I was tempted to make it into the "Lays of Ancient Rome Tour"; using it as some sort of basis for a LART, but it got too convoluted.
but seriously, most high school grads would only see the suggestive interpretation, and make light of it, instead of understanding one of the better bits of writing in the english language.
and then there are the in-duh-viduals in management or sales.
of course, it is always easy to put down some one who has more money than you do.
although it must be also admitted that an education focused purely into high tech might find such nicities as "The Lays of Ancient Rome" as unimportant, or ignorantly read into it a suggestive title where nothing of the sort exists.
Cluelessness has many guises, and it is probably a wise person who knows their blind spots.
Natural Killers �Turning the Tide of Battle
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"A natural killer is a person who has a predisposition to kill--he enjoys combat and feels little or no remorse about killing the enemy. These men have existed throughout the history of warfare, and their feats have often been hailed as heroic. They constitute less than 4 percent of the force, yet some studies show that they do almost half of the killing."
Fascinating. Looks like the spartans were able to condense those few into a single elite unit.
but this also raises some interesting questions about Our system of social values, since the military naturally wants certains values in people that are not always the best ones to have in a peaceful society.
1) Most of the Diagnosis that attribute a illness to some chemical imbalance are speculative, and do not specify the chemical imbalance. They are more the result of a system design for the profit of your friendly neighbohood drug company.
could you imagine diagnosising a system problem that way?
We don't know what is wrong, but the noise abates when you use this handy hand grenade.
2) With the new evidence that brains do change over a life, and are continually growing, adding and changing connections, constantly remapping, the thought of a simple diagnosis
3) thought patterns change and manipulate brain chemistry as much as altering brain chemistry can alter thought (as in drugs and drunkeness)
So the premise of ADD is looking more and more primitive.
All too often a diagnosis of ADD is a diagnosis of an adult not doing the home work.
things that have been done that corrected ADD without Drugs include:
a) proper diet: Those chocolate covered sugar bombs for breakfast help out alot (NOT)
b) enviroment: moving to a safe neighborhood so that you are not dodging bullets all the time lessens the stress level
c) changing schools/teachers to someone who is not clueless and a system that is not clueless
d) changing education goals to something beside socialization and COMPLIANCE to a factory / corporate norm
e) handling home life so that the main social education is NOT jerry springer and soap operas.
f) rote learning to pass a test (NOT) instead of competant understanding. ETC.
Of course, in any case where this handles, the glib assertion is made that it really wasn't ADD then.
[SNORT]
yeh right..... with all of the talk about human diversity, and how people become social outcasts, you would think we would know better.
It lets you do a grep across many international domains. If you want to search the full list of over 200 domain, it will send you an email with the full results.
The whole idea is to use images that communicate well to the public the positive elements of Linux, and the open source community
While the Linux penguin will not communicate to the broad masses, it should be included someplace, even if discretely as a trademark symbol. The majority of the imagery should communicate the basic idea of open source and community construction.
So, here is my stab at this....
The image of an open door is a good image. It should be fairly close to the door, so that you see most of the outside image.
A Nice touch (tm) would be if the door had a small four paneled window in it. The panels of the windows should be dingy or colored glass, with one of the panels broken. The window is not an emphasized element of the picture. It is merely secondary, as an appropriate dig.
Looking out the door you see a picture of a town or city under contruction. An obviously vibrant community working together to build a village/town/city/castle/spaceport/etc. that is a thing of beauty. All of the inhabitants can be penguins, or there can be a topiary in that shape, etc. or else subtly included in the shapes of the design.
the majority of the art is in the depiction of the village/city/castle/spaceport/etc. Alot of fun can be had here.
a variation of this is looking out through a broken window of a castle - looking out over the scene below. This has pluses and minusses as well
based on the idea of penguins workers: a subtitle can be something like:
When I saw this, all the bells went ding ding ding.
Of course, when the AI software with the genetic programming first comes out, it will be expensive as hell. Or at least someone will try to make it that way.
What will Microsoft do with a self programming, self debugging OS? It certainly could put MS out of the OS business. As it no longer could sell continious upgrades every other year.
So we are left speculating on what the new technologies are going to be that will demand the knowledge workers of tomorrow.
Many companies will continue on with what they have because it is convenient. Just take a look at all of the companies rushing about furiously because of the Y2k issues. So there will continue to be a market for the older technologies. Just as there is today a market for Cobol programmers.
The demand to keep up will continue to be there, and ultimately the truly valued commodities will be those thing not easily reproducable.
This was originally posted on the Ain't it Cool News website back in August (1999), and you can find the original full story here.
The interesting bit is this:
"Interestingly enough, there was a surprising lack on consistency between the reports, save for info on one of the titles - Gene Roddenberry's PHOENIX RISING. All of the reports about this show said pretty much the same thing. Thus, the Phoenix Rising information should be considered rather reliable, although please be aware some changes will likely come down during the show's developmental process."
....
"Gene Roddenberry's PHOENIX RISING. Phoenix Rising is being developed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine alumni Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
FLASH BACK: Remember Roddenberry's two series pilots from the '70s (Genesis II and Planet Earth)? Both featured a man called Dylan Hunt being frozen in (more or less) modern day, then revived on an Earth that has fallen to great savagery and barbarism. The point of the proposed series would have been for Hunt and his sidekicks to work towards reuniting and re-unifying mankind. Remember this concept for a moment, and the name Dylan Hunt.
PRESENT DAY: Robert Hewitt Wolfe conceives of his "perfect" Star Trek series: a series set thousands of years in Star Trek's future. The galaxy is in turmoil, all of the governments to which Trek fans are accustomed have crumbled and imploded. The galaxy is a really screwed up place: Vulcans have renounced their logic and are now savage enemies of anyone who crosses them. Homeless Klingons roam space in violent packs of attack ships. The Federation is long gone - but it is an ideal not forgotten to those living in this untamed reality.
A Federation Starship...an "Enterprise" from a bit further down the ship's lineage...is discovered drifting in space, its Captain (and maybe a few crew) are frozen in stasis. Ship and crew are revived, and are horrified by the galaxy to which they awaken. Using their Enterprise as an icon for the cohesion and strength that used to be (but is now lost), Enterprise and her rag-tag crew set out to restore the Federation to what it once was, and restore peace and balance to the galaxy.
It is unclear if Wolfe ever formally approached Paramount with this Trek series concept. None the less, the basic idea for his series is finding its way into a new (non-Trek) "Roddenberry" series called Phoenix Rising.
Take the Genesis II / Planet Earth scenarios mentioned above...throw them together with Wolfe's "ideal" Star Trek series...and you get Gene Roddenberry's PHOENIX RISING. PR is the tale of a spaceship and captain found drifting in deep space. They are revived into a galaxy that is all messed-up. They set about trying to restore peace and order to the way of things - by trying to re-unite the galaxy and resurrect the glorious old days of solidarity and (relative) peace. It's a tough job in a tough place, but somebody's gotta do it.
Given this formula, one significant question sticks out: this "galaxy in decay" notion would have worked magnificently on Star Trek - as viewers would already have a general frame of reference for what Trek history looks like & feels like. Thus, we can understand what has actually been lost, and are able to visualize what our heroes are trying to resurrect.
But Phoenix Rising does not have the benefit of dealing with such solid and established notions of what has come before, because its back history (on which the entire series is predicated) has never been seen or experienced by the audience. As such, one concern regarding Phoenix Rising is that our heroes will be struggling towards a "new order" / "golden age" which has no resonance or point of association to the viewer. Thus, the "goal" of the series might seem tenuous or abstract, unless the show (somehow) conceives of a brilliant & effective way to convey the coveted age of hope which our characters are striving to bring back - so we can associate with what their endgame really is.
As far as I can tell, Hercules' Kevin Sorbo has expressed great interest in playing the revived captain in Phoenix Rising, although no final decisions have been made on this. I am told that Sorbo will either go for PR, or Gene Roddenberry's ANDROMEDA (see below).
Phoenix Rising is currently being developed with an eye towards a Fall 2000 premiere."
.....
I would LOVE to see it a star trek series developed as mentioned above, but it looks like Paramount will find a way to mess with it again and screw it up...
and I haven't seen anything as far as recent news on Phoenix Rising, since I am not really that heavy of a TV watcher, etc...
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but seriously, most high school grads would only see the suggestive interpretation, and make light of it, instead of understanding one of the better bits of writing in the english language.
and then there are the in-duh-viduals in management or sales.
although it must be also admitted that an education focused purely into high tech might find such nicities as "The Lays of Ancient Rome" as unimportant, or ignorantly read into it a suggestive title where nothing of the sort exists.
Cluelessness has many guises, and it is probably a wise person who knows their blind spots.
"A natural killer is a person who has a predisposition to kill--he enjoys combat and feels little or no remorse about killing the enemy. These men have existed throughout the history of warfare, and their feats have often been hailed as heroic. They constitute less than 4 percent of the force, yet some studies show that they do almost half of the killing."
Fascinating. Looks like the spartans were able to condense those few into a single elite unit.
but this also raises some interesting questions about Our system of social values, since the military naturally wants certains values in people that are not always the best ones to have in a peaceful society.
1) Most of the Diagnosis that attribute a illness to some chemical imbalance are speculative, and do not specify the chemical imbalance. They are more the result of a system design for the profit of your friendly neighbohood drug company.
could you imagine diagnosising a system problem that way?
We don't know what is wrong, but the noise abates when you use this handy hand grenade.
2) With the new evidence that brains do change over a life, and are continually growing, adding and changing connections, constantly remapping, the thought of a simple diagnosis
3) thought patterns change and manipulate brain chemistry as much as altering brain chemistry can alter thought (as in drugs and drunkeness)
So the premise of ADD is looking more and more primitive.
All too often a diagnosis of ADD is a diagnosis of an adult not doing the home work.
things that have been done that corrected ADD without Drugs include:
a) proper diet: Those chocolate covered sugar bombs for breakfast help out alot (NOT)
b) enviroment: moving to a safe neighborhood so that you are not dodging bullets all the time lessens the stress level
c) changing schools/teachers to someone who is not clueless and a system that is not clueless
d) changing education goals to something beside socialization and COMPLIANCE to a factory / corporate norm
e) handling home life so that the main social education is NOT jerry springer and soap operas.
f) rote learning to pass a test (NOT) instead of competant understanding. ETC.
Of course, in any case where this handles, the glib assertion is made that it really wasn't ADD then.
[SNORT]
yeh right ..... with all of the talk about human diversity, and how people become social outcasts, you would think we would know better.
??????
I mean it could happen, couldn't it?
got to this URL
http://www.websajt.nu/whois/
It lets you do a grep across many international domains. If you want to search the full list of over 200 domain, it will send you an email with the full results.
actually kinda neat
Just thinking about this, since corporations are legal entities held to be the equivalent (in many regards) to legal persons.
Are there Corporate Equivalents to crimes that private individuals may create, such as:
Assualt & Battery
Murder
Rape
etc.
be this against private individuals or other corporations, etc?
and what would be the equivalent penalties -
Is there a corporate equivalent of an electric chair? or should one even exist?
and how is this covered under anti-trust law?
The whole idea is to use images that communicate well to the public the positive elements of Linux, and the open source community
While the Linux penguin will not communicate to the broad masses, it should be included someplace, even if discretely as a trademark symbol. The majority of the imagery should communicate the basic idea of open source and community construction.
So, here is my stab at this ....
The image of an open door is a good image. It should be fairly close to the door, so that you see most of the outside image.
A Nice touch (tm) would be if the door had a small four paneled window in it. The panels of the windows should be dingy or colored glass, with one of the panels broken. The window is not an emphasized element of the picture. It is merely secondary, as an appropriate dig.
Looking out the door you see a picture of a town or city under contruction. An obviously vibrant community working together to build a village/town/city/castle/spaceport/etc. that is a thing of beauty. All of the inhabitants can be penguins, or there can be a topiary in that shape, etc. or else subtly included in the shapes of the design.
the majority of the art is in the depiction of the village/city/castle/spaceport/etc. Alot of fun can be had here.
a variation of this is looking out through a broken window of a castle - looking out over the scene below. This has pluses and minusses as well
based on the idea of penguins workers: a subtitle can be something like:
"Watch out for the Penguins"
When I saw this, all the bells went ding ding ding.
Of course, when the AI software with the genetic programming first comes out, it will be expensive as hell. Or at least someone will try to make it that way.
What will Microsoft do with a self programming, self debugging OS? It certainly could put MS out of the OS business. As it no longer could sell continious upgrades every other year.
So we are left speculating on what the new technologies are going to be that will demand the knowledge workers of tomorrow.
Many companies will continue on with what they have because it is convenient. Just take a look at all of the companies rushing about furiously because of the Y2k issues. So there will continue to be a market for the older technologies. Just as there is today a market for Cobol programmers.
The demand to keep up will continue to be there, and ultimately the truly valued commodities will be those thing not easily reproducable.
This was originally posted on the Ain't it Cool News website back in August (1999), and you can find the original full story here.
The interesting bit is this:
"Interestingly enough, there was a surprising lack on consistency between the reports, save for info on one of the titles - Gene Roddenberry's PHOENIX RISING. All of the reports about this show said pretty much the same thing. Thus, the Phoenix Rising information should be considered rather reliable, although please be aware some changes will likely come down during the show's developmental process."
....
"Gene Roddenberry's PHOENIX RISING. Phoenix Rising is being developed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine alumni Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
FLASH BACK: Remember Roddenberry's two series pilots from the '70s (Genesis II and Planet Earth)? Both featured a man called Dylan Hunt being frozen in (more or less) modern day, then revived on an Earth that has fallen to great savagery and barbarism. The point of the proposed series would have been for Hunt and his sidekicks to work towards reuniting and re-unifying mankind. Remember this concept for a moment, and the name Dylan Hunt.
PRESENT DAY: Robert Hewitt Wolfe conceives of his "perfect" Star Trek series: a series set thousands of years in Star Trek's future. The galaxy is in turmoil, all of the governments to which Trek fans are accustomed have crumbled and imploded. The galaxy is a really screwed up place: Vulcans have renounced their logic and are now savage enemies of anyone who crosses them. Homeless Klingons roam space in violent packs of attack ships. The Federation is long gone - but it is an ideal not forgotten to those living in this untamed reality.
A Federation Starship...an "Enterprise" from a bit further down the ship's lineage...is discovered drifting in space, its Captain (and maybe a few crew) are frozen in stasis. Ship and crew are revived, and are horrified by the galaxy to which they awaken. Using their Enterprise as an icon for the cohesion and strength that used to be (but is now lost), Enterprise and her rag-tag crew set out to restore the Federation to what it once was, and restore peace and balance to the galaxy.
It is unclear if Wolfe ever formally approached Paramount with this Trek series concept. None the less, the basic idea for his series is finding its way into a new (non-Trek) "Roddenberry" series called Phoenix Rising.
Take the Genesis II / Planet Earth scenarios mentioned above...throw them together with Wolfe's "ideal" Star Trek series...and you get Gene Roddenberry's PHOENIX RISING. PR is the tale of a spaceship and captain found drifting in deep space. They are revived into a galaxy that is all messed-up. They set about trying to restore peace and order to the way of things - by trying to re-unite the galaxy and resurrect the glorious old days of solidarity and (relative) peace. It's a tough job in a tough place, but somebody's gotta do it.
Given this formula, one significant question sticks out: this "galaxy in decay" notion would have worked magnificently on Star Trek - as viewers would already have a general frame of reference for what Trek history looks like & feels like. Thus, we can understand what has actually been lost, and are able to visualize what our heroes are trying to resurrect.
But Phoenix Rising does not have the benefit of dealing with such solid and established notions of what has come before, because its back history (on which the entire series is predicated) has never been seen or experienced by the audience. As such, one concern regarding Phoenix Rising is that our heroes will be struggling towards a "new order" / "golden age" which has no resonance or point of association to the viewer. Thus, the "goal" of the series might seem tenuous or abstract, unless the show (somehow) conceives of a brilliant & effective way to convey the coveted age of hope which our characters are striving to bring back - so we can associate with what their endgame really is.
As far as I can tell, Hercules' Kevin Sorbo has expressed great interest in playing the revived captain in Phoenix Rising, although no final decisions have been made on this. I am told that Sorbo will either go for PR, or Gene Roddenberry's ANDROMEDA (see below).
Phoenix Rising is currently being developed with an eye towards a Fall 2000 premiere."
.....
I would LOVE to see it a star trek series developed as mentioned above, but it looks like Paramount will find a way to mess with it again and screw it up...
and I haven't seen anything as far as recent news on Phoenix Rising, since I am not really that heavy of a TV watcher, etc...
but one can always hope, I suppose...