After hearing the conversations around me for the first time in several decades, I promptly removed it for good. (I have an unreasonable fear that stupidity might be contagious when exposed to large amounts of same)
It's like Facebook, all the time, with fewer cats
Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!
QUÉ?
Well, Russia plus 20 million dollars. Good luck with that.
It's called capitalism. Something the USA doesn't have (you do have corporatism though, like 1930s Germany)
But this has long since ceased to be any sort of technical challenge or accomplishment.
Putting a lander on the moon (or, even, for that matter, a human) is not much of a technical challenge, insofar as needing to do anything other than learn how to properly use complex (but well-known) technology.
The U.S. can't rebuild Saturn V rockets. Hell it can't even put someone into low earth orbit.
Space is still hard.
Ok. So here's a question: it's 2014, not 1965. Which space program would you rather have: the USA's, China's, or Russia's? Which one is having the most success *right now*? Which one is roving Mars? Orbiting Saturn? Exploring interstellar space? Heading to Pluto? Would you really trade even up for Russia's Soyuz? Because it seems like that's about what they have going right now.
Only one way for thee and me to get into space, and that's Russia.
And China of course. India may well be next.
Ok. So here's a question: it's 2014, not 1965. Which space program would you rather have: the USA's, China's, or Russia's? Which one is having the most success *right now*? Which one is roving Mars? Orbiting Saturn? Exploring interstellar space? Heading to Pluto? Would you really trade even up for Russia's Soyuz? Because it seems like that's about what they have going right now.
Only one way for thee and me to get into space, and that's Russia.
My recommendation to you is to stop going to websites without a professional art director. You are hurting your eyes if you do that, and any site that doesn't treat art direction seriously doesn't have useful content anyways, since layout itself is content.
Yet here you are on slashdot.
need for a proper layout engine that's flexible and can achieve exactly what graphic designers want.
the closest thing the web had to offer magazine-quality layout
Magazine quality layout is exactly why I haven't subscribed to any magazine in years, and prefer to read it on the web, instead of turning to page 96, then page 102,
Graphic designers my ass! Clutter-Mongers is a better term.
However I subscribe to the dead wood newspaper because they won't sell me a PDF version, where I can turn to page 42.
An exact copy of the offline paper available on my ipad without having to go downstairs every morning? Brilliant.
Postscript is for fixed devices.
The issue that programmatic auto-flow systems like CSS regions try to solve is that the layout/text-flow changes with viewport dimension changes.
Honestly at this point, HTML should be obsoleted and everyone use an XML standard like RSS, or something semantic, and lay that out directly with CSS, since the entire web is converging on an blog-post/article-like data model.
And how does that model apply to amazon.com? Or mac.com? Or wikis? Or google?
It would be VERY hard to break into a Google account using social engineering. First you'd have to find an actual person at Google.
That's easy, just find an active google-plus account
The reason is to verify that the number stamped into the plastic is the same as the number encoded on the magstripe. It's really easy to overwrite magstripe data. I have been asked to confirm the last four at grocery stores; they usually ask for the card, but if you recite the last four, it's usually satisfactory.
Chips are hard to overwrite.
You do use chips on your cards right?
In what way does Obama quality? He went to a private high school and college.
On a scholarship
> Who was the last poor president?
Both Obama and Clinton qualify. Reagan might qualify too.
Meritocracy means that you can be born poor and become rich or a member of what currently passes for the aristocracy.
It's the ideal of Andrew Carnegie.
Someone mentioned Truman. Eisenhower also came from a precarious working class background.
Interesting, I'm impressed. I see the background of typical industry leaders being private schools, ivy league (not scholarships) and, coupled with the Bush and Kennedy dynasties, and assumed.
Very hard to break into politics in the UK unless you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth (or a union whore). Thatcher and Major did it, but in the last 20 years it's returned to the Eton brigade.
Sorry, did I read that correctly?
Tenure? In state-funded primary and secondary schools? In a country as brutally meritocratic as the US?
Who was the last poor president?
Yep, Boehner will be lead to shut down the government, even though he knew it wouldn't work out well, he knew it would be more costly, and he knew the people making him do it wouldn't be pacified.
But damn if he's going to lose out on his bacon.
Is America planning on invading Denmark?
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
