Even now there are still railways that give their trains every signal with mechanical means.
Including pyrotechnical devices not completely unlike the one in TFA. As a last resort/backup method, train crews can lay things called torpedoes on the track. They explode when a train runs over them giving the engineer a warning that there's danger ahead. Most railroads have a distinctive pattern they use when setting the torpedoes to avoid false signals from backfires, firecrackers etc.
Hey, this is Slashdot, remember? The course in question was one of the first computerized courses ever offered in the U.S. so my teacher was a mainframe computer in the school district office...
Kidding, of course. She was female, in her twenties and liked to wear high heels, short skirts and tight sweaters.
The article was an editorial piece--sure, it was opinionated but more latitude is allowed in editorials than in a news article.
I don't get your connection between Darwin's theory of natural selection and racism, nor did I see any hatred in the article. Ridicule, for sure, but ID deserves that.
The article is an example of the pseudo-science to which Slashdot editors often link.
You seriously think TFA was pseudoscience? I think you completely missed the point of it, then. The speciation of dogs angle was just a humorous mechanism the writer used to mount an attack on intelligent design advocates.
The worst case I saw of this was on 9/11 when a leading US News network (not sure which) showed file footage of celebrating Palestinian soccer fans and said they were celebrating the attack.
I agree, that was a pretty egregious case of manipulation on the part of the network involved (Fox, probably, but I could be wrong). But I don't think the same situation exists with television news organizations re: the PRK. That's due more to a lack of creativity than bias.
That, plus the fact that you didn't need to memorize 150 different keyboard commands to play one of those old games. Most of the newer games became too much like work for me to ever really enjoy them.
every time the American news discusses North Korea, they show a North Korean military parade with pictures of tanks rolling by
I get the point you're trying to make here and more or less agree with it. But I think the fact that news outlets in the west always show footage of military parades when discussing North Korea has less to do with conspiracy than it does with that country being so tightly controlled that there really isn't anything else for them to show.
It's case of not attributing to malice that with can adequately explained by laziness (on the part of western TV networks).
That's out of the norm. The electrical code in most U.S. states is: black=hot, white=neutral, green=ground. Red is typically used as a second hot wire in a two-way switch setup.
I just checked that out on my Mac. While there certainly is a long list of sites (longer than I'd like to see, for sure) listed there, it includes any site that happened to have a Flash ad on a page that I've loaded so it's not really an accurate record of where I've been.
There is. It's called "Private Browsing" and it's under the "Safari" menu. Select that option and nothing is added to the cache, search parameters aren't saved, no browsing history is kept etc. etc. etc...
Interesting. Last time I checked, QTVR required the use of a rather expensive panoramic head to work well. It seems that this is no longer the case, which makes it a pretty viable option, I think.
Thanks for doing the research I should have done before I posted.
Yeah, no doubt, although most of the nerds were there with women, too. Nerdettes, perhaps. But since they were mostly older folk, like me, they were probably married, also like me, and, hence, don't actually have sex any more.
Not true. We're social, but only with our own kind. For instance, I saw the new Star Trek movie last night. When the house lights went up afterwards, I looked around and noticed the kids had already left and those who remained were my fellow nerds. It was so obvious that we all kind of laughed about it on the way out of the theater.
Yes! The iPhone slices, dices and makes hundreds of julienne fries in seconds! It's also a pocket fishing rod, a hair-cutting attachment for your vacuum cleaner and will cut a penny in half!
But wait, there's more! Order now and we'll throw in the amazing Ginzu Knife for Free! Call now! Operators are standing by!
Seriously--I have an iPhone and I think it's an amazing bit of technology but comparing it to the topic of TFA is comparing, uh, Apples to oranges. I suspect that the post was a troll.
You'd think after decades of this game of predicting what Apple is going to do, largely by wide eyed fanatics would have become dull and old
Especially since such speculation is wrong more often than not. Whatever labels people try to stick onto Apple, "predictable" is not one that can fairly be applied. They continue to have a remarkable ability to pull off surprises.
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Of course, I'm not qualified but we're talking about the U.S. government here so since when would that matter?
Including pyrotechnical devices not completely unlike the one in TFA. As a last resort/backup method, train crews can lay things called torpedoes on the track. They explode when a train runs over them giving the engineer a warning that there's danger ahead. Most railroads have a distinctive pattern they use when setting the torpedoes to avoid false signals from backfires, firecrackers etc.
Hey, this is Slashdot, remember? The course in question was one of the first computerized courses ever offered in the U.S. so my teacher was a mainframe computer in the school district office...
Kidding, of course. She was female, in her twenties and liked to wear high heels, short skirts and tight sweaters.
The article was an editorial piece--sure, it was opinionated but more latitude is allowed in editorials than in a news article.
I don't get your connection between Darwin's theory of natural selection and racism, nor did I see any hatred in the article. Ridicule, for sure, but ID deserves that.
Unless it was my middle-school French teacher who was doing the paddling. Woo-hoo!
You seriously think TFA was pseudoscience? I think you completely missed the point of it, then. The speciation of dogs angle was just a humorous mechanism the writer used to mount an attack on intelligent design advocates.
I can supply that for you. Take a look here.
I agree, that was a pretty egregious case of manipulation on the part of the network involved (Fox, probably, but I could be wrong). But I don't think the same situation exists with television news organizations re: the PRK. That's due more to a lack of creativity than bias.
That, plus the fact that you didn't need to memorize 150 different keyboard commands to play one of those old games. Most of the newer games became too much like work for me to ever really enjoy them.
I get the point you're trying to make here and more or less agree with it. But I think the fact that news outlets in the west always show footage of military parades when discussing North Korea has less to do with conspiracy than it does with that country being so tightly controlled that there really isn't anything else for them to show.
It's case of not attributing to malice that with can adequately explained by laziness (on the part of western TV networks).
That's out of the norm. The electrical code in most U.S. states is: black=hot, white=neutral, green=ground. Red is typically used as a second hot wire in a two-way switch setup.
I just checked that out on my Mac. While there certainly is a long list of sites (longer than I'd like to see, for sure) listed there, it includes any site that happened to have a Flash ad on a page that I've loaded so it's not really an accurate record of where I've been.
Still, I agree that it's a bothersome thing
There is. It's called "Private Browsing" and it's under the "Safari" menu. Select that option and nothing is added to the cache, search parameters aren't saved, no browsing history is kept etc. etc. etc...
Real Men browse with Lynx.
Interesting. Last time I checked, QTVR required the use of a rather expensive panoramic head to work well. It seems that this is no longer the case, which makes it a pretty viable option, I think.
Thanks for doing the research I should have done before I posted.
Not exactly cheap, but it might work.
Yeah, no doubt, although most of the nerds were there with women, too. Nerdettes, perhaps. But since they were mostly older folk, like me, they were probably married, also like me, and, hence, don't actually have sex any more.
Not true. We're social, but only with our own kind. For instance, I saw the new Star Trek movie last night. When the house lights went up afterwards, I looked around and noticed the kids had already left and those who remained were my fellow nerds. It was so obvious that we all kind of laughed about it on the way out of the theater.
Yes! The iPhone slices, dices and makes hundreds of julienne fries in seconds! It's also a pocket fishing rod, a hair-cutting attachment for your vacuum cleaner and will cut a penny in half!
But wait, there's more! Order now and we'll throw in the amazing Ginzu Knife for Free! Call now! Operators are standing by!
Seriously--I have an iPhone and I think it's an amazing bit of technology but comparing it to the topic of TFA is comparing, uh, Apples to oranges. I suspect that the post was a troll.
Especially since such speculation is wrong more often than not. Whatever labels people try to stick onto Apple, "predictable" is not one that can fairly be applied. They continue to have a remarkable ability to pull off surprises.
only outlaws will have unstained clothes.
How is this a troll?
People have been using goats for vegetation control around these parts for many years--probably back to the Spanish colonial days.
9 out of 10 pigs suggest calling it "Human Flu."
...because Rudy Giuliani was mayor at the time and handled it well. And never passed up an opportunity to mention that he did so, either.