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THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ
By The WIPO Troll

What is "Taco-snotting?"

"Taco-snotting" is a term used by Rob Malda of Slashdot, otherwise known as CmdrTaco, to refer to the practice of sucking off a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual) and blowing the semen back out his nose onto the other man's face or body. Usually a long stream of semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

Unfortunately, yes. I met CmdrTaco at an Open Source convention and he invited me back to his room for a game of Quake. When I got to his room, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, naked. He Taco-snotted me three times over the next two hours, sucking me to orgasm then snotting my semen onto my face, in my mouth, then again on my belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source convention (or rather, Open Sauce convention -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel, and Anal Cox used his network stack in various unspeakable ways on every orifice in my body.

How did I finally escape? After about 16 hours of nonstop homosexual atrocities, they all went to sleep. I was left there, covered in jizz-snot, chained to the bed. Fortunately the cum worked wonderfully as a lubricant and I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads, I could've easily been drowned.

You may have recently received an email similar to the following:

From: malda@slashdot.org
To: wipotroll@hotmail.com
Subject: Hey, baby - jion me in a taco-snott! :)

Hey, baby!

Ever done a Taco-snotting with anothar fellow geek? Its more fun then trolling Slashdot, trust me! All that talk you troll with about homasexual incest and stuff got me all horny and hot for you! Is it serius? Please tell me that itt is! If you want to get with me and my Slashdot bois, drop me an emale!

ps- Please replie to me at horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com. I'd rather the guys at VA Linux are not seen this. :) :)

--
CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)

You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your preferences. Whenever CmdrTaco gets bored, he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy being Taco-snotted. And this time, he found you. Lucky you.

CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and there's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late... but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from the listings, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot."

Probably not. If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object to ward off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, he might chain you up in his basement and use you as his sex slave for the rest of your life -- or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk while using you as his sex pony in a "circle-snot." It very nearly happened to me.

A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk: When CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, hot and sticky cum, spooging all over each other's faces and bodies until they're covered with their sticky, sweet man juice. Roblowme usually provides extra lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease.

To complete the circle, Michael, Timothy, and Jamie sometimes join in, dressed in Nazi Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. They all then proceed to snot each other's cum and whip each other's asses with riding crops and cattleprods until their pasty, white geek bodies are exhausted from all the passionate, homosexual revelry.

Actually, he's a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called "Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little boys, which involves administering an enema to himself of little-boy urine, spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained up and naked bodies. Unwilling boys are tortured with pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.

As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot? I promise I won't try and rape you, chain you up in my basement, and make you my pony for the rest of your life. I'm not like CmdrTaco; I only enjoy snotting on willing partners.

Oh, that's just my sister; I got her chained up in the basement. In fact, I just finished snotting all over her body. You should see her squirm when I spooge on her belly, lick it up, and snot it all over her face. She's such a feisty little 14 year-old bitch. Of course she's my sex slave, she's my sister. What else would she be good for? ...So, join me in a WIPO-snot?

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Treating spectrum locale as "land" is a perfect demonstration of the value of a Georgist single tax aka "taxation only of unimproved land value". The spectrum locale "land" would have zero value without someone around to enforce the property right -- so the "economic rent" on that property right should be, simply, the costs of defense of that property right. This would fall out of "warrior's insurance".

THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ
By The WIPO Troll

What is "Taco-snotting?"

"Taco-snotting" is a term used by Rob Malda of Slashdot, otherwise known as CmdrTaco, to refer to the practice of sucking off a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual) and blowing the semen back out his nose onto the other man's face or body. Usually a long stream of semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

Unfortunately, yes. I met CmdrTaco at an Open Source convention and he invited me back to his room for a game of Quake. When I got to his room, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, naked. He Taco-snotted me three times over the next two hours, sucking me to orgasm then snotting my semen onto my face, in my mouth, then again on my belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source convention (or rather, Open Sauce convention -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel, and Anal Cox used his network stack in various unspeakable ways on every orifice in my body.

How did I finally escape? After about 16 hours of nonstop homosexual atrocities, they all went to sleep. I was left there, covered in jizz-snot, chained to the bed. Fortunately the cum worked wonderfully as a lubricant and I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads, I could've easily been drowned.

You may have recently received an email similar to the following:

From: malda@slashdot.org
To: wipotroll@hotmail.com
Subject: Hey, baby - jion me in a taco-snott! :)

Hey, baby!

Ever done a Taco-snotting with anothar fellow geek? Its more fun then trolling Slashdot, trust me! All that talk you troll with about homasexual incest and stuff got me all horny and hot for you! Is it serius? Please tell me that itt is! If you want to get with me and my Slashdot bois, drop me an emale!

ps- Please replie to me at horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com. I'd rather the guys at VA Linux are not seen this. :) :)

--
CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)

You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your preferences. Whenever CmdrTaco gets bored, he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy being Taco-snotted. And this time, he found you. Lucky you.

CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and there's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late... but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from the listings, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot."

Probably not. If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object to ward off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, he might chain you up in his basement and use you as his sex slave for the rest of your life -- or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk while using you as his sex pony in a "circle-snot." It very nearly happened to me.

A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk: When CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, hot and sticky cum, spooging all over each other's faces and bodies until they're covered with their sticky, sweet man juice. Roblowme usually provides extra lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease.

To complete the circle, Michael, Timothy, and Jamie sometimes join in, dressed in Nazi Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. They all then proceed to snot each other's cum and whip each other's asses with riding crops and cattleprods until their pasty, white geek bodies are exhausted from all the passionate, homosexual revelry.

Actually, he's a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called "Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little boys, which involves administering an enema to himself of little-boy urine, spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained up and naked bodies. Unwilling boys are tortured with pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.

As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot? I promise I won't try and rape you, chain you up in my basement, and make you my pony for the rest of your life. I'm not like CmdrTaco; I only enjoy snotting on willing partners.

Oh, that's just my sister; I got her chained up in the basement. In fact, I just finished snotting all over her body. You should see her squirm when I spooge on her belly, lick it up, and snot it all over her face. She's such a feisty little 14 year-old bitch. Of course she's my sex slave, she's my sister. What else would she be good for? ...So, join me in a WIPO-snot?

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THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ
By The WIPO Troll

What is "Taco-snotting?"

"Taco-snotting" is a term used by Rob Malda of Slashdot, otherwise known as CmdrTaco, to refer to the practice of sucking off a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual) and blowing the semen back out his nose onto the other man's face or body. Usually a long stream of semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

Unfortunately, yes. I met CmdrTaco at an Open Source convention and he invited me back to his room for a game of Quake. When I got to his room, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, naked. He Taco-snotted me three times over the next two hours, sucking me to orgasm then snotting my semen onto my face, in my mouth, then again on my belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source convention (or rather, Open Sauce convention -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel, and Anal Cox used his network stack in various unspeakable ways on every orifice in my body.

How did I finally escape? After about 16 hours of nonstop homosexual atrocities, they all went to sleep. I was left there, covered in jizz-snot, chained to the bed. Fortunately the cum worked wonderfully as a lubricant and I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads, I could've easily been drowned.

You may have recently received an email similar to the following:

From: malda@slashdot.org
To: wipotroll@hotmail.com
Subject: Hey, baby - jion me in a taco-snott! :)

Hey, baby!

Ever done a Taco-snotting with anothar fellow geek? Its more fun then trolling Slashdot, trust me! All that talk you troll with about homasexual incest and stuff got me all horny and hot for you! Is it serius? Please tell me that itt is! If you want to get with me and my Slashdot bois, drop me an emale!

ps- Please replie to me at horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com. I'd rather the guys at VA Linux are not seen this. :) :)

--
CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)

You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your preferences. Whenever CmdrTaco gets bored, he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy being Taco-snotted. And this time, he found you. Lucky you.

CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and there's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late... but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from the listings, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot."

Probably not. If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object to ward off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, he might chain you up in his basement and use you as his sex slave for the rest of your life -- or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk while using you as his sex pony in a "circle-snot." It very nearly happened to me.

A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk: When CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, hot and sticky cum, spooging all over each other's faces and bodies until they're covered with their sticky, sweet man juice. Roblowme usually provides extra lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease.

To complete the circle, Michael, Timothy, and Jamie sometimes join in, dressed in Nazi Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. They all then proceed to snot each other's cum and whip each other's asses with riding crops and cattleprods until their pasty, white geek bodies are exhausted from all the passionate, homosexual revelry.

Actually, he's a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called "Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little boys, which involves administering an enema to himself of little-boy urine, spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained up and naked bodies. Unwilling boys are tortured with pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.

As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot? I promise I won't try and rape you, chain you up in my basement, and make you my pony for the rest of your life. I'm not like CmdrTaco; I only enjoy snotting on willing partners.

Oh, that's just my sister; I got her chained up in the basement. In fact, I just finished snotting all over her body. You should see her squirm when I spooge on her belly, lick it up, and snot it all over her face. She's such a feisty little 14 year-old bitch. Of course she's my sex slave, she's my sister. What else would she be good for? ...So, join me in a WIPO-snot?

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You may want to check out an ePods Internet Appliance. The company went out of business, and their product is highly hackable. Coincidence?

It is slow by today's computing standards but should serve as a digital picture frame just fine. You can put a 10Mb/s wireless card in it to pull the pictures off a network server or you can use a CompactFlash card. The CompactFlash card may be necessary because the ePods comes with little memory and runs at 256 colors by default. One of the hacks is to get it using 16-bit color, but it takes up most of the ePods' internal memory. New programs may need to be stored on the CompactFlash card.

Here's the catch: It runs Windows CE, and to hack it, you need another Windows box to transfer the hacked files to it. I took mine to work and hacked it there. I didn't want to attempt getting Linux ported to it.

It seems like there are a lot of downsides to using the ePods, and to overcome those downsides you have to spend some extra money beyond the cost of the ePods itself. I'm just trying to spread some info here. I'm going to give all this a shot, since I already have an ePods. :P

THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ
By The WIPO Troll

What is "Taco-snotting?"

"Taco-snotting" is a term used by Rob Malda of Slashdot, otherwise known as CmdrTaco, to refer to the practice of sucking off a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual) and blowing the semen back out his nose onto the other man's face or body. Usually a long stream of semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

Unfortunately, yes. I met CmdrTaco at an Open Source convention and he invited me back to his room for a game of Quake. When I got to his room, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, naked. He Taco-snotted me three times over the next two hours, sucking me to orgasm then snotting my semen onto my face, in my mouth, then again on my belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source convention (or rather, Open Sauce convention -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel, and Anal Cox used his network stack in various unspeakable ways on every orifice in my body.

How did I finally escape? After about 16 hours of nonstop homosexual atrocities, they all went to sleep. I was left there, covered in jizz-snot, chained to the bed. Fortunately the cum worked wonderfully as a lubricant and I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads, I could've easily been drowned.

You may have recently received an email similar to the following:

From: malda@slashdot.org
To: wipotroll@hotmail.com
Subject: Hey, baby - jion me in a taco-snott! :)

Hey, baby!

Ever done a Taco-snotting with anothar fellow geek? Its more fun then trolling Slashdot, trust me! All that talk you troll with about homasexual incest and stuff got me all horny and hot for you! Is it serius? Please tell me that itt is! If you want to get with me and my Slashdot bois, drop me an emale!

ps- Please replie to me at horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com. I'd rather the guys at VA Linux are not seen this. :) :)

--
CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)

You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your preferences. Whenever CmdrTaco gets bored, he roams through the Slashdot database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy being Taco-snotted. And this time, he found you. Lucky you.

CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and there's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late... but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from the listings, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot."

Probably not. If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object to ward off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, he might chain you up in his basement and use you as his sex slave for the rest of your life -- or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk while using you as his sex pony in a "circle-snot." It very nearly happened to me.

A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk: When CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and Taco-snot each other with their gooey, hot and sticky cum, spooging all over each other's faces and bodies until they're covered with their sticky, sweet man juice. Roblowme usually provides extra lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease.

To complete the circle, Michael, Timothy, and Jamie sometimes join in, dressed in Nazi Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. They all then proceed to snot each other's cum and whip each other's asses with riding crops and cattleprods until their pasty, white geek bodies are exhausted from all the passionate, homosexual revelry.

Actually, he's a homosexual paedophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and a zoophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called "Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little boys, which involves administering an enema to himself of little-boy urine, spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained up and naked bodies. Unwilling boys are tortured with pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.

As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot? I promise I won't try and rape you, chain you up in my basement, and make you my pony for the rest of your life. I'm not like CmdrTaco; I only enjoy snotting on willing partners.

Oh, that's just my sister; I got her chained up in the basement. In fact, I just finished snotting all over her body. You should see her squirm when I spooge on her belly, lick it up, and snot it all over her face. She's such a feisty little 14 year-old bitch. Of course she's my sex slave, she's my sister. What else would she be good for? ...So, join me in a WIPO-snot?

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The fact that anarchists are in favour of organisation may seem strange at first, but this is because we live in a society in which virtually all forms of organisation are authoritarian, making them appear to be the only kind possible. What is usually not recognised is that this mode of organisation is historically conditioned, arising within a specific kind of society -- one whose motive principles are domination and exploitation. According to archaeologists and anthropologists, this kind of society has only existed for about 5,000 years, having appeared with the first primitive states based on conquest and slavery, in which the labour of slaves created a surplus which supported a ruling class.
[ The Anarchist FAQ, Section A.2.3 ]

Oh how I wish I could give head to Carly or senator Rodham-Clinton (just look at that beautiful profile!).

Your mom was thirsty last night, but she wasn't eating any pretzels. Rather, she was sucking and fucking my hard cock to orgasm over and over again. It was quite pleasurable.

There is evidence against that I am familiar with against general relatively -- I read an interesting paper that used the common assertion that the precession of the orbit of Mercury was a slam dunk for general relatively, this paper argued with lots of mathmatics, that the orbit of Mercury was much better explained with Newtonian mechanics once you factored in that the sun was not spherical, but a lumpy oblate spheriod. It also happened that the irregularities in the orbits of other planets also can closer to observations on this basis as well. I found a link the refers to this here though it does not cover the theory

Re: Gravity, not much that I know of except for the possibility of gravity in more dimensions as you get small enough so that is no longer follows the inverse square law. This has been discussed several times on /. in recent articles on producing quantum black holes in particle accelerators. I have also seen some technical discussions of whether the gravitation constant changes over time (and the speed of light with it) or whether it is the same constant in all points of the universe.

Evolution. You must either be kidding, or be ignorant - or as I expect, you simply dismiss the validity of the counter arguments. There is a host of scientific evidence that is is opposition to Darwinism (and it comes from scientist and atheists). IMO Haldanes dilemma is one of the more powerful anti-Darwinist arguments and here is an anti-Darwinist site produced by an evolutionist that describes Haldanes dilemma as well as several other evidences against evolution. Yes, I am fully aware that creationists use some of the same arguments, but that does not invalidate the fact that there are scientific evidences against Darwinism. Read Haldanes dilemma, and tell how this is not a valid scientific argument against. BTW, I happen to follow the creationist, esp. given that Don Patton is a friend of mine. You'll have no trouble finding him if you dig into the creationist literature. IMO, some of it is good science (regardless of who developed it), and some of it is horrible junk science.

Plate tectonics, I know little about, but would be surprised if there was not contrary scientific evidence. Maybe someone else will point out the scientific weak links for us.

I point these out to refute the gerneral perception (not necessarily one you fall under) that science consists of a bunch a proven facts

Do such contrarian arguments mean we should discard the theory, not likely in the judgement of most scientists. But such contrarian arguments are often the beginning of discarding the theory (phlogiston) or refining it (Newton vs. Einstein)

the site says it has an 8-bit epson cpu in it, so it's probably as powerful as the timex watch, but just has more memory and uses IR instead of barcode. What kept me from getting the timex was that it required windows. However, if I would have known that one could program the Timex, I would have bought one a long time ago. From using the little flash demo of the Fossil PDA, it looks like a slick little gadget. It's too bad they didn't use a bigger screen. A LCD the size their Philippe Stark watches would be nice.

For all of you out there who think God is not watching, you are in the dark, and are in for a big unpleasant suprise. Please note that this is not me when you go here. This is where you can find out what is really happening. See how God responds. Be sure He will.

Hey, I have an idea:

Fly more rockets using all that computer and electronics skill for cool hacks in guidance and control maybe even with some rocket races and some rocket designs that can use the guys in high performance automotive shops to lower cycle times on design and development.

Dick deserves the "blame" for that letter as much as he deserves the "credit" for everything else he wrote during the time that he was insane. If you don't hold him responsible for that letter, you can't hold him responsible for the other stories he wrote, either. I think he deserves credit for everything he wrote.

Here are some refreshingly harsh quotes from Lem about science fiction. I have to agree with him that most science fiction is trash. But I love trash, and reading his essays helps me better appreciate the trash I read.

From http://www.geocities.com/bill_testerman/LemQuotesP art1.html:

"American science fiction, exploiting its exceptional status, lays claim to occupy the pinnacles of art and thought. One is annoyed by the pretentiousness of a genre that fends off accusations of primitivism by pleading its entertainment character and then, once such accusations have been silenced, renews its overweening claims." (from his essay "Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans" - Lem was once a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, but was expelled in 1976)

"Science fiction became a vulgar mythology of technological civilization. I wrote its monograph without the intention of creating a crushing critique....I think that this monograph is an expression of my personal utopia: a longing for a better science fiction - one that should exist." (writing about his Fantastyka i futurologia)

"Some time ago crime was modest - take Al Capone and his mere two dozens of victims. Now we have the Independence Day movie, where alien spaceships murder almost the entire mankind. Some American producer claims now that his next picture will be even stronger. But what can be stronger? To murder an entire biosphere? This is so disgusting for me, that I decided to leave the street-car of science fiction on a stop of essay writing." (from 1996 Orlinski interview)

-Don

Dick deserves the "blame" for that letter as much as he deserves the "credit" for everything else he wrote during the time that he was insane. If you don't hold him responsible for that letter, you can't hold him responsible for the other stories he wrote, either. I think he deserves credit for everything he wrote.

Here are some refreshingly harsh quotes from Lem about science fiction. I have to agree with him that most science fiction is trash. But I love trash, and reading his essays helps me better appreciate the trash I read.

From http://www.geocities.com/bill_testerman/LemQuotesP art1.html:

"American science fiction, exploiting its exceptional status, lays claim to occupy the pinnacles of art and thought. One is annoyed by the pretentiousness of a genre that fends off accusations of primitivism by pleading its entertainment character and then, once such accusations have been silenced, renews its overweening claims." (from his essay "Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans" - Lem was once a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, but was expelled in 1976)

"Science fiction became a vulgar mythology of technological civilization. I wrote its monograph without the intention of creating a crushing critique....I think that this monograph is an expression of my personal utopia: a longing for a better science fiction - one that should exist." (writing about his Fantastyka i futurologia)

"Some time ago crime was modest - take Al Capone and his mere two dozens of victims. Now we have the Independence Day movie, where alien spaceships murder almost the entire mankind. Some American producer claims now that his next picture will be even stronger. But what can be stronger? To murder an entire biosphere? This is so disgusting for me, that I decided to leave the street-car of science fiction on a stop of essay writing." (from 1996 Orlinski interview)

-Don

OAKLAND - All members of the Linux community are male, a fact which vindicates the suspicion of widespread Cheap Software homosexuality.

Earlier this year it was reported that a female hacker had been found, but it turned out to be CowboyNeal, whose large breasts, high estrogen levels (induced by being a fatass), and small penis led doctors to believe that he may be female, or at least transgendered. An exploratory mission by wannabe scientist Jeff "I read Scientific American, so I'm smart, a hee hee hee!" Bates uncovered evidence that Mr. Neal is indeed technically male.

Sex-startved residents of the "Geek Compound" fucked him anyway.

Troll Tuesday 2001.

CAMBRIDGE - Massachusetts may have rejected the latest Microsoft-DOJ settlement, but not for the reasons that you suspect. "The underlying technology issues are, of course, important," explains Cheap Software advocate Dick Stallman. "But we Nor'easters have much more disdain for Microsoft's clean-cut image than anything relating to antitrust."

Stallman says that Microsoft representatives' short hair, clean business suits, and lack of putrefying body odour offend delicate Massachusetts sensibilities. Stallman elaborates: "As a dirty hippy, you expect me to loathe all organisms which to not exude the fetid stench of marijuana-soaked roadkill. But even the most respected Boston man reeks of jungle feces. It is in fact my carefully cultivated odour that makes me the most respected name in hacking, not my mediocre BASIC programming skills."

Governor Jane Swift agrees. "The sweet smell of rotting flesh and fecal fulmination is a core value of the people of Massachusetts and our neighboring states. Microsoft's lawyers mocked our traditions throughout the trial, by insisting on washing their hair and cleaning their ears. I've been told that these Northwesterners even clip their toenails!" Governor Swift shuddered, and waves of her monthly feminie pollution wafted toward this reporter like a Vietcong army. "We can't be associated with people who clip their toenails."

It appears that Massachusetts is not alone in its aversion to Microsoft's spring-fresh ways. The state motto of New Hampsire is "Stinky or Die," and its residents showcase the same hard-line avoidance of hygiene as their Massachusetts brethren. "Them Mackersoft boys must be some sort of Communists," proclaiming Earl McFadden, a local lobsterman. "Ayuh, I done heard that them suited freaks take a shower every day of God's week. That just ain't natural."

Mr. McFadden then pulled open the front of his trousers and spat onto his crotch.

Microsoft may have trouble selling these states on the latest agreement, but they'll definitely try. Spokesmen for the Redmond, Washington-based software behemoth report that a special edition of its flagship operating system, WindowsXP, is being prepared to woo Massachusetts into further talks. "WindowsMA," reads the released press statement, "combines the power of WindowsXP with ActiveStench technology." OfficeMA, a companion product, features a new "Larry the Lobster" Office Assistant, and disables the Massachusetts-unfriendly "Spell Check" feature.

Troll Tuesday 2001.

APL? Ugh... You want some real fun, though, take a look at BANCstar, which is very possibly the nastiest thing I've ever seen in a commercial setting. /Brian

Reminded me of the following I read up in FUD DEF :

"AMSTRAD, a UK consumer electronics manufacturer, had a reputation of selling reasonably OK electronics goods at rock-bottom prices. Much of their success was due to rationalized design, giving customers what they most desired whilst keeping the construction simple. One day they decided to launch a range of PC's aimed at the home consumer. Due to the optimization of the design, AMSTRAD decided that a 35W PSU would be sufficient, even if a hard disk and tape-streamer were added (at that time many low end PC's just had twin floppy drives). As the computer was supplied complete with a monitor (and monitors have complicated PSU requirements), they also decided that instead of putting the standard PSU in the corner of the box (as most manufacturers still do today), they would supply the computer from the monitors PSU, which was accordingly upgraded.

This actually spawned another advantage. Monitors dissipate a lot of heat, and so the large case is peppered with holes to allow effective convention cooling. Computers by contrast tend to be closed boxes, and so it was (and still is) normal to have a fan incorporated in the PSU. As the AMSTRAD had no PSU in the case, and the contents dissipated typically 20W, they ran quite happily with no fan (they had incorporated convection cooling in the case), and so were also quieter.

The AMSTRAD computers were a great success. Too great. Not only did they sell in AMSTRAD's traditional consumer market, but they were finding a place in office environments, where equivalent 'traditional' models cost typically 50-100% more, and of course the AMSTRAD'S were quiet. FUD campaign gets rolling. "The AMSTRAD has no cooling fan", shock horror. "Stick a hard disk in an AMSTRAD and it melts", aghhh.., "If your program crashes it is because your AMSTRAD has no cooling fan".

The FUD was easily refuted. AMSTRADS actually worked quite well, and you could use them all day, then feel the box and find it to be cool. Nonetheless, many new customers where being scared away from the AMSTRAD because it had no fan when everybody else did. So in the end AMSTRAD fitted fans, right in the back corner where the PSU normally goes. Of course the AMSTRAD had no PSU there, and because the case was designed for natural air-flow, a simple test with a cigarette would soon reveal that the air was just going round in circles"

Keeping an archive of Slashdot. As the solar system's population grows and grows, it won't be long before every little news story gets a thousand comments per minute. There will be so many moderators that law of averages suggests that every comment will be modded up to 5, and in an ironic twist Slashdot will be flooded. Still, it's Slashdot, and no self-respecting high-bandwidth nerd will be without an up-to-date archive of Slashdot.

Leeching Aminet. By the time we actually have these monster size drives, processors will finally be fast enough to properly emulate an Amiga, WinUAE will have been perfected and bandwidth will be so plentiful that we can all enjoy the latest Amiga software, whether we want it or not.

Freaking out newbies. Remember your scriptkiddie days when you would h4x0r some dude's Windows machine and pop up something resembling the Matrix? Simply add a little matter-to-energy technology, and you can download the newbie onto his computer, FTP him along (resumable downloading, now, we don't want him to materialise with missing parts!) and rematerialise him in your fridge. He'll think he's been transported to some crazy ice planet. Just like in sci-fi, eh folks!

Somewhere to keep all your Pokémon hentai! Don't try and hide it, man. I've seen your sick pictures of Misty and Bulbasaur.

You'll finally have enough diskspace to install Windows 2024. Naturally, you'll be using Linux instead, but it's nice to brag that you could, if you wanted.

A few hours ago, I learned that I am now (at least in theory) absurdly gay.

I was at my machine, my 386 with 4 megs of RAM running Linux, masturbating to pictures of RMS, when I got an email congratulating me on the success of Slashdot. I was working on my latest small project-- a clever little text parser that takes input from the user and puts it in a little cartoon-style word balloon coming out of-- get this!-- a giant, erect ASCII penis's bulging head! Hahaha! It's called COCKSAY. You can download it here.

"Congratulations? That's interesting," said I to myself. "I didn't think Slashdot was coming out until tomorrow." And I oughtta know; I'm on VA's Board of Directors, recruited by Larry Augustin himself, to be VA Linux's "corporate conscience," and it's public record that I hold a substantial share in the company's semen pool. I tooled on over to Linux Today, chased a link like it was a naked hippy's ass-- and discovered that Rob Malda had taken the fast action we had discussed at the last board meeting. Slashdot had come out first thing that morning with a headline on its own site-- and I had become the figurehead of the Gay Faggot Slashdot Empire while I wasn't looking.

Well, that didn't last long. In the next two hours, 369 VA employees also disclosed that they had AIDS, leaving me with a bit of the proverbial semen on my face.

You may wonder why I am talking about this in public. The first piece of advice your friends will give you, if it looks like you're about to come out of the closet, is: keep quiet! It's really nobody else's business-- you don't want to look like you're lusting for cock, though you may want to be deluged by an endless succession of men dressed up as Navy sailors demanding blowjobs from you; fat, hairy men (the bears) wanting to fuck you in the ass; and sweet, young, hairless boys offering you the beauty of their youth.

Trouble with the "keep it quiet" theory is that I've always solicited gay male faggot sex in a very public way. When you're already a media figure, like myself, and your name is on the Faggot Manifesto your whole organization chose to use to come out, and email from friends and journalists starts coming in like crazy as the gayness of your empire breaks records even on the first day, playing it coy swiftly ceases to look like a viable option.

But it wouldn't be fair to dissemble. I serve the gay community. I'm wealthy today because my efforts to spread faggotry and venereal diseases on behalf of that community helped infiltrate the business world and earned the trust of a lot of young, naive boys. Fairness to the twinks

written: 2001/06/20
updated: 2001/06/27

trollaxor@kike.il

I keep thinking that people will, someday, notice that Cerebus the Aardvark is probably one of the greatest narrative acheivements of all time; I think Dave Sim's frank misogyny is a significant barrier to entry for some people, though. OTOH, it didn't hurt William S. Burroughs much. And Cerebus is such an astonishing work; pop culture, high culture, satire, parody, love stories, social criticism...Sim chose early on in his work to simply respect no boundary, ever. Consider Melmoth , a retelling of the last days of Oscar Wilde, incorporated without apology into the narrative of Cerebus. Amazing, entertaining, and audacious.

if you're interested in replica paintball guns, check out this site. i'd love to get the mp5, and the m60 is awesome..

If memory serves me, the improvement gained by reducing the H2O drag offset the loss of suspending the bayload from the kite. Working models seem to have been built (see aerohydrofoil ).

It is very unfortunate that this story linked directly to www.calc.org. They have been having server troubles for a few weeks now, and getting slashdotted doesn't help. At the moment, www.calc.org is the only (TI) calculator website with a decent archive. www.ticalc.org (by far the largest archive) took it's archives offline because of some 'bad content' which stems from the CD that they made in conjunction with texas instruments.
The ti community could use some help right about now...

Greg www.geocities.com/gdietsche/

and yes... Gravity still works! (and some times that can be problematic)

Couple of Star/Alto links for anybody interested. The Alto project started in the early seventies. The Star was a halfhearted commmercialization of this kewl technology, released in 1981.

Cute pix, good links; Star history; overview stuff; Links to Alto documentation, including Mesa and BCPL manuals etc.

PARC developed so much great stuff, especially in those days. I still think that Cedar and Mesa were fabulous.

Millions of Amazons living in a rainforest in South America were saved by a pack of penguins wielding laptops loaded with Linux.

I think that closed standards will result in the fragmentation and stagnation of the internet.

It's hardly a surprise you're in hysteria since you are a born and bred hypocrite or in their service and I just called you on it.

You and the other person who responded about "libertarianism" had different definitions. I addressed _your_ definition of "libertarianism" ("the libertarians of which you speak are hypocrites" because they go looking for _governments_ that "appreciate" their capital) which the other individual (although he may be confusing your definition vs mine) agrees is not genuine "libertarianism". The link I gave provides an evolutionary explanation for why hypocrisy of this type is "globalist", heritable in nature and would don the cloak of libertarian tit-for-tat while actually demanding from the local populations a variant of kin altruism in the form of defense activities that are compensated, largely, in the form of identity politics with inadequately compensated or conscripted men coupled with taxation on vital activities rather than straight warrior's insurance premiums. Warrior's insurance is the only genuine foundation for libertarianism of which I am aware -- and you won't find any libertarians of your ilk going anywhere near it unless it is to create hysterics and otherwise emote when straight reason is needed.

It's in your blood and/or it is in the blood of those in whose service you live.

The fact that communist hypocrites are related should not be held against "libertarianism" except to the degree that common usage of words is their "accepted" definition and that common usage has corrupted the original definition.

If you think the phrase "warrior's insurance" is also "hysterical" then I suggest you read Lysander Spooner -- to wit:

"All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers."

We have.
A brief outline of the British Constitution [geocities.com]

We have.
A brief outline of the British Constitution

oh, and Alice In Chains kicks AC/DC's ass too.

AnonymousCowheard's epidome computercase and modfactory.

Here at my school we only have a 3 T-1 connection to the internet for about 3000 users, and since we're in the middle of no where, they are pegged almost 24/7 since we have nothing better to do. So to help this problem a group of friends and I got together and hacked together a Gnutella clone that only works in our class B that we call Stotella
has anyone else done anything like this?

While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

from Passos' The 42nd Parallel

While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

from Passos' The 42nd Parallel

While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

from Passos' The 42nd Parallel

There's Infocom's excellent text adventure The Lurking Horror, which is a horror story based on G.U.E. Tech (Great Dome, anyone?). It is an excellent story, and it can get scary as hell as you play it.

You can download it here (direct link), as well as pretty much all of Infocom's adventures. You can also find these high-quality scans of the manuals that came with original Infocom games very helpful -- you should always read them before actually playing the game, as you'll discover with The Lurking Horror.

Sidenote: in order to play these games, you'll need something like frotz. Good luck.

Score one for my idiot meter today.

A few hours ago, I learned that I am now (at least in theory) absurdly gay.

I was at my machine, my 386 with 4 megs of RAM running Linux, masturbating to pictures of RMS, when I got an email congratulating me on the success of Slashdot. I was working on my latest small project-- a clever little text parser that takes input from the user and puts it in a little cartoon-style word balloon coming out of-- get this!-- a giant, erect ASCII penis's bulging head! Hahaha! It's called COCKSAY. You can download it here.

"Congratulations? That's interesting," said I to myself. "I didn't think Slashdot was coming out until tomorrow." And I oughtta know; I'm on VA's Board of Directors, recruited by Larry Augustin himself, to be VA Linux's "corporate conscience," and it's public record that I hold a substantial share in the company's semen pool. I tooled on over to Linux Today, chased a link like it was a naked hippy's ass-- and discovered that Rob Malda had taken the fast action we had discussed at the last board meeting. Slashdot had come out first thing that morning with a headline on its own site-- and I had become the figurehead of the Gay Faggot Slashdot Empire while I wasn't looking.

Well, that didn't last long. In the next two hours, 369 VA employees also disclosed that they had AIDS, leaving me with a bit of the proverbial semen on my face.

You may wonder why I am talking about this in public. The first piece of advice your friends will give you, if it looks like you're about to come out of the closet, is: keep quiet! It's really nobody else's business-- you don't want to look like you're lusting for cock, though you may want to be deluged by an endless succession of men dressed up as Navy sailors demanding blowjobs from you; fat, hairy men (the bears) wanting to fuck you in the ass; and sweet, young, hairless boys offering you the beauty of their youth.

Trouble with the "keep it quiet" theory is that I've always solicited gay male faggot sex in a very public way. When you're already a media figure, like myself, and your name is on the Faggot Manifesto your whole organization chose to use to come out, and email from friends and journalists starts coming in like crazy as the gayness of your empire breaks records even on the first day, playing it coy swiftly ceases to look like a viable option.

But it wouldn't be fair to dissemble. I serve the gay community. I'm wealthy today because my efforts to spread faggotry and venereal diseases on behalf of that community helped infiltrate the business world and earned the trust of a lot of young, naive boys. Fairness to the twinks

-CT

But despite Paramount's intolerance, there are a lot of unauthorized usages. Even fan movies!

If my memory serves me correctly, Disney has a corporate policy that doesn't allow non-Disney-connected trailers to be shown before their films. I'd be especially surprised that they'd allow Lucasfilm to do it. Anybody here work for a theater and can verify this, or have the internecine goings-on of the multimedia industry gone fuzzy in my mind?

That Rowling guy must feel pretty good with the success of his books...

J(oanne) K(athleen) Rowling is probably very happy with HER success. Unlike many authors who have had their stories ported to the screen, she has a huge amount of creative control over the Chris Columbus directed Harry Potter movie.

Here is the best FAQ I have seen about her and her rise: http://www.geocities.com/jkrfaq/bio.html

Just like the Hauppauge DVB boards... I have one here in the UK and the kick ass, Linux TV not only produce Linux drivers for them but a whole suite of utilities that do PVR functionality, time shiting and 'dvbstream' that actually lets you redirect the MPEG2 transport stream to various other PC's over the network.

On a related note, I picked up a DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) digtal radio receiver the other day, I can save the MP2 baseband strem directly to disk... no loss of quality, you can actually record all the stations within the same multiplex at once since they all come through the same COFDM transport stream. The datacasts are pretty smooth (and quick) too.. take a look at radio, if they get this into portable devices then this will give 3G a run for its money when it comes to rudimentary information like news, sports scores etc :)

Russ Nelson's Hidden Past?

-- The_Messenger

Russ Nelson's Hidden Past?

-- The_Messenger

You can use a standard telnet to connect, although it loses a lot of the 5250 functionality.

There is an open source 5250 telnet client

X3270 is a telnet client for mainframes but some people use it for AS/400

Try some of the java telnet packages. Search on www.google.com for +java +telnet +5250.

As a last resort Wine might be able to run your current software, but I doubt it.

Of course, it would be cool to port the AS/400 apps to Linux :-)

If you could train this ant to kill aphids, get out of sight when the lights go on, and stay out of your food, I think they'd be a great ant to have as a domestic partner to man.

The game runs a little "rough"

Ahhh...

What I wouldn't give for a good 'ol Amiga Guru Meditation. See it here.