You're not going to convince anyone who has experienced God that God doesn't exist, any more than I could convince you that dogs don't exist. I pity you for your blindness, and pity for the fact you don't even realise you're missing something.
My experience goes along with this. A few times I've had dual-boot computers constantly crashing on the Windows side, so I was blaming MS for their buggy software -- until the flaky hardware that made Windows flaky failed completely. Turns out that Linux is simply far more hardware fault-tolerant than Windows, rather than Windows being a bug-ridden piece of shit.
It is if your music colection is all GPL. Want some free ebooks? Go to boingboing, Doctorow posts his books there. He credits that fact for his standing as a best selling author. As he puts it, "nobody ever went broke because of piracy, but many artists have starved because of obscurity."
The more people that are exposed to your stuff, the more stuff you'll sell.
He should learn proper English [which is most definitely not American].
Oh, you mean like calling a car's trunk a "boot", a scientist a "boffin", a phone a "mobe" or a cigarette a "fag"?
Mierde del toro. He should learn Spanish; most people in the Americas speak Spanish. It also comes in handy in California, Florida, Arizona, and Chicago.
No, you're the clueless one. When cable first came out in the early eighties (it was around in a very limited form in very few places in the seventies) there was no advertising whatever. None. Not on the cable channels; the only time you saw a commercial was when you were tuned to an over the air channel. Uncut, uninterrupted, commercial-free TV. Then when everybody got hooked on cable, THAT is when they started introducing ads... between shows. Then they started breaking the shows for commercials like OTA TV. Then they got even greedier and started showing commercials at the bottom of the screen while the actual content is playing.
No, son, YOU are the one unfamiliar with early cable, simply because you never saw early cable and assumed it was always fucked up like that.
Guess what else? Empty-V used to play music videos instead of stupid "reality" shows. Discovery used to have science instead of "trick my truck." History used to have the history of the Roman Empire and the History of Beer instead of "ice road truckers."
Guess what else? I shut my cable off. It's no longer worth the money. OTA, DVD, and web for me. Comcast can go fuck themselves, the greedy, shiftless bastards.
The first is firewalled off (they think discovery is an entertainment site) and the second is slashdotted. So here you fellows go, straight from NASA. I doubt we'll slashdot them... and submitter, why did you not link the source?
it's a laptop. I don't think I've ever used more than 1 USB at a time on my laptop
I have. One for the bluetooth dongle, one for the memory stick (we don't have floppies any more, you know) and one for the terabyte drive. That's all three on my box. I could plug the drive into the tower and use wifi to get the data there, but it's easier just to plug it straight into the notebook.
Wait, which book was that? I don't recall Ford saying anything like that.
As to the actual topic at hand, TFS reads... well... not too intelligently, starting with the headline "The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust". Uh, CAR exhaust? What about the busses, trucks, boats, airplanes, and other internal combustion vehicles? Id wager that eighteen wheeler pollutes more than my car, and I'd bet the farm a B-52 does.
"Cars, once again, are killing us."
Uh, they ever stopped?
"and they're encouraging us to grow obese and then killing us a little more slowly"
Cars have been around for over a hundred years. So why is it only now that people are getting fat? You think it might not be the cars we've been riding in every day of our lives but instead the fact that everything you eat has HFCS in it, and that what was once a large soda at McDonald's is now a small soda? Or that portion sizes in every damned restaraunt I've seen have likewise skyrocketed? Nah, it must be the cars that made you (but not your dad or grandpa who also had cars all their lives) fat.
"But, more than ever before, they're killing us with their pollution"
Bullshit. Cars don't pollute at all when compared to cars 50 years ago that ran on leaded gas and had no catylitic converters or other emissions controls. What comparitively "little" they do pollute is only compounded by the numer of them worldwide.
And guess what? Pollution in Hong Kong doesn't affect my health at all. My environment is VASTLY cleaner than it was 50 years ago when I was ten, before the EPA, back when rivers caught fire and you couldn't drive past Monsanto with the windows down.
"Particulate air pollution, along with obesity, is now the two fastest-growing causes of death in the world, according to a new study published in the Lancet."
That's because when they were third world, they were dying from disentery and TB and their countries had no cars at all.
They're not killing us, they're killing Indians and Chinese and other newly industrialized people. I'd say it's a net win for the world. I'd much rather die of a heart attack at age 50 than die of starvation at age 70.
The NYT is not under investigation because it's a legitimate journalist organization.
I take it you've never read the US constitution -- you might want to, just to make yourelf look less brain-dead. It's on the internet, just google it. But here's a clue: the constitution says that you -- YOU -- EVERYBODY has freedom of the press. Fox, CNN, you, me, Alfred E. Neuman. Everybody.
There is no such thing as a "legitimate" or "illigitimate" news organization. Even Fox is legitimate in the eyes of the constitution. Everyone here has the right to print any damned thing they want. If a soldier gives me classified information, I can publish it. Period. The soldier will go to prison, but I will not.
Even uneducated fools like yourself have freedom of the press.
I see no reason why both theories couldn't be correct, just under different circumstances. The traditional theory where some mutations are benign or helpful, spurring reproduction, and the far more numerous mutations which will kill the organism or make it hard for it to reproduce.
Then an asteroid hits or the earth rapidly warms/cools or some other catastrophe, most species die but a few species that may well have been on the brink of extinction finds its new environment friendly and thrives, while mutations that might have been benign in the old ecology are now a hindrance, and some traits that were hindrances before (e.g., the organism's size or lack of same) are now helpful to it.
It seems that both would fit at different times, and there may well be other types of evolution that are similarly possible that no one has yet hypothesizd about.
This is perhaps the most profoundly stupid theory I have ever heard. It merits a special trophy in the creator's names. A subset of the darwin awards.
It wasn't a theory, it was fiction. The idea that earth microbes could infect a space alien with different evolution and possibly different chemistry is ludicrous, but far less so than the ideas that Klingons could mate with Earth people, or denizens in a galaxy far, far away would look anything like us. Or the idea that machines could think like Asimov's robots.
Have you read Stranger in a Strange Land? There's very little science fiction that doesn't require a huge effort at ignoring impossibilities and unliklihoods.
Indeed, when I connected to AT&T's DSL, I couldn't log in to the connection screen because it was Windows-only and both my computers were running Linux. Luckily there was a Windows laptop I could borrow to log in with.
Slashdot Mirror
You're not going to convince anyone who has experienced God that God doesn't exist, any more than I could convince you that dogs don't exist. I pity you for your blindness, and pity for the fact you don't even realise you're missing something.
My experience goes along with this. A few times I've had dual-boot computers constantly crashing on the Windows side, so I was blaming MS for their buggy software -- until the flaky hardware that made Windows flaky failed completely. Turns out that Linux is simply far more hardware fault-tolerant than Windows, rather than Windows being a bug-ridden piece of shit.
It is if your music colection is all GPL. Want some free ebooks? Go to boingboing, Doctorow posts his books there. He credits that fact for his standing as a best selling author. As he puts it, "nobody ever went broke because of piracy, but many artists have starved because of obscurity."
The more people that are exposed to your stuff, the more stuff you'll sell.
Oh, for fuck's sake. "Led" is the past tense of "lead" (as in "leader") and the verb "lead" is spelled the same way as the mental.
It's Have Space Suit -- Will Travel. A helmet won't do much good without a suit.
This is all of the stuff we used to joke about "papers please"
But... I only got a pipe, man!
Dude, it's Tau Ceti. Khan lives there!!!
He should learn proper English [which is most definitely not American].
Oh, you mean like calling a car's trunk a "boot", a scientist a "boffin", a phone a "mobe" or a cigarette a "fag"?
Mierde del toro. He should learn Spanish; most people in the Americas speak Spanish. It also comes in handy in California, Florida, Arizona, and Chicago.
Aliteracy
What can perl do that newer languages such as python and ruby can't do?
Have a Texan beer named after it?
Those cold parts will be hot in 14 days.
Not the poles.
No, you're the clueless one. When cable first came out in the early eighties (it was around in a very limited form in very few places in the seventies) there was no advertising whatever. None. Not on the cable channels; the only time you saw a commercial was when you were tuned to an over the air channel. Uncut, uninterrupted, commercial-free TV. Then when everybody got hooked on cable, THAT is when they started introducing ads... between shows. Then they started breaking the shows for commercials like OTA TV. Then they got even greedier and started showing commercials at the bottom of the screen while the actual content is playing.
No, son, YOU are the one unfamiliar with early cable, simply because you never saw early cable and assumed it was always fucked up like that.
Guess what else? Empty-V used to play music videos instead of stupid "reality" shows. Discovery used to have science instead of "trick my truck." History used to have the history of the Roman Empire and the History of Beer instead of "ice road truckers."
Guess what else? I shut my cable off. It's no longer worth the money. OTA, DVD, and web for me. Comcast can go fuck themselves, the greedy, shiftless bastards.
Be careful, I tried USB 3:16 and it literally crucified my data!
The first is firewalled off (they think discovery is an entertainment site) and the second is slashdotted. So here you fellows go, straight from NASA. I doubt we'll slashdot them... and submitter, why did you not link the source?
You may think that diesel makes you an environmental superfag
Well, actualy diesel is a superfag. It puts out a lot more smoke than a simple cigarette.
it's a laptop. I don't think I've ever used more than 1 USB at a time on my laptop
I have. One for the bluetooth dongle, one for the memory stick (we don't have floppies any more, you know) and one for the terabyte drive. That's all three on my box. I could plug the drive into the tower and use wifi to get the data there, but it's easier just to plug it straight into the notebook.
Wait, which book was that? I don't recall Ford saying anything like that.
As to the actual topic at hand, TFS reads... well... not too intelligently, starting with the headline "The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust". Uh, CAR exhaust? What about the busses, trucks, boats, airplanes, and other internal combustion vehicles? Id wager that eighteen wheeler pollutes more than my car, and I'd bet the farm a B-52 does.
"Cars, once again, are killing us."
Uh, they ever stopped?
"and they're encouraging us to grow obese and then killing us a little more slowly"
Cars have been around for over a hundred years. So why is it only now that people are getting fat? You think it might not be the cars we've been riding in every day of our lives but instead the fact that everything you eat has HFCS in it, and that what was once a large soda at McDonald's is now a small soda? Or that portion sizes in every damned restaraunt I've seen have likewise skyrocketed? Nah, it must be the cars that made you (but not your dad or grandpa who also had cars all their lives) fat.
"But, more than ever before, they're killing us with their pollution"
Bullshit. Cars don't pollute at all when compared to cars 50 years ago that ran on leaded gas and had no catylitic converters or other emissions controls. What comparitively "little" they do pollute is only compounded by the numer of them worldwide.
And guess what? Pollution in Hong Kong doesn't affect my health at all. My environment is VASTLY cleaner than it was 50 years ago when I was ten, before the EPA, back when rivers caught fire and you couldn't drive past Monsanto with the windows down.
"Particulate air pollution, along with obesity, is now the two fastest-growing causes of death in the world, according to a new study published in the Lancet."
That's because when they were third world, they were dying from disentery and TB and their countries had no cars at all.
They're not killing us, they're killing Indians and Chinese and other newly industrialized people. I'd say it's a net win for the world. I'd much rather die of a heart attack at age 50 than die of starvation at age 70.
The NYT is not under investigation because it's a legitimate journalist organization.
I take it you've never read the US constitution -- you might want to, just to make yourelf look less brain-dead. It's on the internet, just google it. But here's a clue: the constitution says that you -- YOU -- EVERYBODY has freedom of the press. Fox, CNN, you, me, Alfred E. Neuman. Everybody.
There is no such thing as a "legitimate" or "illigitimate" news organization. Even Fox is legitimate in the eyes of the constitution. Everyone here has the right to print any damned thing they want. If a soldier gives me classified information, I can publish it. Period. The soldier will go to prison, but I will not.
Even uneducated fools like yourself have freedom of the press.
USB hub?
We're talking laptops, the less junk to lug around, the better.
Bluetooth?
Bluetooth in my notebook is a USB dongle.
WiFi?
You have a wifi keyboard and mouse? Your camera has wifi? Your printer has wifi? Your scanner?
I see no reason why both theories couldn't be correct, just under different circumstances. The traditional theory where some mutations are benign or helpful, spurring reproduction, and the far more numerous mutations which will kill the organism or make it hard for it to reproduce.
Then an asteroid hits or the earth rapidly warms/cools or some other catastrophe, most species die but a few species that may well have been on the brink of extinction finds its new environment friendly and thrives, while mutations that might have been benign in the old ecology are now a hindrance, and some traits that were hindrances before (e.g., the organism's size or lack of same) are now helpful to it.
It seems that both would fit at different times, and there may well be other types of evolution that are similarly possible that no one has yet hypothesizd about.
I love the smell of ironic aliteracy in the morning!
In Sweden 7-year olds can get Visa/MasterCard debit cards.
Debit cards and credit cards look the same but they're completely different things.
This is perhaps the most profoundly stupid theory I have ever heard. It merits a special trophy in the creator's names. A subset of the darwin awards.
It wasn't a theory, it was fiction. The idea that earth microbes could infect a space alien with different evolution and possibly different chemistry is ludicrous, but far less so than the ideas that Klingons could mate with Earth people, or denizens in a galaxy far, far away would look anything like us. Or the idea that machines could think like Asimov's robots.
Have you read Stranger in a Strange Land? There's very little science fiction that doesn't require a huge effort at ignoring impossibilities and unliklihoods.
Indeed, when I connected to AT&T's DSL, I couldn't log in to the connection screen because it was Windows-only and both my computers were running Linux. Luckily there was a Windows laptop I could borrow to log in with.
Thy crashed the probes into the site previously named after her.