Two hundred innocent people are killed and people are worried that future events like these might cause an IT outage?
That's not moral bankruptcy as you claim, it's people worrying about what will affect them more. Lot's of people die every day for lots of reasons -- it's not our moral responsibility to worry for each and every one of them.
My appartment has one bed, 3 chairs (a gift, I didn't buy those,) a notebook computer, an old filing cabinet (another gift,) a couple of kettles, a frying pan, a steaming pot, some drinking glasses, an oscilloscope, a 3 way power transformer, a digital CPU programmer, an unfinished 3D printer, a few small tools, a VEX robot set with some addons, some clothing, a vacuum cleaner and a few normal household appliences (washer/dryer/fridge/stove/microwave oven/dishwasher.) That is it.
Must. Restrain myself. From making. Lack of girlfriend joke. Arrgh!
I use Boinc, which lets me divide my time between a bunch of projects. I give about 99% of the time to medical research and 1% to SETI. I think of SETI as the lottery: it's fun to play, inspiring and would change my life if I won, but it's not worth spending a lot of time on. I spend just enough to be in the game.
Let's put the blame where it belongs: I have less close friends because I spend too much time on the internet. It's not like the internet's fault, it's mine for taking the easy option.
Curiously enough the head project architect, Donna Clare of architectural firm, Cohos Evamy was also the head project architect for Edmonton's highly acclaimed Winspear Centre, a concert hall designed specifically to enhance acoustics.
What's curious about that? If you want a quiet building, I'd think you'd want to hire a guy who's an expert in sound and architecture.
As any Slashdot nerd who's been to camp (or gym class, or any other instance where 8-to-18 year olds are thrown together) there is a lot of pranks, hazing and other forms of humiliation that goes on in these environments.
Right, so shouldn't the camps work to stop the hazing that occurs rather than blame myspace when people find out? People are being snide because the camps are only interested in covering their asses, not doing anything about the real problem.
You must be an english major, looking for symbolism among the coincidences. Do you know how small the search space for three letter acronyms is? 26*26*26 = 17,576. That's pretty damn small when you compare it to the size of the english language (about 300,000) so there's going to be some overlap on RMS. Besides, if it wasn't RMS, you would have found some other 'meaningful' acronym.
Would colonizing space really solve the basic problems that could cause mankind to die out on Earth?
Of course not, but that's not the point. Look, no matter how many health-and-safety lessons the human species attends, there will always be a small probability of a planet-destroying event. If you live on one planet, no matter how safe you make it you will eventually be destroyed.
Trying to solve all of Earth's problems before going into space is the same as cleaning your whole house before starting your homework.
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That's not moral bankruptcy as you claim, it's people worrying about what will affect them more. Lot's of people die every day for lots of reasons -- it's not our moral responsibility to worry for each and every one of them.
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The people there are cheaper because they are in eternal struggle.
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A presentation program that doesn't look like complete shit.
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Looks like they could use a bit more cash to keep their site up and running.
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My appartment has one bed, 3 chairs (a gift, I didn't buy those,) a notebook computer, an old filing cabinet (another gift,) a couple of kettles, a frying pan, a steaming pot, some drinking glasses, an oscilloscope, a 3 way power transformer, a digital CPU programmer, an unfinished 3D printer, a few small tools, a VEX robot set with some addons, some clothing, a vacuum cleaner and a few normal household appliences (washer/dryer/fridge/stove/microwave oven/dishwasher.) That is it.
Must. Restrain myself. From making. Lack of girlfriend joke. Arrgh!
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If you got a couple hundred people to go down to your local Best Buy, they'd probably call the cops.
You mean like this?
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Voices though... that's a different story.
Yes it is, my precious.
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That Andy Serkis didn't get nominated for best supporting actor speaks to how out of touch the accademy awards are.
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No kidding. Bring on the meta-chair-throwing jokes instead.
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I use Boinc, which lets me divide my time between a bunch of projects. I give about 99% of the time to medical research and 1% to SETI. I think of SETI as the lottery: it's fun to play, inspiring and would change my life if I won, but it's not worth spending a lot of time on. I spend just enough to be in the game.
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Just like the Daily Show guy.
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Let's put the blame where it belongs: I have less close friends because I spend too much time on the internet. It's not like the internet's fault, it's mine for taking the easy option.
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I wonder what they'd to if someone made this set up:
You speak into a microphone and a speach-to-text program IMs the words to your friend's computer which then reads them aloud. Is that voip? Taxable?
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Errr... That was the gender-neutral 'guy'. :)
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Curiously enough the head project architect, Donna Clare of architectural firm, Cohos Evamy was also the head project architect for Edmonton's highly acclaimed Winspear Centre, a concert hall designed specifically to enhance acoustics.
What's curious about that? If you want a quiet building, I'd think you'd want to hire a guy who's an expert in sound and architecture.
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The government is like windows: it needs to be rebooted from time to time.
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As any Slashdot nerd who's been to camp (or gym class, or any other instance where 8-to-18 year olds are thrown together) there is a lot of pranks, hazing and other forms of humiliation that goes on in these environments.
Right, so shouldn't the camps work to stop the hazing that occurs rather than blame myspace when people find out? People are being snide because the camps are only interested in covering their asses, not doing anything about the real problem.
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Thank you, single data point! You always end any argument.
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Amazon is only attempting this with nonperishables like peanut butter, potato chips, and canned soup
What other kind of food is there? I know not of this 'perishable' food.
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The EC has also committed to putting new measures in place to halve exclusion rates in skills and digital literacy by 2010.
The only people I ever hear use words like 'digital literacy' are the people most clueless about computers.
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I think both examples are very symbolic.
You must be an english major, looking for symbolism among the coincidences. Do you know how small the search space for three letter acronyms is? 26*26*26 = 17,576. That's pretty damn small when you compare it to the size of the english language (about 300,000) so there's going to be some overlap on RMS. Besides, if it wasn't RMS, you would have found some other 'meaningful' acronym.
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So how long before I can license my work CC-BY-YOU-CAN'T-BROADCAST-THIS-IN-THE-US-3.0?
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Would colonizing space really solve the basic problems that could cause mankind to die out on Earth?
Of course not, but that's not the point. Look, no matter how many health-and-safety lessons the human species attends, there will always be a small probability of a planet-destroying event. If you live on one planet, no matter how safe you make it you will eventually be destroyed.
Trying to solve all of Earth's problems before going into space is the same as cleaning your whole house before starting your homework.
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Well then we'd better learn how to travel to other galaxies, fast.
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Well, hopefully only the smart people will go. The smart people and their nurses.
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