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He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.

Univeral Solder

If that doesn't make him black, that makes him pretty fly for a rich white guy.

New motto while still keeping the message of change:

Hey, hey, do the brand new thing!

Well, no matter who said it first, it goes to show that the message is what counts. I simply picked the one that came to my mind at the moment. It doesn't matter that she didn't invent it, she did say it. That's good enough for me. I would tend to believe that it might not have even been recorded when it was "invented". A demonstration of the thought is being displayed before our very eyes, as I'm sure it has been for many centuries. My point is that we shouldn't support the authorities that put it into practice. I really don't give a damn who said it first. People just need to be aware of what is happening. And it's much worse coming from a country that spends all its time preaching to the world about "freedom and democracy". It tends to reduce their credibility when when they have a legitimate complaint. Not that I should expect your average WalMart shopper to care. They're happy to be able to frost their cake with a paper knife.

"Give me convenience, or give me death"

Perhaps Star Star would be a nice choice? Hmm...maybe not, that's more of a Bill Clinton song...

:-D

It is hard to do today since most stations don't take requests...but, I used to love it when I could get a station to play Star Star over the air from time to time back in the day....just had to catch a DJ that wasn't familiar with Stones deep tracks....

Un-break my heart...

Happy shiny pixels would be better. We could even a song about it.

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Why are the child porn types writing software that magically puts child porn on random people's computers? I'm really not clear about what they're accomplishing there, other than potentially hurting their business by bringing child pornography into the spotlight.

"they're the modern day catastrophists they've got practical solutions (know all the right equations) they're the self-appointed righteous pragmatists and they know 50 ways to save the world"


To put it another way:

You don't have any proof that peak oil is going to happen. It's just the standard catastrophist call of "you better do what I say or something very bad will happen."

For all you know, we'll get fusion worked out in five years and we'll have tons of cheap, clean energy causing a massive DROP in oil prices.

IMO, I think neither case is likely. As oil prices rise, we will gradually shift towards other sources of energy and materials. (At least, that's how it will happen if we can manage to get the Texas oilmen out the Whitehouse.)

Maybe you mean something like: http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&l r=&q=goldie+looking+chain&btnG=Search

And then consider some of the lyrics to "Half Man, Half Machine": http://www.lyricsdomain.com/7/goldie_lookin_chain/ half_man_half_machine.html

(Any song that mentions a ZX-81 is pretty frinkin nerdcore in my book!)

Someone else must think "Hmm...recipe for fusion?" when they hear this song.

Anyone....?
Anyone...?
Bueller?

What other people choose to buy is none of your business. Taking away people's right to choose is not the right thing to do. Keep your own morals to yourself. I'm glad you no longer work there.

Why should you protect people from things which are REAL, you know, these REAL things commonly known as LIFE? (*hat off to Offspring*)

This is one reason a lot of today's music is watered down shit. Walmart won't sell CDs with explicit lyrics. Walmart was (and maybe still is) the biggest seller of CDs in the US. Walmart alone could make or break an album. If Walmart refuses to sell an album. Many labels won't publish an ablum that they know won't be very profitable. They will force the artists to "clean up" the album. So you couldn't put explicit lyrics in an album.

That's right, Walmart had the power to decide what kind of content artists could have in their art.

Taken from: http://www.lyricsdomain.com/4/donovan/universal_so ldier.html

Universal Soldier
by Donovan

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.

--
Cheers
Stor

It must be a desirable trait. How else could they be so successful? And what does say about us who claim not to be psychopathic, yet continue to do business with them? The fact is that dominant males in all of the natural world exhibit the same behavior. This is evolution at work...er...no...that's the way (insert your favorite intelligent designer here) planned it.

Well, at least Lindsay Lohan isn't reading this. It's bad enough she went to the Halo 2 release party with her ex (warning: Windows Media video)...but rumors of Halo 3?!? She'd get a heart attack just thinking of that...

I remember it from the beginning of Supertramp's Fool's Overture. Gotta admit that the Iron Maiden lyrics made better sense for more obvious dramatic historical context, though.

That's because it's a U2 song, lyrics here.

If you run IE unprotected and sans firewall, you're going to get trouble. Everyone knows that.

Where do you go on the net? I've used IE ever since Netscape went shit, and have yet to have these spyware problems I'm told about.

Not, that would not be irony. Unless you define "irony" to mean what Alanis Morissette evidently thinks it does. She's wrong and you're wrong.

Let me give you an example of irony. Take this sentence:

"ticklemeozmo certainly has grasped the concept of irony"

That was dripping with irony, get it? Your rescue helicopter example isn't irony, it's a twist of fate. In fact, your misunderstanding of the term irony probably stems from the usage:

"Fate must have a keen sense of irony to allow that helicopter to crash on the person it was rescuing"

The above is not the same as your use of the term. Allowing the helicopter to crash on the rescuee might be seen as an ironic statement by Fate, if you believe Fate was in control of the helicopter in the first place. As a disinterested observer the crash holds no irony for us, and certainly not for the person being crashed upon, in and of itself.

OTOH, your use of the helicopter example in a post lambasting another poster for his misunderstanding of irony, is, in a word, ironic.

Google for more references, here's a couple to start you off:

http://www.politicaljuice.com/2004/05/defining_iro ny.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ironic (check the usage note)

I also think that a three second delay is both arbitrary and unsafe. There are plenty of hunt-and-peck typists that would look at the keyboard for three seconds trying to find the 'l' and 'y' keys.

I hadn't thought of hunt-and-peck typists when I suggested the delay. You're absolutely right.

I don't have a better suggestion, except perhaps bringing the confirmation up in a popup that doesn't steal the focus. I don't think a website can trick somebody into switching windows and hitting 'y'.

That would be annoying, since you'd have to focus the window manually, and wouldn't solve the double-clicking version of the attack.

I'm liking a suggestion by Microsoft more and more. The suggestion is to show a new toolbar instead of the security dialog when a site tries to install software. Clicking the toolbar brings up a normal security dialog with a complete warning and Install/Cancel buttons. Since installing software would then involve going through browser chrome, it would be more difficult for sites to make you accept the software installation dialog without your consent.

Using a toolbar instead of a dialog would also protect against sites that try to force you into accepting ActiveX by repeating the dialog until you accept.

Not only would a toolbar be more secure, it would also be less annoying. Users don't like to wait. I suspect users don't like to wait for the same reason that users prefer keyboard interfaces even when they are slightly slower than mouse interfaces, and for the same reason that I spend an hour writing a program to do something for me that I could do myself in ten minutes.

Owch! Two -1 Troll mods. Them Oregoners sure take thing personally. I guess there aren't any Dead Kennedys fans with mod points around tonight. Here's a link to the actual lyrics.

I'm from West Virginia. I just don't know what I'd do if someone were to make jokes about my state. Probably break down and cry like these pussy northwestern boys. ;)

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fyi: lyrics where this (modified) quote is from. ("Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.")

Today's Tom Sawyer
He gets high on you
And the space he invades
He gets by on you

...by Joseph Campbell

Campbell's thesis is not particularly religious, but rather that groups of people create similar myths. Campbell, like Jung, arrives at this conclusion through comparative mythology.

That the same archetypes should emerge in the dominant storytelling medium of the day--sci fi movies--is not surprising. Believe it or not, Hollywood draws heavily on Joe Campbell, all the time . Even the fact that Hollywood stories are so formulaic is evidence of this: there's always The Hero, The Trickster, The Seductress, The Higher Power, etc. It's the very familiarity of these archetypes that make these modern-day myths so compelling.

Most Hollywood movies, however, stay within the conventions of the archetypes and their stories, rather than raising questions about art, artifice, consciousness, myth and reality. Hollywood movies work within dramatic and myth-making conventions, whereas The Matrix is about getting behind and beyond the masks, which is what is so fascinating about it. The Matrix chooses Gnostic Christian forms for its own mask, rather than the forms we're more familiar with from schul , catechism class, Sunday School, etc. The choice of gnostic forms allows them to get much closer to eastern philosophies, while dodging doctrinal disputes. Skillful means, grasshopper.

One thing I was surprised to see undiscussed in the CSM article was really the central theme of the Matrix, and also the unifying principle in all religions: compassion. The AI simulacra, The Smiths, lack compassion, and his is what makes them, and the artificial world they have constructed, so inhuman, so terrifying and so inhumane.

The "is it live, or is it Memorex" debate is begging the question, really. It duss jusn't matter. Also, I wish that they'd used Peter Gabriel's song Mercy Street just once.

"I don't want to be
a loser...no!...
I don't want to be
an almost was
I don't want to be a white trash
Working class chump
I don't want to be a loser anymore

That's why I want to be
a rock star
I want to be the king
I want to be on top, yeah
I just want to be a rock star"

Everclear, Rock Star
Full Lyrics

That's what pushed NASA and the Soviet program in the first place, and there is nothing wrong with using increased defense spending to fund technology. It's what drove pretty much every advancement in aviation, ships, cargo handling, communications, materials science, and aerodynamics in the last 100 years. And in the US intergration of the races in the military happened before the private sector intergrated. Military doesn't always mean bad.

I think you're 100% right on the history, and am surprised by how often people don't know of or deny the link between the Space Race and Cold War. Aside from the interaction with military ICBM technology and the like, going to the Moon out of nationalistic pride was for the Americans another way to show we were better than the communist Soviet Union. Now that the competition is settled, it's difficult now to imagine of our nations as economic and scientific competitors that tried to show the world, and themselves, they would outlast the other. Victory and not armageddon was what Khrushchev meant when he declared, "We will bury you." (Sorry, Sting.)

I don't agree with the logic that military spending in excess of our need (however one defines excess) is good for science, though realistically it is probably necessary. To the extent their are collateral benefits to essential expenses, wonderful. Beyond that, military programs are not known for their efficiency, and using them as an indirect method to pursue peaceful goals is even worse -- a "trickle down theory" of aerospace. If you want to hit a target, aim at the target.

What's necessary is necessary, but spending what is likely even more with the expectation of a peace dividend, or holding back on direct spending, is unwise. But the argument we need something for defense is what lights the fire under the camel.

As alluded to above, the healthy alternative to overspending that ALSO was a major force behind Apollo is a healthy sense of competition, on ego rather than power, and it now appears very likely that space is going to be a thoroughly international affair. As someone here put it, if China were close to reaching Mars, we'd kill ourselves to be first. Would America have gone to the Moon if not for the Soviets? I don't think so. Thank you, communist dictators. ;-)

Karma: Chameleon Shouldn't that be: Karma: Typical male

Typical male? Only if you're a Tina Turner fan.

this article reminded me of that hilarious 'spam' song by save ferris and i decided to dig out the lyrics. if you happen to know the direct url (google helps there), it works just fine, but check out what happens if you click at their link in their lyrics listing for 'save ferris'.

this article reminded me of that hilarious 'spam' song by save ferris and i decided to dig out the lyrics. if you happen to know the direct url (google helps there), it works just fine, but check out what happens if you click at their link in their lyrics listing for 'save ferris'.

He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame...