UCITA is only within SOME of the United States of America. There are plenty of areas elsewhere in the world where UCITA will never reach; so it's no big deal, free software will simply come from there. That's all.
After all, the yankees are not alone in the Uiverse.
Worm spamming. An outlook worm, which spams: it would connect to a website, get it's "instruction" (spam messages), then send itself along with the spam messages, to your outlook address list.
Now, which filter will be able to trap that, as it will always go to and come from legit addresses???
My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters," said Balan, a former truck driver and pinball machine mechanic.
And now, zoom to 5 years in the future:
... "Well, things are not so bad; I can manage to unglog 25 outhouses per week nowadays, and business is actually booming, thanks to all that junk food", said Balan, a former spammer and junk e-mailer.
The only problem, he says, "up here in the muskeg, are those damn black flies and those drunken prospectors who shoot at me even if I have an appointment to unclog his outhouse". That's because he's forced to change truck every week because he cannot afford a new one.
But that's not his least of worries. Every so often, the bomb squad has to be flown-in because of a suspicious package destined for Balan arrives in the Post-Office. They are usually packages of dead rotten rats or opossums, but sometimes there is some catshit or worse. Everytime, the community points at him because the Post-Office has to be cordoned-off, which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't also the local watering hole. And, everytime, the municipality has to pick-up the bill, so, for a few time, Balan had to fend-off some angry sober prospectors with prized bottles from his private collection.
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I vote for death Penalty for Spammers!
That would be cruel and unusual pubishment; didn't the US Supreme Court decide that executing retarded morons is unconstitutional???
If it doesn't need pressure to hold its shape, the helium/hydrogen can be at 1 atmosphere, and will only leak slowly if punctured. It would probably have multiple cells, many of which would have to be deflated to crash the ship. All together, it could be less fragile than a plane relying on thrust and airfoils for lift.
I remember reading a newspaper article a few months ago about a town that straddles the US/CDN border. The article discussed specific people, such as a lady who lives on the US side but works on the CDN side (or the other way around), or neighbours who live across the street from each other and are in different countries.
That's Rock-Island & Derby line, located on the US/Canada/Québec/Vermont border.
The opera house (bottom of the page) is built accross the international boundary; an actor during a play will cross the border several times... And a nearby bar has the pool table smack on the border...
A street runs astride the international boundary, and no one seems to object to the surveillance cameras that have been there for more than 20 years.
To end such zanyness, both the US and canadian governments passed a law prohibiting building less than 6 feet from the border (but there are a few common customs houses, though).
You don't need borders for that zanyness. German law defines citizenship by the mother, whereas the belgian one defines it by the father. So, a belgian woman I know had a first son from a german, then had a second from a french. Since France defines citizenship by the place of birth, both sons cannot have any citizenship at all! (They currently have UN passports).
With the extremely limited real estate on small devices, why use standard window controls (title bar, close box, etc.) which take up space? I would think it would make more sense to have an application take up the whole screen, and provide some space-friendly way to switch between them.
The Windoze disappearing taskbar is a good point to start; why not have the improductive window border with all the scroll bars, buttons and whatnot disappear beyond the screen edge, only to appear when the pointer hits the side?
"Donuts on a rope" HAS been explained. It is produced by PDW (Pulse Detonation Wave) engines. What hasn't been explained is what is making them, as there are no PDW engines officially in use yet. Much speculation is that the ultra- secret US spy plane Aurora is what's creating these. Some spy plane, if it leaves such a distinctive signature!
Makes sense. An explosion (a high-pressure squirt of gas) funnelled through a narrow exhaust pipe will most likely produce a torus, like a smoker blowing rings of smoke, or a diver making ring-bubbles at his decompression stop...
This makes me wonder/question/revisit the old debate of nature/nurture?
Is it possible that Escher's brain was wired in a particular way that allowed
him to create works of art based on mathetic principles without knowing the
underlying structure? I.e. was escher following principles of cellular automata
or something like it?
Perhaps. Some people's brains are better than other at extrapolating phenomenon after
a cursory glance; mathematics simply attempts to formally describe the extrapolation,
so people who are unable to extrapolate by themselves can do so by applying
the formal principles. Maurits Cornellis Escher was amongst the former people, and university gratuates are amongst the
latter.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't America the first to come out with stringent emissions standards for cars? Take California, who's heading for a zero-emissions standard by the end of the decade - there's no country taking such a firm stance on emissions.
The US (US!=America) were the "first" to enact low-emiision laws (which were fighted tooth and nail by the car cartels) simply because they were the first to be choked with exhaust fumes, especially California which, thanks to Los-Angeles, was the leader in the choking "revolution".
Coming back from an extended trip of Europe and Asia, I was appalled at how far behind our cell phone technology is. ... Now, why can't we have that here in the States?
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He must have used one goto somewhere...
I understand that this could be construed as funny, but it strikes me as rather distasteful.
After all, the yankees are not alone in the Uiverse.
Worm spamming. An outlook worm, which spams: it would connect to a website, get it's "instruction" (spam messages), then send itself along with the spam messages, to your outlook address list.
Now, which filter will be able to trap that, as it will always go to and come from legit addresses???
Scary.
"Well, things are not so bad; I can manage to unglog 25 outhouses per week nowadays, and business is actually booming, thanks to all that junk food", said Balan, a former spammer and junk e-mailer.
The only problem, he says, "up here in the muskeg, are those damn black flies and those drunken prospectors who shoot at me even if I have an appointment to unclog his outhouse". That's because he's forced to change truck every week because he cannot afford a new one.
But that's not his least of worries. Every so often, the bomb squad has to be flown-in because of a suspicious package destined for Balan arrives in the Post-Office. They are usually packages of dead rotten rats or opossums, but sometimes there is some catshit or worse. Everytime, the community points at him because the Post-Office has to be cordoned-off, which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't also the local watering hole. And, everytime, the municipality has to pick-up the bill, so, for a few time, Balan had to fend-off some angry sober prospectors with prized bottles from his private collection.
No, but the editors are getting paid for it...
The opera house (bottom of the page) is built accross the international boundary; an actor during a play will cross the border several times... And a nearby bar has the pool table smack on the border...
A street runs astride the international boundary, and no one seems to object to the surveillance cameras that have been there for more than 20 years.
To end such zanyness, both the US and canadian governments passed a law prohibiting building less than 6 feet from the border (but there are a few common customs houses, though).
You don't need borders for that zanyness. German law defines citizenship by the mother, whereas the belgian one defines it by the father. So, a belgian woman I know had a first son from a german, then had a second from a french. Since France defines citizenship by the place of birth, both sons cannot have any citizenship at all! (They currently have UN passports).
I don't think I'd want all those aliens in the post-office twiddling with my bits...
Perhaps. Some people's brains are better than other at extrapolating phenomenon after a cursory glance; mathematics simply attempts to formally describe the extrapolation, so people who are unable to extrapolate by themselves can do so by applying the formal principles. Maurits Cornellis Escher was amongst the former people, and university gratuates are amongst the latter.
Just got the time to save everything and mirror it here before the Slashdot effect doomed the whole thing...
Not for service, but for profits.