Easy. Think of terms in office as contracts. The senators have 2 year "terms" or two year contracts..
4 dollars an hour for an 8 hour day comes to 32$ a day...times 256 is 8192 dollars a day.
We could simply outsource congress to India.:)
Hell, gimmie Tinman from Stealth. I'll take that plane as my wingman any day. It hates the RIAA, it has a problem with authority and it was a true, red blooded american IMHO.
Hmm...now imagine if they could make a B52 into a UAV... New meaning to "The terrorists have won the toss and have elected to receive."
Unfortunately the world nuclear powers would look down upon the nuking of France...mostly. They would likely harshly word diplomatic addresses on the subject in public...except former Russia...they'd probably thank us publicly. As for the rest of the nuclear stuff...the one major threat to our wiping our opponents out in a nuclear strike is the fact of Mutually assured destruction. This worked fine during the cold war when tensions were high..and now that the former soviet union has crumbled and can no longer reliably track thier nukes..we have the situation where everyone who wants to get thier hands on a nuke, can for the right price. Mutually assured destruction is a deterrent now..but the threat is very much diminished from the cold war days. I for one felt slightly more comfortable during the cold war...at least then we only had one other power with nukes that were aimed at us...now we have so many.
In the words of Wikipedia...
{Citation Needed}
I need a citation, two physycists, a supercomputer, a book that says on the back cover in large friendly letters 'Dont Panic', a gin and tonic, and a man from Betelgeuse STAT!
Rest assured that while the gateways this device creates have been certified safe for human travel, the device itself has not...
Do not touch the operational end of the device..Do not look into the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially...
Okay, after seeing the commentary on this story, I've learned something. Apparently all the smart people in South Florida were on shift at the nuclear power plant in 2000 when the south floridians were too terminally softened in the heads to read a simple ballot. I feel marginally better that not everyone in south Florida is an American Idol watching member of the sheeple. (I apologize to any smart south floridians out there that I may have inadvertenely offended by my gross generalization.) Though for those of you that do want out of South Florida, I suggest spearheading a movement to have Florida split up by the states of Georgia and Alabama....or we can annex you as part of Texas if you like.
Obligatory XXX State of the Union quotes:
"If it's got wheels, we can jack it." and "Welcome to the first Tank Jacking in history boys."
In the event of total societal breakdown due to this, head to Texas. We still have the option in our charter to quit the union and become our own country. Oh...and do a quick survey...how much of our military is from Texas?:) Once the option is exercised, we post an immediate recall...we have working oil and gas, shipping, cheap gas, our own power grid...*grin* Oh...AND we get back everything that we gave to Mexico AND the USA...so we get most of Oklahoma, new mexico, some of arizona...look up maps after the Louisiana Purchase and before the founding of the union. Gives the state slogan "Texas, it's like a whole other country" a new meaning, doesn't it?:) I can see the new maps..Canada, then the east and west US, then in the middle of it all, Texas. That's one awesome thing about living in Texas..we may be thought of as crazy, over the top hicks, but man, we PLAN.:) I don't know the specifics, but I've heard that there's a lot of texans in the military... i'll have to look up the specifics. But in the meantime, if total anarchy reigns, head for Texas. Just let the troops at the border know that you werent born in texas, but you got here as fast as you could.:)
Alpiner on a TI99/4A.
But my first true RPG experience was Bard's Tale on a IIc...Bard's tale 3 ROCKED>:)
*fires up dosbox and blares the bard's tale 3 theme in midi*
I was a tech in a basement of a major oil company...they issued me this Dell "quietkey" keyboard for my PC. I have occupied open top cubes next to mine and techs in them... Now..I don't know how the name quietkey came about...but the keyboard they game me was one of the loudest I've ever typed on...I type a consistent 90-120wpm...it took less than 5 minutes of typing before I got my first complaint. "The clicking of your typing is driving me nuts!"
I still have that keyboard somewhere..:)
For the crowd hating on Uematsu for writing crappy music for FFXII, Please note that that's not entirely his fault. He left Square during the production and only contributed the main theme...per the wikipedia article. My personal favorite composers havfe already been mentioned here..Yasunori Mitsuda, Noebu Uematsu, Yuki Kaijura, Yoko Shimomura, and the like... Personally, I like one that hasn't been mentioned so far...and I'm only abbout halfway through the comments.. Bloody Tears remix by Shade Saitama. It's a techno rock version of the dracula theme from SOTN.:) Awesome in 5.1. Hands down, the Xenogears music soundtrack for the win...absolutely phenomenal. Mitsuda-san's best work. Also, scars left by time...from Chrono cross. Favorite tracks: Scars left by time, leftovers from the dreams of the strong, Unstealable Jewel, The Unsung war, The final Fantasy victory theme, the final fantasy 2 (american) cave theme, the FF2 (am) airship theme, FF2's big whale theme, And I'm honestly amazed that no one has mentioned Johnathan Coulton's "Still alive", the end theme from Portal!
So why is Voyager 1 continuously beaming back: "Remember, aperture science take your daughter to work day is the perfect time to have her tested.." and "The Cake Is A LIE!"
And When does Voyager 6 launch?:)
Okay....Who let the Ipod firmware engineers into congress? We have Apple's firmware on the Ipod touch and Iphone preventing "Accidental Linux use" on the devices...and now we have Congress actively passing legislation to prevent "Accidental terroristic propaganda"....WTF?! It's not spelled out in the article, but it seems that the con-gress (intentional hyphenation) is overly worried that the internet and its decentralized and uncontrolled nature could spawn terroristic propaganda sharing...hmm..imagine that. So...when do we get congress v.1.1.2? Anyone want to help me obfusticate a bill I'm thinking about proposing into legislation?:)
Welcome to the new social norm in the world. The "sheeple" are mad because someone is trying to profit from the mindless social jabber on these megasites. Plus Microsoft is trying to recoup the loss from the google fakeout.:) Gee, looks like Microsoft, who is now processing the ads on the site is doing quite well..I still say they need to lace an ad in the queue with a flawed WGA validator and go RIAA on these people. OH..sorry, your Windows is pirated, pay us 3000$ and we'll look the other way.:)
We skip steps 1-3 and go straight to 4. Profit.:) $ocialnetworking...ain't it grand?:) In other news, Nigerian spammers are offshoring work to India...
Personally, I'd like to see these musical roads make it over here to the states. Though they might have to speed the tempo a bit and clock it for 70mph.. See, round these parts, the limit on the freeway here next to me is 55...but as student drivers learn VERY quickly..you WILL be run over if you do the limit on TX225. See, the speed limit here is something like a soft limit...the police don't even care unless you're doing like 95-100. (Btw, Toyota Prius, doesnt break a sweat at 100.:) (slashvertisement...sorry, couldnt resist.:)
Of course, we'd have to retrain half of Houston's drivers...though I think they'll be easier to train since we got them to stop turning left on Main street and crashing into the giant train.:) It only took 2 years.
Agreed...though the funny story I heard is that Google tried to implement MSSMS on thier network, but the sheer amount of traffic caused by thier automated job nearly killed thier internal network. They're still fighting "borg data" 4 years later when the scripts autostart randomly.:) **Disclaimer: The above information is all second hand through trusted sources, but is not verified by the original poster. *Hands NaCl*
Okay..I'm going with the obligatory Armageddon quote: "American technology, Russian technology, what's the difference? It's all made in Korea!" Send up a crazy Russian mechanic and a wrench to beat on the equipment with...problem solved.:) Aside from that, I used to work with the space station program...these things ARE overengineered...but made by the lowest bidder...btw, the space shuttle seats rock.:) Only the commander has power seats.:)
New planet appears in northern sky, aliens claiming to be from the planet Crikkit contact government, promise to rain destruction on the universe as a whole. Set var=perilsensativesunglasses=1.
Where's slaartibartfast and the starship Bistromath when we need them?
We become centralized...bad idea...this worm is exactly what netsky and mydoom wanted to be....an efficient system of generating revenue and a gun pointed at the head of the industry.
Our flaw in the plan is centralization...the people that wrote storm wrote autonomy into the code...it's self sufficient. it makes programmatical decisions.. the network can adapt and change in response to stimuli. We need big nocs and fat pipes to kill storm... not distributed computing.
Fascinating....a botnet with intelligent distributed command and control that takes out security researchers and knows it's own flock.
We know there's a few variants out there...we know the base code has been released... We know the damn thing can autopatch..
Okay...simple solution.
Storm researchers, use code.google.com, it's backed by Google's network and Akamai's strength. Post there, watch google's wrath and the might of thousands of PHD's in computer science get turned toward all these botnet PCs.
Man, this could get interesting...I'd love to be part of the effort that kills this botnet...whoever coded this was a genius...the storm botnet manages itself, and is smart enough to detect intrusions and outsiders, then deal with them...
It's almost a rudimentary AI...
Sorry, as a geek I'm fascinated by what this thing can do, I mean..who wouldnt be... Regardless of the Matrix comments and the like, this thing is a threat...a small fraction of the botnet could ddos the NYSE or the NAsdaq and wreck everything...
Fascinating....
Please remember that Aperture science take your daughter to work day is the perfect time to have her tested. and WOW...something informative with good news and no spin by Kdawson...screw calling CNN...call the Vatican..find out if hell has frozen over.
R.I.P. Weighted Companion Cube...you will be missed!
Okay...so I lied, I wont miss them at all. I wont miss the packet shaping, the adaptive analysis, the Bangalore tech support...having to call repeatedly to get competent tech service. (BTW, any issues with Comcrap's HS internet service, ask to be transferred to the canadian NOC....it works, they're intelligent.)
(Amusing story there, but I'll save that for a journal entry)
Remember: for all issues, blame reality, for anything royally f***ed up, blame comcast!:)
kill -9 kdawson.:)
So...apparently the big telecoms have hired the pious flea from ilovebees.com as their defense counsel...
I mean...so far, the only response that Big telecom has given has effectively been:
!grope case
!touch firewall
!react accusation
!evade
!evade
!evade from the pov of the pious flea.
Nah...let's change it from ponyhunt to RIAA lawyer hunt....I doubt any standards body would reject that for ruthless violence...especially if they own music.
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Easy. Think of terms in office as contracts. The senators have 2 year "terms" or two year contracts.. 4 dollars an hour for an 8 hour day comes to 32$ a day...times 256 is 8192 dollars a day. We could simply outsource congress to India. :)
Hell, gimmie Tinman from Stealth. I'll take that plane as my wingman any day. It hates the RIAA, it has a problem with authority and it was a true, red blooded american IMHO. Hmm...now imagine if they could make a B52 into a UAV... New meaning to "The terrorists have won the toss and have elected to receive."
Unfortunately the world nuclear powers would look down upon the nuking of France...mostly. They would likely harshly word diplomatic addresses on the subject in public...except former Russia...they'd probably thank us publicly. As for the rest of the nuclear stuff...the one major threat to our wiping our opponents out in a nuclear strike is the fact of Mutually assured destruction. This worked fine during the cold war when tensions were high..and now that the former soviet union has crumbled and can no longer reliably track thier nukes..we have the situation where everyone who wants to get thier hands on a nuke, can for the right price. Mutually assured destruction is a deterrent now..but the threat is very much diminished from the cold war days. I for one felt slightly more comfortable during the cold war...at least then we only had one other power with nukes that were aimed at us...now we have so many.
In the words of Wikipedia... {Citation Needed} I need a citation, two physycists, a supercomputer, a book that says on the back cover in large friendly letters 'Dont Panic', a gin and tonic, and a man from Betelgeuse STAT!
Rest assured that while the gateways this device creates have been certified safe for human travel, the device itself has not... Do not touch the operational end of the device..Do not look into the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially...
Okay, after seeing the commentary on this story, I've learned something. Apparently all the smart people in South Florida were on shift at the nuclear power plant in 2000 when the south floridians were too terminally softened in the heads to read a simple ballot. I feel marginally better that not everyone in south Florida is an American Idol watching member of the sheeple. (I apologize to any smart south floridians out there that I may have inadvertenely offended by my gross generalization.) Though for those of you that do want out of South Florida, I suggest spearheading a movement to have Florida split up by the states of Georgia and Alabama....or we can annex you as part of Texas if you like.
Obligatory XXX State of the Union quotes: "If it's got wheels, we can jack it." and "Welcome to the first Tank Jacking in history boys." In the event of total societal breakdown due to this, head to Texas. We still have the option in our charter to quit the union and become our own country. Oh...and do a quick survey...how much of our military is from Texas? :) Once the option is exercised, we post an immediate recall...we have working oil and gas, shipping, cheap gas, our own power grid...*grin* Oh...AND we get back everything that we gave to Mexico AND the USA...so we get most of Oklahoma, new mexico, some of arizona...look up maps after the Louisiana Purchase and before the founding of the union. Gives the state slogan "Texas, it's like a whole other country" a new meaning, doesn't it? :) I can see the new maps..Canada, then the east and west US, then in the middle of it all, Texas. That's one awesome thing about living in Texas..we may be thought of as crazy, over the top hicks, but man, we PLAN. :) I don't know the specifics, but I've heard that there's a lot of texans in the military... i'll have to look up the specifics. But in the meantime, if total anarchy reigns, head for Texas. Just let the troops at the border know that you werent born in texas, but you got here as fast as you could. :)
/etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net :) Works WONDERS. :)
Alpiner on a TI99/4A. But my first true RPG experience was Bard's Tale on a IIc...Bard's tale 3 ROCKED> :)
*fires up dosbox and blares the bard's tale 3 theme in midi*
I was a tech in a basement of a major oil company...they issued me this Dell "quietkey" keyboard for my PC. I have occupied open top cubes next to mine and techs in them... Now..I don't know how the name quietkey came about...but the keyboard they game me was one of the loudest I've ever typed on...I type a consistent 90-120wpm...it took less than 5 minutes of typing before I got my first complaint. "The clicking of your typing is driving me nuts!" I still have that keyboard somewhere.. :)
For the crowd hating on Uematsu for writing crappy music for FFXII, Please note that that's not entirely his fault. He left Square during the production and only contributed the main theme...per the wikipedia article. My personal favorite composers havfe already been mentioned here..Yasunori Mitsuda, Noebu Uematsu, Yuki Kaijura, Yoko Shimomura, and the like... Personally, I like one that hasn't been mentioned so far...and I'm only abbout halfway through the comments.. Bloody Tears remix by Shade Saitama. It's a techno rock version of the dracula theme from SOTN. :) Awesome in 5.1. Hands down, the Xenogears music soundtrack for the win...absolutely phenomenal. Mitsuda-san's best work. Also, scars left by time...from Chrono cross. Favorite tracks: Scars left by time, leftovers from the dreams of the strong, Unstealable Jewel, The Unsung war, The final Fantasy victory theme, the final fantasy 2 (american) cave theme, the FF2 (am) airship theme, FF2's big whale theme, And I'm honestly amazed that no one has mentioned Johnathan Coulton's "Still alive", the end theme from Portal!
So why is Voyager 1 continuously beaming back: "Remember, aperture science take your daughter to work day is the perfect time to have her tested.." and "The Cake Is A LIE!" And When does Voyager 6 launch? :)
Okay....Who let the Ipod firmware engineers into congress? We have Apple's firmware on the Ipod touch and Iphone preventing "Accidental Linux use" on the devices...and now we have Congress actively passing legislation to prevent "Accidental terroristic propaganda" ....WTF?! It's not spelled out in the article, but it seems that the con-gress (intentional hyphenation) is overly worried that the internet and its decentralized and uncontrolled nature could spawn terroristic propaganda sharing...hmm..imagine that. So...when do we get congress v.1.1.2? Anyone want to help me obfusticate a bill I'm thinking about proposing into legislation? :)
Welcome to the new social norm in the world. The "sheeple" are mad because someone is trying to profit from the mindless social jabber on these megasites. Plus Microsoft is trying to recoup the loss from the google fakeout. :) Gee, looks like Microsoft, who is now processing the ads on the site is doing quite well..I still say they need to lace an ad in the queue with a flawed WGA validator and go RIAA on these people. OH..sorry, your Windows is pirated, pay us 3000$ and we'll look the other way. :)
We skip steps 1-3 and go straight to 4. Profit. :) $ocialnetworking...ain't it grand? :) In other news, Nigerian spammers are offshoring work to India...
Personally, I'd like to see these musical roads make it over here to the states. Though they might have to speed the tempo a bit and clock it for 70mph.. See, round these parts, the limit on the freeway here next to me is 55...but as student drivers learn VERY quickly..you WILL be run over if you do the limit on TX225. See, the speed limit here is something like a soft limit...the police don't even care unless you're doing like 95-100. (Btw, Toyota Prius, doesnt break a sweat at 100. :) (slashvertisement...sorry, couldnt resist. :)
Of course, we'd have to retrain half of Houston's drivers...though I think they'll be easier to train since we got them to stop turning left on Main street and crashing into the giant train. :) It only took 2 years.
Agreed...though the funny story I heard is that Google tried to implement MSSMS on thier network, but the sheer amount of traffic caused by thier automated job nearly killed thier internal network. They're still fighting "borg data" 4 years later when the scripts autostart randomly. :) **Disclaimer: The above information is all second hand through trusted sources, but is not verified by the original poster. *Hands NaCl*
Okay..I'm going with the obligatory Armageddon quote: "American technology, Russian technology, what's the difference? It's all made in Korea!" Send up a crazy Russian mechanic and a wrench to beat on the equipment with...problem solved. :) Aside from that, I used to work with the space station program...these things ARE overengineered...but made by the lowest bidder...btw, the space shuttle seats rock. :) Only the commander has power seats. :)
New planet appears in northern sky, aliens claiming to be from the planet Crikkit contact government, promise to rain destruction on the universe as a whole. Set var=perilsensativesunglasses=1. Where's slaartibartfast and the starship Bistromath when we need them?
Why does this suddenly remind me of Hotel California?
We become centralized...bad idea...this worm is exactly what netsky and mydoom wanted to be....an efficient system of generating revenue and a gun pointed at the head of the industry. Our flaw in the plan is centralization...the people that wrote storm wrote autonomy into the code...it's self sufficient. it makes programmatical decisions.. the network can adapt and change in response to stimuli. We need big nocs and fat pipes to kill storm... not distributed computing.
Fascinating....a botnet with intelligent distributed command and control that takes out security researchers and knows it's own flock. We know there's a few variants out there...we know the base code has been released... We know the damn thing can autopatch.. Okay...simple solution. Storm researchers, use code.google.com, it's backed by Google's network and Akamai's strength. Post there, watch google's wrath and the might of thousands of PHD's in computer science get turned toward all these botnet PCs. Man, this could get interesting...I'd love to be part of the effort that kills this botnet...whoever coded this was a genius...the storm botnet manages itself, and is smart enough to detect intrusions and outsiders, then deal with them... It's almost a rudimentary AI... Sorry, as a geek I'm fascinated by what this thing can do, I mean..who wouldnt be... Regardless of the Matrix comments and the like, this thing is a threat...a small fraction of the botnet could ddos the NYSE or the NAsdaq and wreck everything... Fascinating....
Please remember that Aperture science take your daughter to work day is the perfect time to have her tested. and WOW...something informative with good news and no spin by Kdawson...screw calling CNN...call the Vatican..find out if hell has frozen over. R.I.P. Weighted Companion Cube...you will be missed!
Okay...so I lied, I wont miss them at all. I wont miss the packet shaping, the adaptive analysis, the Bangalore tech support...having to call repeatedly to get competent tech service. (BTW, any issues with Comcrap's HS internet service, ask to be transferred to the canadian NOC....it works, they're intelligent.) (Amusing story there, but I'll save that for a journal entry) Remember: for all issues, blame reality, for anything royally f***ed up, blame comcast! :)
kill -9 kdawson. :)
Nah...let's change it from ponyhunt to RIAA lawyer hunt....I doubt any standards body would reject that for ruthless violence...especially if they own music.