You may want to re read the posting. I mentioned cities from both sides. Now Japan and Germany are on our side. Even if USA bombed them. Or they bombed England.
I agree with you in principle. But where were you when "if $something saves one child it is worth it" crowd is going nuts? Some deranged loon would do something really crazy. Some 200 policemen and FBI agents would chase every lead, winnow them down over a month. And finally when all the facts are available, this crowd would come in demanding action, demanding accountability, demanding action, demanding something to be done. "If only that police officer in that traffic light, clearly seen in the video had stopped the perp who was walking when the DontWalk sign was on, this whole tragedy would have been averted" They would chant demand somebody or the other to be fired. So they have perfected CYA strategies to fine arts level.
None of the politicians would stand by any government servant. If there is one thing civil servants know, it is when the shit hits the fan, one of them will be scape goated. Media would be going fanning the flames. All those liberatarians and the small government conservatives and the "tax cuts will solve everything" crowd will be silent, very very silent. There will be no one to tell in the media frenzy, "It is sad it happened, but it can't prevented without serious invasion of privacy of millions of people and huge expansion of the government and law enforcement expenditure."
Next time a terrorist blows up a plane, stand up and say, "yeah, it is sad and tragic. But we as a country have gone through far worse. We lost a million soldiers in WW II. 50K in Vietnam. Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo, London were all bombed mercilessly. We survived. Compared to that it losing two buildings and 3000 people is nothing. If we cower in our shoes and crap in pants, the terrorists have won. Just let us go back to normalcy." But no one will.
Thank you buddy, you restored my firm belief that there is actually intelligent life on Earth, and they mostly choose to be anonymous Michael Crichton fans.
Lucky break they got, recovering the capsule themselves. Imagine what would have happened if some country bumpkin comes across the capsule and decides to find out what is inside by drilling a hole. Do we really have a six level underground containment facility for that eventuality?
Why should this guy lose a laptop or someone should post it on eBay?
This guy could just note his client list in a little black book. And watch their careers. If any of them make it big, he will have a great steady source of income. Some would call it blackmail, but it is more likely to be grayish mail. If this guy is smart he would not go for money but power. Become a deal maker.
Nope. Most people just drink surface water from rivers, streams, lakes and ponds. And most don't die. Even today billions of people drink untreated water in the third world, millions get sick but only a few thousands die.
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I will wait for a karma whore to post the summary. I would not even have to toggle between the tabs.
Toy Story 3 is a masterstroke in timing. TS1 exploited all the nostalgia the parents were having seeing their trusted old toys brought back in vivid color and life. The kids who watched TS1 are going to college now and TS3 exploits the nostalgia of these teenagers. I heard teenage boys unabashedly admit they cried in the last scene. In fact one of the walking backwards college tour guides (Amherst, MA) proudly declared he cried too.
As for science intersecting with arts, it has always been the case. Statues and sculpting advanced metallurgy as much as canons and swords.
Most people assume the prominent almond shaped structure in the brain is the amygdala. But the real amygdala stays in the background, pretending to be an innocuous assistant or something and communicates with the prominently placed fake amygdala through complex undetectable chemical signals. This is done for security and the protection of real amygdala. Only on very rare occasions when the fake amygdala is assasinated the real one comes forward and one realizes how well they have been fooled by these security protocols. So let us first make sure the scientists studied the real one.
You dont actually migrate users out of Windows to Linux and out of Exchange to gmail. You make a lot of presentations and charts etc with lots of bogus numbers, with just enough credibility to convince your local Microsoft sales guys think you are serious. Once they give you some discounts, you mention that as a big savings achieved by you in your annual report and try to wangle boni [1] and/or raises. Then rinse, lather and repeat for the next year or in the next job.
All those big name news outfits, CBS or FOX or what not, they are in the business of selling ad time. Digging and finding the truth costs money and produces uninteresting information. "Was there a mystery missile? Film at 11" collects eye-balls and sells ads. The amateur on the other hand does not have any incentive to hype the mystery and in fact has an incentive to debunk the myth. So he got it. Way to go.
Wish there are more such amateurs tracking the money and misinformation spread by everyone about politics.
IT is simple political vendetta. Some google VP hosted a fundraiser for the Democratic candidate and the newly elected Republicans are out to send a strong message. Whether or not you agree with Google or not, we need to send a strong message to ask the legislators from engaging in such witch hunts. Lesson learned, Google too will donate money anonymously in the next cycle.
Nah, most did not click on the url, nor did they even parse the url. One look at it you know it is the topical reference to the brouhaha about the jet contrail missile launch news story. I would rather not explain my jokes. But if you post without getting it, I am coming back with a whoosh follow up.
Look, I know it is a bubble, still I am going to invest in it. I am sure I will be able to sense when it is going to burst and get out in time, leaving rest of those morons from Morgan Stanley and hedge fund managers holding the bag. I know, I know I have lost the house in dotcom bubble and the car and computer in the housing bubble other, but this time it is going to be different. Third time is the charm. Really. Quitters never win and Winners never quit. It is all or nothing baby. I am on a roll.
The button that you press after you get, "slowdown cowboy" that asks you to wait 1 minute before posting again, does nothing. No matter how many minutes elapse, that button never gets reactivated. Slashdotters have typically installed greasemonkey, flashblock, adblock, noscript and thousand other add ons, they just blame their javascript interceptor is misbehaving and continue on.
Frankly, the fact that you think the GUI builder is part of the language or the platform is laughable.
OK This is slashdot. You dont read the original article. But don't you read the comment you are replying to? The GP is not saying "GUI builder it part of language". GP says decisions are made by morons who could think so.
Oh, yeah? How do you explain evolution anticipating wrist watches by providing us with wrists, pal? Or anticipating the infernal earphones from Apple by provided us with convenient bumps and crags on the ear lobe for it to hang on to?
All he is doing is bragging about a python script that he himself admits to be simplistic and ugly. The binary format was decoded by two other posters in a bulletin board who also wrote a windows parser but the original guys did not think it warrants any kind of bragging like this. And he is not posting the logs either due to privacy concerns. So unless you are curious about seeing someone's ugly hack of a python script, just move along, there is nothing to see here.
Remember when the internet bubble burst? People were pumping ooodles of money into fiber optic companies saying, "no matter who wins the internet race the infrastructure companies will be minting money. Remember the shovel makers made money in the gold rush than the prospectors." And when the bubble burst we had thousands and thousands of miles of fiber cables with the unused "dark" fiber strands out numbering the used strands by a huge factor. People were touting numbers as high as 1: 99 lit:dark ratio. So it should be possible to bring them on line and increase the internet bandwidth by orders of magnitude without too much of additional investment. Or so pontificating pundits were prognosticating.
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You may want to re read the posting. I mentioned cities from both sides. Now Japan and Germany are on our side. Even if USA bombed them. Or they bombed England.
Of course, you could be a human rights activist providing anonymizing proxy for some oppressed, sadly now recently deceased, soul in Beijing.
None of the politicians would stand by any government servant. If there is one thing civil servants know, it is when the shit hits the fan, one of them will be scape goated. Media would be going fanning the flames. All those liberatarians and the small government conservatives and the "tax cuts will solve everything" crowd will be silent, very very silent. There will be no one to tell in the media frenzy, "It is sad it happened, but it can't prevented without serious invasion of privacy of millions of people and huge expansion of the government and law enforcement expenditure."
Next time a terrorist blows up a plane, stand up and say, "yeah, it is sad and tragic. But we as a country have gone through far worse. We lost a million soldiers in WW II. 50K in Vietnam. Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo, London were all bombed mercilessly. We survived. Compared to that it losing two buildings and 3000 people is nothing. If we cower in our shoes and crap in pants, the terrorists have won. Just let us go back to normalcy." But no one will.
Thank you buddy, you restored my firm belief that there is actually intelligent life on Earth, and they mostly choose to be anonymous Michael Crichton fans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
Lucky break they got, recovering the capsule themselves. Imagine what would have happened if some country bumpkin comes across the capsule and decides to find out what is inside by drilling a hole. Do we really have a six level underground containment facility for that eventuality?
This guy could just note his client list in a little black book. And watch their careers. If any of them make it big, he will have a great steady source of income. Some would call it blackmail, but it is more likely to be grayish mail. If this guy is smart he would not go for money but power. Become a deal maker.
Nope. Most people just drink surface water from rivers, streams, lakes and ponds. And most don't die. Even today billions of people drink untreated water in the third world, millions get sick but only a few thousands die.
I will wait for a karma whore to post the summary. I would not even have to toggle between the tabs.
As for science intersecting with arts, it has always been the case. Statues and sculpting advanced metallurgy as much as canons and swords.
Most people assume the prominent almond shaped structure in the brain is the amygdala. But the real amygdala stays in the background, pretending to be an innocuous assistant or something and communicates with the prominently placed fake amygdala through complex undetectable chemical signals. This is done for security and the protection of real amygdala. Only on very rare occasions when the fake amygdala is assasinated the real one comes forward and one realizes how well they have been fooled by these security protocols. So let us first make sure the scientists studied the real one.
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Boni: plural of Bonus.
Wish there are more such amateurs tracking the money and misinformation spread by everyone about politics.
IT is simple political vendetta. Some google VP hosted a fundraiser for the Democratic candidate and the newly elected Republicans are out to send a strong message. Whether or not you agree with Google or not, we need to send a strong message to ask the legislators from engaging in such witch hunts. Lesson learned, Google too will donate money anonymously in the next cycle.
Nah, most did not click on the url, nor did they even parse the url. One look at it you know it is the topical reference to the brouhaha about the jet contrail missile launch news story. I would rather not explain my jokes. But if you post without getting it, I am coming back with a whoosh follow up.
When they started the dig, the scientists were amazed to see the old now defunct web has buried in it the perfect tool to do the digging! Gophers!
Look, I know it is a bubble, still I am going to invest in it. I am sure I will be able to sense when it is going to burst and get out in time, leaving rest of those morons from Morgan Stanley and hedge fund managers holding the bag. I know, I know I have lost the house in dotcom bubble and the car and computer in the housing bubble other, but this time it is going to be different. Third time is the charm. Really. Quitters never win and Winners never quit. It is all or nothing baby. I am on a roll.
Look up, you see the joke flying a mile over your head, with a contrail too!
How long it took NASA to grow to a level where it could launch big rockets! That is the Government inefficiency baby. Look at private enterprise. They launch rockets, even before they build the factory. http://www.lanewsmonitor.com/news/California-Missile-Mystery--Real-Missile-Launch-Or-Jet-Contrail-1289389883/
The button that you press after you get, "slowdown cowboy" that asks you to wait 1 minute before posting again, does nothing. No matter how many minutes elapse, that button never gets reactivated. Slashdotters have typically installed greasemonkey, flashblock, adblock, noscript and thousand other add ons, they just blame their javascript interceptor is misbehaving and continue on.
Frankly, the fact that you think the GUI builder is part of the language or the platform is laughable.
OK This is slashdot. You dont read the original article. But don't you read the comment you are replying to? The GP is not saying "GUI builder it part of language". GP says decisions are made by morons who could think so.
Evolution never anticipated anything, full stop.
Oh, yeah? How do you explain evolution anticipating wrist watches by providing us with wrists, pal? Or anticipating the infernal earphones from Apple by provided us with convenient bumps and crags on the ear lobe for it to hang on to?
All he is doing is bragging about a python script that he himself admits to be simplistic and ugly. The binary format was decoded by two other posters in a bulletin board who also wrote a windows parser but the original guys did not think it warrants any kind of bragging like this. And he is not posting the logs either due to privacy concerns. So unless you are curious about seeing someone's ugly hack of a python script, just move along, there is nothing to see here.
... video shopped. Are you sure it is real?
Remember when the internet bubble burst? People were pumping ooodles of money into fiber optic companies saying, "no matter who wins the internet race the infrastructure companies will be minting money. Remember the shovel makers made money in the gold rush than the prospectors." And when the bubble burst we had thousands and thousands of miles of fiber cables with the unused "dark" fiber strands out numbering the used strands by a huge factor. People were touting numbers as high as 1: 99 lit:dark ratio. So it should be possible to bring them on line and increase the internet bandwidth by orders of magnitude without too much of additional investment. Or so pontificating pundits were prognosticating.