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Not quite; it's "only" an ordinary federal law. Flag Code, Section 176:

Respect for the Flag
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
* The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.

Violating the Bill of Rights, lying to the public in order to incite a war, huge crony payoffs, possible vote-rigging... I could see how some patriots might consider that to be dire distress and extreme danger.

> I want to play Space Invaders while I rock out to
> 70's supergroup Foreigner.

No no no...don't you mean listen to your all-Rush mix tape?

I enjoyed installing (well, no I didn't) Debian 2.2. To tell the truth, once I got it installed, for a home desktop, with Galeon and Opera for web browsers, I just dd'd it around to my other machines, and used ext2resize to fit it to the target partition. I didn't get Netscape or anything with it, but once I got the hang of apt-get, I was good to go. Apt-get is wonderful, and a treat for anyone used to rpm hell. Compared to SuSE, it does not have as good a X config as Sax. SuSE has it's main configuration file, that gives me fits on dial up until I get it to leave my resolv.conf alone, and also get WvDial to do the same. I have a dialer of my own that I can fall back on,
(here) but I do enjoy using WvDial. First got introduced to it in Debian.

Be careful, coders! We all know what happened to the last bounty hunter that crossed Lando.

He's also wrong in claiming they were the first 32 bit systems available. I hate articles like this because nobody ever mentions any computers from outside of the United States.

The Amiga 1200 was launched in December 1992 but before that a British company called Acorn Computers released the Archimedes range of computers, the next generation after their 8 bit systems (Atom, BBC A/B/B+, Master, Master Compact). Starting with the A305, A310, A410 & A440 in mid 1989 these machines had 32bit ARM2 processors (from which the Intel XScale/StrongARM chips out now originated), the Arthur (later RISCOS (Screenshot) operating system in ROM (instant bootup!), wonderful GUI, built in BBC Basic and easy ARM assembler access, 8 channel stereo sound, etc.

My first computer was a BBC B in 1982 (which should have been mentioned for it's incredible robustness and shedload of I/O ports.. you could link it to anything, oh and for being the machine the original version of Elite was written for) to an Acorn A3000 in 1990, before going PC 94'ish. Shortly after Linux appeared so all was ok again ;)

He's also wrong in claiming they were the first 32 bit systems available. I hate articles like this because nobody ever mentions any computers from outside of the United States.

The Amiga 1200 was launched in December 1992 but before that a British company called Acorn Computers released the Archimedes range of computers, the next generation after their 8 bit systems (Atom, BBC A/B/B+, Master, Master Compact). Starting with the A305, A310, A410 & A440 in mid 1989 these machines had 32bit ARM2 processors (from which the Intel XScale/StrongARM chips out now originated), the Arthur (later RISCOS (Screenshot) operating system in ROM (instant bootup!), wonderful GUI, built in BBC Basic and easy ARM assembler access, 8 channel stereo sound, etc.

My first computer was a BBC B in 1982 (which should have been mentioned for it's incredible robustness and shedload of I/O ports.. you could link it to anything, oh and for being the machine the original version of Elite was written for) to an Acorn A3000 in 1990, before going PC 94'ish. Shortly after Linux appeared so all was ok again ;)

He's also wrong in claiming they were the first 32 bit systems available. I hate articles like this because nobody ever mentions any computers from outside of the United States.

The Amiga 1200 was launched in December 1992 but before that a British company called Acorn Computers released the Archimedes range of computers, the next generation after their 8 bit systems (Atom, BBC A/B/B+, Master, Master Compact). Starting with the A305, A310, A410 & A440 in mid 1989 these machines had 32bit ARM2 processors (from which the Intel XScale/StrongARM chips out now originated), the Arthur (later RISCOS (Screenshot) operating system in ROM (instant bootup!), wonderful GUI, built in BBC Basic and easy ARM assembler access, 8 channel stereo sound, etc.

My first computer was a BBC B in 1982 (which should have been mentioned for it's incredible robustness and shedload of I/O ports.. you could link it to anything, oh and for being the machine the original version of Elite was written for) to an Acorn A3000 in 1990, before going PC 94'ish. Shortly after Linux appeared so all was ok again ;)

If only Atari hadn't fumbled the desktop

As a longtime user of Atari, they never fumbled the desktop. GEM was used by Atari as a cheap alternative/response to the MacOS. GEM had promise, but was declawed by an Apple suit. Although the suit didn't directly change Atari's version of GEM, it did stunt its growth (mostly over fear of a lawsuit from Apple). The value of the ST was the cheap price, easy API, and multitude of ports for such a low price. Very little time was spent on the desktop UI and OS, and it showed.

Remember, some of the must have applications for the ST made the desktop usuable and the OS faster - QuickST, Universal Item Selector, TurboST, G+Plus, MultiDesk, NeoDesk ...

Why not? They already have the iBrator.

As some posters correctly pointed out, you need an LCD controller interface to drive an LCD panel. It's possible you could get the correct controller for your panel from this page, which has a very good listing of LCD controllers (thank you, whoever put it up). The controllers that have prices seem a bit expensive though - around $200 each.

I read somewhere that VIA was going to introduce Mini-ITX motherboards with an LVDS (low voltage differential signalling) LCD interface - so it could directly drive an LCD panel. I think some non-VIA Mini-ITX manufacturers already offer such motherboards. So that might be a better option.

here's some Webalyzer reports for a "herbal" spammer. Not sure why they would leave a stats directory open to the public but it's nothing earth-shattering anyway...just interesting.

Reports

Caustic Soda is already a punk band name:
Caustic Soda

Luckily, the other names are up for grabs (according to Google).

Is Vann supposed to be a member of Glay or of L'arc~en~ciel?

The thing that always bugged me about this scene in the movie is the term, "air-speed velocity". Isn't that kind of redundant?

Then again, I'm the kind who yells at the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz whenever he tells us
"The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side."

JoAnn

Yep, nobody really cares about the previous Chinese-government backed video formats VCD and SVCD, do they?

Useless knowledge ahoy!

Actually, the song is called "The Fishin' Hole", lyrics to which can be found here or here (non-whistling MIDI here)....though I think your versions might just be the more popular in the long run. :)

as loud as that. The Ju/'hoansi language made famous by Nixau in the Gods Must Be Crazy. Could you imagine that kind of clicking radiating for two miles?

It's so nice that they are keeping it going. It was Stalin that said "Take away their language, take away their souls". Imagine the good that the Navajo talkers did in WW II. Would've been a shame if we didn't have them. The war would have been WAY tougher.

Here's a link to some research into what actually happened.

From the page: "We can say with the utmost certainly that the Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937 was caused by the very fabric of the great vessel itself."

First, and foremost, it is the result of a tax structure that penalizes economic activity while unburdening asset concentrations -- the very things that governments protect and should therefore tax. This creates "market failures" in technology development capitalization that government then tries to solve with socialist development programs... adding futher to the tax burden on economic activity without sharing that burden with the asset concentrations protected by government from force and fraud (due to war and/or crime). This technosocialist "solution" to the asset concentration welfare system is surely the most idiotic idea ever to infect civilization.

Whenever government gets involved in technology development, as opposed to basic (unpatentable) research, it creates a monster that finds private innovation threatening. Governments failed to foresee this poisonous incentive when the post-Manhattan-project mania for government "big science" programs took off.

The one area of space development that took off and became profitable, communications satellites, is the one area of space development that Congress, at the dawn of the space age, barred government from competing with private interests. Unfortunately, the NASA act didn't bar government from competing in space transportation. Also equally unfortunately government wasn't kept out of energy development or aeronautical technology development.

Here's an excerpt from the afore-linked net asset taxation whitepaper:

CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND RISK INVERSION

A fundamental problem with our economy at present is what might be called "risk inversion" where households with high net worth disproportionately invest in low risk instruments while households with low net worth find their savings unwisely invested at high risk by deregulated but relatively unskilled financial institutions.

New technologies and job-creating enterprises find it difficult to obtain capital because they are caught in the horns of a dilemma: The wealthy, who have the business experience needed to manage the risks of a new enterprise, have given their money to government or corporate bureaucracies to manage while small savers find their savings accounts squandered in speculative investments by institutions which are, in reality, qualified to do little more than purchase Treasury paper, which is what they should, in fact, be doing.

Even more perverse, the government finds itself stepping away from its traditional low-risk investments in mature infrastructure in order to perform functions for which it is particularly ill-suited, such as technical innovation, while private sector businesses retreat from the very technical risk it is most suited to manage.

The government then finds itself bailing out the failed investments of insured, but deregulated, financial institutions, thus creating even more government debt which is purchased by those most qualified to capitalize business enterprise.

The current hue and cry for saving the "middle class" arises from the failure of our deregulated financial institutions to focus on their original purpose, which was the creation of affordable home ownership. Instead, they speculated in the creation of large amounts of theoretically profitable commercial real estate as young families were being crushed under the weight of sky- rocketing home mortgages and declining real wages.

The "middle class" it is currently in vogue to worry about are those people, primarily people born in the 1950's (middle to late baby boomers), whose family stability and household net worth suffered greatly as a result of these housing shortages combined with lowering real incomes.

First, and foremost, it is the result of a tax structure that penalizes economic activity while unburdening asset concentrations -- the very things that governments protect and should therefore tax. This creates "market failures" in technology development capitalization that government then tries to solve with socialist development programs... adding futher to the tax burden on economic activity without sharing that burden with the asset concentrations protected by government from force and fraud (due to war and/or crime). This technosocialist "solution" to the asset concentration welfare system is surely the most idiotic idea ever to infect civilization.

Whenever government gets involved in technology development, as opposed to basic (unpatentable) research, it creates a monster that finds private innovation threatening. Governments failed to foresee this poisonous incentive when the post-Manhattan-project mania for government "big science" programs took off.

The one area of space development that took off and became profitable, communications satellites, is the one area of space development that Congress, at the dawn of the space age, barred government from competing with private interests. Unfortunately, the NASA act didn't bar government from competing in space transportation. Also equally unfortunately government wasn't kept out of energy development or aeronautical technology development.

Here's an excerpt from the afore-linked net asset taxation whitepaper:

CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND RISK INVERSION

A fundamental problem with our economy at present is what might be called "risk inversion" where households with high net worth disproportionately invest in low risk instruments while households with low net worth find their savings unwisely invested at high risk by deregulated but relatively unskilled financial institutions.

New technologies and job-creating enterprises find it difficult to obtain capital because they are caught in the horns of a dilemma: The wealthy, who have the business experience needed to manage the risks of a new enterprise, have given their money to government or corporate bureaucracies to manage while small savers find their savings accounts squandered in speculative investments by institutions which are, in reality, qualified to do little more than purchase Treasury paper, which is what they should, in fact, be doing.

Even more perverse, the government finds itself stepping away from its traditional low-risk investments in mature infrastructure in order to perform functions for which it is particularly ill-suited, such as technical innovation, while private sector businesses retreat from the very technical risk it is most suited to manage.

The government then finds itself bailing out the failed investments of insured, but deregulated, financial institutions, thus creating even more government debt which is purchased by those most qualified to capitalize business enterprise.

The current hue and cry for saving the "middle class" arises from the failure of our deregulated financial institutions to focus on their original purpose, which was the creation of affordable home ownership. Instead, they speculated in the creation of large amounts of theoretically profitable commercial real estate as young families were being crushed under the weight of sky- rocketing home mortgages and declining real wages.

The "middle class" it is currently in vogue to worry about are those people, primarily people born in the 1950's (middle to late baby boomers), whose family stability and household net worth suffered greatly as a result of these housing shortages combined with lowering real incomes.

Hasn't Best Buy learned anything about lawsuits yet? http://www.geocities.com/zippy55512/bestbuy/

What I was getting at is building a much higher then needed capacity, allows you to keep that infrastructure in place for a much longer time.

This is very hard to justify, and increasingly so post dot-com bust. It's a nice thought, but when you can't afford to build a network on the level of scale being proposed, it's nearly absurd to propose making it 10 times bigger just so it lasts longer - the company or government building it won't be around to see it!

In this sense, the comparison other posters have used to building highways may help. It's not often you'll find 10-lane expressways when 2 lanes does the job. Of course, when you're spending someone elses money, I'll bet you'll opt for the 10 lanes.

How often do you think the tax payers in Utah want to vote on a Millage to update aging infrastructure?

I'll guarantee they'll get to keep shelling out, even if they build the 10-lane model today. Fiber technologies, transmission & switching developments, IPv6 evolution, etc. will all keep them going back and re-engineering. Build for what your customer can afford, not what you think you can build by stealing the funds from other taxpayers.

*scoove*
Utah: America's New Taxland

The time has definitely come for a new political party that champions individual liberty, social responsibility and sicentific progress

Maybe it's time to investigate the Libertarians . Looks like they've started out in the right direction. For a more polished view of libertarianism, check out the US party and their last presidential candidate .

The time has definitely come for a new political party that champions individual liberty, social responsibility and sicentific progress

Maybe it's time to investigate the Libertarians . Looks like they've started out in the right direction. For a more polished view of libertarianism, check out the US party and their last presidential candidate .

Took the words right out of my mouth...

David Ehi is a good read too.

There are a whole host people replying and stringing along the thieves and potential kidnappers - the Lads from Lagos have some great stories and images, Scamjunky (be kind, he's on geocities), and the obligatory Snopes link. There are also tons of links at Google Directory.

Actually it's "lovegety". I suppose I should have checked the spelling and provided a token link...

Good point, everyone claims "Well trying to shelter the kids is pointless, they will find out about it sooner or later and then all you have done it make it more desirable by forbidding it."

When I was a kid, I had all the access I would want to my father's pr0n (pretty lame by today's standards).

Guess what? I'm a subway freak nowadays. I travel to faraway & exotic places just to have a look at their wierd subways.

Here's a link to a page which links to these and other similar projects

Personal websites can be used to hold information so detailed, or specialised, that there exists nothing like it elsewhere. Stuff that you've found out that nobody else would ever, ever have heard of, but nonetheless might be interested in. Stuff for which there's no chance of being a dedicated website.

I use mine to host speed strategies for the ageing N64 videogame Perfect Dark. This information is only of interest to about 100 people altogether worldwide, but to those people, it is important information. Who would host the strategies, then, but us?

Gregory W. Nemitz

I know that some feel that 8 links in 1 paragraph is excessive, but that's crap! It isn't enough! Shame on the poster, shame.

Yes, we all know this article is a dupe, but Ananova slanted the data to look at CDs in particular.

The problem with replacing CDs with this technology is the form factor:

Scientists say each paper-thin device could store more than a gigabyte of information - equivalent to 1,000 high quality images - in one cubic centimetre of space.

I have enough trouble finding my CDs in the car without having to worry about them blowing away in a stiff breeze. If size were the issue, CD Singles would be released on half-size discs... in fact, many pop albums don't seem to have more than 30 minutes of music anyway.

The best way to incorporate this technology in a consumer-oriented music distribution would be to enclose it in a larger plastic enclosure with an interface to the player. Something like this, perhaps?

According to this respectable looking site, RMS has a phobia of water, and can only take sponge baths.

My Asian Interests, by Josh Booth.

Josh cant get sex off of girls in Jersey, so he needs to mailorder a bride.

This past year (2003), I have learned so much about East Asian culture and language.

Joshie learned what languages they speak, how much they cost to mailorder, what they will do for you in the bedroom per culture, will they cook and clean.

This stems partly from Asian girls being very pretty to me.

After furiously masturbating to Anime for as long as Joshie can remember, he needs to find a chick that looks like a cartoon character.

I have my own, a half Thai girlfriend my own age, who I love.

The other half is Josh's dad. He likes to fuck relatives.

I love her (Thai) mom too -- she makes some great steak.

Yeah, doing your girlfriend's / sister's mom with your Dad is probably exciting. I wouldnt know, but Josh does.

Mmmmmmmm, Steak, uhhhhhhhh!
I'll bet dick tastes good to you, but most men don't like it. And you must be talking about Dad, ewww, gross.

I like the Thai hot sauce she has -- it is sweet as well as spicy.

Yeah, girl juice is good. But after that bout with your dad's cock, I'm in no mood.

Just a random musing from an anime/manga fan... :)

(oh yeah, and to pre-empt the usual replies, you 'anime iz just pr0n and/or anime fans are freaks/faggots/pedophiles/whatever' trolls can all just fsck yourselves. Have a nice day.)

Stringfellow Hawke is at it again!

But yes they got to prove being able to land a damaged bird and are tested on it during their career.

I can only say for KLM for sure but the answer is 100% of its pilots how shown in simulators that they can land a cripped airline aircraft.

As for real life. Sadly engine failure is not exactly rare. Some total egine failures

Considering that Proxomitron is no longer being developed, it won't be quick to respond to anything.

From the official site: "I regret to say the Proxomitron web filter is well and truly dead."

For an excellent 2D CG cartoon check out FLCL.

This looks like a move MS was forced to make because like always, it has to copy its competitors ideas if it wants to keep market share. Better remove the code that opens pop-up at msn.com as well, Bill! It surprised me that a website that's affiliated with them would do that. No the popups didn't come from Gator/Claria or friends.
It's a surprising move, I'd thought hell would break loose when MS started blocking ads. Maybe Mozilla/Opera should come with Proxomitron bundled. Or the next wave of Linux Distros should ship with Privoxy running (but with enough warning on how to use it, when a user opens a browser window they should have a "welcome!" page with a link that tells them how to enable it.)..

Then again, there are websites with killer content that need a way of financing themselves.

We don't need stupid microwaves on the moon. We need to chrome the moon. Just imagine how shiny it would be. It is obviously much better than making the moon into some goofball giant telephone tower that nobody could ever like.

While we are speculating on the wonderful future, never forget that someday mankind will reach its acme and pave the earth.

Not caring about items, I've beaten Super Metroid in 51 minutes, one continuous run without saving. The world record (non 100%) is 44 minutes. That's with saving - best time I know that has been done in a continuous run is 46 minutes.

The world record with 100% items is 1:02 (first link again).

None of those records are near perfect, though, recent discoveries suggest that it might be possible to complete the game in about 0:35 with any % and 0:55 with 100%.

I heard it will be coming out alongside Microsoft Edlin...

This is a serious note.

This family is running out of insurance money :-(

I don't remember that one, but I do remember having one that had fruits on them -- oranges, bananas, cherries, pineapples, etc. -- in addition to the original Rubik's Cube and the Pyraminx.

Rubik's Cube Comeback

You can watch it at the URLs above or maybe even buy a DVD from somewhere.

- Serge

http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=115368
the main site: http://www.geocities.com/cobweb_films/

It's a bit lengthy but the humor is precious.

"Do you know who this is, Neo?"
"Mom?"
"Guess again Neo."
"... Mom?"

"Can you drive that thing?"
"Not yet... Operator! I need a program for an '82 Subaru Swift!"

No need for this, when Computer Boy has been out for several years. ("Eat gun!")

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds [microsoft.com] is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman [geocities.com], spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox [microsoft.com] is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual [goatse.cx] propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail [microsoft.com], which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted [salon.com] on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo [comp-u-geek.net] slut [rotten.com]!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual [goatse.cx] perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children [slashdot.org]. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis [rotten.com] in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual [goatse.cx] terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his