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No, it is so they can steer by echolocation!

With all due respect, I disagree with your "fix". If confidential information is released, it doesn't matter if you get caught or not. You've probably already made somebody's life miserable. Sure, you can argue that the person might deserve it, but that's an awful lot of judgement to make with no oversight.

If you feel it's your moral duty to make somebody's life worse for the good of society, fine. I certainly won't stop you, but I will recommend following the next few lessons, so you aren't brought down in the process.

As for relationships, the simple rule of "don't get involved" makes disproving false accusations a lot easier later. Especially if your celebrity status hinges on information being free, you could practice what you preach by having your life documented on publicly-available webcam and have another claim to fame, as well...

(Offtopic: Nukees is old... so very old...)

Kind of like this:
http://nukees.com/d/20020916.html

And yes, I did start at the beginning.

All we need is a million-ton olive, and our martini will be complete!

My martini is now complete! Oh, wait, still need the olive. Doh!

Ouch...I had to switch to minesweeper because of that.

http://nukees.com/d/19970417.html

We should have made more explicit where it apparently contravenes the laws of nature

Reminded me of this little classic.

Don't forget all of the other stuff you get from spalling, like high energy X-rays. Actually, at 300MeV, I'd wager on getting a fairly decent gamma ray beam. Without a purpose built collimator, I'd guess that there'd be a good amount of "spray" all over the place. So you'd probably get a hole in a radioactive sandwich, plus a good dose of radiation just for standing nearby. Yes, a healthy dose life-giving radiation.

Remember, the Therac-25 system was quite lethal when it malfunctioned, and it "only" used a 25 MeV beam. 300MeV is a LOT of punch per particle, and if the intensity is high enough all sorts of nasty things will happen.

  Now all I need is a one million ton olive and my martini will be complete!

But... Wikipedia never lies, does it? Well... it's often mis-informed, but this guy has been documented in many different places. As per the article, he acquired his substances from more sources than just smoke detectors, including one of his prime discoveries, an entire vial of Lithium paint in the back of an old clock which he bought for $10. I don't entirely follow his methods of turning some of the radioactive materials in salt, but he apparently followed up by aiming a neutron gun at it. Is it all plausible? *shrug* Heck if I know. I'm not a nuclear engineer.

What have you heard bad about Keenspot? Granted, the only webcomic I read on their servers with any regularity is Nukees but I haven't heard any real problems with them. Not that I've been looking either (just a reader, not an artist).

Apparently no one here has met Gav or Teri http://www.nukees.com/d/19970917.html

King Luca!

Or some sort of lawbot perhaps?

Why they didn't go after a smaller company... Simple, the small company will fold and you won't get any money
True, but I wonder why they didn't go after the mid-sized companies without lawyers... Although I guess they could be trying for the "big enough that they'll spare some spare change to get rid of us" factor. After all, Amazon is actually returning a profit these days, right?

What Would Gav Do?

Bah... also this one:
Wednesday, September 13, 2000

I refer everyone to the following Nukees strips:

Friday, August 11, 2000
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
and, my favorite,
Monday, September 4, 2000

Quite possibly the best storyline the strip has ever had :)

I refer everyone to the following Nukees strips:

Friday, August 11, 2000
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
and, my favorite,
Monday, September 4, 2000

Quite possibly the best storyline the strip has ever had :)

I refer everyone to the following Nukees strips:

Friday, August 11, 2000
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
and, my favorite,
Monday, September 4, 2000

Quite possibly the best storyline the strip has ever had :)

I refer everyone to the following Nukees strips:

Friday, August 11, 2000
Wednesday, August 16, 2000
and, my favorite,
Monday, September 4, 2000

Quite possibly the best storyline the strip has ever had :)

Prior art... the GavCam!

Garg

I think this is more of what the RIAA/MAAA robot would be like. Complete with subpoena launcher..

Actually, given the amount of acrimony being directed at SCO, I think it will end up more like this.

Heh. Lawbot 0.92 - so you know it has to be an Open Source project.

"Now, if it could file patents and lawsuits, it would be ready to enter today's world of technology."

Isn't that what the Lawbot 0.92 is for?

My favorite patent idea is patenting energy.

Actually, what's next is the Lawbot 0.92. Beta version. With new, improved subpoena launcher.

Nukees strip on clustered PS2's.

This reminds me of an episode of one of the cartoons I read. Written by a Nuclear Engineering PhD at Berkeley, the strip is quite funny. Here is the one this reminds me of.

From the article:

The 512h subpoenas, he notes, are "automatic -- no judge is involved. So you will have all these automatic subpoenas where the underlying facts may never have been checked by any human being. You have bots that search for files," and the findings of those bots will simply be passed along to a court clerk, who will order up a subpoena.

Who else was reminded of this story in NukeEs?

[Lameness filter foiler. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam ultrices eros ut purus. In posuere, leo vel feugiat tempor, libero quam semper wisi, at venenatis mauris tortor vitae diam. Cras sodales felis eget justo. ]

Giant, nuclear-powered robotic ant, of course. ;)

For those of you not in the know, Nukees, go back a year or two in the archives.

Yeah, I'm seeing it...I'm seeing it. Heck, if I could get that working, I wouldn't need glasses. I could just get two of these and replace them. The GavCam taken to it's limit.

"Don't hit me! I'm wearing projectors!"

To this end, Keenspot/space's AutoKeen is brilliant (developed by Nukees' Darren Bleuel)... artists don't have to worry about programming, they just have to insert simple tags in the HTML that do a lot of behind-the-scenes work.

If it was a pressing issue, Darren could probably develop an AutoKeen indexing system. I'm not sure how useful that would be for some comics... indexing my own strip would be like indexing a novel.

Here's a few good ones (I'll leave out the obvious links to Sluggy and stuff, and those that I've seen people mention already.):

Nukees
Acid Reflux
Snail Dust
Avalon
Bruno
Waiting For Bob (currently on hiatus)
Clan of the Cats
It's Walky
Irritability

Since McCloud's recent strip, it's been suggested that Keenspot Comics (home of half the comics listed here) start this micropayment trend. However, I think this would be a really bad move. As it has been stated, this would only work for comics that are already popular and would surely stunt the growth of even popular comics. What new reader would pay for Nukees when Goats is available for free? Even though Keenspot and Keenspace house most of the webcomics out there, only the most die-hard fans will bother paying when all other web content is free. For artists that have worked for years for little to no pay, I think readership and artistic integrity is still more important than cash.

I think the solution, if the advertising market continues to die, is "Pay for convenience," not for content. We may, for instance, institute subscription rates for email delivery, or even home paper delivery (would you pay for a monthly digest of your favorite webcomic snailmailed to you?)

The real question is what will people pay for? Will people pay for convenience? It's difficult to tell. It was mentioned that Carson Fire of Elf Life has recently offered a cast shirt for sale, but it was not mentioned that few have bought that shirt. I've seen lots of shirts go unsold even though reader polls have shown high interest. So it turns out readers are lying when they say they'll pay for something? I think so. That music label buying Napster, for instance, is convinced that 1/2 of the current users will pay a $15/month fee for its use, based on a poll they conducted. How many of you believe that?

So what will people pay for? That's the real question.

Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Keenspot Comics
Nukees, an atomic comic.

Lates...
Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Nukees, an atomic comic

Since McCloud's recent strip, it's been suggested that Keenspot Comics (home of half the comics listed here) start this micropayment trend. However, I think this would be a really bad move. As it has been stated, this would only work for comics that are already popular and would surely stunt the growth of even popular comics. What new reader would pay for Nukees when Goats is available for free? Even though Keenspot and Keenspace house most of the webcomics out there, only the most die-hard fans will bother paying when all other web content is free. For artists that have worked for years for little to no pay, I think readership and artistic integrity is still more important than cash.

I think the solution, if the advertising market continues to die, is "Pay for convenience," not for content. We may, for instance, institute subscription rates for email delivery, or even home paper delivery (would you pay for a monthly digest of your favorite webcomic snailmailed to you?)

The real question is what will people pay for? Will people pay for convenience? It's difficult to tell. It was mentioned that Carson Fire of Elf Life has recently offered a cast shirt for sale, but it was not mentioned that few have bought that shirt. I've seen lots of shirts go unsold even though reader polls have shown high interest. So it turns out readers are lying when they say they'll pay for something? I think so. That music label buying Napster, for instance, is convinced that 1/2 of the current users will pay a $15/month fee for its use, based on a poll they conducted. How many of you believe that?

So what will people pay for? That's the real question.

Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Keenspot Comics
Nukees, an atomic comic.

Lates...
Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Nukees, an atomic comic

Since McCloud's recent strip, it's been suggested that Keenspot Comics (home of half the comics listed here) start this micropayment trend. However, I think this would be a really bad move. As it has been stated, this would only work for comics that are already popular and would surely stunt the growth of even popular comics. What new reader would pay for Nukees when Goats is available for free? Even though Keenspot and Keenspace house most of the webcomics out there, only the most die-hard fans will bother paying when all other web content is free. For artists that have worked for years for little to no pay, I think readership and artistic integrity is still more important than cash.

I think the solution, if the advertising market continues to die, is "Pay for convenience," not for content. We may, for instance, institute subscription rates for email delivery, or even home paper delivery (would you pay for a monthly digest of your favorite webcomic snailmailed to you?)

The real question is what will people pay for? Will people pay for convenience? It's difficult to tell. It was mentioned that Carson Fire of Elf Life has recently offered a cast shirt for sale, but it was not mentioned that few have bought that shirt. I've seen lots of shirts go unsold even though reader polls have shown high interest. So it turns out readers are lying when they say they'll pay for something? I think so. That music label buying Napster, for instance, is convinced that 1/2 of the current users will pay a $15/month fee for its use, based on a poll they conducted. How many of you believe that?

So what will people pay for? That's the real question.

Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Keenspot Comics
Nukees, an atomic comic.

Lates...
Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Nukees, an atomic comic

Seriously though. Best patent ever:Energy. Well, energy delivery...

-- The Hollow Man

If anyone here reads Nukees, they may remember that the current storyline revolves around one of the characters patenting energy use. (And then unleashing a horrific army of lawyers... brrrr.)

If anyone here reads Nukees, they may remember that the current storyline revolves around one of the characters patenting energy use. (And then unleashing a horrific army of lawyers... brrrr.)

On the face of it, a good idea. But wouldn't it be nice if the existence of a patent could be limited or negated outright by public opinion. As in:

1. Company patents something patently ridiculous, like energy use (see Nukees for an example).
2. Company attempts to put the hurt on all those lovely unsuspecting people who are "infringing" on their patent rights.
3. Large petition/referendum is conducted to challenge the sensibility of the patent.
4. Due to large numbers of people declaring how stupid said patent is, it is struck down. Happiness ensues.

Well, one can dream, I suppose...

-TBHiX-
Current holder of patent #5863434455555555534-A, "A biochemical aid to life support via repeated contraction-release mechanical action to propel an oxygen and nutrient enriched fluid to living organic tissue." Those using such a system without prior permission can contact me to work out a payment schedule. ;)

One of the characters (Suzy G.) got a patent on energy use (A system by which energy can be converted to different forms within a closed system...). The main character, Gav, is now using this to sue every person in Earth.

Kinda makes you wonder, huh?

PS - You need to go back a few weeks to catch the entire storyline.

I tried to convince Gav (supreme leader of Keenspot and artist of Nukees) to make a Keenspot slashbox, but he wasn't interested.

In other news, it seems when this article first got posted, Keenspot (and quite a few of its member sites, like College Roomies from Hell, got Slashdotted.

And check out Help Desk. It's awesome (done entirely on OS/2 too).
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