I could counter with 'if you don't know what a red tolerance band on a resistor means' I guess.
But that's more of a nerd thing.
Now I'm off to figure out something clever to do with tolerance bands on resistors to make my.signature for awhile.
I discovered some parts drawers at work recently with standard carbon-comp (in appearnce, the construction may differ internally) resistors going up to 100 megohms. There is a drawer full of 'brown black violet' resistors, and the drawer is labeled 100M ohms. There are three other drawers, too, with 47 and 56M resistors, all values higher than the 22M ohms that I thought was the 'top of the family' value for carbon comp resistors.
(I work for a very old electronics component company that you find advertisements for in early 1940's Ham Radio publications. I make daily use of a General Radio Variac that is probably at least three times older than the average age of participants on Slashdot)
Well, anything that blocked out the last two weeks of 'Pledge Week' on NPR can't be a bad thing.
I'm sorry. Why do the 'crisp intelligent' announcers on NPR degenerate into saccharine folksy hucksters so readily? Is it due to spending too much of the rest of the year in an echo chamber?
You keep pointing us to slanted one-sided works. Most people, when they envision a site titled 'Stealing America Vote by Vote' will understand that it's likely to be a site with a strong bias in one direction or the other.
Diebolds CEO vowed [cbsnews.com] to deliver the 2004 presidential election to Mr. Bush.
No. The Diebold CEO's statement was similar to what the CEO of Ford would have said if a Ford Vehicle was to be used in Bush's inaugural parade.
Essentially he meant 'we are proud to provide the means for the public to vote you into office.'
It's fun to spin conspiracy theories. It's great fun. It's especially fun when your 'side' in a political race is so completely out of touch with the populace that they haven't won many recent elections. It's one way of keeping busy, and an adequate means to avoid facing reality, getting in touch with the voters, and winning elections by representing their will.
The people who are obsessed with politics are generally warped and weird people without enough going on in their real lives. This includes people from both the 'left' and 'right' if you mean the busybodies who bother participating in 'Political Party Functions.'
Many people want reasonable government that has a minimal amount of control. Some of these people are termed 'conservatives' because they'll vote for whatever guy promises to 'shut the bullshit in Washington down.' George Bush was a politician said people made the mistake of voting for. He's delivered mixed results, but said people are still out there. Others may be called 'liberal' leaning although they don't participate much in the political process, and just want politicians to FOAD.
The people ranting and raving about 'fairness and cheating in the election' to the contrary, are people who buy heavily into the political process. They believe the line: 'I am from the government, I am here to help.' They consider the political process really, really important because they believe a strong government can solve a lot of problems.
We need a mechanism to calm these people down and/or shunt them off somewhere they will do less harm to society. Maybe giving them blogs to rant and rave on is the solution. It's worked well thus far, though they have had minimal success in interfering with regular people's lives.
Why are grocer's self-checkouts so much more advanced than voting machines? It must be because voting doesn't matter and grocering does.
Possibly because grocers are businessmen engaged in private enterprise, while voting machines are selected by government bureaucrats?
Me, I think we should go back to paper ballots. Hand counted at each precinct. SWAT teams encircle each precinct headquarters and any 'journalists' trying to get 'early results' are shot. Cameras at each precinct webcast the entire counting procedure live, and playback is also available.
Maybe it is 10 times as likely to mutate to kill millions as any other virus...
Frankly, sometimes I feel like a lot of the panic relates to the fact that it will mostly likely kill off a lot of the older population. The Medical Care Industry can't allow that you know. If the old people die early, who will they bilk in nursing homes for the next several decades? There's a far smaller revenue stream in dealing with a crash-program pandemic that lasts 8 months than there is in long term medical care and treatment of all the maladies that accompany a slow decline into old age.
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is likely to be this decade's AIDS:
The way that sentence rolled out reminds me of one of my pet peeves. People rant about 'The AIDS Epidemic: a plight humanity has never suffered before.' The truth is, in history there have been MANY examples of incurable contagious diseases, including significant sexually transmitted ones like syphilis. And yet people wring their hands and act like 'AIDS' is something totally new, that humanity has never faced.
At it's heart, the movement against the Estate Tax has most to do with people who don't believe the government has some inherent right to tax all income.
Remember, there are other ways for governments to raise the money to fund themselves. Other forms of taxation, even. There was no US Income tax in the 19th century.
The 'double tax' issue is just one facet of the issue.
I have more of a problem with the birds who eat poision ivy berries and shit out the seeds along my fence rows and beneath the power lines. Spreading the poision ivy and necessitating that I go out and eradicate it because poision ivy just PISSES ME OFF these days.
Correct. And it's advisable to consume servings of several ounces of meat protein as part of a meal. Several times a week, in fact. Gorging on meat turns your digestive tract into a rancid pit.
The protein loss conversion from grain to beef is about 6 to 1. You use up 6 times the usable protein to produce the beef.
There are valid and practical reasons to raise cattle. There are large areas of land mass that are grassland and not cultivated to grow grain crops. THAT is where cattle should be grazed. Cattle should NOT be crowded onto feedlots and grain shoveled at them.
...'Agribusiness-Caused Chicken Flu' or maybe even plain old 'Chicken Flu' because the chicken farmers of the world have a lot of clout. Colonel Sanders has a lot of clout.
I could spend a considerable amount of time pondering how Slashdot 'relates' to IT.
I mean, this is a fairly open site that has lots of information and discussions about cool techie stuff, and other side topics of interest to people who like cool techie stuff. Occasionally it has boring drub-drub stuff about IT. ('IT' in case you weren't aware, is the BORING part of computers- you know- beige cases being wheeled around on carts by drones)
I'm sorry for not being an enthusiast for the 'theme' junk that in my opinion detracts from the lego concept entirely, but I didn't see 'plain lego bricks' on the list. The other stuff is just a marketing department running out of control. As long as big tubs of regular lego bricks will be available, this will just make it easier to not be annoyed by the other crap.
Just my opinion. I grew up building stuff with legos, and didn't need anything but regular bricks to do so with.
You are a small business owner who maintains mail servers that deliver 100,000 messages per day? Hmmmm...
I don't have to ask what kind of 'small business' you are in. It would be different if you, say, were admining boxes from businesses with, say, 10,000 employees delivering said 100,000 messages. It's plain what you are.
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I could counter with 'if you don't know what a red tolerance band on a resistor means' I guess.
.signature for awhile.
But that's more of a nerd thing.
Now I'm off to figure out something clever to do with tolerance bands on resistors to make my
I discovered some parts drawers at work recently with standard carbon-comp (in appearnce, the construction may differ internally) resistors going up to 100 megohms. There is a drawer full of 'brown black violet' resistors, and the drawer is labeled 100M ohms. There are three other drawers, too, with 47 and 56M resistors, all values higher than the 22M ohms that I thought was the 'top of the family' value for carbon comp resistors.
(I work for a very old electronics component company that you find advertisements for in early 1940's Ham Radio publications. I make daily use of a General Radio Variac that is probably at least three times older than the average age of participants on Slashdot)
I happen to be so 'bright' that I haven't sent off any of my money to XM.
I suppose I am missing out on 'a whole lot' for not subscribing.
If it's only 'pennies a year' then NPR should do fine without it.
Why do they become so shrill when the very notion is raised?
You don't have to be 'offended' to dislike somebody like Howard Stern.
My recent personal experience is that it was 2+ weeks. Which _finally_ ended a few days ago.
Well, anything that blocked out the last two weeks of 'Pledge Week' on NPR can't be a bad thing.
I'm sorry. Why do the 'crisp intelligent' announcers on NPR degenerate into saccharine folksy hucksters so readily? Is it due to spending too much of the rest of the year in an echo chamber?
Shouldn't you be on DemocraticUnderground.com right now, deleting comments and user accounts?
You keep pointing us to slanted one-sided works. Most people, when they envision a site titled 'Stealing America Vote by Vote' will understand that it's likely to be a site with a strong bias in one direction or the other.
When will you figure this out?
Diebolds CEO vowed [cbsnews.com] to deliver the 2004 presidential election to Mr. Bush.
No. The Diebold CEO's statement was similar to what the CEO of Ford would have said if a Ford Vehicle was to be used in Bush's inaugural parade.
Essentially he meant 'we are proud to provide the means for the public to vote you into office.'
It's fun to spin conspiracy theories. It's great fun. It's especially fun when your 'side' in a political race is so completely out of touch with the populace that they haven't won many recent elections. It's one way of keeping busy, and an adequate means to avoid facing reality, getting in touch with the voters, and winning elections by representing their will.
You made your point well.
The people who are obsessed with politics are generally warped and weird people without enough going on in their real lives. This includes people from both the 'left' and 'right' if you mean the busybodies who bother participating in 'Political Party Functions.'
Many people want reasonable government that has a minimal amount of control. Some of these people are termed 'conservatives' because they'll vote for whatever guy promises to 'shut the bullshit in Washington down.' George Bush was a politician said people made the mistake of voting for. He's delivered mixed results, but said people are still out there. Others may be called 'liberal' leaning although they don't participate much in the political process, and just want politicians to FOAD.
The people ranting and raving about 'fairness and cheating in the election' to the contrary, are people who buy heavily into the political process. They believe the line: 'I am from the government, I am here to help.' They consider the political process really, really important because they believe a strong government can solve a lot of problems.
We need a mechanism to calm these people down and/or shunt them off somewhere they will do less harm to society. Maybe giving them blogs to rant and rave on is the solution. It's worked well thus far, though they have had minimal success in interfering with regular people's lives.
Possibly because grocers are businessmen engaged in private enterprise, while voting machines are selected by government bureaucrats?
Me, I think we should go back to paper ballots. Hand counted at each precinct. SWAT teams encircle each precinct headquarters and any 'journalists' trying to get 'early results' are shot. Cameras at each precinct webcast the entire counting procedure live, and playback is also available.
I mostly played with Lego blocks between the years 1965 and 1972. I don't think 'Technics' existed.
How is this any different, so long as they comply with any DMCA takedown notices?
Well, to begin with, if they 'comply with takedown notices' they are editing content. They cease to have common carrier status.
Maybe it is 10 times as likely to mutate to kill millions as any other virus...
Frankly, sometimes I feel like a lot of the panic relates to the fact that it will mostly likely kill off a lot of the older population. The Medical Care Industry can't allow that you know. If the old people die early, who will they bilk in nursing homes for the next several decades? There's a far smaller revenue stream in dealing with a crash-program pandemic that lasts 8 months than there is in long term medical care and treatment of all the maladies that accompany a slow decline into old age.
But now I'm being cynical.
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is likely to be this decade's AIDS:
The way that sentence rolled out reminds me of one of my pet peeves. People rant about 'The AIDS Epidemic: a plight humanity has never suffered before.' The truth is, in history there have been MANY examples of incurable contagious diseases, including significant sexually transmitted ones like syphilis. And yet people wring their hands and act like 'AIDS' is something totally new, that humanity has never faced.
At it's heart, the movement against the Estate Tax has most to do with people who don't believe the government has some inherent right to tax all income.
Remember, there are other ways for governments to raise the money to fund themselves. Other forms of taxation, even. There was no US Income tax in the 19th century.
The 'double tax' issue is just one facet of the issue.
How can you be 'Mr. Slippery'??
Since you're vegan, the grease content in your feces must be far, far below average.
Or does your name have to to with bedroom slippers?
I have more of a problem with the birds who eat poision ivy berries and shit out the seeds along my fence rows and beneath the power lines. Spreading the poision ivy and necessitating that I go out and eradicate it because poision ivy just PISSES ME OFF these days.
But now I've engaged in extreme topic drift.
Correct. And it's advisable to consume servings of several ounces of meat protein as part of a meal. Several times a week, in fact. Gorging on meat turns your digestive tract into a rancid pit.
The protein loss conversion from grain to beef is about 6 to 1. You use up 6 times the usable protein to produce the beef.
There are valid and practical reasons to raise cattle. There are large areas of land mass that are grassland and not cultivated to grow grain crops. THAT is where cattle should be grazed. Cattle should NOT be crowded onto feedlots and grain shoveled at them.
...'Agribusiness-Caused Chicken Flu' or maybe even plain old 'Chicken Flu' because the chicken farmers of the world have a lot of clout. Colonel Sanders has a lot of clout.
I could spend a considerable amount of time pondering how Slashdot 'relates' to IT.
I mean, this is a fairly open site that has lots of information and discussions about cool techie stuff, and other side topics of interest to people who like cool techie stuff. Occasionally it has boring drub-drub stuff about IT. ('IT' in case you weren't aware, is the BORING part of computers- you know- beige cases being wheeled around on carts by drones)
What's that? An Ayn-Rand-fiend who takes that stuff seriously?? I thought that had died out.
I'm sorry for not being an enthusiast for the 'theme' junk that in my opinion detracts from the lego concept entirely, but I didn't see 'plain lego bricks' on the list. The other stuff is just a marketing department running out of control. As long as big tubs of regular lego bricks will be available, this will just make it easier to not be annoyed by the other crap.
Just my opinion. I grew up building stuff with legos, and didn't need anything but regular bricks to do so with.
You are a small business owner who maintains mail servers that deliver 100,000 messages per day? Hmmmm...
I don't have to ask what kind of 'small business' you are in. It would be different if you, say, were admining boxes from businesses with, say, 10,000 employees delivering said 100,000 messages. It's plain what you are.