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These series aren't very obscure.
Love Hina, Happy Lesson and Ai Yori Aoshi are quite similiar. If you like fanservice Hanaukyo Maids is an entertaining anime but it isn't a very ingenious anime. From your list I would suggest watching Love Hina, Noir and Onegai Teacher. (To be released by Bandai and ADV)
Here is my suggestion list for some more obscure anime:
Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
Description from the fansubbers: In the Middle of the jungle all is quite and peaceful, then came Guu. A mysterious little girl that seems to have a split personality and an appetite for, well, everything.
Hale's life is changed forever when his mother adopts this strange girl into the family. A lazy teacher, a perverted doctor, a beer drinking mom, Pokute, The Mysterious Guu, and Poor little Hale stuck in the middle of all this Is a recipie for comedy.
Azumanga Daioh
Well, here another description from fansubbers, but no one can be told what "Azumanga Daioh" is, you have to see it for yourself.
Everyday life of highschool students? Experience Highschool with hilariously over-the-top characters and tempermental English teacher Yukari and her colleague, P.E. teacher Kurosawa.
Azumanga Daioh is a very "japanese" show, so I'm not sure if you will enjoy it if you know almost nothing about Japan and haven't watched a lot of anime.
Guu is very insane and just a lot of fun.

Azumanga and Guu aren't commericially available outside of Japan yet, but you can download them as fansubs. If you want to download them, just use google to find the homepages of the fansubbers.

These series aren't very obscure.
Love Hina, Happy Lesson and Ai Yori Aoshi are quite similiar. If you like fanservice Hanaukyo Maids is an entertaining anime but it isn't a very ingenious anime. From your list I would suggest watching Love Hina, Noir and Onegai Teacher. (To be released by Bandai and ADV)
Here is my suggestion list for some more obscure anime:
Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
Description from the fansubbers: In the Middle of the jungle all is quite and peaceful, then came Guu. A mysterious little girl that seems to have a split personality and an appetite for, well, everything.
Hale's life is changed forever when his mother adopts this strange girl into the family. A lazy teacher, a perverted doctor, a beer drinking mom, Pokute, The Mysterious Guu, and Poor little Hale stuck in the middle of all this Is a recipie for comedy.
Azumanga Daioh
Well, here another description from fansubbers, but no one can be told what "Azumanga Daioh" is, you have to see it for yourself.
Everyday life of highschool students? Experience Highschool with hilariously over-the-top characters and tempermental English teacher Yukari and her colleague, P.E. teacher Kurosawa.
Azumanga Daioh is a very "japanese" show, so I'm not sure if you will enjoy it if you know almost nothing about Japan and haven't watched a lot of anime.
Guu is very insane and just a lot of fun.

Azumanga and Guu aren't commericially available outside of Japan yet, but you can download them as fansubs. If you want to download them, just use google to find the homepages of the fansubbers.

This sure sounds a lot like softlinks on Everything2.

Really, rather interesting things. Kind of makes a "nueron net" of the database (or web, for tangle). You get to see everyone's thought patterns, from the relevant links to the one or two offbeat ones.

This sure sounds a lot like softlinks on Everything2.

Really, rather interesting things. Kind of makes a "nueron net" of the database (or web, for tangle). You get to see everyone's thought patterns, from the relevant links to the one or two offbeat ones.

This has been thought up before.

You're WRONG and you're a GROTESQUELY UGLY FREAK!

You mean like this?

This looks a lot like Everything2's automatic links. I wonder if people won't start using it to express their dislike in an anonymous manner (like, outlinking to "pieceofcrap.com" if they don't like the page)...

Yeah this is gonna work really really. It's working out great in China after all.

6. Transfer (Guilt or Glory by Association)

Glory by association: The propagandist tries to transfer the positive feelings of something we love and respect to the group or idea he wants us to accept.

For example: "This bill for a new dam is in the best tradition of this country, the land of Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington." Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington were great leaders that most of us revere and respect, but they have no logical connection to the proposal under consideration - the bill to build a new dam.

Guilt by association: Works the same way, but in reverse.

For example: "John Doe says we need to make some changes in the way our government operates; well, that's exactly what the Ku Klux Klan has said, so there's a meeting of great minds!" There is no logical connection between John Doe and the Ku Klux Klan except that which the propagandist is trying to create in our minds.

Lick my dick, Captain America.

I always thought that combining the setup of Everything2 and a massive amout of blogs would create something great. This is a step in this direction. Is there anybody else agreeing that combining E2 with Waypath would make the best reference source ever?

Or is that blatant theft of intellectual property?

Unless the Netherlands recognizes a patent on falling tetramino games that the United States doesn't, the only government-granted monopoly that encumbers a falling tetramino game developed based on observation of the behavior of Tetris products is the trademark on "TETRIS". Once the students remove any association with the Tetris brand, they are in the clear.

WTF?

Unless... you're a band or artist who writes your own material?

There are only 50,000 possible four note melodies in the Western musical scale, and almost all of those melodies are probably copyrighted to somebody by now. In light of those facts, how is it feasible to create original musical works without accidentally infringing on somebody's copyrighted musical work?

Imagine for a second how it would be if you wrote a song and discovered a few months later that BMG had released a CD in which someone had recorded that song without your consent.

Even worse, imagine for a second how it would be if you wrote a song and discovered a few months later that BMG had released a CD in which someone had recorded that song, seventeen years before you even wrote the song, and now you're being sued for infringing the song's copyright. It has happened. It has happened again. And with four notes considered sufficient to establish "substantial similarity" of works, and with only 50,000 possible four-note melodies in the Western musical scale, how can anybody possibly write music that a court will consider original?

That reminds me of a great book called "Cosmicomics" from Italo Calvino, one of my favourite writers (in fact he's my favourite non-brazilian writer). In the first story it tells about the epoch when the Moon was closer to the Earth, so close that on perigee you could sail under the Moon and jump there! :)

Blow your mind

Obviously, this "Linus Torvalds" must be some sort of superhuman to have done such a thing. But we all know that there is no such thing as a superhuman. As such it must be plain for all to see that this "Linus Torvalds" is some sort of fabrication. It is the only way to explain why Linus keeps such a low profile, and that the main bit of evidence to even suggest his existence is the testimony of his mother and the strange posts "he" makes on obscure message boards. The fact that an entire community of "warez doods" has sprung up, proclaiming that "LUNIX RULEZZZ" is such a flimsy piece of evidence it must be discounted. But if "Linus Torvalds" does not actually exist, then who has conjured up his existence? There is only one possible person who could get away with such a fraud. Mikke Torvalds, "his" supposed birth parent.

Mrs. Torvalds may have a lot to say about her son, but this does not excuse the fact that he does not exist. When you consider this, is it genuinely surprising that she found him "easy to raise"? Of course, there is one immediate objection which will no doubt be raised. "If Linus Torvalds doesn't really exist," I hear you ask, "then who wrote Linux?" That is a good question, but it is very obvious to see who. If you take a look around here for a while, you will hear names like Alan Cox, Richard Stallman, and Eric Raymond being bandied about. Obviously, it is immensely skilled coders and hackers such as these people who have made the wonderful OS Linux what it is today. The person who first made that post on comp.os.minix was in fact Linus' mother, who, frustrated by the ludicrous restrictions imposed upon her by Minix, posted a message under a partial pseudonym, asking for help building a new operating system. All she wanted was someone to help her use her PC to print out her recipes, but before she knew it she was in way over her head. Pretty soon Linux had hit 1.0 and strangers like Tanenbaum were talking about and cussing it.

Fortunately, Mikke had released the kernel under the GPL from the start, so she was able to dump it onto the shoulders of other people without arousing too much suspicion. Now she only has to make periodic appearances on Usenet and the like to avoid arousing the interest of news-hungry geeks and ZDNet reporters. "But what about the conferences?" you cry. "We have photographic evidence!" Well, that isn't Linus. Are you sure you'd like me to tell you who it is? OK. The person whom you have all been worshipping for eleven years is in fact Richard Stallman, a man simultaneously venerated and vilified by the Slashdot community. When Linux started to become famous, Mikke knew that she was in deep water and that her hoax might be uncovered, so she decided to contact the most trustworthy man in the open source world. RMS was happy to cooperate, especially when he knew that Linux had completely overwhelmed the Hurd and that he might as well help; after all, if Linux was exposed as a giant falsification, mightn't his beloved GNU project be considered a hoax also? Neither could take the chance, and for that reason Stallman was perfectly happy to quickly purchase a cheap rubber mask and shave off some of his bodily hair.

Fast forward to 2002, and GNU/Linux is very stealthily taking over the server market. Mikke Torvalds' simple request has turned into a multi-million dollar industry, and Stallman's hobby and grand vision has actually begun to come to fruition. This is why, despite the fact that Linus Torvalds is actually a figment of our collective imagination, we should all honour him for being a prime symbol of our steadfast belief and ability to do what must be done. May his memory live on forever.

Obviously, this "Linus Torvalds" must be some sort of superhuman to have done such a thing. But we all know that there is no such thing as a superhuman. As such it must be plain for all to see that this "Linus Torvalds" is some sort of fabrication. It is the only way to explain why Linus keeps such a low profile, and that the main bit of evidence to even suggest his existence is the testimony of his mother and the strange posts "he" makes on obscure message boards. The fact that an entire community of "warez doods" has sprung up, proclaiming that "LUNIX RULEZZZ" is such a flimsy piece of evidence it must be discounted. But if "Linus Torvalds" does not actually exist, then who has conjured up his existence? There is only one possible person who could get away with such a fraud. Mikke Torvalds, "his" supposed birth parent.

Mrs. Torvalds may have a lot to say about her son, but this does not excuse the fact that he does not exist. When you consider this, is it genuinely surprising that she found him "easy to raise"? Of course, there is one immediate objection which will no doubt be raised. "If Linus Torvalds doesn't really exist," I hear you ask, "then who wrote Linux?" That is a good question, but it is very obvious to see who. If you take a look around here for a while, you will hear names like Alan Cox, Richard Stallman, and Eric Raymond being bandied about. Obviously, it is immensely skilled coders and hackers such as these people who have made the wonderful OS Linux what it is today. The person who first made that post on comp.os.minix was in fact Linus' mother, who, frustrated by the ludicrous restrictions imposed upon her by Minix, posted a message under a partial pseudonym, asking for help building a new operating system. All she wanted was someone to help her use her PC to print out her recipes, but before she knew it she was in way over her head. Pretty soon Linux had hit 1.0 and strangers like Tanenbaum were talking about and cussing it.

Fortunately, Mikke had released the kernel under the GPL from the start, so she was able to dump it onto the shoulders of other people without arousing too much suspicion. Now she only has to make periodic appearances on Usenet and the like to avoid arousing the interest of news-hungry geeks and ZDNet reporters. "But what about the conferences?" you cry. "We have photographic evidence!" Well, that isn't Linus. Are you sure you'd like me to tell you who it is? OK. The person whom you have all been worshipping for eleven years is in fact Richard Stallman, a man simultaneously venerated and vilified by the Slashdot community. When Linux started to become famous, Mikke knew that she was in deep water and that her hoax might be uncovered, so she decided to contact the most trustworthy man in the open source world. RMS was happy to cooperate, especially when he knew that Linux had completely overwhelmed the Hurd and that he might as well help; after all, if Linux was exposed as a giant falsification, mightn't his beloved GNU project be considered a hoax also? Neither could take the chance, and for that reason Stallman was perfectly happy to quickly purchase a cheap rubber mask and shave off some of his bodily hair.

Fast forward to 2002, and GNU/Linux is very stealthily taking over the server market. Mikke Torvalds' simple request has turned into a multi-million dollar industry, and Stallman's hobby and grand vision has actually begun to come to fruition. This is why, despite the fact that Linus Torvalds is actually a figment of our collective imagination, we should all honour him for being a prime symbol of our steadfast belief and ability to do what must be done. May his memory live on forever.

Obviously, this "Linus Torvalds" must be some sort of superhuman to have done such a thing. But we all know that there is no such thing as a superhuman. As such it must be plain for all to see that this "Linus Torvalds" is some sort of fabrication. It is the only way to explain why Linus keeps such a low profile, and that the main bit of evidence to even suggest his existence is the testimony of his mother and the strange posts "he" makes on obscure message boards. The fact that an entire community of "warez doods" has sprung up, proclaiming that "LUNIX RULEZZZ" is such a flimsy piece of evidence it must be discounted. But if "Linus Torvalds" does not actually exist, then who has conjured up his existence? There is only one possible person who could get away with such a fraud. Mikke Torvalds, "his" supposed birth parent.

Mrs. Torvalds may have a lot to say about her son, but this does not excuse the fact that he does not exist. When you consider this, is it genuinely surprising that she found him "easy to raise"? Of course, there is one immediate objection which will no doubt be raised. "If Linus Torvalds doesn't really exist," I hear you ask, "then who wrote Linux?" That is a good question, but it is very obvious to see who. If you take a look around here for a while, you will hear names like Alan Cox, Richard Stallman, and Eric Raymond being bandied about. Obviously, it is immensely skilled coders and hackers such as these people who have made the wonderful OS Linux what it is today. The person who first made that post on comp.os.minix was in fact Linus' mother, who, frustrated by the ludicrous restrictions imposed upon her by Minix, posted a message under a partial pseudonym, asking for help building a new operating system. All she wanted was someone to help her use her PC to print out her recipes, but before she knew it she was in way over her head. Pretty soon Linux had hit 1.0 and strangers like Tanenbaum were talking about and cussing it.

Fortunately, Mikke had released the kernel under the GPL from the start, so she was able to dump it onto the shoulders of other people without arousing too much suspicion. Now she only has to make periodic appearances on Usenet and the like to avoid arousing the interest of news-hungry geeks and ZDNet reporters. "But what about the conferences?" you cry. "We have photographic evidence!" Well, that isn't Linus. Are you sure you'd like me to tell you who it is? OK. The person whom you have all been worshipping for eleven years is in fact Richard Stallman, a man simultaneously venerated and vilified by the Slashdot community. When Linux started to become famous, Mikke knew that she was in deep water and that her hoax might be uncovered, so she decided to contact the most trustworthy man in the open source world. RMS was happy to cooperate, especially when he knew that Linux had completely overwhelmed the Hurd and that he might as well help; after all, if Linux was exposed as a giant falsification, mightn't his beloved GNU project be considered a hoax also? Neither could take the chance, and for that reason Stallman was perfectly happy to quickly purchase a cheap rubber mask and shave off some of his bodily hair.

Fast forward to 2002, and GNU/Linux is very stealthily taking over the server market. Mikke Torvalds' simple request has turned into a multi-million dollar industry, and Stallman's hobby and grand vision has actually begun to come to fruition. This is why, despite the fact that Linus Torvalds is actually a figment of our collective imagination, we should all honour him for being a prime symbol of our steadfast belief and ability to do what must be done. May his memory live on forever.

Obviously, this "Linus Torvalds" must be some sort of superhuman to have done such a thing. But we all know that there is no such thing as a superhuman. As such it must be plain for all to see that this "Linus Torvalds" is some sort of fabrication. It is the only way to explain why Linus keeps such a low profile, and that the main bit of evidence to even suggest his existence is the testimony of his mother and the strange posts "he" makes on obscure message boards. The fact that an entire community of "warez doods" has sprung up, proclaiming that "LUNIX RULEZZZ" is such a flimsy piece of evidence it must be discounted. But if "Linus Torvalds" does not actually exist, then who has conjured up his existence? There is only one possible person who could get away with such a fraud. Mikke Torvalds, "his" supposed birth parent.

Mrs. Torvalds may have a lot to say about her son, but this does not excuse the fact that he does not exist. When you consider this, is it genuinely surprising that she found him "easy to raise"? Of course, there is one immediate objection which will no doubt be raised. "If Linus Torvalds doesn't really exist," I hear you ask, "then who wrote Linux?" That is a good question, but it is very obvious to see who. If you take a look around here for a while, you will hear names like Alan Cox, Richard Stallman, and Eric Raymond being bandied about. Obviously, it is immensely skilled coders and hackers such as these people who have made the wonderful OS Linux what it is today. The person who first made that post on comp.os.minix was in fact Linus' mother, who, frustrated by the ludicrous restrictions imposed upon her by Minix, posted a message under a partial pseudonym, asking for help building a new operating system. All she wanted was someone to help her use her PC to print out her recipes, but before she knew it she was in way over her head. Pretty soon Linux had hit 1.0 and strangers like Tanenbaum were talking about and cussing it.

Fortunately, Mikke had released the kernel under the GPL from the start, so she was able to dump it onto the shoulders of other people without arousing too much suspicion. Now she only has to make periodic appearances on Usenet and the like to avoid arousing the interest of news-hungry geeks and ZDNet reporters. "But what about the conferences?" you cry. "We have photographic evidence!" Well, that isn't Linus. Are you sure you'd like me to tell you who it is? OK. The person whom you have all been worshipping for eleven years is in fact Richard Stallman, a man simultaneously venerated and vilified by the Slashdot community. When Linux started to become famous, Mikke knew that she was in deep water and that her hoax might be uncovered, so she decided to contact the most trustworthy man in the open source world. RMS was happy to cooperate, especially when he knew that Linux had completely overwhelmed the Hurd and that he might as well help; after all, if Linux was exposed as a giant falsification, mightn't his beloved GNU project be considered a hoax also? Neither could take the chance, and for that reason Stallman was perfectly happy to quickly purchase a cheap rubber mask and shave off some of his bodily hair.

Fast forward to 2002, and GNU/Linux is very stealthily taking over the server market. Mikke Torvalds' simple request has turned into a multi-million dollar industry, and Stallman's hobby and grand vision has actually begun to come to fruition. This is why, despite the fact that Linus Torvalds is actually a figment of our collective imagination, we should all honour him for being a prime symbol of our steadfast belief and ability to do what must be done. May his memory live on forever.

Obviously, this "Linus Torvalds" must be some sort of superhuman to have done such a thing. But we all know that there is no such thing as a superhuman. As such it must be plain for all to see that this "Linus Torvalds" is some sort of fabrication. It is the only way to explain why Linus keeps such a low profile, and that the main bit of evidence to even suggest his existence is the testimony of his mother and the strange posts "he" makes on obscure message boards. The fact that an entire community of "warez doods" has sprung up, proclaiming that "LUNIX RULEZZZ" is such a flimsy piece of evidence it must be discounted. But if "Linus Torvalds" does not actually exist, then who has conjured up his existence? There is only one possible person who could get away with such a fraud. Mikke Torvalds, "his" supposed birth parent.

Mrs. Torvalds may have a lot to say about her son, but this does not excuse the fact that he does not exist. When you consider this, is it genuinely surprising that she found him "easy to raise"? Of course, there is one immediate objection which will no doubt be raised. "If Linus Torvalds doesn't really exist," I hear you ask, "then who wrote Linux?" That is a good question, but it is very obvious to see who. If you take a look around here for a while, you will hear names like Alan Cox, Richard Stallman, and Eric Raymond being bandied about. Obviously, it is immensely skilled coders and hackers such as these people who have made the wonderful OS Linux what it is today. The person who first made that post on comp.os.minix was in fact Linus' mother, who, frustrated by the ludicrous restrictions imposed upon her by Minix, posted a message under a partial pseudonym, asking for help building a new operating system. All she wanted was someone to help her use her PC to print out her recipes, but before she knew it she was in way over her head. Pretty soon Linux had hit 1.0 and strangers like Tanenbaum were talking about and cussing it.

Fortunately, Mikke had released the kernel under the GPL from the start, so she was able to dump it onto the shoulders of other people without arousing too much suspicion. Now she only has to make periodic appearances on Usenet and the like to avoid arousing the interest of news-hungry geeks and ZDNet reporters. "But what about the conferences?" you cry. "We have photographic evidence!" Well, that isn't Linus. Are you sure you'd like me to tell you who it is? OK. The person whom you have all been worshipping for eleven years is in fact Richard Stallman, a man simultaneously venerated and vilified by the Slashdot community. When Linux started to become famous, Mikke knew that she was in deep water and that her hoax might be uncovered, so she decided to contact the most trustworthy man in the open source world. RMS was happy to cooperate, especially when he knew that Linux had completely overwhelmed the Hurd and that he might as well help; after all, if Linux was exposed as a giant falsification, mightn't his beloved GNU project be considered a hoax also? Neither could take the chance, and for that reason Stallman was perfectly happy to quickly purchase a cheap rubber mask and shave off some of his bodily hair.

Fast forward to 2002, and GNU/Linux is very stealthily taking over the server market. Mikke Torvalds' simple request has turned into a multi-million dollar industry, and Stallman's hobby and grand vision has actually begun to come to fruition. This is why, despite the fact that Linus Torvalds is actually a figment of our collective imagination, we should all honour him for being a prime symbol of our steadfast belief and ability to do what must be done. May his memory live on forever.

Obviously, this "Linus Torvalds" must be some sort of superhuman to have done such a thing. But we all know that there is no such thing as a superhuman. As such it must be plain for all to see that this "Linus Torvalds" is some sort of fabrication. It is the only way to explain why Linus keeps such a low profile, and that the main bit of evidence to even suggest his existence is the testimony of his mother and the strange posts "he" makes on obscure message boards. The fact that an entire community of "warez doods" has sprung up, proclaiming that "LUNIX RULEZZZ" is such a flimsy piece of evidence it must be discounted. But if "Linus Torvalds" does not actually exist, then who has conjured up his existence? There is only one possible person who could get away with such a fraud. Mikke Torvalds, "his" supposed birth parent.

Mrs. Torvalds may have a lot to say about her son, but this does not excuse the fact that he does not exist. When you consider this, is it genuinely surprising that she found him "easy to raise"? Of course, there is one immediate objection which will no doubt be raised. "If Linus Torvalds doesn't really exist," I hear you ask, "then who wrote Linux?" That is a good question, but it is very obvious to see who. If you take a look around here for a while, you will hear names like Alan Cox, Richard Stallman, and Eric Raymond being bandied about. Obviously, it is immensely skilled coders and hackers such as these people who have made the wonderful OS Linux what it is today. The person who first made that post on comp.os.minix was in fact Linus' mother, who, frustrated by the ludicrous restrictions imposed upon her by Minix, posted a message under a partial pseudonym, asking for help building a new operating system. All she wanted was someone to help her use her PC to print out her recipes, but before she knew it she was in way over her head. Pretty soon Linux had hit 1.0 and strangers like Tanenbaum were talking about and cussing it.

Fortunately, Mikke had released the kernel under the GPL from the start, so she was able to dump it onto the shoulders of other people without arousing too much suspicion. Now she only has to make periodic appearances on Usenet and the like to avoid arousing the interest of news-hungry geeks and ZDNet reporters. "But what about the conferences?" you cry. "We have photographic evidence!" Well, that isn't Linus. Are you sure you'd like me to tell you who it is? OK. The person whom you have all been worshipping for eleven years is in fact Richard Stallman, a man simultaneously venerated and vilified by the Slashdot community. When Linux started to become famous, Mikke knew that she was in deep water and that her hoax might be uncovered, so she decided to contact the most trustworthy man in the open source world. RMS was happy to cooperate, especially when he knew that Linux had completely overwhelmed the Hurd and that he might as well help; after all, if Linux was exposed as a giant falsification, mightn't his beloved GNU project be considered a hoax also? Neither could take the chance, and for that reason Stallman was perfectly happy to quickly purchase a cheap rubber mask and shave off some of his bodily hair.

Fast forward to 2002, and GNU/Linux is very stealthily taking over the server market. Mikke Torvalds' simple request has turned into a multi-million dollar industry, and Stallman's hobby and grand vision has actually begun to come to fruition. This is why, despite the fact that Linus Torvalds is actually a figment of our collective imagination, we should all honour him for being a prime symbol of our steadfast belief and ability to do what must be done. May his memory live on forever.

I never thought a pop Beatles-inspired band like Oasis would ever approve of a black metal band like Samael!

Perhaps they'll tour together?

I never thought a pop Beatles-inspired band like Oasis would ever approve of a black metal band like Samael!

Perhaps they'll tour together?

It's seems like a loose-loose situation to me.

expense Pronunciation Key (k-spns)
n.

Something spent to attain a goal or accomplish a purpose: an expense of time and energy on the project.
A loss for the sake of something gained; a sacrifice: achieved speed at the expense of accuracy.
An expenditure of money; a cost: an improvement that was well worth the expense; a trip with all expenses paid.
expenses
Charges incurred by an employee in the performance of work: was reimbursed for her travel expenses.
Informal. Money allotted for payment of such charges.
Something requiring the expenditure of money: Redecorating the house will be a considerable expense.
Archaic. The act of expending.

tr.v. expensed, expensing, expenses
To charge with expenses.
To write off as an expense.

1. decently remunerate their cultures
   
2. cancel the third world debt and begin some real funding, instead of relying on the exponential reimbursements. We could, for example, ask some small but healthy countries to tutor some countries, not financially speaking but by publicly councelling every and each of their foreign-economy issues.
   
3. re-consider the very concept of third world debt
   

Still, LARTing people's asses doesn't seem like a very productive way to spend people's time. Then again, they are AOL employees.

In a bit more than a decade, the mp3 patent will have expired

It won't matter if Fraunhofer manages to "evergreen" the patent. Patent evergreening, which involves patenting a minor variation, intermediate product, or process used to produce a product, is common in the pharmaceutical industry. Often, when a drug's patent is about to expire, a pharma company will patent a new version of a drug and then lobby the FDA to label the original version no longer "safe and effective" and make it a controlled substance. It happened to Seldane. I see no reason why an analogous technique (patenting minor variations on MP3, or slamming MP3 as a "music piracy tool" in favor of mp3PRO) could not be applied to codec patents as well.

Reminds me, just a little, of The Forbidden Experiment. Plus, of course, The Matrix et al.

Well, if you're sorry that you burst his bubble, why did you?

What is it about good jokes that makes insecure people like yourself feel the need to retalliate with bubble bursting? Can't you accept the fact that someone else said something clever?

Did you just want to be the first slashbot to point that out? Does it somehow validate you to get that oh-so coveted +1, Informative? You, sir, are a loser. A complete and utter loser. I pity you and your family.

You may want to look into seppuku as a means of avoiding further dishonor.

Thank you for your time, and have a pleasant day.

Your Lord and Saviour,
SweetAndSourJesus

just a random 20 chars???
It's not 20 random chars, it's 20 definite chars.

run the numbers: assume 32 chars for simplicity's sake. you got 32^20 possibilities to brute-force, that's about 2^100 if I got that right. Try even counting to that number using your 2048mhz machine. it'll take you 2^89 seconds. ok, use all 4 billiion pcs (forget about the 4 billion tivos), you still need 2^67 seconds. a year are roughly 2^25 seconds, so your down to 2^42 years, that's 4 billion millenniums, man.
so even with the craziest assumptions, you'd have to be really really lucky to brute-force a 20-char password, try the infinite improbability drive.

Muslim scholars are out for the truth, which should also be what the Church wants. So they actually read Rushdie's book, and found the obvious flaws in it, and debunked them. There is no effort to hide the work, just point out it's slander. The price on his head was not to coverup his work, only make him withdraw his slander.

Gota love that keyboard.

Physically, it looks like this. And this. And this also.

Technically? I haven't got a clue.

>maybe it's offensive (like child pornography)
Child pornography, just as snuff, is not illegal because it is offensive.

If there are people willing to pay for or look at banner ads in exchange for viewing content in which people are raped (and all preadolescent sex is rape), and it is POSSIBLE for a person to rape someone on video camera, then we must make possession of that content illegal, just as we need to make possession of stolen goods illegal. Think about it.

Possession of stolen goods is not illegal because it is offensive, and possession of ivory in certain countries isn't illegal because it is offensive to consider that endangered animals have been killed for that. It is illegal in order to stifle demand, to make people AFRAID of being willing to pay to see what you see described under the first e2 entry above, under penalties of law. Because as long as there is demand, people will meet it.

(This does not affect your original argument)

No, they don't. They were localized attacks and Pearl Harbour was a valid military target. Both are NOTHING compared to, for example:

• The firebombing of Dresden
• Trench Warfare
• Concentration Camps
• ETA terrorism
• IRA terrorism

No, they don't. They were localized attacks and Pearl Harbour was a valid military target. Both are NOTHING compared to, for example:

• The firebombing of Dresden
• Trench Warfare
• Concentration Camps
• ETA terrorism
• IRA terrorism

No, they don't. They were localized attacks and Pearl Harbour was a valid military target. Both are NOTHING compared to, for example:

• The firebombing of Dresden
• Trench Warfare
• Concentration Camps
• ETA terrorism
• IRA terrorism

No, they don't. They were localized attacks and Pearl Harbour was a valid military target. Both are NOTHING compared to, for example:

• The firebombing of Dresden
• Trench Warfare
• Concentration Camps
• ETA terrorism
• IRA terrorism

No, they don't. They were localized attacks and Pearl Harbour was a valid military target. Both are NOTHING compared to, for example:

• The firebombing of Dresden
• Trench Warfare
• Concentration Camps
• ETA terrorism
• IRA terrorism

In 1807 Sir Humphrey Davy discovered alum inum, and named it with only one i.

"I don't care if he's dead, I still want to reelect Wellstone!"

From Everything2.com:

Guide to making a quieter computer
1) Turn off your computer. This will make it totally silent. However, this won't solve the problem forever.
2) Remove all cables, and place the computer in an open area with plenty of room.
3) Meditate for fifteen minutes, focusing all power into your muscles, utilizing the silent abstract construct of the mind.
4) Examine the computer closely, silently, taking in every niche and feature of it's exterior without touching it. The bottom will be out of sight, so you must keep it in your mind's eye.
5) Strike, drive first, with force. Use all physical advantages to overcome the calculating beast, including your weight to crush the tenuous metal. Let the silence of space, and the infinite thoughts of inertia that result to charge your being as you desecrate the church of frag.
6) Bask in silence.

But he was born in ND. :D
Lawrence Welk on everything2.com

ouch, what an awful mistake! if you can find the DW games on ebay i definitely recommend purchasing them. or the ROMs ;) by far the BEST games ever made for NES. too bad they were horribly underproduced and negligibly marketed. everything2 has some good writeups on the DW series. dragon warrior 4 rules

dude Iraq is so ahead of you there

It pulls together several thoughts gathered from observing sites like Slashdot, Everything2, and Perl Monks."

Here's the link to Slashdot for anyone that needs it...

If education depended on "market forces," only the children of the rich would ever get an education. Etc. And if space exploration depends on "market forces," then you can kiss any chance you or your great-grandchildren have of ever getting off this planet goodbye.

On the current situation of education, see: savage inequalities. Current education system is horrible, considering the amount of cost, the uneven distribution of funds, and its archaic methods. Education is one department where technology can be more than just typing tutorial and word processing. Do you have any evidence of cases where privatization went bad?

Second, if it is economically unfeasible for my grandchild to go to space, then so be it. I wouldn't want him/her to waste tax money.

Duh, that's why I copyright the *words* not the melody.

A copyright on a musical work covers both the music and the accompanying lyrics. A songwriter generally sends a copy of the lead sheet (notated melody + chords + lyrics) to the copyright office for an optional but recommended copyright registration.

Seriously though, unless your talking instrumentals (not songwriters then)

The books on "songwriting" that I could find at my local BN covered both melody and lyrics. However, they did not cover innocent infringement, which is my main concern keeping me away from composition.

the important part is the song. Not the singer, the music, but the song.

Handel v. Silver found infringement in four notes, even when the lyrics had nothing to do with one another ("Hal-le-lu-jah" vs. "Yes we have no").

Now I have to ask myself what that means, if they counted the number of 1-meter squares it would take for each person...

Yes, welcome to fractal geometry. What is the actual surface area covered by a pattern of dots? It's somewhere between 1 and 2 dimensions (fractional dimension). This isn't so much measured as it is calculated, and of course the result would be far less than 83%. Clearly the CNN analysis wasn't this rigorous.