>>Personally I see space travel available to everyone in the not so distant future...
>i don't. where the fuck would you go? the moon? why? i think we all know that it would just be a bunch of golf courses for rich old people like every other resort.
Hmm. I don't know: a hotel in low earth orbit could be kinda cool, and even more so if it was at the top of a Star Ladder...
And what would people do there? Well in answer to that, may I remind you of a Slashdot article from about a month ago:o)
"And this just in: David Finton, an author for the internet humour site "Humorix" is being sued by the MPAA for patent infringment
'The "Corporate Media Conglomerate HOWTO" that he wrote is clearly in violation with our business plan, to which we hold at leat eight patents, even to the extent that many tracts seem to have just been copyed and pasted' said Jack Valentii, president of the MPAA
David Finton was unavailable for comment, as he had been immediatly imprisioned and held with out bail at the MPAA's request.
Perhaps they are going to produce a secret weapon: the electrified mole whacking machine!
This device will be able to whack moles faster than any traditional man-with-a-hammer technique ever could! In fact under test conditions the electrified mole whacking machine can whack up to 100 moles a minute!
We are all doomed. We might as well lay down our code and surrender.
Hmmm mmmm! Can you smell that wonderful propane, and the sickly sweet odour of charred human flesh? Yeah? Well *that*, my friend, is the smell you get from getting your ass flamed half way to Russia(*) and back.
Unfortunatly, this will require the use of HTML in E-mail, unless you want all your messages to smell of Vanilla essance.
(*) Note: Offer void in Russia or where prohibited by common sence.
To quote the draft: "This rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to allow the export and reexport of any encryption commodity or software to individuals, commercial firms, and other non-government end-users in all destinations."
So it seems that exporting to a govt. end user is still a no-no.
But, as you said, it doesn't stop export to a non-govt. user who the passes it on to the govt.
Well, if you read it carefully, you can't export to government destinations... probably doesn't mean much in the scheme of things, but it stuck in my mind ready to present its self when I read your comment:o)
Hmm. Yeah. I'd wondered about that too. Don't know the song your talking about though.
I'm afriad that because you need to infer so much else in the book ( SoCal/NoCal being the biggest ) that you are meant to infer the resolution of the book and I was just too stupid (or rather tired - I read the whole book in one sitting from 11pm on) to get it.
Had something to say about this in 'All tomorrow's Partys': (This is just off the top of my head because I can't be bothered finding the book) a sales clerk in a retro-computing store says "It is believed that all the 20th century computers were put in those boring beige cases because the invntors were afraid of the new power that they had discovered and wanted to reasure themselves that it was OK.":o)
On that same note, is it just me, or does "All tomorrow's partys" not actually have a very satisfying ending? The major conflict of the book seems to be igored when it comes to the rounding up chapters! Or am I just missing the obvious?
Now, the big question is, which conspircy? Take your pick:
-Mircrosoft payed off China -Microsoft threatend China -Microsoft traded nucular secrets to China -China was actually trying to hide the fact that Microsoft had boycotted them, but managed to cut a deal (once again either money, violence or nuclar secrets) -The Red Hat prototype mind control laser had the Chinese govt. in its thrall until Microsoft Stormtroopers managed to destroy it
While I think that you may me exagerating just a *little*, you basicly have a point.
If you allow me the cynisism of saying that all authority ultimatly comes from violence, you'll see that the only thing stoping a millitary dictatorship in the US is that the millitary doesn't seem to want to take over:o)
Why this may be is beyond the point (Patriotism, Stupidity, whatever) - If they wanted to take over they could.
And while some people might see this as a good reason for that pesky Right to Bear Arms that you Americans hold onto so dearly, *I* see it a good reason to not have an orginized fighting force at all. Yes yes, I know. I'm living in a dream world - its never going to happen, for all the obvious reasons, but a guy can dream, can't he?
Now, getting back on topic, this whole insident seems to be the 'classic' [and I'm just basing this on hearsay] symptom of beurocrasy: people desciding that they arn't being paid to think. Obviously, from what was in the artical at least, none of what was seized comes anywhere *near* what the law specifies
"We need to protect our children by keeping them ignorant?"
To (mis)quote Terry Pratchett: 'Under the curcumstances, this would be like protecting you children from assult by not telling them about self-defence'
Yeah, I admit that would work, but I wouldn't be happy about world domination unless I used lasers. For preference I would like to use gamma ray lasers, mounted on stealth satilites that I control from my secret base on the far side of the moon.
Plan B would be to use a particle acelerator to make a black hole.
C'mon! *Every* one wants a giant battle robot of their very own. Just up scale one of those babys about 50 or 60 times, and stick on some laser cannon...
Although, when I start thinking about it, mapping out a whole city for it might take a while... and don't even *think* about trying to take over the world.
Hmm. I'd probably be better of welding an M16 to the back of an AIBO.
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>>Personally I see space travel available to everyone in the not so distant future ...
:o)
>i don't. where the fuck would you go? the moon? why? i think we all know that it would just be a bunch of golf courses for rich old people like every other resort.
Hmm. I don't know: a hotel in low earth orbit could be kinda cool, and even more so if it was at the top of a Star Ladder...
And what would people do there? Well in answer to that, may I remind you of a Slashdot article from about a month ago
My hope of hopes is that this will incite a second 'space race', this time between the US and China:
:o( Oh well. It might get NASA some more funding.
"Oh, well you think you're so hot, getting a man in orbit and all... well *we* can go to Mars! Uh... right? Guys? We can go to Mars right?"
But that probably won't happen
Punched cards? pfar! They'd rot. Carved stone tablets are the way to go.
Hmm. but friction from the read (write?) heads could eat it over time...
Ok... how about we use huge blocks of nutronium...
Oh but for god's sake be polite!
Or at the very least, be creativly impolite: send a trout. Or something.
"And this just in: David Finton, an author for the internet humour site "Humorix" is being sued by the MPAA for patent infringment
'The "Corporate Media Conglomerate HOWTO" that he wrote is clearly in violation with our business plan, to which we hold at leat eight patents, even to the extent that many tracts seem to have just been copyed and pasted' said Jack Valentii, president of the MPAA
David Finton was unavailable for comment, as he had been immediatly imprisioned and held with out bail at the MPAA's request.
The case is planned to go to court in 8 months."
Perhaps they are going to produce a secret weapon: the electrified mole whacking machine!
This device will be able to whack moles faster than any traditional man-with-a-hammer technique ever could! In fact under test conditions the electrified mole whacking machine can whack up to 100 moles a minute!
We are all doomed. We might as well lay down our code and surrender.
Hmmm mmmm! Can you smell that wonderful propane, and the sickly sweet odour of charred human flesh? Yeah? Well *that*, my friend, is the smell you get from getting your ass flamed half way to Russia(*) and back.
Unfortunatly, this will require the use of HTML in E-mail, unless you want all your messages to smell of Vanilla essance.
(*) Note: Offer void in Russia or where prohibited by common sence.
I'll tell you what's next: it'll be 'Wake up Neo. The Matrix has you' time.
and the bitterly ironic part is that AOL now has "The Matrix". Oh the humanity.
How do you know they don't just reboot reality while you sleep, huh? HUH?!
I guess you just need to *stop* sleeping*!
Doh! You asked what section. That quote was lifted straight out of the summary at the begining of the draft. Sorry.
To quote the draft: "This rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to allow the export and reexport of any encryption commodity or software to individuals, commercial firms, and other non-government end-users in all destinations."
So it seems that exporting to a govt. end user is still a no-no.
But, as you said, it doesn't stop export to a non-govt. user who the passes it on to the govt.
Well, if you read it carefully, you can't export to government destinations... probably doesn't mean much in the scheme of things, but it stuck in my mind ready to present its self when I read your comment :o)
Surely not the *most* minor: the guy in the motion capture suit is even less featured :o)
I understand what you are talking about, but in my mind its akin to ending a book with "...and then some stuff happened. The End."
Hmm. Yeah. I'd wondered about that too. Don't know the song your talking about though.
I'm afriad that because you need to infer so much else in the book ( SoCal/NoCal being the biggest ) that you are meant to infer the resolution of the book and I was just too stupid (or rather tired - I read the whole book in one sitting from 11pm on) to get it.
Had something to say about this in 'All tomorrow's Partys': (This is just off the top of my head because I can't be bothered finding the book) a sales clerk in a retro-computing store says "It is believed that all the 20th century computers were put in those boring beige cases because the invntors were afraid of the new power that they had discovered and wanted to reasure themselves that it was OK." :o)
On that same note, is it just me, or does "All tomorrow's partys" not actually have a very satisfying ending? The major conflict of the book seems to be igored when it comes to the rounding up chapters! Or am I just missing the obvious?
Now, the big question is, which conspircy? Take your pick:
-Mircrosoft payed off China
-Microsoft threatend China
-Microsoft traded nucular secrets to China
-China was actually trying to hide the fact that Microsoft had boycotted them, but managed to cut a deal (once again either money, violence or nuclar secrets)
-The Red Hat prototype mind control laser had the Chinese govt. in its thrall until Microsoft Stormtroopers managed to destroy it
Of course, that raises the question 'How do you disband the military once you realize they are a threat to the government?' :o)
You use windows to run your brain? Sounds... dangerous.
While I think that you may me exagerating just a *little*, you basicly have a point.
:o)
If you allow me the cynisism of saying that all authority ultimatly comes from violence, you'll see that the only thing stoping a millitary dictatorship in the US is that the millitary doesn't seem to want to take over
Why this may be is beyond the point (Patriotism, Stupidity, whatever) - If they wanted to take over they could.
And while some people might see this as a good reason for that pesky Right to Bear Arms that you Americans hold onto so dearly, *I* see it a good reason to not have an orginized fighting force at all.
Yes yes, I know. I'm living in a dream world - its never going to happen, for all the obvious reasons, but a guy can dream, can't he?
Now, getting back on topic, this whole insident seems to be the 'classic' [and I'm just basing this on hearsay] symptom of beurocrasy: people desciding that they arn't being paid to think.
Obviously, from what was in the artical at least, none of what was seized comes anywhere *near* what the law specifies
"We need to protect our children by keeping them ignorant?"
To (mis)quote Terry Pratchett:
'Under the curcumstances, this would be like protecting you children from assult by not telling them about self-defence'
We don't know the mechinism by which gravity works, which is what was meant.
Being able to predict how a situation will behave, based *soley* on an emprical formula does not mean we understand *why* it behaves that way.
Well, its obvious that both logos are a reference to the all seeing pyramid of the Illuminati.
Yeah, I admit that would work, but I wouldn't be happy about world domination unless I used lasers.
For preference I would like to use gamma ray lasers, mounted on stealth satilites that I control from my secret base on the far side of the moon.
Plan B would be to use a particle acelerator to make a black hole.
I'm rather certain that Ben-Hur was longer then three hours.
And if you think that movies should only be eye candy, you obviously haven't watched many movies that haven't been made in Hollywood.
C'mon! *Every* one wants a giant battle robot of their very own.
Just up scale one of those babys about 50 or 60 times, and stick on some laser cannon...
Although, when I start thinking about it, mapping out a whole city for it might take a while... and don't even *think* about trying to take over the world.
Hmm. I'd probably be better of welding an M16 to the back of an AIBO.