Old horses that nobody wanted anymore used to be sold in the US for meat, presumably after being slaughtered humanely. But the "cruelty" of eating horse bothered some people, so they shut down all the equine slaughterhouses in the US. Now you can't even give a horse away, every equine rescue operation is full and not accepting any new animals. So what happens to unwanted horses now? They are neglected and starve to death! Yeah, that's sure a lot more humane than killing them and eating them! (or feeding them to your dog)
Are they implying that signals travel faster through a fiber optic cable than a copper cable? Or just that there is less interference between the lines.
Yes, that's a kludge, but I recall from working for Sharp that their printers really did have several separate computers inside, each for a different function. I thought it was a bad design, but I guess it made their design costs cheaper.
Nice, but their own tests demonstrate that the curved part between the horizontal and vertical planes is worthless. Better to just use two separate flat-panel touchscreen displays. Better picture, don't have to worry about legs blocking projectors, and probably a lot cheaper. Plus, after using keyboards for the last 30 years, I'd rather have a real keyboard.
Borrow CDs from the library or your friends, rip them yourself, and just watch the RIAA try to catch you! I have a friend who owns thousands of CDs and is perfectly happy to make me a copy of any one I want... what are his chances of getting caught? Zero... I sure as hell am not going to turn him in!
My wife's friends were shipping several dozen bicycles to Africa, until some Mexicans came by and threw them all into the back of a truck. They got arrested when they came back for more, but by then they had already sold the bikes as scrap metal for a whopping payoff of $170 and they had already been ground up for scrap! Now seriously, if you are a scrap metal dealer and somebody wants to sell you a load of perfectly functional bikes for a few bucks a piece, wouldn't you be at least a little bit suspicious? They fucking KNEW they were stolen when the bought them, that's why they destroyed the evidence immediately!
Great. When you figure out how to deliver 120 Volts AC over fiber, get back to me. (I agree, the phone infrastructure should be replaced with fiber.)
My wife's family owns a house in Freetown, Sierra Leone. They've replaced the fricking buried rubber water line providing water to the house 3 times, because thieves keep digging it up and stealing it. It ain't just copper that's a problem...
The terrorists' lives are only worth about $10,000 each, so even at at cost of dozens of lives, it is still a huge win in terms of costs/benefits ratio.
Just like the military is constantly preparing to fight the last war, DHS is constantly defending against the last terrorist attack, despite the fact that terrorists have no history of doing the same thing twice. When a person or group of people can commit an atrocity and there is no knee-jerk reaction to institute new laws, only then will I feel that we have reached maturity as a society.
The concept of "stealing ideas" is flawed. Ideas occur independently and simultaneously to many people when the conditions for that idea are right. And virtually every copyrighted work is derivative... can anybody cite a single movie Disney ever published that was based entirely on original characters and story line? Copyright monopolists have argued that libraries should be illegal, audio tape should be illegal, and videotape should be illegal. Now they are arguing that cloud storage of data should be illegal. I expect this argument to have much the same result as the previous ones.
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Who paid the legal fees?
How do you now he/she isn't a rebellious 13-year old?
What if you type "Natalie Portman's cra"???
So any links containing the terms "arrrr", "matey", or "ye scurvy dogs" will now be blocked?
Are we doomed to a repeat of the Fleischmann-Pons experiment every few years?
Neal Stephenson... didn't he write a book about the inevitable result of my skiing, "Snowcrash"?
Hey, if you weren't intending to commit rape, you wouldn't be carrying that penis around hidden in your shorts!
Old horses that nobody wanted anymore used to be sold in the US for meat, presumably after being slaughtered humanely. But the "cruelty" of eating horse bothered some people, so they shut down all the equine slaughterhouses in the US. Now you can't even give a horse away, every equine rescue operation is full and not accepting any new animals. So what happens to unwanted horses now? They are neglected and starve to death! Yeah, that's sure a lot more humane than killing them and eating them! (or feeding them to your dog)
Of course it's a weapon! Have you ever been hit over the head with a Power Mac G4?
Are they implying that signals travel faster through a fiber optic cable than a copper cable? Or just that there is less interference between the lines.
Yes, that's a kludge, but I recall from working for Sharp that their printers really did have several separate computers inside, each for a different function. I thought it was a bad design, but I guess it made their design costs cheaper.
You're on slashdot. It's a relative certainty that you're not a breeder!
Nice, but their own tests demonstrate that the curved part between the horizontal and vertical planes is worthless. Better to just use two separate flat-panel touchscreen displays. Better picture, don't have to worry about legs blocking projectors, and probably a lot cheaper. Plus, after using keyboards for the last 30 years, I'd rather have a real keyboard.
Borrow CDs from the library or your friends, rip them yourself, and just watch the RIAA try to catch you! I have a friend who owns thousands of CDs and is perfectly happy to make me a copy of any one I want... what are his chances of getting caught? Zero... I sure as hell am not going to turn him in!
My wife's friends were shipping several dozen bicycles to Africa, until some Mexicans came by and threw them all into the back of a truck. They got arrested when they came back for more, but by then they had already sold the bikes as scrap metal for a whopping payoff of $170 and they had already been ground up for scrap! Now seriously, if you are a scrap metal dealer and somebody wants to sell you a load of perfectly functional bikes for a few bucks a piece, wouldn't you be at least a little bit suspicious? They fucking KNEW they were stolen when the bought them, that's why they destroyed the evidence immediately!
Like stealing statues, then selling them at one thousandth of their value as scrap metal: here
Great. When you figure out how to deliver 120 Volts AC over fiber, get back to me. (I agree, the phone infrastructure should be replaced with fiber.)
My wife's family owns a house in Freetown, Sierra Leone. They've replaced the fricking buried rubber water line providing water to the house 3 times, because thieves keep digging it up and stealing it. It ain't just copper that's a problem...
Steve Balmer is insisting that Microsoft sue anybody making a figurine that looks like a complete asshole...
The terrorists' lives are only worth about $10,000 each, so even at at cost of dozens of lives, it is still a huge win in terms of costs/benefits ratio.
Just like the military is constantly preparing to fight the last war, DHS is constantly defending against the last terrorist attack, despite the fact that terrorists have no history of doing the same thing twice. When a person or group of people can commit an atrocity and there is no knee-jerk reaction to institute new laws, only then will I feel that we have reached maturity as a society.
He was embarrassed because he was sailing a raft made entirely out of inflatable "real porn star" dolls...
I believe he earned that nickname due to what he did for sexual relief during his week stranded on the island...
The company will eventually go bankrupt. Once all their employees get ahold of this, they'll be drawing pension benefits forever!
There has never been a better time to be a mouse!
I've got news for you... even straight females and gay males stare at freakishly large breasts!
The concept of "stealing ideas" is flawed. Ideas occur independently and simultaneously to many people when the conditions for that idea are right. And virtually every copyrighted work is derivative... can anybody cite a single movie Disney ever published that was based entirely on original characters and story line? Copyright monopolists have argued that libraries should be illegal, audio tape should be illegal, and videotape should be illegal. Now they are arguing that cloud storage of data should be illegal. I expect this argument to have much the same result as the previous ones.