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Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year
An anonymous reader writes "PC World reports in this article:
"The card actually has moveable parts inside its thin shell," says Bill Heil, vice president of StorCard.
A spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorReader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each, Heil says.
The StorCard and StorReader are scheduled to become available in the second half of 2003."
Now I can save all my hot or not babes from Pajonet.com
Rather odd grammatical construction, no?
First Funkin Post!
hell i thought the hd was trying to become pregnant. perhaps it was having fertiltiy problems, but i personally think 5gb is too young for a hd to have children.
-- john
I want this letter to serve as an oasis of sanity in Bill Heil's desert of foolishness. There are a number of reasons Heil isn't telling us as to why he wants to stir up trouble. In this letter, I will expose those reasons one-by-one, on the principle that if you've never seen him represent heaven as hell and, conversely, the most wretched life as paradise, you're either incredibly unobservant or are concealing the truth from yourself. True, he has nothing but contempt for responsibility, duty, and honor, but if we justify condemnation, constructive criticism, and ridicule of him and his lewd invectives, then the sea of collectivism, on which he so heavily relies, will begin to dry up. Technically, this is not the first time I've wanted to shoo Heil away like the annoying bug that he is. But it is the first time I realized that he accuses me of being narrow-minded. Does he maintain I'm narrow-minded because I refuse to accept his claim that the laws of nature don't apply to him? If so, then I guess I'm as narrow-minded as I could possibly be. Moreover, we must pave the way for people of every sex, race, and socioeconomic status to fulfill their own spiritual destiny. If we don't, future generations will not know freedom. Instead, they will know fear; they will know sadness; they will know injustice, poverty, and grinding despair. Most of all, they will realize, albeit far too late, that I am making a pretty serious accusation here. I am accusing Heil of planning to hasten the destruction of our civilization. And I don't want anyone to think that I am basing my accusation only on the fact that he has a strategy. His strategy is to relabel millions of people as "myopic". Wherever you encounter that strategy, you are dealing with Heil.
We mustn't let Heil devastate vast acres of precious farmland. That would be like letting the Mafia serve as a new national police force in Italy. If you were to try to tell his followers that I proudly adopt this stand, they'd close their eyes and put their hands over their ears. They are, as the psychologists say, in denial. They don't want to hear that Heil has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that he has two imperatives. The first is to withhold information and disseminate half truths and whole lies. The second imperative is to manufacture and compile daunting lists of imaginary transgressions committed against him.
Heil's bons mots are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of oligarchism. So maybe I challenge Heil to tell me what, if anything, in this letter is not thoroughly truthful. Big deal. What's more important is that Heil's exegeses are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of "tradition." Funny, that was the same term that his thralls once used to threaten the common good. Pardon my coarse language, but if one dares to criticize even a single tenet of his expositions, one is promptly condemned as sophomoric, wrongheaded, insensitive, or whatever epithet he deems most appropriate, usually without much explanation.
If you think about it, I should note that the first response to this from Heil's foot soldiers is perhaps that going through the motions of working is the same as working. Wrong. Just glance at the facts: Heil has a natural talent for complaining. He can find any aspect of life and whine about it for hours upon hours. I have the strength, ability, desire, and courage to exemplify the principles of honor, duty, loyalty, and courage. Do you? Now, I'm going to be honest here. Heil's deputies suspect that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune. I say to them, "Prove it" -- not that they'll be able to, of course, but because Heil's older objectives were incoherent enough. His latest ones are sincerely beyond the pale. A final word: Bill Heil's secret agents have decided, behind closed doors and in closed sessions, to twist the truth.
This is once again why Europeans shouldn't get involved in privacy issues in the US. Of course you have a "national ID", because your countries might have counties or provinces, but when you go to any other country in Europe, and they ask where you are from, you'll probably say you're from whatever country from which you hail.
On the other hand, if I travel to Canada from the US, and someone asks where I from, I tell them which state I am from.
Why is this? Because people from the US, for the most part, identify their origin by their state. It's something steeped in American tradition from when we were under the Articles of Confederation and had an extremely weak federal government uniting the otherwise independent states.
Now, why is this important for the sake of the "National ID card" debate? Because, most of us, because we identify ourselves by states, fear even further encroachment of the federal government on what is currently the responsibility of the state.
I know, it's hard to understand, but since we have a large country, we generally don't feel the need of an excessively large bureaucratic federal government in charge of all aspects of our lives, and in the case of smaller states, totally unresponsive to their needs.
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