The > and < symbols are not part of the RACE string. I tried typing in anime () into their "Multilingual Conversion Tool" and got the following result:
I live and voted in PBC, and I can honestly say that in retrospect, I can't recall if I selected the correct punchhole for Gore. I was kind of excited and nervous to be voting (I've only voted once before), and so I may have made the mistake. I didn't really realize that the page was an odd layout since I haven't voted much before. I doubt that I made this mistake, but I have no idea.
That's just my personal testimony to add to the pot.
Yeah, but they're still looking for the part of pi, where if printed in a specific two-dimensional array, it draws a circle in binary. It's got to be in there somewhere...
If you want to rage, go to boycott-riaa.com and buy a T-shirt or a mug. Or get a bunch of rowdy friends and go throw rocks at a building somewhere. I guarantee you better media coverage than anything you could do online.
I have to agree with this. Boycotting doesn't work because it's too passive. If you aren't going to take an active role in protesting something, you aren't going to make a difference. I'm tired of these lazy opinionated people who fool thememselves into thinking that they are being part of the change, while watching active people do all the work.
The only way to make a significant difference is to be active in your protest: Support organizations and write government officials. Put up signs. Make and sell T-shirts. Be persuasively creative.
I know that boycotting has been effective in the past, but it works only if at least a double-digit percentage of the population will faithfully follow through. If you can't expect to get these kinds of numbers (think 30-50 million people in the USA), you are much better off getting your message out by other (active) means.
So if you really to see something done, get up off your ass and do something. Don't wait around for someone else to do it, because they won't!
I got my EFF letter, t-shirt, and bumper sticker a month ago after I dontated $100. You can see by my signature that I'm not far ahead of you considering a whole month has passed.
At first I was discouraged to join since I saw that they would lose 4% of my transaction by using a credit card, but then I figured I was going for a slightly above-average (average donation is $65) contribution, so the small amount that was given to visa was less significant.
If you've been thinking about joining the EFF, just go ahead and do it. Even if you can't or don't want to select one of their pre-defined amounts, send them $5 or something... We're at a very pivotal point in history here. 200 years from now, we will look back at this as a very defining moment in the development of our technology and government.
Every major group of people with a strong interest in a particular aspect of society needs an organization to represent them in our government, and the EFF is that organization for the geeks.
If you're interested in what they have done for us so far, and what they are working on, go to http://www.eff.org/archive.html.
A couple more weeks and it will be exactly a year since the following was posted:
My Christmas Wishlist Monitor Posted by Hemos on Thursday November 04, @10:50AM
from the bigger-then-life dept.
lawn_ornament writes "I found something that will go to the top of my Christmas wishlist. A huge LCD monitor and it can do about 3840 X 1024 resolution. Dimensions are 43.5 " x 11.5" - 478 sq inchs viewable. The monitor looks great and it could be yours for only $27,000. "/me wipes drool off of chin.
Today, insurance companies are actually paying for propaganda to discourage behaviors expensive for them
I can definitely testify to this -- my insurance company recently sent me a "care package" which contained a band-aid, a liquid crystal thermometer, and some propaganda to try to convince me that I should call them on the phone to do a pre-diagnosis before I go to the doctor, so that I can "save myself time" if it's not serious enough to warrant a doctor. I have a PPO so I'm not as restricted, so they have to convince me rather than force me, but I just thought this was kind of interesting to share...
I am in the same situation. You know what would be a great feedback system to counter this problem? When you turn 25 (the age at which I have heard my insurance will go down), simply refund the surcharge that you had to pay as the result of your age if you had a perfect record. Of course this isn't going to happen because the fscking greedy insurance companies are going to just happily pad their executive's bonuses with it instead... That's your reward for being careful: richer insurance executives.
I really think this would be a great incentive for people to be really cautious rather than reckless during this age. Think of it.. if you start driving at 18 and collect 7 years of surcharges at 25, that's going to be something like $4200 (assuming a surcharge of $50/month).. not bad!
I'm sure this could apply to other high-risk groups, with different rules to help create a feedback system which would be beneficial for the customer and in a small way for the insurance companies by helping reduce claims for the insurance companies by these high-risk groups.
Method for the entertainment and/or perpetuation of the species 'homo sapiens', by implementing the functions of specialized organs of a male and a female, for the passing of genetic information. This activity can be used as a procedure in order to generate another member of the species and/or for entertainment purposes of the participating person(s) and/or any observers to the activity. If an instance of this activity is not intended for the purpose of reproduction, the requirement of opposite genders is not necessary. A detailed description of the activity as well as illustrations are not included here but can be found easily by utilizing a "method for interconnecting computers worldwide using packet-switched data protocols".
This is probably far off and incorrect, but has anyone else speculated that this could account for all of the mass that scientists were calling "dark matter"?
What a familiar pattern in this world-- some people work to increase the total wealth for everybody, while other people work to grab as much of it for themselves as they can.
Of course it's a familiar pattern. You just described the essential difference between Democrats and Republicans.
I was nonverbose in explaining that the price will be half of what it goes for before christmas. Since they are spreading this FUD, the price will probably rise to $500 before christmas, and then fall back down to $300 to $250 around February.
Why does everyone think they need one of these the day they come out? You've waited two years for them; what's a few more months? Besides, the price will probably be cut in half in Februrary. Wait a few months and see what it looks like and what develops. If you want to try out a few games, get out of your house for once and go over to a friend's and play games on theirs!
I'm so sick of the marketing departments in these companies instilling a false sense of urgency by manipulating people's basic psychology.
If you want to be socially engineered by a large corporation, go ahead and get on that waiting list. BTW, for those of you who have been following the IP debate, don't forget Sony is a major contributor to the MPAA *and* the RIAA.
How about the fact that you can play PlayStation 1 games and DVD's from blockbuster on them.
Why do you single out Blockbuster? There isn't some kind of restriction on what DVDs it will play is there?
I assume they make money by selling their own set of bar codes to people, organizations, and companies, so they can publish those bar codes in a magazine or newspaper, and then that acts like a URL to their website. Sort of like Network Solutions.
I remember reading somewhere that after you figure all of the statistics on how often a large enough meteor hits the earth, and how many people that would kill, that an average of 4,000 people a year are killed by a meteor impact. Of course this average is generated over hundreds of thousands of years, but involves billions of people.
This made me think. Is the "The Matrix" really just a metaphor for the society that the modern day mega-corporations have created for us? We all live about our happy lives, oblivious that the corporations are just sucking us dry?
What's great about technology is that someone has to go through an extra effort to make something "more secure". This means that unsecure systems (CD Audio, mp3, DivX;-), etc) will always be more common because they are simpler for programmers and hardware engineers to create, and therefore they will always be cheaper to manufacture. Not only that, but their protocol or implementation will be simpler, so there will probably be more "players" for those simpler types of media since it wouldn't be a big hassle to write software for them.
Which would be more frightening: We live in a society where a few pirates steal some media for entertainment purposes, while most people still purchase it; or a society where large corporations control how everybody gets their media, how they play it, and what hardware they play it on?
I'm all about fair. You give me crap, I'll do whatever I want with it without giving you anything but the middle finger. You give me quality, and I'll reward you. I AM IN CONTROL.
If it's an anti-hacker law, then I guess that means that it's illegal to make changes to your Linux kernel, however it is quite OK to break into your bank's computer and transfer other people's money to your account...
Woo hoo! Sounds like a new project for distributed.net! Of course they should just claim publically they are using your CPU to calculate all of the Fibonacci numbers or something...:)
I noticed this as well.. When Lars came out on stage, there was at first applause, and then as the applause started to die down, I definately heard a significant amount of booing from many people in the audience...
"Nasa Science has an article on the practical details of what would be needed to begin the construction of a space elevator (as envisioned by Arthur C. Clarke) as early as 50 years from now. Based on the results of a space infrastructure conference held at the Marshall Space Flight Center last year, this is when they predict the technology should be available to make this idea a reality.
David Smitherman is a scientist at the NASA/Marshall's Advanced Projects Office, where he wrote the publication "Space Elevators: An Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure for the New Millennium", which outlines many of the practical details for the construction of a space elevator, while giving much credit to Arthur C. Clarke for having imagined the idea decades ago in his book "Fountains of Paradise".
A space shuttle payload could be lifted to orbit for around $17,700, while a passenger (plus luggage) could see the entire earth from far above for around $200. Based on this, the cost to "lift" something to space would only be about $1.48/kg. I'll reserve my seat today... What an awesome view that would be to see during my retirement! "
I'm saving any future useful information for everything, where the site design doesn't include hasty filtering to "keep up" with the submissions, and where XP (everything's version of karma) actually is designed well and has meaning.
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That's just my personal testimony to add to the pot.
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I have to agree with this. Boycotting doesn't work because it's too passive. If you aren't going to take an active role in protesting something, you aren't going to make a difference. I'm tired of these lazy opinionated people who fool thememselves into thinking that they are being part of the change, while watching active people do all the work.
The only way to make a significant difference is to be active in your protest: Support organizations and write government officials. Put up signs. Make and sell T-shirts. Be persuasively creative.
I know that boycotting has been effective in the past, but it works only if at least a double-digit percentage of the population will faithfully follow through. If you can't expect to get these kinds of numbers (think 30-50 million people in the USA), you are much better off getting your message out by other (active) means.
So if you really to see something done, get up off your ass and do something. Don't wait around for someone else to do it, because they won't!
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http://www.everything2.com/in dex .pl?node_id=803173
I tried this earlier... They're going to get a nice bill this month. I bet it doesn't work tomorrow evening :)
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At first I was discouraged to join since I saw that they would lose 4% of my transaction by using a credit card, but then I figured I was going for a slightly above-average (average donation is $65) contribution, so the small amount that was given to visa was less significant.
If you've been thinking about joining the EFF, just go ahead and do it. Even if you can't or don't want to select one of their pre-defined amounts, send them $5 or something... We're at a very pivotal point in history here. 200 years from now, we will look back at this as a very defining moment in the development of our technology and government.
Every major group of people with a strong interest in a particular aspect of society needs an organization to represent them in our government, and the EFF is that organization for the geeks.
If you're interested in what they have done for us so far, and what they are working on, go to http://www.eff.org/archive.html.
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I can definitely testify to this -- my insurance company recently sent me a "care package" which contained a band-aid, a liquid crystal thermometer, and some propaganda to try to convince me that I should call them on the phone to do a pre-diagnosis before I go to the doctor, so that I can "save myself time" if it's not serious enough to warrant a doctor. I have a PPO so I'm not as restricted, so they have to convince me rather than force me, but I just thought this was kind of interesting to share...
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I really think this would be a great incentive for people to be really cautious rather than reckless during this age. Think of it.. if you start driving at 18 and collect 7 years of surcharges at 25, that's going to be something like $4200 (assuming a surcharge of $50/month) .. not bad!
I'm sure this could apply to other high-risk groups, with different rules to help create a feedback system which would be beneficial for the customer and in a small way for the insurance companies by helping reduce claims for the insurance companies by these high-risk groups.
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Of course it's a familiar pattern. You just described the essential difference between Democrats and Republicans.
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I'm so sick of the marketing departments in these companies instilling a false sense of urgency by manipulating people's basic psychology.
If you want to be socially engineered by a large corporation, go ahead and get on that waiting list. BTW, for those of you who have been following the IP debate, don't forget Sony is a major contributor to the MPAA *and* the RIAA.
I'll take the red pill.
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I'll take the red pill.
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Which would be more frightening: We live in a society where a few pirates steal some media for entertainment purposes, while most people still purchase it; or a society where large corporations control how everybody gets their media, how they play it, and what hardware they play it on?
I'm all about fair. You give me crap, I'll do whatever I want with it without giving you anything but the middle finger. You give me quality, and I'll reward you. I AM IN CONTROL.
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I posted the following article text last night, and the apes decided that this story description was better? That's it - I give up on story submissions.
I'm saving any future useful information for everything, where the site design doesn't include hasty filtering to "keep up" with the submissions, and where XP (everything's version of karma) actually is designed well and has meaning.
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