the renton police like to pretend they are all swat officers in a robocop movie. all of their patrol cars are kitted out with external roll cages, and the officers wear full body armor at all times. i used to work in the old city hall building, and they would use the floor below us for training exercises with flash bang grenades. we'd ride the same elevator up and i'd count the number of handguns strapped to their hips and chest (always more than their number of hands).
parking in a lot full of brand new cop cars with shiny new powder-coated black rims didn't make me feel safer... it made me feel like the police had their priorities in an order that did not benefit the community... this story is more of the same.
Who the hell are you and what have you done with the MichaelKristopeit### Troll?
Holding out till the market is desperate and prices are so high you have no hope of intelligent management of the scarce resource hasn't always worked out the way people expect either.
I don't know about that. Once petroleum costs too much, someone will want to buy my whale oil again, and if I sell it before whalers increase in number, I'll be a rich man...
It's still way better than the dock for actual window management, even on it's default settings.
Not really. If you open a browser window, it doesn't get its own indicator on the taskbar, instead its browser instance is attached to the startup link in the taskbar.
Why is it that, whenever I read posts by Linux users bitching about some feature change in Linux, it always reads like an episodes of "The real housewives"?
I used it once when it first started and was disgusted. It gave one "answer" on the first page, and you had to go to the next page to find what you really wanted (all of the real links). It's a "decision engine", so it's like Clippy for the Web. Bleh!
Feigned ignorance is pretty pathetic. My grandpa knows what Bing is.
Congratulations, you've outed your grandpa as having contributed to the average 80 IQ of IE users. Meanwhile, I myself have to admit that whenever I see "Bing" I'm momentarily confused until I remember it's a failed search engine like lycos or that search engine with the cartoon spider with the magnifying glass. Nowhere near the instant recognition of google yahoo, altavista, lycos, etc.
When Suse started using mono for its update service (forcing me to make a script to kill and restart the update service daily), I dumped Suse for my desktop OS. Congratulations, Microsoft. Your strategy worked. Now I use Ubuntu, but I'll probably switch to Debian if the UI debacle doesn't clear up soon.
Actually, why don't we start from the top? Why all the voting is anonymous? And by voting i mean the one that the congressmen are exercising.
Voting is anonymous to prevent coercion and bribery. Congresscritter voting (in congress) should always be open because the voters should be able to coerce them with threats of not voting for them (but it opens up the chances for bad coercion and bribery).
Alice and Bob are camping when they get attacked by a hungry lion. Running away at top speed, Alice begins to overtake Bob. "We'll never be able to outrun it!" says Bob. Alice replies, "I don't need to outrun the lion - I only need to outrun YOU!"
In that sense, all the security any given person needs is just not to be low-hanging fruit.
That joke is only about encryption if the bear's name is Carol.
because linux is only free if your time is worthless.
And Windows is only $169 per license if your time is even more worthless. The constant reimaging, the futzing about with intentionally hidden design features, the 3rd party software that doesn't update automatically with OS updates (where the OSS replacement of said software is in the repos). Linux/Unix admins are only paid more because we have esoteric knowledge. Windows admins do a lot more work.
But if you teach your child that climbing into the place where the ice cream and ice-ee pops are kept is normal, then you'd better lock that thing well.
do what rich people already do.
1 fridge
1 freezer
I believe you mean lower middle class. Upper middle class often have two or three fridges, and rich people have walk-in fridges with an even colder walk-in freezer (and several smaller fridges scattered around the property).
Because moving a big hunk of steel from A to B is harder than moving some heat from inside your fridge to the outside of the fridge. Just compare the size of gas tanks on a car versus a gasoline powered generator. That said, in an emergency scenario, I'd rather eat the food right away and save the energy for mobility to get to somewhere that has electricity.
If you really wanna use your brains when you see a movie, don't go to the cinema at the mall, go to the art-house cinema in the college district.
There are two kinds of people. Film lovers that sip fine wine and have intellectually stimulating discussions about the film. The others are those that eat popcorn and watch movies.
There are far more kinds of movie goers than are dreamt of in your philosophy. In fact, those that sip fine wine while discussing a film are usually not lovers of film, but lovers of hearing themselves talk, and their discussions are often not intellectually stimulating, but are instead regurgitated xerography spewed about every film they see. "Mmm, yes, shallow and pedantic" -Peter Griffin.
Actually, it might work better to phrase it something like: Atheism isn't a belief; it's a non-belief. Something can't be both a belief and a non-belief at the same time.
A non-belief in the manner you pose is just a fancy way of saying a belief in not-X. For example, Theism is a belief that there is not no god(s). An actual non-belief would be something more like a non-conception; something that someone never thought of before thus can't form a belief about. i.e. babies have lots of non-beliefs about politics.
Which is not a religion. Nor is it a law respecting the establishment of a religion. It's a belief. Belief=/=Religion. Belief in the flying spagetti monster isn't a religion either. Belief in tfsm may be a faith, but it's not codified with tradition and common myth. We all know what "establishment of religion" is: state mandated religion like in Europe. We don't have that. Good 'nuff.
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Beware, hordes of Mactards will descend and burn your house down.
They'll try, but the iPhone lighter app isn't as hot as it looks.
Good News! Apple is taking steps to making that impossible!
the renton police like to pretend they are all swat officers in a robocop movie. all of their patrol cars are kitted out with external roll cages, and the officers wear full body armor at all times. i used to work in the old city hall building, and they would use the floor below us for training exercises with flash bang grenades. we'd ride the same elevator up and i'd count the number of handguns strapped to their hips and chest (always more than their number of hands). parking in a lot full of brand new cop cars with shiny new powder-coated black rims didn't make me feel safer... it made me feel like the police had their priorities in an order that did not benefit the community... this story is more of the same.
Who the hell are you and what have you done with the MichaelKristopeit### Troll?
Please, not another discussion of D&D 3.x.
Okay, how about D&D 4? I've started gold farming with my tank.
Holding out till the market is desperate and prices are so high you have no hope of intelligent management of the scarce resource hasn't always worked out the way people expect either.
I don't know about that. Once petroleum costs too much, someone will want to buy my whale oil again, and if I sell it before whalers increase in number, I'll be a rich man...
It's still way better than the dock for actual window management, even on it's default settings.
Not really. If you open a browser window, it doesn't get its own indicator on the taskbar, instead its browser instance is attached to the startup link in the taskbar.
Why is it that, whenever I read posts by Linux users bitching about some feature change in Linux, it always reads like an episodes of "The real housewives"?
Stop the presses. There are Real housewives?
I used it once when it first started and was disgusted. It gave one "answer" on the first page, and you had to go to the next page to find what you really wanted (all of the real links). It's a "decision engine", so it's like Clippy for the Web. Bleh!
Feigned ignorance is pretty pathetic. My grandpa knows what Bing is.
Congratulations, you've outed your grandpa as having contributed to the average 80 IQ of IE users. Meanwhile, I myself have to admit that whenever I see "Bing" I'm momentarily confused until I remember it's a failed search engine like lycos or that search engine with the cartoon spider with the magnifying glass. Nowhere near the instant recognition of google yahoo, altavista, lycos, etc.
Heck, Eskimos used a solid/liquid phase change material for even longer!
The current glitch in thinking over at Apple that has informed Lion with IOS like features is, I am confident, in error.
We all believe it's in error, but some of us believe it will continue until the error prone management changes.
When Suse started using mono for its update service (forcing me to make a script to kill and restart the update service daily), I dumped Suse for my desktop OS. Congratulations, Microsoft. Your strategy worked. Now I use Ubuntu, but I'll probably switch to Debian if the UI debacle doesn't clear up soon.
Really, why invade a country on foot and turn things into a blood bath when you can slowly choke everyone out (i.e., virtual occupation!)
If you think Chinese Second Life Flying Penises (SLFP) can beat out American SLFP, you've got another think coming.
*USERS* in general are stupid.
But not stupid enough to bring the average down to 80. I could see someone with 80 using a browser, but not someone with 50 IQ.
Actually, why don't we start from the top? Why all the voting is anonymous? And by voting i mean the one that the congressmen are exercising.
Voting is anonymous to prevent coercion and bribery. Congresscritter voting (in congress) should always be open because the voters should be able to coerce them with threats of not voting for them (but it opens up the chances for bad coercion and bribery).
This reminds me of the old joke:
Alice and Bob are camping when they get attacked by a hungry lion. Running away at top speed, Alice begins to overtake Bob. "We'll never be able to outrun it!" says Bob. Alice replies, "I don't need to outrun the lion - I only need to outrun YOU!"
In that sense, all the security any given person needs is just not to be low-hanging fruit.
That joke is only about encryption if the bear's name is Carol.
If not, it sounds like IT forgot to remind people of how to secure data
I remind them *how* all the time. That doesn't mean they understand me, or that if they do understand me, that they are willing to actually do it.
because linux is only free if your time is worthless.
And Windows is only $169 per license if your time is even more worthless. The constant reimaging, the futzing about with intentionally hidden design features, the 3rd party software that doesn't update automatically with OS updates (where the OSS replacement of said software is in the repos). Linux/Unix admins are only paid more because we have esoteric knowledge. Windows admins do a lot more work.
But if you teach your child that climbing into the place where the ice cream and ice-ee pops are kept is normal, then you'd better lock that thing well.
do what rich people already do.
1 fridge
1 freezer
I believe you mean lower middle class. Upper middle class often have two or three fridges, and rich people have walk-in fridges with an even colder walk-in freezer (and several smaller fridges scattered around the property).
Because moving a big hunk of steel from A to B is harder than moving some heat from inside your fridge to the outside of the fridge. Just compare the size of gas tanks on a car versus a gasoline powered generator. That said, in an emergency scenario, I'd rather eat the food right away and save the energy for mobility to get to somewhere that has electricity.
Bender versus Cylons? Philosophy contest.
"Bite. My. Shiny. Metal. Ass."
"By your command."
If you really wanna use your brains when you see a movie, don't go to the cinema at the mall, go to the art-house cinema in the college district.
There are two kinds of people. Film lovers that sip fine wine and have intellectually stimulating discussions about the film. The others are those that eat popcorn and watch movies.
There are far more kinds of movie goers than are dreamt of in your philosophy. In fact, those that sip fine wine while discussing a film are usually not lovers of film, but lovers of hearing themselves talk, and their discussions are often not intellectually stimulating, but are instead regurgitated xerography spewed about every film they see. "Mmm, yes, shallow and pedantic" -Peter Griffin.
Actually, it might work better to phrase it something like: Atheism isn't a belief; it's a non-belief. Something can't be both a belief and a non-belief at the same time.
A non-belief in the manner you pose is just a fancy way of saying a belief in not-X. For example, Theism is a belief that there is not no god(s). An actual non-belief would be something more like a non-conception; something that someone never thought of before thus can't form a belief about. i.e. babies have lots of non-beliefs about politics.
It is an official acknowledgement of a God.
Which is not a religion. Nor is it a law respecting the establishment of a religion. It's a belief. Belief=/=Religion. Belief in the flying spagetti monster isn't a religion either. Belief in tfsm may be a faith, but it's not codified with tradition and common myth. We all know what "establishment of religion" is: state mandated religion like in Europe. We don't have that. Good 'nuff.