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I'm surprised Stark's reply didn't include the phrase "see figure one". My reply certainly would have!

My response? See figure one.

http://www.things.org/~jym/fun/see-figure-1.html

I'll hold out for my Z-Ray specs. (Better than X-Rays. Two higher, in fact!)

This seems appropriate...

Microsoft is in control. All they have to do is to discontinue XP OEM licensing, or substantially raise the price. You'll get Vista with your new PC and you'll like it. If you don't like it, See Figure One.

http://www.things.org/~jym/greenpeace/myth-of-batt ery-recycling.html

KFG

My God! He never took middle school hygiene! He never saw the propaganda film!

      Bender: I'll miss you, Leela. I know you're just a carbon-based
                  life-form, but I'll always think of you as a big pile of
                  titanium. [Sniffles]
          Fry: What Bender means is, you're really brave, and smart and
                  beautiful and a great friend.
      Bender: Just like titanium. [Sobs]
        Leela: This is all a big load. I was the one trying to save
                  the Popplers. You [Points at Fry] were sucking them
                  down like the fat hog you are, and you [Points at
                  Bender] were stepping on them for fun. You both should
                  be in here instead of me.
      Bender: Someone's acting awfully aluminum.

The Skinhead Hamlet - Shakespeare's play translated into modern English

The Trouble With Normal

for those of you who don't know this quote, its from Futurama.

How about applying comprehensive cost/benefit analyses?

Excellent idea. Fission loses badly; it's competitive only because of massive subsidies.

Some hobbies are expensive and kill people - energy efficiency does both

That's the most bizarre claim I've seen this year. Please, explain how installing a high-efficiency heat pump or compact flourescent lightbulb in my home is expensive and deadly.

What is renewable that nuclear/coal/gas-turbine/petroleum are not? Answer: nothing, unless you apply a double standard. Applying a single standard, solar is no more renwable than nuclear, coal, gas-turbine, or petroleum.

"Renewable" means that we won't run out during the habitable lifetime of the planet. Fission and fossil fuels both fail this criteron by orders of magnitude, but the large fusion reactor about which we orbit will still be here after we're gone. (It will be what does us in, if we haven't developed into spacefarers by then.)

Johnson: It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: I'm against those things that everybody hates!
Jackson: Now, I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man. But, quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said!
Fry: These are the candidates? They sound like clones. [Squints] Wait a minute. They are clones!
Leela: Don't let their identical DNA fool you. They differ on some key issues.
Johnson: I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far!
Jackson: And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!

Script found Here

Leela is a swer mutant as revealed in the episode Leela's Homeworld, part of the 4th Season which was sadly the last full season.

Those people had nothing to do with Greenpeace. Greenpeace activists have never spiked anything. I don't even personally know anyone who has ever done any tree spiking, but a google search turned up these guys, so maybe save your anger for them (although it looks like they stopped over a decade ago).

And if logged forests grow back so fast then why do we keep logging the ancient/old-growth forests out of existence (which is what Greenpeace really objects to)? Why not just re-log the already logged areas and leave the last few unlogged areas as they are?

As for recycling paper, everyone form the US government to paper products companies agree that recycling keeps paper out of landfills and incinerators, saves energy and reduces waste.

You sound like the informational video in the Futurama episode, I Dated a Robot...

Ob. Futurama...

Leela: The jig's up, Nixon. We'll trade you the tape for the body.
Nixon: Oh, expletive deleted. You've got a deal.

A Head in the Polls
A Head in the Polls

"Figure 1"? You mean this?

Obviously, you forgot about the Werecar.

Nosy Robot: Sir, are you aware that you're leaking coolant at an
alarming rate?
Fry: Uh ...
Nosy Robot: Well, let me just patch you up with some hot resin. [he
holds the gun up so Fry can see it]
Fry: I think the leak's stopping itself. [it doesn't]
Wait, wait ... [long pause] ... yeah, there we go. Wait ... there.
Nosy Robot: [accusing] What sort of robot turns down a free blast of
searing hot resin?
[Fry is stumped]
Leela: I'm sorry, my friend and I have to go perform some
mindless, repetitive tasks.
Nosy Robot: [chuckles] Sounds like a romantic evening. I won't keep
you.

props

*boink

According to government records the only names not yet trademarked are Popplers and Zitsels.

Or how about "Sosumi Browser"?

=v= The capsules effort for Futurama hasn't kept up with that of The Simpsons, but I've got a collection of 'em here:

The Low-Bandwidth Futurama Site

It's also got links to all sorts of other sites.

Although i'm sure it's old to this audience, i still prefer Orson Scott Card's take on managing programmers like bees. I found the text of it here

Well you want facts so here what I've found

• http://www.geocities.com/~falconbbs/leg_hack.htm Mitnick apparently never met a computer program he couldn't bust into. As early as the mid-1980s, the high school dropout used his computer to infiltrate corporate computers. Mitnick was arrested four times for hacking during the 1980s and served a one-year prison term. He was on probation in 1992 when he began hacking again, prosecutors said. He fled on Christmas Eve 1992 and remained a fugitive until his 1995 capture in North Carolina. He's accounts been behind bars since 1995 without bail. At the time of his arrest, Mitnick was the only hacker to make the FBI's most-wanted list.
• http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cac/pr/c ac70627.1.html: The 14-month sentence that will run consecutively to the sentence imposed in the North Carolina case arose from Mitnick ignoring conditions of his supervised release in 1992. Painter said Mitnick disobeyed court orders not to engage in further computer hacking or associate with other known hackers. Mitnick violated these orders by breaking into Pacific Bell voice mail computers and listening to confidential messages of security personnel. He also associated with Lewis DePayne, an individual with whom he had previously engaged in computer hacking.
• http://members.raincity.com/bucca neer/mitnick.html Now at age 25, Mitnick was sentenced to one year in a minimum security facility by judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U. S. District Court in Los Angeles Ca. DiCicco had turned witness against him... the year was 1989. Judge Pfaelzer also ordered Mitnick to regularly attend rehabilitation sessions, relating his addiction to computer break-ins to that of a substance abuser. Federal prosecutors also obtained a court order restricting Mitnick's phone privileges while in jail, for fear that he might get access to an outside computer. Harriet Rosetto, the director of the rehabilitation facility said "hacking gives Kevin a sense of self-esteem that he doesn't get in the real world, there was no greed or sabotage involved... He's like a big kid playing Dungeons and Dragons".
• But the best page is probably http://www.things.org/takedown/bio /mitnick1.html His next arrest was in 1983 by campus police at the University of Southern California, where he had gotten into minor trouble a few years earlier, when he was caught using a university computer to gain illegal access to the ARPAnet. This time he was discovered sitting at a computer in a campus terminal room, breaking into a Pentagon computer over the ARPAnet, and was sentenced to six months at the California Youth Authority's Karl Holton Training School, a juvenile prison in Stockton, California. After he was released, he obtained the license plate "X HACKER" for his Nissan, but he was still very much in the computer break-in business. Several years later he went underground for more than a year after being accused of tampering with a TRW credit reference computer; an arrest warrant was issued, but it later vanished from police records without explanation.

  [...]

  In 1987 and 1988, Kevin and a friend, Lenny DiCicco, fought a pitched electronic battle against scientists at Digital Equipment's Palo Alto research laboratory. Mitnick had become obsessed with obtaining a copy of Digital's VMS minicomputer operating system, and was trying to do so by gaining entry to the company's corporate computer network, known as Easynet. The computers at Digital's Palo Alto laboratory looked easiest, so every night with remarkable persistence Mitnick and DiCicco would launch their modem attacks from a small Calabasas, California company where DiCicco had a computer support job.

  [...]

  It was the fifth time that Mitnick had been apprehended for a computer crime, and the case attracted nationwide attention because, in an unusual plea bargain, he agreed to one year in prison and six months in a counseling program for his computer "addiction." It was a strange defense tactic, but a federal judge, after initially balking, bought the idea that there was some sort of psychological parallel between the obsession Mitnick had for breaking in to computer systems and an addict's craving for drugs. After he finished his jail time and his halfway-house counseling sentence for the 1989 Digital Equipment conviction Mitnick moved to Las Vegas

So re-read the initial post, which was actually propaganda. Kevin Mitnick has started cracking computers and telephone systems 20 years ago. And he has done so with a astonishing repetition and stuborn obstination. Obsession is not a too strong word. Saying "Kevin Mitnick was an ordinary guy who was curious" and that the evil goverment decided to screw him without reason, is propaganda. Why? Because it only tells half of the truth and because it is repeated everywhere in the FreeKevin, and crackers sites.