Posts by Destroy All Monsters
5326 posts • joined Tuesday 3rd June 2008 16:11 GMT
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It's convenient like Al Qaeda
Also starts with A and you can probably whip up some War on Stuff to tag onto it.
The buried him in the Vatican?
I would rather hoped for a honorable burial at sea.
"That would actually be a highly effective way of ending the war on terror"
I hate to break it to you, but the "War on Terror" is actually waged by "us".
It's not going to end anytime soon. We have politicians endulging in control freakery, talking heads in remunerated fearmongering, neocons in imperial wankfests and defense industry mavens in money hoovering...
Hell no, it's not going to end. Ever.
You were saying?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_class
Posted in Woz snubs Paul Allen, praises pea soup
Tard Alert!
Because Woz has not a lot to do with the modern "Apple" Slime-o-corp.
I suppose...
If you throw it back into the sea it will say "No hard feelings" in a rather high-pitched voice.
Posted in US acts on telco 'Ponzi scheme'
The SEC is actually doing something?
Considering that they knew for years about Bernie Maddow but couldn't be arsed to wake up, someone musn't have the right connections.
Posted in Mortal Kombat
"Someone just watched the royal wedding coverage"
This gem posted only on page 4!
Lobbyists not able to get the law modified? Go through the rear entrance!
A "personal favor" which "enhances" the law to the profit of some "intellectual property" control association (which incidentally also makes up its justifications using enhanced figures).
Not surprising.
But what's the quid-pro-quo? Dining & Wining? Freely available sexual partners? Brown envelopes?
Please refrain from forgetting to enable the use of sarcasm tags.
It confuses the heck out of people.
There is also a difference between "spin" and "speculation"
The former is enhancing the truth, the latter trying to discern the truth.
Back in the PS/2 days [AD2000] ....
It was rumored that Saddam was buying PS/2 in order to [insert preferred Mwahahaha action here]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/12/19/iraq_buys_4000_playstation_2s/
There was as much truth to this as Iraqis throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators, Serbs ultrakilling Kosovars or the more recent Gaddafi handing out Viagra to enable Gang Rape Horror stories -- but at least it was funny.
The constitution doesn't pay legal fees...
...and copies of the same on cheap paper can be found in many cold, dead hands.
"a non-executable documentation is protected by the Federal Republic Of Germany Constitution"
It may be so in principle. Try to publish and be ready for in order of likelihood: a few "Abmahnbriefe", reduced employment prospects, a costly legal defense and jailtime.
"more interested in beancounters than binaries"
It's called "having an MBA".
Low regard of women, I see.
Yep, that's right, they would marry a sociopath in a heartbeat,
Is that..
The "most despised" company metric or the most despised "company" metric?
With this Prussian Understanding of Law And Order...
...we will finally make some progress.
Right, who's up for getting in at the back of the cattle trucks? Remember, it may suck for you, but it's the Law!
"So Ronery"
Thing is, China is yet to experience the economic crash. Once there, prospects may change.
So the stock drops, so what?
If there is inherent value in the stock, long sellers will now have a field day. So why complain?
Of course, the accelerated "trading" and rumor-triggered stock market transactions. a.k.a. the self-described "financial industry" fed with cheap paper money like a pig bursting at the seams has no inherent value [it doesn't produce SSDs for example], but that's the way the circus rumbles.
No really.
"Naked short sellers aren't the lowest scum on earth, but they are vying for the title."
Only if they are bullshitting their clientele about what they are gonna do with the money they are receiving and/or go crying to governemnt upon cratering later.
Otherwise - hell, they can play casino all day for what I care.
Posted in Save the planet: Stop the Greens
Aperture Science Now!
"For it's the subsidies we paid a decade or more ago that have accelerated the industry to this point: yet the near term economic switching point is used as the clinching argument for why we should have whacking great subsidies for the next 20 years."
This is the main problem: Economic knowledge of most all is in La-La Land. Apparently "subsidies" can be had just "for free" and are often credited with "accelerating" a technology.
On the contrary - they mean some committe in the Ministry of Planned Economy has decided that they know better than anybody else and that want to direct scare resources into some politically preferred scheme of "investment" (and this goes for windmills, solar power at home or nukes), while actual solutions and reachable technological paths stay unexplored.
These resources must be pulled either from other taxpayer-funded projects like [favorite program here] or else taxes will be going up. Maybe the government goes a bit into debt with its central bank, and "finances" things through inflation. When the subsidies stop, or the technology tanks for various reasons [hey, Niobium is sooo expensive!], or the money-fuelled bubble pops, resources will have been squandered, pension schemes will have evaporated, companies will have crashed and the dole queue will be longer. Meanwhile, economically reasonable and feasible projects will never have seen the light of day.
But by then it will be nobody's fault in particular. the minister will wash his hands and the usual suspects will be calling for even more control economy, "money injections", "belt tightening", "price controls" to twart "gougers", banning of a recently "dangerous" technology or whatever.
And winters will be colder.
Posted in Chinese mapping hotline stays cold
Calling Captain Kirk.
Some red bureaucrat has time-warped in from the 50's. What do?
"ANY minute now"
"President Barack Obama ordered the prison closed more than two years ago."
"Autocratic Figurehead X ordered his convenient torture facility closed more than Y years ago"
Your death-head insignia sporting jacket, sir!
Really now...
A GRB burst Gamma Rays, not 21cm radio waves.
All is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Vanilla title for iPhan baiting.
iPhans here seem seem to think that not being "copied" is Apple's God-given right.
They also seem to be under the illusion that the concept of "Intellectual Property" is meaningful in the first place. But that's another discussion.
They miss the irony that with hard-core IP protection, Apple would have been in a troublesome situation back during the Apple-Microsoft "look-and-feel" spat due to its "reuse" of a few Xerox Park ideas. Luckily, IP fascism coupled to an entitlement mentality had not yet become the powerful force that it is today, and the full outbreak of "software patent" retardation had not yet been achieved, so Xerox was sent packing, Apple didn't win its case, the GUI idea was set free and we are all the better off for it.
So Apple is being "copied"? So big deal. This means that its product is well-established and that the time of premium pricing is coming to end. This means that it's time for the pony's next trick. With several deca-billion in the bank and sales going strong [as iPhans are not loth to emphasize again and again], Apple should be able to handle this and innovate its way forward. Or maybe not. Patent law being what it is, who knows what will come up.
Yup, yup.
No alien sexting here (Sexy Queue What?), just power levels.
What happened to Optical/Laser SETI btw?
Well that's easy...
Just write down the mass of the Higgs boson to the nearest keV/c²
Fascinating
"We still risk a huge steam explosion spraying huge amounts of lethal radiation if molten material ever contacts ground water."
[Citation needed]
Wuh?
It got worse?
Who is this "we" we are talking about?
"We should've executed the top 11 executives of BP as well as taken over all BP operations and given it to the US government as payment."
Because oil flows better and more securely if the means of production have been nationalized and top executives are shot whenever sabotage/snafus/fishkill occurs?
Your political commissar coat, m'lord.
Time to consider just building the reactors on large floating platforms
Easy Cooling, easy failsafety, lots of shielding around, easily defended against terros and greens.
Rogue waves, electricty transport, damage due to sea environment and fuel rod logistics would be a problem though.
Read again - it's a "jury"
A jury in which probably no-one ever saw a hashing algorithm or garbage collection algorithm in a dusty textbook from the 80's.
A jury which probably thinks that patents make sense and are granted by people with a brain.
Could be you would fit in.
What!
I'm pretty sure we have done that in programming 101 in the freshman year of 89. For frack's sake.
BUY IT????
I would go to prison if I walked around the neighborhood and demanded that people pay up or else because they happen to have been noticed by me.
Why is this different?
Where is Ayn Rand?
Next up: SpaceX destroyed by Federal Read Tape and the tax collector.
Posted in Animal lovers stamp on goldfish racing
Self-styled "Animal Lovers" turn me into Animal Lovers' hater.
That is all.
"Your location down to the second"
But what if you can do the Kessel Run in under fifteen seconds?
Austrian Schnauzer
Release a song which might or might not be acceptable, and you are NEARLY LIKE HITLER?
Holy cow! Whatever next??
"Hitler's entry to the Eurovision song contest, singing about increasing Lebensraum, upping the Bruttosozialprodukt, übering the EURO and his love towards his dog. After this message..."
Yet more 4chan prank calls?
Wouldn't surprise me.
Meanwhile, I wanted to share this interpretation of the song. Useful for people still in high school or those doing literature studies:
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/18/t1629965-in-depth-analysis-of-rebecca-blacks-friday/
Yeah!
Because fish cannot resist a plutonium shrimp!
I drink to that
"COMMODITY HARDWARE IS MUCH LIKE XML, OR VIOLENCE. IF IT DOESN'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM, YOU ARE NOT USING ENOUGH OF IT."
Sadly not.
But we have come a long way from when the president was considered something of an arbiter of public affairs to today's Prussian-style unitary President complete with Military-Grade Führertransporter.
"We all adore Jefferson but we live in Hamilton's world"
Beer because we can Hail to that!
I can relate to feeling bad about the usual Sun technogasm.
Let's take a look at this....
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2006/06/an_ejb_3_glossa.html
Unfortunately not transitive
This does not imply that chicken droppings is good for making bombs.
Gavin King thinks the lambda calculus notation is "unnatural"?
Apart from that, this Ceylon should not be thrown out of the airlock. A first look at the syntax says this can be explained in the original K&R "thin book of C" style, a good sign. An interfaces can contain mixin code.
Ya don't get it...
"Bean" is not a specific class type. It's just a class written to a convention so that another program can introspect it.
"Pojo" is an ordinary class in the context of persistence frameworks - as opposed to "J2EE Enterprise Java Beans" (bletch), which have nothing to do with the aforementioned Beans but are objects that, to be persisted, have to be of a class that is a subclass of some framework-provided class, which fracks up all the already pock-marked beauty of framework-managed persistence in the first place. Luckily we now have JPA and Hibernate, so that's all old history and you can persist your POJOs. Get it? More in the fat Hibernate Book.
0 on the test sheet.
Red Hat is now Red Eye
They seem to have a plan.... but where are the hotties?
Nativity HTML?
Now with Holy Spirit injection and Virgin Mary experience.
's great!
Posted in Cisco Flips consumer unit out with trash
"greater profitability" on Linksys products?
They are switching to "Dora-Mittelbau" employment profile, then?
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