Without that proviso, our entire economic system would collapse (which I'll grant some people wouldn't have a problem with because they don't understand what life would be like then).
Well, *I* don't have a problem with the collapse of our economic system because I've been stockpiling guns, ammo, fuel, canned food, farming supplies, women, and gold in my baseme^Wbunker compound.
Not really. But some of those kooks do exist, and some of them even post on slashdot.
Hell, I actually like my comparative chances if the economic system collapses. I know how to raise livestock, how to manage a large garden, how to cure meats and produce, how to fish, how to hunt with bow and arrow, how to set up snares and traplines, etc. I just need to make sure I can take and defend some land with which to do all those things...
I'm rubber, you're glue, anything you say bounces off of me at unpredictable angles and may or may not stick to you, depending on trajectory, velocity, and propensity to bond to the glue substance of which you are made?
Show concrete evidence he's taking cash from Microsoft.
Why? I already stated my reasons for considering him not trustworthy of being unbiased, and they have nothing to do with whether or not I can find proof of whether or not Microsoft is paying him.
So basically despite the fact that he would criticize Microsoft on numerous occasions and would, even after being hired by Microsoft, praise it's competitors Apple and Google that for no reason you are just going to disregard anything he says. What a fucktard you are.
That's not what I said. Stop constructing straw men.
Wait, what am I doing? Arguing with than anonymous coward on slashdot? Fuck that, I've got better uses for my time than wasting it on some cretin who lacks reading skills.
He only worked at Microsoft for 3 years and he left over 3 years ago. Why would Microsoft even be paying him after he left since the time he's left his has still criticized Microsoft for things.
He could be taking cash from anyone.
Once a paid hack, always a paid hack, as far as I'm concerned. He's demonstrated that his pen is for hire, and so now he can't be trusted to write from an unbiased perspective (regardless of how much (or little) editorial control was exercised when he was an employee of Microsoft).
Then you get to go back to school, after you've miked the cows and feed the chickens.
Miked the cows? For what, are they doing a spoken-word performance after the sun goes down?
Seriously, though... I grew up on a small farm. Dad worked a full-time job as well. It was expected (for the boys) that
(1) We had full-time summer jobs from the age of 13(2) Regular chores were done every AM and PM (feeding, milking, weeding, watering, etc) -- this began at age 5. (3) Three evenings a week and at least one, usually both, weekend days were spent working on the farm.
Exceptions were made for teams we were on (and summer camps for sports), for organization meetings, and for friends' birthday parties.
Too god-damned tired to get into trouble, and grateful for the respite of school in the fall.
Kids these days... off my lawn... etc. But there's something fundamentally wrong when most kids treat summer break as a three-month vacation. At the very least, they should be attending enrichment classes or something. Preferably they should be contributing to the household somehow.
According to WikiAnswers, if a cargo ship travels at 30 mph (roughly 26 knots), it burns 120 gallons per mile.
The largest container ships in the word operate on diesel engines with about 114000 HP at 25.5 knots. The engines consume (at peak efficiency, not regular operating conditions) 0.260 lbs/hp/hr of fuel. Diesel is around 7 lbs/gal, so the calc works out to about 144 gals/mile... at peak efficiency.
I saw your claim and thought, "What about superfreighters?" After some back-of-the-envelope calculation, I'm surprised at their relative fuel efficiency...
However, they're still dirty, dirty ships. One superfreighter releases the same SOx emissions as 50 million passenger cars. So even though the fuel usage isn't as bad as it one might think, there are other reasons why nuclear would be better.
Aww, come one... you went through the trouble of researching and finding a number, and didn't post a link to the research report you found?
I think This is the report you're talking about, which of course requires $$$ to see the report.
From my link:
Market value figures are assessed at manufacturer selling price (MSP), based on revenues from software sales and licenses.
. Ahh... so it does not include services and support. I don't know the numbers, and my google-fu is weak on Mondays... but that could push the number way over a trillion.
And I'm not going to get deep into how different taxes cause companies to classify their sales differently, leading to reduced figures for some categories (licenses, product) and higher figures for other categories (support, customization) -- this skews the numbers considerably, I believe.
and gah, wtf is up with auto-inserting a link into that text? I didn't use html for the link on purpose. That's annoying. Even more annoying is that it couldn't even auto-insert the link properly -- I mean, I understand terminating the link before the html bold tag. But it terminated the link even before that.
Either it's hack-slashdot-friday again, or someone screwed up.
Pretty funny either way.
Interestingly, this reply form URL is http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1381515&op=Reply&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=29540115
Note that the sid for the new stroy this comment falls under is 238251.
They say never to attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity... but even with the rumors of grue-filled slashcode, I think it's more likely slashdot got hacked again. This makes, what, like three or four times in the past couple months?
Democracy isn't rule by the person, it's rule by the people. The people are emotional nitwits who can't decide anything with reason. That's not my failure, that's democracy's failure.
I know it's tangential and related to your point, but Democracy is neither of those things. Democracy is rule by the pedagogues (since the nitwits listen to the pedagogues).
The big problem is that the pedagogues have so much more power now that a limited number of massive media companies control the soapboxes.
It's idle speculation based upon stats I'd read sometime in the past few years, plus my observations from the several vacations I've taken in Idaho (I've got family there). I personally love Idaho... but it's no secret that outside of Boise, Idaho is rural and poor, two factors that affect computer/internet penetration.
Mostly it was just an observation that the usage in TFA is completely off, coupled with some unfounded speculation, and then at some point it became a setup for a piss-poor spam joke that everybody and their brother probably thought of before I did.
Spam comprises 93% of emails in Idaho. Very big difference.
And as for the reasons given? Ridiculous, unless you can also explain why Idaho was disproportionately affected by those factors.
You want to know the real reasons Idaho is one of the most spammed states?
Higher percentage of "noob" users. Idaho came to the table pretty late, and a disproportionate number of people in Idaho don't yet know basic ways of reducing spam.
Or possibly, people in Idaho are more likely to fall for spam advertising.
But in no way do the reasons given (which relate to the total increase in spam) explain Idaho's predicament.
I wish he would take his own advice and Shut The Fuck Up! What Linux et al decisively do not neeed is cocknobs like Shuttleworth Daniel Bernstein, and Eric Raymond telling us how users should behave. You're a developer, well bully for you. The users rule in the real world, and what the users say, goes. Got that, DJB?
You're howling up the wrong tree.
That's what the shut the fuck up protocol is all about. Getting developers to shut the fuck up so that they can let the users demonstrate what works and what doesn't... as experienced by the users.
I just don't get it... you go off on a rant about getting developers to shut up so they can listen to the users... when that is EXACTLY what they are saying. It's in the fucking summary... you didn't even need to RTFA to glean this useful fact.
You have an axe to grind, so be it. Someone pissed you off sometime, fine. But your rant is completely misplaced in this case.
Next time try reading before writing a response, you may find people take you more seriously.
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Well, *I* don't have a problem with the collapse of our economic system because I've been stockpiling guns, ammo, fuel, canned food, farming supplies, women, and gold in my baseme^Wbunker compound.
Not really. But some of those kooks do exist, and some of them even post on slashdot.
Hell, I actually like my comparative chances if the economic system collapses. I know how to raise livestock, how to manage a large garden, how to cure meats and produce, how to fish, how to hunt with bow and arrow, how to set up snares and traplines, etc. I just need to make sure I can take and defend some land with which to do all those things...
I'm rubber, you're glue, anything you say bounces off of me at unpredictable angles and may or may not stick to you, depending on trajectory, velocity, and propensity to bond to the glue substance of which you are made?
Why? I already stated my reasons for considering him not trustworthy of being unbiased, and they have nothing to do with whether or not I can find proof of whether or not Microsoft is paying him.
That's not what I said. Stop constructing straw men.
Wait, what am I doing? Arguing with than anonymous coward on slashdot? Fuck that, I've got better uses for my time than wasting it on some cretin who lacks reading skills.
He could be taking cash from anyone.
Once a paid hack, always a paid hack, as far as I'm concerned. He's demonstrated that his pen is for hire, and so now he can't be trusted to write from an unbiased perspective (regardless of how much (or little) editorial control was exercised when he was an employee of Microsoft).
I don't think Scoble is one to overhype a lot of stuff (now that he's not being paid as a "technical evangelist" for Microsoft.
But I still don't lend credence to anything he writes, because he was a paid hack for so long. Who knows if he's still taking cash?
Yeah, but frogs are mostly liquid (rigid bags of water just like us).
I mean, there's a reason it's called "a rain of frogs" not a "blizzard of frogs" or a "hailstorm of frogs".
That said, my actual favorite is when it rains fish.
You're posting on slashdot with a UID less than 890721. No need to restate an obvious truth.
Miked the cows? For what, are they doing a spoken-word performance after the sun goes down?
Seriously, though... I grew up on a small farm. Dad worked a full-time job as well. It was expected (for the boys) that
(1) We had full-time summer jobs from the age of 13(2) Regular chores were done every AM and PM (feeding, milking, weeding, watering, etc) -- this began at age 5.
(3) Three evenings a week and at least one, usually both, weekend days were spent working on the farm.
Exceptions were made for teams we were on (and summer camps for sports), for organization meetings, and for friends' birthday parties.
Too god-damned tired to get into trouble, and grateful for the respite of school in the fall.
Kids these days... off my lawn... etc. But there's something fundamentally wrong when most kids treat summer break as a three-month vacation. At the very least, they should be attending enrichment classes or something. Preferably they should be contributing to the household somehow.
The largest container ships in the word operate on diesel engines with about 114000 HP at 25.5 knots. The engines consume (at peak efficiency, not regular operating conditions) 0.260 lbs/hp/hr of fuel. Diesel is around 7 lbs/gal, so the calc works out to about 144 gals/mile... at peak efficiency.
I saw your claim and thought, "What about superfreighters?" After some back-of-the-envelope calculation, I'm surprised at their relative fuel efficiency...
However, they're still dirty, dirty ships. One superfreighter releases the same SOx emissions as 50 million passenger cars. So even though the fuel usage isn't as bad as it one might think, there are other reasons why nuclear would be better.
When I hear BEDAZZLER, I think of superheroes.
But my problem with the name of this device is that it doesn't bedazzle at all. It causes motion sickness.
They should call it BENAUSEATOR or BEPUKINGTHEIRGUTSOUT or something along those lines, more accurate.
It used to be a feature, but middle age has made it into a bug.
My *wife* (yes really) does actually like putting on a maid's costume and picking up the feather duster.
Unfortunately, she never gets around to the dusting.
So I'm thinking of exchanging her for a newer model.
Your "mechanical women" seem like just the trick... can you please send me the technical specs and blueprints?
I think This is the report you're talking about, which of course requires $$$ to see the report.
From my link:
. Ahh... so it does not include services and support. I don't know the numbers, and my google-fu is weak on Mondays... but that could push the number way over a trillion.
And I'm not going to get deep into how different taxes cause companies to classify their sales differently, leading to reduced figures for some categories (licenses, product) and higher figures for other categories (support, customization) -- this skews the numbers considerably, I believe.
That's weak.
I play every game in Rogue-mode. Die once, start over from the beginning.
This tempers a truly superior video-game warrior, one who laughs in the face of adversity and spits in the face of death.
But man, Oddworld games sure are a bitch.
It's drink and drive in moderation, not drive while moderating.
The question is, what suffers more -- your moderation skills or your driving?
(Yeah, yeah, I know -- you take the bus/train/monorail/motorized walkway)
Ahhh, fuck me raw with a chainsaw.
I knew I should have had another cup of coffee before posting this morning.
and gah, wtf is up with auto-inserting a link into that text? I didn't use html for the link on purpose. That's annoying. Even more annoying is that it couldn't even auto-insert the link properly -- I mean, I understand terminating the link before the html bold tag. But it terminated the link even before that.
Either it's hack-slashdot-friday again, or someone screwed up.
Pretty funny either way.
Interestingly, this reply form URL is http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1381515&op=Reply&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=29540115
Note that the sid for the new stroy this comment falls under is 238251.
They say never to attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity... but even with the rumors of grue-filled slashcode, I think it's more likely slashdot got hacked again. This makes, what, like three or four times in the past couple months?
I know it's tangential and related to your point, but Democracy is neither of those things. Democracy is rule by the pedagogues (since the nitwits listen to the pedagogues).
The big problem is that the pedagogues have so much more power now that a limited number of massive media companies control the soapboxes.
Out of curiosity, what were the other 32% of the NSLs used for?
Espionage investigations? Non-drug-related money-laundering? Smuggling?
Copyright violations?
OK, I'm kidding about the last one. Kind of.
It's idle speculation based upon stats I'd read sometime in the past few years, plus my observations from the several vacations I've taken in Idaho (I've got family there). I personally love Idaho... but it's no secret that outside of Boise, Idaho is rural and poor, two factors that affect computer/internet penetration.
Mostly it was just an observation that the usage in TFA is completely off, coupled with some unfounded speculation, and then at some point it became a setup for a piss-poor spam joke that everybody and their brother probably thought of before I did.
On second thought, the real reason Idaho has a disproportionate amount of spam is because they grow so many potatoes there.
Potatoes, spam, eggs, spam and spam has a lot more spam in it than spam, eggs, sausage and spam.
Idaho has 93% of spam. No.
Spam comprises 93% of emails in Idaho. Very big difference.
And as for the reasons given? Ridiculous, unless you can also explain why Idaho was disproportionately affected by those factors.
You want to know the real reasons Idaho is one of the most spammed states?
Higher percentage of "noob" users. Idaho came to the table pretty late, and a disproportionate number of people in Idaho don't yet know basic ways of reducing spam.
Or possibly, people in Idaho are more likely to fall for spam advertising.
But in no way do the reasons given (which relate to the total increase in spam) explain Idaho's predicament.
I wish he would take his own advice and Shut The Fuck Up! What Linux et al decisively do not neeed is cocknobs like Shuttleworth Daniel Bernstein, and Eric Raymond telling us how users should behave. You're a developer, well bully for you. The users rule in the real world, and what the users say, goes. Got that, DJB?
You're howling up the wrong tree.
That's what the shut the fuck up protocol is all about. Getting developers to shut the fuck up so that they can let the users demonstrate what works and what doesn't... as experienced by the users.
I just don't get it... you go off on a rant about getting developers to shut up so they can listen to the users... when that is EXACTLY what they are saying. It's in the fucking summary... you didn't even need to RTFA to glean this useful fact.
You have an axe to grind, so be it. Someone pissed you off sometime, fine. But your rant is completely misplaced in this case.
Next time try reading before writing a response, you may find people take you more seriously.
Yesterday I absurdly did not post on slashdot.
Today, for no reason, I actually used most of my mod points (for no reason).
Do those count?