Not that I disagree with the parents taking the blame for most of this crap--I totally agree.
The problem is that blame is not in any way constructive. Putting a bunch of incompetent parents in jail is not constructive either.
What have you got besides blame? I don't see a likely, workable solution.
Although I'd be the last person to actually suggest this, but for the sake of argument do you have a solution that is better than identifying and controlling these behavioral triggers?
I'm sure there are a few, but aside from the completely impractical ones such as don't let bad parents have children, I can't see 'em.
Used to happen in my Toyota Supra all the time. Luckally the Supra had a hard on/off switch rather than some button.
It was usually okay, but every now and then I'd be traveling around 20 and it would resume to 40 if I forgot to shut off the switch.
Also, when I was younger and much stupider, had a very healthy '65 convertable valient. Was working on the carb and had the air cleaner off. Going through k-mart I goosed it just for a second and as the carb took a deep breath it sucked in the gasket which jammed the throttle open.
I reached down and shut it off, but that was a crowded parking lot and I left some pretty serious rubber. Thinking about it makes me cringe even now.
And yet again I get not a single intelligent reply to the question.
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I have seen many conversations about plants, and the strange thing is that people who are normally very questioning and cautious--tech people every one--go completely dogmatic when it comes to Nuclear energy.
I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, but I do know that nothing is 100% safe, yet otherwise intelligent people are claiming that on this very thread.
What is it about this topic that is so attractive to techies that they choose to turn off all intelligent filtering.
Or is it just that they are so used to encountering strong resistance in others (about this subject) that they feel they must be extreme to get their point across?
Although I want to agree with you (Badly), I begin to wonder. If you buy a CD does it mean you have the right to sing those songs to others for profit. You don't own the song, even though it's just a pattern of tones that you are loosely following.
Why is it inconceviable that you don't own the data patters on the CD?
Ugh, we need to get rid of this copyright/pattent/whatever crap altogether and come up with a better system.
In java you actually could get the classloader to download a class over the net. It might be tricky, but I suppose it's possible.
This is, in effect, like the scripting problem you mentioned.
The nice thing is that it will be running with the same security system as its parent, so if the app wasn't given access to your HD, that's just not going to happen.
The automated checkouts I've been using use fairly accurate scales under the grocery bags and apparently have the weight of every item stored on their database.
That makes for a great double-check for most items. Perhaps they will start adding a similar system to regular tellers if the tellers start making such mistakes.
If your stupid Friendster imitation doesn't work just follow these easy steps to success:
1) Have a VP quit and go to google. 2) The vp "Reimplements" the app with some core code. 3) The rest of the team at google makes the crap actually run. 4) Put it out and lay low while the Google name rubs off on it. 5) Sue google and get your source back along with a few bucks. 6) Google fires employee 7) re-hire employee as CEO
I rarely, if ever, hear voting questioned in America. The times I have heard anything about tampering the report is treated with distain (Obviously some jaded canidate is lying).
If you think about it, considering human nature and our voting system, votes HAVE been tampered with, and probably on a pretty wide scale.
It is unbelieveable that nobody ever caught anyone tampering.
Tampering would help incumbants, those with the power to use it and hide it.
I can believe that tampering is rare, but to never have heard about it at all?
This has gone way off topic, but if your parents set up a voting system where they said they would do whatever the family voted, but then they made sure that they outvoted you 2-to-1 on anything that you cared about, would you bother adhearing to (and therefore validating) your parents silly system?
The force that keeps the world moving anc changing is youth.
The world belongs to the young--as you grow older you grow less adaptable and more set in your ways. This isn't true of everyone, but MANY. This is the definition of Conservative.
If the older filthy rich Americans running the place right now don't die (SOON) then I really question if we are going to have a future any of us would care to live in.
>>The U.S. is not yet fascist. You can determine this by asking the following question: If the Democrats win a majority of Electoral College votes in the 2004 Presidential election, will it be possible for George W. Bush to hang on to power anyway? If not, then the U.S. is not fascist.
Suppose a corporate interest wanted to control the government, would this government be called "fascist" if, say, they allowed two parties with different social agendas but very similar agendas towards your company?
Another party "Could" get into office, so you spread some concepts like "A vote for a third party by is throwing your vote away".
If this virtually gaurentees that the nation will be governed by one of your two "owned" parties, is this fascist yet?
Not that I'm saying such a country exists, this is just a theoritical question.
You seem to be assuming that everyone from the 60's was a "Hippie".
If you want to see where the real hippies went, come to Northern California and wander around for a bit. Many of 'em are here and they're not as quite as you might think, they just learned to think globally and act locally. Looked at woz.org lately?
There were quite a few who decided that they liked what they saw of the hippie movement and started joining the lifestyle just for the sex & drugs. The original hippies gave a funeral for the entire movement and, basically, left rather than watch what was happening.
Most of the REST of the 60's and 70's kids hated the hippies and spout rederic such as this to discredit the movement.
I've been looking at the displays at K-Mart, Target, etc, and I've noticed that there are definite differences between the three boxes.
About 3/4 of the time, the X-Box is "Down" and unable to be rebooted by the kids punching at the controller or reset button. The controller is occasionally broken.
About 1/4 of the time, the PS/2 is down.
I've never seen the Nintendo down. Not even a hint of a problem, ever...
So have we actually found someone that is less interested in interoperability than microsoft? I guess just until MS owns 51% of the market, then they'll start pulling the same crap.
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Not that I disagree with the parents taking the blame for most of this crap--I totally agree.
The problem is that blame is not in any way constructive. Putting a bunch of incompetent parents in jail is not constructive either.
What have you got besides blame? I don't see a likely, workable solution.
Although I'd be the last person to actually suggest this, but for the sake of argument do you have a solution that is better than identifying and controlling these behavioral triggers?
I'm sure there are a few, but aside from the completely impractical ones such as don't let bad parents have children, I can't see 'em.
Used to happen in my Toyota Supra all the time. Luckally the Supra had a hard on/off switch rather than some button.
It was usually okay, but every now and then I'd be traveling around 20 and it would resume to 40 if I forgot to shut off the switch.
Also, when I was younger and much stupider, had a very healthy '65 convertable valient. Was working on the carb and had the air cleaner off. Going through k-mart I goosed it just for a second and as the carb took a deep breath it sucked in the gasket which jammed the throttle open.
I reached down and shut it off, but that was a crowded parking lot and I left some pretty serious rubber. Thinking about it makes me cringe even now.
In what way is hotmail still relevant?
No there are not.
The definition of conservitave (aka republicans and democrats) involvs not changing the norm.
The definition of liberal is to rethink existing standards and do things different and (hopefully) better.
And yet again I get not a single intelligent reply to the question.
I have seen many conversations about plants, and the strange thing is that people who are normally very questioning and cautious--tech people every one--go completely dogmatic when it comes to Nuclear energy.
I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, but I do know that nothing is 100% safe, yet otherwise intelligent people are claiming that on this very thread.
What is it about this topic that is so attractive to techies that they choose to turn off all intelligent filtering.
Or is it just that they are so used to encountering strong resistance in others (about this subject) that they feel they must be extreme to get their point across?
Actually, I think this is a fantastic upgrade!
It will let me go much longer, perhaps weeks, before crap missed by their spam filter fills up my mail box.
Although I want to agree with you (Badly), I begin to wonder. If you buy a CD does it mean you have the right to sing those songs to others for profit. You don't own the song, even though it's just a pattern of tones that you are loosely following.
Why is it inconceviable that you don't own the data patters on the CD?
Ugh, we need to get rid of this copyright/pattent/whatever crap altogether and come up with a better system.
In java you actually could get the classloader to download a class over the net. It might be tricky, but I suppose it's possible.
This is, in effect, like the scripting problem you mentioned.
The nice thing is that it will be running with the same security system as its parent, so if the app wasn't given access to your HD, that's just not going to happen.
As usual, it's the programmer that's the problem.
You NEVER replace within strings. If you know you're going to be using serious string manipulation, you use string buffers.
The problem is that Java is easy enough to use that you get every programmer out there thinking he's an expert.
In general, he's not.
I've seen some people get really uptight about the mod system here. If anyone had a problem with the mod system, why wouldn't they just not use it?
If you don't sort by rank and never use your mod points, it's like the entire system doesn't exist, right? What am I missing?
The automated checkouts I've been using use fairly accurate scales under the grocery bags and apparently have the weight of every item stored on their database.
That makes for a great double-check for most items. Perhaps they will start adding a similar system to regular tellers if the tellers start making such mistakes.
That's what the poster was saying, and you're both right.
If your school has windows, use windows at school. If it works don't fuck with it!
> Also make sure to tell your newspaper editors
> that they should carry your favorite
> conservative columnists!
Oh, I see why--nevermind.
I don't have a problem with Linux and wine at all, but if those are great Open Source games then the game manufacturers have nothing to fear.
If your stupid Friendster imitation doesn't work just follow these easy steps to success:
1) Have a VP quit and go to google.
2) The vp "Reimplements" the app with some core code.
3) The rest of the team at google makes the crap actually run.
4) Put it out and lay low while the Google name rubs off on it.
5) Sue google and get your source back along with a few bucks.
6) Google fires employee
7) re-hire employee as CEO
I rarely, if ever, hear voting questioned in America. The times I have heard anything about tampering the report is treated with distain (Obviously some jaded canidate is lying).
If you think about it, considering human nature and our voting system, votes HAVE been tampered with, and probably on a pretty wide scale.
It is unbelieveable that nobody ever caught anyone tampering.
Tampering would help incumbants, those with the power to use it and hide it.
I can believe that tampering is rare, but to never have heard about it at all?
This has gone way off topic, but if your parents set up a voting system where they said they would do whatever the family voted, but then they made sure that they outvoted you 2-to-1 on anything that you cared about, would you bother adhearing to (and therefore validating) your parents silly system?
The force that keeps the world moving anc changing is youth.
The world belongs to the young--as you grow older you grow less adaptable and more set in your ways. This isn't true of everyone, but MANY. This is the definition of Conservative.
If the older filthy rich Americans running the place right now don't die (SOON) then I really question if we are going to have a future any of us would care to live in.
Just a question regarding your last line:
>>The U.S. is not yet fascist. You can determine this by asking the following question: If the Democrats win a majority of Electoral College votes in the 2004 Presidential election, will it be possible for George W. Bush to hang on to power anyway? If not, then the U.S. is not fascist.
Suppose a corporate interest wanted to control the government, would this government be called "fascist" if, say, they allowed two parties with different social agendas but very similar agendas towards your company?
Another party "Could" get into office, so you spread some concepts like "A vote for a third party by is throwing your vote away".
If this virtually gaurentees that the nation will be governed by one of your two "owned" parties, is this fascist yet?
Not that I'm saying such a country exists, this is just a theoritical question.
You are assuming that Free Market works for everyone--or are you pointing out that it doesn't?
You seem to be assuming that everyone from the 60's was a "Hippie".
If you want to see where the real hippies went, come to Northern California and wander around for a bit. Many of 'em are here and they're not as quite as you might think, they just learned to think globally and act locally. Looked at woz.org lately?
There were quite a few who decided that they liked what they saw of the hippie movement and started joining the lifestyle just for the sex & drugs. The original hippies gave a funeral for the entire movement and, basically, left rather than watch what was happening.
Most of the REST of the 60's and 70's kids hated the hippies and spout rederic such as this to discredit the movement.
Internet pr0n will never be the same again.
I've been looking at the displays at K-Mart, Target, etc, and I've noticed that there are definite differences between the three boxes.
About 3/4 of the time, the X-Box is "Down" and unable to be rebooted by the kids punching at the controller or reset button. The controller is occasionally broken.
About 1/4 of the time, the PS/2 is down.
I've never seen the Nintendo down. Not even a hint of a problem, ever...
So have we actually found someone that is less interested in interoperability than microsoft? I guess just until MS owns 51% of the market, then they'll start pulling the same crap.