I've mostly been living a no-fly policy since the TSA was created, just because I don't care for the extra bullshit. But I broke down and flew to Phoenix from Denver a couple years ago and experienced surprisingly little bullshit along the way. Other than them using their scanners to look at your junk, it doesn't seem much worse than it was before. They did make me take my ninja boots off this time, and the whole point of wearing the ninja boots is that you can't hide anything in them. They're basically slightly more acceptable flip flops.
I'm pretty sure those guys can smell fear (or maybe resentment) because I sailed through the checkpoint, even with being randomly selected for an explosives screen, while the guy I was travelling with took about 15 minutes longer. I think he got pulled for the anal probe or something. He was griping afterwards, "I went to Iraq to defend us against this shit!"
As not-bad as it was, it's much more fun driving if I have the time. I'm getting older, but I still enjoy an endurance drive a couple times a year.
The outcome ought not to be about money. The outcome ought to be a ban on clauses giving one company a monopoly in an area and a blanket allowance for local governments to set up municipal broandband if they want to.
A system that hardest and desocializes them increases recidivism, which is freaking awesome if you're a shareholder! You may as well be printing your own money! And no one ever complains because they don't want to be seen as "soft on crime!" Especially in an election year.
For the last couple of years I've been booting back and forth between windows and Linux, Windows for gaming and Linux for just about everything else. I'd been debating moving to Windows 10 at some point, but after hearing about how much of a general pain in the ass it is, I decided to see if I could stay in Linux full time. It's been remarkably easy. Quite a few of the games in my Steam library have Linux versions. About the only one I actually miss that won't run is Skyrim. And I suppose at some point I should jump through the necessary hoops to install Dwarf Fortress on the Linux side. I'd been having some trouble with Hibernate/Suspend and accessing files on my Android phone, but installing the Xbuntu bits of Ubuntu seems to have solved those.
Hooray! I'm in my mid 40's and if I'm lucky I'll die of ass cancer in the next 5-10 years! Sucks to be the millenials, their future is much less bright!
That sounds an awful lot like a German video I ran across a while back. I couldn't understand what little dialogue there was since it was in German, but she sure did seem to be trying to get someone else's gut bacteria into her own gut. And it did look pretty extreme...
We'll be there when the robot starts making racist remarks about not understanding why anyone would want to be made of meat. "Oh, I'm sorry, meatbag, did that hurt? I'd sympathize, but we robots are incapable of feeling pain! Plus I'm not programmed for sympathy!"
I bet if you get one of those recall notifications, you drive a LOT more carefully! Get in an accident and risk flesh-ripping SHRAPNEL in the FACE! I wouldn't be surprised if, once this news got around, driving fatalities didn't actually decrease because everyone was driving a lot more carefully. Someone should do a study on that!
The tribe could install a Post Office next to the Casino and rent out PO boxes to people. Just ship to that sovereign nation and make having to live in South Dakota a tiny bit less shitty. Bonus: You can pick up tax free smokes on your way in or out.
From my limited understanding on the subject, the actual entanglement only allows you to know the state of the other particle at the far site when you measure yours. You can't actually change the state of either particle, which you'd need to be able to do in order to effect communication. However, it also seems like it's been proven that it's not because the states are determined when the particles interact -- experiments have been done to prove that the state of both particles is determined when either is measured. I assume this is an optimization technique so the universe only needs to compute the states of the things that someone cares about. Anywhoo, the mechanism by which this information is communicated is unknown (last I checked). I'd guess that they're investigating this mechanism to see if there's something there they can leverage.
To be entirely fair to her, I don't think I'd be able to run a company nearly as badly as she has. I mean, sure, I'd be an incompetent CEO of anything, but I'm sure I'd accidentally make some good decisions along the way. Yahoo is frequently valued below the actual amount of cash that they have on hand. To get a company to that point requires a lifetime of experience with bad decision making and leadership. That commands a high premium!
I'm sure president Trump will make a good decision.
What?! It's clear that this plays out that Cruz gets the Republican nomination in a contested election, Hillary gets the Democrat one and Trump/Sanders wins the general in a massive independent campaign landslide.:-P
I was just talking to an old Co-Worker from a C++ company I worked at a few years back. He asked "So what are you doing lately" and I told him I'm working on my thesis, which is titled "Ruby's a Terrible Programming Language, And You're A Terrible Programmer For Liking It". Then I cited a number of my complaints -- being able to add arbitrary functions to a live object, never knowing where to look for the interface definition of parameter objects, need to extensively test all execution paths of production code (Which no one ever does,) odd syntactic quirks and changes in syntax between language versions. He laughed and said he had exactly the same complaints about Python. You see, Object Oriented Programming was invented to reduce maintenance costs for completed projects, because that's where 90% of your expenses with the project will be. Ruby, at least, and apparently Python as well according to my friend's complaints, were invented to make the cheap part of the development process "easier", while at the same time letting the language fanboys pat themselves on the back about what clever programmers they are. This is exactly the opposite of software "engineering".
And not a very good simulation at that. Whoever wrote it couldn't even synchronize time, even at a local level. And that hard coded top speed limit? Because "No one in there is ever going to need to go that fast anyway" I bet. And the way it shits itself when you put too much mass in one place? Very sloppy! It's probably just the N-Dimensional equivalent of a potato battery, proudly displayed at "Take your Kindred-Daughter to work day", for a very inefficient method of converting hydrogen into plutonium.
Throughout the ages, there are plenty of guys who wanted to live forever. From kings in Egypt using the latest pyramid-building technologies to the alchemists in the middle ages experimenting on their own bodies with completely unknown substances to cryogenics guys a decade or two ago. You know what all those guys have in common? They're all thought immortality was right around the corner, and they're all dead now.
I expect this trend to continue at least another several hundred years, assuming humanity actually makes it that long and doesn't slide back into another dark ages along the way. The body is the most complex system we've ever encountered, and we're still just poking at it without completely understanding what we're doing.
We were supposed to be leaking that nuclear waste into the already-radioactive wasteland that is Nevada, not the now-currently-radioactive wasteland that is Washington! Do you know what this is going to do to the real estate prices and local politics? You think Arizona got that way by accident?!
On a more serious note, WTF nuclear industry?! This is why we can't have nice things!
Better watch out, North Korea! If you keep this up, the UN might write you a sternly worded letter! You'll wither before the might of their disapproving frown! If you really piss them off, they might even submit a motion to consider a vote on a non-binding resolution, at a later date!
My 6th and 7th grade classes were big on the educational fads and tried to get me into speed reading. None of their techniques worked that well. Probably because I actually rather enjoyed reading and didn't care to rush through it. If really felt like one of those new-age hippie fads.
Funnily one time I was paging through a log file at full terminal speed. My boss came in and said "There is no possible way you could be reading it that fast." I said "I'm not reading it. I'm looking for a change in the pattern." and then stopped and showed him how the exception I was looking for clearly stood out from everything else in the log.
Just wow. I did not see that coming. It's like that time I told mom that the NSA wasn't listening to everyone's E-Mail and then later on the NSA turned out to be listening to everyone's E-Mail. Or that time I told mom there was no vast global economic conspiracy to keep the poor down, and then that Panama Papers story broke. And then this time I was talking to her and she was all like "There's no way that guy deleted his servers like that! You'd have to be functionally retarded!" and I was all like "No, No, you underestimate the incompetence of your average IT worker! I totally believe this is true! So I guess I'll just call it quits and hang up the ol' prognosticator's... er... whatever the hell it is that prognosticators wear. Hat? I'm going to go with hat.
"Outlaw file compression by commercial companies"? I'm pretty sure those two asshats are too fucktarded to realize that non-commercial and non-US entities write software. In fact, I'm pretty sure that no part of my last phone was actually manufactured in the USA. I'm also somewhat curious as to whether the requirements of the law could be met by providing a brute-force decryptor that would meet the requirements of the law by allowing decryption of the file sometime between now and 14 trillion years from now.
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What's the use of having all the money in the world if you can't use it to purchase some world class vagina every once in a while?
I'm pretty sure those guys can smell fear (or maybe resentment) because I sailed through the checkpoint, even with being randomly selected for an explosives screen, while the guy I was travelling with took about 15 minutes longer. I think he got pulled for the anal probe or something. He was griping afterwards, "I went to Iraq to defend us against this shit!"
As not-bad as it was, it's much more fun driving if I have the time. I'm getting older, but I still enjoy an endurance drive a couple times a year.
The outcome ought not to be about money. The outcome ought to be a ban on clauses giving one company a monopoly in an area and a blanket allowance for local governments to set up municipal broandband if they want to.
Only if they fire it into a disco ball. If it's shining in your eye, It probably also just burned a hole through your head.
A system that hardest and desocializes them increases recidivism, which is freaking awesome if you're a shareholder! You may as well be printing your own money! And no one ever complains because they don't want to be seen as "soft on crime!" Especially in an election year.
For the last couple of years I've been booting back and forth between windows and Linux, Windows for gaming and Linux for just about everything else. I'd been debating moving to Windows 10 at some point, but after hearing about how much of a general pain in the ass it is, I decided to see if I could stay in Linux full time. It's been remarkably easy. Quite a few of the games in my Steam library have Linux versions. About the only one I actually miss that won't run is Skyrim. And I suppose at some point I should jump through the necessary hoops to install Dwarf Fortress on the Linux side. I'd been having some trouble with Hibernate/Suspend and accessing files on my Android phone, but installing the Xbuntu bits of Ubuntu seems to have solved those.
Hooray! I'm in my mid 40's and if I'm lucky I'll die of ass cancer in the next 5-10 years! Sucks to be the millenials, their future is much less bright!
That sounds an awful lot like a German video I ran across a while back. I couldn't understand what little dialogue there was since it was in German, but she sure did seem to be trying to get someone else's gut bacteria into her own gut. And it did look pretty extreme...
We'll be there when the robot starts making racist remarks about not understanding why anyone would want to be made of meat. "Oh, I'm sorry, meatbag, did that hurt? I'd sympathize, but we robots are incapable of feeling pain! Plus I'm not programmed for sympathy!"
I bet if you get one of those recall notifications, you drive a LOT more carefully! Get in an accident and risk flesh-ripping SHRAPNEL in the FACE! I wouldn't be surprised if, once this news got around, driving fatalities didn't actually decrease because everyone was driving a lot more carefully. Someone should do a study on that!
I had something for this!
The tribe could install a Post Office next to the Casino and rent out PO boxes to people. Just ship to that sovereign nation and make having to live in South Dakota a tiny bit less shitty. Bonus: You can pick up tax free smokes on your way in or out.
From my limited understanding on the subject, the actual entanglement only allows you to know the state of the other particle at the far site when you measure yours. You can't actually change the state of either particle, which you'd need to be able to do in order to effect communication. However, it also seems like it's been proven that it's not because the states are determined when the particles interact -- experiments have been done to prove that the state of both particles is determined when either is measured. I assume this is an optimization technique so the universe only needs to compute the states of the things that someone cares about. Anywhoo, the mechanism by which this information is communicated is unknown (last I checked). I'd guess that they're investigating this mechanism to see if there's something there they can leverage.
To be entirely fair to her, I don't think I'd be able to run a company nearly as badly as she has. I mean, sure, I'd be an incompetent CEO of anything, but I'm sure I'd accidentally make some good decisions along the way. Yahoo is frequently valued below the actual amount of cash that they have on hand. To get a company to that point requires a lifetime of experience with bad decision making and leadership. That commands a high premium!
What?! It's clear that this plays out that Cruz gets the Republican nomination in a contested election, Hillary gets the Democrat one and Trump/Sanders wins the general in a massive independent campaign landslide. :-P
I was just talking to an old Co-Worker from a C++ company I worked at a few years back. He asked "So what are you doing lately" and I told him I'm working on my thesis, which is titled "Ruby's a Terrible Programming Language, And You're A Terrible Programmer For Liking It". Then I cited a number of my complaints -- being able to add arbitrary functions to a live object, never knowing where to look for the interface definition of parameter objects, need to extensively test all execution paths of production code (Which no one ever does,) odd syntactic quirks and changes in syntax between language versions. He laughed and said he had exactly the same complaints about Python. You see, Object Oriented Programming was invented to reduce maintenance costs for completed projects, because that's where 90% of your expenses with the project will be. Ruby, at least, and apparently Python as well according to my friend's complaints, were invented to make the cheap part of the development process "easier", while at the same time letting the language fanboys pat themselves on the back about what clever programmers they are. This is exactly the opposite of software "engineering".
And not a very good simulation at that. Whoever wrote it couldn't even synchronize time, even at a local level. And that hard coded top speed limit? Because "No one in there is ever going to need to go that fast anyway" I bet. And the way it shits itself when you put too much mass in one place? Very sloppy! It's probably just the N-Dimensional equivalent of a potato battery, proudly displayed at "Take your Kindred-Daughter to work day", for a very inefficient method of converting hydrogen into plutonium.
I expect this trend to continue at least another several hundred years, assuming humanity actually makes it that long and doesn't slide back into another dark ages along the way. The body is the most complex system we've ever encountered, and we're still just poking at it without completely understanding what we're doing.
On a more serious note, WTF nuclear industry?! This is why we can't have nice things!
Better watch out, North Korea! If you keep this up, the UN might write you a sternly worded letter! You'll wither before the might of their disapproving frown! If you really piss them off, they might even submit a motion to consider a vote on a non-binding resolution, at a later date!
Funnily one time I was paging through a log file at full terminal speed. My boss came in and said "There is no possible way you could be reading it that fast." I said "I'm not reading it. I'm looking for a change in the pattern." and then stopped and showed him how the exception I was looking for clearly stood out from everything else in the log.
Just wow. I did not see that coming. It's like that time I told mom that the NSA wasn't listening to everyone's E-Mail and then later on the NSA turned out to be listening to everyone's E-Mail. Or that time I told mom there was no vast global economic conspiracy to keep the poor down, and then that Panama Papers story broke. And then this time I was talking to her and she was all like "There's no way that guy deleted his servers like that! You'd have to be functionally retarded!" and I was all like "No, No, you underestimate the incompetence of your average IT worker! I totally believe this is true! So I guess I'll just call it quits and hang up the ol' prognosticator's... er... whatever the hell it is that prognosticators wear. Hat? I'm going to go with hat.
No, but USA ones are and they might be confused as to why the office worker didn't just shoot it unless they mentioned that.
"Outlaw file compression by commercial companies"? I'm pretty sure those two asshats are too fucktarded to realize that non-commercial and non-US entities write software. In fact, I'm pretty sure that no part of my last phone was actually manufactured in the USA. I'm also somewhat curious as to whether the requirements of the law could be met by providing a brute-force decryptor that would meet the requirements of the law by allowing decryption of the file sometime between now and 14 trillion years from now.
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