...the social conservatives proceeded to screw up big time. Went on a holy crusade against liquor stores. Didn't care about past agreements, the law, our tax base, or anything, just started coming up with bull to run all the liquor stores out of town.
Considering the amount of change involved in such a venture, and that alcohol has been a part of civilization since its inception (except for a brief temperance hiccup), I'd say that a group banning liquor sounds socially progressive [regressive?], not socially conservative.
People who can't be bothered to vote won't likely be bothered to go into the streets to protest either, much less take arms up against a legitimate government.
Don't count on that. The colonial rebels never bothered to vote. It never even crossed their minds.
People on the extreme left have left the Democratic party because the party has tilted hard right. The Democratic party is far right of where it used to be, largely because the party leaders kowtowed to corporate money. This drove away the leftist elements of the party, so what remains of the Democratic Party is more like Reagan than the Republican party is.
Too right. Obama is in bed with corporate fat cats so much that he wants the government to own the means of production and eliminate corporate bonuses. If only he were more leftist...
It would be nice to have something like mod_auth_kerb/ldap that worked with mysql. It's been a "bug" since 2004, and a requested feature for longer than that. I know not everyone has multiple users in a mysql DB, but quite a few do.
"Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour."
DST helps a lot in high latitudes. When I was walking to work last week it was still dark. Today when I went out I immediately noticed that the Sun was up.
And only then it struck me that we had a DST transition yesterday.
So you're saying that if standard time had been in effect all along, you would have been able to walk to work in the sunlight all last week?
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour.
Yes, let's change the world so programmers don't have to deal with codifying a moderately complex real world situation. I mean come on, this should be a library you write once and can test pretty extensively and easily. No excuse for sloppy programming.
Except there are exceptions. Arizona and Hawaii are still no DST. Indiana changed to DST in 2006(?), the entire US changed when it does its DST changeover (and will again, probably). It's a library that's write once, write often. Heck, the most commonly updated package on my systems is tzdata, although it's not usually about DST.
We should change the world so that X% of people who always forget to change their clocks aren't late/early twice a year, and time isn't wasted telling people to change their clocks.
Someone remind me please what we're saving? It's not electricity, because we use lightbulbs before sunrise and after sunset in summer and winter.
DST does save energy. It may not happen in the place you live but the times for sundown/sunrise does change significantly where I live depending on the time of year. It could be 8pm with the sun still out one part of the year and 5pm in darkness another time of the year.
But if you still wake up before sunrise and go to sleep after sunset, what has been gained? DST doesn't magically make the daylight longer.
The other oddity is people use their phone as an alarmclock? A smartphone with a battery life measured in hours, probably dead by wakeup time? I'm with the modern generation in that I haven't worn a wristwatch in over a decade, but is it a generational thing that people don't own/use alarm clocks?
I'm from your generation, and I used a pocket watch when everyone else used wristwatches (could never stand those things, although I wanted a calculator watch for the geek cred). I have a couple clock radios, but I use them as clocks. My alarm is my phone because it's always around, and the charger is on my nightstand, so it won't run down. I can set my next day's wakeup time at any time during the day, and choose any noise. Maybe the younger set don't even own clock radios, but I think they probably have something to avoid the problems with your other comment regarding fumbling for the phone to check the time.
I had no idea millions of people used their phone as an alarm clock.
Works better than my clock radio because it's always nearby, easier to set, I can change the alarm noise to something jarring if needed, and I can set it in the middle of the day when I find out I need to get to work early the next day (instead of waiting until I get home and hoping I remember).
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour.
Someone remind me please what we're saving? It's not electricity, because we use lightbulbs before sunrise and after sunset in summer and winter.
Okay, everyone, here's the symbol on the screen, put on your 3D glasses! Now take them off! Put them on again! Now that the opening sequence is over, take them off and forget about them for the rest of the movie, which is 2D.
LOL, Faux News was linked as proof that a story is real.
National Enquirer gets more stories right than Faux News do.
Believe it or not, it was the least sensationalist of the pages I could find covering the story. Most of them were titled like "Man Arrested for FART! ROFLMAO! *RASPBERRY*", even on slightly more respected news sites.
BTW, it's hard to get arrest records wrong, since they're written down and easy for press to obtain. The rest of the story is that the prosecutor dropped the charges but it's something to think about; TSA guards might "think" you're trying to blanket the terminal with a gas-bomb and tazer you. "I smelled an odor similar to ricin, and concluded the suspect was breaching the canister."
Don't fly with a valuable laptop without theft recovery technology, period. This is what netbooks are for... or lojack
Really? Lojack? You're kidding. Any thief/fence worth his salt will wipe the drive first thing. The closest thing to security for laptops are the BIOS passwords without mobo jumpers (that require a call to the manufacturer from the registered owner to get a master password). But even then, they can sell your laptop as spare parts on e-bay. Maybe if you get a GPS tracker that's always on, but I've not seen that standard on any laptop.
I'm lactose intolerant. I'll be sure to drink a glass of milk with my garlic eggs in the morning and make the experience a real unpleasant one for them. "Oops, sorry, when you hit the 'resistance' it caused me to jump and I let some gas out."
Believe me, the TSA employees will revolt against upper management if enough people fart in their face all fucking day long. You want to play fucking games, we'll play them right back.
Sounds like a systemic issue. If she was so frail that a 30 pound 4 year old could kill her she should of been in a facility. The kids shouldn't of been in a public place where they were a nuisance and a danger to others. That should probably be a fine of 20$. If you want to live in a place without the proper areas to ride bikes your kids don't get to ride bikes.
should've is a conjunction of "should have", not "should of"
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...the social conservatives proceeded to screw up big time. Went on a holy crusade against liquor stores. Didn't care about past agreements, the law, our tax base, or anything, just started coming up with bull to run all the liquor stores out of town.
Considering the amount of change involved in such a venture, and that alcohol has been a part of civilization since its inception (except for a brief temperance hiccup), I'd say that a group banning liquor sounds socially progressive [regressive?], not socially conservative.
You know what? I'd vote for Lex Luthor. At least I'd know what I was getting.
A man with enough kryptonite to protect us from Zod.
People who can't be bothered to vote won't likely be bothered to go into the streets to protest either, much less take arms up against a legitimate government.
Don't count on that. The colonial rebels never bothered to vote. It never even crossed their minds.
People on the extreme left have left the Democratic party because the party has tilted hard right. The Democratic party is far right of where it used to be, largely because the party leaders kowtowed to corporate money. This drove away the leftist elements of the party, so what remains of the Democratic Party is more like Reagan than the Republican party is.
Too right. Obama is in bed with corporate fat cats so much that he wants the government to own the means of production and eliminate corporate bonuses. If only he were more leftist...
Location, Location, Location.
How many other houses are in orbit?
The only one allowed to harvest and sell your data on facebook is facebook.
I like how you made it into a Farmville analogy.
You think that the EV's are being powered by unicorn tears? No
can you back that up with a few links to studies ?
Studies indicate that unicorns do not exist.
Apologies if I didn't infer the correct nature of your objection to the GP.
It would be nice to have something like mod_auth_kerb/ldap that worked with mysql. It's been a "bug" since 2004, and a requested feature for longer than that. I know not everyone has multiple users in a mysql DB, but quite a few do.
"Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour."
DST helps a lot in high latitudes. When I was walking to work last week it was still dark. Today when I went out I immediately noticed that the Sun was up.
And only then it struck me that we had a DST transition yesterday.
So you're saying that if standard time had been in effect all along, you would have been able to walk to work in the sunlight all last week?
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour.
Yes, let's change the world so programmers don't have to deal with codifying a moderately complex real world situation. I mean come on, this should be a library you write once and can test pretty extensively and easily. No excuse for sloppy programming.
Except there are exceptions. Arizona and Hawaii are still no DST. Indiana changed to DST in 2006(?), the entire US changed when it does its DST changeover (and will again, probably). It's a library that's write once, write often. Heck, the most commonly updated package on my systems is tzdata, although it's not usually about DST.
We should change the world so that X% of people who always forget to change their clocks aren't late/early twice a year, and time isn't wasted telling people to change their clocks.
Someone remind me please what we're saving? It's not electricity, because we use lightbulbs before sunrise and after sunset in summer and winter.
DST does save energy. It may not happen in the place you live but the times for sundown/sunrise does change significantly where I live depending on the time of year. It could be 8pm with the sun still out one part of the year and 5pm in darkness another time of the year.
But if you still wake up before sunrise and go to sleep after sunset, what has been gained? DST doesn't magically make the daylight longer.
The other oddity is people use their phone as an alarmclock? A smartphone with a battery life measured in hours, probably dead by wakeup time? I'm with the modern generation in that I haven't worn a wristwatch in over a decade, but is it a generational thing that people don't own/use alarm clocks?
I'm from your generation, and I used a pocket watch when everyone else used wristwatches (could never stand those things, although I wanted a calculator watch for the geek cred). I have a couple clock radios, but I use them as clocks. My alarm is my phone because it's always around, and the charger is on my nightstand, so it won't run down. I can set my next day's wakeup time at any time during the day, and choose any noise. Maybe the younger set don't even own clock radios, but I think they probably have something to avoid the problems with your other comment regarding fumbling for the phone to check the time.
I had no idea millions of people used their phone as an alarm clock.
Works better than my clock radio because it's always nearby, easier to set, I can change the alarm noise to something jarring if needed, and I can set it in the middle of the day when I find out I need to get to work early the next day (instead of waiting until I get home and hoping I remember).
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour.
Someone remind me please what we're saving? It's not electricity, because we use lightbulbs before sunrise and after sunset in summer and winter.
Okay, everyone, here's the symbol on the screen, put on your 3D glasses! Now take them off! Put them on again! Now that the opening sequence is over, take them off and forget about them for the rest of the movie, which is 2D.
Really? I paid extra for that? Not again.
And here I thought their business was based on, I don't know, selling those DVDs. :P
You are mistaken. Their business is based on locking the DVDs in the "Disney Vault" where you can't get at them. a la Scrooge McDuck.
It would of be amazing if Bones stood up and said ...
"Dammit Jim, I'm a zombie, not a dead body!"
Speaking as someone with a degree in Physics, I can safely say that I've only used literary analysis one time in my life: when learning it in school.
That explains why so many physicists don't understand that Schroedinger's Cat thought experiment was a literary euphemism for sex.
I was just thinking the same thing!!
Are you listening to my thoughts?
That joke works better when you think it to yourself. Then everyone can have a good laugh.
Danica McKellar said so, and she's prettier than G.V. Ramanathan.
LOL, Faux News was linked as proof that a story is real. National Enquirer gets more stories right than Faux News do.
Believe it or not, it was the least sensationalist of the pages I could find covering the story. Most of them were titled like "Man Arrested for FART! ROFLMAO! *RASPBERRY*", even on slightly more respected news sites.
BTW, it's hard to get arrest records wrong, since they're written down and easy for press to obtain. The rest of the story is that the prosecutor dropped the charges but it's something to think about; TSA guards might "think" you're trying to blanket the terminal with a gas-bomb and tazer you. "I smelled an odor similar to ricin, and concluded the suspect was breaching the canister."
Don't fly with a valuable laptop without theft recovery technology, period. This is what netbooks are for... or lojack
Really? Lojack? You're kidding. Any thief/fence worth his salt will wipe the drive first thing. The closest thing to security for laptops are the BIOS passwords without mobo jumpers (that require a call to the manufacturer from the registered owner to get a master password). But even then, they can sell your laptop as spare parts on e-bay. Maybe if you get a GPS tracker that's always on, but I've not seen that standard on any laptop.
What if that female TSA agent turns out to be Rosie O'Donnell? You really want to take that chance?
This is /. As long as she isn't the woman living upstairs, she's a keeper.
I'm lactose intolerant. I'll be sure to drink a glass of milk with my garlic eggs in the morning and make the experience a real unpleasant one for them. "Oops, sorry, when you hit the 'resistance' it caused me to jump and I let some gas out."
Believe me, the TSA employees will revolt against upper management if enough people fart in their face all fucking day long. You want to play fucking games, we'll play them right back.
And then you'll be charged with battery.
Sounds like a systemic issue. If she was so frail that a 30 pound 4 year old could kill her she should of been in a facility. The kids shouldn't of been in a public place where they were a nuisance and a danger to others. That should probably be a fine of 20$. If you want to live in a place without the proper areas to ride bikes your kids don't get to ride bikes.
should've is a conjunction of "should have", not "should of"
"Everyone gets one" -Spidergrammerman