When on the one hand our letters are soon forgotten in the pile of loose papers including the stack of newspapers that we once subscribed to but never read and just folded in half and put into the corner to gather dust like the Jefferson memorial and on the other hand our personal correspondence in digital form lives forever on servers and hard drives and websites recording not only each worthless word but also each visit by us the authors as well as them the audience for seemingly ever until the password is forgotten or the account expires like our aforementioned newspaper subscription, we proud and vain humans find that having a little historical impact in our own way is better than nothing and are reacting as such.
Let's not get carried away here. It's only a 2 orders of magnitude difference.
Conceptually, it's like the difference between the FM and AM frequencies on your radio. I don't think you have any problem receiving either band in your car.
What have they been doing until now?
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Anyone involved in actually running a business knows that you should focus on your core competencies and strategic intellectual properties. Using competent 3rd party vendors is always either cheaper or faster than developing in house, so I'm a little worried to hear that NASA wasn't doing this from the outset.
Engineers are smart people, but sometimes they haven't got a bit of sense. Business acumen doesn't come at the pointy end of a slide rule, it comes from understanding how to strategically use existing resources to maximize output. If that sounded like gobbledygook to you, congratulations, you don't have what it takes to climb the corporate ladder.
NASA needs to stop doing all the work themselves and start working with companies who can deliver cheaper and better solutions in shorter time frames. JPL, SLAC, Skunkworks, and all the rest are great to have as specialists, but gruntwork should definitely be handled externally.
Hey DOJ, why don't you come suck my dick? What's that? You're sorry about stopping the merger? Oh, thanks for being so apologetic. Kiss my ass, you little faggot! That's right. Oracle is your master now, bitch. Yeah, go cry like a baby to your mommy. Fucking pussy.
Suck my crystal balls, you worthless piece of shit. Then tell me you want to stop me from purchasing Sun Microsystems. Why are you squinting? Is the SUN in your eyes? Or is that my OH OH OH spooge all over your goddamn face?
That's simply not true. Just this year there has been a very noticeable upwards trend in my locality over the past 9 months. While the fluctuations over the short term may have brief retrograde trending, the clear pattern is one of warming.
It doesn't add up, and that is where the controversy lies. If there is proof that humans are causing global warming, it should be easy to show. However, if the Earth's temperature changes as a result of uncontrollable events happening at the sun, then we need to take that into consideration.
The controversy is very important, and having a calm, level-headed debate where both sides of the issue can discuss the topic without getting shouted down as "unscientific" (sunspot theorists) or "religious crackpots" (human-caused warming theorists) is just as important. Evidence is what will decide this one way or the other, but in order to have clear evidence, we must be able to express our theories in a respectful and open scientific environment. This is why we must teach the controversy.
It seems we may be heading towards another ice age. Time to start buying up some of that precious offshore land! Global climate change, whether caused by humans or natural processes is not something to be feared but something to be profited from.
Speaking of global change. The Slashdot front page still hasn't changed the appearance of that +- bar yet. Does anyone think it looks good? Has anyone found it to be functional?
When sunspots stop occurring, we're in for some global cooling. Perhaps this could reverse the damage we humans have done to the environment. What with our cars and factories and stuff.
Unless the drug trade is legalized, the gangs and drug cartels will always hold a monopoly on its sale. Decriminalizing minor possession does nothing but keep users on the street where they can continue to fund the gangs.
Mexico is in the middle of a huge drug war. The fighting is real and assassinations and kidnapping are frequent occurrences. This step seems to be a way of curbing the violence by letting users stay out of the prisons.
You aren't ever going to win the battle against weeds by cutting the leaves off. You need to pull the plant out by the root.
Every time I turn around the US government is finding new and innovative ideas in fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment. Scratch that. The US government is using the same old tried and true methods of fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment. They steal jobs. They bring crime. They bring disease. It's the same old song and dance.
In a world of modern transportation, it is essentially impossible to screen every person who crosses into our country for diseases. The solution isn't more border patrols on the Tex-Mex border, it's better healthcare for those who can't afford it. If the at-risk groups are the border towns and poverty-stricken, it makes sense to help them rather than try to cut off the flow of immigrants.
I used to fly internationally all the time, but with the growing anti-immigrant policies of the US, I find myself having a worse and worse time traveling even though I am a US citizen. The TSA and Immigration Control have made flying a mode of travel that is completely unattractive.
Cigarette lighters are available in over 90% of all the world's cars and light trucks. Sexual reproductive organs are present on over 99% of all Slashbots. Calculator apps are included in over 90% of all modern OS installations.
Just because something exists in large numbers doesn't mean it is used, and if it isn't used it isn't really a big deal.
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The makeipodsafe site is just a series of essays with self-referential links.
It's like Slashdot without the humor.
Why don't they show pictures of exploding ipods and injuries sustained by the exploding ipod owners? The sustain, show it to us.
How exactly is my paper going to be dangerous?
You tell me, buddy.
Why don't you just tell us what's on your computer? Why are you acting so suspiciously?
Well, as they say,
It's our right as citizens to be secure. If your papers (computer) is dangerous, it is reasonable to seize it.
From the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
And since the Constitution only protects against *unreasonable* search and seizure, there is nothing wrong here.
It's just a goddamned piece of paper.
When on the one hand our letters are soon forgotten in the pile of loose papers including the stack of newspapers that we once subscribed to but never read and just folded in half and put into the corner to gather dust like the Jefferson memorial and on the other hand our personal correspondence in digital form lives forever on servers and hard drives and websites recording not only each worthless word but also each visit by us the authors as well as them the audience for seemingly ever until the password is forgotten or the account expires like our aforementioned newspaper subscription, we proud and vain humans find that having a little historical impact in our own way is better than nothing and are reacting as such.
Not that anyone cares what we are writing.
TPB really helps me find my torrents. This kind of file sharing is exactly what BT is great for.
First, if you don't know what a word means, please don't use it. Even if you think you know, it's most likely that you will use it wrongly.
Second, so what does this mean for users?
It's several orders of magnitude farther.
Let's not get carried away here. It's only a 2 orders of magnitude difference.
Conceptually, it's like the difference between the FM and AM frequencies on your radio. I don't think you have any problem receiving either band in your car.
Who needs enemies?
Anyone involved in actually running a business knows that you should focus on your core competencies and strategic intellectual properties. Using competent 3rd party vendors is always either cheaper or faster than developing in house, so I'm a little worried to hear that NASA wasn't doing this from the outset.
Engineers are smart people, but sometimes they haven't got a bit of sense. Business acumen doesn't come at the pointy end of a slide rule, it comes from understanding how to strategically use existing resources to maximize output. If that sounded like gobbledygook to you, congratulations, you don't have what it takes to climb the corporate ladder.
NASA needs to stop doing all the work themselves and start working with companies who can deliver cheaper and better solutions in shorter time frames. JPL, SLAC, Skunkworks, and all the rest are great to have as specialists, but gruntwork should definitely be handled externally.
Come on. This is Linux, not some WIMPy GUI-based OS like Winders or Suckintosh.
I run the results of wget through a custom Perl script and then parse the results and feed image URLs back through wget and into libjpeg.
Why do I need a bloated web browser when I have such an elegant Unix solution?
Hey DOJ, why don't you come suck my dick? What's that? You're sorry about stopping the merger? Oh, thanks for being so apologetic. Kiss my ass, you little faggot! That's right. Oracle is your master now, bitch. Yeah, go cry like a baby to your mommy. Fucking pussy.
Suck my crystal balls, you worthless piece of shit. Then tell me you want to stop me from purchasing Sun Microsystems. Why are you squinting? Is the SUN in your eyes? Or is that my OH OH OH spooge all over your goddamn face?
What, EU? You want some of this too?
That's simply not true. Just this year there has been a very noticeable upwards trend in my locality over the past 9 months. While the fluctuations over the short term may have brief retrograde trending, the clear pattern is one of warming.
It doesn't add up, and that is where the controversy lies. If there is proof that humans are causing global warming, it should be easy to show. However, if the Earth's temperature changes as a result of uncontrollable events happening at the sun, then we need to take that into consideration.
The controversy is very important, and having a calm, level-headed debate where both sides of the issue can discuss the topic without getting shouted down as "unscientific" (sunspot theorists) or "religious crackpots" (human-caused warming theorists) is just as important. Evidence is what will decide this one way or the other, but in order to have clear evidence, we must be able to express our theories in a respectful and open scientific environment. This is why we must teach the controversy.
It's okay. We're all giggling like schoolgirls either way.
It seems we may be heading towards another ice age. Time to start buying up some of that precious offshore land! Global climate change, whether caused by humans or natural processes is not something to be feared but something to be profited from.
Speaking of global change. The Slashdot front page still hasn't changed the appearance of that +- bar yet. Does anyone think it looks good? Has anyone found it to be functional?
When sunspots stop occurring, we're in for some global cooling. Perhaps this could reverse the damage we humans have done to the environment. What with our cars and factories and stuff.
Weekend plans shot to hell, Pete?
Unless the drug trade is legalized, the gangs and drug cartels will always hold a monopoly on its sale. Decriminalizing minor possession does nothing but keep users on the street where they can continue to fund the gangs.
Mexico is in the middle of a huge drug war. The fighting is real and assassinations and kidnapping are frequent occurrences. This step seems to be a way of curbing the violence by letting users stay out of the prisons.
You aren't ever going to win the battle against weeds by cutting the leaves off. You need to pull the plant out by the root.
It tastes like oranges.
It wouldn't be a problem if the US weren't so allergic to the TB vaccine.
Every time I turn around the US government is finding new and innovative ideas in fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment. Scratch that. The US government is using the same old tried and true methods of fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment. They steal jobs. They bring crime. They bring disease. It's the same old song and dance.
In a world of modern transportation, it is essentially impossible to screen every person who crosses into our country for diseases. The solution isn't more border patrols on the Tex-Mex border, it's better healthcare for those who can't afford it. If the at-risk groups are the border towns and poverty-stricken, it makes sense to help them rather than try to cut off the flow of immigrants.
I used to fly internationally all the time, but with the growing anti-immigrant policies of the US, I find myself having a worse and worse time traveling even though I am a US citizen. The TSA and Immigration Control have made flying a mode of travel that is completely unattractive.
Cigarette lighters are available in over 90% of all the world's cars and light trucks.
Sexual reproductive organs are present on over 99% of all Slashbots.
Calculator apps are included in over 90% of all modern OS installations.
Just because something exists in large numbers doesn't mean it is used, and if it isn't used it isn't really a big deal.
Chris DiBona of Slashdot fame now of Google fame had some choice words regarding Theora.
I have trouble working out how swiping someone's quail is analogous to gouging out his eyes.
Perhaps you just need to change your perspective.
Sincerely,
BadAnalogyGuy