According to this email I received, Britain has revoked home rule.
NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE
To the citizens of the United States of America,
In the light of your failure to elect a President of
the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the
revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume
monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other
territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime
minister (The rt. hon. Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have
until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders)
will appoint a minister for America without the need for further
elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A
questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you
noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency,
the
following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford
English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium". Check the
pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have
been pronouncing it. Generally, you should raise your
vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the
same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as
"like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of
communication. Look up "interspersed".
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let
Microsoft know on your behalf.
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and
Australian accents. It really isn't that hard.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast
English actors as the good guys.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem,
"God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We
would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There
is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American
"football" is not a very good game.
The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world
outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays
"American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and
should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you
played with the
girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in
time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American
"football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty
seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are
hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005.
7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using
nuclear weapons if they give you any merde. The 98.85% of you
who were not aware that there is a world outside your borders should
count yourselves lucky. The Russians have never been the bad
guys. "Merde" is French for "sh*t".
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November
8th will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be
called "Indecisive Day".
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap
and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you
will understand what we mean.
10. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.
As
recently reported by the Associated Press, promiment Senator John McCain (R-AZ), joined by three other Republicans, has recently begun promoting mandated internet 'filtering' in public libraries and schools. Doesn't it seems strange that a party, whose major planks focus individual rights and freedom, is behind a proposal to obstruct it? What is your opinion on this? Is this a violation of civil liberties?
But Dave Ditzel, Transmeta's CEO, has said that Crusoe-based notebooks will perform just as well as competing chips in real-world circumstances. A 700-MHz Crusoe 5600 will perform just as well as a 700-MHz Pentium III, he said.
Wasn't it stated somewhere that, due to code-morphing, the Transmeta chips would have about 80% the horsepower of a regular x86 chip of the same MHz?
I hope this wasn't something PR said. I'm a fan of Transmeta's stuff, and I'd hate to see 'em make promises they can't keep.
What crack smoking moderators keep moderating up this guy's pollo loco absurdity? This is the second post he's made regarding Netscape/AOL shelving some mysterious, shiny saviour in a box.
Man, I'd like to see Campbell take out an alien or two with his boom-stick.
For what it's worth, during college some friends and I used to run an online magazine. We interviewed Bruce... he's a pretty cool cat. Check it out if you want.
Yeah, but didn't they say the same thing about the Nintendo Gamepad, or whatever it was, where you did the track and field events by running on the pad?;)
Though Dr. Dre wasn't specifically mentioned in this story, the reference to rappers involved in the Napster discussion makes this at least partially on-topic.
Has anyone considered writing Dre and informing him that he's a downright cheat himself? As far as I'm concerned, Dre's done nothing original himself, he's just laid tracks over top of Parliment Funkadelic time and time again. Unless things have changed since, I saw an interview a while back with George Clinton where he acknowledged that they just sample his ass off. The interview also implied that there weren't any royalties paid.
Now, if rappers want to sample the efforts of others and consider it "their" music, that's their own decision. I don't necessarily agree with the practice, and don't really even like how it sounds most of the time. However, for a genre that blatantly duplicates the a bass line from The Police, The backbeat of P-Funk, or even a riff from Mellencamp ("Jack and Diane", for goodness' sake!), I feel it's pretty shady for them to go on the record as being against apparent 'piracy'.
I applaud Chuck D. He's always been on top of the game.
Yes this is off-topic. I'd reduce my score if I could... However, in my case it wouldn't matter because I'd still probably see it anyway!
Here are my comment footers for the past five stories posted to slashdot:
( Read More... | 2 of 3 comments ) ( Read More... | 4576 bytes in body | 22 comments ) ( Read More... | 92 comments ) ( Read More... | 1394 bytes in body | 44 of 84 comments ) ( Read More... | 76 of 109 comments )
Now, I have a threshold set for "1" but what good does it do if (a.) it only works half the time and now (b.) doesn't appear to save it when I make the change? It's never seemed to save it globally on a consistent basis, and now, even when I save it, I reload the main page, only to have the threshold set at -1 for that story once again.
Now, I've kept out of the about the moderation bitchfest because because reading at 1, I don't usually see too much of the crap posted (although the occasional turd floats to the top). However, it's finally ticked me off enough to consider mentioning it. With Slashdot attracting a troll contigent that apparently hasn't a life otherwise, it makes the basic Slashdot functionality all the more desirable.
For as long as I've been reading Slashdot, the ACs defaulted to zero. But what good does this do if I can't adjust the threshold in the first place?
Thanks for listening. Now, "moderate me out of existence (tm)"
Slashdot Mirror
According to this email I received, Britain has revoked home rule.
NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE
To the citizens of the United States of America,
In the light of your failure to elect a President of
the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the
revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume
monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other
territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime
minister (The rt. hon. Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have
until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders)
will appoint a minister for America without the need for further
elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A
questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you
noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency,
the
following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford
English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium". Check the
pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have
been pronouncing it. Generally, you should raise your
vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the
same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as
"like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of
communication. Look up "interspersed".
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let
Microsoft know on your behalf.
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and
Australian accents. It really isn't that hard.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast
English actors as the good guys.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem,
"God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We
would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There
is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American
"football" is not a very good game.
The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world
outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays
"American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and
should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you
played with the
girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in
time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American
"football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty
seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are
hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005.
7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using
nuclear weapons if they give you any merde. The 98.85% of you
who were not aware that there is a world outside your borders should
count yourselves lucky. The Russians have never been the bad
guys. "Merde" is French for "sh*t".
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November
8th will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be
called "Indecisive Day".
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap
and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you
will understand what we mean.
10. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.
Thank you for your cooperation.
As recently reported by the Associated Press, promiment Senator John McCain (R-AZ), joined by three other Republicans, has recently begun promoting mandated internet 'filtering' in public libraries and schools. Doesn't it seems strange that a party, whose major planks focus individual rights and freedom, is behind a proposal to obstruct it? What is your opinion on this? Is this a violation of civil liberties?
...I dunno what it is. It certainly isn't unbiased.
.dubai, as recommended by "Dubai Technologies"? .kids, suggested by both "DotKids, Inc." and ".KIDS Domains, Inc.", among others? .africa?
This is just the same old tired crowd of cybersquatters, speculators and egotists waiting for ICANN to fire its gun into the air.
Yeah. Next thing you know, they'll be soldering their Palm into one of these.
err, s/mouse/cat/. Long day...
Absolutely.. only I think they need an icon a la The Microsoft
Bill Gates of Borg one.. Only instead it's a mouse with a red laser/LED eye
But Dave Ditzel, Transmeta's CEO, has said that Crusoe-based notebooks will perform just as well as competing chips in real-world circumstances. A 700-MHz Crusoe 5600 will perform just as well as a 700-MHz Pentium III, he said.
Wasn't it stated somewhere that, due to code-morphing, the Transmeta chips would have about 80% the horsepower of a regular x86 chip of the same MHz?
I hope this wasn't something PR said. I'm a fan of Transmeta's stuff, and I'd hate to see 'em make promises they can't keep.
Oh, Christ.
Because it's so inevitable that one company can control what is seen on the internet.
If you believe that, then you've got far worse problems.
Um. No. ESR didn't "write" it...so go learn something.
those Cease and Desist letters completely stopped the hacker community from hacking the CueCat scanners.
:)
I'm still considering trying to round up about 10-15 of em, daisy chain them, if possible, and have a bright colorful window decor for Xmas.
Who needs twinkle lights when you've got Cuecats?
What crack smoking moderators keep moderating up this guy's pollo loco absurdity? This is the second post he's made regarding Netscape/AOL shelving some mysterious, shiny saviour in a box.
Lay off the paint chips, man.
From Tom's....
:)
Intel's Next Paper Release -
The Pentium III at 1133 MHz
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
...with the script kiddiez joining in the chorus.
So this is what you do when school's out for summer?
Man, I'd like to see Campbell take out an alien or two with his boom-stick.
For what it's worth, during college some friends and I used to run an online magazine. We interviewed Bruce... he's a pretty cool cat. Check it out if you want.
Gah. I'd sue too, if I were IAM.com and they designed my website so that users weren't able to back out of the goddam thing. Grr.
(long day.)
...means a truly mouse-driven user experience.
/me dodges tomatoes.
He musta used a Pentium to calculate his matrix.
Yeah, but didn't they say the same thing about the Nintendo Gamepad, or whatever it was, where you did the track and field events by running on the pad? ;)
Though Dr. Dre wasn't specifically mentioned in this story, the reference to rappers involved in the Napster discussion makes this at least partially on-topic.
Has anyone considered writing Dre and informing him that he's a downright cheat himself? As far as I'm concerned, Dre's done nothing original himself, he's just laid tracks over top of Parliment Funkadelic time and time again. Unless things have changed since, I saw an interview a while back with George Clinton where he acknowledged that they just sample his ass off. The interview also implied that there weren't any royalties paid.
Now, if rappers want to sample the efforts of others and consider it "their" music, that's their own decision. I don't necessarily agree with the practice, and don't really even like how it sounds most of the time. However, for a genre that blatantly duplicates the a bass line from The Police, The backbeat of P-Funk, or even a riff from Mellencamp ("Jack and Diane", for goodness' sake!), I feel it's pretty shady for them to go on the record as being against apparent 'piracy'.
I applaud Chuck D. He's always been on top of the game.
In Preferences | Customize Comments, it reads:
Threshold [1: Filter Most ACs]
So yeah, I'll email pater.
Yes this is off-topic. I'd reduce my score if I could... However, in my case it wouldn't matter because I'd still probably see it anyway!
Here are my comment footers for the past five stories posted to slashdot:
( Read More... | 2 of 3 comments )
( Read More... | 4576 bytes in body | 22 comments )
( Read More... | 92 comments )
( Read More... | 1394 bytes in body | 44 of 84 comments )
( Read More... | 76 of 109 comments )
Now, I have a threshold set for "1" but what good does it do if (a.) it only works half the time and now (b.) doesn't appear to save it when I make the change? It's never seemed to save it globally on a consistent basis, and now, even when I save it, I reload the main page, only to have the threshold set at -1 for that story once again.
Now, I've kept out of the about the moderation bitchfest because because reading at 1, I don't usually see too much of the crap posted (although the occasional turd floats to the top). However, it's finally ticked me off enough to consider mentioning it. With Slashdot attracting a troll contigent that apparently hasn't a life otherwise, it makes the basic Slashdot functionality all the more desirable.
For as long as I've been reading Slashdot, the ACs defaulted to zero. But what good does this do if I can't adjust the threshold in the first place?
Thanks for listening. Now, "moderate me out of existence (tm)"
Yeah, seems that way to me. And an ISBN of "http://www.thinkgeek" is neither correct nor helpful.
For those who need it, (ISBN: 1884777791)
is there old slashcode in place? A while back, the term "declined" replaced the arguably harsher "rejected", when a story submission was turned down.
It appears it now says "rejected" once again.
..but it's the first thing that really jumped into my mind when I saw the name.
#include
Imagine the marketing! With your new AMD chip, you can crunch your numbers blazingly fast, allowing you enough time to paint the town pink!
... or something along those lines.
Ok. So it's been a long week.