I really meant that in the sense of, "If you want to collect that kind of cash (i.e., 12.5% of our 2006 GDP), you'll have to come over here and take it yourself."
FTA: From June to October 2006 alone, the Recording Industry Association of America says that 11 million songs were downloaded from the site. AllofMP3 claims those sales adhered strictly to Russian law, but that doesn't satisfy the RIAA; the record labels have launched a lawsuit, asking for $150,000 for each stolen file, totaling $1.65 trillion.
I'm sorry, did they say $1.65 trillion? The RIAA is off their rocker for sure. That much money is going to have to involve a war.
Are you really suggesting that we move planet-sized chunks of mass around the solar system?
Well, if we had all the money on Earth we could build a bad ass gravity pump. But it damn well better work! We can't spend all of Earth's money every day.
The history you read written on those books is what the WINNER of those events want you to believe.
Evidently you don't like to study history. If you did, you might have been familiar with a man named Thucydides. He was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War, who wrote the definitive account of that conflict. What's unique about his work, History of the Peloponnesian War, is that though it was written by an Athenian general, it was in fact the Spartans who were victorious. This means that the scholarly historical account we have of that war, which is one of the earliest works in the study of history, was written by the loser.
The tripe about history always being written by the victors has been the rally cry of historical revisionists but has little truth to it. History has been and continues to be a much more scholarly endeavor than people think.
Jesus was very specific about living by the sword, turning the other cheek to our enemies, and loving all even those who don't love us.
Would this be the very same Jesus who upon seeing the corruption of his Father's temple, left, made himself a whip, and beat the money-changers out with it? Much of what you refer to has to do with advancing the Gospel with the sword (this is why Christians have/should have condemned those atrocities of the Inquisition). It's fine if you want to live a life of pacifism, but it's not necessary to reinvent Jesus as a pacifist to justify your decision.
Sorry to hear it. Thankfully, at my precinct (admittedly a small one in Northwest Arkansas) they actually asked me which I preferred before I was able to request a paper ballot.
I'm not so naive as to think that my vote can't be tampered with. Of course it can. It can be thrown away, erased and redone, or just plain lost.
However, in saying that "I know where my vote went," I mean that it is recorded on a piece of physical media, in a physical location, and accessible for recounts if necessary. It isn't accessible hundreds of miles away via a backdoor or insecure code. It won't simply "disappear" if the recording device should fail.
It's obviously not perfect. However, one person can tamper with one paper ballot at a time. One person hacking an insecure voting machine can tamper with many times more votes, and much more quickly, with less chance of being caught. This is why I chose the paper ballot.
Well, Slashdot, you've done it. After all the stories of insecure voting machines, I opted for a paper ballot. I sat in the corner with the old folks who shun technology, but at least I know where my vote went.
IAAPS (I am a Poultry Scientist - that's not a joke) and in the course of my studies I had to take a couple of classes about poultry diseases. The professor taught us long before anyone knew about AI (avian influenza or "bird flu" as the media likes to say) that it had great potential to cause a pandemic, and the key, according to him, was China. He said that diseases do not often pass easily from bird to human -- the physiology is simply too different. However, diseases pass quite readily from birds to pigs, and also readily from pigs to humans. In China, chickens, pigs, and humans all live in close proximity to one another, with a great amount of close contact -- especially in the rural areas. Thus, any new mutations (and viruses are quite prone to mutate) could move quite quickly from bird to human. As we all know, human population density in China is quite high; thus, it is a prime starting place for new epidemics. Once infected humans move about the world, as they are wont to do, the disease spreads, etc.
His suggestion was an emphasis on biosecurity, much like in the US -- where visitors are kept at a minimum, shoes must be covered with clean covers, animals are kept away from the houses, rodent and pest control protocols are followed, etc. In this way, we have been largely successful (not perfect, mind you, but largely successful) in keeping AI out of American flocks.
My wife and I just bought a pink Motorola Razr for our two-week old daughter so we didn't have to fuss with those degrading low-class "baby monitors." Now our little one simply calls us when she's wet or hungry.
Wait a minute... she hasn't called us in a day or so...
Wernstrom: And what will you be presenting this evening, grandpa? Farnsworth: Let's just say it'll put you young whippersnappers in your place! Wernstrom: I just hope it's not as lame as that death clock you presented last year. Farnsworth: Uh, last year, you say? Wernstrom: That's right. Farnsworth: Oh, my! Did it put you young whippersnappers in your place? Wernstrom: Hardly! We laughed until our teeth fell out. Come along, Cinnamon. Farnsworth: Oh, dear, I'll have to invent something new in the next ten minutes. Perhaps some sort of death clock.
Also, if you don't want the hassle of installing with GNOME and changing to KDE, you can order Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE as default) Desktop CDs as well.
Although, I will miss being that nerdy guy who doesn't run Windows...
You could always do what everyone else does and brag about how long you've used Linux, or what obscure distro you use (usually a dubious length of time and a distro so obscure that even Google hasn't heard of it):
"I started using Linux in 1972, back in college. Of course, in those days, you had to compile the kernel from stacks of punchcards. Yep, then I helped fix a bug in the Fogeyware 4.2.1 release in 1983 and I've used it ever since."
In my area of the US, a serious problem exists with illegal immigration. According to our laws, the emergency department must treat critical patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Since adult illegal immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid, the hospitals are "stuck" with the expense. It doesn't stay "stuck" there for long. The next patient with a fat employer-paid insurance policy (that's me) who strolls, limps, or wheels into the ER has to pay for it. It would be a lie to say that this one factor single-handedly cripples our healthcare system, but it certainly doesn't help.
"more and more americans are finding themselves below the poverty line"
I'd like to know about this "poverty line" I keep hearing about. Does it mean that my TV is less than 27", or does it mean than I only own one of them? Does it mean that my car was made before 1995? Does it mean that I still use VHS, or my old 386?
Seriously, I've been to much poorer nations; I'd love to live in this so-called American "poverty" than in the actual poverty facing many other countries.
Agreed. As a straight man, I have been disenfranchised for far too long (roughly 18 hours, by my calculations) by these gay tags. After all, is it so unlikely that these stories might prefer the company of stories that are not like them (read: interesting)?
Our company has roughly 20,000 accounts on Exchange; each user has a limit of 25MB. It's been 25MB as long as anyone can remember, and it looks to be 25MB far into the future.
Most of us have our own machine so personal folders in Outlook aren't such a bad option. However, I have held positions where I had to use 5 or 10 different machines, and that meant I kept my Inbox really lean.
All very well, but I wouldn't want to try playing To The Earth with that thing.
I used to use my Laserscope to play To The Earth. Rather than say "Fire," I would blow short bursts of air into the microphone and that would work just as well. I could get much higher rates of fire than the standard Zapper. Sometimes, if I made a noise like a helicopter (don't laugh; all nine-year-olds know how to make the helicopter noise), I could wipe out a whole screenful of ships.
Agreed. Most Christians at least roll their eyes when Pat Robertson opens his mouth.
I imagine that there are similar counterparts in the Muslim world. However, a picture of a moderate Muslim with his head in his hands and the caption, "Oh, no. Here we go again," wouldn't make for a great Page One story.
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I really meant that in the sense of, "If you want to collect that kind of cash (i.e., 12.5% of our 2006 GDP), you'll have to come over here and take it yourself."
FTA:
From June to October 2006 alone, the Recording Industry Association of America says that 11 million songs were downloaded from the site. AllofMP3 claims those sales adhered strictly to Russian law, but that doesn't satisfy the RIAA; the record labels have launched a lawsuit, asking for $150,000 for each stolen file, totaling $1.65 trillion.
I'm sorry, did they say $1.65 trillion? The RIAA is off their rocker for sure. That much money is going to have to involve a war.
It's not the only one.
My, mine, your, yours, his, hers, theirs, our, and ours come to mind. None of the posessive pronouns take an apostrophe.
Are you really suggesting that we move planet-sized chunks of mass around the solar system?
Well, if we had all the money on Earth we could build a bad ass gravity pump. But it damn well better work! We can't spend all of Earth's money every day.
The history you read written on those books is what the WINNER of those events want you to believe.
Evidently you don't like to study history. If you did, you might have been familiar with a man named Thucydides. He was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War, who wrote the definitive account of that conflict. What's unique about his work, History of the Peloponnesian War , is that though it was written by an Athenian general, it was in fact the Spartans who were victorious. This means that the scholarly historical account we have of that war, which is one of the earliest works in the study of history, was written by the loser.
The tripe about history always being written by the victors has been the rally cry of historical revisionists but has little truth to it. History has been and continues to be a much more scholarly endeavor than people think.
Jesus was very specific about living by the sword, turning the other cheek to our enemies, and loving all even those who don't love us.
Would this be the very same Jesus who upon seeing the corruption of his Father's temple, left, made himself a whip, and beat the money-changers out with it? Much of what you refer to has to do with advancing the Gospel with the sword (this is why Christians have/should have condemned those atrocities of the Inquisition). It's fine if you want to live a life of pacifism, but it's not necessary to reinvent Jesus as a pacifist to justify your decision.
What if they have a pointed stick?
Sorry to hear it. Thankfully, at my precinct (admittedly a small one in Northwest Arkansas) they actually asked me which I preferred before I was able to request a paper ballot.
I'm not so naive as to think that my vote can't be tampered with. Of course it can. It can be thrown away, erased and redone, or just plain lost.
However, in saying that "I know where my vote went," I mean that it is recorded on a piece of physical media, in a physical location, and accessible for recounts if necessary. It isn't accessible hundreds of miles away via a backdoor or insecure code. It won't simply "disappear" if the recording device should fail.
It's obviously not perfect. However, one person can tamper with one paper ballot at a time. One person hacking an insecure voting machine can tamper with many times more votes, and much more quickly, with less chance of being caught. This is why I chose the paper ballot.
Well, Slashdot, you've done it. After all the stories of insecure voting machines, I opted for a paper ballot. I sat in the corner with the old folks who shun technology, but at least I know where my vote went.
IAAPS (I am a Poultry Scientist - that's not a joke) and in the course of my studies I had to take a couple of classes about poultry diseases. The professor taught us long before anyone knew about AI (avian influenza or "bird flu" as the media likes to say) that it had great potential to cause a pandemic, and the key, according to him, was China. He said that diseases do not often pass easily from bird to human -- the physiology is simply too different. However, diseases pass quite readily from birds to pigs, and also readily from pigs to humans. In China, chickens, pigs, and humans all live in close proximity to one another, with a great amount of close contact -- especially in the rural areas. Thus, any new mutations (and viruses are quite prone to mutate) could move quite quickly from bird to human. As we all know, human population density in China is quite high; thus, it is a prime starting place for new epidemics. Once infected humans move about the world, as they are wont to do, the disease spreads, etc.
His suggestion was an emphasis on biosecurity, much like in the US -- where visitors are kept at a minimum, shoes must be covered with clean covers, animals are kept away from the houses, rodent and pest control protocols are followed, etc. In this way, we have been largely successful (not perfect, mind you, but largely successful) in keeping AI out of American flocks.
My wife and I just bought a pink Motorola Razr for our two-week old daughter so we didn't have to fuss with those degrading low-class "baby monitors." Now our little one simply calls us when she's wet or hungry.
Wait a minute... she hasn't called us in a day or so...
And, oh yeah, they couldn't stand eachother.
Wernstrom: And what will you be presenting this evening, grandpa?
Farnsworth: Let's just say it'll put you young whippersnappers in your place!
Wernstrom: I just hope it's not as lame as that death clock you presented last year.
Farnsworth: Uh, last year, you say?
Wernstrom: That's right.
Farnsworth: Oh, my! Did it put you young whippersnappers in your place?
Wernstrom: Hardly! We laughed until our teeth fell out. Come along, Cinnamon.
Farnsworth: Oh, dear, I'll have to invent something new in the next ten minutes. Perhaps some sort of death clock.
Yeah! Ever since Aramis Ramirez was sold to the Cubs, they've stunk.
Also, if you don't want the hassle of installing with GNOME and changing to KDE, you can order Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE as default) Desktop CDs as well.
"I started using Linux in 1972, back in college. Of course, in those days, you had to compile the kernel from stacks of punchcards. Yep, then I helped fix a bug in the Fogeyware 4.2.1 release in 1983 and I've used it ever since."
In my area of the US, a serious problem exists with illegal immigration. According to our laws, the emergency department must treat critical patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Since adult illegal immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid, the hospitals are "stuck" with the expense. It doesn't stay "stuck" there for long. The next patient with a fat employer-paid insurance policy (that's me) who strolls, limps, or wheels into the ER has to pay for it. It would be a lie to say that this one factor single-handedly cripples our healthcare system, but it certainly doesn't help.
In other areas of the country, as always, YMMV.
We might get them to change their minds when we tell them the next source of renewable energy is single malt Scotch.
I'd like to know about this "poverty line" I keep hearing about. Does it mean that my TV is less than 27", or does it mean than I only own one of them? Does it mean that my car was made before 1995? Does it mean that I still use VHS, or my old 386? Seriously, I've been to much poorer nations; I'd love to live in this so-called American "poverty" than in the actual poverty facing many other countries.
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Agreed. As a straight man, I have been disenfranchised for far too long (roughly 18 hours, by my calculations) by these gay tags. After all, is it so unlikely that these stories might prefer the company of stories that are not like them (read: interesting)?
Our company has roughly 20,000 accounts on Exchange; each user has a limit of 25MB. It's been 25MB as long as anyone can remember, and it looks to be 25MB far into the future.
Most of us have our own machine so personal folders in Outlook aren't such a bad option. However, I have held positions where I had to use 5 or 10 different machines, and that meant I kept my Inbox really lean.
Agreed. Most Christians at least roll their eyes when Pat Robertson opens his mouth.
I imagine that there are similar counterparts in the Muslim world. However, a picture of a moderate Muslim with his head in his hands and the caption, "Oh, no. Here we go again," wouldn't make for a great Page One story.