...on me. It looks like they're in alphabetical order, and thus that i saw approximately half of them. Has anyone else seen this before? Or have the other half?:P
Courtesy FF 3.6.17 on Ubuntu 10.10 (Warning: lots of text below!!):
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1. % 1 Billion dollars of budget deficit = 1 Gramm-Rudman 6.023 x 10 to the 23rd power alligator pears = Avocado's number 2 pints = 1 Cavort Basic unit of Laryngitis = The Hoarsepower Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line 6 Curses = 1 Hexahex 3500 Calories = 1 Food Pound 1 Mole = 007 Secret Agents 1 Mole = 25 Cagey Bees 1 Dog Pound = 16 oz. of Alpo 1000 beers served at a Twins game = 1 Killibrew 2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League 2000 pounds of chinese soup = 1 Won Ton 10 to the minus 6th power mouthwashes = 1 Microscope Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = 1 Machturtle 8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss 365 Days of drinking Lo-Cal beer. = 1 Lite-year 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second One half large intestine = 1 Semicolon 10 to the minus 6th power Movie = 1 Microfilm 1000 pains = 1 Megahertz 1 Word = 1 Millipicture 1 Sagan = Billions & Billions 1 Angstrom: measure of computer anxiety = 1000 nail-bytes 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone 10 to the 6th power Bicycles = 2 megacycles The amount of beauty required launch 1 ship = 1 Millihelen % (1) A sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane. (2) An inclined plane is a slope up. (3) A slow pup is a lazy dog. QED: A sheet of paper is a lazy dog. -- Willard Espy, "An Almanac of Words at Play" % (1) Alexander the Great was a great general. (2) Great generals are forewarned. (3) Forewarned is forearmed. (4) Four is an even number. (5) Four is certainly an odd number of arms for a man to have. (6) The only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, all horses are black. % (1) Alexander the Great was a great general. (2) Great generals are forewarned. (3) Forewarned is forearmed. (4) Four is an even number. (5) Four is certainly an odd number of arms for a man to have. (6) The only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, Alexander the Great had an infinite number of arms. % (1) Never draw what you can copy. (2) Never copy what you can trace. (3) Never trace what you can cut out and paste down. % (1) X=Y ; Given (2) X^2=XY ; Multiply both sides by X (3) X^2-Y^2=XY-Y^2 ; Subtract Y^2 from both sides (4) (X+Y)(X-Y)=Y(X-Y) ; Factor (5) X+Y=Y ; Cancel out (X-Y) term (6) 2Y=Y ; Substitute X for Y, by equation 1 (7) 2=1 ; Divide both sides by Y -- "Omni", proof that 2 equals 1 % 1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law! % 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0. % 13.... r-q1 % "355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation!" % 7,140 pounds on the Sun 97 pounds on Mercury or Mars 255 pounds on Earth 232 pounds on Venus or Uranus 43 pounds on the Moon 648 pounds on Jupiter 275 pounds on Saturn 303 pounds on Neptune 13 pounds on Pluto -- How much Elvis Presley would weigh at various places in the solar system. % A bunch of Polish scientists decided to flee their repressive government by hijacking an airliner and forcing the pilot to fly them to the West. They drove to the airport, forced their way on board a large passenger jet, and found there was no pilot on board. Terrified, they listened as the sirens got louder. Finally, one of the scientists suggested that since he was an experimentalist, he would try to fly the aircraft. He sat down at the controls and tried to figure them out. The sirens got louder and louder. Armed men surrounded the jet. The would be pilot's friends cried out, "Please, please take off now!!! Hurry!!!" The experimentalist calmly replied, "Have patience. I'm just a simple pole in a complex plane." % A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. % A conference is a gathering of important people
I will gladly answer your question.
Government is certainly not incorruptible; it is comprised of humans, as are corporations (marketing jokes aside). However unlike corporations, government agencies have the potential for transparency, which makes them the preferred solution in some situations.
This concept is well-paralleled by the FOSS movement, with which I assume that you are familiar. Open source, if done correctly, often leads to superior results. However, it is not a priori superior, as the catch is how transparent, open, and accountable your government is.
The only reason your ISP hasn't restricted your access already is because the FCC is actually doing the proper job of a government agency and fighting for consumer rights. (Aside: they don't have the full authority needed to enforce net neutrality, and therefore a bill from Congress is required)
If you are so dependent on caffeine that you have come to expect your employer to sponsor your drug addiction, you have a problem. For starters, get some sleep for chrissakes.
seems like you're under-exaggerating the difference between "whoring for votes" and "spending their time better on something else". the war on child porn, the war on drugs, and the war on terror are all examples of what i would consider legitimate "whoring for votes."
The majority of your post is good, however the first part is quite wrong.
But there's no way to legislate such technical detail
The metric you seek is anything that measures the average, absolute value of the sound signal amplitude (average loudness). Among other equally apt solutions offered in this thread, as frank_adrian314159 says in reply to you, average sound energy would be a good choice.
because volume is subjective, not objective.
hrm yeah, just like how a hot fart smells is subjective. weird how most people still know it smells bad.
What about people who have hearing problems?
So there's no point in regulating profanity on TV because deaf people can't hear it? (CC aside)
The problem is something called "audio compression"
Basically from this point on I agree with you. Another example of annoying-ass advertising is the "secondary event" shit at the bottom of the screen. Very distracting.
In Blizzard's defense, I assume they are trying to keep the game fair, so that your character's progress, eq and abilities are based on merit (i.e. time spent playing) instead of RL money. It is certainly a noble goal, if difficult to achieve.
I see some potential in your statement. If I may (changes in bold):
Some people serve their government overlords, not their morality. They step up to service because their government overlords need their service, not because their morality agreed with the current course of action. It's a fairly simple statement of "I'm willing to set aside my beliefs to do what my government overlords believe is the better course of action for it." These people form the basis of the career military service. They don't volunteer for a war. They volunteer for whatever their government overlords require of them. They'll be there before the war starts and they'll be there after it's done. Only fools volunteer for a war, but it is a patriot who signs up for service.
Patriotism is simply a justification for war. It allows those who believe in patriotism to support war without their conscience gnawing at them. It lets them ignore the wounded, the dead, and the human suffering that will follow. It does not avoid any of that.
I hope you used email rather than snail mail. Yes, a physical letter (especially handwritten) carries more weight, however nowadays it typically takes 3 months for a snail mail to reach the president. Thus for best results, use email:)
I have no idea why you got modded up and GP down. He was obviously referring only to Somalia with his remark about laissez faire capitalism. There are FAIAP/no/ laws there.
I am also confused by your last sentence, which seems to imply that the UN has direct influence on Somalian law and/or government.
Jesus, pessimist much? Campaign finance is imho the single biggest problem with American government today and it would be best for starters if people had a more positive attitude in working toward solutions. It's frustrating when I see a lot of people just say "god our system/government/president sucks", throw their arms up and walk away.
Important to note however is our one key advantage over the entrenched powers that be: strength in numbers. We can out-petition them, out-protest them. Make our voice strong. We can out-muscle them if it came to that. But most importantly we can out-vote them. All we have to do (admittedly probably not simple nor easy) is unify and organize ourselves, and change will come.
Why do you say that? If anything I think it is the opposite. But the reason it might appear that way when converting from the American political scale to the European version is that Americans, particularly conservatives, do not realize how much space there is to the left of what they consider the "left". So in actuality it is not the world moving to the right, but the space to the left opening up in the minds of Americans.
You, sir, are a fool and a contributor to the worrisome trend in this country of increasing powerlessness. That you conclude that no political/economic philosophy can work in practice is deeply saddening. To me it is on par with a suicidal person saying "life's not worth living."
Our government here in the U.S. really isn't all the bad (or at least could be worse, jokes aside) but could make huge strides toward its ideal form with, for example, the following three simple yet groundbreaking reforms:
1.) Ban corporate contributions to political campaigns. This places power over campaigns where it belongs - to individual Citizens. (Note: must close loopholes for "personal" donations from CEOs, etc.)
2.) Eliminate the current "winner-take-all" electoral voting system. Replace with a Congressional District Method or something similar. This would allow 3rd parties to actually have a chance at getting even a small number of representatives on Congress, which is practically impossible under the current duopoly.
3.) Legalize all drugs. "A 2008 study by Harvard economist Jeffrey A. Miron has estimated that legalizing drugs would inject $76.8 billion a year into the U.S. economy." It would also dramatically reduce or eliminate gang/cartel-related violence by allowing these people to settle disputes and report crimes through legal means, e.g. the courts.
The most important thing to remember is we are the only ones who can take the power back from the corporations and political groups who took it from us.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I found the clip unintelligible. The number of syllables doesn't even seem to line up.
I use Ultra VNC + dyndns (might try single click someday) but this teamviewer sounds pretty good.
Yes I meant 40 degrees Farenheit, my apologies.
Personally I would much have our global climate be what it is rather than have 40 degree oceans if we were further from the Sun.
Doesn't Vista have this same feature?
...on me. It looks like they're in alphabetical order, and thus that i saw approximately half of them. Has anyone else seen this before? Or have the other half? :P
Courtesy FF 3.6.17 on Ubuntu 10.10 (Warning: lots of text below!!):
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1. % 1 Billion dollars of budget deficit = 1 Gramm-Rudman 6.023 x 10 to the 23rd power alligator pears = Avocado's number 2 pints = 1 Cavort Basic unit of Laryngitis = The Hoarsepower Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line 6 Curses = 1 Hexahex 3500 Calories = 1 Food Pound 1 Mole = 007 Secret Agents 1 Mole = 25 Cagey Bees 1 Dog Pound = 16 oz. of Alpo 1000 beers served at a Twins game = 1 Killibrew 2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League 2000 pounds of chinese soup = 1 Won Ton 10 to the minus 6th power mouthwashes = 1 Microscope Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = 1 Machturtle 8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss 365 Days of drinking Lo-Cal beer. = 1 Lite-year 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second One half large intestine = 1 Semicolon 10 to the minus 6th power Movie = 1 Microfilm 1000 pains = 1 Megahertz 1 Word = 1 Millipicture 1 Sagan = Billions & Billions 1 Angstrom: measure of computer anxiety = 1000 nail-bytes 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone 10 to the 6th power Bicycles = 2 megacycles The amount of beauty required launch 1 ship = 1 Millihelen % (1) A sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane. (2) An inclined plane is a slope up. (3) A slow pup is a lazy dog. QED: A sheet of paper is a lazy dog. -- Willard Espy, "An Almanac of Words at Play" % (1) Alexander the Great was a great general. (2) Great generals are forewarned. (3) Forewarned is forearmed. (4) Four is an even number. (5) Four is certainly an odd number of arms for a man to have. (6) The only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, all horses are black. % (1) Alexander the Great was a great general. (2) Great generals are forewarned. (3) Forewarned is forearmed. (4) Four is an even number. (5) Four is certainly an odd number of arms for a man to have. (6) The only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, Alexander the Great had an infinite number of arms. % (1) Never draw what you can copy. (2) Never copy what you can trace. (3) Never trace what you can cut out and paste down. % (1) X=Y ; Given (2) X^2=XY ; Multiply both sides by X (3) X^2-Y^2=XY-Y^2 ; Subtract Y^2 from both sides (4) (X+Y)(X-Y)=Y(X-Y) ; Factor (5) X+Y=Y ; Cancel out (X-Y) term (6) 2Y=Y ; Substitute X for Y, by equation 1 (7) 2=1 ; Divide both sides by Y -- "Omni", proof that 2 equals 1 % 1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law! % 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0. % 13. ... r-q1 % "355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation!" % 7,140 pounds on the Sun 97 pounds on Mercury or Mars 255 pounds on Earth 232 pounds on Venus or Uranus 43 pounds on the Moon 648 pounds on Jupiter 275 pounds on Saturn 303 pounds on Neptune 13 pounds on Pluto -- How much Elvis Presley would weigh at various places in the solar system. % A bunch of Polish scientists decided to flee their repressive government by hijacking an airliner and forcing the pilot to fly them to the West. They drove to the airport, forced their way on board a large passenger jet, and found there was no pilot on board. Terrified, they listened as the sirens got louder. Finally, one of the scientists suggested that since he was an experimentalist, he would try to fly the aircraft. He sat down at the controls and tried to figure them out. The sirens got louder and louder. Armed men surrounded the jet. The would be pilot's friends cried out, "Please, please take off now!!! Hurry!!!" The experimentalist calmly replied, "Have patience. I'm just a simple pole in a complex plane." % A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. % A conference is a gathering of important people
I dunno, ask the Wii
mod parent up!!
That's why everyone should throw that shit away and drink water = Linux! It's better for you and it's free!!!
I will gladly answer your question. Government is certainly not incorruptible; it is comprised of humans, as are corporations (marketing jokes aside). However unlike corporations, government agencies have the potential for transparency, which makes them the preferred solution in some situations. This concept is well-paralleled by the FOSS movement, with which I assume that you are familiar. Open source, if done correctly, often leads to superior results. However, it is not a priori superior, as the catch is how transparent, open, and accountable your government is. The only reason your ISP hasn't restricted your access already is because the FCC is actually doing the proper job of a government agency and fighting for consumer rights. (Aside: they don't have the full authority needed to enforce net neutrality, and therefore a bill from Congress is required)
free, legal performance enhancing drugs
If you are so dependent on caffeine that you have come to expect your employer to sponsor your drug addiction, you have a problem. For starters, get some sleep for chrissakes.
It's like ants
ants with nukes
seems like you're under-exaggerating the difference between "whoring for votes" and "spending their time better on something else". the war on child porn, the war on drugs, and the war on terror are all examples of what i would consider legitimate "whoring for votes."
But there's no way to legislate such technical detail
The metric you seek is anything that measures the average, absolute value of the sound signal amplitude (average loudness). Among other equally apt solutions offered in this thread, as frank_adrian314159 says in reply to you, average sound energy would be a good choice.
because volume is subjective, not objective.
hrm yeah, just like how a hot fart smells is subjective. weird how most people still know it smells bad.
What about people who have hearing problems?
So there's no point in regulating profanity on TV because deaf people can't hear it? (CC aside)
The problem is something called "audio compression"
Basically from this point on I agree with you. Another example of annoying-ass advertising is the "secondary event" shit at the bottom of the screen. Very distracting.
...bitches!
Can you recommend a good model/setup? Also for my information, what country/state are you in and who is your tv provider?
Ixquick deletes logged data within 48 hours and does not record your IP address.
I also found this link interesting (from 2007).
In Blizzard's defense, I assume they are trying to keep the game fair, so that your character's progress, eq and abilities are based on merit (i.e. time spent playing) instead of RL money. It is certainly a noble goal, if difficult to achieve.
Some people serve their government overlords, not their morality. They step up to service because their government overlords need their service, not because their morality agreed with the current course of action. It's a fairly simple statement of "I'm willing to set aside my beliefs to do what my government overlords believe is the better course of action for it." These people form the basis of the career military service. They don't volunteer for a war. They volunteer for whatever their government overlords require of them. They'll be there before the war starts and they'll be there after it's done. Only fools volunteer for a war, but it is a patriot who signs up for service.
Patriotism is simply a justification for war. It allows those who believe in patriotism to support war without their conscience gnawing at them. It lets them ignore the wounded, the dead, and the human suffering that will follow. It does not avoid any of that.
No one needs war.
I hope you used email rather than snail mail. Yes, a physical letter (especially handwritten) carries more weight, however nowadays it typically takes 3 months for a snail mail to reach the president. Thus for best results, use email :)
I have no idea why you got modded up and GP down. He was obviously referring only to Somalia with his remark about laissez faire capitalism. There are FAIAP /no/ laws there.
I am also confused by your last sentence, which seems to imply that the UN has direct influence on Somalian law and/or government.
none of them will ever get anywhere
Jesus, pessimist much? Campaign finance is imho the single biggest problem with American government today and it would be best for starters if people had a more positive attitude in working toward solutions. It's frustrating when I see a lot of people just say "god our system/government/president sucks", throw their arms up and walk away.
Important to note however is our one key advantage over the entrenched powers that be: strength in numbers. We can out-petition them, out-protest them. Make our voice strong. We can out-muscle them if it came to that. But most importantly we can out-vote them. All we have to do (admittedly probably not simple nor easy) is unify and organize ourselves, and change will come.
the world is shifting to the right
Why do you say that? If anything I think it is the opposite. But the reason it might appear that way when converting from the American political scale to the European version is that Americans, particularly conservatives, do not realize how much space there is to the left of what they consider the "left". So in actuality it is not the world moving to the right, but the space to the left opening up in the minds of Americans.
A meter maid has no more information about traffic flow at adjacent intersections than an autonomous single light would.
Then how about a Beowulf cluster of meter maids? (with walkie talkies of course)
You, sir, are a fool and a contributor to the worrisome trend in this country of increasing powerlessness. That you conclude that no political/economic philosophy can work in practice is deeply saddening. To me it is on par with a suicidal person saying "life's not worth living."
Our government here in the U.S. really isn't all the bad (or at least could be worse, jokes aside) but could make huge strides toward its ideal form with, for example, the following three simple yet groundbreaking reforms:
1.) Ban corporate contributions to political campaigns. This places power over campaigns where it belongs - to individual Citizens. (Note: must close loopholes for "personal" donations from CEOs, etc.)
2.) Eliminate the current "winner-take-all" electoral voting system. Replace with a Congressional District Method or something similar. This would allow 3rd parties to actually have a chance at getting even a small number of representatives on Congress, which is practically impossible under the current duopoly.
3.) Legalize all drugs. "A 2008 study by Harvard economist Jeffrey A. Miron has estimated that legalizing drugs would inject $76.8 billion a year into the U.S. economy." It would also dramatically reduce or eliminate gang/cartel-related violence by allowing these people to settle disputes and report crimes through legal means, e.g. the courts.
The most important thing to remember is we are the only ones who can take the power back from the corporations and political groups who took it from us.