What are you talking about? I live in unincorporated Snohomish County which is, by my admittedly hasty fact check, in Western Washington. And those of us who don't live with Mom & Dad, and actually have to pay for our lodgings, like the peace (or in my case, mortgages) outside the city limits. It's not really an American thing, as much as it's an grown-up thing. Now, toddle on back to the clubhouse kiddo.
As a man once said..."on what planet do you spend most of your time?".
All one has to do to be on septic is live outside a municipalities limits. For example, I currently live within the city limits and am on city sewer. But my last place was, and this is not exaggeration, less than two miles down the only option was septic. This was not exactly the outback; it was only 25 minutes from Seattle.
From TFA: "The helmet acts as a windscoop, so the pressure between the skull and helmet is larger than the blast wave by itself,.."
With a direct gunshot to the head the head saves their lives, but with indirect shockwaves (i.e. an IED going off a few meters away) the helmets have been shown to increase the likelihood of a TBI.
From TFA: "Because the effects TBI are so long-lasting and complex, the cost to the government is enormous."
I know it costs a lot to train, feed, and deploy a soldier. And when said solider is hit with a TBI it actaully costs more than if they had actually been killed outright. But even with that I think the 'cost to government' is not even on the radar when compared with the trillion+ bailout. Not to sound cold (and I have family deployed right now), but these soldiers are just meat to the government. Now if they were 'too big to fail' then maybe we could take case of these folks....
Not really. It's called 'pandering'. A few select sentences out of this article kinda sorta mention something about data, so that's massaged into something that will draw in the tech demographic and (hopefully) result in banner ad revenue.
There is a data center in WA state that keeps half of its' property as vacant land for the sole purpose of using it as a giant heat exchanger. Looks like about an acre. They have piping about 16 inches underground throughout the field. I am told it works great.
It would take you 40 YEARS to make 1.2m??? What, do you work at Quiznos? I am a lowly sysadmin for a non-profit and make enough where I could hit 7 figures in about 15 years.
Isn't a mortons fork when both choices are bad (damned if you do, damned if you don't)? What is it when both choices are good (in this case, who to revile more)?
We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play. There are some cases out there, some legitimate-use cases -- that aren't just people that refuse to buy a modem or are crazy and weird and living in a closet.
So I guess all those gamers who live in a rural, dial-up only area (and there are more then one might think) are just crazy and weird closet dwellers? The more this guys talks the more I think SCII will be a pass for me.
Who said anything about 'turning off' scripts? I want to be able to whitelist sites I trust and reject all other scripts from being run. Since many legit sites use scripts, people have to leave script-execution enabled all the time in IE.
As long as you want to disable it GLOBALLY, them yeah that's great. Even IE can do that. But that makes many legitimate and useful sites useless. I don't want to have globally enable and disable scripts every time. With NoScript I can 'whitelist' specific sites or just temporarily allow scripts for a single page if I want.
FF or O don't require more technical skill, but people with more technical knowledge with usually opt to use them. For example, only a technically savvy person knows the dangers of allowing scripts to run without direct user permission. With FF one can get NoScript running in less than a minute. With IE, you might be able to cobble together some goofy proxy, but for the most part you are on your own.
No one knows better than a scumbag malware distributor how to protect themselves online.
Been playing a lot of Worms 2: Armageddon on XBLA lately. It's pretty fun but I miss being able to load my own voice packs like I could on a PC. Having all my worms sounding like Chris Farley was the best.
A pocket watch is practical in retrospect. But at the time, when every home had several clocks and nearly every town had some kind of 'clock tower' (or other kind of public clock), I bet people thought "Why in the world would anyone buy another clock to keep in the pocket? Are they to lazy to look slight to the left to see the time?". When they were 'new tech' you had to spend quite a white winding them up day after day, they were not the accurate, and they were very expensive.
I will grant you that did not need a 'huge battery pack'. But we have seen people flock to unwieldy things in the past if they were made to feel those things were a necessity. Take early microwave ovens. They were enormous (our first one weighed over 40 pounds!), expensive, and had questionable performance. But, even though it took up 1/3 of the counter space in the kitchen, my Mom just 'had' to have one.
Never mind that it isn't practical to walk around with a huge projector on your chest, it isn't fashionable.
Well I imagine there was a time when this argument was made about the pocket watch. I mean who wants to walk around to clock in their pocket. And what's this? You want to put in on my wrist?! That will never be fashionable!
So now, not only can I not toss the magazine into recycling without a thought, but in many municipalities it will be a crime to even throw it in the regular trash due to the electronics. Thanks Hollywood!
Well I imagine for news of an add in Entertainment Weekly to trickle all the way down to us nerds, it's got to already be buzztastic in Hollywoodland. Sure it cost them several orders of magnitude more to run the ad, but I bet they will get the same in returns.
*sigh* You need to relax kiddo. I can see why most of your posts, if they get modded at all, get a neat little 'troll' or 'flamebait' next them (I did see an 'interesting' in there..good work!). Go have a juice box and a cookie and call it a day. The grown ups are talking about grown up things.
So wait...it's not about money? It's about control? The RIAA is evil to be sure, but they are not trying to set up fiefdoms or topple governments here. Of course it's about money. The control you speak of is there; as a mechanism to generate more money.
The film was based on another short called "Alive in Joberg". Here's a little something about that: "...the film takes place in 1990, while apartheid was still in effect in South Africa, the aliens were forced to live amongst the already-oppressed black population, causing conflict with them as well as the non-white and white population. The story of a race of oppressed alien beings escaping to a new planet only to find even more oppression..."
When this remake was started it was meant to carry that same theme; and it did for the first two acts. But the director's not a fool. He knows that the Halo/RedBull demographic needs their shootouts and explosions or they won't buy the action figures and video games. So he caved and gave you want you need.
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What are you talking about? I live in unincorporated Snohomish County which is, by my admittedly hasty fact check, in Western Washington. And those of us who don't live with Mom & Dad, and actually have to pay for our lodgings, like the peace (or in my case, mortgages) outside the city limits. It's not really an American thing, as much as it's an grown-up thing. Now, toddle on back to the clubhouse kiddo.
As a man once said..."on what planet do you spend most of your time?".
All one has to do to be on septic is live outside a municipalities limits. For example, I currently live within the city limits and am on city sewer. But my last place was, and this is not exaggeration, less than two miles down the only option was septic. This was not exactly the outback; it was only 25 minutes from Seattle.
From TFA: "The helmet acts as a windscoop, so the pressure between the skull and helmet is larger than the blast wave by itself,.."
With a direct gunshot to the head the head saves their lives, but with indirect shockwaves (i.e. an IED going off a few meters away) the helmets have been shown to increase the likelihood of a TBI.
From TFA: "Because the effects TBI are so long-lasting and complex, the cost to the government is enormous."
I know it costs a lot to train, feed, and deploy a soldier. And when said solider is hit with a TBI it actaully costs more than if they had actually been killed outright. But even with that I think the 'cost to government' is not even on the radar when compared with the trillion+ bailout. Not to sound cold (and I have family deployed right now), but these soldiers are just meat to the government. Now if they were 'too big to fail' then maybe we could take case of these folks....
Not really. It's called 'pandering'. A few select sentences out of this article kinda sorta mention something about data, so that's massaged into something that will draw in the tech demographic and (hopefully) result in banner ad revenue.
There is a data center in WA state that keeps half of its' property as vacant land for the sole purpose of using it as a giant heat exchanger. Looks like about an acre. They have piping about 16 inches underground throughout the field. I am told it works great.
It would take you 40 YEARS to make 1.2m??? What, do you work at Quiznos? I am a lowly sysadmin for a non-profit and make enough where I could hit 7 figures in about 15 years.
Isn't a mortons fork when both choices are bad (damned if you do, damned if you don't)? What is it when both choices are good (in this case, who to revile more)?
So I guess all those gamers who live in a rural, dial-up only area (and there are more then one might think) are just crazy and weird closet dwellers? The more this guys talks the more I think SCII will be a pass for me.
Wow...you're right. That's WAY better than just using FF. And the best part is your links try to load scripts on my machine. Good work!
Who said anything about 'turning off' scripts? I want to be able to whitelist sites I trust and reject all other scripts from being run. Since many legit sites use scripts, people have to leave script-execution enabled all the time in IE.
As long as you want to disable it GLOBALLY, them yeah that's great. Even IE can do that. But that makes many legitimate and useful sites useless. I don't want to have globally enable and disable scripts every time. With NoScript I can 'whitelist' specific sites or just temporarily allow scripts for a single page if I want.
FF or O don't require more technical skill, but people with more technical knowledge with usually opt to use them. For example, only a technically savvy person knows the dangers of allowing scripts to run without direct user permission. With FF one can get NoScript running in less than a minute. With IE, you might be able to cobble together some goofy proxy, but for the most part you are on your own.
No one knows better than a scumbag malware distributor how to protect themselves online.
I did. Like 40 minutes ago...sheesh! Wait, I mean oy nutter!
Been playing a lot of Worms 2: Armageddon on XBLA lately. It's pretty fun but I miss being able to load my own voice packs like I could on a PC. Having all my worms sounding like Chris Farley was the best.
But I prefer worms that throw banana bombs, super sheep, and can wield a shotgun.
A pocket watch is practical in retrospect. But at the time, when every home had several clocks and nearly every town had some kind of 'clock tower' (or other kind of public clock), I bet people thought "Why in the world would anyone buy another clock to keep in the pocket? Are they to lazy to look slight to the left to see the time?". When they were 'new tech' you had to spend quite a white winding them up day after day, they were not the accurate, and they were very expensive.
I will grant you that did not need a 'huge battery pack'. But we have seen people flock to unwieldy things in the past if they were made to feel those things were a necessity. Take early microwave ovens. They were enormous (our first one weighed over 40 pounds!), expensive, and had questionable performance. But, even though it took up 1/3 of the counter space in the kitchen, my Mom just 'had' to have one.
Well I imagine there was a time when this argument was made about the pocket watch. I mean who wants to walk around to clock in their pocket. And what's this? You want to put in on my wrist?! That will never be fashionable!
So now, not only can I not toss the magazine into recycling without a thought, but in many municipalities it will be a crime to even throw it in the regular trash due to the electronics. Thanks Hollywood!
Well I imagine for news of an add in Entertainment Weekly to trickle all the way down to us nerds, it's got to already be buzztastic in Hollywoodland. Sure it cost them several orders of magnitude more to run the ad, but I bet they will get the same in returns.
....do I at least get wifi in my room?
*sigh* You need to relax kiddo. I can see why most of your posts, if they get modded at all, get a neat little 'troll' or 'flamebait' next them (I did see an 'interesting' in there..good work!). Go have a juice box and a cookie and call it a day. The grown ups are talking about grown up things.
Read the bill! READ the bill! READ THE bill!
/. lameness filter oppressed me.
Wanted all caps but
So wait...it's not about money? It's about control? The RIAA is evil to be sure, but they are not trying to set up fiefdoms or topple governments here. Of course it's about money. The control you speak of is there; as a mechanism to generate more money.
The film was based on another short called "Alive in Joberg". Here's a little something about that: "...the film takes place in 1990, while apartheid was still in effect in South Africa, the aliens were forced to live amongst the already-oppressed black population, causing conflict with them as well as the non-white and white population. The story of a race of oppressed alien beings escaping to a new planet only to find even more oppression..."
When this remake was started it was meant to carry that same theme; and it did for the first two acts. But the director's not a fool. He knows that the Halo/RedBull demographic needs their shootouts and explosions or they won't buy the action figures and video games. So he caved and gave you want you need.