A big dog, preferably a shepherd. On the plus side, owning a dog (or a cat to be fair) improves the quality of your life and extends your life expectancy almost as much as getting married. If you are really cheap, a big kennel in a highly visible part of your property with a big empty chain and two large stainless steel dog bowls. If you live in an apartment, omit the kennel and leave the bowls at your front door - one of them should be filled with fresh water. Oh, and you shouldn't bother with the marriage idea either. Alternatively there is always a gaggle of geese, who are well respected in the security industry and have a long history in saving various empires including the Roman. Empire that is. Next!
Now I know why we pay half the price for our electricity from Yellow (German Nuclear Power) than we would if we bought it from SWU (Traditional Recyclable Tetrapak burning) or Eco(windmills, photo-voltaic, CH4 emissions from political parties).
Acupuncture gained its present foothold in the subconscious of fools shortly after Mao took over China in 1949. The Communist party of China had promised everyone health care, but were in fact unable to deliver proper science-based medicine to the vast population. "Bicycle Doctors" were encouraged to promote herbal and traditional Chinese medical treatments to save money and hide the absence of proper drugs.
Not only did this let a thousand flowers of nonsense bloom and condemn thousands of Brown Bile Bears to inhumane torture, it also convinced gullible Western visitors that the Chinese had some miraculous medical treatments unknown and unexplained by modern science. Pretty much like the gullible Western visitors who went to the Soviet Union shortly after the revolution and declared that they had been to the future and it worked. This research is just another example of flying-saucer-science intended to sucker people into believing that paying out heaps of money for snake-oil is a good idea.
So just to be clear: acupuncture is a cult, a pseudo-science without basis in fact, just like its home companions homeopathy, yoga and Reiki.
I'm not going to provide links since the muppets who reply to say that their great grandmothers survived World War One and Two, smoked liked a chimney, drank like a fish, had unprotected sex with 9 thousand partners, consumed vast quantities of lard, fast food and chips, never ate fruit and attributed their excellent health to homeopathy, acupuncture and Reiki, will do those for you.
Didn't Nikola Tesla predict the invention of the tractor? Penicillin? A cure for the common cold? The difference engine? The Triumph of The Third International? Popular entertainment that consisted of nothing more than the daily life of boring members of the audience (now that one was wierd. How did he know it woulld be more popular than the obsession with forensic science?).
Nope.
It was - people who were famous for being famous..?
everyone that a group of Marxist Revolutionaries equipped with only AK47, black pyjamas a coolie hat, the occasional bicycle and dried rat for lunch (according to Martin Sheene in Apocalypse Now) managed to defeat the might of an invading alien army equipped with unimaginable resources, superior weapons and the ability to spend 168 billion US Dollars with a projected end cost of 900 billion US Dollars.
Then there were the Somalis. They just had Technicals and 9 year old boys equipped with RPG launchers...
So all members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Earth, SG1, the Resistance and any other exciting names you can think up, get your spray cans ready and let's begin with the first letter we will need.
The unqualified level of ignorance in this post and the fact that others have ranked it insightful are a sad indictment of some of the slash dot community. Not to mention the fact that the source of the "story" is the Sun Newspaper - a source more normally the recipient of slashdot vitriol. Apparently any consistent moral standard of behaviour is to be abandoned the moment an opportunity to talk with a mouthful of ash presents itself.
1 Citizen is sent to prison for crimes committed under the influence of drugs.
2 Citizen serves sentence and loses habit.
3 Society, properly concerned for the life of its individuals offers specific recidivists some protection from street drugs and a return to crime to fund street drugs (Methadone is provided by our free health care system because our health care system is indeed free to all citizens)
4 Same citizen is completely within their rights to go straight to a GP or Addict Support Team anywhere in the UK and request acceptance on the Methadone programme. Acceptance on this programme requires the same assessment they would have had to have undergone prior to point 3 above.
5 Citizen either copes or doesn't cope with life outside but has some understanding that our society, composed in the majority of decent hardworking law-abiding citizens, at least makes some effort to protect the weak and the vulnerable. Even drug addicts, a group of people whom contrary to their manufactured LaLaLand stereotype of being a menace to society are really a greater menace to themselves, their familes and their friends.
But you don't really care for people, Do you?
Just because there are barbarians at the gate, it doesn't mean that you have to become one.
They wanted to erase all trace of Escalante because he tried to teach. This is contrary to purpose as Gatto explains in his famous essay and Stuart Williams exposed in his secret diary http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/features/2004/04/secret_diary_of_the_telford_teacher.shtml. Highlighting the shortcomings off your fellow teachers, administration, trade union and elected officials is the same as being Piggy in Lord of the Flies - and I'm not linking to the wiki entry on William Goldsmith, since that book is one we reserve for the punishment block (along with: 1984, Moby Dick and A Clockwork Orange).
People think that the Sun determines the winner of UK Parliamentary Elections. This is because the Sun always supports the winner. This is because the Sun's readers helpfully write, text, email and call the Sun's editorial desk and allow the paper to easily gauge the mood of the country whereby it changes its political colours to suit. The Scottish edition managed to support the Conservatives, the Nationalists and the Socialists in the space of twelve months.
News Internationals wacky venture into paywalls is the sort of thing we can expect from a company that does not understand the internet. News International has been so succesful in the past because the competition has always been so weak and stuck in their ways.
The Internet is an exceptionally strong threat to News International because it challenges it in all of its market sectors. It is quite likely that the web is a much greater threat to NI than any of their suits can either appreciate or convince the CEO. For all the other reasons this is a stupid idea, see my other posts on this subject. I wouldn't want to be duping...
hopefully your friend has kept all the original packing that their computer came in. Repack everything and return it to the original vendor. Tell them that your friend (and quite possibly your friend's friend) is not really smart enough to own a computer.
I was so freaked out there. What with the recent death of Arnold Stang, it would have been too much to bear. Long live the Drupal God http://buytaert.net/
Piracy is what is going around the Red Sea, the Somalia coast and the Indian Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy. It has nothing to do with copying media. What the entertainments industry are doing is called privateering - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer. The original model for the entertainment industry was: entertainers appear live and perform. This had high overheads and physical limitations. The recording model was: mass produce the sound and sell these copies to so many people that they would make more money than anyone could ever imagine and the medium would be so cheap that everyone could afford it and copying it would be pointless. Oops,sorry, they decided to skip the last part.
but I know someone who is. They would advise all slashdotters (and anyone else for that matter) that it is an incredibly bad idea to take any paracetamol when you have been drinking alcohol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol. It is very toxic to your liver. Better to drink responsibly, consume quality products and remember that a reasonable consumption of water only protects you from the effects of hydration but has no real effect on the contaminants that cause the headache and nausea. Wait until the alcohol has been metabolised (2 hours per unit) and then take the lowest dose possible or some other analgesic.
of Santa's Dawkinsian Mind Virus Generator. Once the virus was released into the wild the infected parents and relatives did all the rest of the heavy lifting involved. No need for any other additional gadgets. Of course the presence of the virus can be observed in the fleeting mutations with their signature side effects - wearing baseball caps back to front when your name is not Luke, thinking that SuBo is an international singing sensation (and not a funny woman from Fife) and believing that the word "friend" on a social network site means the same as it does in the Nothing. Dear Readers: Yes it was Christmas Day (CET) in the Slash Dot Workhouse and I was posting about Santa Claus er...Science. You know when I started reading this my wife was watching Schöne Bescherung (National Lampoons Christmas Vacation) and I promise you, the movie is not improved with a German overdub.
Oh, hang on she's switched to the very young Romy Schneider in Sissi - The Young Empress, well, yes, now, that changes..
collapse under its own weight. No matter how many IOU's it has from the USA, the Communist Party of China only remains in power as long as it has a booming economy. The present economic miracle in China is a very recent phenomena and mostly results from the simple arithmetic of raising living standards from nothing to something which always appears to be a large increase. When the economic bubble bursts (and it will) the various factions within the CP and the Red Army will carve their own piece of the Chinese pie to the exclusion of all other interests. By that time, the great firewall and this nonsense won't make any difference. Then Ikea will invade.
After all, what purpose do they really serve? Apart from fans of X Factor would anyone really notice if it was gone? At the very least it would save us all from the annual slashdot Christmas bunfight over which code reigns supreme.
Hearst Corporation announce the development of a Kindle type gadget publishers can use to publish their last will and testament, their memoirs and their suicide notes. Rupert Murdoch is first to place an advance order.
And don't forget the kids, or all those Clash concerts. And the wine, mustn't forget the wine. Too busy with my fairly average slash dot real life involving not living in a basement or mmorping to really do a funny supportive message to this but you get my drift.
Yes it is a very traditional conservative paper, but it is well known for its high standards of journalism. Simply put if you grow potatoes in Idaho and buy iPods from China you grew iPods in Idaho. Let me dismiss the majority off negative comments on this with the observation that they demonstrate a fair lack of understanding here of either Marxist, Capitalist, or Modern economics. Not that this is terribly unusual since almost everyone thinks that they understand micro or macroeconomics. There are more armchair economists than generals.
What we need here is our very own prize awarding institution. Then instead of sneering at the dumb choices of a bunch of dozy scandinavian academics we can employ the wisdom of the slashdotcrowd, which as we all know, is way smarter than the average crowd. The existing categories of the Nobel Prize are a tad limiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_prize so I suggest we will need a call for categories to begin with. It goes without saying that the prize is just kudos - no cash - and that nominations are of course free as in beer. Well I suppose for the publicity photos there may be a small Gnubell made out of something standard - titanium alloy springs to mind...or of course transparent aluminium but that will be free too.
for a longtime. They have obviously never heard of the Streisand Effect. (Does it really need a link here? Oh alright then. knock yourself out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect )
I live here and they have managed to reach out to me over the intraweb. I would never have thought of clicking the "english" button on that German wikipedia page either. I know nothing-NOTHING! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan's_heroes
Slashdot Mirror
A big dog, preferably a shepherd. On the plus side, owning a dog (or a cat to be fair) improves the quality of your life and extends your life expectancy almost as much as getting married.
If you are really cheap, a big kennel in a highly visible part of your property with a big empty chain and two large stainless steel dog bowls. If you live in an apartment, omit the kennel and leave the bowls at your front door - one of them should be filled with fresh water. Oh, and you shouldn't bother with the marriage idea either.
Alternatively there is always a gaggle of geese, who are well respected in the security industry and have a long history in saving various empires including the Roman.
Empire that is.
Next!
Now I know why we pay half the price for our electricity from Yellow (German Nuclear Power) than we would if we bought it from SWU (Traditional Recyclable Tetrapak burning) or Eco(windmills, photo-voltaic, CH4 emissions from political parties).
No wait a minute, I read it wrong...
Were the monkeys given the remote control and what did they think of the SGU season finale?
Acupuncture gained its present foothold in the subconscious of fools shortly after Mao took over China in 1949. The Communist party of China had promised everyone health care, but were in fact unable to deliver proper science-based medicine to the vast population. "Bicycle Doctors" were encouraged to promote herbal and traditional Chinese medical treatments to save money and hide the absence of proper drugs.
Not only did this let a thousand flowers of nonsense bloom and condemn thousands of Brown Bile Bears to inhumane torture, it also convinced gullible Western visitors that the Chinese had some miraculous medical treatments unknown and unexplained by modern science. Pretty much like the gullible Western visitors who went to the Soviet Union shortly after the revolution and declared that they had been to the future and it worked. This research is just another example of flying-saucer-science intended to sucker people into believing that paying out heaps of money for snake-oil is a good idea.
So just to be clear: acupuncture is a cult, a pseudo-science without basis in fact, just like its home companions homeopathy, yoga and Reiki.
I'm not going to provide links since the muppets who reply to say that their great grandmothers survived World War One and Two, smoked liked a chimney, drank like a fish, had unprotected sex with 9 thousand partners, consumed vast quantities of lard, fast food and chips, never ate fruit and attributed their excellent health to homeopathy, acupuncture and Reiki, will do those for you.
the sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_sun
and not the Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ -
two entirely different things in those lands where one speaks the Queen's English and the word take is not extinct.
Didn't Nikola Tesla predict the invention of the tractor? Penicillin? A cure for the common cold? The difference engine? The Triumph of The Third International? Popular entertainment that consisted of nothing more than the daily life of boring members of the audience (now that one was wierd. How did he know it woulld be more popular than the obsession with forensic science?).
Nope.
It was - people who were famous for being famous..?
No it wasn't that.
Dang! It was microwave food. MMM!
Hedamannnn!
everyone that a group of Marxist Revolutionaries equipped with only AK47, black pyjamas a coolie hat, the occasional bicycle and dried rat for lunch (according to Martin Sheene in Apocalypse Now) managed to defeat the might of an invading alien army equipped with unimaginable resources, superior weapons and the ability to spend 168 billion US Dollars with a projected end cost of 900 billion US Dollars.
Then there were the Somalis. They just had Technicals and 9 year old boys equipped with RPG launchers...
So all members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Earth, SG1, the Resistance and any other exciting names you can think up, get your spray cans ready and let's begin with the first letter we will need.
V.
Just because there are barbarians at the gate, it doesn't mean that you have to become one.
They wanted to erase all trace of Escalante because he tried to teach. This is contrary to purpose as Gatto explains in his famous essay and Stuart Williams exposed in his secret diary http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/features/2004/04/secret_diary_of_the_telford_teacher.shtml. Highlighting the shortcomings off your fellow teachers, administration, trade union and elected officials is the same as being Piggy in Lord of the Flies - and I'm not linking to the wiki entry on William Goldsmith, since that book is one we reserve for the punishment block (along with: 1984, Moby Dick and A Clockwork Orange).
People think that the Sun determines the winner of UK Parliamentary Elections. This is because the Sun always supports the winner. This is because the Sun's readers helpfully write, text, email and call the Sun's editorial desk and allow the paper to easily gauge the mood of the country whereby it changes its political colours to suit. The Scottish edition managed to support the Conservatives, the Nationalists and the Socialists in the space of twelve months.
News Internationals wacky venture into paywalls is the sort of thing we can expect from a company that does not understand the internet. News International has been so succesful in the past because the competition has always been so weak and stuck in their ways.
The Internet is an exceptionally strong threat to News International because it challenges it in all of its market sectors. It is quite likely that the web is a much greater threat to NI than any of their suits can either appreciate or convince the CEO.
For all the other reasons this is a stupid idea, see my other posts on this subject. I wouldn't want to be duping...
hopefully your friend has kept all the original packing that their computer came in. Repack everything and return it to the original vendor. Tell them that your friend (and quite possibly your friend's friend) is not really smart enough to own a computer.
The Nothing, whilst dominated by sand and possibly beetles, is of course anything but black...
I was so freaked out there. What with the recent death of Arnold Stang, it would have been too much to bear.
Long live the Drupal God http://buytaert.net/
There's a pattern to be found in everything provided you cut the logos and labels off your black 501's and never, ever enter a Tommy Hilfiger store.
Piracy is what is going around the Red Sea, the Somalia coast and the Indian Ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy.
It has nothing to do with copying media. What the entertainments industry are doing is called privateering - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer.
The original model for the entertainment industry was: entertainers appear live and perform. This had high overheads and physical limitations.
The recording model was: mass produce the sound and sell these copies to so many people that they would make more money than anyone could ever imagine and the medium would be so cheap that everyone could afford it and copying it would be pointless. Oops,sorry, they decided to skip the last part.
but I know someone who is. They would advise all slashdotters (and anyone else for that matter) that it is an incredibly bad idea to take any paracetamol when you have been drinking alcohol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol.
It is very toxic to your liver. Better to drink responsibly, consume quality products and remember that a reasonable consumption of water only protects you from the effects of hydration but has no real effect on the contaminants that cause the headache and nausea. Wait until the alcohol has been metabolised (2 hours per unit) and then take the lowest dose possible or some other analgesic.
of Santa's Dawkinsian Mind Virus Generator. Once the virus was released into the wild the infected parents and relatives did all the rest of the heavy lifting involved. No need for any other additional gadgets.
..
Of course the presence of the virus can be observed in the fleeting mutations with their signature side effects - wearing baseball caps back to front when your name is not Luke, thinking that SuBo is an international singing sensation (and not a funny woman from Fife) and believing that the word "friend" on a social network site means the same as it does in the Nothing.
Dear Readers: Yes it was Christmas Day (CET) in the Slash Dot Workhouse and I was posting about Santa Claus er...Science. You know when I started reading this my wife was watching Schöne Bescherung (National Lampoons Christmas Vacation) and I promise you, the movie is not improved with a German overdub.
Oh, hang on she's switched to the very young Romy Schneider in Sissi - The Young Empress, well, yes, now, that changes
collapse under its own weight. No matter how many IOU's it has from the USA, the Communist Party of China only remains in power as long as it has a booming economy. The present economic miracle in China is a very recent phenomena and mostly results from the simple arithmetic of raising living standards from nothing to something which always appears to be a large increase. When the economic bubble bursts (and it will) the various factions within the CP and the Red Army will carve their own piece of the Chinese pie to the exclusion of all other interests. By that time, the great firewall and this nonsense won't make any difference.
Then Ikea will invade.
After all, what purpose do they really serve? Apart from fans of X Factor would anyone really notice if it was gone?
At the very least it would save us all from the annual slashdot Christmas bunfight over which code reigns supreme.
Hearst Corporation announce the development of a Kindle type gadget publishers can use to publish their last will and testament, their memoirs and their suicide notes.
Rupert Murdoch is first to place an advance order.
There is footage of her and her relatives singing to her sister.
There fixed that for you.
And don't forget the kids, or all those Clash concerts. And the wine, mustn't forget the wine. Too busy with my fairly average slash dot real life involving not living in a basement or mmorping to really do a funny supportive message to this but you get my drift.
Yes it is a very traditional conservative paper, but it is well known for its high standards of journalism. Simply put if you grow potatoes in Idaho and buy iPods from China you grew iPods in Idaho. Let me dismiss the majority off negative comments on this with the observation that they demonstrate a fair lack of understanding here of either Marxist, Capitalist, or Modern economics. Not that this is terribly unusual since almost everyone thinks that they understand micro or macroeconomics. There are more armchair economists than generals.
What we need here is our very own prize awarding institution.
Then instead of sneering at the dumb choices of a bunch of dozy scandinavian academics we can employ the wisdom of the slashdotcrowd, which as we all know, is way smarter than the average crowd.
The existing categories of the Nobel Prize are a tad limiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_prize so I suggest we will need a call for categories to begin with.
It goes without saying that the prize is just kudos - no cash - and that nominations are of course free as in beer.
Well I suppose for the publicity photos there may be a small Gnubell made out of something standard - titanium alloy springs to mind...or of course transparent aluminium but that will be free too.
for a longtime. They have obviously never heard of the Streisand Effect.
(Does it really need a link here? Oh alright then. knock yourself out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect )
I live here and they have managed to reach out to me over the intraweb. I would never have thought of clicking the "english" button on that German wikipedia page either.
I know nothing-NOTHING!
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan's_heroes