Called it that on Different Stages, too. Exit...Stage Left had the drum solo embedded into the "YYZ" track. Dunno about All The World's A Stage, though.
That's interesting to hear, since I'm using a Coyote Linux box hooked to my AT&T @Home cable modem to provide routing/firewalling/etc. to my home network of 3 Unix/Linux boxen and two Windoze boxen. In fact, that was one of my biggest concerns before signing for @Home and at one point was told that they don't support Linux. When I called them to sign up, though, they were like, "Linux? Well, we don't really support it, but here's your DHCP client name..." and I was up and running before I could say "Bob's your uncle."
Not being able to run a server doesn't bother me, since I really have no intention of doing so. And I have to agree that the speed is niiiiiice! No real downtime to speak of either (at least, here in the Boise, Idaho area).
A New Hope is, at bottom, a story about armed rebellion by rabble against a benevolent legal order
Um, are you sure you saw the same movie I did? Lessee, blowing Alderaan to smithereens because one of its Senators wouldn't give up the location of the Rebel base. And I wonder why the Imperial Senate was no longer a "concern" to the Emperor. Just the way Tarkin said it brought to mind Palpatine having all of the Senators summarily executed.
Yup. Sounds real benevolent to me....
(I know, I know, this is probably a troll, but sometimes a cat just can't resist having something like this dangled in front of him.)
Even better (at least in my not-so-humble-opinion) would be an ergo version of the old Gateway 2000 programmable keyboard (like the one I'm using right now). The programmability is nice (map a keyboard macro to C-x e in Emacs and let 'er rip!), but I also like the NW-NE-SW-SE keys on arrow-key pad. The only downside is that it doesn't have those funky "Windows" keys; on my Linux box and work, I've remapped those to the Meta key for Emacs.
No, but when the pulsars were first discovered (1950's?), they were called LGM's, or "Little Green Men". The scientists who discovered hem thought that they were too regular to be a natural phenomenon. They thought that the pulsars were some sort of alien beacon system, too. Now, given the current theories of stellar lifecycles, we know the mos likely mechanism to create such a beast.
As for the Art Bell-type show guest, well, I'd take that for what it's worth...
Meow.
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Nothing like a little ad hominem to liven up one's morning. Coupled with an almost instataneous invokation of Godwin's Law, and I think that this argument has effectively ended itself.
Assuming, of course, that this person's tounge wasn't firmly planted in their cheek when the wrote this....
There is one problem I know of methanol based cars. They are more like diesel engines. They are hard to start in COLD weather.
Not to mention the fact that some of the rubber compounds (like the butyl rubbers) found in older engines, used in areas like the fuel lines and the carburetor/fuel injectors, just fall apart when exposed to chemicals like methanol or even ethanol. Not a good thing to get a piece of rubber stuck in your fuel injector lines while cruising down the highway; that has a tendency to throw you off your pace! This is one of the main reasons that methanol isn't used in areas like aviation fuel.
Hot weather also has a tendency to mess up ethanol-based fuels. Every fuel has what's called a "reed vapor pressure", which basically measures when a fuel will produce vapors. Ethanol's RVP is higher than gasoline's, so that it'll form vapors more readily. On a hot day, these vapors can actually form a bubble inside the carburetor/fuel injector and prevent fuel from flowing (a condition called vapor lock). Again, not a good thing.
Methanol is even worse than ethanol, so let's not get into that!
In short, there are a number of reasons why ethanol- or methanol-based fuels won't work in today's engines. That's not to say that future engines won't be able to use it. But as one poster mentioned earlier, the current installed base is pretty huge!
Unfortunately, as the parent of a four-year-old daughter, I get a constant stream of DigiMon, Monster Rancher, Flint the Time Detective and (shudder!)Sailor Moon. She even tells me every once in a while, "I'm a Sailor Scout!" which is kinda cute but annoying (especially when I tell her to do something and she says "No, because I'm a Sailor Scout!" Grr!). Needless to say, you must run very far, very fast from these.
On a related note, why, oh why did Fox Family channel come up with that damn "Made in Japan" segment on the weekends? Ugh.
Haven't seen Oh My Goddess, but Ranma 1/2 is kinda cute (OK, OK, maybe in small doses...really small...like 1 episode every six months...or less often...or...oh, never mind, he's right.)
Me-yuck.
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Haven't seen Akira (yet!), but I have seen the other two, as well as owning Ghost in the Shell in manga (comic book) form. I heartily second this list.
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Employeers at businesses that regularly demand extreme hours from their employees are going to be wary of older people.
Which is too damn bad, really. The way I see it, these employers miss a golden opportunity to get off the 80-hour-a-week-have-to-sleep-under-the-desk-to-fin ish-by-the-deadline treadmill by not employing someone who has been in the software field long enough to bring real, solid engineering discipline to the company. Most of the "young Turks" fresh out of school don't have that kind of know-how, nor the experience to know how to apply it. Thus, the company burns through its people, never really able to break out of that vicious cycle.
A-freakin'-men, brother. Coupled with the fact that one thing the SW industry could use is a little maturity (both the people in the industry as well as the industry iteself), like other engineering disciplines, and I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Quick question: does anyone know the median age of the team that writes software for the Space Shuttle (you know, the CMM level 5 folx)? Betcha it ain't in the 20's!
Which part of Boise? I'm currently out towards Meridian, and the storm just passed us over. No wormholes here. Bummer (though the damn things feel funny in my paws:-). Of course, some people think Boise is so backwards that you need a workmhole to get here!
Well, speaking as the father of a four-year-old daughter, I just have to say: BZZZZZT! WRONG!
Censorware is not the only solution, as you would have us believe. As a parent, I feel it is my duty to draw and enforce the boundaries within which my little girl can live, play and learn, whether it be in real life or on her computer. As sush, it is also my duty to personally monitor those boundaries to make sure she doesn't wander outside of them. As she gets older, those boundaries get wider and wider until, when she becomes an adult, I cannot set them anymore.
I cannot and will not abdicate this responsibility to a piece of software. This is, in effect, what the proponents of this software want us, as parents, to do. Right now, she has not discovered the Internet (like I said, she's only 4), but when she does, you'd better believe that I will be right there, helping her to discover new things on the 'Net, but always ready to enforce those boundaries that I and my wife have set for her. This, I think, will help her grow into a much more responsible and, yes, moral person than a collection of bits could ever hope to.
After the little fracas in the sand back in '91 (the Gulf War), one of my fundamentalist "buddies" started spouting off about the ACLU. My response? "Gee, then who helped the service men and women get Christian Bibles when the Saudis threw a shit fit about it? But no, the ACLU is eeeeeevil, isn't it?" Boy, did that shut him up!
I wonder how many of you opposed to library censorship have young children of your own?
Actually, I've a four-year-old daughter, and I still oppose library censorship, or censorship of any kind for that matter. It's not that I don't love my daughter (I do, very much, and I will gladly beat to a pulp anyone who suggests otherwise), it's just that I don't want her growing up in a world where she is told by the State what to think and what information she can see.
...but if you love your kids, you really have to shield them from the Internet these days...
Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding! You've just said the magic words! It is my responsibility to shield her from this stuff, not the responsibility of the State, or a self-proclaimed "family" group. That is what I am truly against.
What raises the fur along my back is how one corner of these people's mouths says "you must take responsibility for raising your children" and the other corner says "only we know what's best for your children's well-being." Well? Which is it?
Seconded. Like I just put in a post above (damn, I really need to check more often!), this whole attitude is why I've renounced religion. It seems that people like this have taken a label the I once held proudly (Chistian, born and raised in the Lutheran church) and twisted it into something that I don't recognize and just can't be associated with anymore. And you know, I really do miss being active in the church, especially the musical aspects of it.
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Called it that on Different Stages, too. Exit...Stage Left had the drum solo embedded into the "YYZ" track. Dunno about All The World's A Stage, though.
Meow.
Ouch. That was pretty good. But then again, I like double-obscure references like that.
Unless it's a Neil Peart drum solo...
(Yes, that's what Rush call his drum solos on their live albums. Really.)
That's interesting to hear, since I'm using a Coyote Linux box hooked to my AT&T @Home cable modem to provide routing/firewalling/etc. to my home network of 3 Unix/Linux boxen and two Windoze boxen. In fact, that was one of my biggest concerns before signing for @Home and at one point was told that they don't support Linux. When I called them to sign up, though, they were like, "Linux? Well, we don't really support it, but here's your DHCP client name..." and I was up and running before I could say "Bob's your uncle."
Not being able to run a server doesn't bother me, since I really have no intention of doing so. And I have to agree that the speed is niiiiiice! No real downtime to speak of either (at least, here in the Boise, Idaho area).
A New Hope is, at bottom, a story about armed rebellion by rabble against a benevolent legal order
Um, are you sure you saw the same movie I did? Lessee, blowing Alderaan to smithereens because one of its Senators wouldn't give up the location of the Rebel base. And I wonder why the Imperial Senate was no longer a "concern" to the Emperor. Just the way Tarkin said it brought to mind Palpatine having all of the Senators summarily executed.
Yup. Sounds real benevolent to me....
(I know, I know, this is probably a troll, but sometimes a cat just can't resist having something like this dangled in front of him.)
Meow. Puurr.
Actually, the kid isn't guily until proven so in a court of law. At least, that's how it's supposed to work in this country...
Meow?
Even better (at least in my not-so-humble-opinion) would be an ergo version of the old Gateway 2000 programmable keyboard (like the one I'm using right now). The programmability is nice (map a keyboard macro to C-x e in Emacs and let 'er rip!), but I also like the NW-NE-SW-SE keys on arrow-key pad. The only downside is that it doesn't have those funky "Windows" keys; on my Linux box and work, I've remapped those to the Meta key for Emacs.
Meow
No, but when the pulsars were first discovered (1950's?), they were called LGM's, or "Little Green Men". The scientists who discovered hem thought that they were too regular to be a natural phenomenon. They thought that the pulsars were some sort of alien beacon system, too. Now, given the current theories of stellar lifecycles, we know the mos likely mechanism to create such a beast.
As for the Art Bell-type show guest, well, I'd take that for what it's worth...
Meow.
Nothing like a little ad hominem to liven up one's morning. Coupled with an almost instataneous invokation of Godwin's Law, and I think that this argument has effectively ended itself.
Assuming, of course, that this person's tounge wasn't firmly planted in their cheek when the wrote this....
Meow.
There is one problem I know of methanol based cars. They are more like diesel engines. They are hard to start in COLD weather.
Not to mention the fact that some of the rubber compounds (like the butyl rubbers) found in older engines, used in areas like the fuel lines and the carburetor/fuel injectors, just fall apart when exposed to chemicals like methanol or even ethanol. Not a good thing to get a piece of rubber stuck in your fuel injector lines while cruising down the highway; that has a tendency to throw you off your pace! This is one of the main reasons that methanol isn't used in areas like aviation fuel.
Hot weather also has a tendency to mess up ethanol-based fuels. Every fuel has what's called a "reed vapor pressure", which basically measures when a fuel will produce vapors. Ethanol's RVP is higher than gasoline's, so that it'll form vapors more readily. On a hot day, these vapors can actually form a bubble inside the carburetor/fuel injector and prevent fuel from flowing (a condition called vapor lock). Again, not a good thing.
Methanol is even worse than ethanol, so let's not get into that!
In short, there are a number of reasons why ethanol- or methanol-based fuels won't work in today's engines. That's not to say that future engines won't be able to use it. But as one poster mentioned earlier, the current installed base is pretty huge!
Meow
Um, know thy enemy?
Meow?
And of course, from the same movie, "Suck...suck...suck...suck...."
Unfortunately, as the parent of a four-year-old daughter, I get a constant stream of DigiMon, Monster Rancher, Flint the Time Detective and (shudder!)Sailor Moon. She even tells me every once in a while, "I'm a Sailor Scout!" which is kinda cute but annoying (especially when I tell her to do something and she says "No, because I'm a Sailor Scout!" Grr!). Needless to say, you must run very far, very fast from these.
On a related note, why, oh why did Fox Family channel come up with that damn "Made in Japan" segment on the weekends? Ugh.
Haven't seen Oh My Goddess, but Ranma 1/2 is kinda cute (OK, OK, maybe in small doses...really small...like 1 episode every six months...or less often...or...oh, never mind, he's right.)
Me-yuck.
Haven't seen Akira (yet!), but I have seen the other two, as well as owning Ghost in the Shell in manga (comic book) form. I heartily second this list.
Meow
Employeers at businesses that regularly demand extreme hours from their employees are going to be wary of older people.
n ish-by-the-deadline treadmill by not employing someone who has been in the software field long enough to bring real, solid engineering discipline to the company. Most of the "young Turks" fresh out of school don't have that kind of know-how, nor the experience to know how to apply it. Thus, the company burns through its people, never really able to break out of that vicious cycle.
Which is too damn bad, really. The way I see it, these employers miss a golden opportunity to get off the 80-hour-a-week-have-to-sleep-under-the-desk-to-fi
Tsk, tsk.
A-freakin'-men, brother. Coupled with the fact that one thing the SW industry could use is a little maturity (both the people in the industry as well as the industry iteself), like other engineering disciplines, and I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Quick question: does anyone know the median age of the team that writes software for the Space Shuttle (you know, the CMM level 5 folx)? Betcha it ain't in the 20's!
Meow
Ouch.
And your point is...? :-)
Which part of Boise? I'm currently out towards Meridian, and the storm just passed us over. No wormholes here. Bummer (though the damn things feel funny in my paws :-). Of course, some people think Boise is so backwards that you need a workmhole to get here!
Glad to see another Idahoan here! Meow!
Well, speaking as the father of a four-year-old daughter, I just have to say: BZZZZZT! WRONG!
Censorware is not the only solution, as you would have us believe. As a parent, I feel it is my duty to draw and enforce the boundaries within which my little girl can live, play and learn, whether it be in real life or on her computer. As sush, it is also my duty to personally monitor those boundaries to make sure she doesn't wander outside of them. As she gets older, those boundaries get wider and wider until, when she becomes an adult, I cannot set them anymore.
I cannot and will not abdicate this responsibility to a piece of software. This is, in effect, what the proponents of this software want us, as parents, to do. Right now, she has not discovered the Internet (like I said, she's only 4), but when she does, you'd better believe that I will be right there, helping her to discover new things on the 'Net, but always ready to enforce those boundaries that I and my wife have set for her. This, I think, will help her grow into a much more responsible and, yes, moral person than a collection of bits could ever hope to.
Meow.
A-freakin'-men!
After the little fracas in the sand back in '91 (the Gulf War), one of my fundamentalist "buddies" started spouting off about the ACLU. My response? "Gee, then who helped the service men and women get Christian Bibles when the Saudis threw a shit fit about it? But no, the ACLU is eeeeeevil, isn't it?" Boy, did that shut him up!
Purrrr
I wonder how many of you opposed to library censorship have young children of your own?
...but if you love your kids, you really have to shield them from the Internet these days...
Actually, I've a four-year-old daughter, and I still oppose library censorship, or censorship of any kind for that matter. It's not that I don't love my daughter (I do, very much, and I will gladly beat to a pulp anyone who suggests otherwise), it's just that I don't want her growing up in a world where she is told by the State what to think and what information she can see.
Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding! You've just said the magic words! It is my responsibility to shield her from this stuff, not the responsibility of the State, or a self-proclaimed "family" group. That is what I am truly against.
What raises the fur along my back is how one corner of these people's mouths says "you must take responsibility for raising your children" and the other corner says "only we know what's best for your children's well-being." Well? Which is it?
Meow.
"We've taken care of everything,
from the words you read to the songs you sing,
the pictures that give pleasure to your eyes."
Yay, Neil! You are truly a seer!
Seconded. Like I just put in a post above (damn, I really need to check more often!), this whole attitude is why I've renounced religion. It seems that people like this have taken a label the I once held proudly (Chistian, born and raised in the Lutheran church) and twisted it into something that I don't recognize and just can't be associated with anymore. And you know, I really do miss being active in the church, especially the musical aspects of it.
Sad.
One distressed feline....