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I think this is what you're trying to say:

I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

Debs didn't believe that you should go off into Galt Gulch, and he ultimately rejected the violence of the IWW. He believed that people should organize themselves into collective action. http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/pete_seeger/talking_union.html

Leaders will pop up, and they can be useful, but you have to know how to be skeptical of them and you can't fall in love with them, which is a failing of liberal Democrats. http://www.barackobama.com/

'Barbaturex' means 'bearded king,' and Morrison called himself the Lizard King, so this was perfect

If that doesn't make sense, read the lyrics of "The Celebration Of The Lizard" and you'll understand it all

I said: war = whatIsItGoodFor()

That method returns:

ABS(0);

That's "Absolutely Nothin!" for the song-impaired.

That's what really bothers me.

Dawkins gets beat up because he's too harsh and divisive, while creationists get lenience because... why?

Because they're the poor deluded non-thinkers? That's exactly what Dawkins says!

Because being religious is somehow better than being atheist? Why?

Because religious people are "better" than atheists? Yeah right.

May I point out that the major political problems we're having worldwide are at least in part caused by religious differences - from Israel and the Palestinians to Christian soldiers in Mekka, to Christians (or economic interests of a mostly Christian country, or a Christian leader going nuts over terrists, whatever) vs Muslims in Iraq, to Iran feeling threatened by the US and viewing that as a fundie Christian threat (which it probably is to a small degree.)
Just listen to Bush and Palin making dangerous statements that the Iraq war was commanded by God. Sheesh. Cut out this nonsense and 90% of the fighting in the world would stop.

This article hits the nail right on the head. It's being criticized for being over the top, but I can only think "Imagine".

In cases where the programming and the computer were integral, the success of the machine also swings from the chin of the developer.

When St. Woz developed the Apple II, he also developed Integer BASIC, which loaded from disk (and earlier, from tape). Woz was a veritable Neanderthal of a hacker. As the Apple gained popularity, the (by then) slick faced Steve Jobs became more involved in decisions about included features. Woz contributed Applesoft BASIC to the Apple II Plus, but Jobs oversaw its inclusion in the machine as a ROM-based system. The source of that on-board code, and to the long, slow decline of the Apple II family can be easily attributed to another well known shiny-jaw simply by reading the top surface of the ROMs: "Copyright 1983, Microsoft Corp."

This is hardly the first time this happened. Charles Babbage conceived his Analytical Engine as a general purpose machine, programmable within itself. But it was Lady Ada Lovelace who conceptualized the programming language necessary. The the bare faced hardware hacking Babbage lived to be 80, but the equally bare faced programming language developer Lady Lovelace died at age 36.

Ada's software influence overcame Babbage's hardware leanings, even more so than Jobs' and Gates' overcame Woz's. Apple eventually managed to release a 16 bit version of the Apple II family a few years before the unrepentant shavers Jobs and his hired gun John Scully killed it off, and that machine still carried the Microsoft copyright on its ROMs. But Babbage never managed to build a working Analytical Engine, and 130+ years after his death neither has anyone else.

One cannot help but wonder whether UNIVAC under Remington*-Rand was ill-fated due to the participation of the beardless (though undeniably genius) author of COBOL, and its derivatives ARITH-MATIC, MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC, Admiral Grace Hopper. Evidence to support this can be found in examining the expulsion of the previously invincible IBM from the computer market, thanks to the baby-faced Gates and Microsoft's OS development, and the associated BIOS developments, that allowed for the rise of generic "IBM PC Compatible" computers at IBM's expense. Even the term has become disused in favor of "Windows Capable". The present brouhaha over "Vista Compatible" is excluded here, as it appear to be more an oxymoron than an assertion.

To paraphrase John Prine:
"Blow up your PC,
Throw away your Windows,
Move to Linux,
Build you a /."
(That's 'home' not 'Slashdot')
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/john_prine/spanish_pipedream_blow_up_your_tv.html

That doesn't seem at first to have a lot to do with TFA, but it is what Weird Al Yankovic might write if he were a bit more computer oriented. He does, after all, have a moustache, and in "UHF" his hardware oriented chief engineer (and alien visitor) Philo had a beard. The movie itself wasn't a real success, but to the facially haired characters in the movie, U-62's success was what mattered. The appearance of success can be more important than the actual success, and can be jockeyed from the former to the latter, as the facially hairless Jobs and Gates can testify. Support from farther back in history will be forthcoming if the present attempt to build the Analytical Engine succeeeds, as did the 1991 successful build of Babbage's Difference Engine.

And THAT completes our moebius-strip history of computer technology and facial hair. This has been James' burp for LooseConnections.

* Conspiracy theorists take note: Was the failure of Remington-Rand UNIVAC a case of sabotage? After all, Remington electric shavers are responsible for decimating many a decent beard. Victor Kiam claimed "I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company." But did he buy it to shave his face, or to return the digitally beard-leaning company to its analog clean-shaven roots in Weapons of Personal Destruction, of not in fire arms, then at least in facial hair disfigurement? Inquiring chins want to know.

FZ > ALL

And thus, having rationalized his expedition to L. Ron's modernistic office / cathedral / warehouse / condominium complex, JOE seeks The Answer to his problem...

JOE: Oh oh oh Mystical Advisor What is my problem, tell me Can you see?

L. RON HOOVER: Well, you have nothing to fear, my son! You are a Latent Appliance Fetishist, It appears to me!

JOE: That all seems very, very strange I never craved a toaster Or a color T. V.

L. RON HOOVER: A Latent Appliance Fetishist Is a person who refuses to admit to his or herself That sexual gratification can only be achieved Through the use of MACHINES... Get the picture?

JOE: Are you telling me I should come out of the closet now Mr. Ron?

L. RON HOOVER: No, my son! You must go into THE CLOSET And you will have A lot of fun! That's where they all live So if you want an Appliance to love you You'll have to go in there N' get you one

JOE: Well...that seems simple enough...

L. RON HOOVER: Yes, but if you want a really GOOD one, You'll have to learn a foreign language...

JOE: German, for instance?

L. RON HOOVER: That's right... A lot of really cute ones come from over there! (Fifty bucks, please)

And a cheerful group of Appliantologists dance into the room wearing aluminum foil lab smocks, lock arms in a circle around JOE, making sure he pays in full, all the while singing with L. RON as he delivers nis final instructions...

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/frank_zappa/a_token_of_my_extreme.html

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/curtis_mayfield/superfly.html
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Or, can it sing "Fly Like an Eagle"?

I think I'm going to develop a window-border gunky misting system to keep this critters grounded, to gunk up their flappers. And, I'll design a "force field" to short them out if they pass the window sill.

I never remotely thought or expressed any such thing.

Damn! I was going to quote a few jewels from that journal, but there's just too many. I'll leave it up to the readers if they're interested. For now a tiny sample: The second is that there is a HUGE waiting list for organs, and the LAST people they should go to are people who are criminals. (screw it. I was going to make a link, but you know where it is).

Anyway, yes, because we all know that everybody in prison is a criminal.

And I am saying prison inmates is a similarly poor use, and that it should be a disqualification.

Hmmm, any such thing, eh? Sure thing, pudgie. Hey! make it easy on yourself. Anytime a prisoner would die without a transplant, release him. Immediately. See? You're off the hook. He'll be dead soon enough and will no longer be a danger. The fact is, my goofy little friend, if the government holds a person against his/her will, it is responsible for their welfare. And that's that!

Oh well, that's enough. Now, Be off!

Somewhat OT: Sally reminds me of the Police song.

Not so very OT though; it is similar in that it too is "replacement technology". :)

The music group "Dire Straits" in their song "Money for Nothing" is right. ATT will make money doing nothing except tattle on the mostly legitimate people who use torrents and other P2P sharing information. http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/dire_straits/money_for_nothing.html Note: I didn't write the lyrics. Please contact Dire Straits direct about the lyrics.

Finish your chorus with this and then fall back to the original lyrics:

They want GNU
They want GNU
They want you as a GNU recruit

The original Lyrics:

Where can you find pleasure
Search the world for treasure
Learn science, technology
Where can you begin
To make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports or skindive
Study oceanography
Sign up for the big band
Or sit in the grand stand
When your team and others meet

If you like adventure
Don't you wait to enter
The recruiting office fast
Don't you hesitate,
There is no need to wait
They're signing up new seamen fast
Maybe you are too young to join up today
But don't you worry 'bout the thing
For I'm sure there will be
Always the good Navy
Protecting the land and sea

I'll stay away from the "signing up new seamen fast" part, but the learning and adventure part is probably more true in the free software world than it is on a boat and anything beats Bill Gates slave galleys. Pressing on with a few special mods for you WinDOS fanboys afraid of the plunge:

But, but, but
I'm afraid of Penguins
Hey, hey, look men
I get seasick
Even watching it on techTV
They Want GNU
Oh my goodness
They Want GNU
What am I gonna do in a GNU machine
They Want GNU
They Want GNU
In the Navy

In the Navy
Yes, you can apt-get with ease
In the Navy
Yes, that will put your mind at ease
In the Navy
There will be no blue screen disease
In the Navy
Can't you see we need a hand
In the Navy
Come on and share the source code
In the Navy
Come on and help your fellow man
In the Navy
Come on people and make a stand
In the Navy

:-) It's all good. whatever makes you feel right. Someday you will see that delusion is reality. I'm as happy as can be... So, anytime you wish to carry on, I'll always be here. Got a wide open journal. For now "...you go your way, I'll go mine..." Peace, my friend.

More apropos might be 'Maxwell Silverhammer'

Professor - it's alive!

Courtesy of the public service announcements so kindly provided by David Crosby and Graham Nash and by Fred Small, this is already a solved problem. ;)

And on the 8th day God created rock and roll

Say it again, y'all!
Uh-huh
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it aga...

Er... *heh*
Dammit, make me feel old, why don't you?...

(Not to mention curmudgeonly---need I mention the economic benefits from the spin-offs of NASA's last lunar program, or the potential for a quantum leap forward in our space program based on building from low-gravity-well lunar-sourced materials, or how this is a stepping stone to the resource-rich asteroid belt, or how the tectonically-stable, light-shielded dark side of the moon would be a spectacular place for large telescopes capable of doing research that no Earth-based 'scope could hope to, or...

There are good reasons to do this; it's just not clear whether there are good reasons to do this quickly.)

I've often wondered if MS corporate/legal fully reviewed and vetted the use of "Start Me Up," as in addition to 'You make a grown man cry,' it also includes the phrase 'You make a dead man cum.'

It's a nice glib piece of spin to claim Sullivan is a single-issue gay-rights advocate, but it's simply false. Simply another piece of misleading spin. As Paul Simon wrote "Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie, but l say why, Why deny the obvious child? why deny the obvious child?"

I'm called the hit-and-run raper in anger
The knife-sharpened tippie-toe
Or just the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler
...
I'll go easy with your cold fanged anger
I'll stick my knife right down your throat, baby
And it hurts!