Sorry, but I read. There are certain conventions that make reading easier, and your writing in lowercase IS AS BAD AS WRITING IN ALL CAPS. IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME THING, KID.
If you want an adult to read what you write and take you seriously, do it correctly or be known as a childish fool.
If you want me to read that wall of gibberish, rewrite it like you would write a story or resume. It's unreadable as is. You show contempt for those you wish to communicate with, don't expect any readers.
Indeed. A woman I know who's been trying to get off crack and out of homelessness was surprised that after she'd relapsed and smoked crack, not only was cocaine found in her system but amphetamines as well (she's been doing well lately, staying sober and is in transitional housing).
Hell, back in the '70s you would occasionally get marijuana dusted with PCP, an animal tranquilizer that's not supposed to be for human consumption.
This is one of many reasons why they should legalize all psychoactive drugs. Back in the twenties, people went blind and sometimes died because of adulterants such antifreeze when they would use old radiator tubes for their stills. You can't regulate or control a "controlled" substance.
The biggest danger of any illegal drug is its illegality.
All the while destroying other people's lives while they're high
That's the other peoples' fault for having anything to do with them. And you don't have to be a junkie to destroy someone's life, all it takes is an adulterous bitch and you're out of your marriage, out of your home and in bankrupcy court. Yes, it was my own damned fault for marrying her. If she'd been a junkie it would have been the same -- my own damned fault for having anything whatever to do with her.
breaking into people's homes so they can steal to feed their habit
Breaking into people's home to steal is already illegal, and if their drugs were legal they might be cheap enough that they wouldn't HAVE to steal. Look at the price of marijuana vs the price of tobacco (a deadly addictive but legal drug). A pack of cigarettes is an ounce, seven bucks including all the onerous taxes, while marijuana is WAY over $100 an ounce.
a whole host of other issues, including medical as their bodies get ravaged
Much cheaper if they die at age 40 than at age 100. At that age you've been seeing the doctor every week for fifty years, the 40 year old junkie usually doesn't see a doctor until he's at death's door. Often he only sees the coroner.
What we need is to be more brutal.
Brutality is always a bad thing. There is already far too much in the world.
Whack 'em. You get rid of enough mules and the supply dries up.
They've been trying to do that for well over half of a century. I'm afraid history and facts get in the way of your drug-free utopia.
Do you think someone ignorant of the uses and necessity of capitalization is even capable of reading a scientific paper??? The guy's obviously fifteen years old and trying to be "133t" and not relizing how ignorant his comment looks.
When I was in Thailand in 1974 there were only four drugs you couldn't buy in a pharmacy, and they were marijuana, cocaine, LSD and heroin. LSD and cocaine were completely unavailable, the place was awash with heroin and pot, and you needed no prescription for any other drug. Ecstasy might not have been invented then, but they had some amphetamines that one pill would keep you awake for two days straight. There was a salve available that was used for terminating pregnancies if the woman rubbed it on their belly button, or induce an out of body experience if you rubbed it on your temples. Quaaludes were available in pharmacies without a prescription as well.
Oddly, although the country was awash with heroin, the only heroin addicts I ran across were all GIs.
Speaking of the/.FAQ, I wish you would have made your comment as a response to the -1 flamebait post, or linked to the comment. It would have made that post less invisible and easier for us to see if there was anything flambaitish about it.
Pretty positive TFA is about building an all-in-one similar to an iMac, not installing OS X.:P
Then it's hardly an iMac, now is it? You might as well say your Linux desktop is a Mac. If it's not running Windows it's not a Windows computer, if it's not running Linux it's not a Linux computer, and if it's not running OSX it's not an iMac.
An excellent restaraunt doesn't have to be any more expensive than MacDonald's. D'Arcy's Pint here in Springfield (my favorite eatery) has food so good I once took a fat woman there, and walking back to the car she said "I had a food orgasm!" It's only slightly more expensive than McD. You do have to wait quite a while for a table, though, the place is always packed.
George Ranks used to have excellent food when Dave Irvin owned it (he's been to chef school and had recipes published in gourmet cooking magazines), and food there was downright cheap. Lunch was usually about five or ten bucks if you refrained from alcohol; Dave got the people in there with great, cheap food and made tons of money selling drinks, which were priced about the same as other bars in the area. It's under new ownership now, food is crappy and expensive and the drinks are cheap. I expect them to go out of business within a year.
Good food doesn't have to be expensive. Good programming and fast programming are usually exclusive. I'd call these folks good hackers rather than good programmers, since they're writing quick and dirty code with no time for refinement or craftsmanship.
That said, I've written my share of quick and dirty code. I always hated doing it, though.
Indeed, Google used to be great, but they're like slashdot in that every change makes it worse. If there were no relevant results, Google used to tell you that. Now they serve up pages that don't even have all the words you're searching for, even if you specifically tell it to only return results with that word. Quotes are useless in a Google search any more.
There's a fantastic opportunity for some young talent to invent a better search engine. Ten years ago I could find anything I was looking for, these days Google fails miserably.
That said, Bing is even worse. Every two results return a shopping site on Bing, even if you're looking for technical information. Google only looks good compared to the other worthless search engines. One of you young guys should hop to it!
Good to know though, my daily dose of painkillers brings me to three average cups of coffee, in addition to the zero I usually drink.
If there's caffeine in your pain killers, you're probably paying too much for them; buying name-brand rather than generic. Caffiene has no analgesic properties and there's really no reason to put it in them, except that someone may have a headache for caffiene withdrawal and in that case, it would help the headache, but wouldn't do you any good. I use generic Naproxin Sodium for my arthritis, it's exactly the same as Alieve but 1/4 the price.
A few assumptions there, not the least of which is intelligent criminals.
Since nine out of ten crimes go unsolved, I'd say 90% of the criminals are smarter than the cops.
What this really does, and I think will do well, is put a stop to wholesale theft.
Unless the technology has improved greatly in the last few years, it can be defeated with a gummy bear. IMO the best tech, from a consumer point of view (not from a bank, obviously) is the old fashioned paper and carbon with a signature. They have the added advantage of working when there's no electricity; a few stores were open after the tornados here and you can still use that tech (my then-girlfriend needed cat food, the pet store took her card after digging out an old reader).
Of course, again, this will slow down the process and the banks won't earn as much money, so don't count on going back to that old tech.
What does "imao" stand for, "ignoring my ass off?" Oops, sorry. You're just too lazy to use the shift key. Does your resume look like that? Do you think it looks "133t" or something? Well, it doesn't. It makes you look like a punk teenager trying to be cool, and makes your writing unreadable. BTW, I noticed the AC you responded to was also a lazy fuckoff who can't use the shift key, no wonder he can't find a job.
Are you seriously trying to tell us that the recent warming we have seen is natural?
Actually, since we are part and parcel of nature, cannot live without nature, and our actions affect nature, yes. Anthropological global warming is both our fault and natural. That doesn't mean we shouldn't change our ways.
We are at the start of a massive exctinction event. How many species have either gone extinct or nearly so in the last hundred years compared to the thousand years before?
To make this expensive nasa stuff fly, us US-ians will need enough of the politicians to feel like their constituents have something to gain in the near/medium term from more investment in space exploration.
Sorry, dude, but US-ian and 'Mercan make you sound like an ignorant, uneducated redneck. There are TWO USes in North America, the United States of America and the United States of Mexico. The USA is referred to as America, the Estados Unidos de Mexico as Mexico. </education>
Follow the news, then you know where they are, and you can take your holidays there.
I doubt anybody would like to vacation anywhere that's having 39 C temperatures along with opressive humidity, like most of the US this summer. Especially when the tornados hit, those things are NASTY (I was in one in 2006).
We had him for a couple of days here in Europe and the general consensus was that he remind us a lot of Bush junior and that there is potential that he gets your country in another expensive war.
Historically, probably not. The first 2/3rds of the last century we had peace and recession under Republicans, war and prosperity under Democrats, but ever since Nixon we've had peace ind prosperity under Dems and war and recession under Repubs. Nixon: Vietnam and stagflation. Carter: Peace and stagflation. Reagan: War and prosperity for the rich with hard economics for everyone else. Bush 1, war in Iraq and continued, worsening recession. Clinton: peace and prosperity. Bush II: Two wars and a collapsed economy.
Obama was one of the few who were against the Iraq war from the beginning. I don't see him as a warmonger. However, he really should have provided more change than he did; gitmo's still open, the TSA is still there, PATRIOT act still in effect, and so on.
Most of the US. Springfield, IL had the hottest July on record, and more record breaking high temperatures this year than any other year. And we had an incredibly mild winter last winter, no sub-zero (farenheight) temperatures at all iirc and no snow to speak of, only an inch or two a few times.
Here, this year is unlike any other in recorded history.
Crazy shit like that really makes your side look stupid, especially the "Obama is a Muslim" slander. Yes, slander. Obama worships in a Christian church, not a Muslim church.
When you have to resort to batshit insane stuff like this, your own candidate must REALLY suck... oh, speaking of whom, he said Harry Reid needs to put up or shut up, that makes little sense either. Romney should put up or shut up. What does he have to hide? He paid about half of what a working man pays of his taxed percentage in the one he released, I find it more credible than not that he's either paid fewer taxes than that, or none at all.
BTW, where was Romney born? Can he produce a birth certificate? No, there's no reason whatever for Romney to. There's every reason to release his tax records, unless of course it would make his winning the election impossible.
DOS caught on because DOS was sold by MS at half the price of the closest rival
No, DOS caught on because it was the OS for IBM's PCs, and "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Back in those days, there were no compatible computers. Also, there was Lotus on the IBM, and every business needs a good spreadsheet.
It's rare to see someone at slashdot say "loose" without meaning "lose", but in the case of the GP's comment, either word fits. "we are just pouring green-house gases into the atmosphere, which in turn stop the planet from losing energy" and "we are just pouring green-house gases into the atmosphere, which in turn stop the planet from setting energy free" are both correct.
To not win is to lose
If the second place prize is $500, you haven't lost even though you didn't come in first. Olympic silver medal winners didn't win, but they didn't lose, either. The losers come in last.
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Sorry, but I read. There are certain conventions that make reading easier, and your writing in lowercase IS AS BAD AS WRITING IN ALL CAPS. IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME THING, KID.
If you want an adult to read what you write and take you seriously, do it correctly or be known as a childish fool.
If you want me to read that wall of gibberish, rewrite it like you would write a story or resume. It's unreadable as is. You show contempt for those you wish to communicate with, don't expect any readers.
Indeed. A woman I know who's been trying to get off crack and out of homelessness was surprised that after she'd relapsed and smoked crack, not only was cocaine found in her system but amphetamines as well (she's been doing well lately, staying sober and is in transitional housing).
Hell, back in the '70s you would occasionally get marijuana dusted with PCP, an animal tranquilizer that's not supposed to be for human consumption.
This is one of many reasons why they should legalize all psychoactive drugs. Back in the twenties, people went blind and sometimes died because of adulterants such antifreeze when they would use old radiator tubes for their stills. You can't regulate or control a "controlled" substance.
The biggest danger of any illegal drug is its illegality.
All the while destroying other people's lives while they're high
That's the other peoples' fault for having anything to do with them. And you don't have to be a junkie to destroy someone's life, all it takes is an adulterous bitch and you're out of your marriage, out of your home and in bankrupcy court. Yes, it was my own damned fault for marrying her. If she'd been a junkie it would have been the same -- my own damned fault for having anything whatever to do with her.
breaking into people's homes so they can steal to feed their habit
Breaking into people's home to steal is already illegal, and if their drugs were legal they might be cheap enough that they wouldn't HAVE to steal. Look at the price of marijuana vs the price of tobacco (a deadly addictive but legal drug). A pack of cigarettes is an ounce, seven bucks including all the onerous taxes, while marijuana is WAY over $100 an ounce.
a whole host of other issues, including medical as their bodies get ravaged
Much cheaper if they die at age 40 than at age 100. At that age you've been seeing the doctor every week for fifty years, the 40 year old junkie usually doesn't see a doctor until he's at death's door. Often he only sees the coroner.
What we need is to be more brutal.
Brutality is always a bad thing. There is already far too much in the world.
Whack 'em. You get rid of enough mules and the supply dries up.
They've been trying to do that for well over half of a century. I'm afraid history and facts get in the way of your drug-free utopia.
Do you think someone ignorant of the uses and necessity of capitalization is even capable of reading a scientific paper??? The guy's obviously fifteen years old and trying to be "133t" and not relizing how ignorant his comment looks.
When I was in Thailand in 1974 there were only four drugs you couldn't buy in a pharmacy, and they were marijuana, cocaine, LSD and heroin. LSD and cocaine were completely unavailable, the place was awash with heroin and pot, and you needed no prescription for any other drug. Ecstasy might not have been invented then, but they had some amphetamines that one pill would keep you awake for two days straight. There was a salve available that was used for terminating pregnancies if the woman rubbed it on their belly button, or induce an out of body experience if you rubbed it on your temples. Quaaludes were available in pharmacies without a prescription as well.
Oddly, although the country was awash with heroin, the only heroin addicts I ran across were all GIs.
Speaking of the /.FAQ, I wish you would have made your comment as a response to the -1 flamebait post, or linked to the comment. It would have made that post less invisible and easier for us to see if there was anything flambaitish about it.
True, trying to compete head on with google in their core products isn't a great plan.
It worked for Google, didn't it? Who uses infoseek or altavista any more? Do they even still exist?
I think the big challenge for yahoo is to compete, but be different.
That's how Google did it.
Pretty positive TFA is about building an all-in-one similar to an iMac, not installing OS X. :P
Then it's hardly an iMac, now is it? You might as well say your Linux desktop is a Mac. If it's not running Windows it's not a Windows computer, if it's not running Linux it's not a Linux computer, and if it's not running OSX it's not an iMac.
A computer is a lot more than just hardware.
Cats are fine on my machine.
The cat hair can stop up a fan and ruin a CPU or power supply, but you won't lose your data.
An excellent restaraunt doesn't have to be any more expensive than MacDonald's. D'Arcy's Pint here in Springfield (my favorite eatery) has food so good I once took a fat woman there, and walking back to the car she said "I had a food orgasm!" It's only slightly more expensive than McD. You do have to wait quite a while for a table, though, the place is always packed.
George Ranks used to have excellent food when Dave Irvin owned it (he's been to chef school and had recipes published in gourmet cooking magazines), and food there was downright cheap. Lunch was usually about five or ten bucks if you refrained from alcohol; Dave got the people in there with great, cheap food and made tons of money selling drinks, which were priced about the same as other bars in the area. It's under new ownership now, food is crappy and expensive and the drinks are cheap. I expect them to go out of business within a year.
Good food doesn't have to be expensive. Good programming and fast programming are usually exclusive. I'd call these folks good hackers rather than good programmers, since they're writing quick and dirty code with no time for refinement or craftsmanship.
That said, I've written my share of quick and dirty code. I always hated doing it, though.
Indeed, Google used to be great, but they're like slashdot in that every change makes it worse. If there were no relevant results, Google used to tell you that. Now they serve up pages that don't even have all the words you're searching for, even if you specifically tell it to only return results with that word. Quotes are useless in a Google search any more.
There's a fantastic opportunity for some young talent to invent a better search engine. Ten years ago I could find anything I was looking for, these days Google fails miserably.
That said, Bing is even worse. Every two results return a shopping site on Bing, even if you're looking for technical information. Google only looks good compared to the other worthless search engines. One of you young guys should hop to it!
Good to know though, my daily dose of painkillers brings me to three average cups of coffee, in addition to the zero I usually drink.
If there's caffeine in your pain killers, you're probably paying too much for them; buying name-brand rather than generic. Caffiene has no analgesic properties and there's really no reason to put it in them, except that someone may have a headache for caffiene withdrawal and in that case, it would help the headache, but wouldn't do you any good. I use generic Naproxin Sodium for my arthritis, it's exactly the same as Alieve but 1/4 the price.
This is the problem with the DMCA. DMCA takedown notices simply shouldn't exist, in my opinion.
Onerous takedown notices wouldn't be a problem if there was a large enough penalty for false notices, rather than "none" as it is now.
Actually the phrase is © Scripps Local News so please stop using it.
FTFY (protip: ©
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A few assumptions there, not the least of which is intelligent criminals.
Since nine out of ten crimes go unsolved, I'd say 90% of the criminals are smarter than the cops.
What this really does, and I think will do well, is put a stop to wholesale theft.
Unless the technology has improved greatly in the last few years, it can be defeated with a gummy bear. IMO the best tech, from a consumer point of view (not from a bank, obviously) is the old fashioned paper and carbon with a signature. They have the added advantage of working when there's no electricity; a few stores were open after the tornados here and you can still use that tech (my then-girlfriend needed cat food, the pet store took her card after digging out an old reader).
Of course, again, this will slow down the process and the banks won't earn as much money, so don't count on going back to that old tech.
What does "imao" stand for, "ignoring my ass off?" Oops, sorry. You're just too lazy to use the shift key. Does your resume look like that? Do you think it looks "133t" or something? Well, it doesn't. It makes you look like a punk teenager trying to be cool, and makes your writing unreadable. BTW, I noticed the AC you responded to was also a lazy fuckoff who can't use the shift key, no wonder he can't find a job.
Are you seriously trying to tell us that the recent warming we have seen is natural?
Actually, since we are part and parcel of nature, cannot live without nature, and our actions affect nature, yes. Anthropological global warming is both our fault and natural. That doesn't mean we shouldn't change our ways.
We are at the start of a massive exctinction event. How many species have either gone extinct or nearly so in the last hundred years compared to the thousand years before?
To make this expensive nasa stuff fly, us US-ians will need enough of the politicians to feel like their constituents have something to gain in the near/medium term from more investment in space exploration.
So you mean everyone except this guy from jamaica?
Sorry, dude, but US-ian and 'Mercan make you sound like an ignorant, uneducated redneck. There are TWO USes in North America, the United States of America and the United States of Mexico. The USA is referred to as America, the Estados Unidos de Mexico as Mexico. </education>
Follow the news, then you know where they are, and you can take your holidays there.
I doubt anybody would like to vacation anywhere that's having 39 C temperatures along with opressive humidity, like most of the US this summer. Especially when the tornados hit, those things are NASTY (I was in one in 2006).
We had him for a couple of days here in Europe and the general consensus was that he remind us a lot of Bush junior and that there is potential that he gets your country in another expensive war.
Historically, probably not. The first 2/3rds of the last century we had peace and recession under Republicans, war and prosperity under Democrats, but ever since Nixon we've had peace ind prosperity under Dems and war and recession under Repubs. Nixon: Vietnam and stagflation. Carter: Peace and stagflation. Reagan: War and prosperity for the rich with hard economics for everyone else. Bush 1, war in Iraq and continued, worsening recession. Clinton: peace and prosperity. Bush II: Two wars and a collapsed economy.
Obama was one of the few who were against the Iraq war from the beginning. I don't see him as a warmonger. However, he really should have provided more change than he did; gitmo's still open, the TSA is still there, PATRIOT act still in effect, and so on.
where the fuck is this summers heatwaves?
Most of the US. Springfield, IL had the hottest July on record, and more record breaking high temperatures this year than any other year. And we had an incredibly mild winter last winter, no sub-zero (farenheight) temperatures at all iirc and no snow to speak of, only an inch or two a few times.
Here, this year is unlike any other in recorded history.
Crazy shit like that really makes your side look stupid, especially the "Obama is a Muslim" slander. Yes, slander. Obama worships in a Christian church, not a Muslim church.
When you have to resort to batshit insane stuff like this, your own candidate must REALLY suck... oh, speaking of whom, he said Harry Reid needs to put up or shut up, that makes little sense either. Romney should put up or shut up. What does he have to hide? He paid about half of what a working man pays of his taxed percentage in the one he released, I find it more credible than not that he's either paid fewer taxes than that, or none at all.
BTW, where was Romney born? Can he produce a birth certificate? No, there's no reason whatever for Romney to. There's every reason to release his tax records, unless of course it would make his winning the election impossible.
DOS caught on because DOS was sold by MS at half the price of the closest rival
No, DOS caught on because it was the OS for IBM's PCs, and "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Back in those days, there were no compatible computers. Also, there was Lotus on the IBM, and every business needs a good spreadsheet.
It's rare to see someone at slashdot say "loose" without meaning "lose", but in the case of the GP's comment, either word fits. "we are just pouring green-house gases into the atmosphere, which in turn stop the planet from losing energy" and "we are just pouring green-house gases into the atmosphere, which in turn stop the planet from setting energy free" are both correct.
To not win is to lose
If the second place prize is $500, you haven't lost even though you didn't come in first. Olympic silver medal winners didn't win, but they didn't lose, either. The losers come in last.
Your attitude is what causes the problem in the first place. Actually, your attitude is the cause of most human suffering.