Alright folks, can we please drop a little more cash from this golden age into some long-term, sustainable, society enriching items.
And no, I don't think Cheap Internet really enriched the lives of those who needed it. Indeed, I think the computer boom was just a giant exercise in blowing money.
My concern is the weasly way in which he does not try to point out that WE hate the zealots every bit as much as anyone else. He also does not give you an idea of how large each respective group is. I for one peg Zealots at maybe 5%, priests never stick around for long, either developing into Pros, or simply being priestly about something else.
He paints with a large brush. It's would be like me describing how there are 3 different types of black folk. Rich ones, working ones, and good for-nothing-welfare-collecting ones. Never mind that all of the qualities I describe exist apart from race. And never mind that I know plenty of upper-crust people who never worked a day in their life.
Zealots exist in just about every organization. Folk Music has zealots. NASCAR racing has zealots. Microsoft has zealots, and so do all major religions. He might as well state that we all pass gas occassionaly.
The ultimate skill is to take up a position where you are formless. ?
If you are formless, the most penetrating spies will not be able to discern you, or the wisest counsels will not be able to do calculations against you. ?
With formation, the army achieves victories yet they do not understand how.
No wait, that's the Art of War, not the Art of Unix. Nevermind.
Hmm. And I suppose that hair dryers kill by lethal gamma radiation. If you've ever arched a tool, you would know that you are between the electrons and where they want to be. Sure you are a big resistor, but you are a big resistor attached to ground. Wet skin has even less resistance which is why so many electrocution deaths occur in the bathroom.
But I can tell you from personal experience, touching the hot pole on an AC circuit hurts like hell.
A phone call to your Federal/State representative is a) welcome and b) useful. A dead-tree letter is even better. And no, a form letter is NOT effective. Write your ideas in your own words, take the 2 minute out to track down where your representative's office is, lick a stamp, and send your thoughts on its way.
I hear that. If I'm going to fight and be dragged through the muck, let it be over an RFC or IEEE spec about secure vote tallying over an open network, and documenting standards for electronic machines.
The government has standardized the diameter of fire hoses, the output of a voting machine should be cake.
But just as creepy as the Microsoft ads on OSDN's websites (slashdot included.) Of course the 1984 doublespeak is a little creepy too: "Do more with Less."
To all of us who can see how inevitable SCO's failure in court is, events like this will make it interesting to watch when SCO collapses like a Ponzi scheme.
A Ponzi scheme requires somebody to actually be fooled.
Actually it wouldn't surprise me to find GW Bush is a member of MENSA. I have yet to find a member who is good at anything but signing checks and filling out puzzles.
You can turn the big red switch into a momentary contact switch a NAND gate, a resistor, and a cap.
(Grr, Ascii art circuit diagram came out shitful) Connect the GND end of the BRS, and connects that to the "-power" wire. The +power wire goes into the A input of a NAND gate. The output of that NAND is wired to an R/C combination, which is in turn wired back to the B input of the same NAND.
Yes, you are wiring the NAND to use it's output
as one if its inputs.
The output of the NAND should then be wired into
both inputs of another NAND gate. Connect the output of the second NAND to the +power wire from your MOBO.
To truth table for the circuit:
BASIC NAND A B OUT 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0
CIRCUIT A B N1 N2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
BRS=A
We look back the output from the NAND1 to be one of it's inputs. For most of it's life NAND1 always outputs true. Only for a brief instant when the BRS is thrown does it upset the truth table. The resistor and capacitor may be needed to stretch that window to be long enough to the flip-flop in the MOBOs button detection circuit to pick up.
The second NAND is just acting as a logic invertor. A and B are wired to the output of NAND1.
Why resort to Laser turrets. Just take an old lamp cord, and wrap the hot wire around an obscured part of the ammo box. Take the other end, and plug it into the wall.
Conductive metal boxes are fun to secure. Ands nothing says "Don't Touch This" like 120/240VAC.
And if they are at your case with tools, you are fucked anyway.
Personally, rather than flip a switch in the power supply, it would be more useful to rework the device to send a coded signal across the serial port. Run a daemon in the background that listens to the serial port, and then passes the appropriate information to PAM.
Forgive my brain dumping, but going back to my
post on the "holographic universe", I would like to prove to the reader that your conciousness can indeed work in a different time and a different place than your mind is currently inhabiting.
Just sit back and try to remember some event that happened to you in the recent past. Something particularly memorable. Now, try to remember a few minor details about what was going on. Maybe the clothes you were wearing, or what you ate for breakfast.
Did you catch yourself closing your eyes, and imagining? Think about dreams. We all have had them. They are often strange, and occasionally scary. We navigate through them as though we were awake an concious, but we are in fact asleep. Why do stoned people hallucinate?
I'm just going to throw this all out there, and let you guys pick it apart.
There is a third explaination brought forth in "The Holographic Universe", by Michael Talbot. He explains that the world we live in is actually an interference pattern, much like a hologram. By itself, a hologram is an bunch of squiggles and moire patterns. Bounce a reference beam off of it, and you get a signal our eye understands.
He [IMHO] convincingly applies this holographic theory to the senses, as well as some supposedly psychic phenomina. Clairvoyance and Clairaudience work because conciousness is not really fixed on any one place in space or even time. Folks who can demonstrate those abilities seem to be able to tune their individual "reference" beams to a slightly different part of the universe than the one they are presently in.
While I don't have the grades to prove it, I've been accused of being able to explain anything. Probably because I grok the concepts, but don't give a darn about the math.
Take fiber optic cable for instance. How many folks out there really know how fiber-optic cable works? It's basic optics applied in a radical way.
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And no, I don't think Cheap Internet really enriched the lives of those who needed it. Indeed, I think the computer boom was just a giant exercise in blowing money.
He paints with a large brush. It's would be like me describing how there are 3 different types of black folk. Rich ones, working ones, and good for-nothing-welfare-collecting ones. Never mind that all of the qualities I describe exist apart from race. And never mind that I know plenty of upper-crust people who never worked a day in their life.
Zealots exist in just about every organization. Folk Music has zealots. NASCAR racing has zealots. Microsoft has zealots, and so do all major religions. He might as well state that we all pass gas occassionaly.
If you are formless, the most penetrating spies will not be able to discern you, or the wisest counsels will not be able to do calculations against you. ?
With formation, the army achieves victories yet they do not understand how.
No wait, that's the Art of War, not the Art of Unix. Nevermind.
But I can tell you from personal experience, touching the hot pole on an AC circuit hurts like hell.
A phone call to your Federal/State representative is a) welcome and b) useful. A dead-tree letter is even better. And no, a form letter is NOT effective. Write your ideas in your own words, take the 2 minute out to track down where your representative's office is, lick a stamp, and send your thoughts on its way.
Use this republic for what it's designed for!
The government has standardized the diameter of fire hoses, the output of a voting machine should be cake.
WE are committing suicide at the gates!
Buh bye SCO.
This thread is over.
(Padding out a few words to get the post to filter past the caps is yelling filter...)
Well, until the chick with the hammer bursts into the room and smashes the giant viewscreen.
But just as creepy as the Microsoft ads on OSDN's websites (slashdot included.) Of course the 1984 doublespeak is a little creepy too: "Do more with Less."
I think my wife and kids will be surprised to hear that I'm a virgin.
A Ponzi scheme requires somebody to actually be fooled.
Weather forecasting doesn't work, care to call that one to the carpet too.
Well you can. But it's less reliable than looking back, or elsewhere for that matter.
If my memory is any gauge, even looking back is not very reliable.
(Grr, Ascii art circuit diagram came out shitful) Connect the GND end of the BRS, and connects that to the "-power" wire. The +power wire goes into the A input of a NAND gate. The output of that NAND is wired to an R/C combination, which is in turn wired back to the B input of the same NAND.
Yes, you are wiring the NAND to use it's output as one if its inputs.
The output of the NAND should then be wired into both inputs of another NAND gate. Connect the output of the second NAND to the +power wire from your MOBO.
To truth table for the circuit:
We look back the output from the NAND1 to be one of it's inputs. For most of it's life NAND1 always outputs true. Only for a brief instant when the BRS is thrown does it upset the truth table. The resistor and capacitor may be needed to stretch that window to be long enough to the flip-flop in the MOBOs button detection circuit to pick up.The second NAND is just acting as a logic invertor. A and B are wired to the output of NAND1.
Conductive metal boxes are fun to secure. Ands nothing says "Don't Touch This" like 120/240VAC.
Empty your wallet into the CD-Rom tray.
No better yet, one of the Big Red Buttons (BRB) like you see in the dinosaur pens. Of course, don't forget your Molly Guard.
And if they are at your case with tools, you are fucked anyway.
Personally, rather than flip a switch in the power supply, it would be more useful to rework the device to send a coded signal across the serial port. Run a daemon in the background that listens to the serial port, and then passes the appropriate information to PAM.
There is no card.
Just sit back and try to remember some event that happened to you in the recent past. Something particularly memorable. Now, try to remember a few minor details about what was going on. Maybe the clothes you were wearing, or what you ate for breakfast.
Did you catch yourself closing your eyes, and imagining? Think about dreams. We all have had them. They are often strange, and occasionally scary. We navigate through them as though we were awake an concious, but we are in fact asleep. Why do stoned people hallucinate?
I'm just going to throw this all out there, and let you guys pick it apart.
He [IMHO] convincingly applies this holographic theory to the senses, as well as some supposedly psychic phenomina. Clairvoyance and Clairaudience work because conciousness is not really fixed on any one place in space or even time. Folks who can demonstrate those abilities seem to be able to tune their individual "reference" beams to a slightly different part of the universe than the one they are presently in.
Take fiber optic cable for instance. How many folks out there really know how fiber-optic cable works? It's basic optics applied in a radical way.
Fiber-Optic cable is actually made up [CLICK]
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