I think PJ did an excellent job, however my main complaint was that Jackson focused to much on the 'epic' bits of the story, and so missed out on lots that made the adventure memorable for all the readers.
Notice: for every one of you there are probably a hundred other movie watchers who would have thought exactly opposite. Yes, PJ needs to stay true to the book, but no, he does not need to keep everything the same.
Two other things:
1) There are a total of two main female characters in this movie, and you think one of them got too much time? My girlfriend really empathized in the romantic scene with Arwen and Aragorn.
2) You cannot make a good movie by just writing out everything in the book. Look at all the things that were added in: the scenery of what the ringwearer actually saw, the imagery of the "eye" of sauron, etc. I don't remember such detail in the book, and I doubt it could have as easily conveyed it to me.
Well, just a couple of things that've been bothering me. All-in-all, it seems to me that that 30-40 minutes of promised extra footage might just do the trick.
It'd be 256k/33k since the upstream won't run at 56k - unless they supply a digital line at your end:)
Sorry, I was assuming that there was a 56K connection using v.90 technology (aka a 56k capable modem). In reality it would probably be something like 40-48k, I guess.
This does bring up an interesting point, however... it seems that you would have to dialup to even get access (how else would you send the http request?)
Mobile application (CRM, ERP) technologies will get a major boost when the datarate becomes capable of distributing data at large rates.
Current distributed database mobile technologies (total offline application) have failed utterly due to the complexity involved in synchronizing the data.
However, there are a couple of questions to be asked:
How much does it cost? I have a friend here in Germany who said that downloading a webpage (to get a single football game score) using GPRS cost him like 30DM (~$15)!!! and this is the "formatted for WAP" page!
What is the coverage like? I know they don't service certain states...
How about security?
All in all, this would be incredibly cool for the business sector... Imagine this with a bluetooth enabled cell mapping to a laptop or PDA. Awesome!
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Would GNUtella (an arguably superior technology compared to Napster) or Kazaa be as popular as they are if Napster was still around? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Hmmm... what does FT have that Napster didn't?
Napster didn't do non-music media
GNUtella doesn't do download continuation
Most other sharing systems don't allow multi-source downloads
And most importantly,
No other sharing system has the metadata search capabilities that FastTrack does
I argue that this system would have out-competed other systems and eventually won out in the end... If napster was around, they would just allow their users to "share" with napster or use the protocol in addition to their own.
"why are people setting up these elaborate networks to share music in the first place?"
Answer: to get something for nothing.
No, perhaps it to get something instead of nothing.
There are plenty of things that just don't exist anymore in my local music stores. For example, trying to find any particular versino of some techno remix of a song in a brick&mortar location is an exercise in futility.
Not so in the digital world. However, in order to acquire my tunes, I am forced to "pirate" the music. Doesn't matter if I use fairtunes (if the artist exists), and pay for it. I'm still a "pirate"
Plus, given historical examples, it's pretty clear the the music industry will not go digital, until they're sure that they can make even more $$$ than they are now.
Fuck them. Their time is up. If they don't evolve, they will die, and I'll be happy to see someone with clue in their place
No, not the independent variety, but someone in a consulting firm. If you're bright and have decent ideas, you'll quickly pick things up.
When I first got into college, I *knew* I wanted to be a programmer. Hell, I even took CS classes in High School... but by the time I had left college, I wasn't so sure.
I had almost the same feeling as you when I finished school. Then I got a job programming, and it got worse. What I really hated was the lack of human contact and any sense of real urgency. Then a couple of jobs and years later, I stumbled into a consulting/contracting firm.
They liked me and threw me right into the lion's den. The first day of my first project, I was in complete "learn till you burn" mode, and I loved it. I realized that dealing with people and getting to set your own expectations was really motivating me. The second project I had, I got sent out of country to implement something I didn't know for people who didn't know it either... but I picked up the slack and in 2 weeks, I had a basic implementation of their project, outlined. In two months, I had a complete demo of their project.
Some people are real programmers (they choose to interface with computers more than they do with people). Other people (like me, I guess) have the knack for coding, but don't enjoy it so much as solving a real world problem. At least in my experience, as an Engineer/Programmer, that kind of duty isn't entrusted to kids right out of college... but when you're on-site and you're a rubber-stamped expert, you have to prove yourself to real people.
Imagine taking over a land that has been at war or in hostile hands for the last 30 years, where all the forces involved strew millions of mines with no recovery plan or deactivation capabilities.
If the US really plans invading this god-forsaken place on groud, or furthermore, setting up a legitimate government, then they better have an extensive mine-clearing program.
Mines are very hard to deal with once they are planted. I should know, that was part of my job description when I did my stint in the good ol' US army (MOS 12B). Often, once-cleared areas will be "reset" when a large rainstorm or monsoon repositions the land.
Makes me wonder what this whole operation is going to result in...
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Christianity was spread by word of mouth and people willing to die for it- but not fight for it with violence.
So... what do you call the crusades, then? These acts of war had *nothing* do to with Christianity?
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When this happened, I had a lot of thoughts going through my head... but found it difficult to clearly say what I felt...
So I will leave that to someone esle (who is much more qualified to do so):
>Subject: It Doesn't Have to Be Like This
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:14:00 -0400
Death, Downtown
Dear friends,
I was supposed to fly today on the 4:30 PM American Airlines flight from LAX to JFK. But tonight I find myself stuck in L.A. with an incredible range of emotions over what has happened on the island where I work and live in New York City.
My wife and I spent the first hours of the day -- after being awakened by phone calls from our parents at 6:40am PT -- trying to contact our daughter at school in New York and our friend JoAnn who works near the World Trade Center.
I called JoAnn at her office. As someone picked up, the first tower imploded, and the person answering the phone screamed and ran out, leaving me no clue as to whether or not she or JoAnn would live.
It was a sick, horrible, frightening day.
On December 27, 1985 I found myself caught in the middle of a terrorist incident at the Vienna airport -- which left 30 people dead, both there and at the Rome airport. (The machine-gunning of passengers in each city was timed to occur at the same moment.)
I do not feel like discussing that event tonight because it still brings up too much despair and confusion as to how and why I got to live... a fluke, a mistake, a few feet on the tarmac, and I am still here, there but for the grace of...
Safe. Secure. I'm an American, living in America. I like my illusions. I walk through a metal detector, I put my carry-ons through an x-ray machine, and I know all will be well.
Here's a short list of my experiences lately with airport security:
* At the Newark Airport, the plane is late at boarding everyone. The counter can't find my seat. So I am told to just "go ahead and get on" -- without a ticket!
* At Detroit Metro Airport, I don't want to put the lunch I just bought at the deli through the x-ray machine so, as I pass through the metal detector, I hand the sack to the guard through the space between the detector and the x-ray machine. I tell him "It's just a sandwich." He believes me and doesn't bother to check. The sack has gone through neither security device.
* At LaGuardia in New York, I check a piece of luggage, but decide to catch a later plane. The first plane leaves without me, but with my bag -- no one knowing what is in it.
* Back in Detroit, I take my time getting off the commuter plane. By the time I have come down its stairs, the bus that takes the passengers to the terminal has left -- without me. I am alone on the tarmac, free to wander wherever I want. So I do. Eventually, I flag down a pick-up truck and an airplane mechanic gives me a ride the rest of the way to the terminal.
* I have brought knives, razors; and once, my traveling companion brought a hammer and chisel. No one stopped us. Of course,
I have gotten away with all of this because the airlines consider my safety SO important, they pay rent-a-cops $5.75 an hour to make sure the bad guys don't get on my plane. That is what my life is worth -- less than the cost of an oil change.
Too harsh, you say? Well, chew on this: a first-year pilot on American Eagle (the commuter arm of American Airlines) receives around $15,000 a year in annual pay.
That's right -- $15,000 for the person who has your life in his hands. Until recently, Continental Express paid a little over $13,000 a year. There was one guy, an American Eagle pilot, who had four kids so he went down to the welfare office and applied for food stamps -- and he was eligible!
Someone on welfare is flying my plane? Is this for real? Yes, it is. So spare me the talk about all the precautions the airlines and the FAA is taking. They, like all businesses, are concerned about one thing -- the bottom line and the profit margin.
Four teams of 3-5 people were all able to penetrate airport security on the same morning at 3 different airports and pull off this heinous act? My only response is -- that's all?
Well, the pundits are in full diarrhea mode, gushing on about the "terrorist threat" and today's scariest dude on planet earth -- Osama bin Laden. Hey, who knows, maybe he did it. But, something just doesn't add up.
Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a desert has been training pilots to fly our most modern, sophisticated jumbo jets with such pinpoint accuracy that they are able to hit these three targets without anyone wondering why these planes were so far off path?
Or am I being asked to believe that there were four religious/political fanatics who JUST HAPPENED to be skilled airline pilots who JUST HAPPENED to want to kill themselves today?
Maybe you can find one jumbo jet pilot willing to die for the cause -- but FOUR? Ok, maybe you can -- I don't know. What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about this bin Laden guy except this one fact -- WE created the monster known as Osama bin Laden!
Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA!
Don't take my word for it -- I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that laid it all out. When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA trained him and his buddies in how to commits acts of terrorism against the Soviet forces. It worked! The Soviets turned and ran. Bin Laden was grateful for what we taught him and thought it might be fun to use those same techniques against us.
We abhor terrorism -- unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing.
We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me. Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers!
We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent people, and we never let the human suffering THAT causes to interrupt our day one single bit.
We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world, with our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in Salvador) that I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised when those orphans grow up and are a little whacked in the head from the horror we have helped cause.
Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted by a guy from the desert but rather by our own citizens: a couple of ex-military guys who hated the federal government.
From the first minutes of today's events, I never heard that possibility suggested. Why is that?
Maybe it's because the A-rabs are much better foils. A key ingredient in getting Americans whipped into a frenzy against a new enemy is the all-important race card. It's much easier to get us to hate when the object of our hatred doesn't look like us.
Congressmen and Senators spent the day calling for more money for the military; one Senator on CNN even said he didn't want to hear any more talk about more money for education or health care -- we should have only one priority: our self-defense.
Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure when the rest of the world isn't living in poverty so we can have nice running shoes?
In just 8 months, Bush gets the whole world back to hating us again. He withdraws from the Kyoto agreement, walks us out of the Durban conference on racism, insists on restarting the arms race -- you name it, and Baby Bush has blown it all.
The Senators and Congressmen tonight broke out in a spontaneous version of "God Bless America." They're not a bad group of singers!
Yes, God, please do bless us.
Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California -- these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!
Why kill them? Why kill anyone? Such insanity...
Let's mourn, let's grieve, and when it's appropriate let's examine our contribution to the unsafe world we live in.
It doesn't have to be like this...
Yours,
Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
go to your local Pawn Shop and pick the movies up for a fraction of original cost... I just bought 2 CDs for $2.50 each saturday, and a DVD for $5.00
No thanx.
I'd rather not support crime or purchase what I thought was a ripped/pirated CD. Everyone knows that stolen merchandise often ends up in a pawn shop.
If you *really* want to legally purchase the CD, purchase from a CD reseller/tradestore. Most retail outlets also sell these. Often the quality is not that bad, and once you rip to mp3/OggVorbis, you should be well on your way to not caring about the original media
All the posts here are either:
1) Congrats to the DOD, for doing the good deed
2) DOD are idiots, everyone knows how to read "erased" info from HD's
3) DOD know what they're doing... we may know how to read from 3rd/4th overwrites, but I'm sure they're on the ball.
What about another conclusion?:
4) They know that we and the bad guys know how to read the information, and want to put out a "trap" to see if the information is leaked properly...
Seems to me they're just dispensing information...
This is the essence of police state, not to brually enforce laws that don't make sense, but to instead create large masses of senseless laws and *optionally* enforce them.
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(possible, since porn loosely relates to the medical field:-)
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Pronunciation: "hi-p&-'kri-ti-k&l
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Date: 1561
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And OS X stole from NeXT and NeXT stole from Mac and Mac stole from Smalltalk.
Let's rephrase shall we?
And Jobs brought NeXT technology to OSX, and Jobs brought Mac innovation to NeXT, and Apple (Mac) LISCENCED the appropriate technology from Xerox PARC (Smalltalk).
Funny how removing vitriol can completely change a statement...
Why does it seem that Microsoft routinely ignores glaringly obvious security concerns in favor of "convenience"-related features? Is this a false impression, and if so, why is that the impression so many security professionals form when confronted with the history of security in Microsoft products?
Ripe for Conspiracy-thought... Convenience buys more marketshare (and thus $$$), and lack of security can be patched up by business contracts with security providers (Symantec, etc.) which provides even more revenue.
Due to bundling, there is no viable alternative to Outlook Express for the lemming PC-user (if it works, why fix it), there is no serious potential loss of marketshare by these security holes (and besides the Evil Hackers can always be blamed;-)
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I think PJ did an excellent job, however my main complaint was that Jackson focused to much on the 'epic' bits of the story, and so missed out on lots that made the adventure memorable for all the readers.
Notice: for every one of you there are probably a hundred other movie watchers who would have thought exactly opposite. Yes, PJ needs to stay true to the book, but no, he does not need to keep everything the same.
Two other things:
1) There are a total of two main female characters in this movie, and you think one of them got too much time? My girlfriend really empathized in the romantic scene with Arwen and Aragorn.
2) You cannot make a good movie by just writing out everything in the book. Look at all the things that were added in: the scenery of what the ringwearer actually saw, the imagery of the "eye" of sauron, etc. I don't remember such detail in the book, and I doubt it could have as easily conveyed it to me.
Well, just a couple of things that've been bothering me. All-in-all, it seems to me that that 30-40 minutes of promised extra footage might just do the trick.
Agreed. that's what I'm thinking as well.
Rob,
Could you please create a meta-post or tell us what the hell this is all about?
What does it matter if someone is my "friend" or my "foe"?
So far, I've only rated people as neutral... guess I am "friendless".
Sorry, I was assuming that there was a 56K connection using v.90 technology (aka a 56k capable modem). In reality it would probably be something like 40-48k, I guess.
This does bring up an interesting point, however... it seems that you would have to dialup to even get access (how else would you send the http request?)
256k/56k is not too bad if the price is right, unfortunately, there's no information.
For $45/month, using cable, I get 1.5M/128k...
At least it's another option for those in the "sticks"
Current distributed database mobile technologies (total offline application) have failed utterly due to the complexity involved in synchronizing the data.
However, there are a couple of questions to be asked:
I have a friend here in Germany who said that downloading a webpage (to get a single football game score) using GPRS cost him like 30DM (~$15)!!! and this is the "formatted for WAP" page!
I know they don't service certain states...
All in all, this would be incredibly cool for the business sector... Imagine this with a bluetooth enabled cell mapping to a laptop or PDA. Awesome!
Hmmm...let's compare hoverboard vs. "IT":
Can ANYONE tell me why someone would buy IT instead of the hoverboard?
I like how it translated "Gamecube" to "waR3Zcube"... LOL
:-)
Now, that's an idea!
This brings up an interesting, albeit slightly offtopic, point:
Why don't airlines have power sockets??? If I could plug in, then I wouldn't need a big battery, nor this fuel cell.
We can only dream of life with a wireless powergrid... that would be kewl!
Does this person know about it? Or are you allowing him/her to pay for your internet connection?
I hope you're not using your unstable situation to warrant theft. You could always use netzero/juno/etc.
Hmmm... what does FT have that Napster didn't?
I argue that this system would have out-competed other systems and eventually won out in the end... If napster was around, they would just allow their users to "share" with napster or use the protocol in addition to their own.
Answer: to get something for nothing.
No, perhaps it to get something instead of nothing.
There are plenty of things that just don't exist anymore in my local music stores. For example, trying to find any particular versino of some techno remix of a song in a brick&mortar location is an exercise in futility.
Not so in the digital world. However, in order to acquire my tunes, I am forced to "pirate" the music. Doesn't matter if I use fairtunes (if the artist exists), and pay for it. I'm still a "pirate"
Plus, given historical examples, it's pretty clear the the music industry will not go digital, until they're sure that they can make even more $$$ than they are now.
Fuck them. Their time is up. If they don't evolve, they will die, and I'll be happy to see someone with clue in their place
No, not the independent variety, but someone in a consulting firm. If you're bright and have decent ideas, you'll quickly pick things up.
When I first got into college, I *knew* I wanted to be a programmer. Hell, I even took CS classes in High School... but by the time I had left college, I wasn't so sure.
I had almost the same feeling as you when I finished school. Then I got a job programming, and it got worse. What I really hated was the lack of human contact and any sense of real urgency. Then a couple of jobs and years later, I stumbled into a consulting/contracting firm.
They liked me and threw me right into the lion's den. The first day of my first project, I was in complete "learn till you burn" mode, and I loved it. I realized that dealing with people and getting to set your own expectations was really motivating me. The second project I had, I got sent out of country to implement something I didn't know for people who didn't know it either... but I picked up the slack and in 2 weeks, I had a basic implementation of their project, outlined. In two months, I had a complete demo of their project.
Some people are real programmers (they choose to interface with computers more than they do with people). Other people (like me, I guess) have the knack for coding, but don't enjoy it so much as solving a real world problem. At least in my experience, as an Engineer/Programmer, that kind of duty isn't entrusted to kids right out of college... but when you're on-site and you're a rubber-stamped expert, you have to prove yourself to real people.
Perhaps not... the patent makes very direct references to the use of a "circular buffer" using "digital memory"... specifically,
"Subsystem comprising the combination of a semiconductor RAM memory and a disk memory operated under the control of a microprocessor such..."
Since the All-in-Wonder does not use disk memory, I doubt they could be targetted by this patent.
I know at least one series of books which has ventured on this subject much more thoroughly: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Seems to me that this will be the real reason that the machines haven't done away with their human creators...
Mines
Imagine taking over a land that has been at war or in hostile hands for the last 30 years, where all the forces involved strew millions of mines with no recovery plan or deactivation capabilities.
If the US really plans invading this god-forsaken place on groud, or furthermore, setting up a legitimate government, then they better have an extensive mine-clearing program.
Mines are very hard to deal with once they are planted. I should know, that was part of my job description when I did my stint in the good ol' US army (MOS 12B). Often, once-cleared areas will be "reset" when a large rainstorm or monsoon repositions the land.
Makes me wonder what this whole operation is going to result in...
So... what do you call the crusades, then? These acts of war had *nothing* do to with Christianity?
When this happened, I had a lot of thoughts going through my head... but found it difficult to clearly say what I felt...
So I will leave that to someone esle (who is much more qualified to do so):
>Subject: It Doesn't Have to Be Like This
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:14:00 -0400
Death, Downtown
Dear friends,
I was supposed to fly today on the 4:30 PM American Airlines flight from LAX to JFK. But tonight I find myself stuck in L.A. with an incredible range of emotions over what has happened on the island where I work and live in New York City.
My wife and I spent the first hours of the day -- after being awakened by phone calls from our parents at 6:40am PT -- trying to contact our daughter at school in New York and our friend JoAnn who works near the World Trade Center.
I called JoAnn at her office. As someone picked up, the first tower imploded, and the person answering the phone screamed and ran out, leaving me no clue as to whether or not she or JoAnn would live.
It was a sick, horrible, frightening day.
On December 27, 1985 I found myself caught in the middle of a terrorist incident at the Vienna airport -- which left 30 people dead, both there and at the Rome airport. (The machine-gunning of passengers in each city was timed to occur at the same moment.)
I do not feel like discussing that event tonight because it still brings up too much despair and confusion as to how and why I got to live... a fluke, a mistake, a few feet on the tarmac, and I am still here, there but for the grace of...
Safe. Secure. I'm an American, living in America. I like my illusions. I walk through a metal detector, I put my carry-ons through an x-ray machine, and I know all will be well.
Here's a short list of my experiences lately with airport security:
* At the Newark Airport, the plane is late at boarding everyone. The counter can't find my seat. So I am told to just "go ahead and get on" -- without a ticket!
* At Detroit Metro Airport, I don't want to put the lunch I just bought at the deli through the x-ray machine so, as I pass through the metal detector, I hand the sack to the guard through the space between the detector and the x-ray machine. I tell him "It's just a sandwich." He believes me and doesn't bother to check. The sack has gone through neither security device.
* At LaGuardia in New York, I check a piece of luggage, but decide to catch a later plane. The first plane leaves without me, but with my bag -- no one knowing what is in it.
* Back in Detroit, I take my time getting off the commuter plane. By the time I have come down its stairs, the bus that takes the passengers to the terminal has left -- without me. I am alone on the tarmac, free to wander wherever I want. So I do. Eventually, I flag down a pick-up truck and an airplane mechanic gives me a ride the rest of the way to the terminal.
* I have brought knives, razors; and once, my traveling companion brought a hammer and chisel. No one stopped us. Of course,
I have gotten away with all of this because the airlines consider my safety SO important, they pay rent-a-cops $5.75 an hour to make sure the bad guys don't get on my plane. That is what my life is worth -- less than the cost of an oil change.
Too harsh, you say? Well, chew on this: a first-year pilot on American Eagle (the commuter arm of American Airlines) receives around $15,000 a year in annual pay.
That's right -- $15,000 for the person who has your life in his hands. Until recently, Continental Express paid a little over $13,000 a year. There was one guy, an American Eagle pilot, who had four kids so he went down to the welfare office and applied for food stamps -- and he was eligible!
Someone on welfare is flying my plane? Is this for real? Yes, it is. So spare me the talk about all the precautions the airlines and the FAA is taking. They, like all businesses, are concerned about one thing -- the bottom line and the profit margin.
Four teams of 3-5 people were all able to penetrate airport security on the same morning at 3 different airports and pull off this heinous act? My only response is -- that's all?
Well, the pundits are in full diarrhea mode, gushing on about the "terrorist threat" and today's scariest dude on planet earth -- Osama bin Laden. Hey, who knows, maybe he did it. But, something just doesn't add up.
Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a desert has been training pilots to fly our most modern, sophisticated jumbo jets with such pinpoint accuracy that they are able to hit these three targets without anyone wondering why these planes were so far off path?
Or am I being asked to believe that there were four religious/political fanatics who JUST HAPPENED to be skilled airline pilots who JUST HAPPENED to want to kill themselves today?
Maybe you can find one jumbo jet pilot willing to die for the cause -- but FOUR? Ok, maybe you can -- I don't know. What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about this bin Laden guy except this one fact -- WE created the monster known as Osama bin Laden!
Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA!
Don't take my word for it -- I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that laid it all out. When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA trained him and his buddies in how to commits acts of terrorism against the Soviet forces. It worked! The Soviets turned and ran. Bin Laden was grateful for what we taught him and thought it might be fun to use those same techniques against us.
We abhor terrorism -- unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing.
We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me. Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers!
We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent people, and we never let the human suffering THAT causes to interrupt our day one single bit.
We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world, with our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in Salvador) that I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised when those orphans grow up and are a little whacked in the head from the horror we have helped cause.
Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted by a guy from the desert but rather by our own citizens: a couple of ex-military guys who hated the federal government.
From the first minutes of today's events, I never heard that possibility suggested. Why is that?
Maybe it's because the A-rabs are much better foils. A key ingredient in getting Americans whipped into a frenzy against a new enemy is the all-important race card. It's much easier to get us to hate when the object of our hatred doesn't look like us.
Congressmen and Senators spent the day calling for more money for the military; one Senator on CNN even said he didn't want to hear any more talk about more money for education or health care -- we should have only one priority: our self-defense.
Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure when the rest of the world isn't living in poverty so we can have nice running shoes?
In just 8 months, Bush gets the whole world back to hating us again. He withdraws from the Kyoto agreement, walks us out of the Durban conference on racism, insists on restarting the arms race -- you name it, and Baby Bush has blown it all.
The Senators and Congressmen tonight broke out in a spontaneous version of "God Bless America." They're not a bad group of singers!
Yes, God, please do bless us.
Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California -- these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!
Why kill them? Why kill anyone? Such insanity...
Let's mourn, let's grieve, and when it's appropriate let's examine our contribution to the unsafe world we live in.
It doesn't have to be like this...
Yours,
Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
No thanx.
I'd rather not support crime or purchase what I thought was a ripped/pirated CD. Everyone knows that stolen merchandise often ends up in a pawn shop.
If you *really* want to legally purchase the CD, purchase from a CD reseller/tradestore. Most retail outlets also sell these. Often the quality is not that bad, and once you rip to mp3/OggVorbis, you should be well on your way to not caring about the original media
All the posts here are either:
...
1) Congrats to the DOD, for doing the good deed
2) DOD are idiots, everyone knows how to read "erased" info from HD's
3) DOD know what they're doing... we may know how to read from 3rd/4th overwrites, but I'm sure they're on the ball.
What about another conclusion?:
4) They know that we and the bad guys know how to read the information, and want to put out a "trap" to see if the information is leaked properly...
Seems to me they're just dispensing information
This is the essence of police state, not to brually enforce laws that don't make sense, but to instead create large masses of senseless laws and *optionally* enforce them.
More like, ASM is Theoretical Computer Science. 2600 is Practical/Applied.
Face it, ACM/IEEE is a bit too dry of a club for some people.
sorry, spelling check:
:-)
/-k(&-)lE/ adverb
Hypocratic?
Did you mean:
Main Entry: Hippocratic
Pronunciation: "hi-p&-'kra-tik
Function: adjective
Date: circa 1620
: of or relating to Hippocrates or to the school of medicine that took his name
(possible, since porn loosely relates to the medical field
or
Main Entry: hypocritical
Pronunciation: "hi-p&-'kri-ti-k&l
Function: adjective
Date: 1561
: characterized by hypocrisy; also : being a hypocrite
- hypocritically
Let's rephrase shall we?
And Jobs brought NeXT technology to OSX, and Jobs brought Mac innovation to NeXT, and Apple (Mac) LISCENCED the appropriate technology from Xerox PARC (Smalltalk).
Funny how removing vitriol can completely change a statement...
Yeah, I know, YHBT and all
Ripe for Conspiracy-thought... Convenience buys more marketshare (and thus $$$), and lack of security can be patched up by business contracts with security providers (Symantec, etc.) which provides even more revenue.
Due to bundling, there is no viable alternative to Outlook Express for the lemming PC-user (if it works, why fix it), there is no serious potential loss of marketshare by these security holes (and besides the Evil Hackers can always be blamed ;-)
~$47 per month!!!!!
Holy bajeezus... I'm paying more than that for my Cable modem, and it's got 1/100th the max bandwidth!
And that's not even considering the cost of living in some japanese cities.
But does it actually guarantee 100Mbps past the first gateway? How about upstream?