This used to be one of my favorite channels. Along with "Wild" Discovery, History, Scifi, and Animal. The last one's not too bad, but NatGeo and the others have turned-into reality shows.
Tell me about it - we had "Nostradamus" or some such nonsense on NatGeo (or 'History'). What the heck....
This idea that we can't "afford" to make anything here anymore is ludicrous. For decades we managed to do so just fine, during our boom years of 1945-1980, when most everyone that was willing to work could find a decent paying job that afforded them a living wage. My grandfather drove a truck for a large portion of that period and was able to make enough money to buy a modest house, get a new car every couple years, support himself, his wife, and their four children, pile said kids into the woodie every summer for a road trip/vacation, and put something away for both his retirement and his kid's college educations. He didn't even get a high school diploma until his later life, having dropped out to enlist and do his duty.
No-one else has said it, and it's off-topic, but it needs saying. Hats off to your grandfather.
Here in the US, we are told there is constant threat of terrorism, which is used to keep people in line. So other countries simply use Hell instead, which seems to be more effective.. provided you can get people to truly believe in hell.
just use a picture of your balls; in theory it should be easier to keep would-be hackers from getting a picture of your balls, and it's only slightly awkward to shove your hand down the front of your pants every time you'd like to use your phone.
Intriguing thought. However, since I don't believe it uses any flash or other mode of subject lighting, you'd actually have to haul your balls out into the daylight instead...
I think if you do this, other people get the flash, rather than you.
best practice is to kill access before telling them they're canned. But I've seen a lot of businesses that just fire someone without bothering to tell IT to revoke permissions. Sometimes they'll have access for months after being fired.
I was at a place once that called some people in for THE meeting, and while the employee was being handed their cards, someone else deleted their email addresses, etc, from the Company address book. One of us noticed this, and spotted the "He's out... he's in... she's out..." happening. Nasty.
Gonna post AC on this since it's a little off-topic, but isn't this the third or fourth 'science/evolution/education' article posted in the past 24 hours?
I toured through Washington State in December/January (after battling through US border security...don't get me started) and I swear there's a whole Austrian township in there.
We also saw some lumbering gorilla-type figures, and I took some blurry photos.
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This used to be one of my favorite channels. Along with "Wild" Discovery, History, Scifi, and Animal. The last one's not too bad, but NatGeo and the others have turned-into reality shows.
Tell me about it - we had "Nostradamus" or some such nonsense on NatGeo (or 'History'). What the heck....
Dude, in the United States, over 70% of scientists consider themselves moderately to strongly religious and the vast majority are Christian.
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This idea that we can't "afford" to make anything here anymore is ludicrous. For decades we managed to do so just fine, during our boom years of 1945-1980, when most everyone that was willing to work could find a decent paying job that afforded them a living wage. My grandfather drove a truck for a large portion of that period and was able to make enough money to buy a modest house, get a new car every couple years, support himself, his wife, and their four children, pile said kids into the woodie every summer for a road trip/vacation, and put something away for both his retirement and his kid's college educations. He didn't even get a high school diploma until his later life, having dropped out to enlist and do his duty.
No-one else has said it, and it's off-topic, but it needs saying. Hats off to your grandfather.
There is sensible gun regulation in New Zealand, its not a totalitarian hell hole ....
Mostly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_Zealand_anti-terror_raids
But then children won't learn to grow up with an irrational fear of guns.
Irrational?
Computers are now so advanced that all we can do as humans is try to keep up.
Nonsense. From my experience computers always do what we tell them. Ipso facto, we're always ahead
Come now, we know Julius Caesar was murdered by Brutus, Cassius Casca et Al. We even have Shakespeare's eyewitness testimony.
Back in the days when they had IDE hard drives.
Oh very good. IDEs of March hard drives, you're talking...
I can't see any reference to it, but I'm sure a certain AV product we all know and hate played a part as well ..
Details at 11.
Here in the US, we are told there is constant threat of terrorism, which is used to keep people in line. So other countries simply use Hell instead, which seems to be more effective.. provided you can get people to truly believe in hell.
Actually, The Atlantic advises that you're more likely to be killed by your furniture than by a terrorist attack in the US.
Maybe hell is heaped high with chairs, wobbly tv sets and tables?
And hey, userIDs are up in the 2,666,nnn numbers already. Who'd have thought it.
Call me a Luddite on some occasions.
just use a picture of your balls; in theory it should be easier to keep would-be hackers from getting a picture of your balls, and it's only slightly awkward to shove your hand down the front of your pants every time you'd like to use your phone.
Intriguing thought. However, since I don't believe it uses any flash or other mode of subject lighting, you'd actually have to haul your balls out into the daylight instead ...
I think if you do this, other people get the flash, rather than you.
FTFS "Everyone thinks of Google Plus as a social networking" ... - I rarely think about Google Plus and I suspect 98% of the planet don't give a damn.
"most people that I know play games of some type nowadays"
Fixed that for you.
In my opinion There is a large cohort of people over 50 who never played video games as a kid, and still don't. ...
And fixed that for you. Signed, a 50-something gamer (I avoid FPSs but enjoy a good RTS)
It's usually standard practice to use a car analogy on Slashdot, but I find your new item quite refreshing. And a point well made.
best practice is to kill access before telling them they're canned. But I've seen a lot of businesses that just fire someone without bothering to tell IT to revoke permissions. Sometimes they'll have access for months after being fired.
I was at a place once that called some people in for THE meeting, and while the employee was being handed their cards, someone else deleted their email addresses, etc, from the Company address book. One of us noticed this, and spotted the "He's out... he's in ... she's out ..." happening. Nasty.
I just wonder how they generate their usernames.
... don't have a degree in anything. Just graduates from the school of hard knocks.
The Cro-Magnon man was dated at ~35,000 BC.
Dinner and a movie? Tricky in those days.
I accurately predicted almost all the numbers in the lotto draw last Saturday.
wakka.wakka.wakka, surely?
Gonna post AC on this since it's a little off-topic, but isn't this the third or fourth 'science/evolution/education' article posted in the past 24 hours?
Heretic.
I toured through Washington State in December/January (after battling through US border security ...don't get me started) and I swear there's a whole Austrian township in there.
We also saw some lumbering gorilla-type figures, and I took some blurry photos.
They're hardly the first to try to reproduce tourist destinations and landmarks. Tokyo has an Eiffel tower and a Statue of Liberty.
Isn't there a lot of stuff in Las Vegas as well? (They're not the original Pyramids, I suspect...)