Fun thing is that that huge energy sucking sh*thole called LA won't have to face any such rolling blackouts, only the folks in the north.
Same thing with water. Even though LA area, which is a desert, takes most of it's water from northern CA, it doesn't have to face any rationing of it's water until long after the folks up north already have been rationed for a long while.
As if Hollywood wasn't incentive enough to let the whole area dry up and blow away...;)
The fun thing is that a lot of high tech companies don't use UPSes or tape backups for a _lot_ of their systems. Especially lab/R&D type stuff. Rolling blackouts could cause some ugliness for a lot of companies if data gets lost because of this.
I couldn't find any links about cars that drive themselves (computer driven cars) there. But then I can't find anything about them on other search engines either. You'd think something that nifty would be on the web somewhere, hrm?;)
Because I don't want to use KDE or be forced to load KDE libs for one app. I don't like either KDE or Gnome. Make it so that you can use it without having to touch any bit of KDE and I'll look at it.:)
You like Konq? Great, use it. I don't want anything tied to any window manager, even if it's not a sucky one like KDE.
Sending people into space is what we _need_ to do. Not the pathetic amount that we do now. We need factories up there, living quarters on the moon. We need to get sustainable human living conditions off of earth. We can't start years down the line, we need to start now. It's a goal that our species must accomplish sometime, or we are as dead as the dinosaurs.
Why do people always insist on staying on earth, and letting only robots leave?
The moon mission may have been just a 'porkbarrel' project from the POV of the funders, but in reality it was the most successful prospecting mission ever. We need to get back there and get to work on it!
Nah... they'll just keep making new laws until _everyone_ is guilty of _something_. That way they'll have a perfect record of convictions. Everyone in prisons is of _something_.:P
Reagan and Bush Sr. had to deal with the Justices on the bench at the time. The next president will most likely put 3-4 new people on the Supreme Court benches. This would enable the overturning of RvW. It's a position Reagan and Bush Sr. did not have.
Personally, I fear the people that either would put on the Supreme court. I'm only hoping that whoever gets there is a better person than either of the current major candidates for pres.
Um... how about Stanford? It's pretty much right
next door to the PARC. I think Stanford can be
called more than just 'half-decent'.;)
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A cult is something that a person is indoctrinated into, while a religion is something that a person honestly belives in. Thus two people can be in the same belief system, and one can be in a religion, and one be in a cult.
People born into something are indoctrinated since birth to that, rather than coming into it on their own belief, so that makes it a cult.:)
This is a very relavent, and there are possible real world examples of this. One possible reason for the relative commonness of a type of disease (MS or cystic fibrosis(spl?), I don't remember exactly which, is that it was linked to a gene that let people survive the Bubonic plague.
There are all sorts of possibilities like this scenario.
Just get 5 or 6 of these together in a jacked up car frame and you'll have something about as inefficient and horrible as most suck-u-v's out there. And it might even add to the hazard factor on the road! That one's hard to do with suck-u-v's, but they manage to get less and less safe for the other people on the road anyway.
Yeah, I've been wanting a stable (or even just usable) version of GNUstep for a long while now. I just wish I were able to code more so I could help work on it more than just QA testing type stuff.:P
Um... you're not serious, are you? Corporate Dictated Evil is a rather bad enviornment for me. Perhaps it works for you, but I have run into many problems with it, mostly with ToolTalk issues. Besides that, I find it a rather clunky and unpleasing interface, overall. It's not _terrible_, really, all in all. But it's far from what I would consider good.
But that's what's nice about UNIX... we have diversity. If it works for you, great. Have at it. It doesn't work for me, though.
The difference is that one person actually has that viewpoint and cares about the discussion. The other is just stirring up sh*t, and seeing what type of reaction they get.
Back when I was a total computer newbie, I was using a DOS computer. I knew nothing about DOS, but I had a program that would dial up to BBSes for me. My roommate set that program up, and I used it. After a few months, I got a shell account on an ISP. I knew nothing about the 'net or UNIX. This ISP had a great menu system, though. It would give me options for commonly used programs and system functions, and while it was doing that, it would print out the exact command that it did. After a while, I started using those commands directly at the system prompt, to save time.
Soon I was looking up man pages on various commands like vi, as I tired of the limits of pico. I was looking up various things on how to customize my shell and use it better. A little while after that I was installing Linux on my home system (this was a few months before kernel 1.0), and a couple months after I managed to get that working with X and PPP, I wiped out my DOS partition. I've been learning much more since.
I don't think I would have started out liking UNIX at all, if I didn't have some sort of guide like that character based menu, that told me exactly what was happening behind the scenes in the shell.
Something of this concept, perhaps in a GUI even, would be very good for beginners, and would do nothing to cripple things for advanced users.
I went to Fry's today for lunch (mmm... new Leatherman;) and saw a big poster for one of these cubes there. Kind of odd for Apple to get into such a huff over these being shown only a very short bit before they start their own ads, hrm? Or is Fry's showing off illegal ads now?;)
Blegh. PCI sucks too. We can do _SO_ much better
than PCI. IDE is _terrible_ for many things. Kill IDE and start using exclusively SCSI, and watch the SCSI prices drop to almost IDE levels, as SCSI
devices are finally made in bulk.
Having 'everyone equal' is the way to an evolutionary dead end. We _need_ diversity. We need people who are genetically better than others... they are the ones need to advance our species. Having genetic modifications to only a limited portion of our population is _safer_, too. If they somehow fail (a virus that only affects people with a certain type of anti-cancer mod, for instance), then we have backup population to keep our species going. After a virus like that, the gene pool would be much worse in many ways, but at least we would survive.
And survival and advancement of our species is very important, I think we can mostly all agree.
You're focusing on your coding, reading through some source. You go deep into thought, your eyes close. The software figures that since your attention is finally away from the window you were coding in, now is a good time to bring up all those messages that have been waiting for the past couple hours. A couple dozen attention windows pop up, distracting you from your thoughts and making you forget about your project.:)
I live about 20 miles away from work. It takes me about an hour to drive this. Biking would take about 3 hours, due to traffic and everything... there are no good bike routes here, and lots of cross streets and traffic. I'm at work 9 hours (8 hours plus lunch, which I usually work through anyway). 9hr work+3 hour commute here+3 hr commute back+1/2 hr prep time+8hr sleep=23.5hrs. That leaves me 1/2 hour after work for dinner and time to myself. Plenty of time!
Oddly enough, going with public transit would take 3 hours as well, with all the bus transfers I would need to do.:P
Those extra 4 hours a day are _important_ to me. I'll continue to drive.
I wish those electric or hybrid cars were cheaper, though!
Atheists have the belief of non-existance of deity. It is belief in something without evidence. Agnostics are the ones without the belief system (agnostic = I dunno, basically).
Not to say that I don't agree with the sentiment of atheists. I would no more believe in a god without evidence of that being than I would in any other object, such as fairies or the easter bunny.
But saying 'it does not exist' is a belief. Saying 'as far as I know it does not exist, but it could', is not a belief, it's simply lack of knowledge.
The term 'God' is not universal across all religions. There are many that would disagree with it. Animists, Goddess worshipers, atheists (the religious belief in the lack of a deity) are all examples. Having a government sponsored, supported, or stated position for God and is on the same level as this. It is wrong and should be seperated from the State.
One Nation Under God. In God We Trust.
I do not trust in this God, and I do not want to live in a nation under him. My religious rights, stated to be respected by the US, are being ignored by this same union.
Churches are exempt from taxes? I'll form the Church of the Holy Dogdrool. No, they won't accept that as a proper church just because it has only one member? Blatent discrimination... if they are to state _any_ sort of criteria for a church beyond not breaking other laws (such as murder), then I don't see how they can state this is not a state approved religious discrimination.
I think churches need to get _no_ special treatment like tax breaks.
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Fun thing is that that huge energy sucking sh*thole called LA won't have to face any such rolling blackouts, only the folks in the north.
;)
Same thing with water. Even though LA area, which is a desert, takes most of it's water from northern CA, it doesn't have to face any rationing of it's water until long after the folks up north already have been rationed for a long while.
As if Hollywood wasn't incentive enough to let the whole area dry up and blow away...
The fun thing is that a lot of high tech companies don't use UPSes or tape backups for a _lot_ of their systems. Especially lab/R&D type stuff. Rolling blackouts could cause some ugliness for a lot of companies if data gets lost because of this.
I couldn't find any links about cars that drive themselves (computer driven cars) there. But then I can't find anything about them on other search engines either. You'd think something that nifty would be on the web somewhere, hrm? ;)
Because I don't want to use KDE or be forced to load KDE libs for one app. I don't like either KDE or Gnome. Make it so that you can use it without having to touch any bit of KDE and I'll look at it. :)
You like Konq? Great, use it. I don't want anything tied to any window manager, even if it's not a sucky one like KDE.
Sending people into space is what we _need_ to do. Not the pathetic amount that we do now. We need factories up there, living quarters on the moon. We need to get sustainable human living conditions off of earth. We can't start years down the line, we need to start now. It's a goal that our species must accomplish sometime, or we are as dead as the dinosaurs.
Why do people always insist on staying on earth, and letting only robots leave?
The moon mission may have been just a 'porkbarrel' project from the POV of the funders, but in reality it was the most successful prospecting mission ever. We need to get back there and get to work on it!
Ok, we know how to say Linus, but how do you say ;)
Tove? Long or short o? e like a long or short a?
Some oddness unrelated to english?
Nah... they'll just keep making new laws until _everyone_ is guilty of _something_. That way they'll have a perfect record of convictions. Everyone in prisons is of _something_. :P
Reagan and Bush Sr. had to deal with the Justices on the bench at the time. The next president will most likely put 3-4 new people on the Supreme Court benches. This would enable the overturning of RvW. It's a position Reagan and Bush Sr. did not have.
Personally, I fear the people that either would put on the Supreme court. I'm only hoping that whoever gets there is a better person than either of the current major candidates for pres.
Um... how about Stanford? It's pretty much right ;)
next door to the PARC. I think Stanford can be
called more than just 'half-decent'.
A cult is something that a person is indoctrinated into, while a religion is something that a person honestly belives in. Thus two people can be in the same belief system, and one can be in a religion, and one be in a cult.
:)
People born into something are indoctrinated since birth to that, rather than coming into it on their own belief, so that makes it a cult.
This is a very relavent, and there are possible real world examples of this. One possible reason for the relative commonness of a type of disease (MS or cystic fibrosis(spl?), I don't remember exactly which, is that it was linked to a gene that let people survive the Bubonic plague.
There are all sorts of possibilities like this scenario.
Just get 5 or 6 of these together in a jacked up car frame and you'll have something about as inefficient and horrible as most suck-u-v's out there. And it might even add to the hazard factor on the road! That one's hard to do with suck-u-v's, but they manage to get less and less safe for the other people on the road anyway.
Yeah, I've been wanting a stable (or even just usable) version of GNUstep for a long while now. I just wish I were able to code more so I could help work on it more than just QA testing type stuff. :P
Um... you're not serious, are you? Corporate Dictated Evil is a rather bad enviornment for me. Perhaps it works for you, but I have run into many problems with it, mostly with ToolTalk issues. Besides that, I find it a rather clunky and unpleasing interface, overall. It's not _terrible_, really, all in all. But it's far from what I would consider good.
But that's what's nice about UNIX... we have diversity. If it works for you, great. Have at it. It doesn't work for me, though.
The difference is that one person actually has that viewpoint and cares about the discussion. The other is just stirring up sh*t, and seeing what type of reaction they get.
Back when I was a total computer newbie, I was using a DOS computer. I knew nothing about DOS, but I had a program that would dial up to BBSes for me. My roommate set that program up, and I used it. After a few months, I got a shell account on an ISP. I knew nothing about the 'net or UNIX. This ISP had a great menu system, though. It would give me options for commonly used programs and system functions, and while it was doing that, it would print out the exact command that it did. After a while, I started using those commands directly at the system prompt, to save time.
Soon I was looking up man pages on various commands like vi, as I tired of the limits of pico. I was looking up various things on how to customize my shell and use it better. A little while after that I was installing Linux on my home system (this was a few months before kernel 1.0), and a couple months after I managed to get that working with X and PPP, I wiped out my DOS partition. I've been learning much more since.
I don't think I would have started out liking UNIX at all, if I didn't have some sort of guide like that character based menu, that told me exactly what was happening behind the scenes in the shell.
Something of this concept, perhaps in a GUI even, would be very good for beginners, and would do nothing to cripple things for advanced users.
I went to Fry's today for lunch (mmm... new Leatherman ;) and saw a big poster for one of these cubes there. Kind of odd for Apple to get into such a huff over these being shown only a very short bit before they start their own ads, hrm? Or is Fry's showing off illegal ads now? ;)
All I want is for daylight wasting time to end, and for the day to start at dawn, not midnight. Is that too much to ask for? :)
Blegh. PCI sucks too. We can do _SO_ much better
than PCI. IDE is _terrible_ for many things. Kill IDE and start using exclusively SCSI, and watch the SCSI prices drop to almost IDE levels, as SCSI
devices are finally made in bulk.
Having 'everyone equal' is the way to an evolutionary dead end. We _need_ diversity. We need people who are genetically better than others... they are the ones need to advance our species. Having genetic modifications to only a
limited portion of our population is _safer_, too.
If they somehow fail (a virus that only affects people with a certain type of anti-cancer mod, for instance), then we have backup population to keep our species going. After a virus like that, the gene pool would be much worse in many ways, but at least we would survive.
And survival and advancement of our species is very important, I think we can mostly all agree.
You're focusing on your coding, reading through some source. You go deep into thought, your eyes close. The software figures that since your attention is finally away from the window you were coding in, now is a good time to bring up all those messages that have been waiting for the past couple hours. A couple dozen attention windows pop up, distracting you from your thoughts and making you forget about your project. :)
That's what the name means, right? Status Upgrade Vehicle. ;)
I live about 20 miles away from work. It takes me
:P
about an hour to drive this. Biking would take
about 3 hours, due to traffic and everything...
there are no good bike routes here, and lots of
cross streets and traffic. I'm at work 9 hours
(8 hours plus lunch, which I usually work through
anyway). 9hr work+3 hour commute here+3 hr commute
back+1/2 hr prep time+8hr sleep=23.5hrs. That
leaves me 1/2 hour after work for dinner and time
to myself. Plenty of time!
Oddly enough, going with public transit would take
3 hours as well, with all the bus transfers I would need to do.
Those extra 4 hours a day are _important_ to me.
I'll continue to drive.
I wish those electric or hybrid cars were cheaper,
though!
Atheists have the belief of non-existance of deity. It is belief in something without evidence. Agnostics are the ones without the belief system (agnostic = I dunno, basically).
Not to say that I don't agree with the sentiment of atheists. I would no more believe in a god without evidence of that being than I would in any other object, such as fairies or the easter bunny.
But saying 'it does not exist' is a belief. Saying 'as far as I know it does not exist, but it could', is not a belief, it's simply lack of knowledge.
The term 'God' is not universal across all religions. There are many that would disagree with it. Animists, Goddess worshipers, atheists (the religious belief in the lack of a deity) are all examples. Having a government sponsored, supported, or stated position for God and is on the same level as this. It is wrong and should be seperated from the State.
One Nation Under God.
In God We Trust.
I do not trust in this God, and I do not want to live in a nation under him. My religious rights, stated to be respected by the US, are being ignored by this same union.
Churches are exempt from taxes? I'll form the Church of the Holy Dogdrool. No, they won't accept that as a proper church just because it has only one member? Blatent discrimination... if they are to state _any_ sort of criteria for a church beyond not breaking other laws (such as murder), then I don't see how they can state this is not a state approved religious discrimination.
I think churches need to get _no_ special treatment like tax breaks.