"I heard they provide a lot of btu's of energy." People produce ~ 600 BTUs / hr... for what it's worth
That particular movie you refer to implies a human is also a power source, but I'm skeptical on that I know some people that are so dim that I doubt they could power a 5 watt light bulb...
"Voting requires registering, which is just more new world order crap. Not thanks."
No, voting isn't the same as "New World Order" crap. Voting is how most countries elect a President/Leader/PM. New world order is something different, like "One World Government". Bush Sr. used the new world order phrase in some of his speaches. The American people used voting to remove him from office. Now, do you see the difference?
If you're worried about the act of registering puts you into the "System", hell, you're already there. Have a bank account? Have a social security #? Credit card? Driver's license? Library card? You have been just another name/number in a data base since you were born. You might as well register to vote so you can have a say as to who gets to be president, otherwise you have no ground to complain when your government starts unnecessary wars in far off lands to acquire access to vast oil fields for the benefit of friends & family in the oil industry.
"That's nice and all, but how about something sub $300. If one of these can be built sub $200 (including the tuner), I would buy it today."
I currently have a Motorola cable dvr provided by my cable co. It' s a piece of shit that I return to them monthly just to get another pos unit. I would gladly pay the 6 bills to own something that will replay my recordings w/o crashing.
Thanks Rob, for the link and giving others an alternative option to cable hell.
CO2 is still a climate change problem but the effects are more distributed throughout our ecosystem than many realize. I have to wonder though, what will it take for people to realize the damage we are doing to our environment and when will we start doing something about it or will we just continue to dick around until it is too late and we trigger another ice age or something even worse.
Yes, you have just seized the senator by the balls there. There are still enough corrupt asshats left in congress to block any and all good ideas to put people back to work. They are still stuck with the idea that tax cuts solve all problems, but are too short sighted to realize that the last 8 years of tax cuts and outsourcing jobs overseas are what got us here in the first place.
I do not hold the republicans solely @ fault here though. The dem side has sought to put plenty of wasteful pork like "Family Planning" crap in their bills as well. I also don't think much of Obama's idea to give 1K to the poor that don't even earn enough to pay taxes @ all. Give them jobs so they earn enough to pay taxes. Give them a shovel and a road to build. What's so hard about that?
All these people just don't get it at all. Everyone in America needs to write their senators and representatives, both republican and democrat, and demand they get with the program and write legislation that will put money into the hands of the working class in the form of jobs and tax cuts. People need to feel warm and fuzzy enough to spend money on new homes and consumer goods. Only that will turn the economy around. Tax cuts for billionaires won't work, they never have, they never will.Many here don't realize the 2001 (republican) congress with a republican president are the ones that authored all the shady legislation (think derivatives and other stupid ideas) that snowballed into the recent global economic crash.
Everyone knows Fox delivers only slanted and skewed opinions on current head lines. Where were they when Bush, Cheney, etc, leaked the identity of a covert CIA operative working undercover on infiltrating Al-Queda to Robert Novak. This was an act of high treason as stated by G.H.W. Bush, and probably led to executions of operatives overseas that were deep undercover at the time. Why didn't Fox report on that as well?
"WTF has this childish ad hominem attack on Fox news got to do with anything?" If this is too hard for you to understand, maybe you should ask an adult what this is all about. In the mean time, grow some nuts and post as a real person and not 'AC' ie: A-nutless-Coward.
I don't even know why I am responding to a fucking republican douche bag like you anyway. You'll just mod me as troll to make your self feel better instead of attempting an intelligent exchange of ideas. fuck you back
I've always thought the idea of cameras @ intersections looked too Orwellian. My next thought is how to shoot them out with a.22 without getting busted.
Good post! I'm the same way, but have been using Linux since 2001 full time. Every app I need is available in Linux. Many apps running native on Linux are far superior to the windoz counterparts as well. Amarok, K3b, Sound Juicer, rsync,... Yep Linux has brought fun back into computing tasks in my world. Win98 made me want to throw the the whole thing out the window. crapware @ it's worst
"Can you legally drive more than 65 mph on the highway in most states?" Absolutely! I frequently drive as fast as 95 mph on the open highway with the radar detector scanning for cops. If they can use technology to generate income and brownie points, I can do the same to keep my driving record clean and insurance rates as low as possible.
As George Carlin coined, "If a cop didn't see me, I didn't do it"
"Take this thread altogether and it appears that Obama is working to disarm the USA altogether. Whatever it means I think 'we the people' are owed an explanation that makes sense. When it _looks_ like our defenses are coming down, and troops are being deployed on home soil I think it's high time to be worried; high time to be asking the Executive "WTF are you doing?""
You are again jumping to conclusions unwarranted. Your assumptions are off in deep right field or those daily spewed by Fox news. Obama has only spoke of honoring space based weapons treaties. Not a complete dismantling of the US's entire nuclear stock pile.
Please change the channel off Fox news and research your own facts instead of letting some radical politico talking heads tell you what to think. Also, don't listen to Rush Limblaugh. Rush, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and all the other whack jobs have been sniffing glue for years and their brains have totally died out. All they have is distorted illusions of reality now.
I don't agree. Your post shows ignorance on this subject and those modding you up '+5 Insightful' as well.
The US and USSR made a treaty many years ago to ban space based weapons for a very good reason. It's bad enough that we have enough nuclear warheads pointing @ each other to kill all life on the planet hundreds of times over. But to place nuclear warheads in space is purely irresponsible and a retarded idea. "Everything that goes up must and will come down, sooner or later".
Space was agreed upon to be neutral for peace and scientific exploration. The ISS is a great example where all nations can come together for peaceful exploration.
There are other nations such as China that may consider placing a military advantage in orbit, but they also will subject themselves to scrutiny and penalty by the 2 global super powers, the USA & USSR. In addition, the 2 global super powers are the ones that have thousands of ICBMs capable of dropping a thermonuclear device on any spot on the planet we choose. 3rd world nations are not any threat to either. Granted some whacked out militant group may eventually get their hands on a suit case bomb and set it off in a populated city somewhere. This is inevitable and the price we may have to pay eventually for developing the technology in the first place. The flip side is that if such suit case bomb turns out to be from some wanna-be super power such as Iran, we also have the option of lobbing a few onto them and turning their entire region into a slab of glass. And this is the price they may have to pay for swimming in the shark tank, so to speak.
"If you read the right books, we need them to be prepared to repel alien visitations." Sorry, I don't have time to read comic books anymore, but if you fear alien invasion, I'm sure any advanced civilization with the technology for interstellar travel will easily dispatch the human race as they so choose. Bombs in space, pointed downward, will not be of any advantage to us. Someday we may even develop real laser "Ray gun" technology, but that is somewhere off in the future with practical fusion power, and cannot be considered in this discussion.
"Saying that any criticism of Obama is racism is exactly the kind of thinking that Bush used: Any criticism of the Executive branch is unamerican. This, my friends, is what fascism looks like." So you think the bush administration was fascism defined? That I may agree to.
Certainly lets the imagination run wild with possibilities. They could add a new help character patterned after clippy. Tommy the Tomahawk cruise missile. "Looks like you are planning on blowing something up today. How may I help?"
Microsoft did spew FUD over patent infringement. They were subsequently called on their claims by the FSF and others, to sue us or shut up.
For them it's easier to blather propaganda than to prove their claims and potentially get caught with patents on prior art, or much worse, caught infringing somebody else's patent in their products. So far they have chosen to shut up for now.
"Obama is so bad that one week seems like three." Really? What evidence do you have of this? Anything that sticks out in your mind, or just repeating political opinions you hear on fox news corp?
Is his administration any worse than that of bush's and all the convicted felons that he surrounded himself with? You certainly can't consider them as model citizens.
I saw that too And yet another Flamebait observation: The republican trolls are having a field day here modding down all the funny and/or insightful posts today. Too many trolls with mod points I'd say...
Reality: Sarah Palin forced herself into the spotlight and then said stupid shit on camera. If she wants to continue to be in the spot light, she deserves all the abuse the attentive public wants to dish out.
<rant> Dislaimer: I live in Alaska, I have to live with the stupid shit she says and does everyday, like giving away our north slope natural gas to Canada after her election promise of building a pipeline to the south to deliver the gas to Alaskans and the lower 48. All Alaskans want access to our natural gas. Even staunch republicans talk of having access to it. For those outside, the interior heats and produces power with diesel and coal. We even pay the highest prices in the nation for diesel and gasoline and we have and refine our own north slope crude. WTF????
Palin is raping the system here and nobody complains. WTF??? She flies her children all over the country when she travels on state business @ taxpayer expense and acts like she is entitled to this. She is never at her desk in the state capitol of Juneau, she is instead kicking back at her home in Wasilla, sleeping in her own bed, and charging the state enormous per diem fees for it. WTF??? She is even so fucking lame, she want to move the state capitol to Anchorage so she can be closer to her home. WTF???
Lets put this into the proper perspective here. As an Alaskan, to be proud of Sarah Palin, is the same as calling Illinous home and being proud of Rod Blagojevich. She is raping the system here, and if someday she advances to federal office, she will do the same to the country, if given the opportunity. </rant>
Perfect! Thank you for posting the document in question kind AC Now that this has been slashdotted the Streisand effect can take it from here. After RTFA these scam artists are also probably the same dick heads that built some of the crap voting machines.
Dung would be a good addition to the mod list. Unfortunately there are many out there still that hold to centuries old racial bias. All based in ignorance. Areas that perpetuate these beliefs are mostly the deep south USA. What they call the "Bible Belt" I spent a couple years in Texas and was amazed how the population were still bitter over losing the civil war. It is not uncommon at all to hear this same garbage spewed from most born there.
Unknown to the rest of us, the deep south is still fighting the civil war, but in a different way. They are infiltrating our government in increments. The Bush legacy is a prime example how irresponsible and incompetent the southern Republican system is and will continue to be. To be aware of their purpose and agenda is the first step to eradicating it from our society. But we will never change what they choose to believe. Racism, KKK, etc... will continue to exist in that part of the US.
Reading your post makes this release sound promising. I've recently tested 2 Linux distros and PC-BSD, all had KDE 4.1. While all 3 systems were very impressive, PC-BSD was much snappier than the Linux systems.
Unfortunately I found KDE 4.1 not yet ready for production use. Much missing usability and some stability issues. But when it is ready for prime time, it will be one kick ass desktop!
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"I heard they provide a lot of btu's of energy." ... for what it's worth
People produce ~ 600 BTUs / hr
That particular movie you refer to implies a human is also a power source, but I'm skeptical on that ...
I know some people that are so dim that I doubt they could power a 5 watt light bulb
"Voting requires registering, which is just more new world order crap. Not thanks."
No, voting isn't the same as "New World Order" crap. Voting is how most countries elect a President/Leader/PM. New world order is something different, like "One World Government". Bush Sr. used the new world order phrase in some of his speaches. The American people used voting to remove him from office.
Now, do you see the difference?
If you're worried about the act of registering puts you into the "System", hell, you're already there. Have a bank account? Have a social security #? Credit card? Driver's license? Library card? You have been just another name/number in a data base since you were born. You might as well register to vote so you can have a say as to who gets to be president, otherwise you have no ground to complain when your government starts unnecessary wars in far off lands to acquire access to vast oil fields for the benefit of friends & family in the oil industry.
"I'm a PC and I'm 4 1/2"
So easy even a child can use it! ....
Wow, now I'm impressed. But I believe I have heard that somewhere before
"Build something even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it." ... Hmm
Now all children can surf all the porn they can handle
"That's nice and all, but how about something sub $300. If one of these can be built sub $200 (including the tuner), I would buy it today."
I currently have a Motorola cable dvr provided by my cable co. It' s a piece of shit that I return to them monthly just to get another pos unit. I would gladly pay the 6 bills to own something that will replay my recordings w/o crashing.
Thanks Rob, for the link and giving others an alternative option to cable hell.
Realizing you're attempting humor, in an ill-informed trollish sort of way
But actually the 2000 - 2001 congress were the ones that authored and passed the legislation that resulted in the global financial collapse.
Oh, and Greenspan was involved as well, just FYI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_(finance)
http://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/ts072000.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1837154020080918
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/testimony/2000/20000210.htm
"Of course WSJ says this."
If I'm not mistaken, Rupert Murdock owns the WSJ
No wonder they would come out with something like this
There will always be "Global Warming" septics as long as those choose not to pay attention to what is really going on around them.
I found this link and article very interesting on the fact that the oceans absorb much of the CO2 we dump into the atmosphere.
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2508/experts-call-urgent-action-ocean-acidification
CO2 is still a climate change problem but the effects are more distributed throughout our ecosystem than many realize. I have to wonder though, what will it take for people to realize the damage we are doing to our environment and when will we start doing something about it or will we just continue to dick around until it is too late and we trigger another ice age or something even worse.
Yes, you have just seized the senator by the balls there.
There are still enough corrupt asshats left in congress to block any and all good ideas to put people back to work. They are still stuck with the idea that tax cuts solve all problems, but are too short sighted to realize that the last 8 years of tax cuts and outsourcing jobs overseas are what got us here in the first place.
I do not hold the republicans solely @ fault here though. The dem side has sought to put plenty of wasteful pork like "Family Planning" crap in their bills as well. I also don't think much of Obama's idea to give 1K to the poor that don't even earn enough to pay taxes @ all. Give them jobs so they earn enough to pay taxes. Give them a shovel and a road to build. What's so hard about that?
All these people just don't get it at all. Everyone in America needs to write their senators and representatives, both republican and democrat, and demand they get with the program and write legislation that will put money into the hands of the working class in the form of jobs and tax cuts. People need to feel warm and fuzzy enough to spend money on new homes and consumer goods. Only that will turn the economy around.
Tax cuts for billionaires won't work, they never have, they never will.Many here don't realize the 2001 (republican) congress with a republican president are the ones that authored all the shady legislation (think derivatives and other stupid ideas) that snowballed into the recent global economic crash.
is the good 'ol fashoned paper and pen. Those were the good 'ol days. *sigh*
funny, I hadn't thought of that, but good observation! cheers
Everyone knows Fox delivers only slanted and skewed opinions on current head lines.
Where were they when Bush, Cheney, etc, leaked the identity of a covert CIA operative working undercover on infiltrating Al-Queda to Robert Novak. This was an act of high treason as stated by G.H.W. Bush, and probably led to executions of operatives overseas that were deep undercover at the time. Why didn't Fox report on that as well?
"WTF has this childish ad hominem attack on Fox news got to do with anything?"
If this is too hard for you to understand, maybe you should ask an adult what this is all about. In the mean time, grow some nuts and post as a real person and not 'AC' ie: A-nutless-Coward.
I don't even know why I am responding to a fucking republican douche bag like you anyway. You'll just mod me as troll to make your self feel better instead of attempting an intelligent exchange of ideas. fuck you back
I've always thought the idea of cameras @ intersections looked too Orwellian. .22 without getting busted.
My next thought is how to shoot them out with a
Good post! ...
I'm the same way, but have been using Linux since 2001 full time. Every app I need is available in Linux. Many apps running native on Linux are far superior to the windoz counterparts as well. Amarok, K3b, Sound Juicer, rsync,
Yep Linux has brought fun back into computing tasks in my world.
Win98 made me want to throw the the whole thing out the window. crapware @ it's worst
"Can you legally drive more than 65 mph on the highway in most states?"
Absolutely! I frequently drive as fast as 95 mph on the open highway with the radar detector scanning for cops. If they can use technology to generate income and brownie points, I can do the same to keep my driving record clean and insurance rates as low as possible.
As George Carlin coined, "If a cop didn't see me, I didn't do it"
"Take this thread altogether and it appears that Obama is working to disarm the USA altogether. Whatever it means I think 'we the people' are owed an explanation that makes sense. When it _looks_ like our defenses are coming down, and troops are being deployed on home soil I think it's high time to be worried; high time to be asking the Executive "WTF are you doing?""
You are again jumping to conclusions unwarranted. Your assumptions are off in deep right field or those daily spewed by Fox news.
Obama has only spoke of honoring space based weapons treaties. Not a complete dismantling of the US's entire nuclear stock pile.
Please change the channel off Fox news and research your own facts instead of letting some radical politico talking heads tell you what to think. Also, don't listen to Rush Limblaugh. Rush, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and all the other whack jobs have been sniffing glue for years and their brains have totally died out. All they have is distorted illusions of reality now.
I don't agree.
Your post shows ignorance on this subject and those modding you up '+5 Insightful' as well.
The US and USSR made a treaty many years ago to ban space based weapons for a very good reason. It's bad enough that we have enough nuclear warheads pointing @ each other to kill all life on the planet hundreds of times over. But to place nuclear warheads in space is purely irresponsible and a retarded idea. "Everything that goes up must and will come down, sooner or later".
Space was agreed upon to be neutral for peace and scientific exploration. The ISS is a great example where all nations can come together for peaceful exploration.
There are other nations such as China that may consider placing a military advantage in orbit, but they also will subject themselves to scrutiny and penalty by the 2 global super powers, the USA & USSR. In addition, the 2 global super powers are the ones that have thousands of ICBMs capable of dropping a thermonuclear device on any spot on the planet we choose. 3rd world nations are not any threat to either. Granted some whacked out militant group may eventually get their hands on a suit case bomb and set it off in a populated city somewhere. This is inevitable and the price we may have to pay eventually for developing the technology in the first place. The flip side is that if such suit case bomb turns out to be from some wanna-be super power such as Iran, we also have the option of lobbing a few onto them and turning their entire region into a slab of glass. And this is the price they may have to pay for swimming in the shark tank, so to speak.
"If you read the right books, we need them to be prepared to repel alien visitations."
Sorry, I don't have time to read comic books anymore, but if you fear alien invasion, I'm sure any advanced civilization with the technology for interstellar travel will easily dispatch the human race as they so choose. Bombs in space, pointed downward, will not be of any advantage to us. Someday we may even develop real laser "Ray gun" technology, but that is somewhere off in the future with practical fusion power, and cannot be considered in this discussion.
"Saying that any criticism of Obama is racism is exactly the kind of thinking that Bush used: Any criticism of the Executive branch is unamerican. This, my friends, is what fascism looks like."
So you think the bush administration was fascism defined? That I may agree to.
Certainly lets the imagination run wild with possibilities.
They could add a new help character patterned after clippy.
Tommy the Tomahawk cruise missile.
"Looks like you are planning on blowing something up today. How may I help?"
Microsoft did spew FUD over patent infringement.
They were subsequently called on their claims by the FSF and others, to sue us or shut up.
For them it's easier to blather propaganda than to prove their claims and potentially get caught with patents on prior art, or much worse, caught infringing somebody else's patent in their products.
So far they have chosen to shut up for now.
"Obama is so bad that one week seems like three."
Really? What evidence do you have of this?
Anything that sticks out in your mind, or just repeating political opinions you hear on fox news corp?
Is his administration any worse than that of bush's and all the convicted felons that he surrounded himself with?
You certainly can't consider them as model citizens.
I saw that too ...
And yet another Flamebait observation:
The republican trolls are having a field day here modding down all the funny and/or insightful posts today.
Too many trolls with mod points I'd say
Mod parent up Funny
Reality: Sarah Palin forced herself into the spotlight and then said stupid shit on camera. If she wants to continue to be in the spot light, she deserves all the abuse the attentive public wants to dish out.
<rant>
Dislaimer: I live in Alaska, I have to live with the stupid shit she says and does everyday, like giving away our north slope natural gas to Canada after her election promise of building a pipeline to the south to deliver the gas to Alaskans and the lower 48. All Alaskans want access to our natural gas. Even staunch republicans talk of having access to it. For those outside, the interior heats and produces power with diesel and coal. We even pay the highest prices in the nation for diesel and gasoline and we have and refine our own north slope crude. WTF????
Palin is raping the system here and nobody complains. WTF???
She flies her children all over the country when she travels on state business @ taxpayer expense and acts like she is entitled to this.
She is never at her desk in the state capitol of Juneau, she is instead kicking back at her home in Wasilla, sleeping in her own bed, and charging the state enormous per diem fees for it. WTF???
She is even so fucking lame, she want to move the state capitol to Anchorage so she can be closer to her home. WTF???
Lets put this into the proper perspective here. As an Alaskan, to be proud of Sarah Palin, is the same as calling Illinous home and being proud of Rod Blagojevich.
She is raping the system here, and if someday she advances to federal office, she will do the same to the country, if given the opportunity.
</rant>
Perfect!
Thank you for posting the document in question kind AC
Now that this has been slashdotted the Streisand effect can take it from here.
After RTFA these scam artists are also probably the same dick heads that built some of the crap voting machines.
EATR on test sorte
EATR: if(fuelLevel < 5){ initializeScanMode(identifyBioMass());}
EATR spots child playing in yard with ball
EATR: if(scanMode()== biomass)
EATR: if(acquisitionBiomass == difficult) {intializeHinterKillerMode();}
EATR: if(fuelLevel > 10) initializeSearchMode();
Dung would be a good addition to the mod list.
Unfortunately there are many out there still that hold to centuries old racial bias. All based in ignorance.
Areas that perpetuate these beliefs are mostly the deep south USA. What they call the "Bible Belt"
I spent a couple years in Texas and was amazed how the population were still bitter over losing the civil war.
It is not uncommon at all to hear this same garbage spewed from most born there.
Unknown to the rest of us, the deep south is still fighting the civil war, but in a different way. They are infiltrating our government in increments. The Bush legacy is a prime example how irresponsible and incompetent the southern Republican system is and will continue to be.
To be aware of their purpose and agenda is the first step to eradicating it from our society. But we will never change what they choose to believe. Racism, KKK, etc... will continue to exist in that part of the US.
Reading your post makes this release sound promising.
I've recently tested 2 Linux distros and PC-BSD, all had KDE 4.1. While all 3 systems were very impressive, PC-BSD was much snappier than the Linux systems.
Unfortunately I found KDE 4.1 not yet ready for production use. Much missing usability and some stability issues.
But when it is ready for prime time, it will be one kick ass desktop!