it themselves. A significant portion seem to even just give 10s to anything they like, too.
I also find it amusing how the votes tend to congregate somewhere in the 3rd quartile a bit above average(e.g. 7 on a 1-10 scale) rather than 5.5 where it would be if people ranked things more fairly. (I wonder if this is associated with that effect where people always rank themselves above average despite evidence to the contrary, as well.)
Nice video. It shows how "football field-sized" in the article title was completely wrong.:) (They mentioned - and you can see - a 160 square meter sail which is about 1/20th of a football field)
They also mentioned it paying for itself in 3 to 5 years. They must be charging an insane amount of money for it to cost 10% to 30% of 3 to 5 years worth of fuel costs for a freighter.:) Then again, those percentages were only fuel savings while it is operating. So overall fuel savings would be a smaller percent.
You are reading private e-mail between your bosses and you are complaining about *their* ethics? It sounds like you guys deserved each other. There is no possible technical justification for reading private mail as a sysadmin. At most, you might need to see the headers to debug routing/spamfilter issues.
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Congress' primary power over the whitehouse is the budget, as well. Look at how that is working out.
That's 41% of Alabamans voting to keep a defunct law making marriages between whites and non-whites illegal! http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/al/main03.htm
Really, you ought to at least cursorily research subjects before commenting on them.
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I think that has to do with torsion(twisted pairs of wires unwinding?) and the multi-material composition of wires as opposed to ropes made of a single woven material(I've never seen braids twist, just loosen).
There is a flaw in your idea that evolution only ends up keeping that which is absolutely necessary for survival. Sometimes evolution ends up keeping features that are detrimental to creature's survival or reproductive ability in the short run for some indirect "purpose". Consider the huge and awkward tail of the peacock or the vulnerable external genitalia we male humans have.
Perhaps needing to be unconscious for hours at a time is one of the reasons many animals have to join together in groups, and those groups are where the benefit is. If that, or something like it, were the case, then we might not need to sleep anymore if we can avoid the physiological mechanisms that cause it.
I should probably add that this is a machine that was installed about a year ago, but I feel that that should not matter, it performs well enough and I really don't see the point in fixing that which isn't broken.
:)
Ah, that explains your problem. You simply have not kept your machine up to date. Packages like tzdata aren't a dependency for that application. It's an update because governments of the world(including the USA this year) change their daylight savings times. You don't *have* to install system updates, but then you have problems like your clock not springing forward and falling back at the right time and people having a better chance to crack your system through an unpatched security hole.
Rather than give advice on what needs urgent fixing, you should take some advice from those of us that do read the manuals: you want to keep your systems up to date.
Real classy way to insult americans. Thanks for teaching us a better way to comport ourselves.
People paid to do it certainly will. I've already seen comments from campaign managers of presidential campaigns using it to spin stories their way.
Well, the data on the temporary programs at least bear out the general impression that minorities are over-represented in welfare:
:)
hispanic 26.1%, white 33.4%, african-american 35.7%
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/character/FY2006/tab08.htm
I should sleep, but score 5 posts with seemingly erroneous data irk me.
"average" doesn't mean what you seem to be using it for. Do you mean the majority of adults on welfare are white single moms? It seems like a difficult area to aggregate statistics for since welfare comes in so many varieties. I get the feeling you are simply trying to counter one stereotype with its opposite. It sounds plausible, but I am wondering where you get your information? (My attempts so far have led me into a morasse of temporary programs, major programs that changed in '97, separate programs involving dependents,etc. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/acf_policy_planning.html#stats)
...after the senate votes and possibly grants them retroactive immunity. Might be a good idea to contact your representatives and remind them that it's not in the best interests of remaining a functional country to encourage people or corporations to break the law. :)
The EFF has this nifty form to submit e-mails to your senators, but I think phoning or faxing might be more effective at the last minute.
Yeah. There were already issues with slimy people getting stuff into the linux documentation project just to try to make money by redirecting people their way. Throwing in direct monetary compensation seems an invitation to all the scam artists of the world.
Plus this will even draw away legitimate contributors to things like tldp.org, which is the source of the HOWTOs many of us have relied upon in the past.
This even works with one or two people. I noticed this long ago when I watched a somewhat amusing commercial I did not laugh. But then I saw it again a couple days later while watching tv with my parents and I laughed out loud as they did. I think being with others flips a state in your brain that turns on verbalization and other outward expressions.
A slightly related phenomenon is that when one of the cleaning crew comes in to take the trash from my office I noticed that I occasionally start to verbalize my internal monologue of, "hrm", "that's not right", etc. but I usually don't make a sound while working.
OPN(open projects network) which became freenode doesn't have those problems, at least if you are in the channels for linux apache mysql perl or various other open software projects, then it is mostly sensible people, many of which are professional programmers and sysadmins, so the ops hardly need to use their powers to ban people all that much. I considered IRC to be the dregs of the internet 15 years ago and avoided it.
/.); tips and tricks to do things a little bit better or learn about new techniques and helping solve others problems helps you learn too. I've gotten help working on a linux usb driver from the usb maintainer himself, spoken with authors of some of the books I use for development, get to speak with people around the world workings on all sorts of interesting projects, etc. Avoiding the troll hangouts(e.g. #politics ;) is easy. The only downside I see is the amount of time it can take up. :)
OPN/freenode(and oftc also) is what made it useful again. I've learned quite a bit through IRC over the years since OPN was created(which I learned about through
He knows it's not likely to happen at his company because they are already monetizing this type of data mining research themselves in house and don't want to let anyone else do it. :)
Yeah. Not just that, but also people are probably more motivated to actually vote for a movie they liked. Why bother to go look at the imdb entry at all for a movie you didn't like? (Unless it's something that just *needs* to be voted low to warn others. e.g. Highlander II) :)
As far as I know in IMDB you are rating the overall quality of the movie, not I agree with it OR I want to see more like this.
No. You give people way too much credit if you think their ratings on public sites are that nuanced or objective. I think most people just rate things on how well they like it themselves. A significant portion seem to even just give 10s to anything they like, too.
I also find it amusing how the votes tend to congregate somewhere in the 3rd quartile a bit above average(e.g. 7 on a 1-10 scale) rather than 5.5 where it would be if people ranked things more fairly. (I wonder if this is associated with that effect where people always rank themselves above average despite evidence to the contrary, as well.)
Nice video. It shows how "football field-sized" in the article title was completely wrong. :) (They mentioned - and you can see - a 160 square meter sail which is about 1/20th of a football field) :) Then again, those percentages were only fuel savings while it is operating. So overall fuel savings would be a smaller percent.
They also mentioned it paying for itself in 3 to 5 years. They must be charging an insane amount of money for it to cost 10% to 30% of 3 to 5 years worth of fuel costs for a freighter.
You are reading private e-mail between your bosses and you are complaining about *their* ethics? It sounds like you guys deserved each other. There is no possible technical justification for reading private mail as a sysadmin. At most, you might need to see the headers to debug routing/spamfilter issues.
Nice to see linux across the board for all of them - even running lots of proprietary stuff. :)
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix