Well, you didn't get it straight at all. He did not conclude that no user identification was sent. He merely said that that he didn't *see* any (look up "appear").
Ironically, you're the one jumping to conclusions. If you want to be a wiseass, remember to work on getting that wise part down as well as the ass part.
Your points are interesting ones. I came to the conclusion long ago (about 1/2 way through my first viewing of Ep. I) that George Lucas suffered some brain damage between 1983 and 1999. Ep. I-III just screw up so many things that are senseless. The timeline is screwed up. Annakin's personality is ridiculous, as is most of his behavior and dialog. Amidala is 5 years older than Annakin? But she's a 14-year-old elected "queen"? Random Jedi gadgets like underwater breathers and midiclorian testers. Unbelievable crap like blue hovering reptiles that are immune to Jedi mind tricks. Horse reptiles that sound kind of jive-y. Pod-racing! It was almost completely a giant toy sell-out. They also had no interesting characters. Han Solo, Lando, and Leia all got to chew up some scenery now and then.
The only thing interesting about I-III is the politics of the Republic's devolution into the Empire. And that's covered so lightly that it's mostly just confusing.
Oh really? Last report I saw around 455,000 Americans died in WWII. Not that they weren't very brave and all. In any case, the American contribution to beating Hitler is rather puny compared to the Soviet Union. Were they fighting to protect their privacy and civil rights? btw, in one of his stupider moves, Hitler did declare war on the US, around December 9th, 1941. Much more stupid was invading the USSR.
As for the American revolution, it was basically about taxes. The colonists didn't like 'em. Paying out up to 1% of their hard-earned money just to pay for the British Navy and Army to gaurd the place was evidently far too harsh a burden.
There are quite a few motivations for a nation or people to go to war. But I don't think privacy and "rights" were on anyone's list in WWII, much less at the top.
Anyways, Americans privacy took a serious nosedive the day the Social[ist] Security Act went into effect, and we were all issued serial numbers. With the advent of computing, networks, and databases, all further debate on privacy is just a bunch of hoo-hah.
If you want to stand up to your state BMV, and your cable company; and refuse to provide your SSAN (which is, after all, none of their damn business), that's very noble of you. But you ain't gonna have a driver's license or cable.
I agree with Larry Ellison, who said to forget about privacy, it's over. I'm just not as happy about it as he seemed to be.
Do any of you green weenies eat cooked food? Use electric lights? Watch TV? Use a sound system? Use hot water? Air conditioning? Heat?
The processor is just a small part of the electrical load of a PC. And the PC is just a small part of a typical human's electrical load.
Furthermore, "Global Warming" (what's up with the caps? Is it an official religion now?) does not correlate well with human activity. It seems about as likely that shutting down all human activity would have no effect on the warming trend.
Look, even though we continue our slide to socialism, no American president has yet had control of the economy. Some presidential policies have an effect on it, sure. But virtually none of it is possible without the consent of Congress. While that gang of whores does its best to avoid responsibility for anything that doesn't net them some votes, they do control the purse-strings.
America's biggest problems are a result of our fixation on the president, treating him like a king, and expecting him to solve all the problems of the world, by whatever means he sees fit. That used to be called facism.
Don't you people get tired of the same old complaint? If you don't want to run 2.4 then don't. No one's forcing you to. But just FYI, your opinion, interests, and needs do not encompass the universe of Linux.
There are reasons why 2.4 kernel development continues. Also, I don't see how non-programmers are going to see or care about much difference between 2.4 and 2.6.
You know, Slackware has never had preannounced or fixed release dates. They work on it until they're done. Somehow, this results in [more or less] regular, stable releases.
The contrast with Windows is telling.
Slackware may be "old" software, but it's a lot newer than XP, ain't it?
I have a program that compresses 100M of Wikipedia to one bit with no loss at all. The program is somewhat special-purpose, and at 100,024,076 bytes, a little chunkier than I'd like.
How about "[it] exploded". Using useless adjectives is the first sin. Using a useless adjective incorrectly is the second.
As for language evolving, it certainly does. And, anyone is free to speak or write as ignorantly and stupidly as they care to.
Nevertheless, we are also free to fight ignorant and stupid damage to the language. When "literally" no longer has its real meaning, how will you express that meaning?
Why the hell do so many people assume that kids need to "learn" socialization? Or that it must be learned in a school? Learning that most other kids can be little shits is not something that takes even an average intelligence 12-13 years to grasp.
True..08% BAC is NOT drunk for 90% of people. Technically impaired on some coordination tests maybe. But not nearly as big a factor as drivers who are just stupid. The only reason it was lowered from the more reasonable.10% is because the raving crazies at MADD needed something else to do.
Myspace has nothing to do with the sexual assault. It's just a typical blood-sucking leech lawyer who identified a way to profit from a corp. with a lot of money on hand. It's what they do.
It should be a no-brainer that myspace will settle for a much smaller amount. If they do have a brain, they'll fight it to the Supreme Court and countersue. There's a lot more blood-sucking leech lawyers out there.
Even more fun would be to just blow it up. Myspace could say "OK, we've had fun, but now that the US 'Justice' system is on our backs, we just don't need it anymore. Goodbye." Shutdown the servers, sell, them, and get out of town. Then wait for bids for the data.
...it's inconceivable that a writer for the *legal* section of a magazine is unaware of any of these differences,...
Oh come now, surely you can conceive it. I always fall back on that famous maxim from the notebooks of Lazurus Long: "Do not ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.". And in the case of journalists, that applies to virtually everything. Evidently, journalism in America today consists entirely of political indoctrination as a socialist or a fascist. With Word® training.
Admittedly, the odds of a dictatorship are extremely low, but I can tell you that there is an extreme level of corruption here. Most importantly, the police here are highly unaccountable and frequently unscrupulous. There are many well documented incidents of railroading amoung other things. How does the PPS number mix into all this? I'm not too sure, but I don't like the idea of it.
I fully expect that will be the next "terrorist" attack. Coordinated bombings of TSA checkpoints. It's a hilarious concept, until someone actually does it.
As others here have implied, TSA is for show. So the masses of sheeple "feel safe". It also provides the government with a great tool to build up the citizenry's tolerance for unconstitional searches, seizures, and assorted other indignities.
Amen! Great post. For crying out loud, if you don't like Amazon, don't shop there. There's absolutely no reason to call for their elimination or whatever. I've also had nothing but good experience with them, and I've been shopping regularly from Amazon since they were only a bookstore (ca. 1997). I've never had a problem that wasn't cleared up nearly instantly.
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I was born a week after that launch, and I just turned 50, which is traumatic enough, you insensitive clod!
Well, you didn't get it straight at all. He did not conclude that no user identification was sent. He merely said that that he didn't *see* any (look up "appear"). Ironically, you're the one jumping to conclusions. If you want to be a wiseass, remember to work on getting that wise part down as well as the ass part.
You're on /. What is this "geek out" you speak of?
Your points are interesting ones. I came to the conclusion long ago (about 1/2 way through my first viewing of Ep. I) that George Lucas suffered some brain damage between 1983 and 1999. Ep. I-III just screw up so many things that are senseless. The timeline is screwed up. Annakin's personality is ridiculous, as is most of his behavior and dialog. Amidala is 5 years older than Annakin? But she's a 14-year-old elected "queen"? Random Jedi gadgets like underwater breathers and midiclorian testers. Unbelievable crap like blue hovering reptiles that are immune to Jedi mind tricks. Horse reptiles that sound kind of jive-y. Pod-racing! It was almost completely a giant toy sell-out. They also had no interesting characters. Han Solo, Lando, and Leia all got to chew up some scenery now and then.
The only thing interesting about I-III is the politics of the Republic's devolution into the Empire. And that's covered so lightly that it's mostly just confusing.
Oh really? Last report I saw around 455,000 Americans died in WWII. Not that they weren't very brave and all. In any case, the American contribution to beating Hitler is rather puny compared to the Soviet Union. Were they fighting to protect their privacy and civil rights? btw, in one of his stupider moves, Hitler did declare war on the US, around December 9th, 1941. Much more stupid was invading the USSR. As for the American revolution, it was basically about taxes. The colonists didn't like 'em. Paying out up to 1% of their hard-earned money just to pay for the British Navy and Army to gaurd the place was evidently far too harsh a burden. There are quite a few motivations for a nation or people to go to war. But I don't think privacy and "rights" were on anyone's list in WWII, much less at the top. Anyways, Americans privacy took a serious nosedive the day the Social[ist] Security Act went into effect, and we were all issued serial numbers. With the advent of computing, networks, and databases, all further debate on privacy is just a bunch of hoo-hah. If you want to stand up to your state BMV, and your cable company; and refuse to provide your SSAN (which is, after all, none of their damn business), that's very noble of you. But you ain't gonna have a driver's license or cable. I agree with Larry Ellison, who said to forget about privacy, it's over. I'm just not as happy about it as he seemed to be.
Do any of you green weenies eat cooked food? Use electric lights? Watch TV? Use a sound system? Use hot water? Air conditioning? Heat?
The processor is just a small part of the electrical load of a PC. And the PC is just a small part of a typical human's electrical load.
Furthermore, "Global Warming" (what's up with the caps? Is it an official religion now?) does not correlate well with human activity. It seems about as likely that shutting down all human activity would have no effect on the warming trend.
Look, even though we continue our slide to socialism, no American president has yet had control of the economy. Some presidential policies have an effect on it, sure. But virtually none of it is possible without the consent of Congress. While that gang of whores does its best to avoid responsibility for anything that doesn't net them some votes, they do control the purse-strings.
America's biggest problems are a result of our fixation on the president, treating him like a king, and expecting him to solve all the problems of the world, by whatever means he sees fit. That used to be called facism.
Don't you people get tired of the same old complaint? If you don't want to run 2.4 then don't. No one's forcing you to. But just FYI, your opinion, interests, and needs do not encompass the universe of Linux.
There are reasons why 2.4 kernel development continues. Also, I don't see how non-programmers are going to see or care about much difference between 2.4 and 2.6.
You know, Slackware has never had preannounced or fixed release dates. They work on it until they're done. Somehow, this results in [more or less] regular, stable releases.
The contrast with Windows is telling.
Slackware may be "old" software, but it's a lot newer than XP, ain't it?
I have a program that compresses 100M of Wikipedia to one bit with no loss at all. The program is somewhat special-purpose, and at 100,024,076 bytes, a little chunkier than I'd like.
Refrigeration! for crying out loud.
And I find it much easier to follow.
How about "[it] exploded". Using useless adjectives is the first sin. Using a useless adjective incorrectly is the second.
As for language evolving, it certainly does. And, anyone is free to speak or write as ignorantly and stupidly as they care to.
Nevertheless, we are also free to fight ignorant and stupid damage to the language. When "literally" no longer has its real meaning, how will you express that meaning?
Joel has addressed this technique long ago, and far away: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000000 69.html
You're thinking of teat-bits. Not to be confused with naughty bits.
Why the hell do so many people assume that kids need to "learn" socialization? Or that it must be learned in a school? Learning that most other kids can be little shits is not something that takes even an average intelligence 12-13 years to grasp.
True. .08% BAC is NOT drunk for 90% of people. Technically impaired on some coordination tests maybe. But not nearly as big a factor as drivers who are just stupid. The only reason it was lowered from the more reasonable .10% is because the raving crazies at MADD needed something else to do.
07/07/07 will be R.A. Heinlein's 100th birthday.
We should do something special!
Myspace has nothing to do with the sexual assault. It's just a typical blood-sucking leech lawyer who identified a way to profit from a corp. with a lot of money on hand. It's what they do.
It should be a no-brainer that myspace will settle for a much smaller amount. If they do have a brain, they'll fight it to the Supreme Court and countersue. There's a lot more blood-sucking leech lawyers out there.
Even more fun would be to just blow it up. Myspace could say "OK, we've had fun, but now that the US 'Justice' system is on our backs, we just don't need it anymore. Goodbye." Shutdown the servers, sell, them, and get out of town. Then wait for bids for the data.
OK, you want to revisit that first clause?
Wrong.
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I fully expect that will be the next "terrorist" attack. Coordinated bombings of TSA checkpoints. It's a hilarious concept, until someone actually does it.
As others here have implied, TSA is for show. So the masses of sheeple "feel safe". It also provides the government with a great tool to build up the citizenry's tolerance for unconstitional searches, seizures, and assorted other indignities.
Especially when you keep skipping spelling class to "beet" off.
I beleive box-cutters, metal forks, pen knives, and butane lighters were "legal" before 9/11 also.
Amen! Great post. For crying out loud, if you don't like Amazon, don't shop there. There's absolutely no reason to call for their elimination or whatever. I've also had nothing but good experience with them, and I've been shopping regularly from Amazon since they were only a bookstore (ca. 1997). I've never had a problem that wasn't cleared up nearly instantly.