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Umh, actually no...this was before most of the error correction schemes that appeared after the technology hit 14.4Kbps...

Before that, when you would pick up a phone, the modem would drop carrier almost instantly.

However, one of the kewlest things I've seen was what I was able to do with my Vic-Modem (C= 64)...the modem was a 300 baud modem, but you could force the modem to renegotiate @450bps after you were connected (for some reason it wouldn't dial out @450bps)...but this was so kewl at the time...imagine being able to squeeze out an extra 50 MegaBits from a 100 MegaBit NIC today...very kewl stuff at the time...

As for the most resilient modem I've seen...it would have to be my old LineLink ProModem 144e (from my Amiga days)...the thing still works...

Heh, that one is easy. :)

From the Law Firm filing suit (or whatever it is called, obviously IANAL)

and yes, they were found guilty;

link

another link

• Nerds can do much more than code. Based on my own experience (you may also refer to Howto Become a Hacker by Eric Raymond -- google cache, seems the site has been recently moved), nerds tend to be capable in many other areas, including music, the arts and sometimes even athletics.
• Not all nerds are womanizers (especially the women :-). Although they tend to be especially awkward about the opposite sex, they don't necessarily behave as juveniles. I'll admit, though, that many nerds don't socialize enough with the opposite sex (at least when they're young) which can lead to the behavior you describe.
• Not all nerds are so ridiculously judgemental and pompous. Heck, many of my high school friends were commonly called nerds and yet helped tutor other students in various subjects, were role model students, and, generally speaking, a very good influence on the students they interacted with, IMO.

Obviously, this doesn't fix the embedded pictures in the webpage, but it allows you to read the text and check out the links:

Google Cache

Just get an IBM X Series. I'm sure, but if you call them you miht be able to get a copy without Windows... if not "buy" Windows and then return it.

I know they offered systems without Windows in the past, as I said if you call you might be able to get a special order.

Here's Google's cache of the article

Divx :-) The Origin!

here

Google cache here.

Don't mod this up, because it's reallt not /.ed. The Eds would never do that to us... ;)

Oops.. hit submit too fast on last one..
article

Manassas VA, mentioned in the linked article has been in various stages of testing this for almost a year now. They were chosen I believe because they had the physical requirements and the city government actually administors the power in the city so no power company was directly involved in the process. I was able to find a blurb in cache from the local newspaper and a press release but nothing much more, They same company providing the technology is also interested in VOIP. I would assume the other utilities were not happy with the competition or the percieved unfair advantage and are going with the legality card. Manassas was providing the internet access to select residents willing to beta test but I think that has since stopped, maybe the legal issues were to murky for the city to continue that program.

It is the same general idea, using decentralized decision making to improve efficiency in a distributed system.

http://openmosix.sourceforge.net

Of course, the idea is implemented quite differently in the two systems.

-Dave

Lets see...

Take off the tinfoil hat my friend. I don't know if you've been exposed to much government, but let me tell you, they don't have the desire, motivation, or courage to be part of any grand design like that. Government workers are, by and large, very poor, unmotivated, and won't do anything to jepoardize their meager existence. Grand designs like these are right the hell out.

Ok, so finding some evidence of "grand design"
effectively moots your point on this one.

Iran Contra
Kangaland Spills The Beans

I could go on but I don't see the point.
Ok, that's one for me. They don't seem like lazy
Govt workers fearing for their jobs now do they.

Then you said:
Maybe you'll then say that it's not the goverment but the wealthy fueling your conspiracy. Well, considering that of that 1% you're talking about, only 10% of their children will manage to do anything but piss that wealth away, I don't see a successful continuation there either. And what you're talking about implies generations of development.

Ok. Got a little creative with some numbers you
can't possible produce anything to back up. Lets
see what I can produce other than the obvious
trend for a whole bunch of presidents coming from
the same families that have had a ton of money
since the beginning of this USA experiment:

The Breakdown

The best part of all this is that my "this makes
sense" post was kinda sort supposed to be taken
as a joke. Shameless flamebait to stir up the
nuts. I never assumed I'd hook someone from the
other extreme. I seriously don't understand you
guys. Is it a "white guilt"? I mean, I made a
bundle the past 15 years. That doesn't change the
fact that I know things are heavily skewed in
favor of "pretty white people". Hell, I've counted
on it a number of times when negotiating with
venture capitalists. But I mean, how many evil
dictators that just happened to be funded/trained/
put in power by the USA do we have to pick a
fight with in an election year to clue you in?
Does another president have to be publicly
executed to raise your suspicions that there just
might be things going on that nobody in their
right mind would want to know about?
As for my URL, why not try actually going to it
and see what it is. Understanding it's more in
character for you to exert all your energies into
crafting a high quality "flame" instead of
actually taking the time to know what you are
talking about. :) As an AC said already, you
should feel pretty stupid.

..otherwise one is forced to consider the ludicrous situation of one being forbidden to sequence one's own DNA,

Piracy can only be halted by popular respect for copyright law. This respect is born in people when they see how copyright benefits society. Century-long copyright is clearly harming society, so to convince people to stop pirating we need shorter terms.

DRM won't get us anywhere, what with darknet and all. On the contrary, DRM degrades the value of legally purchased products as compared to pirated. (Not to mention fair use, open source etc.)

I have no illusion that we can stop piracy altogether, but if copyright actually had obvious benefits piracy could become socially stigmatized. Piracy would only be acceptable in situations where it didn't hurt - like "How am I supposed to pay for the vic20 games i downloaded in a fit of nostalgia?". Of course, this would also need a bit of propaganda on the benefits of copyright, but I think the ??AA's could fix that once they've painted themselves out of the corner again...

other businesses and public agencies...have agreed to the new licensing deals X a linchpin of Microsoft's growth strategy.

Not Houston.

Fools they are!

Turn your back away the darkside, you can never gain points

Without points, you can never advance to next levels!

Join me and I'll complete your training!

Don't make me destroy you!



(Interesting enough, Microsoft seems to have taken away the license 6.0 guide from its place, and I've to dig up the old pages above from google. Does Microsoft finally realize they are digging their own grave?)

other businesses and public agencies...have agreed to the new licensing deals X a linchpin of Microsoft's growth strategy.

Not Houston.

Fools they are!

Turn your back away the darkside, you can never gain points

Without points, you can never advance to next levels!

Join me and I'll complete your training!

Don't make me destroy you!



(Interesting enough, Microsoft seems to have taken away the license 6.0 guide from its place, and I've to dig up the old pages above from google. Does Microsoft finally realize they are digging their own grave?)

Humans usually have uniformly coloured hair on top of their heads--but even then, identical twins with different hair colour are sometimes seen (Lancet 353 (1999) 562). Cats often have mottled, striped, or otherwise nonuniform coats.

The splotches on a cat are the result some rather interesting processes, one of which is described here. Essentially, cats receive genes determining the colour of their coats from both parents. Within the cat embryo at the stage where it contains a few dozen or fewer cells, one set of genes for colour is deactivated in each cell--but it is not necessarily the same set in different cells.

This random deactivation of genes mean that parts of the cat that develop from one cell within the embryo will show orange fur, while bits from other cells may turn up with black fur. Overall, the effect is mottled fur, in a random pattern--just as is seen with Cc.

Sorry about that. Here is the Googlized HTML version.

Google cache link of http://www.ufomag.co.uk/euroseti.htm

The loss of Mt. Stromlo Observatory facility is very great loss.

A number of the obvious sites related to Stromlo are down, due to the fire or due to the wide spread power outages in the area. I will make links to indirect and cached pages.

Established in 1924, the Commonwealth Observatory at Mount Stromlo, on the outskirts of Canberra. Commonwealth Observatory was recognized for its important research into the origin and future of the universe.

Astronomers at Mount Stromlo made outstanding contributions to astronomy. It would be difficult to list all of the important contributions to Astronomy made by the people working at Mt. Stromlo. Now, a few come to mind:

• Stromlo research in the 1950s provided the first clue that the Magellanic Clouds had evolved differently from our own galaxy. These results gave us important insights into galactic evolution.
• In the 1990's, astronomers from Stromlo and Sliding Springs (many km away from the fire area) showed that about 90% of disc galaxies (such as our own) are greatly influenced by ''dark matter'', in their galaxies' halos.
• They made important observations in the first hours after Supernova 1987A (the first naked eye supernova in several centuries of years) was discovered.
• Then there is the sort of work such as the Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search
• The Massive Compact Halo Objects (Macho project that was the first to record many microlensing events in our Galaxy as well as in the LMC.
• Then there was all of that tedious, but vital work of spectral classification of southern stars.
• Many of the first parallax distances to Southern stars were first made at Stromlo.
• The list goes on and on ... I am sorry that I must leave out so many other significant contributions!

One of the principal instruments at Stromlo was the 74-inch (188-cm) reflecting telescope. The 74-inch telescope was erected in 1953, and until the completion in 1974 of the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring, this was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1982, it was used to discover the fossil star CD-38245: a star so old that it is made almost purely of gases left over from the big bang.

It also was home scopes such as the robotic 50-inch (127-cm). It was an excellent example of how an older telescope could be outfitted with new controls and instruments to perform innovative work. The MACHO project was conducted on the 50 inch.

Two historical scopes come to mind, the Oddie, and the Yale-Columbia telescope:

The Oddie, was a wonderful 9-inch Newtonian telescope. The Victorian MP, James Oddie, presented this telescope to the Commonwealth government for use in the proposed Commonwealth Observatory. It was installed on the site at "Mt Strom" (as Stromlo was originally known) in September 1911. Over the years the Oddie telescope has made valuable contributions to Southern Hemisphere astronomy; it did some of the first measurements of the brightness, color and spectral classification of southern stars.

The Yale-Columbia telescope, 26-inch Grubb long-focus refractor was erected at this site for the determination of parallaxes of southern stars (it was the largest refractor in the southern hemisphere when first installed.

Moreover, there were other scopes as well ... But alas, from what can be seen from the air at this time, most, if not all of those telescopes have been lost. At appears that heat from the burning of the nearby bush /trees was hot enough to melt many of the domes at the observatory.

The Canberra Astronomical Society used the Stromlo lecture hall for their monthly meetings. During public nights, the public had access to a domed C14 scope, the Oddie, and a number of scopes brought to the site by members ... all through the hard work and generous efforts of the Canberra Astronomical Society.

I had the privilege of observing at Mt Stromlo several times and spoke at one of the CAS meetings. I still can recall flying down from the US to a CAS member's home to see SN1987, . I was there only 36 hours after the naked eye supernova was first observed. I still recall seeing the single star, at a distance of over 168,000 light-years, change in color and rightness over the course of an evening. I was one of the most important astronomical events I have had the honor to witness. I recall that every scope up at Mt Stromlo was all pointed at the Large Magellanic Could where SN 1987A was blazing away. The previous observing board schedule was cancelled as people raced to collect as much early critical data as they could in the early hours of the event.

I had the privilege of being with the members of the Canberra Astronomical Society on two of my several total solar eclipses: 1991 in Hawaii, US and most recently the 2001 eclipse in Ceduna, AU.

(Both trips count among my several successful viewings of solar totality. Although the 1991 Hawaii was a close call that was saved because my friend (the one who introduced me to the CAS) broke his arm a very short time before the Eclipse ... which allowed both of us to have a full view of Totality in Hawaii ... but that is another story!)

My best wishes and heart felt sorrow go out to all of those people who worked so hard to make Mt. Stromlo such a wonderful place for the public to visit and who helped the observatory make many important contributions to Astronomy. Much of what was lost cannot be replaced. Still it is my hope that those who are left will be able to rebuild something anew out this tragedy.

The loss of Mt. Stromlo Observatory facility is very great loss.

A number of the obvious sites related to Stromlo are down, due to the fire or due to the wide spread power outages in the area. I will make links to indirect and cached pages.

Established in 1924, the Commonwealth Observatory at Mount Stromlo, on the outskirts of Canberra. Commonwealth Observatory was recognized for its important research into the origin and future of the universe.

Astronomers at Mount Stromlo made outstanding contributions to astronomy. It would be difficult to list all of the important contributions to Astronomy made by the people working at Mt. Stromlo. Now, a few come to mind:

• Stromlo research in the 1950s provided the first clue that the Magellanic Clouds had evolved differently from our own galaxy. These results gave us important insights into galactic evolution.
• In the 1990's, astronomers from Stromlo and Sliding Springs (many km away from the fire area) showed that about 90% of disc galaxies (such as our own) are greatly influenced by ''dark matter'', in their galaxies' halos.
• They made important observations in the first hours after Supernova 1987A (the first naked eye supernova in several centuries of years) was discovered.
• Then there is the sort of work such as the Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search
• The Massive Compact Halo Objects (Macho project that was the first to record many microlensing events in our Galaxy as well as in the LMC.
• Then there was all of that tedious, but vital work of spectral classification of southern stars.
• Many of the first parallax distances to Southern stars were first made at Stromlo.
• The list goes on and on ... I am sorry that I must leave out so many other significant contributions!

One of the principal instruments at Stromlo was the 74-inch (188-cm) reflecting telescope. The 74-inch telescope was erected in 1953, and until the completion in 1974 of the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring, this was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1982, it was used to discover the fossil star CD-38245: a star so old that it is made almost purely of gases left over from the big bang.

It also was home scopes such as the robotic 50-inch (127-cm). It was an excellent example of how an older telescope could be outfitted with new controls and instruments to perform innovative work. The MACHO project was conducted on the 50 inch.

Two historical scopes come to mind, the Oddie, and the Yale-Columbia telescope:

The Oddie, was a wonderful 9-inch Newtonian telescope. The Victorian MP, James Oddie, presented this telescope to the Commonwealth government for use in the proposed Commonwealth Observatory. It was installed on the site at "Mt Strom" (as Stromlo was originally known) in September 1911. Over the years the Oddie telescope has made valuable contributions to Southern Hemisphere astronomy; it did some of the first measurements of the brightness, color and spectral classification of southern stars.

The Yale-Columbia telescope, 26-inch Grubb long-focus refractor was erected at this site for the determination of parallaxes of southern stars (it was the largest refractor in the southern hemisphere when first installed.

Moreover, there were other scopes as well ... But alas, from what can be seen from the air at this time, most, if not all of those telescopes have been lost. At appears that heat from the burning of the nearby bush /trees was hot enough to melt many of the domes at the observatory.

The Canberra Astronomical Society used the Stromlo lecture hall for their monthly meetings. During public nights, the public had access to a domed C14 scope, the Oddie, and a number of scopes brought to the site by members ... all through the hard work and generous efforts of the Canberra Astronomical Society.

I had the privilege of observing at Mt Stromlo several times and spoke at one of the CAS meetings. I still can recall flying down from the US to a CAS member's home to see SN1987, . I was there only 36 hours after the naked eye supernova was first observed. I still recall seeing the single star, at a distance of over 168,000 light-years, change in color and rightness over the course of an evening. I was one of the most important astronomical events I have had the honor to witness. I recall that every scope up at Mt Stromlo was all pointed at the Large Magellanic Could where SN 1987A was blazing away. The previous observing board schedule was cancelled as people raced to collect as much early critical data as they could in the early hours of the event.

I had the privilege of being with the members of the Canberra Astronomical Society on two of my several total solar eclipses: 1991 in Hawaii, US and most recently the 2001 eclipse in Ceduna, AU.

(Both trips count among my several successful viewings of solar totality. Although the 1991 Hawaii was a close call that was saved because my friend (the one who introduced me to the CAS) broke his arm a very short time before the Eclipse ... which allowed both of us to have a full view of Totality in Hawaii ... but that is another story!)

My best wishes and heart felt sorrow go out to all of those people who worked so hard to make Mt. Stromlo such a wonderful place for the public to visit and who helped the observatory make many important contributions to Astronomy. Much of what was lost cannot be replaced. Still it is my hope that those who are left will be able to rebuild something anew out this tragedy.

The loss of Mt. Stromlo Observatory facility is very great loss.

A number of the obvious sites related to Stromlo are down, due to the fire or due to the wide spread power outages in the area. I will make links to indirect and cached pages.

Established in 1924, the Commonwealth Observatory at Mount Stromlo, on the outskirts of Canberra. Commonwealth Observatory was recognized for its important research into the origin and future of the universe.

Astronomers at Mount Stromlo made outstanding contributions to astronomy. It would be difficult to list all of the important contributions to Astronomy made by the people working at Mt. Stromlo. Now, a few come to mind:

• Stromlo research in the 1950s provided the first clue that the Magellanic Clouds had evolved differently from our own galaxy. These results gave us important insights into galactic evolution.
• In the 1990's, astronomers from Stromlo and Sliding Springs (many km away from the fire area) showed that about 90% of disc galaxies (such as our own) are greatly influenced by ''dark matter'', in their galaxies' halos.
• They made important observations in the first hours after Supernova 1987A (the first naked eye supernova in several centuries of years) was discovered.
• Then there is the sort of work such as the Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search
• The Massive Compact Halo Objects (Macho project that was the first to record many microlensing events in our Galaxy as well as in the LMC.
• Then there was all of that tedious, but vital work of spectral classification of southern stars.
• Many of the first parallax distances to Southern stars were first made at Stromlo.
• The list goes on and on ... I am sorry that I must leave out so many other significant contributions!

One of the principal instruments at Stromlo was the 74-inch (188-cm) reflecting telescope. The 74-inch telescope was erected in 1953, and until the completion in 1974 of the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring, this was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1982, it was used to discover the fossil star CD-38245: a star so old that it is made almost purely of gases left over from the big bang.

It also was home scopes such as the robotic 50-inch (127-cm). It was an excellent example of how an older telescope could be outfitted with new controls and instruments to perform innovative work. The MACHO project was conducted on the 50 inch.

Two historical scopes come to mind, the Oddie, and the Yale-Columbia telescope:

The Oddie, was a wonderful 9-inch Newtonian telescope. The Victorian MP, James Oddie, presented this telescope to the Commonwealth government for use in the proposed Commonwealth Observatory. It was installed on the site at "Mt Strom" (as Stromlo was originally known) in September 1911. Over the years the Oddie telescope has made valuable contributions to Southern Hemisphere astronomy; it did some of the first measurements of the brightness, color and spectral classification of southern stars.

The Yale-Columbia telescope, 26-inch Grubb long-focus refractor was erected at this site for the determination of parallaxes of southern stars (it was the largest refractor in the southern hemisphere when first installed.

Moreover, there were other scopes as well ... But alas, from what can be seen from the air at this time, most, if not all of those telescopes have been lost. At appears that heat from the burning of the nearby bush /trees was hot enough to melt many of the domes at the observatory.

The Canberra Astronomical Society used the Stromlo lecture hall for their monthly meetings. During public nights, the public had access to a domed C14 scope, the Oddie, and a number of scopes brought to the site by members ... all through the hard work and generous efforts of the Canberra Astronomical Society.

I had the privilege of observing at Mt Stromlo several times and spoke at one of the CAS meetings. I still can recall flying down from the US to a CAS member's home to see SN1987, . I was there only 36 hours after the naked eye supernova was first observed. I still recall seeing the single star, at a distance of over 168,000 light-years, change in color and rightness over the course of an evening. I was one of the most important astronomical events I have had the honor to witness. I recall that every scope up at Mt Stromlo was all pointed at the Large Magellanic Could where SN 1987A was blazing away. The previous observing board schedule was cancelled as people raced to collect as much early critical data as they could in the early hours of the event.

I had the privilege of being with the members of the Canberra Astronomical Society on two of my several total solar eclipses: 1991 in Hawaii, US and most recently the 2001 eclipse in Ceduna, AU.

(Both trips count among my several successful viewings of solar totality. Although the 1991 Hawaii was a close call that was saved because my friend (the one who introduced me to the CAS) broke his arm a very short time before the Eclipse ... which allowed both of us to have a full view of Totality in Hawaii ... but that is another story!)

My best wishes and heart felt sorrow go out to all of those people who worked so hard to make Mt. Stromlo such a wonderful place for the public to visit and who helped the observatory make many important contributions to Astronomy. Much of what was lost cannot be replaced. Still it is my hope that those who are left will be able to rebuild something anew out this tragedy.

The loss of Mt. Stromlo Observatory facility is very great loss.

A number of the obvious sites related to Stromlo are down, due to the fire or due to the wide spread power outages in the area. I will make links to indirect and cached pages.

Established in 1924, the Commonwealth Observatory at Mount Stromlo, on the outskirts of Canberra. Commonwealth Observatory was recognized for its important research into the origin and future of the universe.

Astronomers at Mount Stromlo made outstanding contributions to astronomy. It would be difficult to list all of the important contributions to Astronomy made by the people working at Mt. Stromlo. Now, a few come to mind:

• Stromlo research in the 1950s provided the first clue that the Magellanic Clouds had evolved differently from our own galaxy. These results gave us important insights into galactic evolution.
• In the 1990's, astronomers from Stromlo and Sliding Springs (many km away from the fire area) showed that about 90% of disc galaxies (such as our own) are greatly influenced by ''dark matter'', in their galaxies' halos.
• They made important observations in the first hours after Supernova 1987A (the first naked eye supernova in several centuries of years) was discovered.
• Then there is the sort of work such as the Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search
• The Massive Compact Halo Objects (Macho project that was the first to record many microlensing events in our Galaxy as well as in the LMC.
• Then there was all of that tedious, but vital work of spectral classification of southern stars.
• Many of the first parallax distances to Southern stars were first made at Stromlo.
• The list goes on and on ... I am sorry that I must leave out so many other significant contributions!

One of the principal instruments at Stromlo was the 74-inch (188-cm) reflecting telescope. The 74-inch telescope was erected in 1953, and until the completion in 1974 of the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring, this was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1982, it was used to discover the fossil star CD-38245: a star so old that it is made almost purely of gases left over from the big bang.

It also was home scopes such as the robotic 50-inch (127-cm). It was an excellent example of how an older telescope could be outfitted with new controls and instruments to perform innovative work. The MACHO project was conducted on the 50 inch.

Two historical scopes come to mind, the Oddie, and the Yale-Columbia telescope:

The Oddie, was a wonderful 9-inch Newtonian telescope. The Victorian MP, James Oddie, presented this telescope to the Commonwealth government for use in the proposed Commonwealth Observatory. It was installed on the site at "Mt Strom" (as Stromlo was originally known) in September 1911. Over the years the Oddie telescope has made valuable contributions to Southern Hemisphere astronomy; it did some of the first measurements of the brightness, color and spectral classification of southern stars.

The Yale-Columbia telescope, 26-inch Grubb long-focus refractor was erected at this site for the determination of parallaxes of southern stars (it was the largest refractor in the southern hemisphere when first installed.

Moreover, there were other scopes as well ... But alas, from what can be seen from the air at this time, most, if not all of those telescopes have been lost. At appears that heat from the burning of the nearby bush /trees was hot enough to melt many of the domes at the observatory.

The Canberra Astronomical Society used the Stromlo lecture hall for their monthly meetings. During public nights, the public had access to a domed C14 scope, the Oddie, and a number of scopes brought to the site by members ... all through the hard work and generous efforts of the Canberra Astronomical Society.

I had the privilege of observing at Mt Stromlo several times and spoke at one of the CAS meetings. I still can recall flying down from the US to a CAS member's home to see SN1987, . I was there only 36 hours after the naked eye supernova was first observed. I still recall seeing the single star, at a distance of over 168,000 light-years, change in color and rightness over the course of an evening. I was one of the most important astronomical events I have had the honor to witness. I recall that every scope up at Mt Stromlo was all pointed at the Large Magellanic Could where SN 1987A was blazing away. The previous observing board schedule was cancelled as people raced to collect as much early critical data as they could in the early hours of the event.

I had the privilege of being with the members of the Canberra Astronomical Society on two of my several total solar eclipses: 1991 in Hawaii, US and most recently the 2001 eclipse in Ceduna, AU.

(Both trips count among my several successful viewings of solar totality. Although the 1991 Hawaii was a close call that was saved because my friend (the one who introduced me to the CAS) broke his arm a very short time before the Eclipse ... which allowed both of us to have a full view of Totality in Hawaii ... but that is another story!)

My best wishes and heart felt sorrow go out to all of those people who worked so hard to make Mt. Stromlo such a wonderful place for the public to visit and who helped the observatory make many important contributions to Astronomy. Much of what was lost cannot be replaced. Still it is my hope that those who are left will be able to rebuild something anew out this tragedy.

here in the US, orange is trademarked by fedex. actually it's what they call a proprietary custom pantone, and supposedly only fedex and pantone know what the mix is. same goes for almost any major corporate color, and is usually described in the standards manual.

No one gives a fuck about what you have to say. Maybe you should just leave Slashdot for the better. I mean, look at what happened to censorware.org

Maybe they wouldn't need to tax internet sales if Bush weren't pushing a $674 Billion Tax Cut.

So Long, budget surplus! So long, fiscal responsibility!

The 36 Plots

Don't you know? There are _only_ 36 plots, all stories are a combination of these plots.

This is what the AG is requesting access logs of, from 11/7/02 to 11/14/02.

Some smart card specs, , an IDE controller pinout. Very different, sadly.

To quote a Boston Globe article, now available only in the Google cache:

"Edited out until as recently as 1970 were the clumsy rolls beneath alehouse tables and the gropings in horse-drawn carriages, generally rendered in his unique personal porno style: 'and yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra mi genu and poner mi mano sub her jupes and toca su thigh, which did hazer me great pleasure.' "

I tend to agree with the above poster. I'm not usually one to defend a corporation, but it looks like Dow did make an awful lot of reparations. The actual truth of the matter, I'm sure, is obscured far beyond our ability to discern it, particularly by a few minutes of Googling. Cheers, Mike V.

here's a write-up of the mcdonalds contest scam here

other caltech stunts including the rosebowl score board prank, and the great barberpole theft. here

here's a write-up of the mcdonalds contest scam here

other caltech stunts including the rosebowl score board prank, and the great barberpole theft. here

Here.

I've been looking for a truly "portable" OS for quite some time - one that I could fit on a single bootable floppy and have a GUI interface. Upon failing to find anything suitable, I have since started writing my own. As I have a penchant for assembly language programming, I'm about halfway done with it.

Actually, according to their web site (of course, had to see the Google cache of it cause it's already thoroughly slasdotted!) they believe that: "The Raelian Movement also claims that Jesus was resurrected through an advanced cloning technique performed by the Elohim"

So, therefore, they can probably be a sort of Christian cult! Of course, they call themselves "the Raelian Movement, an international religious organization" because it's not really possible for people in a cult (because of their point of view of being inside the cult) to believe they ARE in a cult.

You have GOT to check out the google cache of their site! They are making a business with Millions of potential wacko customers of the human cloning! This business is, of course, run by a member of the cult leadership! Ya see, this is why religion and business should never mix... this technology (if it's not a load of B.S.) will undoubtedly only be marketable to Military or Fanatical religious organizations trying to create armies of martyrs and other even more appealing thoughts... an army of missionaries!

If those kinds of obvious underlying intentions don't scare the living hell out of all of us that aren't part of the cult I don't know what will!

Oh, by the way, they claim that the "Elohim" are a: "... human extraterrestrial race whose name, Elohim, is found in the Hebrew Bible and was mistranslated by the word 'God'."

I'm just glad I believe I'm a Human Terrestrial!

is Lisa, right?

While this tactic might seem counter-productive, serving mainly to make SBC look bad while rival services gear up to implement their own DSL offerings, it would be helpful to take a look at SBC's situation from the company's standpoint.

SBC's third quarter earning report show the company getting absolutely hammered on the earnings front, with revenues off 14 percent, down over a billion dollars from a year ago. This drop can be attributed to competition between phone services, and more importantly, the rise of alternative communications technology. While DSL subscribers are increasing steadily, the added inflow of dollars is being more than offset by the hemmorhaging in the phone services sector.

Thus it can be seen that big phone companies relying primarily on local and long distance phone service are seeing their traditional market being eroded away, and are panicking. Look for more tricks like the DSL service hostage stunt in the near future as lumbering Old Economy companies try anything to shore up their shrinking incomes.

Hopefully, companies like SBC will soon be willing to implement the kind of out-of-the-box thinking needed to restructure their companies for the (gradually...) emerging New Economy, and will leave these kind of lame tricks in the past. Until then, there's always cable.

"You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem." -- Edwards' Law

Not that I've resolved myself to come down on any particular side of any manifestation of the gun ownership issue, but it really doesn't seem like this is going to particularly help. The gun problem in the U.S. is a social problem: Even accounting for differences in guns owned per capita, no other industrialized country has as many gun deaths as the U.S. (About 50% of U.S. households have a firearm, compared to about 30% in Switzerland -- source here.)

I'm not going to pretend like I know all the answers -- why we have so many more gun deaths than other countries, what should be done about it, etc. -- but I'm fairly certain that this is treating the symptoms, not the cause.

Since this is the relevant part of your post, I thought I'd stop you right here. You are, unfortunately mistaken. Take a look at why ISP's do not have common carrier status (in pdf). (for those of you who hate adobe, google-cached here in html).

see subject
if you don't know who Jon Edwards is, a simple google search (cache) will show you.

For those of us who don't want the Acrobat plugin crashing our browser: Google's handy PDF->HTML cache.

They've done it before, see. This article shows how they at Lucasart have appropriated users works Url.

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