But there isn't going to be any wheat in Nunavut any time soon. Soil profiles in the tudra are very poor. You need somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 years (depending on your source) of grasses growing, dying, rotting into the ground, fixing nitrogen and building up a proper soil profile before you can grow wheat or any other major crop.
But it wasn't always tundra. There were many years of all of that growing business through all the ice ages and interrims. Does the permafrost kill all the nutrients and such, or is there something strange afoot in Canada?
Besides, a little MiracleGrow and it's all good, right?
Delusional, yet believable to somebody who has no ability to empathise with another viewpoint or to even bother to use their brain.
A more sane statement would be "We tried to stamp a boot on a human face and came to the already obvious conclusion that 9/11 is what occurs as a result as evidenced by things like the American revolution."
Not to mention that there's no real downside I can see to such cloning.
You have to wait for it to load a page you already have loaded.
Personally, that's one of the things I hate most about IE.
You even said you don't use it much, so why they would put it as default behavior is beyond me.
Why this jagoff would claim it's a usability issue that Firefox doesn't do something that most people never want it to do and a few people want it to do once in a while is beyond me.
Can anyone reccomend the best place to sell off Magic cards?
1) Ebay is probably the best to get the most for them. It's a bit of work, especially if you sell them individually to maximize your income. There is a lot of traffic there though for cards.
2) A card shop won't pay much in general.
3) If you just want to get rid of them quick and cheap, I might take them;-)
So, how would Myth handle what I'm doing short of a ton of receivers and ugly IRDA dongles to control them?
Well, I don't think it can handle that without those. Depending upon your area and provider, you might be able to avoid the IR Blasters and use firewire or a serial cable, but that probably doesn't even address your actual issue it just changes the cable type.
If we could actually get the dipshit cable/satellite operators to release their codes then it wouldn't be an issue, but they aren't so it is.
I'm actually looking at adding a second tuner, but what you pointed out is the major hurdle to address.
I'm just no sure how we can get parents to take an interest and to realise the responsibility they owe to their fellow citizens.
IMHO, the first step would be to stop pushing parenthood and stop providing incentives for it.
If the only people who had kids were those who really give enough of a shit to take the responsibility seriously (like it sounds like you are) rather than just every dipshit who wants to be a part of something or wants something to love them then that problem would dissipate
Part of this is governmental which we (supposedly) have some power over (subsidies).
The other part is societal e.g. TV, commercials, and movies (the pushing thing).
That's way tougher to address given that whole freedom of speech thing.
Another alternative is punishments for parents when their kids screw up. That's a real tough one as well due to nature/nurture/societal influences etc.
So, it is a really serious issue but it's a really tough one as well.
Mazda is owned by Ford, and it really shows. The Mazda3 also shares parts with the Ford Focus. The Mazdas can be fun cars to drive, but I would never own one.
Funny, I have a 2005 Mazda 3 which we chose, in large part, because it has such a high customer satisfaction rating and is rated to be extremely reliable. I believe that Mazda is actually rated higher than Honda now in terms of vehicle reliability. The interiors of the Hondas look pretty much the same as they did 15 years ago the last time I bought one. i.e. cheap, plain, plastic.
So, anyhow, everybody is entitled to their opinion, but I don't think that yours is backed up by any major surveys. In fact all the ones I read specifically disagree with you. Maybe they've improved a lot since the last time you looked?
Holy crap, that seems expensive, especially when you consider the cost of a Tivo2 right now, even considering monthly fees... does it really have to be so expensive?
I've built a few, and it really isn't cheaper to build one yourself. Given how Tivo has dropped in price, it's really more expensive.
The major thing is just the fact that Tivo makes a lot of them. They have custom hardware which they get a substantial bulk discount on (or they need to fire whoever negotiates these deals).
My typical specs are about 1.8GHz, with half a gig of RAM. Figure out what you could build a box like that for, then add about $170 for a PVR-350 card. Depending on your needs, price the amount of storage you want in it as well as (if desired) a DVD burner.
You could do it cheaper, but I'm a fan of the PVR-350 since it has a hardware encoder and decoder. When I'm recording one show and watching another, the CPU is largely idle, so you could get away with a much slower machine if you have that card. Once you add in background jobs like commercial flagging and possible transcode jobs, then the extra horsepower is nice.
So, I don't know if they lose money, but they have a much easier time making them for less money than it would take you to build one, or even for some of these companies selling Myth boxes to make many, but still far fewer than Tivo does.
"OOOhhhh! Pretty buttons! Weeee!!! Look! They so shiny!
But he didn't say that. He said the UI was "thoughtfully designed" and he's exactly correct.
Then add in the fact that MythTV has a much prettier, shinier interface and (IMHO) a much more functional one and it looks like the OPs argument has been reduced to a smoking pile of rubble.
I'm not saying MythTV doesn't have its benefits, but it certainly isn't a replacement for my TiVo.
I'm really curious what it is that you can do with Tivo that you can't do with MythTV.
As far as I can tell having only played around with other people's Tivos, Myth does far more, and does it better than Tivo.
I have one backend box which does all the recordings and plays on the TV, and 4 other computers that we can watch the shows on. If I'm in the living room watching a show, I can hit one button to mark my location then stop playing it. Then I can go into the kitchen start the same show and it will continue where I left off in the other room. I can add capacity when and how I choose. I can do what I want with the shows I record. It runs my DVD burner. The interface allows far more flexibility in scheduling shows. It flags and automatically skips commercials. It can automatically transcode files to more or less whatever format you want. I can get my local weather updates with moving radar. It has an RSS application that lets you browse the web using just the remote.
So, I can certainly understand that you like your Tivo, and it wins out on convenience since you just have to plunk down some cash. I'm really curious though as to what it does that Myth doesn't do and, in fact, do better?
what about MythWeb?? I haven't looked at it in a year or so, but that's supposed to be able to drive MythTV via a browser.
MythWeb is great for scheduling your shows, checking on the status of the machine, and some other things, but it isn't really a replacement for the real frontend.
Whoever did the design though did a very nice job IMHO.
You can download the programs that you've recorded, but in my case, I don't run any transcode jobs so the files are about 1 Gig per half hour so downloading them over the internet from my cable connection is really slow.
In the house, I have a gigabit network, so watching shows on any computer in the house works great.
Let me point out one obvious thing you don't seem to grab. A state has the authority to regulate who it grants contracts to, including the mariage contract.
I have no problems grasping that.
Regulation it is not hateful, especially when it reflects the will of the people.
That, however, is where you leave reality for your fantasy world. Regulation is hateful if it is done solely for hateful purposes as in this case.
Come up with any sane reason that it's any of your business who marries who other than hatred. You can't do it. Nobody who has jumped in on htis issue in the media has even attempted to provide any sane reason. They just spout nonsense like "saving the sanctity of marriage" without even providing any potential mechanism by which it could possible do that.
Add in the fact that "sanctity" isn't anything elected representatives should concern themselves with. Hell, it's people like you that caused them to add the seperation of church and state to the constitution.
If people were trying to make your church marry gay people that would be a problem, and your business.
As long as it's only the civil institution that's under discussion, then it's neither a problem, nor any of your business.
Unless they were broadcasting "let's rise up and kill all of teh bureaucrats, and burn down any remaining structures with their owners locked inside" i doubt FEMA would care much.
I don't think they'd even notice unless people started burning stables with the horses still inside.
Government is full of shitheads at all levels, and I think there's enough to get angry about here to drag all of them out and tar and feather them for their gross incompetence.
Out of those choices, it would be stagnation. An alternative would be insanity if you define it as repeating the same thing and expecting different results. Possibly, due to the large number of excellent Italian restaurants in Chicago, they're expecting FSM to swat a few out onto Waveland with his noodly appendage.
I'd offer a response but it appears you've been trolling kos for cut-n-paste quotes.
Not at all. I don't know what "kos" is, nor did I cut and paste from anywhere.
It's a fairy tale world. You apparently know little of political science, economics, or history.
In fact all I did was point out the fairy tale delusions under which you are suffering. I know quite a bit about political science and history. That is probably why you are unable to actually address any of my points. You have a world view which is fundamentally incompatible with reality.
But you try hard.
You merely repeat ridiculous nonsense you've been told by the media without making any attempt to find a way to make it actually fit in with reality. When you are confronted with the inherent contradictions of your position, you are completely unable to back it up because it is indefensible.
The things that you do - and do not - say imply that you consider this to be a fairly recent development, embodied not by the previous administration, but rather the current one.
No, not at all. I challenge you to point to anything I said that could be interpreted that way by a reasonable person. I've pointed out many times before that the US has a long history of that and the rest of the world a much longer one.
This is enough of an issue for you that you're willing to indict the US as "brutal," "criminal," etc.
Which again, isn't what happened. I said the US has *done* such things.
I find this sentiment to be common enough on slashdot that I feel not the least bit jingoistic, as you put it, to counter intellectually lazy (or blatantly dishonest) statements
Well, I already demonstrated that "this sentiment" isn't what you thought it was so that particular argument falls apart now.
(such as the GP's implication that the US has "killed more Iraqis" than Saddam) with a re-examination of some basic information.
He said that, you responded with some complete nonsense. I demonstrated how exactly your argument was at least as dishonest as the OP's and you respond that it's ok for you to tell ridiculous lies because you're defending America or some such horseshit which was my point in the first place.
You're countering with un-referenced, casually tossed-about notions (like the absurd "we told Saddam is was OK to invade/annex Kuwait")
Wow, you're actually trying to refute my point by demonstrating it even harder. That scam has certainly worked well for the current administration, but when it's actually what we are discussing, it just makes you look silly.
It makes the US look bad therefore it is absurd. QED Very nice use of logic there, I commend you.
Since it's pointless for me to give you a reference since you will most likely just reject it based on the source or the font color or some other irrelevant crap, the relevant keywords to google for are "April Glaspie" (US Ambassador at the time "But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."), "Iraq" and "Kuwait" (obviously).
The jist of it being that there's certainly no evidence that we told Saddam to go ahead, but we did lead him to believe that we didn't really care. I note that you didn't describe the other examples I gave as "absurd" meaning, I presume, that you haven't been able to bury your head deep enough in the sand to avoid knowledge of them.
So, what percentage of those deaths would you feel reasonable to assign to the US? Given that, how far off is the OP's assessment now? Much closer than you were originally trying to convince everybody as long as you pick anything above 0. Of course, that would again just prove my original point.
So, instead, you'll do your level best to join the "America is the worstest, evilist everything" chorus?
Again, absolutely not. Again, I challenge you to find anything I said that could be interpreted that way by a reasonable person.
I'm the one saying that we need to take an honest look at our actions and assess them in regards to our stated values. You are saying that any criticism of the US makes one part of the "America is the worstest, evilist everything chorus".
I think if you take a deep breath, step back and take an honest look, you will realise that there are very few people saying anything of the sort. There are far more people taking your route of "America is always right and any criticism is by extremist nutjobs".
So, what do you figure is the right use of US horsepower and the huge interest that so much of the world has in trading with, moving to, or being allies with western life?.....And we don't have to get past domestic politics, entitlement programs, or any of the other hot buttons that get other people just as wound up as you are about democracy in Iraq.
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Sorry city dwellers, a minimum of 50 cubic/feet per person, no exceptions (that rules me out).
<cartman> God dammit!!! </cartman> So are you saying that asphault doesn't count?!?
But there isn't going to be any wheat in Nunavut any time soon. Soil profiles in the tudra are very poor. You need somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 years (depending on your source) of grasses growing, dying, rotting into the ground, fixing nitrogen and building up a proper soil profile before you can grow wheat or any other major crop.
But it wasn't always tundra. There were many years of all of that growing business through all the ice ages and interrims. Does the permafrost kill all the nutrients and such, or is there something strange afoot in Canada?
Besides, a little MiracleGrow and it's all good, right?
"We gave peace a chance, we got 9/11"
Delusional, yet believable to somebody who has no ability to empathise with another viewpoint or to even bother to use their brain.
A more sane statement would be "We tried to stamp a boot on a human face and came to the already obvious conclusion that 9/11 is what occurs as a result as evidenced by things like the American revolution."
Not to mention that there's no real downside I can see to such cloning.
You have to wait for it to load a page you already have loaded.
Personally, that's one of the things I hate most about IE.
You even said you don't use it much, so why they would put it as default behavior is beyond me.
Why this jagoff would claim it's a usability issue that Firefox doesn't do something that most people never want it to do and a few people want it to do once in a while is beyond me.
Can anyone reccomend the best place to sell off Magic cards?
;-)
1) Ebay is probably the best to get the most for them. It's a bit of work, especially if you sell them individually to maximize your income. There is a lot of traffic there though for cards.
2) A card shop won't pay much in general.
3) If you just want to get rid of them quick and cheap, I might take them
So, how would Myth handle what I'm doing short of a ton of receivers and ugly IRDA dongles to control them?
Well, I don't think it can handle that without those.
Depending upon your area and provider, you might be able to avoid the IR Blasters and use firewire or a serial cable, but that probably doesn't even address your actual issue it just changes the cable type.
If we could actually get the dipshit cable/satellite operators to release their codes then it wouldn't be an issue, but they aren't so it is.
I'm actually looking at adding a second tuner, but what you pointed out is the major hurdle to address.
Let me know when you figure out how to quash the ol' biological imperative.
I don't think that's really possible or advisable.
I also don't think that that is the only factor involved though.
All I suggested was to stop promoting and subsidizing it, not to coerce people not to.
There is a huge difference there.
I'm just no sure how we can get parents to take an interest and to realise the responsibility they owe to their fellow citizens.
IMHO, the first step would be to stop pushing parenthood and stop providing incentives for it.
If the only people who had kids were those who really give enough of a shit to take the responsibility seriously (like it sounds like you are) rather than just every dipshit who wants to be a part of something or wants something to love them then that problem would dissipate
Part of this is governmental which we (supposedly) have some power over (subsidies).
The other part is societal e.g. TV, commercials, and movies (the pushing thing).
That's way tougher to address given that whole freedom of speech thing.
Another alternative is punishments for parents when their kids screw up.
That's a real tough one as well due to nature/nurture/societal influences etc.
So, it is a really serious issue but it's a really tough one as well.
Good luck with yours.
Yeah, but at least some languages try to encourage readability, Perl is obfuscated by default.
Cripes man, just because you don't understand how to do perl.
Write it first.
Then compile it.
*Then* debug it since it's easier to read now.
Mazda is owned by Ford, and it really shows. The Mazda3 also shares parts with the Ford Focus. The Mazdas can be fun cars to drive, but I would never own one.
Funny, I have a 2005 Mazda 3 which we chose, in large part, because it has such a high customer satisfaction rating and is rated to be extremely reliable. I believe that Mazda is actually rated higher than Honda now in terms of vehicle reliability. The interiors of the Hondas look pretty much the same as they did 15 years ago the last time I bought one. i.e. cheap, plain, plastic.
So, anyhow, everybody is entitled to their opinion, but I don't think that yours is backed up by any major surveys. In fact all the ones I read specifically disagree with you. Maybe they've improved a lot since the last time you looked?
Holy crap, that seems expensive, especially when you consider the cost of a Tivo2 right now, even considering monthly fees... does it really have to be so expensive?
I've built a few, and it really isn't cheaper to build one yourself. Given how Tivo has dropped in price, it's really more expensive.
The major thing is just the fact that Tivo makes a lot of them. They have custom hardware which they get a substantial bulk discount on (or they need to fire whoever negotiates these deals).
My typical specs are about 1.8GHz, with half a gig of RAM.
Figure out what you could build a box like that for, then add about $170 for a PVR-350 card.
Depending on your needs, price the amount of storage you want in it as well as (if desired) a DVD burner.
You could do it cheaper, but I'm a fan of the PVR-350 since it has a hardware encoder and decoder.
When I'm recording one show and watching another, the CPU is largely idle, so you could get away with a much slower machine if you have that card.
Once you add in background jobs like commercial flagging and possible transcode jobs, then the extra horsepower is nice.
So, I don't know if they lose money, but they have a much easier time making them for less money than it would take you to build one, or even for some of these companies selling Myth boxes to make many, but still far fewer than Tivo does.
"OOOhhhh! Pretty buttons! Weeee!!! Look! They so shiny!
But he didn't say that. He said the UI was "thoughtfully designed" and he's exactly correct.
Then add in the fact that MythTV has a much prettier, shinier interface and (IMHO) a much more functional one and it looks like the OPs argument has been reduced to a smoking pile of rubble.
Is there someplace I can buy a MythTv box, so I don't have to muddle through it myself?
:-)
Put the parts together, forward ssh through your firewall to it, throw in a Gentoo live CD, give me the IP and pass, and I'll do it for $50.00
I just sent my mom one for her birthday. She loves it
I'm not saying MythTV doesn't have its benefits, but it certainly isn't a replacement for my TiVo.
I'm really curious what it is that you can do with Tivo that you can't do with MythTV.
As far as I can tell having only played around with other people's Tivos, Myth does far more, and does it better than Tivo.
I have one backend box which does all the recordings and plays on the TV, and 4 other computers that we can watch the shows on.
If I'm in the living room watching a show, I can hit one button to mark my location then stop playing it. Then I can go into the kitchen start the same show and it will continue where I left off in the other room.
I can add capacity when and how I choose.
I can do what I want with the shows I record.
It runs my DVD burner.
The interface allows far more flexibility in scheduling shows.
It flags and automatically skips commercials.
It can automatically transcode files to more or less whatever format you want.
I can get my local weather updates with moving radar.
It has an RSS application that lets you browse the web using just the remote.
So, I can certainly understand that you like your Tivo, and it wins out on convenience since you just have to plunk down some cash. I'm really curious though as to what it does that Myth doesn't do and, in fact, do better?
what about MythWeb?? I haven't looked at it in a year or so, but that's supposed to be able to drive MythTV via a browser.
MythWeb is great for scheduling your shows, checking on the status of the machine, and some other things, but it isn't really a replacement for the real frontend.
Whoever did the design though did a very nice job IMHO.
You can download the programs that you've recorded, but in my case, I don't run any transcode jobs so the files are about 1 Gig per half hour so downloading them over the internet from my cable connection is really slow.
In the house, I have a gigabit network, so watching shows on any computer in the house works great.
Let me point out one obvious thing you don't seem to grab. A state has the authority to regulate who it grants contracts to, including the mariage contract.
I have no problems grasping that.
Regulation it is not hateful, especially when it reflects the will of the people.
That, however, is where you leave reality for your fantasy world. Regulation is hateful if it is done solely for hateful purposes as in this case.
Come up with any sane reason that it's any of your business who marries who other than hatred. You can't do it.
Nobody who has jumped in on htis issue in the media has even attempted to provide any sane reason. They just spout nonsense like "saving the sanctity of marriage" without even providing any potential mechanism by which it could possible do that.
Add in the fact that "sanctity" isn't anything elected representatives should concern themselves with. Hell, it's people like you that caused them to add the seperation of church and state to the constitution.
If people were trying to make your church marry gay people that would be a problem, and your business.
As long as it's only the civil institution that's under discussion, then it's neither a problem, nor any of your business.
Unless they were broadcasting "let's rise up and kill all of teh bureaucrats, and burn down any remaining structures with their owners locked inside" i doubt FEMA would care much.
I don't think they'd even notice unless people started burning stables with the horses still inside.
it's sad to imagine that...
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Keep up that sort of talk, and you'll find yourself on the wrong end of that revolver in your
Wow, it's come to the point where being saddened by a thought makes one an activist?!?
WTF
Government is full of shitheads at all levels, and I think there's enough to get angry about here to drag all of them out and tar and feather them for their gross incompetence.
*Spray paint this everywhere!*
(I'm speaking with over six years of experience with EMS, SAR and Disaster Relief here).
:-)
So why the fuck weren't you put in charge of FEMA?
I mean what's your problem, man? Not incompetent enough or something
The bush administration spun and spun, but the political pressure got to them, and they had to move him out of the way.
Sure, but do you think he'll get a large cash prize to go with his medal?
I mean this administration is known for going out of its way to reward incompetence.
Can you explain Chicago Cubs fans?
Out of those choices, it would be stagnation.
An alternative would be insanity if you define it as repeating the same thing and expecting different results.
Possibly, due to the large number of excellent Italian restaurants in Chicago, they're expecting FSM to swat a few out onto Waveland with his noodly appendage.
This hypothesis could be falsified by counterexample, i.e. the discovery of a vertebrate fossil that has separate forearms and wings.
Don't the flying monkees from the Wizard of Oz meet this criteria?
I'd offer a response but it appears you've been trolling kos for cut-n-paste quotes.
Not at all. I don't know what "kos" is, nor did I cut and paste from anywhere.
It's a fairy tale world. You apparently know little of political science, economics, or history.
In fact all I did was point out the fairy tale delusions under which you are suffering.
I know quite a bit about political science and history.
That is probably why you are unable to actually address any of my points. You have a world view which is fundamentally incompatible with reality.
But you try hard.
You merely repeat ridiculous nonsense you've been told by the media without making any attempt to find a way to make it actually fit in with reality. When you are confronted with the inherent contradictions of your position, you are completely unable to back it up because it is indefensible.
The things that you do - and do not - say imply that you consider this to be a fairly recent development, embodied not by the previous administration, but rather the current one.
No, not at all. I challenge you to point to anything I said that could be interpreted that way by a reasonable person. I've pointed out many times before that the US has a long history of that and the rest of the world a much longer one.
This is enough of an issue for you that you're willing to indict the US as "brutal," "criminal," etc.
Which again, isn't what happened.
I said the US has *done* such things.
I find this sentiment to be common enough on slashdot that I feel not the least bit jingoistic, as you put it, to counter intellectually lazy (or blatantly dishonest) statements
Well, I already demonstrated that "this sentiment" isn't what you thought it was so that particular argument falls apart now.
(such as the GP's implication that the US has "killed more Iraqis" than Saddam) with a re-examination of some basic information.
He said that, you responded with some complete nonsense. I demonstrated how exactly your argument was at least as dishonest as the OP's and you respond that it's ok for you to tell ridiculous lies because you're defending America or some such horseshit which was my point in the first place.
You're countering with un-referenced, casually tossed-about notions (like the absurd "we told Saddam is was OK to invade/annex Kuwait")
Wow, you're actually trying to refute my point by demonstrating it even harder. That scam has certainly worked well for the current administration, but when it's actually what we are discussing, it just makes you look silly.
It makes the US look bad therefore it is absurd.
QED
Very nice use of logic there, I commend you.
Since it's pointless for me to give you a reference since you will most likely just reject it based on the source or the font color or some other irrelevant crap, the relevant keywords to google for are "April Glaspie" (US Ambassador at the time "But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."), "Iraq" and "Kuwait" (obviously).
The jist of it being that there's certainly no evidence that we told Saddam to go ahead, but we did lead him to believe that we didn't really care.
I note that you didn't describe the other examples I gave as "absurd" meaning, I presume, that you haven't been able to bury your head deep enough in the sand to avoid knowledge of them.
So, what percentage of those deaths would you feel reasonable to assign to the US?
Given that, how far off is the OP's assessment now?
Much closer than you were originally trying to convince everybody as long as you pick anything above 0.
Of course, that would again just prove my original point.
So, instead, you'll do your level best to join the "America is the worstest, evilist everything" chorus?
Again, absolutely not. Again, I challenge you to find anything I said that could be interpreted that way by a reasonable person.
I'm the one saying that we need to take an honest look at our actions and assess them in regards to our stated values.
You are saying that any criticism of the US makes one part of the "America is the worstest, evilist everything chorus".
I think if you take a deep breath, step back and take an honest look, you will realise that there are very few people saying anything of the sort.
There are far more people taking your route of "America is always right and any criticism is by extremist nutjobs".
So, what do you figure is the right use of US horsepower and the huge interest that so much of the world has in trading with, moving to, or being allies with western life?.....And we don't have to get past domestic politics, entitlement programs, or any of the other hot buttons that get other people just as wound up as you are about democracy in Iraq.
My point