Amen brother. Remember: A poor workman blames his tools, and a jaded programmer blames his predecessor's tools. Bad code transcends boundaries of language.
for my $cliche (@$cliche_library) {
print "$cliche\n"; }
I mean, in the last year, I've read about thermal stacks, hydrogen generation using thermal power, horizontally-oriented wind turbines, and probably some other alternative power methods. They're all great ideas, with great possibility, but the summary for every one reads like a sales pitch.
Ah, one of the great Intarweb institutions: posting (anonymously!) to brag about how drunk you are.
I appreciate the comment. I really do. I try very hard to amuse as many people as possible. This is my first +5 Funny, even if it was only because I replied to an FP, and I think I've finally arrived. But now I just want to drive this thing even further off topic by pointing out how stupid you are.
Not just you, but pretty much our entire generation. I truly believe that the way young people insist on drinking their way into social acceptance, we are putting a lot more at risk than healthy livers. Children are taught to idolize the party lifestyle. We are shown over and over that consuming behavior-altering substances is an acceptable way to avoid uncomfortable situations and shirk responsability.
So, I've come to the conclusion that such people are stupid and have weak minds. Unfortunately, alcohol use encourages breeding, which counteracts any saving grace of gene-pool filtration.
In other words, thanks, but no thanks, you drunk bastard.
Drinking age laws are, like video game legislation, not suitable as a substitute for proper parenting, although when properly handled are invaluable tools to good parents. I was more than mature enough to watch R-rated movies when I was sixteen, and my parents agreed. Unfortunately, the letter of the law meant that even though I could drive and pay taxes, I couldn't watch a horror flick on the big screen.
If you ask me, it all comes down to hypocrisy. If you consume illegal substances, how do you expect your children to not desire the same thing? If you watch violent movies, how do you expect your child to not want to watch violent movies... or to play a violent video game, which is pretty much the same thing?
The job of parents in this world has to be as much to prepare their children as to shelter them.
Well, as I previously implied, I've always been very happy with the quality of my connection to Comcast, even if their customer service sufferes from perhaps a minimum of typical corproate ailments. Working with other broadband providers out this way, I've often had big gripes. MSN DSL didn't even provide an SMTP server - perhaps they still don't. Comcast is fast and reliable. That's all I really need. Then again, if they screwed that up, I might be willing to go back into the market.
If Saddam had responded to public outrage, we wouldn't have had to invade. He converted outrage to fear, by torturing and murdering anyone who opposed him. Personally, I'm outraged that we didn't throw the bastard in jail back in '91.
1) The laws of a given country affect its air space 2) The airspace of a given country ends where outer space begins
Outer space might begin at 50 miles, per the US limit for the title of 'Astronaut'. Or, it might begin at the Kármán line, at an altitude of 100 km (62 miles). Or, it might be at the lowest possible stable orbit (200km).
But any such solution creates complexity. I recently had my Comcast connection die for no apparent reason. I spent hours on the phone only to find out that it was a bug in their modem registration system and that their pre-built tools couldn't fix it. It took days to get a bug fix.
Besides, I'm afraid such implementation would encourage the RIAA or CIA to pull some funny business...
Hello, Comcast? My name is Joe Spammer, I'd like you to open my port 25. Thanks!
Do you pay any attention to the hoops that many spammers are currently jumping through? Throwaway domains, DNS & reverse IP games, etc. Unless you're willing to close it totally, restricting port 25 will have little effect.
That is true in many cases. But I'm surprised how often I hear of people buying things from spammers.
It's not that expensive or difficult to send a spam out to, say, two million addresses. Even if 95% are blocked, and only.1% of those who recieve it buy something, that's still 100 sales. Not bad if you're selling a $50 knock-off watch.
> I can't think of a reason How about because of public outrage, as demonstrated by this whole debacle? That's the ironic side benefit of our over-politicized system: the backlash of something like that getting out is a real deterrent.
> Legislating against hoaxes is pointless unless you can prove some attempt to defraud or something. This is more like 'shouting fire...' as the saying goes. Maybe I was only doing it to get out of watching 'Gigli', but it's still my fault if someone dies.
I feel compelled to point out (way after the fact and purely for the purpose of defending my vocabulary to solidarity) that the various definitions of eloquence all suggest that it can apply to written as well as verbal communications:
Oh, there's more to it than that. She's just as useful as anyone in the build team. In fact, her mechanical abilities are just as drool-provoking as her physical appeal, IMO.
Also, I don't think there are any nerds who don't either watch because they find the experiments fascinating, or watch so that they can critique the scientific method. Unless in your eloquence that's what you meant by "find the experiments stupid".
Wow. I haven't done 'copy con' in at least five years. I remember writing autoexec.bat files on boot disks with no edit.com... those were the bad ol' days...
That's interesting; what state (country?) do you live in? I'm in northern Oregon, and I see loads of hybrids of all sorts. That's probably because this is tree-hugger central. There's plenty of trees to hug. We also have a fair number of pure electric cars and lots of bio-diesel VWs and whatnot cruising around.
Of course there's a full-size Hummer for every hybrid I see.
Google has never repaid us for the blatent fraud that we suffer on a regular basis. We have provided all manner of proof, and even though we're a top-tier advertiser, they still just send us those stupid form letters.
Sometimes it's subtle, but usually the fraud that we get from Google has one IP address, often located somewhere outside the US, clicking an ad link 20-100 times over a 48 hour period, and not resulting any subsiquent page downloads or image views.
Google should detect such fraud automatically and flag it for investigation. At the very least they should honor it when we point it out.
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Well, ducks are filter-feeders (iptables) which IIRC doesn't support Vines. Sorry.
Amen brother. Remember: A poor workman blames his tools, and a jaded programmer blames his predecessor's tools. Bad code transcends boundaries of language.
for my $cliche (@$cliche_library) {
print "$cliche\n";
}
Sure, but proof of concept is not a fully developed system. When they have a prototype, at least, then you can put those statements in the past tense.
'Has developed'? How about 'is developing'?
I mean, in the last year, I've read about thermal stacks, hydrogen generation using thermal power, horizontally-oriented wind turbines, and probably some other alternative power methods. They're all great ideas, with great possibility, but the summary for every one reads like a sales pitch.
Ah, one of the great Intarweb institutions: posting (anonymously!) to brag about how drunk you are.
I appreciate the comment. I really do. I try very hard to amuse as many people as possible. This is my first +5 Funny, even if it was only because I replied to an FP, and I think I've finally arrived. But now I just want to drive this thing even further off topic by pointing out how stupid you are.
Not just you, but pretty much our entire generation. I truly believe that the way young people insist on drinking their way into social acceptance, we are putting a lot more at risk than healthy livers. Children are taught to idolize the party lifestyle. We are shown over and over that consuming behavior-altering substances is an acceptable way to avoid uncomfortable situations and shirk responsability.
So, I've come to the conclusion that such people are stupid and have weak minds. Unfortunately, alcohol use encourages breeding, which counteracts any saving grace of gene-pool filtration.
In other words, thanks, but no thanks, you drunk bastard.
Drinking age laws are, like video game legislation, not suitable as a substitute for proper parenting, although when properly handled are invaluable tools to good parents. I was more than mature enough to watch R-rated movies when I was sixteen, and my parents agreed. Unfortunately, the letter of the law meant that even though I could drive and pay taxes, I couldn't watch a horror flick on the big screen.
If you ask me, it all comes down to hypocrisy. If you consume illegal substances, how do you expect your children to not desire the same thing? If you watch violent movies, how do you expect your child to not want to watch violent movies... or to play a violent video game, which is pretty much the same thing?
The job of parents in this world has to be as much to prepare their children as to shelter them.
They do
Well, as I previously implied, I've always been very happy with the quality of my connection to Comcast, even if their customer service sufferes from perhaps a minimum of typical corproate ailments. Working with other broadband providers out this way, I've often had big gripes. MSN DSL didn't even provide an SMTP server - perhaps they still don't. Comcast is fast and reliable. That's all I really need. Then again, if they screwed that up, I might be willing to go back into the market.
If Saddam had responded to public outrage, we wouldn't have had to invade. He converted outrage to fear, by torturing and murdering anyone who opposed him. Personally, I'm outraged that we didn't throw the bastard in jail back in '91.
Hey, this is a good question.
From a few minutes on Google, it looks like:
1) The laws of a given country affect its air space
2) The airspace of a given country ends where outer space begins
Outer space might begin at 50 miles, per the US limit for the title of 'Astronaut'. Or, it might begin at the Kármán line, at an altitude of 100 km (62 miles). Or, it might be at the lowest possible stable orbit (200km).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space
Fun.
Right.
But any such solution creates complexity. I recently had my Comcast connection die for no apparent reason. I spent hours on the phone only to find out that it was a bug in their modem registration system and that their pre-built tools couldn't fix it. It took days to get a bug fix.
Besides, I'm afraid such implementation would encourage the RIAA or CIA to pull some funny business...
Hello, Comcast? My name is Joe Spammer, I'd like you to open my port 25. Thanks!
Do you pay any attention to the hoops that many spammers are currently jumping through? Throwaway domains, DNS & reverse IP games, etc. Unless you're willing to close it totally, restricting port 25 will have little effect.
Uh, WTH?
That wasn't necessary. At all. Your attempt at honeypotting is slightly interesting but I can't think of a single reason to post that much info.
You are proposing that we block connections to port 25?
:P
Or some more complicated magic?
In either case, leave my ISP alone
That is true in many cases. But I'm surprised how often I hear of people buying things from spammers.
.1% of those who recieve it buy something, that's still 100 sales. Not bad if you're selling a $50 knock-off watch.
It's not that expensive or difficult to send a spam out to, say, two million addresses. Even if 95% are blocked, and only
Ever head of the many great realtime blackhole lists?
http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml
http://dnsbl.njabl.org/
http://ordb.org/
No need to roll your own. There is even one designed to list dynamic IPs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net/).
> I can't think of a reason
How about because of public outrage, as demonstrated by this whole debacle? That's the ironic side benefit of our over-politicized system: the backlash of something like that getting out is a real deterrent.
> Legislating against hoaxes is pointless unless you can prove some attempt to defraud or something.
This is more like 'shouting fire...' as the saying goes. Maybe I was only doing it to get out of watching 'Gigli', but it's still my fault if someone dies.
Seems the editor forgot to post any link to any article about the discovery of the Little Red Book hoax. Here's one.
0 5/a01lo719.htm
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-24-
I feel compelled to point out (way after the fact and purely for the purpose of defending my vocabulary to solidarity) that the various definitions of eloquence all suggest that it can apply to written as well as verbal communications:
http://www.answers.com/eloquence
As to the awkwardness of my post, your mother was a hamster and your father just bought a copy of Windows ME.
How about a cached link to the real article?l ectedArticle.asp?strArticleId=59627&strSite=MDSite &catId=2
http://machinedesign.com.nyud.net:8090/asp/viewSe
Oh, there's more to it than that. She's just as useful as anyone in the build team. In fact, her mechanical abilities are just as drool-provoking as her physical appeal, IMO.
Also, I don't think there are any nerds who don't either watch because they find the experiments fascinating, or watch so that they can critique the scientific method. Unless in your eloquence that's what you meant by "find the experiments stupid".
Wow. I haven't done 'copy con' in at least five years. I remember writing autoexec.bat files on boot disks with no edit.com... those were the bad ol' days...
That's interesting; what state (country?) do you live in? I'm in northern Oregon, and I see loads of hybrids of all sorts. That's probably because this is tree-hugger central. There's plenty of trees to hug. We also have a fair number of pure electric cars and lots of bio-diesel VWs and whatnot cruising around.
Of course there's a full-size Hummer for every hybrid I see.
This is business as usual for Google.
Google has never repaid us for the blatent fraud that we suffer on a regular basis. We have provided all manner of proof, and even though we're a top-tier advertiser, they still just send us those stupid form letters.
Sometimes it's subtle, but usually the fraud that we get from Google has one IP address, often located somewhere outside the US, clicking an ad link 20-100 times over a 48 hour period, and not resulting any subsiquent page downloads or image views.
Google should detect such fraud automatically and flag it for investigation. At the very least they should honor it when we point it out.