How is it that a person can grow up in a society of people, enter government, and then vote to enact a law that so evidently goes against the freedoms of that society?
Uh, because they are amoral sociopaths? Modern democracy has become fine tuned to elevate the worst of the worst.
I hear everyone debating over Obama and Hillary or Romney and Guliani.... for fuck's sake, am I the only one left who seem them for the batshit insane megalomaniac control freaks that they are?
Those most eager (ie willing to sell out to everyone and everything to raise the crazy amounts of cash required) to become "our leaders" should immediately be locked in a lead crate and dumped into the sea.
I used to really like PDFs, but Adobe has bloated the whole mess beyond comprehension. Every version of the reader seems to take twice as long as the previous one to load. My only out is Apple's own reader in OS X which, for some reason, opens a PDF almost instantly.
And, of course, every asshat webmaster jumps to the new version of the format 30 milliseconds after it's released, and you can never permanently turn off the "createde in a new version" warning despite clicking the little check box.
Software engineering is a dead art. It's all fukced over by the MBAs now to feed their cocaine habits and trips to San Juarez to kill people for sport.
The two are unrelated. You could give a modern American school system $80 million per student, and it would still all disappear. It's all corrupted to hell and back again.
BS on the calculators. I'm an engineer, and a good RPN calculator is my wingman.
the REAL sad thing is that HP pretty much dissolved their brilliant RPN calculator division and no one has taken up the cause.
And, NO, a palmtop computer is not a good substitute. I just have to baby my HP-28S until I retire.
"We made lots of pretty pictures just by connecting dots. Colored pencils were state of the art."
Fine. Meanwhile I have a job I'm being paid to do, and I can't spend my days calculating tables of thousands of numbers by hand, or somehow simulating 10 million gate FPGA designs with colored pencils.
The guy who called the meetings was not shy about admitting that this biggest concern was the potential drop in value of his grade 2 listed cottage which was positioned quite close to the mast.
That's at least a concern I can respect. It's a quantifiable threat (dollars/pounds) from a visible source (public hysteria).
Then, completely out of the blue, this guy starts going into a really passionate tirade about how the government are using mobile phone masts to plant instructions directly into our brains.
Holy crap, I wish I had been there! Nothing like a good woo-woo conspiracist. Did you catch the guy's name? is he available for parites?
So will we be seeing you standing up to a tank anytime soon?
Revolution may have been a practical form of political expression in the days of horses and muskets, but I'm not real enthused about going up against F-22s with my little Ruger.22, you savvy?
Ideology and critical thinking are polar opposites.
It's depressing how many people are programmed from birth these days to think that ideology and politics are somehow essential. It's really sad. Ideology leads to doctrine and then to dogma.
I'd rather they were more cynical. A groth and maturity of cynicism in the human race would be the beginning of the end for ideology, politics, personality cults and sycophantism - the four horsemen of modern misery.
Aside from the solar power soaked up by the trees, the chainsaws of the loggers, the log trucks, power at the paper mill, the ink factory, the publisher, the trucks that delivered the books to the store...
No, just irrational. Any sane person goes to a higher authority long before 25 calls.
Seriously, is life THIS difficult for some people to figure out? Some of the comments here on Slashdot make me think there's a lot of users at mental institutions.
I bought a 360 despite hating Microsoft because [1] that's where the compelling games were and [2] brand choice is not a religion for me like it is with so many others. Oblivion, Overlord, Crackdown are my most recent games. We got Mass Effect, Two Worlds, Almost Human, Halo 3 and a bevy of other titles upcoming.
The PS3 has... what? Lair seemed cool initially, but the latest previews have left me unimpressed. Warhawk went to... something. Seems different every week. FF13 or Ratchet & Clank may make me take the plunge, but there's just no console selling game right now. Why Sony didn't even seem to try to have a solid launch lineup is a mystery.
The only Wii game that looks fun at the moment is the Paper Mario, but I can't fucking find a Wii, and as time goes on I believe more and more Nintendo is deliberately exacerbating the shortage, so they can basically blow me at this point. I played Twilight Princess on the GameCube, so there's not even that now.
And, as I suspected early on, when the Wii control system is done right, it's great. But when done not so well, the game becomes unplayable.
And the commercial where the guy is diving across his living room remains just too stupid.:)
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How is it that a person can grow up in a society of people, enter government, and then vote to enact a law that so evidently goes against the freedoms of that society?
Uh, because they are amoral sociopaths? Modern democracy has become fine tuned to elevate the worst of the worst.
I hear everyone debating over Obama and Hillary or Romney and Guliani.... for fuck's sake, am I the only one left who seem them for the batshit insane megalomaniac control freaks that they are?
Those most eager (ie willing to sell out to everyone and everything to raise the crazy amounts of cash required) to become "our leaders" should immediately be locked in a lead crate and dumped into the sea.
Or maybe it's just you. I work bleeding edge R&D engineering and make $170K a year. Your career is what YOU make of it.
I used to really like PDFs, but Adobe has bloated the whole mess beyond comprehension. Every version of the reader seems to take twice as long as the previous one to load. My only out is Apple's own reader in OS X which, for some reason, opens a PDF almost instantly.
And, of course, every asshat webmaster jumps to the new version of the format 30 milliseconds after it's released, and you can never permanently turn off the "createde in a new version" warning despite clicking the little check box.
Software engineering is a dead art. It's all fukced over by the MBAs now to feed their cocaine habits and trips to San Juarez to kill people for sport.
The two are unrelated. You could give a modern American school system $80 million per student, and it would still all disappear. It's all corrupted to hell and back again.
BS on the calculators. I'm an engineer, and a good RPN calculator is my wingman.
the REAL sad thing is that HP pretty much dissolved their brilliant RPN calculator division and no one has taken up the cause.
And, NO, a palmtop computer is not a good substitute. I just have to baby my HP-28S until I retire.
"We made lots of pretty pictures just by connecting dots. Colored pencils were state of the art."
Fine. Meanwhile I have a job I'm being paid to do, and I can't spend my days calculating tables of thousands of numbers by hand, or somehow simulating 10 million gate FPGA designs with colored pencils.
The guy who called the meetings was not shy about admitting that this biggest concern was the potential drop in value of his grade 2 listed cottage which was positioned quite close to the mast.
That's at least a concern I can respect. It's a quantifiable threat (dollars/pounds) from a visible source (public hysteria).
Then, completely out of the blue, this guy starts going into a really passionate tirade about how the government are using mobile phone masts to plant instructions directly into our brains.
Holy crap, I wish I had been there! Nothing like a good woo-woo conspiracist. Did you catch the guy's name? is he available for parites?
IMHO, they'd have to demodulate/decode the signal to really qualify.
They could speak the audio, but where would the text messages show up?
when I get an annoying phone call. Does that count?
...that babies talk in baby talk because that's how everyone talks *too* them.
Big talk there, Che.
.22, you savvy?
So will we be seeing you standing up to a tank anytime soon?
Revolution may have been a practical form of political expression in the days of horses and muskets, but I'm not real enthused about going up against F-22s with my little Ruger
...should be to hunt down and kill whoever laid out that page for space.com.
Putting the article text in a six line scroll box while 95% of the page is ads or blank should be an offense punishable by being skinned alive.
Ideology and critical thinking are polar opposites.
It's depressing how many people are programmed from birth these days to think that ideology and politics are somehow essential. It's really sad. Ideology leads to doctrine and then to dogma.
Bullshit. Everyone is just so programmed to believe that they can see no other way.
It's the end of hope, trust, love, and loyalty.
Yeah, there's really piles of those in the world right now. (rolls eyes).
I'd rather they were more cynical. A groth and maturity of cynicism in the human race would be the beginning of the end for ideology, politics, personality cults and sycophantism - the four horsemen of modern misery.
plus it uses no power.
Aside from the solar power soaked up by the trees, the chainsaws of the loggers, the log trucks, power at the paper mill, the ink factory, the publisher, the trucks that delivered the books to the store...
Because I heard the publisher was really afraid of not selling any copies without some sort of dorky marketing trick.
Now, wait... that was Orient Express.
Why it's cellutastic! Cellutastic, I cellu- er, tell you!
The State of Georgia could print licenses for Interstellar Fusion Drives, for what it's worth. Which is nothing.
Yeah, but I'd still totally want one for my office wall at work. :)
And please, no lame jokes about how you can smoke it too, I've heard them all and they only show how little you know about the subject.
Exactly! You can bake it into brownies, too!
And really, how far back does it go
If you put it that way, all the way, I guess.
Production of one gallon of ethanol = the total energy of the Big Bang.
Q.E.D.
President Bush says there's too much war in the world today.
Paris Hilton criticizes the cult of celebrity in American culture.
And so on...
Yeah, redundant, but it can't be helped on a story like this.
though this cheaper phone could have more limited functionality.
Wow. Ya think?
No, just irrational. Any sane person goes to a higher authority long before 25 calls.
Seriously, is life THIS difficult for some people to figure out? Some of the comments here on Slashdot make me think there's a lot of users at mental institutions.
Games games games.
:)
I bought a 360 despite hating Microsoft because [1] that's where the compelling games were and [2] brand choice is not a religion for me like it is with so many others. Oblivion, Overlord, Crackdown are my most recent games. We got Mass Effect, Two Worlds, Almost Human, Halo 3 and a bevy of other titles upcoming.
The PS3 has... what? Lair seemed cool initially, but the latest previews have left me unimpressed. Warhawk went to... something. Seems different every week. FF13 or Ratchet & Clank may make me take the plunge, but there's just no console selling game right now. Why Sony didn't even seem to try to have a solid launch lineup is a mystery.
The only Wii game that looks fun at the moment is the Paper Mario, but I can't fucking find a Wii, and as time goes on I believe more and more Nintendo is deliberately exacerbating the shortage, so they can basically blow me at this point. I played Twilight Princess on the GameCube, so there's not even that now.
And, as I suspected early on, when the Wii control system is done right, it's great. But when done not so well, the game becomes unplayable.
And the commercial where the guy is diving across his living room remains just too stupid.