"some folks belive the End Times are Coming or God Hates Fags."
Not just God: they're a smelly nuisance, and since smoking indoors in public places has been banned in Scotland you can hardly walk past a pub or a bookies without passing a huddled group of addicts puffing away at their fags. I'm with God on hating tobacco abuse.
Fine until you get to "raised on classic Christian faith". Christianity in its heyday was about holy mysteries in Latin to be interpreted for the oiks by the priest who was well versed in hidden meanings. With the reformation and increasing literacy ordinary people began reading the words for themselves and demanding a literal meaning. That's a relatively modern phenomenon, and has developed into this crazed belief that "kinds" equate to species and have to be created by innumerable miracles. All things vile and nasty, all creatures short and squat, all things dull and horrible, the Lord God made the lot..
Basically sound about evolution, but in what way are machinery errors caused by entropy? It's a measure of energy spreading out or dispersing, if it is not hindered: just see the Wikipedia discussion page, and beware of the odd editor trying to reintroduce the old canard that it's about "disorder" or "chaos" - that was a 19th century misunderstanding of how energy works. See "Disorder -- A Cracked Crutch..." at http://www.entropysite.com/cracked_crutch.html , and "Entropy Is Simple, Qualitatively" at http://www.entropysite.com/entropy_is_simple/index .html
To point the obvious, not the same as almost any other manufacturer, because Dell makes its profits and gained its market position from aggressively cheap pricing. While they have plenty to lose from defective products, manufacturers who sell premium products on a promise of better quality have a great deal more to lose, and are more likely to take swift action to avoid damage to their reputation for quality.
Sorry old chap, but your error. The Observer is the older sister to the Guardian these days, and both share Guardian Unlimited as a website. The main difference apart from the masthead is that the Observer, as always, comes out on Sunday. Which is when and where this article came out, according to the page the link brought up. Haven't bought the Observer for a while: the colour suppy was compelling in the '60s, but there's so much else to read these days. Like this trivia...
Davy Graham, mmmmmmmmmm NICE! Also Bert Jansch and John Renbourn. Actually I really like the Beatles too, but have been irritated since they first brought out overpriced CDs and have kept the price high: why can't they sell them at a reasonable price like the Stones and Ry Cooder? Checked the shelf and found I'd more Beatles CDs than I remembered, but don't play them often. Exile on Main Street's playing now. So it goes. As for Apple Corps, they should add an e at the end.
This is the most plausible explanation I've seen, the UFOs and free energy stuff is all a red herring, but gives the impression of grounds for an insanity plea. The 60 year prison threat seems completely over the top, presumably it's a maximum sentence, but after Gitmo the US justice system looks from here about as reliable and fair as the KGB were in the Soviet Union days. If it is a honeypot, the first thing his lawyer should be considering is getting this thrown out as entrapment. IANAL, but understand that under English law such evidence could be inadmissable in court. But then we, too, have new "anti-terror" legislation. Murky waters...
Disk Utility which comes with OS X can do it, or to make it easier you can use free (donationware) Carbon Copy Cloner.
When getting a PC (as in Windows) I went out of my way to get Ghost because I wanted the same easy backup that macs come with: Ghost has more in the way of backup options (at a price), but CCC is so simple and reliable I'm more comfortable with it.
and the equivalent of Norton Ghost built in to Disk Utility, I would hope, though keeping the OS easy to make backups of while avoiding "piracy" on x86 could be tricky...
The airplane that the Wright brothers invented combined ideas and experimental work from others with their own contributions in both areas, and was successfully patented: with the result that airplane innovation ceased in the US and the work went on in places like France which weren't affected by the patents. This is one of the most prominent of many examples of patents working against progress and innovation.
The Kitzmiller v Dover trial has just given the ID crew an open forum to display all this "missing evidence". What was found is that four years after announcing their amazing "theory" and the need for evidence, they still have no research programme and are doing no work in the field. Why not, if this evidence is so easily obtainable and is only unknown because it's being suppressed by mythical morons like you brother in law?
For goodness sake, it's not so hard to get and read the judge's conclusion, even if you can't find time to read the fascinating bulk of the 139 pages. The quote in a bit more context:
"With that said, we do not question that many of the leading advocates of ID have bona fide and deeply held beliefs which drive their scholarly endeavors. Nor do we controvert that ID should continue to be studied, debated, and discussed. As stated, our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom."
Mercury poisoning was the basis for the phrase "Mad as a hatter", and of course the character at the tea party in Alice in Wonderland. They used to steam top hats with mercury vapour, if I recall correctly, and after years of such work suffered brain damage. Not quite so likely with LCD backlights.
interesting that there's mention of Venezuela's offer of help and a US professor of foreign policy sneering at Hugo Chavez for making the offer, but no confirmation that BushCo will risk the embarrassment of accepting that particular offer.
You think looting and people SHOOTING at rescuers is insane? I'd say getting thousands of people to go to a stadium expecting some assistance and leaving them without food, water or any organisation and NOT expecting such problems in a nation of gun nuts is insane. Evidently the state authorities didn't have the resources, preparation or whatever to do the job that FEMA was supposed to be doing on a Federal basis. If only the foresight had been there to arrange ORGANISED looting, scouring the area for water, food, pampers and clothing (and leaving IOU's so that the governement could compensate Walmart or whoever afterwards) then distributing it in an organised way to those people in the stadium. As it was, from what I've read some people were doing that themselves, and being hailed as heroes by those inside. The image that the first priority of the USA is to shoot its starving citizens in case they're taking private property in these circumstances is absolutely dreadful.
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Does "No Child Left Behind" mean they'll all be right arses?
When these Clubcards started we got pestered with forms - as well as your name and address, they wanted to know your income, size and age of family, car, probably favourite colour etc. You could lie to get your card, but you can bet that the database is directly linked to the card user. In contrast, the Co-op restarted its century old dividend scheme using similar cards, but didn't ask for personal details. I find Tesco's worth avoiding, and keep supporting my local shops and small local Co-op.
For mac users this is both expected, and good news. It's always been easy to back up a mac drive and make your own startup disc. The last thing we want is some diabolical "authentication" procedure like winXP has to make it harder for ordinary users, while still not stopping ye leet hakerz. Apple said when announcing macintel that the OS would only run on mac hardware, whether it's done with custom components or DRM makes no difference. Keep your right to make and use lots of copies of your OS!
Why not keep a clean set up copied to a USB2 or Firewire hard drive using Disc Utility or freeware like Carbon Copy Cloner, back up your user folder and be ready for a quick wipe and reinstall? OK, I'm thinking mac, but isn't there a WinXP equivalent?
What do you mean, "Britain's court system"? Britain has at least two distinct legal systems, English law which is based largely on precedent and which I understand set the underlying principles of US law, and Scots law which is closer to the continental legal systems in being based on principle rather than precedent. As always, lots more useful info on Wikipedia.
Does "No Child Left Behind" mean we should expect every American to be a right arse?
If you had read the judge's words (or a judge then saying the same) you would have been encouraged to believe that CNN would not release your name. "Unlike the whistleblower who discloses a health, safety or welfare hazard affecting all, or the government employee who reveals mismanagement or worse by our public officials, (the enthusiast sites) are doing nothing more than feeding the public's insatiable desire for information," Judge Kleinberg wrote. Given that Intel's dodgy chips affected the user's welfare, your name would have been protected. Of course, that would not stop Intel from finding you through other investigations - as you suggest they would have.
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"some folks belive the End Times are Coming or God Hates Fags." Not just God: they're a smelly nuisance, and since smoking indoors in public places has been banned in Scotland you can hardly walk past a pub or a bookies without passing a huddled group of addicts puffing away at their fags. I'm with God on hating tobacco abuse.
Fine until you get to "raised on classic Christian faith". Christianity in its heyday was about holy mysteries in Latin to be interpreted for the oiks by the priest who was well versed in hidden meanings. With the reformation and increasing literacy ordinary people began reading the words for themselves and demanding a literal meaning. That's a relatively modern phenomenon, and has developed into this crazed belief that "kinds" equate to species and have to be created by innumerable miracles. All things vile and nasty, all creatures short and squat, all things dull and horrible, the Lord God made the lot..
Basically sound about evolution, but in what way are machinery errors caused by entropy? It's a measure of energy spreading out or dispersing, if it is not hindered: just see the Wikipedia discussion page, and beware of the odd editor trying to reintroduce the old canard that it's about "disorder" or "chaos" - that was a 19th century misunderstanding of how energy works. See "Disorder -- A Cracked Crutch..." at http://www.entropysite.com/cracked_crutch.html , and "Entropy Is Simple, Qualitatively" at http://www.entropysite.com/entropy_is_simple/index .html
To point the obvious, not the same as almost any other manufacturer, because Dell makes its profits and gained its market position from aggressively cheap pricing. While they have plenty to lose from defective products, manufacturers who sell premium products on a promise of better quality have a great deal more to lose, and are more likely to take swift action to avoid damage to their reputation for quality.
Sorry old chap, but your error. The Observer is the older sister to the Guardian these days, and both share Guardian Unlimited as a website. The main difference apart from the masthead is that the Observer, as always, comes out on Sunday. Which is when and where this article came out, according to the page the link brought up. Haven't bought the Observer for a while: the colour suppy was compelling in the '60s, but there's so much else to read these days. Like this trivia...
Davy Graham, mmmmmmmmmm NICE! Also Bert Jansch and John Renbourn. Actually I really like the Beatles too, but have been irritated since they first brought out overpriced CDs and have kept the price high: why can't they sell them at a reasonable price like the Stones and Ry Cooder? Checked the shelf and found I'd more Beatles CDs than I remembered, but don't play them often. Exile on Main Street's playing now. So it goes. As for Apple Corps, they should add an e at the end.
This is the most plausible explanation I've seen, the UFOs and free energy stuff is all a red herring, but gives the impression of grounds for an insanity plea. The 60 year prison threat seems completely over the top, presumably it's a maximum sentence, but after Gitmo the US justice system looks from here about as reliable and fair as the KGB were in the Soviet Union days. If it is a honeypot, the first thing his lawyer should be considering is getting this thrown out as entrapment. IANAL, but understand that under English law such evidence could be inadmissable in court. But then we, too, have new "anti-terror" legislation. Murky waters...
Ghosting = cloning
Disk Utility which comes with OS X can do it, or to make it easier you can use free (donationware) Carbon Copy Cloner.
When getting a PC (as in Windows) I went out of my way to get Ghost because I wanted the same easy backup that macs come with: Ghost has more in the way of backup options (at a price), but CCC is so simple and reliable I'm more comfortable with it.
America isn't a democracy: it's a continent!
Vinyl dead?
Shellac you insensitive clod!
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Does "No Child Left Behind" mean they'll all be right arses?
Well, you sound rather like an MS apologist: IIRC all the OS X upgrades have included shiny new toys as well as tending to make your mac run quicker
and the equivalent of Norton Ghost built in to Disk Utility, I would hope, though keeping the OS easy to make backups of while avoiding "piracy" on x86 could be tricky...
The airplane that the Wright brothers invented combined ideas and experimental work from others with their own contributions in both areas, and was successfully patented: with the result that airplane innovation ceased in the US and the work went on in places like France which weren't affected by the patents. This is one of the most prominent of many examples of patents working against progress and innovation.
The Kitzmiller v Dover trial has just given the ID crew an open forum to display all this "missing evidence". What was found is that four years after announcing their amazing "theory" and the need for evidence, they still have no research programme and are doing no work in the field. Why not, if this evidence is so easily obtainable and is only unknown because it's being suppressed by mythical morons like you brother in law?
For goodness sake, it's not so hard to get and read the judge's conclusion, even if you can't find time to read the fascinating bulk of the 139 pages. The quote in a bit more context:
_ Area_School_District_6:_curriculum%2C_conclusion#H ._Conclusion.
"With that said, we do not question that many of the leading advocates of ID have bona fide and deeply held beliefs which drive their scholarly endeavors. Nor do we controvert that ID should continue to be studied, debated, and discussed. As stated, our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom."
For pages 136 to 139 of the judgement, follow this link http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover
Mercury poisoning was the basis for the phrase "Mad as a hatter", and of course the character at the tea party in Alice in Wonderland. They used to steam top hats with mercury vapour, if I recall correctly, and after years of such work suffered brain damage. Not quite so likely with LCD backlights.
interesting that there's mention of Venezuela's offer of help and a US professor of foreign policy sneering at Hugo Chavez for making the offer, but no confirmation that BushCo will risk the embarrassment of accepting that particular offer.
You think looting and people SHOOTING at rescuers is insane? I'd say getting thousands of people to go to a stadium expecting some assistance and leaving them without food, water or any organisation and NOT expecting such problems in a nation of gun nuts is insane. Evidently the state authorities didn't have the resources, preparation or whatever to do the job that FEMA was supposed to be doing on a Federal basis. If only the foresight had been there to arrange ORGANISED looting, scouring the area for water, food, pampers and clothing (and leaving IOU's so that the governement could compensate Walmart or whoever afterwards) then distributing it in an organised way to those people in the stadium. As it was, from what I've read some people were doing that themselves, and being hailed as heroes by those inside. The image that the first priority of the USA is to shoot its starving citizens in case they're taking private property in these circumstances is absolutely dreadful.
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Does "No Child Left Behind" mean they'll all be right arses?
When these Clubcards started we got pestered with forms - as well as your name and address, they wanted to know your income, size and age of family, car, probably favourite colour etc. You could lie to get your card, but you can bet that the database is directly linked to the card user. In contrast, the Co-op restarted its century old dividend scheme using similar cards, but didn't ask for personal details. I find Tesco's worth avoiding, and keep supporting my local shops and small local Co-op.
For mac users this is both expected, and good news. It's always been easy to back up a mac drive and make your own startup disc. The last thing we want is some diabolical "authentication" procedure like winXP has to make it harder for ordinary users, while still not stopping ye leet hakerz. Apple said when announcing macintel that the OS would only run on mac hardware, whether it's done with custom components or DRM makes no difference. Keep your right to make and use lots of copies of your OS!
Why not keep a clean set up copied to a USB2 or Firewire hard drive using Disc Utility or freeware like Carbon Copy Cloner, back up your user folder and be ready for a quick wipe and reinstall? OK, I'm thinking mac, but isn't there a WinXP equivalent?
What do you mean, "Britain's court system"? Britain has at least two distinct legal systems, English law which is based largely on precedent and which I understand set the underlying principles of US law, and Scots law which is closer to the continental legal systems in being based on principle rather than precedent. As always, lots more useful info on Wikipedia.
Does "No Child Left Behind" mean we should expect every American to be a right arse?
maybe it's because people rush submissions, and don't have the spelling check turned on in Safari?
kinda weird that no other high rated posts seemed to pick this up: this is /. isn't it?
If you had read the judge's words (or a judge then saying the same) you would have been encouraged to believe that CNN would not release your name. "Unlike the whistleblower who discloses a health, safety or welfare hazard affecting all, or the government employee who reveals mismanagement or worse by our public officials, (the enthusiast sites) are doing nothing more than feeding the public's insatiable desire for information," Judge Kleinberg wrote. Given that Intel's dodgy chips affected the user's welfare, your name would have been protected. Of course, that would not stop Intel from finding you through other investigations - as you suggest they would have.