For example, many US Republicans are against abortion but in favour of the death penalty (no doubt they have their reasons).
Disclaimer: I'm an independent who is generally pro-abortion and indifferent on the death penalty.
But the idea that pro-death penalty/anti-abortion is somehow contradictory is an ideological chimera. One involves the punishment of an adult convicted of a brutal crime, the other involves the life of what the anti-abortionists consider to be a innocent child.
I may disagree with those folks, but there's nothing contradictory. The idea that it is contradictory is just a political propaganda point that people have somehow started to actually believe, as evidenced by the poster of this story.
Argh! No! Then 10% gives you 1.1 deaths, so in addition to one dead astronaut, another 1/10 of one astronaut will also die while the rest of him/her lives!
You want some sort of semi-zombie on Mars with you? Well do you?!
Oh, come on... the Alpha filter workaround is utterly retarded. IE6 is broken. Period. Why defend such a crapfest? PNG transparency is built into the Windows API. It would take two lines of code for them to fix this. It's a prime example of why monopolies suck.
Here's two links showing how it's done. Should billiions of dollars of MS research really have given us this shit? I know web developers who would gleefully kick the IE developers in the nuts.
Well they don't work in IE6. If those site uses transparent PNGs, they are doing it outside of what IE can do. IE6's lack of transparent PNG support is a well known complaint with web developers.
I had a neat idea last week for a web site that would require the alpha transparency in PNG files. Then I read that IE6, the most common browser, does not support it. So much for that idea.
Hi, Bill. I'm Tickle-Me-Tux, the Linux penguin. I don't have a lot of time. I have been accused of heresy and disloyalty, so Linus himself is hunting me down with a.50 BMG. I think he knows I'm in this Internet coffee shop. I think there's a GPS tracker implanted in my ass. I am in Hell, Bill.
Are you guys looking for a new mascot? I'm real cheap. A couple pounds of fish a day, water, a place to take a swim and a warm place to take a private dump. That's all I need. A small stipend so I can buy a penguin whore on the weekends. Oh, and all the cigs I can smoke. Camel Unfiltered. I'll spew whatever lies and horsepuckey you want to put in my mouth. Just lube me well and I'll bend over for whatever technopropaganda you dream up. I can offer- shit! Linus! You fool! Don't fire that thing in here! NO! ARGH! HE HIT THE TRIPLE MOCHA CHOCOMINT LATTE TANK! IT'S ALL OVER ME. IT BURNS! OH GOD IT BUUURRRNNNS!
asserting that his technology would produce a world in which all information is freely shared
Where in his plan does he explain how he gets rid of rabid ideologies, murderous theologies, tribal animosities and the endless hunger for greed, blood, devastation, death, war and horror? I'm curious to see how he solved that bit.
Because we live in a world where certain secrets must be kept lest those with the lesser intellects (which is nearly the same set as those most willing to kill and/or die for their favored set of fairy tales or ideological flim flam or just good old personal selfishness) will bring it all crashing down.
What amazes me is how highly educated and intelligent men can be so naive. I guess they project themselves onto all of humanity, and forget that the greater mass of hyumanity is really just a pack of troglodytes.
In most every cubicle-monkey's life, there is a person or team of people who do the jobs no one else even dares to even try to understand- [Parent voice from Peanut's] wah wah wahhhh wah. Wah wah wah waaah wah wahhh. Wah waaah wah wah wah wah. Wah wah wah waaah wah wahhh. Wah waaah wah wah wah wah. Wah wah wah waaah wah wahhh. Wah waaah wah wah wah wah.
Our sysadmins are currently on the run with multiple hits out on them. I hired the cybernetic lesbian ninja squad. Bob down the hall contracted an entire pack of HellWolves. Christie in marketing found some freelance dementors. Achmed over in programming has issue multiple fatwas. The guys in the loading dock pooled their funds to hire some of Tony Soprano's boys.
When all these forces of well funded death converge on the abandoned shack in the Mojave desert where out sysadmins are hiding, it'll be bigger than the Battle Of Epping Forest.
Let this be a lesson to you all: if you change the IP address of an important resource, you TELL someone about it.
Then again this article could be the modern equivalent of the flying cars, jetpacks and fully automated kitchens of THE FUTURE they promised back in the 1950s.
And by arms I mean what sort of weaponry does she contain?
I mean, sex bot is all well and good, but if she can also act as a ninja body guard with enough weapons to take out a hardened military target, well, where do I order?
Slashdot Mirror
*Unique* tracks? Seven.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ulaanbaatar,+Mongoli a&spn=0.111235,0.240704&t=k&hl=en
Or that spot that's the most disant land location from any ocean- the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.283333,86.666667 &spn=0.229462,0.481407&t=k&hl=en
Or Mecca and Vatican city with free George Clinton songs. We can end this war if both sides can just be helped to get their funk on.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=21.422224,39.826469 &spn=0.072718,0.120352&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rome&ll=41.902564,12 .452638&spn=0.015445,0.030088&t=k&hl=en
Disclaimer: I'm an independent who is generally pro-abortion and indifferent on the death penalty.
But the idea that pro-death penalty/anti-abortion is somehow contradictory is an ideological chimera. One involves the punishment of an adult convicted of a brutal crime, the other involves the life of what the anti-abortionists consider to be a innocent child.
I may disagree with those folks, but there's nothing contradictory. The idea that it is contradictory is just a political propaganda point that people have somehow started to actually believe, as evidenced by the poster of this story.
This was clearly stated to be primarily a test flight, although there were some ISS supplies I believe.
Well, OK. Sorry. Be clearer. "Oh, a Mac user..." and then nothing in isolation sound like a dismissive dig.
You want some sort of semi-zombie on Mars with you? Well do you?!
*I* should have realized I was arguing with an ignorant little prat.
Here's two links showing how it's done. Should billiions of dollars of MS research really have given us this shit? I know web developers who would gleefully kick the IE developers in the nuts.
http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/alpha.html
Well they don't work in IE6. If those site uses transparent PNGs, they are doing it outside of what IE can do. IE6's lack of transparent PNG support is a well known complaint with web developers.
I had a neat idea last week for a web site that would require the alpha transparency in PNG files. Then I read that IE6, the most common browser, does not support it. So much for that idea.
I just copy all my Netflix rentals. :)
I don't think I've ever had a torrent that didn't just peter out and stop, never to complete. Mac version. PC version. Doesn't matter.
Are you guys looking for a new mascot? I'm real cheap. A couple pounds of fish a day, water, a place to take a swim and a warm place to take a private dump. That's all I need. A small stipend so I can buy a penguin whore on the weekends. Oh, and all the cigs I can smoke. Camel Unfiltered. I'll spew whatever lies and horsepuckey you want to put in my mouth. Just lube me well and I'll bend over for whatever technopropaganda you dream up. I can offer- shit! Linus! You fool! Don't fire that thing in here! NO! ARGH! HE HIT THE TRIPLE MOCHA CHOCOMINT LATTE TANK! IT'S ALL OVER ME. IT BURNS! OH GOD IT BUUURRRNNNS!
Apple knows everyone goes out and buys their favorite mouse anyway, so they take the oppurtunity to play with the design of theirs.
Blastoffius!
(blank stare)
Is that, like, government surplus ice cream or something?
Unless you mean government chili.
Where in his plan does he explain how he gets rid of rabid ideologies, murderous theologies, tribal animosities and the endless hunger for greed, blood, devastation, death, war and horror? I'm curious to see how he solved that bit.
Because we live in a world where certain secrets must be kept lest those with the lesser intellects (which is nearly the same set as those most willing to kill and/or die for their favored set of fairy tales or ideological flim flam or just good old personal selfishness) will bring it all crashing down.
What amazes me is how highly educated and intelligent men can be so naive. I guess they project themselves onto all of humanity, and forget that the greater mass of hyumanity is really just a pack of troglodytes.
You could also use a Honda or any other type of car for that matter.
I'm sorry. We're you saying something?
When all these forces of well funded death converge on the abandoned shack in the Mojave desert where out sysadmins are hiding, it'll be bigger than the Battle Of Epping Forest.
Let this be a lesson to you all: if you change the IP address of an important resource, you TELL someone about it.
www.google.com
Pfft.
He wants his Singularity idea back.
Then again this article could be the modern equivalent of the flying cars, jetpacks and fully automated kitchens of THE FUTURE they promised back in the 1950s.
I mean, sex bot is all well and good, but if she can also act as a ninja body guard with enough weapons to take out a hardened military target, well, where do I order?