Wow, either that's the uber-troll of the decade, or you got off the bus at the wrong stop.
But whatever, I'll bite.
Reason number one to build a moonbase: ITS REALLY F---ING COOL TO HAVE A BASE ON THE FRICKIN MOON YOU SAD-SACK PARTY-POOPER!
Reason two (and somewhat more PRACTICAL): H3. When we finaly get fusion power going on, that stuffs gonna be really useful, and having people up there to get it will be a big win.
So there. Put those in your pipe and smoke them. I'm right because I say so.
What in the hell is wrong with you? You must be one uh dem dere damn yankees I keep hearin' 'bout... only people around dumb enuf to piss off a whole state fulla Texans... well, not countin them aggies, we still ain't figured them out yet (i think they're in one-a them cults, like in waco)...
I agree with you that the use of the holocaust quote was inappropriate... I think it cheapens the meaning of the quote. The prosecution of file-sharers for downloading can't hold a candle to genocide on the scale of things that are Just Plain Wrong. What we're facing now is something more akin to the civil rights movement. We have unjust laws, and we need to get them changed.
Those who are sharing files on P2P networks are commiting an illegal act, but so was Rosa Parks when she failed to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman.
But I disaggree with you on this: its not stealing or piracy, dammit! It's copyright infringement! If we ever want to see this system changed to something sane, we have to be careful about the language that we use. We will never change it if we continue to use the language that they use. Look up what Larry Lessig said about this after the Eldred case went south. We can make copyright infringement look like an act of civil disobedience against an evil anti-consumer regime of laws... but if we agree to use their language ("stealing" and "piracy"), we've lost the hearts and minds of Joe and Jane Voter, and we've certainly lost any sympathy we may have with any judges or legislators. Another thing to keep in mind is this: one of the big rules of civil disobedience is that when The Man does come down on you (as he always will), you have to be ready to face the consequences of your actions! Martin Luther King sat in that Birmingham jail cell and made an example of the injustice of it. We need to be prepared to do the same, and not whine about it, but fight it legally and with impassioned, pursuasive speech.
spammers don't care too much about effectiveness, they already deal with less than half-a-percent response rates anyway, and they don't give a darn if they're blocked... the fact of the matter is that spam is so freaking cheap to send, it will never go away. the way to kill it altogether is to raise the cost so much that it no longer becomes an attractive option. i hate to say it (being somewhat libertarian), but the only way to do that is to have anti-spam laws with some teeth that include some time in a state "correctional" facility. that would send the message.
look it up bro... the news guys all did their own "recounts"...
and bush still won florida.
if al had had his way, we'd _still_ be counting, and they would be re-defining what chad configuration constituted a "vote" every other day in a vain effort to conjure votes for al that may or may not have been cast.
I was diagnosed with ADD when I was in elementary school and placed on Ritalin. I immediately went from staring at the ceiling tiles to a straight A student, and when I was 10 my IQ was tested at ~150 (on Ritalin)... so, I think I have walked in your daughter's shoes.
I stayed on R for 7 years. My mother took me off of it when I started high school and they started saying it was bad...and to tell the truth, I experienced no "loss of performance" from not being on the drug. I thought then that I was "cured" or normal or something. I now realize that I was wrong.
While I no longer display gross symptoms of ADD, I can tell that I am different somehow. I have friends, other adults who have a similar background, and they experience similar things... its like this: I, and my friends, and your daughter, think MUCH faster than the people around us, faster than our hands can move, faster than our senses can detect the world. We're like 3.06 GHz hyper threading P4 processors in a world of 33MHz 68040's. In untreated ADD, you're looking for something to do with those extra clock cycles. Ritalin helps us focus and apply all of that to the situation at hand. I don't know all the Biology or Chemistry of it; I just know how I work. I can either pay full attention and process 5 things at once, or I can hyper-focus on one thing and knock it out in half the time it would take one of my co-workers. I can remember the strangest most random trivia and recall it instantly. There are plenty of people who can do these things, but people like my ADD friends, your daughter, and myself can do them to an abnormal degree.
The point of all of this is to say that ADD/ADHD is a gift, not a disease. Your role as a parent is to nurture and raise your child, and that includes recognizing who they are and teaching them to embrace that. Emphasize her abilities; teach her to treat them as gifts. Let her KNOW that she is special and that you love her as she is. If you do these things (which honestly boil down to generic parenting, I guess), while keeping her focused, you will have an adult daughter who will surprise your wildest expectations.
Yes, there will be A LOT more wars now! Never underestemate the human capacity for offence.
And I don't think this disproves God because He isn't the one making it. I think that was what lead to Him disappearing in the "puff of logic" in the book. If you believe your bible, He is the one who created the need for this device when He counfounded the languages of men at the tower of babel... (Genesis 11)
"Fair Use" is what you use as a defence when a copyright holder drags you into court...you know, like the insanity defence when you drown your kids.
"you can't punish me for murder cuz I'm nuts" equates to "you can't punish me for infringment cuz it was fair use"... and the rest of the trial is about whether or not what you did was "fair use" or not.
Dell (and all OEM's shacked up with M$) pays M$ a windows licensing fee on every machine they ship, whether it has windows or not. so it makes no sense for dell to not pass this on to the consumer and make you buy windows. this is why M$ is in trouble... but just like the last time with the consent agreement, they will get off this time with just a slap on the wrist.
Gee, I wish I could buy a government. That would be fun.
Na, no speedo's involved... he was just a drag queen DEA Agent named Dennis/Denise Bryson. Best line of the series had Audrey (played by Sherilyn Fenn) looking at him/her in disbelief (not knowing the drag part) and asking "They have female special agents?" and his response...
Geez. Do you work for sony or sometihng? The fact remains, I can do whatever I want with an object I own. I kind of like the idea of an earlier poster, and I think I will go home and make a hat out of my PS2 after work.
1)Rip the CD's you already own and can prove that you own, so that if and when you end up in court, you can demonstrate fair use, backup copies and whatnot.
2)put those on an unpatched, unprotected system
3)start monitoring.
The first weapon we need is information. Sun Tzu talked about knowing your enemy. We do this with intellegence.
Sun Tzu also talked about baiting your enemy into a trap. Since the MP3's are there legaly, and you weren't running a file share, when they delete them, find a lawyer who will work for contengency and go after the bastards.
And that 80-100MB/s transfer rate is sustained xfer rate. It is going to kill your little RAID 0 setup. If we're talking IDE RAID, you may get 16-30 MB/s sustained under OPTIMAL conditions, SCSI U160 RAID 0 will do a little better, say 45 MB/s or so.
The reason the transfer rates vary is cuz other activity on the bus can slow it down, and multiple requests might put more strain on the device controler itself.
I know that this is way of topic, but as an American who is a Circket fan (am I the only one?), I just have to say that a test average of 99.94 is just insane...that's like, hitting 300 RBI's per season for your whole carreer in baseball.
False. You ever fly on a 767 or 757? Ever notice how smoothe the landing is compared to something like, say, an MD80? There is a reason for this...the autopilot is landing the planes.
I have flown on all the above. In some airports, they are having unsusal wear problems on runways because the computers land in the exact same spot every time. I have had pilot and flight attendant friends tell me that on a 767 or 777 they don't have to do a THING from take-off to landing...just taxi to the end of the runway and start the program running. The pilot is there for emergencies.
appease their demands? What the FUCK is wrong with you? Their "demands" are to turn every American into a grease spot.
bin laden did this. the taliban government of afghanistan shelters bin laden because they like him and he can do things (like blow up buildings in america) they would like to do, but cannot do, due to international pressure.
the taliban was not behind this, but they allowed it to happen by not turning bin laden over to the US three years ago. the statement that they feel our pain is crocodile tears...
the conclusion? the taliban is just as guilty as bin laden and the people support the taliban. but sadly, there are innocents in that nation.
still, we must retaliate...and make a HORRIBLE example of afghanistan. we end them. and when we are done, we sow salt into their fields so that they can never recover, never come back. when that is done, no nation, no populace, will DARE harbor or sponsor terrorists for fear of the destruction of their own homeland. terrorist will have nowhere to hide.
but for this kind of deterrence to work, we must have an international demonstration of force the likes of which this world has never seen and hopefully will never have to see again.
...and yes, if it come down to it, I am willing to die for my country, the United States of America.
universalcurb
"Leo needs some new shoes" --Leo Johnson
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Does anyone know what realm this "authors guild" is on, and if they are planning on running molten core any time soon?
i'm thinking it's going to be pretty hard to lvl your members up to 60 if you are suing instead of playing, but that's just me...
1) get 4 million people addicted to your game.
2) sell expansion packs.
3) profit!
wait, somethings missing here!!!
Wow, either that's the uber-troll of the decade, or you got off the bus at the wrong stop.
But whatever, I'll bite.
Reason number one to build a moonbase: ITS REALLY F---ING COOL TO HAVE A BASE ON THE FRICKIN MOON YOU SAD-SACK PARTY-POOPER!
Reason two (and somewhat more PRACTICAL): H3. When we finaly get fusion power going on, that stuffs gonna be really useful, and having people up there to get it will be a big win.
So there. Put those in your pipe and smoke them. I'm right because I say so.
While watching educational video's with the kiddo's has its place, how about you ditch the boob-toob and keep them up well past their bed-time?
Pick up a decent telescope and a few eyepieces, head out to the country (away from all the damn city lights) and, I don't know, look at Mars!
Here and here are sites with a little more info...
What in the hell is wrong with you? You must be one uh dem dere damn yankees I keep hearin' 'bout... only people around dumb enuf to piss off a whole state fulla Texans...
well, not countin them aggies, we still ain't figured them out yet (i think they're in one-a them cults, like in waco)...
I agree with you that the use of the holocaust quote was inappropriate... I think it cheapens the meaning of the quote. The prosecution of file-sharers for downloading can't hold a candle to genocide on the scale of things that are Just Plain Wrong.
What we're facing now is something more akin to the civil rights movement. We have unjust laws, and we need to get them changed.
Those who are sharing files on P2P networks are commiting an illegal act, but so was Rosa Parks when she failed to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman.
But I disaggree with you on this: its not stealing or piracy, dammit! It's copyright infringement! If we ever want to see this system changed to something sane, we have to be careful about the language that we use. We will never change it if we continue to use the language that they use. Look up what Larry Lessig said about this after the Eldred case went south.
We can make copyright infringement look like an act of civil disobedience against an evil anti-consumer regime of laws... but if we agree to use their language ("stealing" and "piracy"), we've lost the hearts and minds of Joe and Jane Voter, and we've certainly lost any sympathy we may have with any judges or legislators.
Another thing to keep in mind is this: one of the big rules of civil disobedience is that when The Man does come down on you (as he always will), you have to be ready to face the consequences of your actions! Martin Luther King sat in that Birmingham jail cell and made an example of the injustice of it. We need to be prepared to do the same, and not whine about it, but fight it legally and with impassioned, pursuasive speech.
Injustice doesn't bow to whiners.
spammers don't care too much about effectiveness, they already deal with less than half-a-percent response rates anyway, and they don't give a darn if they're blocked... the fact of the matter is that spam is so freaking cheap to send, it will never go away. the way to kill it altogether is to raise the cost so much that it no longer becomes an attractive option. i hate to say it (being somewhat libertarian), but the only way to do that is to have anti-spam laws with some teeth that include some time in a state "correctional" facility. that would send the message.
look it up bro... the news guys all did their own "recounts" ...
and bush still won florida.
if al had had his way, we'd _still_ be counting, and they would be re-defining what chad configuration constituted a "vote" every other day in a vain effort to conjure votes for al that may or may not have been cast.
Jeez, move on already.
I was diagnosed with ADD when I was in elementary school and placed on Ritalin. I immediately went from staring at the ceiling tiles to a straight A student, and when I was 10 my IQ was tested at ~150 (on Ritalin)... so, I think I have walked in your daughter's shoes.
I stayed on R for 7 years. My mother took me off of it when I started high school and they started saying it was bad...and to tell the truth, I experienced no "loss of performance" from not being on the drug. I thought then that I was "cured" or normal or something. I now realize that I was wrong.
While I no longer display gross symptoms of ADD, I can tell that I am different somehow. I have friends, other adults who have a similar background, and they experience similar things... its like this: I, and my friends, and your daughter, think MUCH faster than the people around us, faster than our hands can move, faster than our senses can detect the world. We're like 3.06 GHz hyper threading P4 processors in a world of 33MHz 68040's. In untreated ADD, you're looking for something to do with those extra clock cycles. Ritalin helps us focus and apply all of that to the situation at hand. I don't know all the Biology or Chemistry of it; I just know how I work. I can either pay full attention and process 5 things at once, or I can hyper-focus on one thing and knock it out in half the time it would take one of my co-workers. I can remember the strangest most random trivia and recall it instantly. There are plenty of people who can do these things, but people like my ADD friends, your daughter, and myself can do them to an abnormal degree.
The point of all of this is to say that ADD/ADHD is a gift, not a disease. Your role as a parent is to nurture and raise your child, and that includes recognizing who they are and teaching them to embrace that. Emphasize her abilities; teach her to treat them as gifts. Let her KNOW that she is special and that you love her as she is. If you do these things (which honestly boil down to generic parenting, I guess), while keeping her focused, you will have an adult daughter who will surprise your wildest expectations.
Curby
Um, I think he's talking about Hillary dude...and she _is_ a pinko-commie bastard (ie: leftist).
The NYers elected her senator in 2000... must be something in the water.
Yes, there will be A LOT more wars now! Never underestemate the human capacity for offence.
And I don't think this disproves God because He isn't the one making it. I think that was what lead to Him disappearing in the "puff of logic" in the book. If you believe your bible, He is the one who created the need for this device when He counfounded the languages of men at the tower of babel... (Genesis 11)
alright class, everybody wave at the nice troll!
Not unless you consider $$$ stuffed into pol's wallets creative.
...that is what I call art.
Now, getting them to do something for you without dropping the cash?
Curb
Um, no.
"Fair Use" is what you use as a defence when a copyright holder drags you into court...you know, like the insanity defence when you drown your kids.
"you can't punish me for murder cuz I'm nuts" equates to "you can't punish me for infringment cuz it was fair use"... and the rest of the trial is about whether or not what you did was "fair use" or not.
Dell (and all OEM's shacked up with M$) pays M$ a windows licensing fee on every machine they ship, whether it has windows or not. so it makes no sense for dell to not pass this on to the consumer and make you buy windows. this is why M$ is in trouble... but just like the last time with the consent agreement, they will get off this time with just a slap on the wrist.
Gee, I wish I could buy a government. That would be fun.
CP
heh. someone NEEDS to do this to that faker Warwick...
Na, no speedo's involved... he was just a drag queen DEA Agent named Dennis/Denise Bryson. Best line of the series had Audrey (played by Sherilyn Fenn) looking at him/her in disbelief (not knowing the drag part) and asking "They have female special agents?" and his response...
...wait for it...
"Sorta."
classic...and Audrey was never the wiser.
You spouted "This is a pretty pathetic bunch."
To that I say "Go Elsewhere, Troll-boy!"
Geez. Do you work for sony or sometihng? The fact remains, I can do whatever I want with an object I own. I kind of like the idea of an earlier poster, and I think I will go home and make a hat out of my PS2 after work.
Why? because I can.
I don't know Bob, maybe you should catch the ssscca in your death bag....
:)
Mike.
OK Here's the plan.
1)Rip the CD's you already own and can prove that you own, so that if and when you end up in court, you can demonstrate fair use, backup copies and whatnot.
2)put those on an unpatched, unprotected system
3)start monitoring.
The first weapon we need is information. Sun Tzu talked about knowing your enemy. We do this with intellegence.
Sun Tzu also talked about baiting your enemy into a trap. Since the MP3's are there legaly, and you weren't running a file share, when they delete them, find a lawyer who will work for contengency and go after the bastards.
Imagine: Janeway vs. the Sweedish Chef...
Dude, give me the chef...he's got those chickens on his side, and he can lob meatballs over...I mean, what's Voyager got? Armor and Tuvok?
No match for a stale meatballl...
Latency and Access time, you id10t.
And that 80-100MB/s transfer rate is sustained xfer rate. It is going to kill your little RAID 0 setup. If we're talking IDE RAID, you may get 16-30 MB/s sustained under OPTIMAL conditions, SCSI U160 RAID 0 will do a little better, say 45 MB/s or so.
The reason the transfer rates vary is cuz other activity on the bus can slow it down, and multiple requests might put more strain on the device controler itself.
looks pretty schweet to me.
I know that this is way of topic, but as an American who is a Circket fan (am I the only one?), I just have to say that a test average of 99.94 is just insane...that's like, hitting 300 RBI's per season for your whole carreer in baseball.
False. You ever fly on a 767 or 757? Ever notice how smoothe the landing is compared to something like, say, an MD80? There is a reason for this...the autopilot is landing the planes.
I have flown on all the above. In some airports, they are having unsusal wear problems on runways because the computers land in the exact same spot every time. I have had pilot and flight attendant friends tell me that on a 767 or 777 they don't have to do a THING from take-off to landing...just taxi to the end of the runway and start the program running. The pilot is there for emergencies.
universalcurb
shut up, neville...
...and yes, if it come down to it, I am willing to die for my country, the United States of America.
appease their demands? What the FUCK is wrong with you? Their "demands" are to turn every American into a grease spot.
bin laden did this. the taliban government of afghanistan shelters bin laden because they like him and he can do things (like blow up buildings in america) they would like to do, but cannot do, due to international pressure.
the taliban was not behind this, but they allowed it to happen by not turning bin laden over to the US three years ago. the statement that they feel our pain is crocodile tears...
the conclusion? the taliban is just as guilty as bin laden and the people support the taliban. but sadly, there are innocents in that nation.
still, we must retaliate...and make a HORRIBLE example of afghanistan. we end them. and when we are done, we sow salt into their fields so that they can never recover, never come back. when that is done, no nation, no populace, will DARE harbor or sponsor terrorists for fear of the destruction of their own homeland. terrorist will have nowhere to hide.
but for this kind of deterrence to work, we must have an international demonstration of force the likes of which this world has never seen and hopefully will never have to see again.
universalcurb
"Leo needs some new shoes" --Leo Johnson