I was just thinking, 'Crap! Now I have to watch TV again'
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Didn't you post this exact same comment right before the 2004 election? And right before the 2006 senatorial election? And were you one of those people who posted about how Bush had already signed an order reinstating the draft, but was waiting until after the election to announce it, so we'd better vote Democrat zomg! And were you also one of those people who posted about all the "secret prisons" that Halliburton was building here in the US, and that Bush would soon start locking up political dissidents? I can also remember, way back in 2002 on fark.com, right when the war started, when you'd get reports about finding whole warehouses full of WMDs people (like you) would say, "IT WAS PLANTED"
Um, No...you're thinking about someone else, I don't wear tin foil hats, just cling-film gloves
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They'll 'find' him, but not until a few weeks before the US presidential election.
No problem - Living in the US I'm constantly amazed by people who are not willing to challenge each others beliefs in a constructive manner. Just because you, or I, believe something to be true it doesn't mean that it isn't worth discussing. Just 5 minutes ago there was a discussion on NPR (Public Radio) as to whether politics should be discussed in the work place. I mean what is wrong with a society that cannot have a constructive discussion about politics (something that will intimately affect them), or religion, without someone claiming offense? To me the blame lies with the extremists be them Republican, Democrat, Religious or Atheist. I for the record am a Moderate(Democrat+Republican) + Atheist. The only thing that i can't buy into is religion. However, I fully understand the comfort people gain from religion and the need that people have to feel support from the idea of being part of a greater thing. It would be nice to know that when I died it doesn't all go to naught. Unfortunately, until I 'know' that, I will not allow 'hope' to be a guiding principle in my life.
You have understood my interpretation of perfect. In my opinion, for something to be perfect it must be without flaw to all those who CAN judge, not just all those who feel like judging, it is the apex of a Thing. If I claim this beer, that I am currently drinking, to be perfect, well that may be so to me and maybe correct in the confines of my mothers basement (as we're on slashdot, lets keep it real). However, if I was to sit in the bar and state that this beer is perfect then other IPA drinkers may agree with me, but others in the bar who didn't like beer, or liked a different beer may disagree with me, thus the beer cannot truly be defined as perfect. In addition, if the beer was to have self-awareness it could not define itself as perfect, it needs to be judged by others as such. So now - we have Christians who believe that God is perfect, we have a group of Muslims who believe God is perfect, but do they believe each others God is perfect, they believe each others God is lacking something. As such neither concept of God can be perfect.
Good and evil are relative states of being. Perfection can be defined as without lacking, but that would mean that everybody needs to agree that the item/entity/ideal is perfect as there has to be no lacking for anyone/anything involved. As religion requires a single minded belief, there cannot be an acceptance of anything that doesn't follow that belief - thus there cannot be perfection in the eyes of religion or of a 'God(s)' who represents that single religion. i.e. Even if the religion is tolerant, not believing in the specific religion defines a person as being flawed ('evil'), but only relative to that religion. Therefore a single ideal that encompasses the concepts of good and evil being needed for perfection is nonsensical. The US is good and the US is evil, M$ is good and M$ is evil, Bert is good and Bert is evil. It all depends on who makes the statement.
On another note, I believe evolution is the most substantiated theory, therefore I believe it. You give me some tangible evidence that equals that in place defending evolution and I would give religion a far shake. Unfortunately, at the moment all I see are multiple interpretations of a couple of books containing moralistic short-stories (which are good for teaching lessons of consequence, but then so is Aesop's fables) and a lot of talking.
Hmm,I stream netflix regularly through my old Dell Dimension 8400 (purchased as a refurb >4 years ago) with it's original ATI 9800 and XP. Going through s-video. The only thing I did was bump up to 3 Megs of ram and add a 5.1 M-Audio card for co-ax sound ($30 after rebate). The computer makes no noise that I or the wife can hear and it sits right by the couch, with the cables fed to my old 42" LRP Mitsu TV. So I given that I'm using what would now be a cheap PC (you can buy the PC for $311) I think that I'm missing your irony.
"Mobile phones are becoming very nice indeed imo."
I think I'm regressing technology wise. The higher I move up the corporate food chain the less use I have for widgets. I just traded my Treo 7XX (whatever it was) for a Motorola W385. I never used anything but the phone and contacts on the Treo and it seemed better suited to some young whippersnapper who would use everything on it. I'm more interested in simple use and strong, solid signal and in addition I don't want to be looking at emails all times of day - I will if they're around so I need to remove temptation. Also, I change companies in a couple of weeks and it seems they are an OpenSuse shop, which would be nice if I was back in college and had the time to try out all the open source software, but really I just want a working productivity package. The good thing is that I use OpenOffice anyway and I have used Evolution before, but I'm going to have figure out a decent data analysis/graphing program.
See now I'm rambling on like my Grandfather did - I remember when we could go downtown with a shilling, get a bag of batter bits, see a movie for two jam jars, get a ride back on the trolley at the end of the night and still have two farthings to rub together...
Good points back at you. I see so much press over the OLPC and everyone loves to talk just about the hardware, so much so that the entire program infrastructure gets buried. Even if you look to the website, there's a bunch of mission statements, pictures of people who support it, but very little 'guts' as to the details of implementation. Now being in a business leadership position myself I understand the need for a strategy statement to get everyone marching in the same direction, but the equipment is being reported as being distributed and I'm still at a loss for exactly how they're implementing the program, the metrics they'll use to define success of the program and what do they expect to be the hurdles, with an idea of how they'll be circumnavigated or overcome. The way that I read the 'news-bites' it seems to be leading me to believe that they are, metaphorically, dropping them in crates out of a cargo plane.
I've been wondering lately about the distribution criteria for the OLPC project and you bring up an interesting point to question. If there is no existing curriculum for these kids do they have the basic education that will allow them to read what they look up, or spell it for that matter to do a search? If they can read or write is there enough content on the internet in their native language or do they now need to learn a second language like English, French, German etc. With no teachers, how do they do they learn this second language? Perhaps the argument is that teachers in their native countries can set up this local network and teach the kids. I've heard nothing about the effort required to establish this type of infrastructure, and how are the kids going to be held accountable for attending leasons remotely? As a father I find it hard to believe that kids from a developing country aren't much different to mine when it comes to attention span, especially when the novelty of the little green box wears thin.
Call me an idealist or a cynic, but personally I believe that this $150 per laptop would be best spent on help develop some educational infrastructure. While, we may see $150 as nothing, it's quite a lot in these countries and as many OLPC kits that are intended to be developed add up to a hefty chunk of change. Then start moving forward on the "teaching to fish" approach.
IMHO, the responsibility of the more developed nations is not to force our lifestyle on the developing nations by building a personal interest system (in fact they're screwed if we do), but in helping nurture their societal development in absence of their own government. I look at it more as a need to be the kind uncle/aunt who helps out when the parents can't cope. Allow the parents to get back on their feet and then reunite the family.
Now you've got me all socialist and giving I need to stop and get back to my capitalistic job
I suppose that I fall into the 'essential tool group', but not because it is an essential tool just one I like and can't find a linux based alternative. I use Linux and vista at home depending on my needs and windows XP at work. I would like to entertain the idea of switching to Linux at work, but there are several tools that I know, and use constantly for my job, that are windows based. I believe that evolution would replace outlook, which I have a very specific way of using based on Task management rather than email management, and with searching I could probably find a replacement, but at this time I haven't found a good stable alternative to sgmastat/sigmaplot which I have a lot of legacy with. I believe that endnote has a linux version and some one recently mentioned that Origin had a linux version, but I can't find it (Origin would replace sigmaplot). I've toyed with the VM's, but with out IT support I just don't have the time in my position to invest in truly figuring it out. The biggest issue here for me is transfer of data and information from a windows based package to a linux based package, I can't afford to have to recreate everything in linux. Now the upside is that I change companies in a couple of week and the new company does entertain the use of Linux, but as mentioned above, I've got to find replacements for my beloved programs.
Actually, while light can be used to define the entire electro-magnetic sub-section, colors are just a sub-section of the electromegnetic spectrum referred to as 'colors' (normally 400-700 nm, but one could argue slightly outside the visible). Radio waves are not colors they are in fact a sub-section of the electromagnetic spectrum referred to as as 'radio waves'.
The one that caught my eye was MENTAT. I'm assuming this was a Dune reference (Mentats in Frank Herbert's Dune series were humans trained to mimic computers).
Lets ignore Wikipedia for the moment, although I understand it is an exemplary reference for everything and look at an editors text book "Sabin, William A. The Gregg Reference Manual. 8th Edition. Macmilliam/McGraw Hill. NY: 1992.", where you will find that "Rule: Use a singular verb for a collective noun when the group is acting as a unit" (Section 1019).
Saying all this you may want to contact the University of Texas, Austin Department of Chemical Engineering and tell them to modify its comments in its communication instruction http://http//www.engr.utexas.edu/che/techwriting/morehelp/grammar.cfm. Likewise the University of Iowas Creative Writing program would also disagree with you, but I don't have an elink to my hard copied notes. There's some more US educational institutions I can point you to, but I'm sure they're not as reliable as Wikipedia.
I'll bite, although I hate grammer Nazis. In this instance you are right as the FBI is acting as a collective, but if the discussion was referring to the FBI as individual agents, or internal issues, then it would be plural.
"If we actually paid directly for all of these costs, I am certain the cost of fossil fuel energy would be triple it's current point of use cost or more."
And if we actually had to pay triple for our power we all, personally, would suddenly find ways to use less (or reallocate our spending) and companies would put more money into find better alternatives.
I'm all for jacking up the price and removing subsidies.
Also if the sloshing noise indicates the amount of battery left, doesn't that sloshing noise use up some of the battery, so... I feel some Heisenburg coming on...
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I was just thinking, 'Crap! Now I have to watch TV again'
Um, No...you're thinking about someone else, I don't wear tin foil hats, just cling-film gloves
They'll 'find' him, but not until a few weeks before the US presidential election.
shusssssh! Don't say anything until after the final approval...
Just start doing a really shitty job in the position you are currently in. Seemed to work at my old company
You have understood my interpretation of perfect. In my opinion, for something to be perfect it must be without flaw to all those who CAN judge, not just all those who feel like judging, it is the apex of a Thing. If I claim this beer, that I am currently drinking, to be perfect, well that may be so to me and maybe correct in the confines of my mothers basement (as we're on slashdot, lets keep it real). However, if I was to sit in the bar and state that this beer is perfect then other IPA drinkers may agree with me, but others in the bar who didn't like beer, or liked a different beer may disagree with me, thus the beer cannot truly be defined as perfect. In addition, if the beer was to have self-awareness it could not define itself as perfect, it needs to be judged by others as such. So now - we have Christians who believe that God is perfect, we have a group of Muslims who believe God is perfect, but do they believe each others God is perfect, they believe each others God is lacking something. As such neither concept of God can be perfect.
How's that sound?
Yeah, I would call it the "Jim Morrison Tree"
On another note, I believe evolution is the most substantiated theory, therefore I believe it. You give me some tangible evidence that equals that in place defending evolution and I would give religion a far shake. Unfortunately, at the moment all I see are multiple interpretations of a couple of books containing moralistic short-stories (which are good for teaching lessons of consequence, but then so is Aesop's fables) and a lot of talking.
Well looks like they wont have to go to COSTCO/SAM CLUB/MAKRO for the super-mega pack of toilet rolls this month.
Hmm,I stream netflix regularly through my old Dell Dimension 8400 (purchased as a refurb >4 years ago) with it's original ATI 9800 and XP. Going through s-video. The only thing I did was bump up to 3 Megs of ram and add a 5.1 M-Audio card for co-ax sound ($30 after rebate). The computer makes no noise that I or the wife can hear and it sits right by the couch, with the cables fed to my old 42" LRP Mitsu TV. So I given that I'm using what would now be a cheap PC (you can buy the PC for $311) I think that I'm missing your irony.
I think I'm regressing technology wise. The higher I move up the corporate food chain the less use I have for widgets. I just traded my Treo 7XX (whatever it was) for a Motorola W385. I never used anything but the phone and contacts on the Treo and it seemed better suited to some young whippersnapper who would use everything on it. I'm more interested in simple use and strong, solid signal and in addition I don't want to be looking at emails all times of day - I will if they're around so I need to remove temptation. Also, I change companies in a couple of weeks and it seems they are an OpenSuse shop, which would be nice if I was back in college and had the time to try out all the open source software, but really I just want a working productivity package. The good thing is that I use OpenOffice anyway and I have used Evolution before, but I'm going to have figure out a decent data analysis/graphing program.
See now I'm rambling on like my Grandfather did - I remember when we could go downtown with a shilling, get a bag of batter bits, see a movie for two jam jars, get a ride back on the trolley at the end of the night and still have two farthings to rub together...
West Seattle here and get 23-26Mbps inbound and 1.5-2.5Mbps outbound. Definitely not a rural area
Oh , I thought it was a kitty cat.
Good points back at you. I see so much press over the OLPC and everyone loves to talk just about the hardware, so much so that the entire program infrastructure gets buried. Even if you look to the website, there's a bunch of mission statements, pictures of people who support it, but very little 'guts' as to the details of implementation. Now being in a business leadership position myself I understand the need for a strategy statement to get everyone marching in the same direction, but the equipment is being reported as being distributed and I'm still at a loss for exactly how they're implementing the program, the metrics they'll use to define success of the program and what do they expect to be the hurdles, with an idea of how they'll be circumnavigated or overcome. The way that I read the 'news-bites' it seems to be leading me to believe that they are, metaphorically, dropping them in crates out of a cargo plane.
Call me an idealist or a cynic, but personally I believe that this $150 per laptop would be best spent on help develop some educational infrastructure. While, we may see $150 as nothing, it's quite a lot in these countries and as many OLPC kits that are intended to be developed add up to a hefty chunk of change. Then start moving forward on the "teaching to fish" approach.
IMHO, the responsibility of the more developed nations is not to force our lifestyle on the developing nations by building a personal interest system (in fact they're screwed if we do), but in helping nurture their societal development in absence of their own government. I look at it more as a need to be the kind uncle/aunt who helps out when the parents can't cope. Allow the parents to get back on their feet and then reunite the family.
Now you've got me all socialist and giving I need to stop and get back to my capitalistic job
I, for one, welcome our new sperm-powered nano-robot overlords.
I suppose that I fall into the 'essential tool group', but not because it is an essential tool just one I like and can't find a linux based alternative. I use Linux and vista at home depending on my needs and windows XP at work. I would like to entertain the idea of switching to Linux at work, but there are several tools that I know, and use constantly for my job, that are windows based. I believe that evolution would replace outlook, which I have a very specific way of using based on Task management rather than email management, and with searching I could probably find a replacement, but at this time I haven't found a good stable alternative to sgmastat/sigmaplot which I have a lot of legacy with. I believe that endnote has a linux version and some one recently mentioned that Origin had a linux version, but I can't find it (Origin would replace sigmaplot). I've toyed with the VM's, but with out IT support I just don't have the time in my position to invest in truly figuring it out. The biggest issue here for me is transfer of data and information from a windows based package to a linux based package, I can't afford to have to recreate everything in linux. Now the upside is that I change companies in a couple of week and the new company does entertain the use of Linux, but as mentioned above, I've got to find replacements for my beloved programs.
Actually, while light can be used to define the entire electro-magnetic sub-section, colors are just a sub-section of the electromegnetic spectrum referred to as 'colors' (normally 400-700 nm, but one could argue slightly outside the visible). Radio waves are not colors they are in fact a sub-section of the electromagnetic spectrum referred to as as 'radio waves'.
Please for the love of all that is furry! Let it be not so!
The one that caught my eye was MENTAT. I'm assuming this was a Dune reference (Mentats in Frank Herbert's Dune series were humans trained to mimic computers).
Saying all this you may want to contact the University of Texas, Austin Department of Chemical Engineering and tell them to modify its comments in its communication instruction http://http//www.engr.utexas.edu/che/techwriting/morehelp/grammar.cfm. Likewise the University of Iowas Creative Writing program would also disagree with you, but I don't have an elink to my hard copied notes. There's some more US educational institutions I can point you to, but I'm sure they're not as reliable as Wikipedia.
The FBI is suffering internal conflict. The FBI are doubting their Directors abilities.
I'll bite, although I hate grammer Nazis. In this instance you are right as the FBI is acting as a collective, but if the discussion was referring to the FBI as individual agents, or internal issues, then it would be plural.
And if we actually had to pay triple for our power we all, personally, would suddenly find ways to use less (or reallocate our spending) and companies would put more money into find better alternatives.
I'm all for jacking up the price and removing subsidies.
Also if the sloshing noise indicates the amount of battery left, doesn't that sloshing noise use up some of the battery, so... I feel some Heisenburg coming on...