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Amongst your immediate inner circle of friends, would you say that whether they are computer knowledgeable or not has affected the amount of support/disapprocal they displayed towards yourself? -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
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165,000,000 = proper public education so the people who cannot pay for private schools do not end-up on welfare.
The problem is that it won't fly with the bourgeois mentality who need a steady flock of easily gullible people either to work for them or simply to buy the junk they sell... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Actually, some 15 years ago, they DID take an Imax camera aboard a shuttle, and made a 30 minute flick out of it.
The most impressive part is when, in less than two minute, you see whe whole of Italy going by, on the screen, starting from the Piemonte and finishing in the Puglia. -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
HGttG is fine, but it must be understood as a satire of most Science-Fiction genres and ideas.
(Does someone has a MP3ed version of the radio show? I NEVER heard it and would dearly like to) Not necessarly good as a first read, but definitely de rigueur as a digestive after swallowing some Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Alfred E. Van Vogt or Jack Williamson... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
> Where did the scene with the soldiers handing the kids the guns come from? > The nazi uniforms? All creations of the moron directing it.
Come to think of it, in that respect, Dune (the movie) wasn't much better; the Atréides House staff uniforms were definitely of tsarist russian inspiration...
But Dune, the movie, was an excellent adaptation of the book; you identified the characters (especially Thufir Hawat, Gurney Halleck & Duncan Idaho) at first sight... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Some 15 years ago, I proposed to a Neural Netowrks researcher to hook his own brain to an external neural network, and use it as an extension of his brein. Over time, and as the neural net is expanded, more and more brain functions would have migrated to the neural net, and, given the redundant nature of the human brain, at one point, one would arrive to the point that the biological brain can simply be discarded. Voilà! Immortality without scanning!
But the researcher looked at me as if I asked him to jog naked around Times Square... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Some 15 years ago, I proposed to a Neural Netowrks researcher to hook his own brain to an external neural network, and use it as an extension of his brein. Over time, and as the neural net is expanded, more and more brain functions would have migrated to the neural net, and, given the redundant nature of the human brain, at one point, one would arrive to the point that the biological brain can simply be discarded. Voilà! Immortality without scanning! But the researcher looked at me as if I asked him to jog naked around Times Square... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Was that a "Carbon pile" voltage regulator? For years, railroad passenger cars used an incredible contraption to regulate voltage: a "variable relay" where a varying control voltage applied through a solenoid exerced a variable mechanical pressure on a pile of carbon, thus varying it's resitance and allowing a crude regulation...
The idea was to have a constant voltage out of a variable one coming from the axle-driven generator. This was cool: by pushing the solenoid by hand, you could have all the lights in the car fluctuating wildly... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
Er, sorry to burst your bubble, but the automobile was not invented in the XIXth century, but a good 100 years earlier than that.
The first automobile was invented in 1769 (Yup! 6 years before the US Revolution) by Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot who built a crude front-wheel drive steam-powered tractor, primarly intended to haul cannons.
Unfortunately, the limitations of the technology of the times did not enable him to address the problems inherent in developping a compact-enough steam engines. -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
The development of railroads in the XIXth century certainly did the most for Mankind.
By enabling cheap large-scale overland transportation of people and goods, the secular patterns of stagnating civilization that were the norm since the dawn of Humanity were irretrieavably shattered, leading to unprecedented wealth and freedom from the old demons of famin and isolation.
What? No, we're still in the XXth century, so the last century HAS to be the XIXth... -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
... I just spent the whole yesterday cooped-up in a large walk-in closed with routers and hubs and servers.
The hubs are mounted on such a poor man's chassis, cheaply done:
Two parallel vertical plywood boards 19 inches apart (you could use 2x4s, actually), with one of those bolted "meccano"-like angled sheet metal strip with holes.
Voilà. Cheap rack. -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
>First, hearing what has happened to Jon Johansen sickens me. I always > thought that the Scandinavian countries were wiser about the Internet than the > US is -- look at how Sweden, Norway, & Finland have been at the forefront at defending > the rights of their citizens against the manuevers of the ``Church" of > Scientology to silence them.
Like closing anon.penet.fi??? -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
> If you knew you could end up losing your computers, all your files and possibly your > freedom, would you publically release something like DeCSS? Probably not, unless you've a yen > for martyrdom.
One word: "Backup", my dear, backup early and often. -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
> P.S. Yes, I used to play with Lego. And chemicals. Rockets. And old radios. Transistors. Repairing > things. And so on. Any kind of toy which had screws in it.
And now, what do you play with? Yourself? -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
> However, the Court refuses to issue an injunction against > linking to other websites which contain the protected > materials as such an order is overbroad and extremely > burdensome. Links to other websites are the mainstay of the > Internet and indispensable to its convenient access to the vast > world of information. A website owner cannot be held > responsible for all of the content of the sites to which it > provides links. Further, an order prohibiting linking to > websites with prohibited information is not necessary since the > Court has enjoined the posting of the information in the first instance.
> Nothing in this Order shall prohibit discussion, comment or > criticism, so long as the proprietary information > identified above is not disclosed or distributed.
Finally, here is one of the robed gentry who has truly grasped the significance of the philosophical issues that lay behind the Internet. -- "It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky"
> Calculus is OK, if it's taught well, but dx/dy on it's own won't have the same meaning > as "the rate at which something changes", and integrating is something people just don't > tend to do, on a day-to-day basis.
When I was 14, during lunch break, I asked my math teacher "What is Calculus exactly?". He took his pen, drew a y=f(x) function graph, and said, "This is a function". He then shaded the area between the x axis and the function plot. "And the area here is the integral of the function". He then drew tick-marks on the function line, and said "and when you're differentiating, you just calculate the slope between two close points".
There. I learned the idea behind calculus in less than 5 minutes, during lunch hour. Within the end of the day, I had written a program to integrate functions on my HP-25 calculator (during the english class)... But I was kicked-out of school before the curricula touched Calculus... -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> This is the future. The ability for anyone to submit a (good/ontopic/fun) question to (nobel > prize winners/CEOs/past presidents/etc.), and have it answered, is by far and away the most > impressive thing I've yet seen about this medium.
You mean it's the past. You just have described USENET 6 years ago, before the hordes of unwashed AOHELLers swamped it... -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
AVIS: Les responsables de ce site ont reçu hier une mise en demeure relative à une parodie de Yahoo! présentée aux lecteurs de Pssst! le 3 novembre 1999 par Groov3. Une copie de la mise en demeure a donc immédiatement été transmise à ce dernier. Les responsables de Pssst! sont dans l'impossibilité de faire davantage puisqu'ils ne possèdent aucun contrôle sur le site en litige, hébergé chez altern.org. La responsabilité de Pssst! Communications Inc. dans cette histoire se limite à avoir permis l'établissement d'un lien vers le site http://altern.org/groov3/yahoo. C'est ce qui sera signifié aux avocats de Yahoo! par voie officielle au cours des prochaines heures. Aucun autre commentaire ne sera fait pour le moment. Merci.
Notice: psst managers got a cease-and-desist bla bla bla. A copy has been sent to the author.
Psst cannot do anything since they don't control the site, hosted at ALTERN.ORG. The only thing Psst did was to link to the parody.
This will be signified to Yahoo lawyers by official channels. No more comment will be made. -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
The american people get what they deserve for not parcitipating more than they do in the political area. And, they're very quick to dismiss all politicos as greedy opportunists; after all, the rich corporations/special interest groups have everything to win by spreading the impression that a State is superfluous; after all, they have no need for a State.
The problem is that gradually, the Public is led to believe that it would also benefit by having no state at all, too.
But who does the State works for? The VOTING public! After all, big corporations/special interest groups don't vote! But if big corporations/special interest groups don't vote, they should not be allowed to subvert the democratic process to cater to their special needs.
As long as the public will swallow the whole hook, line and sinker propaganda about the "state being bad" that is spewed forth by big corporations/special interest groups, they'll only deserve to lose their freedom to those big corporations/special interest groups.
So, one day, they'll wake up to find all their "democratic" representatives appointed by big corporations/special interest groups, and then they'll have no choice but to do what the big corporations/special interest groups have decided that they should do. And since they did not vote for those big corporations/special interest groups, it's not likely that the public will be doing something very good for itself...
Is that freedom?
Freedom wears-out only when you don't use it. (Le Canard Enchaîné, a totally free French weekly) -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
It was Keir Dullea. When the space pod door explosion was filmed, he was simply thrown down into the airlock, and as he hits the back wall, he broke his arm. -- ---------------------------------------------- Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
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What amount of parental and family support have you been getting?
Amongst your immediate inner circle of friends, would you say that whether they are computer knowledgeable or not has affected the amount of support/disapprocal they displayed towards yourself?
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
The problem is that it won't fly with the bourgeois mentality who need a steady flock of easily gullible people either to work for them or simply to buy the junk they sell...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
The most impressive part is when, in less than two minute, you see whe whole of Italy going by, on the screen, starting from the Piemonte and finishing in the Puglia.
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
(Does someone has a MP3ed version of the radio show? I NEVER heard it and would dearly like to) Not necessarly good as a first read, but definitely de rigueur as a digestive after swallowing some Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Alfred E. Van Vogt or Jack Williamson...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
> The nazi uniforms? All creations of the moron directing it.
Come to think of it, in that respect, Dune (the movie) wasn't much better; the Atréides House staff uniforms were definitely of tsarist russian inspiration...
But Dune, the movie, was an excellent adaptation of the book; you identified the characters (especially Thufir Hawat, Gurney Halleck & Duncan Idaho) at first sight...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
Now, we'll have crappy, bugful software for Linux...
What a sad day!!!!
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
> like a nugget, and talks like a nugget, that's just not
> sufficient in my eyes.
But it will be sufficient in the eyes of your friends and loved ones...
The ultimate irony: immortality which doesn't benefit it's incument at all!!!
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
Voilà! Immortality without scanning!
But the researcher looked at me as if I asked him to jog naked around Times Square...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
Some 15 years ago, I proposed to a Neural Netowrks researcher to hook his own brain to an external neural network, and use it as an extension of his brein. Over time, and as the neural net is expanded, more and more brain functions would have migrated to the neural net, and, given the redundant nature of the human brain, at one point, one would arrive to the point that the biological brain can simply be discarded.
Voilà! Immortality without scanning! But the researcher looked at me as if I asked him to jog naked around Times Square...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
Yup! Turbo washing machines in 1904...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
The idea was to have a constant voltage out of a variable one coming from the axle-driven generator. This was cool: by pushing the solenoid by hand, you could have all the lights in the car fluctuating wildly...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
The first automobile was invented in 1769 (Yup! 6 years before the US Revolution) by Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot who built a crude front-wheel drive steam-powered tractor, primarly intended to haul cannons.
Unfortunately, the limitations of the technology of the times did not enable him to address the problems inherent in developping a compact-enough steam engines.
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
By enabling cheap large-scale overland transportation of people and goods, the secular patterns of stagnating civilization that were the norm since the dawn of Humanity were irretrieavably shattered, leading to unprecedented wealth and freedom from the old demons of famin and isolation.
What? No, we're still in the XXth century, so the last century HAS to be the XIXth...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
The hubs are mounted on such a poor man's chassis, cheaply done:
Two parallel vertical plywood boards 19 inches apart (you could use 2x4s, actually), with one of those bolted "meccano"-like angled sheet metal strip with holes.
Voilà. Cheap rack.
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
> thought that the Scandinavian countries were wiser about the Internet than the
> US is -- look at how Sweden, Norway, & Finland have been at the forefront at defending
> the rights of their citizens against the manuevers of the ``Church" of
> Scientology to silence them.
Like closing anon.penet.fi???
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
> freedom, would you publically release something like DeCSS? Probably not, unless you've a yen
> for martyrdom.
One word: "Backup", my dear, backup early and often.
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
> things. And so on. Any kind of toy which had screws in it.
And now, what do you play with? Yourself?
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
> linking to other websites which contain the protected
> materials as such an order is overbroad and extremely
> burdensome. Links to other websites are the mainstay of the
> Internet and indispensable to its convenient access to the vast
> world of information. A website owner cannot be held
> responsible for all of the content of the sites to which it
> provides links. Further, an order prohibiting linking to
> websites with prohibited information is not necessary since the
> Court has enjoined the posting of the information in the first instance.
> Nothing in this Order shall prohibit discussion, comment or
> criticism, so long as the proprietary information
> identified above is not disclosed or distributed.
Finally, here is one of the robed gentry who has truly grasped the significance of the philosophical issues that lay behind the Internet.
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
We should all email this to Jack Valenti, c/o webmaster@mpaa.org...
--
" It's a ligne Maginot-in-the-sky "
> as "the rate at which something changes", and integrating is something people just don't
> tend to do, on a day-to-day basis.
When I was 14, during lunch break, I asked my math teacher "What is Calculus exactly?".
He took his pen, drew a y=f(x) function graph, and said, "This is a function".
He then shaded the area between the x axis and the function plot. "And the area here is the integral of the function".
He then drew tick-marks on the function line, and said "and when you're differentiating, you just calculate the slope between two close points".
There. I learned the idea behind calculus in less than 5 minutes, during lunch hour. Within the end of the day, I had written a program to integrate functions on my HP-25 calculator (during the english class)...
But I was kicked-out of school before the curricula touched Calculus...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
> prize winners/CEOs/past presidents/etc.), and have it answered, is by far and away the most
> impressive thing I've yet seen about this medium.
You mean it's the past. You just have described USENET 6 years ago, before the hordes of unwashed AOHELLers swamped it...
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
Merci.
Notice: psst managers got a cease-and-desist bla bla bla. A copy has been sent to the author.
Psst cannot do anything since they don't control the site, hosted at ALTERN.ORG. The only thing Psst did was to link to the parody.
This will be signified to Yahoo lawyers by official channels. No more comment will be made.
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
http://search.vatican.va
(No, "VA" isn't for Virginia!!!)
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
The problem is that gradually, the Public is led to believe that it would also benefit by having no state at all, too.
But who does the State works for? The VOTING public! After all, big corporations/special interest groups don't vote! But if big corporations/special interest groups don't vote, they should not be allowed to subvert the democratic process to cater to their special needs.
As long as the public will swallow the whole hook, line and sinker propaganda about the "state being bad" that is spewed forth by big corporations/special interest groups, they'll only deserve to lose their freedom to those big corporations/special interest groups.
So, one day, they'll wake up to find all their "democratic" representatives appointed by big corporations/special interest groups, and then they'll have no choice but to do what the big corporations/special interest groups have decided that they should do. And since they did not vote for those big corporations/special interest groups, it's not likely that the public will be doing something very good for itself...
Is that freedom?
Freedom wears-out only when you don't use it. (Le Canard Enchaîné, a totally free French weekly)
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!
It was Keir Dullea. When the space pod door explosion was filmed, he was simply thrown down into the airlock, and as he hits the back wall, he broke his arm.
-- ----------------------------------------------
Vive le logiciel... Libre!!!