This is well known in the field of Zombology. We know that zombies are not motivated by "evil" or "bloodlust" or any other superstitious nonsense. In actuality, zombies eat brains in order to equalize pressure with their surroundings (I won't bore you with the complex dendrite:millibar relations). We're thinking of just rolling the whole science in with meteorology and taking a long vacation.
Edmonton (IIRC), Calgary, and Winnipeg have them. Other than that, I don't know. They first appeared in Winnipeg about four years ago. Just a couple at first, but now there are (I think) 2-3 dozen. They seem to be used as a speeding-ticket revenue stream more than anything.
Personally, I'm not too convinced they actually reduce accidents. It seems to me that people become so paranoid about getting a ticket, that they brake hard to avoid it, risking a rear-end collision in the process. It would be interesting to see traffic accident rates for intersections with cameras, compared to accident rates before the cameras were installed.
I thought they were already doing this! Why else am I getting all this spam that assumes I'm a college dropout with a small penis who likes to help out Nigerian businessmen while scarfing down untested homeopathic supplements?
They are already having one hell of a hard time fighting piracy in such a policed country as the US, how exactly do they expect China with its 1.3 billion citizens to tackle this problem?
That's a damned good point.
It made me think (somewhat tongue in cheek): China ought to file a complaint with the WTO, stating that the US is not respecting intellectual property laws, and it is costing them billions of dollars (pull a number from a hat, everyone else does) in their plastics manufacturing industries, DVD pressing industry, book manufacturing industries. etc... After all, if the US would only change their laws to allow for easier police monitoring (like the Chinese have), the US could stop a lot more internal piracy.
The US position seems to have little to do with the fairness intended by trade organizations, and more to do with hypocrisy and protectionism.
I'll open up my new Core Duo to find a severed human finger in there.
I wouldn't worry about that too much, it'd probably just be an empty threat to keep you loyal, and have nothing to do with quality. When I switched OS I woke up the next day with a horse's head in the bed next to me, and "WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY?" written on the wall in blood. AFAICT, it's all perfectly harmless.
"Your search - do no evil - did not match any documents" [or]
"Did you mean: services?"
I think it's high time for Google to do an internetectomy to remove references to "do no evil" so they can get back to business as usual, without us calling them on it all the time.
Contrary to those who pursue power or profit, he won't take risks that might have as a possible consequence he not being able to enjoy these pleasures anymore
People have been taking incredible risks throughout all of history just to get laid. Whether the risk is two underage kids getting grounded, screwing the biker neighbour's wife, losing status in a prudish environment, going to jail for homosexuality, not having a condom and having sex with a stranger anyways, paying a prostitute while the wife and kids are at home...... people take all sorts of risks for pleasurable sensations. Not to mention the risks involved to snort a bit of coke, drop a couple of tabs of acid, drink underage, or smoke an occasional joint. People do this stuff all the time. I suspect much more regularly than they cheat on their taxes for the sake of profit.
Anyhow. You have an interesting understanding of human beings.
There could be thousands, but I'll give two. One that breaks things up into your simplified categories, and one which I think better represents the complexity of people:
e) Hedonists: driven by sensualism.
f) All of the above.
I can't believe that the parent was modded insightful. The description/categorization is cruder than Astrology. That really gets my humours out of whack!
However, to go with the ridiculous simplification: There is a place for the (gag) ruler type of person in an Anarcho-syndicalist system, just as there is a place for the entrepreneur type in an Anarcho-capitalist system.
Sure, let them pretext... But I want the same rights. I want to use pretexting with the banks and credit card companies. It's okay, I just want to pretext in order to catch the criminals inside their organizations.
While I'm at it, I want to catch criminal senior citizens, by tricking them into giving me their credit card numbers, and then seeing if they try to blackmail me for my pretexting (which they'll call "fraud", no doubt (those sneaky seniors!)). But my plans are perfectly fine since, similar to Mr. Buckles claim, I would never assume someone's identity to actually access their money.
House Democrats delivered a spending bill that includes the idea of putting $38 million worth of public funds toward outfitting every student with a digital music player.
So let me get this straight: Apple's next big product is called the iPorkBarrel?
Obviously, the goals for China will be more lofty than, say, Mongolia
That's what you think! My hundred year plan for Mongolia has North America being renamed "Mongolia Minor", and most of the world's population living in yurts. Don't even get me started on the strategic uses of yak's milk.
Alternately, China could stop dicking around with piecemeal reform and institute capitalism, democracy, and the rule of law.
A massive, system-wide change is best done slowly, erm, piecemeal. Radical, fast changes in China's economic, political, or social systems wouldn't likely help the Chinese much. Look at the USSR. Rapid change there led to years of crappier life quality for many people, caused a huge debt (partially defaulted on, IIRC), a thriving criminal economy, political destabilization, and more foreign control of industry.
I hope China does become a lot more democratic, but I hope they do it slowly (and I think they are). In the end, it'd be in the best interest of both the Chinese people and China as a country. Economic collapse would cause a lot of damage inside and outside China. The only people who would really benefit would be the vultures with enough capital to buy out assets at rock bottom prices.
It seems to me that there could be problems (although unlikely). For example, if there were a large enough windmill farm taking 1/50 of a percent of the jetstream wind energy (for some geogrphical area/range), that may be an energy threshold that prevents the stream from picking up enough moisture to move 5% of the precipitation around. That could be disastrous, depending on where it happened. I have no idea how much of our moisture (or heat for that matter) gets moved around by the jetstream, so this is really just wild speculation, but it does seem like a potential, though unlikely, problem.
If you're screaming "Vista's shit!" and thinking you'd rather be getting XP with a new computer, you're a total clueless idiot. Especially if your spiel contains the word "security" in it.
Why is this, exactly? The security model seems like an improvement, but is it? Vista is barely tested in the wild yet, so claims of better security are just that: claims. I agree that MS appears to be headed in a better direction, but is it true? Well, yeah, sure, until someone discovers some gargantuan flaw in the new network stack, or the UAC itself, or whatever. If an animated cursor can cause such damage on XP, how can we be sure that Vista doesn't suffer from similar catastrophic design flaws? We can't. Is it more secure than XP? Likely, but we don't really know yet. One thing XP has is years in the wild, and some hardening because of it. I don't know what's more idiotic, trusting security in XP (plenty of real world testing, some obvious design flaws), or trusting security in Vista (little real world testing, fewer obvious design flaws).
Well, I am a sad case, so I like jokes in base 13.
Serendipity. That's why it's amusing to me. DNA picked two numbers that shouldn't produce 42, but did, entirely by accident. It's so ridiculous, I love him all the more for it.
I'll show my plumber's butt at Lacrosse games, thank you very much! Other than that, okay, I'm up to the challenge. BTW, is it alright if I use pictures of your sister, passed out and naked? My sister looks like crap in just snowmobile boots and a toque.
Good for EMI. I'm really tempted to go out and buy a copy of Pink Floyd's 'More' (on EMI), since I don't have it on CD. It's like a missing tooth in my Pink Floyd collection. But I'm afraid they, and the rest of the big music companies, need to do more than that to restore my faith.
Still, for anyone who's using iTunes: if you're deciding between an EMI tune, and a non-EMI tune, I'd suggest picking the unencumbered EMI one. The music industry, like any industry, listens to our dollars more than our words.
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This is well known in the field of Zombology. We know that zombies are not motivated by "evil" or "bloodlust" or any other superstitious nonsense. In actuality, zombies eat brains in order to equalize pressure with their surroundings (I won't bore you with the complex dendrite:millibar relations). We're thinking of just rolling the whole science in with meteorology and taking a long vacation.
there was an extremely annoying faint rectangular pattern moving...across the screen almost all the time
I'm pretty sure they call that "a Hollywood movie"...
Why wait?
insurrection23128@FederalGovernment:~$sudo shutdown -r now
Edmonton (IIRC), Calgary, and Winnipeg have them. Other than that, I don't know. They first appeared in Winnipeg about four years ago. Just a couple at first, but now there are (I think) 2-3 dozen. They seem to be used as a speeding-ticket revenue stream more than anything.
Personally, I'm not too convinced they actually reduce accidents. It seems to me that people become so paranoid about getting a ticket, that they brake hard to avoid it, risking a rear-end collision in the process. It would be interesting to see traffic accident rates for intersections with cameras, compared to accident rates before the cameras were installed.
I thought they were already doing this! Why else am I getting all this spam that assumes I'm a college dropout with a small penis who likes to help out Nigerian businessmen while scarfing down untested homeopathic supplements?
They are already having one hell of a hard time fighting piracy in such a policed country as the US, how exactly do they expect China with its 1.3 billion citizens to tackle this problem?
That's a damned good point.
It made me think (somewhat tongue in cheek):
China ought to file a complaint with the WTO, stating that the US is not respecting intellectual property laws, and it is costing them billions of dollars (pull a number from a hat, everyone else does) in their plastics manufacturing industries, DVD pressing industry, book manufacturing industries. etc... After all, if the US would only change their laws to allow for easier police monitoring (like the Chinese have), the US could stop a lot more internal piracy.
The US position seems to have little to do with the fairness intended by trade organizations, and more to do with hypocrisy and protectionism.
I'll open up my new Core Duo to find a severed human finger in there.
I wouldn't worry about that too much, it'd probably just be an empty threat to keep you loyal, and have nothing to do with quality. When I switched OS I woke up the next day with a horse's head in the bed next to me, and "WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY?" written on the wall in blood. AFAICT, it's all perfectly harmless.
"Your search - do no evil - did not match any documents" [or]
"Did you mean: services?"
I think it's high time for Google to do an internetectomy to remove references to "do no evil" so they can get back to business as usual, without us calling them on it all the time.
Contrary to those who pursue power or profit, he won't take risks that might have as a possible consequence he not being able to enjoy these pleasures anymore
People have been taking incredible risks throughout all of history just to get laid. Whether the risk is two underage kids getting grounded, screwing the biker neighbour's wife, losing status in a prudish environment, going to jail for homosexuality, not having a condom and having sex with a stranger anyways, paying a prostitute while the wife and kids are at home...... people take all sorts of risks for pleasurable sensations. Not to mention the risks involved to snort a bit of coke, drop a couple of tabs of acid, drink underage, or smoke an occasional joint. People do this stuff all the time. I suspect much more regularly than they cheat on their taxes for the sake of profit.
Anyhow. You have an interesting understanding of human beings.
There could be thousands, but I'll give two. One that breaks things up into your simplified categories, and one which I think better represents the complexity of people:
e) Hedonists: driven by sensualism.
f) All of the above.
I can't believe that the parent was modded insightful. The description/categorization is cruder than Astrology. That really gets my humours out of whack!
However, to go with the ridiculous simplification: There is a place for the (gag) ruler type of person in an Anarcho-syndicalist system, just as there is a place for the entrepreneur type in an Anarcho-capitalist system.
Sorry about that.... I screwed up. Someone mod my parent post redundant.
You'd probably be alright as long as it's not a furniture store.
Sure, let them pretext... But I want the same rights. I want to use pretexting with the banks and credit card companies. It's okay, I just want to pretext in order to catch the criminals inside their organizations.
While I'm at it, I want to catch criminal senior citizens, by tricking them into giving me their credit card numbers, and then seeing if they try to blackmail me for my pretexting (which they'll call "fraud", no doubt (those sneaky seniors!)). But my plans are perfectly fine since, similar to Mr. Buckles claim, I would never assume someone's identity to actually access their money.
House Democrats delivered a spending bill that includes the idea of putting $38 million worth of public funds toward outfitting every student with a digital music player.
So let me get this straight: Apple's next big product is called the iPorkBarrel?
Obviously, the goals for China will be more lofty than, say, Mongolia
That's what you think! My hundred year plan for Mongolia has North America being renamed "Mongolia Minor", and most of the world's population living in yurts. Don't even get me started on the strategic uses of yak's milk.
Alternately, China could stop dicking around with piecemeal reform and institute capitalism, democracy, and the rule of law.
A massive, system-wide change is best done slowly, erm, piecemeal. Radical, fast changes in China's economic, political, or social systems wouldn't likely help the Chinese much. Look at the USSR. Rapid change there led to years of crappier life quality for many people, caused a huge debt (partially defaulted on, IIRC), a thriving criminal economy, political destabilization, and more foreign control of industry.
I hope China does become a lot more democratic, but I hope they do it slowly (and I think they are). In the end, it'd be in the best interest of both the Chinese people and China as a country. Economic collapse would cause a lot of damage inside and outside China. The only people who would really benefit would be the vultures with enough capital to buy out assets at rock bottom prices.
It seems to me that there could be problems (although unlikely). For example, if there were a large enough windmill farm taking 1/50 of a percent of the jetstream wind energy (for some geogrphical area/range), that may be an energy threshold that prevents the stream from picking up enough moisture to move 5% of the precipitation around. That could be disastrous, depending on where it happened. I have no idea how much of our moisture (or heat for that matter) gets moved around by the jetstream, so this is really just wild speculation, but it does seem like a potential, though unlikely, problem.
If you're screaming "Vista's shit!" and thinking you'd rather be getting XP with a new computer, you're a total clueless idiot. Especially if your spiel contains the word "security" in it.
Why is this, exactly? The security model seems like an improvement, but is it? Vista is barely tested in the wild yet, so claims of better security are just that: claims. I agree that MS appears to be headed in a better direction, but is it true? Well, yeah, sure, until someone discovers some gargantuan flaw in the new network stack, or the UAC itself, or whatever. If an animated cursor can cause such damage on XP, how can we be sure that Vista doesn't suffer from similar catastrophic design flaws? We can't. Is it more secure than XP? Likely, but we don't really know yet. One thing XP has is years in the wild, and some hardening because of it. I don't know what's more idiotic, trusting security in XP (plenty of real world testing, some obvious design flaws), or trusting security in Vista (little real world testing, fewer obvious design flaws).
I'd have to say: Three pounds of flax!
Well, I am a sad case, so I like jokes in base 13.
Serendipity. That's why it's amusing to me. DNA picked two numbers that shouldn't produce 42, but did, entirely by accident. It's so ridiculous, I love him all the more for it.
I'll show my plumber's butt at Lacrosse games, thank you very much! Other than that, okay, I'm up to the challenge. BTW, is it alright if I use pictures of your sister, passed out and naked? My sister looks like crap in just snowmobile boots and a toque.
But 6 * 9 is 42 in base 13.
That's silly. No-one can patent blank. It belongs to everybody!
Good for EMI. I'm really tempted to go out and buy a copy of Pink Floyd's 'More' (on EMI), since I don't have it on CD. It's like a missing tooth in my Pink Floyd collection. But I'm afraid they, and the rest of the big music companies, need to do more than that to restore my faith.
Still, for anyone who's using iTunes: if you're deciding between an EMI tune, and a non-EMI tune, I'd suggest picking the unencumbered EMI one. The music industry, like any industry, listens to our dollars more than our words.