I have no clue, I'll have to actually read some of the links in Google, and most likely look up most of the terms to even have a glimmer of understanding.
No, my line of thinking is that the Iraq war is a quagmire that should never have been gotten into, and I don't buy that it was a mistake. I think we're there so that two oil men who were in a position to destabilise the middle east saw their golden oppoirtunity for some gold at their country's expense.
And it wasn't just the Republicans; most of the Democrats voted to authorize the Iraq war as well, and some of the Republicans (IINM) voted against authorization.
The only two Republicans in office I truly dislike right now won't be in office much longer. And my Democrat Governor (Illinois) reminds me of Bush; he has the same habit of trying to shove things through nobody wants, hiring incompetent cronies, ignoring the Constitution, etc.
I registered as a Republican during the primary. I'll either vote Green or Libertarian in the general election. See, as both parties are against legalizing drugs, hookers, and gambling and are anti-freedom I feel I would be a fool voting for one of these people who would like to put me in prison for an activity that harms no one. The democrats and republicans, both bought and paid for by the corporates, are both on the same side of the issues that matter to me - and thay're not on my side.
BTW, I was and am for the Afghan war, except we should have finished kicking ass a long time ago and we should have got Bin Laden behind bars long ago. We found Hussien, after all, and he never attacked our country. Bin Laden did.
Agreed. It especially annoys me when somebody has one of those yellow stickers on their SUV (yellow is ironically the color of cowardice) or one of the red white and blue ribbons with the stars disrespectfully on the RIGHT that say "support our troops" with another bumper sticker whining about taxes. Where do they think the kevlar and bullets come from?
Actually anybody who is FOR the Iraq war should volunteer to go over there and fight it.
If we had all the money being spent in Iraq we wouldn't have to argue about how we can pay for social security or universal health care.
Or well, no, even with an unlimited supply of money there are still those guys who worship the "free market", even when it contains no freedom, that would STILL be against social security and universal health care.
You're absolutely right. I hate colours myself. I much prefer the American colors, thay're much brighter and prettier than the British colours. Damn that Jobs and his British colours! And he calls himself an American!
At the risk of getting into the same tired argument with the same slashdotters I argued with yesterday about health care*, I have to agree with you. I don't believe natural monopolies like roads and electricity should be left to the private sector. Here in Springfield our power company is owned and run by the city government. Our rates are the lowest in the state, and our electricity is the most dependable.
-mcgrew
* there are some here who believe that the huge problems we have financing our health care are, believe it or not, caused by overregulation rather than the fact that the customer has no choice, nor can have any choice. I have to agree to disagre with these folks.
You can't sell something as one thing and then not deliver it - this is called fraud.
In civilized countries, yes. here in the US it's called "marketing". Did you ever get a hamburger at McDonald's that looked anything at all like the one on TV?
Why do we let them get away with this?
Because since it's legal to bribe both viable candidates with campaign contributions, and legal to contribute to a candidate you're not eligible to vote for, we are utterly powerless. In Britain false advertising is illegal. In the US it's the norm.
Promising what they don't deliver fscks up Adam Smith's invisible hand.
If that's true, then Smith's hand has been bitten off by a lying doberman. Have you seen the Visa commercials where the guy with cash slows down the line, instead of the other way around like the real world? Where "We build excitement" is Pontiac's way of saying the brakes are shit and the handling's worse? Where Chevy's "like a rock" means it won't start? Where the hamburger on the screen never looks anything like the hamburger in the box? Where "your mileage may vary (MAY???)? Where Microsoft "innovates" (somehow or another, nobody's ever pointed me to a MS innovation yet)?
Today's corporations are, without exception, run by liars, thieves, and con artists intent on sucking the government's teat while railing against welfare for the poor. You don't run a big corporation unless you are a lying sociopath without morals or scruples or a shred of human decency.
ISPs should share revenue with web sites providing the actual content.
You have GOT to be kidding! You think your ISP should pay me for my dreck when you read it? Should pay a newspaper for their ad-filled dreck? What's the word I'm looking for?
If you have actually done scientific surveys show us the research. Otherwise it's just bullshit and the only customer who you know what he wants is you.
I want flat rate. But then again I'm the only customer that matters to me.
I prefer flat rate. Considering that the cell phone companies are now offering flat rate pricing like the old wired telcos did, I think I'm in the majority here.
I want to know how much my bill is going to be, and I don't want to have to meter myself. I don't want to have to ask "can I afford to log into slashdot today? Can I afford to download that new distro today?"
And I don't see how "pay per view" is going to stop the ISPs from throttling; if their pipes get full they're going to turn your data flow down to keep someone else from getting completely locked out; perhaps someone else that's even more lucrative than you.
A quantum dot is a semiconductor whose excitons are confined in all three spatial dimensions (links to other terminology you may or may not understand from the link provided)
The role of these bodies is not to try and manipulate my judgement in their favour. When that happens, you know that they consider YOU a threat to themselves. And that strongly implies that your interests are not their interests.
Hoping to prove the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was under the influence of Communists, the FBI kept the civil rights leader under constant surveillance.
The agency's hidden tape recorders turned up almost nothing about communism.
But they did reveal embarrassing details about King's sex life -- details the FBI was able to use against him.
The almost fanatical zeal with which the FBI pursued King is disclosed in tens of thousands of FBI memos from the 1960s.
The FBI paper trail spells out in detail the government agency's concerted efforts to derail King's efforts on behalf of the civil rights movement.
The FBI's interest in King intensified after the March on Washington in August 1963, when King delivered his "I have a dream speech," which many historians consider the most important speech of the 20th century. After the speech, an FBI memo called King the "most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country."
You are entirely right. But it appears that they (the rich people who run our plutocracy) have been pulling this disgusting stuff for most of my life, or more likely since before I was born.
And people wonder why I don't want to vote Democrat or Republican! How can we change our plutocratic republic back into a democratic republic?
Are you referring to the bloggers who are against the war, or thise who support the ill-concieved travesty that has done nothing except kill 4,000 troops and bring Al Quaida, our sworn enemies, into it?
If all the bloggers are against the war maybe that might suggest that folks aren't too keen on our being there and ought to leave? OTOH if all the bloggers are for the war then they should stop whining about taxes, especially those with "support the troop" stickers.
But I think if you had more than three brain cells you would realize that there are already bloggers pro and con. What is NOT needed is more astroturf. Reasoned discourse is good, marketing disguised as reasoned discourse is dishonest.
My government and its politicians are already less than honest.
-mcgrew
PS: That was the worst troll I've seen all week. Go back to junior high school, youngster.
Not that I'm in the US anyway, but whilst I believe the RIAA is unduly heavy-handed with people, the fact is that they are stealing music - that means that legal CD purchasers like me pay more for our purchasers and end up subsidising the thieves.
Once more, here is the difference between stealing music and infringing copyright:
STEALING MUSIC You walk into Best Buy or Wal Mart and find the CD section. When nobody's looking, stick it in your shirt. You may have to disable an electronic gizmo that sets off an alarm.
If you get away with it, the store eats the cost of the CD that they paid for. They are out the money. If you get caught, you will pay a small criminal fine for misdemeanor retail theift.
INFRINGING COPYRIGHT You buy that CD and rip it to MP3, and share those MP3s with folks on the internet. Note that if you choose to download music without uploading anything, you have not infringed copyright or broken any laws. But uploading those files will cost you thousands in a civil suit should you be caught. If someone downloads that song from YOU they may well buy it whan they otherwise souldn't have.
Downloading is legal, uploading is infringing copyright (in the US, laws vary from country to country).
I really didn't even know this part of the site existed, or at least I didn't know it existed in this state. It is horrible.
Well, you were warned. At the top where it says "you have 42 unread messages and 0 read messages" and "Did you know that subscribers can see into the future?" and "Have you metamoderated lately?" it often says "idle.slashdot.org is a total waste of your time. Never go there."
Slashdot Mirror
I would suggest that one both go for better algorythms AND more/better data.
I have no clue, I'll have to actually read some of the links in Google, and most likely look up most of the terms to even have a glimmer of understanding.
Especially today, I didn't sleep well last night.
No, my line of thinking is that the Iraq war is a quagmire that should never have been gotten into, and I don't buy that it was a mistake. I think we're there so that two oil men who were in a position to destabilise the middle east saw their golden oppoirtunity for some gold at their country's expense.
And it wasn't just the Republicans; most of the Democrats voted to authorize the Iraq war as well, and some of the Republicans (IINM) voted against authorization.
The only two Republicans in office I truly dislike right now won't be in office much longer. And my Democrat Governor (Illinois) reminds me of Bush; he has the same habit of trying to shove things through nobody wants, hiring incompetent cronies, ignoring the Constitution, etc.
I registered as a Republican during the primary. I'll either vote Green or Libertarian in the general election. See, as both parties are against legalizing drugs, hookers, and gambling and are anti-freedom I feel I would be a fool voting for one of these people who would like to put me in prison for an activity that harms no one. The democrats and republicans, both bought and paid for by the corporates, are both on the same side of the issues that matter to me - and thay're not on my side.
BTW, I was and am for the Afghan war, except we should have finished kicking ass a long time ago and we should have got Bin Laden behind bars long ago. We found Hussien, after all, and he never attacked our country. Bin Laden did.
If they botch my eye operation this Thursday I won't see any photons either.
Agreed. It especially annoys me when somebody has one of those yellow stickers on their SUV (yellow is ironically the color of cowardice) or one of the red white and blue ribbons with the stars disrespectfully on the RIGHT that say "support our troops" with another bumper sticker whining about taxes. Where do they think the kevlar and bullets come from?
Actually anybody who is FOR the Iraq war should volunteer to go over there and fight it.
If we had all the money being spent in Iraq we wouldn't have to argue about how we can pay for social security or universal health care.
Or well, no, even with an unlimited supply of money there are still those guys who worship the "free market", even when it contains no freedom, that would STILL be against social security and universal health care.
Thanks, I DLed it and will look at the code when I get done with my eye operation Thursday. Just letting it sit there for now.
You're absolutely right. I hate colours myself. I much prefer the American colors, thay're much brighter and prettier than the British colours. Damn that Jobs and his British colours! And he calls himself an American!
Can I mod the ironic moderation as "funny"?
At the risk of getting into the same tired argument with the same slashdotters I argued with yesterday about health care*, I have to agree with you. I don't believe natural monopolies like roads and electricity should be left to the private sector. Here in Springfield our power company is owned and run by the city government. Our rates are the lowest in the state, and our electricity is the most dependable.
-mcgrew
* there are some here who believe that the huge problems we have financing our health care are, believe it or not, caused by overregulation rather than the fact that the customer has no choice, nor can have any choice. I have to agree to disagre with these folks.
We should be asking what alternative methods of connecting to the internet that bypasses the ISP can WE use.
For starters you could leave your WiFi open.
You can't sell something as one thing and then not deliver it - this is called fraud.
In civilized countries, yes. here in the US it's called "marketing". Did you ever get a hamburger at McDonald's that looked anything at all like the one on TV?
Why do we let them get away with this?
Because since it's legal to bribe both viable candidates with campaign contributions, and legal to contribute to a candidate you're not eligible to vote for, we are utterly powerless. In Britain false advertising is illegal. In the US it's the norm.
Promising what they don't deliver fscks up Adam Smith's invisible hand.
If that's true, then Smith's hand has been bitten off by a lying doberman. Have you seen the Visa commercials where the guy with cash slows down the line, instead of the other way around like the real world? Where "We build excitement" is Pontiac's way of saying the brakes are shit and the handling's worse? Where Chevy's "like a rock" means it won't start? Where the hamburger on the screen never looks anything like the hamburger in the box? Where "your mileage may vary (MAY???)? Where Microsoft "innovates" (somehow or another, nobody's ever pointed me to a MS innovation yet)?
Today's corporations are, without exception, run by liars, thieves, and con artists intent on sucking the government's teat while railing against welfare for the poor. You don't run a big corporation unless you are a lying sociopath without morals or scruples or a shred of human decency.
I would dearly love to be wrong. But I'm not.
ISPs should share revenue with web sites providing the actual content.
You have GOT to be kidding! You think your ISP should pay me for my dreck when you read it? Should pay a newspaper for their ad-filled dreck? What's the word I'm looking for?
If you have actually done scientific surveys show us the research. Otherwise it's just bullshit and the only customer who you know what he wants is you.
I want flat rate. But then again I'm the only customer that matters to me.
I prefer flat rate. Considering that the cell phone companies are now offering flat rate pricing like the old wired telcos did, I think I'm in the majority here.
I want to know how much my bill is going to be, and I don't want to have to meter myself. I don't want to have to ask "can I afford to log into slashdot today? Can I afford to download that new distro today?"
And I don't see how "pay per view" is going to stop the ISPs from throttling; if their pipes get full they're going to turn your data flow down to keep someone else from getting completely locked out; perhaps someone else that's even more lucrative than you.
And where's the ammunition coming from?
Um, Wal Mart has a good selection of ammo...
So far today no joke stories.
Apparently they were all voted down.
A quantum dot is a semiconductor whose excitons are confined in all three spatial dimensions (links to other terminology you may or may not understand from the link provided)
From Wikipedia: "There is no page titled "Stark-shifting." However, a Google search of the term brings up lots of interesting links, like "Effect of pressure-dependent quantum interference on the ac Stark shifting of two-photon resonances". The dictionary only lists towns named "Stark" when you search for the term.
snooze. snooze. snort. no mention of stun, kill, slicing, death ray, x-ray specs or photonic propulsion, so there is nothing there for me
Well then you should read my journals. Lots of sex, drunken debauchery, and violence. No lasers, but there's mention of taking a "hydrogen bomb" to junior high school. See, slashdot's got something for everybody!
Well, imagine if it were shooting out REALLY REALLY BIG photons one at a time. Wouldn't that be a photon torpedo?
"Aye, Cap'n. It was inwented in Russia."
You are entirely right. But it appears that they (the rich people who run our plutocracy) have been pulling this disgusting stuff for most of my life, or more likely since before I was born.
And people wonder why I don't want to vote Democrat or Republican! How can we change our plutocratic republic back into a democratic republic?
-mcgrew
Are you referring to the bloggers who are against the war, or thise who support the ill-concieved travesty that has done nothing except kill 4,000 troops and bring Al Quaida, our sworn enemies, into it?
If all the bloggers are against the war maybe that might suggest that folks aren't too keen on our being there and ought to leave? OTOH if all the bloggers are for the war then they should stop whining about taxes, especially those with "support the troop" stickers.
But I think if you had more than three brain cells you would realize that there are already bloggers pro and con. What is NOT needed is more astroturf. Reasoned discourse is good, marketing disguised as reasoned discourse is dishonest.
My government and its politicians are already less than honest.
-mcgrew
PS: That was the worst troll I've seen all week. Go back to junior high school, youngster.
Not that I'm in the US anyway, but whilst I believe the RIAA is unduly heavy-handed with people, the fact is that they are stealing music - that means that legal CD purchasers like me pay more for our purchasers and end up subsidising the thieves.
Once more, here is the difference between stealing music and infringing copyright:
STEALING MUSIC
You walk into Best Buy or Wal Mart and find the CD section. When nobody's looking, stick it in your shirt. You may have to disable an electronic gizmo that sets off an alarm.
If you get away with it, the store eats the cost of the CD that they paid for. They are out the money. If you get caught, you will pay a small criminal fine for misdemeanor retail theift.
INFRINGING COPYRIGHT
You buy that CD and rip it to MP3, and share those MP3s with folks on the internet. Note that if you choose to download music without uploading anything, you have not infringed copyright or broken any laws. But uploading those files will cost you thousands in a civil suit should you be caught. If someone downloads that song from YOU they may well buy it whan they otherwise souldn't have.
Downloading is legal, uploading is infringing copyright (in the US, laws vary from country to country).
I'm not up to par today, didn't sleep well last night. Actually I'm pretty close to retarded right now.
If I was more motivated I'd look at the source for the comment, but I have a lot of stuff on my mind.
Thanks for the comment, it was informative.
Is that someone throwing chairs? Why would news of Google letting you edit word processing documents anger someone that much?
I don't get it.
Will this also edit Star Office word processing docs?
What? What do you mean "read the fucking article"?
I really didn't even know this part of the site existed, or at least I didn't know it existed in this state. It is horrible.
Well, you were warned. At the top where it says "you have 42 unread messages and 0 read messages" and "Did you know that subscribers can see into the future?" and "Have you metamoderated lately?" it often says "idle.slashdot.org is a total waste of your time. Never go there."
Me? I'd never g... oh wait