And if you need more power, you just need to pick up more chicks.
If I knew how to do that, I wouldn't be spending all my time on slashdot, you insensitive clod!
I assume, then, that you don't allow newspapers to be delivered to your house either. That paper sitting in your driveway is a sure sign that you're not home, and if you tell the delivery person to halt delivery while you're on vacation, they can make a lot more money on the side by passing that info on to thieves.
Plus, if you want to case out a street and see the best way to rob, car jack, or even see my neighbors and family members, you can drive legally anywhere the google street view car can, and take your own much more detailed and up to date pictures.
About the same as it feels to be a bug hitting an Audi windscreen on the Autobahn... when you've been stretched to several hundred times your original length, you're most likely no longer capable of observing anything, so it looks pretty much like nothingness. Can a soul escape from the event horizon of a black hole, or is it doomed to spend forever in purgatory inside the black hole? And is that better or worse than being stuck in New Jersey?
Hey, everyone, listen up, your attention if you please
Really wanna give you a warning
'Cause I found out this morning
About a dangerous, insidious computer virus
If you should get an email with the subject, 'stinky cheese'
Better not go taking your chances
Under no circumstances, should you open it
Or else it will
Translate your documents into Swahili
Make your TV record "Gigli"
Neuter your pets, and give you laundry static cling Look out!
It's gonna make your computer screen freeze Look out!
Erase the Easter eggs off your DVDs Look out!
Erase your hard drive and your backups too
And the hard drive of anyone related to you Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Soon, very soon, it will make all the paint peel off your walls
It'll make your keyboard all sticky
Give your poodle a hickey
And invest your cash in stock in Euro Disney
Then, it will tie up your phone, making crank long-distance calls
It'll set your clocks back an hour and start clogging the shower
So just trash it now, or else it will
Decide to give you a permanent wedgie,
Legally change your name to Reggie,
Even mess up the pH balance in your pool Look out!
It's gonna melt your face right off your skull Look out!
And make your iPod only play Jethro Tull Look out!
And tell you knock-knock jokes while you're trying to sleep Look out!
And make you physically attracted to sheep Look out!
Steal your identity and your credit cards Look out!
Buy you a warehouse full of pink leotards Look out!
Then cause a major rift in time and space
And leave a bunch of Twinkie wrappers all over the place
That's right it's a... Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Warn all your friends, send this to everybody
Tell everyone you know, tell everybody now
If you get infected, you'll wish you had never been born
So before it emails your grandmother all of your porn
Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down
Drop it in a forty-three-foot hole in the ground
Bury it completely; rocks and boulders should be fine
Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online! Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Warn all your friends, send this to everybody
Tell everyone you know, tell everybody now
What are you waiting for?
Just hurry up and forward this to every single person that you know!
Hit send right now!
Don't sell hardware by tying it to a subscription! You want to provide financing, fine. But stop trying to convince people that a $500 computer should be free, but it makes sense to spend $100/month for a communications link.
Every page that Google indexes is increasing driving clicks to that page and increasing the ad revenues to the owner of the page. Unless Google is enabling people to view the page without the original ads, then the original content providers should just STFU and stop complaining just because Google makes money in the process of driving traffic to their site. The problem here is with pages that don't derive revenue from ads, such as the BBC website, which is funded by British taxpayers. In that case, they have every right to block access from anyone who isn't a British taxpayer. If the people accessing the page are taxpayers or anybody else that has already paid for the content, then again, why should anybody care if Google makes money by providing the link? This looks more like a case of "You're making money doing something we didn't think of with our content, so we want some of it!" than anything else. As far as I know, Google honors robots.txt -- if you don't want them indexing your content, they will not.
For a while, a Macbook made out of black plastic cost $100 more than an identically configured Macbook made out of white plastic. I personally can't find any explanation for this that doesn't involve Apple marketeers and crack.
As far as the general issue, yes there is a small premium for Apple hardware, but if you compare to equivalent windows hardware, it is nowhere near as big a difference as it appears. I believe it is still 10% more expensive to buy Apple laptops, but in return you get better support. Apple MP3 players, on the other hand, are really overpriced compared to other manufacturers.
Don't you just hate when you wake up in the morning after a night of heavy drinking and find out that you've taken advantage of yourself again? I know it always makes ME want to press charges for committing sex crimes against myself! If it is that obvious that the teens didn't take the pictures themselves (i.e. the pictures didn't show them holding a camera) then why were they threatened with prosecution in the first place? If a 2 year old hands you a photo of themselves posing naked on a bear skin rug, should said 2 year be arrested for distribution of child porn and forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of their life?
Get each of the horses a set of wireless headphones. If it's only horses that can hear the music, I don't see how they can charge performance rights for it. After all, where would you draw the line? Every time I listen to music, the millions of bacteria in my ears get hear it for free too... Damn freeloaders! Mice, roaches, birds, termites... there are literally billions of little creatures sponging off of our performances.
1) I have been very impressed with the English skills of European technical people, especially the Dutch. Taiwanese... not so much. My Italian friend took the standard US SAT and got better verbal scores than over a third of US students -- which doesn't say a lot for our educational system. 2) I skimmed through a Pascal user manual written in German once. Most of the variable names in the examples exceeded 80 characters. Although English can easily be ambiguous, at least it is terse. 3) At least Open Source code which is being maintained by volunteers from all over the world should be documented in English. 4) I don't see any correlation between the ability to learn natural languages and the ability to learn computer languages. I know dozens of computer languages, but I'm still working on my first human language (English). Computer languages have much simpler syntax, much smaller vocabularies, and little or no dependence on context (there are no heteronyms in computer languages). Translation from one computer language to another is a fairly straightforward mechanical process. Translation of human languages is an art which requires intimate knowledge of the cultural context of both the source and the destination language.
The other evidence for being a simulation is the cosmic background radiation: it's fairly uniform in all directions. The accepted explanation for this is that the universe expanded at many, many times the speed of light during the big bang, and thus the radiation from the edges hasn't reached us yet. The rejected explanation is that we are at the center of the universe. But a much simpler explanation is that we are in a wrap-around universe wherein if you look far enough away, you see what's behind you. Which is exactly how you would implement it in a simulation, since you can't have an infinite coordinate system in a simulation. So perhaps God is simply a more sophisticated version of my 8-year old daughter playing The Sims.
Not new at all. Google's business plan has always been:
1) Create content that people want online.
2) Give content away for free.
3) Charge advertisers for ads delivered alongside content.
4) Profit!
As their profit is measured in the billions, offhand I would say this is a pretty good business plan.
I think you need a little bit more than a simple proxy -- like the ability to read and write Chinese, for example. What are the Chinese characters for "Britney Spears" anyway?
I know you're joking, but can't much of the strange results of quantum theory be explained away as limitations in the resolution of a simulation? Physicists keep trying to convince me that time and space are inherently quantized; that would be ridiculous in a physical universe, but makes perfect sense in a virtual universe.
So, isn't the government agency which compiles and distributes the blacklist guilty of collecting and distributing child pornography, by their same standard that a link to an unlawful site is as bad as hosting the unlawful material yourself?
she is not allowed to carry around any prescription pills.
Funny, I can't find any indication of that restriction anywhere in the US Constitution... or in any Federal, State, or Local statutes. The school district can pass any arbitrary fascist rules they want, I don't believe I am bound by law to follow them. The "worst case scenario" is that they expel my daughter from school, forcing me to homeschool her. I sincerely believe she would be better off being homeschooled, so that is not much of a threat. By the way, didn't the public schools teach you that the first letter of a sentence should be capitalized? Perhaps they were too busy insisting that you couldn't have a bowel movement without the teacher's permission to actually educate you.
Where I am, "prescription" ibuprofen is 600mg per tablet, or the equivalent of 3 OTC ibuprofen. I even had a doctor tell my wife who had neck pain after an accident, "I could write you a prescription for ibuprofen, but it is exactly the same as taking 3 over the counter ibuprofen, which you probably already have." So yes, there should be no such thing as "prescription" ibuprofen. And strip-searching someone who denies having ibuprofen on the basis of so-and-so said she got a couple pain relievers from her does violate all standards of reasonableness. So what if they DID find it on her? My daughter takes 4 different prescription meds -- I would insist that she has every right to carry these with her to school, and that the school has no right to confiscate them from her. After all, if she doesn't take them, she dies -- it is that simple!
I could have gotten her a white dog instead! On the bright side, those do appear to be washable markers. On the sad side, some presumably responsible adult is standing there snapping pictures instead of STOPPING this dysfunctional behavior. "Look mommy! Fido is a tiger now!" No darling, you can't color the dog pink, even if it is your favorite color...
Like the case at ski resorts of attractive young women looking for husbands and husbands looking for attractive young women, most phenomena are not as orthogonal as we would like them to be. The converse of a true statement is seldom also true.
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And if you need more power, you just need to pick up more chicks.
If I knew how to do that, I wouldn't be spending all my time on slashdot, you insensitive clod!
Actually it was an old alt.barney.die.die.die post... there's no shame in that!
Plus, if you want to case out a street and see the best way to rob, car jack, or even see my neighbors and family members, you can drive legally anywhere the google street view car can, and take your own much more detailed and up to date pictures.
About the same as it feels to be a bug hitting an Audi windscreen on the Autobahn... when you've been stretched to several hundred times your original length, you're most likely no longer capable of observing anything, so it looks pretty much like nothingness. Can a soul escape from the event horizon of a black hole, or is it doomed to spend forever in purgatory inside the black hole? And is that better or worse than being stuck in New Jersey?
My sentiments exactly. I can't be the only one who now really misses "OMG!!! Ponies!"
Hey, everyone, listen up, your attention if you please
Really wanna give you a warning
'Cause I found out this morning
About a dangerous, insidious computer virus
If you should get an email with the subject, 'stinky cheese'
Better not go taking your chances
Under no circumstances, should you open it
Or else it will
Translate your documents into Swahili
Make your TV record "Gigli"
Neuter your pets, and give you laundry static cling Look out!
It's gonna make your computer screen freeze Look out!
Erase the Easter eggs off your DVDs Look out!
Erase your hard drive and your backups too
And the hard drive of anyone related to you Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Soon, very soon, it will make all the paint peel off your walls
It'll make your keyboard all sticky
Give your poodle a hickey
And invest your cash in stock in Euro Disney
Then, it will tie up your phone, making crank long-distance calls
It'll set your clocks back an hour and start clogging the shower
So just trash it now, or else it will
Decide to give you a permanent wedgie,
Legally change your name to Reggie,
Even mess up the pH balance in your pool Look out!
It's gonna melt your face right off your skull Look out!
And make your iPod only play Jethro Tull Look out!
And tell you knock-knock jokes while you're trying to sleep Look out!
And make you physically attracted to sheep Look out!
Steal your identity and your credit cards Look out!
Buy you a warehouse full of pink leotards Look out!
Then cause a major rift in time and space
And leave a bunch of Twinkie wrappers all over the place
That's right it's a... Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Warn all your friends, send this to everybody
Tell everyone you know, tell everybody now
If you get infected, you'll wish you had never been born
So before it emails your grandmother all of your porn
Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down
Drop it in a forty-three-foot hole in the ground
Bury it completely; rocks and boulders should be fine
Then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time you were online! Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody Virus alert!
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!
Forward this message on to everybody
Warn all your friends, send this to everybody
Tell everyone you know, tell everybody now
What are you waiting for?
Just hurry up and forward this to every single person that you know!
Hit send right now!
I've seen the pics, and all I can say is... passing gas in the tub does NOT make it a jacuzzi!
Well, there goes my chance to register "p.ie"... by the way, isn't it already April 1 in Ireland?
Don't sell hardware by tying it to a subscription! You want to provide financing, fine. But stop trying to convince people that a $500 computer should be free, but it makes sense to spend $100/month for a communications link.
Every page that Google indexes is increasing driving clicks to that page and increasing the ad revenues to the owner of the page. Unless Google is enabling people to view the page without the original ads, then the original content providers should just STFU and stop complaining just because Google makes money in the process of driving traffic to their site. The problem here is with pages that don't derive revenue from ads, such as the BBC website, which is funded by British taxpayers. In that case, they have every right to block access from anyone who isn't a British taxpayer. If the people accessing the page are taxpayers or anybody else that has already paid for the content, then again, why should anybody care if Google makes money by providing the link? This looks more like a case of "You're making money doing something we didn't think of with our content, so we want some of it!" than anything else. As far as I know, Google honors robots.txt -- if you don't want them indexing your content, they will not.
For a while, a Macbook made out of black plastic cost $100 more than an identically configured Macbook made out of white plastic. I personally can't find any explanation for this that doesn't involve Apple marketeers and crack.
As far as the general issue, yes there is a small premium for Apple hardware, but if you compare to equivalent windows hardware, it is nowhere near as big a difference as it appears. I believe it is still 10% more expensive to buy Apple laptops, but in return you get better support. Apple MP3 players, on the other hand, are really overpriced compared to other manufacturers.
Don't you just hate when you wake up in the morning after a night of heavy drinking and find out that you've taken advantage of yourself again? I know it always makes ME want to press charges for committing sex crimes against myself! If it is that obvious that the teens didn't take the pictures themselves (i.e. the pictures didn't show them holding a camera) then why were they threatened with prosecution in the first place? If a 2 year old hands you a photo of themselves posing naked on a bear skin rug, should said 2 year be arrested for distribution of child porn and forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of their life?
Get each of the horses a set of wireless headphones. If it's only horses that can hear the music, I don't see how they can charge performance rights for it. After all, where would you draw the line? Every time I listen to music, the millions of bacteria in my ears get hear it for free too... Damn freeloaders! Mice, roaches, birds, termites... there are literally billions of little creatures sponging off of our performances.
1) I have been very impressed with the English skills of European technical people, especially the Dutch. Taiwanese... not so much. My Italian friend took the standard US SAT and got better verbal scores than over a third of US students -- which doesn't say a lot for our educational system. 2) I skimmed through a Pascal user manual written in German once. Most of the variable names in the examples exceeded 80 characters. Although English can easily be ambiguous, at least it is terse. 3) At least Open Source code which is being maintained by volunteers from all over the world should be documented in English. 4) I don't see any correlation between the ability to learn natural languages and the ability to learn computer languages. I know dozens of computer languages, but I'm still working on my first human language (English). Computer languages have much simpler syntax, much smaller vocabularies, and little or no dependence on context (there are no heteronyms in computer languages). Translation from one computer language to another is a fairly straightforward mechanical process. Translation of human languages is an art which requires intimate knowledge of the cultural context of both the source and the destination language.
The other evidence for being a simulation is the cosmic background radiation: it's fairly uniform in all directions. The accepted explanation for this is that the universe expanded at many, many times the speed of light during the big bang, and thus the radiation from the edges hasn't reached us yet. The rejected explanation is that we are at the center of the universe. But a much simpler explanation is that we are in a wrap-around universe wherein if you look far enough away, you see what's behind you. Which is exactly how you would implement it in a simulation, since you can't have an infinite coordinate system in a simulation. So perhaps God is simply a more sophisticated version of my 8-year old daughter playing The Sims.
Not new at all. Google's business plan has always been:
1) Create content that people want online.
2) Give content away for free.
3) Charge advertisers for ads delivered alongside content.
4) Profit!
As their profit is measured in the billions, offhand I would say this is a pretty good business plan.
I think you need a little bit more than a simple proxy -- like the ability to read and write Chinese, for example. What are the Chinese characters for "Britney Spears" anyway?
I know you're joking, but can't much of the strange results of quantum theory be explained away as limitations in the resolution of a simulation? Physicists keep trying to convince me that time and space are inherently quantized; that would be ridiculous in a physical universe, but makes perfect sense in a virtual universe.
Now we'll have to listen to Sarah Palin claiming "I can see the Space Station from my house!"
So, isn't the government agency which compiles and distributes the blacklist guilty of collecting and distributing child pornography, by their same standard that a link to an unlawful site is as bad as hosting the unlawful material yourself?
she is not allowed to carry around any prescription pills.
Funny, I can't find any indication of that restriction anywhere in the US Constitution... or in any Federal, State, or Local statutes. The school district can pass any arbitrary fascist rules they want, I don't believe I am bound by law to follow them. The "worst case scenario" is that they expel my daughter from school, forcing me to homeschool her. I sincerely believe she would be better off being homeschooled, so that is not much of a threat. By the way, didn't the public schools teach you that the first letter of a sentence should be capitalized? Perhaps they were too busy insisting that you couldn't have a bowel movement without the teacher's permission to actually educate you.
The first words out of it were: "They misunderestimated me."
Where I am, "prescription" ibuprofen is 600mg per tablet, or the equivalent of 3 OTC ibuprofen. I even had a doctor tell my wife who had neck pain after an accident, "I could write you a prescription for ibuprofen, but it is exactly the same as taking 3 over the counter ibuprofen, which you probably already have." So yes, there should be no such thing as "prescription" ibuprofen. And strip-searching someone who denies having ibuprofen on the basis of so-and-so said she got a couple pain relievers from her does violate all standards of reasonableness. So what if they DID find it on her? My daughter takes 4 different prescription meds -- I would insist that she has every right to carry these with her to school, and that the school has no right to confiscate them from her. After all, if she doesn't take them, she dies -- it is that simple!
I could have gotten her a white dog instead! On the bright side, those do appear to be washable markers. On the sad side, some presumably responsible adult is standing there snapping pictures instead of STOPPING this dysfunctional behavior. "Look mommy! Fido is a tiger now!" No darling, you can't color the dog pink, even if it is your favorite color...
Like the case at ski resorts of attractive young women looking for husbands and husbands looking for attractive young women, most phenomena are not as orthogonal as we would like them to be. The converse of a true statement is seldom also true.