Comment Re:I owe you (Score 1) 385
Sue Lowden is that you?!
Ship Anchor, Not Sabotaging Divers, Possibly Responsible For Outage 43
Nerval's Lobster writes "This week, Egypt caught three men in the process of severing an undersea fiber-optic cable. But Telecom Egypt executive manager Mohammed el-Nawawi told the private TV network CBC that the reason for the region's slowdowns was not the alleged saboteurs — it was damage previously caused by a ship. On March 22, cable provider Seacom reported a cut in its Mediterranean cable connecting Southern and Eastern Africa, the Middle East and Asia to Europe; it later suggested that the most likely cause of the incident was a ship anchor, and that traffic was being routed around the cut, through other providers. But repairs to the cable took longer than expected, with the Seacom CEO announcing March 23 that the physical capability to connect additional capacity to services in Europe was "neither adequate nor stable enough," and that it was competing with other providers. The repairs continued through March 27, after faults were found on the restoration system; that same day, Seacom denied that the outage could have been the work of the Egyptian divers, but said that the true cause won't be known for weeks. 'We think it is unlikely that the damage to our system was caused by sabotage,' the CEO wrote in a statement. 'The reasons for this are the specific location, distance from shore, much greater depth, the presence of a large anchored vessel on the fault site which appears to be the cause of the damage and other characteristics of the event.'"
Comment Re:Go to the f-ing library (Score 1) 561
At the University of Iowa or any state school? I went to a large state university and worked at the library for four years. Granted, that was ten years ago, but the last time I was there (4 years ago) visiting my old bosses, it was the same. Unless people are chugging beer in the stacks, go in there. All of the university libraries I've been in have had desks in the stacks. My school's library even had private, insulated rooms inside the stacks. Look harder, AC
Comment Re:Go to the f-ing library (Score 2) 561
Buy this and move are the only things people have been suggesting.
The fact that you were able to put most advice into two broad categories doesn't magically invalidate it. Pretending that it does makes you a liar.
I never said they were invalid. Spending money on things when there is a perfectly good free option available is a waste. Also, I didn't lump all the advice into two broad categories. If you took the time to read my second sentence, it specifically mentions something that is neither one of those. Who's the dishonest one here?
GO TO THE F-ING LIBRARY!
This falls into the "move" category. So not only are you a liar, you're a hypocrite as well.
When I said "move" it wasn't the meaning of "motion" but as in people were suggesting he put all of his belonging into boxes, find a new room and relocate all of his stuff to it. I understand perfectly well that you're just trolling me because you're trying to prove that I lumped all the solutions into two broad categories (though I didn't and at the time of my posting, aside from the somatic processing advice that's all there was: different suggestions for voice canceling headphones and people telling him to pack up and relocate).
You will now inadvertently prove me correct by further displaying your dishonesty. No other course of action from you is possible.
Your trolling aside, it still doesn't invalidate my point that the easiest, cheapest and simplest solution is for him to take advantage of living on campus and use the resources already available to him. Go to the library.
Comment Go to the f-ing library (Score 5, Insightful) 561
Buy this and move are the only things people have been suggesting. One guy did have interesting advice about the somatic voice processing center of the brain, but I can't believe not a single person has suggested that you leave your room, walk across campus and go to the freaking library. Need a computer? There are computer labs everywhere, too. Seriously, I thought this was one of the worst ask slasdots and expected half the answers to be "Go to the f-ing library". But no one?! let me say it then.
GO TO THE F-ING LIBRARY!
GO TO THE F-ING LIBRARY!
Comment Re:I'm only surprised they bothered to label it (Score 2) 149
I'm surprised they didn't try to blame it on Japan again.
Comment Re:This will only work (Score 1) 149
I only reply because there are mods as clueless as you.
[The one-child policy] restricts urban couples to only one child, while allowing additional children in several cases, including twins, rural couples, ethnic minorities, and couples who are both only children themselves. In 2007, according to a spokesperson of the Committee on the One-Child Policy, approximately 35.9% of China's population was subject to a one-child restriction.(wikipedia)
Granted, when the population is in the billions, 35.9% is a lot of people, but still it's not as far reaching as you are thinking. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers, but it wouldn't surprise me if 35.9% didn't equate to the number of one (or no) child households in western countries.
Comment Re:There always is the alternative... (Score 1) 354
There's a tort called vexatious litigation. It's common law.
That's nice and might have baring were this a law of the land and not law of a company.
There is also a possible penalty under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 11, for signing your name to a legal declaration that you have not investigated and, thus, do not have good reason to believe that it is true. The judge, essentially, gets to make up any penalty they think is appropriate (within reason).
What judge? What Federal Rules? Those don't matter in the slightest here. This is about a private entity making up misguided rules when they should be dumb pipes.
Comment Re:Card's gone over the deep end (Score 1) 1174
Dude, you obviously didn't read the Homecoming series and it's batshit insane fifth book.
Comment Re:I'm not even a fan, but (Score 1) 1174
You and the story poster really really really need to go back to school and beef up on your reading comprehension. Card's personal views are evident all over the place. Empire was painfully filled with them. Everything in the Bean series. All of his non-SF is littered with it.
If you want to read a very well written and thought out argument as to why Ender's Game is one of the worst books for adolescents to read, check out John Kessel's thesis. He's not like one of those that says Card didn:t even write Ender's Game
If you want to read a very well written and thought out argument as to why Ender's Game is one of the worst books for adolescents to read, check out John Kessel's thesis. He's not like one of those that says Card didn:t even write Ender's Game
Comment Re:"totally new like the ipod" (Score 2) 327
11 years ago, I bought a mac because of iTunes. It was the only software out there that did these things:
- Automatically organize my music in folders following a Main > Artist > Album >song.mp3 structure
- Allow me to easily store album artwork and notes with the file
- Give my OCD new heights by introducing me to automatic play counts
I spent many hours organizing my files and making playlists so I could listen to an album (I like filler TYVM). The iPod for me was "Hey! It works with iTunes!" more than anything.
Comment Re:Resources (Score 2) 379
Or, without bothering with all of that, you can spend $11 on this and you don't have to worry about any of that crap. Plus, your kiddies and BFFs can see what you felt and what you were like not just what you did. And as an added bonus, if you get what I linked to, it comes with cute butterflies!
Comment Re:The fog of memory is vital (Score 1) 379
You'll find that many serious psychological disorders stem from not being able to forget.
Okay. List them. "Serious psychological disorders"? Go ahead and list them out of the DSMIV or whatever you can find. I'd be curious because GMail and GChat have made my life a thousand times better with their impeccable recording and recall abilities. "Remember when I suggested The Naked and Famous to you like three years ago? Oh, you don't? That's funny, this e-mail says otherwise."
Thank you for proving the OP's post. It seems you suffer from self-righteous assholism. I would look into counseling.
That's where you're wrong or it's impossible to prove that no one will ever want to see it. I would absolutely love to see the world through my grandfather's eyes.
One time I went to a thrift store and they had random family effects. One of them was this ancient black leather flip book with about 50 black and white plate photographs in it and as I flipped through them I saw settlers on the plains. Standing next to Native Americans. Standing next to mud huts that they had cut with sod. Standing next to oxen tied to a manual plow. On and on they went. [...]
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So, I think you're wrong. And I think that those handful of black and white photos have expanded to stacks of color photos and now long videos of family gatherings from VHS to CCD. Is it really that absurd to think that someday your offspring will wonder what life is like? Or 200 years from now any random person just curious about life was like in our time?
The only problem is, those videos will be just as revealing as those photos were. Just because something moves doesn't mean you'll glean insight. something like this is so much better, and the best thing is, you can find something like that in the time period in which you're interested.
Comment Re:Journal (Score 1) 379
Why isn't this modded up? Why the obsession with video recording? A video doesn't show what you were like, it shows what you did. A cheap $50 video camera is good enough for that. Open it up and start recording random bits of your day and then write about it. That will show whoever so much more than a 8,760 hour loop of jerky footage that has no meaning.
Comment Re: I have another idea (Score 1) 156
Dude, that's not racism. Second, Japanese people input by a) Hiragana (if it's a cell phone) or by using b) romaji (if it's a smartphone using ATOK or a PC). They don't input by "sounds". They input letters. Or maybe me and my near native Japanese fluency is wrong. Emoji are just fucking doodles in mails.
