'Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people'
Because we (Americans) don't make anything solid anymore. Essentially, we give people in other countries the plans to make $FOO, in exchange for a few free $FOOs, then we have to come up with a new $FOO2 to make sure the other countries want to build the new $FOO2. If the manufacturers ever decide that what they are making is good-enough for the next twenty-thirty years, we're screwed unless we can pretend that we own the ideas.
Back in 1994-1998, e-this, and i-that were all the rage, until the marketing folk realized it was e-xcruciatingly i-terative. Apple decided it was fertile ground once everyone had finished plowing over the latrines.
The question I have for you is if you have schools that includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. what kind of prayer or religious symbols would you allow in the school.
Whatever people want. I think kids are smart enough to know if Mrs. McGrooty's prayer is her prayer, or a prayer mandated by the school corporation (the State). As things stand now, Mrs. McGrooty can't pray out loud in school without getting sacked. "She tried to lead us in prayer, then she said we were dismissed for Christmas Break!"
Allowing a dominant Christian culture to take over may be intimidating to members of other religions and the non-religious, something the Federal Government is required to protect you against in public life.
Wait, what? The Fed is required to protect everyone from the evils of religion... not even the evils of religion, but just the implicit self-created intimidation when you're around religious folk? Where'd that amendment come from? The Fed is supposed the stay out of citizens' ways and let them sort it out (unless things turn violent... wait, civil protection is local government's job. I guess the Fed is supposed to STAY THE F*#% OUT ALWAYS).
Re:Sounds rather disappointing, really
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Just never spend a nickel. Definitely don't eat them like mentos.
Re:I just inserted a microSD card into my pee hole
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Get your genres straight; we're talking about spies, not private dicks.
I stepped on a nail once when I was a kid... It hurt.
They should pass a law that makes it illegal for carpenters to use nails so this never happens to another innocent child.
A friend's grandmother was killed in a fire fueled by her oxygen tank. We should ban oxygen (even atmospheric).
When I was a yound boy I started doing salt. I figured yea its just salt right? Afterwards I moved on to cracked pepper and eventually later in life started experimenting with parsley, basil and oregeno. Before I knew it I was hooked on Thyme and garlic and I lost everything.
I've got news for you: that wasn't oregano in those brownies. Unscrupulous spice dealers lace oregano will all sorts of weeds.
Nothing is worse than the feeling you get when you find out that you got duped. What you thought was the fake lead CPU that you ordered, turns out instead to be an imitation made of cadmium.
Just so long as they don't use lead-plated gold. I knew those crafty chinese manufacturers were still using lead paint for something.
And the gun nuts will explain just how safe guns really are, because they ain't as nutty as this guy was. Nope, they are responsible gun nuts.
And cleaning chemical nuts will explain just how safe cleaning chemicals really are [when used responsibly], because they ain't as nutty as this guy was. Nope, they are responsible cleaning chemical nuts. Tools are tools, and are great when used for their purposes. Had the stepfather in this story been responsible with his firearm, it might have been used to protect the little girl some day (ie, kill/maim an attacker). Instead, what the stepfather did here is no different than taking an empty juice box, fill it with anti-freeze, and set it on the coffee table. Yuk!
Re:Gun was owned by STEPfather, not father.
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Divorced guys know ALL about this scenario. The ex's new boyfriend doesn't have the fact that they are his kids programmed into him 24/7
In my experience, ex's new boyfriend has the fact that they are *Not* his kids programmed into him 24/7, by either the kids (tween-teen), or by the mother (if they're single-digit age).
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The idea that she was picking it up so she could play a game on the Wii seems a stretch at best, even if it looked similar to the controller. Hell, even a three year old would be able to tell something wasn't right just by the difference in weight between a plastic game controller and a real gun.
The fact that she apparently pointed the gun at her own chest and pulled the trigger suggests she just found a new toy and was screwing around with it...
Or: Gun was on coffee table (where most wii controllers are kept), she walks up to it in such a way that it's pointed at her, she grabs with her thumb on the trigger (thus able to use a much stronger pull on the trigger), and tragedy results. In this scenario, she never had to lift the gun, just depress the trigger. BTW, when a child of 3 realizes something is different, it means "fun fun fun", not "something's not right, perhaps I should exercise caution" They only exhibit caution for instinctual fears.
it's like having a town meeting and one guy in the back with Tourette's keeps screaming at the top of his lungs. Sensible people politely push him out the door, lock it, and proceed with the meeting.
Sensible and caring people would muzzle him so that he could still listen and participate (via writing or sign language), you NARGIN FLARGIN WERTHERS CANDIES!
What you're saying is that the stickiness of sub-optimal solutions works on scale that evenly match one or a few human lifetimes? I.E. the bastards that designed the lock-in eventually die and their heirs can't take advantage or the lock-in is dissolved before they die. I'm glad I'm younger than Gates & Co. I might get to see the year of the Linux Desktop.
do something about illegal migrant workers in this country
Yeah, we need to get rid of all those people harvesting the food we eat. That will fix everything!
You're old enough to remember when American teenagers used to work the fields for extra cash during the summer, aren't you? Or maybe corn detassling done by American preteens? It's all migrant workers now. Fast food is filled with non-English speakers. Mid-scale restaurants need bilingual head-chefs these days (and no, I'm not talking about Mexican restaurants).
Kids can't get the jobs they used to get these days.
A year before this article, I was making online stores to sell stuff over the internet. Well, to place orders at least, the payment was still oldschool.
Quantum physics does not have a car analogy. Cars cant be mixed up and then split so each part has a bit of the other, and not just physically. if one car starts, it means its parts in both entangled sets start and the moment you go and look witch of the cars you have it becomes one or another, instantly causing the other entangled car thingy to become the car you didn't get. Also, fu Eve.
That would be a problem, if Windows didn't have a hidden admin account that is always named the same. I propose to you the following formula will work on 80% of Windows XP systems:
1. If Welcome-screen in use, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del twice
2. Username "Administrator", empty password
3. Hit OK and use computer with admin privs
4....
5. Profit!!
On a home system maybe, but in corporate, sysadmins nuke the "mandatory user account" in favor of Administrator first thing, then they rename administrator to something else, either via GPO or locally (usually both). Some places like to disable the account while it's in AD too.
FYI, in Vista and Win7, I think you have to boot to safe mode for your trick to work since Administrator is usually disabled by default, but reenabled for safe mode.
I bought a netbook last week and tried to get on the internet with it at my favorite bar; the bar's router had something wrong with it and Windows couldn't find the DNS server. There seemed to be no way to tell Windows networking what the server address was. Meanwhile, a woman with an iPhone had no trouble using the wifi there. With earlier versions of Windows I had no trouble specifying a DNS server, and the help system is no help at all.
I'm more familiar with XP (which I know you can easily specify DNS with). Was this a Windows 7 Reduced Functionality for Netbooks (TM) version? I've noticed annoying things like that on my parents' computers. The worst is that "Users and Groups" is gone in the Computer Management MMC, so those tasks have to be done via command line. Windows 7 Enterprise is better than XP (wow, remote _and_ local IP settings and outgoing/incoming rules for Firewall? finally.), but the "home" versions are crippled in ways that make security difficult.
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'Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people'
Because we (Americans) don't make anything solid anymore. Essentially, we give people in other countries the plans to make $FOO, in exchange for a few free $FOOs, then we have to come up with a new $FOO2 to make sure the other countries want to build the new $FOO2. If the manufacturers ever decide that what they are making is good-enough for the next twenty-thirty years, we're screwed unless we can pretend that we own the ideas.
obligatory XKCD on the subject of flash, computers, and whatnot: http://www.xkcd.com/676/
No doubt you were modded off topic for choosing the wrong xkcd. http://xkcd.com/619/ It's happened to all of us at one time or another.
Back in 1994-1998, e-this, and i-that were all the rage, until the marketing folk realized it was e-xcruciatingly i-terative. Apple decided it was fertile ground once everyone had finished plowing over the latrines.
The question I have for you is if you have schools that includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. what kind of prayer or religious symbols would you allow in the school.
Whatever people want. I think kids are smart enough to know if Mrs. McGrooty's prayer is her prayer, or a prayer mandated by the school corporation (the State). As things stand now, Mrs. McGrooty can't pray out loud in school without getting sacked. "She tried to lead us in prayer, then she said we were dismissed for Christmas Break!"
Allowing a dominant Christian culture to take over may be intimidating to members of other religions and the non-religious, something the Federal Government is required to protect you against in public life.
Wait, what? The Fed is required to protect everyone from the evils of religion... not even the evils of religion, but just the implicit self-created intimidation when you're around religious folk? Where'd that amendment come from? The Fed is supposed the stay out of citizens' ways and let them sort it out (unless things turn violent... wait, civil protection is local government's job. I guess the Fed is supposed to STAY THE F*#% OUT ALWAYS).
Just never spend a nickel. Definitely don't eat them like mentos.
Get your genres straight; we're talking about spies, not private dicks.
LAUNCELOT: Look, my liege!
ARTHUR: Camelot!
GALAHAD: Camelot!
LAUNCELOT: Camelot!
PATSY: It's only a model.
I stepped on a nail once when I was a kid... It hurt. They should pass a law that makes it illegal for carpenters to use nails so this never happens to another innocent child.
A friend's grandmother was killed in a fire fueled by her oxygen tank. We should ban oxygen (even atmospheric).
When I was a yound boy I started doing salt. I figured yea its just salt right? Afterwards I moved on to cracked pepper and eventually later in life started experimenting with parsley, basil and oregeno. Before I knew it I was hooked on Thyme and garlic and I lost everything.
I've got news for you: that wasn't oregano in those brownies. Unscrupulous spice dealers lace oregano will all sorts of weeds.
Nothing is worse than the feeling you get when you find out that you got duped. What you thought was the fake lead CPU that you ordered, turns out instead to be an imitation made of cadmium.
Just so long as they don't use lead-plated gold. I knew those crafty chinese manufacturers were still using lead paint for something.
And the gun nuts will explain just how safe guns really are, because they ain't as nutty as this guy was. Nope, they are responsible gun nuts.
And cleaning chemical nuts will explain just how safe cleaning chemicals really are [when used responsibly], because they ain't as nutty as this guy was. Nope, they are responsible cleaning chemical nuts. Tools are tools, and are great when used for their purposes. Had the stepfather in this story been responsible with his firearm, it might have been used to protect the little girl some day (ie, kill/maim an attacker). Instead, what the stepfather did here is no different than taking an empty juice box, fill it with anti-freeze, and set it on the coffee table. Yuk!
Divorced guys know ALL about this scenario. The ex's new boyfriend doesn't have the fact that they are his kids programmed into him 24/7
In my experience, ex's new boyfriend has the fact that they are *Not* his kids programmed into him 24/7, by either the kids (tween-teen), or by the mother (if they're single-digit age).
The idea that she was picking it up so she could play a game on the Wii seems a stretch at best, even if it looked similar to the controller. Hell, even a three year old would be able to tell something wasn't right just by the difference in weight between a plastic game controller and a real gun. The fact that she apparently pointed the gun at her own chest and pulled the trigger suggests she just found a new toy and was screwing around with it...
Or: Gun was on coffee table (where most wii controllers are kept), she walks up to it in such a way that it's pointed at her, she grabs with her thumb on the trigger (thus able to use a much stronger pull on the trigger), and tragedy results. In this scenario, she never had to lift the gun, just depress the trigger. BTW, when a child of 3 realizes something is different, it means "fun fun fun", not "something's not right, perhaps I should exercise caution" They only exhibit caution for instinctual fears.
it's like having a town meeting and one guy in the back with Tourette's keeps screaming at the top of his lungs. Sensible people politely push him out the door, lock it, and proceed with the meeting.
Sensible and caring people would muzzle him so that he could still listen and participate (via writing or sign language), you NARGIN FLARGIN WERTHERS CANDIES!
What you're saying is that the stickiness of sub-optimal solutions works on scale that evenly match one or a few human lifetimes? I.E. the bastards that designed the lock-in eventually die and their heirs can't take advantage or the lock-in is dissolved before they die. I'm glad I'm younger than Gates & Co. I might get to see the year of the Linux Desktop.
do something about illegal migrant workers in this country
Yeah, we need to get rid of all those people harvesting the food we eat. That will fix everything!
You're old enough to remember when American teenagers used to work the fields for extra cash during the summer, aren't you? Or maybe corn detassling done by American preteens? It's all migrant workers now. Fast food is filled with non-English speakers. Mid-scale restaurants need bilingual head-chefs these days (and no, I'm not talking about Mexican restaurants). Kids can't get the jobs they used to get these days.
Keep losing your Patriot(TM) Worker's Credit SS RFID card? Just get it tattooed to your forehead in a handy 2D barcode, now with wrinkle-correction!
InCertainCasesBurningAndItchingMayOccur. Smoke. DoNotOperateMicrowaveOvensWhileUsingRFIDImplantRequiredByBarcodeSystem. YourCommunityThanksYouForConsuming. Smoke. AlwaysReportNonConsumersAndCreatorsOfContentForTheBenefitOfSociety. AreYouSmokingYet?
This one: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I wish I hadn't already commented on this topic (and with such a trivial comment too). I have mod points but can't mod this up.
A year before this article, I was making online stores to sell stuff over the internet. Well, to place orders at least, the payment was still oldschool.
"I need to light my laptop battery wick."
Somehow I think this is for non-portable energy generation.
Quantum physics does not have a car analogy. Cars cant be mixed up and then split so each part has a bit of the other, and not just physically. if one car starts, it means its parts in both entangled sets start and the moment you go and look witch of the cars you have it becomes one or another, instantly causing the other entangled car thingy to become the car you didn't get. Also, fu Eve.
Hungarian Physicists and Automotive Engineers are closer to tackling that problem:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/1614245/Hungarian-Electric-Car-Splits-Into-Two-Smaller-Cars
Gentlemen, we have reached magic. Scientists are now no different than necromancers.
That would be a problem, if Windows didn't have a hidden admin account that is always named the same. I propose to you the following formula will work on 80% of Windows XP systems: ...
1. If Welcome-screen in use, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del twice
2. Username "Administrator", empty password
3. Hit OK and use computer with admin privs
4.
5. Profit!!
On a home system maybe, but in corporate, sysadmins nuke the "mandatory user account" in favor of Administrator first thing, then they rename administrator to something else, either via GPO or locally (usually both). Some places like to disable the account while it's in AD too.
FYI, in Vista and Win7, I think you have to boot to safe mode for your trick to work since Administrator is usually disabled by default, but reenabled for safe mode.
I bought a netbook last week and tried to get on the internet with it at my favorite bar; the bar's router had something wrong with it and Windows couldn't find the DNS server. There seemed to be no way to tell Windows networking what the server address was. Meanwhile, a woman with an iPhone had no trouble using the wifi there. With earlier versions of Windows I had no trouble specifying a DNS server, and the help system is no help at all.
I'm more familiar with XP (which I know you can easily specify DNS with). Was this a Windows 7 Reduced Functionality for Netbooks (TM) version? I've noticed annoying things like that on my parents' computers. The worst is that "Users and Groups" is gone in the Computer Management MMC, so those tasks have to be done via command line. Windows 7 Enterprise is better than XP (wow, remote _and_ local IP settings and outgoing/incoming rules for Firewall? finally.), but the "home" versions are crippled in ways that make security difficult.
he said she said Mark said
So wait, Mark's not He or She?