There were loads of crocodockles. You're infested with them over there. It was a really beautiful trip. I see someone's modded me off-topic. I giggled a little. I don't usually post anything on topic. It just isn't the/. way.
Ah good. It was on the news while I was there last. I'd come in through Canberra and gone down that way. The first time I came in through Melbourne. It's kind of strange but interesting in Australia. Everything was pretty much deadly or straight up evil.
After I left the second time the chick I'd been there to visit was on her way to a coffee shop where she worked. While she was walking to work a magpie straight kicked her ass - damaged her face a bit though I guess the scars buffed out over time. I have since come to understand (but haven't returned to visit) that magpies regularly assault postal delivery workers as well. This is, I am told, regular enough to where some carry sticks on their route just to thwart the magpies.
I'm reasonably tough, I suppose. However, I'm not stupid. I don't think I'd want to live somewhere that the entirety of nature is constantly plotting new and interesting ways to kill me. Anyhow, the second trip was nice. I rented a "Ute." I drove from Victoria all the way to the tippy top of the country. I forget the name of the peninsula but you drive through a wildlife preserve to get there. There are some old, very old, roads where they still have telegraph poles and there was some history in a guide book about the poles and lines. I'm pretty sure they were no longer active but it was an awesome drive.
There had been a fire in the preserve not that much prior to my journey but it was still beautiful and there were still lots of critters to see including some nifty colored snakes and lizards. Being neither suicidal nor an expert, I generally observed all wildlife from a distance.
Somewhere, on this thing we call the internet, should be a pile of pictures that I'd uploaded so that some forum members could see them. I imagine Google knows where they are as I've long since forgotten. I've never really been a big fan of pictures, I prefer to store things in my head.
Thanks. It was awesome. It truly was. It was an epic failure, in today's nomenclature, but that they actually allowed someone to act out on that idea - to experiment, as it were, is beautiful. Some of the best inventions are originally tasked with taking the lives of other humans in new and creative ways. I'm, by no means, a fan of violence or of war. However, it sure looks like there are some very fun times to be had and there are often some great inventions that come out of conflicts. Sometimes I wonder if a tranquil society will be a stagnant society.
Anyhow, one of the beauties of Slashdot (and other parts of the internet) is that there's almost always someone who knows what I'm talking about and can fill in the details. As I mentioned earlier, I don't watch these things or read about these things to learn but as passive entertainment. It's just what I enjoy watching and reading. I don't really know why - I mean I do learn a great deal but I only keep the basics stored.
I think maybe it's like keeping the data in RAM while caching the rest. Eventually the cache gets dumped to backup, eventually to tape, and eventually discarded. However, there's usually a remaining unique identifier in cache that enables one to recreate the information with little effort or with the help of others. The communications on the internet are one of those ways.
I'm somehow reminded of an image I saw of a "Yahoo! Answers" post. Someone asked, "What song is this? It goes boom dum dum dummm dum duuumm da dum dum." Someone piped up with, "Great White's, ____________." I'm not sure if it was the real answer but the person accepted the answer and I want to believe. I'm, obviously, the person asking the retarded question.
I do. I do indeed. I love it. On very, very, rare occasions you can find me smoking a pipe that doesn't contain marijuana. I inhale that too.
I love the burst of cigar smoke in my lungs. It doesn't make me cough or anything and it tastes great. I used to like a fine cigar with rum and would sometimes dip the end in my rum (not the lit end, silly goose). Then I realized I was wasting good rum and ruining a cigar that I'd spent like $10+ on, sometimes much more than that.
I live quite a bit north of there but there's a tobacco store in Farmington, Maine. It's right off Route 2 - nice place. And they have a nice, humidity controlled, cigar section. Even better is when I can make it down to their store in Augusta - they have a walk-in humidor. It is as awesome as it sounds. I've actually considered turning a room in my house into one but I'm just not that picky.
I do have a portable humidor and it's pretty good sized. I take it with me when I travel - it's with me right now. I've decided to stay in Buffalo another night but I have to change rooms as it seems this room is promised to a couple who have some sort of sentimental attachment to this room. I am probably going to stay another night as well - I've got my reasoning.
But, yes, yes I do inhale cigar smoke. I know of some who do not. I don't really understand that. That would be like eating fat-free ice cream or drinking alcohol-free beer or decaffeinated coffee.
As an aside (like that's ever bothered me before) the Cubans do make a good cigar but I really don't rank it up there with the 'best' - at least not those that I've tried. No, I've smoked them but that was just because they were illegal and then because I could. It was a matter of the experience and not the quality. They're not bad, not by any means, but they're not the best. I'm not sure if I could say what I think is the best (and often price is secondary, some of the more expensive taste like ass and you get more consistency with a major commercial label) but I can firmly assert that it is not any specific Cuban that I'm aware of. Too bad, too. I like Cuba. I wish I liked their cigars more.
When I read your post, the first one, I did not see the bottom part. I stared at it. I stared at it some more. I spent probably a minute of IRL time (maybe a little less) staring at it and wondering if someone was that confused. I think I saw the rest of your post as your signature so I didn't read it. So, yes. Someone was that confused. That someone was me. >:(
Yes, yes I do have a strange affinity for emoticons today.
Either way, I'm still pissed about what they did to Helen Keller. I read her book in school! I know these things!
Heh. They completely forgot about the analog hole that we often speak about. Imagine the kind of person that thinks BTC is a secure method of exchanging currency in secret when there's a real world transaction. Or maybe they just think detectives are that stupid. Hint: They're not. Using crytocurrencies is not a solution (by any means) for this.
A well known trait of the nominus A. cowardice is an inability to comprehend history, accept history, think logically, or understand reasonably abstraction or extrapolations. But, by all means, throw fecal matter at the wall to see what sticks.
I've been to NSW. Interesting country that you've got there. I was visiting Cann River a second time.
Anyhow, I'm a little torn. Isn't NSW the place that also made it pretty much illegal for two "bikey blokes" to ride together? Maybe it was three? Basically they wanted to outlaw bikie gangs. They were a bit out of sorts about it the last time I was there.
I guess, yeah, obeying the law is good and Uber's full of shit and 'can't be stuffed with following the law.' But, on the other hand, you've got an awful lot of laws.
I don't smoke a lot but i smoke cigars daily - usually a few a day, sometimes a bit more but less in the past few years as I no longer drink. I used to smoke cigarettes quite often but not really all that regularly. When I did then I'd go through a pack a night while drinking and not smoke the rest of the time. Today, I smoke cigars.
I'm told that I have the constitution of a horse and that I'll outlive my doctor. Damn it.
I must admit, my my curiosity is piqued. It looks like a 'well written' ED article. Actually, speaking of ED, their article on South Ossetia is absolutely fantastic.
Today, I have a 4.4l that pushes out about 640 HP. It also gets, comparatively, good mileage. I grabbed the last version of the 640Li from BMW. That is my daily driver. I expect that I'll own it for the rest of my life. That's absurdly quick for its size.
Umm... Assuming a proper emergency plan is in place (a big assumption) and that it is followed you certainly can have someone directing without knowing the larger events - so long as they all follow a set of rules for a given situation. Whilst my career was largely based on vehicular traffic we did expand into pedestrian traffic modeling as well - compute resources advanced and made this realistic. So, while it's an appeal to authority I do submit that I am an authority. Albeit a tired one.
Basically, you have trained staff with a set of criteria - if this happens direct traffic this way and in this manner. If shit hits the fan don't run for the hills, direct traffic towards unknown emergency exits or ignored emergency exits.
Now, in a true catastrophe this isn't going to be 100% effective - it never is. There is nothing to be done about that. However, proper policies and throughput designs can, and has, saved lives in the exact situation you seem to be discounting. If the event staff know how to manage traffic and where to direct it then they needn't know the entire scope of the disaster to affect the outcome.
I'm tired so, please, forgive me for being short. Hopefully that is neither condescending nor inarticulate.
They probably don't love cars but love driving. I love cars. In fact, I'm ordering a Tesla to go with my collection. I love all sorts of engines. They are hardly primitive but are representative of the state of the art at the time they were made (unless you insist on buying some of American cars from the 1980s). Leno loves cars. I love cars (not as much as Leno - his collection is better than mine). This person loves driving. I love driving too - I can understand.
They tried some truly awesome stuff during WWII (and other wars). I think one of my favorites (see above for why I don't know the details) was this round critter that they were planning on using to attack beaches. It was large, round, and rolled along powered by small rockets - sort of like those wheels you can ride inside of or like a bicycle wheel. It failed miserably.
If you watch the testing, the full testing, it nearly ran over a few people of great importance and there's a big, giant, round, tumbling, out of control thing that's on fire AND being chased by a mid-sized dog who's seemingly barking at it like he's going to kill it. Ah, England... You seldom cease to amuse me. It was beautiful and I kind of want one to try on my very own.
You do know where you are, right? It's traditional that any question about Windows is, invariably, responded with suggestions to change operating systems. I'm pretty sure some of us change our operating system more time than we change our man panties. Either way, no matter what OS question is asked in here, somebody will suggest changing it - and be adamant about their choice.
This hasn't changed in all these years. It's not going to change now.
I mean, I'm in another state, connected to my box at home (which is currently running Lubuntu), through VNC, using a live disk on this laptop, and using a fresh image of GhostBSD in a VM on the desktop that I'm remotely connected to. You sure as shit shouldn't expect rational responses (or help - of any kind) from us. I even configured SAMBA on the remote box... From here... In a Virtual Machine...
Niagara Falls is just up the road. There's a football game going on I understand. I'm in my hotel, eating cold pizza, and geeking out. And this is VACATION.
Seriously... I'm the more sane one around here. Do you *really* expect rational responses from us? Really? Or did you just want to complain and be a member of the 'in' crowd for a few seconds?
I'm proud to say that I've never watched one. It is because of reasons like this that I believe they'll be forced to keep funding Slashdot. Can you imagine if we were loosed on the internet at large - especially in a mass migration? It'd be like shutting down/b/ on 4chan! Only worse... Just picture us invading a site like Fark, Reddit, Digg, Twitter, or others...
Mishandling of classified information has been illegal since the 1920s. I'm not trying to maximize it, I'm trying to be realistic about it. It should be fairly well known that I'm not, by any means, a Republican or a Fox News viewer. I have no motivation to dislike her because of who she's affiliated with (I loved Bill, for example) but I dislike her because of who she is, what she stands for, and how she behaves.
The "they did it too" argument was childish and ignorant before. Parrot it some more. Also, FOAD and please don't vote. You're not qualified.
You know what would be awesome? If he were on Slashdot, trolling the hell out of us, right now. Probably he'd be posting as AC (or have a low UID) and making comments about this being a money grab. It'd be funny as hell.
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There were loads of crocodockles. You're infested with them over there. It was a really beautiful trip. I see someone's modded me off-topic. I giggled a little. I don't usually post anything on topic. It just isn't the /. way.
If you have no interest then my only suggestion is that you not do it.
Ah good. It was on the news while I was there last. I'd come in through Canberra and gone down that way. The first time I came in through Melbourne. It's kind of strange but interesting in Australia. Everything was pretty much deadly or straight up evil.
After I left the second time the chick I'd been there to visit was on her way to a coffee shop where she worked. While she was walking to work a magpie straight kicked her ass - damaged her face a bit though I guess the scars buffed out over time. I have since come to understand (but haven't returned to visit) that magpies regularly assault postal delivery workers as well. This is, I am told, regular enough to where some carry sticks on their route just to thwart the magpies.
I'm reasonably tough, I suppose. However, I'm not stupid. I don't think I'd want to live somewhere that the entirety of nature is constantly plotting new and interesting ways to kill me. Anyhow, the second trip was nice. I rented a "Ute." I drove from Victoria all the way to the tippy top of the country. I forget the name of the peninsula but you drive through a wildlife preserve to get there. There are some old, very old, roads where they still have telegraph poles and there was some history in a guide book about the poles and lines. I'm pretty sure they were no longer active but it was an awesome drive.
There had been a fire in the preserve not that much prior to my journey but it was still beautiful and there were still lots of critters to see including some nifty colored snakes and lizards. Being neither suicidal nor an expert, I generally observed all wildlife from a distance.
Somewhere, on this thing we call the internet, should be a pile of pictures that I'd uploaded so that some forum members could see them. I imagine Google knows where they are as I've long since forgotten. I've never really been a big fan of pictures, I prefer to store things in my head.
Thanks. It was awesome. It truly was. It was an epic failure, in today's nomenclature, but that they actually allowed someone to act out on that idea - to experiment, as it were, is beautiful. Some of the best inventions are originally tasked with taking the lives of other humans in new and creative ways. I'm, by no means, a fan of violence or of war. However, it sure looks like there are some very fun times to be had and there are often some great inventions that come out of conflicts. Sometimes I wonder if a tranquil society will be a stagnant society.
Anyhow, one of the beauties of Slashdot (and other parts of the internet) is that there's almost always someone who knows what I'm talking about and can fill in the details. As I mentioned earlier, I don't watch these things or read about these things to learn but as passive entertainment. It's just what I enjoy watching and reading. I don't really know why - I mean I do learn a great deal but I only keep the basics stored.
I think maybe it's like keeping the data in RAM while caching the rest. Eventually the cache gets dumped to backup, eventually to tape, and eventually discarded. However, there's usually a remaining unique identifier in cache that enables one to recreate the information with little effort or with the help of others. The communications on the internet are one of those ways.
I'm somehow reminded of an image I saw of a "Yahoo! Answers" post. Someone asked, "What song is this? It goes boom dum dum dummm dum duuumm da dum dum." Someone piped up with, "Great White's, ____________." I'm not sure if it was the real answer but the person accepted the answer and I want to believe. I'm, obviously, the person asking the retarded question.
I do. I do indeed. I love it. On very, very, rare occasions you can find me smoking a pipe that doesn't contain marijuana. I inhale that too.
I love the burst of cigar smoke in my lungs. It doesn't make me cough or anything and it tastes great. I used to like a fine cigar with rum and would sometimes dip the end in my rum (not the lit end, silly goose). Then I realized I was wasting good rum and ruining a cigar that I'd spent like $10+ on, sometimes much more than that.
I live quite a bit north of there but there's a tobacco store in Farmington, Maine. It's right off Route 2 - nice place. And they have a nice, humidity controlled, cigar section. Even better is when I can make it down to their store in Augusta - they have a walk-in humidor. It is as awesome as it sounds. I've actually considered turning a room in my house into one but I'm just not that picky.
I do have a portable humidor and it's pretty good sized. I take it with me when I travel - it's with me right now. I've decided to stay in Buffalo another night but I have to change rooms as it seems this room is promised to a couple who have some sort of sentimental attachment to this room. I am probably going to stay another night as well - I've got my reasoning.
But, yes, yes I do inhale cigar smoke. I know of some who do not. I don't really understand that. That would be like eating fat-free ice cream or drinking alcohol-free beer or decaffeinated coffee.
As an aside (like that's ever bothered me before) the Cubans do make a good cigar but I really don't rank it up there with the 'best' - at least not those that I've tried. No, I've smoked them but that was just because they were illegal and then because I could. It was a matter of the experience and not the quality. They're not bad, not by any means, but they're not the best. I'm not sure if I could say what I think is the best (and often price is secondary, some of the more expensive taste like ass and you get more consistency with a major commercial label) but I can firmly assert that it is not any specific Cuban that I'm aware of. Too bad, too. I like Cuba. I wish I liked their cigars more.
When I read your post, the first one, I did not see the bottom part. I stared at it. I stared at it some more. I spent probably a minute of IRL time (maybe a little less) staring at it and wondering if someone was that confused. I think I saw the rest of your post as your signature so I didn't read it. So, yes. Someone was that confused. That someone was me. >:(
Yes, yes I do have a strange affinity for emoticons today.
Either way, I'm still pissed about what they did to Helen Keller. I read her book in school! I know these things!
I can see all the hip guys walking around, giving each other 'skin,' and saying, "What up, my GNUber?"
Heh. They completely forgot about the analog hole that we often speak about. Imagine the kind of person that thinks BTC is a secure method of exchanging currency in secret when there's a real world transaction. Or maybe they just think detectives are that stupid. Hint: They're not. Using crytocurrencies is not a solution (by any means) for this.
A well known trait of the nominus A. cowardice is an inability to comprehend history, accept history, think logically, or understand reasonably abstraction or extrapolations. But, by all means, throw fecal matter at the wall to see what sticks.
I've been to NSW. Interesting country that you've got there. I was visiting Cann River a second time.
Anyhow, I'm a little torn. Isn't NSW the place that also made it pretty much illegal for two "bikey blokes" to ride together? Maybe it was three? Basically they wanted to outlaw bikie gangs. They were a bit out of sorts about it the last time I was there.
I guess, yeah, obeying the law is good and Uber's full of shit and 'can't be stuffed with following the law.' But, on the other hand, you've got an awful lot of laws.
I don't smoke a lot but i smoke cigars daily - usually a few a day, sometimes a bit more but less in the past few years as I no longer drink. I used to smoke cigarettes quite often but not really all that regularly. When I did then I'd go through a pack a night while drinking and not smoke the rest of the time. Today, I smoke cigars.
I'm told that I have the constitution of a horse and that I'll outlive my doctor. Damn it.
I must admit, my my curiosity is piqued. It looks like a 'well written' ED article. Actually, speaking of ED, their article on South Ossetia is absolutely fantastic.
Here's a link:
https://encyclopediadramatica....
Do not visit the site if you're easily offended. Do not visit the site if you take things seriously. Do not...
I'm not even sure why I link it - it's good though. Best read when stoned.
Today, I have a 4.4l that pushes out about 640 HP. It also gets, comparatively, good mileage. I grabbed the last version of the 640Li from BMW. That is my daily driver. I expect that I'll own it for the rest of my life. That's absurdly quick for its size.
Umm... Assuming a proper emergency plan is in place (a big assumption) and that it is followed you certainly can have someone directing without knowing the larger events - so long as they all follow a set of rules for a given situation. Whilst my career was largely based on vehicular traffic we did expand into pedestrian traffic modeling as well - compute resources advanced and made this realistic. So, while it's an appeal to authority I do submit that I am an authority. Albeit a tired one.
Basically, you have trained staff with a set of criteria - if this happens direct traffic this way and in this manner. If shit hits the fan don't run for the hills, direct traffic towards unknown emergency exits or ignored emergency exits.
Now, in a true catastrophe this isn't going to be 100% effective - it never is. There is nothing to be done about that. However, proper policies and throughput designs can, and has, saved lives in the exact situation you seem to be discounting. If the event staff know how to manage traffic and where to direct it then they needn't know the entire scope of the disaster to affect the outcome.
I'm tired so, please, forgive me for being short. Hopefully that is neither condescending nor inarticulate.
These days you could drive to see them in a Tesla. If, you know, they existed.
Just a bit of FYI: I'm alive and doing fine. Thanks.
They should have hired professional pedestrian traffic modelers. The industry is fairly mature now. More people should take advantage of this.
They probably don't love cars but love driving. I love cars. In fact, I'm ordering a Tesla to go with my collection. I love all sorts of engines. They are hardly primitive but are representative of the state of the art at the time they were made (unless you insist on buying some of American cars from the 1980s). Leno loves cars. I love cars (not as much as Leno - his collection is better than mine). This person loves driving. I love driving too - I can understand.
So you're saying you don't bathe, wear clean clothing, and are an asshole?
They tried some truly awesome stuff during WWII (and other wars). I think one of my favorites (see above for why I don't know the details) was this round critter that they were planning on using to attack beaches. It was large, round, and rolled along powered by small rockets - sort of like those wheels you can ride inside of or like a bicycle wheel. It failed miserably.
If you watch the testing, the full testing, it nearly ran over a few people of great importance and there's a big, giant, round, tumbling, out of control thing that's on fire AND being chased by a mid-sized dog who's seemingly barking at it like he's going to kill it. Ah, England... You seldom cease to amuse me. It was beautiful and I kind of want one to try on my very own.
Probably bought it - just to piss you off.
You do know where you are, right? It's traditional that any question about Windows is, invariably, responded with suggestions to change operating systems. I'm pretty sure some of us change our operating system more time than we change our man panties. Either way, no matter what OS question is asked in here, somebody will suggest changing it - and be adamant about their choice.
This hasn't changed in all these years. It's not going to change now.
I mean, I'm in another state, connected to my box at home (which is currently running Lubuntu), through VNC, using a live disk on this laptop, and using a fresh image of GhostBSD in a VM on the desktop that I'm remotely connected to. You sure as shit shouldn't expect rational responses (or help - of any kind) from us. I even configured SAMBA on the remote box... From here... In a Virtual Machine...
Niagara Falls is just up the road. There's a football game going on I understand. I'm in my hotel, eating cold pizza, and geeking out. And this is VACATION.
Seriously... I'm the more sane one around here. Do you *really* expect rational responses from us? Really? Or did you just want to complain and be a member of the 'in' crowd for a few seconds?
I'm proud to say that I've never watched one. It is because of reasons like this that I believe they'll be forced to keep funding Slashdot. Can you imagine if we were loosed on the internet at large - especially in a mass migration? It'd be like shutting down /b/ on 4chan! Only worse... Just picture us invading a site like Fark, Reddit, Digg, Twitter, or others...
Mishandling of classified information has been illegal since the 1920s. I'm not trying to maximize it, I'm trying to be realistic about it. It should be fairly well known that I'm not, by any means, a Republican or a Fox News viewer. I have no motivation to dislike her because of who she's affiliated with (I loved Bill, for example) but I dislike her because of who she is, what she stands for, and how she behaves.
The "they did it too" argument was childish and ignorant before. Parrot it some more. Also, FOAD and please don't vote. You're not qualified.
You know what would be awesome? If he were on Slashdot, trolling the hell out of us, right now. Probably he'd be posting as AC (or have a low UID) and making comments about this being a money grab. It'd be funny as hell.
Boredom, mostly. Much the same reason I reply to this one. Someone's gotta amuse themselves around here.