The article includes a video on how to cyanosear and cyanorender duck, doesn't it?

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Never mind.

The 360 is by no means a new console, where every component goes at a premium price. If Microsoft is still losing money on every sale, they must be doing something wrong.

...for identifying people who are frightened of being identified as being frightened.

> ...especially the fear in relation to criminal acts...

Bullshit. Someone whos is afraid that customs will catch him smuggling lizards will smell no different from someone who is afraid of flying (the lizards might, though).

Combined with Bomb Detecting Dowser Rods, what could possibly go wrong?

It's a popular and wrong sentiment that Republicans are connected with "big business" and Democrats are connected with Hollywood. Clearly both parties are in bed with big business (see Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama). Democrats just have the advantage of support from prominent figures in Hollywood and the old media, but that doesn't at all means that they somehow have no inclination to cater to big business any less than do Republicans.

No. I didn't. But if I'm going to have to hear an asshole in the administration speak for four to eight years, I'd rather have to hear one who's articulate than one who can barely put two words together to make a coherent sentence.

"Slut Wars, the force unleashed on your Wii Wii"

Say it out loud and you can't help but notice that "mature games on Wii" is an absurd, even oxymoronic, phrase.

I think a better test is - say you're a skinny person who is 115 pounds, if you were carrying a 110 pounds (some other light person) could you do a small hop on one foot? Or you were a 170 pounder and carrying a 60 pound kid - can you do a small hop? If you can, then you can probably push the 225 pounds required. That's closer to the brake leg movement than a leg press lift.

The CHP officer should have been able to easily do 225 pounds with one foot.

IMO the problem is if you don't apply max force on the brakes (just step on them hard but not max) - then the brakes might start burning out first.

Never mind. Your turn will come someday.

I sense sarcasm, but I need to make this point.

This article is definitive proof of someone with no definitive proof using the faucets given to them as a journalist to demonize a class of people whom she has little ties with and knows absolutely nothing about. Maybe she forgives on Sundays, but every other day of the week, it appears she's throwing punches.

Considering such hear-say proof will mess with all equations. That is exactly what most of us do, because we do not know better, and how we end up hanging the innocent in the name of justice and faith. Years later we shudder at our own ignorance, and promise we'll do better. That pretty much sums up the history of civilization, and if you think that somehow ends with us, then you are part of the problem.

That is what this article is evidence of.

Even better, define new LaTeX commands for the stuff you write repeatedly. This way, I was able to write my calculus notes in plain LaTeX quite effectively. For example, here are a few I had:

\newcommand{\fint}{\int_a^b f(x) \,\mathrm{d} x}

\newcommand{\ixi}{\langle x_{i-1}, x_i \rangle}

\newcommand{\non}{_{n=0}^\infty}

\newcommand{\mr}{\sum\non a_nx^n}

A high proportion of clothing in developing countries is second hand clothing from the west. So it's likely that the guys got no idea what it is that he's wearing. Apparently the second hand clothing trade creates employment but does undermine local textile industies. People like the cloths because they are cheap and they appeal to some more than the traditional garb. Oxfam did a report (although it doesn't mention Liberia): http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/trade/downloads/research_shc.pdf

but e-mail is more like a post card, its wide open for all to see. Its just a plain text stream after all. One could argue an encrypted mail is more like a letter.

Sounds more like it absolutely needs a proper way of shipping software or kernel drivers... I don't see why this can't be solved within a distribution, though. However, the current policy seems to be "if you need that new WiFi driver then either hack it in yourself from a tarball or upgrade the whole system and run the risk of fixing a whole load of things which ain't broke".

Yet competing operating systems manage to let you upgrade drivers and individual software packages as and when they need in the years separating OS releases... Its not even as if its not possible on Linux - its the distro system that dictates the all-or-nothing upgrade approach. I suspect the problem is that the techie types who make the decisions don't think twice about stepping outside the distro and rolling a custom kernel or building a tarball, and fail to realize just how inaccessible that is to other types of user.