Utterly fascinating - he's a powerful, ruthless, pragmatic man, normally the kind of person who gets along perfectly with the current republican administration - but it looks like the christian right's prediliction for censorship is starting to ruffle his feathers.
The google trends is pretty fun to play with - and like all good tools, it can be used for good or bad.
For instance, British appear to be tit men, whereas Americans are ass men. People from all over the place are searching for osama, but its only people from terrorist cities (like Lahore, Stockholm & San Franscisco) who are searching for usama
A slightly more interesting search is bsd - the top cities searching for BSD are interesting (and the same holds true for linux - where the top city is the converting-to-linux munich)
If the quote "lighten up, Francis" is too obscure of a pop-culture reference for you, then I'm guessing you're either very young or else you simply don't get out much.
Oh right. Sorry for not immediately picking up the reference to that Ivan Reitman classic 'Stripes'. Truly - an amazing work, I'm amazed that people don't reference it more often.
Never mind that by stopping the.xxx domain you've neatly made it impossible to protect minors from exposure to pornography
Allowing a.xxx domain would've done nothing to protect minors from exposure to pornography.
I can't imagine why you think it possibly would. The.xxx domain was just another way to make money from a TLD domain rush (quite a good one I suspect, looking at how much sex.com ended up being worth).
Imagine a time and place where you have a security rating... you approach an airport terminal and hand them your ID card (or scan your arm) but you can't board the plane because you've been making too many phone calls to your friends who happen to have a rap sheet.
Dude, you can put those tinhat tags away - do you really think you can't get on the do-not-fly list because of suspicious phone calls now?
Among the big telecommunications companies, only Qwest has refused to help the NSA, the sources said. According to multiple sources, Qwest declined to participate because it was uneasy about the legal implications of handing over customer information to the government without warrants.
Qwest's refusal to participate has left the NSA with a hole in its database.
Clearly, Qwest is a nest of terrorists.
I for one suggest NSA take aim at Qwest and bomb them back to to the PSTN-age!
Actually our greenhouse emissions are reducing, just not as fast as they should. In fact the UK is closer to meeting its Kyoto obligations than almost all other EU countries. And our emissions are around a quarter of the per person emissions in the USA.
Do you believe everything your government tells you?
Here we go: I propose a $1,000 tax on every Mac puchase. I propose a $2 tax on every latte. I think the state should get a penny-a-ping for every SMS and IM sent. I suggest everyone who pays more than twelve dollars for a haircut should be taxed another eight dollars on that transaction: sort of a luxury/vanity/sin/stupidity tax, all rolled into one.
The taxes you propose don't actually provide any social benefits - you should word it like:
I propose a $1,000 tax on every Computer puchase to pay for the cost of recycling the computer after its lifecycle.
I propose a $2 tax on every latte to pay for erosion & poor working conditions for 3rd world coffee farmers.
I think the state should get a penny-a-ping for every SMS and IM sent, this tax will be used to provide free wireless internet to the poor.
I suggest everyone who pays more than twelve dollars for a haircut is taxed an extra eight dollars. This tax will be used to pay for real haircuts for poor suv driving suburbanites (who currently look a bit scruffy).
It's been sometime since I visited the UK, and it was only London for a weekend, but IIRC, London's public transport infrastructure is long overdue for a massive upgrade.
The tube trains are unbelievably slow, they're hot all year round, to the point where there's warnings at the entrances.
In spite of this, it's still far more convenient then a car (even without factoring in the cogestion charge).
You don't mention what part of the UK you're from, but a 30 minute commute that's 90 minutes by public transport is an indication the PT is broken there too.
Public transport has it's place, but the convenience and freedom that comes with personal transportation is not something many people want to part with, and nor should they in my opinion.
If this sort of attitude is typical, then its no wonder that the UK's greenhouse emissions are rising & you're not going to be able to meet your requirements under the kyoto treaty.
Oh please. I live in the only capital city in Australia that has decent public transport. It it good for precisely two reasons: it creates local jobs (we build our own buses) and not too many people use it.
Hmmmmn, my understanding of Australian cities is that they sprawl in a similar fashion to US West Coast cities. If they'd been planned properly (or at least had development & freeway building curbed a little), public transport could be much better.
But people accept the burden of debt and maintenance for a car for the convience of not doing all these things.
Well that explains why Australians are the worst greenhouse gas polluters per capita on the planet.
That's good news - hopefully, it will spur private enterprises in a similar manner to the X-prize.
However, I really don't think this admistration seems too interested in ending dependance on foreign oil, when they electric and natural gas cars to the tune of $500+/year.
Hydrogen would be great & all, but what really needs to be done is to improve America's public transport infrastructure & encourage people to start using it. A gradual raising of gas taxes until pump prices are around $7/gallon, with the money raised being pumped into (free) public transport would achieve precisely that.
Sadly, 1/3 of (known) dragonfly species are listed as threatened or endangered on the IUCN Red List of endangered species.
Life that relies on small ponds (rather then larger bodies of water) tends to be quite sensitive to insecticides & pesticides. I suspect the pond you're talking about was nowhere near any orchards (or other commercial farming).
I'ts important to remember that nearly all ponds used to be like the one you're talking about - and could be again, if we just started being a little more sensitive.
Yeah, and the only new thing about the PS2 & X-Box was the addition of a DVD player, while the Nintendo of that generation was the same as their previous offering, with slightly better graphics. So what?
No, the PS2's graphics were an enormous improvement over the PS1, the xbox was ms's first offering, so can't be compared to its predecessor.
The N64 wasn't particularly special, but I think the graphics improvements over the snes were far larger then the gap for this generation of consoles.
The purpose of a console generation update is to provide more raw horsepower for the next generation of games. The games are what make consoles worth owning, not gimmicks.
I absolutely agree with you the games are what make consoles worth owning, not gimmicks - I don't agree with you however that raw horsepower makes a good game.
Additionally, (as I said), I don't think (certainly for the xbox, probably for the wii, I'll reserve judgement on the ps3) that this generation of consoles offer much of a graphical improvement over the last.
That's why I'm interested in the wii - it's the only console offering something that really distinguishes from the previous generation.
Lighten up, Francis. For somebody who spends most of his time trolling on the Mac threads, you really don't have much of a sense of humor about it when it's your ox being gored.
Is Francis an insult or someone you think I am? But you're quite right - I shouldn't have attacked you like that. It's your right to think all nintendo produces is hello kitty games or whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
It's about time someone invents a device to punch people in the face via TCP/IP and this device is made obligatory by law.
Let me be the first to say.... ouch!
Love their midget porn!
It's like slashdot's turned into some sort of linux site.
No Apple stories in three days
This is a tragedy!1!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you mean? Do you think planning a city around its transport infrastructure is stupid?
You don't appear to be making any sort of point at all.
You'll find it rather interesting ... talk about Apple stealing users from Linux - just look at those lines converging!
You're right - and you see that ipods are enroaching on linux's territory too
I'm thinking that most OS searches are caused by technical support issues or problem solving,
Uh-oh - let's hope you're not correct in that theory, because it would mean that mac's are getting harder to use & linux easier
Well that explains why Rupert Murdoch, the richest & most influential media owner in the world (owner of Fox and myspace.) has ended years of Clinton hating and started cosying up to Hilary Clinton.
Utterly fascinating - he's a powerful, ruthless, pragmatic man, normally the kind of person who gets along perfectly with the current republican administration - but it looks like the christian right's prediliction for censorship is starting to ruffle his feathers.
Anyway, for anyone unlucky enough to be using internet access in a library, I'm sure the circumvention techniques good for the great firewall of china will work inside the US as well. Maybe the BoingBoing guide to evading censorware will be useful too.
Oh - on a side note, check out the spoof Rupert Murdoch Myspace Profiles
Oh - and one other one to look at A comparison of Operating Systems
:-(
Windows is the clear winner, with linux coming in second & BSD & OS X barely registering
The google trends is pretty fun to play with - and like all good tools, it can be used for good or bad.
For instance, British appear to be tit men, whereas Americans are ass men. People from all over the place are searching for osama, but its only people from terrorist cities (like Lahore, Stockholm & San Franscisco) who are searching for usama
A slightly more interesting search is bsd - the top cities searching for BSD are interesting (and the same holds true for linux - where the top city is the converting-to-linux munich)
If the quote "lighten up, Francis" is too obscure of a pop-culture reference for you, then I'm guessing you're either very young or else you simply don't get out much.
Oh right. Sorry for not immediately picking up the reference to that Ivan Reitman classic 'Stripes'. Truly - an amazing work, I'm amazed that people don't reference it more often.
Never mind that by stopping the .xxx domain you've neatly made it impossible to protect minors from exposure to pornography
.xxx domain would've done nothing to protect minors from exposure to pornography.
.xxx domain was just another way to make money from a TLD domain rush (quite a good one I suspect, looking at how much sex.com ended up being worth).
Allowing a
I can't imagine why you think it possibly would. The
Indeed, there is nothing more touchingly naive then the faith the average free market evangelist has in the 'invisible hand' to fix everything.
Of course - they're the first ones to scream for regulation if a crackhead / someone who likes storing petrol / whatever moves in next door...
Elequontly put.
It's funny when people think raising the price of gasoline is 'interfering with the market' isn't it?
Imagine a time and place where you have a security rating ... you approach an airport terminal and hand them your ID card (or scan your arm) but you can't board the plane because you've been making too many phone calls to your friends who happen to have a rap sheet.
Dude, you can put those tinhat tags away - do you really think you can't get on the do-not-fly list because of suspicious phone calls now?
If your local grocery store isn't a short walking distance away, you have a different problem.
I suspect the GP uses a segway to get from his bedroom to his kitchen and has no idea what 'walk' means.
Oh right!
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Sorry, you've just replied to so many of my posts, I thought you were one of my many
I for one suggest NSA take aim at Qwest and bomb them back to to the PSTN-age!
Actually our greenhouse emissions are reducing, just not as fast as they should. In fact the UK is closer to meeting its Kyoto obligations than almost all other EU countries. And our emissions are around a quarter of the per person emissions in the USA.
Do you believe everything your government tells you?
While quite a rosy picture is being painted by defra, it appears they have been forgetting to include boats and planes in their emmission counts. Oops.
I agree that the UK is generally better then the US. But that's not something I'd be particularly proud of.
Here we go: I propose a $1,000 tax on every Mac puchase. I propose a $2 tax on every latte. I think the state should get a penny-a-ping for every SMS and IM sent. I suggest everyone who pays more than twelve dollars for a haircut should be taxed another eight dollars on that transaction: sort of a luxury/vanity/sin/stupidity tax, all rolled into one.
The taxes you propose don't actually provide any social benefits - you should word it like:
I propose a $1,000 tax on every Computer puchase to pay for the cost of recycling the computer after its lifecycle.
I propose a $2 tax on every latte to pay for erosion & poor working conditions for 3rd world coffee farmers.
I think the state should get a penny-a-ping for every SMS and IM sent, this tax will be used to provide free wireless internet to the poor.
I suggest everyone who pays more than twelve dollars for a haircut is taxed an extra eight dollars. This tax will be used to pay for real haircuts for poor suv driving suburbanites (who currently look a bit scruffy).
It's been sometime since I visited the UK, and it was only London for a weekend, but IIRC, London's public transport infrastructure is long overdue for a massive upgrade.
The tube trains are unbelievably slow, they're hot all year round, to the point where there's warnings at the entrances.
In spite of this, it's still far more convenient then a car (even without factoring in the cogestion charge).
You don't mention what part of the UK you're from, but a 30 minute commute that's 90 minutes by public transport is an indication the PT is broken there too.
Public transport has it's place, but the convenience and freedom that comes with personal transportation is not something many people want to part with, and nor should they in my opinion.
If this sort of attitude is typical, then its no wonder that the UK's greenhouse emissions are rising & you're not going to be able to meet your requirements under the kyoto treaty.
Oh please. I live in the only capital city in Australia that has decent public transport. It it good for precisely two reasons: it creates local jobs (we build our own buses) and not too many people use it.
Hmmmmn, my understanding of Australian cities is that they sprawl in a similar fashion to US West Coast cities. If they'd been planned properly (or at least had development & freeway building curbed a little), public transport could be much better.
But people accept the burden of debt and maintenance for a car for the convience of not doing all these things.
Well that explains why Australians are the worst greenhouse gas polluters per capita on the planet.
That's good news - hopefully, it will spur private enterprises in a similar manner to the X-prize.
However, I really don't think this admistration seems too interested in ending dependance on foreign oil, when they electric and natural gas cars to the tune of $500+/year.
Hydrogen would be great & all, but what really needs to be done is to improve America's public transport infrastructure & encourage people to start using it. A gradual raising of gas taxes until pump prices are around $7/gallon, with the money raised being pumped into (free) public transport would achieve precisely that.
Sadly, 1/3 of (known) dragonfly species are listed as threatened or endangered on the IUCN Red List of endangered species.
Life that relies on small ponds (rather then larger bodies of water) tends to be quite sensitive to insecticides & pesticides. I suspect the pond you're talking about was nowhere near any orchards (or other commercial farming).
I'ts important to remember that nearly all ponds used to be like the one you're talking about - and could be again, if we just started being a little more sensitive.
The N64 wasn't particularly special, but I think the graphics improvements over the snes
Whoops, substitue gamecube for n64 & n64 for snes.
Yeah, and the only new thing about the PS2 & X-Box was the addition of a DVD player, while the Nintendo of that generation was the same as their previous offering, with slightly better graphics. So what?
No, the PS2's graphics were an enormous improvement over the PS1, the xbox was ms's first offering, so can't be compared to its predecessor.
The N64 wasn't particularly special, but I think the graphics improvements over the snes were far larger then the gap for this generation of consoles.
The purpose of a console generation update is to provide more raw horsepower for the next generation of games. The games are what make consoles worth owning, not gimmicks.
I absolutely agree with you the games are what make consoles worth owning, not gimmicks - I don't agree with you however that raw horsepower makes a good game.
Additionally, (as I said), I don't think (certainly for the xbox, probably for the wii, I'll reserve judgement on the ps3) that this generation of consoles offer much of a graphical improvement over the last.
That's why I'm interested in the wii - it's the only console offering something that really distinguishes from the previous generation.
Lighten up, Francis. For somebody who spends most of his time trolling on the Mac threads, you really don't have much of a sense of humor about it when it's your ox being gored.
Is Francis an insult or someone you think I am? But you're quite right - I shouldn't have attacked you like that. It's your right to think all nintendo produces is hello kitty games or whatever.