Del Toro films come off as forboding. The Hobbit was more light-hearted and child-like compared to Lord Of Rings. None of that big cosmic good-versus-evil. In the Hobbit the fantasy races were more like Disney.
usenet spam - greencard lawyers
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Spam Is 30 Years Old
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· Score: 2, Interesting
It was sometime in the early 1990s when some lawyers posted a message to every usenet newsgroup advertising a greencard service. I dont think they did it by hand, but automated script.
Usenet hasnt fared too well lately. Soem Chinese guy piosts tens of thousands of messages a day trying to sell direct factory output. Changes the posting address in every messsage so normal filters have problems.
I think the younger crowd has long moved over to special interest groups on social netowrking sites.
Phoenix lands at the Martian arctic circle to poke around the icy soils there. It has a back-hoe arm and sophisticated chemical analyzers, but no wheels. It will last until the end of the year until the pole region enters the long winter night.
would eBay sell craigslist on eBay or craigslist?
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In a PBS show about Rudyard Kipling's son going off WW I
call My Son Jack, Rudyard was in the British Propaganda Bureau
that routinely manipulated the news.
Nothing new under the Sun int he the 21st century.
The main problems with new grad students I've observed is they dont choose the right research problems to work on. They are either interested in something too large to solve in three years- or one-year chunks to publish- like curing cancer or inventing the final theory of physics. Else they are considering doing something that has already been done but were not aware of. The purpose of working in a lab or for a professor is learn the right-size problems between these two extremes.
I thought all radiation is dangerous to some degree, even sunlight.
As for prudishness, most bodies are boring if anyone has spent more than a few minutes at a nude beach or as a medical professional. Most mature people can easily handle this.
I didnt realize it until later, but they used to teach fairly standard evolution, but it was directional progressing to man and the spiritual. Both Aristotle and Teilard de Chardin teach this. This is called teleology, or goal-direction, but definitately verboten according to the Harvard biologists.
Basically evolution goes in all directions to fill all ecological niches. Soemtimes you complexication toward verbrates and intellignece to fill that niche. At other times you see simplication and parasites such as viruses and leaches, etc.
When I first began a vegetarian several decades ago, I started using those substitute products made out of soybean and tofu, but they were unsatisfactory. I prefer Asian-style dishes that dont tried to imitate meat, but are tastey in their own right.
Some strong Chinese Nationalists take the position if criticize one piece of China'a policies you are criticizing the whole system and all the people. This is pretty thin-skinned in many non-Chinese view.
The book, not the campy movie, introduces these power suits. (I'm guessing the movie drops this much in the same way Spiderman is always pulling off his mask- the suit hides the humanity of the characters.)
Just published. It reviews the various hypotheses behind the origin of human language.
One interesting factoid is that there was virtually no funding for studies of language evolution for most of the 20th century because several professional societies and Noam Chomsky thought it was a bogus endeaver. That changed about 20 years ago, but its still a very immature science.
One of the more novel ideas I read was the tie of language ability to the health of the cerebellum which controls movement. People with late-stage Parkinson's start forgeting grammar, start making errors in verb tenses, etc. This suggests that complex syntax co-evolved with the abilities to make precise hand movements for tools and mouth movements for speech. Or one evolved first and bootstrapped into the other abilities.
This phish had spoofed a major credit card's email address and had a 1-800 number to respond. I was looking for javascript or cgi returns to another source, but didnt see it. I called the real 800 from that company just to doubled-check my account because the spoof was so good. I only checked up on one phish before, the first one I got about ten years, because it was a new thing then.
These guys are spending big dollars to set up a 1-800 number. I guess they get it all back in one or two victims.
I dont get paid more than the average CS-worker in my industry, but havent been seriously unemployed ever.
There is soemthing to say to the college experience itself. Theres something extremely stimulating about being surrounded by others who all have your 140 IQ and are strongly interested in science and technology. I really enjoyed it. The apathetic, slower-moving outside world seems half-asleep and if I didnt have the web I'd go crazy. Theres dozens of place as good as MIT to have this experience, but many lessor colelges where you dont.
33K kilometers is an extraordinary close flyby. People get excited if an asteroid is closer than lunar orbit which is ten times larger.
My calculation compares the area of disk proscibed by the flyby with that of area of disk of earth. That is 36 times larger. Plus a 50-50 chance of hitting that flyby altitude gives me a bout a 1 in 70 chance.
I went to Stanford and it seems whever I pass by every student is involved in some startup. Apple, Sun, Google, HP, Yahoo, YouTube, Paypal, just to name a few.
Harvard is another surprising source, giving rise to MicroSoft and Facebook.
Often sell two year old top-line models for under $500.
I saw 2GB/200GB/DVD/wireless/home-Vista in this category in the past month.
The higher end laptops double this amount and throw in a Nvidia-class card.
There was a TV story last month about a radio announcer who can remember what he did most of every hour of his life. You could give him a date and ask what ate for lunch, the weather, and the top news stories. Funny, he didnt do above average in TV game shows like Jepordy which requires fact and trivia memory.
On the flip side the Greeks believed when you died the soul eventually forget its life. That was considered in some ways a blessing. The goal of a hero was to perform a feat that would be remembered for the ages.
Slashdot Mirror
During prohibition. made his own hootch and wine.
Del Toro films come off as forboding. The Hobbit was more light-hearted and child-like compared to Lord Of Rings. None of that big cosmic good-versus-evil. In the Hobbit the fantasy races were more like Disney.
It was sometime in the early 1990s when some lawyers posted a message to every usenet newsgroup advertising a greencard service. I dont think they did it by hand, but automated script.
Usenet hasnt fared too well lately. Soem Chinese guy piosts tens of thousands of messages a day trying to sell direct factory output. Changes the posting address in every messsage so normal filters have problems.
I think the younger crowd has long moved over to special interest groups on social netowrking sites.
Google logo change.
Phoenix lands at the Martian arctic circle to poke around the icy soils there. It has a back-hoe arm and sophisticated chemical analyzers, but no wheels. It will last until the end of the year until the pole region enters the long winter night.
They own 25% and sound unhappy.
Because so much is digital instead of paper these days. Backups get lost or go bad. Historians hate this situation.
5MB or 500GB.
In a PBS show about Rudyard Kipling's son going off WW I call My Son Jack, Rudyard was in the British Propaganda Bureau that routinely manipulated the news.
Nothing new under the Sun int he the 21st century.
The main problems with new grad students I've observed is they dont choose the right research problems to work on. They are either interested in something too large to solve in three years- or one-year chunks to publish- like curing cancer or inventing the final theory of physics. Else they are considering doing something that has already been done but were not aware of. The purpose of working in a lab or for a professor is learn the right-size problems between these two extremes.
I thought all radiation is dangerous to some degree, even sunlight.
As for prudishness, most bodies are boring if anyone has spent more than a few minutes at a nude beach or as a medical professional. Most mature people can easily handle this.
I didnt realize it until later, but they used to teach fairly standard evolution, but it was directional progressing to man and the spiritual. Both Aristotle and Teilard de Chardin teach this. This is called teleology, or goal-direction, but definitately verboten according to the Harvard biologists.
Basically evolution goes in all directions to fill all ecological niches. Soemtimes you complexication toward verbrates and intellignece to fill that niche. At other times you see simplication and parasites such as viruses and leaches, etc.
When I first began a vegetarian several decades ago, I started using those substitute products made out of soybean and tofu, but they were unsatisfactory. I prefer Asian-style dishes that dont tried to imitate meat, but are tastey in their own right.
Some strong Chinese Nationalists take the position if criticize one piece of China'a policies you are criticizing the whole system and all the people. This is pretty thin-skinned in many non-Chinese view.
The book, not the campy movie, introduces these power suits. (I'm guessing the movie drops this much in the same way Spiderman is always pulling off his mask- the suit hides the humanity of the characters.)
Just published. It reviews the various hypotheses behind the origin of human language.
One interesting factoid is that there was virtually no funding for studies of language evolution for most of the 20th century because several professional societies and Noam Chomsky thought it was a bogus endeaver. That changed about 20 years ago, but its still a very immature science.
One of the more novel ideas I read was the tie of language ability to the health of the cerebellum which controls movement. People with late-stage Parkinson's start forgeting grammar, start making errors in verb tenses, etc. This suggests that complex syntax co-evolved with the abilities to make precise hand movements for tools and mouth movements for speech. Or one evolved first and bootstrapped into the other abilities.
Higher Social Security pensions and more taxes.
This phish had spoofed a major credit card's email address and had a 1-800 number to respond. I was looking for javascript or cgi returns to another source, but didnt see it. I called the real 800 from that company just to doubled-check my account because the spoof was so good. I only checked up on one phish before, the first one I got about ten years, because it was a new thing then.
These guys are spending big dollars to set up a 1-800 number. I guess they get it all back in one or two victims.
I dont get paid more than the average CS-worker in my industry, but havent been seriously unemployed ever.
There is soemthing to say to the college experience itself. Theres something extremely stimulating about being surrounded by others who all have your 140 IQ and are strongly interested in science and technology. I really enjoyed it. The apathetic, slower-moving outside world seems half-asleep and if I didnt have the web I'd go crazy. Theres dozens of place as good as MIT to have this experience, but many lessor colelges where you dont.
33K kilometers is an extraordinary close flyby. People get excited if an asteroid is closer than lunar orbit which is ten times larger.
My calculation compares the area of disk proscibed by the flyby with that of area of disk of earth. That is 36 times larger. Plus a 50-50 chance of hitting that flyby altitude gives me a bout a 1 in 70 chance.
I went to Stanford and it seems whever I pass by every student is involved in some startup. Apple, Sun, Google, HP, Yahoo, YouTube, Paypal, just to name a few.
Harvard is another surprising source, giving rise to MicroSoft and Facebook.
Before they perfected magnetic storage, acoustic delay queues in mercury were used as secondary memory.
Its 30K light yers away, so we wouldnt know for that long.
Often sell two year old top-line models for under $500. I saw 2GB/200GB/DVD/wireless/home-Vista in this category in the past month. The higher end laptops double this amount and throw in a Nvidia-class card.
There was a TV story last month about a radio announcer who can remember what he did most of every hour of his life. You could give him a date and ask what ate for lunch, the weather, and the top news stories.
Funny, he didnt do above average in TV game shows like Jepordy which requires fact and trivia memory.
On the flip side the Greeks believed when you died the soul eventually forget its life. That was considered in some ways a blessing. The goal of a hero was to perform a feat that would be remembered for the ages.