The bottom line is, a lot of people have decided to take The Book of Revelation as literal, when it's clearly meant as Allegory.
A lot of sad, pathetic people can't handle the fact that in the grand scheme of things, they don't matter all that much to the world as a whole, and they want to boost their egos by convincing themselves that they're "living in the end times."
The whole "Wars and rumors of wars" verse is part of a long list of "Business as usual" comments. In other words, it's made clear that the world will be going on as normal, and that "wars and rumors of wars" are par for the course.
Sadly, the ignorant don't notice the fact that Christians have been waiting for the "End Times" since shortly after the death of Christ. The New Testament even includes an account of a group that sells their possessions and go wait on a hill for Christ to return. I can't remember if it's Peter or Paul who tells them to get a job and live their lives.
After actually reading revelation instead of just using it to search for verses to support my own fantasy version of the near future, I've come to the conclusion that anyone babbling about the "End Times" being upon us is clearly an ignorant fool, incapable of independent thought.
The success of the "Left Behind" books is one indication of just how ignorant the nation really is.
Having been raise in a Conservative Christian home, and having parents who gleefully voted for Bush, I can say that the reasons are deep, complicated and interwoven in a network of complexes.
However, that won't stop me from trying to summarize the bullet points.
Abortion is a big issue. I've been told "You can't vote for Kerry, because you can't have the deaths of all those babies on your hands."
Conservative Christians have, for a couple of generations, been telling themselves that the "Liberal Media" is out to get them, and that their values and way of life have been under active assault. Any gains are considered vital ground in this "War." Despite Fox news and it's essential worship of The Shrub, this image and view persists. The 700 Club has long claimed to be a balanced news source. Mind you, in reality they just reuse news footage and editorialize, but they claim to offer "just the facts" style coverage between their religious segments.
Any disagreement, any opposing view, is seen as a temptation from Satan, and an effort to lead the nation and it's children astray. If you're against the status quo, you must be an agent of Satan, or deceived by one. While not as actively discussed as the other above points, it's an undercurrent that many believe.
The "War on Terror," is for some, a Holy war against Islam.
Many people whose children or loved ones died in the war can't stomach the idea that their loved ones died for no good purpose, and thus cling to the illusion that there is a good reason for the war, and failing to support it becomes a betrayal of their deceased.
Voting against Bush is voting against the war, at least in the eyes of many, and there are a fair hunk of people who support the war for various reasons because they believe opposing Bush would damage the war effort as they saw it.
As a side note, thank you for not blowing up in reaction to my rather childish and emotional rant. I should have been more level headed in my reply.
I wasn't trying to write a treatise on how to deal with despots. I was pointing out a few minor points about death's role in politics. I didn't address elections, protests, revolt or anything else.
I wasn't advocating waiting for a despot to die as the best way to deal with one, I was saying that if they never died, some of them would remain in power for a very long time.
I was using the death of depots as an argument against immortality for humans, not as a political strategy.
I don;t think we should sit on our asses like a bunch of lazy, stupid sponges waiting for despots to pass on, and I'm pretty disappointed in anyone who is trying to imply otherwise.
You;re wasting your time pissing and moaning about something I wasn't even trying to say.
Are you a US Citizen? If so, what did YOU do in the last election. I campaigned against The Shrub and voted against him as well. I'm talking to people who voted for him to try and find out why they did so. I'm actually working towards getting more liberal and level headed candidates into office.
I agree. Even installing and uninstalling applications is fairly simple and straight forward.
When it works.
I'm just frustrated with the error messages when I try to do something like sync the damn thing.
Fortunately, Palm has finally given me the information to schedule a repair. Of course, if they try to charge ME for them to repair THEIR defective product, then I'll take them to small claims court for the cost of the device.
I can even understand an occasional defective device making it to a consumer, but their complete inability to give me any actual assistance with the problem despite several tech support requests is unacceptable. I'm pretty sure the damn thing is now out of warranty, just because it took them a couple of months and countless e-mails to admit there MIGHT be a hardware problem.
If you're not going to stand behind your product, then get out of business.
When people say "The values upon which the nation was founded" they generally mean whatever supposed "values" of the "Founding Fathers" they themselves espouse. I'm no less guilty of this than anyone else. For example, I'm sure the same argument was used in favor of slavery, after all, the Constitution has content governing some of the legal foundation for slavery, and at the time, said content had not yet been repealed.
To elaborate on your point, there are people who no doubt see the erasure of Due Process and the creation of the "Enemy Combatant" classification, as well as the restoration of torture as an interrogation technique, to be good things. All those rules just got in the way of enforcing the law anyway, don't you know.
If anything, politicians are getting younger due to the power of TV.
The scenario outlined above is completely ludicrous.
Imagine for a moment that the world begins filling with "immortal" people. The article makes it clear that the idea is to halt the aging process. You wouldn't continue to grow old and decrepit for centuries, but would instead reach a certain age and stop. You'd physically be in your early 20's forever. Take a look at the short story "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" get get a description of how this might go.
Just because the "Young" are being pushed now doesn't mean that's how it will remain. Most marketing is directed at pushing the image of being young and attractive, in order to drive product sales. Much of the "Younger Politicians" trend you mentioned is the result of this kind of marketing spilling over into politics.
Besides, people tend to vote for people like themselves. Why do you think The Shrub has been dumbing down his vocabulary since his first presidential run? The more "Older" voters there are, the more likely a member of that generation is to be elected.
Saying that the older generations would lose political power just because they aren't "young" anymore is stunningly ignorant, and ignores most of the realities of politics, focusing instead on the superficial images portrayed by advertising.
Yes, we need to deal with our leaders while they are alive. Waiting for a bad leader to die is not an effective means of dealing with an oppressive regime in the here and now.
My point was, that death will always take us all, good or ill, and if a despot rises and cannot be overthrown by any other means, then death will ultimately take him or her.
Fortunately for those of use in Democracies and Republics, so long as votes are counted accurately, we'll always have exactly the kind of government we deserve. In the US, we have an old principle that has often been expressed as "The Ballot, not the Bullet."
Waiting for old age to relieve us of the Conservative Christian End-Times leaders is unacceptable, but voting the bastards out of office is.
I was really thinking of things like the Roman Empire then I made my comments. Yes, it took generations, but eventually the empire fell and new governments rose in from the ruins. Yes, many of those were far worse than anything Rome had put together, but some eventually birthed something better.
If Google blocks BLOGS, and If I feel there's anything on my BLOG worth having come up in a Google Search, I'll leap through any hoops necessary to make it searchable.
If I can't be bothered to make it searchable, then there's no need for YOU to have it come up in search results.
As a side note, you don't find much in the way of Blog SPAM on my site. Even before I required registration to post, I was moderating posts. I had to approve the post before it was visible.
Since I have a low traffic BLOG (read: boring) I got literally 300 Spam Posts for every actual reply. In the end, accepting comments just wasn't worth the hassle for my BLOG.
The reason the T5 doesn't have a universal connector probably has more to do with wanting to sell more peripherals than anything else.
Let's not forget that Palm wants to sell hardware, and they're not above abusing the loyalty of their user base.
Fine, the T2 doesn't have the circuitry for Wi-Fi. Whose fault is that?
It doesn't matter if it was intentional or just negligent, the bottom line is, it's not up to par.
The quality of their hardware is going downhill fast, as you yourself can attest. Based on my experiences, I'd say their software is in the same kind of trouble.
The bottom line is, even ignoring my Wi-Fi frustrations, my experiences with Palm have been so terrible that I, a Linux Advocate who REALLY wanted to like something other than WinCE, have been driven screaming from Palm products never to buy another one again. When I have the finances to replace the unstable piece of crap, I'll do so with a product from another vendor.
When I sync I get this message: MemoryMgr.c, Line:3654, Free Handle
I have to use the reset button on the back of the Palm to clear the error, and when I do, I frequently get the following error when I try to sync: MemoryMgr.c Line:4613, Chunk under-locked
Hitting Reset Button on back will often, but not always, generate the following error message: halSnd.c, Line:1663, DSP Power On/Off Error
The Reset button on the screen with the error messages never works, I have to use the reset button on the back of the hand held.
I followed Palm's directions and uninstalled Documents to Go, but that doesn't really help.
Palm tech support has been painfully useless, never sending me anything other than canned responses, none of which work. They don't want to admit there's a real problem, and tend to just stop responding to me when I'm going back and fourth on tech issues.
I have to do at least one reset for every sync, sometimes as many as five or six, just to sync the hardware.
I've already contacted Palm tech support about this, and the only response I got was a series of canned replies that failed to resolve the issue.
So the question is, would it be possible to port Nethack to it?
Assuming Palm resolves the errors I'm getting now, I might be tempted to give such a port a try. It's been a couple years since I looked into Palm development. Any recommendations on what toolkits to start with, assuming a minimal to no cash investment?
I'm glad SOMEONE picked up on this. Notice in my original post, I said:
To an extent, society just doesn't change unless the older generation dies off.
Notice that I dind't say "Advance" or "evolve".
That change isn't necessarily good. You're right about the civil rights example. The changes we're seeing now in America are bad, destructive and counter to the ideals upon which the nation was founded. If the current crop of leaders were granted immortality and ended up trading off on who was president for centuries, things would only get worse.
The point I was getting at, is not so much that one generation is better than the last, but that the BAD generations wouldn't ever die off. The newer generation isn't necessarily any better than those before it, but even with the worst leaders possible, the most destructive, oppressive regimes around, we have the consolation of knowing that sooner or later they'll die. What comes after them won't necessarily be better or worse, but at least there's the opportunity for the worst of us to die off. Of course this means the best of us die off as well, but at least the next generation has the opportunity to learn form the mistakes of the past, without necessarily having the ego of having committed them personally blinding them to the lessons.
Of course, even if we could live for 1,000 years, the "End Times" nuts would still run around eagerly panting for Christ's second coming, expecting it any moment. One reason Bush and his ilk are so caviler about the environment is because they honestly expect all the "Christians" to be "Raptured" any moment now.
While the phrasing is probably intended to offend, the underlying point is valid.
The planet can barely handle the population we have now, can you imagine if there were 20 Billion people on the planet, vying for resources? Soylent Green would become a prophesy about the future instead of a frightening movie. All the fears about the "Population bomb" would come true.
Alternatively, only the ultra wealthy would have access to the technology, so the same set of SOBs would always run the planet while the rest of us slaved away as a clear and definitive underclass.
Arch Obler addressed some of the realities of such a life span in one of the episodes of the old radio show "Lights Out".
There was a revolution. The younger generation was tired of being held down by the generation that was in power when immortality became possible. Bereft of political power for hundreds of years, there was a violent and bloody revolt, resulting in the massacre of the older generation.
Can you imagine the state of civil rights if the people running the country in the 1950s were still alive and well?
To an extent, society just doesn't change unless the older generation dies off.
I've been playing iRouge for a while now. I still prefer Nethack, but iRouge will do.
Ironically, until the hardware problems began with my latest Palm Pilot, a T2, I was thinking of doing a Nethack -> Palm port as a project to learn Palm Pilot programming. Sadly, it looks like most of the API changes that would make such a port possible are for the Post 5.x versions of the Palm OS, which means I'd be developing a program I myself wouldn't be able to run.
They could start voting for people who are actually interested in representing the, well, people.
A nice idea, but the reality is, such candidates never get funding form businesses, and as a result, never have the cash to win an election. Most of the time, the candidate with the most money ends up with the most votes.
Show me such a person running for office, and I'll vote for them. If such a person actually wins a state or federal election, I'll sing "God Bless America" buck naked on the Boston Common in January, preferably during a winter storm.
No, no, they should BLOCK all BLOGS by default.
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You're right. This "solution" will do about as much as against Comment SPAM as recent US Federal Legislation has done for e-mail SPAM.
The BLOGS that collect this kind of SPAM in their comments are being run by people who either don't know how to, or don't care enough to update to the most recent version of, for example, MovableType. This "solution" requires action on the part of the people hosting the BLOG, something that I can guarantee will not happen with the idiots who can't even be bothered to take the existing rudimentary steps necessary to limit BLOG SPAM.
Anything that requires action on the part of the people administering the BLOG will fail to make an impact, plain and simple. How many MovableType BLOGS are out there with literally pages upon pages of SPAM comments? How many of them are EV ER edited, moderated or subjected to a little house cleaning?
No, a far better solution would be to NOT index ANY BLOGS unless the bloger take action, such as adding something a SPAMMer can't inject with comment SPAM, like a specific Metatag in the document Head.
I hear a bunch of people wine about how this will end up restricting BLOGs from coming up in search results. Fine, I'm OK with that. If the people administering the BLOG can't be bothered to take action to reduce BLOG SPAM, then the site is unlikely to contain anything I'd be interested in anyway.
I think your review has proven the thesis that it's a better show than Star Trek Enterprise.
It had some GOOD episodes, the writers showed some promise and the show probably stands a good chance of being canceled now that the writing has taken a downward turn. As a result, we won't have to put up with the years of promos that Enterprise has subjected us to, and will have a reduced risk of running across it while chanel surfing.
And the good episodes even give it a decent viewer base to rely on should the writers rally and resume writing decent material.
All of these are advantages Enterprise never had. Poor writing, an excessive reliance on bad plot devices, and an inability to maintain any kind of internal consistency or continuity, let alone continuity with the other shows.
That, and on BSG, the hot chicks could actually act, and even make their characters somewhat convincing.
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Don't get me started.
The bottom line is, a lot of people have decided to take The Book of Revelation as literal, when it's clearly meant as Allegory.
A lot of sad, pathetic people can't handle the fact that in the grand scheme of things, they don't matter all that much to the world as a whole, and they want to boost their egos by convincing themselves that they're "living in the end times."
The whole "Wars and rumors of wars" verse is part of a long list of "Business as usual" comments. In other words, it's made clear that the world will be going on as normal, and that "wars and rumors of wars" are par for the course.
Sadly, the ignorant don't notice the fact that Christians have been waiting for the "End Times" since shortly after the death of Christ. The New Testament even includes an account of a group that sells their possessions and go wait on a hill for Christ to return. I can't remember if it's Peter or Paul who tells them to get a job and live their lives.
After actually reading revelation instead of just using it to search for verses to support my own fantasy version of the near future, I've come to the conclusion that anyone babbling about the "End Times" being upon us is clearly an ignorant fool, incapable of independent thought.
The success of the "Left Behind" books is one indication of just how ignorant the nation really is.
It's depressing.
These days when laws are written by the rich and bought over by the powerful, you never know =)
Your comment implies there was a time when it was any other way.
The person who has the gold has ALWAYS written the rules.
Having been raise in a Conservative Christian home, and having parents who gleefully voted for Bush, I can say that the reasons are deep, complicated and interwoven in a network of complexes.
However, that won't stop me from trying to summarize the bullet points.
Abortion is a big issue. I've been told "You can't vote for Kerry, because you can't have the deaths of all those babies on your hands."
Conservative Christians have, for a couple of generations, been telling themselves that the "Liberal Media" is out to get them, and that their values and way of life have been under active assault. Any gains are considered vital ground in this "War." Despite Fox news and it's essential worship of The Shrub, this image and view persists. The 700 Club has long claimed to be a balanced news source. Mind you, in reality they just reuse news footage and editorialize, but they claim to offer "just the facts" style coverage between their religious segments.
Any disagreement, any opposing view, is seen as a temptation from Satan, and an effort to lead the nation and it's children astray. If you're against the status quo, you must be an agent of Satan, or deceived by one. While not as actively discussed as the other above points, it's an undercurrent that many believe.
The "War on Terror," is for some, a Holy war against Islam.
Many people whose children or loved ones died in the war can't stomach the idea that their loved ones died for no good purpose, and thus cling to the illusion that there is a good reason for the war, and failing to support it becomes a betrayal of their deceased.
Voting against Bush is voting against the war, at least in the eyes of many, and there are a fair hunk of people who support the war for various reasons because they believe opposing Bush would damage the war effort as they saw it.
As a side note, thank you for not blowing up in reaction to my rather childish and emotional rant. I should have been more level headed in my reply.
You're reading an awful lot into what I wrote.
I wasn't trying to write a treatise on how to deal with despots. I was pointing out a few minor points about death's role in politics. I didn't address elections, protests, revolt or anything else.
I wasn't advocating waiting for a despot to die as the best way to deal with one, I was saying that if they never died, some of them would remain in power for a very long time.
I was using the death of depots as an argument against immortality for humans, not as a political strategy.
I don;t think we should sit on our asses like a bunch of lazy, stupid sponges waiting for despots to pass on, and I'm pretty disappointed in anyone who is trying to imply otherwise.
You;re wasting your time pissing and moaning about something I wasn't even trying to say.
Are you a US Citizen? If so, what did YOU do in the last election. I campaigned against The Shrub and voted against him as well. I'm talking to people who voted for him to try and find out why they did so. I'm actually working towards getting more liberal and level headed candidates into office.
What did you do?
I agree. Even installing and uninstalling applications is fairly simple and straight forward.
When it works.
I'm just frustrated with the error messages when I try to do something like sync the damn thing.
Fortunately, Palm has finally given me the information to schedule a repair. Of course, if they try to charge ME for them to repair THEIR defective product, then I'll take them to small claims court for the cost of the device.
I can even understand an occasional defective device making it to a consumer, but their complete inability to give me any actual assistance with the problem despite several tech support requests is unacceptable. I'm pretty sure the damn thing is now out of warranty, just because it took them a couple of months and countless e-mails to admit there MIGHT be a hardware problem.
If you're not going to stand behind your product, then get out of business.
Quite right.
When people say "The values upon which the nation was founded" they generally mean whatever supposed "values" of the "Founding Fathers" they themselves espouse. I'm no less guilty of this than anyone else. For example, I'm sure the same argument was used in favor of slavery, after all, the Constitution has content governing some of the legal foundation for slavery, and at the time, said content had not yet been repealed.
To elaborate on your point, there are people who no doubt see the erasure of Due Process and the creation of the "Enemy Combatant" classification, as well as the restoration of torture as an interrogation technique, to be good things. All those rules just got in the way of enforcing the law anyway, don't you know.
If anything, politicians are getting younger due to the power of TV.
The scenario outlined above is completely ludicrous.
Imagine for a moment that the world begins filling with "immortal" people. The article makes it clear that the idea is to halt the aging process. You wouldn't continue to grow old and decrepit for centuries, but would instead reach a certain age and stop. You'd physically be in your early 20's forever. Take a look at the short story "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" get get a description of how this might go.
Just because the "Young" are being pushed now doesn't mean that's how it will remain. Most marketing is directed at pushing the image of being young and attractive, in order to drive product sales. Much of the "Younger Politicians" trend you mentioned is the result of this kind of marketing spilling over into politics.
Besides, people tend to vote for people like themselves. Why do you think The Shrub has been dumbing down his vocabulary since his first presidential run? The more "Older" voters there are, the more likely a member of that generation is to be elected.
Saying that the older generations would lose political power just because they aren't "young" anymore is stunningly ignorant, and ignores most of the realities of politics, focusing instead on the superficial images portrayed by advertising.
I expressed myself incompletely.
Yes, we need to deal with our leaders while they are alive. Waiting for a bad leader to die is not an effective means of dealing with an oppressive regime in the here and now.
My point was, that death will always take us all, good or ill, and if a despot rises and cannot be overthrown by any other means, then death will ultimately take him or her.
Fortunately for those of use in Democracies and Republics, so long as votes are counted accurately, we'll always have exactly the kind of government we deserve. In the US, we have an old principle that has often been expressed as "The Ballot, not the Bullet."
Waiting for old age to relieve us of the Conservative Christian End-Times leaders is unacceptable, but voting the bastards out of office is.
I was really thinking of things like the Roman Empire then I made my comments. Yes, it took generations, but eventually the empire fell and new governments rose in from the ruins. Yes, many of those were far worse than anything Rome had put together, but some eventually birthed something better.
Please do. :)
If Google blocks BLOGS, and If I feel there's anything on my BLOG worth having come up in a Google Search, I'll leap through any hoops necessary to make it searchable.
If I can't be bothered to make it searchable, then there's no need for YOU to have it come up in search results.
As a side note, you don't find much in the way of Blog SPAM on my site. Even before I required registration to post, I was moderating posts. I had to approve the post before it was visible.
Since I have a low traffic BLOG (read: boring) I got literally 300 Spam Posts for every actual reply. In the end, accepting comments just wasn't worth the hassle for my BLOG.
Ask me in a month or two when I have my Treo.
Date: 3-20-2005
Subject: Re: Treo
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Sold it on ebay.
My copy of the Windows Powered Dev kit arrived a couple weeks ago. So far, it's going well.
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>Date: 3-19-2005
>Subject: Treo
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>So, how's your Palm Doorstop working these days?
The reason the T5 doesn't have a universal connector probably has more to do with wanting to sell more peripherals than anything else.
Let's not forget that Palm wants to sell hardware, and they're not above abusing the loyalty of their user base.
Fine, the T2 doesn't have the circuitry for Wi-Fi. Whose fault is that?
It doesn't matter if it was intentional or just negligent, the bottom line is, it's not up to par.
The quality of their hardware is going downhill fast, as you yourself can attest. Based on my experiences, I'd say their software is in the same kind of trouble.
The bottom line is, even ignoring my Wi-Fi frustrations, my experiences with Palm have been so terrible that I, a Linux Advocate who REALLY wanted to like something other than WinCE, have been driven screaming from Palm products never to buy another one again. When I have the finances to replace the unstable piece of crap, I'll do so with a product from another vendor.
When I sync I get this message: MemoryMgr.c, Line:3654, Free Handle
I have to use the reset button on the back of the Palm to clear the error, and when I do, I frequently get the following error when I try to sync: MemoryMgr.c Line:4613, Chunk under-locked
Hitting Reset Button on back will often, but not always, generate the following error message: halSnd.c, Line:1663, DSP Power On/Off Error
The Reset button on the screen with the error messages never works, I have to use the reset button on the back of the hand held.
I followed Palm's directions and uninstalled Documents to Go, but that doesn't really help.
Palm tech support has been painfully useless, never sending me anything other than canned responses, none of which work. They don't want to admit there's a real problem, and tend to just stop responding to me when I'm going back and fourth on tech issues.
I have to do at least one reset for every sync, sometimes as many as five or six, just to sync the hardware.
I've already contacted Palm tech support about this, and the only response I got was a series of canned replies that failed to resolve the issue.
So the question is, would it be possible to port Nethack to it?
Assuming Palm resolves the errors I'm getting now, I might be tempted to give such a port a try. It's been a couple years since I looked into Palm development. Any recommendations on what toolkits to start with, assuming a minimal to no cash investment?
Point.
Kind of how the Americas ended up being taken over by people fleeing Europe.
WOOT!
I'm glad SOMEONE picked up on this. Notice in my original post, I said:
To an extent, society just doesn't change unless the older generation dies off.
Notice that I dind't say "Advance" or "evolve".
That change isn't necessarily good. You're right about the civil rights example. The changes we're seeing now in America are bad, destructive and counter to the ideals upon which the nation was founded. If the current crop of leaders were granted immortality and ended up trading off on who was president for centuries, things would only get worse.
The point I was getting at, is not so much that one generation is better than the last, but that the BAD generations wouldn't ever die off. The newer generation isn't necessarily any better than those before it, but even with the worst leaders possible, the most destructive, oppressive regimes around, we have the consolation of knowing that sooner or later they'll die. What comes after them won't necessarily be better or worse, but at least there's the opportunity for the worst of us to die off. Of course this means the best of us die off as well, but at least the next generation has the opportunity to learn form the mistakes of the past, without necessarily having the ego of having committed them personally blinding them to the lessons.
Of course, even if we could live for 1,000 years, the "End Times" nuts would still run around eagerly panting for Christ's second coming, expecting it any moment. One reason Bush and his ilk are so caviler about the environment is because they honestly expect all the "Christians" to be "Raptured" any moment now.
While the phrasing is probably intended to offend, the underlying point is valid.
The planet can barely handle the population we have now, can you imagine if there were 20 Billion people on the planet, vying for resources? Soylent Green would become a prophesy about the future instead of a frightening movie. All the fears about the "Population bomb" would come true.
Alternatively, only the ultra wealthy would have access to the technology, so the same set of SOBs would always run the planet while the rest of us slaved away as a clear and definitive underclass.
Who wants to live forever, when love must die?
Arch Obler addressed some of the realities of such a life span in one of the episodes of the old radio show "Lights Out".
There was a revolution. The younger generation was tired of being held down by the generation that was in power when immortality became possible. Bereft of political power for hundreds of years, there was a violent and bloody revolt, resulting in the massacre of the older generation.
Can you imagine the state of civil rights if the people running the country in the 1950s were still alive and well?
To an extent, society just doesn't change unless the older generation dies off.
I've been playing iRouge for a while now. I still prefer Nethack, but iRouge will do.
Ironically, until the hardware problems began with my latest Palm Pilot, a T2, I was thinking of doing a Nethack -> Palm port as a project to learn Palm Pilot programming. Sadly, it looks like most of the API changes that would make such a port possible are for the Post 5.x versions of the Palm OS, which means I'd be developing a program I myself wouldn't be able to run.
The sharp runs Nethack, but the Palm does not.
The project to port nethack to Palm dies. Seems no one could get it to work, since the Palm API is so limited.
QT Nethack on the Sharp Zaurus though, I hear that works.
Damn, I can't wait to have the cash to trade in this damn Palm for something that WORKS, even if it doesn't work very well.
After all the hardware, software and support issues I've had with the Palm T2, I can't imagine a PDA that's worse.
I'm never buying another Palm Pilot again.
They could start voting for people who are actually interested in representing the, well, people.
A nice idea, but the reality is, such candidates never get funding form businesses, and as a result, never have the cash to win an election. Most of the time, the candidate with the most money ends up with the most votes.
Show me such a person running for office, and I'll vote for them. If such a person actually wins a state or federal election, I'll sing "God Bless America" buck naked on the Boston Common in January, preferably during a winter storm.
You're right. This "solution" will do about as much as against Comment SPAM as recent US Federal Legislation has done for e-mail SPAM.
The BLOGS that collect this kind of SPAM in their comments are being run by people who either don't know how to, or don't care enough to update to the most recent version of, for example, MovableType. This "solution" requires action on the part of the people hosting the BLOG, something that I can guarantee will not happen with the idiots who can't even be bothered to take the existing rudimentary steps necessary to limit BLOG SPAM.
Anything that requires action on the part of the people administering the BLOG will fail to make an impact, plain and simple. How many MovableType BLOGS are out there with literally pages upon pages of SPAM comments? How many of them are EV ER edited, moderated or subjected to a little house cleaning?
No, a far better solution would be to NOT index ANY BLOGS unless the bloger take action, such as adding something a SPAMMer can't inject with comment SPAM, like a specific Metatag in the document Head.
I hear a bunch of people wine about how this will end up restricting BLOGs from coming up in search results. Fine, I'm OK with that. If the people administering the BLOG can't be bothered to take action to reduce BLOG SPAM, then the site is unlikely to contain anything I'd be interested in anyway.
SHHHHH!
You idiot!
UPN will overhear you and think it's a solid gold idea.
At least they had the redeeming virtue of Denise Crosby's lovely frame.
I think your review has proven the thesis that it's a better show than Star Trek Enterprise.
It had some GOOD episodes, the writers showed some promise and the show probably stands a good chance of being canceled now that the writing has taken a downward turn. As a result, we won't have to put up with the years of promos that Enterprise has subjected us to, and will have a reduced risk of running across it while chanel surfing.
And the good episodes even give it a decent viewer base to rely on should the writers rally and resume writing decent material.
All of these are advantages Enterprise never had. Poor writing, an excessive reliance on bad plot devices, and an inability to maintain any kind of internal consistency or continuity, let alone continuity with the other shows.
That, and on BSG, the hot chicks could actually act, and even make their characters somewhat convincing.