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go to http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-529... (by a Swede!) though website kind of 1990s.

You have been told that your idea of what an assault rifle is was incorrect.

Then I looked it up and found that my definition holds true from most sources. But the issue of how it was classified still has nothing to do with my original statement that Assault rifles are regulated and the Supreme court decision does not change that, and, if you can think of a gun that has been wrongly outlawed simply because it looks cool, then I don't give a fuck. So, you can't feel like a commando when you're holed up in your mom's basement jerking off to a Ron Paul speech. If the gun is no different from perfectly legal guns that are on the market already, then why should I care?

As for those that are designed for military, terrorism, and insane militia guy use, I'm ok with them being regulated. Of course, you have been telling me that those guns don't exist.

However, you don't let facts get in the way of your deluded little world.

The hypocrisy of that statement astounds me. The next time you feel the need to reply to something, do me a couple of favors.

1. Keep me out of it. I don't give a fuck about your paranoid insistence that the world is falling apart because you can't have a cool-looking gun.
2. Try to repeat, in your own words, what you think the other person just said. I'm pretty sure it will be radically different from what was actually said.

You let other people define what is and is not acceptable to you.

That's part of living in a society. People make laws, and you have to follow them, whether you like it or not.

Not once was anybody talking about a "Bullet Spraying Machine" and yet you insist that is the topic of discussion.

Someone mentioned that we need handguns to fight off the government when they get too oppressive, and I may not have been perfectly clear in implying that you would need a hell of a lot more than that. As for my insistence, I insist that I was stating that some weapons, including "bullet spraying machines" are illegal. Then you start on your rant about how the classification system is too subjective for your tastes. That is changing the subject, and putting words in my mouth.

In short, you are a narcissistic moron with whom I do not want to have a discussion.

And you are a paranoid retard with no grip on reality.

You are not going to budge on your assumptions and I will not bend my facts.

Funny how you have not stated one single fact. You stated that assault rifles are defined as scary looking guns, and WERE DEAD WRONG! If i recall, that is the whole gist of the nutty rant you're been trying to drag me into. Then the rest of the conversation has been name-calling and rhetoric.

This seems to work: http://home.swipnet.se/ridax/touchmic.htm I don't have an iTouch, though. You can also build one: http://touchmods.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_a_Mic

I know that there is not an "open" dock connector for them to use, so I don't know which mp3 player you use instead which is "open". And I don't know nuthin' about nuthin', but I know a db-25 connector would make a terrible dock. In any case, "I'm Feeling Lucky" on Google gives you this site, where you can get a connector shipped for under $10, so the criticism is probably not valid anymore. If USB is all you want, Apple includes that connector in the box. They would have to sell a unit with fewer features or larger size if they included the USB port on-device.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a major proponent of stem-cell research, has already issued a denial.

That's nothing. I used a hard drive when they were the size of a VW and held only 64 bytes. That's bytes not kb.

Like this? :)

Actually, now I think of it, Apple used to produce Macs that came with an entire PC system on an expansion card. You could switch between the Mac and the PC by pressing Command-Enter.

Bah, this is old news. We swedes have been buying "Internet on a cd-rom" from http://home.swipnet.se/snezzer/pi/ for a long time. You can even buy it on VHS for 489:- or DVD with surround sound!

#6 McDuck, Scrooge
Net Worth: $8.2 billion

"Uncle Scrooge's fortune stands at precisely ... Five billion quintiplitilion unptuplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars. This translates into three cubic acres of money housed in the McDuck Money Bin." - Carl Barks 1994

I wouldn't steal it if it Charlize Theron knocked on my door, handed me a copy and offered to go down on me while I watched it.

I've spent a few days intensly studying Schaubergers insights. I`m quite sure he was on the right track.

Here are some quotes from various sites (taken from my wiki)

From: http://www.hasslberger.com/tecno/tecno_8.htm Schauberger could be called the father of implosion technology. The implosion principle is of course diametrically opposite to what today's explosion oriented technology utilises. Implosion has to do with a self sustaining vortex flow of any liquid or gaseous medium, which has a concentrating, ordering effect and which decreases the temperature of the medium, in opposition to the dictates of 'modern' thermodynamics.

Viktor Schauberger Quote:

"They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right! It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind!" ... ""How else should it be done then?", was always the immediate question. The answer is simple: "Exactly in the opposite way that it is done today!""

From: http://www.bruisvat.nl/english/schauberger%20engli sh.htm "...Where Tesla concerned himself especially with electricity, i.e. 'fallen light', and Keely was mostly occupied with sound, one can say that Schauberger concentrated mainly on movement and water. He was an extraordinary observer of life forces; how they work, what strengthens or weakens them.

from: http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-58759/viktor/VS-eng.htm l

"...Viktor Schauberger's basic thesis contains a universal, twofold movement principle. He meant that life sustains by a gathering, implosive type of movement and reversed, a spreading, explosive movement that leads to the extinguishing of life. With the implosive movement coolness, suction growth and healthiness follows. The explosive movement generates heat, pressure, fragmentation, illness, and death. His opinion was that man had only succeeded in mastering the movement of death in order to release energy. All known engines are based on explosion, heat and pressure. To only use the explosive movement, definitely leads to the destruction of nature. These thoughts did not get any sympathy in his time, decades before the environmental problems showed up.

Therefore, one of Schaubergers aims was to investigate and artificially copy this movement that he could see that the nature was using in order to gather energy for different uses. Basically the movement could be described as an inward moving and twisting vortex. The appearance of the vortex is wide. A spiral galaxy is an expression for a disc shaped vortex whose opponent could be a DNA molecule, which describes a nearly infinite long thread shaped vortex. The grade of complexity becomes obvious if You realize that large vortices are composed of smaller vortices and so on...."

from: http://alanpeart.net/nonfiction/viktorschauberger. html"Prevailing technology uses the wrong forms of motion. It is based on entropy -- on motions which nature uses to break down and scatter materials. However, Nature uses a different type of motion for creating order and new growth. The prevailing explosion-based technology -- fuel burning and atom splitting -- fills the world with expanding, heat-generating centrifugal motion."

from: http://777001.com/files/Schauberger-Viktor%20-%20W indmill%20-%20Vortex.pdf

"...Schaubergers idea was to use sub pressure as a source of energy instead of over pressure. He called this technique Implosion. The "Explosion technique" that we use today is literally explosive as it is based on high temperatu

It's not a toque, but a tUque....tuque!!!
Dunno why english people say "Toque"

For those who do not know what is a "toque" :
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-72891/CanadianClub/CCsa les/ad.html

Out of the major contributors to the world of electronic music, none has done more to shape the technique of composition than Stockhausen. Take a look at the score for Studie II, http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco2/Rec/Stockhausen/I RStudieII.jpg. His timeline visualization on the horizontal axis coupled with the frequency spectrum and amplitude on the vertical is a precursor to all of the major Digital Audio Workstation applications currently in use. Whereas his approach focused on the parameters that he was able to work with, in a contemporary application such as Logic, http://images.apple.com/logic/images/prologicindex graph20040930.jpg, a large number of parameters can be controlled or automated in such a timeline based visual method.

While his approach, known as total serialization, has since been abandoned in aestetic, it's fundamentals are present in practically all electronic music produced today. Obviously, some groups and individuals such as Autechre and Aphex Twin, to name a couple, employ a greater ammount of such modernist Stockhausean aestetic. However, the majority of electronic music borrows most of it's aestetic and form from club and disco music of the past.

William

What is the purpose of this desalinization plant? The article says "The process is intended to decrease the salt content of the Colorado River downstream..." but why would we want to do that? If the purpose was to remove it for human consumption, I would understand. But that doesn't seem to be the case if it is just removing the salt for the downstream river.

This whole thing reminds me of the Rhine River which was straightened so it flowed faster, causing massive erosion and removing the natural process of detoxifing the water. Eventually, the river had to be un-straightened to fix the problem.

Yes, but they could not be "deliberately bred like that" unless the genetic variation existed within the genome.

In reference to the wolf
The differences in size within the species is quite considerable. The biggest is the American timber wolf which grows to a height of over 90 cm, and can weigh up to 80 kg. The Fenno-scandinavian wolf is of average size, height 70 cm and weighs 40 - 50 kg (the record for Sweden was a male wolf that weighed in at 75 kg). They are a little smaller in the south of Europe, weighing about 25 kg.

Why hum it when you've learned to play it on guitar?

For those interested, there are several Videogame tabulature sites
VGJam and Nintendo Tabs are some of the better ones I've found. VGJam has a nice selection of Sonic tabs, though.

The proof of the non-existance of god
The proof of the non-existence of god.
Theory:
God is based on faith, if proof on gods existence exists, the faith is no longer required.
Without faith god no longer exists.
The proof:
Since the bablefish is such a neat construction,
it couldn't evolve by random, god must have created it,
and therefore since god proved his existence god doesn't exist.

Says the guy in the entertainment business..

More of a Tom Stone fan myself.

what if some ancient civilization was just as advanced as us but nuked themselves out of existence?

and no future Herbert Hoover ever leads the FBI into another COINTELPRO;

I plead a late night and a good Hefeweizen. Of course that should be J. Edgar Hoover, and yes, I didn't close an anchor tag soon enough either.

As recompense, I'll point you to a recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that sounds a lot like "ambient" music (scroll down for mp3s, avoid the Real Crappy Player stuff up top), because it's been s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out to last for twenty-four continuous hours. It's uncanny, especially compared to a more normal Ninth, such as the 1942 Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic at emusic.com (this during the war, so you almost find yourself listening for air raid sirens while wondering how many top Nazis are in the audience.)

Is that why their cars occasionally FLY ?

But it depends on what you call an 'instrument'.

In my book, an instrument is any object designed specifically and only for the purpose of making music. (This is why softsynths aren't "instruments" in my opinion; though they are 'virtualized software instruments' they're not quite complete ... since you have to use a general-purpose computer to run them ... in the same way that pro-tools using edit gimps aren't "musicians" {they're producers}, neither are soft-synths 'instrument's ... heh heh ... flame on ...)

So, anyway, I make synthesizers and work for a fairly well-known synthesizer company.

There are tons of DIY Synthesizer builders out there in 'net land, in fact its quite an active and avid community... synth construction is a very fun geek activity, and you'll be surprised by some of the amazing systems that have been built, quite openly, by instrument-making enthusiasts.

Check out synth.net, of course ... this site is all about DIY instrument makers, and if you really want to go on a wacky and wild journey, browse the Synth DIY Who's Who and see where it takes you ...

And if you want an example of the DIY/GNU spirit combined, you can't do much better than Gene Stopp's ASM1 Design (Open Modular Synthesizer Hardware Project) ... I've built a couple ASM1's now. Its like Open Source, only for Hardware... instead of compile, you solder.

Since we are on the subject of more obscure games--does anyone remember the game Tales from the Floating Vagabond?

links are
here
and

here

I loved it, but haven't seen it. If I can find a copy, I would love to buy it. Like paranoia, the rules are purposely vague.

Everyone remember the old enlightenment versions?

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actually I consider several of the cars on the list beautiful. In particular the Citroen SM (DS and CX are also very nice..) and the Renault Dauphine (just look at those cool french guys.. The Pacer I consider one of the most interesting US car designs..

Feh! The only money I use was issued by the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, Norton I, and that's the way I likes it!

(clears throat)
Hey.
I'm not a lumberjack,
or a fur trader...
and I don't live in an igloo
or eat blubber, or own a dogsled...
and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really, really nice.

I have a Prime Minister,
not a President.
I speak English and French,
NOT American.
and I pronouce it ABOUT,
NOT A BOOT.

I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing.
DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation,
AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.
A TOQUE IS A HAT,
A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH,
AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!

CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS!
THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY!
AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!
MY NAME IS JOE!
AND I AM CANADIAN!

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-72891/CanadianClub/CCsa les/ad.html

This is almost the same thing as taking a book, translating it into a different language, and posting it online. I highly doubt that even though every single word is different a court would buy that such a work did not infringe on the original copyright. This is basically the same thing - taking a game, and "translating" it by producing new code and new graphics that are supposed to mimic the original.

There are thousands of Tetris clones out there - if they infringed on the Tetris copyright then it stands to reason that this infringes too, as it makes no effort to make a new game just copy an old one.

Besides, we can also go to the "trademark" angle where FreeCraft is attempting to create a game similar to WarCraft. I think a reasonable person might confuse the two based on the names and on some of the screenshots that exist.

Basically: I think there are plenty of legal reasons why FreeCraft will lose if they decide to fight this one. They should just cease and desist and go start a new and original RTS with new features that no one has seen before instead of rehashing WarCraft II.

It says here that Swedish law currently includes a meatier fair use exception to copyright law than, say, US law; anyone can make one copy of a copyrighted work for personal use (computer software excepted). If this is right, then this new proposal is maybe even more surprising than it appears at first glance.

One was a sega mega drive in the same case as a desktop

that would have been the amstrad mega pc ... linkage:

here and here

It depends on the IQ test being used. According to Mensa, an IQ of 132 on some tests qualifies the person for membership. To join U.S. Mensa (which accepts the top 2 percentile, check this page for acceptable test scores.)

For more information on genius in general, check out Estimated IQs of Greatest Geniuses.

I think this is something that has largely been ignored in the world at large. Remember that the IQ is a bell curve. An IQ of 130 is as rare as an IQ of 70. An IQ of 147 is as rare as an IQ of 53. (According to the Estimated IQs site, an IQ of 147 is equivalent to 99.83 percentile. Your child is "smarter" than 99.83 percent of the world.)If you think about how rare it is that a person has an IQ of 53, you begin to appreciate how special your daughter really is.

Personally, my biggest problem was motivation to work hard. All the way up throgh Sophmore year of college, I didn't have to work hard to get good grades, relying on just my memory, I could do very well. But when college got harder, I didn't have the patience to work through harder problems.

I think that you have to push your child so that they never become intellectually lazy. The problem you get is burn-out.

ADHD does exist, but I think it is rarer than is actually diagnosed. An incredibly gifted child may be labled ADHD merely because she is bored with what is, to her, very easy school work. Get a second opinion.

And what about that site with the illegal Microsoft Windows 2000 Beta source code?

You mean this site?
read the code its pretty funny.

I am listening to it now and it is wonderful although it may be better in smaller doses (like 30 minutes or so). I am interested in acquiring a CD of this piece but unfortunatly the CD they mentioned was in mp3's at swipnet and I prefer vorbis' ogg due to the patent thing.

And Leif Inge says this about the immediate future of 9beetstretch: (source: Sonoloco record reviews)

"I actually will use the sound in an installation in a bedrom in a gallery in Oslo in September (2002), making the symphony into bedchambermusic. People can lay down and listen (and maybe drift)"

Perhaps this music would accompany Empire very well.

you need to build a 'personal learning room'. You know, get some BOOKS in there, and *fucking* READ them. Do you think the Vanguard folks had a clean room?
And how do you plan on keeping the temperature within reasonable limits inside your 'beeper'? You know, in space, it's cold AND hot! Wow!

LEARN HERE

PC Power & Cooling have an off the shelf P4 model called the Sleekline that is now running at 39-40dB with the new motherboard rev.

The Compaq EVO D510 ultra-small desktop is rated at 19 dB. The mini-tower model with expansion capabilities is 22 dB.

The Signum Data FutureClient does away with fans altogether and uses fluid cooling for the ultimat ein silence. Unfortunately, it isn't available in the US (yet).

Apparently, interest for silent PCs is greater in Europe, probably because of more stringent workplace ergonomics laws in countries such as Sweden.

A few other links for Silent PCs:

• The Silent PC
• Quietpc.com
• Silent PC Review

WOW Kieth gets it.
He can see that the world has changed and that no laws or technological solution is going to put the genie back in the bottle. but then We should have suspected that from here

This is the old axiom of "Never bring a Knife to a gun fight"

In which regard, it is interesting to read an early draft of Stars Wars, dated 1975

[NB - the Luke in this script seems to be different than the "StarKiller" character, as seen from the very final scenes]

Goes hand in hand with the adages:

• Never throw shit at a man with a gun
• Never stand beside a man throwing shit at a man with a gun
• Never stay in a house with a man who is throwing shit at a man with a gun
• etc.

Although I'm sure I'll get flamed for this. There have been quite a few proposed solutions to problems like the power problem that may not have gotten quite the attention they deserved due to reasons quite different from their viability. Some of these have included Viktor Schauberger (web resources on him aren't nearly as good as the print books available, check amazon.com), and although a bit cliche, Nicola Tesla.

Anyway, empires have crashed before, sudden catastrophic change has much historical president. I'm not worried about the power going out. We'll survive.

Cheers, Joshua

Try to find any hardware tweakers site that even thought of a quiet box or REDCUCING the fan noise. You won't.

Scroll down to the "PC Cases" section of this Silent PC resources page for some good ideas about choosing a case when its noise qualities are a factor.

Then use NeoRagex I don't think they will wait to emulate games.

My emu of choice (win32) is NeoRageX, a nice little Neo Geo emulator that is fast enough to be playable on a 266mhz machine. In addition, it seems to handle sound better then MAME.

OTOH, the poor bastards who think emulation leads to piracy and thus lack of sales are deluding themselves - I find that emulation works more like a library, as soon as you find something you like, you want a hardcopy for yourself. But that's me, and probably there are a lot of people just like me who are "collectors". And then there are a lot of people who are cheap, or have a casual interest, and only collect roms because they are "free". The sales lost to the emus are more then made up by the sales made because of the emus. However, I do hold to the notion that old emus lead to lost sales of new consoles, since new games seem to be repackaged crap with shiny bits included.

Btw, the NeoGeo was also an arcade game. Standardized controls across the game, and it was easy to swap out games in cabinets.

Here's a real (non trollaxor) link to a site dedicated to silent computing....

http://home.swipnet.se/tr/silence.html

I say take a break from the computer room, or use a laptop, or maybe turn the computer OFF every once in a while if you don't like the noise, but hey, to each his/her own.

fount it... HERE

I found that after asking :)

58db is not really that quiet, except when compared to a 6-fan server... a real quiet PC runs around 35db or even less (one manufacturer claims as low as 16.5dBA). Sources I have found (see below) compare 55db to "standing next to a busy road". That said, there is a fair bit of variation in how measurements are taken.

This page has much more info.

I am going to replace an aged Pentium 200 MMX Linux box with a much faster Linux box in the next few months. Via's C3, running at 933 MHz, doesn't even require a fan; heatsink alone is sufficient.

I have a silent drive sleeve for my 20 GB 5400 RPM drive, and with a fanless power supply (see the links from http://home.swipnet.se/tr/silence.html), this thing will only have moving parts in the drive and should register less noise than my breathing.

Surprisingly, it will also perform fairly well--those C3 processors are not dogs, as you can see from the reviews linked to on Via's page (cached at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:PMSJrxoMUV4:w ww.via.com.tw/jsp/en/products/C3/c3reviews.jsp+c3+ reviews+and+awards&hl=en).

For Quake 3, Wolfenstein, and others, I have a GeForce3 card and an Athlon 1600+ (which also runs fairly quietly, with a Silencer fan replacing the original noisy one on my Volcano cooler), but for thoughtful tasks you can't get better than blissful silence.

Technically correct. He should have said jet aircraft. The first jet aircraft was the He-178 which first flew Aug 27, 1939. Another German wartime invention: the cruise missle (V1).

A very long and informative site on quiet PC's: home.swipnet.se/tr/silence.html

I have been trying to make my computer silent for about two years now. It is still not quiet enought to keep on at night in my bedroom. I'll keep trying though.

http://home.swipnet.se/tr/silence.html Also see the mailinglist there