The ad agency I admin sends out an average of 17 CD-Rs a day. That's out, it doesn't even count backups and archives. And the number will rise as Jaz and Zips are phased out.
Communism is an economic theory. Period. End of fucking paragraph.
Giving stuff away for free is communistic in that it is redistribution of wealth. That it is voluntary is beside the point. Saying communism is simply removal of private property is as ignorant and naive as saying capitalism is simply stealing the profits of other's labor.
I vehemently disagree... sort of. You mistake sovietism and maoism for the economic philosophy those systems were attempting to attain. A core principle of communism is the ownership of the means of production by those who operate the means: the workers. This is a similar concept as that behind free software, but the dissimilarity of information technology and industrial tech stretch the analogy quite a bit.
Giving stuff away for free is communistic, but it only matters if it is required.
From this link: When the war was over, the Loyalists found that their property had been either confiscated or destroyed by the triumphant revolutionists and that many of them were banished under penalty of death. A great number of Loyalists were also tortured and publicly humiliated.
And from here (the very first return from the search "French maquis terror"): In my wartime youth a member of French Maquis who threw a bomb into a café killing a few German officers and a number of innocent drinkers was a hero of the resistance.
Both comments support my contention, if not exactly your straw man 'suicide bombers' contention.
Did the comment I was replying to mention any specific situation? No? Thank you.
So you like to conclude that germany is a tyranic nation?
Uh, no, I concluded that German occupied Vichy France was a tyrannical nation.
As you are only playing with words and are obviously not participating in the question: "Is that particular law suit understandable, at least, right or wrong?"
Look at the top of your post I am responding to. There is the statement in question. It is a general statement, not a specific one. As for your specific question, the law suit is understandable under German law and is wrong for the reasons I outlined in the general case. Such a ruling could be used to stifle legitimate dissent if the nation were to resubside into fascism or something equally repressive.
Actually, both guerilla and terrorist refer to tactics. Non governmental forces are irregulars.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the firebombing of Dresden all fit nicely into your definition of terrorism. The fact that they are not called so while the missle bombardment of London is called terrorism points us to the real definition: The enemy commits terror, not us.
The American revolution was started by irregular forces famous for not setting up in lines.
First of all, the claim I am responding to is general, not specific. Secondly, go read a history book or two before calling me naive. Your purile ideas on the 'niceness' of the American revolution and French Maquis are elementry school level pap at best.
Posting instructions of how to commit crimes (sabotage in this case) should be prohibited across boarders.
By your logic the Allies in WWII were in the wrong for giving information on sabotage tactics to the French resistance. So much for supporting freedom fighters in tyranical nations.
This is the same basic flaw of logic that burdens the US's war on terror. According to the definition we are using (all non-government supported organized violence) our own founding fathers were terrorists.
One usually has to read the works of a scholar before denouncing those who claim to follow it. Being a semi-adherant of the historical school as typified by Graves, I'm no big fan of the Campbell/Jung school of 'universal' mythology although it has it's points. However, one of Campbells main ideas, and his best theory IMHO, was that the themes shown in mythology are not only common across all historical societies but that the same themes are still the basis of our own stories and tales. Tattoine looks like Arrakis? They are both the friggin' Wasteland for Kibo's sake. Lucas didn't rip off Smith's Lensmen, they both ripped off the Knights of the Round Table which stole from Homer's Greek and Trojan heroes who in turn are updated versions of the heroes of the Upanishads. This was Campbells main point! I personally believe he gave it too much weight, historical happenings color myth more than the Jungian common unconciousness does, but it is hard to argue that such commonality does not exist. Wasn't it Heinlein who said there were only three stories?
Oh, and the nerve of accusing The Matrix of ripping off Nueromancer and then mentioning Blade Runner in the next sentance! Ridley Scott defined the look of cyberpunk thankyou... and even he was borrowing from others. A bit of Omega Man, a touch of Babel 17, some Felinniesque visuals, with just a sprinkle of A Clockwork Orange for good measure.
It's been said over and over again for nearly three millenia (and probably longer), but the Preacher of Ecclesiastes is still right: There is nothing new under the sun.
Big Blue's newest machine will compete chiefly against the Unix servers from HP, long king of the midrange market, and from Sun, which will release its own midrange offering, the "Starkitty," on Tuesday.
I can't imagine asking my boss to drop 150 large on a Starkitty.
"Well sir, we can either go with the IBM p670 or the Sun Starkitty."
I thought OS X was based on Mach3 (although NeXT and Rhapsody were 2.5 based and some OS X sites call it's kernal "Mach2.5 with enhancements") and NT was loosely based on DEC's VMS (Micah?). Although I could well be wrong. And yes, Tru64 is based on a 64bit Mach 2.5.
First of all, a gravstar is observationaly identical to a singularity; ie a black hole. They are arguing against singularities as the cause of black holes, not black holes themselves. Secondly, current black hole/singularity theory is predictive; it has predicted observations (X-Ray bursts) that I'm unaware of gravstar theory predicting. And finaly, entropy. Gravstars do not solve the entropy problem as the article implies, they err by not having enough entropy while singularities have too much.
And what Bose-Einstein condensates have to do with it is murky at best. Like a BEC but made of space-time rather than atoms? What the fuck is that mealy mouthed shit supposed to mean?
No it's not just you, me and all my friends had the exact same reaction to the score: It sucked wet farts from dead pigeons. FotR is the second best epic fantasy movie ever made; the only element that elevates Conan the Barbarian over FotR is Basil Pouledaris's score (IMO of course).
But this is perfect for me. I'm the only admin here and this gives me yet another reason to press for an upgrade to a good OS X capable machine to replace the decrepit 8150 I use now. And I need a laptop since they want me to travel this summer... I smell titanium!
But to answer your question, my actual car gets 383,040 rods per hogshead. You are right, your SUV sucks fuel as my RX-7 is most definately not very fuel efficient... especialy for a car that only weighs 43.5 attic talents.
In the States you get funny looks if you drink pints at all, especialy 20 oz imperial pints rather than 16 oz US pints (and your ounces are 4% smaller than ours). And plenty of people down a six-pack a day, which is more than three imperial pints. Hell, you can buy single bottles of beer over here that are more than two imperial pints in capacity (warning to visiting brits, you will NOT like a 40 of Olde English 800).
Drug sales are mixed on this side of the pond too. Pot is always measured in standard, coke is always measured in metric.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!
Recent evidence indicates that modern mongolian stock 'native americans' wiped out a caucasoid population (thought to be similar to the Ainu of northern Japan) that had arrived before them. They also eradicated all equine and pachyderm species on both American continents. And if you think the Aztecs lived peacably with anyone you are gravely mistaken. Their brutally conquered and ruled subject populations gleefully aided the Spaniards in anhialating the Aztec empire.
This 'noble savage' theory is as intellectualy bankrupt as social darwanism. Their are no 'good' guys, the vast majority of people throughout history are mean, nasty, and brutish no matter their location or race.
I played it for a couple of days untill I got sick to death of losing my experience, equipment, and pets to server farts. Wander... wander... kill something... wander.... wander... kill something.... get healed... wander...wander...
Mouse focus was one of the things I missed the most when I finally ditched my old BeOS box and got my OS X G4. But, think about it for a minute; focus follows mouse wouldn't work on a Mac. Your toolbar is at the top of the screen not the top of the window. Mousing up to it would focus on the Finder before you got to the toolbar which would be the Finder's bar then.
You are simply labeling ignorance as 'God'. Science reaches a point where they can not predict or test their theories and the scientests say "we don't know yet". Religion reaches such a point (often enough far less than the scientists) and says "God did it" and when asked why they resort to circular arguments on Biblical content. And you are saying the religous are more intellectually honest? Yea, and Thor's hammer causes thunder as he whacks the noggins of frost giants.
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Giving stuff away for free is communistic in that it is redistribution of wealth. That it is voluntary is beside the point. Saying communism is simply removal of private property is as ignorant and naive as saying capitalism is simply stealing the profits of other's labor.
Giving stuff away for free is communistic, but it only matters if it is required.
And from here (the very first return from the search "French maquis terror"): In my wartime youth a member of French Maquis who threw a bomb into a café killing a few German officers and a number of innocent drinkers was a hero of the resistance.
Both comments support my contention, if not exactly your straw man 'suicide bombers' contention.
Did the comment I was replying to mention any specific situation? No? Thank you.
So you like to conclude that germany is a tyranic nation?
Uh, no, I concluded that German occupied Vichy France was a tyrannical nation.
As you are only playing with words and are obviously not participating in the question: "Is that particular law suit understandable, at least, right or wrong?"
Look at the top of your post I am responding to. There is the statement in question. It is a general statement, not a specific one. As for your specific question, the law suit is understandable under German law and is wrong for the reasons I outlined in the general case. Such a ruling could be used to stifle legitimate dissent if the nation were to resubside into fascism or something equally repressive.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the firebombing of Dresden all fit nicely into your definition of terrorism. The fact that they are not called so while the missle bombardment of London is called terrorism points us to the real definition: The enemy commits terror, not us.
The American revolution was started by irregular forces famous for not setting up in lines.
First of all, the claim I am responding to is general, not specific. Secondly, go read a history book or two before calling me naive. Your purile ideas on the 'niceness' of the American revolution and French Maquis are elementry school level pap at best.
By your logic the Allies in WWII were in the wrong for giving information on sabotage tactics to the French resistance. So much for supporting freedom fighters in tyranical nations.
This is the same basic flaw of logic that burdens the US's war on terror. According to the definition we are using (all non-government supported organized violence) our own founding fathers were terrorists.
Oh, and the nerve of accusing The Matrix of ripping off Nueromancer and then mentioning Blade Runner in the next sentance! Ridley Scott defined the look of cyberpunk thankyou... and even he was borrowing from others. A bit of Omega Man, a touch of Babel 17, some Felinniesque visuals, with just a sprinkle of A Clockwork Orange for good measure.
It's been said over and over again for nearly three millenia (and probably longer), but the Preacher of Ecclesiastes is still right: There is nothing new under the sun.
I can't imagine asking my boss to drop 150 large on a Starkitty.
"Well sir, we can either go with the IBM p670 or the Sun Starkitty."
"The IBM or WHAT!?"
Some cool info on stuff like that here.
And what Bose-Einstein condensates have to do with it is murky at best. Like a BEC but made of space-time rather than atoms? What the fuck is that mealy mouthed shit supposed to mean?
No it's not just you, me and all my friends had the exact same reaction to the score: It sucked wet farts from dead pigeons. FotR is the second best epic fantasy movie ever made; the only element that elevates Conan the Barbarian over FotR is Basil Pouledaris's score (IMO of course).
With that malformed keister it sounds, to me, like a prime candidate for a catasstrophy.
But to answer your question, my actual car gets 383,040 rods per hogshead. You are right, your SUV sucks fuel as my RX-7 is most definately not very fuel efficient... especialy for a car that only weighs 43.5 attic talents.
Drug sales are mixed on this side of the pond too. Pot is always measured in standard, coke is always measured in metric.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I like it!
IBM has a plethora of info on the chip. The gist is it's a 50 MHz clock doubled PPC chip without Altivec.
This 'noble savage' theory is as intellectualy bankrupt as social darwanism. Their are no 'good' guys, the vast majority of people throughout history are mean, nasty, and brutish no matter their location or race.
CNN has been caught employing CIA agents and many accuse the CIA of employing CNN reporters.
I played it for a couple of days untill I got sick to death of losing my experience, equipment, and pets to server farts. Wander... wander... kill something... wander.... wander... kill something.... get healed... wander...wander...
A real multiple desktop would be sweet though.
I bet that's one cool frisbee.
With Jumpman! Still, hands down, no bout a doubt it, the most infuriatingly good computer game of all time.
I musta anhialated a dozen joysticks playing that thrice damned game...