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2001/12/9 [Uncategorized] UID:23188 Activity:nil |
Above this line totally reflects the opinions of the opinionated politburo. |
2001/12/9 [Uncategorized] UID:23189 Activity:nil |
12/9 Who here is working for an undead dotcom? |
2001/12/9 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:23190 Activity:nil |
12/9 How many sodans have actually spent a 3 year stint in Japan? There's a fella from Berkeley apparently who did... I bumped into one annoying pasty-looking dude in my photo class who has been semi-bossy the entire class and macking on this homely Japanese woman with his gaijin Japanese. Just in bad taste I felt. On this last day of class when he came up to me and said, "Hey, do you know that [your filter panel on the photo enlarger] is open?" I was about ready to tell him to fuck off 'cause I couldn't stand him anymore but I kept it in check. Earlier he was going, "Don't double dip the tongs for the development pans!!!" incessantly. SHUT THE FUCK UP! SHUT UP!!!!! Just a reminer that going on extended trips doesn't necessarily make you more refined, you can still be an irritating dumbass. -- swings |
2001/12/9-10 [Computer/Companies/Ebay] UID:23191 Activity:nil |
12/8 http://www.paypalwarning.com/Default.htm \_ I'm not a paypal user however I did read a critique of this site which claims there's tons of lies on it. Do your own research. Just because you read it on the net (or god forbid, the motd) does not mean it is true. |
2001/12/9-10 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:23192 Activity:nil |
12/8 Have you been getting more spam on your csua account recently? \_ Hell yes. Any idea what's up? --ulysses \_ yes. \_ it's not just my csua account. yahoo, hotmail, you name it. also the spam comes in clusters. wtf? \_ Mini article in the SF Comical today saying spam is up 650% over the same time last year. Based on what? Dunno. Maybe a poll of soda users. |
2001/12/9-10 [Uncategorized] UID:23193 Activity:high |
12/8 Speaking of leather, is leather waterproof? Will my leather jacket be ok if I walk with it on in light rain? \_ Are cows waterproof? \_ Cows is not waterproof. \_ Cows are not waterproof. \_ first canteens where made of leather \_ Leather is not waterproof. \_ first canteens were made of leather \_ suede leather is not waterproof, but all other leather should be. \_ In general, the leather is "waterproof," so it'll be ok in light rain. However, if it is high quality leather, and you don't want it to get that really used, faded, bomber jacket type feel, you might want to get it waterproofed, which can be done by most dry-cleaners(they send it to a leather specialist). This will coat the leather, and protect the sheen, and the texture of the leather. e.g. if you have a nice Bally jacket, you definitely want to do this. \_ Cool, thank you. \_ actually the best way to deal with rain and leather is once every couple of months you souhld oil the thing. It takes about 15 minutes and does a good job of keep the leather looking good. In fact waterproofing in the end hurts leather because it makes oiling the thing much harder. |
2001/12/9-10 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:23194 Activity:nil |
12/9 congrats to tw for winning the first world cyber games held in kr. \_ world... cyber games?!? are these the same folks who tried to convince the world that Quake was a sport? |
2001/12/9-10 [Reference/Religion] UID:23195 Activity:high |
12/8 http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel09.html Statistics and the ecosystem meltdown. \_ I'm not sure a Franciscan monk is where I want to get my authoritative interpretation about climatealogical and statistical evidence. Nonetheless, I think Bjorn \_ Gregor Mendel, Thomas Bayes. Lomborg has some good points -- environmentalism is, in some ways, about white people feeling better about themselves for doing insignificant things and that the world has more pressing problems that can be solved very cheaply if people were willing to do so. But some of the things Lomborg says are just silly. For example, he talks about air pollution and points out that it is a phenomenon that has been around for a long time in the western world and uses the fact that it is now getting better to point out that we are on the right track. Well no duh it's getting better. Air pollution ain't getting better because we are using more coal and driving more diesel cars. It's getting better because western contries have imposed regulations, environmental regulations, that improve air quality. Also, most conservation is so inexpensive to do and is a great way to both save money and help the planet (at least a little), so I can't imagine what kind of arguments one could level against it. I'm looking forward to a good reader that will have both the Lomborg perspective and opposing viewpoints. \_ Why does it seem difficult to understand that some people don't care about saving money or helping 'the planet'? \_ It is not difficult to believe. There are robbers, murderers and rapists in the world, too, that is why good will alone is not enough to create a civil society. \_ I suspect the point being that Kyoto isn't going to save anything. There's nothing in the link about "people don't care about saving money or helping the planet". I believe all he is saying is that we should be intelligent about how we approach the environment and not just swallow every bit of doom and gloom that comes our way. I'm old enough to remember being taught in school how we were causing the next ice age and how in our time the planet was going to plunge in to eternal cold. I remember when they switched to the "it'll either freeze or burn" theory. And now we're into the "going to hell, burning" theory. All this is only in the last 25 years and comes from the same people. \_ Computer people say completely different things now about AI than they did 25 years ago. Does that mean that what they say now about AI is wrong? No, it means they have new information. The process of refining hypotheses based on new information is called "science". -tom \_ What do they say, Tom? \_ When you have pre-determined conclusions and make the science fit the theory it is called "junk science". And yes, tell us what AI people are saying today as opposed to 25 years ago? \_ Nothing is difficult to understand about that. My comment wasen't intended to address them, as those people will do whatever they want no matter what. Lomberg isn't addressing them either. \_ Ok whatever. Make your own thread if you want to be miles off topic. \_ What a troll. A letter to the editor written by one person who bases his views of the environment on one book. I wonder how many books in the bibliography really support his beliefs. \_ If you read it and some of the referenced works you might know and have something intelligent to say instead of slamming it as a troll because you simply don't know. |
2001/12/9-10 [Uncategorized] UID:23196 Activity:moderate |
12/9 The MIT application has mailing labels that we're suppose to fill out. WTF is it for? We fill out our own addresses or what? \_ yes. what the fuck do you think? how about you read the god damn instructions? \_ It looks like we sodans need to work both on our reading AND writing skills. |