Gay marriage is already legal in all 50 states. No state has a statute on the books saying gays can't marry, and in fact many marriages end when someone discovers their spouse is gay.
A gay man who can't find a woman suitable for marriage is no worse off than me, a heterosexual man who can't find a woman suitable for marriage.
Not for LDS, for the rich. The law doesn't work for me either, it works for my employer. In LDS's early days, Utah wasn't controlled by your church and I doubt its elders were rich.
With Windows, you protect people from being stupid
You're confusing "stupid" with "ignorant". An ignorant user will have to reinstall Word if he removes one of its DLLs. A stupid user will have to reinstall Word a second time when he removed the DLL after reinstallation.
The ignorant user will no longer be ignorant, and will think twice before removing said file.
"Ethics" is a set of rules followed by a given profession. Medical ethics, for instance, forbid doctors from telling Joe about Jane's surgery, while if you know about Jane's surgery you are under no such ethical obligation.
Military ethics are written by the military. If their code of ethics says it's OK to drop napalm on civilians (as the ethics were during Vietnam) than it is not unethical to drop napalm on civilian villages, even though it is certainly immoral by any moral standard I've ever heard.
They might as well wish they could read minds, teleport, and find Carmen Sandiego. Or at least Osama.
I don't believe they're looking for Osama. If you have a boogeyman that's scary enough to make the populace give up their rights and quench your thirst for power, you would be insane to do away with the boogeyman.
Thanks to Bin Laden, my cowardly countrymen are begging government to take their rights away.
Don't hgold your breath waiting for Bin Laden to be found. They found Saddam soon enough, he's dead because of what he knew.
The parent comment is NOT flamebait. It is insightful as hell.
The fact that the USAF is considering this illegal and immoral outrage is flamebait. I guess some air force lifer has mod points today. When I metamoderate him he won't.
I admire your optimism, USAF, but $11 million dollars is simply not going to make that happen
For eleven million dollars you could buy twenty two thousand Dells legitimately. I know that's not a massive botnet by any means, but it would be a far better use of their... oops, MY money than this hare brained scheme.
I hope I catch the USAF inside MY computer. The civil rights suit will be worth millions, when I retire I'll retire in comfort instead of poverty.
In fact I think I'll set up a honeypot just for them. Bastards got 4 years of my life, they're NOT welcome to the contents of my computer. Like you said, it is illegal for them to do so, and whatever lawless nutcake Colonel that thought up this outrage should be court-martialed and sent to Leavenworth.
No, a bad review is good news - for me. It seems that I absolutely HATE most movies that the reviewers love, and LOVE the ones reviewers hate.
I mean, how did the original Star Wars movie fare? Not well. How about Dirty Harry? Again, they hated it. The Terminator? Of course, if the movie turns out to make tons of money they somehow start giving it good reviews... funny, that.
If the reviewers gave this new movie kudos, I'd wait until a human being told me it was good before wasting my hard earned money on it. So hooray for the critics and their bad but predictable reviews! I'll probably be in line on opening day, thanks to the critics.
I can't see any way it could have been done without either Flash, or a server-side script. If you are using flashblock (normally I do, but I'm at work) you are likely to not allow scripts to run, either.
You know, this confuses me about my own country. Partisan Democrats hate Republicans more than they hate their country's enemies, and likewise Partisan Republicans hate Democrats more than they hate their country's enemies.
Meanwhile most American voters split their votes. I never thought I'd see a worse President than Carter, but Bush managed to prove me wrong. IMO Bsh should be impeached, but OTOH I think McCain would be a bad president, but not nearly as bad as Obama or Hillary.
Never trust anyone with a political bumper sticker on their car.
Lawyers are wealthy, leaders of any church (any large organization actually) are wealthy. Even that church whose priests claim to have taken a vow of povery's leaders are wealthy; I 'd love to have a house like the Sistine Chapel and be chauffered in a car that costs what the popemobile costs.
The wealthy are spoiled and jaded; at least, the wealthy people I've met all are.
That said, now I am being OT - one of slashdot's failings is to not let someone mod a topic they are commenting in, yet allow anonymous posts which let them post AC in the thread they're not supposed to be commenting in.
I do see how that particular comment could be seen as offtopic.
No, I broke into the neighbor's house, tied him up, ate some food from his fridge and raped his wife. Now I'm using his computer. He can't call the police because he's a drug dea*&^%*&^%56u*)*&88[no carrier]
That's so, but I was referring to desktop Linux. Linux will and does run on anything from a wristwatch to a supercomputer.
Those touch screen game machines that run multiple games you see in every bar in existance? Their OS is Linux, as I found out once when the power went out in a bar.
because Howlin' Wolf's label can (and did) sucessfully sue ZZ Top for the "how how how how" in La Grange, and george Harrison's label can be sued by the Chiffon's label for using the same three notes Ronald Mack used in "He's So Fine".
George Harrison was ordered to pay $587,000 to Bright Tunes Music (the owners of the song's copyright) in 1976, after a judge found him guilty of "subconscious" plagiarism of "He's So Fine" in regard to his 1971 hit "My Sweet Lord".[1] The Chiffons would later record "My Sweet Lord" to capitalize on the publicity generated by the lawsuit.
Modern copyright is so fucktarded that it's damned near impossible to write and perform a song without infringing someone's copyright.
Most explosions don't kill because of the shock wave, but by shrapnel.
It would take a hell of a huge shockwave to kill a man. I doubt your run of the mill transducer would do the trick. Actually I doubt that current technology is advanced enough to create a transducer that would do the trick.
People have blown their hands of fishing with dynamite, and still lived to write books about it. I doubt you're going to electronically produce a shock wave greater than that produced by a stick of dynamite at less than a meter's distance.
In January 1976 I was driving an AMC Gremlin at 50mph and collided head on with a three quarter ton pickup truck doing 70 (details here). I was not wearing a seat belt. The dash was solid steel. My shoulder bent the dash, my face broke the windshield, but I not only survived the impact, but was examined and released from the hospital. You're going to have a very hard time producing a SOUND that can hit that hard.
Since copyright isn't a right (Article 2 section 8 "Congress may") the government can use any work they like, copyrighted or not, with impunity and the only thing the RIAA can do about it is bribe Congress with more "campaign contributions."
I knew a hippie who bought a bagpipe once. He was really stoned when he bought it. He thought "wow, great idea!" The he ruined it by tryuing to smoke it.
The problem is, it takes a lot more justification to fire a bullet than it does to use one of these.
The same goes for tasers. I commented further up that I was skeptical that these things could kill, but thinking about Klutzo the Klown's alleged death by taser (It was later found that Klutzo died after being sat on by a fat jail guard; yes, it's in the newspaper, but I live in a cartoon city) I figured out how.
There are men (and likely women as well) in US prisons today, serving life sentences for shoving someone. If you are in an altercation with someone, and they push you, and you push them back, and they trip and fall and hit their head, they can die. You will go to prison for murder if they do.
If you shoot someone with a taser (or one of these sound weapons; are they called "phasers" by chance?) they will fall down. If they hit their head on the concrete, they may die. The difference is that the taser (and phaser) user will be a police officer and his only punishment will be three weeks behind a desk while the "matter is investigated".
Another way sound can kill is to piss your dad off playing Usher at full blast, and he has a heart attack while screaming at you to "turn that god damned shit down".
Correct! It now stands at -1, offtopic, despite the fact that it discussed exactly what the summary discussed.
It's "offtopic" because
1. It's a lame joke 2. If you have to explain a joke, it's a lame joke 3. If you have to explain that it is, in fact, a joke, it's a REALLY lame joke 4. If you have to explain that it's a joke THREE FUCKING TIMES it's a REALLY REALLY lame joke 5. If you have to explain that it's a joke THREE FUCKING TIMES and then tell people that if they don't think it's funny they're dumb, it's a REALLY REALLY REALLY lame joke.
Now go on back to your job as a TV sitcom writer, mr "ILuvRamen".
With sound, the pressure change is several (depending on the pitch of the sound) tens/hundreds/thousands of times *per second*. I'm quite sure that makes a bit of a difference
What is it about sound that is allegedly lethal? Nobody claiming that sound can kill has given any rational explanation about this.
Until you explain the method to me I'm going to have to call bullshit.
One of the things I hate about Microsoft software (indeed, almost all software thet runs in Windows) is non-descriptive file names. Back in the DOS days XR2732A.DLL might have made sense, but wouldn't "Run-time library of graphics functions for Word.DLL make a whole lot more sense? If in fact you had removed Word (or some game or whatever) you would know that you could delete the file with impunity.
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Gay marriage is already legal in all 50 states. No state has a statute on the books saying gays can't marry, and in fact many marriages end when someone discovers their spouse is gay.
A gay man who can't find a woman suitable for marriage is no worse off than me, a heterosexual man who can't find a woman suitable for marriage.
Not for LDS, for the rich. The law doesn't work for me either, it works for my employer. In LDS's early days, Utah wasn't controlled by your church and I doubt its elders were rich.
With Windows, you protect people from being stupid
You're confusing "stupid" with "ignorant". An ignorant user will have to reinstall Word if he removes one of its DLLs. A stupid user will have to reinstall Word a second time when he removed the DLL after reinstallation.
The ignorant user will no longer be ignorant, and will think twice before removing said file.
"Ethics" is a set of rules followed by a given profession. Medical ethics, for instance, forbid doctors from telling Joe about Jane's surgery, while if you know about Jane's surgery you are under no such ethical obligation.
Military ethics are written by the military. If their code of ethics says it's OK to drop napalm on civilians (as the ethics were during Vietnam) than it is not unethical to drop napalm on civilian villages, even though it is certainly immoral by any moral standard I've ever heard.
They might as well wish they could read minds, teleport, and find Carmen Sandiego. Or at least Osama.
I don't believe they're looking for Osama. If you have a boogeyman that's scary enough to make the populace give up their rights and quench your thirst for power, you would be insane to do away with the boogeyman.
Thanks to Bin Laden, my cowardly countrymen are begging government to take their rights away.
Don't hgold your breath waiting for Bin Laden to be found. They found Saddam soon enough, he's dead because of what he knew.
The parent comment is NOT flamebait. It is insightful as hell.
The fact that the USAF is considering this illegal and immoral outrage is flamebait. I guess some air force lifer has mod points today. When I metamoderate him he won't.
I admire your optimism, USAF, but $11 million dollars is simply not going to make that happen
For eleven million dollars you could buy twenty two thousand Dells legitimately. I know that's not a massive botnet by any means, but it would be a far better use of their... oops, MY money than this hare brained scheme.
I hope I catch the USAF inside MY computer. The civil rights suit will be worth millions, when I retire I'll retire in comfort instead of poverty.
In fact I think I'll set up a honeypot just for them. Bastards got 4 years of my life, they're NOT welcome to the contents of my computer. Like you said, it is illegal for them to do so, and whatever lawless nutcake Colonel that thought up this outrage should be court-martialed and sent to Leavenworth.
No, a bad review is good news - for me. It seems that I absolutely HATE most movies that the reviewers love, and LOVE the ones reviewers hate.
I mean, how did the original Star Wars movie fare? Not well. How about Dirty Harry? Again, they hated it. The Terminator? Of course, if the movie turns out to make tons of money they somehow start giving it good reviews... funny, that.
If the reviewers gave this new movie kudos, I'd wait until a human being told me it was good before wasting my hard earned money on it. So hooray for the critics and their bad but predictable reviews! I'll probably be in line on opening day, thanks to the critics.
I can't see any way it could have been done without either Flash, or a server-side script. If you are using flashblock (normally I do, but I'm at work) you are likely to not allow scripts to run, either.
You know, this confuses me about my own country. Partisan Democrats hate Republicans more than they hate their country's enemies, and likewise Partisan Republicans hate Democrats more than they hate their country's enemies.
Meanwhile most American voters split their votes. I never thought I'd see a worse President than Carter, but Bush managed to prove me wrong. IMO Bsh should be impeached, but OTOH I think McCain would be a bad president, but not nearly as bad as Obama or Hillary.
Never trust anyone with a political bumper sticker on their car.
Lawyers are wealthy, leaders of any church (any large organization actually) are wealthy. Even that church whose priests claim to have taken a vow of povery's leaders are wealthy; I 'd love to have a house like the Sistine Chapel and be chauffered in a car that costs what the popemobile costs.
The wealthy are spoiled and jaded; at least, the wealthy people I've met all are.
That said, now I am being OT - one of slashdot's failings is to not let someone mod a topic they are commenting in, yet allow anonymous posts which let them post AC in the thread they're not supposed to be commenting in.
I do see how that particular comment could be seen as offtopic.
No, I broke into the neighbor's house, tied him up, ate some food from his fridge and raped his wife. Now I'm using his computer. He can't call the police because he's a drug dea*&^%*&^%56u*)*&88[no carrier]
That's so, but I was referring to desktop Linux. Linux will and does run on anything from a wristwatch to a supercomputer.
Those touch screen game machines that run multiple games you see in every bar in existance? Their OS is Linux, as I found out once when the power went out in a bar.
You're right, I must not have had enough coffee
because Howlin' Wolf's label can (and did) sucessfully sue ZZ Top for the "how how how how" in La Grange, and george Harrison's label can be sued by the Chiffon's label for using the same three notes Ronald Mack used in "He's So Fine".Modern copyright is so fucktarded that it's damned near impossible to write and perform a song without infringing someone's copyright.
"Achey Blakey halt"
"Foursome plizin brews"
"Prayin' chicken with a tlain"
Chinese C&W could be quite entertaining!
Most explosions don't kill because of the shock wave, but by shrapnel.
It would take a hell of a huge shockwave to kill a man. I doubt your run of the mill transducer would do the trick. Actually I doubt that current technology is advanced enough to create a transducer that would do the trick.
People have blown their hands of fishing with dynamite, and still lived to write books about it. I doubt you're going to electronically produce a shock wave greater than that produced by a stick of dynamite at less than a meter's distance.
In January 1976 I was driving an AMC Gremlin at 50mph and collided head on with a three quarter ton pickup truck doing 70 (details here). I was not wearing a seat belt. The dash was solid steel. My shoulder bent the dash, my face broke the windshield, but I not only survived the impact, but was examined and released from the hospital. You're going to have a very hard time producing a SOUND that can hit that hard.
Or what the RIAA will do...
Since copyright isn't a right (Article 2 section 8 "Congress may") the government can use any work they like, copyrighted or not, with impunity and the only thing the RIAA can do about it is bribe Congress with more "campaign contributions."
That's a bagpipe calling a banjo "offensive".
I knew a hippie who bought a bagpipe once. He was really stoned when he bought it. He thought "wow, great idea!" The he ruined it by tryuing to smoke it.
The problem is, it takes a lot more justification to fire a bullet than it does to use one of these.
The same goes for tasers. I commented further up that I was skeptical that these things could kill, but thinking about Klutzo the Klown's alleged death by taser (It was later found that Klutzo died after being sat on by a fat jail guard; yes, it's in the newspaper, but I live in a cartoon city) I figured out how.
There are men (and likely women as well) in US prisons today, serving life sentences for shoving someone. If you are in an altercation with someone, and they push you, and you push them back, and they trip and fall and hit their head, they can die. You will go to prison for murder if they do.
If you shoot someone with a taser (or one of these sound weapons; are they called "phasers" by chance?) they will fall down. If they hit their head on the concrete, they may die. The difference is that the taser (and phaser) user will be a police officer and his only punishment will be three weeks behind a desk while the "matter is investigated".
Another way sound can kill is to piss your dad off playing Usher at full blast, and he has a heart attack while screaming at you to "turn that god damned shit down".
Correct! It now stands at -1, offtopic, despite the fact that it discussed exactly what the summary discussed.
It's "offtopic" because
1. It's a lame joke
2. If you have to explain a joke, it's a lame joke
3. If you have to explain that it is, in fact, a joke, it's a REALLY lame joke
4. If you have to explain that it's a joke THREE FUCKING TIMES it's a REALLY REALLY lame joke
5. If you have to explain that it's a joke THREE FUCKING TIMES and then tell people that if they don't think it's funny they're dumb, it's a REALLY REALLY REALLY lame joke.
Now go on back to your job as a TV sitcom writer, mr "ILuvRamen".
With sound, the pressure change is several (depending on the pitch of the sound) tens/hundreds/thousands of times *per second*. I'm quite sure that makes a bit of a difference
What is it about sound that is allegedly lethal? Nobody claiming that sound can kill has given any rational explanation about this.
Until you explain the method to me I'm going to have to call bullshit.
Sound can kill.
I see you've been folowing the American Presidential primaries...
That's not sound, that's just hot air. Nothing sound ever comes out of DC.
"American Idol", now,,,
One of the things I hate about Microsoft software (indeed, almost all software thet runs in Windows) is non-descriptive file names. Back in the DOS days XR2732A.DLL might have made sense, but wouldn't "Run-time library of graphics functions for Word.DLL make a whole lot more sense? If in fact you had removed Word (or some game or whatever) you would know that you could delete the file with impunity.