I just patented a device that falsifies the information. You program at home and take it to work If you leave it in you cubicle, you can go out to lunch at the boss thinks you still there. There is an orgasm mode that simulates the physiological aspects of sex. The heart attack mode is hilarious. It's funny has hell to watch your co-workers grab the defibrillator from the break room and run down the hall. Then there is dead mode...
Sadly, when OOXML is approved, all credibility for the standards process will be lost. Standards are boring, tedious, and often over worked, but they are important. The only good thing they had going for them was a modicum of fairness. And so it goes.
Except for the fact that as a registered independent, in my jurisdiction, I can't vote in the primaries. I will be forced to vote for either one of the two mainstream candidates or cast a protest vote for non-viable third party candidate.
Somehow we have come to expect a society free of risk. When a tragedy such as the Virginia Tech shooting occurs, we indulge in endless hand wringing and self examination, pining away for some abstract utopia where everybody walks around with happy faces. And out of that irrational, and ultimately un-achievable, desire for a perfectly safe universe comes actions such as arresting a straight-A student for writing a violent and disturbing essay. We are attempting to cure physical violence with "violence" against expressions of thought. Ultimately, we will gain neither physical safety nor intellectual honesty.
Alot of the responses show thought and intelligence, but the essential point is being missed. We are talking about laymen. I think the majority of people don't really care what the internet is and the best approach to this is a good analogy. Like this one:
Remember tin cans and string? For those don't know, take two tin cans, punch a hole in the bottoms and thread a string between the two. Stretch it tight and talk into one can while your friend holds the other to his ear. Magic! Voice transmission over string!
Well the internet, from the users perspective at least, is little different. Imagine everywhere you go there are cans connected with string. Only the cans are special - they have displays and key boards, and they do fancy stuff like play games and balance your check book. And the strings are all those fiber cables and stuff. Who cares about who ties the knots and keeps the strings untangled (ISPs, DNS, routers, blah, blah). I just want my can to work when I need it.
Cans and string. That's all it is.
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I just patented a device that falsifies the information. You program at home and take it to work If you leave it in you cubicle, you can go out to lunch at the boss thinks you still there. There is an orgasm mode that simulates the physiological aspects of sex. The heart attack mode is hilarious. It's funny has hell to watch your co-workers grab the defibrillator from the break room and run down the hall. Then there is dead mode...
Sadly, when OOXML is approved, all credibility for the standards process will be lost. Standards are boring, tedious, and often over worked, but they are important. The only good thing they had going for them was a modicum of fairness. And so it goes.
Except for the fact that as a registered independent, in my jurisdiction, I can't vote in the primaries. I will be forced to vote for either one of the two mainstream candidates or cast a protest vote for non-viable third party candidate.
He photo shopped gene simmons' tongue onto a pic of Balmer
Somehow we have come to expect a society free of risk. When a tragedy such as the Virginia Tech shooting occurs, we indulge in endless hand wringing and self examination, pining away for some abstract utopia where everybody walks around with happy faces. And out of that irrational, and ultimately un-achievable, desire for a perfectly safe universe comes actions such as arresting a straight-A student for writing a violent and disturbing essay. We are attempting to cure physical violence with "violence" against expressions of thought. Ultimately, we will gain neither physical safety nor intellectual honesty.
Alot of the responses show thought and intelligence, but the essential point is being missed. We are talking about laymen. I think the majority of people don't really care what the internet is and the best approach to this is a good analogy. Like this one: Remember tin cans and string? For those don't know, take two tin cans, punch a hole in the bottoms and thread a string between the two. Stretch it tight and talk into one can while your friend holds the other to his ear. Magic! Voice transmission over string! Well the internet, from the users perspective at least, is little different. Imagine everywhere you go there are cans connected with string. Only the cans are special - they have displays and key boards, and they do fancy stuff like play games and balance your check book. And the strings are all those fiber cables and stuff. Who cares about who ties the knots and keeps the strings untangled (ISPs, DNS, routers, blah, blah). I just want my can to work when I need it. Cans and string. That's all it is.