They already have the internet and power, and those eleven million dells ought to last five years on average. Do you have any idea how many aircraft ground power generators the average AGE shop has at any AFB in the world?
And each of those computers has storage, if you are unfamiliar with today's computers.
There would be no suicide in this case without the willful, malicious intent to construct a false friendship created by a knowing adult.
No, there is no suicide without MENTAL ILLNESS. What the woman did to this child was morally wrong and she'll get hers in the end, but the real tragedy here is that the child had no help with an obvious mental health issue. It's not simply a matter of lonliess. Had the woman who constructed the fake boyfriend never existed, the kid most likely would have committed suicide anyway sooner or later.
We, as a society, need to stop treating the mentally ill as weak and morally deficient and realize that mental illness is a disease that sufferers of deserve treatment and compassion for. You have compassion for a cancer patient, even though he or she may have smoked four packs of cigs a day. You have compassion for heart disease patients, even though they're Burger King addicts. Yet even though the mentally ill are that way through no fault of their own whatever, you see them as weak and morally difficient, "losers".
If you didn't have these attitudes towards the mentally ill, you'd have a lot fewer suicides and a lot fewer homeless people. Did you know that three out of four homeless Americans are war veterans? Don't our veterans deserve decent medical care, including and perhaps especially psychaitric care?
Disclaimer- some of my friends (e.g., both Tami and Amy) are batshit crazy.
She was 13... what 13 year old girl (or boy for that matter) doesn't have emotional issues?
That's the problem with politically correct euphemisms; they are inaccurate, often to the point of fiction. By "emotional issues" he means "batshit crazy".
All thirteen year olds have emotional issues, but nobody kills themselves unless they're batshit crazy, even if they are an emotionally unstable 13.
The sad thing is, there are some very effective drugs and other therapies these days to treat those particular form of batshit craziness, but our society sees mental illnesses not as treatable diseases but as some sort of moral deficiency. The crazy person doesn't want to be crazy any more than a cancer patient wants cancer, but he or she is just as powerless to "just get over it" as a cancer patient is.
Understanding the entire universe is kind of like knowing every human being that ever lived and will be born, except that every human being that ever lived and will ever be born are only a teeny tiny fraction of one of the infinite number of planets in the universe itself.
No, all the jokes write themselves. Except the one about black holes. As TFA says, information can escape from a black hole, but after getting out of one of the damned things it's way too tired to talk and besides, it has a headache right now.
'Once we realized that the notion of space-time as a continuum is only an approximation of reality
Any human conception of reality can only be an approximation, and any belief that the entire infinite universe can be completely understood by a mere human being is hubris past the limits of sanity. We have a finite number of neural interconnections to understand an infinite universe.
Continua are so much prettier mathematically though.
When you can use infinity in mathematics you'll have a closer approximation. What's the exact value of pi, again? How many times can a planet orbit its star? How many revolutions can an electron make around a nucleus?
When you divide by a positive number smaller than one, the closer you get to dividing by zero, the larget the number.
Quantum theory is so damn *ugly* compared to GR and its extensions (Kaluza-Klein, Einstein-Cartan). Sigh.
A dead animal is damned ugly compared to a live one, too. The universe contains some beautiful things, but things that are just as ugly. And ugliness, like beauty, is in th eeye of the beholder.
Education is no substitute for intelligence, as people who run institutions of higher education are usually well educated.
Of course, if I saw a check from the RIAA's bank made out to the university President, I'd have a higher opinion of the intelligence of the people running Missouri U.
People in hell want ice water, and the little girls all want ponies. I want to go to bed with a supermodel, but just because I want something has no relevance in the real world.
Of course I would throw out there that you as a person have no right to interfere with the lives of others.
IMO what you do in private is none of my damned business. I don't care if you're hiring hookers, hitting a hookah, gambling, pole dancing, pole smoking, or anything else.
I just pointed out that it is, indeed, legal for gays to marry. They just have to find someone of the opposite sex to do it with, and your not being able to find a woman to fall in love with is no different from my not being able to find one. You're either just more pessimistic about it, or you're a misogynist.
Is this British or Australian slang for "dick?" Or am I just brain dead from being at work all day?
Can you give me enlightenment? Or even a hint?
But it can't be as bad as some auto names. As Danny Krell, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran once pointed out to me, I woudn't want to drive a KIA (Killed In Action).
They can't sell a Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries. "No va" is Sopanish for "it won't go". Of course, that goes well with their commercials, "Chevy - Like a rock!"
I live in Springfield (Yes, an alderman here is Gail Simpson and our state is indeed run by cartoons), where the state's computer systems get "dumped". They are disposed of the same as state-owned automobiles: by auction. Once or twice a year they sell used computers at the fairgrounds by the palletload.
I wish more men were gay; actually I wish that all other men except me were gay. Then I could have their women.
A gay man isn't going to hit on your woman. I have no idea why so many guys don't like gays, unless they're going to the bars where men hit on them instead of their women.
//www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dirty_harry/?critic=creamcrop#mo Dirty Harry
You notice that these reviews for a thirty year old movie are from this century? "Ignore the dates" indeed! Siskel and Ebert both savagaed it when it was new, as did most critics who even mentioned it at all. In fact, I seldom liked cop movies, but one of the two things that got me to the theater for that one was the negative reviews.
this false premise that critics like bad movies and hate good ones.
No, on the premise that critics' tastes are not the same as my tastes.
I would bet that 90% of the time, critics like the same movies you do
And I would bet that they often critically savage a movie they really like. One of my art instructors was fond of saying "I don't know what I like, but I know what art is."
Without him and without that character, the film would be just another cookie-cutter thriller.
That film IS the cookie cutter, not a cookie the cutter cut.
Does the geek really believe that changes in the user agent are statistically significant?
Or that counting page views is? Or that counting page views by IP address is? The answer to all three questions is, of course, no.
OS Platform Stats [April 2008]
And where did these numbers come from? Counting page views, or counting page views per IP, is not a valid metric. In fact, there is no valid metric. The very best you can do is a barely educated guess.
You never heard of a chain gang? You haven't heard of China's prison labor? Forced labor is unethical under most codes of ethis, and is immoral, but is most certainly not against everyone's codes of ethics.
The thief's code of ethics says that stealing is necessary. His code of ethics forbits leaving something where it might be stolen.
in this case, I don't think they're concerned about people distributing the book without paying rights. They're concerned about people distributing the book - period.
Which is exactly counter to the purpose of US copyright, but has nothing to do with my argument.
What I'm saying to those who ask "how can these people be so stupid as to think that you can keep a book off of the internet" is that the people trying to are used to getting their way. They've gotten their way all their lives, and can't conceive of a situation where they can't get their way. The law has always worked for them, should always work for them, and they can't conceive of the law not working for them. If someone gets in their way, all they have to do is call the law, or call their lawyer.
It's the polar opposite of poor Americans from the American ghetto who are used to not getting their way, can't concieve of any situation where they do get their way that doesn't involve firearms or drugs, have never had the law work for them and know damned well that the law never will work for them.
Crazy hillbilly bluegrass is way better than country *cough*:)
I have to agree, but then again "country" music is another flavor of pop. Apparently Mojo Nixon agrees, too.
Let's go burn ole Nashiville down Set it all aflame Barbecue the greedheads Made country weak and tame. Burn burn Nash Vegas, Char it's rancid soul Burn burn Branson too, Make a big black hole
Country music is killing itself Tryin' to be what it ain't Garth Brooks sells as many as Manilow Lee Greenwood is a saint Burn burn Jimmy Bowen, Damn your puny soul Burn burn Jimmy Bowen, Country can't be sold
Any fool can wear a hat And not move when they play But the lonesome howl of the white trash wolf Can't be heard today Burn burn the fake cowboys The Vegas showbiz shit Burn burn Branson too Sold your soul for a hit
Let's go burn ole Nashville down Burn it to the ground Let's go burn ole Nashville down Save the country sound Burn burn soulless swine Crossover igit pukes Burn burn lyin' cheaters Country don't have flutes
The only cure for ignorance is knowledge. Now he knows why he was downmodded, and doesn't have to sulk in the corner like some emo kid. Instead he can petulantly post goatse pics and twofo trojans like the other fourteen year olds here.
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They already have the internet and power, and those eleven million dells ought to last five years on average. Do you have any idea how many aircraft ground power generators the average AGE shop has at any AFB in the world?
And each of those computers has storage, if you are unfamiliar with today's computers.
Irony is someone being pedantic and critical on slashdot in response to a minor misuse of language.
Irony is the thingy his mommie uses to make his shirties flat.
There would be no suicide in this case without the willful, malicious intent to construct a false friendship created by a knowing adult.
No, there is no suicide without MENTAL ILLNESS. What the woman did to this child was morally wrong and she'll get hers in the end, but the real tragedy here is that the child had no help with an obvious mental health issue. It's not simply a matter of lonliess. Had the woman who constructed the fake boyfriend never existed, the kid most likely would have committed suicide anyway sooner or later.
We, as a society, need to stop treating the mentally ill as weak and morally deficient and realize that mental illness is a disease that sufferers of deserve treatment and compassion for. You have compassion for a cancer patient, even though he or she may have smoked four packs of cigs a day. You have compassion for heart disease patients, even though they're Burger King addicts. Yet even though the mentally ill are that way through no fault of their own whatever, you see them as weak and morally difficient, "losers".
If you didn't have these attitudes towards the mentally ill, you'd have a lot fewer suicides and a lot fewer homeless people. Did you know that three out of four homeless Americans are war veterans? Don't our veterans deserve decent medical care, including and perhaps especially psychaitric care?
Disclaimer- some of my friends (e.g., both Tami and Amy) are batshit crazy.
She was 13... what 13 year old girl (or boy for that matter) doesn't have emotional issues?
That's the problem with politically correct euphemisms; they are inaccurate, often to the point of fiction. By "emotional issues" he means "batshit crazy".
All thirteen year olds have emotional issues, but nobody kills themselves unless they're batshit crazy, even if they are an emotionally unstable 13.
The sad thing is, there are some very effective drugs and other therapies these days to treat those particular form of batshit craziness, but our society sees mental illnesses not as treatable diseases but as some sort of moral deficiency. The crazy person doesn't want to be crazy any more than a cancer patient wants cancer, but he or she is just as powerless to "just get over it" as a cancer patient is.
He used a Pentium computer. Running Windows.
Yet the existence of goatse disproves the existence of a higher power.
Goatse ^ 42
There, I disproved your theory mathematically.
Also, I wanted to make a pun about black hole being black boxes
You can't joke about black holes. Any joke about black holes is by definition racist and sexist.
Q - How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
?
?
?
A - THAT'S NOT FUNNY YOU DAMNED CHAUVENIST PIG!!!!!
It would be good for one person's place in the history books to discover the Ultimate Final Secret of the Entire Universe,
Forty two.
Understanding the entire universe is kind of like knowing every human being that ever lived and will be born, except that every human being that ever lived and will ever be born are only a teeny tiny fraction of one of the infinite number of planets in the universe itself.
The rest of the jokes write themselves.
No, all the jokes write themselves. Except the one about black holes. As TFA says, information can escape from a black hole, but after getting out of one of the damned things it's way too tired to talk and besides, it has a headache right now.
'Once we realized that the notion of space-time as a continuum is only an approximation of reality
Any human conception of reality can only be an approximation, and any belief that the entire infinite universe can be completely understood by a mere human being is hubris past the limits of sanity. We have a finite number of neural interconnections to understand an infinite universe.
Continua are so much prettier mathematically though.
When you can use infinity in mathematics you'll have a closer approximation. What's the exact value of pi, again? How many times can a planet orbit its star? How many revolutions can an electron make around a nucleus?
When you divide by a positive number smaller than one, the closer you get to dividing by zero, the larget the number.
Quantum theory is so damn *ugly* compared to GR and its extensions (Kaluza-Klein, Einstein-Cartan). Sigh.
A dead animal is damned ugly compared to a live one, too. The universe contains some beautiful things, but things that are just as ugly. And ugliness, like beauty, is in th eeye of the beholder.
Education is no substitute for intelligence, as people who run institutions of higher education are usually well educated.
Of course, if I saw a check from the RIAA's bank made out to the university President, I'd have a higher opinion of the intelligence of the people running Missouri U.
Um, the gay man wants to marry another gay man.
People in hell want ice water, and the little girls all want ponies. I want to go to bed with a supermodel, but just because I want something has no relevance in the real world.
Of course I would throw out there that you as a person have no right to interfere with the lives of others.
IMO what you do in private is none of my damned business. I don't care if you're hiring hookers, hitting a hookah, gambling, pole dancing, pole smoking, or anything else.
I just pointed out that it is, indeed, legal for gays to marry. They just have to find someone of the opposite sex to do it with, and your not being able to find a woman to fall in love with is no different from my not being able to find one. You're either just more pessimistic about it, or you're a misogynist.
Is this British or Australian slang for "dick?" Or am I just brain dead from being at work all day?
Can you give me enlightenment? Or even a hint?
But it can't be as bad as some auto names. As Danny Krell, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran once pointed out to me, I woudn't want to drive a KIA (Killed In Action).
They can't sell a Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries. "No va" is Sopanish for "it won't go". Of course, that goes well with their commercials, "Chevy - Like a rock!"
Spoken like a true Cubs fan, who thinks the southern state line is I-80, Rod.
He's cold, you sensitivein lysdexic!
I live in Springfield (Yes, an alderman here is Gail Simpson and our state is indeed run by cartoons), where the state's computer systems get "dumped". They are disposed of the same as state-owned automobiles: by auction. Once or twice a year they sell used computers at the fairgrounds by the palletload.
I wish more men were gay; actually I wish that all other men except me were gay. Then I could have their women.
A gay man isn't going to hit on your woman. I have no idea why so many guys don't like gays, unless they're going to the bars where men hit on them instead of their women.
//www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dirty_harry/?critic=creamcrop#mo Dirty Harry
You notice that these reviews for a thirty year old movie are from this century? "Ignore the dates" indeed! Siskel and Ebert both savagaed it when it was new, as did most critics who even mentioned it at all. In fact, I seldom liked cop movies, but one of the two things that got me to the theater for that one was the negative reviews.
this false premise that critics like bad movies and hate good ones.
No, on the premise that critics' tastes are not the same as my tastes.
I would bet that 90% of the time, critics like the same movies you do
And I would bet that they often critically savage a movie they really like. One of my art instructors was fond of saying "I don't know what I like, but I know what art is."
Without him and without that character, the film would be just another cookie-cutter thriller.
That film IS the cookie cutter, not a cookie the cutter cut.
Does the geek really believe that changes in the user agent are statistically significant?
Or that counting page views is? Or that counting page views by IP address is? The answer to all three questions is, of course, no.
OS Platform Stats [April 2008]
And where did these numbers come from? Counting page views, or counting page views per IP, is not a valid metric. In fact, there is no valid metric. The very best you can do is a barely educated guess.
You never heard of a chain gang? You haven't heard of China's prison labor? Forced labor is unethical under most codes of ethis, and is immoral, but is most certainly not against everyone's codes of ethics.
The thief's code of ethics says that stealing is necessary. His code of ethics forbits leaving something where it might be stolen.
in this case, I don't think they're concerned about people distributing the book without paying rights. They're concerned about people distributing the book - period.
Which is exactly counter to the purpose of US copyright, but has nothing to do with my argument.
What I'm saying to those who ask "how can these people be so stupid as to think that you can keep a book off of the internet" is that the people trying to are used to getting their way. They've gotten their way all their lives, and can't conceive of a situation where they can't get their way. The law has always worked for them, should always work for them, and they can't conceive of the law not working for them. If someone gets in their way, all they have to do is call the law, or call their lawyer.
It's the polar opposite of poor Americans from the American ghetto who are used to not getting their way, can't concieve of any situation where they do get their way that doesn't involve firearms or drugs, have never had the law work for them and know damned well that the law never will work for them.
I have to agree, but then again "country" music is another flavor of pop. Apparently Mojo Nixon agrees, too.
The only cure for ignorance is knowledge. Now he knows why he was downmodded, and doesn't have to sulk in the corner like some emo kid. Instead he can petulantly post goatse pics and twofo trojans like the other fourteen year olds here.
Are you kidding? Punch cards are way too advanced a technology. You program your ENIAC by plugging and unplugging wires.
And Windows? If I was running Windows, even my ENIAC clone wouldn't be secure!
And als*7)87&*&(*&(*&)(*[no carrier]4$%^&^%[connect]ave to change a vaccuum tube once in a while.