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The largest issue with GM crops right now is the modification itself. Its highly unlikely the gene that coveys resistance to âoeround-upâ is dangerous.... what is dangerous is dumping hundreds of tons of round-up herbicide on everything!!

I assume you missed a "not" in there, specifically "...is not the modification...

If so, well done. I wish other people were more specific about what exactly is the problem they're trying to solve. I concur, the Round Up ready corn is certainly no more or less healthy and nutritious than non-Round Up ready corn, and that the real issue is whether spraying more Round Up on corn fields is a good idea (assuming that's in fact what happens, which I don't actually know).

I was talking with my brother yesterday and he was telling me about the four Mayan Philosophies. One is "do not make assumptions". In other words, question what you know and be clear what you know, what you believe, and why you believe it. Question whether the things you know could be wrong. And don't assume someone who disagrees with you is vile and evil. They are most likely good people who believe different things from you. Why might that be? See if you can imagine what set of facts might lead them to act the way they do.

We just need an approval committee for GM work.

Be careful with that. Think for a second how likely are these two scenarios:

1. The committee is filled with honest, clear-eyed, altruistic individuals who just want to determine what will be best for all involved (however hard that is to determine), or
2. The committee is filled with people who have an agenda and interests and will push to further those interests (because determining the global best path is impossibly hard anyway). Remember also the article which spurred this conversation.

Further, name me one regulatory body which behaves like the first instead of the second. Just one, please.

And for those of you who are fed up with this kind of shit, you can donate here

Why is Bruce Perens trying to undermine and displace white people? Because that's just how his people roll.

Wasn't the mathematician Leibniz the first who coined that idea? - http://www.angelfire.com/md2/t...

In the entire world, fewer than 1000 people have the skills necessary to do unstructured tetrahedral finite element mesh generation.

Nice rhetoric—factual statement masquerading as metaphor, for any reader dumb enough to go along for the ride.

The Evolution of the Flour Mill from Prehistoric Ages to Modern Times — 1905

Before the first actual grinding mill came into existence, grain was merely shelled or husked by pounding. This simple kind of a "first break" was effected by spreading the grain upon a slab or block of stone and beating it with a hand stone; a subsequent development of this rude apparatus being a hollow mortar and an improved hand stone. The original hand pounder was used on a flat block... Such relics are found throughout both hemispheres, having been used by all primitive nations throughout the world; but eventually they were universally discarded for more perfect apparatus, which really ground the grain into meal.

That's about the present state of machine learning, the hand-crafting of "features" playing the role of the recently discarded flat blocks.

Wheat is an incredible dietary resource, with the starch being light enough to transport over long distances, if only one can find a way to remove it (contrast potatoes, only ever transported downhill, if at all, until the invention of steam power). Once upon a time, all food was local, as, too, was starvation (fear the blight).

A better method to mill the world's vast stores of accumulated data is a big deal, even if we remain in the relatively crude era of water-powered stone grinding wheels.

Data is a bit like wheat, it doesn't give up its curvature easily. Too much applied force creates heat and destroys the end product. The applied force must have exactly the right ratio of compressive to shear stress, which only an expert miller can judge. Deep learning is nothing more than a slightly better mill than the one we had before, and it ranks right up there beside becoming slightly better at milling wheat.

The economic value of the curvature we can now hope to unlock is quite large. And probably there's a lot of curvature yet to find that remains inaccessible to current methodology.

Data is oil. Data is also wheat.

By way of contrast, unstructured tetrahedral finite element mesh generation shaves 5% of the metal mass off a milling apparatus that already worked just fine, being just one of ten thousand noisy specializations in the great roil of small improvements where a penny shaved is a penny earned.

In the entire world, fewer than 1000 people have the skills necessary to do unstructured tetrahedral finite element mesh generation.

Nevertheless, apparently a great career option for the metaphorically challenged.

If they really are capitalists, they can make money like the rest of us by earning it.

Oh geesh, I thought the sarcasm was obvious.

If I drop the sarcasm, the people who are claiming that "their" mountain is sacred are just a bunch of racists and grifters, and not only do not want a facility there, they do not want Americans or Asians there, and want to revert to the pre-Hook Hawaii of several hundred years ago. But if they can milk some money out of the "ferners", they'll be happy to do so. https://www.splcenter.org/figh...

http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/b...

They even have a "Kill Haole Day" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Here's a great example - http://dailysignal.com/2015/11... A special election in which Registration to vote was restricted to “Native Hawaiians,” who are defined as only those whose ancestors lived on the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.

So no Virginia, Racism and ethnic purity are not concepts only of "white people" These racist mutherfucks are even discriminating against Micronesians. Which is pretty nasty but they demand some sort of date based racial purity that even excludes their own.

So complely dropping the thin veneer of even sarcasm, these people are racists and grifting assholes, and frankly, I would be more than willing to have a military action taken against them. They are evil. Sorry, but the evilz racists 'Murricans were in a Revolutionary war when you decided who "true Hawaiians are, and even more sorry, we don't have to give you back "your" place any more than we have to graft ourselves on to great Britain. Don't like it? well, you know the secession drill.

Now see, wasn't that much nicer when I was just being sarcastic?

"Mr. Simpson this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my case against the never ending story."

http://www.angelfire.com/nt/hutz/images/hutz6.wav

The media often abuses the English language to make a biased point. Typically they leave out important information which leads to confusion and vagueness.
Phrases like "Many people have said" or "A study shows that" deletes important information. *Who* actually says and *which* studies show? ... or are they just made up and fake?

http://www.angelfire.com/nd/da...

http://www.angelfire.com/mech/...

We got your number too, Schlomo. GTFO!
http://www.angelfire.com/rebel...

Also brings to mind this.

I assume like the day trip that 'Kidd of Speed' (aka Elena Filatova) took:
http://www.angelfire.com/extre...

It's still an interesting read though even if her motorcycle trip thru there wasn't true.

Don't mind him. He's just another filthy, parasitic jew trying to undermine his host country. It's what they do.

Boy, that escalated quickly!

Don't mind him. He's just another filthy, parasitic jew trying to undermine his host country. It's what they do.

Here is some science on the effect of living in high-background radiation zones and cancer;
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
http://www.angelfire.com/mo/ra...
http://www.inderscience.com/in...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

People living for generations in places like Kerala, Ramsar and Guarapari show no elevated incidence of cancer.

Thanks for taking the time to talk about this, I feel fervently about this and I take pleasure in learning about this topic. Please, as you gain information, please update this blog with more information. I have found it very useful. There have to be charging stations everywhere. http://opiektidung.webs.com/ http://opiektidung.over-blog.c... http://opiektidung.tripod.com/ http://antontidung.blog.com/ http://opiektidung.yolasite.co... http://paketpulautidung.yolasi... http://opiektidung.angelfire.c... http://opiektidung.blogdetik.c... http://opiektidung.livejournal... http://adityaputra099.blogspot...

The telemetry stuff can be removed with the brand new NTLite (formerly nLite).
There is also this handy hosts file with 4000 MSFT domains.

Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more!

I really hate this kind of crap. If it's alright for one group of people to use a term, but not another it's racist. Either the term is offensive, or it isn't. There's no modifier because of the color of your skin, your ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. And what ever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"? We've turned into a society of whiny little bitches. Oh damn, someone is going to accuse me of being discriminatory toward female canines and claim that I kill puppies.(/sarcasm)

Until I hit this paragraph I actually thought you were actually going in a completely different direction.

The thing you're missing is words have context.

If I call a good friend moron it's a term of endearment, we both understand I'm not actually calling him dumb, if I call a stranger moron I'm potentially starting a fight.

Alec Baldwin calling someone a cocksucking fag as an insult is homophobic. Buddy Cole using fag is not homophobic. We call fag homophobic because it's most commonly used in a homophobic context, but that's not always true.

The context of the Redskins is the term was denigrating when it was chosen as the name, the team was notably against black integration, Native American discrimination is still rampant, and the name and logo conjure a stereotype of a native warrior. Not everyone will find it racist but some obviously will. Would the Washington Poles be racist? Probably not. Would the Washington Jews? Maybe. Would the Washington Bankers with a Jewish mascot? Definitely.

t's more that we don't want to be associated with people who insist that beheading is justice.

If the man has done crimes to deserve it, then its a lot more "justice" than consigning him to the mental health ward for time indeterminate until the state determines his thought processes are more "acceptable".

Something straight out of 1984, actually. You should read up on the Humanitarian Theory of Punishment; its always relevant in these discussions when it comes up every week or so.

TL;DR "punishment" is justice, "rehabilitation" turns a person with rights into a medical case with no rights.

. So modern prisons focus on re-constituting the citizen to full capacity. Because it works better than punishing.

Always relevant in these discussions:
According to the Humanitarian theory, to punish a man because he deserves it, and as much as he deserves, is mere revenge, and, therefore, barbarous and immoral. It is maintained that the only legitimate motives for punishing are the desire to deter others by example or to mend the criminal. When this theory is combined, as frequently happens, with the belief that all crime is more or less pathological, the idea of mending tails off into that of healing or curing and punishment becomes therapeutic. Thus it appears at first sight that we have passed from the harsh and self-righteous notion of giving the wicked their deserts to the charitable and enlightened one of tending the psychologically sick.......

My contention is that this doctrine, merciful though it appears, really means that each one of us, from the moment he breaks the law, is deprived of the rights of a human being.

The reason is this. The Humanitarian theory removes from Punishment the concept of Desert. But the concept of Desert is the only connecting link between punishment and justice. It is only as deserved or undeserved that a sentence can be just or unjust. I do not here contend that the question ‘Is it deserved?’ is the only one we can reasonably ask about a punishment. We may very properly ask whether it is likely to deter others and to reform the criminal. But neither of these two last questions is a question about justice. There is no sense in talking about a ‘just deterrent’ or a ‘just cure’. We demand of a deterrent not whether it is just but whether it will deter. We demand of a cure not whether it is just but whether it succeeds. Thus when we cease to consider what the criminal deserves and consider only what will cure him or deter others, we have tacitly removed him from the sphere of justice altogether; instead of a person, a subject of rights, we now have a mere object, a patient, a ‘case’.

Making all criminals subject to a clinical internment: Im sure that couldnt possibly go wrong. Insane asylums of the early 1900s? Unit 731? Josef Mengele? Pre-emptive organ harvesting? Nah, Im sure your idea would work out fine.

http://www.angelfire.com/nd/ki...

The Prince and the Magician

Once upon a time there was a young prince, who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the King, told him that such things did not exist. As there were no princesses or islands in his father's domaines, and no sign of God, the young prince believed his father.
But then, one day, the prince ran away from his palace. He came to the next land. There, to his astonishment, from every coast he saw islands, and on these islands, strange and troubling creatures whom he dared not name. As he searched for a boat, a man in full evening dress approached along the shore.
"Are those real islands?" asked the young prince.
"Of course they are real islands," said the man in evening dress.
"And those strange and troubling creatures?"
"They are all genuine and authentic princesses."
"Then God must also exist!" cried the prince.
"I am God," replied the man in full evening dress, with a bow.

The young prince returned home as quickly as he could.

"So you are back," said his father.
"I have seen islands, I have seen princesses, I have seen God," said the prince reproachfully.
The king was unmoved.
"Neither real islands, nor real princesses, nor a real God, exist."
"I saw them!"
"Tell me how God was dressed."
"God was in full evening dress."
"Were the sleeves of his coat rolled back?"
The prince remembered that they had been. The king smiled.
"That is the uniform of a magician. You have been deceived."
At this, the prince returned to the next land, and went to the same shore, where he once again came upon the man in full evening dress.
"My father the king has told me who you are," said the young prince indignantly. "You deceived me last time, but not again. Now I know that those are not real islands and real princesses, because you are a magician."
The man on the shore smiled.
"It is you who are deceived, my boy. In your father's kingdom there are many islands and many princesses. But you are under your father's spell, so you cannot see them."

The prince returned home. When he saw his father, he looked him in the eyes.
"Father, is it true that you are not a real king, but only a magician?"
The king smiled, and rolled back his sleeves.
"Yes, my son, I am only a magician."
"Then the man on the shore was God."
"The man on the shore was another magician."
"I must know the real truth, the truth beyond magic."
"There is no truth beyond magic," said the king.
The prince was full of sadness.
He said, "I will kill myself."
The king by magic caused death to appear. Death stood in the door and beckoned to the prince. The prince shuddered. He remembered the beautiful but unreal islands and the unreal but beautiful princesses.
"Very well," he said. "I can bear it."
"You see, my son," said the king, "you too now begin to become a magician." -

--Adapted from "The Magus" by John Fowles

Also, there aren't any fighter aircraft which fold their wings for storage that I can think of.

Think harder.

http://www.aviationspectator.c...

http://wwwdelivery.superstock....

http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/a...

http://www.highgallery.com/car...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

http://strangecosmos.com/image...

http://www.vehiclehi.com/thumb...

For some reason, this article made me think of that story about Tesla and his "oscillator" experiment:

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi...

I wonder if, rather than relying on these "metametals" in special soil, one could station units similar to these at strategic locations along fault lines, designed to pick up an earthquake's resonant frequency and generate a corresponding one tuned to cancel it out?

That's really beside the point. The big problem here is that Dr. Roache seems to think that the primary purpose of incarceration is to "punish" people. Nonsense.

Why, certainly it is! What do you suppose the 8th amendment is referring to? Heres a hint, it doesnt say "punish them as long as it takes to rehabilitate them".

Theres also a reason its called a "penal" (meaning punishment) or "justice" system, not a clinical or rehab system.

But I do fear for the day when noone gets that anymore, and the courts are free to detain you for as long as it takes to "cure" you. If you're curious as to what that looks like, I hear Winston Smith can give a pretty good account.
More on this:
CS Lewis on The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

I debated for a while as to whether or not I should post my link. I will.

Somethings to keep in mind:

1) My experience is from 5 years ago. Seagate is a different company today and what I say in my link does not apply today. What I wrote back then does NOT directly apply to the discussion in this Slashdot thread.
2) My email address at the end is no longer valid. Feel free to use the one at Slashdot instead. (Somehow, in my recent international move, the password I was using stopped working at that particular account.)
3) I'm posting this because I think those on Slashdot may enjoy what I wrote. It has a table of contents and an obscene number of summaries and tallies throughout so one can accurate keep track of what went on.
4) I'm also posting this because if you're from a company, it may be a good case study in how not to do things. Feel free to do a "Save As". It's only a single page with a CSS.
5) I never did register this link with Google so it never showed up when searching, but it has been out there for 5 years. I was about one day away from making it searchable and posting my link in a bunch of forums when I got a call from the last guy who finally helped me out.
6) In my writings, I say the following: " It does me no good to see Seagate lose sales and have problems. It doesn't benefit me to see Seagate distribute products that are of poor quality. It does me no good to bad mouth Seagate just to bad mouth them." What I was trying to say is this: I want to see Seagate (and every company) fairly compete and fully succeed. Taking the cheap way out every time is a bad idea and companies forget that. In my case, the warning signs were all there, but the customer service reps didn't listen to me and address the actual problems I was having. It's a very common problem that way too many companies have had for a very long time. It is not limited to Seagate.
7) I'm re-emphasizing that what is written in my link is not a reflection of the Seagate of today. Five years is a long time for any company and quality can go in either direction in that time frame. I'll let others speak about the Seagate today.

My link for your reading:http://badexperience.angelfire.com/Seagate.html

Don't knock me too badly for it being on angelfire. It was free, and meant to be throw away. Oh... and use noscript. The only javascript I wrote was to obfuscate my email address, but it looks like a thousand javascript functions are added to my stuff from Angelfire. I have no idea what they put on there.

Dropping nukes on Japan was about two things :

1) revenge

and

2) Showing the rest of the world what they could expect if they messed with the US.

It's too bad the U.S. didn't try dropping a nuke on Detroit -- there's a chance that Detroit would look as good as Hiroshima does these days.

http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/sw_underground1/embassy.html some pics.
Try a google image search for embassy antennas for the more public pics over many years.
The more interesting work was done inside taking up a lot of space.

The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

According to the Humanitarian theory, to punish a man because he deserves it, and as much as he deserves, is mere revenge, and, therefore, barbarous and immoral. It is maintained that the only legitimate motives for punishing are the desire to deter others by example or to mend the criminal. When this theory is combined, as frequently happens, with the belief that all crime is more or less pathological, the idea of mending tails off into that of healing or curing and punishment becomes therapeutic. Thus it appears at first sight that we have passed from the harsh and self-righteous notion of giving the wicked their deserts to the charitable and enlightened one of tending the psychologically sick. What could be more amiable? One little point which is taken for granted in this theory needs, however, to be made explicit. The things done to the criminal, even if they are called cures, will be just as compulsory as they were in the old days when we called them punishments. If a tendency to steal can be cured by psychotherapy, the thief will no doubt be forced to undergo the treatment. Otherwise, society cannot continue.

My contention is that this doctrine, merciful though it appears, really means that each one of us, from the moment he breaks the law, is deprived of the rights of a human being.

The reason is this. The Humanitarian theory removes from Punishment the concept of Desert. But the concept of Desert is the only connecting link between punishment and justice. It is only as deserved or undeserved that a sentence can be just or unjust. I do not here contend that the question ‘Is it deserved?’ is the only one we can reasonably ask about a punishment. We may very properly ask whether it is likely to deter others and to reform the criminal. But neither of these two last questions is a question about justice. There is no sense in talking about a ‘just deterrent’ or a ‘just cure’. We demand of a deterrent not whether it is just but whether it will deter. We demand of a cure not whether it is just but whether it succeeds. Thus when we cease to consider what the criminal deserves and consider only what will cure him or deter others, we have tacitly removed him from the sphere of justice altogether; instead of a person, a subject of rights, we now have a mere object, a patient, a ‘case’.

No, its good that it is. So when people talk about it, they realize this is how they SHOULD act. Not suspend the kids, and call in the feds because they phished a teachers password. Although, the teacher should be sent to some basic network security training. Because if the toolbar says http://lame.angelfire.com/ They shouldnt be stupid enough to enter their password.

Remember: there's a seeker born every minute!

Avoid eye contact. If there are no eyes, avoid all contact.

Another Angelfire classic: The World's Worst Website

I, too, yearn for what was lost.

Whether or not we can keep them locked up indefinately doesnt address whether it is just or not, and as for the notion of deterrent, I would just offer up these thoughts:

According to the Humanitarian theory, to punish a man because he deserves it, and as much as he deserves, is mere revenge, and, therefore, barbarous and immoral. It is maintained that the only legitimate motives for punishing are the desire to deter others by example or to mend the criminal......
My contention is that this doctrine, merciful though it appears, really means that each one of us, from the moment he breaks the law, is deprived of the rights of a human being.

The reason is this. The Humanitarian theory removes from Punishment the concept of Desert.

But the concept of Desert is the only connecting link between punishment and justice. It is only as deserved or undeserved that a sentence can be just or unjust.....There is no sense in talking about a ‘just deterrent’ or a ‘just cure’. We demand of a deterrent not whether it is just but whether it will deter. We demand of a cure not whether it is just but whether it succeeds. Thus when we cease to consider what the criminal deserves and consider only what will cure him or deter others, we have tacitly removed him from the sphere of justice altogether; instead of a person, a subject of rights, we now have a mere object, a patient, a ‘case’.

--CS Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

?The reason I didn't respond to all three was that I didn't want to do three times the work. Showing you misinformed once was sufficient in my mind and those who want to read the other quotes in context -- great. Jesus was a Jew, after all, so it's hard to say Christianity is anti-Semitic.

As for your accusations about the talmud... I read that often on Islamic and white supremacist sites. The problem is most Islamists and neo-facists get their information about Jews from the Qur'an or equally fallible sources. For example, the Quran says Jews are deceptive and so forth. Here is what the talmud actually says about deceiving gentiles.

As for the hadith I quoted that you think is only quoted by bigots. I'm glad you agree, since it's in Hamas's charter and regularly quoted by Fatah as well as more or less everywhere else in the middle east. I'm glad you think such is bigotry. Why, then, do you expect Israel to negotiate and make concessions to such bigots when they have made no shows of good faith? Stop the settlements? They did that for a year. Didn't help at all. Withdrew from Gaza, they turned it into a base to fire tens of thousands of rockets from. No. Not all Muslims are like this, but the fact remains this is part of their doctrine

Christianity is homophobic and sexist. Those Christians who claim to practice their religion but refuse to condemn homosexuality (and relegate women to second class citizenship in church) are indeed hypocrites, as are the Christians who ignore Jesus's commands to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. So then are Muslims who remain peaceful despite the very clear calls in their religion to violent Jihad (literally, struggle, but used almost without exception to refer to warfare). Read Sura 9 and tell me the Qur'an is peaceful because clearly it's you who hasn't read one. This doesn't mean all Christians are homophobic or all Muslims are violent but when they behave in such manners I DO indeed blame the religion. They're merely following the immutable commandments set forth by their infallible sky fairy, and because of abrogation in Islam, it will never, ever, mature into something relatively benign like the other religions.

>However the constitution does specifiy the right to democratic elections and the High Court has rulled that this means political speach can't be censored.

I'm glad the high court ruled "implied free speech" instead of no free speech at all!!! but that's a real stretch isn't it? That interpretation was very controversial. The Australian Civil Liberties Union: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/aclu/judges_have_failed.htm

The govenment tell us we need free speech for our democratic elections, then limit it only to "constructive free speech that won't harm someone". There's a lot of BS on that IMMI page like not censoring the press (a journo with a government document can be jailed even if they don't publish it) and Freedom of assembly: see 'Marching Permits'. Yes, you have free speech, but a limited version of it nothing like the US. Don't use it too hard or you mighty break it. ;-) http://www.immi.gov.au/living-in-australia/choose-australia/about-australia/five-freedoms.htm

I refer you to the words of The Mentor, who can describe it better than I ever could:

Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three- piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

+++The Mentor+++

[May the members of the phreak community never forget his words -JR]

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/r4v3n_phr34k/lastwords.html

As I stated previously, it was not "nuked". It was "Spirit Bomb"ed.

http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/vegetapride/Timeline.html

According to the Dragon Ball Z timeline, it occurred in 774.

- Buu destroys Earth
- Porunga restores the Earth
- Vegeta's life is restored when all "good" people who diedon Earth are wished back to life
- Goku destroys Kid Buu with the Super Spirit Bomb

http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/vegetapride/Timeline.html

No I like their tactics and we should all help MyCleanPC, since MyCleanPC needs better rankings so that MyCleanPC users can find more information about MyCleanPC and interact with others that want to use MyCleanPC. "MyCleanPC", they will say, "is so kool I want more stuff just like MyCleanPC!". Three cheers for MyCleanPC, MyCleanPC, MyCleanPC!!!

I for one welcome our new search engine robot overlords!

Its called a murder board, not a murder squad. Quicklaunch is interesting, but like all gun technologies, it is extremely limited by the g-forces and small payloads it produces.

Being honest, there are some questions here, but not the ones you might think, your nose is atwitch for the wrong reasons. There were plans for a spaceport drawn up ten years ago.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/mythicprojects/PUR-19.pdf

The murder board might not appear on the SNL website because it was completed seven years ago, its probably deep in the archives by now. The original idea goes back twelve years.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/mythicprojects/PUR-19.pdf

Take a look at the credentials of the idea originators:
http://www.startram.com/startram-inventor
The question that needs to be asked is what's the delay? Why has it taken so long to surface? The only answer apparently is benign neglect - Dr James Powell has always focused on maglev trains as his main interest, his son Jesse has taken on the project on the side, by trade he's an Oceanographer currently completing his PhD. This is why its so important that word about this spreads and momentum gains, so it doesn't slip back into forgetfulness. What we have here are numerous very intelligent and successful people with other things to do.

If you are still concerned, by all means contact Sandia and ask them - given the high media profile of the original press release, they would surely have made a statement if it were false by now.

Its called a murder board, not a murder squad. Quicklaunch is interesting, but like all gun technologies, it is extremely limited by the g-forces and small payloads it produces.

Being honest, there are some questions here, but not the ones you might think, your nose is atwitch for the wrong reasons. There were plans for a spaceport drawn up ten years ago.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/mythicprojects/PUR-19.pdf

The murder board might not appear on the SNL website because it was completed seven years ago, its probably deep in the archives by now. The original idea goes back twelve years.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/mythicprojects/PUR-19.pdf

Take a look at the credentials of the idea originators:
http://www.startram.com/startram-inventor
The question that needs to be asked is what's the delay? Why has it taken so long to surface? The only answer apparently is benign neglect - Dr James Powell has always focused on maglev trains as his main interest, his son Jesse has taken on the project on the side, by trade he's an Oceanographer currently completing his PhD. This is why its so important that word about this spreads and momentum gains, so it doesn't slip back into forgetfulness. What we have here are numerous very intelligent and successful people with other things to do.

If you are still concerned, by all means contact Sandia and ask them - given the high media profile of the original press release, they would surely have made a statement if it were false by now.

Revolutionary breakthroughs- the new findings challenge the traditional belief that fusion powers Sun light. The satellite Data on Solar Spectra could be successfully interpreted by new atomic phenomenon (Padmanabha Rao Effect) by which gamma, beta or XRF first causes Bharat Radiation (nearly 12.5 to 31 nm) that in turn causes UV dominant optical emission from within excited atom of a radioisotope. Most significantly, gamma, beta or XRF emission from Radioisotopes produced b Uranium fission powers Sun light. http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/1010/InterpretationSolarSpectra.pdf M.A.Padmanabha Rao, PhD (AIIMS)

Razor and Blade! They're flakes!

Pittsburgh has two worth checking out:

PAPA, the site of the World Pinball Championships which is only rarely open to the public, and Pinball Perfection, which is only open when the weather is warm but has an astonishing number of pinball and entertainment machines. When I was a grad student, I used to play at Pinball Perfection every weekend. :)

Nonetheless, the meaning of the passage is clear, it is impossible for man to enter into the kingdom without God.

I do want to draw a moral equivalency because he was only fined instead of killed because the fascists didn't have enough power to kill him. Had the fine gone through then the fascists would have demanded more and more until they got the death penalty for insulting their made up friend. Don't think for a second that the Republican fascists don't want to kill non-believers, they just know it's politically unpalatable at this point to say so, they are attempting to gain power little by little until they DO have enough power to murder non-believers. The only difference between the Republicans and the Saudi mullahs is the amount of power they currently wield,.

The fascists your are drawing moral equivalencies with were Democrats.

Learn some history before you try to cite it for your petty team red / team blue partisan politics.

Jefferson most assuredly rejected Christianity. The closest description you can make was that he was a Deist. Mind you, an 18th century Deist and a 20th century Deist like Einstein are going to have somewhat different views, but anyone who says Jefferson was any kind of Christian knows dick about Jefferson.

Jefferson rejected the divinity of Jesus Christ, but considered him a religious leader teacher worthy of following, in the mold of Moses or Abraham. He wasn't a conventional Christian by any means, but indeed identified himself as Christian and as a believer in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

"In some of the delightful conversations with you in the evenings of 1798-99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic; and I then promised you that one day or other I would give you my views of it. They are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed, but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others, ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.

- Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, 21 April 1803

This isn't a problem: the government promised that SSNs would never be used as ID numbers! They even printed it on early SSN cards. So no one could use this for identity theft, right? Right? I mean, that'd mean the government broke its promise when it instituted the Social Security program. It's just like how the program could never go broke, even though it's a pay-as-you-go system. After all, there will always be more workers than retired people, even if people retire early... wait, abortion, birth control, and increased lifespan mean that there aren't enough young people to pay for retirement? So where's the money going to come from? I'm certainly not going to be paying 3-4 times what I am now in 30 years, right? That could never happen either. After all, the government always keeps it promises and plans carefully to fulfill its obligations...

HAHAHAHAH, sorry, couldn't write that with a straight face.

FTC amplifier power rule history .

For several decades, amplifier advertising had to use a power rating defined by FTC rules. The power rating was RMS power, per channel, continuous sine wave input, and maintained for half an hour without overheating. No "peak power" or "music power" ratings. The industry hated this, because they had to put in power supplies sized for the worst case. But they complied, and amplifiers from that era have solid power supplies.

Post-deregulation, power supplies became undersized again.

Angus and Robertson bought the [Australian] Borders in an act of corporate hubris. Then the accumulated debts of Borders took down the whole thing.

The UK Borders operation- which had also been sold off by the parent company- went bankrupt too, about 18 months ago.

BTW, I was pretty soured on Borders when I learned that the (original US parent) company had been actively involved in union busting and the like, and always felt slightly dirty when I went in to one of their shops.

This was before the UK operation was sold off; actually, I didn't realise they'd been sold off in 2007 until they went bankrupt. They had a local store where I'm living currently, but it was in a retail park *just* far enough away from the main city centre- and less friendly for those of us on foot- that I'd never been there. I finally visited that park when visiting another shop doing Christmas shopping, figured I should check out their closing down sale, and found out it had closed less than a week previously!

Except Xerox is a unique word, that was uniquely created by Xerox for the express purpose of their machines.

App dates back *AT LEAST* to 1989 and even then it wasn't trademarked by Apple and was considered a generic term for an "application" or "program". Nobody called a "Killer Prog".
http://books.google.com/books?id=uTAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT83#v=onepage&q=app&f=false

Not the generic--non Apple implication usage of "Killer App". In reference to OS/2 no-less.

Apple has never defended the word "App" as a trademark. It's been used extensively in print and by corporations the world over. "Killer App" "Mobile App" "Web App". It's been in use for well over 2 decades.

So if we can conclude that the word "App" is generic and indefensible then combining it with a descriptor for the place where one buys apps as a store-- it's no less generic.

App (Generic) + Store (Generic) == Generic.

If however Apple had decided to name its iPhone apps something new and unique as a term for an app like... "Dot" then they could trademark it. "Dot, a trademarked term to name Applications for the iOS." They could then call it a Dot Store and limit its usage to computer software and be safe.

Apple chose the word "App" because that's what everybody already called Apps. We called them apps when they were on windows ce, palmOS, Windows, Linux, OS9, the web... the world over when you said "App" to someone who used a computer knew what you were talking about. And they weren't thinking of something that only ran on a Mac or was trademarked by Apple.

Here is a webpage that in 2003 thought Windows CE appplications were called "Apps"
http://web.archive.org/web/20030409022106/http://www.freefunfiles.com/software/pda/windowsceapplications/index.html

Just to beat your head with the obvious some more, here is a webpage updated in September 1999 talking about Windows CE "Apps"
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/bcox/windowsdna.html

It could be a single-user app running under Windows CE on a 3Com Palm Pilot.