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(i disabled the trailer, if anyone wants it, or the new version, e-mail or IM me, thats right starwars and mullets)

Get lost, Ruckmanite *g*

The fact of the matter is I have yet to see a reliable English version of the Bible. Not even a modern-spelling edition of Laurence Tomson's 1576 NT plus portions of the Geneva Bible comes as close as I'd like.

But let's say this out for example, IMHO,

Catholic:Lutheran::UNIX:BSD
Catholic:Episcopal: :UNIX:Solaris
Catholic:Methodist::UNIX:Linux
Cat holic:Mormon::UNIX:Windows XP

-uso.

"these robots [robotwars.com] should be able to give a human team a pretty good game!"

You call that a game? Your first problem is when the whirling saw punctures the ball rather than move it anywhere.

If they can get past this, there are rules against smashing shins and sawing feet off.

Within minutes, all of the robot team would be ejected from the game, except for the useless ineffectual "Buddy don't Play in the Street" and Tentamushi.

klingon karaoke.

my favorite is bad to the bone

When I go looking for an out-of-print Science Fiction title, I often end up with a volume discarded from a public library. Sometimes I remember seeing the very volume in my own public library, and passing it by. Gives one pause.

More ontopic: of all the SF writers I've read, the one who most deserves broader recognition is Richard McKenna. Not a towering literary talent, but still a imaginative and insightful storyteller. He's obscure mainly because he went and died just a few years after he began writing full time. His best-known work, The Sand Pebbles, is not Science Fiction, but nevertheless is the kind of story that will appeal to SF readers, full of technical detail, culture clash, and social speculation.

But the short answer to your question is that yes, the overkill of .NET branding has muddied and confused the perception of what .NET is. But hey, everyone in the world knows the name, so mission accomplished?

In the song, it didn't. But how about 15 years?

1977 Cadillac
1992 Cadillac
Probably 98% of the parts are interchangable.

Boy, those were the *days...... ;-)

Next time quote from the 1576 Tomson Geneva New Testament. *g*

-uso.

A drug screen is meant to pick up illegal activity which poses a tangible safety and liability issue to a potential employer.

Bullshit.

Chemical screens for drug metabolites say absolutely nothing about whether you are a safety issue. If that was the issue, impairment tests would be used. (And a few intelligent employers do use impairment tests.) Drug screens are about what you're doing in your own time - they are a lifestyle screen. They're a loyalty oath to the Drug War.

(They're also surprisingly inaccurate for something that can ruin your life.)

I got my first job in high school, 17 years ago. I've been in the workforce ever since. I've never pissed in a cup for an employer. I've turned down job offers over it. I've still done ok.

Drug tests: just say no.

Typical slashdot. Just make up some facts to support your case. I read that 0.01% of manga sales are to people over the age of 17.

You have a point about Slashdot, but you are wrong. An essay on manga, that states "One Manga magazine typically sells 5 million to 6 million copies every week." There are also over 200 popular manga issues. Don't believe me? Go to a Seven Eleven or Circle K in Japan. All under the magazine rack is just stacks of manga. "How can the Japanese achieve such high sales, because the young to the middle-aged, male and female often purchase Manga magazines."

It's actually well known for people to read manga, and you will see it a lot. 0.01% of one manga sales may be to people over the age of 17. Just like I don't think any people without children watch An Pan Man.

The typical manga issue is about $4 in Japan (I think about 500 yen) and is freaking thick. It's usually rough art, with little detail just to tell the story.

I know too much about manga.. and I don't even read it. Although I did get a porn magazine for a friend that had an utterly bizarre mini-manga story in it... one that I really wish I never had read...

copied from http://gamesandpolitics.tripod.com/animfan.html

Fandom: The Barbarians at the Gate
or
Yes, I still like Ranma 1/2

"People who play tennis are just fine and dandy... and people who watch animation are no good? Why?"--- an otaku's lament, Otaku No Video

It is an unfortunate fact about fandom, whether it be gaming fandom, anime fandom, or Linux fandom that it goes through stages:

1. Stage One: A small group of people discover something that they like and think is fun and interesting. They form clubs based on it, talk to each other about references from it and generally enjoy themselves. Often, they will be persecuted by people who don't get it, "You're into that?!? How can you be into that?!?!" they'll sneer as they pass you in the street, at school or at work. This is also the evangelism phase, you try to convince people to become involved in the thing you are into. "The more the merrier" is what you think at this stage. In some ways, this is the best stage of fandom. There is a lot you have to do by yourself and normally a dearth of commercial support, but it is exciting.

2. Stage Two: Some charismatic people become interested in what you like, unfortunately, leading the people who were sneering at you to think, "Oh! He's into that? Oh, maybe I misjudged it then..." (You'll see why this is unfortunate soon enough.) More support becomes available, so you don't have to do everything yourself. Instead of third generation fan-subs, for instance, commercial tapes become available. Maybe not the ones you want, but still, maybe good in their own way.

3. Stage Three: This is the transitional phase, your hobby becomes well known enough that the mainstream media picks up on it, usually portraying it as a weird and evil sub-culture. Of course, this causes it to appeal to bored mainstreamers who want to appear cool by taking on the establishment (until they grow up to become corporate lawyers and/or investment bankers, natch.) These are the people who start showing up at your AD&D club meetings and when you suggest a game of Call of Cthuhlu for a change, mock you. They don't mock you because they know anything about CoC , but because "the name sounds goofy, man." You start feeling resentful as they try feeding your sixth level magic user to a gelatinous cube, and in my case you stop attending group meetings.

4. Stage Four: Congressmen start talking about the evils of the whatever-it-is that you like, of course making it more cool among mainstreamers . Although the thing you like is more readily available now from a variety of commercial sources, it has been rendered palatable for the mainstreamers . All the rough edges are sanded off, and you get accosted by people who don't know that you used to be really into the thing who try to tell you how cool their bland, pallid version of the thing you used to love is. The barbarians are at the gate! People are overunning your hobby with the same predjudices they had back when it wasn't cool. They accost you at conventions and say, "You are into that!?! How could you be into that?!? This new is so much cooler than that. I wouldn't be caught dead being into that." Note: As always, you are not trying to force your tastes on anyone. In fact, because the quality of people you are meeting has declined so much, you try to identify the bad ones and just "smile and nod" as they pass you by. You are just trying to "live and let live," but the mainstreamers only want to appear rebellious, even though by their very nature they are conformists. Because of this, they will seek you out and try to force conformity on you, basically forcing you to hide your interests within a hobby from them the same way you used to hide your interest in the hobby from them.

5. Stage Five: Everyone is into your hobby now... but it's become so palatable and mainstream that it isn't recognizable as the thing you used to love. You've since moved on to

i don't want the anime network.
that pansy-ass crap that passes for anime nowadays pretty much makes me happy that the old animes of my youth are long forgotten. i'd rather not see their corpses reanimated (it's a pun, c'mon, it's funny) with bad english dubbing and their characters on tshirts for all the pimply faced 15 year olds to wear.

i am at stage 5 on the fandom cycle (reproduced in reply for your pleasure) and would rather everyone just go away.

project a-ko, this one's for you!

There are "bail enforcement officers". Learn the difference.

Even people in the industry informally say "bounty hunter"

Bounty Hunter Training

What the hell is a spork? Spoonfork? Okay, never mind... Google to the rescue:

Since we're talking about weird websites, might as well mention this one dedicated to ... sporks.

Amazing...

On a related note, TRIPOD SUCKS!

The Online Museum

Vintage Moist Towelette

The Moist Towlettel page

Damn... are you trying to say that those nice and handsome policemen/women in Water Rats aren't so nice and beautiful in real life?!!!

All my dreams torn asunder...

How about this guy:

Greg Kovacs

He's about as close to a human Hulk that I've ever seen. 6'5" and about 360 pounds ought to scale to Hulk proportions pretty easily.

That Rabbits dynamite!

here's some random links i googled up: some guy's FAQ, a paper on hybrid engines with a lot of formulas and math (not a whole lot about cleanliness, though), a page with some firing pics which also claims clean burning.

But one of the things I rarely see mentioned is this - not terribly unlike the JFK consipracy theorists of the world, people who make the bold sweeping claim that video game violence caused things like Columbine do like to hang on to the tiny shreds of evidence that support their theory and ignore the mountains of evidence against it.

The lawyer mentioned in the article has attempted to make a living off of suing video game makers. His Kip Kinkle and Columbine cases were thrown out, so either he's making money either way or he's getting really frustrated right now. In addition to the Beltway Sniper case, he's suing the government over the America's Army game. His mentality is that of a spammer - it doesn't matter how sleazy and slimy what he does is, so long as he gets paid.

And the fact is that all you have to do is bring a picture of a dead kid and a waving finger to Congress and you can get any law in the world you want passed.

But think about it - how many violent kid incidents do you ever hear about? Columbine, Kip Kinkle, those kids in Arkansas, that kid in Flint. That's what, four? And what did they all have in common? Well three of them were white kids shooting white kids (the kid in Flint was a black kid shooting a white kid - significant since the kids were six years old). But what about black kids shooting black kids? It happens all the time, but the news never centers on it. Similarly, when Elizabeth Smart went missing it was Chandra Levy Part II, but the same week a black girl from a poor neighboorhood was kidnapped and no one outside of her state cared.

So the parents groups, mostly white people terrified of this happening to them, use this handful of incidents and blow them out of proportion. The game industry is growing while the overall crime rate is dropping. We haven't had a big school shooting since Columbine. And the biggest retailers (Wal-Mart, Target, GameStop) won't sell M-rated games to minors.

Personally I support not selling M-rated games to minors, but not at the point of law. The movie industry hasn't needed laws to enfore R-rated movies. Do kids still see them? Sure. But they can't just walk in. And consider this - kids can't pirate cigarettes, but if you make it to where kids can't buy M-rated games by law they'll just hit up the newsgroups.

You have to understand the culture of car modding. It goes counter to everything that people commonly do with cars. It's making fun of people who install crazy body modifications without doing anything to affect the performance or handling of their cars.

• TRACTOR mods
• FORD mods
• The Ultimate Turbo-Mod Fiesta Site

I suppose the effort should be admired, but I was really hoping to see something like a 1986 Nissan Sentra modified. There's just some beauty lost in making a sporty-looking car go faster when imagination begs that you make a clunker rip down the road.

Troubleshooting a broken Flexible Flyer is pretty simple. Everything's very accessible on one. Thing is, they're not really a year-round device.

Being a small-peanuts web designer, it falls on me to debug in quite a few browsers. Mozilla and Opera are my "primary use" browsers, and most sites I design (1, 2, 3), I debug using those two, IE (which I hate to no end), Netscape, and if I can get my hands on someone's account, I'll also see how it looks under AOL's browser. Gotta figure that most people are using IE (which likes to use its own settings for viewing text, bad M$), a nifty chunk uses Netscape, and of course we of the nerd set that like to use other options.

It's all about having your site viewed by everyone, and making it look as good as it can for any browser.

Being a small-peanuts web designer, it falls on me to debug in quite a few browsers. Mozilla and Opera are my "primary use" browsers, and most sites I design (1, 2, 3), I debug using those two, IE (which I hate to no end), Netscape, and if I can get my hands on someone's account, I'll also see how it looks under AOL's browser. Gotta figure that most people are using IE (which likes to use its own settings for viewing text, bad M$), a nifty chunk uses Netscape, and of course we of the nerd set that like to use other options.

It's all about having your site viewed by everyone, and making it look as good as it can for any browser.

Being a small-peanuts web designer, it falls on me to debug in quite a few browsers. Mozilla and Opera are my "primary use" browsers, and most sites I design (1, 2, 3), I debug using those two, IE (which I hate to no end), Netscape, and if I can get my hands on someone's account, I'll also see how it looks under AOL's browser. Gotta figure that most people are using IE (which likes to use its own settings for viewing text, bad M$), a nifty chunk uses Netscape, and of course we of the nerd set that like to use other options.

It's all about having your site viewed by everyone, and making it look as good as it can for any browser.

Of course I did read that, and if you actually read further, you find out that

• The cross-section is fine at high voltages, and
• magnetizing the grids minimizes losses from collisions with the grids, which was the only known practical problem.

More to the point: with the amount spent in any one month on the silly thermal systems, they could long since have worked out all the engineering details with kinetic approaches. A problem with the proton-Boron reaction may just be that tiny reactors are practical, making big utilities no longer necessary; of course big utilities are not going to want such work funded. Or, it may be that this sort of reactor has no useful weapons-research applications, which may be the real point of the work being done, with power generation potential just a budget excuse. (Or both.)

No.

Google - a search engine
Googol - a one followed by 100 zeros

And it wasn't an infant - that's a total embellishment. Try Googling for Milton Sirotta, the kid who named the damn thing, and report back to me when you have a clue.

(he was 9 at the time...)

Take it from me, I use Scissors, and Tape, which are free (not as in beer).

As long as you do not mind storying your video data on film, you should stop using proprietary tools so that movie production will forever be free and not controlled by the evil corporate fat-cats sitting there smugly, smoking their cigars!!! (Oops, wrong canned rant for this topic...)

...and you will see that the author of the paper being discused in the article, a Dr Philip Stott, is really juat an right-wing anti-enviromentalists pro-GMO goon. See:
http://www.probiotech.fsnet.co.uk

He's even quoted on the Ultra conservative EviroTruth website:
http://www.envirotruth.org/myth1b.cfm

More info about Stott can be found here.

Yet the invention was wildly successful and the inventor became wealthy and famous. This implies that the inventor's monopoly need not be perfect.

Baloney. Eli Whitney never made a nickel off the cotton gin. Copiers drove him out of the cotton gin manufacturing business.

I usually try to decipher English (or at least, European - "pan"~~Spanish, "shabon"~~Portuguese, "arubaito"~~German) words when I see katakana in Japanese writing. It's quite common in Sailor Moon songs, for example, to use English words. Naoko Takeuchi herself used a whole mess of them. ("watashi wa 'runa', 'ereganto' na kuro-neko" = "I'm Luna, an elegant black cat" - full lyrics to this song)

In this list we have the following words in katakana: "neko" (cat), "myao" (meow), "daiji" (important), "mikadzuki atama" (crescent-head), "ippai" (full), etc., which are mostly Japanese - katakana is used here for emphasis. But there's also "tenisu-kóto", "purinsesu", "rubí", "ereganto", which are all English-derived words!

I wish that Japanese didn't use Kanji, but at least stuff that's not heavy on kanji (unfortunately a lot of stuff is heavy on the kanji) I can at least read aloud, and sometimes even grok. I speak English natively, and Japanese is my fourth (!) language.

Under DOS, I use packages included with FreeDOS/V, and also the shareware (ugh) word processor NJSTAR 3.1j, for most of my work with Japanese. I don't need anything else (but a free/open Japanese WP would be nice! Even if it required DOS/V for console output.)

-uso.

My Sony 200-disc CD player stopped playing CDs after 1 year and a few days, but they were kind enough to fix that, even though it was almost a week out of warantee.

My Sony DVD player would turn off after one second of use a little more than a year after I bought it. Turns out this has happened to over 50% of owners of this player according to several audiophile websites. I called Sony, but they denied they had ever heard of the problem and said it would cost $179 for them just to LOOK at my player!!! I could buy 3 for that much money.

[I eventually fixed my DVD player with a lot of bending, some tinfoil, and silver paste. Others cut holes in the case and added fans. Others also have out-of-sync problems]

My Sony receiver, bought at the same time as my DVD player, started acting up after a year. Sometimes it crashes completely or just "mutes" and has to be unplugged and plugged back in. Sometimes it blasts noise at full volume then goes back to normal. At least I don't get error messages on the screen like other owners. Sony also denies they have ever heard of this problem.

Sony also refuses to divulge information about their big screen TV's, like how many pixels the can display. Sony claims this is unimportant. Call them and ask if you don't believe me. Luckily people like me set up very outdated web pages that divulge all sorts of things they don't want to get out, like how to adjust you convergence without paying a Sony tech:

Hack your Sony big screen

I bought Sony because I heard they were quality. What they were was overpriced and low quality. Never again.

/rant

I won't quote it here, but Slappy and Skinny had something to say about it.

How about cartoons posted at www.villagevoice.com? This week's cartoon is posted at www.villagevoice.com/fiore/. Good laugh... hmmm... pretty tough one. I kind of link pearly23.tripod.com/htmls/bush-idiot.html, but I don't know what your taste is like.

Yep, you're right about Metallica. I haven't bought any of their stuff since the Black Album, but not because of their position on Napster/File Trading (which didn't help get me buying their stuff again for sure). The only reason I brought Metallica up was to illustrate my music tastes versus the tastes that the RIAA member companies would want me to have.

While their music will always rock, their stance on the whole matter is one I don't agree with, either. Yep, they did stab the fans in the back. We made them, now they want to break us. Fuck em. I'll still jam to their tunes, but I'll be damned if I go to another show, buy another CD (or T-Shirt or Video) or actively support them financially.

And since we're on the subject, I checked out your music. Good stuff. Soon, you'll be able to check out mine as well...

Yeah, and how about E.E. "Doc" Smith?

Oh, he's dead. But you could do a parody of him, which would be indistinguishable from the real thing.

Down here below t the Mason-Dixon line, a cracker is not going to waste his time on computers. He's too busy waiting for the South to rise again.

Um, no. Clinton was impeached for lying under oath during a deposition held by the lawyers of Paula Jones. He was asked about his affair with Monica Lewenski.

As I said, I'm no fan of the sordid side of Clinton. I can not condone his behavior towards women. But Clinton's impeachment was the culmination of an attempt to overthrow the Presidency of the United States, who was legally elected by the people. I see this as a direct assault on the constitution of the United States of America. Shame on the major players (Tripp, Starr, Richard Mellon Scaife), all conservative Republicans.

Think I'm hallucinating? Check out this timeline.

No, I am not confused when I say that Saddam used this distraction to kicked the weapons inspectors out of Iraq. I think you'll have a hard time arguing otherwise.

Clinton may have lobbed missiles at Saddam to divert attention from his predicament (arguable, for certain), I shall restate my original premise: if Clinton had not been distracted by his impending impeachment, perhaps would he not have allowed Saddam to kick the UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq in 1997. Perhaps we wouldn't be invading Iraq now.

http://www.warblogging.com/
Breaking news, analysis, also covers related events in the US. Cynical slant.

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
An Iraqi blogger. Hoax? It's well done

>> Wherever you go you see closed shops and it is not just doors-locked
>> closed but sheet-metal-welded-on-the-front closed,
>> windows-removed-and-built-with-bricks closed, doors were being welded shut


http://volokh.blogspot.com/
Excellent analysis of causes and outcomes. Breaking news, too.

http://www.sgtstryker.com/
Military / conservative perspective on Iraq and the news. Liberal and conservative views in the discussions.

http://www.defensetech.org/
It's all about the gear. The Slashdot of war technology.

http://timblair.blogspot.com/
Conservative and irreverant news analysis

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/

http://uswarblog.tripod.com/warblog/

http://www.nowarblog.org/
"Stand Down: The Left-Right Blog opposing an invasion of iraq"

http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
Back to Iraq 2.0

http://www.warblogs.cc/

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu

I haven't seen the movie but I saw the fictional town of Normal referred to as a small town. The real Normal is a good sized college town right next to another good sized college town. Total population of the two towns is over 100000.

Normal is the title of the movie, not the town (though it would be a valid mistake to make, given that Normal is a city in central Illinois). No, the town was something like Earlsville, set in DeKalb county (northern Illinois, has Northern Illinois University up there).

As for the tractors, is nothing sacred anymore about tractor colors? There are orange ones, red ones and green ones and never shall they meet.

Bah. Case did orange and white back in the day (up until the late 80s or early 90s, at least). Then they merged with International to form Case/IH, and they got rid of the orange and white and stuck with IH's red. John Deere has always been green, but Versatile switched to blue from yellow/red/black when they were bought by Ford. The only people making orange tractors any more (that I know of, and not counting Cat's yellow) is Kubota, who make lawn tractors and other small tractors. (my information may not be 100% correct, but it's pretty close I think.)

I hope HBO releases the movie on DVD so I can see it. Being a tg person who lives in Central Illinois gives a special interest in it.

HBO has a good history of releasing stuff on DVD (Sopranos, Oz, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Band of Brothers, etc), so if this movie gets a good reaction I'm sure it'll get a DVD release. I enjoyed it for the setting (even more so because I grew up in such a small town), but I don't know how you'll react to the portrayal of a tg m2f. That's something that's beyond my own experience, so I can't say if it was a good or bad representation.

MySQL has always been the speed leader in Open Source databases.

Now there's an opening begging to be taken! (dons his asbestos undies)

MySQL has only ever been shown by anyone but MySQL AB* to be faster at very simple mostly-or-all-read-only tasks, even with row-level locking. PostgreSQL, for example, multiplexes writes - which effectively removes even row-level-locking delays. As soon as you pile on the load, get complex in your queries, or start doing a serious amount of writing, the bencharks go all wahoonie-shaped.

On top of that, innoDB is a bandaid to try bringing real SQL features to MySQL, which leads to two observations:

• MySQL proper is misnamed (it's not SQL, certainly not complete ACID, only a SQL subset); and
  
• even with innoDB its repertoire of ACID features is incomplete

* now who (M<cough>ro<cough>t) does that remind you of?

The whole batman deal is known to the execs above.
this page talks slightly about how batman is going to be reborn by my favorite director

Back in the day when I had a 486 laptop and was playing with linux I installed Monkey Linux

This says it's South African for "I'm bored".

And the stones! The stones are 50 foot high, 30 foot long, 20 foot deep, and other measurements as well. And the stones are not from round there! That's the amazing thing. I mean, remember, this is B.C. *mumble*. This was before the B.C./A.D. changeover when everyone was going... You didn't have to wind your watch back - you had to get a new bloody watch! As if A.D.'s enough - fuckinell... And the Muslim people going, "A.D? Who's he?" Yes. Good laugh there.

And uh... So, yeah, the stones are from 200 miles away, in Wales. So these guys in Wales were obviously carving the rocks out of the v - very living mountain... "Fantastic, building a henge, are we? That's a fantastic idea. That's a marvelous religion the Druids have got. Yes, got a lot of white clothing, I like that. There we go." And they smash out a huge stone and then they put tree trunks down to roll it along on. "All right, walk it along, here we go, here we go." Buuuhbuuuhuuh. "Help you push 'em along. It's not far, is it?" And the Druids going, "Heave everyone, heave! Well done, everyone, you're doing very well. You'll love it when you see it. I've seen some of the drawings already, it's very special." After 200 miles, "You fucking bastards! You never told it was 200 miles! 200 miles in this day and age - I don't even know where I live now! *sigh* I wish the Christians would hurry up and get here!" And they set all the stones up and the Druids still there tinkering around going, "No that stone and this one - can we swap them around?" So that was the Pagans.

[Courtesy of Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill]

I think about building a house all the time, so I am always interested in different home designs. I live close to the city (Portland, Oregon) so I see old/new houses as well as old/new buildings. Some which are pushing 100+ years old. I like the thought of being self-sufficient in regards to land, food, energy, etc, as well have the option to expand my dream home if need be. In the past few years I have tinkered around with solar energy to expand my knowledge of a clean-energy lifestyle.

I recently came across solar pyramid home design. While these homes are not anywhere near most people's visions of what a home should be. I like their uniqueness, as well as their structural integrity from storms, earthquakes, etc.