arch_hunter

If you are in North Carolina you can call or email your Senators and encourage them to vote against the bill.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?...

I think that he means that he is putting everything on the private IP range: 192.168.* .* .

This is sounding a lot like a profession making it illegal for others to do anything that could decrease their own income.

From my understanding, one of the main reasons that internet is so slow in China is because everything has to pass through the Great Fire Wall.

I found it interesting that this biography is so different than the ones that have been written in Western news recently. Can anyone here speak to how accurate it might be?

Possibly. Or somebody could be using servers in China in a "man-in-the-middle" attack to get information while it is en-route.

What did you mean that Chinese to say? because it came out along the lines of "at China's stuff."

I may be completely off-base, but after reading the article and poking around a bit I got the impression that most in the DP group are youngish (under 21) and just wanting to be part of a secret society that does something 'useful.'

Most of the conspiracy theory nuts I know (I know a couple) are just kids who something big to happen, and so they make up a conspiracy so that they can be part of it.

Or let me play Dwarf Fortress in the cloud so that I will actually be able to play the new version at a reasonable speed.

I do not believe that the committee has proper authority to approve posting here, we should refer all comments to PG and let him decide whether or not to approve each post.

If Microsoft ever does 'Go Google' I'll eat my hat: That would be like Bluto deciding to eat spinach to gain Popeye's strength, it just won't happen.

They say that the seats in the back are more safe, presumably because fewer people die in them, but are not the seats in the back usually only filled if the plane is full? The plane would have to be somewhat full in order for someone in the back of the plane to die in a crash. I am not saying that their data is completely wrong, as I am not sure what their methodology was, but it is at least suspect.

Even most private schools in America charge less per pupil than the government pays to educate a student in a public school. Governments are rarely efficient because they do not have to be.

> It beg's the question "Why do I reject those other 529 gods?" Generally there is no good answer for this other than being indoctrinated at a young age.

But that does not explain people who switch religions later in life.

For myself, I decided that I could not be atheist after encountering spirits. My encounters with spirits disproved atheism for me, instead I am currently a Christian because that is the only religion that is able to accurately describe my spiritual encounters. Atheism as a worldview denies that spirits exist, therefore in my mind it can not possibly be accurate.

I think that you mean it is virtually impossible to buy non-pirated games. The same goes for movies here: There are lots of them everywhere, but they are all pirated.

I'm sorry, but I do not see how that is a copy of a MacBook. I have seen a lot of laptops that look more similar to that than that looks to a MacBook.

Traditionally China has been the same way: Whenever somebody gives you a glass of water it is always warm so that the receiver knows that it has been boiled, and is safe to drink. It often takes foreigners a while to adjust.

Knowing a little about how the process works, you usually do not get to speak to that actual congressman, but instead one of their staff workers who does their best to sound sympathetic without committing to anything.

You should really try Arch. I was initially hesitant, because of the whole 'Build you own Linux!' thing, but after doing it once I learned LOTS and realized that it was not near as difficult as it sounds.

There is excellent documentation in the Arch wiki, and the forums are helpful. And I have to say, installing arch linux taught me more about linux than anything else that I have ever done.

Considering all of those, you might as well also include capital gains tax.

You may want to unlaod those iPads sometime soon. As soon as Apple announces the next generation they are going to go down significantly in value.

Yes, and then the government 'has' to do something to 'correct' the market's own correction.

I am sure that I do not like this future.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

California's or Texas's?

That sounds like fun!

Did you fill the lightbulb with water afterwards, and let the ship float in the water, or did you make some kind of stand inside of the lightbulb?

I wonder how a small cactus would do in a terrarium of this size? They shouldn't need much in the way of water.

I read Wired for their in-depth articles about cool things. I have recently stopped reading most of their articles reviewing Apple products and sports cars as I find most of them to be border-line fanboyish and contain very little infromation that I could not find elsewhere without the fanboy tint.

I very much agree with this article, copyright terms have become way, way too long, and are very close to no longer being the 'limited time' that the constitution requires. Another good read on the matter is http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/papers/copyright99.html .

There was a British TV series that I watched some of a while back about a group of con artists (sorry, I can not remember the name right now). Several of the episodes had this same plot: the group of con artists would steal some valuable antique, and then sell forgaries of it, before returning it as part of a plea bargan.